skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This whole keeping quiet thing is good for you personally—and I admit fault here too—but it's pretty bad if there is a real problem that's worth tackling.

In Bruce Schneier's book Click Here to Kill Everyone[0] he mentions how it took him two years to write the book because of a false start.

In the meantime, I was stressing over how I must have lost my fucking mind when thought about fleetwide exploits (via class-attack) and autonomous systems together and came to the conclusion that they're effectively WMDs / strategic threats.

I kept thinking: "If this true then why is nobody talking about it?"[1]

I found no regulations or military think tank pieces addressing it, so (after multiple precautionary measures, including warning the Canadian government about what I was going to do) I finally wrote about it. I would have written about it much sooner were that social pressure to blend in not been there. Now that other more respected people are talking about cyber-WMDs and strategic threats I can update my priors and partially relax.

But even so, my fundamental worry about tech is this:

Sometimes we see the downsides coming way before they actually materialize, but nobody wants to be the chicken little at the end of the bar before the tech even works reliably. Then when it finally does work we're all so used to it being around we're all convinced someone else surely has figured out how to mitigate the downsides.

(It's everywhere, so it must be safe, right guys? Right?!)

[0] An otherwise sober book and author with a maddeningly terrible title. My think tank / Nato friends in DC—the very people we need to read this—dismissed it out of hand not knowing who Bruce is until I convinced them to pick it up. I wish he would re-release it with a less crazy sounding title so I could buy a copy for every MP in Canada.

[1] From a bayesian perspective, I thought it was more likely that my mind was broken than it was for me to come to the conclusion that there was a new class / domain of WMD out there, and I was the only one that thought of it. The stress of doing the wrong thing (risking lives by publishing or risking a larger eventual hazard by failing to) pales in comparison to the stress of thinking you're going crazy. Tautologically, the crazy can't reason themselves out of it.
Palm Returns with a Teeny-Tiny Phone to Help You Disconnect
What if it's a 2,000% hike with 100% more stress?
Thanks. Your link is for MySQL, but I found a little related info for PostgreSQL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide...
well if it learns by remembering sets of features and matching new stimuli against this "database" than we can talk about distance functions in associative memory, and the problem of optimization reduces to a problem of matching (as well as generalizing, i.e constructing abstract representations from simpler ones, as in "chunking"). brain priors would be the distributed representations of stimulus-response pairs stored in memory
A 5-year-old article about program that's been abandoned for over a decade.

The only resource you need for compression comparison is http://mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html

The author of that website, incidentally, started the PAQ algorithm that KGB archiver uses.
Your brain is an existence proof that 20 W is sufficient for a full human-level general intelligence.

Even if all computer progress stops hard at a thousand times more power consumption, a simulated mind would only cost $3,500/y — and Einstein is no more energy intensive than a village idiot.

Heck, the main thing stopping us now is that we don’t know how our minds work, not the hardware to run it; the iPhones sold last year could collectively run simulations of approximately 177 full human brains simultaneously and in real time if we had a connectome mapped out, and the new models with the same sales would take that number to about 35,500. Given Apple’s margins, high paid individuals are already at the level where they should worry about being replaced with scans of their own brains as soon as that becomes possible.
"Humans are designed not to be happy, but to pursue happiness -- including wealth and status. Unfortunately, such a pursuit partly promotes unhappiness. Discomfort with our current lot gives us the drive for absolute & relative success -- an evolutionarily useful trait." from a footnote in Anti Ilmanen, _Expected Returns_
I got there early (big fan of freelancer), and played a bit. The game is just technically bad for now. Like not even a pleasant alpha to explore. I won't get my hopes up.
I guess people become lazy and do want to suffer...but,
who wants?
I think it’s pretty cool. I got the basic pack ($30) as a gift and I’ve had fun flying around in space. I’d probably be a lot more invested and defensive if I’d thrown $2,000+ into the project, though.
He had to resign because he believes that women are not equal to men in society.

For example: “Women must veil their form to obscure its contours out of charity towards men...To know that women in pants have this effect on men and to wear them is thus a sin against charity as well as modesty.”

He calls a woman’s leaving the home to work “another false promise of the devil come to pass.”

So no he did not resign because of a book he wrote on Catholicism, rather the beliefs he espoused in that book made his job untenable. How could any female student be judged fairly by an administrator who doesn't feel like they are meant to be in the workplace, or even wear pants?
Tesla still isn't doing all that great on production.[1] They've been unable to sustain the 5,000 units a week output for the Model 3 line. They're back down around 4,000. The week to week numbers are all over the place, from 2000 to 6000.

Auto plants are usually much more consistent. A Ford exec points out that their F-150 production line at the Rouge produces a truck every 55 seconds. You can take the plant tour in Detroit and see this.

