skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know what she could possibly mean by 'proper controls'. They're twins. They are better controls for each other (full siblings raised simultaneously of exactly the same age) than you see in 99.9% of sociology or education studies; in some respects they are the best controls that are possible, since you can't run a person through school multiple times to see if they get into college or not. And this study also came with polygenic scores so you can check the genetics directly if you've fallen for handwavy criticisms like of the EEA.

(Heck, she's not even right when she mouths 'correlation != causation', because if you used the PGS to compare siblings, their PGS differences are randomized at conception and the correlation = causation! As far as I can tell, OP didn't do this, just scoring unrelated individuals, but they could have, many other studies have, and she doesn't seem to've checked herself.)
Did you use any quadratic or worse regex algorithm? Such as having more than one .* in a single regex.

Did you set LANG=C before running sed, to bypass the UTF-8 logic?

Also, if you had a list of substitutions to perform, did you try writing them as a single sed script?
Why Arc Isn't Especially Object-Oriented (2002)
New Site that deals with paranormal
It started at $499, IIRC, then was downpriced in its second incarnation(?)

There was a period where storage was doubled, but IIRC it seemed that options went down again in the SE (maybe when the price dropped)?
How civic technology can help governments engage with citizens
I may not agree with the concept of killing animals for food outside of survival necessity, but one must recognize that all life ends in death one way or another. Things do not have less value simply because they are impermanent. The quality of an animal's life is valuable regardless of how it ends, just as ours are.
Agree with your comments but why downvoted? Has HN been taken over with this anti SV narrative?
This was such an amazing read. The historical notes are awesome and not what I expected from a math textbook. I should really buy a copy of Jaynes!

Some teasers for others who might want to read it:

- The proof in this blog post is called the Hershel-Maxwell derivation. The weird assumptions were motivated by astronomy for finding the 2d distribution of errors of stars

- Gauss was the one who saw the maximum likelihood application. This is why we name it gaussian distribution despite being discovered earlier by others such as de Moivre. Laplace was the bro who expanded and popularized Gauss's work!

- ^ That was like the first two pages of the chapter
I’d also be interested in your friend’s work.
Open banking and API ecosystem
It will keep generating stuff until it improves score of the function, not try to satisfy the function.
The public issue usually comes when the photoshopping is discovered. National Geographic got huge public pushback when it became clear that they had "moved" Egypt's pyramids for a cover. And Iran came in for mockery when it became clear that they had photoshopped extra missiles into a launch photo.

Forgeries are hugely risky for legitimate organizations; if discovered, the backlash can hurt them quite a bit.

Fringe, extremist, criminal elements have used forgeries to further their goals, and they will do so with "deep fake" videos too.

But our society is dominated by organizations that run on trust. And those organizations will have to quickly learn (indeed, they are learning now) how to distinguish and filter out the deep fakes. Just like they did with fake letters, fake signatures, and fake photos.
Did you miss the (1985) tag?
Tl;Dr: writer complains about local politics and is afraid for his job and it's all the fault of big tech companies.

Very SF-local story, too, I don't understand why it's in a globally targeted publication.
In this same vein, apps that goto v2 then v3 under new app names (i.e Omnifocus) also feel a bit scammy. I understand the monetize angle, but they could be alienating users with large repurchase fees.
This makes sense. Thanks for the careful explanation!
Plenty of people out there with hand-me-down or 2nd (or 3rd) hand Macs.
Even if they haven't caused any obvious crisis, fake images do go viral. It's human nature to trust what you see, and it takes effort to maintain skepticism.

Exhibit 1: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/fake-news-trump-flood...

Exhibit 2: https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/26/us/emma-gonzalez-photo-doctor...
full disclosure: I used to work at Uber.

I'd be interested in hearing more about the claims made at the beginning of the article and the sources of those.

