skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meanwhile, we're building tactical nukes again, and signaling that we're willing to use them (and that somehow we can avoid further escalation): https://www.defensenews.com/congress/2018/07/24/tactical-nuc...
Unless it is the most upvoted comment
This company has existed almost as long as YC, yet is just now getting their first product to market. I think I'd heard of them before I'd heard of YC.
Studies that examine differences between groups commonly held to be in a "oppressor/oppressed" dichotomy are frequently used as political cannon fodder.
Dell still supports the Latitude I bought for law school 12 years ago. HP still supports the laptop I bought right after law school, though I must now pay for shipping to a repair facility.

As for Android, there are a great many official repair locations. They simply aren't run by the phonemakers. As with cars, most repairs are done by licensed and trained repair shops (like UBreakIFix, for Samsungs).

Let's not give Apple false credit and distort the reality of how consumer electronics are repaired.
I didn't know the uncanny valley had anything to do with motion sickness. Interesting.
I feel that unless we make some major breakthroughs in atmospheric carbon capture in the next 30 years, we are going to be royally screwed.
Transition to a big tech company. Part 1 (Why)
Before China allegations, Bloomberg published these incorrect Apple stories
Crypto-native applications
Cron Program Scheduler Front End – Linux KDE
Second Law of Bullshit.
If you can pre-verify the need for your app by getting people to sign up for a mailing list or otherwise, then go for the app, otherwise get a job.
Chrome 69 breaks multi-sign in, Movement within accounts broken
Automation may take our jobs, but personal data will save our paychecks
Why? It's already well known that there are some big sensory difference between males and females. Both in the animal kingdom and for humans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_sensory_sys...
I don't actually agree with you, but let's assume you are correct. In my experience, if you don't have an effective solution, but you do know that doing X amounts to "putting out the fire with gasoline," then not doing X is vastly better than continuing to do X while claiming there's no point in trying since we don't have a real solution.

If nothing else, slowing things down and hurtling towards our doom less quickly buys us time to come up with Real Solutions (TM).
South Africa has some distinct geopolitical advantages not shared by Pakistan, North Korea, India, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Israel, etc.

They're not technically at war with a nuclear-armed power (North Korea). They're not faced with a neighbor with incalculable manpower advantages (India, Pakistan) or nuclear weapons (same).

Anyway, I would characterize South Africa as a unique situation vs a reason for optimism, but I'm also deeply pessimistic about nearly everything.
Bottom line, if MS is going to show you telemetry data that's been gathered, they've got to know its you that they've gathered it from, so authentication has to occur. Without going into details, it's hard enough to do this with an online account, and quite impossible for local logon scenarios, and getting it wrong opens up possibilities for malicious actors. So, that's why the privacy dashboard requires a Microsoft account.

Best information I can provide on limiting telemetry for the local logon scenario is here:

https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-10-feedback-diag...

I realize that setting it to 'basic' isn't going to satisfy the conspiratorial minded among us, but I will say that I, personally, have no qualms setting my machine to 'basic'.

More details, and instructions to disable via regedit following the instructions here:

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-opt-out-customer-experien...
Troll or retard?
Lesson #1 seems deliberate to me.

Post war, many urban centers in the US experienced white flight, it seems rational to assume that since these folks moved away from the cities to get away from minorities they would be against infrastructure that would allow minorities to "follow them" to the burbs. But these workers needed a way to get to the city for work, leisure, etc.

What better way to circle that square by building massive infrastructure which requires a middle class income (which allows you to buy a car) to use?

Even now we see lots of resistance by suburban communities to public transportation. In the Portland, OR metro area there is a upper middle class community called Lake Oswego, the residents have continuously lobbied against any form of public transportation in the town, lots of folks complaining about the "crime train".

The metro transit authority which designs new lines has succumbed to the pressure and the newly proposed line while in the vicinity of Lake Oswego avoids the town completely.
It does say a lot about their respect for their users.
I took bilbo0s comment to mean we do not have formal government policy and programs to imprison and execute a race of people.

We do have a few wackos here and there which is unavoidable.
How is it harmful? Sears was an empty shell long before the raiders showed up. They'd pissed away brand goodwill for years. 1993, they shut down their catalog operation. A year later, Amazon is founded. That long air-horn sound? Yeah, that's the boat you just missed, Sears. I could go on, but for all his faults Lampert is an unpleasant symptom of an untreated disease Sears has had for a while, not the disease itself.
Why all the wasteful discussion about gender politics? Read the last sentence of the abstract —

“Overall, these results show how sex differences can manifest unexpectedly, highlighting the importance of sex as a factor in the design and analysis of perceptual and cognitive studies.”

...which implies that some studies in the past may be in error because they didn’t take into account otherwise innocuous differences in behavior between the sexes.

