skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correcting the Record
Concerning the following thread:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8848805

As the attorney who is being listed in this thread and accused of perjury by some random internet strangers - I felt the need to respond.

We don't have any relationship with TAKEDOWN PIRACY LLC and certainly did not file any take down notices on their behalf.

But we sooo appreciate being defamed by random internet strangers. Perhaps in the future, you can... I don't know... verify that what you saying is correct before dragging people's names through the mud.

Seriously, what's wrong with you people :)
Optimizing radio-immunotherapy for cancer
If a school has comparatively high SAT scores, it stands to reason that the kids do SAT prep. Which means even the juniors and seniors are done with theirs, the freshmen and sophomores will be buying materials for the next year.
This looks really cool. I'd love to have a library for Rust to make this more seamless. In particular it would be nice to have a "development mode" where you just host the HTML/JS files normally while you're working on them, then flip a production switch when you're ready to have them compiled into the binary. Does go.rice have something like this?
This. Playing competitively on Linux is still an exercise in frustration.
I stopped getting the newspaper more than a year ago, and have consciously reduced using Facebook (which was already limited to specific topics related to "greater good", to put it in words that don't expose too much). Since I don't have cable at home, there's nothing blaring in the background with a regurgitation of the same stuff and flashy animations about some "breaking news" that's mostly of no practical value. Many a times it just increases frustration and stress over things you don't generally care about or can't really do something about. I don't mind not having anything to gossip about with co-workers. There's enough going on in general anyway, without mainstream news adding to it.

I've seen that life does actually get a bit difficult in certain ways when one doesn't keep up with news, especially anything related to taxation and other policies (related to real estate, automobiles). So I still check a few online news sites once every two days or so for the headlines alone.

In general, staying away from these sources reduces what I feel as "internal agitation" that usually bleeds into many other activities (while being in the background). I would anyday recommend people to get off standard cable TV and also news, and instead making choices that are a bit more involved. The mental peace thus obtained alone is worth it!

P.S.: Slightly related is giving up surfing the web itself, which my mind (that's been modified to have a low attention span due to years on the web) would probably benefit a lot more from.
>> The company tells Dan Noyes they have made it clear -- Autopilot is a driver assistance system that requires you to pay attention to the road at all times.

The question is why it is Tesla, in particular, that has to remind its customers that they have to actually pay attention when they drive its cars. Is it possible the company somehow managed to convince people that its cars are equipped with self-driving software, rather than a "driver assistance system"?
HN is the most moderated platform I currently use, but despite its rules and frequent mod intervention, it seems to have a higher overall quality of discussion compared to what I can find on Reddit or Twitter.
>In the United States, the average diaper sells for about 25 cents.

Really? I'm currently paying 8 cents a diaper from Aldi.
And yet: As described earlier, our inquiry did not reveal that anyone in OTD had withheld knowledge of an existing FBI capability, as EAD Hess had feared. However, our inquiry suggests that CEAU did not pursue all possible avenues in the search for a solution. The CEAU Chief told the OIG that, after the outside vendor came forward, he became frustrated that the case against Apple could no longer go forward, and he vented his frustration to the ROU Chief. He acknowledged that during this conversation between the two, he expressed disappointment that the ROU Chief had engaged an outside vendor to assist with the Farook iPhone, asking the ROU Chief, “Why did you do that for?” According to the CEAU Chief, his unit did not ask CEAU’s partners to check with their outside vendors. CEAU was only interested in knowing what their partners had in hand – indicating that checking with “everybody” did not include OTD’s trusted vendors, at least in the CEAU Chief’s mind. However, we believe CEAU should have checked with OTD’s trusted vendors for possible solutions before advising OTD management, FBI leadership, or the USAO that there was no other technical alternative and that compelling Apple’s assistance was necessary to search the Farook iPhone.

The guy supposed to be looking for technical solutions, upon finding someone had asked vendors about technical solutions:

“Why did you do that for?”
We do not store your data as it's usually a very sensitive. You can host your data on GCloud or AWS and use Comet.ml to track where it was coming from and if it changed between experiments.
Yeah. continuous breaking news made Trump, not the other way around.

He is the physical manifestation of "what if someone indulged the news-appetite of a whole population every day."
How about statistics instead of anecdotes? This article is pretty well sourced, and, while not all of the math checks out, the preponderance of evidence seems to point towards "yes, that is a regular choice that poor people in the US make": http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05...
Why multimodal UI is the future
> There is a problem with braking, and it's not always the fault of the car behind you if they hit you.

