skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First question - why did the Bee have these records?

Second question - what is this spokesperson smoking?

"The spokesperson added: “We know that in databases apparently targeted, no personally identifiable information, as defined by the State of California, was involved.”"

According to California Civil Code4 §1798.80 ­ 81 "Personal information" means any information that identifies, relates to, describes or is capable of being associated with a particular individual, including, but not limited to:

● name

● telephone number

● address

● signature

● passport number

● medical information

● social security number

● insurance policy number

● bank account number

● physical characteristics or description

● driver's license or state identification card number

● credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information

● employment or employment history

● education

● health insurance information

So exactly what information was leaked?

"It contains the voter’s name, phone number, address, gender, date of birth, political affiliation, among other election-related details."

If that's not PII, I'm a butterfly.
I know sentience is an abused word, but for almost any of its practical definitions that's a false statement.

Sentience is the ability for subjective experience, which applies to any of the animals being discussed here. If you're thinking of something like self-awareness (a totally separate quality), you're probably correct. But that has nothing to do with the ability to learn.
Well yea, if you include the governments contribution they spent over 1 million per EV1 produced. Look only at material costs and labor you can get ~80k each, but cost to GM per unit is really a question of: (how much GM spent on the program) / (number produced).

Anything else is subject to spin as for example it costs money to setup a factory making just (parts) + (labor costs) overly optimistic. Similarly marketing and sales costs can easily inflate unit costs to make it look worse.

On the other hand if GM could have used current battery technology and current battery costs they may have tried to make it work. But, it was clear at the time it was going to fail so they had fewer incentives to keep costs down.
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Some people at Facebook can be extended to some people at other companies too. I specifically picked a large, visible example where the information is publicly available.

Perhaps GP misread "quite a few private sector jobs" as "most private sector jobs"?
Don't expect anything. Libertarians have no real answer for health care and they have no real answer for dealing with the credit agencies.
That's the approach I like. Advanced features don't have to clutter the interface. They can be hidden; they just have to exist, and be discoverable.

Also, by "features" I don't even mean new things to do - ones improving ergonomics are also important. For instance, having every action in GUI also exposed as a discoverable keyboard shortcut goes a long way towards making life easier for people who have to do lots of work in an application. A trivial thing, but seemingly forgotten in the era of "web browser as a desktop".
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There's something I don't understand about space travel.

We made it to the moon in 1969, on the first computer to use ICs[1]. Since then we've seen monumental advances in computer science, material science, manufacturing, rocketry, and just about any other component of space flight.

Why 50 years later is it still such a relatively difficult task to launch a rocket into space? Why is it still so expensive and failure prone, when we were able to launch so many vessels with substantially less capable technology? It seems like space travel simply has not scaled with the rest of our technology, but I imagine I'm missing something.

Perhaps the ratio of human life to risk tolerance has increased, such that we effectively spend more time and resources designing away failures and refuse to launch with the same level of risk that was acceptable decades ago?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer#Desig...
Korolev also spent almost six years in a gulag in the 30s/40s after being denounced in what likely was likely some dude's play to replace him. He had a bitter rivalry and lots of differences in opinion with his engine designer/supplier, Valentin Glushko (who was arrested for the same made-up offense, but got to continue working on aircraft projects), whom he also held responsible for him nearly dying in the gulag. He ended up actually dying in the middle of N1 development as a late consequence of the catastrophic conditions during his imprisonment.

It really sounds absurd when put like that. And it makes me wonder what the Soviet space programme could have looked like if Korolev hadn't been imprisoned in Stalin's Great Purge.
Are you sure you mean to use the word "but" here. What you're saying, true or not, does not contradict what I said.
Here is a "higher moat"

http://www.marinabaysands.com/content/dam/singapore/marinaba...
Yep. That’s the absolute truth.
I'm surprised to hear a native Californian would say "back east." I thought only people from the East Coast (or I guessed who lived there at one point) would go "back."
Seriously, I can't comprehend the guy.

