skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Pickle is a Python module used to serialize data, but contrarily to JSON or YAML, it allows to serialize objects properties but also methods. In most of the cases, this is not a problem, but one can also serialize an object with code in the __reduce__() method, which is called when the object is unpickled.

Why does it run __reduce__?
Still impressive.

Looks like you can focus well and have stamina.

How do you keep motivated doing such a project for fun in your spare time?

Do you work 40h/week?
My SO and I were discussing her former boss who was an amazing people person. She would flatter people and curry favor, but it totally worked. It was hard not to like her because she was so good at it. Bringing those skills of building connections and favor up into the business world seems highly effective.
The terrifying, hidden reality of Ridiculously Complicated Algorithms
Making in the Apocalypse: How I Shipped a SaaS After Hurricane Maria
On a tangent, but still germane to the thread:

Why arent their efforts to create "autonomous only" traffic managment scenarios, where people drive into a given, known area, and the area then takes control of managing the traffic and vehicles. Such that you relinquish control of the vehicle to that area's control system, with your destination stated and then your vehicle is managed accordingly.

For example, a parking lot for a really large venue with an autonomous valet system.

YOu drive up and get out and then the system takes over your car and drives off iwth it and parks it and you recall it when needed...

Or managing traffic in a very heavily trafficed bottle-neck of a grid; such as the baybridge merging egress from SF financial district.

If you put in your destination, and join the group, all the cars could then be managed for getting onto the bridge more rapidiously ...

Autonomous doesnt need to drive me from SF to LA, but it would be great if an autonomous hive mind could get all the cars to up throughput in given situations, no?
It feels more complicated though.

Let's say I have only enough work for 8 hours a week. Should I hire someone for 40 just to give them "full employment"? What benefit do I get from that?

Or let's say I only have enough capital to pay for 8 hours a week. Should I run myself out of business hiring and paying someone for 40 just because it's "nice"?

Also, we have to get into the actual value of the work provided. What is the value of the job performed? That's an incredibly complicated function and I don't really know the answer to it.

And then you do have people who are abusing their power to pay less than they should. Companies who lean on their employees being able to qualify for welfare even with a full 40 hours.

I think that at the very least, a full-time, 40 hour a week job should be able to enable someone to acquire room and board for themselves.
I thought about that as well. I am looking at a remote part of snow country. Every time someone says something can't be hacked in to, my coworkers prove them wrong, using tools that are already installed on the victim hosts.
>I think you underestimate the link between physical and mental health.

He's not alone. Most medics do too.

The only way I managed to get off alcohol was by vigorous exercise: cycling many miles and hours in the Yorkshire Dales. That was in '98.

Before that, I found that any stress or anxiety would quickly result in me going back on the bottle.

My uncle was a general practitioner for many decades and he reflected later that at least 50% of his patients presenting with primarily a physical complaint, he'd find the actual pathology, if you did enough digging, was actually primarily psychological in nature.
I am sorry to hear you had such a bad experience with them.

I wish I had researched more around Google Store customer support before making my purchase: now that I know, I'll avoid it as much as I can.
You don't need to make calls to external programs to make good use of an RCE vulnerability like this.
Golang 1.11 released
I don't see how that refutes the comment you're replying to.
I've done a little, and from what I saw AT wasn't available over the air, but more scary stuff like "update your firmware to this unsigned binary" and stuff were. Testing was with SIM[8/9]00. Albeit those are simpler basebands than you would find in a smart phone. They have a "lol, what's a OS/mmu" view of the world.
You mean Amazon would get by without any employees at all?
is there a way to get a hold of you privately? I want to ask you some questions. post a throw away email?
> Shareholders [..] to keep happy.

In my opinion, this is the biggest flaw of the system. For many investors, a company is less about what it makes and more like a process to grow their money. Even when a company becomes profitable, there's always pressure to make it even more profitable quarter after quarter.
Not only that, they can SSH and flash firmware for multiple devices. That in itself made me not want a Tesla anymore.

