skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I volunteered a lot when I was young. It honestly taught me that need is infinite and I am a finite being, and just because someone is blind, disabled, etc DOESNT mean they won't take advantage of you.

When I volunteered for the blind, they'd always ask if I could come around several times a week, "it would make such a huge difference"

When I volunteered for the disabled, the disabled folks would literally hand me a list of tasks to do by the end of the day, and then micromanage the repairs I was doing.

When I volunteered for schools writing software (25 years ago) it was "make this 8086 with 512k of ram do magic!"

When I help people now, it's on my own terms, and the rule always has to be the the help provided is effective. You need mentoring"? Great. You're blind but you don't wanna live with your family so you think I should come over several nights a week after work to help with things? That's your families job, not mine. You're broke and need money buy your baby diapers, but your babies father has a nicer laptop and newer phone than I do? Stuff it.

As f*ed up as it sounds, most of the people I dealt with felt ENTITLED to my time.
> But I think the lesson was pretty clear that people will trade privacy for convenience.

Not everywhere. In Germany, Amazon Echo isn't nearly as popular.
I toyed with a similar idea that would be limited to subnets or non-routable IP space, and open-source/community-driven, but I had to take it down almost immediately due to bad press/backlash. There's really no way to address this without government regulation on ISP's to assume the external cost of botnets coming from devices on their networks. And the only way to justify that is to modify our computer crime laws to allow them to scan, patch, maybe even brick (or just turn off the customer's Internet and notify them) when vulnerable devices are found.
> why do conscious observers like us perceive the particular Hilbert space factorization corresponding to classical space (rather than Fourier space, say)

I'm surprised this is even considered by an MIT Physics professor. Conscious observers like us do perceive "Fourier space" in colors and pitch. Am I missing something?
> As a rich white guy, being an activist/loudmouth in the #resistance often means taking up political positions that are against my own apparent self-interest. These oppressive zealots in the White House...

> You mean beyond fighting a despotic regime...

> I assure you, that’s not going to happen. Nevertheless, I am spending a great deal of time meeting with all of the beautifully spontaneous and decentralized organizations that have been popping up in the wake of our electoral calamity as well as dozens of candidates at all levels of government. I find so much hope in the new wave of leaders and builders who are standing up during these times and I want to be there to support them. I will have more to say about this in the days ahead, but, you know the drill.

I'm sure that this is a common sentiment out in the Valley, but it's really kinda distressing to see people with access to so much capital writing with such melodrama.

There's so much wrong at the local level--homelessness, education, people broke with medical problems--and yet these folks seem a lot more concerned with a strawman oppression.
> Otherwise you're looking at hefty capital gains taxes to transfer when they pivot or go belly up.

you should be able to account transfer out without causing a taxable sale.

how well that will go in the event they pivot or fail and have to transfer your assets over to some backup service is of course unknown.
As a proof of concept, we have downloaded the pictures of 7000 corporate
executives whose LinkedIn profiles suggest they work for financial
organizations, and then averaged their faces to produce generalized
white collar criminal subjects unique to each high risk zone. Future
efforts will allow us to predict white collar criminality through
real-time facial analysis.

I'm guessing that's a riff on this?

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.04135v1.pdf (Automated Inference on Criminality using Face Images)

Too bad there haven't been enough arrests of financial criminals to get actual mugshots.
IoT way? I do not think you can trust traffic to stay local and not leak. This kind of thinking is what got is here.
Except not really, you can just look in the street or on the subway to see what people are wearing
There's just one man in the ad: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/kindle/d...
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The seizure-inducing aspects are my favorite part! One of the DJs once complained that every time the video came on people would stop dancing and stare at the screen with dazed expressions. :)
A new generation of students who grow up doing math in VR will solve the plasma containment geometry problem, which is one of the major fusion hurdles.
Yes, but that's a separate issue from the work environments that I think the GP was wondering about.
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Did you reply to the right comment? Feels like you might have been addressing a different issue. There's more to security than information theory. Bits of security aside, if you're not listening on port 22 the majority of wide-scale automated scans miss you entirely. If there were some zero day being actively exploited in the wild, admins occasionally having to remember '2222' instead of '22' is pretty a pretty trivial issue and just sidesteps a lot to buy you some time to patch.
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Oh, but they started the "intellectual property" threats way before Android was even an internal alpha.
Totally off topic: Yeah so, about that 90% number... You you really think that is the best they can do?

