skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a human, if I saw a plastic bag blow into the street at night I'd slow down until I was sure it wasn't an animal or something. Seems like basically the same process.
Then treat them like every other person. Claiming "I thought I saw a gun" after shooting someone means most of the population is going to jail.

I get that accidents happens, but something has clearly gone wrong with either the training or lack there of.
Looks nice, but I have a bug: The sliders don't work properly, when trying to move them they will always start back at 0. (I'm using Firefox 60).
>Who comes up with the training?

That's beside the point. So long as it's not a fully-informed individual (which I assume you were not alluding to), then we should no more cast blame on their ignorance than we should someone who is genetically incapable of understanding. What we call intelligent or stupid is little more than the capability of the brain to process information (usually genetically determined) and the information presented to it. The individual is pretty hard to blame for any of that.
For example... let’s say Bitfinex really does have $2.4B (or whatever) in the bank. But they have borrowed $2.3B using the cash as collateral. This is the sort of shenanigans that come out during an audit.
> Here is the hard thing to swallow: Some people are worth more than others.

"Nice guy? I don't give a shit. Good father? Fuck you! Go home and play with your kids. You wanna work here - close!"
Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross
Completely fraudulent?
> Barring repeal of the Second Amendment, the police in the US have the same right to keep and bear arms as anyone else...

Employers are allowed to say "no guns at work" in other situations, correct? Does a cop have a corresponding First Amendment right to call everyone a n-word while out on patrol?
People slow down from 35 to 30 or whatever. Humans don't slow down to the point at which an accident is physically impossible for all unexpected movements, because that would be zero considering there are frequently objects within feet or inches.

Self driving cars can emulate humans, but that won't bring them to human level performance without the ability to model other actors. If they try to mathematically rule out the possibility of accidents without such models, they won't be able to go anywhere.
Sure, but I think that's a larger issue than SWATTING, right wouldn't that comment apply to all crime in general. If you can point me to the studies and what exactly is proposed to deter crime without punishment I'm all ears :)
Yes, I disagree. I lived under communism (in Albania). The society at time (communist/socialist regime), decided that in order to make it up in the society and the ranks of state controlled companies you have had to come from a 'poor or simple' family, and if you were part of the previous bourgeoise, or not communist enough, (i.e. most smart people), you were relegated to crappy jobs, or often interned into education camps.

In resulted in a lot of communist zealots, but dummies, going to top positions. They did what they could, and it resulted in total economic collapse few decades later.
It resulted in food rations, where a family of 4 could only buy a dozen of eggs a week, one pound of meat, and could barely buy bread/milk and other necessities.

Some folks here have really never faced the dire consequences of communism and how it created a poor society across the board.

When I was 11, I had to stay in bread lines so our family could eat. It looked like this:

https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/hungry-peopl...
> help[ing] the unintelligent become intelligent ... is a marvelous goal, and decades of research have shown that it’s achievable through two approaches: dramatically reducing poverty, and getting young children who are at risk of poor academic performance into intensive early-education programs.

I suspect that causing children to be born with more genes that correlate with high intelligence would be a lot more successful, and cheaper to do.
All of us have enough information to know that violent crimes still happen - and people should be allowed to defend themselves from it - that's a human right, after all. Fact is, if the attacker is bigger than you, you're going to need a weapon to defend yourself.
I think society values competence, and intelligence is a trait that enables, but does not guarantee, competence. There are a ton of highly intelligent people who do not hold high social status, because intelligence is neither necessary nor sufficient for competence. Highly intelligent people who never apply themselves to socially-valued aims are considered losers and hold zero status in our society; the archetypal example of this being Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons.
Url changed from https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/what-write-skew-looks-lik..., which points to this.
Humans - for the moment - still drastically lead machines in the realm of creative output.

But I love the author's idea of the machine as a "collaborator"

Tools like the Source Filmmaker are a good analog. (1)

That platform packaged together powerful animation tools along with free assets and a simple UX to empower largely non-technical creators to make awesome CGI clips, movies, and memes.

The function of the software referenced in the OP is simple - it colors your photos, it helps to extend or add texture and depth.

But you can see the potential for a future where damn near anything you can think of, and draw in stick figure form could come to life as a fully realized image, painting, animation, or experience.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_Filmmaker
It's a figure of speech that implies it was pure coincidence that it happened to him as opposed to someone else and that he could have done nothing to prevent it.
> What is the chance that Disney can execute implementing its own Netflix?

Disney effectively owns Hulu, which was already the #2 or #3 competitor to Netflix in the US for many years.