This is cool and interesting, right? Good, then take the gender politics chat back to reddit where it belongs.
> But you would be a fool if you claimed it wasn't wasteful just because the product (light) is so valuable.

you're missing the fact that bitcoin difficulty adjusts. ultimately bitcoin mining is an activity that converts energy into blockchain security. market establishes the required level of security by assigning value to bitcoin. if you replace bitcoin algorithm to anything more "efficient" - it will simply mean that miners will churn through more iterations of hashing but amount of energy consumed will not change because it's dictated by the market.

> Bitcoin mining is wasteful, it literally produces waste

wrong. bitcoin mining produces blockchain security. waste (and more correctly - energy consumption) is just the mechanism.
> having less and less nuclear weapons

Disarmament didn't work out so well for Ukraine...
Like asking for political asylum with your family?
haha so we did.

did you visit too?
Here is my take:

Rich people in rich countries will pay what it takes to adapt to the changing climate.

Poor people in poor countries are basically screwed, just like always.

With some luck, the rich people in the rich countries will donate some of their excess wealth to help the poor people adapt too.
The important part is how well tuned.

In formal terms, how big is the overlap and effect size.

If overlap is big or effect size is small, the difference will be irrelevant for most tasks.

The question on thresholds for these values requires further major study. Such as devising a wide set of tasks and comparing performance in real tasks that putatively use it vs these measured motion detection differences.
I'd start with catching a thrown ball. Avoiding getting touched by a moving object. Matching speed by movement. Etc.

Additionally, it has to be seen if specific training can change those values and to what extent.
I'm downvoting because your reply didn't seem to contribute to the discussion constructively. I'm replying because I really don't see how any mainstream religion in any way would advocate thermonuclear war or MAD, and in fact think religions would generally abhor it. Israel being close to using nuclear weapons seems to be entirely a secular matter driven by the nature of nation states, game-theory, and self-preservation. Religion in this case is just a prop and could be seamlessly exchanged with appeals to history, culture, race, or patriotism.
I am not a brain scientist (I don't even know the correct name for a brain scientist). That being said isn't it true that there are chemical (e.g. hormonal) differences in male and female brains? So if the "hardware" (brain structure) is the same but the "software" (chemicals) is different doesn't that invalidate the argument that sex should be ignored when studying the brain?
Yeah. Found the article about it: https://qz.com/192874/is-the-oculus-rift-designed-to-be-sexi...
Since you are now dealing with observables are you bordering on the Quantum Bullshit Theory?

Maybe an S operator for scattering bullshit.

Time independent Hamiltonian for Steady-State bullshit.

etc.
You're thinking of a common misinterpretation of the GM streetcar conspiracy. Everyone's heard of it, and it did happen, but there are two big misconceptions most people have of it:

Misconception 1: GM and their cohorts bought out and shut down all the streetcar lines because they wanted to destroy public transit and promote personal vehicles. Reality: GM and their cohorts wanted to promote buses as a replacement for streetcars, because GM and their cohorts were the largest suppliers of buses and bus parts in the country. They stood to get filthy stinking rich off the replacement of streetcars with buses.

Misconception 2: Streetcar lines were doing just fine and dandy before GM came along. Reality: streetcar lines were failing, and GM was able to do what they did because the owners of streetcar lines were desperate to sell before the bottom falls out.

And keep in mind that GM was successfully prosecuted for this, too (and they absolutely deserved it).
It's remarkable how different people can read the same actions in very different ways.

"Rule of law" is not something I would ascribe as a high priority to the current U.S. administration.
Careful; people have been known to lose their jobs for voicing such opinions.
Yes.

"From the SEC’s perspective, there is no lack of clarity. The sniff tests are the same as they have been for decades. The SEC is applying the same securities laws to ICOs that it always applies."

“Everybody’s holding their breath for the SEC to create some kind of coin rule, and they’re not going to,” says a securities attorney at one high-profile Silicon Valley firm. “They’re applying the same laws, the same statutes, the same rules, to stocks and bonds and everything else.”

In other words, "what part of "no" did you not understand."

It's hard to find a successful ICO, in the sense that they did whatever they said they were going to do, and did it profitably. From Medium's list of "successful ICOs:"

ICONOMI is held up as a successful example, but they're a "digital asset management platform". They probably should have a broker/dealer license.

Solve.care claims "Solve.Care makes healthcare affordable and easy for everyone". All they have is some kind of "physician wallet".

Truegame is gambling.

Play2Live is like Twitch.tv, except that it costs to watch.

StopTheFakes.io: "Token sale is finished. Thank you for your participation". It's like Mechanical Turk looking for copyright infringement. On their actual site, "http://web.stopthefakes.co/", no new tasks since 2017.

