skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't think of regulation as a binary - on or off. Instead, think of it as an adjustable knob.

The higher you turn the knob, the harder it becomes to (compliantly) do things. Also (if the regulations are working as they should), the less the things that people do produce bad side effects. But the "harder to do things" part mean that fewer things get done - fewer new products and services get created. As the knob goes higher, not all of the things that don't get done are things that the regulations are designed to prevent. Some are perfectly fine things, but the burden of proving it is too much for the single person tinkering in their apartment to ever try to turn their idea into releasable reality.
Well Jaywalking is only illegal in 10 countries. So PR campaigns won't be enough for that. The benefits of self driving cars as so massive that it will trump anything like that - but we are still a long way away from practical self driving cars.
The government, whose prosecutors brought this case - aren't arguing that the cheese "could have been poisoned" except in the sense that we have no idea what counterfeiters might or might not get wrong in the process of knocking off a product and we _don't want to find out_ which is why counterfeiting is a criminal offence.

Their argument is that Lundgren's product, a CD that says it's a Windows restore CD from Dell, but is actually a counterfeit produced by Lundgren in China, is (duh) a counterfeit of the Windows restore CD, which sure enough Microsoft sells for (depending on which version exactly) $25.

If you sell your cheese, saying this is a Buxton Blue, (a protected designation) but it isn't, that's counterfeiting. You have counterfeit cheese. Saying "Oh, well I saw them giving cheese away in a supermarket once, so it's free, so there shouldn't be a penalty" doesn't wash. Are you giving it away as a promotion in a supermarket? No. You're selling it, saying it's Buxton Blue. So the right question is, "How much does Buxton Blue sell for?" and the equivalent here is exactly the question Microsoft was asked, "How much do you charge for these CDs?" to which the answer is $25.

Lundgren is a counterfeiter. It's sad how many people are buying what is literally a sob story from a convicted criminal as though it's a neutral third party discussing the case.
Their customer service reps sucked long before 2010 and have never remotely "assisted" me.
For someone rather new to HN, is there any reason HN, of for that matter reddit do not support logging in with third party accounts? Stackoverflow for example does support them, and whatever may be their downsides, they are mighty convenient.
Downtown was pretty much a ghost town 20 years ago.
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How one country is doing everything to dissuade you from driving a car
That's like saying humans will never stop raping and murdering because of human nature so we have to be realistic and find solutions that don't involve just not raping and murdering people.
You are demonstrating your ignorance of the Precautionary Principle. Hint: it's about tail risks.
You could still make an argument for that if you squint hard enough. The virtual memory is still reserved, and a transition to kernel mode still has user space mapped, and the kernel's view of memory as well.
I wrote an app to cheat trivia apps
I wrote this app basically because I am not very good at quiz especially when those quiz are related to north american society/culture context. I immediately realized that I could google those question and get answer but obviously time limit was the problem.

So I started thinking how I could do it within the provided time time limit and use the flexibility/feature android platform provides.

Finally I came up with an app that help you get the most probable answer by just shaking the phone when the question appears and answer would be shown to you as toast message without doing anything(other than shaking the phone to trigger search)
This is how I made it:
1. First allow the user to feed in screenshot of the app when question and answer appear. User is asked to pick up area for question and options separately for preciseness.
2. when user turns on the app, it will wait for the user to shake the phone.
3. As soon as shake is received, it grabs screenshot of the phone at that instant.
4. Screenshot is broken down into question and option area and text from those area is read by using Google's OCR vision
5. Then Google query is made:Q(higher weight), Q+option1, Q+option2, and Q+option3
6. The results from those 4 network calls are given appropriate weight and option with higher weight sum is treated as answer
7. As soon as processing is finished, the answer is presented to user as Toast message.
All this usually happens within 3-6 seconds.

It works with any kind of trivia apps including hq trivia, cash show, loco and more.

You can check the app at.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=np.pro.dipendra.triviavision

video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqXZCatl1rQ
Bezos' writing is overrated.
It's not a lie by omission, it's a lie. If you don't have the software then you don't know whether or not you have the hardware. It's only proven when it works.
They don't "sell" DMs - they just hand a DM firehose over to the feds.

Haha - you'd be stupid to think that twitter doesn't do this.

Hell, library of congress archived the full firehose from 2010 until now - and now it will only archive "select content"

Gee - thats because POTUS is using it as his primary platform and a POLICY platform.

So -- it would seem clear that they are using 6-degrees from any and all that comment and RT POTUS tweets, and any other's that they want.

but just because lib of congress is no longer slurping that firehose up -- does not mean that other 5Eyes are not. I think it would be myopically foolish to think that after the NSA was caught intercepting HW and installing spying tech into it, that they wouldn't be doing it for twitter+DMs as well.