Disney may not need to execute implementing anything, since they already own a fully-operational and fairly successful one of their own.
How Living Abroad Helps You Develop a Clearer Sense of Self
I think it had to do with curation. With SU, it was totally random, but with reddit, you got a list of stuff other people liked.

And in fact, the SU functionality is part of reddit:

http://reddit.com/random
The article also makes the claim that "[less brainy individuals are] less likely to be oblivious of their own biases and flaws." That is literally the Dunning-Kruger Effect [1] which is one psychological study which has been successfully replicated over and over and over. Well not literally. It actually found the exact opposite of what the article claims.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
Instapaper is owned by Pinterest. Pinterest is a large high profile company with millions of European users and would be a potential target of regulators looking to establish precedents of enforcement with a big name.

I highly doubt this decision was made lightly and was probably informed by actual legal professionals with knowledge of the regulators in question and not the 3rd party opinion of some guy on the internet who "feels like its not that big of a deal."
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They know a SWAT team is going to go because they know police will overreact to a phone call.
At the time the Constitution was penned, almost all of our actual ordnance and navy was privately owned. People had the right, ability, means to own cannonry and mortars.

None of the intent behind the Second Amendment has changed. It's quite frankly sad that to hear that people think so lowly of the Framers' intelligence to foresee technological advances.

The Girandoni Air Rifle existed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girandoni_air_rifle

The Framers couldn't extrapolate or imagine future technology? If you read the original justification, private ownership of arms has everything to do with individual liberty in spite of destructive capability.
I think the idea that we all share the same consciousness, but different memories, is called "open individualism" in philosophy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_individualism
The transcripts are just about killing me. A man is dead, and the two are arguing the finer points of who trolled whom like a pair of high-school freshman debaters.
I'm not tacixat but FYI he is reachable on IRC: http://dailyprog.org/chat/
> no one is willing to put anything on their rack that has any kind of failure risk at all.

Are you sure about that? The people who have hundreds of thousands to millions of machines also have systems designed to handle a certain failure rate, and have historically been quite happy to run on non-premium hardware. The costs do add up. Even if it's just a handful of companies, in terms of market percentage that's far from no one.
Risk management is part of every decision a business faces, legal or compliance risks aren't any different. Can we risk the CEO and chairman travelling on the same airplane? Can we risk having our disaster recovery site in the same city as our main? Same country? Same continent? Can we risk buying all this trends-sensitive inventory? Etc.

(Potential savings or revenue) - (Somewhat easy to calculate cost) * (Difficult to assess risk) = Profit. More or less.
To be fair, they're given much, much superior training.
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5k a month is ridiculously good in South America. Even if he's doing taxes like he should (which would bring him more in line with the averages for a senior software dev.) it's probably 30% to 50% more than he'd get as a salaried employee.
Works fine here in NL.
Ocado, the tech startup you thought was a supermarket
I was responding to this:

> What's the point of having "trained" professionals if they can't distinguish a real threat from a hoax?

I don't know how you can read that and think "whether it's a hoax or not is not the OP's point"
There are also a lot of very boring explanations for this. It turns out that good nutrition and avoiding lead poisoning (two major improvements in quality of life in developed countries in the 20th century) both lead to higher IQ.
Be careful with that idea about some being worth more than others. As we move from one domain to another through the course of a day/week/whatever, we take on different levels of "worth".

As for the dating thing, dating someone far more or less beautiful than you comes with some problems, but sometimes is worth it. There are lots of people at all levels of beauty, so I don't buy the idea that you might have no options due to ugliness.
> see a job specifically for programming in perl

That was exactly seen some twenty years ago. Perl as used to build infrastructure, like entire back-ends for sites and whatever.

You don't see those jobs anymore.
Perhaps those characteristics aren't as valued in today's society as in the past. They may also be difficult to signal and interpret truthfully. Further, in the what-you-see-is-all-there-is Kahneman worldview, it's much easier to see beauty/economic worth; what's easier to perceive receives proportionally more attention.
Yep sliders aren't quite baked yet. Should work on chrome. Thanks for reporting. https://github.com/wiredjs/wired-slider/issues/3
> That's a situation where if it is true somebody is likely going to end up hurt and I suspect the police officers tried very hard to make sure that wasn't them.

They also try very hard to make sure it isn't the mom and sister.
There is nothing ethically questionable about ad blocking. Advertisers would like you to believe that there is, and perhaps at some point in the past it arguably was.

