skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From 2014, though the AMP version linked to does not reflect this. https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a32858/drugging-of-the...
"Material inputs" seems to be yet another misleading statistics intended to sell nuclear. I would completely ignore it.

The nuclear industry has been trying to convince us that nuclear energy is cheap, but this is becoming a very tough sell after a series of bankruptcies and massive cost overruns.

So now they try to sell us on how great nuclear is because it uses less total weight of material per gigawatt produced.

That may be the case but it is still far more expensive than all the other options. It is like saying that a Ferrari must be cheaper than Chrysler minivan because it has about half the weight of total metal in it.
So you order a flying car to take you from A to B, where you've chosen a route that you know flies over your target (presuming big populated targets aren't routed around automatically). Then you load explosives on-board instead of yourself, along with a real time video streaming setup so you know exactly when to trigger the bomb (since at 200 mph you have a window of maybe a second or two). If all works perfectly, you drop the vehicle into the bleachers, killing maybe a dozen people max?

I guess I don't feel that this will be the reason flying cars aren't adopted. In my mind, the barriers are almost entirely economics.

It's worth mentioning also that there seems to be a plan to have pilots for these programs in the near term. Take a look at Uber's Elevate concept video, there's a pilot on-board.
Sure, but he didn't find a flaw in the psychology presented in the paper, he found a flaw in the mathematics used in the paper, which he understood better than the paper's author(s).

This isn't to detract from what he did -- I'm glad he caught it and that it appears he's since made a hobby of catching others.

The problem, as other supporting replies to my comment point out, is that the notion that hobbyists working outside of academia can defeat established science has recently become a political tire fire, and this otherwise excellent article is being framed to add fuel to that fire.

It used to be that this was sort of restricted to young Earth creationists and other people that you could sort of roll your eyes at and ignore, but now this attitude has been attacking climate science and energy policy and environmental science, and now we've got an administration that has put people in positions to influence science policy in this country on the basis of politics alone. Now it's not so funny anymore.

The takeaway from the article should be on the increasing importance of a multidisciplinary approach in the sciences -- something that data geeks at HN should enthusiastically support -- and not this "amateur defeats scientists" hogwash.
>So, why would anyone participate in this program, if the best possible outcome is that Amazon uses your idea, makes millions, and does not pay you a cent?

Exposure, it's always for fucking exposure
Thank you for the warning. Some people like to cast judgement about being overly zealous or prude with NSFW designation... But it's clear that being too cautious is better than the alternative.
I find it mildly creepy that if I log into Google Maps when I'm connected through my usual VPN of choice, it still pinpoints my location. I know why of course; it's figured it out from my Android phone in my pocket. Makes me wonder what other apps are managing to track that data cross-network though, and what they're doing with it.
Perhaps there should be a central clearinghouse for people who don't want to be tracked by certain sites. How can you tell facebook to not track you without a facebook account? The best you can do is block various known IPs or other patterns which are bound to change over time.
The article assumes the following as "truths":

* There is a real anti-diesel sentiment, and diesel phasing out will happen

* Electric vehicles are an upcoming reality

* Driverless vehicles are desirable and will dominate the market

And finally,

* The German auto industry is unprepared to deal with these facts

Honestly I completely disagree on all 4 points. Electric vehicles are and will remain very expensive and inconvenient for a while. Their post-subsidy prices make clear that they constitute tax-funded toys for the rich.
Autonomous/Driverless vehicles are also a novelty that we'll pay with a lot of blood. It's clear that we'll need at least 1-2 decades to reach a point where you can place reasonable trust to such a system for your daily commute.
As for the diesel problem, there is a chance that some environmentalist lobby will eventually cause diesel cars for personal use to be phased out, but right now it's more of a social media meme than anything. And just because German automakers cheat on their tests, it doesn't mean that everyone else does too.

And finally, be certain that those massive corporate giants take consumer trends very seriously, and they're already trailing just behind the bleeding edge on all those technologies. They just don't spend that much on PR because they don't need more capital.
iOS 8+ and Android 6+ devices do use a random MAC address for Wi-Fi scanning:

https://blog.mojonetworks.com/ios8-mac-randomization-analyze...

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/10/android-6-0-marshmal...
Hyperloop Would Cross Entire State in 30 Minutes
> "convince us you're enthusiastic enough during the interview". It's all a game of how much you can bullshit.

I agree with both you and GP and it's only convinced me more that 'passion' is a toxic word.
The Nerd Cave: Losing AUS$100,000 Building a Space for Gamers
> Those filters could only be removed if consumers pay a $20 fee.

Wait, what? Why should a fee to opt out exist?
Interesting observation.

