skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Would you go ahead and break out the the impact you're claiming as it pertains to adult children living with their parents?

No, barring a grant to do so, I'm not going to dig into the paper’s source data and rerun the analysis without the methodological errors, of which the treatment of the demographic noted is just the most glaring, should be obvious to even a layman at the time who had been basically attentive to the news, much less anyone seriously trying to do honest analysis. Among the other methodological errors (and this is not intended to be an exhaustive list):

(1) The paper commendably recognized that current money income is a different thing than class, which “knits together multiple factors such as income, wealth, education, prestige, and cultural sophistication”, and then proceeded to use money income alone to measure class mobility on the assertion that it “current income is closely related to all the factors associated with social class and because data on current income are readily available.” While prestige and cultural sophistication are clearly hard to get annual statistics for, education and wealth distribution are not; there is no excuse for not including these of the intent to is assess a feature which includes them.

(2) Related to #1, Rose does not justify his thresholds as meaningful class thresholds,

(3) Also related to the use of money income as a proxy for class, Rose justifies using fixed real income thresholds (which mean that changes in the median inflation-adjusted income with even with no distribution change within the non-excluded population will result in upward “class” mobility, which, even to the extent that money income correlates to class, doesn't seem to correlate with how it usually correlated with that concept) with the only justification being that that's how the federal poverty line works (which is true, but it's worth noting that this is both a controversial thing about the federal poverty line, and dubious in relation to class generally even if it is appropriate to the purpose of the FPL; there's probably a good reason to think that what is right for the FPL corresponds in some ratio to the boundary for the lower class, but that with successively higher classes income mapping to the class is not simply a constant multiple of the poverty line.)

(4) No justification is given for the method of calculating “family of three equivalents” (using the square root of the ratio of the actual household size to 3 as an income divisor to get the “family of 3” equivalent income.) Note that if one views the FPL as having a reasonably constant relationship to class boundaries as Rose suggests in his justification of the use of constant real-income thresholds, this method of size adjustment is tolerably close for families under 3 (though off in different directions for size 1 vs. size 2) but artificially pushes families over three upward in “class” because it understates the additional income needed to stay at the same level with more family members.
Already wrote my own, I'm covered.
How do you stop people using plastic once then throwing it away?

Ask them.
TAX them.
Make it illegal.
$100 deposit.
Don't worry about it.
> retail copies were meant for end consumers, not for another company to hawk and rent out

What's the difference? If I buy a hammer at Home Depot, is there any question that I can rent or loan it to somebody else? Why should intellectual property be any different?
I agree there’s room for a lower end competitor.

I used to rent out a room on Airbnb, it was a great experience. Both renting and staying I met cool people, as they were often keen to chat or hang out. And cheaper than a hotel, usually hostel prices. I never minded that staying in someone’s house would often mean a haphazardly tidied room with no available cupboard space.

Fast forwards a few years and I rent out a spare room to a friend at below market price, well below Airbnb price. I can’t be bothered with the standard that people now expect, I hate the attitude of Airbnb (ie use instant book or get fcked), and I find myself feeling guilty at contributing to the short supply in housing.

Nor have I stayed in an Airbnb for a couple of years, I’m back to hotels. It’s not cheaper (what are their fees even for?), and it’s usually a purposed Airbnb property, rather than someone’s home. It’s lost it’s magic.
Or it reinforces the idea (rightly or wrongly) that traditional car manufacturers won't play unnecessary games with people's lives.

Regardless of what you, I or others in 'our' sphere might think, there's a lot of traction in playing the conservative card when it comes to cars hurtling down roads.

As someone in a big city who drives a bit, cycles a bit and walks a lot, I can't help but feel we're still a long way off high autonomy in cars outwith constrained environments.
Well, why don't you?
You can send directly from one party to another. The financial institution part is still optional.
I agree that it could be frustrating, and maybe someone will not make that distinction. But either way, these are decisions that have to be made. What is your alternative to how the decisions are made? In the end, you are either leaving it to a human decision who is going to make a choice based on some heuristics and prejudice or an algorithm which is going to make a choice based on heuristics and prejudice. I'm not sure if you have a problem with the lack of distinction between a human and an algorithm or the idea of a lack of fairness. The decisions that require something like a machine learning algorithm were probably opaque to begin with. Fairness doesn't seem so different in either case...
As much as I agree, I think you’re actually complimenting the success of the ad, no?
One would be forgiven to think that npm run as root would install packages to a system wide location, where multiple applications may utilize them without having write privileges to its code. That what pretty much every other package manager does. Not hose your system and irreversibly render it inaccessible.
You must be kidding. Maybe this could be true for the founders, maybe they would still be nowadays developing cool technology even if it didn't make any money. This is NOT TRUE for Google. This is a company that exists solely to extract money in form of online advertisement. The moment search stops being the best vehicle for this purpose, they will boot out search to continue on their ways.
Yeah.

