skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with some of the reviews that mention the need for calculator and camera. I would say that phone and SMS should be easily accessed as well.

Then, the 2 app limit would work. (I'd choose our app and our support app)
Can you quantify the quality-of-life boost you get by being at the top of the heap?

If you're the head of state, or the head of a successful company, or the venture capitalist, or simply heir to a fortune, you know you're on top. You wake up every day knowing your time belongs to you. You walk into a room and people smile at you, suck up to you, want to be your friend. You might even make frequent decisions about which other people in your world move upward or downward.

This seems like it would be a significant dimension for anyone wanting to measure quality of life. And for this reason, I bet a lot of people wouldn't mind terribly if they had to give up their electricity, air conditioning, color television, and the rest of their modern conveniences if it meant they could swap lives with the Vanderbilits and Astors of old.
I always was assuming Tesla cars are designed to be hostile to repair outside their own factory

They are. That (fortunately) doesn't stop people from still trying, and succeeding. Look up Louis Rossmann and Apple products for a analogous example.
Holy crap, it's a magnetic version of a harmonic drive!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_drive
The origin of the name Posix. (2011-05-11)
What are you going to do about it?
It's brain medicine, and autoimmune medicine. Nobody is taking it for their heart.
I agree with the premise(vacation is stressful and expensive), but staying at home doesn't provide the sense of isolation/independence from outside world that tourists seek.
There are ways to do this at home though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolation_tank
Vacations just replace stress X with stress Y.
>Splitting logic into separate threads is not necessary.

Unless you're already using Vulkan/Metal your render thread will most certainly be lockstep with the GPU and that will block your CPU throughput.

You haven't described CPU/GPU independence at all. You're just talking about sacrificing the FPS for CPU perf.
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It's gotten a little off topic, but this subthread has been great, so thanks. I knew the instant I saw your phrasing that some people fond of pushing a certain narrative were going to read you wrong because of the assumptions they carry. I don't hold out hope that they'll take this as a wake up call, but I'm glad I bookmarked it all the same.

I think your advice is completely sensible for people who are a little more risk averse. Sad that such measures are necessary, but we all decide our acceptable level of risk.
Are you crazy? Almost nobody sees or reads corrections. They're usually in small print to some side, where they reluctantly might retract something.

At least on social media if the correction is big enough it'll be brought to people's attention.

Have you really never seen a correction posted on reddit? Every other day there's some news article that has as the first comment a correction of the article, because the article is wrong or leaving something out.
Do countries like Germany, with rich, relatively recent military history have schools where people go to learn all the different models of bomb that they used back in WW2? How do they keep all that important knowledge circulating for defusal techs after all these years?

Quite interesting
The statement about Decimal being an import is a garbage, misleading statement. Decimal IS PART OF THE STANDARD LIBRARY!!!! It might not be in the global context, but that is a far cry from having to install an external library which this article makes it seem like.

Also, performance wise COBOL might be faster on a single machine, but good like trying to scale it out. Plus, a distributed architecture can make it easier to deploy software and hardware upgrades since you can generally take out a few nodes without bringing down the whole system.

I’m not saying all this code should be rewritten. If you have some code out in the wild that works, you should always weigh carefully the risks in terms of cost and potential new bugs before doing a rewrite. However, lack of fixed point is a lousy excuse to not upgrade.
I worked at a company in 2002 that used tuplespaces for managing distribution of searches to worker machines. It worked really well! I don't remember us ever having trouble with that part of our system.
Then the proper thing to do is provide relevant safety procedures in the service manual. Combustion cars certainly have plenty of hazards (toxic and flammable liquids, poison gas, rotating machinery, and, yes, high voltages, too).

Treating electric cars as "these are mystery devices that must be repaired only by us, because reasons" does the world an enormous disservice.
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>The teams document whether passengers fidget, use a computer, have a “jump” in their Adam’s apple or a “cold penetrating stare,” among other behaviors, according to the records.

I believe this isn't the first time the TSA has tried to do some sort of behavioral profiling and such. Previously it proved to be BS and did not show any ability to identify threats.

Considering TSA agents are leaking this to the press makes me think someone(s) at TSA think you can just spot a terrorist and the agents think it is ballony ....
I mean, it's obviously bad for the same reasons dragnet surveillance is always bad. But this particular instance so ham-handed (tailing an executive that went to Turkey one time?) and so manpower intensive it's kind of hard to take seriously.

> What makes you say that? I didn't see it in the article, but maybe I missed something.

The article mentions that they first got into the business of tracking people through airports and in the sky after the FBI asked them to help on existing investigations, so I wonder if they are just trying to show that they can do investigations on their own like big boys.
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The most likely explanation I can think of, is that this is work to establish baselines against which to run mass automated surveillance.

