skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you were right that nuke count doesn't matter then the U.S. and the USSR would never have built thousands of nukes.

QED

But still, you'll persist, so let's think it through.

Let's say that NK has 3 nukes. Let's say the U.S. has 1,000. Let's say all 1,003 nukes have the same yield, let's say 400K tons of TNT. And let's say both countries have ICBMs and can deliver all their nukes anywhere in the world in ~30 minutes.

Now let's say that NK strikes first and its warheads somehow get past U.S. missile defenses (maybe three nukes is what they have after missile defense). That's about 1% of the U.S. population dead. (Aside: the U.S. thenceforth will never again allow a tinpot dictator to get nukes -- from that point forwards the U.S. will undoubtedly first-strike any country trying it, and Russia and China will just have to deal with it.) Now the U.S. responds and uses only a few nukes to wipe out Pyongyang, Yongbyong, and related sites -- no missile defense there.

You might say this is an ecological disaster, but it's a blip in comparison to all the past atmospheric testing, so we'll survive.

Total tally: similar numbers of dead on both sides, about 1% of Americans, and about 12% of North Koreans.

Also affected: China's trade. You know what happens to that: total blockade by the U.S. Navy, as well as a prohibition on all Allies (big and small) trading with China, as well as canceling all American debt to China. You think a POTUS wouldn't do this if he/she had 3 million dead Americans to think about? No. Any POTUS who didn't do this would get deposed soon and the successor would impose this.

Do NK's nukes work as a deterrent? Maybe, but I think not. The U.S. has a larger nuclear deterrent vs. NK, and larger economic deterrent vs. China. KJU can die and not make that big a dent in the U.S., while the U.S. can wipe out KJU's ruling party and then some, and then too cause the deepest Depression in China, along with all the civil strife you might expect, and probably regime change in time.

It is absolutely in the interests of any POTUS to a) convey all of this to China (though that's not entirely necessary; Xi can count chips too), b) appear mad enough to ignore NK's deterrent. DJT can appear MADder than KJU. You don't have to buy it -- only Xi and KJU do, and I think recent events say they got the message.

In order to have a viable nuclear deterrent NK really needs enough return-strike nukes to get tens of them past U.S. missile defense. That's a lot of nukes, and there's not a lot of room in NK to put them without the U.S. being able to obliterate them in a first strike. So what NK really needs is that many nukes deliverable via SLBMs, and that's decidedly beyond their reach.

Yes, it's entirely possible (likely even) that KJU is aiming to pull a bait-n-switch at the coming summit with DJT. It's even entirely possible (but unlikely) that DJT will take a lesser deal out of desperation to save face. But I don't buy the latter, and I think in the end KJU will cave and give us what we want: unilateral nuclear disarmament.
Would you let your 8 year old kid walk 1.5 miles to the park, on their own, in LA?
Because dehazarding waste is more difficult than chopping up a snake?
IQ historically has had a strong correlation with social status and affluence, which also implies access to healthcare, ability to eat a balanced diet or go to the gym, etc.
I feel that the worst new "feature" in Google Maps is when you're on your way to your destination and it suddenly suggests you might first want to go to a random place you've never heard of before. You then have 3 seconds to tap "No" before it silently adds the destination (and 15-30 minutes of extra driving) to your route. I have found no way to disable this feature.

I'm worried that there could be people who were in a hurry to get somewhere and perhaps wound up in a grave instead because they felt the urgent need to look away from the road and fiddle with their phone to reset their map destination while on the highway.
[Citation needed] -- Not saying this to be glib, but I'm just wondering what is an actual "huge open-source group". From what I can tell, most open source projects are heavily maintained by a single-digit number of people at any one time.
Very cool! Watching someone else using emacs is always a great learning experience.
Exactly. Doesn't take much thought to realize that a guy with $100 billion dollars has no idea what the average life is like, and has no reason to be giving life advice.
Surprised this is the only comment mentioning the duplication of work problem.
There's a variety of ways to implement it. A common way is that you purchase your shares from the company for par value (e.g. $0.000001 per share) and the company has the right to repurchase them for par value, with the number of shares subject to repurchase declining over time as shares vest.
Thanks :)

Just saw that you are CEO of GitLab. Good job making your runbooks public [1]. I converted one of your runbook into an executable notebook to convey my point. Check the before/after screenshot here: https://blog.amirathi.com/2018/03/27/codify-infra-runbooks-w...

You should consider using Nurtch :)

[1]https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/runbooks
This right here is a huge problem with our industry. If you're not jumping from employer to employer every 1.7 years, you're labeled as out of date. It takes some really talented developers to truly understand some of these old systems. They should be given the proper respect they deserve.
Then user emails you to ask what personal data of his you have on the server. Now you don't have a connection so you can't find it, but you have it. GDPR non compliance.
How huge is the largest open-source group though? My guess is that it's a order of magnitude smaller than the large companies being discussed in this conversation.
Unfortunately that's true for most journalism. It's just that we techies are not usually subject-matter experts in the many other areas where they make mistakes.

