skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The total US federal prison population working at jobs unrelated to prison maintenance numbers in the 10s of thousands, producing a value of $1Ms. A drop in the bucket, nationally. As an 'underclass' they are almost invisible. Don't know about the 'criminalize dissent' part but hey there's always the internet.
oh my god, that looks like the result of a run away bicycle maximizer AI.
> it can’t evaluate which of two competing cases is more likely

Of course it can. In fact, it can tell you exactly how much more likely one case is versus the other. P=0.05 means that there is a 5% chance that the null is true and hence a 95% chance the the null is false.

> says something about the likelihood of the _hypothesis_ (like you're trying to do)

No. I am simply saying that there is a lower bound on the rate of false positives caused by the choice of the threshold p value. If you chose P<=0.05 then you will have an error rate of at least 5%. The actual error rate is almost certainly higher (that's what "lower bound" means) for a host of other reasons.
25-Year-Old Textbooks and Holes in the Ceiling: Inside America’s Public Schools
You will probably be interested in this explanation of how xi-editor does it: https://google.github.io/xi-editor/docs/rope_science_11.html
Those are photographs of outdoor storage of a bankrupt company's inventory.

If GM went out of business tomorrow, I took can take photographs of lots full of cars, and point out that automobiles are a terrible idea.

> The sidewalk is a public resource.

So is the curb. If we are allowed to park cars on the curb, why can't we park ride-share bicycles there? They take up ~1/10th the space of a car.

In most of SF, curbside parking wastes more space then the sidewalk.
Exhaustive search is definitely a high value option. But let's consider dermpath. Where the entire lesion is probably in the field of view at 4x, but the number of possible classes may be high (bullous lesions, anyone?). In that case, "90% Bowen's disease, 3% inflamed Seborhheic keratosis, and 7% other" is useful, especially if you knew the machine had been trained on everything in Weedon.
The kombucha byproduct looks like a vastly different material. The only real difference is that they're both kinda-sorta lather facsimiles?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds8ZFzOwGeI
Elon Musk says Tesla will build Model 3s 24/7 until the end of June
Simple solution: There should be painted areas on the sidewalk to put them, and regulators should be able to fine companies if they're found outside of it, which will then pass that fine onto the user that left it there.
This is like a textbook case of the Dunning-Kruger effect
Yeah, I can confirm that. There was one professor in my department (my advisor) who didn't teach analytic or ancient philosophy. To take any other courses in continental philosophy, I had to go to the german department and comp lit department, and those were so lacking in rigor that it was hard to take seriously.
Appcoins – product rewards matter more than financial rewards
It's the best thing since sliced bread after all.
Presumably permitting will allow the city to control the amount of scooters on the streets to control public space congestion and ensure that those who operate in the city are following rules regarding placement, education and safety.
We are all bound by nature, so is the capitalist. What is important is to be free from men.

You also do NOT need to work for a capitalist to survive. You need to work for the state or you will starve, thats our modern world.
I made devAny which is essentially a thin client of Unix to write programs on iPhone(and iPad).
This requires bluetooth keyboard and backend server (and monitor/connector to the monitor if iPhone) though, it comes with the followings.

* Provides 3 tools to write code, which are editor, terminal and browser. -- They are the required tools for programmer

* Most of the operations can be done by only external keyboard. -- Not using soft keyboard but physical bluetooth keyboard

* Having Unix(ubuntu) environment -- Server processes needs to be set up by yourself on your server. But it comes with docker, EC2 images and packer, so you can install easily.

Technically this uses WebDAV and ttyd to communicating with backend server.

Any feedbacks are welcome.
"The sidewalk is a public resource. Companies shouldn't be able to use it without paying the public for its usage."

But they ARE paying for it. Indirectly, by getting cars off the road.

If anything, we should be paying THEM for those overall benefit that they are bringing to society.
The paper has beautiful illustrations. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.02385.pdf

Animations showing how the larger graphs are built from smaller graphs would be amazing and illustrative for mortal non-mathematical-geniuses.
Inside the Unnerving Supply Chain Attack That Corrupted CCleaner
> and "abandon" their vehicles in an orderly fashion.

