skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think Trump has no idea of the kind of Trojan horse he unwittingly planted for his 2020 re-election.

Not at all. Odds are more or less certain that Trump won't have a serious Republican primary challenge, because parties almost always support their incumbents. It's more likely that net neutrality will be an issue in the Democratic primaries, but once both parties pick their candidates, most Americans distill their choice down to not being able to vote for somebody who is pro-guns/anti-guns or pro-immigration/anti-immigration or pro-abortion/anti-abortion or one of any other hot-button, "this touches my deepest moral sense" issues, and vote Democrat or Republican accordingly.
Modern inheritance should be inherently dissipative, as the estate is repeatedly divided among the heirs, amplified by death/inheritance/estate taxation. The problems arise when the wealth accumulation overpowers the dissipative effect of inheritance, combined with increasingly absurdly high wealth levels that go far beyond providing for children and grandchildren.

As for the "golden area" you mentioned; yes, the war(s) did function as great equalizing wealth redistribution force. Arguably bit of a blunt instrument to accomplish that.
Op mentions later there are no sensors. So either a light/shadow thing or a sound/vibration thing.
Not him but I'd bet 5 bucks it was a smoke alarm with depleted batteries.
I love this. It's about moderation. That's how.the estate tax is supposed to function.
> offering a free service funded by VC money, it squeezes the competition forcing them to reduce quality or go out of business.

This is very similar to the anti-competitive strategy of "dumping", where you sell something at a loss to undercut a competitor. Again, the primary thing being disrupted here is "laws".
What is your current background and why do you think you want to learn SWE?
Let's assume you want mean you want to get paid as Software Engineer, either as a temp/contractor/consoltant or an employee. You will have achieved this when you get paid for software engineering work you have done or intend to do. So how does one make that happen? As a professional software engineer who is self taught, here's what I did...

tl;dr - spent two years learning to code, working as needed to pay the bills, and then got software job by applying to software jobs

1. Accepted I have no real clue how to proceed, and commit to trying something

2. Picked a language that seems to be an essential skill for many entry level jobs

3. Studied a little bit (coded through a book or two), applied to jobs, and get no response (maybe a couple phone interviews)

4. Locked myself in a room for 1 year, coding 40+ hours per week (let's say I spent 2000 hours coding on anything I found interesting)

5. Applied to jobs, saying I have 5 years of experience in my language of choice (technically true, as I'd goofed around for 4 years prior with a bit of code here and there), getting many interviews, and no offers

6. To pay the bills, I applied for & got a job doing tech support at a software company, and continued programming at work, nights , and weekends for another year (probably putting in another 2000 hours of learning to code)

7. Applied to jobs, saying I have 6 years of experience in my language of choice & using verbiage I picked up doing tech support, getting many interviews & 2 offers

8. Took best offer, and was now professional software engineer who was self taught
This reads like a last minute research assignment with a minimum length requirement. The ‘tetrad’ diagram is probably one of the more distracting and less useful paths to understanding McLuhan. I encourage anyone interested in the topic, or McLuhan, to look elsewhere.
I don't want to be your neighbor :P
Curious question: how was the python code obfuscated ? Does there exists some obfuscation programs that obfuscate the code like that ?
Of what little I read of the reddit thread, there must not be many gear heads in there that debug software, too. I say that only because there is a lot of “it’s probably...”
but no “try this, which will eliminate $FOO. Next, $BAR, which eliminates $FOOBAR.”

For your list, and I’d do a) and not bother with b) and c) as a) eliminates them well enough (point the emitters away from the alarm sensors). For d), I’d put a light cloth in the tailpipe, enough that it will change the exhaust note across RPM range, but the car will still run. Your suggestion leaves the slight possibility of a false positive if we accidentally hit the resonant rpm range. For experimentation only, don’t drive to work a banana in your tailpipe.

