skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, they're accidents.

The impetus behind trying to rename accidents is that Americans are perversely enthusiastic about revenge.

Accepting that it was an accident doesn't stop us trying to ensure it doesn't happen again, that is indeed exactly what Accident Investigators are for, and you'll notice they aren't called "No, it wasn't an accident, it was a crash" Investigators.

By re-framing this as "not an accident" we get to insist there's somebody to blame, and we can start looking for revenge. That won't do a thing to undo what happened or prevent it from happening again, it's one of our nastiest human traits and it needs to be fought, not supported by reinforcing it with language.

This (random example from another open tab) is what investigating accidents looks like:

https://www.gov.uk/raib-reports/report-13-2018-near-miss-wit...

The investigators wanted to understand everything that went wrong, and how it contributed to what happened (two people nearly got hit by a train), and then they used that information to recommend how to avoid it happening again.
Apple Abruptly Orders Coinbase Wallet to Remove Crypto Collectible
Brings back memories. As a kid, my only chance to play Doom was on a computer in the electronics dept at Sears, at the mall. Good times.
Check out the physics of ketchup.
This is genius: https://imgur.com/a/1aRZ3sI

Normally this technique wouldn't be useful, because it's overfitting a specific training set. (If you make space X as similar as possible to space Y, then this mapping from X to Y is only useful for X to Y – it can't generalize to other situations, which is often the goal of an ML model.)

But since the task is "Translate from English to Italian," and since all languages have similar embedding structures (Zipf mystery), overfitting is exactly what we want: we want, for any given English phrase, to find the closest-fitting mapping to a corresponding Italian phrase.

The more I learn about ML and data mining, the more I'm astounded by how clever many of the techniques are, and how much artistry is involved. You have to be clever to make a certain model perform well in a certain domain. If you want to make a stock trading bot, you can't randomly subdivide stock market data into e.g. 70% training data and 30% test data, because the data is ordered by time. You have to use the past 3 years of stock market data as a training set, and validate it against the subsequent 1 year of market data.

I really like ML because the techniques applicable for training a stock market bot seem unrelated to the algorithms for doing unsupervised machine translation, which differ from how to model credit fraud, which are no doubt different from how to build a dota 2 bot. :)
There's a big difference in user control between safety features and a self-driving car.
But that's often the case. The thing is that 'smart cars' are not so different from where Apple is already comfortable, and where they want to move. Let's say they invest massive funds into ML, hardware, etc just to fail in the car market. They can recoup a lot of that by just taking the tech they've built and reinvesting it into their comfort zone.
Romero's claim that this was intentional stretches credulity.
This is a really well-written rebuttal to the "straws are destroying the planet" narrative in general.
De mortuis nihil nisi bonum

"Of the dead, speak no evil"
But, for example, USA must divide its CO2 emissions by 6 to prevent global warming. If each company makes a 5% improvement, we have a 5% improvement. Just in the industrial sector. Still not saved from GW.

France, in the Western average, must divide its emissions by 2.1. Still impossible without either dividing its population by 2, or dividing each person’s wealth by 2.

The government that would implement such a drastic reduction of the economy would never even be elected, and it would cause riots from East to West.

So, low level of emissions can only be reached as the result of a war.
Oasis free plan will be discontinued October 14
WOW. Watch the first four mins for demo, thats insane. "This isn't supposed to exist"
I agree that keeping employees is important. Let's just expand the thesis to being "HR is the most important thing a company does".

> Sales are in my opinion the most important.

And how does a company get good salespeople? Hiring well.

Speed is a part of hiring well.
> he likes Rappi because you can see in real-time where your delivery is.

Same with Uber eats.
Yes. They're both very bad. The point, I think, is to look in the middle.
Hacker on my computer
There is a hacker on my computer using this. Can you please remove him and it? How can I block him and this type of coding?
Why do you have to be in SF? Every time I go there I see the streets are full of people who can't possibly live any place else it seems even though they can't keep a roof over their heads.

There is a software industry in other towns you know.
JavaScript is slow as hell
>legal content

Does this mean the ISP gets to decide if something is legal?
I’m a programmer and I would have absolutely no problem getting in a self driving car even at the level of current Waymo in Phoenix right now. I wouldn’t trust a car on that level to drive me around a windy cliff road when it’s snowing yet, but as is if I were in Arizona I already trust those Waymo-level cars more than my buddy who might not be paying attention 100% of the time.
Wait, from what is implied by the creator's tweet, this was the intended method for getting the secret?
I've tried signing up and it seems to be in private beta. Is this an MVP?
No infrastructure at all? No people to doxx?
> avoids solving Version-SAT, which is NP-Complete

This is just a terrible argument. Sure the problem is NP-Complete to find an optimal solution for the general case, but you don't need to do that. You need to find a good-enough solution for the cases that people actually use. Heuristics for that problem are plenty fast and even finding the optimal solution is fast enough for most of the problems people are actually trying to use.
Ask HN: Lone sysadmins of HN, what do you take on vacation?
I'm leaving on a two week vacation, and I've found myself as the only developer left at a company that can maintain the infrastructure. I'd really like to travel without my laptop- it's expensive, it's a distraction, and I want to disconnect as much as possible.

