skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's disappointing to see people defending Google on this.

Whether the vulnerability was discovered internally or not, they were leaking people's data, and the responsible thing to do is tell them. Even if it's only a possibility, people have the right to know.
That beats me. If I have to guess, I'd venture to say dealing with ambiguity is truly hard. As a production manager, you need to have unique insights on the market you're interested; you need to capture future trend; you need to understand human psyche, you need to convince your company to take risks and invest into something that does not necessarily have a future, you need to build trust with both the engineering team and the management, and you should be analytical enough produce supporting numbers. Many of such activities are ambiguous in nature, and getting clarity and buy-in out of such ambiguity is in high demand in the current market.

On a side node, engineers do sometimes need to function as PMs to build great product.
I'm concerned about democracy issues as well (tyranny of the majority, tragedy of the commons, etc) but can't endorse targeting an ever-present Evil Corp, whoever that might be in these times.

Plus I don't think it would work in the long run. I've been having a hard time lately coming to terms with the fact that there is no quick fix. There's probably not much that even Mark Zuckerberg could do at this point to take Facebook in a more equitable direction. It might require a leap of insight even greater than starting it in the first place.

All of the important positive changes in history happened through organizing. It's really up to the employees of Facebook to do their part every day to make things better. If the system doesn't allow that, then they need to work to change the system.

On a personal level, I'm going to vote and donate to positive causes. But I'm concerned that won't be enough to counter the decline in education and civics that I've witnessed over my lifetime. There are fundamentals that we could work on though. For example, the US was founded on public education. I'd ask anyone reading this to ask themselves why they might favor private education over public, and how that basic idea might lead to college that is more expensive, or dogma in our political discourse. Some ideals are timeless and needed now more than ever.
Even if "only" 20% of 32% of 384 people were assaulted, 18 people in this group assualted by educated, wealthy, powerful professionals, that's still horrifically high.
Yes, and the bar has been raised[1] in recent years. When high net worth individuals start to leave, it's good to question the reason since they typically have more flexibility than lower-income earners who might do the same if they had greater financial means. The high bar acts to prevent foolish decisions at best, and at worst serves to forcibly imprison the most vulnerable of the populace - it is akin to vendor lock-in of the worst kind.

As for my own opinion, Trump's actions have improved the situation somewhat but perhaps only temporarily. The reporting requirements remain onerous, as the IRS effectively intrudes into every aspect of your life through financial inspection - it is an absolute violation of everyone's humanity and rights, regardless of income level.

The United States had no income tax or reporting requirements for over a third of its existence and experienced growth; now that the tide has shifted, the US tax requirements would be causing a much greater exodus if it weren't for the fact that there are not currently many places worldwide in a better position.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2015/10/23/u-s-has-w...
There's taxation without representation if you're a green card holder or many other visa types. That's not unconstitutional.
Word of caution: this site immediately created at least 10 ad pages, some bocking (on a mobile)
Exponential progress is not required to get to post-scarcity and AI overlords. Linear progress gets you there just as surely.
Design, documentation and exploration of REST APIs
In the same position, and the last time I checked Vanguard (and similar) requires that you are a US resident to open a US account.
Jeff Bezos defends spending his Amazon billions on space travel
Thanks for that. I really did want readers of my comment to look him up. There’s a reason Chomsky describes his work as being without value, but now we’ve just got two appeals to authority going. I’d rather people look up some Zizek on YouTube and judge for themselves.

In a way, Zizek and his forebears represent the problem with the modern left: they left reality behind in favour of nonsensical “theory” that intimidates most people because it sounds authoritative, despite being empty.

For balance, I’m entirely certain that you could make similar claims of being out of touch with reality of the right, but they do not, for example, try to couch their ideas in an impenetrable fog of deconstructivism and psychoanalysis.
You can disable Google Analytics' cookies, and enable IP anonymization. Not my favorite thing to do, but worth it until I'm making enough money to pay for something.
So you say. However, I've been at companies where PMs are running the daily sprint / scrum meetings.
United Airlines Threatens to Engage Collections for Passengers Who Skip Segments
I didn't know about this global locking but I'm assuming the row / table locking is taken into account in the testing. Presumably just inserting into a simple table with explicit unique ids each time should avoid issues with locking (I guess you'd want to avoid indexes and sequences).
See these links

1) https://www.forproductmanagers.com/5686683802533888/who-is-a...

2) https://www.forproductmanagers.com/5658962204557312/who-is-a...
Ahh, so that's what that is... I was wondering why I was getting so many 2fa alerts.
I think it's silly to think taking down Facebook or any other big player would do anything. This is a self-sustaining system, and people will resist change unless it comes strongly and abruptly. On the other hand, this is something we built ourselves so maybe we like it this way the most.
$1 billion is slightly less than a third of MIT's annual operating expenditures.

https://web.mit.edu/facts/financial.html

This boondoggle will have everyone from department heads and tenured professors to Boston building contractors climbing over each other to get to the feeding trough. In the end the billion will be soaked up like a sponge, everyone will be looking around saying "What happened?", and little will show as a result of the expenditure.