I mean, 90% is pretty good for, like, dog food ads and car commercials, but with lives, a 90% true-positive rate is just garbage. Like, with all that terrific amount of data, are they still just doing T-tests, ANOVA, MW-U-tests? Like, what is their p-value, still 0.05? I know this is super stats-wonky for this thread, but I mean, come on, they have to have some super secret stats and mathy stuff that they are doing, right? Like, formulas and theories that are just really good. It's been, like, 15 years they have had this scale of data, and it's only growing, right? If so, nothing at all has been sent out to the academic community, which, for math theorems, is kinda hard to believe. I now signal-to-noise is super important for NatSec, but it's also super important for DrugDev.

But yeah, a camera that is meant to watch me dress and then order shit for me, that is a super no-no. It, like, actually gives me goosebumps.
i dont use gold for the leverage, but for access to execute trades after hours... do i automatically fall into dumb millennial trading on margin?
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Billion Kelvin operating temperatures make me super skeptical about the practicality of that solution in my lifetime. It's just so many orders of magnitude beyond where our materials science is.
It's not so much about what's optimal for performance but as to which piece of state changes and which one doesn't.

Implicit pointers means you have to often think extra when shuffling data structures around.
a) https://pinboard.in/settings/backup

b) Do you seriously not consider 25$ per year reasonable for such a useful service?*

* I would pay that just to read maciej's fantastic presentations.
Meh. This attack is going after the easiest of targets. If a medical device or something critical is victim to this, they should cease to exist. I find it easy to believe that this attack protects far more people in the long run than it will ever hurt right now, and I'm willing to take that side of the moral dilemma.

It would be nice if we could live in a world where we all trust each other, and maybe with physical things this is attainable. But the IoT is a worldwide attack surface. It's open to nefarious actors ranging from junkies with stolen laptops, all the way to state-sponsored hacking organizations with billion dollar budgets. Trust and goodwill aren't options anymore.
Why are you happy to be a customer of something that could easily run locally for free?
No. In fact there is evidence that it does not specifically target them. However, they belong to a set of devices that may be affected by it.
I hope this is the case, as I quite liked doing Perl before I switched to Python. (Saying that I can imagine that there is some horrendous Perl out in the wild).
Last time I checked, even basic folding chairs have backrests.
I completely agree.

A few constructive negative comments are fine, but this...

I wish there was a community similar to HN but without the toxic negativity. :(
How do I use this? Is there a bookmarklet?
> Should
The Myth of a Superhuman AI
>Not trying to be inflammatory. I was thinking what if our next Einstein joined a startup to build a mobile app instead of working to further his field.

You're not the first to think of this at all. Thiel's quote "We were promised flying cars, and instead what we got was 140 characters." immediately comes to mind. Similarly I've read something like "The brightest minds of our generation are working on click-fraud prevention"

It is easy to fall into this trap, but often the really good ideas now started as something else. Google was yet another search engine, called Backrub. It makes me wonder what another to-do list or whatever else will turn in to something great.

Then besides that, I am pretty optimistic. I'm seeing a lot of the cool things suddenly present itself themselves in the last 10 years. Tesla and SpaceX come to mind. My local grocery store has a bank of sci-fi looking superchargers. Now, that isn't a flying car, but it is a lot closer to the Back to the Future vision of the future. (Also in that vision, the TVs were still CRTs in 2015)

Lastly, if your MIT trained aerospace engineer really has that background and doesn't want to do aerospace engineering, they probably shouldn't, you know? They'll be more productive at something they want to build. If they are interested, there are drone startups, and full-aircraft startups they could join.
More and more people? Who? Where are these reactor types being operated commercially for electric power generation?
I also have a years' worth of living expenses saved, and it also took me about 3 years to build. It has zero impact on my stress level at work. I don't think I feel any more free to leave than if I only had a months worth saved. The idea of leaving and potentially burning through most or all of that portion of my family's savings while I look for another job is no more appealing or satisfying than just staying in the stressful job.