So, it's not just this. Consider where it's going -- what would induce this level of effort and expenditure?

P.S. It will also be "interesting" when parallel construction enters the picture -- if it hasn't, already.
This would still run on top of threads or something. So how could a basic Java -based wen-server be better if it took advantage of JavaSpaces?
I really wish the right would stop holding up as an example a terrorist attack against what continues to be one of the most diverse, international, and left-leaning parts of the nation. Especially when the example is used to justify limiting travel from every country except the country most of the perpetrators were from, but including countries which have significant immigrant populations in the victim city. It's borderline offensive and patronizing.

Not to mention rape victims... I know a few, and all of them attended or were wildly supportive of both the Women's March and the demonstrations against the travel bans. I don't think they'd appreciate their role in your analogy.
I think you're really underestimating the number of people who are programmers and musicians. As one, I've found Sonic Pi to be fun to mess around with.

Also, how do you make something like this without music theory? At the end of the day, you need an abstraction. Why make a new abstraction for creating music when everybody already agreed on one?
I assumed this would be about the DSP engine from Symbolic Sound. Though I am a fan of the large rodent creatures with a chill attitude.
> You think all the workers brought to the US on programs like H1-B are "world class"?

Have you ever considered questions such as:

- The program itself might be flawed? US needs to improve its processes (ties to the original post)

- Why are Americans letting companies do that? Have you asked for something different from your government or are you just blasting a system from the last century?

- Why are CEOs allowed to gain the riches of global profits while being taxed lesser than middle class?

Globalization wasn't just "job stealing". It brought ungodly profits into corporate America. So many American companies have revenues more than GDP of entire nations. That goes into your 401k. So you have a share of work done in other countries.

Ever asked why middle class Americans are not getting a larger share of it from American rich people? Why isn't the money trickling down as promised?

At the end, you vote for your representatives. Your representatives seem to make the rich richer and create inhuman systems like H-1B instead of merit based systems. If you just elect someone who shuts the whole system down without an adequate replacement, forget about talented people, like OP, coming into the US.
It's a gradual worsening of civil freedoms and rights.

Intrusive CCTV is intrusive. Facial recognition is more intrusive.

It wouldn't be different from an impossibly high number of law enforcement officers keeping watch on everyone at all time like in a high-tech big brother nightmare -- except the tech doesn't work properly, and there are high numbers of false positives that will lead to the wrong innocent people being put under suspicion and potentially having their life ruined by a police investigation that presumes you're guilty until you've been illibated by a court.

They shouldn't be watching or tracking us in the first place.
Ask HN: What is your area of expertise and what books still blew your mind?
What is your area of expertise and what books still blew your mind?

I wanted to know the books (research, blog, podcast, really any medium of knowledge) that -
[] made you change your mind about strongly held beliefs in your area of expertise
or
[] strongly held personally views
or
[] helped you build a point of view
or
[] further expanded your thought process
or
[] made you go - "didn't know that was possible"

The books could be from any field - related/ unrelated, what matters is how it improved you in building better mental models about your expertise.
[] What would be THE ONE book you would suggest?
[] Your Top Picks (any number of, but be very selective)

I would say my area of expertise would be building products and managing teams (I have found 4 companies to date, as a tech-cofounder) - my list -
-- The One
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari
-- Top Picks -
- The Inevitable, Kevin Kelly
- What Technology Wants, Kevin Kelly
- Bhagavad Gita
- Hooked, Nir Eyal
- Inspired, Marty Cagan
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz
- Where Good Ideas Come From, Steven Johnson
- The Innovator's Dilemma, Clayton m. christensen
- Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
- Predictably Irrational, Dan Ariely
- The Little Prince,
- Shoe Dog, Phil Knight
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Agreed. Importing standard library entities is just an organizational distinction.
Half the problem with `curl | bash` installation is not related to whether or not you trust what your downloading...

The more important reason why it is a _horrible_ _stupid_ mechanism for software installation is that it is not _repeatable_.

It is well understood that casual .deb .rpm usage requires an equivalent level of trust as downloading anything else off the internet... but they have the added advantage of being _consistent_ _repeatable_ and _mirrorable_... I can copy the entire repository of any version of debian I want to my local file server, and use that to spin up however much infrastructure I want. And the only person I need to rely on after I have fetched the initial packages is myself.
688 open pull requests, the existence of a half-dozen competing projects, and Robby's blog post suggesting that he doesn't take the project seriously.
Not sure what you mean. I don’t think apt-get install foo involves transferring GPG keys.
Medicine doesn't quite work that way in the modern world.
As to your last point: Totally! Old code is proven code, and battle experience is the hardest kind of experience to earn. The longer something's been working correctly, the higher the degree of confidence you can have in it to continue working correctly in the future.
Only if openstep catches up with Apple, or I retire. I wouldn’t hold my breath.
ignoring issues related to scale, I wonder how the tech's accuracy compares to london's team of human "super-recognizers."[1]

1. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/22/londons-super-...
C#/.NET has the built-in decimal type which is technically floating point, but it has a 96-bit mantissa and a base-10 exponent which makes it behave similarly to fixed point numbers.
One does wonder how tuple spaces would've fared without the influence of the unabomber…
how does fake spot make money though?

