skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's really something local to big US cities (or even smaller ones).

A friend who lived in Athens, Greece once told me how his sisters, who live in New York, came to visit him. He said that they were afraid to go on the tube, because they thought it wouldn't be safe. He said that they were used in the NY tube that they didn't think was safe.

I've had a few similar experiences myself (e.g. people being afraid of side streets in my cheery seaside town, where the biggest danger is someone from a hen or stag do getting sick on your new shoes). That's even more striking considering I don't actually meet that many US citizens. The few I do seem to always be looking over their shoulder.

I guess, the flip side of it is that people in Europe don't realise how safe our little region of the world is. We kind of take it for granted that just walking down a street in London or Paris, or other big European capitals doesn't automatically put your life and property in danger. For people living in places with high rates of violent crime, like the US, South Africa, Brazil or Mexico and so on, it's all very different.

I get that, in that sort of context, public transport is seen as unsafe- because anything "public" is seen as unsafe, and probably for good reasons. But that's not because public transport is inherently unsafe; it's public spaces that are unsafe in specific parts of the world. It's hard to decouple the two in peoples' minds though :/
Motorcycle classes with the Maryland MVA focus on SIPDE.

https://www.google.com/search?q=sipde

Scan, Identify, Predict, Decide, and Execute

Don't know if that correlates with 'quiet eye' but it does put emphasis on the eye being engaged in a specific activity (the scanning). Looking for what's out there, with the intention of knowing about it, versus just randomly looking around. Or worse blankly staring without focus.
For minecraft coding this is one of the better sites. They have discount promos every month or so.

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No offense but how unified is that interpretation and teaching? Just liks how foe instance many say Christianity is about love, nonjudgement and charity but many practice or teach radically different forms which are all about hatred, judgement and prosperity gospels. Likewise some may really be more "tyrannies of mediocrity" where doing anything positive draws harsh responses for making them self reflect and feeling envy in response.
Tesla is a public company. Accounting is very much an important thing, or are you suggesting it’s OK for them to cook the books as long as they do it for a good cause?
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I take your point but even the current "rationalist" community (LessWrong, Eliezer Yudkowski, etc.) don't seem to use the word "reasonable" in that sense.
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Lots of money yes, but not that well invested. Scratch the surface of EU funding and you find a long procession of malinvestment and wasted opportunity. Airports being a famous case in point:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/1129678...
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Oh, please. Twitter's average revenue per user is something like $2-3 per quarter. Your notion that you have to be some kind of Scrooge McDuck to spend $25/year on a Twitter Premium subscription is ridiculous. Jamming "virtue signaling" into places where it doesn't fit is its own kind of virtue signaling.
You are allowed and encouraged to be exceptiona

Laws 1-7 and 10 state otherwise!

But this is by no means exclusively a Danish thing, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality

I’m English, and here it is enforced by the class system.
No, Facebook did not patent secretly turning your phone mics on when it hears TV
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That's when you introduce laws (GDPR) to try and change course.
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It's funny how Germany is called out here again and again.

The EUR was forced on Germany by France (Mitterrand) as a precondition for reunification. Germany was dragging its feet with a common currency and needed be dragged towards a EUR.

The French intention was to controll a unified Germany with a common currency.
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Their core business is very legit and needed. Banks and lenders need to have a central system to see who pays back loans and who doesn't, so Equifax etc play a vital role. If you ask for a loan or a credit card, it's perfectly legitimate to ask you that your info in recorded somewhere (or else no loan).

The problem is that companies are as good as their last quarter, so over decades and tens of quarters they had to do a lot of shady stuff to increase their earnings.
Is it fair to the people being targeted for manipulation to not know why they're being targeted?
https://www.lexpress.fr/actualites/1/styles/protection-des-d...

tl;dr: a non-profit got fined 75K€ because their website leaked 42,562 private documents from their users. Anyone could modify numbers in the URL and read other users' documents. The documents included passports, tax information, identity documents, and more.

EDIT: better source: https://www.cnil.fr/fr/sanction-de-75-000-euros-pour-une-att...
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So far, I have had a credit check done once. It was done
by me voluntarily, to unlock additional functionality (receiving the purchase before the payment gets cleared), with my explicit consent ("checking your credit involves transmitting the following data to xyz") and had a link to a form I could use to request the data they had on me from the credit rating agency (via post). Very different experience from what it sounds like people in the US have.
I always joke with my students that the most popular projects in js are designed to not write js.

