skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there something like this that is a template for server-side node apps? My experience with node has been small scripts and build configs but I would love to find a template to start with. Any recommendations are appreciated!
realistically, the problem with social is us. Ask friends and family to go back to sharing their unhinged political views in the form of badly punctuated emails, as God intended. If they continue to share, unfollow.

This is certainly a problem, but I think more important than this is the illusion of having control over what you see on social media.

You may think you can curate your social media feeds by unfollowing people who share things you don't want to see, but as long as a social media service's feed/timeline (and primary revenue stream) is still based on an easily gamed algorithm and paid ads, you're mistaken.

Social media sites will cater access to their API's to groups who are willing to pay for it. So, even if you can unfollow your uncle who shares "unhinged political views", you can't hide cleverly disguised, hyper targeted, ads, advertising both products and ideas.
Right. Commodity resources have pretty much universally decreased in price (relative to average income) as countries develop. The same can not be said for other areas such as housing and medical care.

In fact the government's refusal to incorporate housing costs into conventional CPI calculations has been widely criticized as under-estimating inflation. As current official inflation metrics indicate that median incomes have stagnated over the past couple decades, this would suggest that they have in fact fallen. That's why life seems tougher now even though things like food and cheap plastic toys are cheaper than ever

However, a decent counterargument is that since rents are already incorporated into CPI, adding housing prices would be a confounding variable more susceptible to different macroeconomic trends such as equity market inflations. Still, since a sizable percentage of people own houses and an even greater percentage want to own one in the future, I think it's a reasonable metric to add
What's changed is the needs of the political classes. The democrat party has been in something of a death spiral for decades (arguably since the 50s) and is critically dependant on imported voters. Without the massive immigration that has happened post-1965, the political party configuration would have almost certainly fractured and reformed along quite different lines by now. But ongoing immigration has kept the democrat party in its rather ossified form highly competitive (as they lost "American" voters, they gained immigrant votes).

This is why they were so terrified of Bernie Sanders. He got a lot of support from working class whites who have been trending Republican for decades. But a figure like Sanders would derail the agenda (immigration and all) that is keeping a never ending stream of Kennedys in power.
This is what I see more in Portland and it seems to work better.
https://www.google.com/maps/@45.4981473,-122.6395978,3a,75y,...
Microsoft have over five different places you can change a password (all of which conform to the same set of business rules). That's the issue, it isn't a pipeline issue, it is that Microsoft consolidated tons of different services under a Microsoft Account so have a ton of redundant ways of doing something.

Microsoft Accounts/.Net Account/Passports, are a huge mess in general that Microsoft need to fix. Password length restrictions still may not go away even if they did (for backwards compatibility reasons with older software/hardware still around).
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We don't need a monthly subscription and I'd rather just pay for it when I need it. Anyone know of a pay as you go product?
I'm not the original poster, but maybe they just mean that as it stands right now, artificial intelligence refers to nothing that is actually intelligent in a way that an average person probably thinks about intelligence, and it's a little hard to see where the leap to actual intelligence is going to come. Maybe?
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How does it work out? I mean you got a situation wher SDC kills someone where no human driver would, but somehow it gets safer?
That's a really good point that many (myself included) aren't mentioning. Stopping distance is a universal, reaction times be damned. Would be curious to see if that played a part.
Exactly, it's worrying to think of how powerful Facebook could have been if they had successfully bought Snapchat back in 2013 like they tried to do; its usage amongst young people is very high and they'd have easily dominated every age group in terms of social media.
7 years of YouTube scalability lessons in 30 minutes (2012)
Whistleblowing can be it's own business model, just do a google search for Ven-a-care.

Ven-a-care is a small pharmacy down in the Florida Keys. A few decades ago, it started to notice that the price it was paying for certain drug was very different from what the gov't thought they cost. Gov't price reporting is incredibly strict in pharma due to past mucking with the numbers.

So they started a lawsuit which was picked up by the DOJ.

Then they did it again, and again, and again.

Last I saw, they've racked up almost $600M in whistleblower awards.[1]

[1]https://www.cnbc.com/id/41491563
AMP: Do or die?
> If solution does not solve anything, what's the point of the „solution“? Most of the deaths on the road I hear in my country are the result of someone doing something really reckless and stupid. „Normal“ drivers do not kill themselves or others. So if self-driving car is only as good as a dumb driver — I do not want these cars on the road.

If self-driving cars are between dumb drivers and normal drivers, and self-driving cars take dumb drivers off the road, it may be a net positive.
plus you missed out on the ending part, which FB managers told me they are discouraged from disagring with policies of Mark Z
Arizona had 10 pedestrian deaths in a single week: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix-breaking/...
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It just says "shipping in 2018". I still feel like Magic Leap is vaporware for some reason
> we might never again see a giant stock move like Amazon has over the past 92 days.