There's no functional difference between "sincerely" believing something that isn't true, and just plain old normal "insincere" believing something that isn't true.
Yep, I used to live at Swansboro Country Airport (01CL) out of Placerville and know more than a few people who fly to the Bay Area.
Wow that's actually really quite relieving news. I heard a recording of the clip and afterward read that people experienced some brain damage (!) luckily the ultrasonic waves aren't replicable through my headphones. I don't recommend listening anyway, it's not pleasant and does sound like interference.
And then what, what about it? Say I believe in the abolition of slavery. An "equal but opposite version of me" believes that slavery should continue. No amount of talking is able to convince the other side. What do you make of it?
Project Manager isn't a technical role at Google and VPs in finance, I have heard, aren't a particularly high title, roughly equivalent to Senior Software Engineer at Google [1]. Well-performing Senior SWEs at Google get total compensation in $300-400K/year range, including stock. Average salaries at Goldman Sachs were about $367K in 2016 [2], but that's a mean rather than a median and so likely skewed upwards by all the rainmakers - but if you figure that "VP" is roughly the top 1/3 of employees, it's probably about right. Those are comparable salaries.

The framing of the question misses the really high earners, though, folks who would be Distinguished Engineer at Google or...I don't even know what the equivalent title at Goldman is, but at that point it probably doesn't matter. These people don't climb the ladder, they bypass it. Usually that means taking a risk on a project that has a high likelihood of failure but makes hundreds of millions to billions of dollars for your employer if it succeeds, and then seeing it through to success. Those are the folks with $multimillion stock packages.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2014-09-04/goldman-s...

[2] https://www.investopedia.com/news/guess-how-much-goldmans-av...
>How can you tell facebook to not track you without a facebook account?

That's the wrong question to ask. You shouldn't have to tell it not to track you. That shouldn't be able to do it, unless you explicitly tell them "hey you can track me."
All ten of them that have the requisite equipment to pick up the message, yes.
No, there were photos of people smoking.
By the way, I've added that feature now:

https://www.eternum.io/api/docs/#!/api/site_update

Hearth will ask for your Eternum API key and will automatically update your URL to point to your latest hash. Like so:

https://www.eternum.io/user/stavros/
Css margin (Css tutorial)
But op-int for what? For being tracked? Using you data? Just showing you an ad?
var is neither dynamic nor untyped
Samsung Galaxy S9 and Plus Design Features
To me, this essay read more like a troll; a mish-mash of complaints and anecdotes that don't frankly make any sense when put together. But the author succeeded in getting to the first page of HN, so–congrats?

As such, it's hard for me to bring myself to respond to any one point in the piece. It'd be quite easy for most of us to do so, but I suspect that was the intention.
Ask HN: Searching for a quote about revolution
I think I've read recently here a quote saying something like: "Revolution can mean one of two things: A radical political change or rotation of 360 degrees around an axis, ending up in the same place. In real life, the latter tends to be the case."
But I cant for the life of me find the original quote or even remenber who the author was. I think it was here that I read it first.
Anyone knows what I'm talking about?
It's so overly zealous that I can't even understand about what is NSFW referring to.
Calling bullshit on this accusatory article. Source code [1] clearly states and attributes credit/copyright to Mastadon. They seem to be fully compliant with the licensing requirements.

[1]: https://github.com/hiveway/hiveway/blob/master/COPYRIGHT
Europe Once Saw Xi Jinping as a Hedge Against Trump. Not Anymore
you should park it at http://startmydomain.com
Just look at extreme sports for a contemporary manifestation of this phenomenon.
Can increasing depth serve to accelerate optimization?
That isn't how computers or mathematics work. If you calculate an average or perform other simple statistical methods it is impossible for the results to be Turing complete. If they used some hypothetical recursive Turing complete method of analysing the numbers then the mathematicians would be aware of it being Turing Complete. Even if such a analysis was performed the alien program interpreted it would be only to affect the results of the analysis and not the computer as a whole because a mathematical analysis doesn't require network access, disk access or the ability to execute machine code.
What we really need are highly tunable and directional EMP generators, which can be easily concealed. You could “solve” everything from annoying drones, to people listening to Peppa a pig on their iPads, through the speaker.

Of course you could also fry a car’s ECU, but um, swings and roundabouts right?
Don't you think it's the other way around? Lawmakers want to block free speech and eliminate privacy by using pornography as an excuse?
Same here, I've worked on projects without static typing and it's more painful without the safety of the compiler. Rust is also on my list.

I do think that programming in Python got me comfortable with passing functions around and a few things that were easier in dynamic languages so I'm always glad about that.

You use TypeScript instead of JS for Node? Interesting...
I'm not a lawyer, and this isn't legal advice, but I don't believe you're correct.

