skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you trust your hosting company?

Can you trust the manufacturer of your personal devices?

Sooner or later you're trusting somebody, unless you literally smelted your own machine starting from ore and a bucket of sand, and then wrote every line of code for it, including the compiler, yourself.

Maybe you should inventory all the entities you're trusting already.
> I could do the math for you...

there are some really good youtube videos about the US electoral college and what a vote in Montana is worth compared to a vote in California
I've run into a similar issue writing a ray tracer in Swift! We are even both using Peter Shirley's "Ray Tracing in One Weekend" as a reference! I'm to this day struggling to get the performance near the level of the C++ reference implementation. I've made some improvements but overall the swift version is around 5x slower.

If any one is interested the source code is available here:
https://gitlab.com/youngwerth/ray-tracer/settings/repository

Compiled using "swift build -c release".
> So, the roots of all of these diseases could definitely be related.

Well, yes, but by definition they already have one connection at the root: the immune system. So increased comorbidity could also be explained by having a kind of immune system that fundamentally is more likely to develop auto-immune diseases.
I do think there will be a lot of interesting cases where we can crowdsource information (particularly around information like popular team comps, hero names, list-type things like that), and will be exploring those more for sure. The toughest part of that work is the image assets since they need to be done in a particular way, but it might be interesting to see how possible it is with some human-based Scale-like API.
It's not that simple, the aircraft are designed based on what the Airlines want not what the Pilots want. Further, the airlines could easily get a aircraft that flew 100% of the time from A -> B but that does not seem to be the safest option.

Further, pilots are not alone in the cockpit. So, even when one of the pilots is going to take a nap it still ends up as a safety benefit worth the cost of 2 or some times 3 pilots on a long trip.
Deepfakes – Is Seeing Still Believing?
The bigger problem is that their study seems to have revealed that while crashes went down, the severity of the crashes went up. People weren't dying in their Teslas before Autosteer, but now we're looking at 4 deaths and counting in the space of 2 years, all directly attributable to the use of Autopilot.
For me the product is quite feature finished as it is (even before their cloud option came), and in general I dislike subscriptions.

I don't mind paying for software upgrades, and new versions. But all these companies counting on sleepwalking subscription models, oh hey, call me oldschool.

Bitwarden's pricings seem much more reasonable, going to check it out.
How to make pizza?
It's an interesting story and food for thought. I'd recommend reading (or at least skimming the article) and thinking about whether any elements in it remind you of events in your own workplace.

The conflict between management and workers is an old one, but many key elements are unchanging. Unions may not be the right answer, but we have as much right as anyone to be treated with respect, and it's worth thinking about what the right answer is going to look like.

(Conversely, with my manager hat on, it's worth thinking about how best to avoid the issues Lanetix seemed so eager to start.)
If yt/g isn't careful they are going to start bleeding out users even faster than they already are. I've seen a huge uptick in comments like yours the last few months. To go from 1k/mo at peak down to 100-200 largely due to their arbitrary algorithm fuckery is... really fucked up.
If you played through the entire game and didn't find any of the stories compelling, all I can really do is shrug and say apparently it wasn't the game for you. I'm curious what games you've felt were "non-flat" and well written?

If you do want examples of great stories from Witcher 3, they are (IMO):

* Main story from the Hearts of Stone expansion

* Bloody Baron sub-plot

* Main story from the Blood & Wine expansion

* Triss Merigold sub-plot regarding mages in Novigrad

* Haunted tower quest from Kiera Metz

* The first 75% or so of the base game's main story is good, but it's complex and hard to get invested in if you aren't familiar the characters and backstory
I believe there's some requirements in Europe around this - companies need to be able to turn off access to corp email outside of work hours, to enforce that they're not incurring work. Is it France that does this? It's also why there's a quick settings toggle in Android to turn your managed corp profile on and off - there's an API that lets the MDM do it, so they provide similar functionality for the user.
US ranchers want to use the federal government to fight high-tech meat companies
I’ve found it helps to metric “how fast does it take to get a thing of x size done” - if you can measure the results of your improvement (like how fast it takes to get a new design implemented) it’s an easier sell. Eventually, it becomes known throughout the company that things are going faster, regardless of the metric results. Of course if you go around making high risk changes for low reward they’ll see the artifacts of increased bugs and less system reliability.
Type checking and calling help methods can be useful for debuggability! If you want to figure out what you're looking at in string format, call its .ToString method.
Ehh, no I hear Autopilot and I don't think 100% automation but then again I worked for the FAA.

Even the flawed system seems to have a net safety benefit. It's one thing to say wait, it's another thing to say kill more people, because I don't like the semantics being used.
So, wait. Their models are S, 3, X, and now Y?