However, today [not] using an ad-blocker is as ethically questionable as having [un]protected sex with a stranger. There isn't a single ad network that does not, every now and then, dish out drive by malware.
IIRC from when I looked into it and got it working a few months back, you npm install bucklescript, wihch gives you a compiler to convert reason to JS, so to do any testing that actually includes a real world equivalent experience (such as include it in a sample webpage, maybe with React), you're talking about using webpack or something to bundle all the dependencies and steps into a deployment procedure.

Since it compiles to JS, and uses a JS lib and ecosystem to install the utilities that do the cross-compile, it's sort of like if to try out Python you had to first download and install a C compiler and C libraries used in Python, and compile python from scratch, just to try it out, because no pre-existing binaries, packages or installers existed. If that was the only way to try out Python (or Ruby, or Perl, or anything), you would get a lot less people trying it out, and a lot less willing to go through all that in their build chain (in case python updates, right?) if easier alternatives exist.

Just because your language compiles to another language, that doesn't mean to you get to ignore the on-boarding experience to that extent. At least not if you really want to succeed.
The best solution is to do both. Increase punishment and also reduce incentive. They aren't mutually exclusive.
Just anecdotal of course, but I live in a decent-sized-but-unimportant city and Bay Area recruiters have been hitting my LinkedIn inbox quite a bit in the last few months, when the last time I heard something from them was when I graduated university 6 years ago.

My LinkedIn page is just a straight up listing of previous jobs, no descriptions, so I've found that kinda interesting.
Uber drivers in South Africa get emergency app
Good idea, although suicidal or oblivious/impaired pedestrians might fail to make eye-contact.
Uhh, what? Yes, they do. We also, as their employers, have a right to restrict the choice of arms we supply them with _as part of their employment_. Or is your argument that police should be able to buy and have whatever weapons they like, without restriction, for their jobs?
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Yes, I probably am expecting too much from my fellow countrymen. And that's the issue. I think what we can most likely both agree on, after reading our back and forth, is that the issues you raised are more of the symptom of the illness rather than the actual problem itself. You said yourself the public is ignorant, confused, and disinterested. That's the crux of it. Their lack of concern has led to the current situation and we, as a society, are 100% responsible for our malfeasance/mismanagement. The people who have been able to profit from it are just taking advantage of our collective lack of vigilance.
Interesting, why not just replace the text then? Where can I find more info about this? I was actually trying to find a good source of info about PDF's recently and couldn't really find much.
You would be charged with manslaughter because this person never displayed any type of threat. The severity of the punishment may be mitigated if you could prove that you got the phone call but you are still responsible for what you do, no matter what anyone tells you.
South Carolina plans to use drones to remotely watch inmates
I don't think that they should be charged with murder as they did not commit any actual murder themselves. That being said, I would consider it sane to give a sentence equivalent to murder to people who call a trigger-happy mongol horde (such as the law enforcement) in non-life-threatening (or similar) situations.
>> Here is the hard thing to swallow: Some people are worth more than others.

I would add a qualifier here - "in some situations".
As human beings per se we all are "worth" the same.

When acting in a specific capacity, however, your ability to perform in that capacity determines your objective worth in that role. And of course it's pretty obvious that some occupations are better suited for ppl with different abilities. Master programmer will (most likely)be a worthless pro running back and (most likely)vice versa.

The thing is - ppl are very accepting of the physical differences between individuals but contrary to what the article is saying - intellectual differences are way more of a taboo.
I've been back here to re-read this comment 10+ times today, it's really resonated with me.

Thank you.
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All good in IT, 10:13pm CEST.
That law doesn't cover cold, ie scarf or balaclava. Those things are common but you can't argue they're safety equipment.

It also doesn't cover face confusing makeup. You're not hiding your features, just adding a bunch of fake ones.

What disaster in the VA legislature led to this law?
I was with you until the last two sentences. There are many better alternatives for at least parts of our society that haven't been given a chance. e.g. universal healthcare has been demonstrated as a better alternative in multiple forms and all other modern nations.
> This depends on glibc to make changes that they have stated they won't make.

I'm not sure I understand what part of Linux's account security model relies on glibc to make changes. Can't PAM pull in whatever libraries it likes?

If not, then why hasn't (any popular distro of) Linux moved toward the Windows/macOS model of unifying account management + AAA onto a single "directory services only" code-path, where a system that's not "part of a directory" is actually just part of its own "directory of one", with your system running its own little LDAP+Kerberos daemons or what-have-you that your local accounts reside in?