Tongue in cheek but still, webpack, babel, react, jquery, coffeescript, lowdash and typescript are all attempts to make the pain of using the js ecosystem go away by patching in things that has existed for decades elsewhere at the price of huge infrastructure and organisational cost.

That such a terrible tech remains with a monopoly on the most popular and awesome platform in the world still astonishes me to this day. And humbles me in a way.

But what infuriates me is that a lot of js devs will actually claim that it's great. The stockholm syndrom is strong indeed.
Meetups.
Conferences.
Hackathons.

A really good way to meet a lot of developers is to organise a meetup.
Except what happened here was someone left the vault open and a passerby called the bank and the cops to let them know.
Yeah, expected return only makes sense in e.g. a diversified portfolio.

edit: You can downvote all you want, but it still doesn't make sense to consider the expected return on one item in isolation. If you disagree, provide a reason.
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The problem is with collecting evidence for what you take to be the truth in the first place. It's called confirmation bias and it has nothing to do with methodology, instruments, or techniques. What goes wrong is in the space between the experiment and the interpretation of the experiment: if you set out to prove something you already hold to be the truth, you're very likely to "prove" it regardless of what your data, or your results, actually say.

It might sound strange, but the right way to conduct a study is not to start with a hypothesis and gather evidence to support it. Instead, what you're supposed to do (but nobody ever does) is to first collect some observations, then come up with an hypothesis to explain them, then collect more, new evidence and test whether this new evidence supports the hypothesis.

Otherwise, you risk collecting only the evidence that supports your hypothesis- or interpreting it in a way that supports it. Not that doing things "the right way" keeps you safe, either. In practice, everyone will have preconceptions and already-formed ideas about what is true and what is not and no amount of good practice will completely protect you from drawing the conclusions you prefer from whatever data you collect.

So, when you see a study that starts out with the premise that "this man is fearless" concluding that "this man's brain can feel no fear" it should ring all the alarm bells and raise all the red flags. Especially so if the study (or at least the article reporting it) stresses the subject's fearlessness continuously.

In short, this study seems to have found exactly what the researchers expected to find. That's as bad as it gets.
It's bad for the customers who are not being served something they require to live normally. If my company was the only one making food and we had too many customers, that would suck hard, no?

The market is too slow too and hindered by many things (which make sense otherwise but are a problem here).
Uhmm, actually Congress is very much in touch...

With corporate interests.
Wow!!! This is very clearly explained. Thank you. You should write a textbook.
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> But if the official spec doesn’t restrict get, Spec will let people redefine the spec for get for themselves.

> They can choose whatever subset of the type they want.

Total clojure-spec noob question: is this type scoped somehow, or does using your own type mean chasing down bugs in libraries that assume a looser version?
To keep it alive and do what with it?
>The fact that they don’t is, in my view, rooted simply in a desire to remain neutral

Appear neutral. If they wanted to actually be neutral they wouldn't use shadowbans and other "hidden" mechanisms to silence and/or censor users whose agenda (political or otherwise) they didn't agree with.
If you believe that there is not much of competition for Tesla right now, you should read this:
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On HN, it's people associated with businesses in the latter category that seem to be complaining the most.
Experience is knowing what qualifies as noise, and when.

Just because a system is running doesn't mean it's running well. Just because code is orderly in appearance doesn't mean it's effective at performing the desired task.

Perfection is the enemy of good.

Sometimes a shambling mess of spaghetti is that way because of a lot of underlying and tangentially-related issues with the operating environment. Code can be perfect looking yet fail because developer expectation of the compiler/toolchain and the underlying OS don't actually function as documented. Of course this can also lead to things being brittle when the underlying issues change. Experience is knowing when those issues are involved.
This, of course, is not really about the startup mentality, but about the mentality that sees nothing wrong with a kid's school being determined by a lottery instead of parents' choices.

There was education before there was government.
So I looked back £175 launch price for Acorn Electron, which matched the previous years ZX Spectrum (which was £130 by then). That was about 25% of teachers salary, so about £500 now ... I rate that as pretty rich.
So what I'm getting from this thread is that it isn't a problem with public transport, it's a problem with the US.
US states enjoy fiscal as well as monetary union. The tax take in New York is used to balance monetary transfers from Tennessee, this is not the case between Greece Italy Spain and Germany.
I think it's a recruiting tool, so they are okay if only the jargon is indecipherable by most readers. In fact, it's probably signalling to their targets that they are serious about machine learning.
Not only that, but the Russian site exposed[dot]su has published personal information, including SSNs, about a lot of powerful people, including Michelle Obama, Robert Mueller, Eric Holder, and Hillary Clinton.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/03/who-built-the-id-theft-s...
It was tabled due to lack of Equifax-related outreach from voters.