One last one: throw it in reverse near the house, but not in your driveway. Could be some weird parabolic blah blah acoustic thing focus thumpy exhaust waves at the house sensors.

I suppose there’s the possibility that a 2.4Ghz radio transmitter of some sort could be responsible, but this way out there and would be way down in my list. SDR and a dongle would be handy here.
A massive part of people's motivation to work is to provide for their children. >That an increasing portion of wealth is inherited rather than build in an individual's working life-time is indicative that the system is function as intended.

No, it just signals that the tax system treats unearned income and wealth more favourably than earned income. Political choices.

How you feel about that depends upon how you feel about in increase in unearned income flowing to the wealthy I guess.
I've only written a bit of Rust, but from what I've seen Rust makes the first 90% of optimizing for space-efficiency easy, but the next 90% (stuff like allocating from static buffers instead of on the heap, reusing/type-punning memory, tagged pointers, clever poking at the hardware/OS internals, etc) very difficult.
All major infrastructure such as roads, power, communications etc needs to be owned and run by government upon which is then a level playing field on which free enterprise can then compete.

When you have any major infrastructure essential to running a business in private hands you no longer have a democracy or free enterprise.
A Rainbow in Curved Air is one of my favourite compositions
Did anyone manage to access it?
I just loaded this article on my mobile device. An ad on the website triggered with auto playing audio that stopped background media playback of my device. I class these type of ads as a type of vermin, and generally avoid any website that contains them. Why should I trust an organisation that chooses to run user hostile ads on their site line this to make a better internet?
If their users did not read that clause in the user agreement and knowingly consent to the experiments, then they are being carried out without the users' consent.
Things like this can happen when corporations know more about you than you think: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...
I'm probably starting to stretch the analogy a bit thin but: In Australia, similar issues, but we've been doing back-burning/fuel-reduction-burns for quite a few years now to deal with these problems (the indigenous population practiced controlled burns for a variety of purposes well before whitefellas arrived). However, some evidence is now starting to emerge that the mode controlled burns is effecting the long term ecology of the forests, and favouring certain species over others, and preventing the build-up of larger, less-flammable trees.

So, to tie it back to IoT: Would a 'controlled burn' (i.e. a bot which bricks vulnerable devices) only destroy the low hanging fruit (i.e easily exploitable devices) and leave the harder vulnerabilities in place, building up for the bigger fire in a years time?
ACM fellow leading research and development, stock exchange running pilots, access to a platform of 1 billion people... there's serious work going on in these projects. It's a bit unfair to label them as "Beanie Babies".
Most of this wealth probably has nothing to do with merit. For every Steve Jobs there's a whole bunch of people who did nothing more than sit on property that appreciated in value and yielded rents.

The tax system seems to prefer this to actually earning money for some reason.
I'll add a related real life debugging tip I've seen play out at least twice in the real world:

If you can't get an alarm to shut-off or stop beeping, no matter what you try, then give serious thought to the possibility that there's a second alarm nearby which is the source of the noise.
Dagmar
I’d be super surprised if that turned up anything. For one thing, okay, we did that and the alarm didn’t go off. What did we eliminate? Alternatively, if the alarm did go off, this ex-mechanic would be at a loss as to how a car with no powered systems could do that. At that point my suggestion is to call a priest.
I'm sad to live in a society where school is considered a factory producing efficient labor rather than somewhere to help children become autonomous (in the actual sense of the word, not our French bizare conception of autonomy which looks a lot like heteronomy, aka "one who knows how to follow rules").
An Internet that is completely decentralized and independent of gatekeepers is the only long-term hope that I can see, and it's a very remote hope at that.

There are too many powerful, vested interests in controlling people and their communication to let that happen. The only reason the Internet was ever as free as it was that it slipped under the radar of those very interests and wasn't taken seriously enough at first. So its users had a decade or two of relative freedom that's now steadily being chipped away.
Instead of letting cars drive by themselves, they should first learn to park by themselves. Eventually emitting standardized sound, so that bypassers know that the car is in an autonomous parking mode, so extra care should be taken.