5.x covers the rights you are granting. They do not seem to be the actual rights to create a film/tv show/etc.

>5.1.1. Review. Your submission will be subject to review by us. You grant us the right to review and consider your Submission and, in connection therewith, share the Submission with our subcontractors engaged in review and, together with our subcontractors, annotate your Submission.

So, in this section, you basically grant them the right to review it within Amazon Studios and any relevant companies they work with to create media.

If you make a public submission, you grant a bit more rights (You do not have to make a public submission):

>5.2.2. Our Rights to Distribute Your Public Submission. You grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, non-terminable, sub-licensable, transferable right to copy, transfer, stream, make available for download, add captions and make other distribution-related modifications to your Public Submission as we desire to facilitate such distribution.

So, here, you make it possible for Amazon to make your submission available royalty-free, etc. This seems more likely to apply to concept video submissions.

As best I can tell, at no point does submitting the script or concept video to Amazon give them the right to produce a TV series, Movie, or anything similar based off of it. Presumably, if they were to decide to move forward, there would be a new agreement you have to sign.

The 'Similar Content' bit looks to be the standard 'You can't sue us if you submit something and we make something similar' boilerplate you find when submitting anything of this nature. Those of you that have pitched to VCs or Angels have likely seen something similar. It's basically protection for situations where companies might be working on something that could be viewed as similar. Without it, you could have patent troll type situations - someone could write a bunch of garbage scripts that cover a bunch of random ideas, and then when Amazon or someone else makes something that looks even kind of like one of your ideas, you could sue them.

Again, I'm not a lawyer, and this isn't legal advice.
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Sillysaurus is presently downvoted, so as someone who occasionally pays professional gamblers money:

Clearly it is the case that there are some sole proprietor firms which provide entertainment services. While this is generally not the world's most lucrative market, we have no reason to suspect that it is intrinsically a worse business than the least sustainable sustainable enterprise.

There exists a class of specialized entertainment service provider. They are called "professional poker players" and their job is to fill seats at a poker table so that recreational players like myself can get into a poker game [+]. They are compensated irregularly for providing this service; incompetent professionals are swiftly driven from the market. An incidental portion of their compensation comes directly from casinos; a majority of it comes from people like me.

[+] Unlike some forms of gambling in Las Vegas, poker games are not immediately expandable at all margins. A casino with one dealer and three players for a full-ring game is sad. A casino with one dealer and six players is less sad; the game starts and the casino starts making a (relatively nominal) amount of money.

(The economics of poker are not attractive to a casino by comparison to the other games in the casino; it is mostly treated as a loss-leader to bring people seeking entertainment into an environment designed to extract all money in their wallet and then some.)
If you are referring to the first amendment, that protects us from government censorship. There are a number of ways we may agree to censor ourselves when interacting with private entities. I signed a non disclosure agreement with my employer. I agree not to create photos of expos I enter. And so on. It seems excessive, but it's legal to stipulate it.
>I genuinely don't understand why you responded so sharply

because people complain too much about free things and free things that are actually very good but aren't exactly what they expect from the world.
I think it is called IBM.
It's not really that healthy though. The continuous impact can really mess your joints up long term.
Ummm.. can someone please explain share I just saw? There's no description about what this is. Atleast on mobile.
Honestly, this story has been repeated multiple times in the New York Times and other publications.

When you see that happening，it reeks of PR. The fingerprints are there - someone wants you to think that Silicon Valley VC are acting differently.

Reading the article, more red flags. This is a whole lot of deliberate signaling and posturing. Smells like PR, walks like PR, flops around on the dock like freshly caught fake news PR.

So why would prominent Silicon Valley VC engage highly placed PR services who can plant their self serving fake news into the New York Times (if you believe the New York Times is above this, I have very bad news for you)?

Answer: Politics.

These Bay Area VCs want one thing: Special government privileges from desperate middle American cities. Like Jeff Bezos, they want cities to beg for their money. Tax cuts, tax breaks, free real estate, special privileges, pork, tax incentives.

These articles are becoming common because this is a campaign to influence local politicians in these states, prepare the groundwork for later stages in their campaign.

Just reading this, it stinks so highly of signaling, the fakeness of the quotes are so over the top. The quotes have this fake “oh gee, we are just these crazy VCs who never thought of middle America before, what is a milk shake? How do I milk a cow?” Quality to them they cannot possibly be real.

Who is going to pay for all the special privileges these VCs are going to get from state and local governments? Hint: Tax payers.

The real title of this article should be: “Silicon Valley VCs identify dumb yokels in middle America willing to subsidize their future bullshit.” That’s the truth.
> when we get a message, we'll be able to immediately tell whether we can decontaminate it or not

I don't think this is true (at least not "immediately").