Better to have selectively (and quietly) researched and invested in more specific efforts. But yeah, it's hard to find an easy way to spend a billion dollars.
The Freedom to Be Free at Work
...or I could just use mpv, which does what I want better than VLC ever has.

Funny thing is, in the anime/tokusatsu fansubbing community, VLC has a really, really bad reputation because it does everything just a little bit wrong. Many of the more respectable fansubbing groups have big warnings in their FAQs saying "don't use VLC", typically in bold and all caps (the usual recommendation is to use CCCP on Windows and mpv on Linux and Mac). Their support for chapters in MKV containers has been hideously broken for a long time, and they have an NIH syndrome where they implement their own versions of things that are provided by open-source libraries that everyone else uses, which causes all kinds of slight incompatibilities.
The real issue with deprecating TLS 1.0 and CBC ciphers is that you need a minimum of Android 4.4 for TLS 1.2.

Might not be reflected in browsing stats, but according to this: https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/ it's 3.8% of Android users. And that number undercounts non-Google Play Services using Android devices.
> I’m convinced that farming actually set humans on the path towards this very suffering.

I would say this more often, but it doesn't generally play well w/ much of the bell (or tails) crowd.
But yes, most of our advancements (agricultural and "medical") actually exacerbate problems more than help them. Occasionally, a doctor will agree w/me.

Ah well... back to chasing "money."
This article is dated and didn't contain full-year numbers. The tax bill does in fact appear to have considerably changed the rate of Americans renouncing their citizenship: renunciations plunged by 71% in the fourth quarter of 2017 vs the fourth quarter of 2016, 16% in 1Q18 (vs 1Q17), and 38% in 2Q18 (vs 2Q17).

The tax bill became a near-certainty in the fourth quarter of 2017, and was formally passed at the end of the year.

Here's the rest of the story:

"For the first time in five years, the number of Americans renouncing their citizenship decreased in 2017, government records show. Renunciations for the year fell 5.1 percent, to 5,133 — after a four-year climb to a record 5,411 in 2016, according to the IRS."

"But the real story lies in the fourth quarter, when the number of renunciations tumbled 71 percent from the same period in 2016."

Further, for the first quarter of 2018, it fell considerably:

"The total for the first quarter of 2018 was 1,099."

That compares to the 2017 rate of 1,313. A decline of 16%.

In the second quarter of 2018, 1,090 persons renounced their citizenship, a huge drop from 1,759 in Q2 of 2017. A decline of 38%.

Full year 2018 expectations would be for roughly a 29% decline vs the record 2016 figures (around ~3,800 vs the 5,411 for 2016).

https://nypost.com/2018/02/09/fewer-americans-gave-up-their-...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2018/05/14/fewer-ame...
>A subway is a high latency, high bandwidth carrier.

Trains coming in each couple minutes - show me lower latency than that :)

>A lot more people can pass any point in a biketrack per hour than they can per subwaytrack

several hundreds (up to a thousand in rush hour packing) people per train each couple of minutes - beat that.

Anyway, the rest of what you're saying about biking is just a theory that doesn't come even close to the reality of any big dense city in Europe/Asia. This is why those cities has highly developed subway system - the low latency high bandwidth and high speed mode of transportation. You put all these people on bikes and they would choke the city.
The majority does not outlaw violence, in fact, the state claims its ability to exercise violence is based on the will of the majority. The majority support the state's use of violence to apprehend and imprison serial killers, don't they? Do you think that only a small minority of people (especially in Europe) would be in favor of the kind of qualitative change that won't come about through voting?

My intention isn't to defend those who use violence, it's to say that the state having a monopoly on violence does not make this monopoly just, and furthermore that the state's use of violence is in many instances unjust, and finally that revolutions happen with violence whether you or I like it or not, they occur when a population is so pushed to that extreme, as happened in the monarchy of France, the founding of the U.S. and imperial Russia.
Tesla deploys massive new Autopilot neural net in v9
Normal stock markets facilitate investment in real ventures that provide goods and services to customers with some gambling as a side effect. It remains to be seen if crypto provides much beyond the gambling.
> But it turns out NHTSA disputes even Tesla's more mild assertions:

I think it's worth noting that neither are contradicting each other, as they are saying different things. Tesla says NHTSA testing shows something, which may have nothing to do with specifically what the NHTSA says or how it rates. If they have access to the actual test data (or the tests are publicly available), they can make assertions off that data.