Consistently high-quality in-depth reporting is the exception and is not a threshold most media will accept as a publication bottleneck.
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For those reading along, it’s article 47 of the GDPR:

”The legitimate interests of a controller, including those of a controller to which the personal data may be disclosed, or of a third party, may provide a legal basis for processing, provided that the interests or the fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject are not overriding, taking into consideration the reasonable expectations of data subjects based on their relationship with the controller. Such legitimate interest could exist for example where there is a relevant and appropriate relationship between the data subject and the controller in situations such as where the data subject is a client or in the service of the controller. At any rate the existence of a legitimate interest would need careful assessment including whether a data subject can reasonably expect at the time and in the context of the collection of the personal data that processing for that purpose may take place. The interests and fundamental rights of the data subject could in particular override the interest of the data controller where personal data are processed in circumstances where data subjects do not reasonably expect further processing. Given that it is for the legislator to provide by law for the legal basis for public authorities to process personal data, that legal basis should not apply to the processing by public authorities in the performance of their tasks. The processing of personal data strictly necessary for the purposes of preventing fraud also constitutes a legitimate interest of the data controller concerned. The processing of personal data for direct marketing purposes may be regarded as carried out for a legitimate interest.”

Note the explicit mentioning of “The processing of personal data strictly necessary for the purposes of preventing fraud also constitutes a legitimate interest of the data controller concerned”
MAYKE – Build a side-project this May
Software does not suck; requirements, especially from non-technical stake-holders suck. Every single piece of software starts with a single and easy to understand idea, then different stakeholders arrive and start adding inputs and often conflicting requirements, and then software starts to suck. None of these would have happened if we knew how to say "No". :(
I fully agree with this. I've vocally and silently disagreed with middle managers (never seen it from higher ups) pushing for employees to work longer hours and haven't had any issues. I've certainly had to communicate my boundaries but I've found that once you do, people respect them.
Not sure if it technically qualifies, but if your vision is fairly bad, get a pair of "computer glasses" made. These are designed to focus perfectly at the distance of your monitor. It's like getting a vision upgrade.
What makes you think these bicycles will be scrapped? I imagine most of them will be sold at auction.
This looks nice - as a regular latex user, I'd say it (latex) sits roughly between excruciating agony and the actual worst thing in the world.

So the beginnings of an alternative looks great!
“Nothing illegal, no medical advice offered, I've always been incredibly careful about this.”

The article then goes on to name several videos with titles like "increase energy," "improve concentration and memory," "improve sleep," etc.

Are there any lawyers around who know of a legal definition for "medical advice" or "medical claims?" Because these videos sound a lot like medical advice despite his insistence that they aren't.

Youtube censorship sucks sometimes, but this guy experimenting on himself is not nearly rigorous enough to figure out what's really happening when he is taking these supplements. When a person sets out to improve themselves with drugs, test the process on themselves, and interpret and analyze those results themselves, it's a viper's pit of biases. Obviously the experimenter has a huge personal stake in the experiment (arguably the largest; his person is the experiment!) and that generally is great for motivation but bad for science.

I like playing with nootropics but I'm also relatively healthy and I can't imagine how damaging it might be for a seriously ill person who is taking advice from youtube in a desperate and futile attempt to improve their condition and survive. The ethics are pretty complex, above my pay grade for sure.
Yeah I was not clear. My intent was to talking about storing of a birthday vs storing a boolean indicating if the user was the age of majority or a boolean for weather they were 13+ for COPPA.

Storing the value, rather than ephemerally processing it, is a matter of convenience so you do not have to ask your authenticated user to re-input their age/birthday/<are you an adult> all of the time.

That said it seems unlikely that a regulator would come down hard on a data processor that stored a date vs storing a boolean value.
no, you don't have to. math problems are not considered "personal information". their email address on the other hand it is. So the "trick" is to just delete the address and change their username to a random word ex. Guest323
>service sector jobs don't create wealth: you can not have a city solely of repairmen and realtors.

Repairmen very directly create wealth by adding value to the thing they repair, equivalent to a craft trade or construction. Realtors create wealth indirectly by increasing/facilitating trade, trade creates wealth.
:D

Also, I think the comments are off in lines 5-6 of Application #2: "0 .. 1" should be "1 .. 2", "2 .. 7" should be "3 .. 7"
Most of what you quoted has no meaning.

Don't smoke is probably true (does vaping nitiotine increase life expectancy?)

