skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's probably unwise in this case to transplant one argument for another and then make a decision about one based on the other instead of assessing them independently. ICE is not ISIS. Illegal immigration is illegal just about everywhere on Earth and for good reason. ICE are simply the enforcement arm of that legal construct.

Interestingly enough, ICE and the border patrol may further reduce the chance of ISIS attacks in the US as ISIS explicitly stated they wanted to hide among undocumented migrants to sneak into countries at a larger scale.

Life is messy and sometimes the solutions have to be too. It's a great place for software to try to keep things as clean as possible.
I mean, there is a non-zero chance of basically everything interesting, but that is meaningless. You're right that those who don't acknowledge this are not mathematicians. On the other hand, any mathematician with a passing interest in calculus realizes that the limit of the product of an infinite number of non-zero numbers less than one is exactly zero. To use your own phrasing, those that cling to these essentially meaningless likelihoods are probably not familiar with calculus.

That being said, the shortening I am referring to is the simple mechanical fact that we know with absolute certainty that your chromosomes shrink by 6 base pairs at each division. This is a simple biological fact.
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High schools too, it's amazing how many kids use juul. I think a lot of them aren't even aware it's nicotine.
Awesome! Would love to hear your thoughts :)
That’s a great article, and rather eye-opening.

Juul may help cigarette smokers get away from tobacco, but wow — stories about teens and young adults taking Juul hits every 10-15 minutes are something else. That’s just plain addiction, taking them far beyond the threshold of diminishing returns, even for caffeine-like self-medication.

There’s definitely a lot of money in creating addictions... this can’t be a long-term, net good to society the way it’s heading now.
It's been around for a while. Here it is talked about by Joel Spolsky in 2002: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/

Gwern's article about it was recently discussed here on HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17047348
Well, the pot physical addiction debate is where we started.

If people experience significant physical withdrawal symptoms from cessation of pot use (which seems to be the case for some), then for those people, it absolutely is physically addicting.
Is it really any better than smoking? I believe nicotine itself is the carcinogen, correct? Not just the ash and other byproducts of burning...
Ask HN: What's the first few things you do when starting at a new company?
I'm a data scientist, but I'm sure the same holds for most engineers: What are the first few things you do (technically, or process-oriented) when you start at a new company?

Specifically one where the on-boarding is lacking for your role; maybe you're the only whichever title at the company. Do you glance over schema, examine code base, set up intros with different department heads, etc?
>>"Thomas Midgley, Jr. (1889–1944) was an American engineer and chemist who contracted polio at age 51, leaving him severely disabled. He devised an elaborate system of ropes and pulleys to help others lift him from bed. He became accidentally entangled in the ropes and died of strangulation at the age of 55. However, he is better known for two of his other inventions: the tetraethyl lead (TEL) additive to gasoline, and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).[19][20][21]"

Wow, talk about someone who really never learned the importance of thinking things through.
I always link to http://www.sens.org when aging comes up because their approach makes the most sense to me.
Could you just imagine all the headlines and HN outrage if you replaced "Fiat Chrysler" with "Tesla"

That aside

>Dealers, it said, will install a new software flash update to Pacifica powertrain control modules for free.

This seems like something an OTA update could have resolved.
It's always worth paying with a card, as you can get 2% cashback with a decent card. Even if you purchase something for $1, you'll get at least 2c back.
Amusingly, they call them "CompanionColumns" in the html. I'm sure there's a uBlock filter one could create.
I don't believe keeping barrier of entry high in an industry is a good thing for companies in that industry.

Quite the contrary, lowering barriers creates more opportunities and thereby new scope for growth.

It took MSFT 30 years to finally understand that lesson and start offering a free suite of dev tools.

The EDA industry still hasn't groked that lesson.
I have this car and it’s done this 4 times so far. Really scary.

You’ll be driving and all of a sudden the engine stops, and the dash says to place the car into park to turn it on. Imagine making a turn and your engine dying mid-way; that’s exactly what happened to us. People die getting t-boned that way.