Never mind that we set aside large parts of our public space for people to curbside park. If we were to set aside two parking spots per block for bicycles, you wouldn't have any problems with them being left on sidewalks.
we should take a leaf out of the signal/telegram book and convert the hex strings to emoji thumbprints.

It's "good enough" for 90% of cases, but it depends on clients supporting emoji.. :(
Yeah. While I don’t support NIMBYism, YIMBY-types seems to love to use Japan as their counterexample, without understanding that Japanese homes tend to be built somewhat dangerously and without regard to earthquake safety.
Network/OpenBTS Hacker
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Seeking an independent learner, self-driven “hacker” type with experience/interest in:
● Proxies ● Network tunneling ● Android ● Cell network emulation ● SMS, MMS, WAP, USSD, i-Mode

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● Develop custom proxy implementations, including Android-speciﬁc work ● Develop cell tower emulation infrastructure (OpenBTS/Osmocom cell emulation stack) ● Develop security and functionality unit and integration test suites, automated regression testing ● Interest to learn new skills and hack through diﬃculties (this space is extremely challenging, diverse code bases, documentation probably missing)
You will be comfortable:
● Grepping through old make build scripts in one moment and evaluating packet capture (pcap) traces to debug proxy implementations in another ● Figuring out answers to hard questions with minimal documentation and at-times unreliable speciﬁcations ● Rapidly hacking prototypes and responding to iterative feedback
This role is part of a special innovation team. You will be working closely with a small team in pursuit of ambitious goals.
He runs a video production company lol, there will def be production value
Or you can design the building to float on the liquified soil. Either way works.
Only if we do the same thing for cars. And we make sure that the car fine is literally 100 times larger, because cars are much more costly to the public.
I'd think that 11% of CA homeowners is large enough that you have already hit the economies of scale and the price is largely a factor of risk. Quintupling that number is not going to reduce the price.
Visibility range and quality of pictures in degraded atmospheric conditions also goes down significantly. Not sure if it can be an argument for Lidar vs Cameras discussion.
The way a Cambridge PhD works, I believe – and I think this is the same across the UK – is that the only things you actually have to do are;

a) write a thesis

b) find examiners (internal and external) who agree to examine you; if you're a grad student this is your advisor's job. The examination is by thesis review followed by pass/pass-with-corrections/fail oral exam. It can take as long as it needs to (typically three to four hours), and is in private; it's not like public defenses elsewhere, which are for show, this is a real live-fire exam and I know people who have failed

c) pass

d) ... that's it; there is no part d)

In particular, there are no quals or other requirements; the degree is an old-school medieval masterwork deal. You submit your thesis and get examined on it. Typically you write your thesis through an apprenticeship to your advisor, but that's not actually required, it's just conventional; in Aubrey's case, the thesis was the book and the research proceeded by unusual means over a long period of time. Nevertheless, he got examined in the same way everyone else does, he passed like everyone else did, so he has his PhD.

(source: my own memory, I know Aubrey and have worked with him on a couple of non-science things fifteen years ago, and I got my PhD from Cambridge through the traditional route of being a grad student – thesis at https://aspace.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/218854?show=...)
I think it's very different from the halting problem because there is no perfect solution (like there is with "either the problem halts or it does not"). A self-driving car just needs to be good enough, where "good enough" means X% more reliable than the average human driver.

I personally am terrified of human drivers and will not walk close to the edge of a road because I don't trust them to be paying attention. As shown recently, self-driving cars appear to not yet be at that level (though I don't know the numbers - perhaps they are).