I suspect this is because the very people who would be the most vocal about this issue are also the most politically cynical, and would never think to reach out to their representatives. That's a damn shame, if true.
No, this is the danger to jumping to conclusions based on preconceptions. There are plenty of people whose minds were made up about the motives for this attack before being misled by false media accounts or 'fake news'.
It's kind of funny. You say "case literally does not support the claim" I make then continue to say what I said in a different way.

I was responding to a person that was claiming that essentially IP addresses are only personal data for ISPs or ISP like businesses. Which is simply not the case.

I didn't say IP addresses were always considered personal data, I simply said it can be personal data, which you also stated in your post. That it's not cut and dry. The person I was responding to was posting that IP addresses are definitively NOT personal data.

The point is, context for IPs matters. The person I was replying to was way over simplifying.

I'm not entirely sure what claim you think I made that the case doesn't back up as you essentially stated what I did just with more specificity. In any case I totally agree with your post since it's the same point I was making :)
Good guess!
As an uninformed observer, one of the biggest issues I see is the US two party system. Do you think government funding would help with that? I've always seen it more as a weakness of the general US electoral FPTP system.
I have to say, this is the best Launch HN I've ever read. The detail and narrative are great. Good luck!
I've heard the guys at Redmond have words with all sorts of colours!
I wonder if the credit card companies have access to line-item level 3 data if we use ApplePay?
What is messed up is if the firm doesn't have sufficient visibility/logging, they can claim "no evidence" the data was accessed (purely because they Had their eyes closed). IMHO that is negligent - but sadly the various laws tend to support it.
While there isn't special form for tailcall, they are not implicit. If the recursive call does something with the result, it's not a tailcall. Unless you are being cute with closures, it's already explicit in the AST.

--> return myself(...) # tail call
--> return var * myself(...) # not a tail call

But there is indeed something to be said about a construct that enforces the tail call guarantee. The point of SICP's scheme though is to keep the number of language constructs to a minimum for educational purposes.
The problem here is it may be impossible to know if anything was taken.

If theft occurs at a bank, the money is gone. If I steal information, the information is still there. Knowledge of theft is completely dependent on a logging system capturing the correct information.
Wow. Thank you for explaining that. I've never fully understood the distinction between the two.
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My company has around 1000 CS reps and 200 engineers. The CS reps very often need to ask the engineers questions, report bugs heard about from customers, etc. Us engineers also get bug reports about the internal tools we've developed for CS.

Currently, all this is handled via a simple Slack channel. This is actually great, since there's no bureaucratic cost to getting in touch, unlike with a proper ticketing system, and having actual public conversations is the fastest way to resolve issues.

But of course, we started seeing inefficiencies in other aspects. The same questions keep being asked over and over again. There's an FAQ linked in the channel topic and it's automatically posted in the channel every 12 hours, but it's still not enough, we still get tons of questions that could be self-solved without engineers' intervention.

So, that made me curious, how are other companies handling this? Could we somehow maybe auto-respond to Slack messages with the correct answer with some bot, or just come up with something that actually makes people check the FAQs before posting? Or is there some way better solution to replace all this?
Yeah, I wish it were common knowledge...although, if you ask 10 different devs, you'll get 10 different answers on what "ought" to be included in a basic CS / developer education.

(You don't know the minutiae of pointer arithmetic!? You're not familiar with Docker, Vagrant, or AWS Lambda!? You can't construct a sed / awk one-liner with your eyes taped shut!? You don't know about concurrent skip lists!? You've never completed SICP or read Purely Functional Data Structures!? And so on.)
I don't like that if you scroll down then tap one of the tabs like "Now, Recent or All-time" then it scrolls to the top of the page.

Very annoying.

Other than that; pretty cool website.