This is pathetic.
Ironically, making the observation in question, rather than discussing the actual science in earnest, tends to fall under "Being part of the problem, not part of the solution."
Maybe that Microsoft was a patent aggressor prior to joining this agreement.
Did you predict downvotes and no response based on how vague and baiting your comment is?
Hey cool thanks. I think the tax bracket page may only work in Edge, which I don't have on my computer, but I found this image associated with it:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Historical_Marginal_...

I'm having trouble understanding what it's saying though. All I see is that the top bracket was highest during WWI and WWII, approaching 90% on the wealthy, but is effectively zero since Reagan. The low rate's pretty flat and the high rate has gone down. And there are fewer brackets today (that might be why I perceived them as not having been updated).

One takeaway though is that the last time tax brackets were similar to today was from 1925-1931...

Also if you try clicking MAX on the second link, it seems that we've hit a floor on the fed funds rate, so maybe if it rises then it could move our economy back towards production instead of consumption by making capital more expensive. I might be reading my own gut feelings into that though so take it with a grain of salt.
Freakonomics etc made us fall in love with that particular kind of story where the outcome is kinda counter-intuitive and surprising and clever all at the same time.

For example - the legalised abortion and crime effect. I'm sure you can think of plenty more.

I think these stories are like crack to "rational" people. They have all the thrill of a good conspiracy theory, feel rebellious and anti-establishment, yet they're backed up by "real science". And you get to sound clever when you tell your friends about them. I know I'm a sucker for them.
The special thing about Tokyo's rail system is not that it's private, but that the railroads are the primary landowners around the rail stations, which was never true in New York.

Rail infrastructure benefits both the passengers who ride it, and the businesses whose workers and customers ride to their premises on the infrastructure. Traditionally, rail systems can only recover from the passengers. That leaves a large positive externality accruing to the businesses, which the rail operator cannot recover.

The Japanese model solves that problem by allowing the rail operator to capture value from both ends of the transaction. It charges fees to passengers, but also charges rent to all the businesses built near rail lines.
Upvoted because you're making an actual argument.

I couldn't disagree with you more, though. The comparison is precisely between major world leaders who are either insane or evil -- it wasn't clear back then, and it isn't now.
One can pathologize almost any President and be right. Kennedy, Roosevelt, Clinton, Reagan... from drug addiction to senility something has afflicted all of these men. Its not led to nuclear war precisely because there exists a command authority and leadership depth in the US (and Russia) that has worked well enough. Try not to confuse political rhetoric with a lack of self-awareness when judging the current President. One who pays close attention to his extemporaneous comments and speeches will notice a familiar struggle between impulsivity and self-awareness driven self-control that is actually pretty reassuring.
Tesla outsold Mercedes last quarter in the US
I'll see if I can find a link to an article that made a pretty convincing case for it. I think it was either Bloomberg or Barry Ritholtz's blog.

I wonder if, as the last major tenant in a dying mall, maybe they get a cut of the sales when the mall itself gets sold by the developers? You've gotta be right, there's some sleight of hand that we're not privy to that acts as a license to print money.
I find seeing this post in every single MS related story to be quite boring.
Seems like it should be more of a process and personnel problem, and one that should account for the problem of social engineering.

> As a result, one particular email, sent June 27, didn’t set off any alarms. Sent by a James Ellis of Clark Builders, a construction company working on the project, the email opened with the affable “Hiya” before asking the school’s accounts receivable department to reroute payments to a new National Bank of Canada account.

The order to change bank accounts should not have been trusted without another factor of authorization, such as a phone call (from the CFO's office) or an in-person confirmation. Yes, a software solution could be implemented to enforce this process, but that doesn't seem worth the time or effort and provides yet another vector of attack. The university, being a public institution, likely already has a legacy system of paperwork and manual processes. It should be less work to enforce existing rules or add an old-fashioned verification step than to build a new software system. Especially for something as rare as changing bank account numbers.

edit: at the end of the article, it seems that the university's solution has indeed been to go for old-fashioned verification:

> Employees are now required to verify all changes to vendor files by phone and a followup email, and all financial changes must first be reviewed by a supervisor, manager or director. A supplied audit report system was also implemented, tracking every change made to vendor files. The university has made employee training in social engineering attacks, phishing and other online scams mandatory.

I think the social engineering training is key, though. An employee could still follow the above rules and still be fooled, based on the letter used in the phishing attack:

https://www.thestar.com/content/dam/thestar/edmonton/2018/10...

I'm assuming a supervisor or manager don't have a special ability to know the vendor's actual financial details, and thus a "review" may be little more than a rubber stamp. What's key is that the office person fielding the request not only use a second form of authentication -- such as a phone call -- but that they call the number as recorded on university file and not the phone number listed in the spoofed email.
The data science of partisanship
Ask HN: Does 1 really need to build security for application
Now that all the available data has already been leaked by many orgs!
We also have a strong first-adopter problem: our rail systems were among the first, so we're stuck with some inherent design limitations that weren't an issue in 1890 but sure are now.

