skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of the point of the article is that these systems have made the job of the parent (or the individual) much more difficult than it was in the past. Cutting the internet and TV out all tougher is certainly one way to prevent your child from being exposed to some of these algorithmic horrors, but shouldn't there be a way for parents to easily say "don't show horrific things to my child" to youtube? As the article points out, that's what built brands like Disney. They built a reputation on "safe for kids" and youtube (and twitter and facebook) have made it harder for those kinds of reputations to be built or to matter. On there internet, everyone is a dog.

What so much of this seems to boil down to is spam. It is kind of incredible that spam was shut down so effectively and completely in the world of email, but has persisted, much to everyone's detriment, on facebook/youtube/twitter/etc. The only explanation that makes sense to me is that spam fighting was a differentiator for different email clients, but facebook et al. are actually incentivized to have spam count as impressions.
I keep around old hardware, running old OSes, that occasionally sees use with things like this. Wine (on a Linux system) might be an option too.

Someone earlier in the thread posted some short videos of the interface in operation that the developer had posted to their Twitter, if you're just interested in seeing examples of what it does: https://twitter.com/_deadcast/status/907485256827023360
And I agree that we shouldn't break things lightly, but in this case that wasn't possible.

The options were let website scrolling be laggy and janky on mobile, or break a very small amount of websites. (and your point is that things may never be updated, so no amount of "giving them the ability to opt-in to these improvements would ever help)

And I stand by my thought that they made the right decision here, despite the very few easily upgraded sites that were impacted.
I must say, I was happy to come across this after putting in the not insignificant effort of converting my resume into a nice looking LaTeX document: http://stevehanov.ca/blog/resume_comic.png
Web Animation API- Unleashing the Power of CSS Keyframes in JavaScript
Scientists Identify a Third Orangutan Species
If we give them Chromebooks and free WiFi, they can learn to code in 20 weeks.
Did you watch the video where a series of marvel heroes were captured and buried up to their necks in sand? These videos are nightmare fuel for children.
I just... Here's the deal. Most good math is elegant, it has a beauty about it. And as a programmer, good code has the same "feel." But when I took Andrew Ng's class, gradient descent felt... not beautiful at all... and just based on that beauty-seeking intuition, there MUST be a more elegant way to get directly at the inverse of a matrix (assuming it exists and is possible) than all of these... complicated expensive workarounds. And the pot at the end of that rainbow is you get the EXACT value that gradient descent is wasting all this time trying to snowboard down N-dimensional space to get to!

I know I may be asking to make what may be a fundamentally-hard problem, easy... I'm just saying that I don't get the same, eh, "buzz" I get when I see a really cool solution for something (which I've often gotten from math, physics, programming, etc.). This is very hard to explain as it's probably irrational and thus I can't make a strong rational argument for it lol (admittedly!)

I really love linear algebra, btw, so this should be right up my alley.
Homeless explosion on West Coast pushing cities to the brink
> And you want to be the judge who decides what is right and wrong?

As soon as a minority is discriminated, no matter what minority it is (be it PoC, Latinos, Asians, gays, lesbians, transsexuals, or even social groups as poor people) it's wrong.

Dead easy definition, and for racial and gender based discrimination it's a worldwide agreed-upon international law anyway: racism => ICERD, https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationales_%C3%9Cbereinko..., gender-based discrimination => CEDAW, https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/UN-Konvention_zur_Beseitigung_.... And for the other forms of discrimination, a judicial base may be extracted from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
>It has to come from somewhere. It can come from owners, workers, or consumers.

Owners. It comes from owners.

>If it comes from owners, it increases the corporation's cost of capital

There is currently an almost absurd overabundance of capital relative to aggregate demand.
Does Hawking have any AI-related credentials?

I can't help but notice that the loudest Anti-AI-Campaigners are not AI people.
So does anyone actually have any rough numbers on what kind of specs this MINIX on the IME runs?
I mean, in terms of "this is like a 100MHz CPU with 1MB of RAM" or something.

Also, related: http://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack&page=1
No. I've a small computer in my hand which is highly programable and very likely there are several apps in the store for such functionality. Having to carry a special hardware doesn't sound enticing.
Why was email spam so effectively fought, but "next up" spam seems to thrive?
For the US only. Tesla generally ships most cars oversees on the first month of the quarter and loads up in the US in the last month of each quarter.
The author of the language is not necessarily the most knowledgeable in how to use it.
People will be poached in a hot market, people will burn out, people's job will outgrow their ability to perform it. That's just the way it is in a high growth company.

After Facebook didn't sell to Yahoo, they lost their entire management team.
Postgres doesn't have anything built in today, though a single node will comfortably scale to ... let's say somewhere between 100GB and 10TB depending on your use-case. Beyond that you can do read scaling with replicas, implement something with Foreign Data Wrappers, or hand-roll a sharding solution and stay on vanilla.