The driver is too close if they cannot stop in time. It's not complicated. It is always the following driver's fault, unless the car in front has defective brake lights.
There's a process in extreme programming that works in exactly the same way - "mob programming". Everyone in the team gathers around a single computer and works on the same task together. With the right team it can work really well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mob_programming
I find Zuckerberg's argument that Facebook needs to be the way it is so that "people who can't afford it can have access" pretty repulsive and incredibly sleazy.

If people can't afford a few dollars a month, why in the fuck would it be acceptable to expose them to manipulative ads that encourage them to hand over money that Zuckerberg claims they don't have? He tries to paint himself and his company as altruistic, while simultaneously exploiting the hell out of the people he claims to be "helping".
I’ve worked at other companies in teams that take these security reports in. There’s no excuse for their long delays in response, you showed them clear abuse immediately. I wish you would have given them the tavis experience. Next time use Google’s own terms, with a set date on when you will publish to put pressure on them. They do this to others and need to be held to the same standards.

Nice work! It is amazing how a bug that so many people don’t care about (open redirects) could have been exploited Google’s prime income generator.

If nothing else, you can use this as a nice gem on your resume, which can help you get more interviews or better paying jobs in the future.
> According to the Times, DOJ officials are “convinced that mechanisms allowing access to [encrypted] data can be engineered without intolerably weakening the devices’ security against hacking.”

Why do people believe this? It will only make things more complicated and more complicated usually means easier to break.
No, this is FB's fault. This should be opt-in.
> The point of anarchism is that you can basically do what you want.

This is a simplistic characterisation. Anarchists hold individual liberty in the highest regard but also believe in solidarity and mutual aid. You can "basically do what you want" as long as you aren't restricting the individual freedom of others but rather supporting everyone in having access to the same means and rights as you do. Since exploitation of people is so endemic in our society, anarchists work mainly to free themselves and others from oppressive systems. Right now we can't do what we want, so anarchists fight against the social dynamics which are preventing this.
Omitting letters in their username, getting the domain wrong by omitting or mutating letters, commas instead of periods, spaces, and more. Some, such as commas and spaces are easy to catch, but mutations in the username are pretty much impossible to catch.

Without digging through my records I can't be more specific, but in general I was horrified at how many can't actually spell their own names correctly. Seriously, one person typed jojn.dpe instead of john.doe (name deliberately changed to protect the user). Sometimes it's possible to guess the correct username/domain, but sometimes it simply isn't.
> Why would you assume companies can't be sued if they're not 'people?'

Because that's literally why corporate personhood exists: To be able to sue companies.

And I find it very illuminating that the only response demonstrates ignorance.
I don't know about you, but if I had the choice between having a 99th percentile IQ and being born into the 1%, there is absolutely no way I'm taking the IQ. The streets and fast food franchises are littered with exceedingly smart people. Dumb kids of the mega-rich are still rich. A lot of things need to go right for success, those things have a better chance of going right if your parents are loaded.

It's important to note here that we're not discussing the well-off, two vacations a year types here, we're talking about the 1%. I would be extremely surprised if the correlation between your future earnings and your parents' earnings (if they are 1%) weren't -a lot- stronger than your having a 99th percentile IQ. Any sources?
I'm not aware of any plans to support a malloc/free API currently. GC plans are already underway.

Thinking about it, it's actually not that obvious how to support a malloc/free API. It seems like it would need to be deterministic to fit properly on the Web. But writing a spec for that is not easy since efficient malloc/frees are fairly complex and detailed. And once specced out, it could never be improved.

GC on the other hand already exists on the Web, and all the complexity is not noticeable (except for things like proper weak refs and finalizers, which is why those have not been added to the Web yet) so the spec is fairly simple and it allows constant optimization on the implementation side.
.NET core, React, Redis, AWS
But that's the point of basic research, no?

Minds are things that function in a physical universe. At some point in the future there will be a description of function, followed by a plan for modification or augmentation of existing minds, as well as bottom up design of new minds.

All minds are matter performing some computation. Molecules move around and change in time. In concert with this physical process, subjective experience takes place. There will come a time when physical systems are designed with the goal of creating a particular form of subjective experience.
>Contentiousness grew common: Bhatnagar’s team would want to suspend users it found abusive, only to be overruled by Gadde and Harvey. “That drove Tina crazy,” says a source familiar with the dynamic. “She’d go looking for Jack, but Jack would be at Square, so the next day he’d listen and take notes on his phone and say, ‘Let me think about it.’

Is it feasible for one person to be an effective CEO of two companies at the same time? Particular ones that are at the stages Twitter and Square are at?
The Three Stages of Apple Criticism
I'll give updating the GPU drivers a shot and report back this evening. It's now become my "I'll try anything" setup.
The High Cost of Poverty: Why the Poor Pay More (2009)
My biggest question is how do you keep up if you cut news. I would definitely like to quit checking HN also but FOmo of new technologies keep me coming.
I actually have the app installed and it still shows me a notification...I went so far as to delete all conversations and I still get that notification. I've contacted Facebook regarding the issue, they haven't bothered to respond. It's absolutely a dark pattern that makes me use Facebook less.