Not a fan of this when you have to login:

"Public and private
This application will be able to read and write all public and private repository data. This includes the following:
Code
Issues
Pull requests
Wikis
Settings
Webhooks and services
Deploy keys
Collaboration invites
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Yes, this is exactly the sort of intelligent conversation we can have when we stop using sarcasm to dismiss serious positions we disagree with.
Is the picture really accurate, though? I thought pictures like that had a relatively long exposure time, so while it's accurate for its exposure period, it's not really what a person would perceive in an instant which looks more like seeing the branches flash at different times in a sort of electrical dance. Obviously it's difficult to capture such motion in an image.
Maybe that's why it's called "imitation", not "learning"
In the meanwhile, Chinese electric cars have long broke the $30k barrier.
I didn't ignore that, I mentionend the "limited resources" scenario with the 16GB example a few posts back.
> they are pretty much close to the promised rate of 5K cars/week

They might hit that goal, but I'm very concerned about how they're getting there.

Toyota was the company that really figured out how to make good cars economically. They came out of Japan's post-war economic devastation to kick the asses of US carmakers. Their thinking was so alien to traditional approaches that Detroit spent decades trying to catch on and catch up. That depite Toyota doing their best to help their competitors get it. [1]

A pillar of Toyota's approach is patient, gradual, relentless improvement. There are a lot of signs that Tesla has never really warmed to that. Musk likes drama, action. But he's been overpromising and underdelivering for a while now. That he's sleeping at the factory might sound impressive, but to me it's a sign that he hasn't built an organization that can handle this.

Even if they hit the arbitrary 5K goal, I'm concerned they'll will reach it not by building a great, reliable process, but through the sort of rushing and corner-cutting that leaves them in bad shape for the future. That's very common in the tech world, and we pay for it with high tech debt and low long-term productivity. Perhaps he's doing the same thing here.

[1] e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUMMI
And worse outcomes: it's more money for worse care. Also, the individual risks going bankrupt. If an individual gets some cancer that's crazy expensive to treat, they lose everything they own in the US and sometimes still can't afford treatment.
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Oof, I can see why then. On the other hand, if you're not storing people's passports... is this really something you should be worried about? And shouldn't somebody who's intentionally storing thousands of passports be required to implement basic security practices?
Ask HN: I can't get my code reviewed. Now what?
The company doesn't have many people that can review my code changes (infrastructure-related, terraform, Go, Ansible, etc). They are focused on PHP and Node.js.

However, there's a formal rule that whoever submits a change, cannot merge it. It has to be reviewed byt someone else and merged.

My changes sometimes languish for 2 months at times. It's making me depressed and management doesn't seem to care.

I'm thinking about jumping ship but I was wondering if the HN crowd has better suggestions. Maybe merge my own changes and see who complains? In some repositories they don't even give commit access to most people so that would be tricky/impossible to do for 40% of the code base.
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"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"

The law is pretty clear (not 100% clear, obviously, there is going to be loophole and unclear things), and it's easy to decide about unclear spots by following the spirit of the law, and by understanding that any unclear technical requirements really means "what a sane engineer would do, that you could defend against a jury of your peer".

To answer a few of your questions (obvisouly IANAL):

- are IPs PII? Yes, there are legal case about that, your lawyer should have a more detailed answer.

- what exceptions can be allowed? When you have a case you could defend that doesn't go against the spirit of the law

- what falls under "security requirements"? You should be able to defend your choices securiy-wise against a jury of your peer, using your internal documentation. If you have unsalted passwords hashs for example, you are in trouble

- what sort of deanonymization is sufficient? Best practices at the current date.

Technical details aren't going to be in the law, because the goal of a law is to not be outdated every year.

Laws are enforced by humans, not by computers. Your company should be prepared to defend its interpretation of the law (that's your lawyer job) and your technical choices (that's your job).

Edit: obviously, that's a simplified vision, and you should always consult your lawyer. The biggest your company is, the more important it is to try your best to be compliant.
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Yes. It was an area where tourists probably outnumbered locals. Probably the most tourist-y town I've been in. We stayed in a town further down the valley, which was substantially cheaper and more pleasant, but the hikes above Zermatt are still spectacular.
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If they have any business acumen and decent command of the French language they can do it in France. In August, when most businesses shutdown for the summer holiday some owners will leave their bars and restaurants to trusted friends.

I have a friend that occasionally manages a Parisian bar or 2 while the owners are away. Since he gets to live (they usually own the apartment directly above) and work at the bar as well as a cut of the, very meager, profits it's a win/win.
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I need help with automatic data extraction from invoice scans and images.
The thing is, I would like to develop automatic system so it knows where is the invoice number, price, date, etc....
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Thank you
This always makes me think that if we had a semantic web that this would be unnecessary. I know, I know, that's unrealistic but hear me out. It means that you wouldn't have to hoard data such as in this case. Yeah I know, terrible idea but I think about this logic.