Why not? Why such a pessimistic assumption of decline in ability to quickly create value for the rest of time?
In general motorists are not held strongly accountable for killing pedestrians or cyclists. Juries in the U.S. are very reluctant to convict. I'm not sure Uber can rely on that, however. While juries are reluctant to convict drivers, driverless vehicles are another matter. As I said in another comment, they're going to have to invent a crime that puts cyclists and pedestrians positively at fault in these situations.
>The ancient Romans would have the civil engineer stand under the bridge they'd just built while a Legion marched over it. That's why Roman structures are still around today!

JFYI, it is most probably apocryphal:
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/18558/were-roma...

still it's a nice one, I have heard the same about engineers/architects in ancient Babylon and Egypt.
Maybe I don't understand the concept but why would you ever put a secret public?
In the days of ML based AI, seeing raytracing + revolution is both refreshing and funny :)
What software developer would ever sign on to a project where they could be held criminally liable for a single bug?

Do you want software development to turn into healthcare, where every developer needs millions of dollars of malpractice insurance? Because shit like this will turn it into a healthcare like system real quick.
I’m not sure how other companies will implement it but I certainly expect most to bluntly use geo-IP to locate customers and apply GDPR-compliant practices without digging too much whether that particular customer is likely to lawyer-up. European services probably will blanket apply it to all their customers.

It’s possible (if unlikely) that after a militant based in Europe but geo-IP located elsewhere by accident notices something unsavoury and complaints, that companies implements an “Are you based within the EU?” toggle in account settings to avoid headaches.

For social services, I’m curious on how processes based on your friends’ will be implemented when your friends are partially in the EU and elsewhere. But I don’t expect this will be much harder than it currently is to circumvent, say, Netflix geo-blocks.
I live and commute in Waymo country, and see evidence of quick reactions, though I can't say for sure whether it's an alert human taking over. Mostly, the Waymo vehicles still drive conservatively.
Juiste koolhydraten betekenen meer voor je gezondheid dan snel afvallen
So far as I can see, your argument that physicalism entails substance independence works equally well for the substance independence of wetness:

“We can posit some property of physical matter that entails wetness only in certain kinds of physical processes (say in rain storms but not in microchips). This difference-making property's actions either are or are not mediated through physical interactions. If it is mediated through physical interactions, then we can include those interactions in the simulation, thus the property obtains in microchips, contradicting the premise. If it is not mediated through physical interactions, then by definition its mode of influence is non-physical. But this contradicts the premise that "everything [including rainstorms] supervenes on the physical" (i.e. we have a change in wetness but no change in physical properties).”

>So in this case "I am in pain" is operationalized as "It seems that [pain quale]"

That is not operationalization in the usual sense, since it isn’t possible to observe which quales are or aren’t seeming to someone.

>The "it seems that..." is important because we cannot be mistaken about seemings

That depends on how you cache out the formula “it seems that [quale]”. If it’s an attribution of a propositional attitude, then it certainly could be mistaken. If it’s not an attribution of a propositional attitude, then I don’t know what it means. Or at least, I don’t know how “It seems to John that [quale]” differs from “John is experiencing [quale]”, or how formulating things this way helps anything.

I don't think there is in fact any ambiguity in common usage.
"John is in pain" unambiguously means that John is undergoing a particular sensation, not that he is exhibiting a particular kind of behavior. The latter interpretation of the statement is entertained only in the work of certain behaviorist/verificationist philosophers.
Building a Wine Tasting Neural Network with Node.js
You pay taxes on capital gains.

Suppose that Epic made P income from Paragon and I income from everything else. They are taxed at T.

So if they return P to customers, that's a loss. So they will pay (I - P) * T in taxes and end up with (I - P) * (1 - T).

Suppose they kept P, that's gain. So they will pay (I + P) * T in taxes and end up with (I + P) * (1 - T).

So even though they pay less in taxes ((I - P) * T < (I + P) * T), they will end up with less money ((I - P) * (1 - T) < (I + P) * (1 - T)).
This design seems pretty common in the US. Some bike lanes on major streets in LA are like this, except there they also have to contend with buses pulling into stops. Biking on those streets would be terrifying, but I saw people doing it.
Previous discussion...?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16606698
Correlation != a 1:1 relationship. Top Hollywood actors might do better than the average person on average, but plenty of high income people live in vast amounts of debt.
Given this kind of disaster potential, wouldn't it be a rather attractive option to use /dev/urandom?
Are your banking sites smaller? (Eg, credit union)

One core financial stack I know of stores home banking passwords unencrypted. They transcode ASCII -> EBCDIC to obscure the password and call it a day.
a web app presents a coarse-grained API, in that it exposes a very small, fixed number of API calls with very generic, non-system specific parameters and responses, each of which has been tailored for public exposure.

