skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook: Eh, I don't check it but I use Messenger at least a few times a day. Events is neat but I never go to any. It was useful for flat hunting because there's a closed group on there with about 70K people in my city. Things like that are pretty priceless.

Twitter: I like Twitter but it took me a few years to get it. I follow a mix of shitposting anime avatars and more serious accounts which I should prune this weekend come to think of it. I've slowly transitioned over time from one of those shitposting accounts to just using my actual name and photo. It's good fun but only if you don't take it seriously.

Reddit: It's great for searching for specific communities ie: /r/thatpeelingfeeling or /r/depthdub but I don't use it too often unless I'm interesting in something in particular

Instagram: I post rarely. I'll sometimes post a photo of a meal if I'm with friends and jokingly say "Look at me, being a big millenial piece of shit" jokingly, haha.

RSS: I use Newsblur daily and it's super nice.

Blog: I sometimes write things but my site is more of an excuse to write code.

Snapchat: It's popular but I could care less. It feels like a chore honestly.
BoA: Me too! Me Too!
> Why would the elites try to reign in social media?

To better control it?

> I'd want them revealing all the intimate details of their life, so I can better manipulate them with targted advertising.

Yes. As long as they control the targeting and advertising.

> You don't need a conspiracy theory to explain the recent uptick in articles about social media's negative effects.

It's not a conspiracy. It's reality. It's what happened with every communication medium. Print, Radio, Film, TV and now the internet. To believe otherwise is the real conspiracy.

> It's called a news cycle.

It doesn't span years.

> Remember when lead was discovered in Flint, MI's water supply? And then there was an uptick in stories about lead poisoning?

Crazy how quickly that downed down huh?

That the elites want to control the means of communication is standard policy for thousands of years. And it spans all nations. The chinese elite, russian elite, saudi elite, the european elites, etc all want to control communication. Our elites aren't different. Societies, like humans, have similar organs.
Doing a little back-of-the-envelope math, a 1080p image has a total of 1920x1080x3 = 6,220,800 subpixels. That means each subpixel needs to have less than 0.00004 bits of entropy for there to be less than 256 bits in a single image. Surely a typical consumer CCD will introduce more noise than that. A potential catch is that the noise is likely correlated to a degree. Still, it's not clear that even a webcam pointed at a black sheet of paper is insufficient as a source of entropy.
I think ICOs being run by not very competent people is a big problem considering all the problems the company faces with an ICO based on what I read about companies have with successful ICOs.

Even if ICO companies are legitimate, they're stuck in a weird place between the law, taxes and other problems.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/cameronkeng/2018/03/25/problems...
My original comment: "I have been partially doxed here and HN refuses to remove the comment."

Then you start questioning my motives, throwing your anecdata and accusing me of character assassination.

My original comment just stated a fact. I was polite to the moderators. I did not 'beg' for the dox, the other commenter was a raving lunatic.
I agree, that would be awesome!

While it's not a single button, GitLab is getting closer to that goal with the addition of our cluster integration feature: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/clusters/#adding-and...

If you create a trial account on GCP, you can then use GitLab to make a new GKE cluster and it will be automatically linked. You can then click a single button to deploy the Helm Tiller, a GitLab Runner, and then run your CI/CD jobs on your brand new cluster!

The GCP trial is pretty nice, you get $300 in credits and you won't be automatically billed at the end: https://cloud.google.com/free/
Show HN: Aboxd – csv to ascii-chart(node cli)
And a spherical you!
Tim Cook says Facebook should have regulated itself, but it’s too late now
Flynn's 2010 JUONS “was clearly ghost-written by Palantir engineer” (2012)
It's interesting to see that some of the advertised features of this server are strikingly similar to the "enthusiast/prosumer" lines that Gigabyte already sells.