I mean, they are held to lower standards than random production VMs that I manage at work, and those can't even kill anyone.
> Yes, I wasn't presenting an imprecise estimate regarding the absolutely least interesting part of the argument in the interest of brevity and trusting the reader to work it out, or anything of the sort.

In much the same way that I wasn't obliquely pointing out that your point was well made while underlining that read literally it was a significant underestimate of the added burden, or anything of the sort, I'm sure.
> A UBI would fix this issue if implemented correctly.

So would just a gradual phase out of food stamp benefits as income rises.
Try to identify the opportunities to catch a similar wave today. AI is in a similar place
The entire patent system needs to be redesigned. Lawyers always seem terrified at the prospect of throwing away decades of case law but in this case, considering the nature of what patents represent and how they are used has changed so much from their original purpose, it’s probably necessary.

Of course, big business incumbents don’t mind the system because they have corporate lawyer teams that understand how it works and how to play it, so I don’t have any hope that it will ever become a political issue
Well, at least other manufacturers aren't trying to pull this SSH over cell networks crap.
Unless you patch the kernel very heavily, no.
> without explaining which word they are using in Kanji.

Actually if you spend any length of time in Japan as a speaker, you will notice native speakers writing kanji on their hands to figure out words their interlocutors are using ("wait, you mean this 'kou'? or this one?). If people are not physically present (e.g. phone) you'll hear them describe the radicals (components) of a kanji or ask "is it the 'kou' in 'kousoku' or the one in ...?
Not applicable when it's obvious that the poster hasn't read the article, like in this case.
Do you plan ahead? Or do you naturally start working on them on a regular basis?
Show HN: iOS Top Apps still supporting iPhone4
I can only speak for myself, but the reason why I went from my Note 2 to the Nexus 6p was stock Android, and avoiding all the extra bloatware that phone companies like to add.

Unfortunately, I am now regretting that decision, and I should have done a better job back then getting information around Google Store and its return/refund policies.
Throw in recent stories about working conditions in Amazon's warehouse (making worker's pee into bottles because they won't let them leave work to use the bathrooms) is making Bezos' seem like a bit of a prick. Put another way, underpaying workers so that they have to use taxpayer-funded food stamps finances Jeff's dicking around with rockets.
And the cost of commuting to work, classroom supplies, unpaid leave when the kids get sick (3 sick leave days a year), and the fact teachers do countless hours of unpaid overtime, have a high stress job, and that spending time with your own children has a value all itself.

So even if matching retirement contributions technically tipped the scales, it would still be nowhere close to worth while.
"No more will the world have to look in two different places for squirrels and provolone cheese."
Hi everyone - I've been writing this story for quite a while and I'm glad I can finally publish it.

Hope you enjoy it, and any questions just reply here or on Medium! :)
Every time you fly into JFK from overseas, you have people screeching at you not to take out your phones or take photos until you're through immigration. There's no sane reason for this, it's pure paranoia and need for control.

Meanwhile in Europe, the very instant the plane touches down and finishes braking: ok everybody, you can switch on your phones now.
> Actually this is quite false. GraphQL queries are deterministic and Apollo offers great tools for query analysis.

What is false? Who said anything about determinism?
Unless by deterministic you mean the ability to tell the future about what will be called. I'm talking about giving clients the flexibility instead of having predictability in the call. I'm saying that flexibility has costs especially as systems grow. It's not just GraphQL, lots of systems that are essentially query languages serialized to HTTP requests have this problem. Whether, once you know the call it's deterministic, or whether you can theoretically map all permutations doesn't absolve the practice of giving the clients so much free will.
https://youtu.be/ITbqTl8pTMs?t=200

Err... were these commands meant to be obfuscated the whole time?
Stagnation is the opposite of our problem. We are innovating at a faster pace that we can manage it : laws, studies, education, ecosystem feedback and the society in general are completly unable to adapt to the tremendous amount of stuff we make up and the rate of it.