The founder who configured everything recently departed. We have two other developers on the team, but one has shown no interest in dev ops, and the other was just hired. We have a lot of documentation for handling common stuff.

Our infrastructure rarely needs intervention, so I'm not very worried. Still, stuff has happened, so I don't think it would be responsible to head out without some way assist in a major fire.

I've considered:

- VNC by iPad/keyboard to a cloud hosted server configured for infrastructure management

- Dirt cheap laptop: Still a laptop, but light, and ok if lost or destroyed

- RaspberryPi: Enough power to load some sites and ssh to some servers. Hook it up to the TV in my AirBnB.

- Screw it: let go, trial by fire for the other dev

What do you guys do?
I was surprised by the last paragraph. What kind of device or system of devices do you think will fully replace the current concept of a smartphone?
Ask HN: What online courses for beginners you recommend
I have a friend that’s really motivated to start learning to code at the age of 26. It would have to be from home. Will have about 20 hours a week available. Also, will probably start with Python and web development just because is where I could help with the beginner stuff.

We are considering sites like Udemy, Codeacademy, treehouse and others. Would be willing to pay if it’s worth it.

Which courses would you recommend and why. Some sites offer certificates, does that really help ?
I assume with cheats like noclip and the source dumps people knew about the secret area since forever. But were just never able to figure out you had to be pushed by an enemy to activate the teleport to it.
A very bizarre set of reaction tweets, was Terry big among the alt-right/4chan crowds?

It was very sad to witness his condition deteriorating over the past months.
This is terrible news... I'll never forget the glory of TempleOS and holyC.
Ummm, that's what I said :)
Could a new US law [to limit whois privacy] make GDPR irrelevant?
I wasn't trying to speak poorly of him. I'm not very good at wording such things. Personally, I think it sucks people let the things he said stop them from doing anything for him. Sometimes all it takes is one person caring and putting effort in to help someone change their life for the better.
This 2016 Mother Jones article is a good treatment of this hypothesis:

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/lead-exposur...
Ignoring the fact that you're talking about a government that uses nerve agents on targets in foreign countries, the distinction you're making is spurious (if the collateral damage is predictable even for the other party, it's hostage-taking, if it's not predictable obviously it cannot be taken into account) and even if we doubt the motives of the Telegram people calling not submitting to censure and spying "baiting" as if the issue was morally neutral is dishonest.
He reminded me of Henry Darger in many ways. He spent a troubled life building his own world from the ground up, resulting in something inconsequential yet truly cool.

His statements were offensive, but I don't blame him at all - I empathize with his mental health struggles. May he rest in peace.
I mean, not really. You're already trusting software to decide how your car should steer (automatic lane keeping), brake (automatic emergency braking), and accelerate (adaptive cruise control).
Slack quietly adds auto-expiring statuses
There Is No Pickup-Truck Emoji, but Lots of Other Transportation Emoji
> almost always takes three tries

I think that's a pretty good rule to incorporate for many cases. After three effortful tries stop working on it no matter what. Learn from it and move on to the next one. I like to remind myself of pottery and quantity over quality [1].

[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/quantity-always-trumps-quality...
For some reason it jumped out at me that they considered time in religious services as a measurable component of how an ordinary person might spend their time. I can see how it might be relevant to the topic at hand but it's quite uncommon for me to encounter a normative discussion of religious activity as an unremarkable thing.

Is it common (i.e. do I live in a bubble) or is it a marker of something about this article that I am missing? I pretty much only encounter mention of religion in the news headlines and am not sure I even know anyone who attends any kind of religious service more than two or three times a year.

It may be quite common and I might live in a bubble, but then is it mentioned routinely?
To me canceling headphones are only useful if I don't have a migraine. If I do have one and I try to use noise cancelling headphones, it feels like my head is spinning in circles and is about to blow up.
Removing sound will for me always be better than combating noise.
I’m mentoring multiple people in there late 20s early 30s for the exact same thing, and I usually recommend TreeHouse. They just have so much content, and it’s good enough quality. Depending on the student they should skim a lot, and maybe come up with their own projects, but at least base their curriculum off of TreeHouse.

Certs don’t matter in my experience.
That's exactly what I meant: that I'd just take my labor elsewhere. I have no intention of immigrating to America in the near future; it will take someone like Obama in power again for me to think otherwise. There are other labor markets that are happy to put out the welcome mat for me

The sad thing is that I studied in America for two years and can't reconcile the current rhetoric with the memories I had
There was a very small detail that was almost overlooked in the article- it seemed like they were planning on keeping their more senior engineers and fire their junior ones.