Tesla's open-ended tent setup in Fremont isn't going to work once rainy season starts. Their production problems should have been fixed by now, but clearly they're still struggling. And, as Bob Lutz says, they have way too many people in the Fremont plant. Tesla has 10,000 workers in Fremont. Ford's entire Rouge complex has about 5000 workers.

Tesla has accomplished a lot, but the core business still isn't running smoothly.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-tracker/
Not to mention the District of Columbia (which quite literally has "taxation without representation" on their license plate).
> The most widely distributed embedded ARM system software in the world, Android

[citation needed]

Also, when talking about embedded systems, people aren't normally talking about full Linux distros.
Why doesn't the U.S. bury its power lines?
I am in the "Building MVP" stage of creating a platform for exactly this. Matching people of different disciplines to teams and projects they would be suited for, specifically in the gamedev space.

Do you have any thoughts or wants/needs out of a platform like this? I would be happy to hear any input you'd have :)
It’s almost like trolling.

“The average penis is 8 inch”
Do you publish any stats?
For those who believe in an unpleasant afterlife there is much to fear. (Not saying it's rational.)
And existing anti-troll measures will be more effective, able to focus on fewer trolls (presumably)
I'm curious why only survey female founders? It seems like an odd data damaging move which is based on an inherent assumption which is ironically now not backed by data. And it would have been easy to just send the same survey out to some of the male founders while you where at it.

Not even taking men into account seems to passively push the rather sexist mantra that men should just "suck it up" and not actually be taken serious in cases or sexual coercion and quid-pro-quo situations.

I'm not trying to argue that woman are not disproportional represented in these case, however why not just include everyone? You state Callisto is a "non-profit dedicated to building tech to combat sexual assault and harassment." if that is the case and it's not just for assault and harassment against woman, then why self-limit the scope of your survey?

And if the answer is "we would have just found no-one had any issues anyway" then I restate the question, why not just send it out to everyone and show this disproportion with data instead of just making it an assumption?
Thanks for the links. Sounds like the main reason it hasn't been addressed is DNS, if the client is just going to make a DNS request before their TLS session, the host is effectively leaked anyway. Sadly DNSSEC wouldn't address this as it only provides integrity and not confidentiality.
As someone who hasn't looked at it closely, does it still feel like a set of diverse tech demos or is it beginning to come together as a cohesive experience?
You’re joking, but I came here to ask “which breach is this one referring to”, and was going to suggest assigning them each a serial number. It’s just getting too hard to track, and FB sure isn’t going to go out of its way to make the numbers comprehensible.
In my local non-software community, a key figure in the local Renaissance Festival was brought down by rape charges, which led to a plethora of #metoo among female friends who dealt with him.

I brought this up to my daughter, who is 24. She said "Yeah, I was warned not to be alone with him when I was 10".

And I, as a devoted father who has a very close relationship with his daughter (she's one of my closest friends, honestly) had no idea about this. This should give all men pause. What else do you not know about, that happens to your spouses, your sisters, your daughters, your mothers, your friends?
I feel bad for the new generation of Twitch/Youtube people who are exposing themselves to the Internet

It starts even before they expose themselves in the form of parents who post everything about their kids on Facebook.
I think quants can get 350k - 700k, extremely high compensation is the main draw of finance and what the positions seem to lead with.
There's a lot of negativity aimed at Star Citizen, but from where I stand they are the closest to building the game that a whole lot of people want to play.

Note: Closest != close

The idea of getting a crew together to fly a large spaceship around is a foundational piece of the sci-fi narrative -- from Leviathon Wakes to Firefly, Star Wars to Star Trek. We want to play those kinds of stories, but that's a challenging game to build. Star Citizen seems to be the first game to seriously try and build it.

Do I think they'll succeed? I'm not sure. Am I really, really hoping they do? Hell yeah.
What happens if we condition on past startups?
> In his books Empire and Communication (1950) and The Bias of Communication (1951), the Canadian historian Harold Innis argued that all communication systems incorporate biases, which shape how people communicate and hence how they think

it seems that there were many thinkers which have been ignored at this time. I'm currently reading Jaques Ellul who made very similar conclusions in 1954 in his (IMHO) monumental: "The Technological Society".
> They have a team of lawyers and access to all the regulators by virtue of being such a huge exchange. Do you honestly believe they haven't consulted widely on this?

I'll get back to you in a few days when I finish laughing... MtGox was also a huge exchange, I think the only sane thing to do at this point with Cryptos are to assume all exchanges are stupid, aren't solvent, haven't consulted lawyers, and/or don't know the law until it is proven otherwise. Exchanges that don't fit the criteria are the exception not the rule.
Measuring innovation as a quantity seems virtually impossible. The form of the modern stove was more or less set in the early twentieth century. But I'm sure someone could find a way to show innovation has increased even here, in terms of numbers of transistors or something.

