skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Polish Gov. to forbid private sites banning users posting “factual messages”
It's amazing to me that Tesla is able to sell a car in its price range that lacks basic features that come standard on a $17k Corolla like adaptive cruise or automatic emergency breaking, especially since they effectively reduced the capabilities of their cars by rolling out AP2. If any other company tried to pull that, they'd be laughed out of the room, but somehow, Tesla is cheered.
I've created a chatbot to interact with recruiters and it's working
Nope. Irish.
I agree that we shouldn't tolerate intolerance, right up until you said "round those people up and put them to death". Any state run mechanism for this will be abused and infringes on a whole bunch of other rights.

Doing things like clamping down speech that incites violence or otherwise directly harms people is working. More options are open for almost all members of minorities than ever before (in terms of jobs, opportunities, legal recourse, etc... ). The nazis are just being loud about it now because they think trump will somehow protect them.

Convict and arrest people advocating for the death's of others, financially fine those empowering that one specific kind of speech and the people will continue to get smaller. Without the violence hate speech cannot grow.
This was surprisingly better than I expected.
How did “Handbook for Mortals” get on the NYT bestseller list?
> Now, fellers can earn as little as $18 an hour.

So they get paid a little more than someone serving burgers in California but have to deal with much more remote, skilled, difficult, dangerous work. I'm getting really tired of articles posing this sort of thing as a "labor shortage".
How is buying a company's stock "financially supporting" them?
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Key highlights:

> Service providers will be subject to Polish law no matter where they are located. And it's not just news portals but also foreign social networking sites. Facebook and Twitter will be subject to national regulations.

> Services will not be able to block anyone or otherwise restrict access to the services offered. If the leading portal clears a comment, its author can go to court. And within 24 hours he will have to decide whether to restore the content or not. The document does not specify precisely what to do with comments and posts that explicitly call for eg racism and violate the rules of the site.

> The changes go even further. It seems that the Internet users will now decide what is true and what is not. How? For example, by voting or commenting on a form. This way they can mark the material as untrue. This includes comments, posts, articles. However, there are no words in the legislation to verify such an assessment. And already in the Polish network there are paid Internet users. Secondly, it is notorious to cross certain groups to vote in a specific way in polls. Do not you believe Just have a look at Twitter. It's a daily bread. The ostentatious form of how the given material is to be determined is decided by the leading portals themselves.
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I understand your jest, but for reference by "that time" I referred to back when pop under were still a thing.

Searching for which tab makes sound is one thing, searching for it and not finding it anywhere because it's a pop under positioned at the bottom right of your screen is a whole other experience.
I'm not aware of any harm he caused; the $600 medicine thing could have harmed the uninsured I suppose, but being uninsured already means you'll get fucked by any medical bills anyways. So the fucked stay fucked, and he didn't change much to that equation. Afaik no, or few, new fucked people exist by that action.

The event should have brought attention to the absurd dependence on insurance Americans have to have, and the fact that it gets worse by a positive feedback loop (as insurance companies extend their "benefit" range, the relevant market increases their price to make use it, so more people need to get insurance to see "proper" pricing, which means insurance now has enough power/money to further increase their "benefits"). Afaik he just participated in the feedback loop, but made no effort to affect it (nor should he; its a macro-level government-scale problem)
This is a very important topic that I am surprised does not receive enough coverage. Thank you for bringing it up.

It will be particularly interesting if accident blame is placed on the 'dumb cars', and then insurance companies do a 180 and charge MORE for 'dumb cars' operated by humans. Once they put this information in their pricing models, I assume its 'stuck' in there until the next major NTSB report is published.

As complacency sets in over a couple months & years, the accident rates will likely swing from "dumb" human operated machines back to "Level 4 Highly Intelligent Teslas/UBERS/Argo AI", and that market might get a real shock when the pendulum comes back their way!
> It's rooted in what we've learned about autopilot on planes and dead men's switches in trains

Pilots and conductors are trained professionals. The bar is lower for the drunk-driving, Facebooking and texting masses.

> Systems that do stuff automatically most of the time and only require human input occasionally are riskier than systems that require continuous human attention, even if the automated portion is better on average than a human would be

This does not appear to be bearing out in the data [1].