The sampling rate of the sensors should be diminished, maybe halved or even more, in order to make it harder for the car to park.

The car should observe, also with a low sampling rate, how the driver drives the car, make it's own prognostics on how it would drive, and compare them with what the driver chose to do, in order to learn. In that case the driver should be able to indicate the car that a certain action he/she performed, should be forgotten by the car, flagged as an illegal or dangerous maneuver.

When a car can do that well, park and project, then the sample rate should get upped in order to feed the car with more reliable data. If it handles that data without hiccups, and increased reliability, then a next stage can begin.
If the title is protected, it's not possible to be an engineer without having the degree.

Anyway, the author was posting google requirements. More than 80% of google developers have a master or more.
And before anyone says that the government is probably too inefficient, consider that "own != build+maintain".
Time for my story.

I was a noobie computer programmer in my first job. After being there for a few months my mouse started to have issues. It stuttered and refused to move correctly.

So I'd take the little grey ball out and clean it and it'd be OK again. But the next day it'd do it again.

So I ended up with the cleanest fucking mouse on planet earth. Yet every so often it'd stop working... on parts of the screen. Other parts it'd work. I ended up using the keyboard a lot.

The mouse would work fine all day some days. Some days it would work fine until about 2PM then it may or may not work.

Eventually I figured out that when the sun shone through the window it created a beam across my mouse mat. When the mouse was moved into the beam it would stop working. So I took it to bits and discovered that the ball would roll a little disc, that disc had little holes in it, there was also an LED and a photodetector. So the mouse was counting the blips in light to determine the movement in the mouse. I guess the cheap plastic was allowing the bright sunlight to bleed through the case causing the photodetctor to go bonkers.

A secondary thing about that cheap as shit PC was you could hear the video card render the screen. It'd buzz when the screen was mostly blue, when it was white it would be silent.
Ask HN: How does your company manage knowledge and information
I would like to know what tools your company uses to manage knowledge. It doesn't necessarily mean a tool like Confluence but maybe something more general purpose like Google Drive.

I am particularly interested in how you use it to create long lived documents (sprint meetings/coding documentation/meeting notes) and what use cases it is best suited for. We currently use Confluence but its design is clunky and slow. It is damn near painful to navigate and I dread when I have to use it to write documentation. It also doesn't seem suited to supporting code in the way that I would like (inline code is not natively supported) so it becomes less useful for creating a best practices guide for instance.
The poor and minorities have been systematically disenfranchised recently in many states, since they tend to vote against the party currently in power (especially minorities in red states).
Wealth naturally dissipates through the generations. What has changed the most is the birth rate of the wealthy.

If they went back to having a dozen children apiece, wealth would dissipate at least an order of magnitude per generation.
> Complete disregard for privacy has become the rule rather than the exception on the internet, and these ads practically celebrate that.

Ahahaha, has me in tears, really. For all we know, these claims could as well be made up. We can't verify that 53 people watched any movie 18 days in a row. Why? Well because they didn't actually violate these peoples privacy by dropping their names. The only entity that could use this information and track those people down is the NSA (correlating Traffic). But they wouldn't need tweets to do that.

My point is: Please stop making a fool out of yourself. There are really harmful players out there, people that can ruin your life not your audio listening experience. Rage in the right direction.
SplineMesh, a free Unity plugin to create curved content in real time
Round trip to a satellite will never rival fiber. Especially the way modern web apps are built inefficiently
Fortunately, we don’t have to rely on guesses, we have measures of economic mobility. In particular, how likely is it that someone born into a particular quintile moves to a higher (or lower) quintile?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socioeconomic_mobility_in_th...

Answer: it’s not great and getting worse, but not as dire as you portray.
Logic Pro X 10.3.3 Full Crack with License Key for MacOS X Download
> but what happens in real life

Facts are pertinent to real life. Fiction is not.

