skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO, you're making the mistake of thinking fault and "deserve" are the same thing.

A smoker who gets lung cancer doesn't deserve the pain and suffering, but you can make a good argument they're at least partially at fault for it.

"People should dress conservatively so they don't get raped" doesn't say they deserved to get raped, but it does blame them to some extent for what happened by implying some of it is their fault.
Airbnb aims to be ‘ready’ to go public from 2019
Think of it this way:

First, electric cars

second, AI and self-driving cars

third, high speed internet in your vehicle where you can surf the Web. Location will be a huge deal.

Apple needs to master this space, Maps is just a client consuming data and displaying it in a form of a map. Geolocated data is where the money will be.
Dude, I'll take free money all day long. Pennies and nickels spend just like anything else.

At least you could give them to a homeless person or some children to buy some candy with or something.

You don't understand something very basic about life.

Waste not, want not.

Someday you may remember your actions if you ever end up broke and homeless.
Do you have any letters, photos, tax records, etc., from your great grandparents? Do you know anything at all about your ancestors who came to America (if you're living in America)?
Why has it become acceptable to place ads in-between the text of an article (mobile at least)? I counted no less than 4 ads within the article. They almost always bug my browser out when they're loading while I'm reading through the article. Not to mention making the whole end-user experience terrible.
Sour patch kids are wayyyy more addictive than cheeseburgers and coffee. When you grab 4-5 of them and put them on your gum and suck down their sour goodness before getting that enjoyable gummy chew, it is heaven. I'd eat them till gums bled from all the acid.
Lean Testing or Why Unit Tests Are Worse Than You Think
Wow, thanks for the tip!
Show HN: Chrome extension to show LinkedIn work history as timeline/Gantt chart
Hey Scott, thanks for doing this.

What do you think of the Copenhagen Interpretation especially in light of the delayed choice quantum eraser experiment[0]?

I know interpretation of QM is something actual working scientists try to avoid (I know I do such for my little corner of physics) but given how much interpretation informs intuition it's worth considering once in a while.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_choice_quantum_eraser
You can set some expiration linked back to the app that created that pair and when that app goes away that invalidates that pair, or have app related containers inside the Keychain that also get removed with the app. It is an implementation detail.
Even certificates from MOOCs won't lead to a job in science, researcher or not.

That depends on how tightly you define "science". If you mean "science in traditional academia, working for/at a major research university or research consortium" then you are almost certainly correct. But if you expand the definition to include the corporate world, and roles that maybe aren't pure research, then I would argue that you can get a job doing science with less "paper credentials" than one might expect.

Whether or not that would/could apply to anything related to QC, I'm not sure, as I don't work in (or even really near) the QC domain. But to pick one example: in terms of machine learning / AI, I've definitely seen it. But maybe AI/ML is an exception to everything else just because it is (at the present) such an empirical / observation / experiment based domain.

Outside of all of that is the notion of "create your own job". If you want to be a researcher in Field X, start a company related to Field X and hire yourself. And, no, I don't intend that to be a glib answer, and I certainly acknowledge that it A. isn't easy, and B. is probably harder / easier in some domains than in others.
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There have been dollar coins in America forever and still are. The general public refuses to use them, or just collects them and they never circulate.
Sounds like you've never been given an address. Or know of any famous streets. Or have never been curious about the world around you.

From your example -- If I'm in Seattle and I see "Pike Street" I might wonder if the city's #1 tourist attraction, the Pike Place Market is nearby.

Or I could just let Google decide what's best for me like a good, compliant income bag.
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There's a related comment here[1]. The simpler version of the bound doesn't depend on mass or energy, just surface area (or radius for a Schwarzschild black hole). It seems to me that 2^72 of "storage" is already pushing it, but anyway I don't understand why the number of bits needed to "describe" the state isn't the relevant quantity. IIRC Bekenstein had at least one completely classical derivation of the bound.

[1] https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2428#comment-786973
Have you thought about moving to the EU. Good tech jobs and sane laws https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten
Also, English works in most countries
Thanks! This is indeed related and part of my inspiration for this question.

Some other interesting references:

- The waterfall argument in paragraph 6 of the mind-boggling "Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity". https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/philos.pdf

- "NP-complete Problems and Physical Reality"
https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/npcomplete.pdf
Even if it were the case that each replication made the chromosomes smaller (personally I would guess that there is a non-zero probability of them not getting smaller and even a non-zero probability of them getting larger thanks to a mutation) that would still only imply a hard limit on the number of replications. You would also need to find a hard limit for how long a cell can survive without replicating. Good luck with that.

I content that there are no limits: however old you are, you have a non-zero chance of surviving another picosecond. The product of a finite number of non-zero real numbers is non-zero, therefore...