I moved to SF in 2012 when uber was barely a thing (still only black cars) and haven't noticed the traffic being worst.
I've also not noticed any parking spots that are now free (but even if this happened, isn't that a good sign?).

To the opposite, and again my own sources are biased since I worked at Uber for a while (i'm not anymore), but I've heard a lot of studies proving the opposite - reduced traffic, better for the environment, etc.

As an example, I googled "how many cars per day in SF" and the first thing I found is that 110 000 cars cross the golden gate bridge alone. I'd assume the Bay bridge is seeing at least that if not twice. So the argument that 5700 more cars because of Uber and Lyft in the city are the cause of traffic seems a little short sighted.
It's also the same argument that was made by De Blasio a few years ago about NYC and studies proved that it was false.

I'm not saying the article is lying or anything, and again, I'm very biased, I'm just surprised to see an article from Engadget making such claims without links to sources/studies. The author saying "I'd realized congestion in San Francisco had gone insane" doesn't convince me this is particularly true...
The obvious worry about this technology is disinformation being spread, misrepresenting who people are and what they have done or said. But it also gives everyone deniability. If someone catches a powerful person assaulting someone, and actually has a video of it, they can just say it was a really good fake. How can we know?
Ok here's the feedback:

1: Really huge font of the punchline. I will make it little smaller as my focus is not going to the scrolling text below it.
2: Message is somewhat clear. I am confused whether it is a sales product or a CRM product.
3: It says that convert subscribers into revenue. But doesn't mention "How" anywhere. You need a section of "How it works" somewhere.
4: Can I see a demo implementation somewhere?
The same writer would likely be happy to defend the point of view that if you don't like how a platform is treating you, like banning you for your views, then you can just leave.
I used to work in informal education with children ages 5-18. I never studied child development but the 5-7 year old kids had to be given a structure just to do basic things like sharing. These kids will straight up lie about things, too. The 5-7 year groups needed staffing levels somewhere around 3:1.

It wasn’t until the middle school groups (age 12-14) that you really saw kids with what looked like genuine concern for others, and we ran staffing levels more like 6:1.
Neural networks are not magic.

You can't solve the travelling salesman problem in polynomial time just by throwing machine learning at it...

On a mathematical level you can prove that machine learning will do a bad job for certain things, and this is what the parent talked about.
Show HN: LeetCode Downloader
No. I'm talking about quantum computers that are actually practical.

Running stable at 0.004K for only a few milliseconds in a lab is not practical.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/11...

I'd say that was a pretty big deal (Russians providing a "satellite image" showing a Ukrainian fighter plane shooting down a commercial airliner).

Bad actors use this kind of technology whenever they think they can get away with it. As someone else mentioned, they've used video game footage and pretended it was actual combat footage.
> The only downside is that it uses the browser to do this but you could use chrome headless to make this into an API

Huh? Doesn't pdf.js have the capability to run headless? What in the browser does it depend on?

Anyway using that in Python is never going to be easy or useful. There's already good PDF tooling in Python.
I'm surprised, is the salary that much bigger for FAANG in the USA? I know someone who's been approached by Google for a position in Paris, and the salary is not that great (around 110K€/year from what I heard for a Software Engineer position (more than 10 years of XP)). With that kind of salary, you can live well but you're not going to reach financial independence nor buying a house by the time you're 35/40.

I do know a lot of people making this or even much and they're not working at Google.
I heard Starbucks is closing down in New Zealand due to lack of profit. But we have ridiculously good independent coffee shops, often run as "labours of love" or wishful thinking as per the article.
But you support twitter banning "hate speech" ie free speech?
Or Russian news channel using Arma (video game) footage as if it was real combat footage.
I’m not sure what is scammy about that. That is how software was purchased for decades. ie, photoshop 1-7 & CS 1-6.