When self-driving cars reliably have same-or-few accidents per year (by volume) then I think they can claim "Full Self-Driving".
He's not an actor. Linus is the head of the company who runs the channel — and also its original host.
I hate to break it to you, but brainwaves are very much a physical phenomenon. What is the point of that quote in this context exactly?
Then it should be trivial for you to provide proof of this accusation.
“Segregation is technically illegal, but if you look at a census map for 8 Mile Rd in Michigan, it’s all white people to the north and black people to the south”

Is theRe a historic reason for this, or example of schellings segregation model?

http://ncase.me/polygons/
Undocumented scooters are a problem. They take the work away from us cyclist who haul tourists everywhere.
How are recommendation algorithms robbing anyone? I can understand a credit score algorithm denying a loan as potentially robbing. Recommendations seem at the worst to be as annoying as a poorly curated catalogue. Am I missing something?
Would this be a good candidate to use as a synthetic skin for touch-able robots and devices? I've thought for awhile that leather might be good for that, but something like this which could be grown with electronics, heating elements, and other things embedded directly into it would probably be much better!
Google Ultimate Interface – Fagan Finder
As someone who does a fair bit of sewing I have to wonder if this is going to behave more like a "fabric" with leather like qualities.

From the description (and it isn't much) I'm guessing that this is going to drape much like felt. Is that close to leather? Well it is closer than most woven fabrics but leather and felt behave much differently.

I would also expect that this is going to cost far more than actual leather does.
Because every scooter is 1 less uber ride across town, or 1 less car on the road.
OpenSports: https://opensports.net - we make it really easy for sports organizers to run their organizations, collect money, handle waitlists, waivers etc.

If people in the Bay Area want to go to SPIN tonight and drink and play ping pong while we wait for the results to come in please comment and we'll see if we can setup a last minute event.

Also, if you want to see our hack from the YC Hackathon last weekend here is a link (https://www.facebook.com/OpenSportsInc/videos/21414657827534...) to Sequel Dan (we made an Alexa app that wrote SQL to query questions against our staging database almost as fast as we thought of them)

Good luck to everyone!!
Are you simply wanting to see your data, or do you want it deleted? After GDPR comes in I’m going to be looking into the latter.
It's a bit of a tricky one as it may get downvoted / closed, but another approach is to try and avoid asking for the resource and ask something like

What is the specification for X?

or

What is the name of the specification for X?

or

Is there a specification that defines the output of X?

While most of the answers will likely link to a resource, technically you didn't ask for an offsite resource, however it may be seen as too broad , or still may get closed for asking for offsite resources.
Many people already fool themselves by simply refusing to fact-check anything that doesn't support their biases. If you thought "alternative facts" were bad now, just wait for this tech to hit 100% believability.
People who only do something when inspired are reliably and overwhelmingly bested by people who do it consistently.
> people clogging emergency exits, also seem to involve cognitive failures more than selfishness.

Right, the problem with crowd crush is that the people causing the crush are at the fringes aren't able to see the results that their aggregate forces are causing to people deep in the crowd.
Is it Oracle Oracle, or Oracle SUN product? BTW, it sounds pretty cool, I am wondering how do you convert between complex datatypes while passing parameters between different languages and not losing much speed with it?
Not at all; once you declare an emergency, it's ATC's job to get everyone else out of your way. It's obviously better if you tell them what you're going to do, but that takes a backseat to actually handling the emergency.
How is that reasonable to suspect in the slightest?
It really depends on your application.

Access services (e.g. browsing and searching in a product catalog) scale horizontally without any limitations. For this type of applications, 4 huge servers are more expensive, less reliable, and not significantly easier.

On the other hand services around scarce resources (e.g. a last-minute travel booking application) are indeed very hard to scale horizontally, so in such cases the parent's advice is sound.
I always suspected this could be applied to civilization and the human mind as well - that the structure of society has some similarities to the structure of our brains.
What You Can Expect from Node.js 10
This spore guy deserves more credit. Everyone appreciates a good pun from a fungi.
Interesting article, but I can't believe the writer said "pulchritude rating" instead of attractiveness. I have a pretty large vocabulary and I'm pretty well read, but I have never seen the word pulchritude before.