Buying a Chrysler was a huge mistake; no one will acknowledge the problem. There are Pacifica forums with over 100 pages of posts from people talking about this issue.
Good recent example. Here's an older one.

Back in the days (90s, begin of 00s), Windows would boot up, but it wouldn't be usable right away since various of its services and programs were still starting up.

Once it was started up, MSIE would launch very quick. Quicker than Netscape or Mozilla indeed. That's because MSIE was pretty much already running when Windows got started.
Floating point inaccuracy in software someone built to trade?
This has to be part of Apple's AR play. I'm pretty amazed they didn't do this sooner, honestly.
Elevation is a difficult one to get right. I'll look into it - out of interest, which way would you go?
I don't see any appropriate picture there, so at least here:

https://www.fark.com/farq/about/

"For the first two years of Fark.com's existence (1997-1999), all you got was this picture of a squirrel with big nuts"
Hmm which use case is more common...kids usings Maps as a globe, or people looking for Asian food?
I was referring to the fact that you might get arrested for taking photos of "critical infrastructure" like bridges and we have federal agents and laws to make sure the mail is safe and available to people in the most remote places. Internet? Mess it up all you want!
You can always disable tail calls via a compiler flag. I think the real issue is that .NET Native can't handle very deeply nested generics (although this may have been fixed). There are also issues with reflection in certain cases, but I believe they can be worked around.
There are many NP complete problems where computer do vastly better than humans.

But when it comes to EDA, the utterly closed-source culture of the industry has completely prevented what essentially amounts to a horde of smart people to work on the problem: no one - except a very small number insiders - even know what the problems are.
It's no surprise when almost half of the voters in the country voted for a man who's personal motto is "get even".

"Get even with people. If they screw you, screw them back 10 times as hard. I really believe it."

"When you’re in business, you get even with people that screw you. And you screw them 15 times harder."
Oxycontin is likely a safer drug than heroin. That doesn't mean we should be working on growing the Oxycontin market on the assumption that every new user is someone who might have otherwise used heroin.
LOL.

I've been to Apple to fix my keyboard (during the warranty time).

A few months later it stopped working again.

This time around - out of main warranty and out of warranty on warranty.

Now apparently the warranty is extended... Well... Thank you.

(not really sure what to think)

Don't take your laptop to the playa I believe.
No, nicotine is barely a carcinogen and is essentially on the same level as caffeine in terms of danger.
No, they're called qubits. It's literally a quantum-mechanical bit, in the sense that it's a superposition of the |0> and |1> states---i.e., a quantum state that returns a bit when you make a complete measurement on it.

There are also qutrits, which are quantum trits (superpositions of |0>, |1>, and |2>), "qubytes" (collections of 8 qubits), and so on.

This terminology is now 30 years old, and in probably thousands of books and tens of thousands of papers. It's not going to change.

The earlier name for "qubit"---the name that Feynman, for example, would have recognized---was "spin-1/2 particle." But while there was some resistance, I think that even within particle physics, condensed-matter physics, etc., they'd now typically say qubit rather than spin-1/2.

In any case, would you pronounce "qit" like "kit" or "kwit"? :-)
"Another lesson is that privacy defenses don't need to be perfect. Many researchers and engineers think about privacy in all-or-nothing terms: a single mistake can be devastating, and if a defense won't be perfect, we shouldn't deploy it at all."

This "all-or-nothing" perspective is rampant on www forums discussing computer topics and certainly HN is no exception. It is particularly acute in any discussions of "privacy" or "security".

There are countless examples.

Earlier this week the topic of SNI rose again to HN's front page.

A minor percentage1 of TLS-enabled websites require SNI. An unfortunate side effect of SNI is that it makes it easier for third parties to observe which websites users are accessing via TLS because it sends domainnames unencrypted in the first packet.

