skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The metrics are bad. And since the metrics are believed to be good, they further entrench winners.

It's like a ML algo. You take all people who have been put in prison, how long, and their faces. You also take a big subset of non-prison people - same thing. (You know where this is going). You build a classifier that, for a given face, estimates yes/no for prison and how long if yes.

Lo and behold, you show it darker face images, and prison estimation ratchets up and the estimated time served up up up.

Is the ML racist? Technically, yes. But it's observing racist underlying societal things.

Yeah, it's ugly. No, I don't have good answers, other than directly addressing when we catch stuff. But We (royal) don't see it as a problem. The status quo changes slowly.
The availability of synchronous 1Gbps fiber internet for about $70/mo in the Triangle area from both Google Fiber and AT&T Fiber doesn't hurt either.
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Desktop is shrinking because less computers are being bought as a 10 year old computer is still quite usable.

However laptops and 2-1 convertibles are also desktops.

Windows 10 is still less evasive than those Android devices on our pockets.
Nope, different Alan ;) You'll figure it out.
Agreed! I live here now and there are tons of high tech jobs, lots of great restaurants and bars, fun festivals, and it is moderately affordable, though I do have several roommates which seems to be the favor that offsets the cost.
The US is beautiful and the people are very friendly, I loved the place. There was a lot of inequality: I've never seen so much homeless people and such nice neighbourhoods together (I visited SF and LA). Shooting happen but the US is so large, at lot of stuff is bound to happen. I do think it's sad that gun violence and police violence are so prevalent but what if this is a symptom and not the root cause?
It really does not look like a collared shirt. Perhaps if the collar was filled in with white...
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Had several as well. Ended up going back to DDWRT routers with Ubiquiti APs. The interface is much more intuitive and the routers seemed faster. Don't really miss winbox. It took a lot more work with MicroTik/Winbox to do the same with DDWRT. 'The Dude' interface was cool, but just didn't really have time to manage or explore more. DDWRT was so much easier :/
"Temporarily incapacitating" someone in a wet, slippery area with very hard surfaces seems like it might have a high risk of going wrong. Article even says he had broken ribs.
Maybe not so impossible? https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111466
I don’t think it’s possible and they’ll have to leave. I think the city or NGOs are going to have to invest in low value housing since they don’t have the profit margin requirement.

But I think this will help with the pre-homeless. But I think the feces/drug problems are caused by individuals for
whom $2500 and $1000/month rent/mortgage are equally impossible.
Many military, police and service jobs in the US ban facial hair for men, which has a discriminatory effect: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/9/28/17916056/workplace-b...
Well, I was considering becoming a capitalist to potentially leverage some of my advances, probably related to computer work or some other form of science, like experimentation & discovery.

Somehow ran across a blog post from Sam Altman who seemed like a pretty smart fellow, and soon found he was assocated with YCombinator, both of whom I had never heard of.

HN turned out to be a good compliment to my other efforts at keeping more up-to-date with things outside my area of leadership.

Next thing you know, Sam became President and it looks like YCombinator has indulged in a little experimentation itself.
Like Android's Duo one benefit would be that you can use this on any hardware, and talk to someone without an iPhone, unlike FaceTime.
Unfortunately Australia isn't in that list. :(

Our politics don't represent us as a nation, if you are from somewhere else come spend some time in our coastal cities and you will be accepted as one of us.

Only the indigenous are Australian by heritage, the rest of us are immigrants too even if some people would object to that classification through their ignorance.

Being an immigrant doesn't make you less of an Australian, we are a country of immigrants and I hope one day our politics reflect that.
Automated Generation of Event-Oriented Exploits in Android Hybrid Apps [pdf]
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> Are you saying that women should not be in positions of power?

Nah he just cares about ethics in open source software ;)

(In case you’re unaware, there are alt-right/whatever they call themselves nowadays websites that have an “open source software culture” section where they fume over stuff like this and rush comment sections together. This person isn’t arguing in good faith and if you want to get to the bottom of anything, ask him instead what ethnicities should be in charge of software orgs. He probably has a paragraph to copy paste you)
i wonder the same....
> If nothing requires my attention, then why make a screen in the first place ?

Of course something requires your attention, the content of the screen. But if you highlight everything, you highlight nothing.

> A step has title, a domain, which probably would be nice to write somewhere.

It is.

> Then there probably are other steps i’ve performed, and other steps to come. Visual queues showing where i am in the navigation would be welcome.

They're on the left. I'm seriously wondering whether you even looked at the screenshots.