The form and function of planes and even automobiles has been more or less set for a while (self-driving cars would be a fundamental change on the other hand). The form and function of computers conceivably might wind-up being fairly fixed at some point in the future but I'm less certain here.
What actually would HN be like if it were perfect in your eyes? What would tech be like?
As someone who doesn't play but has watched it through its development, I feel like the developers have a fatal weakness for shiny objects (not that anyone needed me to tell them this). I'd be much more bullish on such an iteratively developed mega game if it started out focusing on an MVP and added stuff from there, instead of this discordant feature vomit. I don't think there's anything wrong with the iterative model for game development (even "boxed" games are doing it; see Overwatch, Diablo etc.) but it needs to be managed sanely and developers shouldn't be afraid to redo stuff when the standard changes or get too caught up in sunk costs.
That's the thing that's insane to me. When I think "hey, can I do this", and it's something the designers didn't expressly intend, but because everything is done to the fidelity that they've made possible... there's nothing mechanically preventing you from doing so.

It's missing a lot still, and the scope creep has been incredible. Who knows when or if they'll ever meet even the basics of their original promises.

But for example, I found a strategy to board (and steal) spaceships that were intended to be "locked", because I managed to get to an entrance that was not locked, once. I watched some entertaining videos, like where people boarded NPC fighters mid-flight, or parked spaceships inside other spaceships they weren't really intended to fit into.

A lot of AAA games "cheat", where the visuals and the actual game mechanics are pretty different. For instance, in Tomb Raider, a dramatic ledge sequence, underneath, is just a couple arrow keys you can use to balance a value and progress forward. All the wind, leaves, character movement, all of that means nothing, it's just the art layer. Meanwhile, Star Citizen has dealt with bugs like the flashlight coming unstuck from a pilot's suit midflight.

It's incredibly unique. And maybe it's an incredibly unique tech demo that will never go anywhere. Maybe Crytek will take RSI for everything they have. Maybe eventually someone else will take the reigns after they go bankrupt and finish it up somehow with more manageable expectations. Who knows?

But it's the most interesting thing anyone's done in the industry in a long time.
Saudis preparing to admit Jamal Khashoggi died during interrogation
I am off the grid (no social media, scrubbed basic internet mentions, etc) and with every breach there is more and more PII that I can find online about me which is insane...
The success of statistical machine learning is more limited than may be obvious. Try to think of problems these methods can't solve, then try to think of problems they can solve. Which stack is thicker? Then ask yourself, for the problems they can solve--can they really solve them as well as humans? Machine Translation, I'm looking at you, Image Recongition--I'm also looking at you. If they can solve them as well as humans, ask 'how much human intelligence is imprinted into this machine artifact?' Yes, AlphaGo, I'm looking right at you.
> The late 90s were so bright we had to wear shades - then the whole thing came crashing down and set progress back about a decade in the 2000s.

I don't think you'd have to look hard to find people who lived through the explosion of optimism about human progress in the late '60s who would have seen your '90s as a retreat. Or people who lived through the defeat of nationalism by internationalist, technological democracy in the '40s who saw their '60s just as dimly.
Do you have any details about this? My impression was that the Pakistani government felt that requiring US based people to report details of foreign accounts was a way to gather intelligence about other countries, and they didn't want to give them a way to do it. I did not think it was that Pakistani banks themselves had any reporting requirements to the US.
Modelhub: empowering AI researchers to share reproducible model implementations
I'm not sure what point you expect these examples to make. The second two are straightforward insults - which describing someone as "hot" is not - and the first one would be seen as completely harmless by many (perhaps most) people.
I don't care about the log retention period. My assumption is that Google does a better job of real-time log monitoring than most other tech firms, and that they are between a rock and a hard place with respect to retention owing to privacy concerns. Either way: it's simply not a real-world norm to conduct a forensics investigation after the internal discovery a vulnerability, so any work they did in that regard easily clears the industry bar.
Mammals Will Need Millions of Years to Recover from Us
Concurrent pascal didn't allow unsafe concurrent access to shared data structures. Go allows safe concurrent access but doesn't stop such access. Its authors encourage people to use channels but this sharing is intrinsic -- one can start a nested function as a concurrent goroutine & it has full concurrent access to its environment. Go tools can check for race conditions but ideally such support should be in the language itself. So in a sense Go is worse than Concurrent Pascal for the main feature it touts!
The article is specifically saying that people with "Borg Complex" say that engineers and technology will solve all our problems. Zuckerberg is proposing something much different than that- his Supreme Court doesn't include Facebook employees. He's admitting that tech has not and cannot solve these problems. I think Zuckerberg's answer is as far from "Borg Complex" as it could possibly be, within the constraint that he'll never propose blowing up Facebook.
(1) sounds like a good idea from an outside perspective, but it fails in practice. I can't speak for women, but I see a lot of LGBTQ+ spaces full of people I want nothing to do with. Just because people share marginalizations doesn't mean they're going to get along or want to go into business together.