For a supposedly cutting edge server using the new NVLink tech having only 2x gigabit Ethernet is kinda odd.
How Chromebooks became the go-to laptops for security experts
>IIRC they've not said anything about their cars being completely autonomous

How short have our memories become? I recall Tesla demonstrating being able to summon your car in a parking lot 3 years ago. That's driver not even in the car, let alone with hands-on-wheel.

Tesla has taken the "move fast and break things" approach to cars. That's fine, but they will step on toes in the process, and have to deal with it.
You missed the most important part; it was initiated by a team of lawyers who were tipped off by another team who noticed the Watson design team were using a typeface on public websites which they didn't have the copyright to, and certainly didn't have the license to redistribute.

Almost 2 years later, Plex was born.

(This is a true story, by the way.)
Gravity is the most romantic force in all of nature.

The idea that everything in the universe is connected and pulling is mind blowing.
This is blogspam ripping off this site and the link should be changed: http://www.wirepoints.com/illinois-state-pensions-overpromis...

The authors of this report are former employees of the Illinois Policy Institute: http://www.wirepoints.com/mark-glennon/ https://www.illinoispolicy.org/author/ilpoliski/

The Illinois Policy Institute is, politely, a conservative think tank: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_Policy_Institute

The full report plays a lot of games to produce these striking, misleading graphs, like comparing yearly numbers with total values of all future pension liabilities at face value instead of any attempt at NPV. If you're curious to spot more, the 1993 edition of How to Lie With Statistics chapter 7 ("The Semi-Attached Figure") and 9 ("How to Statisticulate") are a lighthearted read.
I add popular paths to CDPATH to directly jump to the directory I want to. Has it's problems but works quite well.
I wonder a sandal like the one in the picture or a yacht instead would depict the situation better.
Swisher posed a question for Cook: What would he do if he were Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg? His answer: “I wouldn’t be in this situation.”

You are a savage, Tim, and I mean that in the most flattering possible way.
Bitcoin is nearing a 'death cross' on the charts. Here’s what it means
> I think gutting the value of a forum so that people can remove all their content at will on a whim can readily go bad places.

Thankfully, there's a really easy solution that HN today will not consider/is not taking seriously enough: Just change the goddamn displayed username for each comment to "<deleted>" or whatever.

1) this kind of (seemingly; it's all a black box in reality though) naval-gazing-based decision making is exactly why the GDPR makes sense. We can't run our lives on the whims of a few random people.

2) Does YCombinator tell us all of this stuff when we sign up to HN? No. We have to find it out by ourselves. When we e-mail them to ask them to delete our contributions, since there's no delete button, they just say "sorry, we can't do that".

This kind of stuff is what the GDPR is good for.
A lot of research has gone into describing this "classist lie". It is not simply something that the parent stated as a truism. Organizational theory seems to suggest that founders are, as a general rule, not the best CEOs for a maturing company.

See, for example,

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

and its sources.
Your story with K8S sounds like a complete parallel of ours: we deploy a stack per customer and migrated from Chef. Would love to compare notes on how you're managing all the customer instances (we built in-house tooling layered on top of helm). Feel free to shoot me an email (in my profile).
I can't even use the arrow keys, page up/down, or home/end to navigate with my keyboard. I hate the amount of noise I make scrolling through websites like this.
The first point is, as you say, certainly true.

The second point is an allegation of criminal obstruction of justice, which would be taken into account both as a crime in an of itself and also as an overt act in furtherance of a conspiracy. These are very serious charges, that would result in prison time for people throughout the program. Thus it's my tendency to assume good faith on the part of Uber since the consequences are so dire.

Most likely the higher fidelity video and sensor logs are being held back pending a warrant or subpoena for them so that Uber can conduct an internal investigation to figure out how avoidable the collision was, and to avoid giving ammunition to a wrongful death civil suit.

