skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems morally similar to scooping up all CCTV from nearby businesses.

If this is going through a warrant process, and it's geofenced around a specific crime they're investigating, it's hard to feel too worried about it. The worst case scenario I can see is that it makes it easy to generate false hypotheses and put innocent people under suspicion, but then so can canvassing the neighborhood and trawling all the nearby CCTV.
Yup. Saying "do you want me to remove the brake pedals from your car?" is basically saying "I'm lazy and want to build cookie cutter things and move on to the next paying job"
I would suggest - as basic readings for those that are not structural engineers or however working in the field or familiar with it - these two (by now "classics") by Mario Salvadori:

Why Buildings Stand Up: The Strength of Architecture

Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail
I think we have a lot to learn from the human brain still. I am continuosly fascinated by our ability to learn quickly and use previous experience to bootstrap learning. I think the next breakthrough has a high chance of being a collaboration between the neuroscience community and CS. What is really interesting about Hinton is his background, experimental pyschology.
Aren’t some of these things actually good? Preserving social harmony. Lean into it more. It’s a job it doesn’t matter so much. Adapt yourself to these values and enjoy your time more. Being in another culture you get the chance to do things their way so try it. Give you a chance to maybe see that the things you think are so important don’t actually matter. Maybe you can have a better time and enjoy your life more if you just go along with the way that everyone does them there.

Power harassment. Stop being such a savior and assuming that your morals are better. Open your eyes and see what’s good and see how things got together.
In many cases, up votes on Stack Overflow have no more significance than a like on facebook.

The problem of "same answer repeated" becomes contrary to the "find the answer rather than scrolling through pages" when posts get sufficiently popular. Go through all the pages of https://stackoverflow.com/q/1711 and count how many times the mythical man month is mentioned. Unless you read through all 214 visible answers, do you know how much consensus exists from material on the last page?
Your first step is to get registered with the Portuguese fiscal authority, social security and health system. You'll have to do that in person, but from then on interactions will all be online. Your best bet is to go to a "Loja do Cidadão" (citizen's shop), where all services are in one place. There's a Loja do Cidadão on major cities.

Then, you'll have a few options. If the remote company has no Portuguese subsidiary, you'll have to operate as an independent contractor (trabalhador independente) or as a one person company (sociedade unipessoal). It's basically the same, except as a company you must have an accountant. As an independent contractor you may have an accountant, or you may choose a simplified accounting model where you don't declare expenses, and your profit margin is estimated by the fiscal authority.

Income tax is progressive. You should be able to read the brackets here: https://economiafinancas.com/2017/escaloes-irs-2018/

You declare your income in May, and pay income tax in July/August.

Social security is a fixed rate: 29.6%. It is a mandatory retirement savings, and provides disability income should you require it. You pay social security quarterly or monthly.

Access to the national health service is not dependent on any tax or regular payment. You don't need health insurance.

As an independent contractor, you would pay VAT, but cross-border transactions are exempt, so your VAT is probably zero (check this with an accountant; EU's rules on cross border transactions are in flux).

References:

https://www.portaldocidadao.pt/

http://www.portaldasfinancas.gov.pt/
If all tax rates are lowered to ireland’s rate then there won’t be enough tax revenue to fund the existing social infrastructure.

If lower taxes were always better why have any taxes at all?
At least where i live (which happens to be the same place as the author of the article), a high percentage of houses have lead water pipes so i don't think it seems that crazy that it was added to petrol
I don't follow. You're describing a circumstance in which you report a vulnerability the vendor already knows about. What did you expect?
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Not in my experience on the workplace so - in some cases the answer the OP needs is "NO do not do that", but the highest rated answer is long one that really does give the answer that is needed.

Sometimes you have to work out the underlying Q is and answer that even if the OP doesn't want to hear it.
You've repeatedly crossed into incivility in this thread, degrading the discussion noticeably in several places.

Please (re-)read the site guidelines and follow them if you want to keep commenting here. That means, among other things, posting with scrupulous respect for others and eschewing jabs and swipes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
We are entering a new era of propaganda where the human mind is going to be hacked with the same sophistication and black hat mentality as any other system.