It's important to make all spaces welcoming so people aren't boxed into spaces that subdue their potential by forcing them to work with people they don't mesh with just to be in an industry that suits their interests and talents.
> In many package managers you can have multiple versions of the same application without a big deal

In my experience, only if the distro has specifically set things up to allow that (Python2/3), or you find a PPA maintained by someone. Otherwise, time to compile from source I guess.
FUD, I‘m sorry. I have heard the same thing 15 years ago and worried about it. There is no technology to scan a brain. There won‘t be anytime soon. If there would be - which is not happening - it will affect everyone equally, so nobody should worry either.
How code is styled doesn't distract from the main purpose to communicate intent. Most often humans are the ones mindlessly layering on the meaningless formatting/style on top of syntax and its then becomes the pivotal point of code reviews, burying the essence of the code.

I applaud companies like Google and Hashicorp for forcing formatting as compilation errors. As it lets you get on with the real tasks ahead.
Napoleon’s “Englich” Lessons
In the above case "Escrow" decides who could be a person who looks at evidence like receipts.
Those numbers, which are horrible, are for relatively powerful women. Most women can't call Sam Altman and ask for help; they are not in-demand, people that powerful organizations feel a need to please. Just imagine what the numbers are for the vast majority of women with less power and influence.

Imagine the mid-level manager, the run-of-the-mill coder, the cafeteria worker, the janitor? Many of those people can't afford to lose their job and have less power protect their careers. And theoretically they may be more likely to be victims: Men distinguish based on physical attraction for these purposes, not status, and they may see these women as more vulnerable and therefore as easier targets. Are you going to try to sexually coerce the VP at Airbnb or the caterer's junior assistant?

You know what the perpetrators say: 'Do you know who I am?' 'It will be your word against mine. Nobody will believe you.' 'You'll never work again.'

Those people need a Callisto too - they need one far more (and maybe Callisto already does that).
China is aggressively going electric. Shenzhen went with all electric buses last year. Getting a permit for a car in Beijing is far easier for an electric car. China's electric car production is 3x US production.[1] Yes, many of them are small city cars, but then, they're used for getting around big cities.

[1] https://qz.com/1303594/when-it-comes-to-making-electric-cars...
IANAL, so I'll just ask: has the SCOTUS made rulings that they justified based on the Declaration of Independence rather than the U.S. Constitution?
6 years ago I was 20 years old in college. I got so excited a new a mmo to play in space and drank the kool-aid. Dropped $150, played with my super cool ship in my hanger at 15~fps having a good time looking at all the details on my aegis gladius, watching the stairs come out of the ship and so on.

Eventually I could fly it, and it was cool but of course it was alpha and there was nothing to do except drink more kool-aid. More ships, more promises, more stars, more space.

Now, my same ship can land on planets, I can walk around and it's great. Honestly it's pretty cool. The only issue is now I am 26, married, spend 75% of my awake time working or with my wife. I don't want an mmo.

I am no longer the target demographic, and the majority of the early adaptors are not either.
Building a desktop application in the age of the cloud
Cool idea! Would you mind clarifiying some questions?

1. Are you looking to do your own weather prediction or just better package the prediction results from existing weather models? I ask because weather modeling is hard and there are lots of PhDs working on continual improvement. They also use an huge amount of processing power to do this.

2. Are you planning on open sourcing the collected data too or do you hope to monetize the data?
>There are some freaky good stalkers out there.

That doesn't quite do the situation justice. The stalking gets crowdsourced; often to people who are well practiced at it.
> The number of electrons in a flash memory cell is in two digits.

I had worked on one of the last TLC NAND designs before the transition to 3D. You could only afford to leak 1 electron per year to meet the data retention spec... TLC did not make it market on that process/node.
Umm...we have pilots at a base outside Las Vegas flying missions over Afghanistan, we can get reasonable WiFi access on trans-oceanic flights and we're looking likely to see direct flights from Sydney to New York in the next couple of years. All of that represents progress and significant engineering achievements.

What's likely changed is that the pressures that drive the engineering are different from the ones that drove early aviation and the space race. Faster just has very little value now, so less dollars flow to making mach-multiple planes. The same thing happened in the CPU market where the GHz race took a back seat to power consumption and parallelization.
Sure but now we are talking even more time and effort to spin up/down a computer whenever I want to game for a little while. Installing a Windows VM from scratch and then No Man’s Sky is still probably 20-30 minutes from start to gameplay. And specifically in the case of NMS it’s terribly slow at first launch (not sure if it’s just compiling shaders or what).