It’s not like version x-1 stops working and forces you to purchase the new one.
I'd be more interested on the "why being a manager". Considering how shitty the atmosphere seems, I wonder why people want to be managers at all...
Your viewpoint is not correct. Many class of decisions we make needs to be independent of race, color, religion and gender. This is not Google’s idea, it’s US Constitution + laws in many states. As ML is increasingly used for making decisions such as whom to give loans or who do you hire, many models may predispose a human based on exactly these attributes violating laws.
Probably even more so than video.
Greek literature doesn’t have THAT much feelings. There’s nothing remotely in the realm of Hamlet in all of ancient greek lit to my knowledge. Calling it a return is a massive stretch of the Euripides example—I always viewed his works more like sitcoms than having any realistic human characters.
You could try teaching the older one metta meditation.
On my part, after 6 years of applying, I have 3x the salary and responsibility as an employee that I used to. Being more financially secure and feeling more professionally relevant are strong forces for complacency. But for me, the most important thing was realizing what it takes to be successful as a founder (and in getting into YC), and that I lacked those things: excellent co-founders, an MVP, and traction. While it is true that YC still accepts startups that have solo-founders, no product, or no traction, I don’t think it accepts many that lack all three traits. The furthest along I got at YC was when I had a real co-founder (not someone I roped into it) and a prototype. I’ll apply again when I have something useful to accelerate.

So I gave up on the dream of YC being dumb enough to look at me and say, “well, there are no signs of success here, but hell, let’s roll the dice and see what happens!”

Tangentially, in terms of seeing less passion for startups at HN, there has been a very distinct shift in HN’s content and focus that occurred when PG stopped participating in comments and stopped writing as many essays. It reached a tipping point sometime over the last year, where I now often ask, “Where have all the hackers gone?” My suspicion is that there is a private forum of YC alumni and friends, and friends of friends, that has replaced HN as the go-to destination for fascinating, insightful, and provocative discourse. Perhaps it isn’t private, and perhaps it isn’t YC alumni-based, but if you could have such conversations (again), would you want to reveal its existence to the masses? Not unless you wanted to see it become what HN has become: a fun but flimsy off-site subreddit.

Since I think this thread is going to be overlooked by most people, I’d like to make the case for clueing me in here and sending me an invite. ;)
How in the world does "being compliant to authority" contribute to university success? What major emphasizes compliance over learning the material and doing the work?
IPhone is just a proxy for wealth. I suggest instead, "Look at that pathetic guy trying to justify evil actions by making wealth at any cost seem like a virtue."
How would you respond to the author of the article who dismisses free-range meat as similar to being a good slaveowner or killing people painlessly in a genocide?
Because there aren’t that many pages about it. Also a white American inventor would probably just be referred to as an inventor, without reference to race or nationality. A black inventor would be seen as out of the ordinary, and so be referred to as an African American inventor, stacking the deck in favour of those results.
I don't know much about AI and NN's either, so grain of salt and all that..

In theory, yes - you can. The training function could return a score - say the number of matching digits in the hash - and the NN will in theory learn what inputs produce the better output. If somehow, there is a weakness in the hash algorithm, it could stumble onto it - allowing it to get better at producing the right input to get the required output.

The simpler it is to deterministically manipulate, the easier it should be for a NN to learn to manipulate - even of the function is just returning a boolean or a "rating between 1 and 10". So yea, good hash functions are unlikely to be learned and solved, but photos and videos aren't designed to be hash functions.

(All that said, I'm willing to be bet the time and computing power you'd need to pour into this NN to break a good hash function is likely more than has ever existed in the sum of all past time + computing resources ;))
Note I said “a little”, not “little”. You can quibble about the amount but I was trying to explicitly say that the Oddysey IS an example of this in ancient lit.

Still nothing compared to Macbeth or Hamlet, though.
>>> The Field of Dreams "Buit it and they will come" strategy doesn't work.

could you elaborate on "why" ?
Used my phone at the local burger shop. One of the teen girls working there laughed at it. "wow, that's so small, does it even work? i think it's time for you to get a new phone!" (FWIW I'm a regular there, so most of the staff know me and we chat while I'm waiting).