Clever.
There's a difference between "couldn't find a problem" and "no problem".

He went to them multiple times and they couldn't reproduce the problem. Sounds fairly standard. I'd be surprised if you can cite them saying there is definitely no problem.
Let me say that this topic made me realize how crazy some of the problems in programming are.

I cant even imagine programming at FB and amazon scales.
Last month i gave up my dinosaur status (using a ciphered pen and paper notebook for managing my passwords) and started using Lastpass.

To be honest, i still feel a bit wary about keeping my password in the cloud, but LastPass has been so amazingly convenient, it's well worth the risk. To be extra certain incase of an undisclosed breach, I 2FA everything that has a 2FA option. I know i'm very late to the ballpark, but i'd rather corporate organizations add Password Managers to their policies instead of forcing everyone to change ever so often and worsening the situation.
Google about "safe withdrawal rate" and you'll see theres a bunch of information about a portfolio being able to fund 4% long term (in perpetuity?) .
Regardless of what you think it means, this guy was likely smart enough to know what it is. It's not like it was a 90 year old driver who doesn't understand technology. Also, supposedly he was aware of issues at this particular spot. Therefore, the only logical explanation is that he passed out at the wheel, either due to a medical condition or sleep deprivation. Having said that, tesla should fix their collision detection and auto-braking systems.
That's what the pen and paper are for. By the time I get to the "transcribing" portion of the work, I usually know how things are going to go together.
By driving a car, I have not optimized walking but instead have stopped walking and optimized transportation.

Similarly, by doodling (or whatever), I have not optimized typing but instead have stopped typing and optimized programming.

edit: made sentences make sense and stuff
iOS app “Leap Second” made about 2k a month last year this year 5-10k. Required some initial upfront work to create the app but since then Ive been putting in about 2h per week.
> but in practice nobody cares

I haven't worked with Go personally, but "no generics" is probably the most commonly vocal complaint I hear about it, so clearly some people do care.
That's not what template metaprogramming means. That's just plain generic programing, with templates. TMP is this: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/C%2B%2B_Programming/Templates/...
Yes, I'm terrified.
I think the issue is more about teaching styles rather than learning styles. Teachers often only know one way to teach things and can't adapt at all to level differences. They often enjoy working MOST with the kids who ALREADY know everything due to tutors or parents.

So the kernel of truth is that different approaches are needed for different individuals but it jumped too quickly into specific archetypes.

Another kernel of truth is that everyone has the same potential but the majority flow often dienfranchises individuals who can't take advantage of the mainstream winds.
I’m not scandalized by the sex. I just find myself eye rolling at the hamfisted treatment of the topic. A couple of lame pickup lines and every woman you encounter practically impales herself on you.

Not to mention the tedium of the cut scenes where sex is depicted. But you’re right that I have a double standard in one regard: I’ll put up with lengthier cut scenes with magic explosions and plot advancements than I will put up with cut scenes that are herky CG sex.
Came here to say this. Some adaptations are art; most are money grabs.
Ive fallen out of love with Elon.

Hes a big talker and a bigger cult leader.

His fans will believe the news.
I think this is their answer to Turo?
A Bioshock movie would be very hard to get right because so much of the plot revolves around free will and choice, which is of course entirely missing in film. However there was a book [1] set in the Bioshock universe which could work.

[1] http://bioshock.wikia.com/wiki/BioShock:_Rapture_(Novel)
Many of the Witcher 3 substories seem to be reincarnations of the various stories told in the original books - I mean, Witcher is not a "game story" but an adaptation of novels, and these novels have also been adapted into movies and IIRC a TV series some decades ago;
Yes, that works, but it means I'm committing with a dirty work tree, so I can't really test before I commit.

You're probably going to say I shouldn't test before every commit, but I rarely work in a branch where the bar is as low as "absolutely no testing required". I generally at least want my build to pass, or some smoke tests to pass, and I can't reliably verify either of those with a dirty work tree. And actually, the fact that all of the commits on my branch are effectively going to end up in master (unless I squash) makes me want to to have even my feature branches fully tested.
Or, you could just get paid more to accept emails outside of normal working hours. Pager duty bonus / overtime, of some form.

The current problem is that companies are classifying employees as "exempt" which means they are not compensated for work outside of normal hours, but they are then expending folks to respond from mobile at all hours. Those two things are inherently in conflict.
Once I worked for a forestry industry company and they forced me to be in the union. After a month of working with them I had accrued like $300 in pension (total value, not monthly). They actually tracked me down and paid it out to me like 4 yrs later when I had completely forgotten about it. Probably cost them $300 to get it into my hands.
> Ok so what’s the solution? Is the only other option no regulation and accepting the fact that what Cambridge Analytica did is going to be the way things are done from now on? Just wondering what the constructive path for advocacy is now.