If you combined this research with the "smell dating" phenomenon, where you match based on liking each other's body odor, you could probably do some pretty amazing matchmaking for dating.
Really making me want to setup PiHole now... any tips on what to block?
That's good, then. Would you care to enlighten us, or are you just going to be smug and inscrutable?
Here's some info pulled right from https://www.againstmalaria.com/:

* Half a million people die each year and 400 million fall ill [with malaria]

* 70% of them are children under 5

* #1 killer of pregnant women

* Malaria is preventable

Malaria nets cost $2. Antimalarial drugs are dirt cheap in the developing world. If you want to impact human suffering and increase human health, this is a good place to start. Not with trying to extend the long and already pleasant lives of rich people in the West.
Nothing I can share, unfortunately.
I've been getting into it over the last few weeks. I found a quiet server and invited my preferred friends. It's quiet and respectful and reminds me of the BBS days.
The Facebook fiasco shows why we need to build apps with no one in charge
the email confirmation for signup is broken on that website
That sounds like a great science fiction story though!
There's also a need for better hardware security on the scooters themselves; I saw at least two in SOMA this morning missing their batteries.
"Unsettling?! This is the stuff that makes science exciting. "

There are a ton of researchers who are only waiting to see data that's not consistent with the current models. From what I have read it's disappointing for many how well the standard model and relativity are holding up.
Added “Fake” in front of Obama. Let me know if you have any other suggestions.
Definitely not dead -- it got stalled for a while because Urbit tends to use deep stacks and both Graal and the JVM seem to favor shallow ones. The author (not me) came up with a "meta-stack" design that may mitigate this issue and will go back and try it soon.

But the performance seen on a trivial Ackerman function was very good -- Nock via Graal got close to C performance. That's impressive for what's basically a Lisp.
Torch (YC W18) is hiring a Senior Product Designer
Amazon made an efficient Android browser called Internet
"It’s strong, and abrasion resistant." As a motorcyclist, I need to see a side-by-side abrasion resistance comparison. So far, nothing beats leather.
> "One VM to rule them all"

Except a VM with a more liberal license could easily beat it in popularity.
It probably does depend on the infrastructure choices the city implements. I don't see a lot of buses systems that have isolated islands, dedicated lanes, etc. I do see them frequently for street trolleys.
And I suppose no one will ever be able to describe the act of walking quick in work out clothes again because of all the people “running” to the store.
They have a monopoly on the legitimate use of force?
Speaking of, I always thought 'www.creditscoremeet.com' would be a great dating site theme. But this 'smellmeet.com' is also quite intriguing
Biggest issue I personally had with CPS and why I'll never use it for anything is the need to wrap your entire call stack, at compilation time, in CPS macros. That's a no-go for calling external libs.

Clojure does this a lot better with Pulsar.
I test drove Tesla and specifically to test autopilot. I liked it less than Q7 automatic cruise control and line steering. In particular, to my taste Tesla was more/unnecessary aggressive in braking when cars changed lines in front of me.

I use Q7 ACC pretty much all the time nowdays. I do accelerate and sometimes brake manually of course. However I enjoy the fact that I don't need to be 100% focused on driving when it is enabled. It is similar to how I operate autopilot in the plane: monitor it does the right thing but don't bother making constant minor adjustments. I am still mentally in the game, just for a different reason/goal.
The pilot has thousands of hours in an F18 fighter jet. She retired from the NAVY and became a commercial pilot. What you're hearing is incredibly effective communication by a very experienced pilot.

Curious if you'd give this kind of scrutiny if the pilot were a man.
Thank you for those questions.

> Can I AOT with this (via SubstrateVM) and deploy to "mobile" targets, and specifically iOS?

Technically there is no reason to not support it. But support is not implemented yet.

> Are there any examples of embedding GraalVM in an existing native application (such as the noted idea of having GraalVM accessible inside of MySQL)?