> The tipping point came in January, when management offered additional stock to a handful of high-level male engineers, including Westergard. Employees suspected Lanetix planned to fire lower-level female engineers, ...

On the one hand, this sounds to me like they're probably struggling financially, and the unionization efforts would have put them in a worse spot. This is pure speculation, however, because the article kept focusing on the gender of the employees. Maybe that really is the story, but so many details were left out to focus on the narrative that we won't know without better journalism.
Something to consider when people suggest nuclear marine propulsion.
Thanks, I though I was the only one that remembered it still.

I was salivating for an Apple designed PPC back then and was devastated when they switched to Intel.

Even though it was probably the right decision, the world got a little more boring with effectively a single ISA for mobile and desktop.

Same with OSs, something died with the original classic OS that never recovered, even though pragmatically, I love being able to run Photoshop on laptop Unix machine.
I'm not sure he says it's intentional at all. He says "Great trick getting to that secret!" - which seems to imply that it wasn't intentional at all.
He says "Great trick getting to that secret!" - which seems to imply that it wasn't intentional at all.
Usability. They tried to do all sorts of fancy charts when a simple one could have sufficed. I’d bet HN has more mobile viewers and desktop.

So in this case all that expensive money spent making that page isn’t really worth it since a large part of internet wouldn’t even be able to properly read it.

Worse is they half arsed responsiveness. Could have left safari to browse the page like a normal desktop page but their width metadata gives a very poor experience.
Leaded gasoline was introduced in the 1920s but there weren't that many cars until starting in the late 1950s. (Construction of the interstates started with the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956.) Then we saw the huge crime wave starting 20 years later, which peaked and started tapering off in 1993, 20 years after the phase out of leaded gasoline began in 1973.

There is also the point that the people who did have cars in the 1920s were the aristocrats, and twenty years after that...
He was a cultural icon of 4chan's technology board, who would watch his livestreams by the thousands.
The description was rather vague, but seemingly equivalent to a pair of bose headphones with the microphone extended out a few feet in the direction of noise to allow more time to calculate the antiwave?
Detailed analysis in this article:

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2018/08/crunch-time-in-the-nafta-...

> ... copyright, patent, IP enforcement, and digital policy rules ... The U.S. appears to be pushing for a TPP+ approach – the TPP provisions plus some additional changes it did not get as part of those negotiations. This is notable since Canadian authorities admitted that the TPP went far beyond any previous Canadian free trade agreement. The Canadian starting point is presumably the CPTPP, the revised TPP where Canada successfully argued for the suspension of some of the U.S.-backed provisions.
For those who don't know:

TempleOS (formerly J Operating System, SparrowOS and LoseThos) is a biblical-themed lightweight operating system created by the American programmer Terry A. Davis. He developed the system alone over the course of 10 years. It was designed to be the Third Temple, according to Davis, and uses an interface similar to a mixture of DOS and Turbo C. Davis describes the operating system as a modern x86-64 Commodore 64 with a variation of C (named HolyC) in place of BASIC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS
Minor point; Root recognises the hazard and adjusts the flasks such that the levels differ, thereby disrupting the harmonics.
second paragraph:

"Prepare to put your Doom Pedantry Hat on for this one, because the secret has been known, and considered a bug."
If you want to see what pterhx was referring to in action, National Geographic did a documentary featuring Susan Polgar a few years back. The relevant clip and timestamp are here: https://youtu.be/LdKHrxcpxrY?t=238.

The difficulty in recalling nonsensical positions is not that it's like "boxing a beginner", it's that the pieces are literally placed in a way that the positions could not have been reached with legal moves.

Analogously, remembering famous quotes or memorable phrases in a certain language is quite easy. If instead, you had to memorize a string of randomly placed words that did not follow established rules of grammar or sentence structure, it'd be a much harder task.

Chunking is context and experience dependent.
Procrastination comes from anxiety (for me)

When I'm anxious about a task it's usually because I don't know where to start OR I'm because afraid I'll be dissapointed by how the result will be.
yeah sorry, I didn't realize it was so dubious, just got emotional... I messaged HN mods to remove this post until it's confirmed.
You're assuming people actually use those features.
Apple could buy the actual car maker competition in cash if they needed to.
Boring in the sense that nothing exciting was found,but encouraging that 1) nothing was found! 2) null-result publication is useful in and of itself, sometimes.
Sun was serious about software at least to the extent that Acorn was.
To protect against outsiders inserting false orders to one branch. Or to provide a record of past orders.
Is there anything more stereotypical for a depressed teenager to do than listen to music? That's a mystery that solves itself. Sitting alone, staring into a wall while listening to music is not a thing most healthy people do. For most, music is a secondary activity.

