skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Youtube is an amazing phenomenon that I think doesn't get
> enough credit because of all the junk on there, but the
> fact that I can search for how to remove the abs module on
> a 2007 BMW 750li and get multiple videos showing how to do
> it just blows me away and definitely makes it a lot easier
> to get things done.

One of the garbage things about YT, though, is that the third thing on that video's "watch next" list will be some dude telling you that ABS part of a global conspiracy to get mind-controlling computers into every car.
Representative quotes:

"Is there any idea so outlandish that it won’t be published in a Critical/PoMo/Identity/‘Theory’ journal?" tweeted the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker.

"Three intrepid academics," wrote Yascha Mounk, an author and lecturer on government at Harvard, "just perpetrated a giant version of the Sokal Hoax, placing … fake papers in major academic journals. Call it Sokal Squared. The result is hilarious and delightful. It also showcases a serious problem with big parts of academia."
I feel like you are informing me I need to make all my family just disappear to safe guard myself >.>
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Gotcha. Cool setup!
Shouldn't the default presupposition of any research be a lack of novelty?
"I've accepted the risk that if I get electrocuted, it's just me being screwed, vs if I screw up a plumbing solder, I can flood an entire house."

Whoever lives in the house could be more upset with your electrocution than with a flooded house, even if raw sewage was involved. That can be true even for strangers, and almost certainly for family members.
Great response, thank you!
California quitters, your future neighbors wish you would stay home
Fair enough :) Thanks for the recommendations!
I thought I was answering that. Where did I go wrong?
Here's an explanation from Casey Muratori: https://youtu.be/GKYCA3UsmrU?t=4m50s

See also Mike Acton (Engine Director @ Insomniac Games): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ItVEVjHc
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The computer Tesla is using isn't underpowered by a factor of 40.
It's not just the humanities, computer science is also susceptible to hoaxes built from jargon.

SCIgen works like an academic "Mad Libs" of sorts, arbitrarily slotting in computer-science buzzwords like "distributed hash tables" and "Byzantine fault tolerance."

http://news.mit.edu/2015/how-three-mit-students-fooled-scien...
First off, as a founder, you're busy. Dealing with an unsolicited email from someone you've never heard of, with an open-ended "please help me" request will usually go right to the end of the priority list. It sucks, but it's a reality.

At least inn my case, repeated emails will only reduce your chances of getting my attention: I'll just block someone who's getting in my face.

Your perspective on AI, while it might be incredibly perceptive and valuable, is not really a great offer as a way of attracting attention. Unless you're a known expert, or recommended by someone trusted, then you're just someone on the Internet with an opinion. There's only about 5 billion of those ...

So what can you do?

If the person you'd like time with attends meetups or similar semi-social gatherings, that's probably your best chance to either have your 5 minutes then and there, or establish enough credibility that you can followup with a request for a coffee and get an answer.

Otherwise, your best approach is probably to build a relationship with someone the founder already knows and trusts, and then ask for an introduction.

Finally, you mention that the person you want to contact is a woman. If you're not, that introduces an additional dynamic here that you should be aware of.

Ultimately, I think you need to ask yourself why you're doing this. Why do want 5 minutes of her time? What genuine value are you going to get out of that? If it's not something that's more-or-less organic, you're maybe focused on the wrong thing anyway?
They were correct, in an informal way. I clarified that, though evidently not well. (C is for Cyber, S is for Solutions, I is for Inc.)

The only comments ever posted by philibuster are in response to me. It's sort of a stalking thing, which should explain my irritation. Because the company lacks a web or other consumer presence, very little information can be easily found from the name. What little is out there is absurdly wrong.

When I think of "building software that spies on their fellow citizens", the first thing that pops into mind is all of San Francisco and Silicon Valley. That is the entire business model of that area, and of most of the jobs being posted here.
basically in europe there are not a lot of pickups to none out there.
in europe there is a trend for SUVs at the moment, but besides that we mostly buy limousines.
No. Here's a recent research paper https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(18)31108-5.pdf that will lull you to sleep. It's a good (n=1, randomized, LOOCV verified) sample.
Most of the unsolvable adversarial issues are related to the inconsistent legal framework, various holes pinched in labor law and the constant threat of closure.

A place like Boeing is really a government employer in disguise and has entirely different dynamics.
I thought that CSA stood for Community Supported Agriculture:

https://www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/community-supported-agricultu...

Is Community Service Agriculture a new social justice version of that, or was there a typo in the article?

CSAs are a great idea for supporting small farms, but adding a social justice mission to an already challenging undertaking seems like biting off too much at one time.
> some people manage on their own with a gym membership and access to /r/fitness or whatever, so it's not exactly ineffective.