"I just got this 18 months ago" I said. It's a 64g SE. She just laughed - "OMG - I couldn't even imagine using that. What is that? An iphone 4?". "An SE, " I replied, and she just had a weird look on her face. I wonder if they'd used numbers on that model instead of "SE" if it would have stuck in peoples' minds more?

It was such a strange thing - 18 months ago was still in her lifetime, and ... I'm not using a Palm VII or some obscure 80s retro thing - it's a damn iphone from 18 months ago, and she genuinely reacted like it was some piece of ancient technology.

She showed me her iphone 6. I showed her Live Pictures on my SE, then commiserated with her that her 'bigger' 6 couldn't handle what my puny "old" phone could do.

Teenagers... youth is wasted on the young :)
Availability of Cookies During a Class Session Affects Evaluation of Teaching
Ha, I remember reading similar advice in an issue of GamePro. They had a section in the back for accolades when someone beat a game or got a high score, and you had to send them a photograph for proof.

(Uphill both ways in the snow, etc. etc.)
I was looking forward to reading this article as the concept (even just the name, identify diversification) immediately resonated with me.

What I found was an anecdote followed by a few hypotheticals. “What if you spend all your time sportsing and then you get hurt?” Really a minimal treatment of the idea unfortunately.
Hi, thanks for building CodeStream, I'm working on a universal celebration platform (LinKedIn for celebration), but is a social value network not a social media network. Basically we don't see end user as a by product so is a different business_logic_$, the project is in stealth mode for now but it will be released shortly, probably 1Q_2019. Long story short we plan to use CodeStream and contribute to CodeStream mission, thanks.
The elegance of deflate (zlib)
If you choose to switch the track to kill 1 innocent to save 5, you open the door to things like a society where 1 innocent healthy person is killed to harvest the organs and save 5 innocents. The calculation is the same.
Microsoft’s problem isn’t how often it updates Windows–it’s how it develops it
#MeToo – Cause or just another brick in the modern-day feminism
> UI library that uses all WebGL

But then that will be completely inaccessible to screen readers and other assistive technologies.
I wonder: is there something like this written in rust?
Circuit Scramble

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Suborbital...

It's so good I managed to do all 135 puzzles in two days and another few hundred generated ones.

The generator might need some work. A lot of the ones it makes are too simple, solvable in 1 or two moves.
P.S. The real trick is to take a large soda lid and pump the ketchup onto it. (You may want to use two nested lids to prevent leakage through the straw hole)
This article is all over the place. It just felt like complaint soup.

They start on about Uber and Lyft causing increased traffic and then turn to complain about the tech busses (a measure to reduce traffic!) in the same breath.

I don't really see what the Facebook ads story adds to the local politics angle.

Did the author have a source for the waymo car "causing" another vehicle pinwheel (I assume this means spin out) and fleeing the scene? That seems really serious.

As for the scooters, another clean solution to reduce traffic, but people throw a shit fit cause they're tech.

Don't get me wrong, these companies are awful. Ads are psychological warfare, Facebook has done actual experiments to affect people's moods. So many of these products are designed to be addictive, capturing our attention for their profit. As well, the pervasive surveillance state that smart phones, apps, and data collection has created. This doesn't address any of that, instead it's just SF political pandering.

Edit: The article has like / share buttons for basically all these companies at the bottom of the page.
Astrocytes have unexpected role in brain 'plasticity'
The Joy of Haxe
Isn't this common Buddhist teaching. My body doesn't define me , my mind who tells me suicidal thoughts does not define me. What do you guys think ?
A guide for b2b selling in startups
Notorious North Korean Hacker Group Has Stolen a Fortune in Cryptocurrency
Peter Thiel POV vs. Marc Andreessen POV
For a lot of purposes they have close to infinite space. You can record a lot of data for a pretty reasonable price.
I mean if u have uncontrolled add, depression or anxiety your university experience will suffer. Also any other long term illness. Success at university should be a spectrum.
The Ghost Ship didn't have smoke detectors, a fire alarm, or emergency lighting. It did have blocked staircases and cluttered pathways, and the available staircase was fairly flammable. It had people warning about some of these problems; they were ignored.

