skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with Facebook chat access to banking is Facebook. I don’t want Facebook to become just like WeChat where you pretty much have to have WeChat to engage in many forms of commerce in China. I want less Facebook pervasivness — not more of it. iMessage for Businesses is far better from a privacy standpoint as well as usability. Facebook apps on iPhone are notorious battery hogs not to mention have a history of very sketchy practices. Facebook lost my trust long ago. The only way I’d use Facebook again is if Tim Cook ran it. In the meantime, I can simply open the Chase app and see my balance in literally one-tap (assuming FaceID is turned on.) Much faster than typing a Messenger message. I don’t want Facebook having access to my bank balances either.
Lua, not LUA. It's Portugese for moon.
I think this key here. Jones was free to make up crazy stuff if he wanted but inciting violence or continuing to make up libel against individuals leading to people being harrassed or endagered crosses a line that goes beyond simple free speech. Free speech doesn't allow you to endanger others.
So you'd propose jamming the GPS satellite broadcast signals? That would pretty much just break GPS for everything nearby. Or do you mean just outbound communication from wrist devices? How are you going to prevent people from just going home with their Apple/Garmin watches and connecting/uploading from there (which is, presumably, what they already do)?
In my opinion the sale of phone location data is already unethical on it’s own.

The location data was pretty accurate too in suburban areas. And the provider in question was not very good at anonymising it either. On multiple occasions we could track individuals over a longer period of time. Which would shut down the entire project until it was fixed.

So the company did the right thing whenever the data was compromised. Probably because they were publicly traded and had a good name. I doubt scrappy startups would do the same.
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First, one thing: the people working on these projects are not dumb. They are not going to launch a feature that simply does not work. These teams run experiments and confirm that the feature actually does what it's supposed to do (e.g improve battery life) before launching them in production.

It sounds like this feature is exactly made for cases like the one you describe: if you don't use Snapchat throughout the day, it won't stay in memory like it currently does (which seems to be ~ a LRU cache), instead staying in memory only when you're predicted to use the app over and over. (so not Snapchat in your case)
Except for the first line it is a fairly interesting comment.
Competition, both perceived and real increases as density goes up. We're not wired well to handle it. Especially since so many lack the deep roots to feel truly secure.
If one app activates another (camera -> album -> photo editor -> share), how do you go back from mid-way if you decided to?
But think of the ads!
Part of the trouble is that the processor, main memory and such are not really discrete. The brain and nervous system is far more interconnected than that. So what's happening isn't that the something in a discrete memory changes, but the circuits themselves change.

What you are suggesting is, IIRC, far more high level than where the field has been. What the author is suggesting is that they now have the ability to gain larger samples than from a single neuron, so they're suggesting use cases for the new data. This is somewhat akin to examining what is happening at several logic gates within a microprocessor, probably quite a bit lower level than what you're suggesting.
The paradox of tolerance is based on equivocation between tolerance of speech and tolerance of action. Like most paradoxes, it disappears once you're precise in your wording.

Jones, whatever you think of him, is not an existential threat to society, and using the "paradox of tolerance" to censor him is intellectual cowardice.

I'm really sick of the so-called paradox of tolerance being used as a justification for arbitrary political censorship.
Yeah, my guess is that the principal function of HQ2 is to increase negotiating leverage with Seattle.
For websites that support it, Apple Pay is faster and safer than all of that.
The idea that hobo feces are responsible for BART's escalator problems is really an urban legend. It's the design of the damned thing, combined with statutorily mandated low-bid contracting that keeps them broken. At BART's brand-new Warm Springs station the escalators are all under roofs and there are no homeless people anywhere, and the escalators (which I must again stress are completely new) are constantly out of service. This is despite the fact that nobody uses this station, which sees less than one tenth the passenger traffic as does Embarcadero.
There really is no alternative to the current crop of tech giants. They literally have a monopoly on social media and are all extremely left-leaning, and increasingly hostile to any legal dissent. There are three scenarios I see playing out.

1. The tech giants use their influence to get enough Democrats elected in 2018 to keep crushing any political dissent on their platforms that reaches any kind of popularity. They are ostensibly pursuing this course today, and it's a little frightening.
2. Republicans keep the house and/or Senate, and Regulation or Anti-Trust suits ramp up since half the country has no voice online anymore.
3. SV returns to the first amendment, does a 180 degree turn, and only purges illegal speech like libel, slander, threats, etc.
What laptop has OLED? I thought burn-in would be too bad.
Was there ever any doubt? What a joke ( and waste of time and resources ). At this point I'm surprised Pai bothered to release a statement.
Isn't this Ageism? There are tons of 20-year experience engineers who are better than 2-year experience engineers. Yes, there are outliers, as with any normalized population, but typically years of experience in a skilled field correlates with ability to do the job well.
"Because it wasn’t a hack, it seems that the comment-filing system, though recently revamped, needs yet another fresh coat of paint to handle the kind of volume it saw during the net neutrality repeal."