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-19/tesla-s-a...
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Whoa. Yeah pretty similar. Great work!
They would have a significantly lower cost of living. So they should be able to save much more.
The fact that you are tracking down my other comments to make remarks completely unrelated to the thread isn't exactly convincing me I was wrong.
Please stop posting paywalled articles. Especially WSJ. This community represents the future of the internet. I don't know what the answer is for making sure content providers get paid, but the WSJ model isn't it. So let's vote with our attention (or lack there of) and kill this annoying practice before it makes the internet an even more walled and unpleasant place.
I'm sorry, I'm confused by the way you expressed that. The argument was you need strict typing for large projects. C++ and Java have strict typing. What exactly is the basis of your strong disagreement?
Yeah that validates his point. If the arguably most highly trained vehicle operators around lose situational awareness and fail to recover after automation fails, what do you think will happen with untrained drivers?
Also, demonstrably safer than driving, by time or by distance.
I use AWS for most of my DNS. Also thinking of UltraDNS and Cloudflare. These are all massively larger than Dreamhost.
You can use it now, as IPNS, for the IPFS network.

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmdPtC3T7Kcu9iJg6hYzLBWR5XCDcYMY7HV685E...

There are browser plugins for IPFS, if you don't want to use the ipfs.io gateway. That gateway is free to use, and fairly transparent to people who do not have IPFS set up.
If the automation prevents more accidents than it causes, is it still that much of a concern? The results so far say no.
From Wikipedia [1]

>According to Tesla there is a fatality every 94 million miles (150 million km) among all type of vehicles in the U.S.

>By November 2016, Autopilot had operated actively on hardware version 1 vehicles for 300 million miles (500 million km) and 1.3 billion miles (2 billion km) in shadow mode.

Those numbers are 9 months old and only apply to Autopilot v1 and not the Autopilot v2+ introduced late last year. I wouldn't be surprised if the current number is in the 500+ million mile range with only a single fatality. The sample size is obviously small, but there seems to be a clear improvement over manual control.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Autopilot

EDIT: With chc's and my post we have 3 numbers and dates for reported Autopilot miles. Projecting that forward at a linear rate (which is conservative given Tesla's growth) would put us at roughly 750 million miles today.
If you continue to use the same public key, your existing pin will work with your new certificate. So there's nothing to do. IIRC, many (all?) LE clients generate new keys by default, so this is something you need to plan for in advance.

If you want to change your public key, you have to obtain your certificate in advance, then introduce its pin into your HPKP configuration at least N days before the certificate switch. In this case, N is your maximum HPKP policy duration. With this process you ensure that, when you do switch the certificates, all your users will have the correct pin for it. Whatever HPKP policy you had N+1 days prior, it will have expired by then. You probably want some additional safety margin there too.
I don't understand the distinction.

JavaScript tooling is notoriously complicated on the front-end, not the back-end. And I doubt they're saying that they switched to Python on the front-end.
This sounds like yet another market problem being blamed on "millennials". If you pay enough I'd imagine some people would take the job. If you can't pay enough, then I guess the market is speaking to you about the long term outlook for logging.
Of course you can, it just takes a few orders of magnitude longer.
This is one of the biggest points people miss when talking about civilization back ups. I tend to think of it in IT terms: the moon is like an offline but onsite backup. It will protect you from most internal cockups where as Mars is more like an offsite backup which will protect you should your building (Earth) get taken out
We need independent numbers on this. Comparing with the same population, the same price range of vehicles, the same road sections. Age, level of education, price of the vehicle, absence of hands-free cell interface, lack of seat-belt alarm seem to be way better predictors in USA of fatalities than having autopilot.

Comparing autopilot Tesla fatalities versus average fatality rate on one road section is dishonest.
ELI5 Edition: Basically everything uses sort (either to rank things or to set up search), so improvements to sort improve basically everything.

Explaining it in further detail like you're a fellow member of our industry:

Edge computing advances are pretty important right now, since the amount of data we're working with on the edge of the network is growing very quickly. Advances in how we compute backpropagation (essentialy using a right-recursive process for the Chain Rule) mean that we can do machine learning on 2015-level phone gpus, rather than 2015-level desktop GPUs.

This advance hints at a promise of similar gains. With care, you can sort much faster. What's more, your sorts and your merge of decomposed sorts is roughly the same cost now. And multiple, layered sorts don't require custom logic or clever functional programming (at the edge developer's model) to compose.

Essentially you pick what fields in complex (maybe even nested) data structures to sort by, in what order, and the system makes a sort.

Why does this matter? Well, it will make nearly all data structures Just Faster; many of them secretly rely on ordered and sorted arrays. It makes it easier for distributed systems authors to make queryable systems (it's pretty easy to write a discriminator or specify a discriminator function remotely and then use that on the fly, as opposed to a comparator).

One place in the client-software world where it can have big impact is offline webapps. Right now, it's almost always cheaper to call out to a remote datastore rather than use a local datastore even if you're using sqlite under the covers because of the cost of synchronizing sqlite's data model. A discriminator-based approach would let you do complex queries of data in memory, but that data could still be themselves commutative data types that are coalescing data out of a data stream (or multiple data streams) remotely.