He starts studying liquid fuel rockets in the '30s, and does some amazing work probably trailing only the top German engineers in this field.

He's denounced by some envious low-lifer who wanted his job and is arrested (along with Valentin Glushko, another great rocket scientist) during the stalinist Great Purge at the end of the '30s, when a simple anonymous note was enough to get someone disappeared. They torture him, sentence him to death - but then he's commuted to hard labor in the gold mine, where the poisonous environment and poor conditions meant the average life expectancy was barely over one year. Loses all his teeth to scurvy.

Meanwhile his friends back in Moscow are lobbying with Lavrenti Beria (the KGB boss) to release him - they succeed and he's placed in the "easy prison" where a bunch of intellectuals were doing essentially white collar slave labor (with pencil on paper, sure, but no choice in the nature of the work) for the Soviet government. He's released towards the end of WW2.

Then Stalin figures he needs to catch up to the Germans in rocketry, so Korolev is rehabilitated, made colonel of the Red Army, and finally starts working again on his rocket engines. They copy a bunch of German designs first, use some German engineers (who were prisoners) to get them started. Then continue on their own.

He develops the first Soviet ICBMs, but that was just what paid the bills. He keeps pushing for a real space program. Launches Sputnik 1 into space. Leads the Soviet space program until the mid-60s.

When he died, he was working on plans for manned missions to Mars and beyond.

I mean, what motivates a person to keep forging ahead against such adversity? Death sentence, hard labor in the poison mine, years of imprisonment and disgrace - and then he builds and launches the world's first ever satellite. To say nothing of the fact that, like Elon Musk, he was a man of many talents: great engineer, very effective leader, and a good politician and lobbyist. It's amazing.
Unless now the guy you offered a cup of coffee is too busy getting paid to talk to some other student :)
In what way is that more vulnerable to fire than a gasoline powered car in a wreck? Cars catch on fire all the time.
Wear whatever you want. "no dresscode" means exactly this.
Until it's formally changed, I don't really care what others wear, or what others think. Even if it's the CEO.
I am 31, wearing hoodies, jeans and some geeky t-shirt. Most of us dress up similar, some of us wear shirts with buttons or even suits. Everybody is happy I think.
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Your comment reminded me of a technique that guitar makers have been using in recent years, which is to make wood more stable by roasting it in a kiln (which removes the moisture from the wood, and supposedly increases its stability).
It's the limited efficacy for all users? Isn't it possible some users+strain pairings respond markedly better, or are their studies showing that's not true either?
Perfect! Thanks! I'll fix that asshole neighbor of mine...
"Federal Government civilian positions are generally in of the competitive civil service. To obtain a competitive service job, you must compete with other applicants in open competition. OPM provides excepted service hiring authorities to fill special jobs or to fill any job in unusual or special circumstances under "Schedules A (external link), B, C (external link), and D." These excepted service authorities enable agencies to hire when it is not feasible or not practical to use traditional competitive hiring procedures, and can streamline hiring."

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/hiring-information...
Somehow it was more fun and you felt like you had accomplished something when you had a complete album. Things are too easy today :)
Coming to a city from one of the depressed regions this rings true for me. People want themselves and their communities to matter - the cold hand of capitalism and progress hasn’t done them any favors in the last few decades. All it takes is a drive to the (non-coastal) countryside to see. There’s a reason voters there are more interested in being against something than for it, and our political discourse has devolved to troll tactics and attention grabbing on the rural right.

We may be past the point of even being able to listen and change anyone’s mind - the solution needs to come from within the right, or a major real reworking of the economic state to include rural prosperity somehow.
That's the user who posted the story.
Or Input (https://input.com) - which looks very similar
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Denver metro resident, I can confirm that `up` means both North and West thanks to the mountains.
Let's rephrase that: it would destroy capitalism.