The rest not at all.

What's moderation. Some say 0%.

What's regular exercise and how do you do that? Or do we believe telling people is enough. It's also not true as far as I know. I though a lot of light activity is much more healthier than exercise.

There's evedence fatter people later in life live longer. What's the graph of weights for my DNA and how do I manage life long changes as I move between the weight I should be at parts of my life.

What's a 'healthy diet'? it's rubbish that some things are 'healthy' it's just somethings are not bad for you.

This article is next to useless.
Maybe "8chen" because it sounds like "HN"?
Hi there, fellow Detroiter here.

I would certainly say there is definite momentum in Detroit but I'd like to see additional angel funding / 1MM+ Series A rounds before I would use the word 'exploding' to describe the tech scene.

Second - there are some very interesting software problems that the Tier 1 suppliers (Delphi/Magna/AAM/etc.) are working on but you never hear about it. Generally working for a tier 1 supplier sucks (suppliers are always subservient to the OEMs) but you there's nothing quite like getting your hands dirty in bringing together the real world and code.
I wonder if I take data from facebook, download video from youtube, or rip a movie from some streaming service, would you also say that the content is mine now?
And ironically the OP was complaining that it didn't return him to the same WaWa:

> Last time I asked for directions to a Wawa, it was to the one on Oak Lane, 5.9 miles away. Why doesn't it guess that I might be trying to go back to the same place?
Maybe a stupid question, but once your list grows large, how would you then check if a new address is in your salted hashed list without iterating over every item? Unless I’m mistaken, you can’t index salted hashed lists unless the salt is predictable (which defeats the purpose of a salt).
You can buy shipping containers of these from Japan and China.

If you want 10 inside the US, just pick them up off the playa after Burning Man ;D
I've long been a proponent of usage-based pricing because it aligns the incentives of the business with the consumer: They want you to use more data, so they have the best interest to get you as fast of service in as many geographic areas as humanly possible.

But wireline carriers have seen how poorly tiered data was received in the wireless industry by consumers, and I think it'd take an act of Congress to divorce them of being able to use the word "unlimited" in marketing materials, no matter how fraudulent the claim might be.
But letting the snakes go is even easier. Use the example of people littering instead of using a trash can, or not flushing public toilets, if you need a demonstration of how people can't be bothered with even simple tasks.
You don't need a CS degree to be a successful software engineer, but it helps
It all goes back to how the Watson that played jeopardy - what the vast majority think of when they hear the word "Watson" - was a really cool research experiment and amazing advertising.

A lot of the people that pay for "Watson" probably think they're paying for something really similar to the Watson that beat Ken Jennings at Jeopardy! and cracked jokes on TV. They're paying for something that might use some of the same algorithms and software, but they're not actually getting something that seems as sentient and "clever" as what was on TV.

To me, the whole "Watson" division does seem like false advertising.
“Cry Closets” Really Are a Good Idea
A developer doesn't need admin access to the AWS console to install malware, bitcoin miners, etc. He just needs to have his code installed. The person who is deploying the developer's code installed is rarely going to code review the code before its installed. If my code has access to production when you deploy it, I can make it do anything I want and you would never know.
Ha - the thing to think about here is, pretend that you were asked a question of say, why you labeled a horse picture as a horse.

You might say something like "well, it has hoofs, and a mane, and a long snout, and 4 legs, etc". However, that sort of answer from a computer would probably be labeled as too generic since that could be any number of animals.

The issue is, that to you a horse is some complicated 'average' of all the examples of horses you've seen in your lifetime, that go through a complicated mechanism for you to classify it. Specifically, probabilities of different features that your eyes have extracted from seeing them.

Similarly, understanding why a neural network is doing something is very possible, however, it fails to mean much when the answer it could give is a list of, say, hundreds of vectors and weightings that contributed to its prediction.
No, I wouldn’t. I’m merely suggesting that the author is mischaracterizing the public park situation around Fickett St., and not suggesting that kids in Boyle Heights walk 1.5 miles to their local park.
If you live in Palo Alto you can get a decent deal on gigabit internet service from Comcast, but it's really hard to actually get (or at least it was when I got it). It took multiple attempts since the phone sales people didn't know what it was.

I wrote up detailed instructions here since there was very little information available online at the time: https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/6xc5e4/bay_area_ge...
Eat healthy and stay active outside of work. It is too easy to get complacent with deadlines and being sedentary at work all day.
Is deliberately missing the point giving you pleasure?

I stated exactly what I had in mind, the rest is your projection and fantasy.

You say there is nothing in the GDPR that allows a person / lawyer to sue a company. I have no reason to doubt that. Okay. But laws aren't that clear and cut; there are overriding laws, parent laws, derivative laws... the spaghetti black hole is huge and everybody who isn't a hardcore specialist lawyer can't possibly hope to be 100% informed and protected.