It's also worth noting that another really cool paper from this year improving on the HAMT trie (https://michael.steindorfer.name/publications/phd-thesis-eff...) could also benefit from this approach, which means all of us using immutable data structures can continue to do so with MUCH better performance characteristics but continued thread safety.
BUT ... getting from the moon back to earth is very easy and fast. From the mars not so much.
> They're always and only used in a lower stage of the use-of-force continuum than as a substitute for a firearm.

The real problem here is that, in the US, there is no real reason for the police not to use lethal force once the situation has got even slightly violent; and once they've killed the only witness, they can retroactively claim the situation was more violent than it actually was.

Comparable UK Taser stats: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/16/timeline-of-ta...

Not strictly relevant but since I dug it up: use of force policy, or how the UK police manage to handle 99.9% of situations without carrying firearms https://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/sites/default/files/file...
On the contrary, this is a much larger issue on the ground. A commercial airplane spends most of its flight time in clear air, in an airway assigned to it by 24/7 air traffic control, safely separated from large objects with which it can collide, and largely safe from disruptions which necessitate sudden control inputs to avoid an immediate crash.

Cars don't operate in a comparable problem-space.
I'd rather not drive but if my choices are driving or staring out the window with nothing to do I'd rather just drive to help pass the time. Safety is a factor, but it isn't the only factor. I'd be incredibly safe sitting at home in an empty room staring at the walls, but I choose to do things that are less safe than that so that life isn't miserable.
See, the trick is to make your persona the 'you' that you want to be. For better and worse.

Best case scenario: you become more like the 'you' that you wanted to be.
Worst case scenario: your online persona is linked to the 'real you', and you can now be measured by your own ideals!

I've often wondered what would happen if my 'online persona' were linked to my real identity. It would be extremely embarrassing: I've been open about things I'd never mention in the 'real world'. I've said things that I regret, especially in my younger years. And perhaps at times I've pretended to be something that I'm not.

While I would absolutely hate being 'doxxed', if it were to happen I think the consequences would be good and educational regardless, so I'm kind of okay and safe just being this 'better me' online.
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Hopefully, the power grid will also be decentralizing and mostly transitioning to renewables over that same time period.
I think it's as much or less of a jump to say "a group with low IQ has that because of their genes, as IQ is genetic" than to say "a group has low IQ because of socioeconomic factors", but then again I'm a certified member of the Church of STEM.

I guess my easy acceptance of that as a potential factor is founded on my belief that IQ is largely genetic. My divorced-parents upbringing certainly was less than optimal but my IQ is still pretty high like my parents', and then there's also the fact that IQ is 75% hereditary[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ
This actually looks like my ideal job, if only it pays a decent wage and you do everything with the machines.
Summary: Integers in python are full blown objects. Small numbers are stored in a central preallocated table where each entry represents one number. Setting a variable to a small integer makes it point to an entry in that table. Multiple variables may point to the same small integer objects in that table. Fooling around with the table leads to funny results.
Many of the current cars are 100% drive by wire (ECU/power brakes/electric power steering), but that doesn't mean anything.

Probably quite a good part of the $hundred of millions price of a passenger plane is the autopilot (even 1% means $1M). And even at $1M/plane, 99% of a plane's autopilot works because it assumes that the current plane is the only one in a large vicinity of a point in space. This is assured by a centralized third party (control tower) that is not really automated but a very stressful human job (that's why the air traffic controllers are well paid). This is not the case with cars - in this case, most of the work being done is having each of the individual cars detect, with complex but not very good sensors and software, what is around them, in a swarm of other moving objects that do not communicate.
Seems like a lot of these workplace injuries can be reduced by making the machines remotely operated. If the workers can be far enough to not be hit by the falling logs or trees, it would be no more dangerous than just another minimum wage job.
Its not just React - its React Native and Caffe2.ai as well. And these are more dangerous.

Arguably, Reactjs can be replaced by something else. But a mobile app in the wild cannot be replaced easily or quickly. And more so if you are using something like caffe2go (deep learning on the smartphone).

Or the data and training sets that you build around caffe2.
Right? What the hell did this industry think was going to happen if they busted up unions and insisted on paying pittance for one of the most dangerous jobs in the world?
* having more ethics than <insert car manufacturer here>

As we now know, all of them are cheating.

(Also, "having more ethics" sounds really strange in my ears. "... being more ethical than those at <XY>"?).
Surprised this wasn't title "Millenials killed the logging
industry"

As the sole representative of everyone aged 8 till 40, I would say we are turning a new leaf here.

