skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My personal belief is that we should be generating vast amounts of deep fake videos and audio clips now that the technology is available. We should intentionally and hastily move to pollute the information streams around us as rapidly as possible in order to force an evolution in how we process information.

To attempt to slow down this arms race, or to ignore its implications just puts us at a further disadvantage to those that want to capitalize on the potential it brings them to arbitrage our "default accept" mindset against their fake agenda.

For example, China's Great Wall will not protect them from deepfakes and indeed it actually makes the delivery of deepfakes into China more effective.

The advantage afforded by weaponizing deepfakes only lasts as long as the audience defaults to trust without verification.
I don’t understand what relevance your definition has to this discussion. If I wanted to comment that I don’t like the rule, I would have said so. Please don’t lazily impose your lack of understanding on other people’s comments and listen in good faith to accept they genuinely have a point and try to understand it.
Also unlikely; the lock is not in the device but in Apples servers denying activation. To fool it you need to put a legitimate identifier into to locked device. You can’t just make up numbers because Apple has them in a database. And you can’t duplicate them because then one of the devices gets locked.

It’s more likely they use identifiers, chips or boards from unlocked but broken devices.
The only problem with that rant is that the entire premise is false. Unemployment benefits have a time limit, but unemployment statistics do not (you only fall off of the headline unemployment statistic if you become institutionalized or employed, stop actively looking for work, or die.)
You weren't there. I was. I later bought microdoses, basically, in order to be able to keep using it without feeling like I was half asleep for days at a time.
I wish we’d move to a 3 year PhD program now that you have 5-10 year postdocs if you even have a career in you’re field at all.
This is something that I'm currently debating and have been thinking about a lot lately. NYC is so expensive and makes it insanely hard to save anything. Moving to say Woodstock, NY would be half the price, 2 hours away on a bus, and its beautiful.

I also think that people from small towns can give you a different perceptive on ideas and life that you can't get anywhere else.
I live in Michigan about 45 minutes West of Flint. A lot of the blame rests with the emergency manager's decisions and it should be. However most of the other emergency manager appointments were successful. We wouldn't be seeing Detroit's comeback without the work of an emergency manager. A second emergency manager cut millions of dollars of waste from the budget of Detroit Public Schools and then his work led to the successful prosecution of principals and administrators who were stealing millions of dollars more.

In Flint's case both the state health department and the EPA had they acted much sooner could have minimized the damage. The health department administrators are facing jail time for their crimes. Administrators of the Flint water department are also facing jail time. The EPA staffers so far have escaped any punishments whatsoever.
Is there anyway you could have bootstrapped the company? My issue with VCs isn't anything you focused on but instead the unfavorable terms. Liquidation preference and such.
if you separate income inequality and economy, then you basically say that economy's goal is not to improve everybody's life. Benefits of successful economy should be shared by everyone.
A lot of third world countries have jobs programs where they pay one group to dig holes and another group to fill up those holes.

That pretty much describes most of humanity, resource extraction to landfill with a brief stop off in our living rooms.
“Googler to Founder – 18 months in”
“Googler to Founder - 18 months in” https://medium.com/@lewish/googler-to-founder-18-months-in-cf3024a70199
> My VCR is pretty secure.

What happens when a sufficient power surge comes in and it catches fire and burns down your house. Still secure?

> CRT monitor, too.

You sure? There are known viruses than can destroy some old CRTs. Still secure?

> Even my headphones are nicely secure.

Sure, so is my wind up grandfather clock too. How is that relevant?
> 3) When I did "sleep", there was a 50/50 chance I'd wake up with abs that felt like I'd been doing crunches all night long. I don't know what I was doing. I felt rested, but man was I sore.

...So you're saying there's a way to get 6-pack abs _in your sleep_?
Probably mode of energy transfer. Microwaves are extremely efficient with transferring energy to water since you do not need to have something with higher temperature to produce heat flow. Also, you can heat up a contained area (especially water vapor) easily where as heating elements are limited to surface area (and the heat flow will be extremely low since the mass is low).
I feel the same way about my degree. The money was clearly a fraction of what I could be making in industry, but it was enough to live fairly comfortably. And the freedom I had to pursue my interests was unmatched in any other position I could have gotten instead.
Do you feel like this advertising sends the same message: http://www.ggeeoorrggiiaa.com/new-page-37/ ?
How did the two of you originally connect?
Maybe staying where they are but working in their PJs is how they want to live!
483 tons seems like a very small amount of pollution when you consider that it is spread over the entire country (even albeit concentrated near airports).
Looks like the rich HN-private pilots stepped in to downvote you.
This is one of the current 'tech' trends that I'm following, the idea of homomorphic encryption is really cool. I feel like there is a lot of real world applications for it, but I have failed to find them yet.
Is that a result of lead or the policies created in the 1970s that helped cause a massive increase in single-parent homes among those in poverty? There are a lot of factors that contributed to that crime wave. The Great Society started by Johnson and expanded by Nixon likely has had a far bigger effect than simply lead. It’s an area of study though that is plagued by politics and stifled by political correctness. It’s much easier to simply blame it on lead. But considering that lead was around in unhealthy levels long before that generation entered adulthood, one must look at what changed in the socio-welfare-cultural structure preceding that “massive crime wave.” But, to do that would call into question a generation of social policy which is very uncomfortable for many.
> Would love to hear if anyone who drives for Uber could back that up or not [...]

