skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Internal politics - both within the field and within the department.

- The main focus of my advisor was a life-or-death struggle with a researcher at distant university over the number of angels that dance on the head of a pin - utterly inconsequential, self-justifying research and counter-research that ultimately served nothing more than to keep the 'publish-or-perish' wolf from the door. Just enough math was involved to keep it from being sociology.

- A grad student with an engineering background was dismissed for discretely pointing out that the measurement tools for one professor's lab's flagship experiment series were an order of magnitude too inaccurate for the measurements they were being used to perform. This was commonplace - another was warned for pointing out (privately, not in public) that requiring us to pass all our submitted papers through TurnitIn was also signing over our legal rights to anything we submitted as part of our coursework (which could potentially cause publication problems)
Autonomous vehicles need HD maps to be able to localize themselves accurately on a centimeter scale, GPS and current maps do not allow that.

The higher the resolution of your map is the better and faster the localization is, better localization means better and more accurate decision making for your car.

To illustrate it simply we’ve all been at a point where the GPS app we use put us on the curb or on a different lane sometimes even in incoming traffic.

This is because your phone localized you erroneously.
While we ignore it or make a joke about it if this happens to an autonomous vehicle someone can get hurt or worse.

HD maps are the new gold rush in autonomous vehicles and companies are rushing to find ways to cheaply produce, update and more importantly distribute them to vehicles.
Interestingly, unlike the boiling point, the melting point is not that dependent on the atmospheric pressure: for a wide range around 100kPa, it stays at 0C [1].

[1] Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure_melting_point
Has the supposed sonic weapon, and its effect been confirmed? Link to best unbiased news story?
I agree not nearly enough thought is being put into the defaults.

But the majority of Linux users are "techies", thus the defaults should cater to them.
Obviously that's a choice, and obviously I can choose to do otherwise at any time.

That said, it's a choice I didn't choose to have. I'd much sooner choose to live in a world where gender norms would allow me to both a) pursue the things I want to pursue and b) have as much dating success doing them as I do now (a fair amount, having led up to several successful long term relationships) instead of then (going months without a date while actively trying to date).

Additionally, I question the viewpoints of people who think that the pay gap come purely from evil men discriminating against deserving women instead of social norms that are enforced in significant part by women.
Here, you are exploring nuance. I doubt it will cost anyone their life.

> However, being clear on whether it is good or bad or even dangerous and what is cost of they get their way is practically speaking super important.

Yes, it's important. It's important that children learn this, or sort it out by very early adulthood. That is what is meant by infantile. In my opinion, this is not a serious problem for the vast majority of civil folk. I do not understand the value in grown adults belaboring it. It's baby food. Eat grownup food.
True, basically another crypto-bullshit project based on stolen code (besides violating the GPL licence).
I fetched the quote from wikipedia. I didn't even realize Godwin was still alive. I assumed he was some long dead Greek philosopher.

>On December 2015, Godwin commented on the Nazi and fascist comparisons being made by several articles on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, saying: "If you're thoughtful about it and show some real awareness of history, go ahead and refer to Hitler when you talk about Trump. Or any other politician." On August 13, 2017, Godwin made similar remarks on social networking websites Facebook and Twitter with respect to the two previous days' Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, endorsing and encouraging efforts to compare its alt-right organizers to Nazis.
> “Despite working in Silicon Valley, where a 1100sqft home with no yard costs $2m...”

You could buy roughly 667 acres of land here in Lower Michigan for that much money, which provides plenty of room for wine and chickens. ;)
It's a super hot topic that gets discussed a ton, probably more than any other in the last year. There are plenty of other threads about this theme and will be plenty more. Obviously it isn't being suppressed.

What does get penalized on HN are (a) dupes and (b) copycat or follow-up posts trying to hog in on their slice of the click-pie. That's a site quality issue that has nothing to with political sides.
Same with the anti-signaling for me. Having the same issue with Medium too, but at least there the author is in the URL.
OCR Basics: “Reading and Sorting Mail Automatically” 1970 US Postal Service
The past has shown that cynicism is realistic when discussing whether ads or altruism are the motivation of google.
Well, I don't think the article was really aimed at actual cranks (who are, more or less by definition, immune to this kind of advice). It feels more aimed at scientists, or people of a scientific turn of mind, who may have found a genuine flaw in some widely accepted result but might not have the communication skills to get it across to the scientific community.
its not a secret and you still can't purchase from the Japanese store with a non-japanese credit card
tables are evil /s
How 4000 Physicists Gave a Vegas Casino Its Worst Week (2015)
Actually, to off-topic nitpick, the triple point of pure water is at 0.01°C (273.16K), not 0°C
You could also get unexpected results using two beams of microwaves which constructively interfere. A simple misalignment could shift the intersection and lead to cooked noodles. Microwaves are as capable of that as sound waves, and more likely to be generated by relatively compact devices, while causing brain damage and auditory effects. I can also imagine that it’s the kind of “sources and methods” talk our government doesn’t appreciate.
I've seen plenty of computer science students who struggle with math, and even among those who the number who understand statistics is embarrassingly small. Meanwhile, here on HN you have dozens of "computer engineers" arguing that the maths and theory in their own field isn't important.