> If the background is the thing taking up the most space, then it means the screen either has no reason to be fullscreen, or that the input doesn’t justify taking a whole step, ... etc

If the background is the thing taking up the most space, it means that your screen is unnecessarily large for the task. That's unavoidable and not a problem to begin with. You can't just put multiple inputs in one "step", else you'd have a step with no coherent topic like Installation type+timezone.
I don't find Trump harmless. I'm just saying that the constitution and the institutions matter a great deal when it comes to limiting the damage a single powerful individual can do.

That's exactly why so many autocrats and parties with an authoritarian bent try to change the constitutions of their countries in order to give themselves greater powers.

Trump hasn't done that because he can't. And I think this deserves far more attention than it is getting. It is something other countries can learn from.
Still with all those issues that you point out, we have more luck targeting Apple, Google and Microsoft platforms than the plethora of GNU/Linux desktops.

Specially if we expect the users to pay for desktop software.
I at least know of one example (because the economists is so famose) of one recent (relatively) laureate that is definitely not a neo-liberal: Paul Keugman.
UPMC is a massive ($19B) primary healthcare provider and insurer with 40 hospitals and 600 doctors' offices. According to their own stats, 41% market share for western Pennsylvania. It's hard to argue that you can't find a world class physician in Pittsburgh, let alone just a "good" one.

Red chiles are pretty ubiquitous across the US, especially in urban areas; are you referring to something specific?
Android security is top notch /s
I am currently in Cuenca Ecuador. It's certainly not true that everyone speaks english, but there is a strong ex-pat community.

It's a beautiful, very cheap city. There is fiber internet and there are universities here. A good intellectual atomosphere? Hard to say; there are intelligent people around and you can become friends.

I am here specifically to focus on intellectual pursuits while living cheaply. Latin America in general is wonderful for that.
Consider what programming is, then consider the implications of the suggestion that few developers manage to organize their thoughts well enough to write them down.
I can't speak for consumer demand, but I've worked at a place that spent a fortune on Cisco VTC devices, which are basically larger, less user-friendly versions of this.
It's no conspiracy, it's a racket called "gentrification". The hoods get cleaned up, some naive, young professionals buy in @ inflated prices & then the sun goes down & everything not bolted down is stolen/destroyed. Then there's the break-ins, muggings & murders, but we don't like to talk too much about those aspects.
Does that ever happen? As a casual observer, I don't think I've ever seen it. When would a seller raise the asking price of a house already on the market?
No, I shouldn't have to share more information to be treated like a human, the cops should be better trained.
Ben Evans is good on the issues of "Does tesla have a real moat, or are they just first, and so will get steamrollered by incumbents when they catch up."

He posits the question that what is it Tesla does differently that might be a moat - and your answer to the question indicates they might just have something

So Evan's main argument seems to be, Tesla is a bit like Apple in that they make a highly restricted set of products, but all their component parts are hyper-specific to the product, meaning they go to town on integration - there are no factory line compromises to be made between product X and a batch of a thousand product Y tomorrow.

Your answer suggests that using an existing factory line to build your electric cars seems a good idea, but then all you can do is replace the space where the fuel tank goes with the space where the battery goes. That means they lose out on a "free" safety upgrade of putting the battery in the middle of the car.

So Tesla's approach - can it be mimicked by incumbents - sure - by those willing to throw away their existing factory capital and reinvest.

And it does make the idea of "the org chart of the car company is seen in its dashboard" as even more important - if the ideal position of the battery is compromised by the current factory investment, what else in the way car companies are organised is sub-optimal in a new world?
This project will likely be of interest to you - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_(web_decentralization_pr...
The summary doesn't seem to mention the idea that there may have been one or more population bottlenecks between the emergence of H. sapiens and now.
Taking notes with Laverna, a web-based information organizer
The mandatory grandma watching their grand children from her retirement home is there too. Pathetic.
“0th experts” on-demand will get your page to 0th position in Google in 24 hours
While that's true, there's a long tail of older people still trusting the Church a lot and there's a knock on effect where children are still sent to learn 'religion' at school. I think it will be some decades before the society becomes truly secular and not sure if that's better, the only thing that's replacing religion right now is consumerism, which IMO is even worse for keeping the society as a whole...
If you did that the later boids in the list wouldn't know about any of their own neighbors.
Obligatory NSFW Demolition Man wrong number clip: https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/500b40f9-4960-455d-afa6-71d9666...

The things that can go wrong, apart from the regular expected FB BS.
Turns out women don't get 'merit'.

Please provide citations.
I use a ThinkPad T470s for my work, with Windows 10 Pro. Used to have a MacBook Pro 2015 but didn't like the design of the 2016+ models. I wouldn't turn back.
Technically there are no intrinsic human rights and it's up to us as a society to define them.
It depends on your definition of liveability. If you require the ability to get an apartment downtown, do all your shopping downtown, and commute downtown without buying a vehicle, Pittsburgh is not liveable. But I would argue that outside of NYC and maybe {San Francisco,Chicago,DC}, no US city is liveable by that definition.