Some people may wish to retort that at some point these numbers become so small that they are no different from zero in practice. Those people are probably not mathematicians. They're not wrong, either, of course, but they're not making a valid argument for there being a limit.

There's no limit for the number of successive heads you can get when tossing a coin, either, though you won't in practice see more than a hundred if it's a reasonably fair coin. If there's no limit in that simplified, mathematical situation, does it make sense to hypothesise that "there is a limit" in the case of highly complex biochemical processes?

This is all very philosophical. It doesn't help us to estimate the chances of a given person who is alive and 115 years old today (there seem to be about five of them) one day breaking Jeanne Calment's record of 122. Are any bookmakers taking bets?
Actually if you're looking for something to blame, people are it. There isn't a society to blame. That's an abstract concept only useful if you want to sabotage your ability to think about stuff.
I feel like the headline is trying to frame the lawsuit as frivolous, as if software flaws are inherently unworthy of lawsuits. But a critical safety issue is a safety issue, regardless of whether it's a mechanical failure or a software failure. Several people died due to a software flaw in Toyota's anti-lock brake software.[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%9311_Toyota_vehicle...
You know theoretically you can be addicted to anything, and sometimes one addiction can help with another one.
Think per-unit density, not per-geographic division.

On average, houses in Sweden and closer together. Apartments are smaller than the U.S.

Perhaps instead of "last mile," the term should be "last meter."
What would this protection look like, in your ideal world? How would it work?
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"not to mention our own brains"

Is this a known known that our brain doesn't use QC?
Reminds me of a Nintendo DS or the old T-Mobile Sidekick
Jefferson, James, Cherry, Columbia, Marion, Madison, University, Union, Pike, Pine. IIRC.
The rest of the sequence seems correct.
TIL, you could subscribe to podcasts via RSS on iPhone via the Podcasts app. For those who also didn't know, you go to Library and hit edit at the upper left to get an "Add podcast by URL..." button. Interested to check it out, thanks!
Personally, I'd like to get rid of all coins, and introduce a $0.25 note and call it a day. Round all cash payments up to the next quarter and no more metal money.

Egypt has a 0.25 Egyptian Pound note. The last time I was there it was only worth about US$0.06.
Retain top performers with these leadership hacks
Spent some time going through LinkedIn profiles and wanted to get a better overview of work history and so spent a few hours creating this first version of a Chrome extension to show LinkedIn work history profiles as a timeline bar chart / Gantt chart
Hey, thank you for this feedback. I think I'm going to pivot a bit on the structure of the conf due to this comment! It's helped me realize that it might be a bit ambitious for a first conference -- thanks for taking the time to read through everything!
Yes they did make $98.50, and it is profit. The job of the Mint (and the Bureau of Engraving & Printing) is to use the monopoly of seignorage to make money out of thin air. As much as there is demand for coins and bills, they will sell into the market. The job of maintaining (the value of) the US currency is in the hands of the Federal Reserve.
Man arrested for threatening to kill FCC chairman's family over net neutrality
Of course it's a joke, u guys are too serious.
In Germany the owners of physical lines must rent to ISPs. There aren't usually multiple physical last mile lines, but you still have multiple ISPs. That's at least how it was ~10 years ago. But that would be super unamerican. Free market first, especially in areas where the free market doesn't really work and benefits large companies that make massive campaign contributions. (Disclaimer: I'm pro-free market, but generally anti big Corp)
When Apple started working on Maps Google was the only game in town and they were certainly using that advantage. They set the terms for using peoples location, both for location awareness using Wi-Fi access points and for live traffic tracking. Also the good features were Android only (vector maps, navigation).

Shortly after Apple Maps was introduced Google suddenly came through with these features but they lost access to peoples location and being the default app for locations on iOS.
> Possible downside: Providers become overly cautious and pro-actively delete more than necessary.

Exactly what happened in Germany when the new social media hate speech law (Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz) was introduced.

> He said that the NetzDG incentivizes social-media companies to “delete in doubt”—to remove any content that seems like it might be illegal […] The law leaves it up to companies like Facebook and Twitter, with their armies of moderators newly installed in Germany, to decide within 24 hours whether a post is “manifestly” illegal and remove it—a decision that would ordinarily take weeks in a German court.

More: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/05/ge...
I'm not conflating those things. Don't put words in my mouth.

I'm only talking about implementation. Philosophical discussion of free speech is a much broader scope and not, to my understanding, what anyone else was talking about in this thread.

