skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone can make stupid mistakes, and the amount of repercussions that you can end up with can be really small or really big regardless of the actual significance of what you said or what you did, because the world does not hold a single, consistent set of morals and opinions, nor are we good at passing judgement in a fair and consistent manner.

Furthermore, context matters, but context is the first thing that gets lost online.

Something that was said or done in one context can be perfectly fine in that context while at the same time that thing can be completely unacceptable in another context.

We need not and we should not strive to keep a record of everything. It is important that we are able to forget.

The world at large is not capable of ensuring due process. Real lives of innocent people are ruined. People are driven to suicide. All because the public formed a narrative about someone based on incomplete or otherwise inaccurate information.

I wish for compassion and forgiveness.
In California that’s been the law for over a decade. Arguably, California’s breach disclosure law is the reason we know about the vast majority of large breaches we hear about.
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I found my set of Engineer PA-09 crimp pliers does a better job than one of the cheap ratcheting crimping tools. Got them to do the smaller JST crimps, but they do Dupont pretty well too.
I don't think anyone's questioning whether the site facilitated child sex trafficking. I think they're questioning whether shutting them down does more harm than good.
The conclusions are the exact same. The autopilot was trying to center the car between lines.

>My guess is that the autopilot mistook these lines for the diamond lane marker and steered towards them thinking it was centering itself in the lane.

It sees the white line on the left, the white line on the right and thinks its a big lane. Its trying to center the car in the lane.
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I don't agree with the proposition that you should give up ambition or hope of changing the world just because you get older.

One of my childhood heroes was Plutarch's Timoleon, a famous Corinthian general who decisively defeated the Carthaginians in Sicily in 339 BC and freed the Greek cities of that region from their tyrants. [0] He was over 70 when he did so. By Plutarch's account at least he accomplished little of note before embarking on the campaign in Sicily but at that point turned out to be an outstanding strategist as well as politician.

We live a long time. I have 12 years to go before reaching 70 and still hope to live up to Timoleon's example.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timoleon
He was personally responsible for the decisions in at least 2 of the 4 bankruptcies, but the other 2 are more debatable.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/sep/...
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I want to go out like Huxley. Endorphins and LSD...
I like mine with ripe banana chunks and cinnamon. But really almost any fruit goes well. Apples, apricots, dates, raisins. Any dried fruit is good. Might take a little practice on an electric stove so you don't end up with an oatmeal volcano.
I learned electronics 35 years ago. After dabbling in high school, I took a college course that was part of the physics major curriculum. Beyond that point I'm self taught.

I think there are some things that have made it easier, others that have made it harder. The availability of parts, data, software tools, and knowledge, have of course exploded. You no longer have to call an IC maker on the phone and beg for a data book, though they were usually generous to students. There are some great videos and blogs. I like the stuff at the Adafruit site. I also like Teensy, a lot.

On the other hand the proliferation of stuff seems forbidding. My first Digi-Key catalog was less than a quarter inch thick! The last paper catalog I saw was over an inch thick, and lists only a fraction of their offerings.

It's too much.

For this reason I suggest choosing a small chunk of the field. If you're at HN because you're a computerist, maybe playing with Arduino would be a way to break in. Build a few kits, or just duplicate someone's published project. Gradually build up a little mental library of parts that are useful for your particular interest area.

A community college course that covers basic electronic measurement and technician work might be a good start. They will have all of the tools so you don't have to choose what to invest in right away.
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At this point no one may even read this, however I’d like to get it off of my chest. Philosophy, the fundamental study of reason, existence, knowledge, values, etc., has been around a very long time and yet is still more valuable to us an individuals and in a society then it has ever been. Religion is a lovely and long studies framework for studying those philosophical principles. It’s not the only framework but it is an exceptionally accessible framework to use.

Philosophy does not require evidence. Philosophy does not require justification. In fact at times it’s best to remove those from your philosophical thought experiments in order to better understand some principle or thought.

Rationalism as a philosophy isn’t without its faults. And many lovely arguments have been made around it. Keep that in mind.
The worst kind of space debris sits in orbits outside of the atmosphere where there is negligible drag. Since these satellites will be in very low orbits that require propulsion to stay aloft, any potential debris from collisions or inoperable satellites will fall back to Earth relatively quickly.

https://www.nasa.gov/news/debris_faq.html
I can understand the case for allowing someone to have their speeding tickets forgotten, but if you believe that, the correct response is that the government shouldn’t publish speeding tickets.

(I could be wrong, but I think parking tickets are aren’t published in the US, while speeding tickets are).
Thanks. I haven't used steroids myself and am unfamiliar with the details of doing a cycle. Quick google search — you would use the testosterone base because the steroids otherwise inhibit your natural test production?

