skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never understood the privacy point either. crypto technology to me seems like the opposite of privacy respecting. The entire ledger is public, so all my transactions are public and traceable through history. If someone ever figures out which wallet belongs to me, I'm done for, which is a horrible single point of failure.

The same thing for smart contracts really, by advertising them as doing away with trust and middlemen and calling it a feature, they are demanding that key parts of transactions are made public, traceable and constantly measured.

All of it seems to me panopticon like rather than focused on privacy. It has obfuscated the only good thing (the identity of the person I buy from, which I care about), and made transparent all the bad things (my and their personal history)
I'd still argue than metrics like EV/FCF give some indication of valuation / risk.

Balance sheets become less meaningful going forward. Google's greatness is not to be found in its physical assets.
What are some cool jobs for FPGA experts besides Intel and Military? It seems like there's not much availability.
It's so far outside the model of FPGAs, that I wouldn't even consider putting in the effort. It's like how regular code doesn't run well on the GPU, but much worse.
Jocks Rule, Nerds Drool
Most ideological movements are tribalism. "Their tribe is oppressing our tribe, so down with their tribe!" is a good summary of most leftist ideologies, whether those centered around class, gender, or ethnicity.
I really suggest this episode from the Owls at Dawn postcast:

http://www.owlsatdawn.com/episodes-2/2018/6/25/me-too-ism-wh...

In it, Heidi Matthews, a law professor, goes into all the legal implications of the me too movement. The trouble with the whole movement is the way that many people in it seek legal guards in our framework, but which simply don't work in the really complex and nuanced ways our social relationships work. It's a really good and in-dept legal analysis that I highly recommend.

So let's take a step back: professors who marry students. My graduate adviser married one of his students (she was a grad student when he was a professor when they met). Where do wanted/unwanted advances being and end?

In this specific case, it looks like the professor kept going after this guy after he was clearly not interested. She should have stopped, right? Yes. Should this be a legal thing? Hmm... now we get into gray areas right?

Let's take a big step back to the 1990s and the TV show Family Matters. Steve Urkel was a creep. Go to YouTube and watch some old videos. He does a lot of really questionable stuff, his infatuation is stalker-ish and the show is written to sympathize the audience with his unrequited love.

I don't think this show would be made today, but we are talking about people in different age groups, different generations and totally different ideas of what is or isn't acceptable.

Louis CK asked for consent in many of the cases (there are two questionable reports, one where he stood in front of the exit and another where he didn't ask consent when he was on the phone with a woman; both of those are not OK of course). This consent doesn't matter because he was in a position of authority over them, or so the argument goes. But they're adults right? So when is consent not consent? When is a Yes not good enough?

I think there are a lot of complexities here that may not have legal solutions. Sex and sexuality are weird things, which is why we classify things as "fetishes". Most of the animal kingdom (cats, dolphins, fruit flys, ducks) all participate in non-consensual sexual activities (if animals had the ability to consent; also in most animals, sex last less than 1 minute, except for Bonobos, Dolphins and possibly a few others). There is an inherent violence that is a part of the core human psyche that goes with sexuality and we have to be willing to acknowledge and address that and the awkward way that doesn't fit into our legal frameworks.

There is a lot of complexity here and I think everyone should think really carefully and critically before taking any stances. It will affect the way people pursue relationships and how we think of ourselves (as sexual men/women/whatever). There are already A LOT of lonely people out there. I don't want to move to a world where people are even more afraid to connect than they already are.
I realize that actual tangible human emotions are much more complicated than I'm about to make them out to be. There is no "feel better" switch you can flip to make negative feelings go away. But, it is still sometimes helpful to try and recognize when an emotion is illogical and call it out, or at least it's helpful for me when I'm dealing with stuff like this.

If you know that overall the good parts of an activity wouldn't outweigh the bad parts, but you honestly believe that you have a duty to do it anyway, then you should follow your conscience and ignore trying to have a positive life. I don't think that's healthy, but some people disagree with me.

If on the other hand, you know that overall the good parts wouldn't outweigh the bad parts, and you don't think you have a duty to make yourself miserable in your free time, then what the heck do you feel bad about? If your guilt is real, you should acknowledge and take steps to address the cause. If your guilt is not real, then get a rubber band or something and snap it against your wrist every time you feel guilty about comparing yourself to other people.

You can replicate this if you think it would be worthwhile to do so. If you don't think it would be worthwhile to do so, then you shouldn't feel bad about it and it's just your stupid tribal lizard brain that's making you feel that way. And if you do think it would be worthwhile, then do it. I mean, even video games have bad parts. Having bad parts doesn't make a hobby unsatisfying or unenjoyable by default.