Those people are wayyy too busy to read HN.
The driver should be required to report an incident like vomiting while the ride is still in progress. Then the passenger should get a notification on the app with the ability to contest the accusation and submit a picture of the clean seat right from the app to prove their story.
And even if you really do want to have "X params or less", Scala makes it really easy to achieve with case classes. Group your parameters into data classes of X parameters or less, and viola, you have reasonably succinct, readable solution.
The main subject in this story was pursuing a PhD in "Women's Studies". Not to disparage that field of study, but it's quite obvious that it is a pretty useless degree that limits you to a career as a Women's Studies professor. I don't think this is a good illustration of people who leave PhD programs
The post-doc where I got my PhD was making $5k less than I, or around 17k

His English sucked, his physics PhD in non linear quantum mechanics useless and his resume-writting skills was non existent.

Yet, he's the only person to read my thesis, the cluster worked only thanks to his efforts, and he administered 20~30 workstations while doing his research. I would not have graduated without him and he is more dear to me than anyone I met at school.
> The kernel is just too old

For my curiosity, is there a technical reason for the distro to use an old kernel? I would think one would wish to have all the bug fixes available, and I don't think the kernel has a bad backward compatibility story, so from the outside it seems like a sure thing -- leading me to believe there must be more to the story.
Professor is already a very comfortable job. Adjunct lecturer is an awful job, but the requirements for those are already quite low, and frankly generally don't include "is an effective teacher". IMO, the problem here isn't supply-and-demand for the lecturer job; the problem is that the service being provided ("teaching a course") isn't the product the customer (student) is buying! In the common case, the student is buying a degree and doesn't care about the course (because the course is a "distribution requirement" inside or outside of major, or because the whole major/degree is a a pointless arbitrary requirement put in place by employers). On both sides, student and teacher, parties are simply going through the motions to fulfill the illusion of a meaningful degree.
Thanks, good to know.

Again iOS 11 only supports the One-time password (OTP) featureset:

“When a YubiKey is connected to an iOS device, only the OTP mode functions listed below are available.
Yubico OTP
Static Password
OATH-HOTP”

Does anyone know if iOS 12 will update Core NFC to overcome:
“Core NFC [in iOS 11] does not allow for write operations that are required for authentication protocols like FIDO U2F.”
[1] https://www.yubico.com/2017/10/iphone-support-yubikey-otp-vi...
The Gitlab handbook is great! Helped me create something similar at my current company.
What do you find ugly about GitLab? I actually find the design to be comparable to GitHub, or better.
The potential danger is that non-smoking children start vaping, and then move onto smoking. We don't think that happens, but it's a bit too early to know for sure.

In the UK there's a voluntary agreement to not market to young people, and to not sell product to people who are not smokers.

Something like juul happening over here would probably prompt more formal regulation.
Dark Mode Rolling Out Now to Outlook.com Users
> before I learned how fucked-up our immigration system is.

Fucked up because they give higher-educated people preference, or fucked up because corporations lobby for more H1B workers to depress engineering wages industry wide?
Huh! TIL!
A salt? Ouch. Then the lawsuit may have merit, unlike the free amine the salt is absorbed only in the lungs, and you are forced to inhale deeply and get a nicotine hit.
This question is too nebulous for a good Ask HN.

If you're interested in the millions of pages of literature on this question, you might start at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freewill/. But TL;DR: there's no answer.
For my personal email (gmail) I only recently went to Google Authenticator because I finally figured out how to put it on multiple devices. I was worried about the SMS code method's security, but I had no other way to ensure that losing my phone wouldn't leave me with no way to get into my accounts. (If I lose my phone I can still resurrect my phone # on another device by SIM replacement).

The U2F works fine for corporate, etc. where you have a support team who can help you in case you lose it or forget anything. They can make you come in person and prove that you are you.

The problem with implementing this for personal is that if you ever lose the key or code generator, you are absolutely fucked because there is no way to prove who you are to Google and have them reset your password / security.
"WSJ is not trustworthy on Tesla" comments make me think there would be quite a few people saying "WSJ is not trustworthy on Theranos" a few years ago..
Last August https://web.archive.org/web/20170823043711/https://www.juulv... it said it was "satisfying" and had "cigarette-like nicotine levels". Both of those are apparently false.
Neither the US nor Switzerland have a higher immigrant population in the sense that Canada does.