The database OTOH represents an entire programming shell, e.g. extremely fine-grained and in many cases linked directly to the underlying system as was shown in this article - additionally, the number of entrypoints is undefined. If you somehow were convinced that you've locked down every single function of your database from attack, the next day you upgrade the database to a new version and it can very well expose new functions that are again exposed.
How about not testing it on the unpaid public in incremental patches like this age of software "engineering" has decided it was a good idea to do?
This is a great point. Note, though, this is not new.

It's been been happening since the invention of the first tool. Stone weaponry, agriculture, and so forth, all became largely non-optional after their introduction.
But you shouldn't be storing a raw, unhashed password in the database anyway.
Not true. I know bitly and googl have those info pages, so I'll check them out when I am curious but am not sure whether I want to alert whereever it leads. I know I'll get more info at best, and don't lose anything at worst. For random URLs, I guess I could try whois lookups, but I'd be much more likely to just check it out than with a short URL which is easily checked out.
Cute video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXo0WdlELJk
An act doesn’t become okay because two people (the executive and developer) and a robot are now responsible instead of one. What is your justification for the sort of utilitarian calculation you’ve made here? Why do you assume self-driving cars will be safer without any evidence?

If we are going to be arguing from a utilitarian standpoint, suppose we hold the executives of self-driving car companies as responsible as if they were themselves drivers. Then if self-driving cars truly are safer as you optimistically claim, both fewer people will die from accidents involving them and fewer people will go to jail for those same accidents. Seems like a win to me.
That misses the point. If you designed a bridge, and you died if it failed in one trial, how would this affect your design process?
Hi, I'm one of the authors of this work. We're very proud that this has attracted so much attention on Hacker News. I'm happy to answer a few questions.

We had two requirements for the synthetic data:
From the paper, “This synthetic data must meet two requirements:

1. it must somewhat resemble the original data statistically, to ensure realism and keep problems engaging for data scientists.

2. it must also formally and structurally resemble the original data, so that any software written on top of it can be reused.”

Our goal was as follows:

* Provide synthetic data to users - data scientists similar to the ones that engage on KAGGLE.

* Have them do feature engineering and provide us the software that created those features. Feature engineering is a process of ideation and requires human intuition. So being able to have many people work on it simultaneously was important to us. But it is impossible to give real data to everyone.

* They submit this software and we execute it on the real data, train a model and produce predictions for test data.

* In essence, their work is being evaluated on the real data - by the data holder - us.

The tests we performed:

* We gave 3 groups different versions of synthetic data ( and in some cases added noise to it)

* For a 4th group we gave the real data.

* We did not tell the users that they were not working on real data.

* All groups wrote feature engineering software looking at the data they got.

* We took their software executed it on real data, and evaluated their accuracy in terms of the predictive goal.

* We did this for 5 datasets

* Our goal was to see if the team that had access to real data “did they come up with better features?” . With 5 datasets and 3 comparisons per dataset, we had 15 tests.

Results:

* In 7 of those we found no significant difference.

* In 4 we found the features written by users looking at synthetic dataset were, in fact, better performing than the features generated by users looking at real dataset.

What can we conclude:

* Our goal was to enable crowdsourcing of feature engineering by giving the crowd synthetic data, gather the software they write on top of the synthetic data (not their conclusions) and assemble a machine learning model.

* We found that this is feasible.

* While the synthetic data is capturing as many correlations as possible, in general, the requirement here is for it to be enough such that the user working on it does not get confused, can roughly understand the relationships in the data, be able to intuit features, write software, and debug. That is, they can conclude a particular feature is better for predictions vs. another, inaccurately, based on the dataset they are looking at and it is ok. Since we are able to get many contributions simultaneously, the features one user misses could be generated by others.

* We think this methodology will work only for crowdsourcing feature engineering - a key bottleneck in the development of predictive models.
Well, the miles are enough...
The current NIST requirements almost read like someone at NIST read the famous XKCD[0] and decided to implement it. Likely the best standard we've ever had in its reasonableness.

[0] https://xkcd.com/936/
You're right. Thanks for calling me out.
You don't. You put it in a thought to be private place but you'll find out if it gets public at some point that way.
Magic Leap just opened their developer portal
The article's title says raytracing, but the actual text describes path tracing, no?
How are we to judge that self-driving cars are more dangerous from simply one death?