Until the footage is released to investigators or potentially to the public, I think both sides (unfortunate accident vs. gross negligence or recklessness) are possibilities. I personally think the latter is likely -- purely a gut feeling based on the video released. If the underlying footage was not automatically archived or otherwise somehow lost then I think that has to be significant evidence regarding "intent" in a criminal case for manslaughter.
I wouldn't be surprised if this was caused by operator error more than the vehicle considering the stories I've read in the past. I know I've done some dumb things to avoid focusing on the road like using an orange to have the autopilot go for hours on road trips.
49822 to go.
Yeah, I've read that blog many times. The author wastes his intelligence by refusing to pursue creative solutions to problems vs just trying to find ways to make the problem unsolvable.

The answer to season storage for solar, for instance, is to make the solar array larger, not to have a nation-sized battery. That means you only need a day or so of battery, not a week or months.

Also, why would you want to eliminate storage? Just like nuclear power, you'd want to use storage at very least to help convert a constant baseload power source into one that can follow day vs night demand. That is ultimately cheaper. And his complaint that batteries might require service? Well first of all he's off by at least an order of magnitude in cycle life, and second of all, yeah, why wouldn't we do a lot of service on batteries like we do on the rest of our energy infrastructure? That's a weird thing to focus on.

As far as material shortages: I find this highly doubtful. Lithium is not fundamentally rare. "Proven reserves" might be, but that is almost entirely a function of demand (provided your mineral isn't fundamentally rare, which lithium isn't). Other metals used in batteries, like cobalt, can be substituted by other more abundant minerals if desired, especially in grid storage. (LiFePO4 is one such chemistry.) That the author of that blog seems to not realize this pretty obvious fact strikes me as naivete dressed as "skepticism."
This is only mildy related, but i've always enjoyed Hateris
https://qntm.org/hatetris

No gravity, but you get the least-optimal piece every turn.
The process of encrypting a password is one-way, meaning that given an encrypted password you can’t run a process to get the original.

For an attacker to guess your password, they need to run a bunch of guesses through the same encryption process, and only when they get the same encrypted result they’ll know they have the correct unencrypted one. This is time consuming, so attackers may use rainbow tables[1] — essentially a list with a ton of precomputed passwords they can check. To counteract this you salt[2] a password, essentially adding random data to it. So now even if we have the same password, since our salt (random data) will be different, the resulting encrypted version will also be different.

Even if the attacker gets your vault and secret key, they’ll still need to brute-force[3] the password.

Ars Technica’s has an excellent explanation of all this[4].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_table

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(cryptography)

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brute-force_attack

[4]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/05/how-c...
The two books from his earlier self, Cypherpunks and When Google Met Wikileaks, are well worth the read for anyone who comments here on HN, I think.

I agree, he changed dramatically sometime around or during the Trump campaign; I hardly recognize him any longer.
>But to say it doesn't matter where a leak came from, is to also say that whistleblowers are no different from foreign spies.

Well I guess we have to agree to disagree then. If a "foreign spy" reports that Dow Checmial is dumping pollution in the river, I'm gonna question Dow first, not the spy.
You're right! The screenshot of the naughty results was taken in 2011, and the revised results in 2016.
Have you looked at pgsql JSONB datatype and functions[0]? A lot of the "dynamic database" ideas can be implemented using the datatype, and then you have "dynamic sql" available on a already robust rdbms.

[0]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-jso...
I also had the opportunity of working with a 100x tech lead. Their coding skills weren’t that great (although they did very little, so it may have just been what I saw was rushed out), but they had a very good understanding of how all the parts fit together and what was important for the business, which I would say is more important. They were able to bridge the gap between the business and the tech team, and able to manage expectations on both sides without any issues.
I've never experienced a site where you can't scroll back up before. And then the navigation is a tiny strip of colour that's already closed so you have no signposting as to what the hell is going on? Kudos on the most counter intuitive website I have ever seen.

distinctly IBM indeed.
According to Wikipedia, there are multiple ways to use the phrase. The way I used it is listed under "loose rhetorical sense".
Or, to be glib, you now program programmers, and so code in the highest level programming language of all.
> And be killed on the spot?

