skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been fascinated by these AI containment/usage scenarios ever since I heard of them. Here's another perspective on the problem that I find very fascinating:

Assume that, beyond a shadow of a doubt, we have an impenetrable system for interfacing with the AI. I say system, because the people that are part of the protocol are all moral equivalents of Jesus. They can't be corrupted, they can't be blackmailed. The AI is kept in a box that cannot be accessed by anyone else. In short: we've solved the containment problem (of the AI).

Of course we _do_ want to use the AI. We've installed it in the box for a reason. If we didn't intend to use it we might as well not have built it. So actually using the tech that it gives us, after checking for corrupting technology, is also a given in this scenario.

We can ask the AI questions and interact with it, extract knowledge and have it solve our problems for us.

If we were to use the AI, it would still destroy us, even without corrupting any of the people working with it or feeding us corrupted technology. Simply _using_ the AI will be enough.

Using the AI effectively cheapens the creation of another AI. Each new processor we have the AI design will be faster and than it's predecessors. Every mathematical problem that it solves is checked, confirmed an shared in our universities. Eventually the technological over-saturation of our society will ensure that the contemporary equivalent of a mobile phone can run a strong AI. The ubiquitousness of the new insights will ensure that all the theory needed to bootstrap another AI is there for the taking. In short, truly _using_ the AI, (asking the questions, sharing the knowledge) will ensure another AI existing outside of the containment system, malicious or otherwise. Taken to the extreme, if strong recursive AI is a possible, it is a given.

I don't think strong self improving AI can actually exist. But who knows?
The Essential phone and the iPhone's notch was not cosmetic it was a necessary compromise. These other phones mentioned in the article are doing for purely cosmetic reasons.
Hey, as if soft sciences in the broadest sense weren't hard. They are hard to learn, because they are dealing with hard problems, for example how to raise a child or teach a whole heterogeneous classroom with minimal effort?

It's certainly not an ideal name.
I'm glad that I'm not the only one in the Java community who is extremely against `var`-like constructs. Large type inference is an anti-pattern.

People usually fight this with "why would I need to type it if the compiler can figure it out!?" but those people don't understand the cardinal rule of software engineering: code is not for the compiler or the computer to understand, it is for the programmers to understand. If this wasn't the case then more people would be using APL or similarly esoteric languages.

Adding the extra effort of recursing down the rabbit hole to find the first type being used does not sound like it will make Java more friendly.
I am in favor of it being terminal-based, but imho you're giving all the wrong reasons.

If working on a remote machine were really an issue, you'd just mount the remote filesystem or something. That's a small convenience but not a real reason.

That you're already coding in a terminal, didn't disable alt-tab.

Spreadsheets (or to use the brand name, Excel) have a very different focus. You speak as if spreadsheets are just as good as, in this case, Visidata, but the whole point is that this is better. Else, why bother developing and using it? You can indeed just open up your favorite spreadsheet processor.

I think the real reason is that it's universal and convenient. You can use the multitasking features of your favorite shell, and it attracts a certain audience which indeed wants vim-style hotkeys and shortcuts. It also doesn't need a platform to create GUIs on top of, like Electron.
Scientists and Journalists Square Off Over Covering Science, ‘Getting It Right’
Covert operations are by definition extra-judicial. They knowingly break laws and international agreements and rely on diplomacy to take care of it later. That's not what's happening with offensive action against criminal sites. If you run a gambling website on a local server without a proper permit in many countries, you'll get sued first. If you don't take down the website when a judge orders you to, police will try to move on to confiscating the server (with a warrant) and/or blocking access (with a warrant). If you evade those measures, eventually computer crime units will move on to hacking into your server (with a warrant) to locate and disable it. It's simple enforcement of the law. Hacking is an extreme measure, but not extra-judicial. Even when servers are abroad and regular confiscation isn't an option, often local law enforcement will seize servers on behalf of foreign jurisdiction. Only when local police is unwilling to cooperate will hacking be used. And it's used all the time, with the appropriate warrants and within the bounds of law. Don't conflate this with NSA hacking which is very extra-judicial and most definitely illegal.