Perhaps I'd feel differently if I had several more years saved or if I were more stressed at work. The thing about work stress that builds up is that your mental health declines and you can begin to think very irrationally. Paranoia and depression can set in. I've seen devastating examples of this with people I know. I think it's important not to minimize it or brush it off and to understand that what seems obvious to you or I may not be obvious at all to someone who is feeling burnt out, desperate and depressed from their work situation.
I understand what you're saying, but does this logic hold over decades?

I'm obviously not saying banks should just switch today cause it's easy and all, but if the ROI on switching is 10, even 20 years, it still makes sense to do if you're a bank.
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This article is being read by other people besides on HN. My comment was directed at the overall quality and rhetoric/falshoods used in article not how it effects HN readers or to try to save them from themselves.
Yeah, all the value here seems to be at city level zoom. Which makes some sense, since it's parodying neighborhood crime maps.
The "free" balloons were paid for to be produced before being given away as ads.

The production of energy has always the costs, and some interested parties attempt to hide them to make them an easier sell.
Thats seems true. I have a Perl jobs group on Facebook, and the salaries are a fair bit lower than for Django (which I currently do).
As someone who is looking to transition from a non-programming field into a paid position, how do I avoid these types of companies? Is there a good indicator of which companies use these types of screenings before applying? Or do I just have to cast a wide net and suffer through these types of interviews?
Ask HN: Given an automatic factory, what will you build?
Let's say you have access to an automatic online factory that can manufacture reasonably anything, at the cost price, from a blueprint you upload. What will you build?
A poorly-designed API, which they fixed, despite backwards incompatibility.

If you're going to insist that everybody gets everything security-related exactly right the first time, well, you may be morally in the right but you're signing up for a lot of disappointment.
Coal and nuclear are huge steam engines. They cool down when you turn them off which causes thermal stress and you then need to heat them up again before they can generate power. Thus Germany's problem is they have coal power plants in the first place.

Gas turbines also have thermal stress, but they are designed for this and they loose vastly less power when you turn them off. With enough of them you can have zero storage and zero problems. Because storage is simply one solution to production / demand mismatch not the only one.

Now yes, peaking power costs more but energy costing more at night is rational behavior and without subsidies you will minimize overall costs.
Links to the press? Always interested in how these things are handled.
Normally I'd expect something like "it is stored under your control" for the slogan "own your data", but that doesn't square with "saves directly to GitHub"
So smart money is leaving startup/VC/SV...it'd be interesting to see who's been swimming naked all these years when the bubble bursts this Fall

edit: oooh, definitely a touchy subject around here ;)
Pass: create a strong password that's *easy* to regenerate from *memory*
Safer for drivers - maybe. Safer for pedestrians? No.
I already have some built in sensors that let me know if there are stains on my pants.
Mark Cuban got rich of one deal that probably shouldn't have happened in the first place. He got very lucky.
> YAML.load(x) or YAML.parse(x).to_ruby

If you're working with attacker controlled input, at best you can avoid evals while deserializing. As soon as you use the result, a sufficiently clever and informed attacker can almost certainly own you. YAML is just too powerful for anything else.

If you're only using YAML as JSON with different syntax, that's a different story...but then you should just pass the library the deserialized data.
Years ago I worked for a hospital. I noticed that many nurses smoked while physicians (mostly) did not. They read the same studies on the effects of smoking and treated the same emphysema and lung cancer patients. Yet, the difference in behavior was there. A friend of mine was a psychologist who worked on smoking cessation so I related the phenomenon to her. Apparently, it's well-known that people in jobs with high responsibility and low decision-making authority tend toward smoking and other stress relievers. That description certainly fits nurses.

Software developers tend to be in that position now. Organizations increasingly rely on software as the embodiment of their processes and gatekeeper of their information. Yet, we seem to be a leaf-node on the decision-making tree.

The job I had prior to the hospital was a startup company in the Boston area, circa 1995. I was picked for a team of 8 or so to implement a system that was, in essence, an PaaS forerunner. (They put the senior-most people on the project, which was sad because I had only two years of professional experience as a developer. But, that's another matter.) For about 8 weeks, we worked between 60-80 hours trying to jam it in. During that time, one team member went to the hospital with chest pains while another had an outright heart attack. But, the company did reward us with a $100 American Express gift card for each team member.

