skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't like taking a drive-by, salacious interest in a story that doesn't affect me in the least, but will probably have serious, perhaps devastating consequences for the person involved for a long time professionally.

Long before the Internet showed up, what you describe was why you don't do such things. Is the punishment disproportionate to the crime? Yeah, could be. But whether it's pre-internet community gossip or the whole world knows, you don't such things because it could ruin your reputation if found out. Right or wrong, that's always been reality.

"Devastating consequences...professionally", as it should be. If she'll cheat in a race to make herself look good, what will she do in your business when real money is on the line? Cook your books? Lie about results (already has a track record for that one)? As long as she comes out looking good.

Its a common theme on HN to scoff at the trivial fines for companies caught cheating when the profits gained through cheating are much larger. In the case of this runner, I think a global calling-out is appropriate given that she'd sure accept the accolades were she not found out.
I think the number was unusually high for this particular race because the out-and-back is at the tail end of the race, is very long (4 miles out, 4 miles back), is only separated by traffic cones (making it easy to cut to the other side), and the weather was unusually brutal (very windy, near-freezing). It never occurred to me to cut to the other side, but I can understand why it did to many others.
The headline is a bit misleading, i thought a subscription is $62,000 per month, which is a bit steep :)
Even more low tech: After going to the bathroom stop at the water fountain (which is, by side-effect of typical plumbing techniques, usually right outside the door) and take a long drink proportional to the amount of urine you put out.

It's an extra 20 seconds to a trip you were already making.
>In order to make these arguments less religious, I think it would be worthwhile to adopt Turing's mathematical philosophy, which called for adopting mathematical foundations on an ad-hoc basis (or even no foundation at all). In other words, choose whatever foundation (if any) for the task at hand. This would make it easier to argue that, say, type theory is a more convenient core for proof checkers.

I think you're misrepresenting the category theorists, they're usually the ones arguing for choosing whatever foundation is convenient for a given domain. A lot of the time, this is a type theoretic foundation because a lot of modern mathematics is about pretending you have function types when you don't actually have function types in your category (such as differential geometry) or that all you care about is a "core" set of operations and the rest of the framework you're working in simply gets in the way (such as Hilbert spaces vs. compact closed dagger categories in categorical quantum mechanics). And if you know already knew dependent type theory then synthetic homotopy theory is easier than classical homotopy theory, some proofs in homotopy theory can take several lectures to present and even then it will still be pretty hard to see why they hold.

It's just weird to see people thing the category theorists are the one being impractical compared to the set theorists like Friedman. I can't think of a categorical logician who doesn't have an active line of research outside of logic; usually in topology, computability, quantum mechanics, or algebraic geometry. They're not just logicians but active researchers in computer science, physics and mathematics, logic is a powerful tool and should be applied in these fields.
The term "sky-high" means the evidentiary standards are by definition harmful. One wouldn't describe them as sky-high if one thought they were reasonable. If one starts with the premise that existing standards are sky-high, then of course one will conclude they should be lowered.
Thank you. It seems that Flashify and Flashfire can also do this.

I will root my phone next month and start playing with them.
Not only is this not really an appropriate response for the topic, but I'd imagine its presence will also make FB employees feel unwelcome and less like answering the OP's question.

I'm not the biggest fan of everything FB does, but you're basically wrecking someone else's sincere "Ask HN" post here.
It's nontrivial, but eventually doable. We'll get there if we want to.

No, the bigger problem is the atmosphere.

It'll have to go.
Federal Bill Introduced to Add a Warrant Requirement to Stingray Deployment
Well that shouldn't necessarily be the standard. There are lots of people I know that can't do a miniprep or run a gel. It doesn't mean that those things don't work or aren't replicable.
I was very skeptical but pleasantly surprised.
I've certainly seen it. It's very prevalent.

E.g. I did my M.Sc thesis on methods to reduce OCR error rates, and when doing my research for it I came across it all the time. Even things like tiny papers describing simple thresholding functions for scanned pages would include a formula or two that in theory fully specified what they described, except that they'd manage to omit critical information such as values of essential parameters even in cases where giving the actual, working code would have taken up a few lines of text.
KubeApps – Discover and launch Kubernetes-ready apps using Helm
I think there is a difference between momentarily having a lapse in judgement and just not saying anything. We've all made bad decisions, I certainly made plenty. There is a different of preparing and planning to cheat, like say doing the race on a bicycle to cover up the lie and generate fake data.
Presumably they're talking about digital signatures. I don't know how common that is in the U.S., but it's used quite a bit in many European countries as a means to sign contracts and such. (I also don't know enough about the implementation details to say whether a colliding pdf file would be sufficient to trick these systems, but let's assume so for the sake of this argument.)
Californian Spillway Opens Up for the First Time in Nearly a Decade [video]
What terminal emulator and theme is that (referring to thr gif in the README file)?
For the general public, it's easy:

Some cryptography (everything that uses SHA-1) has been broken and we need to move on to a better scheme. Luckily, we did this years ago because we suspected it could be broken. But unfortunately some people are still using the old stuff so if they haven't switched already they DEFINITELY need to switch now.