The notion of "voluntary protection" is ridiculous. "Here, citizen, use this app to be warned when you're entering areas with drug violence. Now you're protected." Law enforcement isn't only supposed to protect citizens, but also to combat criminality. Many materials are treated very differently whether you're a consumer or distributor. If criminals run an illegal gambling website, drug trading website, revenge porn website, or any other illegal website you might think of, then even under your narrow interpretation of jurisdiction it would be law enforcement's duty to shut down that website's access nationwide, and not rely on some sort of bullshit voluntary protection.
How to debug when I get error "Cannot fork process" in mac
I am trying to figure out while true;
> do ps a | grep ps | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}' | xargs echo $(date);sleep 1; done
Ask HN: What concepts have you become obsessed with?
What has consumed near 100% of your mental bandwidth? A few that come to mind for me:
1. Recursion
2. LISP
3. VIM
4. GGPLOT2
5. Regex

What are your "brain viruses" of choice?
Car Left in Dubai Parking Garage for a Decade
System Sounds:  Where the Physics of Music and the Music of AstroPhysics Collide
Apple Park: Transcript of 911 calls about injuries from walking into glass
I’ve never used an iPhone X - how does one get back to the home screen from an app?
Porsche to Develop Passenger Drone, German Report Claims
Thanks! That's something that could be done, totally. But wanted first some discussion, to get a valid, viable model and then do the work of creating Legalfiles for most popular existing licenses.
I have read almost all of the biographies and works covering Epictetus. Just want to confirm you are correct. Stoicism at it's true core was how to react to a life that was foretold. Most stoics believed their date was predetermined but now how they dealt with it. In context, Stoicism was the cure to being dealt a rough hand by "fate". It holds up so well that many modern therapies, such as CBT, can be directly connected. Now, we of course don't think probably believe in destiny here on HN (in general). Anyway just providing some color for how off the author was.

Stoics lived with death as a way to take the right course of action. E.g. if I knew this was my last day with my daughter how would I act? Could I claim to have made good choices or would I have regrets.
two notes! thats almost jazz...
Presumably GP was talking about in-app certificate pinning, not Google’s opinion of the day...
How steady is the electricity production of a windfarm? I would assume that it would be subject to bursts, with the production being quite volatile over an hour. If that's the case isn't it a problem for the grid given that the demand isn't bursty?
> I'm a PM at Google. One thing that works here is having eng do 20% PM projects or do a PM rotation for a few months to get a taste for the life before committing fully.

As a dev, does it make more sense to apply as an eng and then try to transfer over to PM using 20% projects / rotational programs or apply as PM directly?
This civilization colonized half the galaxy thanks to this one weird trick. Execute the rest of the message to find out more.
European software people get paid about 1/3rd of their US counterparts’ compensation. I will let you fill in the blanks on how likely a European company is to attract top software talent, and how likely their success is without such talent.
I experienced how poorly statistics is taught in American Universities. I took the entry class twice, and never felt I understood. Perhaps that is my point, I knew I needed to understand statistics to do any serious work I was interested. I ended up taking a full summer, 12 credit hour, 5 hours a day, 8 week Seminar to gain the level of understanding I knew would be required to make a mark. Statistics is not hard, nor difficult, in the least. It is taught with utter disrespect in the US University system, with a "you don't need to understand" attitude that is 100% backwards.
HPKP is what the article you posted to is referring to, and probably will go away completely.

However, profiling the public key of the site a mobile app connects to and erroring out if it is compromised to prevent MitM attacks is called 'certificate pinning' for mobile apps but is not related to the HPKP pinning of browsers. A reference for certificate pinning: https://blog.netspi.com/certificate-pinning-in-a-mobile-appl...
Check the client-side JavaScript just to be sure. ;)
Is it like driving in the rain with broken winshield wipers?
Show HN: Testing HTTP APIs Using Gandalf (Go)
What is the definition of privacy?
airlines regularly transmit PNR info to third parties with no crypto at all, sadly, it is their default industry standard.

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

the entire airline industry runs on software that is about 25-30 years behind the state of the art.
This is for the Exynos version which is slower than the USA/China version which uses Snapdragon 845.
Huh? The Essential Phone did it to have a thinner bezel. Why isn't that just cosmetic?
https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/theoretical-underpinnings-dun...

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%9E1
The Verge's argument is that because they have a chin at the bottom, the notch is purely cosmetic since they didn't utilize the space at the bottom. I find this argument to be poor reasoning. Moving to a notch at the top seems like an inevitable future for most smartphones - we need an earpiece as well as front facing cameras and other sensors, either we at a top chin, or we notch. Those are the options. The notch just means we have additional usable screen space and creates a more full screen experience. By moving to a notch now it means that more android phones can start practicing for that future design, rather than pushing it off to avoid looking like they're copying apple (despite android doing it first with the essential phone). Eventually that chin at the bottom will be screen as well, but that won't be a change to usability like having the notch is. I think Asus is smart moving forward with this despite the strange publicity that they probably expected it would get (such as this article). This seems like less a design issue or an aspect of one company copying another, and more like just The Verge trying to write something that will generate clicks.
You can't do this on Hacker News, and we've banned this account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is one of those things I really liked immediately when switching to scala. I wonder if java 10 is going to further drive adoption of scala. The difference in collections API is already argument enough to switch IMHO (hence I did)
I guess I meant in regards to studies that suggest psychology studies are underpowered (there have been quite a few in recent years), reporting often says that the studies have been disproved, which most of the time isn't statistically correct.
Not only does Andy Rubin's Essential phone predate the iPhone X Notch, but he also has a patent[1] for camera's embedded into displays.