The US has many more migrants but they make up a little less of the population.

Switzerland has an altogether view on migrants - they have a high rate of 'foreigners' but they are ultimately ex-pats. Canada brings in people to settle, Switzerland brings in people for labour.

I have no idea what you are on about regarding 'charged politics' or 'white immigrants'.

As someone who actively hires immigrants in Canada from all over the world, I'm aware of the system, their level of education etc.

The solution to Canada's aging population is mostly to accept that we are now living a very long time, and most of that time is not productive, which means slightly lower standard of living. Second - more babies and the policies that ensue.

Immigration is a helper to the above, not a primary solution.
Slow TV
It's a net positive for technology entrepeneurs, certainly.

What's less obvious is whether it's a net positive for everyone, e.g. if that "access to capital" comes in the form of naive investors pouring money into projects that are likely to fail (i.e. have been arguably a poor use of capital / a net negative).
Good point, that makes a lot of sense with Apple’s hardware strategy in mind.
Yup, people do not understand how stable water is (hence the low energy density). Phase change on the other hand, is a extremely effective method to harness work from heat.
Without moralizing, I think there’s a clear reason Flint was covered so much by the mass media.

The problems in Flint could be traced directly to an erroneous decision by the Michigan state government to use the Flint river water without introducing anti-corrosion chemicals into it (thus causing corrosion of the existing, safe lead pipes). This creates a clear narrative of good and evil which is attractive to the media.

Other cities suffering from lead problems are often due to legacy lead paint or lead pipes installed on homeowner’s property. It’s much harder to see a narrative in that rather than an existing, systemic problem which would not be seen as newsworthy.

The last time something like Flint happened was the CDC coverup of lead contamination in the Washington, D.C. water system almost 2 decades ago, which did receive national attention although not as much as Flint has. (One could speculate as to the reasons why)
I agree with you, and I think it depends a lot on the department you are in. Too many people just apply for the top N schools for the field they want to go into. There's a huge difference in culture and feels of each school, and how they deal with funding or advising.

My PhD was some of my best years of my life, and I was truly lucky. It was a once-in-a-lifetime thing, and even now I wish I could return to being a PhD student for the rest of my life. I had a great set of friends, all the research freedom I wanted, supportive department, and I did research internships at least once a year so my average salary was pretty decent (about half a software developer salary at that time). If your goal is to make as much money as fast as possible, then you will be disappointed with a PhD.

I was in a department that was in between social science and computer science, and out of the 8 of us that started together, all 8 graduated. 7 of the 8 landed R1 tenure-track faculty positions, most of us directly after the PhD (the remaining 1 was running a successful business).
Long term unemployed people are cheap to hire no matter what their experience or education.
Yugoslavia looks like a bad one :)
I think that really depends on a lot of things.

If they said that it was less addictive than cigarettes based on the average nicotine in a cigarette versus the average nicotine in a single pod, it would depend if a single pod has less nicotine or not.

Just looked it up, they claim a pod is equivalent to a pack.

It would also depend on their exact claim. If they're just claiming that it's a way to get people off of cigarettes, then that's not the same as nicotine independence.
Nintendo files lawsuit against emulator sites
I've been through bankruptcy over decade ago and I'm still paying on a useless ITT tech degree... Wish I had known better when I was younger.
Well, technically I'm paying, I have paid off very little. This is the first year I'll be breaking 2x poverty.
Office for Mac has been a shitshow for years, either use 365 online or use the windows one through parallels et al.
I thought the entire appeal of a "liberal arts" college was that the college focuses on quality teaching instead of research. Why on earth would they demand their profressors have PhDs?
I feel like your comment leads to every debate about the practical value of a liberal arts degrees, ever. Either that or you're specifically devaluing Women's Studies. That makes no sense, given the push for gender diversity in the business world (and in general).
Ahh the UK where health insurance coverage is much easier to attain...

Where in the UK? What field? There are several important details you are leaving out.
I think the difference between the slurred fundamentalist (connoting a terrorist-like figure) and a tech fundamentalist is objectively clear.
Free will is an illusion, our brains make decisions on how to deal with incoming information based on past experiences that have strengthened certain connections.
Some circuits are stimulated throughout the day more than others based on similarity of information to what we have received in the past, from this arises thought processes and "decision making"
It is not easy, but it is something I believe we need to try as part of the solution to the problems facing our species on this planet.

http://www.scottsantens.com/basic-income-faq
Well they do have a patent for a better delivery of nicotine

https://patents.google.com/patent/CA2909967A1/en

a previous Wired article on the patent

https://www.wired.com/2015/04/pax-juul-ecig/
It fairly closely tracked both lead exposure in both time frame and location. So, while no single factor was completely responsible lead had a major impact.
Not convinced that has any advantage compared to a naive approach of:

- introspection at the application level: exit if memory usage goes way above usual (say by 2x)

- management by systemd to gracefully restart the application when it exits (dependancies etc), and also monitor memory use in case the application doesn't monitor it well (say exit when 2.5x the usual)

I could be made better, but at the cost of more complexity.
Imagination isn’t lacking you don’t need to imagine anything just look towards Africa, parts of Latin America, S.E. Asia and anywhere remote that gets hit by a natural disaster.