A little antitrust enforcement certainly wouldn't hurt -- stop letting Facebook buy its competitors. More competition would do two things. First, less people on each network, so less impact for each mistake. Second, more competition creates market pressure. It's much more problematic for Facebook to be able to do this and get away with it because they have a monopoly and users have no alternative, than for them to do this and lose all their users to a vibrant competitive marketplace, serving as a lesson to anyone who would do the same thing.

It also wouldn't hurt if the government would just overtly support decentralized systems. The internet itself, The Tor Project and most of the other decentralized technologies we have all came out of government research grants. Which we don't do nearly as much as we used to in this space.

We could also roll back some of the existing bad laws -- like SESTA -- that are already making it harder for small players to compete.
The Cold Case of the Max Headroom Signal Intrusion
>>Short term rentals do not diminish housing stock

If houses that would otherwise be rented or occupied are being used for short term rentals how can this be true?
Tesla has world-class PR, let's assume they're saying the right thing. What circumstances might they be facing to which this message is a correct response?
I'm not good at selling myself, I don't live in a tech-hub city, and I'm probably mediocre at my job. I feel good about the work I do and do have strengths but I'm not proving to be a competitive candidate for the work I want.

I'm spending my free time acquiring better skills so hopefully this will change for me.
There are many ways to study attention and mood. What I took from the press release which appears to be novel (though I've not read the original research article) is that our higher-order representations of facial emotions are able to be influenced by stimuli presented to the participant unconsciously. Although the participant was not aware of the happy faces being presented to them, their representation of the emotion of a separate face was affected. This is very different from the obvious "our mood influences what we attend to in the world".

Also highlighted in the press release is the fact that this was robust for unconsciously presented happy faces -- it is unusual for positive stimuli to have a stronger effect on most psychological measures. This is usually due to negative stimuli causing higher levels of arousal (as far as I know, though I'd need to confirm this in the literature), so it's really due to a confounding of valence and arousal.

My main question from this article would be how they controlled for low-level visual properties of the stimuli presented. The hope is that their upside-down face experiment was able to account for any possible confounding of face emotion with something like spatial frequency characteristics influencing the participant's subjective judgement of the neutral face, but there will never be a way to fully claim that it was the emotion of the face alone. If you fully control the underlying visual properties of the stimulus, you remove the emotion!
Does it make free cash flow after all expenses (including amortization of big ticket repair items) ?
Glad to hear! I'll have to check back in on it this weekend. :)
> If Musk had not gotten wealthy on paypal, SpaceX wouldn't have been possible

Cool, that's about one guy.

I understand that wealth management often includes investing into companies actually doing something, those will most often still be motivated by efficiency (because otherwise they'll be out-competed).

This capitalist system works well, but the humans in the market can be helped out by regulating (oh, the evil word) the companies to give their workers certain rights.
This slightly limits wealth accumulation on the higher end not by setting a maximum bank account balance, but by giving money to people who need it (and spend it), thus stimulating the economy further.

This is something all "developed" countries seem to have realised, with the exception of the USA. Or maybe not.
Rust is the "Imagine a Beowulf cluster ..." of HN.
Focusmate has been an incredible boost to my productivity. So glad to see it getting mentioned here. It's uncanny how the connection to another person has enabled me to unlock immediate productivity. I strongly recommend it.
> takes years to build

It only takes about a year in the US: http://eyeonhousing.org/2015/08/how-long-does-it-take-to-bui...
Well I'm an Erlang enthusiast not an APL one, my APL experience is reading a manual for 4 hours on a plane and 4 hours writing APL

There are a squad of specific set related problems in Riak that the Basho engineers skirted round or were afraid of - and they were all about Set operations - so APL's focus on tiny notational programmes that are graspable in the mind is appealing for that basis.

Is this the most considered blog post? No, hell no ;-) but APL struck me as fascinating...
A gun is deliberately aimed at a target. The bullet isn't responsible because it has no agency; it is a propelled piece of mass. A self-shooting gun has agency, and does not require the human to aim with attention. (There are currently no self-shooting guns on the market absent hacked firearms.)

A Tesla Autopilot is like a self-shooting gun. Autopilot decides where to go, independently of the human. The car is in control, not the human. Moreover, the car does not actually require the human to watch the road with attention because it continues to maintain control even in the absence of human involvement.

Ergo, they're nothing alike.
I’d be willing to bet that the donations to >80% of the panel interviewing him purchased the privilege to not having to ‘swear in’
That is, up to the limits of IEEE 754 - unless a BCD is used.
"And, I'd bet there are session players that'd be able to replicate Peart's style reasonable effectively"

Replicating Peart's style is hard but not impossible, though many drummers (even great ones such as Mike Portnoy) often get it wrong because they look for speed and perfect timing while the strongest point of Peart has always been his sense of dynamics: he could make a song by hitting only a single drum just by modulating strength of the hits, their speed and time changes.