I wouldn't be so quick to pull generalizations about what disciplines have better scientists.
1and1
The article is from June 2014.
Yes, hence why I pointed out it didn't help in this case (there's already an NPE demanding license fees).

I don't know if the second point is a big deal. Even if they choose to settle, you've still mitigated your risk without going to court. And I suspect a patent litigation insurance agency is going to be motivated to negotiate very small settlements and/or actually fight it out in court, lest they gain a reputation as the company that hands out license fees.
Amazingly he basically trained on his lunch hour while studying to be a physician when preparing to run the sub 4 mile. And then went on to be a distinguished medical researcher. He had such a positive influence on running and medicine. If there ever was an athlete that deserved the moniker role model it was him.
Last time I checked (maybe 6-9 months ago) it was missing a lot. Did they make progress in reaching parity?
In my field (robotics, ML) many papers are not interesting or overstate the consequences of the result, but I wouldn't go as far as to say 95% are bullshit.
Only code at work? That doesn’t make you a worse programmer
Given that he hides those behind fake commit message (unless one counts removing a comment or a whitespace "code refactoring), I would say rather likely.
I had the pleasure of retiring a large APL application a few years ago. Although I hadn’t spent time developing in it, I did spend a lot of time with the devs who had. I also had to understand it well enough to replace it.

I’ve worked on a lot of systems and a fair few languages in my time. I’d rank it as the 3rd worst application I’ve ever dealt with.

It’s also one of the few where I didn’t end up with a grudging admiration for the original developers. And I’ve replaced a “real time” event based system written in Sybase stored procs so I have a really low threshold.
I always use incognito mode (disable all extensions) when visiting relevant sites. I wonder if it's enough.
Good point, I took that from the title, which is clearly a conclusion drawn from the post, not actually in it.
Does it? Does anyone just go to medium.com and see what's going on rather than being linked to some specific article? Is there anything about the medium reading experience that means someone would rather go to them specifically rather than where the content they want happens to be? Are they trying to lure writers that way? I don't get it.

I mean, I'm sure they know their business and everything. Again: I don't get it.
Maybe the higher cost of those "more disruptive methods" is a good thing, because it'll filter out those people who couldn't even be bothered walking up to you in person.
So identity politics is when you try to make other people invalid. That's a more radical definition than the one(s) in wikipedia, thanks though.
That's true, but the bulk of the community cares even more about not having the front page filled with duplicates and follow-ups. That's why we moderate it the way we do.

It would have been good if we had caught the original post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16497551) getting penalized by the flamewar detector and turned that off. We often do that, and even have the software set up to email us notifications to check such things. Had the story had a few more hours on the front page, the point would be moot. Unfortunately we missed that and it's too late now. But the story is certain to develop further, and when significant new information is available, HN can have another big thread. Not before, though.
True, basically another crypto-bullshit project based on stolen code. This, besides, violating the GPL license.
So true. Often technical debt is intentionally taken on as a calculated risk to get to market faster with the intention of fixing it later. Fixing it later rarely happens though. In my experience it either ends up being someone else's problem or you just live with it.
Isn't 0.01 °C the triple point of water (the temperature at which the three phases of water are in a thermodynamic equilibrium)?

The triple point is a better standard and is used now, but it's not exactly 0 °C because that was defined by calling the melting point of water 0 °C.
GDPR allows sharing & processing your data if it can be reasonably assumed that it’s necessary for providing the service and in the user’s benefit.

If WHOIS is how domain business works then there shouldn’t be a problem? It’s necessary for you to get the domain which would also be in your benefit if you’re buying a domain?

See: 6(1)(a) to 6(1)(f)

Correct me if I’m wrong :)
Is the country with the one-year copyrights a Berne Convention signatory?

If so, then it is in violation of the treaty, which sets a minimum term for copyrights. The WIPO may adjudicate and other signatories may take action.

If not, then what you have is a national sovereignty issue. Other countries can restrict trade with the one with different laws, but they can't directly stop it from refusing to be similar to them (without a military invasion!).

This is currently the situation with things like online gambling. It's legal in some parts of the world, and in others the citizens accessing the sites may be prosecuted, but the sites themselves are usually beyond the reach of the disapproving countries - often the USA.