Some people manage to get fit on their own without a gym membership or any equipment at all, so it's not exactly effective either.
CORS protects users, not services, so it's entirely reasonable that the evaluation of policy occurs in the user agent.
I work in clinical genomics / bioinformatics, and I think the current health-related results that companies like 23andMe offer are pretty misleading. They look only at a few specific genomic coordinates that are known to be contain pathogenic variants, but chances are if you have the associated disease you don't have a variant at one of those few select locations. Because of this, a negative test result does not mean someone isn't at risk for the condition. I think this nuance is likely lost on most customers. (There are certain diseases that are associated with just a few gain-of-function mutations at well characterized sites, these would be better candidates for testing of the sort 23andMe does - but that's not what they are offering in general.)

The paradoxical nature of genetic variation, especially deleterious variation, is that most of it is very rare. Even with today's massive genome sequencing efforts it's still common to find variants that don't exist in ANY previously sequenced genome. Looking only at just a few sites will rarely get you the whole story.
How do you think people gain this mystical knowledge of how targeting that extra level of throughput will affect their health?
Maybe we shouldn't look at the farmer solely. In NL potato farmers get 9 ct/kilo of potatoes. This is near cost price, sometimes even below. In the supermarket the consumer pays $1.60 for that kilo. And I am talking local produce here.. the potato fields are literally right next to the supermarkets (NL is very small, no long supply lines).
With those 9 cts it is clear they need subsidies. The supermarkets set the prices, and something is wrong here.
This is extremely illuminating; thank you for taking the time to respond.
Things I've read about their bug bounty program and things I've read about other tech companies bug bounty programs. No, I don't have links.
That 40% number is accurate but misleading. Here's an old prediction of pretty much that result that explains the issue:
https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2013/11/30/23andme-genotyp...

Basically, almost all (~99.9%) of the results of tests like 23andme (SNP arrays) are correct, but because an interesting/scary variant/mutation is about as rare in the population as the test result being wrong for a given site, somewhere around half of those scary results are false positive. If 1000 people are tested for a mutation with this method, 10 will be false positive. The real frequency of mutations vary by site - some will be close to 50%, others at 10e-9, depending on how strongly that variant is selected against, so the most harmful ones are very rare. If you get a result from 23andme that your doctor thinks is worth retesting, it's probably because it's a harmful mutation, which is rare, and ergo there's a fair chance the 23andme result is wrong. So 23andme is almost always right, except when the result might affect your health in a very serious way. I should point out that for late-onset diseases like cancer, heart disease, alzheimer's, etc., there's little natural selection, so pathogenic variants are more common, making it more likely that the 23andme result is correct.

It's a simple bayes rule result. It would not be hard for 23andme to give you an estimate of how likely the result is to be a false positive, but maybe there's some regulatory barrier in the way?
https://github.com/WyriHaximus/awesome-volkswagen
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I guess I mean "new" as in still not stable (pre-1.0 and still sees breaking changes). The fact it's been around so long and still hasn't matured is not reassuring at all.

I have checked out OCaml but it's not mainstream enough to have libraries for... anything really. Here's the first thing I checked just now: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/communi...

The OCaml client was abandoned 5 years ago. Nim doesn't even appear on the page!

This page says Kotlin Native is still in preview: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/native-overview.html

Also, I am not seeing a reason why Go is not a good choice.
Public sector unions are notoriously bad.
Stallman says Commons Clause is a non-free licence
>Even IF a level 5 self-driving becomes practical soon (I doubt it based on the fact that AI still lacks commonsense), many human riders would still want an option of manual override.

And they should be accommodated why exactly? If they want manual they can just buy a standard car with l1/l2.

>In the linked article of my post above, the manual override went wrong because the driver fell asleep and that could occur to any rider as well.

No, not just Waymo but even GM have explicit plans for final cars to not even have so much as a steering wheel at all, and pushing for Congress to allow an exception in that case from full FMVSS-compliance. The manual override and functions are just for the development process, the whole point of level 5 is that passenger involvement is eliminated. Anything less then that isn't level 5 and gets back into the problem of almost not needing any attention, except when you suddenly do. I'm not commenting on how close they are, just on what the goal is and why developing drive attention technology purely for testing purposes makes no sense vs just having better test procedures (and paying for it).

>In fact, taking into account the commander/rider’s state of attention should be part of commonsense needed for any level 5 self-driving system.

Are you sure you actually understand what the "levels" are here? It's certainly widely regarded as an imperfect classification system, particularly at 2, 3, and 4, but 1 and 5 are clear enough and 5 is "start to finish without even a human in the vehicle at all, or everyone sleeping".
If you're on a tight budget, your best bet is to look for a OpenWRT- or DD-WRT-capable router at your local thrift stores. I'm using a linksys/cisco consumer router as a wireless bridge. DD-WRT apparently supports more of the closed-source chipsets.