The proper comparison to be made should be between miles driven from autonomous vehicles vs. those of humans and then looking at the incident rates.
It's a great thing to do if you want to learn. Not so much if you want to release a game and make money.
Even if you want some very special engine-level feature, you can find an engine extendable enough and just add what you need.
Oh I do not doubt that some of the stuff in the Bible is true. It is a book about genealogy of course. But that does not prove God in any form. It just proves that some stuff in a book that people wrote happened.

> He was a former atheist who initially set out to prove God did not exist after his wife converted.

Well that's the thing, you can't prove something exists. It doesn't work that way. You can prove it does exist though, and that's how I'm interpreting your statement.

Since you mention Pascal's Wager one could also mention Douglas Adams "'I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, 'for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'". And so if we did prove God exists then you wouldn't need faith which is what is being asked for.
There may be no company I trust less to be open and honest about this than Uber. The arms race between companies will likely keep the most important lessons from this event proprietary. I'm very much not looking forward to hearing execs answer for this as I'm sure it will have the same amount of humanity as the rest of their comms.
> When a new item of technology is introduced as an option that an individual can accept or not as he chooses, it does not necessarily REMAIN optional.

This is offtopic, but I am reminded of how Slack initially supported IRC gateways and recently discontinued them.

It’s not a percect likeness to this quote’s point. But I think it’s interesting this pattern of initially optional technology, then de facto standardized technology emerges ubiquitously.

I suppose it’s arguable that embrace, extend and extinguish is the purposeful, deliberate manifestation of this pattern, arbitrated by a single entity (i.e. a company with a new technology).

Edit: Jeez an immediate downvote? The comment was barely posted a minute ago :)
Venezuela has more proven oil reserves than Saudi Arabia. That latter country's leadership saw the writing on the wall and began diversifying their wealth holdings before the big price downturn in 2014. Hugo Chavez did no such thing by the time he died a year earlier, unfortunately for his people.
That is the problem with limitations: they are hard to remove. I have the case where the character _ was invalid in project names. I have fixed the code to accept _ where it was invalid in first place. The problem is that other tools are now checking that project names do not contain _. How many tools in how many places? I do not know. The issue is not big enough to justify coordination of all the development teams to ensure that their code accept _ in project names. This limitation will probably never disappear.
And different people will "kill". It won't be the drunk drivers, or the road ragers, or the people texting on phones, it will be anyone unfortunate enough to be in the car at the time. A businessman. A politician. A cop. A teacher.

And to say that "it's not their fault" and "it could have happened to anyone" will be cold comfort to those who just watched their car mow down an innocent, and there was nothing they could do to stop it.
Bytes::Random::Secure::Tiny seeds itself from /dev/urandom, I just need to make sure to initialise it on first use, instead of when my program first starts (which I've now done).

In general I suspect if anything you'd be more likely to mess it up by reading bytes from /dev/urandom manually than by using a library.
You'll have to make an attempt, because I don't see anything contradictory. If human drivers are your null hypothesis, than you cannot use the fact that "humans are bad" as a blanket acceptance of autonomous vehicles. They are already built into the equation, by virtue of being the null hypothesis. So you can argue that hypothesis, but that's not what your comment did. Your comment stated some numbers for the null hypothesis, but had no numbers for the hypothesis under test, and so therefore didn't really mean much at all.

I'd like to note that I am not the person you replied to, and I personally am not arguing that any program should be shut down based on this one incident. But it's certainly not encouraging that the autonomous vehicle seems to have failed a test at which everyone would have expected it to perform well at.

Also, to quote from your previous post:

> Why is it that you see one death from an autonomous car and conclude that autonomous cars aren't ready to be driving, but you see 37,461 deaths from human drivers and don't conclude that humans aren't ready to be driving?

I think we conclude, quite often in fact, that individual humans aren't fit to be driving. Death is one of those scenarios that will quickly lead to such a conclusion.

One huge difference between individual humans and autonomous vehicles is that we can reasonably argue that any Uber vehicle would have performed the same in this scenario. So this is perhaps more akin to saying that this particular driver is not fit for the task, except that this particular driver happens to be driving dozens or more vehicles all at once.
> If anything, airplanes prove that machines doing most of the work and humans stepping in only when necessary is a proven model.

Airplanes have far less traffic to deal with. And the points at which they deal with traffic (e.g. takeoff and landings) is completely controlled by humans, including many humans outside of the plane.
> If you hold developers responsible, you can kiss self driving cars goodbye

Civil engineering and medical device manufacturing seems to be doing fine, despite having similar principles of engineers' liability.
Do you really think there's too little data by now, or are you just making a technical point that isn't actually relevant to this specific situation?
Another reason why California has 3x the homeless people is because it is friendly to homeless people - weather and services inside big cities.