The third category in all of this is someone who thinks that overall the good parts of this kind of work would be incredibly satisfying, but they're so scared of the bad parts that they can't start engaging, or they're so scared of being inadequate that they never try to learn or develop their skills. My comment was addressed to that person. If you're not in that category then, I dunno. Flip your "feel better" switch.
Even stranger is that one WHO report was the IARC meta study that manipulated the data to reach that conclusion. Somehow people have latched onto a few monsanto studies, misinterpreted them to assure themselves that glyphosate is a problem, but have relied on a clearly flawed study to serve as a foundation for their beliefs. It seems that once a paranoid/conspiracy meme gains traction, it takes enormous resources to combat. The US is still having problems with anti-vaxxers despite the fact that vaccines are about the surest thing we have in medical science.
> If facebook were not the ultimate arbiter this article wouldn't have to exist in the first place.

Just the myriad of other articles complaining about FB implicitly promoting hate by taking no responsibility for what is posted.
One thing I'm confused about with vaping:

There is plenty of information about vaping w/ e-cigarettes. The negative effects and what not.

However this information is not extended to vaping marijuana. I understand that e-cigs use oil/liquid of some sort. In the marijuana world there is dry herb vaping (heating the plant until it vaporizes), oil, wax, etc. I imagine some of the e-cig issues extends to marijuana for oil and wax perhaps but does dry herb suffer the same consequences.

I've tried researching this information but usually all the comes up are "e-cigs are bad" or "vaping vs smoking marijuana" articles. It would seem marijuana is relatively hush hush in this category.
Monopoly is if one corporation owns an entire market. This is about multiple corporations. The proper word is cartel or "corpocracy" which dislike as corporations are just a legal fiction. Someone still owns the corporation. The article isn't really about americans not owning stuff. It is about average americans not owning stuff. Poor, or at least not-rich, people are today less likely to own things like houses and cars. But the rich still own plenty. They are owning a greater percentage of everything. So perhaps the best word is plutocracy.
Very well put. I wonder if the reason people try to support an accused friend by denying the allegations, is because alternative forms of support haven't occurred to them.

For example, if the accused continues to protest the accusation, a good friend might offer to help the accused bring the truth to light.

Or if the accused is clearly guilty, a good friend might offer to help the accused find appropriate ways to make restitution, and/or offer emotional/logistical support if the accused will be punished.
Nitpick: LegUp is published under a "no commercial use" license. Synflow mentions they use a "open-source language" but it is not clear how much of the tool chain is open source.
As an employer though, what do you want to happen when your employee runs into an exception? Do you want them to flounder and have no idea how to solve it or do you want them to figure it out by doing some mildly novel design work?
There's a rinse and repeat pattern of denial, suiting narratives here.

Anytime the modern feminism movement is faced with situations not to it's liking, there's an immediate, knee jerk, non-objective denial, and bull-shittery that casts aspersions on the truth, accuser, media, etc.

It happened with Sarah Jeong, where the feminists distorted the English meaning of the word 'Racism' to suit their narrative that it only applies to those in power. It happened when Linda Sarsour was openly anti-semetic and when her troupe faced metoo accusations.

It's happening now with this case, and it's not the last time. And just so you are aware, these narratives rely on the evisceration of science, logic, reason and well established definitions of words
Playing starcraft ladder 1v1. It scratches a true competitive itch, since there's so few things in live that truly start out balanced, and it give you detailed feedback at the end of each match.
Sorry to say, you're right and he has Stockholm syndrome. It's a very aggressive schedule, must be missing holidays half of the time to keep the phone.
Have you read the linked paper? It finds no evidence of such overfitting happening, despite common fears of this phenomenon.

Quote: "This shows that the current research methodology of “attacking” a test set for an extended period of time is surprisingly resilient to overfitting."
It's more that people in Italy like to live and die close to where they were born. Genoa also was a very busy port until relatively recently, which is a natural population magnet.
Passive funds have decades of experience selling low-cost products. In general, their awareness-raising focuses on bemoaining the compound effect of high fees - how paying 2% more in fees per annum can result in you having 60% less savings over a 40 year people, for instance.

A lot of ETF funds here play a bit of an educational mission. They have regular commentaries and features on financial media, often around ‘demistifying investing’ and always talk to how passive is so much better than active+fees.

I’ve often been shocked at how low the level of financial literacy is amongst even highly educated people. The standard passive marketing pitch appeals to them because it’s so much less opaque than active approaches.

I’ve long wanted to do something similar in South Africa. I think the key is ease of setup and building in scheduled contributions. If your customers are putting in a set amount each month then your revenue grows year on year even if your market share stalls.
There are many automakers that are still putting diesels in cars and trucks, they just arent advertised on the tailgate.
> One clarification on the comment about latency. FPGAs are typically clocked much slower than a modern CPU. Typically, they run somewhere in the low 100's of MHz, whereas an Intel CPU clocks in at around 3GHz last time I went to the Apple Store. With a typical x86 multiply instruction having a latency of about, say, 3 cycles, putting that workload on an FPGA would result in a ~10x slow-down!

