skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, Programmed trading, excitement in the run up = more people buying, more greed = more use of margins = more margin calls.
True, but it's rare that a President claims on an almost daily basis that he alone is responsible for the current standing of the stock market specifically. Just last week he claimed had Clinton been elected, the market would have lost 50% of its value.
I agree with the idea that an overide because the car has been stopped for too long is less dangerous than a more active sort of overide. But I think it still is a safety issue.

I’m mostly thinking of when we take the human out of the equation completely, if the car is stopped indefinitely that is going to cause all sorts of problems. If it’s blocking a city street you’re creating traffic as well as potentially slowing down first responders. Being stopped on a highway is very much a safety hazard.

Even with a human driver to take control there are places where coming to a stop would be a very bad thing (an on or off ramp for example).
>> wait for the end of this correction

How exactly do you decide the end of it has been reached?
Any chance you've blogged about developing this or have a github with this sort of thing? I just started a deep learning course and I figure tackling something like this could be an interesting project to try. Not the full enchilada, but just nibble at some bits and get an idea on how it works
Just by looking at the continuously negative % drop over the historical data, there's a pattern in 2008 (The Crash)

9/15/08	9/29/08	10/7/08	10/9/08	10/15/08 10/22/08 12/1/08
−4.42	−6.98	−5.11	−7.33	−7.87	−5.69	−7.70

8/4/11	8/8/11	8/10/11
−4.31	−5.55	−4.62

8/21/15	8/24/15
−3.12	−3.57

2/2/18	2/5/18
−2.54	−4.60

For 2018 to reach 2008 state, lets see if there are more significant (>-4%) drops in 2018 for us to start freaking out.

Again this by all means is not a financial model, it is something that I put together to tell myself "Keep Calm"
The parent never said that companies are scared of auditors, merely that companies have developed processes that auditors have signed off on, and they become scared (I guess a better term might be "resistant") to change those processes because it's time and effort (aka money) to get those new processes approved (which might require some back and forth and iteration). This is absolutely true, and I don't find anything in the parent's post that's inconsistent with that.

From what I've heard from people at my company who deal with auditors, there's no fear or antagonistic relationship; both sides want a positive outcome (which shouldn't be surprising at all). But the cost of the audits and the cost to develop compliant process is real, and I wouldn't blame a private company for eschewing public markets to avoid having to deal with that, especially if they have enough access to private capital.
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It had some effect. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12387493

HN modding seems like a thankless job, so it seemed a bit misleading to imply HN was ok with it. I think Scott was brought on as a mod since then too, so there are more hands on deck now.
> The only way we'll get the "right" way of autonomous software development is if there is extensive and careful regulation with very rigorous auditing and process requirements.

What makes you think the NHTSA has the expertise or resources to carry this out? The proof will be in the empirical results (accidents/fatalities per mile), not super duper code audits.
Can you explain this? Is it the "popular and elegant" part?
Who is "they" exactly? The party that spent the past 8 years talking about how deficits and spending are going to destroy the country are currently running things... and looking to increase deficits and spending. Self labeled "fiscal conservatives" just voted for a $1.5T unfunded tax cut, banking on essentially fairy dust (trickle down economic voodoo) to save the budget.
Isn't pornography available on demand in every hotel in the United States? Every chain is not privately held.
I think you’re underestimating the intent of the EU and the aggressive enforcement available to them.

If we have to break the web, we break the web. Digital rights supercede tech profits.
I would also point out that short sellers and "activist investors" are a significant downside to being public. Essentially you give investors focused on these strategies a financial incentive to destroy the company's long-term value. Activism has been a big problem for drug companies where investors will try to fire all the scientists so that profits will go up for a few years.
Even limiting ourselves to post-WW2, the wall went up more than 15 years after the end of the war; actual border lines were basically marked in 1944 already, and made official in 1949. That’s almost a generation spent apart before the wall symbolized the division.

East Germany officially lasted 50 years; that buoy will only be passed in 2039.
Apple removed Telegram from the App Store over distribution of child pornography
I won’t be hitting a million hits on the api for 99.9% of my projects.
I wonder how feasible this would be to trick Plex into transparently 'mounting' a remote server's media files.
(e.g. a VPS that can burst CPU to re-encode data once/twice a day and another one with barely any CPU but large storage)

I guess things like sshfs or rclone already do similar things, but it would be really neat to see the performance characteristics of Parrot vs other solutions.
Cyber security insurance has liability caps, relatively low for the premiums. Standard boilerplate demands to hold such insurance in the US is around $1M liability coverage for small shops, usually gets quoted around $50K annual premiums. If you can even get underwritten at all. I have been able to negotiate those clauses away so far.