Come on, even he only claimed that he would be re-extradited to the US for questioning (and that was supposedly something Sweden would do if he was extradited there, which isn't even an issue any more.)

His biggest fear at this point is probably that he'll be punished for the bail violation and then left alone without the ability to play martyr anymore.
> I am often discouraged to show leadership skills or be competitive with others, especially with guys at work.

Men are not immune to this either. I have been successful in many work endeavors in the past and drew praise from management, to discover soon after that half the team would subtly dislike me because I'd make their work look bad.

Also, competitive people with leadership skills are an asset to any company. I'd advise you and anyone else move on if you are not fairly valued, regardless of gender.
>I'll question the information merit of any rotten source.

Go ahead and question it.

Have you come up with any evidence that it's fabricated?
Maybe just a coincidence with the timing, uh..? ;-)
On the other hand there are countries like Luxembourg, where cellular data service in the middle of the capital is horrible. The guy in Orange shop who sold me a sim card said I might need to manually switch from 4G to 3G in some areas, because the reception is so bad. And it was bad pretty much everywhere, even on 3G.
I guess they don't want to get the Papyrus treatment by Ryan Gosling: https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/1/16392890/avatar-papyrus-f...
Nvidia Transforms the Workstation for the Age of Deep Learning
Earlier discussion (over 30 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16700403
I switched my editor default from Liberation Mono to this and it is almost the identical font. The only thing I don't like is the mono is not sans-serif so I'll stick with Liberation.
I don’t see this as necessarily being DDG’s problem to solve. They are (supposedly) protecting my search data from third party use.

Protecting my browser history is my browser’s problem to solve. Which most browsers do via a privacy mode.

These two are orthogonal. I may want to keep my (possibly, not even controversial) browser history for ease-of-use reasons but still want to withhold my data from the Cambridge Analytica’s of the world.

I agree that naive users might make false assumptions about what DDG is doing that lead to a poorer privacy outcome, but I’d argue that people need to also step up a little with respect to their self-education. No one can truly claim to be concerned about privacy while not be doing the basics, such as ensuring their ‘sensitive’ browsing isn’t recorded locally by their browser.
Meet the 'Lady Gaga of mathematics' helming France's AI task force
I own iPhone 5S since November, 2013. I still get iOS updates. I don't feel Apple forcing me to update or anything like that.
Looks a lot like DejaVu Sans Mono to me.

Also it is not easy to tell l (lowercase L) and 1 (the number 1) apart in their monospaced font.
Comedy doesn't seem to fair well on HN, but at least Arrested Development is still sacrosanct.
The usual 2FA input should work. Do you mind mailing me (username sophiebits, domain fb.com) your email or a link to your FB profile so I can have someone look into this? A screenshot of the input field that you see would also be helpful.
Are you suggesting the poor citizens of our country ought to be refugees within their own country in order to escape violence? That's a very bleak view of our country, but one that might actually be accurate.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-african...

Moving costs money. Are you suggesting they simply leave everything behind and walk to a new city?

While we're talking about sources, how about a source for your claim that 99.9% of Americans can afford to move to a neighboring state.
New Survey: 56% of Orgs Hit with Ransomware Attack in the Past Year
Response (JSON, JSONP, XML, YAML, HTML, File) Rendering Package for Go
Red Hat Releases OpenShift Container Platform 3.9
I don't think that's true. We speak of AppAmaGooBook now (i.e. an oligopoly of 4 major players), while in the 1990s it was "Wintel" (2 players, one a hardware monopoly and one a software monopoly) and in the 60s it was "IBM and the 7 dwarfs" (i.e. IBM was the only relevant computer company). IBM controlled 70 percent of the whole computer market, around what Google controls of the Search market now, which is a small subfield of computation. And these all pale in comparison to 19th century monopolies, like Standard Oil (90% of U.S. refining capacity in 1880) or American Tobacco (100% of the tobacco market in 1900).