I think it's very liveable if you're realistic about what liveable means in a mostly suburban part of the US - driving into downtown for work and pleasure, and leaving for everything else.
Video of the incident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWdgAMYjYSs
Ask me via email :-) It’s on my site.
Not necessarily true in big companies. A devops middle manager doesn't need to know whether the company is building widgets or dohickies; their job is to keep the software running securely. CTO/VP Eng should certainly know more about business priorities.

At smaller companies it is more important. Also can improve morale.
Deorbiting is the reasonable way of keeping the orbit clean until there is actually anyone up there that can recycle in situ.
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Yes, like with many disciplines of engineering, starting with the right approach is a large part of designing a good product. Here it is with starting as an electric car with a battery skateboard. The rest then is competent engineering the structural parts around the battery and the crumple zones.

And it is no surprise that the engineering at Tesla is competent. After all, Tesla does have a good contact to SpaceX, where actual rocket scientists work :). In any case, SpaceX is a great source of expert knowledge on material science and structural strength.
going back to the car analogy, ghz is more like engine displacement or cylinders. they measure an implementation detail of an engine, not the output such as power (HP) or torque. I'd imagine that cpus will be compared on benchmark scores, which is already being done now.
She seems very smart. Not talking into every mic, not answering questions that veer away from what she wanted the press conference to be about, letting the lawyers talk about the legal case. That's discipline.
All states should be defined? Then how to write an app takes two numbers and returns the sum?
We anticipated that HN wouldn't be a perfect fit, but it's a critical audience and usually open to something new. It needs to become more mature before mass adoption amongst citizen developers and exposure to the developer community is one way to make some steps in that direction.
Totally agree about the triangle. We lived in NYC, SF, and Boston for a cumulative 15 years before choosing the triangle for exactly the reasons you mentioned. I work in tech and wanted greater intellectual and economic diversity. Durham-area coffee-shop chatter is great - in a single sitting recently I heard folks cover ground including christian theology and practice, the upcoming pride parade, backyard chickens getting over the fence, student study group plans, and tech startup challenges.
I wonder the same thing. I mean, Kinect did a great job of providing video calling via Skype, but it never gained market acceptance. Why would this be any different?

I'm not sure what you mean about the fad of techno gadgets, though. It seems to be that we've had a lot of new gadgets for the past 40 years. Some have been phenomenally successful and stayed around and others haven't (or have come back years later in different forms). I don't expect this to end.
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They also join because of solid signing bonuses, good training, GI Bill, and a good resume item. Let’s not kid ourselves about the economic make-up of our enlisted military.

I am not saying that they did not sign up for the other reasons as well, and by saying this I don’t think I am undermining their commitment to serve or their intent, but in a volunteer force it is also about money, and we’re going to have to pay a lot more to meet recruitment targets.
healthcare + mandatory pension contributions are $130 for the first two years of running the business here.
After two years you should get a good feeling of whether you can make the larger $350 payments.
IMO with any decent income, the relatively low tax rate 19% makes up for the fixed costs of healthcare.
$130 is still peanuts compared to a medical insurance in the USA
More public bathrooms are sorely needed. The trouble is that in those areas public bathrooms tend to get vandalized and criminals use them as semi-private spaces for drug dealing, prostitution, mugging, etc. So to keep public bathrooms working and safe the city has to provide frequent maintenance and security patrols. That's expensive.
Dockerizing a Spring Boot Application
That's what I do as well. Also, in OO languages like Java or C#, you can throw "NotImplemented" style exceptions. So that if you mistakenly wrote "TO DO" instead of "TODO" and can't find it statically, the runtime will let you know.
All of these HN articles about Estonia in the past, and not one mention here. I'm interested because of how tech thinking the government seems to be

Maybe the people who are there don't want to tell others so no one else moves there because it's so great
Vehicle crashes by themselves are nowhere near the upper limits of the amount of force the human body can survive. With proper harnesses we could survive speeds well in excess of 100mph straight into a wall. The problem is passenger cabins can't survive that.

http://www.ejectionsite.com/stapp.htm

The problem is that passenger vehicle restraints suck because they have to fit anybody and everybody and simple enough that you actually use them. In the upper classes of racing it's not uncommon for someone to walk away with only a concussion after a barrel roll down the infield but they have better seats and harnesses. Even a 4pt harness like found in a go-cart or small aircraft would be a massive step up.
Every car was getting the top score until nhsta realized they were all "cheating". by cheating I mean going for the low hanging fruit: they all saw crash tests only doing frontal crashes and sideways, so they beefed up against those type of collisions.