Somehow I don't think you'd have a problem with that.
It is also very different to have a high bar for your self vs for other people. Most people that would self-label as 'perfectionist' are referencing their own behavior, even if it happens to be masking procrastination or indecision. However, I find that this character trait is almost orthogonal to having high standards for others' work, which can instead be code for arrogance or impatience.
Literally what you are witnessing now is the scaling of that. Rockets are expensive - there hasn’t been the opportunity for rapid iteration such as during the rise of automobiles or planes, so there have been less opportunities for the sorts of experiments such as what SpaceX, blue origin, armadillo before it, and the electron are doing.
Ah, OK. Yes, those LOAD_NAMEs are slower than LOAD_FAST. If you put the code into a function, you get this:

>>> def f(foo, b):
... a = foo.bar(b)
...
>>> dis.dis(f)
2 0 LOAD_FAST 0 (foo)
3 LOAD_ATTR 0 (bar)
6 LOAD_FAST 1 (b)
9 CALL_FUNCTION 1 (1 positional, 0 keyword pair)
12 STORE_FAST 2 (a)
15 LOAD_CONST 0 (None)
18 RETURN_VALUE

LOAD_FAST is the normal case for locals inside a function. Not sure off the top of my head where LOAD_NAME would be generated in normal usage (i.e. where you don't evaluate code from a string).

Edit: Also, I'm talking about Python 3. Maybe you aren't.
> "we" - the entire scientific establishment

Obviously. It was a rhetorical question.

This is getting meta, but as an old Internet adage goes "Try and not speak on behalf of others", meaning that throwing around "we" in a discussion is counter-productive. It automatically pits a person against this implied "we" group, be it actually applicable or not.

The above comment is the perfect example of that - by using "we" the "refurb" person put me and the rational scientific community on the opposite sides of a line, implicitly invalidating whatever it was that I said. This is not an acceptable way to phrase arguments or even to express an opinion. "We" has no place in a public discussion unless there is in fact a group of people that one's qualified to represent.

PS. And don't put words in my mouth - I've drawn no conclusions except for the fact that based on _my_ prior experience with _my_ flu infections, this case was resolved in a very prompt manner and the only difference was the presence and the timing of taking in an antiviral med.
>That hodgepodge mess of buildings really appeals to my inner Lego-building child.

I couldnt have put it better - I got the exact same feeling from his comment. I was thinking "well that just sounds AWESOME"
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I have very wide feet. In the UK shoe measurement system a width of H is the widest. One of my feet is H, and the other one is wider. I wear Vivobarefoot https://www.vivobarefoot.com/ and they actually fit. I'm no longer buying shoes 1-2 sizes too big to fit my feet. I'm currently wearing Gobi for every day wear, and exercise in a Stealth II. All of these needed a bit of time to break in. When I tried on a Primus they were a bit tight all around, so probably best to avoid that style (or try them on yourself).
Dialup? Lucky. I had 14.4k through my dad's Startac until I was about 15.
Existing code won't break as a deprecation is in place. And the replacement is very simple: Matrix(I, m, n), Matrix{Float64}(I, m, n) or even just I depending on the use case.
Yeah, I was a big Dead Head in the 80's and loved JPB for what he had done with Bob Weir and the rest of the band.

Years later I learned about the EFF as part of diving deep into tech in general. It took me another five or so to put together the fact that the JPB I knew and loved was the guy who started the EFF. It felt neat to have my past and present collide a little like that.

RIP Mr. Barlow, you will be sorely missed.
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Yes, but the Hadamard transform is essentially a linear operation.

The span of qubit states reachable in a polynomial number of Hadamard transform operations from the starting state is much less than all possible qubit states.

This follows immediately from information-theoretic principles. There are 2^(2^N-1) possible 'collections' of 'classical bits' representable by N qubits. Therefore it takes 2^N-1 bits of information to represent, but since the Hadamard transform is basically linear, we can see (in a very handwavy way) that only a polynomial number of possible states is reachable from a polynomial number of quantum gate operations.
There are no links or threads related to axial compression. I guess your original post ment that it is compressed during use rather than constrution.
Depends on just what drives the desirability, I think.