Is there any good evidence that HGH helps sports? My understanding is that there evidence is limited and it isn't clear it's positive.
Are you more interested in digital or analog? Do you want to build computers or audio amplifiers? Although the underlying physics is identical, you need to build stuff (as others have pointed out) and you can arguably build more successful stuff that encourages you to keep going if you start with digital. Analog is more difficult until you have a good grasp of the theory.
After that, they're both easy (until you get into RF, and then it all becomes black magic again).
The NYT is just practicing what Google is claiming to be: journalism.

The petitioners' names are irrelevant to the story. Yet publishing them would obviously harm them. It's an easy call.

Good journalists don't operate by a fundamentalist "information wants to be free" paradigm. They don't print gruesome photos of car accidents, lists of who is gay or not, leaked names of FBI informants in the mafia, or the Secretary of State's private phone number.
Not on public roads.
That makes technical sense. Original Iridium uses weird modulation scheme (which is also used as security-by-obscurity) for the sole purpose of having simple ground terminals, while Inmarsat in it's current generation is "bounce UMTS off GEO satelite" which requires either stationary or surprisingly complex ground terminals.

SpaceX's network seems to work the other way around by being designed around fast-moving satellites and complex ground terminals that do the tracking and hand-overs by means of phase array antennas (ie. completely solid-state). In comparison to Inmarsat it is not GEO-bounce and in comparison to Iridium they seem to have some solution for having fully connected mesh of satellites (original Iridium is not fully connected sphere as there isn't even attempt to have link between satellites with oposite orbits)
At least it's more efficient than PingFS[0]

[0] https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs
>They do not respond to DMCA notices.

But Google does cooperate with DMCA. The difference there is that that content deemed in violation of copyright is actually illegal for anyone to distribute; legal responsibility extends all the way to the website owner.

Unless content falling under "right to be forgotten" is ruled privileged and not legal for public distribution, any artificial roadblocks to their discovery will merely present a business opportunity for their circumvention.
This is a false dilemma. If you walk outside and must necessarily put up with shopkeepers rights to record their premises we don't in turn invite people to publicly accessible webcams in our bedrooms/bathrooms.

I'd say you use as much privacy respecting hardware/software as is feasible given your present use case and circumstances and progressively look to improve this situation funneling your money towards people and projects that respect you and your privacy in order to encourage people to build the things you need.

If you already have expensive hardware that doesn't work with open source software I don't think it terribly reasonable to suppose you throw it in the trash for example.

Just buy something better next go round.
don’t agree with proprietary software being structurally unfit for purpose but otherwise you hit the nail on the head.
I read his politics somewhat differently, as instinctually an FDR-era liberal. No time for 1960s liberal posturing precisely because politics is serious.

I mean, irreverent too. But not as a substitute for commitment to a cause.
That feels a bit like software transactional memory. I was wondering if someone would try that in Rust.
It's fine to move the analogy, but the point remains the same: The more confident you are in your own capacities, the easier it is to bid on a project. And to be confident in your capacities without it being simple hubris, you need to do difficult things that demonstrate to yourself what you are capable of accomplishing.
The PlayStation 5 specs are impressive
this is the story of my life (I run a signage business).

The rpi2 seemed to be the worst for fs corruption, I've never had a pi1 fail on me. Jury is still out on the pi3.
I think I read about this on HN before. This is a common sugar like additive put in icecream because of it's texture properties. Its like the favorite food of the bug mentioned here. How did an artifical ingredient become a prefered food for it?
Whoever approved this change in the code needs to be out. If I was Karpathy, I'd be very worried right now that he isn't liable in a civil or criminal suit.
I don't have a multimeter even though I desperately need one. I'm always paralyzed by the choices. I just placed an order for this one and I think it will serve me very well considering I mostly need it for mechanical work. Thank you for making a recommendation.

I look forward to falling further down the rabbit hole.

You should consider setting up a referral link :)
A fake address meaning one that you don't own, or a fake address meaning one that doesn't exist at all? You might have entered someone else's real email account that exists in Experian's databases, which could be another serious problem waiting to happen.
It sort of depends on what you're interested in. Audio? Radio? Basic robotics? Cool digital sensors? Something that tweets every time you open your refrigerator door? Simplest answer buy an arduino intro kit with breadboard and some pre-made jumper wires.

There's lots of advice geeking out about special high-quality soldering gear, my advice is don't even worry about that yet. You're mostly going to be doing breadboarding at first anyway. And besides a cheap iron is fine. (Everyone, please stop glaring at me.)