It takes time for 7 billions of people to make mistakes and learn, and even more to agree on something.

Meanwhile the things we are creating are more and more powerful, and reach more and more area in our lives.

It's going to be a tricky future.
Of course we go. Good software engineering practices for one and common sense. Common sense doesn't increase share prices though.
The USB condom is more for situations where you are in public and wish to charge your device from an unknown and possibly hostile USB-A receptacle.
> If it were obvious, this story and reaction would not exist.

Yea, the press would never knowingly publish an inflammatory article without due cause.

How much more obvious can it get than "[Name of the Company] Ambassador"? Sure, "Amazon Shill" would have been more colloquial, but I think it is hard to make the argument that Amazon is hiding that they pay these people. As much as BI is trying to spin this as something they've "uncovered," I think the story is pretty straightforward. When BI asked Amazon about it, they immediately confirmed what was already obvious: that they pay these people.
I had that happen once. I rebuilt my Rochester Quadrajet and it purred like a kitten for a decade. I eventually gave that car to my friends that had a similar model to use for parts, but it was the best car I ever had. Chevy Caprice Classic, former undercover cop car with a 350 and a shift kit.

I certainly miss those days. Working on my current vehicle is a PITA. The fuel rails, coils and plugs take hours to change. On my old car, I could do that in 15 minutes even if the engine was hot. I can't even imagine how proprietary the components on a Tesla must be or how difficult it will be to fix myself.
This was also in Eric Jackson's history of PayPal. Jackson was a marketing guy, so had no technical dog in the fight, but he wrote this particular fight up.

Jackson was the guy who realised that PayPal and eBay had massive synergy and worked super hard to get PayPal in there. Eventually leading to eBay buying them out, and Musk and Thiel going from merely rich to actually billionaires.
s/released/has been tagged/
they're probably waiting for some packages to build and to write a nice announcement message
An Undiscovered Facebook Bug Made Me Think I Was Hacked
Good story. I also screwed up something at work in my early 20s. Would expect to have gotten fired, unexpectedly happened a similar reaction to this story.

Was a wakening call. Taught me to be far more careful when deploying and testing s/w.
Here is one skeptical person: https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/99sbwa/form...

My personal expectation that it's all true is about 60% right now. Some of the figures could be exaggerated or misremembered, but most of the hackiness described is plausible.
If the frontend can use the API, can I, the guy with a curl command or headless browser, use it too? How are you generating that list of queries from my machine? Unless the surface is sufficiently small to get all permutations at which point no prob, my issue is with flexible GraphQL systems.
Anyone have a link to the Fed Circuit's Ariosa opinion? I could only find their amicus brief at the EFF link.
> but their HTTPS certificate is invalid lol.

And yet, these are the folks we 'trust' to protect our borders.
Root's approach to analyzing driving patterns is on their website: https://www.joinroot.com/test-drive

- Braking

- Hours

- Turns

- Consistency

Speed is notably absent.
How do we build better product teams?
It could be a form of infrasound, and maybe in a pattern which isn't readily detected by seismographs.
Do you have any plans for a social component to the app i.e. following other dogs and sharing “stories”/videos?

Great work! My kid is hooked.
> Aside from medicine, technology in general is arguably already "good enough" for most people.