Refresh your lists of logical fallacies a.k.a. vulnerability lists and make every effort to patch.
OK. Dream time. I'd love to build a cross platform app / ui toolkit with support for pluggable backends. The first two would probably ncurses and electron if I were building it. (I'd do it rust for its excellent Web assembly story and perfeomance.)
I played with Firebase (Google Cloud) Functions recently and the developer experience was pretty good. It's like if serverless (https://serverless.com/) had first party support, in the form of the Firebase CLI. Deploying was simple, the Firebase dashboard is nice. That said, I only used it for a side project, so I don't know about any pains scaling. I would definitely use it again for another side project, though.
Modern elections tend to be close. It doesn't have to be more than 5-10% effective to be devastating.
You are absolutely right that there is an education problem. I got lucky by randomly deciding to take the OOP principles elective. It's still not a required course at my school, though I know from recruiting trips that other schools include it.

I think there's a place for a language that separates inheritance from subtyping. A lot of misuse of inheritance that I see comes from inheriting for functionality instead of subtyping.
Pfizer CEO gets 61% pay raise–to $27.9M–as drug prices continue to climb
This is exactly my experience.
Mathoma videos on geometric algebra: https://youtu.be/ERpcSJzX448
> where <1.0 code is now weird and wrong

We actually have a specific tag for those cases (`rust-obsolete`), so if the question / answer cannot be rehabilitated for Rust 1.0, that's a useful thing (I also try to add an in-question disclaimer to make it easier to spot)
I think people should think about the saying "if you have nothing good to say, say nothing". Instead of letting people know that they they think they are an idiot, just ignore them and don't post petty comments.
Both could be true. Trump himself may not have known much, but CA could have pushed for his election as part of a more global push for nationalism and identity politics.
> Structural engineers
> stressful

Pun intended?
"Have Blue and the F-117A: Evolution of the Stealth Fighter"

I swear to God I'd noted this book in my to-read list today itself. There's no pic attach menu available here, else I would post a snapshot of my to-read list.

Apart from that, I had also noted these two -

"Area 51 Black Jets A history of the aircraft developed at Groom Lake"

"Inside the stealth bomber"

Had you had the opportunity to read these two?

Thanks for the suggestion.
This is a known dilemma:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hempel%27s_dilemma
Here is their publication on hair simulation if y'all are interested: http://graphics.pixar.com/library/CurlyHairB/paper.pdf

There is some wild stuff in their library!
Interesting read. I have taken the full dunk tank helicopter egress training for working on offshore oil rigs. We didn't have the tethered harness bit, but did have to open a door/hatch and climb out while upside-down underwater. I think there may have been a quick-release seat belt, but I'm not completely sure.

That training didn't bother me much, I think mostly because I had grown up swimming daily, have been surfing, snorkeling, and SCUBA diving, and am pretty comfortable and confident in the water. It took a while for me to realize that many people are deeply terrified of being dunked in water, and may panic and do any number of strange things. It makes me wonder if any reasonable amount of training can really make you ready for that. Or if I would also be in way over my head [sic] in an actual crash - it was occasionally pointed out that in actual over-water helicopter crashes, usually everyone dies regardless of what sort of training is involved.

It does make it seem a bit crazy that they're flying random tourists around like this without even a practice run at how to detach their harness tether or knowing whether they can even swim at all. The release method being to pull out some sort of knife that's supposedly attached to the harness and use it to cut the tether seems a bit crazy too. The author has no idea exactly what kind of knife or exactly where it is, which says a lot about their pre-flight training. How many people will fumble the knife, cut themselves, stab random things, etc trying to cut a tether while in a rapidly sinking helicopter? They should have some sort of quick-release that's easy to grab and uses one simple motion, and that they practice releasing several times.
I think a lot of commenters did not read the article at all and are misunderstanding the “issue” to be use of big data, versus the fact that this specific data was obtained on tens of millions of people in what appears to be a very unethical manner.
Nope - silly assumption on my part.
The social security bit is very important to highlight. Especially if he can't recover the payments once he leaves the company. He is putting over 50% of his pay check to the Portuguese authorities.

To the OP: Did you visit Portugal? Why do you want to move there?

It is not a third-world dump hole but it is a not a first world class country either.
He seems to imply that we had propaganda before and that somehow we don't any more? I guess he didn't RTFA.
From the article, CA got 270,000 people to install an app. They then used those people to find and download the data for 50,000,000 from those 270,000 users without asking the permission of those 50,000,000.
You're gonna have to say a lot more to not beg the question here.
In practice, no. The legislation has major loopholes, such as allowing unsolicited business-to-business marketing. And spammers still send junk to individuals with a disclaimer such as "This message is addressed to a business, if this is in error click here to opt out". And they seem to get away with it.
I can attest to doing this with a camera. In 2012, I bought an entry level dSLR, it’s about $500 and specs that were middle of the road at the time. By today’s standards, it is ancient and lacks a lot of cool features. I took some amazing shots with it and I also learned a lot about photography in the 5+ years I used it. For example, I took about 60k photos with it so thats a lot of mileage on the camera.