Yes. Oracle MLE[1] and MySQL already work. Oracle MLE you can try already.
We have a native embedding API (its very similar to the Java API). We could not yet quite finish the documentation of it for website. But its already included look for a file polyglot_api.h in the binary.

[1] https://oracle.github.io/oracle-db-mle/releases/0.2.7/
If you're wondering whether it makes a difference, yes, it really does: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiana_Airlines_Flight_214

"Two 16-year-old girls with Chinese passports were found dead outside the aircraft soon after the crash, having been thrown out of the aircraft during the accident.[1]:108–110[37][38][39][40] Neither victim was using her seatbelt.[1]:108-110 It is likely that these passengers would have remained in the cabin and survived if they had been wearing their seatbelts.[1]:xii,110"
Here is what they say about pleather in their Sustainability section:

Mylo is also a more sustainable option than synthetic leathers, most of which are made from polyurethane or PVC, These so-called ‘pleathers’ are manufactured using numerous toxic chemicals. While not proven to be dangerous to humans during use, these toxic chemistries persist in the landfills and groundwater where they end up.

Reading elsewhere, it doesn't look like Kombucha is a pleather. If not, then they are different processes for creating different materials that are substitutes for leather.
Will people never take Betteridge's law of headlines seriously?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
From the transcript [0], when Justice Kennedy is asking if human intervention is required to retrieve the records, E. Joshua Rosenkranz responds:

> A human being doesn't have to do it. It is a robot.

> A human being in, let's say, Redmond tells the robot -- it sends the robot instructions.

What does he mean by robot? Is this just software, or does an actual machine have to go spin up some servers in storage?

I feel like something about the use of the term seems to imply more than just "software". Is there a legal advantage to using this word instead of "the program" or "software"?

[0]: https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcr...
I live in San Francisco. These things are everywhere, the people who ride them leave them anywhere as well. Sometimes just laying flat on the ground even. I hate that they take sidewalk space. Hopefully they'll figure it out... but I'm all in for designated parking areas for these things or taking them off the sidewalk.
Huawei, Failing to Crack U.S. Market, Signals a Change in Tactics
VPN that anonymizes IP and isn't 1-to-1 mapped to person/device. Tor network?
You are welcome to take a train
Yes, we are strangers. I don't know you, and don't know what you have or haven't tried, or how hard you've tried. I don't know who you met and who you didn't meet, how they treated you or how you treated them.

I, like you, have my own experience of and view on the world, and I was just expressing it and trying to help -- help not just you but anyone who's reading this that might be going through something similar.

I've seen so many good people torpedo their own chances, so many people blame others when they actually had a role to play in the negative way the relationship went (I'm not saying you're doing this because, as you point out, I don't know you at all.. but some people certainly do exactly that), and so many people could do a lot better if they did try more and worked on their issues more to actually improve their own desirability and ability to cope with serious relationships.

But if you don't believe me, if you're not convinced or don't think what I say applies to you, and you prefer to give up, fine. Then what I say is not for you. Maybe it can encourage someone else who hasn't yet given up.
How can Zuck's speehwriter write about experience without violating her NDA?

This post reminds me of Gavin Belson's blood boy. I assumed CEOs locked down the people close to them with NDAs.
> It's a time when we need to rely on trusted news sources

That's the rub, isn't it? Who's a "trusted" new source? All the major players have shown biases, corruption, and manipulation. Lots of people therefore consider some fly-by-night facebook feed that says what the majors don't to be more "trusted" in response.

We shouldn't "rely" on single points of perceived trust, especially in this massive for-profit, for-power media industry. We need to be broadly informed from various angles to have a better chance of piecing together a reasonable sense of what's going on.
Netflix: a streaming giant on the brink of global domination
I second this. In order of efficacy:

1) doing a project
2) taking notes
3) simply reading

Best if you can do all 3 in reverse. There's just no substitution for the creative spark and contact with hard reality that doing a project gives you. Any ambiguities, misunderstandings, and missed information are almost guaranteed to be ironed out with a wisely chosen project.
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