Jazz musicians are picky about rock drummers invading their lawn (for very good reasons I'd say), but I think Peart made it pretty well.
Check this one at the Buddy Rich Memorial Concerts and don't miss the solo, this sounds like a variation of the old solo in the Exit Stage Left live album) I like this one a lot more than the newer ones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0gYHLkY4qA

To me his very distinctive traits also are his use of upbeats (in fills too) and that famous ride pattern which totally raises attention among Rush fans as soon as you start playing it.
These guys nail it well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRhTmDSrNvE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYaVZojowiQ
With regards to graphics, if one were to dedicate 2k of ram to a frame-buffer, you should be able to get ~5fps by just continuously rendering the frame-buffer to the graphics controller. setPixel is slow because it does 2 r/m/w per pixel, but rendering an already known 8 pixel block would do two writes per block or 1/4 write per pixel for an 8x speedup.

This could be further optimized by keeping a map of dirty/clean bits for each character; then you could just add to the game loop something that polls the ready bit on the latch and writes the next dirty character.

Your setPixel now becomes (read from frame buffer, write if different, mark-dirty if different), which is only a few cycles.

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Just noticed he mentions something similar as an idea for otimizing. I think my idea is slightly better than his because it can be done with about half as much memory.
I think it's pretty clear why they created Fuchsia:

1. They want a modular microkernel OS with modern capabilities.

2. They want to eventually replace their internal Linux based OS with Fuchsia.

3. Fuchsia, or parts of it, will be the basis for all of their products.

4. They want to control the direction of their own OS.
Vancouver has some special geographic considerations that you need to consider and within the downtown core the conversion away from single family units is AFAIK completely done[1]. Density increases in the downtown core are now being down by removing lower density apartment/condo buildings and replacing them with higher density buildings.

I am aware that the nearest city (New Westminster) is developing pretty actively, but there is a deadzone in between the two (Burnaby) that seems to have draconian NIMBY zoning laws. Generally speaking, Vancouver's housing crisis is pretty amazingly interesting and probably is more a result of the incredibly poor transit here[2] than anything else.

[1] There may be some single family units remaining in the Denman neighborhood and there are some remaining in Strathcona (near east van.) as well as lots in Kitsilano and the south shore in general, but both of these areas are generally considered outside of the downtown core.

[2] Oh yea, we have driverless trains, woo... but there are only three transit lines none of which connect to either of our major universities and poor management of the system has left the lines overcapacity.
> There have been a zillion startups that have had collecting user data baked into their business model.

And they can rot like Facebook. Nobody is trying to save them. The problem is you're destroying anyone whose model isn't that.
I remember hearing Podesta in an interview on NPR a few days before the election and at that point, hearing Podesta talk, I realized that Trump had a very good chance of winning. Podesta gave Trump way too much credibility despite everything that had already happened in the campaign.
With cruise control all it does is maintain your speed and with the more advanced cameras your distance from the vehicle ahead of you. There is absolutely no instance where you would ever take your hands off the steering wheel with cruise control. Only your feet off the pedals.
Amazon stock
> Linus and others don't want these (relatively) short-lived processors to be checked into mainline linux

I don't think that's true. e.g. 4.17 is accepting code to run Samsung Galaxy S3 (released nearly 5 years ago). It is left to volunteers since most vendors dump a source release to comply with the GPL but themselves don't upstream it to Linus.
Zipcar is decidely not the same thing as Getaround. It involves a weeks long process of getting verified, getting your key fob in the mail, etc. and then you can only use the specific run down beat up cars that they own. You then have to find some way of getting to their nearest parking lot, and some way of getting back when youre done. The few times Ive used Getaround it was amazing. Just open the app, put in your CC, and unlock a car from your phone.
> tend to be the same people whose preferred learning style is the most passive - usually "visual learners" who somehow feel like they're absorbing more by looking at it rather than actually engaging it (by, for instance, working actual problems).

Trying to link a preference for visual learning/reading with passiveness comes off as weird for me. Reading almost certainly takes more activity from the reader.

Also your idea that visual learners tries to avoid workimg real problems seems to be that you have dealt with lazy people who tried to hide between learning styles.

For me, passive listening often makes me fall asleep or zone out. When I read I'm busy, I can read at my own speed and I can effortlessly go back and reread.

(When there is a podcast I actually want to listen to I'll prefer to listen to it while doing the dishess or driving or something. Somehow that calmes my mind enough to listen.)