What I can say quite confidently is that you likely never had to go thirsty because you couldn’t risk drinking the water or contracted cholera, heck you likely never even got a bad case of food poisoning thanks modern sanitary regulation and functional infrastructure.

You never had to worry about if that insect bite laid larva under your skin or if the blistering rash you got on your leg is going to spread and imobalize you.

You live a cushy comfortable and safe life which is afforded to the vast majority of people who live in developed nations.

If you want to go back to huts and other “evolutionary compatible habitats” be my guest there are plenty of places on the planet that are a bad day away from being completely sent back to the Stone Age which you can relocate too, just don’t forget to get your shots, bring your monthly supply of soylent and fill your instagram with the experience to your hearts content.
Those elastic strips look like a variant on 3M's "Command" adhesive system for wall hooks.[1] Those can be safely mounted and unmounted.

[1] https://www.command.com
Good luck to that, reality doesn't seem to agree with you. The future seems firmly in the camp of a mix of FOSS with proprietary.

The most popular OSes are proprietary:

* Android (almost useless without the Google stuff, plus 99% of Android apps are unfortunately proprietary)

* Windows

* MacOS (I know about Darwin, everyone uses MacOS for the proprietary integration bits)
Rent is only $5K in the Bay Area if you want to live in one of the "luxury" complexes or a single-family home. I pay $2600/month for a 2BR townhome that's about middle-of-the-road in quality. Single engineers can do a lot better by living with roommates; if you're willing to double-up in a 2BR or triple-up in a 3BR you can do about $1200/month. (Some of the units in our complex actually have 4 young men living in a 2BR; they pay $650/month in exchange for living like they're in college again.)

The capital-gains portion of your wealth (which can be appreciable; see below) is taxed at 15% Federally and 10% CA.
Manchester, programming languages. Not superstar machine learning or anything like that.
I can't really see it as that, either. The source is still open, it's free to check out and compile.
Why not both?

Generative Adversarial Networks
http://blog.aylien.com/introduction-generative-adversarial-n...
> Chrome is the only mainstream browser

It "only" has 70%+ of the browser market share, and growing.
Does anyone know what version of Python is installed by default?
Google's AutoML: Cutting Through the Hype
Yeah, exactly. The linked article quotes parts of the suit that specifically say "nicotine salts" which I think is suggestive that this may be a big part of the case.
Most of the GNU/Linux desktop stuff is GNOME, and a lot of GNOME developers work at Red Hat, but not exclusively. If you want to work on free software desktop applications, I would consider working at a company like that.

A lot of desktop software is commodity stuff — mail clients, office suites, browsers, photo editing and the like. But there are some areas where we need to be better, such as video editing.
> majority white.

s/white/poor
This kind of thing happened everywhere, even in Asia or Africa or other regions.
Enterprise distros such as Redhat fork the kernel, then patch for bugs and vulnerabilities, to avoid adding too many new features to a major version release of the OS. This actually makes a lot of sense from a stability and predictability perspective. It would be significantly harder to support the upstream kernel releases, as new features and behavioral changes occur rather often.
"The compiler does not understand the required high level result almost always."

Depends heavily on the language and code we are talking about.
For C++, there are plenty of compilers that can replace C++ standard library calls and usage with faster, more optimal, C++ library calls and usage.
That's because it is possible to understand the guarantees needed.

That's about as far as you can get in a language like C++. You can do complex idiom recognition (IE recognize handwritten sorts, whatever) but it's usually not worth it.

Now obviously, there are languages that express invariants/contracts/etc that make this type of optimization much easier to do.

"They typically fail as devising such structure safely from low level code is a really hard problem."

Actually, the safety part is easier than the allowed part if you are trying to split them.

But usually they are the same thing - the language does not allow it, therefore it is unsafe.

It is generally easy and well understood how to analyze and know what set of preconditions any particular transform safe, and even if you can't prove it statically, you can insert runtime checks to make sure the preconditions hold. This generalizes very well. It's just not worth it most of the time.

This is why we focus on subsets like loops, and things like polyhedral loop opts, etc, have complex cost models that try to take into account the cost of dynamic checks, etc.

(I spent years funding and talking to researchers about this)