That was true in the 1960s as well. People often don't know what they want until it's old hat.
I have worked for a few years on developing computerized vision tests for research purposes and did not realize just how difficult it can be to guarantee the accuracy of the stimulus on different monitors. There is so much that can effect the output image that it's a nightmare. Often the Edid info monitors return is missing data or has marketing values listed instead of actually values. (Screen size of 21" vs 20.5"). There can be differences based on whether the monitor is plugged in via dvi, dp, hdmi whether you have nvidia,amd,intel gpu's. Is scaling being done on the GPU or display or both? How is windows color profiles effecting your image? How are font settings effecting your image? Are you running fullscreen or windowed cause that matters. What if timing is critical to your stimulus? Is your software aware when displays are added and removed ? I originally wanted the software to support arbitrary displays and gpus but the problem of showing actually the light you want to on a monitor is way harder then I ever would have imagined.
I'd rather data duplication than coupling two different database servers
Hey! I helped write this paper. Let me know if you have questions about it.
It may balance out over time, but big businesses spend an enormous amount of money defending themselves against patent suits and defensively filing patents. Patent trolls are the only types of businesses that purely see upside from patents.
Well, the model 3 lacks a normal speedometer, it's in the screen. For that car, it's related to safety.
When I say that my parent's couldn't buy some certain things it kinda makes it sound like I had a deprived childhood or lived in want. There's a whole host of things that were always there: safe food, clean water, AC in summer, heat in winter, clothes fit me and were seasonally appropriate, proper footwear, lights always worked, dog always fed, an adequate public school, shelves of books, an Atari 2600, at least 1 bicycle, a freaking 3 bedroom house, two cars, an attic full of Christmas decorations, parents never beat me, neighbors that could be trusted. I could go on.

Writing all that out makes me wonder why even as I child I was bummed about not getting the Kenner Millenium Falcon or the GI Joe base.
According to Business Insider 2016 list[1], of the 50 richest people in the world, only 13 inherited their money. Even amongst those people, most of them have managed to keep or grow their fortune by advancing their companies.

This is by no means an extensive list or even research, but I believe this pattern repeats itself no matter how you slice the data.

Also, I believe that the logical reasoning behind this idea is solid: in capitalism the only way to succeed is to either help others (by producing something they want) or to commit a crime (bribery, stealing, etc) which should, of course, be avoided and prosecuted.

1 - https://www.businessinsider.com/50-richest-people-on-earth-2...
I've never heard of an NDA that says "after 3 years you can start giving away trade secrets"
It means you should not add complexity to a model if it does not improve the predictive power of the model.
LSTMs can learn a count mechanism that lets them recognize a^n b^n and a^n b^n c^n: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.04908.pdf
Can't speak for them, but: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/woman-my-iphone-...
Is that like, you really don't need a fancy RTOS for this stuff 99.999% of the time, although sometimes you do? Or truly, despite the life safety element, there is never any need for RTOS.
Completely understand. And it is within that discussion which is the 'hard bit'.The spreadsheets get a bit thick too. Understand this has been percolating for over a year at this point.

Feel free to contact me off list if you (or anyone else for that matter) is interested in the thinking that has been done so far on this concept.
First off, schemas are stored so they are accessible to the GQL server (not with FE code).

Maintaining API contracts is much easier with GraphQL than with REST (even if you layer on top a contract system like Swagger). The major advantage to GraphQL (which has a powerful schema system) is that you can explicitly know which fields are being accessed. The query itself represents what the client understands (capabilities). This makes it much easier to maintain backwards compatibility. You can even monitor traffic per field to deprecate features.

Re: BE code breaks, that’s what integration tests are for.
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That would be my (completely unsubstantiated) guess as well. Animals, including humans, are surprisingly sensitive to infrasound, but there hasn't been a ton of research on the subject so far.
It's noted that they're using OpenVPN, so using cell network is probably a non-issue.
It was an very interesting read about how online ordering apps should be build.
True. But all that does is tell the system that each abuse is $X settling dollars instead which, while it might reduce the practice, won't stop it.
>it feels so disparaging of other people's solutions

In many ways, I wouldn't expect less from Basecamp. Superiority and self-righteousness seems ingrained into basecamp's culture.
Lunar Ice: Exciting to Me, but Not to My Characters – Facts So Romantic
Mind Your State for Your State of Mind
Not going to happen. Heart rates (and all other parameters) vary for all sorts of reasons. To detect a change in these parameters in a period of hours, you'd have to have a really large number of animals. You can just picture an army of humans tagging and replacing Millions of tags on all sorts of animals all around the world.
> The world is also moving to hosted communications (Twilio, etc) so there is less and less need for a local PBX, thus less demand for Asterisk.