I was originally pretty open-minded; blockchains are a cool technology, and I like to see people try out-there experiments. But for me this stuff increasingly falls into the same bucket as 3D movies/TV: lots of excitement, cool tech, and a plausible story as to why it could amazing valuable. But in practice, I've seen little value actually demonstrated, so my eyes generally glaze over at this point.

That's part of why I'm curious to hear from people who were excited about the initial vision. Maybe there's a pony in there somewhere?
There's GM's Supercruise, talked about in the article, and then there's Cruise Automation, a startup acquired by GM which is focusing on robotaxis, and is at once more capable and more revolutionary than anything Tesla is doing.
It's possible that they acquired a majority of hash power when doing so was cheaper, but in order to maintain their majority, they would have had to invest several billion since then. See [1] which shows the growth of the overall network hash rate.

I'm not saying it's unrealistic, just that it would be more expensive today than what the article says.

[1] https://blockchain.info/charts/hash-rate?timespan=2years
I'd imagine that Twitter would gladly offer a paid program for companies that wish to use the service in that way.
So it measures the difference from zero in the accelerometer signals when the foot is planted and then accounts for that when the foot is moving?
All I'm trying to point out is that your philosophy of law is the exact opposite of the philosophy of the Constitution. You seem to be working from a position where you believe all power lies in the state except where the state has so graciously limited itself by kindly granting us rights to things like free speech, religion, or armed defense.

The Constitution is written from the opposite direction, that all power lies in the people and the Constitution is the mechanism by which we grant limited authority to the government. In fact, this was a big part of the debate around passing the Bill of Rights in the first place, that it would confuse this issue. Repealing the 1st Amendment would not remove our right to free speech. It would simply remove the codification of that right and we would revert to natural law which still would include free speech. In order for the government to infringe on our natural right to free speech we the people would have to pass an amendment explicitly granting the government the authority to do so. The same of course applies to the 2A.

This is essentially the philosophy of the founders and the limited government crowd you're going to be arguing against if you want to regulate guns.

I'm hoping that you'll see that this isn't just a semantic difference in the mechanism by which you might accomplish gun restrictions, but a deeper difference in the belief system around the philosophy of law. I'm not trying to change your mind about the 2A here, but to help you relate to the small government crowd with the way you talk about the law. You're not trying to revert a power granted to us by the government, you're trying to subvert natural law.
> "drinking super sized gulpies from 7Eleven"

Idle thought: what's the pH of bog-standard gulpies?† The sugar in them is definitely going to encourage bacteria, so I wonder what the relative contributions to tooth decay are from the gulpy itself and that due to the acid from the bacteria that feed off of the gulpy.

† Further idle thought: is gulpy/slurpy a pop/soda/coke thing?
Their decision to limit the initial problem domain is genius. When it comes to autonomous driving, safety is paramount. Limiting it to highways is a good way to ensure that you can maximize the system's safety and performance, while still getting a product to market that is ahead of the competition and which allows you to gather data and iterate to expand in the future.

SpaceX wants to go to Mars. Why haven't they yet? Do you consider them uninnovative? Or maybe they're just taking their time getting the technology right, because they know (1) they're leading the industry already, and (2) if they fuck it up, it would be a highly expensive mistake they probably wouldn't recover from.

If your definition of "innovation" is "irreparably risking your business and customers' lives in the pursuit of profit", I sincerely hope I never have to interact with you in any way in the future.
A good example of the Hacker News reaction to gender topics (and no relation to partisan politics whatsoever) is what happened when a YC engineer launched a online community for women: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16159808
US CBP can't check biometric/e-passports–they don't have the software, since '07
My accommodation in Eastern European services apartments for this weekend is cheaper than the fees would be on Airbnb. The price slider cannot fix that.
> In the Bitcoin community is that vision basically dead?

Not at all. The primary innovators of the protocol are pushing forward with privacy and scalability enhancements every day. The cypherpunk ethos is strong if you know where to look (hint: not CNBC).

Sure, there are lots of corporate-types pushing corporate-type stuff. But any industry will have that before too long, especially if there is profit to be made.
The ad business funds the majority of what they do, but that doesn't mean everything or even most of what Googlers are doing day to day is tied to ads in some meaningful additional way or that every product can be viewed through that lens.

The projects I'm describing aren't all R&D. For example the GCP products aren't dependent upon or strongly connected the their ads businesses.

There are many "technically focused projects" that have users but don't relate to ads, as a byproduct of their bottom-up culture (a very real thing there which is sometimes great and other times a massive PITA, especially when trying to accomplish anything cross-PA), or as a response to innovation at other companies. In my experience Google is, for better and worse, not the manifestation of the vision of one or a small number of people, so when I hear intentions ascribed to Google writ large (such as OP's "let's not pretend that they are driven by..."), I laugh.