No, not that latency. Latency from external input to external output.

Like the latency of receiving an ethernet frame to the point you can decide what to do with it, forward, modify, etc. Or reacting to sensor input.

CPUs process interrupts slowly: X86 CPUs running a non-realtime OS can take sweet 50 microseconds+ just to get to run interrupt service routine let alone doing something useful with the data. Oh, and generally no FPU, SIMD, etc. is available in this ISR [0]. So ISR generally queues the event (on Linux a Bottom Half and on Windows a DPC, deferred procedure call) to actually process the event. The queued events might execute tens of milliseconds later in bad cases.

Microcontrollers can sometimes process external interrupts pretty quickly, it's not impossible to be done in 100 nanoseconds. But it really depends, and you usually have to be pretty careful to achieve this. And even then you often have significant jitter in the processing time.

FPGAs can start to handle an external I/O event on the same clock cycle, and might very well be driving I/O output pin a clock cycle later, if no pipelining is required.

So an FPGA might be done in mere 10 nanoseconds in some ideal cases. With little to no jitter.

[0]: Well, you can do FPU/SIMD in interrupt service routine, but need to handle all register state storage on your own, and if you mess up, it'll cause very interesting bugs in the userland application software.
2 & 3 feel like classic ad hominem arguments, right?
>>How many people in the real world sit around and practice dynamic programming questions all day??

You will surprised how many people as a matter of fact actually do this.

In fact for a lot of people the whole purpose of a day job is to pay them salaries so that practice interview questions to hop on the next jobs.

The bad news is many companies think these sort of puzzle solving skills are penultimate level of software engineering skills and pay top salaries, so these people don't even worry about being bad at their current jobs.

Do these for a few years, and pad big brands to your resume and then you are automatically considered something special and qualified for big title promotions.
My biggest problem with serverless functions is development and testing. Can I run these locally? even better offline?
This is such a shame because the porn industry used to be at the forefront of technological innovation.

Quite often, the AVN Expo had better actual technical content than CES (which was held at the same time).

The porn industry was the first to adopt videodiscs, VHS, DVD, handheld cameras, the web, online payments, etc. Basically, if any new technology was useful for porn, it was going to catch on.
> The only bad thing is that if you're on a multi-way call, they limit you to 40 minutes.

To be clear, that's for the free version. You can pay to remove this limit (along with getting some other features).
The thing we really need is inductive charging for the busses at each stop, and at each stoplight. Then you don't need to carry the heavy batteries around.

https://bigthink.com/design-for-good/wireless-charging-road-...
I'm curious what job I would apply for to improve this situation.

I've made an effort to work for local governments. I've even made an effort to volunteer for local governments, and do this sort of technology work directly for them instead of as a FOIA-enabled personal project.

I've never seen a flicker of interest, or found a job posting that would leave any room for this sort of work. I've only ever seen indifferent hostility to the volunteering offers, and while I understand why that could be worse - bureaucratically - than paying staff, it's still not exactly systems making an effort to serve the people.

The US Digital Service was a brilliant and wonderful project to get technologists doing exactly this. It hired a lineup of top-notch staff and got a lot of great stuff done. And, yes, it paid government salaries and appealed to civic duty to recruit. It sounds like a wonderful place to work. Outside of that one national-level pet project from Obama? I mean, I got involved with a local technology/privacy group. They're currently considering suing the town for not following its own surveillance-restricting ordinances about street-facing cameras, because the town found implementing them too hard - and isn't hiring anyone who can, and wouldn't accept volunteer labor to do the work.

It's not just that advertising pays better, it's that advertising doesn't actively avoid working with people for this sort of task.
I really appreciate you doing the math.

But the cause of global warming today is the accumulated global production of CO₂ since the start of industrialism a few centuries back.

I'll be less ambitious than you and not attempt to compute the number by my definition.
Tinder co-founders sue Match Group for $2B
I did not play with it, but this actually looks pretty cool. The documentation seems to be sane/good quality.

A few questions: How would one coordinate between multiple nodes running an app? (scenario in which the nodes cooperate to find each other. is there some sort of discovery available?) For the docker case, does it support health probes? (how you you know if the app is healthy?)
for all practical purposes, actual mopeds with pedals don't exist in north america, so using moped as a short word for a sit-down motor scooter is pretty unambigious.

not sure if pedal-mopeds have similarly fallen out of favour in the rest of the world?
The Design is the Implementation
While ebooks are somewhat similar to the shift to streaming in music and video, the actual experience of watching a streamed show or listening to streamed music is essentially the same as it was when you owned a movie on DVD/VHS or had an album/CD (Play-Stop-Pause-Rewind-Fast Forward). It's the discovery process that's been revolutionized). With an ebook, the experience is fundamentally different - the concept of "pages" essentially disappears or is redefined substantially, the physical act of reading is different, and the relative standardization of displays and ability of the user to customize fonts and sizes limits some of the options available to physical books (that said, ebooks have wildly improved the footnote experience). I imagine that this is a big reason the ebooks haven't taken off in the same way.