I have an EdgeRouter POE and a UAP-lite - might've gotten the cheaper edgerouter if I'd realized the UAP single-pack comes with a power injector. I wouldn't buy the edgerouter POE again, as it uses non-standard passive POE. If I want to be "safe" about the cables I'm running, I'm going to have to buy this device: http://tycononline.com/TP-POE-2456D-24VDC-Passive-POE-IN-to-...

EdgeRouter X + UAP-lite would be around $130.
Yes, that's right. We're referring to IP whitelisting there. We're also adding (very shortly) site-to-site VPN connections, so users can link their AWS/GCP VPC or even a traditional office/datacenter LAN.

Even with a VPN, any sensitive services should have their own auth and logging enabled. Requiring a VPN doesn't remove the need for other forms of security, but it does add a very effective layer of security. We also have a strong business incentive not to violate the trust of our customers. We're hoping to prove that we can be trusted over time, and to use technology to reduce the need for trust.
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The origin could still be falsified client-side.
There is no way to really investigate this claim since only Amazon has all the numbers.
Do you not consider hobbies to be real world experience?

Personally I appreciate the opportunity to not be stuck taking on new work that depends entirely on my previous employment. I find that people who pursue interests outside the scope of their day job tend to be good at thinking through problems and maintaining a healthy attitude, so I’m glad to discuss hobbies with people.
More than just "using it for GMRS service": the real issue is that most purchasers of these radios leave the channel configuration in the shipped default, which tends to overlap with a bunch of public safety and commercial frequencies.

If the default channels in these were GMRS, despite the lack of legality in their use on GMRS, I expect there would be much less activity in responding to the problem.
Awesome... another loss of privacy at the hands of convenience and data for ignorant decision-makers
The irony is that the state that loves to pat itself on its back for being so environmentally conscious is also that last state where you could buy leaded gas in the U.S.

California: 1992.
I’m sure it is, but jobs that can tract workers piecemeal often pay extra to the highest performers to incentivize people to try and work harder.
Yep, the “shortage of employees” meme comes from the same propaganda sources as the “jobs Americans just wont do” one. If you offer above-market wage, and the labor pool is not artificially constrained (like for doctors), then you will get a line of applicants out the door. This is true for any job.
If you are talking about having multiple Dropbox accounts on Linux here it goes. You may not see two systray icons but Dropbox daemons works in background.

[Dropbox Wiki]: http://www.dropboxwiki.com/tips-and-tricks/run-multiple-inst...

[Arch Wiki]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/dropbox#Multiple_Dropbo...
Hi! I did something similar a few years ago,instead I used python and machine learning algorithms + custom ELO implementations for tennis matches. Unfortunately it worked too well and I was banned from all the bookmakers.
Wouldn't a 2GB window only consume that much memory if the stream is at least 2GB in size?
It doesn't take much to find a common root among cultures, once willing to look 'across centuries'.
The great boondoggle continues
Cloudera and Hortonworks agree to merge
I'm not saying that they are. I'm saying that food that is donated and eaten is not "wasted" just because no one has paid money for it.
That's a good thing, but it means I might use Nim in 3-5 years, not right now. As a single dude without a team I need to spend time on getting things done, not building custom clients to databases etc.
A process I like to use and that might be helpful to you is what I call "Technical Initiatives".

The idea is to allow everyone to suggest and implement technical improvement by providing a process to do so. For each idea, the owner fills a spec to describe it. The main ideas are:
- Be transparent on what we want to do and our issues, the doc should be public and comments-friendly
- Follow an advice process by proactively asking people to improve or challenge the idea
- Always have by a trial with time boundaries and goal

A template could look like this:

- Owner: Name

- Title: to easily speak about it

- Reviewers: people who should definitely have a look

- Summary

- Why: Describe what are the issues with the current process, the bugs or similar.

- What is the change

- How to implement the change

- Duration of the trial

- What should we've achieved at the end of the trial

In your situation, it might be something like:

- WAthrowaway

- Staging env

- Reviewers: Founder, Senior Eng #1...

- Setup a staging environment

- We encountered critical issue #1 on October 1st, issue #2 on October 2nd

- A staging environment would allow to catch this bugs before it is on production

- 1. Create a staging env 2. Create a staging branch 3. block push on master 4. PR staging / master

- 1 month

- Critical issues happen on staging and not on master

PS: It's inspired by http://www.reinventingorganizationswiki.com/Decision_Making
It wasn't a hoax. It's a confounding detail that a meta-commentary article is employing.
"Worked" does not mean freely accessible. It means you received DNS responses when you sent DNS requests there, but there's a high chance the responses weren't coming from Google, and that encrypted connections would fail.

However, it seems that Google hosts the encrypted endpoint separately anyways, not on 8.8.8.8.
That kind of stuff permanently damaged my ability to enjoy using C++.
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> people who use postgres understand query performance more than people who use mysql

This statement strikes me as likely to be true, at least for database non-experts.