Correct, but don't forget many hosted communications services use asterisk internally.

Twilio did use Asterisk in the past, although I believe they have switched to something else.
VW will stop using anti-hail cannons, which are apparently a thing
Developer’s Serenity Prayer
In my experience, believing in people is far more likely to get them to "live up" to your belief than is the alternative. This is a great story about using a mistake as a lesson, but also about building a strong and cohesive work culture.
Same people bagged themselves a WinZip license too I'll bet!
I think the EFF's note is a bit confusing, because it glosses over a key nuance in the evaluation.

Here's a bit more information about the case: https://patentlyo.com/patent/2018/07/diagnostics-provisional...

Briefly: Granted patents count as prior art from their filing date. The question is what happens to provisional filings. The court has split the treatment of those documents depending on whether or not the prior art is claimed or not.

The Federal court's position is interesting, as it is a compromise position. It recognizes that the documents are not published to the public, and accordingly afford the opportunity to create so-called submarine rights, and limits the scope of these rights to the specific 'stuff' of the patent in question, while preventing the non-public remainder of the filings from popping up and cutting prospective patents down.

What's the right course of action here? Well, that heavily depends on the behavior of filers across an industry.

It is, however, clear that the federal court's position is not borne out of a consistent, principled approach. For some, that's enough for them to claim the baby needs to be tossed out without trying to address the threat of the submarines directly.
Google Street View Portraits
Trying harder to make AVX-512 look bad: my quantified and reproducible results
> "the interior is a disaster, there's no instrument cluster which takes your eyes off the road"

This is the most WTF aspect of the model 3 to me and seems to confirm that there isn't going to be some last-minute mitigation. I know it was done because autopilot was expected to be mature by the time model 3 rolls out, but I don't see how it can even be street-legal when you need to look away from the road to determine your speed.
TBF provolone enthusiasts ∩ squirrel watchers ≠ ∅
Doesn't need to be illegal. Any personal info you don't want shared with random strangers should be protected.
If you're looking for bugs in WASM implementations, take a look at https://www.blackhat.com/us-18/briefings/schedule/#the-probl... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17782552 previously posted a week ago)

Our paper/talk was more about the security implications of using WASM in your stack.
Kanji were imported into Japan from the continent via scholars or printed material. Many of the different pronunciations happened because kanji came during different time periods or from different parts of China where words were pronounced differently.
if it exists, __reduce__ is run when pickling the object and returns code that will be run when unpickling. It allows to completely customize how the object is re-created on the other side, which might be needed e.g. when the type is defined in a native extension (at least the docs name this use case).
Hey,

The page you refer to has a section "NHTSA and NASA Investigation Verdict" and it says nothing about the software bugs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%9311_Toyota_vehicle...
The GP's joke was good dry humour that, given the lack of downvotes, was clearly appreciated. Reddit is where you go for low-hanging fruit. So no, I'm going to push back against turbonerd NO FUN ALLOWED types when the jokes are actually funny.
Counterpoint; trauma is so difficult to forget that the relatively small footprint of forgetting random, unessential facts just doesn't compare to the benefit of being able to forget something you would otherwise get into PTSD-style thought-loops over. Don't think about the time a close relative passed away; think about the types of torture John McCain went through. Do you think he could have come back and been the man he was if he couldn't lock some of his memories away?

And there is no "initial phase of emotional reactivity". It's a continuous spectrum of reactions and reactions to those reactions. Real trauma is like being hit by a train, or getting cancer. Yeah, you'll recover, but you'll never quite be as healthy as you were before the event even if your recovery is miraculous.