I think the reason they seem bigger is because the economy is bigger, and so in dollar and output terms they are bigger. But that also means there are more niches and greater complexity, and it becomes harder to sustain a monopoly against multiple competitive threats over time. While the playbook of monopoly managers has expanded since 1900, the number of adversaries they face has expanded faster.
If you didn't there would be something wrong with you.
There's a dearth of viable ways to fund open source software, particularly for people who can't work in their spare time for tip jar-level donations, so hopefully this one gets traction.
March 31st is my delete day :)
Well, yes. Evolution is heavily influenced by survivorship biases.
I would like to understand this more, could you expand?
Interesting. Thank you for the clarification!
I like the simplicity of your idea. However, there's articles on porn that are non-pornographic in nature. Usually people discussing or discouraging it rather than using it. To account for that, maybe make it something like "showporn" or a dedicated search page for it. Then, people Googling for information on porn that's not pornographic still wont get hit with it. Whereas, people looking for it using dedicated search page will exclusively see it.

This isnt that different from search engines for specialized databases. I used to use meta-search engines that woukd have checkboxes or selection menus to focus search on specific topics or collections. It was very useful. I still do it for technical papers using the "site:" operator to limit search to known-good sites for them.
HTM has been covered here a dozen different ways.

Still waiting for good examples of how the technology solves problems better than other methods.
Yes, but I'm surprised that there isn't some self correction there. My understanding is that one of the primary metrics goole uses is which link you click on last after searching. If the majority of people searching are white and all people want to see people who look like them, then the top result should be white. But I expect that when black women search, they will keep scrolling until they find the picture that they were looking for. Wouldn't Google want to identify each significant subgroup for a query and put each of their respected "best" search result near the top, and not just show the top 10 results for the majority subgroup?
For what it's worth in early 90's people were playing PCM audio on PC speaker, which is single bit DAC that is in turn controlled by programmable interval counter and thus effectively cannot even directly produce single bit PCM. Norton Commander (5 or so) even included PC-speaker WAV player.

Edit: also having only one bit can be offset by larger sampling rate. In fact this is how probably every non-audiophile audio DAC manufactured in last 25 years works.
Whoa, leading with astrology in a physics article, strong choice.
The AOM engineering list and kavi tracker is restricted to members of organizations in AOM, as far as I am aware.
Julia uses she pronouns, FYI.
The C part is mostly for low-level functions and was brought in to help bootstrap development (it's easier to work on improving a working encoder than one that doesn't work yet). The amount of Rust code is expected to increase a lot over time, while the amount of C code is expected to either decrease or remain constant.
My own personal dogma is that your CI/CD system hasn't achieved its goal until everyone on the team can spool up a given build of the code and try to reproduce an error for themselves without interrupting anyone else to do it.

The person who discovers the bug may not come up with the best repro case. The person best equipped at fixing the bug may not be best person to track it. Being able to spool up new people on a problem for cheap keeps the whole experience lower stress and generally improves your consistency with regards to success.

If the cost of someone trying a crazy theory is linear in man-hours and O(1) or even O(log n) for wall clock hours you're going to look like a bunch of professionals instead of a bunch children with pointy sticks.

From what I understand, Microsoft has never gotten there. They got too big to fail a long time ago. And certainly wouldn't have for Windows 7.
The content stays the same, but the medium changes. Most content is either written word, voice (like radio) or video (television -> youtube). The medium that content lives in will always change.

I think positioning a product that would allow you to move your content between the different mediums (i.e. myspace to facebook to ??? or blogger -> wordpress -> Medium) would be huge. Something like IFTTT but on steroids.
The software system and ML models would only be necessary if an analysis of the underlying data showed that there should be a reasonable chance of avoiding the accident. If that were the case then the models and training process could well be distinction between simple recklessness and gross negligence.

I doubt the LIDAR data would be that useful compared to the enhanced high fidelity video just because of how interpretable it would be to a jury.