If they were talking about philosophy, then it wasn't clear to me and this became an argument of semantics.
The OP didn't say they have no unit economics--just that bits consumed doesn't reflect their unit economics.
So what’s the deal with this mono-depth technique? What are the broad strokes of how this low latency CV works? Any combo of open source libs to get started with similar techniques?
Given that observing the state of a qubit changes it, and (I guess) that changes all entangled qubits, what methodology is used to read out the result of a quantum computer's calculation?
This line of thinking doesn't seem to hold up to scrutiny. If I say "wear a helmet when you ride a bike" it is entirely possible that an ensuing accident is entirely the fault of another party (e.g. getting cut off by a car). Nonetheless, the rider's injuries will depend greatly on whether or not the advice was followed. But the fault in either case is entirely that of the driver that caused the accident.
This is commonly used in the southwestern deserts.

It's called a swamp cooler. It simply evaporates water and the heat of vaporization causes the air to cool to the dew point.
How the fuck was any of Pythons docs better than Perl’s? ??????????

Docs, error messages etc are WAY superior in Perl. Idiot.
Yes, globally. But many people individually live in a post-scarcity society. A young man with no job who has everything they need or even want (short of large-ticket items like expensive vacations, cars, house, etc.) provided by their parents arguably is living a post-scarcity lifestyle.
That buying thing extended all the way up to cars. I recall reading Steve Jobs never registered his cars. He'd simply buy one in cash from the dealer, drive on the temporary registration period, then sell the vehicle for a new one when that was up.
Side note: when people complain about the military budget, projects like these should be noted. Political reality in America, today, is military R&D and jobs programs are easier to fund than civilian ones; so that’s where projects go to live.
I will say that Japan is exceptional as far as I can tell (and I'm not Japanese), so the level of social isolation is a bit different in extent and even character compared to the US.
Personally I like my Phix... twice the amount of nic juice, about the same price and bigger battery. Definitely more action for about the same amount of money. They're not the best kid on the block..just the first in this category.
Can Erlang share memory between threads?
I don't think you are accounting for the inevitable trip to the emergency room.

Or galvanic corrosion.
On the subject of forgotten authors, during the eighties I read most of A.J.Cronin's books. He was one of my preferred authors. He was very famous when he was alive but now it seems he is almost entirely forgotten. Are there other people in this forum who read his books?
Founder of Interview Cake here. Thanks for the post!

Down to chat about coding interviews and answer questions here!
Interesting. Your routes are much worse :-/ From downtown Berkeley to Grizzly Peak it routes me up Marin Avenue, a 30-degree slope that nobody would willingly bicycle up.
How do they implement the dict class when classes use dicts for their internal implementation?
Hey, connecting to bluetooth devices isn't easy. To do it on my phone requires me to do a minimum of 3 hand motions just to connect to a saved device, and heaven forbid if its a new device. Sometimes I even have to type something!

I think there is a clear business opportunity here
Can someone explain what the purpose of this would be in plain English and plain math? I see a lot of claims but I don't understand how they work.
For example, if the goal was to make money, can someone explain how $1000 would travel through this system and end up with a profit?
If the goal was to benefit tether, how would $1000 in trades accomplish that?
If I'm going to use cash, I'd rather keep loose change in the pocket and keep my wallet as thin as possible. $1 bills have a tendency of taking volume in my wallet.
Cool! Ill give this a try. I have been working on something like this as well. :)
In addition, it's been shown many many times that people who have less monetary power are often more stressed, so one shouldn't assume that somehow emotional problems are not connected to economics.
Not really. It's just a way of measuring value more removed from any one nation's currency. You take the price, in DAI, of a bunch of historically stable priced goods. Bread, tires, shoes, etc. Measure the averaged normalized variance in price over time for these goods in DAI. Then tune the economic incentives to make those variances stay at as close to zero as possible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_price_index
Backhoes. The internet's natural predator.
notice the reports of the outages appeared well before the fiber was cut.
I sincerely doubt our enormously bloated defense budget is because of research...
You should probably wait for an AMA with someone who's actually an expert in AI, and ask them this question.

Since you asked me, though, I did a quick Google search and found the following paper:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.09667.pdf

where indeed they use machine learning to induce the rules of chess from a large number of played games (and then learn to play better than any human). It doesn't surprise me at all that this would be feasible with current tools, although I haven't studied the paper yet, and would be curious to know how many games you need before you've learned all the rules around, e.g., castling, en passant, promotion of pawns, and perpetual check.

My guess is that for a machine to learn the rules of the games of love and politics will take somewhat longer. :-)
I read the headline as being about something new, not frivolous.
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Can it tell you how busy a place is yet like Google maps?
Allegedly the outage due to a utility truck in North Carolina knocking down a few power lines. When I heard this, I realized it could've been what happened in my hometown!

There was a video going around Facebook of a truck taking down several utility lines in Wilmington, NC.

https://www.facebook.com/110795228128/posts/1015572616317812...
Which topics?
Many legal sex workers have been hit by the takedown of sites like Backpage(1) and its sister cracker(2). These sites were the primary sources to advertise or find their services. It was heavily used by independent sex workers.