I should note that it is totally possible to have two countries with CONTRADICTORY laws that cannot be simultaneously satisfied. How would you deal with that situation, if all must be respected?
I’d wager that most papers in most fields are bullshit, but it doesn’t matter because no one reads them or bothers to attempt applying them or building on them.
Well, that's the incentive for Medium to do it. Only they would know whether it works or not. It sticking around suggests it does. However, success hides all problems.
Also you can use "introduce variable" refactoring (ctrl+alt+V in Windows). Type "new Person("John")" and immediately press ctrl+alt+v.
It's very easy to have JS only turned on only on a few selected sites. Interested parties should check uMatrix.

It tells me that the page in question otherwise executes the scripts from the following sites:

https://cdn.accelerator.arsdev.net/
https://player.cnevids.com/
https://c.amazon-adsystem.com/
https://segment-data.zqtk.net/
https://js-sec.indexww.com/
https://cdn.yldbt.com/
https://www.googletagservices.com/
https://cdn.optimizely.com/
https://assets.adobedtm.com/
https://d1z2jf7jlzjs58.cloudfront.net/
https://pixel.condenastdigital.com/
https://tag.bounceexchange.com/
https://cdn.optimizely.com/
https://assets.adobedtm.com/

There are still the trackers that work with the other methods that it can't prevent. But at least one still can be selective with the JS.
> "Not many psychologists are very good at maths,"

Most social scientists are not that good at maths. It used to be mostly harmless before they started dabbling in experimental science involving statistics.

A bigger problem is Economists; many of whom are also bad at maths, but litter their articles with formulas anyway, to add some pseudo-intellectual rigour.
Thanks for all the feedback and sorry for the connection hiccup.

This is still a very early version of the service. Account management is currently limited to signing up via Stripe and getting an email with your API key and a how to get started guide :)

I can make the free tier more obvious, you really don't need an account or credit card to get started with the API that's why "Get Started" links to the docs. You can just copy and paste the commands/code examples and get started. I see now that's it's not at all clear and will fix this.

Otherwise I'd say the pricing units are really just the number of calls. A really interesting idea might be to have a comparison on the site between my service and Maxmind's web service!

Some really basic account management like you describe is very much in the works. There're currently no accounts on the site. But it's something I'd like to do possibly offering a higher free tier quota to users who sign up, so that I'm able to communicate with them and have stats on conversion etc
Waymo appears to be ahead, but Tesla has little incentive at this moment to publicize anything partially complete.

Waymo is certainly leading the pack on published capabilities, but Tesla has another advantage: tens of thousands of vehicles shipped with a sensor package they claim can support self driving. I’ve heard rumors they may need to upgrade the compute on those vehicles to support full autonomy, but no other company on Earth is better equipped to activate a fleet of tens of thousands of self driving cars (if the sensor package is indeed sufficient).
Big part seems to be that statistics often isn't properly taught to students, which then muddle through it when writing papers.
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I think it's because they don't want it to be true. Or they read some sort of perceived insult in my comment.
And you can always buy privacy from quite many totally legit providers: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_privacy
Am I the only one that think's it's weird that Uber's Chief Economist is posting on their official Medium account with an article that sources data from a blogger to refute the MIT study? Like this guy has way more information at his fingertips, so I think it's a little suspicious that they aren't using their own internal data to make a public statement.
I think the extension should handle this too. It's to annoying to pass on
Not to sound edgy, but you don't (and probably never will). Use Firefox instead and be happy with your extensions :)
Got to think more insidious. Plausible deniability, parallel reconstruction etc.

"Alexa, why doesn't my daddy agree with Emperor of Mankind, His Excellency Jeff Bezos?"

Three months later daddy gets a poor performance rating a work.

In the propaganda: "Only losers disagree with his supremacy out of jealousy."

And the stats seem to support it.
Why it might be time for Big Cloud to share the wealth with open-source startups
This is the reason. The code does look for a specific appname that is present on all medium blogs before running the code. If this were a closed source extension I would worry about it, but since it's open source you can verify it's not doing anything malicious. That said, I think I will copy the source and turn it into a user script so I don't have to install another extension.
> About two years ago I opened up a smallish JS file (~100 lines ) and it contained 47 promises, some on the same line.

This is exactly what async await is trying to simplify :)
Yup, it's just damn difficult to guard all busses all the time from a determined adversary. Hopefully the person backs down instead of escalating.
Technically Tesla has far more vehicles on the road than Google does, and if they came up with a way to use their cars to capture data they'd have better maps than Google for major cities in the course of a single weekend.

The problem is bandwidth for upload, but if SpaceX launches internet satellites the Tesla cars can get free access to...
Chinese families in Silicon Valley have literally been doing this for years, out of frugality and not status-seeking. They also do group buys of meat direct from the farm.
> sending 30MW of power to the grid every minute of every day

One of those little inconsistencies that stood out to me...

Scratches head
MW = 1000J / s

What happens when you send 30MW per minute..