Alternatives to the DIY approach include open-source things like Postgres-BDR, CitusData, TimeScaleDB or closed-source single-vendor things Amazon Aurora, and RedShift.
> Chevy shipped a few hundred more Bolts than Teslas one month

In the US only (majority of Teslas sold oversees in October, as is always the case in the first month of each quarter).
the importance of console verification is to make sure a TAS isn't relying on any emulator bugs (such as timing, uninitialized memory, etc) and would theoretically be possible on the actual hardware. it also speaks to the accuracy of the emulations themselves
We have a bunch of testers interfacing with hardware that used to run one big monolithic app that would handle everything from scheduling tests, reporting results, grabbing test artifacts, interfacing with hardware APIs, etc. Rather than move everything over at once, we are splitting out each service and wrapping it in Pyro4, then upgrading them one at a time. We also had a lot of test tooling in legacy java/.net systems, but Pyro4 can wrap those too with (IronPython/Jython)

It works nicely in about 95% of use cases with minimal overhead, but there are some gotchas to be aware of (like all strings being serialized as unicode). If we were architecting the whole thing from scratch, some of it might have made more sense with something like gRPC, but it is still a neat tool to have in your toolbox.
Don’t over email people
I recall a time when email spam was not so effectively fought. I was far more skeptical of posting, linking to, or generally giving out my email due to the potential onslaught of spam afterwards. I assume the challenge here is similar, but for video instead of text.
If HN (or, for that matter, any platform!) would no longer welcome me for opposing Nazis, I'd be fine with it - so yeah I'd stick to my position.
I do not have any links, the best I can say is that these pieces usually reward close reading and diagramming of the facts.

My understanding (as a person who has taken a couple tax law classes) is that it isn't an explicit law but a combination of things, all of which are reasonable, which yields what could be said to be a surprising result:

- companies pay taxes on profits

- profits = revenue - expenses

- It is OK to expense licensing of IP

- It is OK to sell IP to a subsidiary

So Apple creates a subsidiary in Jersey, transfers IP to that company, then charges the Irish subsidiary fees which are more or less equal to the revenue for selling the phones. In this way the Irish subsidiary makes no profit, so there is nothing to tax. All the profit goes to Jersey, which happens to have no tax.

It needs to be said that the money is stuck there, if Apple wants to get at the money then it would in fact be taxed depending on where it goes. So it is not even really dodging taxes, but more like delaying when they get paid (hoping for a better tax rate in the future, I suppose).

I am not even sure if US law is to blame here, it seems like the EU is the one that is upset at Apple, and Jersey is under EU law not US law.
Yep; it’s obviously not a deal breaker/winner, but we definitely notice. I once joked that we ought to mark up candidates with LaTeX CVs, but knock them slightly down if they stuck with Computer Modern :)
18650 cells are a commodity component. Combining thousands of them into an effective battery pack is a very complex engineering task. Tesla have filed hundreds of patents relating to pack design and battery management. They have several just relating to "thermal runaway mitigation", which is a fancy euphemism for "stopping the battery pack from catching fire". It's not sexy, but it's crucial stuff.

https://patents.google.com/?assignee=Tesla+Inc
> and there isn't a good way of asking the user if they would like to disable zoom.

Whats wrong with "This page wants disable zooming. Allow?"?

That would fix the canvas web game usecase.
we have a 2 repository in a gitlab group named "knowledge base", one for public information, one for private information.
AND we use a opensource stakcoverflow clone (askbot)

for the git repositories

so that developers works with markdown files, it can be git cloned, it can be grepped, but it can also be rendered in the gitlab website, and most importantly compared to other wiki's or even gitlab's wiki, you can make merge request, so that,

* if you fear to put an incomplete things, at most it will be in a MR and get reviewed (or never) but at least it's somewhere else than in your head
* all knowledge merged has been known to be there by someone else, so that it's ot just a wiki full of hidden gems that everyone has buried and nobody else know it exists

This way you have encyclopedic knowledge of "how to put a new project in our CI/CD pipeline" or "list of horrors in project X that you want to delete, but hey that's not so simple and here's why"

the stackoverflow clone on the other hand is here to answer the question everybody ask, from the new employee to the famous "oh why god already do we have to do this command everytime e deploy, I remember John explained it to me one day?"
the stackoverflow links extensively to the repository for the "if you want to know more"

we also put as much as possible the "as of march 2017" marker, to always remember people that information rot

things we also do:

every todo in the code has with it a link to the corresponding issue in the tracker, so that when you have 10 minutes to kill, you can check the tracker for "TODO" issues, and grep "TODO #42" in the code
Tooling changes (very) regularly. Learning concepts and techniques is far better for the long term since many of those techniques/concepts can be applied to new situations.
Our company uses Confluence and I highly recommend it. I think it does a very good for keeping your documentation "fresh" because:

* It's easy to search and find things

* It's easy to be notified of updates

* It's easy to comment & edit (for both non technical and technical members)

* It's easy to create quick documentation through the Q&A product and use the wiki for longer documentation

The main cons I've found with Confluence is:

* The general UX is weak (this is the case across all Atlassian products in my opinion)

* The markup language is not markdown

* The edit & save UX is a bit too heavy, your changes don't get saved automatically but rather it requires a separate button change. So documentation changes are a bit slower than something like Google Docs

Despite these cons, Confluence has been great for us. However, in order for any tool to work there also has to be a cultural shift. Our company is very good about:

1) Keeping knowledge not silo'd in brains of devs or other tools. So whenever I ask any senior dev a basic question like "How do I get unit test coverage?" they will immediately link you to a confluence Q&A answer or if one isn't created they will give you the solution and immediately ask you to create a confluence question.

2) Not spreading knowledge across other tools - any process, decision, design, etc. is required to be in Confluence. Any thing in Slack, Email, or Google Drive is immediately asked to be moved into Confluence.
We have a lot of teams using HelpSite.io [1] for this sort of thing. Originally designed for customer-facing FAQs, we also support the same format for internal knowledge bases. We didn't originally intend to support such use cases, but it turned out a lot of people really like our format for internal company docs as well.

[1] https://helpsite.io
An introduction to aggregation theory
Children are humans and are social creatures just as much as adult humans are... if not even more so. It is helpful to be around things that humans enjoy culturally, whether that is museums, sports stadiums, restaurants, parks and playgrounds, or just people in general. Population centers allow for critical mass of a lot of things that children enjoy that don’t exist elsewhere (one example in my case is a boys gymnastics competitive team, which is nearly impossible to find outside of cities).

Perhaps most importantly my children spend almost zero time in cars, and will be afforded a freedom that I never had as a suburbanite child...the freedom to go where they want without the explicit accommodation of an adult with a drivers license. It’s also helpful for kids to be afraid of things that can likely hurt them, like cars, and not afraid of things that aren’t likely to hurt them, like black people, gay people, foreign languages, or atheists.
Ehh... well I'm biased because I would be labelled by people as alt-right.

Basically, just use your intuition... use it boldly. What does it tell you about these videos? It's weiiiird
Crowd source this problem. Add a report fake account option. If so many (x) number of different IP address, etc. report it, sandbox that account. Simple.
There is a video about this which is quite funny. You wouldn't actually fall of the edge but could stand on it comfortably.
responsive web also doesnt mean youd need to disable zooming
Well that's clearly not believed by most of society. The young are discriminated against ferociously and denigrated at every turn, yet few would call it wrong. Few would argue that teenagers shouldn't be spied upon, controlled, and given fewer choices in their day to day life than felons in prison. It is 'for their own good' after all. As discrimination always has been, and always will be, couched.
Haha if look for google under the url it says:
"a wise guy eh? ಠ_ಠ"
You can use Janus for this - it's a server daemon that you can blast plain RTP to, and it will relay it to all connected WebRTC clients.
Including solving differential equations? You needed Calculus for that? Did you teach that on your own? Let’s step up, what about Graph Topology, Parallel Algorithms, and Complexity.
Not necessarily. This is an observational study, so it might be the case that robotic surgery is employed in harder cases, which compensates for its advantages.
Trump's H-1B Reform Is to Make Life Hell for Immigrants and Companies
Ad blockers have false positives as well. And there's a use case for blocking the user from closing the tab (onbeforeunload), such as prompting them to save/submit what they're working on. But for all of those, the browser is still in control and the question is what provides the most benefit for the user.

So, along the same lines, it may make sense to improve the UI for autocompleting users, or for hinting about the use of the field, to make it easier for sysadmins. But that shouldn't break the more common case of handling sites that just think they're Too Special or Too Important to allow saving login information.
Our company has a culture of making it a part of the dev owner (or product owner's) job. So as part of shipping a feature / epic / task you are expected to create and update documentation. The added benefit is when someone has a question you point them to the document and make sure they read it before scheduling a meeting.
tapoueh why are you not using https on your site?

I want to buy the book but not sure if I should enter my card details on a non https site?
This falls exactly under the same type of news as:

1905: new "automobile" is slower than a good old horse!