Anyway, I don't think the screen matters much per se. Being social in person is good. Not being so is bad.
> ... the cows ... were quite a bit moodier ...

I see what you did there. Nice!
Obvious solution: if an algorithm drives a car into someone, that algorithm is banned from ever driving again.

Obvious correlary: if a person drives a car into someone, that person is banned from ever driving again.
I think the idea here is that you would compile one native Android application that is running a single “distributed process” capable of spawning threads in both places, as if the phone and the cloud were two (very distant) NUMA noses of the same physical device. (Or, more practically, with the Android runtime doing transparent distributed RPC using a single set of static types that are marshalled between the client and server using something like protobufs.)

For this to work out, the devices really need to be either capable of running the same native code; or at least need to all be running an abstract bytecode VM with its durable state synchronized between them.
I recommend Smartest Guys in the Room to anyone who mentions documentaries in my presence! One of my all time favorites too.
I know, they could have a refer, err, pelebicite! That's always proven to be a crowd pleaser!
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Angular is a batteries-included full-fledged framework. React is a small view lib. Apples:oranges. Or, rather, apple orchard:orange.
Here's Mr. Kholsa's take on it: https://medium.com/@vkhosla/martins-beach-a-matter-of-princi...
And here's the Surfrider Foundations timeline of events: https://www.surfrider.org/pages/6950

It looks like the courts didn't find any right of public access to Martin's beach, but it did find that there was an existing permit for rules for accessing the beach. The court additionally found that if Mr. Kholsa wants to change those rules, he has to file a new permit. Mr. Kholsa argues that the previous owners changed the rules without filing for a new permit, so he shouldn't have to either.

Mr. Kholsa's argument strikes me as wrong on two counts: #1 just because the previous owners made changes without a permit, that doesn't mean it was legal or that he's now allowed to make changes without a permit. #2 there's quite a difference between the previous owners changing fees and hours and Mr. Kholsa ending all public access.

Mr Kholsa was informed before he bough the property that there was an existing public access to the beach and that San Mateo county expected that public access would continue. In that light, he looks a lot like someone who buys a house next to the airport and then complains about the noise from takeoffs and landings. Regardless of what principle he thinks he's fighting for, he's being a jerk.
"The rear-ender is always at fault no matter what" is largely myth. The truth is just that historically it's been very hard to prove you weren't at fault if you hit someone else in the rear. Now, with dashcams becoming more common and people becoming more aware of deliberate-crash scams and road-raging "brake check" incidents, that's starting to change.
Infrastructure spending is problematic. Heck, many states cannot even keep their bridges in good repair. I get the feeling that to enhance the roads, big tech needs to come up with a standard and finance it’s inclusion when major road work is done. Otherwise, I don’t see a way forward with augmented roads.
Like many health issues (mental or otherwise), its a matter of degree.

Everyone can relate to the experience of lacking the focus to perform an un-stimulating task, and to the experience of procrastination - and so that often leads to the kind of blasé reaction you offer here (no offense). This is a very harmful kind of attitude.

Everyone can relate to the feeling of being sad too - that doesn't mean we're all suffering from depression. Most people can relate to the experience of drinking too much. But they aren't all alcoholics.

It's when the degree of such behaviors/states-of-mind become so prevalent and unshakable as to be destructive and harmful in a person's life, that they become disorders.
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Don’t you also get feedback, pull requests, bug fixes and suggestions from the community that are both beneficial to react but also to Facebook as well?

Therefore it now seems like there _is_ incentive for Facebook to want outside developers to use it.

Thanks.
There was a finding! A very very minor bug in the keepalive timer's rounding.

I mean, it's something.
The following book helped me immensely. I'm sure many of you are familiar with it. I can't say enough about how great this book is.

The War of Art - Steven Pressfield

http://a.co/d/dEjPUgf

If you need some help with procrastination and not moving forward, a must read....
Disjoint versions would be good. Has it ever been tried?

Also - would it have prevented, say, heartbleed?
I know I saw some stuff on this in the past... so past articles (oldest to newest) for contexts

Joint Statement of Solidarity with Unjustly Fired Lanetix Workers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16293823 (3 comments)

https://medium.com/@techworkersco/joint-statement-of-solidar...

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Lanetix engineers bring case to NLRB claiming firings were illegal retaliation

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16469573 (1 comment)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-26/coders-wa...

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Tech company Lanetix fired software engineers seeking to organize, union claims

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16504247 (91 comments)

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/SF-tech-company...

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Software Engineers Fired for Attempt to Unionize

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16815822 (10 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16817501 (10 comments)

https://jacobinmag.com/2018/04/lanetix-tech-workers-unioniza...

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Labor Board Backs Startup Engineers (at Lanetix) Who Were Fired for Unionizing

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17875865 (no comments)

https://www.wired.com/story/labor-board-backs-startup-engine...
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