[1]Apparatus and method to maximize the display area of a mobile device: https://patents.google.com/patent/US9736383
It's gesture based - swipe up from the bottom.
Exactly, the fact that the url does not have any expiry (apart from the end of booking), the email providers in this case Mailchimp would also have access to the same.

For the case why browser did not redirect the broken cert, that is because the link sent in the email was over http.
Due to my rowing habit (once a week, early the water is far quieter) I now wake consistently at 5am. I think a quality in this story is true: there are far less distractions. Its not entirely free of external sources, the sun rises, the birds sing, you are in the world after all. So perhaps, the quality being sought here, is to be capable of freeing yourself of human centred distraction -don't turn on the radio, don't make coffee, don't lay the table, or do the dishwasher, or any of 100 multitasking things, which actually demand more brain than we acknowledge.

If you take the time, to have some time, free of other distractions, it doesn't matter when it is: the thing is to have time to focus

btw, what I mainly do at 5am on the non-rowing days, is read the web in a 20 tab chrome pane, and then write responses online. I think its a bit distracting, but enjoyably fills the time. If I was less oblomov like, I'd plot world domination or learn a new programming language, but when I am of a mind to do work I try to do the thinking part, because this time, is a golden time for thinking. Thats what free of distractions actually gives you. Thinking time. Don't waste it online, or if you do, use it to make thought concrete.
I don't know that challenging them respectfully will change their minds. After all what if they are right?

I do know that not challenging them respectfully is unlikely to persuade anyone least of all yourself.
namesilo - includes free WHOIS privacy.
Same on xbox. Loading times would be unacceptably long without doing so, as I understand it.
Everyone knows the house has an edge. Gambling is a form entertainment. Unfortunately like drinking some people can’t just do it socially. I find an occasional weekend in Vegas fun. Just budget yourself $x you’re willing to spend per day. Play a game here and there, drink some, go to the pool, eat at a buffet, get a massage, whatever. It definitely took me some time at first to ‘get’ Vegas.
Carnegie Mellon made a special pair of glasses to steal a digital identity
upvoting for Django being djunky
I hate to mention this because I’m afraid to get downvoted to pieces, but there are a lot of European citizens who would not work in the U.S given the current political situation. Of course this can (and I hope will) change at the next election, but that’s a long time when it comes to fast moving research like AI.
And you don't even need to collaborate on that. Every person with enough statistical experience (and scientists have to have that) know by intuition that the odds are stacked against them in a casino. So it's really know fun if you can estimate with each dice or ball roll how much money you're losing (on average).
Contracts in this domain are notoriously one-sided in favor of the established producers and studios. I have some writings that occasionally draw the attention of movie/television producers, and on a few occasions these talks have gone far enough that I am presented with a contract. To paraphrase some of the common conditions (where "we/us/our" refers to the producers and "you" refers to the author):

> We do not guarantee you will earn any money on this deal.

> We may cancel or sell our rights to this contract at any time, you may not.

> We can use your name and likeness in any way we deem appropriate.

> You may not make any public statement about us without our prior consent.

> If you decide to sue us for any reason, we can veto your attorney selections.

> Even if we pull some serious shenanigans we are immune from consequence.

And so on. In each case I declined to sign; life's too short to agree to such hostile, one-sided terms. Perhaps one day I'll be approached by some aspirational, non-greedy producers. I'd be happy to sign a fair contract.
Yeah, the article discusses this.
Maybe they should start selling "tainted" sport watches that shrink/expand 1 second for each run; that way one can think they trained for a worse time than they actually did. Though we might be already much closer to the limits of human body/technique than back in the day...
The product manager of the project I work on is about 55 and many of the other PMs at my company are also age 40+. However I applied for an internal PM position and was passed over for a younger guy with less technical and managerial qualifications but better people skills overall.

I thought I was an excellent candidate because of my decade of experience in QA lead roles on sizable teams but I have gotten a reputation over time as having a bit of a hard edge personality-wise, which I'm working on fixing.

I cannot stress the importance of having good people skills in this kind of role.
Lambas? That sounds amazing. :-)
Swipe up from the bottom of the screen (similar to how you used to activate control center to toggle wifi).

The iPhone X's interface is more gesture based than ever before.
That's not quite right. They all (mostly) do checkin with some combinination of PNR identifier, and last/first name. There's no actual collusion though. Just coincidental settling on the same minimum need.

They isn't much in common across airlines as far as the actual code goes, though. Beyond that they all use some limited set of CRS providers, like Galileo, Sabre, Amadeus, etc. That is to say, there's some common code, but it's pretty far down the stack, and only common across a few carriers.

One example: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/business/airport-check-in...