If that was the case, the NHTSA is clarifying its position, in that it is not making those claims so them saying "NHTSA does not distinguish safety performance beyond that rating, thus there is no 'safest' vehicle among those vehicles achieving five-star ratings." is a way of clarifying their position and staying neutral, since they haven't made that assertion for any other vehicles in the past.

In other words, it's possible for them both to be be correct and accurate, but talking about slightly different things. This doesn't even require intent to deceive from either party.

I, of course, have no idea if that's true and this is the case. It is one possible way to interpret the statements though, so a little additional investigation might be warranted before we determine that either statement is false or intentionally misleading.
I don't think it's unfair at all. As I read it, Zuckerberg's response is exactly what Carr is talking about: It's a problem now, but it's fine because we are going to make Facebook so much better; it will be awesome. It will even have a Supreme Court! Facebook as it exists now is just the beginning.
> My advice is be to be ludicrous.

For recruiters who contact me from companies that aren’t my usual area of career interest, I do this to see what the upper bound is. It once backfired on me. Shortly after finishing grad school, a recruiter contacted me about a quantitative finance position and asked what range I was looking for. I replied “about $350k”. He responded, “We can work with that.” I think I had to scrape my jaw off the floor. I didn’t go any further with the process because the job seemed to require extensive travel and 80+ hour work weeks (and who knows if I could have even passed their rigorous interview process), but his reply was quite the revelation for someone who had never been in the workforce.
...except for the volume control. That's inexcusable.
A very important milestone will be the numbers for Q3, which will be announced early November. If Tesla is, as expected, no longer loses significant amounts money or even is slightly profitable, the outlook should be very good. The Model 3 production volume is up, there should be some volume increase in Q4 and that means a lot of revenue. Based on that, renewing the credit shouldn't be too difficult in March. The credit due is about 900 million, while Tesla has a quarterly revenue of more than 5 billion.
> I don't think anyone is suggesting that 100% of instances of bad behavior were surfaced by this survey, so the actual number will be higher.

In absolute terms it is clear that it's a lower bound. In percentage we cannot say because as stated in the footnote:

> Callisto chose to send the survey to the 125 founders [of 384] who signed up for the YC female founder email list.

It can be argued that being harassed and subscribing to that list may be correlated. Hence, the percentage of harassed women on that list may be higher than in the general population of female founders.

Also, someone may argue that women who were actually harassed are probably more involved in these matters, and hence more likely to respond to such surveys. They got 88 responses out of 125 reach-outs (70%) so there's also the possibility most of that other 30% were not harassed.

Therefore, the true lower-bound in percentage terms would be 19 (that we know were harassed) of 384 (total population), around 5%. As the name implies, this is just a lower bound.

The equivalent upper bound would be 69 (that we know were not harassed) of 384 (total), setting it at 82%. The real number lies somewhere inbetween. Extrapolating "40% of respondents" to "40% of the population" is debatable, and claiming that is a lower bound would be just wrong.
Here's a potetntial attack that could happen in general (but perhaps unlikely among a pool of YC founders):

A perpeterator's accomplice files a report, triggering a process that leads to meeting an accuser. The accomplice then carefully unwinds and backs out the process, and leaks the accuser's identity to the perpetrator for use in other harassment or blackmail.
Of course the narrative has changed because Tesla's success has forced it to change but the underlying conclusion (i.e. "Tesla is doomed") has remained the same through out.

It would be ridiculous if they were still running articles about how Tesla will never build the Model S or the Model 3 or reach 5,000 cars a week or are always bursting into flames or whatever because reality has proved them wrong time and again.

Saying this new narrative is plausible unlike all those previous narratives ignores that all those previous narratives where plausible and wrong when they were pushed.
You're right in that racism and sexism also exist alongside classism, nepotism, cronyism, religious and cultural bigotry, "place-ism," favoritism toward people who attended certain schools, and so on.

They're all problems. Racism and sexism are bad but the others should get more scrutiny as well. I know that classism and "place-ism" (favoritism or discrimination based on region of origin) are fairly big things in the US.
Beer Makers’ Steps to Mitigate Climate Change Might Not Be Enough
Not very often at all. We know the difference. We know, or learn quite quickly, as do the vast majority of men, how to politely say no, to those who wish to be polite.

Stop assuming this is hysteria, it's not. It's a collective, we're just tired of this. And let me also offer some quick and dirty math to support that it's not a majority of men. Let's assume 1% of men don't know how to be polite and in fact enjoy being abusive. They do this on average 1/week to a randomly chosen woman. Within a relatively short time every woman will have had at least one unpleasant experience.

For the most part these individuals pick on people they presume to be easy targets, so some women get treated much worse than others, just as men who are perceived to be easy targets equally have problems - probably with the same guys. That's also why the power dynamics play into it, the definition of easy target depends on that. And at some point, everybody just gives up, deals with their situation as best they can, and tries to never go upstairs ever again in Yale frat houses.
So basically, according to The Newyorker, a Google self-driving car was at least partially at fault for a hit-and-run causing serious injury and property damage.