But it's probably a good thing considering Facebook also apparently shares the content of those conversations
It is funny that god is a language, but he lived alone for the eternity. Was he communicating with himself alone?... Just another "mystery" that believers will sweep under the rug.
Why aren't cloud, or even local, VM's being brought up?
You irrevocably blow up your linux VM... just spin up a new one - or revert to your snapshot from earlier in the day.
I'd actually make the argument that virtualization would make it easier than ever to safely experiment with things.
Complexity has definitely gone up, and the time and ability to peacefully munch on problems under a tree has definitely gone down.
But, I would argue that if a learner given the right sort of virtual sandbox, instructions on how to reset their state to working order, and an internet connection with google, the linux docs, and stack overflow bookmarked, there is a lot of learning to be had!
We have a Nintendo Switch in my office. 4 player split-screen Mario Kart is a lot of fun.
I wanted to use rust for web development for a while but always struggled with just getting an OAuth2 example running in the past, has this improved recently?
Hi HN,

We wanted a simple search engine that was fast, handled typographic errors out-of-the-box and was also simple to run and manage. We could not find one - so we built Typesense and are open sourcing it today. Before you ask: Elasticsearch is a great project but is far better suited for larger teams which have bandwidth to administer, scale and fine-tune it and when you want to store billions of documents. For those of us who are not in that bucket, we hope Typesense would help.

Happy to answer any questions!
"Create a microservice that stores JSONs." Says the senior SE to the intern.
https://ichigojam.net/index-en.html ?
In DOS, in real mode, the framebuffer was just mapped directly into memory. If you wanted to put something on the screen, you wrote to that memory address (often segment A000). For text modes, you would write ASCII characters straight into the buffer. For bitmap modes, your bytes would be interpreted as colors (or shades of gray, depending on the mode.) It was very exciting when I figured out how to use extended memory to draw high-resolution (640x480) graphics.
> I also consider the EFF's and tech community's technical arguments to be rather weak and transparent attempts to skirt the core issue: we don't want backdoors for governments, period.

We don't really want them. However, by longstanding precedent they're entitled to them whenever the technological system at hand enables it. Telephony, postal service, and so on.

You're absolutely right! Democracy is exactly the method to apply to a political issue. It's so applicable, we applied the democracy mechanism to this issue centuries ago and continue to do so. If we fall back to it here, we're going to lose, and we'll be forced to include backdoors in everything.
New LTS versions of node have been released in September/October for the last two years and AWS Lambda has added support for them around April/May for the last two years.

I wonder if they purposefully wait for x.10 update (6.10 and 8.10) or it has something to do with internal management of projects.
It’s probably fairer to say that when there are no consequences for their actions, a statistically significant portion of people are awful, and those people are loud and obsessive.
Ghazali and Ibn al-Arabi asserted a related concept known as "wahdat al-Wujud" in Sufi literature. Often translated as "unity of Being" and confused with pantheism (which it is not), it could encompass what Aquinas said, "the sheer act of 'to be' itself", but with the additional restrictive clause that "nothing else 'is' itself". Which is a significantly more precise predicate than "God is a verb".
I’ve come halfway to building this a few times; it’d be extremely helpful for mdbook, for example.
Fulfilled by Voodoo: Just-in-time manufacturing and fulfillment
b) is a barrier that's already supposed to exist, so these patches don't have an impact on it.
Ya, all they did in that time was design and release the world’s first mainstream VR headset, tracking system, controllers, and API.

What a waste of time.
> You don't have to give up any of the Rust language.

I don't know Rust that well, but what about unwinding and multithreading for example - don't you need to give those Rust features up if you don't want to ship any runtime code?

> It's true that you need to ship malloc/free, but that can be really tiny too

True, yeah. It's a tradeoff, though, tiny mallocs will be much slower than an optimized malloc (like dlmalloc) on real-world benchmarks.
Adult Neurogenesis – A Pointed Review
Outside the US, distilled water is often called deionized water. Same thing, different name.
I mistakenly over-quoted the paragraph and included the sentence about diaper services, but the prices I was discussing were the retail prices quoted before that.

But yes, I'm willing to believe that cloth diapers were cheaper, and still are cheaper. But that's a digression from the main topic at hand, which is the question of whether or not disposable diapers are cheaper than in the 50s when adjusted for inflation.
(misunderstood)
In all my code, #include <vector> only appears once. That's because I have a file std_headers.h, which includes <stdlib>, <algorithm>, <string>, <vector>, and dozens more. With several #ifdefs for linux, FreeBSD, and Darwin and some embedded systems. Every other c++ file includes it. If you're curious: https://github.com/tlbtlbtlb/tlbcore/blob/master/common/std_...