30MW per minute = 1000J / s / m

Hmmm
Economist here. I completely agree
Could be because, when you use the service, you aren’t sampling drivers uniformly. For example, only 10% of drivers could do it full time, but 90% of all rides could have a full time driver.

(Numbers for illustration only; they aren’t likely to reflect Uber’s population of drivers)
Second that.

Some registrars are only good for initial registration, as renewal rates are out of line. Namecheap also has reasonable WhoIsGuard. Basically they run a business based on the value they provide.
I had an eMate 300 for taking notes in college (2006-2007)! I replaced the batteries and put in a wifi pcmcia card - it got like 24 hours of battery life and was super rugged. It was really great as a distraction-free school machine.
Current maps might not, but afaik Galileo has (will have?) centimeter accuracy by default and sub-centimeter accuracy when enhanced.
The growing popularity and declining cost of solar electricity and wireless telecom probably have some effect on the imagination, and are driving down the level of austerity it requires. The hacker community may be more interested in living "off the grid" now that we wouldn't necessarily have to leave our toys behind. Rooftop solar, Powerwall battery, electric car, Ubiquiti wireless mesh with the neighbors... it has a certain appeal.
Franz stampfl was the genius behind the training of Bannister that led to the four minute mile. I have plenty of stories about stampfl. He became a quadriplegic in the 80's and still continued to coach for 10+ years after.
Godwin’s Law wasn't suspended and isn't a principle of reasoning.

(Godwin did indicate that a common adaptation of the law, which is a principle [though not a valid one] of reasoning, which is often mislabeled as the law itself, was both overly broad and specifically improper when applied to particular comparisons to the Nazis.)
> Phones aren't PCs. They are crippled and locked-down devices.

We have differing definitions. I might concede phones as separate from "PCs", but the original phrase was "handheld computer", which most phones are. Yes, many are locked down at the bootloader level, but they're still general-purpose computing devices. With Termux or a chroot, you can even get GNU goodness on them. Even without that, Android/iOS are as much computers as Windows S devices; they can run programs compiled for that OS, and have normal full-function CPUs, GPUs, and network stacks. The default use-cases are restricted, but worst case you can flip on the switch for sideloading APKs and run any code you want.

> Linux wristwatch

Prepare to be amazed(1) :) https://asteroidos.org/ is a proper GNU/Linux system for hardware that shipped with Android Wear. It's running a tiny QT GUI on the touchscreen, but you can SSH in (https://asteroidos.org/wiki/ssh/) and get a normal system, systemd and all.

(1) I mean this sincerely; it still amazes me every time I look at what they've built.
Kim Jong-nam’s accused killers: North Korean puppets or cold-blooded murderers?
Here, the 2.0 TDI with manual is the 110kW one, just like the 1.5 TSI one, also available with manual. If you want bigger engine, i.e. 2.0 TSI 132 kW or 2.0 TDI 140 kW, it's DSG only.
Yes. Welcome to the world of corporate welfare.
My experience with C++ is that auto sucks when you're reading someone else's code, and while it's a useful tool it's one that should be used thoughtfully.
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I deserve the downvotes: of couse you can measure whatever you like and conduct a valid analysis of the data and that's science.

But given the extraordinary prominence of quackery in 20th century psychology and psychiatric medicine, including the grotesque over-application of psychiatric drugs to young people suffering from feelings that can and should be treated more traditionally, I do think it would be best to step back and completely excise the fields as they exist from what we call science, and start afresh.
There are two key phrases in this article "intermodulation distortion" and "when signal processing equipment behaves in a nonlinear way". While there is not a concrete description of the signals that might have been present in the building, I completely understand how these non-linearities can cause havoc.

I previously spent almost 30 years in the cable television industry and the transmission of broadband signals requires linear amplification over almost three magnitudes. The two main distortions we worry about are Composite Second Order and Composite Triple Beat. This distortion represents all the permutations of sums and differences of two and three signals respectively.

In narrow band communications, we amplify the signal and then filter out everything except the desired signal. In wide-band electronics, these products of distortion will often fall on top of other signals you're sending. The only way to succeed is to create very, very linear amplifiers (usually by burning a huge amount of bias current relative to the signal power).
Microsoft tried to solve this by using physical disks as the equivalent of a download code + a medium to reduce how much you have to download off the internet, but the backlash forced them to go back.

It's true it'd have killed the secondary market, but I'd have appreciated not needing the disc to play after the initial install.
I would suspect yes. Almost every college and university in the US has higher rates for non-state residents.

Also important to note that this is not based on nationality; it is based on state of residence. This higher fee applies to residents of the other 49 US states, as well as international visitors.
I am wondering if this is simply a clash between authorities.

> David Redl (head of the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration): the US government expects this information to continue to be made easily available through the WHOIS service.

Who’s relying on WHOIS informations in order to catch scammers ?
I would love to read about this, especially if it included photos.