For example, if you want high speed rail between major cites in new england, you're out of luck; the rails were laid out with curves and shapes that will not allow you to go fast. You can solve this, but the solution is to straighten out the rails -- and that means eminent domaining several billion dollars worth of Connecticut. I don't see that happening.
I've recently seen people on this site saying that if the results of your research are going to offend someone, you shouldn't perform the research, and that choosing to do such research means that you are sexist/racist/etc because you could have chosen to not do the research.
Also patents. People are all for patents because they believe that one day they'll have a brilliant idea and make money this way. Well, patents are[0] how you deprive society of being able to use that idea when the time is ripe for it to be used.

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[0] - with the possible exception of pharmaceuticals.
>> People treat piracy as a victimless crime because the marginal cost of each item is zero. Imagine extending similar logic to a handbag. If you steal an LV purse you can’t afford, how do you measure damages? The $1,000 marginal cost to physically replicate the purse, or the $10,000 retail price? That basic logic doesn’t change as the marginal cost goes to zero.

> It absolutely does...

I mostly agree with your comment, but you gave up to easily on this part. The basic logic is exactly the same—but the correct assessment of the damage in this scenario is the $1,000 marginal cost to replace the stolen purse, not the artificially inflated $10,000 retail price.

Of course, there is another, more important, difference in play besides marginal cost: the copyright holder is already "whole". Their ability to use their property has not been impacted in the slightest by the existence of additional copies. The concept of "damages" in such a scenario is completely artificial.
I'm not knowledgable about this, but does New York MTA own/commercialize the land above their stations or just the tracks/right of way? I always felt like in NYC it was really odd how the stations are usually really tiny and don't really have any stores or vendors except those tiny convenience stores on the platforms, and a few really crappy looking shops sprinkled in big stations like Times Square. Stands in stark contrast to the ones in Tokyo where I'm living now, where the station malls are amongst the nicest and the vendors within the fare gates are plentiful, name-brand businesses (think stuff like Muji and Kinokuniya) and quality restaurants.

Is the Port Authority owned Oculus at WTC an exception to the rule, or am I misinterpreting how the MTA works?

If my understanding is correct that MTA doesn't own that land, then imagine how fast and efficiently they would have built the 2nd Av subway if they also knew they could funnel millions of people to whatever revenue machines they built on every station along the way.
> you don't want to hear anything that would contradict your opinion

Yes, because they don't garner any trust as an organization. They are merely courting today's developers which have voted wholesale to adopt other platforms instead of MS.

If MS releases their operating system under the GPL, I'll change my tune. Until then, it's all marketing and PR hype.
Looks like TLS 1.3 adoption is growing across service providers...
What does this mean for their pension payouts? Too bad the retirees are too old for a revolution. Liquidate all their holdings and payout to the pensioners.
It's a shame to see people campaigning against new regional transit lines, but I have to be at least a little sympathetic. BNSF runs through my town, and it does bring transients, plenty of whom do bring drugs, needles, & crime. No matter how you feel about train hoppers, that is a matter of fact in our town.

To the downvotes I face, I'd be curious what you feel is incorrect in what I've said.
Failure Rates in Introductory Programming (2007) [pdf]
What is art and how can we enjoy it?
Bank account numbers weren't leaked - the scammers simply requested the payments be rerouted to a different account. The letterhead could likely be easily reverse engineered, and I doubt the University rep knew what to look for, and the CFO's signature also doesn't carry any weight - any decent signature font could duplicate that signature (especially a digital one).

I agree with the original comment - how did these scammers gain the knowledge that these transactions were ongoing, and know exactly who to target?
As a stockholders my incentive is to increase my net worth. I do this by investing in companies that produce profits and grow. Now if inflation was to be lowered to 1% or 0% why would I stop being interested in growing companies and getting richer?

And while increasing regulations on climate change would be costly, it's a drop in the bucket compared to the cost of stopping GDP growth and would harms tons of individuals who would find it harder to find a job and provide for their family.
It's not as though they're pronounced the same.
> its first product is a somewhat janky piece of magic

> Magic Leap is about as impressive a piece of augmented or virtual reality hardware as I’ve seen. Other companies may have better fields of view and a more compact device, but they lack the variety of content that makes Magic Leap’s offerings shine. The early partnerships the company has inked have, indeed, paid off.

the author nearly breaking their neck stretching to find some positive way to frame this train wreck of a company/product

saying the hardware is the most impressive they've seen, but because the software from partners is good?

HN needs a moratorium on TC paid advertising pieces / TC in general
The university in question in a public institution. All of that info -- including copies of signed paperwork, names of officials, and ongoing contracts -- is likely available as public records.