Only other piece of equipment you might want is a cheap multimeter. You can get these off amazon for $9. Sure it's not going to be accurate in some edge case you can find but 97% of the time you only ever use the continuity tester and after that the voltage tester, which are pretty hard to get wrong. No, you will not need an oscilloscope or a logic analyzer or a special high quality multimeter or anything like that.

Save the big purchases for when you know you really care about it. Front-loading the cost of a bunch of special gear before you even know why you might need it and may never is a hobby anti-pattern. You can just buy cheap beginner kits.

There are some good youtube channel suggestions. One to add is Eugene K's visualizations of the physics of voltages and electronic components: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkyBCj4JhHt8DFH9QysGW...

Otherwise, and arguably sort of ruining the fun, are circuit simulators. A good one is falstad.com/circuit/ . It's much faster to draw up a simulation than to put together a breadboard circuit, you can add instrumentation and swap values ad nauseam, and you are less likely to make an inscrutable wiring mistake that contributes to small declines in your mental health than you are with a physical prototype. I use this for small analog circuits all the time to double check myself.

Have fun.
> "amplifiers oscillate; oscillators don’t”

Indeed. Also, the purpose of expensive integrated circuits is to protect the delicate fuses in your design.
Hmm. I didn't notice that 'your' is not in the HN title. So, is it a filtering or I just forgot to type it?
And yes, 'your' is important in this case. I definitely didn't want it to sound like another Docker-blaming article.
Its silly to advice against reasonable actions like switching to an OS that respects your privacy based on unreasonable standards that aren't met presently anyway.

Don't bother leaving that disease ridden hag covered in boils you can't possibly invest the resources to sequence the full genome of this clean looking young lady over here it all comes down to trust amirite.
Transfer learning is what makes this contest currently unique. Usually in these machine learning contests, you hand off your model to the contest runner, and they just run it and evaluate its performance. It has to be already good at the task.

In this contest, you're not just submitting a trained model, you're submitted a docker environment capable of performing training, which they will run with their secret levels, with specified constraints. So you want to make a highly trained model whose capabilities can be transferred to secret levels.
Sometime after the 15th of April there might be a sudden flood of these hard to get cards coming back to the market.
and it's not even available to test with for most developers
I live in an apartment but I rent a garage from a friend. it really is liberating to have a dedicated space for projects instead of trying to make it work in a 20 x 30 box.
If we had to give grade to the MBTA, we would give it a D (passing grade), because they deserve a large area. However, everything else is bad.

On top of that, all the improvements they are making are things that were needed 10 years ago, not things we will need over the next 10 years and onward.
Bingo. Let's stop giving retailers a free pass on collecting our data. They can leak their own statistics all day long and only undermine their own competitiveness.

All this talk of "breaches" is a disingenuous framing to deflect from the root of the problem, similar to that continually-pushed nonsense of "identity theft". As if all the surveillance in the world is completely acceptable, just as long as some vague weird other doesn't gain access to that same capability!

Equifax shouldn't be put out of business for having leaked their trove, but for having collected all that surveillance data in the first place.
At what point is the only thing left to be decidedly good for you plain water?

I wonder what is the pH of glass of carbonated water with a squeeze of lime?
> No one is going to say "I was willing to work for $6/hour but not for $7/hour".

I am not sure this is a correct interpretation of what supply actually means. For all intents and purposes, supply is the people willing to do job for less. If minimum wage is $7/hour, there is nobody going to say "I will do it for $6". If you, a business owner, want to pay less than $7/hour in this scenario, what supply do you think you are turning to? There isn't any! You have already hit equilibrium (where supply meets demand) at the level of minimum wage.

Someone who wants $12/hr. for a minimum wage job is not supply in that market. Supply isn't all people who are willing to work just as demand isn't all people who want something. If you have $100 in your pocket and say you want to buy a new Ferrari with it does not mean you demand a Ferrari. Demand requires that you be willing and able to offer a price that actually gets what you want.

> You would expect it to decrease labor demand because people who would be willing to pay $6/hour for a certain job might not be willing to pay $7/hour.

That can be true, but minimum wage work is often providing an inelastic service. People aren't going to stop eating because minimum wage for agricultural workers went up. They'll just accept the higher price. What choice do they really have? Eating is somewhat essential.

It is true that the definition of demand says that all else equal, a higher price results in less demand, but in the real world not else is equal when the price rises due to minimum wage increases. A higher price does not always mean less demand.
Oh man thanks for making those. I spent so much time as a kid playing a copy of Battlezone I checked out from the local library. Love me some biometal
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If only it was possible for massive armies of people to inspect source code for possible defects or backdoors?