I hate having a bunch of boilerplate at the top of each file.
Putting the string in the binary is really only useful for trying to do ultra-portable deployments like this imo. The overhead of copying the string into memory is pretty meaningless in the use case where you only expect a single, home-desktop user.

Now if this was a production server having to service thousands of clients than the sendfile optimization becomes much more important.
It sounds like you are positioning anarchy as a reactionary tool of retribution towards the elites, rather than as a better way to govern.

So much packed into one sentence! If you think of anarchism as ever having been suggested as "a better way to govern", please go back to the beginning and try again. It is instead a better way to live. This thing you think we need, we don't actually need. And what "retribution"? Would it be "retribution" to tell "the elites" sorry you can't continue spending trillions of our public dollars bombing innocents for no discernible reason?

Also, I would object to the form of your discourse. You asked for a counterexample, and multiple people have provided those. Please either argue against the counterexamples or concede the point.
> so you'll need 2 pairs of headsets or an adapter

AirPods.
I like your second theory. I'm thinking about how you can easily avoid absurd alt-right conspiracy drivel by, for example, never reading Breitbart. But because NBC articles have a comment section, all the bullshit finds its way through anyway.

Somebody could make an echo chamber argument at me I guess, but I should be allowed to filter out absolute falsehoods without being called "unfair and unbalanced."
The project that I extracted this from actually uses a bi-directional websocket with proto3. It's just a simple message system and doesn't have binding. The code isn't great or documented but you can check it out here: https://github.com/anderspitman/battle_beetles
Exploring container security: Node and container operating systems
That's not really a niche, though, any more. It's almost cheaper to just put an LCD on something than to interface with modern TVs.

If you want something more in that spirit regardless of hardware, maybe PICO-8? It's basically a (virtual) minimalist 8-bit computer / gaming console for the modern era.

https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php
You can add safety automated features without requiring completely insane and dangerous mode of operations (like pretending the car can drive itself except that it can not and pretending that you did not pretend in the first place and reminding that the driver should have its hand on the wheel and be alert and what is even the point then?????)

They could be more useful with -- for now -- less features. They probably won't do it because they want some sacrificial beta testers to collect some more data for their marginally less crappy next version. But given the car does not even have the necessary hardware to become a real self driving car (and that some analysts even think Tesla is gonna close soon) the people taking the risks of being sacrificed will probably not even reap the benefits of the risks they have taken, paying enormous amount of money to effectively work for that company (among other things).
> retina screens and the only usable touchpad in laptops

I mean I don't have a side in this convo. But if you are gonna put up a argument at least make it not sound fanboyish.

Plenty of laptops with similar ppi (what makes retina...retina) and plenty with good touchpads.

Many reasons to choose different laptops including Apples, but those you listed the competitors have themselves. Apple just markets their retina displays as 'special' when its all about pixel density and most laptops have moved in the direction of offering comparable ppi.
> you are going to start instituting the same sort of structures sooner or later

You and others in this thread seem to think that anarchists oppose all forms of authority, social organization and rules.

This is not correct. Anarchists oppose only irrational authority as explained in:

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Anarchist_FAQ/Why_do_anarchist...
It probably takes way more effort, time and money than the FBI likes to invest to break open an iPhone. So this high profile incident was used as a way to influence public opinion that this kind of heavy protection was helping pedophiles and terrorists. I think the main result of their initial declaration was people buying more iPhones if anything at all. And now it backfires.
Everything is always improving. Unless you let us know what you had issues with, no one can tell you if it's been made easier.

For instance, are these issues with rust you're having, or with a particular framework? Without any information, it's a meaningless question.
Sterilization in first world countries isn’t useful to solve world population as a whole because most/all first world counties actually have negative birth rates and are only bolstered by immigration. Furthermore, birth rates globally are slowing down as it is. There’s no need to go down to forced sterilization or other barbaric methods.
We're obviously thinking about this in light of the fact that she just went on an attempted killing spree. I can see how that might prejudice our thinking.

But I personally have had quite a bit of experience interacting with mentally-ill individuals both as a volunteer and through visiting family members who are in institutional care.

I am in no position to diagnose anyone, but I'd be very surprised if it does not come out that this woman had long-standing mental issues for which she refused any intervention or treatment.
Cardano Technical Update 3.29.18
Are you familiar with the function of volunteer fire departments in the U.S.?
What exactly was your thought process between "It's unlikely that AI will become aware" and "It could happen at any time now just by random chance"?