It looks cool/arty, and OK to wander through in an afternoon, but it also looks like the last place I'd expect to find a party.

The closest place I can think of for a similar labyrinth of clutter is Camden Stables Market in London [0][1]. But it's a daytime clothing, art and antiques market, not an event space. You can see the green emergency exit signs in some of the photos; doors have notices things like "This door to be open during trading hours".

For your tradeoff, how low do you propose we go?

[0] Camden Town has several markets. If you've been, this is the one you're least likely to have visited, and it's furthest from the station.

[1] https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/camden-lock-stables-market...
I'd say their only problem was : underfunded. All others problems becomes much more easy when you're funded (they say it in the article I think).

(and that's why, imho, if you have nobody to give (yep, "give") you the amount of money you need, you'll never ever make it; that's a very unequal world...)
> Did the author have a source for the waymo car "causing" another vehicle pinwheel (I assume this means spin out) and fleeing the scene? That seems really serious.

It was from a New Yorker story this week where there were emails from Lewandowski discussing an accident. This is linked in the post so I don't know how you missed it.
some private torrent trackers do that and it works well
It sounds very much like complexity theory, where you definitely have problems that are easier to verify than solve (see NP hard).

I think you mean NP. NP hard includes problems that are not in NP, such as the halting problem.

I'm not aware of any proof that photorealistic 3D rendering is in NP. If it is not, then verifying 3D cannot be said to be easy.
Saudi Official saying khasoggi died in brawl (18 Saudis Arrested)
How does

> if you believe so, then you believe that human worth is predetermined

constitute a challenge to

> human worth should be tied to mental and physical abilities

?

Is there some implicit negative value attached to the hypothesis that human worth could be predetermined?

(Edit -- counterarguments are more educational/enlightening than downvotes.)
From experience - because you can only get your salary to a certain level as a programmer before hitting a brick wall. To go higher you need to take on at least some managerial responsibilities - it's not at every company, but it's common enough.
Google Wave, Google Reader, Google+, Schemer
I think the answer lies in your question.
I think the theory is that at the time QC is starting to threaten current encryption there will be new algorithms available and the transition will be not difficult. Seems pretty likely.
Let's recap. You've gone from claiming that Gluster doesn't have distributed metadata (untrue) to claiming that it copies data on rename (untrue) to claiming that renames aren't atomic across partitions (untrue because such partitions aren't even part of Gluster's architecture). Those are some very mobile goalposts. You've made similarly untrue claims about Ceph, which does have a sort of metadata partitioning but not the way you seem to think. Along the way, you've tried to redefine terms like "volume" which have well established domain specific meanings.

Such desperate attempts to disparage systems you obviously haven't even tried to understand are not helpful to users, and are insulting to people who have spent years solving hard problems to address those users' actual requirements. Believe it or not, systems exist which don't work like yours, and which prioritize different features or guarantees, and there's demonstrated demand for those differentiators. If you want to learn about those differences, to compare and contrast in ways that actually advance the state of the art, please begin. I say "begin" because I see no evidence that you've attempted such a thing. Does your academic employer know that you're misinforming students?
For me, I really enjoy helping people grow into their best selves. A lot of that means protecting them from politics and giving them the space to do their jobs effectively, make mistakes, learn and grow. It really isn't for everyone, because there's a lot less tangible rewards and the payoff can be pretty long tail, but when you can see potential in someone and then see them grow into that potential, it's a really fulfilling experience. Basically I saw that things could be better and I chose to be that better, I had a lot of amazing people that took a chance on me as well, so I owe it to them to pay it forward.