Further what if it happened we were unsatisfied with this we could all collectively hire more people to audit the software stacks we rely on in order of priority instead of expecting each person to hire dozens to vet the software they are presently running.

Further if only even if we can't ever arrive at 100% surety we can get closer and closer to satisfaction.
I think you have a point that "right to be forgotten" could be abused to censor the truth.

But at the same time, perhaps there needs to be a way to de-emphasize older truths? For example if Alice did something 10-20 years ago, should that appear in the first page of the search results? Perhaps it should be ranked lower due to age.

Perhaps search engines could have a memory system similar to humans. Older stuff is gradually forgotten or de-emphasized or turn blurry.

A humane memory system.
Errors in memory are temporary, errors on disk are permanent. Don't approach them both the same way.
I remember spending all of a Saturday typing in that game in the back of the book where you're a stationary cursor-sized block at the bottom of the screen and you have to tap the space bar at the right time to hit the big white block moving across the top. I was pretty disappointed after all that but I didn't have a tape or disk drive to save it. So I just sat there pretending it was fun until I finally bit the bullet and turned off the VIC-20.

Finally got a datasette drive a year later.
It seems like it would be nice to just use the immutable interface and have it be mutable in the case that there's only one owner, but be able to fall back to immutability when you need it.

It could make refactoring and debugging easier. For instance, let's say you're part way through some operation and it fails, and the error recovery logic is buggy and leaves the data structure in an inconsistent state. You could debug the problem, but if you're in a hurry and you just need something that works right now, you can store a reference to the data structure at the beginning of the operation and revert to that if anything goes wrong. You'd pay a performance cost since all the direct in-place edits would turn into copies and allocations, but it would at least work.

Similarly, you could develop a program initially in an all-immutable multi-owner style, and then selectively convert codepaths to single-owner style to get better performance in the parts where performance matters.
It's here:

http://doyoutrustthiscomputer.org/watch
I’ve worked on 3D pipelines that did just that. The text format was even, gasp, XML! As long as the large arrays were large strings of numbers and not individual nodes per component, it was actually pretty efficient and very fast to convert.
That's what makes this contest interesting, they're not going to just evaluate a static agent, you submit a docker environment capable of performing learning, and they'll let your agent learn on their secret levels, on their servers.

That provides a rather unique challenge, of making a good general baseline agent, but one that also is flexible for further training.
In general you don't have access to the physical block size. And it can change even within a given lot.
I'm curious to see how this style of space broadband impacts the second tier broadband nations, such as France, Italy, Australia, Greece, etc. They have persistently lagged far behind in broadband speeds for the last 20 years running.

For everybody else below that, it's a revolution in access. If you're in Brazil, Colombia or Argentina where the average is around 5-8mbps, this could be a huge change if the price is close enough to what their markets can bear. It should help all of these nations leap over the need to build out very expensive national fiber to the premises systems.
Because they don't have to work.
This is one of the prettiest online books about computing that I've ever seen. I really appreciate how much effort you have put in to making the layout clean and the styling enjoyable to look at. Great visual presentation can really take a load off the reader's brain, leaving more cycles to think about the actual content. Bravo!
> regardless of your stance on the site you cant deny it does a lot of good for a lot of people

I think it's reasonable to deny that Facebook does net good in the world. Facebook doesn't do any better than open-technology alternatives could offer, and it actively stifles alternatives.
Aren’t TV satellites something like 5000-30000km away? 200km sounds easy.
> Perhaps search engines could have a memory system similar to humans. Older stuff is gradually forgotten or de-emphasized or turn blurry.

I think this is what is in mind in terms of a "right to be forgotten". Not the large things, but the small bullet points from 10+ years ago that, in a sane world, would be completely ludicrous to compare with your current self.
> It's not possible to engineer an autonomous system that never fails, but it is possible to engineer one in such a way that it never fails to detect that it has failed.

Wouldn't the system doing the checking be considered an autonomous system...that could also fail?
That’s a good question, and if you’ll permit me, I’ll give the answer in two parts. The acidity of seltzer is roughly the acidity of orange juice, so a squirt of lime in your water is just nowhere close. It is also true that most of what we should be drinking is water. I realize that’s not the first choice for people raised on juice, milk, and soda, but it’s certainly the most healthy.

Remember that I mentioned moderation though? A glass or two of OJ, lemonade, tea, coffee, or seltzer a day isn’t going to materially impact your health assuming you’re not diabetic, and practice good oral hygiene. There are also many worse things for your teeth than seltzer, such as potato chips, and poor oral hygiene. If most of what you’re drinking is water, don’t sweat the glass or two of something other than water. Unfortunately too many poeple drink very little unadulterated water, and it does impact their health.

Moderation is the key.