Forum commenters will thus argue because there are other, more difficult means for some third parties to observe these domainnames, e.g., through traffic analysis, that the unencrypted SNI is therefore not an issue worth addressing.

All-or-nothing. If the privacy achieved by some proactive measure is not "perfect" then to these commenters it is worthless.

But the HN front page reference suggested otherwise: It was an RFC describing how the IETF is taking a proactive measure, trying to "fix" SNI, encrypting it to prevent third parties from using it in ways detrimental to users.

There is an easier proactive measure. The popular browsers send SNI by default, even if the website does not require it. The default behaviour is to accomodate a minority of TLS-enabled websites at the expense of all users, including those who may not be using this minority of websites.

To make an analogy to fingerprinting, imagine sending 17 unique identifiers with every HTTP transaction when, say, only 5 are actually needed. The all-or-nothing perspective adopted by forum commenters would dictate that it makes no sense to reduce the number unless the number can be reduced to zero.

Amongst the security folks there is a concept sometimes called "defense in depth". Commenters in discussions about security often agree there is no such thing as "perfect" security and they cannot rely on a single, "silver bullet". They must use multiple tactics.

Is privacy somehow different? There are many tactics users can take that, cumulatively, can make things more difficult for the data collectors.

1 Survey of websites currently appearing on HN

Number of unique urls: 367

Number of http urls: 43

Number of https urls: 324

Number of https urls requiring SNI: 38

Number of https urls requiring correct SNI: 26

"Requiring correct SNI" means SNI must match Host header.

Summary

One can fetch 286 of the 324 https urls currently posted on HN with a HTTP client that does not send SNI.

An additional 12 can be retrieved by sending a decoy SNI name that does not match the Host header.
For me the issue is more that they don’t seem to be able to pull it off.

Sure if they could have a super high quality dataset they build themselves it would be stupid to share it, but they don’t have that data, and I wouldn’t bet on them to have it even putting all their weight in the effort.

There is also the issue of motivation for the user to give feedback. If I do it in Google Maps I know it will benefit most users. In OSM it’s a pure gift to the community. Apple Maps ? it’s less clearcut.
Sources: Google Is Planning a Game Platform That Could Take on Xbox and PlayStat
I have been to that Chipotle a bunch of times and have searched for it multiple times (to get its hours), it makes sense to highlight it on my map. I just compared on the web version with logged in vs Incognito tab and Chipotle is only highlighted in the logged in version (along with other places I like). The public version sticks to larger POIs (hotels, museums, venues, etc).
My advisor at Stanford is working on an open-source hardware toolchain to solve these exact problems. The Agile Hardware Center is trying to bring software methodologies of rapid prototyping and pervasive code sharing/reuse to ASICs, CGRAs, and FPGAs: https://aha.stanford.edu/
I think I don't understand this article. The container share graphic shows that Huayang market share is 2/3rds of traffic, but the numbers in all the rest of indicate that Huayang is a monopoly. 2/3rd is a lot but doesn't seem monopolistic to me.

It's also interesting that the article goes in depth with detail (because of data availability perhaps?) from the US side of the trade, but very light on detail (and full of implications) about stuff going on in the China side.
I am not sure why this is even a news. Letter of the law is the only thing that matters. Ever seen IRS (or any other government agency) using spirit of the law instead of letter of the law ?
This is literally the most pseudoscience I've seen at the top of a HN post.
It could be someone that likes to use specific numbers as a "calling card" of sorts.
Exactly why dripping faucets make that annoying sound
Do you have any thoughts to offer on the "culture wars", especially the way you were treated by the online mob when you wrote about your personal struggle with your sexual identity[0,1]?