Everyone is already trying to pass the buck (quite literally) on information security risk via insurance, and the insurance industry is pushing back. One possibility that might develop out of the standoff is customers pushing the liability onto Cloud vendors and washing their hands of the concern.

What no one outside of information security wants to admit much less promulgate is development and IT teams must grow larger, or security continues as an expensive as hell fat tail risk. The cheap hedge is hiring additional staff; businesses have grown so accustomed to living outside the fat tail that the accumulated technical debt presents the illusion that status quo is normal. The new normal is ever-more expensive attacks.

I wish POSIX would offer a standard way to elide certain parts of a the command string that shows up in a process list. There are piles of legacy programs that won’t get retrofitted to use a file to read a password anytime soon. There are sins aplenty in our fields when it comes to security.
Some of them quickly realize that the AV is flagging all their binaries and they try to evade it. They will soon discover that it is far from trivial.

Don't underestimate the students and don't underestimate the AV. The world is full of surprises.
Why not just file suit? That should provide decent leverage.
I always thought a supervillian could just crop dust the south pole with carbon and do a lot of damage

(or perhaps some more efficient way of dispersing some dark colored dust)
The thing is, a website doesn't need a cookie popup if it's only for their use (sessions, etc). IIRC

The fact that every website now has like 5 3rd parties tracking visitors is what requires the popup.
I don't think the issue is really any confusion around whether or not GAAP is appropriate for many companies, it's just that there's no alternate standard, and that can be confusing. My understanding is that "non-GAAP" can encompass a variety of different methods of calculating performance, and it's harder for an investor to evaluate if the chosen method actually represents the business well, or if it was just chosen because it yielded the best numbers.
I’m not so sure; /System/Library/Frameworks links for Python versions have been stable for a very long time (which surprised me at first but I imagine Apple has plenty of stuff of their own that uses Python). Even though they’ve since hacked a lot of the older versions with symbolic links to 2.7, versions back to 2.3 have valid paths.
Shale has considerable startup and wind-down costs.

Mining really doesn't.
Ha! Yes. I meant to draw attention to all of the fundamental laws people are used to. Messed up in some edit.

Thanks!
Don't go public. Look at major companies like Facebook that have become massive user data and time exploiting machines for the sake of increasing share price. Stay private and recognize what place your product has in the world - many ideas CAN be billion dollar ideas if they pervert their original vision, but many ideas ought to remain much smaller and focused to stay true to themselves, not investors.

And is this article really arguing that Americans are underinvested in the stock market and not grossly overinvested?
Yes, because obviously me paying an extra $10,000 is the same as everyone paying an extra $10,000. Do you think we just hate money?? Is that where you are coming from?
It's worth noting that one of the great features of Kotlin is how it simplifies deprecating code and writing quick fixes. This is why Google scrapped Java for writing Lint rules entirely. I expect a simple Option-Enter may resolve these kinds of issues across an app.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8yX5-lPS6o&list=PLQ176FUIyI...
If you photoshop the name of the client onto the title of the BMW, tell the client you're giving them the BMW in exchange for working for you, but then don't give them the BMW.
Having lived in a country with similar (and fluctuating) internet restrictions, it's always interesting to see how small design decisions like that can have such significant ramifications on so many people.

I remember one SaaS product we wanted to use at our company had one major js file that had the word "proxy" in the title. The product had nothing to do with circumvention or anything but the national internet filters picked up that word and blocked it completely. Thus, we couldn't use that service at all.

Although I hate that I can't block YouTube on our metered connections with a URL whitelist as Google logins require calls to accounts.youtube.com.
I've seen similar comments everywhere I stumbled across this story. It's an easy takeaway, but that's not how automakers look at competitive benchmarking. Working with a company like Munro is an engineering decision. Munro breaks cars down, reverse engineers everything they possibly can, and draws as many conclusions about production methods as possible. Engineers with other automakers use this data to learn from how others approach problems.

The engineers don't give a damn about a Munro PR video about a competitor, period. It's a complete non-issue for them, and the same goes for their managers who are the ones who decide to work with Munro. They want to know every detail about how all the sausage is made (or what the sausage actually is). They don't care if the car is well made or poorly made; they're focused on the how; after all, even a car with severe quality control issues can offer useful insights. Besides, every peculiar (or even dumb) design or manufacturing decision they've made was previously laid bare by companies like Munro. Think of the process as something more like peer review or a morbidity and mortality conference for doctors. It's not a public process, despite something like this video.