Or as an alternative, maybe don't shove through legislation that's so wildly unpopular with the american citizens that the entire internet comes crashing down on you in protest. Just a thought.
> Deployment includes setting up and upgrading and potentially backing up Postgres.

But I find this rather trivial to do with cloud database services like RDS. Why not just use that? At the end of the day it gives you tons of benefits (e.g. easy backups) with no real lock-in because you'd still just be using a normal postgres driver.
There is already a plan for a tanker version of the BFS, since as you note it wouldn’t be efficient to refuel with another crewed craft. I don’t see what the station helps with, though. That’s just extra mass to launch.
Can you give us some examples of such compilers that are worth their salt?
Somebody mentioned a Udemy course in this thread:

Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16745042

The course is Ethical hacking. https://www.udemy.com/learn-ethical-hacking-from-scratch/
You conflate geometry and topology * . The topology of the human hand is right in front of you to examine. A lettuce leaf is like a disk plus a wavy boundary and noise. Broccoli is a tree. A bicycle is topologically complex object with high genus. A bad drawing of a hand can still has the right connectivity, it could be smoothly deformed into a realistic hand. Not true for most of these bicycle drawings.

* using "topology" to refer to the graph structure of the skeleton of the solid, not the typical mathematical meaning.
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That's pretty much Putin's textbook. Spread so much misinformation that people stop believing anything. That creates the climate for the strongman to come and drain the swamp.
I concur - I own a couple of 2300k LED lights and the light the give off is very cozy, nothing like the streetlamp.
Depends on the country. The regular word is "dinero". In Spain it's not common to use "plata" (silver) for money, but in Argentina it's what everyone uses. In Mexico they use "lana" (wool).
Why? GKE works perfectly over there.
Simple solution: don’t opt-in. But I wouldn’t mind it being an option.
I consider that normal???
Digital Town is working on a similar idea with a notable team and funding. Each city/town gets it's own domain or can use an existing one. It's a bit of a resurrection of 90's style search portals for the blockchain era.

https://digitaltown.com/
That's not what this article is about at all. Anything that has any sort of transmission or recording capabilities has been banned inside of secure facilities for as long I can remember, fitness devices aren't something that would need to be covered by a new rule. They don't want you wearing devices that share GPS coordinates because it makes it simple to get accurate locations of buildings and troop schedules. Instead of blindly firing mortars into a base, just look for where the GPS signals cluster at night and you probably know where everyone is sleeping. See a signal that goes from the troop quarters to the base perimeter, then goes back a few hours later? Probably someone on guard duty, now you can start figuring out when the shift rotations happen.
If he were able to be completely honest, I imagine his answers would be “satisfy members of Congress by sending money to their districts.” SLS exists by Congressional mandate, and I don’t think NASA actually wants it.
Journalists ask for advice from experts outside their publication all the time. I am not saying that this is what happened but it wouldn’t surprise me to find that the Motherboard author or editor reached out to their only Asian-looking female friend to ask for advice.
Why isn't their P/E higher? Are all the institutional investors maxed out on how much Apple they can buy?
> DBAs playing hardass without even trying to understand the need.

Although the parent posed a caricature with "yelling", this is an even more extreme one.

The "forcing" function merely requires a bit of "hardass" but not the willful ignorance you associate with it. At the risk of going true-scotsman, I believe that competent DBAs capable of the forcing function would already understand the need without trying.

As such, I don't think there needs to be any kind of "medium" between two extremes of ignorance, but, rather, back to the GP's point, a reduction of ignorance in "what we have now".

Of course, I don't believe hardass/yelling is the best way to achieve that, either, instead favoring (original) Devops culture, but that also doesn't work if Ops (including DBA) skills aren't recognized as valuable any more (and "Devops" just means "replace Ops with Devs").
There's also a mis-labled column in table S2. Which one is Female Doctors Male Patients?
Just face-saving. Trying to get out in front of the report and frame the issue rather than let others frame it.
Next up, kicking off climate deniers...
Maybe I'm one of those low productivity types that interview processes are trying to permanently weed out, but I rarely write more than 40-50 good lines of code per day. Commits any smaller than that would just look like code Hemingway.
I can't remember where I read it, but the theory is if you're a manufacturer who wants glass/displays in any quantity at the moment, you get a notch or you don't get a display at all. Blame the supply chain.
You can't change blue light to another color with a filter. The amber light has to be in the spectrum emitted by the lights to begin with. The filter just isolates it.
I'm not saying that they're the same thing, I'm saying that the word "drafting" applies to both. Art history books frequently make reference to the draftsmanship of an artist like Da Vinci or Dürer. The words "draft", "draw" and "drag" have the same etymological root and all three are partial synonyms.
Not just lulz, he actually makes a sizable chunk of money from the things he promotes on the show.
Free PDF: How well you understand your app as business to make it work
> where their housing prices have remained below the national average

But are they higher than they were before the population grew? That's the important metric here, and would speak to whether home building kept up with the population growth.