It was certainly true for me. I didn't have anything approaching a decent understanding of query performance until I discovered posgresql's EXPLAIN and, perhaps more importantly, EXPLAIN ANALYZE.
Masayoshi Son strikes again.
Nukes?
There are such a thing as nationwide emergencies.
We need to talk more about the energy consumption of these farms. They are marketing themselves with "green" branding but.. they are indoors and use artificial light. One study found hydroponics use 7X more energy:

"At this point in time, hydroponic farming of lettuce cannot be deemed a more sustainable alternative to conventional lettuce farming techniques, but it provides promising concepts that could lead to more sustainable food production."[1]

And yes conventional agriculture has other negative impacts (water, transport, land), but I'm not hearing much about energy use from these startups.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4483736/
Same. I guess the dev added a check just for hnfull.com just in case it got to FP.
>When isn't it?

When it's time. Or skilled people. At some point there are not enough LeBron James' at any price to fill out the size roster one wants. At some point there is no physical way to spend X hours on a thing for X large enough and enough things.

So showing that money is putting a definite upper limit on a thing shows one constraint is money. It's entirely possible there are not enough people on the planet to both invent novel things and validate those inventions as novel, for certain classes of things. So I suspect in patenting, there is also a shortage of experts capable of validating a thing. I know for some patents I've been involved with, at some point in the process there was likely not another person on the planet that would understand what we/I did because sometimes the edge of knowledge is completely esoteric and the domain of one person.

Heck, there's very important math proofs right now that have gone unvetted for a decade despite all the world's experts working on it, having entire conferences and workshops dedicated to it, and they still cannot come to a conclusion about the work. I suspect such things happen in other fields as well, including patented things.

So, in a situation like that, time and/or people is the limiting factor.

>If they need more money, then they should request more.

What they view as their need to accomplish what they want to do need not be what others want them to do. They also might make the request knowing more about how their budgetary process works than outsiders.

Overall I'm fine with the system as it is, taking into account the difficulty and increased costs it would entail to make it significantly "better."
That's what stuck out to me as well. This quote:
"I am so utterly unimpressed," wrote Jacob T. Levy, a political theorist at McGill University, "by the fact that an enterprise that relies on a widespread presumption of not-fraud can be fooled some of the time by three people with Ph.D.s who spend 10 months deliberately trying to defraud it."

Isn't the ability to separate out the quality work from the garbage the point of the peer review system? If the system was working as intended, the reviewers even with the assumption that they aren't being defrauded should have been able to sort the papers into the garbage pile.
Can someone comment on whether these are respectable journals or not, within their fields?

Every few years someone will do a Sokal-hoax-esque thing in scientific fields, but usually they're just getting a paper into very-low-quality predatory journals that have only a nominal peer review process.

I'm wondering if that's what happened here. Do humanities fields even have the same set of incentives leading to a proliferation of those sorts of journals?
Anecdata: I can trace my maternal family tree back approximately 600 years, with records also available for a number of siblings, cousins, etc - so pretty robust data. It's obvious when a flu or similar came through, because you'll notice a number of clustered, young deaths. Meanwhile, those that survive into adulthood were living 70-90 years, and in my direct line generally on the long end of that. This would appear to line up with our genetic markers as well (thanks 23andMe). In my ex's family, genetically there is a clear propensity for cancer, so many deaths in the 50-60 range.

So, what's my point on all this? My own anecdata tells me:

1) Eat real food, like those long-lived ancestors.
2) Move / exercise. Most of them were physically active farmers, while I sit here coding away at a desk.
3) Hope you don't have any obvious genetic markers for cancer, heart disease, etc.
4) Be thankful for modern sanitation and immunization! Get your shots, including flu shots!
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If you need relatively high performance but can tolerate it not being 100% in exchange for nice things like GC, use Go. Where does Java fit in?
I think that for this layout to be truly useful the underlying tree has to have particular structure (not too deep an very wide), things like music library or Smalltalk Browser matches this well (mostly because the depth is inherently fixed), while arbitrary tree structures (think Unix filesystem) does not. Another case where this kind of view is very useful is when the user only has vague idea where in the immense hiarachy the thing that she searches for actually is (think online component catalog, with Farnell's eshop having quite similar but by default hidden navigation tool)
Over half the pay rise for Amazon workers in the UK.

They gained a pay rise, but lose a yearly share (£1,500 or $1,950), and another share every five years.
Companies change. Mr Honda died a quarter century ago. Is that still the company philosophy?

I asked my friend last week if his new generator was a Honda, and he told me it was a Subaru -- which was basically just as good since Honda just contracts out to Subaru for building all their small engines, anyway.
No, it detected activity in the motor cortex for surgions performing fine motor skills tasks