Google is covering their bases in terms of both "suburban areas" (Mountain View) and "dense cities." So they can attract people who prefer either style of living.

If there's a significant subset that prefers "cheap" directly, then they're missing out on that group. Otherwise, it might be more cost effective to simply keep offering higher wages in the high-cost areas, if cost and desirability are roughly correlated for most people.

Where I see it breaking down personally is that the expensive areas aren't that bad for 20-something folks who want to rent anyway. Say you throw an extra ten to twenty grand a year at rent, that can be easily covered by a compensation premium. But once you start looking at moving from renter to buyer, down payment requirements make expensive areas a lot rougher. This might be fine at Google-level compensation, but there's a lot of other companies who could have a harder and harder time retaining people as they age.
Do a fair amount of Node and browser stuff on Windows. Use Sublime with a few plugins as my text editor, and git bash as my terminal, Chrome debugger when I really need it. Works pretty comfortably.
Perhaps another reason is that they already have these small engines?

Why not use what you have already built and debugged rather than build a bigger, expensive engine, for only marginal gains.
Working out (in a gym) is one of the few places I can see concrete results of my work.

I mean, I get this with house projects, or chopping a tree, or wood working. I used to do construction (building house frames) as a teeanger and I found that very rewarding too.

But in the gym - I can see my intended weight loss or gains.

I can see performance gains on lifts or runs.

As opposed to work where a business decision can cancel a project I'm working on at a moment's notice. Where "get it done now" because of some sales driven deadline means cheaping out on getting it done right, where you're told, "we'll get to that later when we have time", which means never.

Or, my personal favorite, "priorities accordion" where the dev or sys teams are constantly having priorities shift so rapidly and so frequently, that nothing gets accomplished at all.

I go to the gym and it's simple. I move metal. No boss. No co-workers. No having to impress the wife. No hoping that people in my home find it useful. It's quarantined into a realm of me. This is my space and no one can intrude, or fuck it up or touch it or criticize it.

And when I drop 80lbs in 9 months, it makes me proud of myself.

When I, at a 37 year old man, am running a 5k in under 24 and a 5mi in under 40, it makes me proud of myself.

When I can bench 2-plates on each side, deadlift 300 or squat 250, it makes me proud of myself.

I'm setting goals and meeting or exceeding them.

And I have no area in life where I can execute that so directly.
It's unfiltered avalanche of noise. It's a huge source news and fake news. Newspapers are still newspapers.
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I understand the concern but as someone who grew up in Boulder, and now works at Google Boulder I feel like people are giving off this incorrect impression of Boulder. It's a small town (~120k people w/ students) but it was never a particularly affordable place. Unfortunately there's not a whole lot that can be done to shield a desirable small town from becoming more expensive as more people become aware of it's existence. You can keep Boulder small with minimal development and get the skyrocketing housing prices or you can attempt to remedy this by building significantly more housing. For a long time now it's been evident that the city council has chosen the first option.
Yeah, I want more info on what working for Food Network is like as well...

Please
I'm not American, so I could be wrong on this, but would they have the ability to do so? My impression was always that the party doesn't necessarily have the power to prevent someone from being a registered Republican, or for running under a party's banner (outside of being challenged in a primary, which doesn't seem to be happening here?)
Well, why not? The reporting is adhering to the normal standards of the profession and seems basically firewalled from the meme listicles. Even mainstream news organizations are borrowing a lot of those techniques for engagement anyway. And to return to the CBS example, they existed purely as entertainment for nearly a decade before introducing a regular news broadcast. They don't deserve complete, unquestioning trust, but what news source does?
> It wasn't about nothing, but what did make it different is that the characters never changed. They didn't have these huge arcs and defining life moments. They just went about their lives and we watched.