If you are talking to the general public, the words 'hash', 'one-way', 'function', 'trapdoor', 'collision' should not appear in your statement.
Snapdeal confirms layoffs, founders to take 100% pay cut
SHA-1 Hashing Turns Out to Be Even Less Secure Than People Thought
So it was claimed by reusing the collision data from shattered.io: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=293382.msg17950195#m... Pretty cool.
Your one-liner comment is under-rated--have an upvote. This is a reality that a lot of ivory tower HNers like to ignore: For every tech company you look down your nose at, there is a line of hundreds of engineers out the door who would LOVE to have the opportunity to work there.
"Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion."

Oscar Wilde, being 14% "toxic".

--

"Politeness , n. The most acceptable hypocrisy."

Ambrose Bierce, being 48% "toxic"
Whenever someone asks me advice on building a website, I just say "Wix", unless they are willing to spend 10,000$ or more paying a quality developer to do a custom and probably unnecessary build.
I see a huge difference between a device that records its location (not mine, even if the two are largely correlated) and one that records the things I say in my own home.

A cell phone can be used to record your voice or even video, but there are technical, legal, and logistical hurdles to cross to enable that functionality for a given phone. Alexa, in contrast, is always on with the technical and logistical hurdles already leapt and the legal one a fairly low bar if Amazon loses here.

I can definitely see people abandoning a brand of phone that features always on audio and/or video recording that can later be used by law enforcement (although the frequency with which gf uses snapchat, maybe not...)
Show HN: Crowd-sourced software review website
It’s actually not much harder at all, as first noted by Joux, “Multicollisions in iterated hash functions. Application to cascaded constructions”, 2004.

https://www.iacr.org/archive/crypto2004/31520306/multicollis...
I've been building this crowd-sourced software review website called Meagle. Essentially you can write reviews about any version of any piece of software. If it isn't already in the system, you can add it in.

The whole site is crowd-maintained: top users are rewarded and bad users are punished.

It's very early stage but I'd appreciate feedback / comments / suggestions. Try posting some reviews and adding some (legit) content. Thanks!
PewDiePie was a public figure already. The person in the article was not.

The person caught cheating has no platform from which to defend themselves. PewDiePie made $15million from his platform.
1. If they really want to spy on customers why would they do it only for 5 mins after the trip ends? Why not do always like some of the other apps? I remember waze had it like that for a while.

2. Fraud at Uber's scale is not few 100 bucks.

I have decent critical reasoning skills not to agree blindly if the message came from communication department (it did not).
I'm not sure exactly what you are looking for but try this tool from the swagger people:

http://editor.swagger.io/#/

It gets a little laggy for large swagger docs but its' quick and easy for smaller API docs.
Not a "bit" misleading but outright misleading.

Nobody would relate that to "the business makes $62k per month".

Everyone would think it's some sort of "vertu for blogging"
According to their pricing[1] their lowest price is $19.00/mo. Assuming the bulk of their customers are on this price band it's roughly 3000 paying customers, paying each month.

[1] https://ghost.org/pricing/
Our implementation is probably less sophisticated than you're thinking, but thanks! I'll pitch the idea to the team. To put it very simply, it's a middleware that stores a known response by an idempotency key's value and does a lookup on it on subsequent requests.
>A student once asked his teacher, "Master, what is enlightenment?" The master replied, "When hungry, eat. When tired, sleep."

-Old Zen Tale
Adding to this article (I'm not a medical professional and not giving advice), the same inferior medical outcomes are attributed to most, if not all forms of back surgery. Physical therapy outperforms most or all back surgery with much fewer side effects, etc. This is covered extensively in the book How Doctors Think (https://www.amazon.com/How-Doctors-Think-Jerome-Groopman/dp/...) as well as articles like this Ars Technica one: https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/02/doctors-lower-back-p....
You see the same with exercise outperforming anti-depressants in most cases, again with much fewer side effects. (For example: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/03/for-depre...)