Also, cost of living is not only about housing.
The FCC should be disbanded and replaced with a new regulatory body that is elected by the people (either directly or by elected representation).

Even though they could do good, and may have in the past, the lack of actual accountability for their actions means that it's too easy to do bad. They're not directly elected, so even the tiny shred of accountability that elected officials generally have is not there. If they can flat out lie to the public and get away with it, why do they exist and why should they continue to exist?

The justification for the existence of a government organization should not be based on the possibilities of good they might do, but it should be based on the unchecked bad they could (and will eventually) do.
Do any LEDs match the spectrum of those sodium vapor lamp? The ones I looked at had a higher blue profile even if the output colour matched the yellow.
What prevents the elected city officials from voting No on the package once it is accepted by Amazon and revealed? Anything with legal teeth or just public pressure?
That's fine, you don't have to use the feature.

The point is that the issue is being misrepresented, not how popular or not FB is.

If you don't trust them, don't use it.

Also Tim Cook is doing the same thing FB ever did, it's just that Apple has the advantage of making $$$ by selling hardware, not personal information. They are in the enviable position of not primarily selling ads.
Well played. I do the same but in Korea where the price for my brand is about $2 cheaper than JetLenses.

I have my vision checked in the contact store itself (for free) if I need it and then a proper eye exam during my annual physical check up (which is fully subsidized by my employer - a common practice, albeit at varying levels of support).
Just an FYI, if you are reading on a mobile device and have the WSJ app installed, you’ll never hit the paywall if you allow WSJ links to be automatically opened in the app. For desktop, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16906571
I know HPA is a legit issue but DNS failures seem to be fairly normal in kubernetes. Scaling up kube-dns has helped us resolve that particular issue as well as moving away from Alpine and into minimal Debian images. Alpine has its own DNS issues that caused us much pain.
As someone who plays Dota, the matches were a clear demonstration of sloppy snowballing and brute force cheesing. Coordination 'appears' to be beyond human level because the bots are collectively synced on a team goal value. If a true 'pro' or pro team was allowed to observe and play multiple games against this bot, I'm more than certain one could find an exploit of such an unintelligent mathematical approach to action selection at the individual or group level. In fact, this would be what you would use dark seer strategically for or a whole host of other characters and functionality that is currently banned.

Not everything can be calculated especially when tricks are intentionally done to throw a bot off.

> I am not sure how such coordinations are modeled in dnn, which itself seems the most valuable from this research.
There's a tuned group/individual driver function centered on various calculations. This is not actually a valuable part of the research as its dynamic and game dependent and can't cover all of the possibilities thus why someone broke their 1v1 bot (corner case)

> In general I think with this show match, it pretty much sealed the doom of human players in dota2.

If you are indeed a player and have viewed that many hours of dota2, I question the nature of such a comment. A great player wouldn't look to see how to 'beat' their bot, as it is a bot w/ no intelligence, the strategy would instead be to try to break it and shove it into corner cases. It's not playing the full range of characters that were intended to disrupt cheesy snowballing so I wonder why you're making such an optimistic statement .. being that you claim you have watch so many dota matches. Do you play much yourself? Maybe that would change your opinion.

> As it shows that the general approach is scalable and capable to handle the problem itself. As from laning to team fight, and item building, the AI did not show weakness at all.

I'm starting to see a pattern with your commentary. The gameplay look like your typical "south" players. Hardly anything impressive : Aggressive boneheaded tower diving and aggressive and cheesy snowballing.. If you can last past 30min, you outwit and outplay such people in the mid/late game.

> superior to humans
> superior to humans
> superior to humans

More than 50% of the Dota 2 dynamics aren't even present and are restricted at the moment. Are you getting paid for this post?
If an adversary knows a person is a member of a sensitive agency, then everywhere they go can become an operational area. Security doesn't just stop at the checkpoint.
>LTE doesn't work, but hey, 15.1

Ah, XDA, where critical features become optional.
It's a shame that Google has stopped upgrading the OS on the Nexus line of phones.
Researchers investigate stellar populations of the Andromeda
As someone else just mentioned it seems to be not true, I heard that long, long ago, and I never questioned that again. Perhaps I really heard that when I was in grade school because I cannot even remember the moment I learnt that “fact”
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No it wasn't. They specifically tried to misrepresent what the project was, minimize the scope of their involvement with it, as well as Google's plans to expand it further.

From the article I linked, which is an interview with a Googler who helped lead the resistance-

Interviewee:

...