Does that make sense? I don't think we completely disagree.
Yes but as far as I can tell GM SuperCruise hasn't killed anybody either. 'Move fast and break things' doesn't seem like such a great philosophy when those things are people's lives.
Looking for DIY ideas for home security (cameras)
Looking to put up cameras around my house long term, and in the short term use my webcam.

Anyone have ideas for software? or a hardware system thats cheap?
Do they sell cloth bags in the shops?

If shops stopped selling plastic bags people would figure out a solution.
You are not gonna like this, but Google as any other healthy company would ship the improvement and take the short term revenue hit...they do so all the time!

The incentives are well aligned here because it’s proven that if you improve the product people will use it more in the long term!

Facebook just announced such thing a couple days ago...they are taking a huge hit in time spend (and therefore ad revenue) to increase meaningful interactions between friends and family’s.
CI/CD does not mean deploying code to production by fetching source code from GitHub onto a server used by your customers and then compiling or downloading NPM dependencies.

That is a recipe for disaster.
I agree, but I think the most irresponsible part is the texting while driving.

Edit:

The video was deleted and an identical video reposted to their YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=233RzfqYExI
High-risk or speculative is way more accurate than a "gamble", which is true of all investment.
Makes sense - a subset that's had a bit more oversight from AirBnB, to filter out the ghost hotels and places with one fork, no coffee machine, and furniture that's all basic IKEA stuff.
I agree. It seems strange to mark the beginning of the age as a peak of some activity that had been going on for a bit. If it's defined by a change in the earth's composition, the ramp up to the peak is absolutely a change.
lg v20 with an aftermarket battery. I regularly go three days without charging.
Sure. My question isn't about what's theoretically possible. It's about what people are actually doing, which seems to be very far from the original vision.
sure, presumably there are some people that only make or deliver plastic spoons. But, they aren't many.

Businesses will need to change practices. Supporting industries (regular cutlery, dishwashers) need to adapt a little. There might be a little pain or cost. Highly optimized workflows (eg McDonald's) a little more.

Generally, this is not that disruptive. Industry could adapt in 6 months, 18 months comfortably. Anything over two years is pointless.

No businesses will even think about this until 2028. Why bother with a tiny change 12 years from now. It may not even come to pass.

Generally, I don't like long lead time for democratic considerations. It makes accountability worse, and encourages political shenanigans. Decision makers should be there when their decisions take effect.
Dlib saved me a few times and I have a lot to thank David.

However I just wish it's Python binding were published as binary wheels. Dlib is very large and the compilation times suck when installing from pip.

In fact, I might as well contact him and help setup this!
Seems like they want to allow it but are worried about laundering / being a bitcoin tumbler?
> the notion of individual learning styles is a bit of a myth.

I suspect it's really just a numbers game: Present the information enough different ways and you're more likely to use one which happens to click for a particular student temporarily receptive to a particular mental model.

If so, that means diversity of approaches is good even with no personalization.
You can determine the required size of a bloom filter from population and required error (there are formulas you can find on wikipedia).

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter#Optimal_number_of...

> The required number of bits, m, given n (the number of inserted elements) and a desired false positive probability p (and assuming the optimal value of k is used) can be computed by substituting the optimal value of k in the probability expression above:
>
> This means that for a given false positive probability p, the length of a Bloom filter m is proportionate to the number of elements being filtered n

You will find that the required size (in bits) at any reasonable error (<10%) is greater than the size of the population, i.e., a bitvector is a smaller representation of the set. (It has other differing properties, too, but size is the one I am focusing on.)

Wikipedia shares this observation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter#Space_and_time_ad...

> However, if the number of potential values is small and many of them can be in the set, the Bloom filter is easily surpassed by the deterministic bit array, which requires only one bit for each potential element.

(My use case was tracking allocated blocks in a filesystem, in an application where probabilistic results would have been adequate. It is perfectly valid for 100% of blocks to be allocated, so the required vector size for a bloom filter would be longer than the same-size bitvector.)
I've found that mod_evasive[1] works particularly well in these situation and helped us a lot dealing with it (though I'm not a sysadmin and I'm sure there are better tools to deal with it). But for someone who is just a webmaster, I'd recommend using it for a quick dirty fix for such hassles.