Further, FB is doing the same.
Virtu Veteran's New Crypto Market Has a $1M Debut
Uh, no, it is not safe to say that salaries are normally distributed, and they certainly aren't.

The salary distribution graph for a large corporation is likely to look something like this:

http://www.visier.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Graph-showi...

with a very, very, very long tail to the right representing the salaries of the CEO and senior executives. Depending on the corporation, there may be multiple humps ("salaries for Amazon warehouse workers" representing one hump, and "salaries for Amazon programmers" representing another, for example).

It's nothing like a normal curve.
https://federalnewsradio.com/tom-temin-commentary/2018/01/ir...
I'm not sure what "safer" means. Not sure what posting your insistence in other threads has to do with this. 10x or 100x the number of deaths would be small price to pay to get everyone in autonomous vehicles. It's air travel, all over again and there's a price to pay.
What?

Of course, worrying about _anything_ creates stress. But that's as far as it goes: Worrying about air pollution creates stress, but stress doesn't create more air pollution. Worrying about climate change doesn't make climate change worse.

The problem is closing the loop — worrying about sleeplessness produces stress, which then goes on to make the sleep disorder even worse. Same with weight loss and emotional eating.
Or at least require cigarette style warning labels:

Warning, this advertisement is a lie. Believing this advertisement may harm your cognitive health.
+1 for the book and especially for the Author. Jordan has over 500 hours of content on YouTube and it’s a gem.

I love his logic and the way he explain things. He got me when talked about IT related stuff and didn’t pretend he understood how it works like most people do nowadays.
It's exceedingly clear to me that they're talking about hardware that can support future capabilities -- additional features via software upgrades is something they talk about a lot. And they're very explicit about what their Autopilot system does and doesn't do on their site. There's basically no situation in which someone is buying a $70,000+ car without knowing how the Autopilot works.

It's really not that deceptive. People would have to be a lot dumber than they actually are to be confused about it.
Why wyoming vs nevada
You are correct that GDPR means "you cannot functionally control something someone else has," but you are missing the aspect of "force."

If I find the person that owns the server hosting my data, and I put a gun to his head, and I say, "remove my data," do I now control that data?

What if I instead pay someone else to go around putting guns to the heads of server owners? If I build an army?

What if instead of that I communitize my resources into a legal system that doesn't put guns to people's heads, but will take their money away and put them in jail if they don't follow the laws?

Don't get me wrong, I'm with you in the hacker-culture sense: fuck the system, man, if Google wanted to it could probably blackmail individual US government officials to the point that it took the country over. I get that. I guess we can get deep into a political science debate about governments and social contracts.

Put it this way: Is your sense that you can walk to work without getting mugged a false sense of security? If not, the only alternative is homesteads with militias (not walking to work anymore), or, arming entire populations (putting the burden of self-defense on the people). In the past, this has been tried, and led to gang rule.

If we "give up" on legal systems, we have ample evidence for what happens. When you apply those lessons to the digital space, maybe it's not 1:1, I guess some countries will be learning that for us, while others will try things like GDPR.

It's all a journey for human civilization. People like you that promote self-defense are great because we get amazing government-agnostic tools out of the deal. People that support GDPR are also great because we can test out "social contract" methods.

What's wrong with dancing around both sides of the aisle?
Apple's Service Revenue Closes in on $30B a Year
They exist and should be respected, but represent a tiny minority. Changing pronouns for everyone to please that fraction of the population seems silly unless you’re addressing that fraction.
Sure. Existing adaptive tests were an inspiration for the idea, of course. But putting together a good adaptive test is, itself, very time-consuming. And the test itself doesn't do more than measure ability. The crux of the idea is to use the adaptive test to suggest learning material from a wide swathe of sources to the individual.
Jaron Lanier Interview on What Went Wrong with the Internet
We know a lot more now than we did.

There’s a generation or two of chemists, pharmacists, etc who habitually mouth pipetted common lab solvents that we now know to be carcinogenic.

As early as 1969 chemists were identified as having increased cancer risk

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/cen-v047n008.p014b
Thank you. The very answer I was looking for.
This nigh-useless blurb links to a Youtube video: https://youtu.be/QkcBASKLyeU
On #3, I suppose that's the difference between OSS and closed source software today.

But why not just store an IPFS / Swarm hash linking to the source on chain? That requires almost no cost overhead per contract.
They're just not the "latest and greatest" any more. They've been around for awhile and it's just business as usual. They still have a number of consumers and they just started selling in brick-and-mortar stores (I believe it was WalMart).
One-third of Americans probably also have full mobile phone and digital cable packages, the latest iPhone, eat out twice a week, and drive a brand new Ford.

Every time I visit the states, I am shocked by the consumerism that pervades every aspect of their lives. Visiting friends and relatives down there, I am shocked at how full their houses are with junk; toys litter the floors, TVs in every room (bathroom too), drawers and closets full of yesterday's electronics and toys, etc.