Are they injecting their amazon affiliate code into your amazon shopping session via their browser plugin?
So, why should our Swedish friend Daniel need a visa and be subject to bureaucratic purgatory?
It introduces a nice level of indirection between different actors, so that they don't need to know about each other's existence in order to communicate and solve problems together. The actors can be added and removed dynamically, and so the problems to solve and the problem-solvers can evolve over time. It's a pretty powerful and flexible idea! To use GoF terminology, it's like having a Mediator for a bunch of asynchronous and fully decoupled pub-sub Observers and Observables. It's a way to implement Barbara Hayes-Roth's Blackboard model.

JavaSpaces, TSpaces emphasized the over-the-internet aspects of it, which didn't matter to us for our project. We ended up finding and using something much simpler called LighTS. With all the nice support for concurrency in Java these days though, it wouldn't be much work to put one together from scratch.
dpkg/packages have sanity checks to make sure that files aren't being overwritten, and things are generally in a sane state.

curl|bash involves no checks, and no system integration whatsoever.
>Ignoring scale, I wonder how the tech's accuracy compares to london's team of human "super-recognizers."

You can't ignore scale when it is the game-changer of automated facial recognition.

The tech compares very poorly to super-recognizers, with an absurdly high number of false positives, putting the wrong innocent people under an aggressive suspicion that they won't be able to know about and dispute.
I think that's the wrong stat. Do 40% of men hitting on women in the office result in happy marriages?
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The difference is automation, and the issues that come with that.

If you look like someone the system is looking for, there's nothing you can do to whitelist yourself other than wear something on your face, you will be flagged, every single time until a human looks at it, and if they're stopping people, that means being stopped, every time.

If the system has the wrong face in the database, bad luck.

If someone finds a way of preventing detection, say, make up, or big glasses, the system doesn't work any more, as far as I know, even the best facial recognition that only relies on cameras and not depth cameras significantly lose accuracy with either of those.

There are a lot of people in London, the false positive and negative rates aren't usually published and anything above zero means those technical problems happen an undisclosed amount too much.

Did you ever hear the story of the guy with a very common name ending up on the no fly list? The no fly list was for a long time, and I think still now, literally only a list of names, meaning if someone with a common name goes on the list, everyone with that name gets stopped at the airport as the database gets checked to see if they're the same person. Now think what happens if someone with a generic looking face ends up in the police database.
Plenty of those scripts simply detect your operating system and then interact with the system package manager (adding a new repository, updating the package index, then asking the package manager to install it).
They increase the cost of food, in exchange for the public good of a decrease in the incidence of foodborne illnesses.
I would also add Thought Machine with their Vault OS product, looks interesting.
I mean, I guess I see them making a three-stage argument:

1) Distributing software via bash script is a bad idea

2) Sensible people review the bash scripts they downloaded before running them

3) But haha! Here is a clever trick that evades that review.

And I'm not persuaded by 3) being interesting because I already rejected 1) and 2), and I consider 3) to just be proving my point -- you (for all you!) are not competent to perform a very brief but somehow thorough security review of a shell script that probably has further dependencies you aren't even looking at, and the actual reasoning to apply when deciding to install software this or any way is purely "Do I trust the entity I have this TLS connection open with to run code on my machine?".
Who is this guy? I feel like you'd have to a be an electrical engineer, ex-bmw mechanic, who got rich and is now wealthy + retired.
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Could we equally ask, “how something written in machine code be better if it took advantage of the JVM, because the JVM is implemented in machine code?”
in a hypothetical you can ignore whatever you want :) infinite super-recognizers vs. infinitely available facial recognition is what I'm wondering about here.

> The tech compares very poorly to super-recognizers, with an absurdly high number of false positives, putting the wrong innocent people under aggressive suspicion.

well that's not good!
> if people knew what data the state collected about them, it would defeat the point.