The paper is arguing that we will need computers to help decode any non-trivial message, and any computer program capable of decoding a non-trivial message will be Turing complete, and hence capable of running virus code that could have damaging or destructive effects. (The paper's example was a message containing equations in LaTeX, which is Turing complete, hence an ETI could embed a virus in LaTeX code, and humans might not be able to spot it.)

The strategy the paper is advocating, as far as I can see, is that, unless the message is simple enough that humans can decode it without computer help, and thereby check directly whether it contains any dangerous information, the message should be destroyed. I suppose this could count as "we can't tell whether we can decontaminate it", but I'm not sure that's what you meant.
That’s certainly possible, and in fact it could have been part of a routine sweep for unpowered bugs that went wrong. It would also help to explain the impressive range of bullshit “explanations” that keep getting printed. Mass hysteria? Really?!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/12/cuba-mass-hyst...

Give me a break.
I found this to be a great resource when groking your question recently

http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2016/06/13/stop-using-jwt-fo...

Also this previous HN thread
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13865459
Kinda irrelevant to the discussion, but the 'swipe down from top right' for Control Center is pretty universally hated AFAICT. The best solution I've seen suggested is to make it part of the multitasking interface: you swipe up and right from the bottom to go to the previous app, CC should be swipe up and left.
Actually this is also a documented form of advantage gambling:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advantage_gambling

But my personal favorite, as a physics major, is the observation that most roulette wheels are unfair, due to slight asymmetries. If only you could get good surveillance of the roulette tables for a few days (hard to do alone), you could make a killing. On roulette!
This kind of question appears often here. I found the following discussion very informative: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16157002
(as you can see, there are very different and conflicting opinions about what are the best practices).

I'd find it very helpful if somebody can recommend a resource, like some book, course or blog post that thoroughly explains the best practices and recommended strategies about authentication for APIs, websites and mobile apps in client/server and server/server communication.
I can understand the points about social aspects at work, but some of the content concerning more tangible business benefits seems too idealistic. e.g. "I suddenly remembered that I’d seen a communication exchanged between these two guys.." -- how often do you happen to remember seeing that kind of conversation? Imagine these tools are barely making a dent in the amount of duplication and lack of "metaknowledge" that goes on in any mid to large sized company. And that comes with the oft-cited costs of distractions, etc. Or am I just using them wrong?
Why was this submitted today? This program at Amazon is 7+ years old, and nothing about it has changed recently as far as I can tell.
Not safe for what?

Sure there is part of a painting of a naked lady, but is it art?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Venus_(Giorgione)

Then there is a man's nipple plus, shock/horror, some people smoking. I imagine it is the latter that'll be horrifying you.

If I was tyrant-employer I would be sacking people for obsessively looking at their phones all day, rather than inadvertently looking at a nipple or two.
That's not a design pattern, it's just a constraint that designs have to account for.
The idea of having my script tied to my buying history is funny
True. Just offering something else similar and cool for the person in the previous comment to check out.
All those homeless people in California and these jackasses are paying $20,000 to house chickens. Communist priorities are so fucking stupid.
The best course of action is to email the mods via the Contact link in the footer. The guidelines are clear on this as well:

> "Please don't impute astroturfing or shillage. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about it, email us and we'll look at the data."

> "Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. ... If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes, funny. It's almost as if people will pay a premium to live in a place of incredible natural beauty next to a major ski resort.
> I find the idea that "humans could be bargained into a poor position" to be fairly weak

That's because you're assuming that whatever ETI or AI we are bargaining with has roughly our intelligence. That is what has made it possible for humans to negotiate with each other instead of isolating themselves to avoid hearing potentially deadly offers.

But any ETI or AI capable of sending us a complex message will probably be much more intelligent than we are. In that case, we would basically be in the same position as, say, a dog trying to negotiate with humans; we simply would not even be able to comprehend what the other side was doing or thinking.
Most US prisoners are there because of victimless drug crimes.
Seek and Ye Shall Find (Maybe) (1996)
Yes, how to tell Facebook?

Someone should invent a http header that lets you signal that you don't want to be tracked. It could be named something like DNT, for do-not-track. People could then set DNT=1 and websites such as Facebook would know not to track you...
Eh, if I don't get what I want, so be it. I'm not demanding it. I thought you might know of something like it. If I can get what I was looking for, all the better, though.

Maybe I'm just a very specialised audience: I know enough mathematics to find some popularisations boring but I'm not a research mathematician where I can get gossip via word-of-mouth like I presume must happen. Maybe that's why there just isn't a publication like what I want. There aren't that many maths school dropouts like me who would want to read it.