1. https://www.thecut.com/2018/04/7-sex-workers-on-what-it-mean...

2. https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/relationships/sex/sex-work...
Sen. Ron Wyden Asks NIST to Consider WireGuard to Replace IPSEC and OpenVPN [pdf]
I wonder how much we'd benefit from having seasonal control over where electrical appliances send their waste heat:

For example:

- ovens: vent outside on hot days, inside on cold days.

- clothes driers: vent outside on hot days, and on warm days either (a) vent inside through a filter or (b) send the exhaust through an indoor heat-exchanger before venting.

- refrigerators: cooling coils cooled with indoor air on cold days, outdoor air on hot days.
The DoD budget exceeds Google's market cap, and their research budget exceeds Google's annual revenue.
I'm not sure I agree with this sentiment either. Crime statistics for violent crime have fallen dramatically in the US for example, so it's not like the internet makes us less safe, I think there's a bit of recentism there. It does, however, change the character of violence and harassment from previous generations.
Absolutely. Heard that with stateless IPv6 DHCP. "If you can fingerprint the browser, why does it matter that one can use the MAC component of the IPv6 to track people across networks?". Heard on HN...
I love that Sen. Wyden was able to articulate accurately _why_ Wireguard matters. I have no idea to what extent they wrote the letter and to what extent they understand its contents, but I feel for a US Senator this is what trying looks like.
Researchers Claim Tether’s Price Action Defies Normal Rules of Economics
It took them the better part of 4 years to bring clean water back to Flint - they only ended their bottled water program in April of this year. Those who were there during the crisis will be living with the consequences of lead poisoning for the rest of their lives. Odd that you view something this recent, and of this magnitude, as an outdated talking point.

Anyway, Flint isn't the only place in the US with water problems. https://impact.vice.com/en_us/article/wj4qvx/these-us-cities...
I like that line, is it yours or does it have some further history/examples behind it?
I've been thinking _a lot_ about this recently and how to communicate this in a loving way because I think it's critically important to understand that people have differing priorities that aren't necessarily morally wrong, just different.

Jonathan Haidt's TED talks[0] are a good starting point. Getting people from both sides of an argument to see others as humans, neighbors, partners and how different perspectives add value.

Miyazaki comes to mind quite a bit. For the most part the "villains" in his movies are easy to empathize with and the protagonists learn about their goals and view points and work within those to solve the problem they originally set out to solve. I'd like to think people within a country are more like Ashitaka, San, and Lady Eboshi than Luke Skywalker and Emperor Palpatine.

My own personal conviction would like to see more constructive action from everybody. I don't consider threatening people, screaming at others, demeaning them, or name calling constructive. I think if more people found thing they thought could make _any_ impact, and went and helped real people, a lot more would be done than by lamenting the current state of the universe. And unless you need help, don't talk about it, don't expect anything in return, and don't put down others for not thinking the areas you choose to focus on aren't as important as the areas they've chosen to focus on.

0 - https://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mind , https://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_can_a_divided_ameri...
I think it's a mistake to compare an accident and an intentional criminal act like that.

If you get run down intentionally by someone in a car while biking, and the first thing I say is "well, you should've worn a helmet", you're going to correctly call me a douchebag.
Looks like circleci wants people more defined by their sexuality than the technology they want to create. This is a potential indicator circleci's software will take a turn for the worse.
Worth noting: the lack of tip culture in the EU as per the previous poster's example. A waiter being tipped 1$ coins each night would add up quickly.
> Even on the equator traditional approaches are nicer than air con - not least because AC dries the air so uncomfortably.

Where I live, the summers are muggy. Having ACs double as dehumidifiers is usually a blessing.

OTOH, when I'm at hotels in the SF Bay area, the AC dries the air out so much that I often shut it off at night, choosing the lesser of two evils.
What about the nickel?
I don't begrudge others their sincerely held faiths! But I confess that I haven't yet seen the need for nonstandard logics for anything I've personally been interested in.
Thumbtack has worked well for me as a client. But that's more of a platform for advertising of real skill as opposed to just performing some unskilled labor. "Gig" work as a skilled contractor isn't new though.
It's not considering you a resident. The GDPR reads much closer to a declaration of a human right. For example:

Recital 14 - "The processing of personal data is designed to serve man; the principles and rules on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of their personal data should, whatever the nationality or residence of natural persons, respect their fundamental rights and freedoms, notably their right to the protection of personal data"

Article 3 (2) - "This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data of data subjects who are in the Union"

This hasn't been tested, and each member state could prosecute differently, but it was certainly discussed and then structured in such a way to be a fundamental truth, and in my non-legal opinion (based mainly just on having read the majority of it) it would be interpreted as such by EU courts (ie, not member state courts)
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