It's no wonder 1/3 people are on edge financially, it seems like you aren't "American" unless you're buying the latest crap you see on TV. The American identity is heavily tied to consumerism.
The bigger problem is that they produce that are most of the time making perfect sense and then every now and then they spectacularly fail on input that is indistinguishable from inputs that gave correct answers.
At LibreOffice we, (mostly I) do whole program analyses, and they are fairly useful
e.g.
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/compilerp...

That said, the analyses
(a) are specific to our team
(b) require about 2 hours (each) to compute on a 6-core box
(c) are only run every couple of months
(d) are run and applied by the same person.
(e) have a false positive rate of around 1%, so require manual review
(f) often make assumptions that are only valid for how we use C++ and various libraries (without some "well just don't do that" assumptions you can't do any useful analysis across a C++ codebase :-)
But if you do happen to be an alert, cautious, and sober driver, it'd be unfortunate if Tesla's marketing led you to overly rely on Autopilot.

Ideally Tesla's marketing would say it's safer than drunk, sleepy, and reckless drivers, though it might not sell as many Autopilots.
A bit off topic, but I've been wondering about what expert systems are a lot lately, and I hope you don't mind me asking a few things about them.

I started studying machine learning long after statistical models was the absolute standard, and all I really know about expert system, are passing phrases in textbooks about how the world has moved away from it.

How does one go about building one? MNIST character recognition is often called the "Hello world of machine learning" ... what is the "Hello world of expert systems?"

Is there a modern term for Expert Systems?
> One might even go so far as to postulate if the IT industries push to get more people into IT is so that labor supply goes up leading to labor costs going down.

This has been discussed in great detail, especially here on HN. The consensus seems to be that even if you increase the supply by a lot, the nature of Software Engineering, its inherent complexity will restrict the supply of the highly skilled workers. This theory seems to have held out in the Indian/Chinese labor markets; but its possible there are other systemic reason for that.

Meanwhile the demand for Technology skills keeps increasing rapidly. Perhaps in the next economic bust there will be a much-delayed correction. The future does look pretty rosy for Software Engineers at the present time.
This article discusses the history of Bacon's cipher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon%27s_cipher
> hardware is present

that's false too. how would one prove that the current shipped hardware is sufficient for autopilot? some hardware is present for sure, but is it all needed as they claim? they cannot know, since they don't have an autopilot using such hardware to achieve the stated goal. they believe it is sufficient, which is quite not the same as the claim and it is also being vocally challenged by experts that criticize the decision of omitting full lidar coverage
Archaea can remediate soil from glyphosate and many other pollutants. It is difficult to produce at scale, but a man named Oppenheimer, a relative of the man who worked on the Manhattan Project, figured out how to package it and transport it. BioZome is a trade name for it.

edit: whoops, I missed that by "pick up" you meant "detect", not "munch through"!
So first of all: the lightning talk is certainly "worth it". Brendan Gregg is very knowledgeable and I can certainly recommend watching the talk. Its a good overview into the mindset of low-level optimization.

However, the core premise, the "headline" if you will of this talk, is utterly wrong. I get it: the headline needs to be a bit provocative to draw eyes, but its closer to "clickbait" than a good title of the talk.

The TL;DR of the talk is: Spectre/Meltdown caused a slowdown. But said slowdown is coming up as a ~+20% "CPU Utilization" under Linux performance measurement (ie: top or ps). This slowdown is because of a severe increase in TLB-misses.

Which... doesn't seem "wrong" to me. If the CPU is stalling because of TLB-buffer misses (kinda similar to an L2 cache miss or whatnot), then that's certainly CPU-time that is being wasted on something. Perhaps it isn't using power since the CPU is fully stalled, but the CPU is certainly "utilized" during that timeframe. Aside from hyperthreading: you can't really do something during the stall.

----------

Anyway, my criticism aside, the talk is certainly worthwhile to watch. And that's the important bit. So go ahead and watch the talk, even if I have a few pedantic qualms about the phrasing of the headline.

The real benefit of the talk is how Brendan Gregg diagnosed this performance problem, which eventually led to his conclusion about TLB-misses + Spectre. Demonstrating this skill and walking through a system to be able to draw this kind of conclusion is incredibly important.

I just don't... really like the title of the talk I guess. A rather minor concern all else considered.
when i read the first couple posts i was already thinking that mark/recall would be a huge extra step of complexity. adding mark and recall to the simplest traveling salesman problem is already a pretty challenging thing to comprehend. glad this guy didn’t just skip it because it doesn’t fit into traditional cs graph theory.
Stupid but obvious "what-if-question": How can two private citizens attain the equivelant of "attorney-client privilege" -- What is the reason that such privacy 'rights' are exclusive to conversations between an attorney and a person/entity.