They also tried to downplay the scope and involvement of the project. But that rhetoric dissolved when we found out that leadership had been lying.

Interviewer:

What were they lying about?

Interviewee:

From the beginning, they told us that Project Maven was a small contract purely for non-offensive purposes. They said that we weren’t building anything custom. They said that this was a one-off project only worth $9 million, and that it wasn’t part of any further collaboration with the Pentagon.

Those all turned out to be lies. On April 12, DefenseOne published an article that landed like a bombshell in the company. Drawing on conversations with Pentagon officials, it revealed that Project Maven was actually a pilot project for future collaborations between Google and the military. In particular, Project Maven was part of Google’s push to win the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract.

JEDI is the military’s next-generation cloud that will network American forces all over the world and integrate them with AI. It’s basically Skynet. And all the big cloud providers want to win the contract because it’s worth $10 billion.

When we found out that Project Maven was an audition for JEDI, people started becoming extremely concerned. And as the media attention to the story increased, we learned a lot more. For instance, Diane Greene had told us that the Project Maven contract was only for $9 million, but internally they expected it to increase to $250 million per year. And they weren’t just giving the Pentagon access to open-source software — they were going to build a massive surveillance system that gave military analysts real-time information on people, vehicles, and buildings in a Google Earth–style interface.

Exposing all of those lies damaged leadership on this issue just as much as anything else that we did. That loss of trust really hurt them.
Here are all of them: https://www.oled-info.com/oled-devices/laptops

I dont know what the Macbook is doing on the list, just its touch bar uses OLED
Honestly because the switch to LEDs has been at least as much about virtue signaling as any real savings. The energy savings will eventually pay for the LED conversion, but it takes a while. As in years. And as to unintended side effects, well we're just discovering those.
Because it is a trade off between the largest, consistent screen size, having a front camera, and a notch (that's how we call it, this is the first time I see the term cutoff).

I dislike the notch, but it isn't very annoying. You still got your status stuff on the top left and right. However, if I'd be having my device in landscape it'd thoroughly annoy me no matter what. It destroys the device symmetry!! However landscape is a niche for me; I don't watch many videos.

I do think your comment hits the nail though. Apple gets away with all kind of innovations: TouchBar, butterfly keyboard, no 3.5 mm...
If you are interested in this sort of thing, and have already read Debt, the First 5000 Years, learning about gift economies is worth it.

And Graeber's Toward An Anthropological Theory of Value
The False Coin of Our Own Dreams is worth reading for a mechanical account of how gift economies function, and the status of heirlooms and other valuable objects.

Charles Eisenstein can read as cloyingly new-age but if you get past that the message is legit: http://sacred-economics.com/sacred-economics-chapter-18-rele...
Yeah I wouldn't tell a semi stranger... maybe not a friend.
Democracy: When you can't tell your citizens what you're up to, you already have a problem.

It is also a very hypocritical example of, speaking generally of these things, business decrying "the nanny state" while actually engaging and encouraging it, full force.

It's just that they want all the nanny's attention and preferential treatment.
I have a pretty good setup with a DAC/AMP + nice headphones. You might have a better setup but I think my hearing just isn't good enough.

Age impacts the frequency range that most people can hear. That might be a factor here too. I'm in my mid 30s, are you younger?
> We’re still here, so they correctly concluded it was not a Russian first strike.

The fact that it was travelling around 1/10000th the speed of light probably tipped them off. [Edit: missed a zero]
In 2017 Amazon recorded a $137 million refund for US federal income taxes. However, nationwide it paid $211 million in state corporate income taxes. It also pays property tax and sales tax (on things Amazon itself buys). Reportedly Amazon paid ~$250 million total in taxes to Washington state in 2017. [1]

Maryland's "Promoting ext-Raordinary Innovation in Maryland's Economy (PRIME Act)", signed 4/25/2018, provides credits against all these kinds of taxes [2].

[1] https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazon-paid-250...

[2] http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?pid=billpage&...
Austin city council member Leslie Pool, pictured and quoted in this article, is a notorious pseudo-progressive NIMBY. When she speaks in generalities, everything that comes out of her mouth aligns with my political ideals and my concerns about growth in Austin, but at the same time, she fights tooth and nail against anything that might help.

She talks incessantly about affordable housing while at the same time doing her best to prevent any new housing from being constructed. She wrings her hands over lack of transit (her favorite excuse for opposing density) and supports transit as an idea while always finding an excuse to oppose any specific proposal for improving it.

I have fears about Amazon as well (it could be fine, but it also could be horrible, and I know Austin will be fine without it) and they're the same as the ones she articulates, but to me they mean nothing coming out of her mouth when I know her only agenda is protecting her single-family-with-yard-and-three-cars constituents from sharing space with apartment dwellers and public transit users.
Mitch was obviously unfamiliar with WMATA.