In that sort of model (which, again, is what Windows and macOS both use exclusively nowadays), the kernel, C library, etc. aren't involved in deciding AAA policy; they just implement the simple AAA mechanism of "let users with the right ACL token do the things the ACL token says they can do" and then rely on one or more [local or remote] directory-service servers to actually authenticate users and issue those tokens to them. Drastically smaller attack surface.
>In the UK we didn’t have the luxury of the US’s free local calls

Although free local calls could be quite limited in area. Intrastate long distance (which could be as little as 15 or 20 miles away) could actually be more expensive than interstate long distance. I don't remember the details but I used a private BBS service in the nearest major city in the 80s. I had some sort of phone plan that optimized for this but I still used offline tools to minimize my online time. (i.e. Login, suck down content, logoff, read and reply offline)

I used similar tools for Compuserve. As you say, it was extraordinarily expensive by today's standards. People complain about the pricing of a lot of things but telecoms and pretty much everything related to computing is incredibly cheap.
I was part of a summer program (USA) in the early 90's and the university lawyer told us that under no circumstances may we show any movies to the children (e.g. Movie Night) without prior approval and some sort of payment. Dances were actually easier because the DJ knew what was needed for the public performance.
Does he still recommend it? PIA recently hired former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles as it's CTO which received some backlash on the forums: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/921994-pia-hires-man-wh...
>Does a cop have a corresponding First Amendment right to call everyone a n-word while out on patrol?

Unfortunately, yes.
I'm saying that I have the impression that some countries have a currency that is pegged to the dollar, and they maintain dollar reserves, but not one for one. And people do not say that is "floating", but that it is not floating. So it becomes misleading if you start defining a peg as requiring one for one reserves and being "floating" otherwise. There's no downside to using terminology that is clear to other people, unless you are trying to be deceptive.
His response reminds me of Officer Ken Lam, the Toronto Police officer who opted not to shoot the van suspect despite the fact that he was within a few meters of the suspect. In America, it's highly likely the officer would've used his gun.
I created an ssh terminal over browser back in the day (kind of like ajaxterm, but proprietary). I tried at least 4 different libraries over the years, but there would always be that one special device that refused to play ball. In the end I used an OpenSSH process, connected to it and drove it through input/output. Made those customer support calls really short: "Did you try connecting from the command line?"
And then the distro will be abandoned and be an open sore for hackers. IoT devices are a mass grave of abandoned Linux distros.
That's exactly what I'm saying - yes the police bear some responsibility, but the caller still wanted this dangerous situation to exist.
I mean, why even use node for the backend?
> This is why governments must intervene with laws such as GDPR or even much stronger ones in the future to protect people's privacy, because the companies themselves have no incentive to "self-regulate" other than a negligible amount.

Market failure does not imply government solution. You're going to need a much stronger argument than "companies aren't doing a good enough job."

Amazon invaded her privacy, she realized it, and now she doesn't use the product. If you want others to do the same, start raising awareness yourself instead of enacting nanny state laws with other people's money.
Nice.

I still drool over the Drawing Board theme from Classic Mac OS.

http://fileasylum.weebly.com/uploads/1/0/2/9/1029074/2682747...
If you are white and the victim is black - self-defense.

If you are black and the victim is white - you are going to jail
More to the point: Netflix can't fund infinite shows, and since it's relying on total subscribers vs. ad impressions, they need to make sure they're getting as little audience overlap in their programming as possible.

They can have big, expensive hits, or they can have niche programming. The model falls down at the decently-viewed, but broad appeal, shows because they won't attract a specific audience but also aren't popular enough to be destination viewing.
> Society has chosen to give the market relatively free reign.

It's really not much to do with how humans organise society; it's about technology. At the current level of technology we have, smart humans are more productive than less smart humans. The only way to reverse that would be to get rid of a lot of modern technology, which no country can do unless it wants to become backward.

> Society could also choose to redistribute profits and incentivise companies to act in the interests of society in general

If the company still wants to produce good and cost-effective products it'll still have to hire smart people. There's no way round that.
It is, but in practice it doesn't matter too much. In most (all?) jurisdictions in the US, bars can be fined pretty heavily or even lose their liquor license if they're caught serving people illegally, or if they even have people on the premises without their ID with them. Any extra revenue they might generate from letting in underage people isn't worth the risk of the consequences if caught.
Nobody outside of tether really knows until there's some sort of audit.

But the secrecy, false claims of regular auditing etc. don't look good from here.
https://nij.gov/five-things/pages/deterrence.aspx

> 4. Increasing the severity of punishment does little to deter crime.

My point is that if SWAT teams stop shooting random people going for a walk, they'll stop being used as weapons.
As crass as Rob was, he'd never get to post here on HN.

Keep that in mind while you get rich off the back of his work, YC.
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