As an example - while my grandfather may have a bit of trouble figuring out how to get started on Netflix, once he's chosen something to watch, he won't really notice a difference from when he watched things on VHS in terms of how to navigate. The same is not true for giving him a book on a Kindle.
If you like this, you might enjoy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_temperature
*Google a monopoly on advertising
The proprietary bloated toolchains are free to use for lower end to mid range parts, even on Linux.
I got burned by "buying a product and not knowing when it will fail".

Samsung made the largest fridge available. I got the $2500 model: stainless steel, no IoT but digital, double doors over drawer freezer. It looked really solid and durable. It failed in so many distinct and interesting ways!

The door shelves constantly shattered, at $50 each. The structure had been compromised by artistic design, with two kinds of plastic joined together. The ice maker died. The main shelves broke a couple times. The temperature display (blue 7-segment numbers) became nonsense. The drawer handle had a hinge made from plastic which broke and non-stainless steel which rusted out. The compressor went out, as we determined by diagnostic codes. The tech sent to fix that ignored us, never checked diagnostic codes, didn't look at the compressor, insisted that our problem was the ice maker (which was indeed broken but not our complaint), charged us $75 for nothing, and fought us when we did a credit card charge-back.

I cut that fridge up with a demolition saw to get it out of my house. This was satisfying.

The replacement is a pair of smaller fridges that were about $400 each. One of them even has old-style wire shelves that seem unlikely to shatter. We've only had two broken shelves so far, in the other one.

Famously, there was a "lemons and cherries" paper on the economics of used cars. I think it also somewhat applies to new goods. There is information asymmetry here. I can't know that the hinges are fragile plastic and non-stainless steel. The fridge looks nice, and it says "stainless steel". I've learned my lesson: do not pay more in an attempt to get quality, because you'll just pay more for the same old junk.
FTA:

"Feynman’s kitchen experiment remained unresolved until 2005, when physicists from France pieced together a theory to describe the forces at work when spaghetti — and any long, thin rod — is bent. They found that when a stick is bent evenly from both ends, it will break near the center, where it is most curved. This initial break triggers a “snap-back” effect and a bending wave, or vibration, that further fractures the stick. Their theory, which won the 2006 Ig Nobel Prize, seemed to solve Feynman’s puzzle. But a question remained: Could spaghetti ever be coerced to break in two?"
Most Americans have to drive on a highway to get to work.

As long as they aren't highway-legal, they are a non-starter
> If I buy a fridge, the company I buy it from has an incentive to make it break in N years, so they can sell me a new one, i.e. "planned obsolescence".

Only if they don't have competitor for your business with a reputation for longer-lasting fridges that are otherwise of similar utility.
It will have an impact, no doubt, but probably more like a few points higher inflation than a total crash. Either way, the point is that owing money in a currency you control is vastly different than owing money in a currency you don't.
Instagram users are reporting the same bizarre hack
The DEA does use parallel-construction, and the FBI does recruit computer security researchers for attacks (the CMU CERT attack on SR2) and hand-me-down NSA exploits (and against Tor specifically), so neither of those is remotely far-fetched. And SR1 was a priority target.

We may never know what really happened; the whole Bridges/Force corruption thing, for example, is so wild no one could have dreamed it up.

However, from the descriptions like Nick Bilton's article/book puffpiece, I think it's somewhat likely (and more probable than NSA tech) that Tarbell did some unauthorized (and likely illegal) personal hacking and that's the kernel of truth behind his BS 'I was just typing in some random stuff and the server spat out an IP address at me!' story - SR1 was not very securely coded. Had this come out, it would've led to some serious evidence-tainting problems for the prosecutors because it affects everything downstream: the Iceland server, the SF IP address, the Pennsylvania backups, and finally Ross's unencrypted laptop in SF.
> This tragedy shows the importance of inspection and cost of maintenance of infrastructure.

Your table is scary - and it leads me to one question: why is the future maintenance not budgeted in with any public infrastructure project? For example, a city wants a shiny new bridge... but without provable funding for the maintenance in the future (e.g. tax projections), it is not allowed to be built.

Of course stuff like economic shifts (leading to a loss of tax base) can't be prevented but it's a small risk compared to some politician deciding "I need something monumental where I can cut the opening ribbons" and loading the future generations with maintenance debt.
Self-serving for the influential community of anthropologists that's intertwined with contemporary power? I wish.