Sorry, this sounds backwards.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ResetButton

> This is very common to American TV shows both live-action and animated, particularly from The '60s through The '90s in part because programming directors like to have the luxury of repeating episodes in any order, and in part because (prior to the advent of the internet) watching or catching up on a missed episode could be nearly impossible for viewers.

See anything from Gilligan always ruining the rescue attempt to JD always screwing things up with the current romantic interest on Scrubs. There's a long history of shows trying to make baby steps against this (resolving a 'will-they-won't-they' situation, for instance) and the show basically dying as a result. Exceptions like Babylon 5 where major things changed were rare.

Seinfeld was "about nothing" in that the things the reset button applied to were so minor that you basically didn't even notice the reset button most of the time - you wouldn't expect them to majorly change the characters. That, and that it wasn't super-location-centric in the way that Newsradio is "about a radio station" - I mean, it isn't, really, it's about the characters there too, but 99% of the action takes place in the radio station.
Tom Scott did a video[1] on it last summer. They have a working version in a test tower in Germany, but have not installed it in an actual for-public-use building yet and I'm unsure if testing phases have been completed

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdTsbFS4xmI
I'm honestly not quite sure how to interpret this.

To me the idea seems bonkers. Even if I didn't try to eat more plant than animal, it would seem bonkers.

From what I've read, eating more meat is likely to increase the risk of bowel cancer [1](https://www.cancercouncil.com.au/21639/cancer-information/ca...)

Additionally, it's way, way harder to get all your vitamins and nutrients with only meats, especially while maintaining a variety of macronutrient options, but I don't really have a source for that, just mental math and experience.
My first question!

Anyway, if you want AVS, at some point they pubished sources, perhaps someone could reimplement AVS and AVS2?

https://github.com/majek/avs
Apollo cost ~$120-$150 billion in today's dollar.

Falcon Heavy cost $500m-$1b to get right.

Given some time, Musk could probably make it so a trip to the Moon costs $300 million, maybe less.

We've (they've) accomplished an extraordinary cost improvement.

It's still such a monumental task, because the laws of physics have not changed. Building a huge rocket, putting people in it, and firing it at the Moon, is not the hard part per se (not killing them in the process, and bringing them back safely, is). We could have done that all over again at any time if we desired to spend the money. The next level of difficulty, is turning it into a truly routine task, and building something on the Moon. That's a dramatic leap up from only exploring the surface of the Moon. We've avoided doing that, not because we can't, but because it's a cost benefit equation, and the benefit has not been considered worth doing at the cost, even as the cost gradually declined. Now that cost benefit equation has improved dramatically enough to favor it being worth doing.

Simply put, as a society we're not willing to spend $500 billion or $1 trillion to build a Moon base. But we might be willing to spend $50 or $100 billion over time to do it. We're not willing to spend $10 or $20 billion for a trip to the Moon, but we are probably willing to spend $300 million or even a billion.
They did: http://blog.ycombinator.com/open-application-for-yc-growth-p...
I was born and raised in houston and lived there for 15+ years. People say these words, but know one I know of actually associates them with specific cardinal directions. Up and down make elementary school sense and so likely are used this way in most places... I am wary of out vs over though. But who knows, maybe this is used explicitly by people in a specific region of Houston. I grew up mostly on the sw end.
Tangential, but I thought HN might find it interesting...

The article quotes the director of the Human Rights Campaign (who you may know from their bumper stickers, a blue square with a yellow equality symbol in it), who is named Ty Cobb.

There are at least two lawyers named Ty Cobb; one represents Donald Trump [0], the other is the director [1] of the largest LGBT civil rights advocacy group.

[0]: https://www.denverpost.com/2017/07/24/trumps-denver-lawyer-t...

[1]: http://blogs.mccombs.utexas.edu/bhp-news/2014/03/24/alumni-s...