[1] https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-prot...
Federal courts, including EDTX, have judges appointed by the President of the United States and confirmed by the U.S. Senate; the judges aren't elected by the district served by the court.
Newer distributions seem to have standardized on always having ~/.local/bin on the PATH, so this particular problem should be solved in a few years.
Title should be changed to 5.7.0 as newly released 5.7.1 fixes the bug.
Elf-strings: The better strings utility for the reverse engineer
Maybe you should add "There's an FAQ" as an often-unrecognized feature.
Aldehyde dehydrogenase enzymes employ the sulfur chemistry of cysteine. Taking n-acetyl cysteine before you drink helps your body to synthesize the ALDH. Glutamate (easily available from monosodium glutamate) is required, along with water, for the enzyme to process aldehydes into carboxylic acids. The reaction is powered by NAD+/NADH, so adequate niacin and tryptophan in your diet would help you have enough of that, but that system also powers the alcohol dehydrogenase that is producing the aldehydes.

Whether you get hangovers or not largely depends on the relative efficiency of your ADH versus your ALDH enzymes. If you clear aldehyde faster than you can metabolize the alcohol, you never get hangovers unless you have some odd sulfur-based chemistry happening in your body. If you clear aldehyde slower than you metabolize alcohol, you get hangover effects. If you have an ALDH defect, or are taking a drug that antagonizes it, you might experience "Asian blush", with immediate unpleasant reactions to drinking alcohol.

Dehydration has its own unpleasant symptoms, and since alcohol is a diuretic, it can dehydrate you. Drinking water or electrolyte rehydration solutions will help with that. You can be fully hydrated and still have a hangover, but at least you won't have a hangover and be dehydrated too.

I have never had a hangover, but the chemistry suggests that if you get them routinely, supplementing your diet with NAC might help. Eating tofu and shiitake (high in tryptophan/niacin) with MSG as you drink or after you drink might also help. It's mostly your genetics, though. If you get bad hangovers, there's no easy cure for it other than to drink less alcohol.
You think Tesla will ever get sued over Autopilot?
Used or super cheap (obsolete) android phones connected via wifi is probably that cheapest you'll get.
BKit – Build Messenger Bot Using HTML
Mobile has react-native. What about desktop? I see this: https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows for Windows. I wonder if something like that could be done for Qt?
An AI could have possibly alerted the police to the shooter's intentions if it was monitoring the right things, however, a human did alert the FBI, and they failed to act.

With correct follow-through, AI could be a useful tool for narrowing down who is a credible threat, but I agree there's a huge risk in relying on it too heavily and punishing people for pre-crime.
Hah, I can agree with a single source of truth. A credit score is essentially what you are referring to. I know for sure you cannot rent without a large deposit with a terrible score, and some jobs will not hire you (especially GOVT jobs) when you have large debts and bad credit. Not sure about the insurance rates, but it certainly would not surprise me.
The time period of stillness isn't important for this technique.
> On Linux you can’t install globally without sudo.

thats not right. you've just got npm setup wrong. https://docs.npmjs.com/getting-started/fixing-npm-permission...
Reading this and the comments here really makes me feel sorry for the npm people.

If you are reading this:
You are doing great work, I wish you the energy and strength to ignore the trolls.
That was some humorous unintentional irony, considering that the vision was for Bitcoin to be just money.
If he'd tested it beforehand the comment might instead be "this destroyed my laptop".

You have a responsibility to test before releasing to production, yes. But the amount of fucked up your program has to be for `sudo ___ --help` to wreck the operating system, the unexpectedness of that result... IMO attention should be focused here on the irresponsibility of the npm team, not their users.
npm is not for managing system software and has not been developed as such. It's a javascript package manager. apt and pacman (and probably yum but never used so can't speak about it) have active maintainers for most packages and the mirrors are well taken care of.

npm is basically a giant array that anyone can add package to.

I'm using them both accordingly.
What's Wrong with IBM's AI Strategy
I find that true technical commentary is often less appreciated than superficial technical statements.

Using only myself as an example:

* I write a comment about databases and data science that comprises hard-won insights borne out of years of experience and mistakes -> {0, 1, 2} upvotes.

* I write a throwaway comment about IBM PC-DOS -> many more upvotes (>10).

I'm not complaining. I think HN merely conforms to the broader pattern of the world.

It does have one downside: very often, soundbite comments that are naive or wrong get upvoted a lot. [0]

[0] http://danluu.com/hn-comments/
Bedankt! (Thank you, in Dutch)
OpenAI Hackathon
GTK+ 3, yes.
Wayback link, of someone has a better mirror please post: http://web.archive.org/web/20180222170341/https://github.com...
This is from 2011 and contains broken links (in section "How do I know if my comment has been replied to") and links to (now) malicous sites (in section "how do I search Hacker News?")
Very kind, thank you for the explanation!
Diagnosed, strapped to a gurney, and popped in the system for a couple of months. It was almost two decades ago, I'm fine. But having seen and thought most of the things people describe in these experiences, I find post facto attempts to elevate them (usually based on a few coincidences) wishful thinking.