Everyone knew about it, everyone watched the video, but no one saw fit to report the incident or take responsibility.

So all the claims about 10 million miles without any serious incident are, effectively, false.

What else are they hiding? How safe these cars really are?
Historically, the opposite is actually more likely (i.e. that EDL and friends have infiltrated the police).
Redemption != Sell

Redemption implies a non-market transaction to turn in an asset for a guaranteed face value. For example, you redeem bonds (and bond coupons) for the face amount with the original issuer, once the bond or coupon has matured
The CNET article you linked says:

“Over email, a Tesla spokeswoman did offer more explanation on the probability-of-injury statistic. NHTSA compiles raw injury data in a load of spreadsheets every year, and it computes the overall probability of injury, listing it as a Vehicle Safety Score in its published results. That's where Tesla pulled the data from, and you can check this year's results for yourself on regulations.gov.”

It seems that NHTSA is only disputing that they hand out an official “safest vehicle” rating, not that Tesla did that well in their data. I would say that the claim is backed up if going by the actual results and not the capped, publicized rating. I’m curious what you thought when you came across that part of the article.
I applaud you for finding a way to manage your anxiety, which allows you to live a sustainable and full life. You only get so many years on this earth, so live it however you want!

Best of luck to you.
Literally the first three words of the quote: "Please tax me..."
"You didn't build that" - perhaps the intent of the law is that you can't become wealthy in America by utilizing its resources and public resources and then check out the moment you think you don't need America any more.
"you keep rambling", I do not keep rambling.

Essentially, Hacker News readers marked me as a spammer who trying to promote fraud even in case when I gave a link to blog.ycombinator.com which is not untrusted resource.

It's both very offensive and stupid. Or you have to agree that ycombinator.com promotes fraud which is ridiculous.

So it's not rambling, I think it's totally fair what I said.

You can reverse it back and remove flag, upvote my comment and then I take my words back.

Here is exact text of my flagged comment:

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As tensions with USDT rise, my prediction is that MakerDAO decentralized stablecoin will take over the market in 2019. You can see how issued DAI market cap pumping up steadily all year long almost with no break:

https://mkr.tools/

So I'm accumulating position in MKR.

Here is YC interview with backer of MakerDAO:

https://blog.ycombinator.com/blockchain-investing-with-olaf-....

Andressen Horrowitz also increasing their position in MKR:

https://medium.com/makerdao/a16z-crypto-purchases-6-of-mkr-b....

https://medium.com/makerdao/maker-sells-12m-of-mkr-to-partne....

Although there are some concerns that it's economically impossible to create fully decentralized stablecoin. Historical example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday

Failed stablecoin example:

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/nubits/

We will see as time goes on. Anyway, it's very interesting economic experiment.

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As you can see it was totally neutral comment.

For years, I highly respected HN. I also gave it as an example of awesome community. I deeply respect Paul Graham and big fan of his essays. But recently, I've noticed that HN community is far, far, far away from what I thought it to be (kinda old school hacker/enterpreneur/libertarian community of Paul Graham fans). I'm very sad, annoyed and frustrated.
Not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm,_Inc., maker of the Palm Pilot. :(
I somewhat agree with you.

MIT has done a lot to expand access to content in the form of OpenCourseWare (https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm) and edX (https://www.edx.org/).

The issue you have identified is finding scalable method of accreditation. Other schools have certainly tested online-only degree programs and produced many graduates. As an alum, I do struggle with the question of, "would an online-only graduate be 'real' alum"? That's my own personal bias. I imagine the institute does think about brand dilution to some extent.

That said, while colleges may be gatekeepers to degrees, it is employers that require the degrees to get jobs. Why bother with degrees in the first place if the candidate can prove they have the necessary skills for a job despite not holding a degree?

I realize I'm deflecting, but it's worth pointing out that there are multiple parties in play here, not just universities—MIT or otherwise.
At least the Amish use GMO crops, whereas many in the "global techno elite" are still afraid of modern plant breeding.
what you propose might work, or it might work against the core purpose of the social network.
As far as I know (no Instagram user), Instagram works (for a certain demographic) on the basis that its users are ok with random semi-anonymous strangers liking their photos and following and linking their profile.

If you take away or limit that, what are you left with? will your users be content?
and more importantly, will advertisers keep spending the same or more money on your platform?
I feel like The Stanley Parable falls into this category. The game's ability to account for seemingly every deviation a player may want to take from the as-narrated story means that any attempt on the player's part to exert free will won't actually succeed; at best, you'll end up at a stalemate between you and the narrator. And yeah, there are "happy" endings, but none that make you really feel like you've "won".