The kicker is that doctors will often refuse these same treatments when offered, which is not a good reflection on their efficacy (again covered in How Doctors Think). This is not an indictment of modern medicine (which is often very effective on acute care), just a recognition of the limitations.
Apple Crippling Iran’s E-commerce Startups
To me the most interesting thing that came out of this article was exponential backoff-retry. I've always used e (natural log) as the base for my exponential backoff, and never used jitter (all my apps are single clients that are just trying to hit the AWS API, and none run simultaneously and I don't own the other side of it).

By looking it up I learned the concept of jitter, which is how Ethernet works, and I think it's really cool.
> I find both of these easier and faster using other methods. Maybe just because I've been doing them since childhood.

Sure. It's just another tool.

> I disagree entirely with "Memorizing building blocks", mostly because I see the huge dichotomy among students between those who try to memorize and those who attempt to learn concepts.

Do you find the best students are fluent with the techniques and have an understanding?

It would seem to me, spending time pondering meaning also has the benefits of remembering 'building blocks'; because they're the primitives involved in the struggle for understanding.
> All we need to do know is to just recognize that they will not be needed in the future, and keep investing into renewables.

They may soon not be needed in western society - which can afford the capital investments into renewable tech and the subsidies to push rates to competitive markets rates.

But all of those oil wells and mines still exist. They will just find a market in developing countries such as Asia and Africa. Africa is going to be where the greatest amount of population growth will be for the next few decades. Combine that will a flood of cheap oil and it will likely partially offset the benefits of renewable energy in the short term.

Eventually renewable tech will be so cheap that it will no longer make economic sense to use oil/coal but I don't think that will happen globally as fast as people hope.
I agree that people often miss the easy answers on sleep. It's important, though, that light/dark and exercise are not interchangeable sleep aids. Very, very broadly:

Light issues are about melatonin, which is production-inhibited and rapidly destroyed in the presence of blue light. Increasing melatonin levels is the point of Flux and blue glasses and all the rest.

Exercise issues are about adenosine, which is produced over time and gradually with physical activity, and consumed during sleep. (It's also what caffeine inhibits.)

These aren't entirely interchangeable, so there's more to be gained from addressing whichever one is the largest personal issue. (Anecdotally, I have a suspicion that the feeling zombie-tired insomnia is about a bad mismatch from sedentary tiredness.)

I do think that people preferentially worry about light issues without trying exercise, though.
Aren't you afraid of the feedback loops?

Pee -> Drink just a little too little -> Pee less -> drink less -> Pee even less -> drink even less -> cough up blood from lungs...
That is the point. Drugs x, y, and z are all the market. They do the same thing with the same side-effects for the same cost. An ailment that the drug cures pops up in someone's life. When they go to the doctor, they can ask specifically for drug z, because they saw drug z in a commercial.

If our drugs, for all intents and purposes, are the exact same, then there is no point in a doctor prescribing drug x or y when the patient specifically asked for drug z.
I like the idea of more tests and data-driven medical decisions.

It would be nice if most of those tests were usually 'effective' (fairly accurate, or really cheep with rarely a false negative and a better confirmation test if warranted).

It would be nice if the goal was to /prove/ someone was healthy, just like how burn-in tests 'prove' that built systems function within the desired parameters.
> Mobile internet coverage is awesome.

It is actually much better in remote-ish area compared to heart of Kathmandu.

> Internet, electricity, and infrastructure is all improving and the costs are still super cheap.

The internet situation has improved drastically over the years. In just 3 years I went from crappy 128kbps to 256kbps, 512kbps, 1mbps, 2mbps, 5mbps and 10mbps fiber connection at basically the same monthly fee (less than $20/mo and it includes TV).

Things are definitely improving but Kathmandu is still unlivable due to dust. Monsoon can't come soon enough so we can trade it for knee deep mud. :-P
My remarks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13697010

The piece is consistent with the Rogue Actor narrative as is the subsequently disclosed investigative structure which involves lawyering up. Most likely to assess the legal risk and perhaps to come up with a strategy that allows truthful but non-incriminating statements should the fallout turn out to entail deposition by hostile lawyers.

Still nobody fired and the official narrative is that the CEO is moved to tears rather than taking personal responsibility.
Understood. But its not about enthusiasm or fairness. Its about keeping the lights on through the transition.
I hope you deleted your artwork first. If you simply close your account, your work will still show up in searches.
Why would the situation be any different than a person or traditional recording equipment doing those things?

If you want to live with observers, you have always had to accept that they can be used in court.
Following that line, what use is history at all anymore? It's now just a hammer we can use to propagate whatever new idea we currently have. I don't really see the value in such a history.
I will but only after you've actually been to the ghettos of inner city Detroit, Houston and South Side Chicago :).
I don't think your mom is irrational given what is covered - but the big mistake we often make is thinking that what we read is representative of what is going on. I want to use data to show this effect on a number of issues.