Mature technologies or practices will always have an edge when new alternatives come, but mature techs dont improve much while the new ones can only go up. Robots will become faster, be more autonomous, etc and should drive down costs down the road. Just like digital photography started by being much worse than film back in the 90s, while beating its performance in most metrics in 2010s.
So why not have a docs branch open for direct commits, and then merge it into 'certain branches' at meaningful points - release, or whatever?
I find this looks to busy, but I guess that's partly because the example tries to show off as many features as possible.

Personally, I use moderncv: https://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/moderncv/
It doesn't look very fancy, but it's actually simple and clean. (See the exaples directory.)
Everyone Should Fear What Happened to the Gothamist Sites
kys faggot.
Can someone with experience shed some light on the future of this industry? I think surgical robots are really cool, but I don't know the capabilities or limitations of the technology. This article only talks about laporoscopic surgery for removing kidneys, but surely there are many other types of surgeries - some of which robots excel at and many for which it fails entirely?

Basically, I'd love for someone knowledgeable to tell me more about the long term timeline for this technology. How quickly will it grow, and will it ultimately replace entire types of surgery and transform how we treat people or continue to be an alternative with no obvious superiority?
IMO it's a deliberate choice - 18650s have a much higher surface-to-mass ratio, so are much easier to cool. For a car like the Model S, thermal management of the battery pack is one of the key limits on performance.
I re-read this every few years. I love the combination of technology, geography, and history.

I'll now probably lose the next few hours panning around undersea cable maps. Again.
Spoken like someone who doesn't have to wear reading glasses. Us old folks will be fighting this one. ;-)
Sorta? Not all the signals are available, depending on the level of integration. OTOH, modern hardware also frequently has test support via things like JTAG, which can give you a ton of information and/or control the device directly. For instance, there's ChipScope from Xilinx (https://www.xilinx.com/products/design-tools/chipscopepro.ht...) which allows you to debug your FPGA hardware from outside without wasting a ton of pins. It's halfway between poking the board with an oscilloscope and running GDB, as it uses the metadata from your design to label things.
Digital logic was also one of my favorite classes. Really fun to think about some of the problems.
If your local church added a scroll listener for their small website, they deserve it.
Okay, so there's a high barrier to entry. It's pretty hard to become an ISP too. That doesn't make either a walled garden.

It's not so much about whether I personally could federate with the network, as it is about whether some reasonably large number of other entities could. I don't have exact numbers, but it seems there are 1000+ phone providers worldwide.
Yea, clearly these people have never supported dell laptops in an office environment. I have more dead bricks than i can mail back, especially from older machines. Fail in the exact same way as the apple ones
The Model T was $575 in 1912, when the average salary was ~$600/year.
Will.i.am's startup raises $117M, enters enterprise market
What would better generate visual randomness for cryptography than lava lamps? I find this solution interesting as there are patterns to other seemingly random things in nature. For example, no ocean wave is ever going to be exactly the same, but they do follow a pattern of the tides. From a crytography perspective, how would a high resolution video of something like a beach compare as a solution?
Cloud Girl – MSDN Manga
Some things I'd like to see happen with the internet. There are probably opportunities here

1. Proper age validation on pornography. The "You promise you're over 18/21?" is not working.

2. A "safe" slice of the internet provided by an ISP such that more or less content matches the ratings systems open DNS does this but is easily defeated by an educated user. Also this on phones would be good.

3. A government regulatory body that inspects the real effects of consumption of these products. Porn, infinite scroll sites (fb, intstagram), youtube video content etc are all known to be tailored for addiction and yet no controls on them exist. Though we do the same with tobacco, food additives etc.
Avi Pfeffer's "Practical Probabilistic Programming" (Manning) is a nice book to learn about the concepts. It uses his own Scala based framework Figaro.
> a Subset cannot have greater cardinality than the set it derives from.

I am not completely certain in the subtleties of non-standard set theory, but at least if we replace the axiom of Choice (AC) by the axiom of Determinacy (AD) - which is perfectly fine, though it is less common to do mathematics in this system - we can partition the real line R by an equivalence relation that has more equivalence classes than elements of R. So at least we can partition R into more disjoint subsets than R has elements.

Source: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1104028/what-are-di...
Last night I had trouble with Google, Netflix, Reddit redirect links, and some other sites. I was trying to think of places an explosion could happen that would cause my issues.

This morning I've narrowed the explosion's epicenter down to the Wifi card in my PC. :/
Pentium II Die Shots
Not sure about the situation in the US. The bulk of the ‘fast chargers’ in the UK, mentioned above, are CHAdeMO (40-60kW, generally, though higher power are coming) and Mennekes (usually 44kW). This isn’t as fast as the Tesla ones, but it’s not 20kW either.
redolent means to smell of. you mean reminiscent
You're free to use their patents, there is no charge.
Depending on how custom the "Pixel Visual Core" is, it appears Google may already have the intention
The second element should be to the right of the first, not below it.