Basically, the people who would care if Munro upset the company by speaking favorably about Tesla are the people who have no involvement in whether their company works with Munro in the first place. If someone from Ford marketing told Ford engineering to quit working with Munro because of a video, they'd be laughed at and promptly ignored.
>>> One possibility that might develop out of the standoff is customers pushing the liability onto Cloud vendors and washing their hands of the concern.

That would be good, the cloud is a lot more secure than everything self hosted or self developed.
New GDPR guidelines effectively bans targeted ads (Nov 2017)
From http://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/just/document.cfm?doc_id=48849 [pdf]

1. Using private data for advertising, is single purpose.

2. Each purpose require seperate consent.

3. A consent must freely given. If consent is not given, none, degraded or higher-priced service cannot be offered instead.

From http://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj

Article 7(4). When assessing whether consent is freely given, utmost account shall be taken of whether, inter alia, the performance of a contract, including the provision of a service, is conditional on consent to the processing of personal data that is not necessary for the performance of that contract.

From the guidelines above

[Example 1]

A mobile app for photo editing asks its users to have their GPS localisation activated for the use of its services.

The app also tells its users it will use the collected data for behavioural advertising purposes. Neither geo-localisation or online behavioural advertising are necessary for the provision of the photo editing service and go beyond the delivery of the core service provided. Since users cannot use the app without consenting to these purposes, the consent cannot be considered as being freely given.

[Example 6]

A bank asks customers for consent to use their payment details for marketing purposes. This processing activity is not necessary for the performance of the contract with the customer and the delivery of ordinary bank account services. If the customer’s refusal to consent to this processing purpose would lead to the denial of banking services, closure of the bank account, or an increase of the fee, consent cannot be freely given or revoked.
And #1 has been happening for decades, yet wages have stagnated. So the conclusion is workers can't win?
Reminded me of the Parrot language prank:

http://archive.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/news/parrotstory_04...

https://slashdot.org/story/17381
Rules being in place don't mean they're effective, having the desired outcome, or not causing other adverse effects.

> The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

Tends to ring true more often than not.
That's just a notation for doing exactly what I am describing.

GR deals with curved spacetime, but the only way to work in rotating spacetime is by changing how you calculate what's going on. Which means your calculations must be mapped and don't generalize.

EX: Try and do an actual calculation for say two electrons hitting each other at say 0.5c. In rotating, non rotating inertial, and non rotating non-inertial reference frames of your choice.
This is pretty reassuring, and kind of makes sense to me from a gut level. It makes sense that professionals who love children would raise children who are well-adjusted, etc., vs. dumping your kids at grandma's or the neighbor's.

I don't think I'm a bad parent, but I definitely am not cut out for full-time parenting. My wife doesn't seem to be, either. If either of us were full-time caretakers, we'd honestly be fairly miserable, and I can't believe that wouldn't reflect poorly on our kid.
I don't have to underestimate AV's because I know how they work, and tested myself how easy it is to bypass them. You either don't or you're employed by one and shilling here.
SpaceX, Valve, Dell (for now?) — what are other good US technology examples?
The problem with "homoiconic" is that it is about a storage mechanism: it says that function definitions are input into the image in a textual format and are stored in more or less that format so that they can later be recalled and edited.

"homoiconic" languages can regurgitate their definitions. E.g. the set command in the POSIX shell, or LIST in classic BASIC.

Those features are helpful interactively in that they allow a human to transform the code right inside the image by recalling, changing and reinstalling definitions.

In Lisp, a data structure can be regurgited, rather than definitions. That is helpful in interactively debugging automated, rather than manual transformations.

Moreover, the data structure is not regurgitated from a homoiconic form. It is isomorphic to the text in some way so that the data structure can be visualized from the text easily and vice versa. The programmer writes transformations which manipulate the data. These transformations take place in pipeline-like successive steps, where it is useful to intercept the process at different stages.

The programmer of a homoiconic language doesn't do this; the programmer manipulates only the text. A BASIC programmer never works with the internal tokenized lines, for instance, in which a word like PRINT is condensed down to one byte. There is no access to that representation via any API from the language.

Homoiconic languages don't place any transformation between the programmer input of a definition and the definition's storage; to do so would mean not to be homoiconic!