At some point, I keep hoping that organizations will start recognizing that we need to be used strategically: a voice in decisions on how to use technology. Frankly, organizations aren't getting full value for us until they do.
One balloon? Maybe if renewables exploded after half an hour.

The solar-power equivalent would be a balloon every few minutes every weekday, but they run on a strange calendar and you can't predict when weekends happen.

I just don't see how a supply that's unpredictable on a short-term basis, but very predictable on a long-term basis, disqualifies it from being "free".
What's the pun?
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thanks for sharing this, I've been looking for something like this for awhile. I've just been using wrangler and having a bunch of docs open in the side window. I also tried using scribbleton, but hate how big everything is. This is great.
Even if you're "in the market" for this (and not everyone filmed will necessarily be a buyer - e.g. spouses, kids, etc), it's still riskier to have a camera always pointed at you when changing clothes than one you usually have to purposefully point at you.
As a warning, I am having a problem where vertical splits are causing any panes on the same horizontal plane to all scroll when any one of them scrolls due to user IO. It's made vertical splits unusable.

This is under Terminology, I haven't tried others yet.

I'll dig more later and submit an issue if nobody beats me to it.
You can prevent employees from constantly leaving by simply paying them enough, see what any sector without equity comp does.
As you mention, a track is like a project. It's a tree of items, and the items can be markdown, presentations, links, etc.

Channels are for organizing tracks. Everything in Kobble can be shared. So say you make a track for some project and want to share it. Another user can add your track to a channel to follow it.

It's similar to sharing in YouTube or Spotify, except that instead of grouping videos or songs in channels, you're grouping tracks.
Tritium is useful only if you can manufacture a fission weapon in the first place. The vast majority of anti-proliferation efforts are aimed at preventing fission weapons capability. Preventing a nuclear weapons state from graduating from fission weapons to boosted-fission or full two stage thermonuclear is a much lower priority.
Zero day exploits are rarer and more expensive than ever, researchers say
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Oh and one more thing about Buku... it is designed to simplify your workflow beyond imagination. You search something in Shaarli, get 10 results. You want to open results 4, 5,6,7 and 8. What do you do? Click 5 times? Not with Buku. You enter:

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Wow I did not come across this joke last year and now it has been implemented (partly) by their competitors. What a time to be alive.
You say "anti-car" like it's a bad thing.
I was thinking the exact same thing but I feel bad about turning everything into a political statement but I do agree. Most of my conservative friends have at least 1 issue they are "liberal" on, because they, a friend, or relative are affected by the issue but it never seems to cause them to re-evaluate their stance on other issues which is always frustrating.
I'm not in the business of pretending that racially motivated prejudice is worthy of nuance. I know what I lived through.
well I upvoted you but I can't fully agree.
While you are write that a poorly-designed API that will make my code insecure is a bad design, however sometimes you just want the insecure design.
Something like making a insecure web service call to a legacy device that mishandles every secure request.
However I think it should at least than give a compiler warning/or a runtime warning.

Also changing a API of a stdlib is probably not a cool way. I like Java that they don't change things so fast, however in Java they rate of change is too slow, after deprecating something it should be removed some day (java never did), however in go/rust the rate of change is way too much. (and I really like rust) well both have a different release procedure than java, but still when I develop something I really hope that my API keeps the same at least 3 years or more.
Sundown is where I did most of my skiing -- tiny, but a lot of fun! I'd be really heartbroken if Sundown closed.
Guaranteed income schemes (basic income, negative income tax) are economically sound policies because the makes it possible for low productivity workers to contribute without incentive traps. Politically they are relatively stable because everyone gets the same treatment and interests are aligned.

Appeal to humanity is not sound political approach to get things done. If the only argument is idealistic appeal humanity, poor will get only scraps. We should use mechanism design (reverse game theory) to design society where the interests of the majority are tied into the interests of the poor.

We here in the Nordic countries reduce poverty effectively using wealth transfers. The reason for this is not better morals or humanity. Instead we have created a wealth transfer system were majority of benefits go to the middle class and poverty is reduced because poor are part of the same system. When every kid below 10 is given certain amount of money, not just the poor, it becomes politically hard to cut that money because majority of people like free money.
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