I feel like this is an outreach problem more than anything. Recruit at high schools and job fairs and you'll get bodies.
I've heard really good things about FE International, and, since they're a true broker, everything they sell seems to be super legit. I've also had some contact with them when I was thinking about selling some of my sites, and I was impressed.

The fact that they're a true broker, though, means it's not worth their time to sell sites with lower earnings, so I haven't seen anything much below $2k/month in revenue.

Also, from talking to them, it sounds like they have a network of buyers that they can privately pitch your site to if you're looking to sell quickly and are willing to take a slightly lower multiple of earnings (in exchange for a quicker, easier selling process, it seems).
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Just have to say, dreamhost has had great uptime for such a cheap package, given the amount of features they provide.

Given this is not at all a result of their own error, I think they're doing a great job with reliability. By comparison (and it's not much of a comparison) godaddy shared hosting goes down WEEKLY for spans of 5-10 minutes, and it's more expensive and has way fewer features.
> It's not like JS is specialized in some very small niche by design -- like e.g. COBOL is.

Uhh, what? You don't consider "programatically manipulate the DOM in the browser" to be a niche?
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There's still a difference between legal and ethical. There's also a difference between innocent now and slander later. The potential for abuse is real.
Lower cost of living _and_ lower quality of life. People, believe it or not, are actually weighing that in their job hunting equation these days.
Oh, the other site for this I've heard of this EmpireFlippers.
No. The catch is that it's hard to write it in a way that doesn't require very fiddly local mutation or explosive allocation.

The other catch is that no one has demonstrated that you can do it without a good static type system. It shouldn't be impossible, but there are a lot of challenges in an already challenging algorithm.
Also, their likelihood of dying young is among the highest in the developed world, so they may not need to save at all! What a deal.
The hardest thing for me has been young children begging, just begging, for screen time. It's heartbreaking and I know very few parents who have managed to make no mean no. I grew up watching TV but then, TV was mostly for adults and I only paid attention those few hours it was child-friendly. I spent almost the entire decade of the 90s without a television, only going to the movies or the occasional VHS. Even today, while I'm on my computer for 8 hours/5 days a week, I read books when I stop work or cook or just sit and talk. I turn off the screen, close the laptop and turn off wifi on my phone. I worry for the attention span our kids won't have.

When was the last time you let a child just get bored, so they might entertain themselves with their imagination?

On the other side, when we go out for walks or camping or away from tech, it really doesn't take long for the kids to adjust.
I don't know too much about the industry except that it can be incredibly dangerous, especially with the sophisticated machinery. I knew somebody who impaled himself--he wasn't paying well enough attention (so I was told) and drove a tree trunk right into his cabin and into his abdomen. Miraculous that he survived, last I heard he was still packing and disinfecting a gaping open wound a year after the incident.

I don't think he received nearly as much training as described in the article. And IIRC he hadn't been on the job for more than a few months. But this was in Alabama, where workers are disposable.
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> Many of the current cars are 100% drive by wire (ECU/power brakes/electric power steering), but that doesn't mean anything.

You can still break when the ECU does something stupid. You can still break if you loose vacuum (engine not running), it's "just" more harder to do so.
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No, not really. Stuff happens. And I've been pretty lucky about finding ways to get paid for doing stuff that I might otherwise have done for fun. And mostly as a consultant, with very little structure. Now I just work anonymously for Bitcoin.

But anyway, I would have probably have sold it at the ~$1K peak, and the money would all be gone by now ;)
That's actually a confirmation bias being missed. Aircraft systems fail and commercial pilots take over and land without mishap all the time. Components inside airplanes, at airports, and even inside air traffic control can and do fail.

One example is the attack on the Chicago air traffic control system. Dozens and perhaps even over a hundred aircraft suddenly were flying around with no oversight. Every single pilot took local control, negotiated with the other pilots, and collectively were able to either land or divert without incident.
I think you're overstating things. On the one hand, a lot of applications where quality wasn't that critical switched over ages ago. And, on the other hand, any application that would have spent the money on voice acting is still going to pay for both the higher quality and for a sound that isn't the same as everyone else is using. (Note that Siri's new iOS voice is based on a new training set from a new person.)

I do think there are applications that we don't just have today because TTS just isn't good enough. I've had some ideas around Alexa apps related to content that would be TTSd. But the current Polly just isn't human enough. I don't think this is there yet either but it's getting close.
> I do represent Facebook on open source matters, but I did not draft the BSD+patents license grant.

On what planet is this not a conflict of interest? Why isn't this at the top of the article?

Are there any people out there who don't work for Facebook or use React code who are willing to defend the patent license? I don't think so.