ANSI Lisp has a very vaguely defined support for homoiconicity: the function ed which is intended to recall a function definition and allow the programmer to edit it. This feature is not very prominent; it is not the basis of Lisp interactivity. Almost every aspect of the function is implementation-dependent. To support ed, an implementation's defun operator has to store the un-expanded form somewhere.
Thanks! This is a great read. The number of small cap companies that have been gobbled up by PE firms really shows through in these graphs.
> the reality on the street is going to be a zillion different competitors cutting every corner, skirting ever regulation they can get away with, and just shitting out the worst "move fast and break things" hackathon bullshit code they can get away with that "sort of seems to work, most of the time"

Humans are terrible drivers. A half crap autonomous car might still be safer than the status quo. In any case, whether talking about consumer goods or services, this is a space markets work in. Calling for rules to be written before we fully understand the problem is a recipe for overregulation.
China's plan to use AI to boost thinking skills of nuclear submarine commanders
I don't think that's accurate. "tip of the slongue" is an example of a spoonerism; a slip of the tongue is usually what people refer think of as a freudian slip.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoonerism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freudian_slip
Thanks, Thats a fairly helpful comment. As a company we are pretty all in on Redmond anyway so this seems like the logical next step.

We looked at the Google services a year or so ago, and most people turned up their nose at the idea of using 'school grade services in a professional organisation'. (The perception in this part of the legal sector is that Google makes services for schools and children). I gave up with Google because the resistance to their services and perceived lack of privacy and security were too much of a vertical slope to push that boulder up.
yes but there’s no plan to do that. so as it stands we’ve committed to less income with increased spending. (the wall, wars, infrastructure) sounds legit.
I recently bought/built a really cheap 3D printer to see what it could do, and I'm finding it more useful and easier to use than I anticipated. I'd say it is the 3D equivalent of the dot-matrix printer, and this HP beast is the 3D equivalent of the first colour laser printers.

I think 3D printers will be a much smaller market than paper printers, because the number of things you need printed is much less than the number of pages we (used to) need printed.

And although this HP machine looks amazing at first sight, lets look at the specs: it does about three times the resolution of my 3D printer - and colour - for A THOUSAND times the price. (Anet A8 0.2mm resolution for $200; Jet Fusion 0.08mm resolution for $x00,000 according to comments below). OK, colour is cool, but you could employ an artist to hand-paint your creations for a tiny fraction of this cost.

I get that this is first to market, but I think they are missing an opportunity to price lower and build mindshare while they learn the lessons required to build the cash cow: a consumer machine that does twice the resolution for ten times the price.

And this needs to happen fast - Brother won't allow HP anywhere near the lead they got with laser printers last time around.
Goodbye Wordpress.
wouldn't using Dtrace be a lot more efficient than using ptrace?
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I'm at 300 right now, 9.5 gigs. I think some are skipped cause the download times out (can redownload manually I suppose)
> I wish I could edit my comment.

:-) I share your pain. I just found my own typo in a different comment and now my shameful proof reading skills will be preserved for all of time.
LTSE is trying to solve this by vesting voting rights over time. I’m curious to see if it succeeds.
Towards an (∞,2)-category of homotopy coherent monads in an ∞-cosmos [pdf]
Ain't nothing wrong with being a barista.
You file a lawsuit. Support article always loses to a court motion.
Do we know what makes the reddish patches here and there?
https://www.crestmontresearch.com/stock-matrix-options/

The assumptions should be documented there.
I don't understand why folks are making such a big deal about Tether. If it is indeed a scam, wouldn't that imply a $2-$3 billion scam at most? What am I missing? As of this writing, the entire crypto market cap is at a recent low of $300 billion. Tether would be around 1% of the total market.
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It's easier to break the law when no one can check your books. ;)
Thanks. Follow on question :-)

Would it be useful to have an intermediate language "eBPF assembler" rather than do it in C or Rust?
I'm really happy their share it though. The collection is just amazing - it's a good idea for "what books to buy for a personal library when you start making decent money". Definitely would spend money on things like this at their store if they sell them.
I am 66 I guess I will stick around
OK. So what? The key word here is "might" be safer than the status quo. We should ensure that we are measuring carefully and confident in our results (which also requires being confident that the systems are well behaved and well understood and thus the testing is valid) so that if they do show they are safer than humans on average it will be beneficial to move to autonomous driving as much as is practicable. And if, on a case by case basis, that is not true then we can avoid killing more people unnecessarily because we want to save some money on development costs.
I am 66, I guess I have plenty of work