That was my original point and still is. How did you transition to the hint that I am (1) farming personal info, (2) not taking care of it, and (3) I deserve a fine.. guess that's one of the Universe's mysteries.
How are you going to ask user for consent to process their IP this way?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16955549
I wrote about this a while ago: https://hackernoon.com/why-isnt-software-engineering-a-profe...
> I won't dwell on what brought us here.

No need to dwell, how about just a mention? I think most of us can speculate, but I'd rather not.
No, the ordering of bitfields is implementation defined rather than undefined. So if you figure out a bitfield pattern that works on your compiler for your architecture it will continue to work for you. It is not very portable but for embedded applications that often isn't a problem.
A Conversation with Nicolas Garcia Belmonte, Head of Visualizatin at Uber
Twin studies have tended to indicate that IQ is quite dependent on socio-economic status (thereby raising the question of what IQ is actually _measuring_, but anyway...). Socio-economic status is also highly relevant to life expectancy.
> "False/misleading videos that perpetuate a scam."

You seem to be implying that Jones' videos are truthful/informative and totally-not-a-scam, while the videos in the article, which actually contained educational content, were false, misleading, and perpetuating a scam.

Meanwhile, Jones has a supplement business that pulled an estimated $15 mil over two years (some estimate $25 mil) [1]. Here is a sampling of reviews from an independent lab that tested the substances:

- "Both of these products are most likely safe, but ineffective."

- "This product is a waste of money. The claim that 'Anthroplex works synergistically with the powerful Super Male Vitality formula in order to help restore your masculine foundation and stimulate vitality with its own blend of unique ingredients' is fluff on multiple fronts."

- "This product's claims related to 'nascent oxygen' also have no real
basis in science."

- "We tested this product on the chance that it might be potassium iodide or sodium iodide, which it wasn't. Survival Shield is just plain iodine."

etc.

This is a guy who "... repeatedly asserted the Sandy Hook shooting was staged and the parents were liars and frauds who helped in a cover-up" [2].

So, what's your definition of false and/or misleading?

[1] https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/we-sent-alex-jones-in...

[2] https://globalnews.ca/news/4149778/sandy-hook-sue-infowars-c...

EDIT: it seems I misread the intent of the post above mine. My apologies. I'll leave my response up for reference.
Here's part of the deal:

Take YouTube, a large commercial interest.

Add their lobbying, that is participating and influencing a limited, largely invitation-only discussion of what video distribution is and will be on the Web.

(I say largely invitation-only, because 10's and 100's of thousands of us can mount campaigns "of the masses" without moving the needle, or generating only a temporary reaction until the powers that be can slip their changes through another avenue or after simply wearing us out.)

Now, they are no longer "just" a commercial provider, free to choose what they wish to host.

They are defining the very nature of Web video (and, more broadly, content) distribution -- to suit their own purposes.

THAT's why you worry when big players start doing stuff. Because it tends to become "the law".
I also expect that ratchet effect where the goals will increase over time without considering other factors such as whether people are paid enough to afford to have reasonable commute times, access to healthy food, etc.

Software engineers have higher pay and greater ability to walk if management gets too patronizing; a lot of other people are going to get this as the alternative to big insurance increases but not, say, getting a more flexible schedule or paid enough to spend an hour less commuting or be able to afford healthier food at inner city markets where vegetables cost more than at the Whole Foods further out.
>> They didn’t realize quiz apps would harvest a huge amount of data about their profiles.

> They would've known, had they read the dialog they had to accept to access their much desired quiz.

You do remember Facebook would share your friends' data with the quiz along with yours? Your friends never got a vague click-thru warning when you accessed your "much desired quiz."
Huh? This has never happened to me and I use Google Maps daily. Is there an update note or something for this?
The image where a person is walking on a stack of them getting some rope. The image where a person bikes by a tall stack of bikes. For a lot of the properly parked ones, I assume you are right.
Well, as referenced in my above comment - you could spend the time to figure out how the prediction was made. Specifically, decoding the training process and what data points were used to influence the prediction - but it would be complicated and take a lot of your time. It might give you more clues why something like random noise was classified as a hot dog.
Well, even if the CEO doesn't mastermind the overwork, I think a leader is responsible for everything that happens beneath them. They have full visibility (if they choose) and hired those middle-managers (or the people who hired them).
One thing I've learned is that the user's complaint is always valid, the user's proposals seldom are.

That is to say, users know when they don't like something, but they are often wrong about why they dislike it or what is interrupting their workflow. Our job is to find and fix the root cause starting from user feedback, and fix the product in accordance to what the user is actually trying to accomplish.

This is often very hard