And the larger point I will make in a future post is that news covers what people want to read, which is problematic if the goal is good decisions.

(As an engineer, I often think about this as akin to sampling bias)
Wix has been pushing the envelope on React Native and are one of the larger organisations who have embraced it fully.

They've released a few videos on YouTube talking about their move to React Native and their underlying infrastructure.
I keep a water bottle on my desk too, and its mere presence does wonders for staying hydrated. Non-routine days where I'm away from my desk and not drinking as much water sometimes leave me feeling a little parched by the end of the day, when I'll have to make up for it before going to bed.

A funny thing I've noticed is that I tend to grab for the water bottle most frequently when I'm mentally chewing on something. I wonder if this is just a plain old habit or if extended mental activity increases water requirements...
Putting your comment in quotes seems to makes it considerably less "toxic" than the same sentence without quotes, apparently (unless very high rate in the 90s).

"You're a potato."

35% toxic
They had it at $10 a month for a long time for people who started using it early when there were not a ton of features, myself included. So there could be a much higher number than that.
I strenuously disagree that the previous poster's line of thinking is wrong.

Incentives matter. A lot. Companies who derive the vast majority of their revenue from advertising will have their culture and technological choices shaped by the underlying business needs.

Heavily marketing dozens of largely unsuccessful moon shots to keep people excited does very little to change this underlying analysis.

Newspaper business models continue to be mainly advertising driven, so I don't disagree with your analogy, just your conclusion. Advertising shaped journalism enormously even before that business model was crippled by Google and Facebook. I would have the same difficulty working for Buzzfeed as Google.
They're moving some of the work to the client. Faster response and save on servers?

“By running complex neural nets on the phone, you’re putting AI in the hands of everybody,”
Yes an no. Of course, in something like an animal model it can be really hard to control everything, and the result you find could just be 'luck'.

On the other hand, figuring out what variables to control is huge part of science. Say the development of next generation DNA sequencing technologies. People tried a ton of different variables, conditions, reagents, flow cells, etc. And failed and failed. But eventually they controlled the right conditions, optimized the right things, and now the process is done in thousands of labs every day as a routine tool. This is a technology development example, but the same could be said of the conditions needed to make stem cells.
It would certainly be harder, but as with breaking any hash, it becomes more feasible every day.

It's likely easier to replace "sha1" with "sha256" in your code than it is to construct a Frankenstein's monster of hashing.
[OP] I spent some time categorizing death coverage in the first pages of The New York TImes compared to actuality over a 20 month period. I’ve been intrigued about why so many make threat assessments based on news coverage, and wanted to see if the “sampling” of news was close to representative.
I like how you didn't bother cutting out the part where you have downloaded movies :)
Categorically, what's a limit is an object of ordered pairs (assuming you define them negatively, by their projections), not individual ordered pairs, right?

If I recall correctly, categorical thinking doesn't emphasize elements of objects much, but in certain categories (perhaps pretoposes? I forget), morphisms from the terminal object to X can be considered the “global elements” of X.
Shit, it'd be so hilarious if someone made a doll named Alexa, and the TV ad was cleverly crafted to order one for you from Amazon.
I wish there were sample documents, but if one had two computed hashes would this mitigate this SHA1-shattered flaw ? e.g. good_doc.pdf sha1=da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709, md5=d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e ? With the sample project I'm looking at (GraphicsMagick) on Sourceforge for example, it provides both SHA-1 and MD5 hashes...
The fascinating thing about water intake is that there is no scientific consensus regarding the optimal point or how to determine it, or how it varies between individuals. It is one of those items that you think would have a good answer, given where we are in the development of the medical life sciences, but apparently not.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2908954/

"Little work has been done to measure total fluid intake systematically and there is no understanding of measurement error and best methods of understanding fluid intake. The most definitive US and European documents on total water requirements as based on these extant intake data. We feel that absence of validation of methods for water consumption intake levels and patterns represents a major gap. Little exploration of even varying methods of probing to collect better water recall data have been conducted.

"Of course, the other half of the issue is the need for understanding total hydration status. We have no acceptable biomarkers of hydration status at the population level. Controversy exists about current knowledge of hydration status among older Americans. This represents a topic understudied at the population level though certainly scholars are focused on attempting to create biomarkers for measurement of hydration status."
I'm not sure how they can say a reasonable person would consider it private if they're voluntarily recording it and sending it to a third party.

That's like the definition of not private.
I like to brag and say the best blog I know about Python is mine. But it's in french so you will have to take my word for it. Yet it has more than 300 articles about Python and covering at length stuff from decorators to metaclass and even a fat 8 parts manual on OOP. Maybe google translate can help.