> how some things can be more complicated than the naive first order view (factually false = useless)

1. Facts are not first order, but applicable at arbitrarily higher orders as well.

2. Factually false claims aren't useless, they quite clearly identify the biases of the people who perpetuate them.
https://web.archive.org/web/20071128230208/http://www.arts.r...

here you go; it's from the proceedings of the senate select intelligence committee; this evidence is in fact unimpeachable government record.
Nice.

I think these are the "new" sanctions that concern Putin.

Basically Congress told the IC to draw up a list of Russian oligarchs, so they may be targeted.

Since a lot of these oligarchs have money in the West (houses in Italy and Miami) this "Putin aide" may be worried about his future.

Don't forget Putin is getting another 6 (?) year term.
Article seems to be behind a login/pay wall once you begin to scroll
Maybe look into ConceptNet Numberbatch: https://github.com/commonsense/conceptnet-numberbatch/blob/m...
Other related acts:

https://www.mail-archive.com/cypherpunks@lists.cpunks.org/ms...
Indeed. When I visited India on a delegation to learn about these very issues, I was told that the local elementary schools didn't even have girls' bathrooms, that young women can't attend the entrance exam prep classes because they're held at night and it's too dangerous, and that when women do get into engineering schools, it's never the tier one schools.

Obviously I did not grow up in India so I can't say with certainty that the author is an outlier. But I have heard face-to-face from many, many, many Indian women who tell a very different story from the one we're reading here.
A cheat-sheet for mathematical notation with translations to JavaScript
But you can with REST. Most of this conversation is a strawman against REST. Creating or changing resources can impact other resources. It's obvious / logical. Responses can include the things that they impacted along the way. Much of this thread amounts to "I used this shitty REST API once" or similar for RPC.
There not much the individual can do about it. It's not feasible for me as a consumer to do proper research into the backgrounds behind my products and companies that I use. It's barely feasible for me to even be confident I'm buying quality goods at all.

And if I do, I will be paying higher prices for the same lifestyle as my neighbors. At the consumer level this is fine, but at the business level my company will fail. My competition has saved enough money by using cheaper services that they can hire a PR firm to establish them as a 'humans first' company by brand, regardless of what is actually happening behind the scenes.

So I lose on both fronts for being responsible.

It's a problem that can only be fixed with regulation.
Well it happened to me when living in Tokyo. In other parts it might not be like that.
lol, the Sam Altman quote is classic... what a duche:

“This is uncomfortable, but it’s possible we have to allow people to say disparaging things about gay people if we want them to be able to say novel things about physics,”

I absolutely abhor arguments that are based on the quest for pure excellence. I promise you nearly every discriminatory argument in history was based on excellence. And yes, to have civility we have to get over that and say: no, you can't say shit about gay people. If that changes some elite collectives overall IQ, get the fuck over it. Your novel comment on physics is simply lower on the scale of priorities.
Lexus has had autoparking for over a decade.
I've not got into system level concepts myself but there's a lot of others who have worked on that. You'll find a lot more info at the Raspberry Pi forums but here is a bit to get you going.

This book is co-written by Eben Upton, founder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation:

Learning Computer Architecture with Raspberry Pi:
https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=9aTkDAAAQBAJ&...

Mastering the Raspberry Pi:

https://books.google.com/books?id=1FUnCgAAQBAJ&printsec=fron...

This is a post in their user forums with links to additional resources:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=7226...
Sure, just wanted to make it clear that not all cryptos completely rely on C++.
Anonymized data generally is not very anonymous. You can only trust that data is actually anonymous if there exists no non-anonymous dataset with which you can cross reference the anonymized data, and you can guarantee that no such database will ever exist.