When NHTSA checked that the most fatal (but less common) crashes where off center, they started testing that way and all grades crashed (pun intended). and all makers had a hard time to improve because engine and engine bay designs made it very difficult, but that was the goal of the new test: go for the high hanging fruit for those car designs.

the tesla battery chassis doesn't have the engine, so it is easier to make changes that will beef up their car in the very same way other makers did for full fontral collision before. basically they are " cheating" the same way makers "cheated" on the full fontral collision test before.

it is very likely that other kind of crash tests, that are not even tested by anybody because internal combustion engine cars always did so well on those, are extremely fatal on teslas. but we will never know because nhsta just put teslas in the same test battery as any other car. we lack the 50+ year of continuous self improvement cycle the crash tests had with other designs so far.
I find it surprising that educated people are "just now" doing this. What did people think corporations were doing to the world? Open up your eyes and look around and get your head out of the code and the bullshit slogans your companies have sold you. It's obvious something has gone wrong and is going on.
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I prefer a third possibility -- that time machines are possible, but can only travel back in a non-recursive manner for a limited sliding window. And we haven't arrived at the boundary of that window yet.
Attorney John Chisholm went so far as to rule that "there was no basis to conclusively link Mr Trammell's death to the actions taken by the police officers".

Perhaps he didn't watch the same footage I did.
Like Red-Hat before it, Canonical has given up the idea that GNU/Linux desktops would ever be profitable and like everyone else turned into the server and IoT space.
This might be of interest to HN community: we didn’t use React, Angular or Vue. We used https://github.com/wisercoder/uibuilder and an MVC library. Both are simple, tiny libs each no more than 500 lines of code. We don’t get the point of large js frameworks. React is overrated.
That's helpful...thanks. I had been very interested in Google's Appmaker (https://developers.google.com/appmaker/), but their model where only paid Gsuite users can access applications was a showstopper, as it made access to the general public impossible.
Doesn't have to wrap it in UDP. Seems to be just an expectation that firewalls can't handle SCTP directly so you will need to wrap it in something else. Extending a firewall to understand SCTP isn't particularly difficult.

In any case, the SCTP reference implementation in FreeBSD can do RFC 6951 encapsulation, someone could add it to Linux too.
While I do agree, I’m curious how you think that might alleviate some of these issues (specifically)? Wouldn’t a mentally unstable person with a weapon still be considered a high risk threat? Potentially even more so than a combatant, as police aren’t necessarily equipped to understand mental conditions.
On reflection, the 'fractal' bit isn't relevant here.

The fractal nature of software is the way that the abstract specification - concrete implementation dialog appears at all levels of detail.
Actually that would be SCTP over DTLS over UDP (see RTCDtlsTransport class), and a QUIC transport might be an option in the future:

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink...
My real question is who need that? We all have smartphone or computers or tablets with video calling apps built in. What is market who need a device for video call only?
That's not exclusive to Spain. At least Czechia, Slovakia and (I think) Germany have similar gross not-really-gross salaries.
It sounds like the server has to keep track of all active live-queries. Does it need to re-fetch all of them on every update?
Crime rates doent mean anything. Kerala has the highest crime rate in India. It just means people are not afraid to go to police and report the crime. On the other hand Kerala must be one of the safest states to live in India. Delhi is a really dangerous city. Especially for a foreigner. Crime is extremely common in Delhi.

> Well OP was looking for something out of SFO, salaries in europe are pretty much comparable to what you'd get in top tier companies in India.

Its defintely not comparable. Almost every beginner software engineers in Europe makes $60K easily. How many beginner Software Engineers in India make that? Lol. AFter working for some time in India and moving back in USA he would have peanuts as savings.

> But the high cost of living in SFO means that you can easily save more while working in India while leading a comparable(if not better) life.

I dont think Software Engineers in Delhi have a better quality of life than Engineers in SFO. Thats the reason why people from India do masters in USA and not the opposite. India is nowhere top in quality of life and happiness index.
Unfortunately, deleting facebook means losing captions on your photos. Most of my college memories are captioned, so I can't just delete my account :(
Or the FB's own thing is not ready yet. You might get software update to add FB's assistant if/when they do it.

Or, voice assistant is not the market FB want to compete on.
Totally agree. Docker Compose is excellent for local development, and Docker Swarm mode uses the same file and is almost the same thing. Some minor additions in extra docker-compose files and it's ready for production in a cluster. I don't get why Swarm is so underrated. For the same $5 bucks in a full Linux VPS with Linode or DigitalOcean (or even the free tier in Google Cloud) you can get a full cluster, starting with a single node, including automatic HTTPS certificates, etc. Here's my quick guide, with a Linux from scratch to a prod server in about 20 min. Including full-stack app: https://github.com/tiangolo/full-stack/blob/master/docker-sw...