Sounds like 'honor among thieves' when talking simply about attorney-client privilege is only honored between and in only those in the legal field?

I'm not being obtuse - serious question.
Regarding '1)': It doesn't have to bin _in_ the directory, and AFAIK it isn't with pipenv.
Regarding '2)': That sounds like a deployment issue? Certainly nothing I've experienced on my development machine. With pipenv your still free to generate a requirements.txt and deploy your app with whatever webserver setup you want.
> But it’s technically correct: the hardware is present. The software isn’t there yet, that’s true. So is this a “lie by omission”?

Some hardware is present, but that it is sufficient for full self-driving is simple speculation for which Tesla has no reasonable basis. The only way for them to know it is sufficient is to have self-driving implemented on it, which they obviously don't.

Its at best empty puffery and at most outright fraud, but in either case it's a knowingly unjustified claim, even if not knowingly false.
Yeah, can someone quick summarize this? Can't watch where I am.

edit: I found his blog post on this very topic. This should be the source: http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-05-09/cpu-utilization-...

Also, now that we have the blog link, we have some previous HN threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14301739
I'm sure the extra customizability is great and all, but isn't this not price competitive with Amazon's P3 instances? For spot pricing at least, they're at $1.2/hr [1], whereas here it's $1.34/hr [2]. It's not a big difference, but is there a benefit Google provides that I'm missing?

edit: I see now - the big difference is that Google is offering P100s (and pretty cheaply), which are not available on AWS.

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot/pricing/

[2]: https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator/#id=56e6b672-18...
I read that part more as: we don't have the necessary infrastructure to compute whole-program analyses, and we don't have sufficient justification to invest the effort in creating such infrastructure.
You're doing God's work, man. Thank you for helping me avoid that headache. I'm sticking with pip
Upon further inspection, the GitHub renderer works fine on PDF's much larger [1], and the native Safari PDF viewer opens these PDF's fine. I suspect there is something the GitHub renderer, your pdf generator, and Safari's js engine disagree on.

[1]: https://github.com/mynane/PDF/blob/master/Docker%20——%20从入门到...
Are you for real? Statistics prove that Tesla is right on this. I’m not saying human life has no value, and I do empathise with the people who lost someone due to a Tesla crash, but we can see what is the percentage. It IS lower compared to human error, and yes that includes DUI and every other time it was a human error.

Tesla is safer for the community based on the statistical data. Also it is safer than a human driving. I’m not saying it will never crash just that it will crash less than a human.

Maybe another way to compare it would be to an autopilot in airplanes. Sometimes it fails so we might as well be angry at the airline companies if they advertise it. But a pilot would make more mistakes than the autopilot with the current workload.

Side note: if you are going to downvote you can comment on why. Negative feedback is very useful and helps build better argumentative skills.
You just have to get the stuck card unjammed, then repunch it and recollate...
>The ideal solution is fining both Google and Facebook for all the money they've made from that abuse from at least the past 5 years, to level the playing field.

Probably not far enough. You need to outright shut them down, put them in a prison of sorts, fine them, and then let them continue operating after their term is up. Do not let them sell, do not let them split. But people will lose jobs, ads will be taken out to fight it, and it will be held up in court for far too long. Google and such have ingrained themselves in a way that to properly punish them for their actions is not politically tenable, because the only fitting punishment would destroy these companies and cause significant economic harm.
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If that was the object, why the sustained effort to imitate the official packaging, rather than just honestly admitting the discs were reproductions? Is that really the issue, when part of the defense of this guy made in the linked article is that the actual disc content was available for download for free from MS?
That's assuming the poor thing doesn't choose to immediately self terminate.
Windows 10 April 2018 Update released
Can you elaborate on what this means? What is formal vesting (and as opposed to what... informal vesting?) and how does not doing it make a company explode?

I’m sure I’m not the only one here who has never started a company and has no idea what this means. :)
Isn’t Google LLC a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc?
(should be 'Voila!')

Not the way I play it. ;)
OP is probably referring to the fact that in wrongful death suits, society has put a very tangible financial number on the value of human life. This made it possible for corporations to make trade-off between profit and liability, giving the potential that someone could get enough profit to justify risking others’ lives.

Punitive damages go part way to help prevent this, but not far enough to guarantee that it never happens.

Had the society truly believed life to be sacred, I suspect we’d have very different business practices and penalties that are not limited to financial ruin.
I guess most <country_name>.com domains are not owned by the governments, as .com is quite old, and geeks would have got them long before govts thought of having a website.

To add to the list,
brazil.com(website inaccessible), russia.com, india.com(news website), china.com, southafrica.com
This is a great time to become a patron. Simone and her team are going to be relying on the income from Patreon for at least the next several months.

I'm so glad that Patreon exists for moments like this, when a person just needs some time to deal with a health or a family issue and cannot focus on creating new material to maintain their finances.