0. http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/01/untitled/

1. https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2091#comment-326664
> We are at the top of a power curve with regard to total dollars spent, but we actually about 4th in terms of defense spending as a percent GDP

Any reason why percent GDP is the right metric? If we're normalizing I would've expected per capita instead.
I only have a vague idea aboutthe first two of your questions: I guess they use the term silicon compiler as a description of an ideal state in chip synthesis software where you can go from high level logic descriptions (VHDL source) to the final chip masks without any human intervention. Right now, this requires a lot of manual work in intermediate stages of the process. Being able to do away with that would simplify and speed up the process. But this also means tackling pretty nasty NP complete optimization problems.
Didius Julianus – the man who bought the Roman Empire
This should help you: https://gist.github.com/reggi/dc5f2620b7b4f515e68e46255ac042...

Once you have your lambda running inside a VPC, you can assign an elastic IP to the VPC. You don't need an EC2 instance, but you will need a NAT gateway, which is billed at similar levels to a small EC2 instance anyway.
Could we please keep the discussion factual instead of resorting to name calling?
“Sex worker” is not a career.
Methadone is safer than heroin and is widely used in substitution therapy.

Either way, the bulk of health damage from smoking was from the complimentary products of burning. You ain't getting lung cancer from nicotine.
The GDPR does remove variation between countries, before the GDPR each of the 28 member states would have had their own data protection laws and while you wouldn't have had to comply with all of them the only law you generally have to comply with under the GDPR is... the GDPR, plus or minus some minor opt-in or opt-outs that some member states may choose. It's one piece of legislation that is a hell of a lot more navigable and accessible than 28 different pieces of legislation.

What the poster above is lamenting over is that each member state is in charge of their own investigatory authority, and this makes a lot of sense, if you have a data leak that affects only Spanish citizens you wouldn't want the investigation being carried out by a country like Sweden or even by the EU itself. However if a data leak affects multiple member state citizens each of those member states are invited to and can enter a joint investigation. The issue they believe is that France may have a stricter interpretation of the law than a country like Poland which may make cooperating with the law more difficult as you don't know how strict to be, and while this certainly is going to be the case it's not so different from any other facet of life - In the US you may favour a certain state to be prosecuted in, you may prefer to have a different prosecutor or judge, etc.
European online retailers that expect significant sales to both businesses and consumers (e.g. computer components) either show both prices with different fonts, or have a button somewhere to switch between with- and without-VAT prices.

Except for businesses, there isn't the situation as in the US, where the retailer is responsible for verifying that a customer is tax-exempt. People on the equivalents of food stamps pay the VAT; yes the money just goes in a circle back to the government, but it's probably easier accounting for everyone.
Yes, that's PRECISELY what I meant.
it is pretty much clear that it is because of temperature, yet what specific effects lower temp plays is still a matter of research, and i find this interesting wrt. various studies of epigenetics emerging in recent times:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4142806/

" we hypothesize that, at least for some loci, the sex-specific epigenetic remodeling process might be influenced by the temperatures at which male and female gonads are exposed during the acquisition of a new imprinting. "
Rotten is such a fantastic docu-series. Are you aware of any other similar shows?
> I think this technology is great if it can reduce the harm of smoking and get people off of cigarettes.

I think this was the initial hope for e-cigs, but reality has turned out differently. These things are leading to a whole new generation of nicotine addicts at a time when smoking has fallen to all time lows in the US. Juul particularly is getting kids hooked that otherwise would have never touched tobacco, and they're getting a lot of heat over their advertising tactics now.
Hello!

Could you give an overview of the proceedings of your job as a researcher in quantum computing?

For instance, how do you start your day job, what do you do during the day (how exactly do you do research,) how do you end your day, etc...
Why not cache it for the user, but go ahead and retrieve it in the background?
You seem to have gone in with a chip already on your shoulder, so I suppose it's no great loss that you think it's "rubbish".

Full disclosure: I'm Nigerian and have followed this world cup avidly, paying enough attention to note that a pretty even distribution of teams has been well or hard done by VAR and the referee.
Checkboxes mainly.
It's not the lack of features it's just the difference in what it's meant for. Crystal has a GC, it doesn't have a lot of memory control, etc. She just ain't that type of lady.

Crystal isn't what I thought it was. That's not a bad thing necessarily, it's certainly nobody's fault....