No, it wouldn't. The point of keeping data is to be able to detect unusual activity and cross reference information. Not to spy. The people are the country and they should be able to make an informed decision on what they want the government to be tracking about people.
Good use case for IPFS. You could curl a hash and check that hash against signatures commited to a blockchain. If the set of signatures exist that you trust, then it's golden, if not, no exec.
How many airline terrorists have we had in the last 10 years? 2? How many travellers per year? 500m+. TSA is just really bad a math if they think they have any chance of actually profiling a real terrorist. They should just take the money and buy Powerball tickets, least then they have a better chance at a return of investment.
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Because it would cost the government $100B to do it themselves.
>well that's not good!

The whole concept is a nightmare for our civil freedoms even if the tech was perfect -- precisely because of realistically being able to scale -- and must be protested until the whole idea is let go of.

>infinite super-recognizers vs. infinitely available facial recognition is what I'm wondering about here.

You keep editing your comments to remove contentious remarks. I can only reply to the one I've read.
That sounds super impressive and useful. Do you ever plan to open source the code? Or keep it your competitive advantage? :)
Security and convenience are almost always a difficult tradeoff. In the case of curl'ing scripts from trusted websites, what is the benefit for the average lazy user? Are you using an OS that doesn't have a signed package with the same library/program?

It's not trust now that you need to worry about. It's trust later, when curl-bash is part of an automated pipeline that no one pays attention to.
Hard to tell these days.
I think a lot of CDN’s have cloud storage at the CDN site. https://bunnycdn.com/features has multireplication storage coming soon. You could push to their CDN storage sites and then have that served to users. There are lots of CDN’s with storage though.

Google CDN, Fastly, Cloudfront, they’re selling you bandwidth as Soda. Buy the meal cheap then pay deeply for the refill.
I don't get it. Isn't this just a threadsafe schemaless database?
It's always unclear whether you're reading crackpot or not especially around the nootropics crowd.

In this case the author seems to be a psychiatrist so he should be trustworthy: http://slatestarcodex.com/about/
Time for COBOL to get it's Elixir.
I'm a remote worker and have travelled a lot for fun in the past two years. While checking into a flight from AMS headed to USA, I was told as a prerequisite to getting my boarding pass I needed to talk to an agent from the US Department of the State. He asked me many detailed questions about my travels and said I was considered a person of interest. He stressed that they may in the future not allow me to enter the USA (I'm a citizen of USA).

It seems likely he was just trying to scare me, but it was still was quite jarring. I'm a fairly normal US citizen (I don't associate with political people, no criminal record, never been to a country not known for tourism). I believe I was flagged just from traveling between Turkey and Russia.

Since then when I fly I cant use online check-in, my boarding pass is marked SSSS and I am taken into the backroom for questioning at border control.

Maybe these extra precautions keep the USA safe, but it certainly seemed excessively paranoid.
It doesn't sound like it was intentional, I can imagine a rep or distributor giving the guy a bag of them without any proposed purpose, and the founder or an assistant found they were well suited for this task in an experiment.
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Is there a reason Amazon doesn't limit reviews to verified purchasers? I always assumed unverified purchase reviews were fake or else biased reviews in exchange for a free product.
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Yes, I was referring to the writing system. It appears that the correct term to be used is "logosyllabic", not "symbolic".

> Chinese characters do not constitute an alphabet or a compact syllabary. Rather, the writing system is roughly logosyllabic; that is, a character generally represents one syllable of spoken Chinese and may be a word on its own or a part of a polysyllabic word. The characters themselves are often composed of parts that may represent physical objects, abstract notions, or pronunciation. Literacy requires the memorization of a great many characters: educated Chinese know about 4,000. The large number of Chinese characters has in part led to the adoption of Western alphabets as an auxiliary means of representing Chinese.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Written_Chinese
As a layperson...

I wonder if it might be helpful to focus on the _interfaces_ between what look to have been different processing systems that evolved consecutively over time.

For example, when we meditate and do Tolle's experiment where we "wait for a thought", are we actually "packet sniffing" the interface between the Neocortex and the Limbic system?

These interfaces may be somewhat inefficient and ad-hoc from the perspective of humans used to "designing" their own machines. Perhaps this is why the Neocortex seems to "invent" thoughts to explain the emotions being signaled by the Limbic System (because the interface doesn't include sufficient fields to "tag" the emotion output with a reason).
Sonic Pi is awesome, my son has a great time going through the great tutorial and riffing on the examples a bit. But when we were done with the tutorial I was (and still am) a bit lost as to where to go next. I don’t have any understanding of music theory and Sonic Pi seems like a great way to learn the basics of it, but I couldn’t find anything that occupied that next step after the tutorial.
Let's say for discussion that we allow this curl| bash process because it is from a "safe" source.

How do we come back next week and ensure some other process hasn't changed the files ?

Package your files with a signed system. Auditing the files is trivial after that.