I'm willing to bet that many "anonymized" datasets are of the kind which could relatively easily be deanonymized, especially datasets which are frivolously used to make ads "funny".
I don't think you can learn much from Anathem. Greg Egan's Clockwork Trilogy, though, is a very unique and illuminating perspective on Relativity: "What if we lived in a universe where the space-time metric was Riemannian?"
I was once greatly disappointed by an item and left a very, very detailed review which reported the exact reasons for my dissatisfaction and all the various tests I made of the product that led me to my conclusion.

All my effort was for nothing. The vendor just delisted that item and re-listed it again, so no one would even read my review unless they bothered to read reviews for a delisted product.

I guess I could have re-posted my review in the new listing, but it was too much trouble, so I never bothered to do so.
Inside the Home of Instant Pot
yes, I think the idea is that there's an infinite number of infinitely thin lines between 22°31'35.2"E, and 22°33'32.1"
Without piracy I have two problems with my music collection:

1. My running playlist would cost $700+AUD to buy.

2. Most places don't have FLAC available or even 320kbit MP3
About a year after I moved into my previous house, we heard that familiar chirping sound.

After 3 goddamn hours of searching, and having run to the store to buy 9-volts and replaced every goddamn battery in the house, we found a carbon monoxide alarm thrown INSIDE the return air duct of the HVAC unit...
Really interested to see how this plays out. Given the number of satellites needed to make this happen, and the number of companies launching similar initiatives, it seems low earth orbit real-estate is about to get pretty competitive. Anyone know if there is a limit on the number of satellites that can occupy LEO? SpaceX alone wants to launch around 5,000.
> deserve

??

Who gets to determine who deserves what?
I thought Coinbase, and many other U.S. based exchanges, already blacklist addresses and ban accounts attempting to send money to them.
Narrowly, you're right: the problem is sentence length, not plea bargaining. But broadly, causality doesn't run that way: states overwhelmingly prefer plea bargains on many levels (DAs want high conviction rates, states want few trials, etc.), so harsh maximum sentences are implemented primarily as a threat to help encourage plea bargains.

Even on a too-crude statistical level we can see the problem: if an innocent person has a 20% chance of being convicted, but the offered plea bargain is 1 year and the maximum sentence is 10 years, innocent people will do better by pleading guilty. The "10 years" is a problem, but it's a consequence of wanting to drive plea bargains.

(The fundamental problem in this case is the 20% chance, but frankly no one seems to have any hope for a system that doesn't regularly convict innocents.)
True, and almost everyone would be unaffected by the law I proposed. If you have two children, you'd need >$10 million in assets for it to affect you. I guess what I proposed is a fix for just the super-rich's inheritance, but it's low hanging fruit and there's a lot of it.
>The top post in this thread said "many". Not "most". Not even "all".

Even saying "many" is perpetuating a stereotype, and its harmful in the way all stereotypes are.

See how controversial saying "Many women tend to gravitate away from technology & towards people-focused disciplines" is, for the same reasons. It subtly disempowers people within the stereotype by implying they must be a certain kind of person or do only certain things.
I am worse at playing basketball than the average high school basketball player because I’m of average height, have poor hand eye coordination and a terrible vertical jump, all of which are largely genetic.

I am worse at math than the average physics undergrad for genetic reasons, low conscientiousness and interest.
Could you expand on this? Do you think latency is the limiting factor for a LEO network?
The more a company attempts to get cute with me or adopt an overly casual tone, the more I avoid them.
> Wouldn't that be a case where a false story being presented as true became useful?

Only if the false story was actually representative of some underlying truth, despite the specific details being untrue. You keep presenting your original post as representing some underlying truth, despite the specifics being untrue.

I think I clearly stated in my first reply that not only were the specifics untrue, but your underlying premise was also completely false despite having being commonly accepted. And this is where actual facts are needed to discern the actual truth, so make your case.
Good question, and one that economics has been trying to solve for thousands of years. This is just one idea that I think might make for a more just world under my own (possibly misguided, but let's discuss it) ethics.