Putting technical features aside, it also lacked a lot of nice to haves that more expensive cameras come with like dust proofing and water resistance. The body was made of plastic instead of a magnesium alloy with plastic. The lenses were a bit lower quality than you can buy for the full frame lenses.

I wouldn’t have realized that new tools doesn’t mean new and better photos until last year I bought myself a Canon 6D and decided to learn a new camera all at once. It was boring and tedious, I wanted to go back to my old camera. Eventually the photos started looking better but I felt less inspired by the new camera. It had all the cool new features I wanted but it didn’t feel like my camera.
Brain Data Browser
A Selfish Argument for Making the World a Better Place [video]
Is there ever consensus in Philosophy? The field pretty much retreated to questions where we don't have objective answers.
Thanks for sharing this. There's a lot to digest in there, but there were a few highlights that stood out as possibly relevant to the OP paper.

> Theorem 6.4 ([2]) Complex FCMLPs having (6.9) as activation function are only universal approximators in L∞ for the class of analytic functions, but not for the class of complex continuous functions.

> ... the complex numbers (C0,1) are a subalgebra of the quaternions (C0,2). Hence the quaternionic logistic function is also unbounded. Neither could it give rise to universal approximation (w.r.t. L∞) since this does not hold for the complex case. One may argue that such things become more and more less important when proceeding to higher dimensional algebras since less and less components are affected. This is somehow true, but it hardly justify the efforts.

> ... Summarising all of the above the case of Complex FCMLPs looks settled down in a negative way. ... Hence Complex FCMLPs remain not very promising.

Unless I'm misreading, it seems already known that you _can_ use complex numbers (or quaternions) in neural networks...but you don't really gain anything from doing it.
> A reparation is a material compensation for a past harm.

That's not correct. First definition on google: "the making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged." Reparations are not limited to material compensation.

> You don't take away from a group, you take away from individuals.

A group is a collection of individuals. Some things happen on the individual level. Other aspects or dynamics are only present on the group level and must be analyzed there.

> But a position at a company is a limited resource. And if one person get's the position the other person can't get it. This is very much a zero sum situation.

This is correct on the specific dimension you are looking at. But you are ignoring second order effects. That job may have a significant positive effect for the marginalized individual, and then in turn have a positive ripple effect on the marginalized community that he or she comes from. This could certainly result in a positive sum situation for society as a whole.

EDIT: To be clear, I'm totally with you that this could be taken too far, and we must proceed with caution. I also agree we should try to focus on cases where the positive sum benefits are most clear. But it is a difficult problem, and I think many instances of positive sum benefits are not fully appreciated.
I might also add that maybe there are divisions within Han Chinese culture that Hoftede's research don't get.

Looking from the west China looks like solid block and Han Chinese who make up 92% of the Chinese population look even more so. Chinese government want's to propagate this view of unity. Maybe Beijing and Canton are culturally more like Germany and Britain or like South Korea and Japan.
this behavior isn't exclusive to writers and artists. people still put screen protectors on their phones. If you have something you can't afford to replace, you're going to be careful with it, if you can't believe you can use it without some risk of breaking it, you're not going to use it unless you have to.

This is rational behavior, at least so long as the premise that there is some risk associated to using the tool is correct.
As your other responses have stated, editing doesn't necessarily mean "destroy the old and replace it".

A lot of the editing I do is to improve the grammar, reduce fluff, use Rust-standard indentation, improve the formatting, include complete error messages, update links, etc. None of that should affect users of older versions other than to make it easier to get to the core content of the Q/A.

When a new Rust feature comes out, usually the original part of the answer gets a header denoting the compatibility. https://stackoverflow.com/a/28953618/155423 is such an example.

Note that SO does keep a revision log of edits (e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/posts/28953618/revisions) to a post. You can browse that if you think there might be something hidden that's worth exploring. This doesn't necessarily help with search engines, of course.
I have not personally done this, but the people who have identified that as the issue, and what we’re stabilizing is the exact same thing as what C and C++ compilers have, so there’s no reason to believe it would be different. Once it’s stable, we’ll all see!
From what I've come to understand personality characteristics strongly determine political leanings. The media targeting mentioned in the video can serve to create cultural associates with any given voters personality "characteristics" and move people to action. So it's not just about "changing" minds, it's about cultivating a social mileu based on prexisting peronality characteristics with votes being the end result.
You managed to be vastly more condescending than the author.