For what I have in mind, rust fits my needs much more closely. I want to write a game and learn all about graphics wizardry and rendering pipelines and all the cool Carmackian arts I've been missing out on. My career is winding down, but I think I will retain my gray matter longer if I keep myself busy.

If I were thirty years younger and starting out a career in web development, crystal would excite me. The prospect of all that ruby out there that will eventually need to be crystallized... Man, what an opportunity.

I don't really have a specific idea in my head of what a crystal for systems development would look like so I'm not sure that I could really provide what's missing from crystal.

Rust is made for systems from the start and there appears to be a large number of really smart low-level hackers on the scene already. I'm glad, because I don't know, so at least I can fail amongst a crowd.

:)
It looks terrible-slash-suspicious but I've found covering windows with aluminum foil to be an effective technique. It's cheap, reflective, and optically thick.
In Japan, the 5¥ coins come pre-drilled for maximum convenience.
>It’s often near the beginning, and lubricates destructive behavior, even pot

I think we are talking past each other. I fully agree that many would be better off never using anything at all.

My point is that by the time someone gets to the point where drugs/gambling/addiction can act as a destructive catalyst, they're already well on their way to a negative future due to earlier causes.
Then I apologies for not being clear.

What I meant to say, is that if we look at the coin graveyard, we are including 100% of the failed coins -- because ICO were heavily publicized.

If we look at the startup survival rate, we are not including 100% of the attempt. Some will consume money, but never even make a blip on the radar.

If you consider the failure rate of startups vs the failure rate of ICOs, I think ICOs show a higher success rate - and even more when you raise valuation.

Here is a more extreme example: A startup valued over 1 billion is a unicorn. An ICO valued over 1 billion is at the moment (with rock bottom prices) anything above the top 18

We can disagree on the valuation formula (fair critic), but even with that a 4% success rate >50M is nothing to sneer at.

It's possible to see failed startup if we use figures from an accelator, like say YC.

From https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-portfolio-stats/ :

Number of YC companies worth more than $100 million: >20

Number of companies funded by YC so far: 716

Let's say 20, and use the $100 million instead of the $50M as I can't quickly find YC numbers for $50 million.

Still, 20/716 is about 2.8%

So I repeat my words: a success rate of 3.8% is wonderful.
If the US military is, in any serious way, going toe-to-toe with Russian/Chinese bombers, I hope you've got your fallout shelter stocked, because as likely as not, both sides in the conflict will cease to exist ~20 minutes after that point in time.
Yeah, I get it. But when the the market is already trending in a very clear direction, to have the gall to suggest it turned that direction, when it was already plainly going there, because of some thing which is so much less significant than the very article giving it hype... The reporters have less integity than the most blatent, transparent scam. Pick the most blatent Ponzi scheme, they are no better. And yet, this finace press does it as easily and regularly as breathing.
Assuming the person has complete agency of their body and life, that's not exactly in your wheelhouse to proclaim with such certainty.
This measurably and repeatably works in my house. One side of my house gets cooler and one gets hotter depending on time of day. I setup one fan to blow in cooler air and turn the other one to blow out hot air, and I've seen the temperature drop by as much as 3c° over the course of an hour, when outside temperature did not change. Other configurations did not do this.
I don't disagree. I think Portugal's experiment has proven that decriminalization is the best path forward pretty conclusively.
Ok but if 200 planes need to be upgraded so that they don't get shot down by ____ new weapon. It's not possible to build an ASIC for this, so you're probably looking at doing something on an FPGA. You need a few FPGA hardware engineers, electrical engineers, software engineers. Even if the project only takes a year to design, build, and test. And then you spend an extra 6 months because xilinx's fpga tools basically don't work. You've got minimum $1 million dollars in salary, and that's not including the facility, materials, and testing costs. Even if the program costs $20 million, if it saves 40 planes, you can't tell a dead airmen's family that their loved ones life wasn't worth $500,000.