Hit several carriers, but not all by a long stretch.
I think these "I found the magic trick to beat the casino" websites and movies are funded by casinos.
I've been working as a professional software developer for 20 years. I spent 9 years at one company until 2008 (6 years too long)
and I've had 4 jobs since then. I have never once been asked to show code and my salary has gone up by $60K+ during that time - and I'm not in Silcon Valley.

I've never shown and outside passion about coding. I moved from C++ to C# back in 2008 and have basically stuck with C# since then.

The job I currently have as the dev lead didn't involve any coding questions just architecture.
https://medium.com/message/everything-is-broken-81e5f33a24e1
>Unfortunately the establishment has not gotten the message so I fear it will escalate.

What message? Impotent rage against "the establishment" isn't a message, it has no goal but catharsis.

People who elected Trump because they wanted to see damage to the system are getting it. Trump has humiliated the US, disgraced the office, made himself a laughingstock to the entire world and destroyed the world's confidence in us as a superpower. They get to see him rage at liberals and leftists and judges and the intelligence community and vent his spleen at everything Fox News told him was terrible with the world that particular night.

But what else did they expect? They elected a man who was not competent, who didn't necessarily share their beliefs, and who was no less an establishment figure (in being a globalist billionaire rich old white man) than anyone else. Did they think having this bull break some china in the Oval Office would lead to anarchy? Dissolution of the Union? what?

And what would they escalate to? A literal ass?

Those Trump voters are getting what they wanted... monocles have dropped and pearls have been clutched and lulz have been had. I don't understand why they wouldn't be happy. If they wanted their particular grievances against the system remedied, they would have elected someone capable of doing so. But they only wanted to see an old man piss the rug on the White House, so... fine.
It is common practice to take the fastest runtime. This will get you as close to the actual runtime of your code as possible, assuming it's deterministic.
> The Verge trying to write something that will generate clicks

Is it ever not the case? The economic incentives drive institutions like The Verge to promulgate clickbait and sensationalized titles
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16504698
Well said! Thank you.
That's your opinion.

I personally wouldn't touch an iphone with a ten-foot pole. I don't like Apple's business practices, and I don't like their hardware (no headphone socket/no SD card/smaller screen than I'd like).

Android isn't perfect, but I find it to be much more usable and logical in the way it works. I have done some Android programming so maybe I just understand it better than most, but my partner and my mother also seem to be able to use it fine. I certainly wouldn't describe it as a "sloppily put together pile of excrement". I am able to work around Android's deficiencies, something I can't do when locked in the Apple jail.

FWIW, when I think of a "sloppily put together pile of excrement", I think of itunes.
Conversely, I like that it doesn't waste my data if I only get 1/2 way through an article and have to close it because I'm out and about and the world around me may interrupt me reading something on my phone.
They gave that up at least five years ago. I believe they switched to a system of hiring everyone on earth to stop them from going to Facebook.
I'm not sure what in that quote isn't covered in the parent argument. Unless you are suggesting that Apple have never been guilty of following others popular design trends.
> ... you would never mention the load factor of a natural gas power plant because it's essentially a turnkey solution that doesn't fluctuate.

As I understood the term the capacity factor is the percentage of time the plant is generating power. All plants have periods of maintenance and other "down times" which means they don't achieve 100% capacity. I would expect to use that number like this:

Given a 30MW plant with a 50% capacity factor measured for the year, I would consider it to provide 30MW x 180 x 24 or 129,600 MWh of generating capacity. Two plants with a 50% capacity factor would give you coverage at their rated power all year only if they never overlapped in their down time. So if I was working the issue operationally I'd put in three plants to insure I had 100% coverage of 30MW all year long.
I agree. I also love wrk and it is pretty useful and allows scripting
Combating the spread of weapons of mass destruction: success for US/EU
The parent is saying that the iphone and the essential aren't cosmetic; everyone else is.
If the DoS is so RF aware, why aren't they citing the RF meter evidence of what was externally pointed at the site? I think the state department has guidelines, for sure. I also think their analysis of the specifics here are either shrouded in secrecy, or absent. I tend to incompetence over malice. Hence, absent, and probably internally sourced, or if externally sourced, less an attack than an unexpected side effect of something else. (and, I did not intend to imply LEO was a source of RF poison. More, that high RTT was a consequence of GEO sat comms)

I actually subscribe to the mass hysteria theory in this case. Again, with no role to play and purely on what I read, I feel it is as plausible, and equally simple as a cause. Nobody much likes it because hysteria is such a loaded word, but I believe it because I frequently find myself falling into placebo effect. Those aches and pains go away with paracetemol, when its ability to heal those aches and pains is at best moot. The mind is strange. The lesions, certainly are odd. Maybe there is a sub-culture of motley crue headbanging inside state, and they share signs of too much metal?