Every culture has its strengths and weaknesses, noticing and commenting on them is fine.
While I generally agree, a note I would add about guitars: you don't need to buy a super expensive guitar to start but you do want to make sure it's properly setup (usually costs < $50 at a guitar store). Action that is too high can be a huge motivation killer for the novice guitarist and they might not even know the issue can be fixed.
A simple crypto news aggregator for crypto traders
Ad networks do this shit all the time.
Ok, since that article is the original source and this one points to it, we've merged the threads there.
Can you post a screenshot of such a "grid" widget? Because in Qt a grid just refers to a layout where you can place arbitrary widgets.
I have found nothing beats having multiple sets and not wearing the same shoes constantly.

This, a thousand times over. Shoe trees also do wonders to extend the life of footwear. It's all about letting the shoe completely dry out between wears.
Netflix has a limited catalogue and you probably wouldn't enjoy 95-99% of what's there.

Most voters in america are split on binary issues like gay rights, abortion, gun rights, etc. It's much easier to find what you're passionate about in this case, especially since location and party affiliation can give you a great prior.

Then there's A/B testing. A lot of people claim that it would be hard to sway an election on a million dollar budget but Facebook has made it incredibly easy to test what messages resonate with voters. For a few hundred bucks you can test your hypothesis and promote it to the few people who will help propagate the winning message.
So it means all criminals just need to switch to iPhones?
Also captured in the price signal. The higher price (in your example created via price collusion) is a signal to competitors to enter the market.
Can you show me a cat gif?
No, they gave me a phone number and email but I just didn’t bother. Was more curious to see if a small guy could even get the info to begin with.
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6 billion people burning coal to keep their refrigerators running is not what I would call defused.
Worse comes to worst, Tesla is bought out by whatever car company that has the biggest gap in autonomous and electric tech.
I think that panpsychism is one of a handful of views in contemporary philosophy that ought to be treated as a reductio, but have truly brilliant proponents who have convinced the profession to giving those positions more time than they are due.

To clarify, panpsychism is still a very small minority position.
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I was about to write something encouraging people to learn FORTH, but after some consideration, I started having second thoughts.

I really like FORTH, but I think it promotes some subversive/extreme views which can sow seeds of discontent (or at least it did for me).

Much of my dissolution with the business of programming can be traced back to learning FORTH. It showed me just how much is possible if you optimize for simplicity, and it encouraged me to ask the question: maybe the trade-offs in programming aren't necessary i.e. we don't need to trade complexity for functionality? Now that I have some distance, I was/am probably wrong, and they are necessary, but this question still bugs me.

After learning FORTH I enjoyed my job less. I no longer had the patience I once had for the build tool breaking the umpteenth time, or dealing with yet another poorly documented and barely working REST API.

To be fair, this probably wasn't FORTH's fault. Waning enthusiasm may happen naturally as you gain experience in the industry, but it certainly seemed to accelerate the process.

Anyway, FORTH is awesome, but maybe you shouldn't learn it.
Well if the only effect was a plummeting birth rate, then maybe it wouldn't be bad, but it's also been testosterone levels that have dropped considerably[1], which according to that site "[decreased testosterone] is often associated with diabetes, abdominal obesity, sexual dysfunction, depression and other adverse conditions."

There have also been increases in those who identify as LGBT[2]. Such massive increases in younger generations can't be explained away by cultural changes IMO. I don't think it's a coincidence that at the same time that exposure to hormonal disruptors has increased, changes in gender and drops in testosterone have been found.

[1] https://www.healio.com/endocrinology/hormone-therapy/news/pr...

[2] http://news.gallup.com/poll/201731/lgbt-identification-rises...
It starts out arbitrary but becomes useful once everyone agrees with it, like measuring distance in meters- which has gone through several definitions, none of which make much sense in terms of being based on a natural constant and using a nice round numbers as a coefficient.

If four instruments are following the standard and one is a bit flat because "A-440 Hz is arbitrary" then the whole band sounds like a mess.
Apple Watch doesn't excite people, says Fitbit exec
I don’t think so. It is in the headline on Nautilus, and while I think there’s room for yet another article where a scientist carps about how the lay press misuses scientific terms, this whole article is about why “Dark Matter” as a term is evocative, and “in our DNA” has also come to mean something beyond “is encoded in the sequence of our chromosomes“.
> worse than lead

You're a smart person, easily capable of understanding how false and damaging this nonsense is.

For perspective, municipal water is fluoridated at 0.5-1.5 mg/L. Can you guess what would happen to you if your drinking water contained that much soluble lead? Here's a hint: it doesn't involve living very long.

Please stop spreading this bullshit.