skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't live in the US so maybe this is cultural, but do you really want the legal outcome of crime to be based on local policy and norms? When I hear about sexual assault give jail time in one town and only a slap on the wrist on an other then that sound like injustice. I have always believed that a sign of a healthy legal system in any nation is when common laws are being enforced equally regardless of local provincial customs, norms or policy. If we apply this to internal process of a company it looks odd that one company should have completely different outcome to an other when an employee commits a crime.

And we don't need to use the police. We could invent a new group called peace keepers with different training, but the key point is that crime is defined in a democratic process that is uniformed applied to every citizen and thus the outcome of crime should be equally uniformed.

Private guards has a very clear line between the domain of the police and what they can do, just like the clear line between the military and the police. Private guards do not investigate crime, do not handle evidence, and is not considered part of the legal system. Similarly it seems natural to me that cases which society defines as crime should not be handled internally by any company. Having overlaps where private guards and the military stepping in as police sounds as a terrible outcome and a sign that something is broken in the legal system. Better to then discuss what is broken and fix it so we can return to equal outcomes for all citizens.
If you don't think the article is worth it, you can get a refund with one click at least. NY Times articles are 19 cents.

Yes, a subscription model would be useful. Blendle has that in the Netherlands to my knowledge.
> A: Sure. I'm a self-taught programmer in my late 40s. I also have an MBA.

> Q: Not a great start.... Any strengths?

Don't sell yourself short man. I'd value a self taught programmer in their 40s with an MBA over a recent MIT CS grad any day.

I've hired a few folks with "non-traditional" backgrounds and usually the biggest indicator of success is previous work experience, regardless of industry. Just having had to get things done on a deadline and communicating your progress are huge underrated skills that seem to come with age and experience more than anything else.
>DevEx code

I am trying to understand the meaning of this word through context and/or through Google but I only get some social media platform. What is DevEx.
Building AI: Neural Networks for Beginners
At 32:09 his "brain" means genetics culture language schools.

I dont think individual mental illness plays much of a role. Most people in power are rational self interested actors.
Yeah, same with me. What's your feeling about plastic chopsticks and metal chopsticks (Korean style)? I've seen telescoping extending chopsticks made of metal for camping, always wondered if they were any good. I suspect not. I personally camp with wooden, non-bamboo chopsticks.
Sodium chloride decreases the volume of water at saturation by nearly 2%
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It is easier than that... the interesting thing comes after solving this first "puzzle"
Thanks for the answer! I was thinking more along the lines of data augmentation. All in all, I don't think microexpressions alone are a good feature, from your description it's clear that they're problematic on a number of fronts.

The article also mentions microexpressions as the basis for this new system, and that they worked on a slow universe of 30 people, with ~76% accuracy. What remains to be seen is if the new, larger deployment will work better. Also, they may be working more focused on the low stakes lies rather than the high stakes.

What I was thinking that "more compute power" could bring to the table would be deeper and more complex models, faster training algorithms[0] and data augmentation. But then again, all that relies on having good data to begin with.

[0] I worked with neural nets in the past (~10 years, I pretty much left the field right before the deep learning big bang), and coming back to the field I'm pretty much amazed at how training a 7 layer deep MLP used to take a few minutes on CPU back in 2010, and now can be done in seconds (still on CPU). And while there's a part of microarchitectural improvement to account for, that could at best be a 5x speedup -- the rest is owed to the newer training algorithms.

Once again, thanks for your answer!
Bromium: a DSL to test UI actions
That and devaluation.

Don’t forget the “Air Canada” model of IPOing your frequent flyer program, nearly bankrupting it, and then buying it back for a fraction.
No, but that's 3 systems away upstream anyway - thus the 30 minute timeout.
> I don't want to wait for a login more than a second.

Do you log in that often?
It's unfortunate that your work is being used in such a massively economically wasteful manner.

The core issue is - it's all computers. The reason you can't reliably detect the difference between an average user using a computer to log in to your computer versus a fairly sophisticated computer using a computer to log in to your computer is that the transition between user and tool is not smooth. It is always going to be easier to find the various boundary points between user and tool than it is to construct a passable simulation of the user using that tool.

Yes, bot detection does make account hijacking attempts more expensive, but it makes all logins more expensive, and the rate of expense increases faster for you than it does the account hijackers.
My take is that the purpose is not to actually close a sale before building, but to make sure that you could actually close a sale.

The article makes the correct point that many people confuse "being sort of close to closing a sale" with actually closing a sale, and these people may waste time building a product that clients are only sort of interested in but aren't willing to actually pay for.
What would an alternative to the DMV be, in this case?
> I don't live in the US so maybe this is cultural, but do you really want the legal outcome of crime to be based on local policy and norms?

This isn't about legal outcomes or crimes.
That's just unnecessarily rude. I'll bet a lot of those people are far smarter than you by any objective measure, but just make different decisions than you. Why does that make you so hostile?
It's not a fake question, it's question your assertion (which comes with no citation) regarding the origin of the colour yellow used in pencils, which contradicts the origin story described in the article.
So quit watching HBO. Problem solved.
Economics. If you only view flights as getting from point A to point B, then the rewards programs aren't worth it. For some people, there's more at stake than getting from point A to point B... eventually.

Comfort and less time wasted are very valuable for the wealthy (in terms of $ they're willing to spend without monetary return, since it ends up being a smaller percentage of their disposable income).

For business travellers, it's efficiency, fewer missed meetings, and psychological comfort, allowing maximum focus on business concerns.
Global Services is insane. Qualification requirements are insane, too. It's invite-only, based on unpublished criteria. It's speculated that when based at a hub airport like SFO, it takes about $75k in annual spend on full-fare United first of business tickets. There are a few other ways to qualify: fly 4 million miles with United, marry a million-miler who has GS, pre-pay $250k towards airfare for your company, or $50k personally.

As a lowly 1K who only spends the minimum $12k annually of my own dime (and earns around 125k UA PQM on top of 100k over at AA), I would never dream of qualifying for GS myself… but one can dream.
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By the same line of thinking dictatorships are also only bad if they use their power for more bad things than good things.
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Technologies Looking for work in Stock, Options, CryptoCurrency trading.
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Yeah, it's just a warmup really :)
Dish/Sling are not AT&T customers. They are the middleman that prevents AT&T from having a direct access to the customers.
His talk is exactly what he talks about: he presents ideas at a level of understanding of those listening to him. Instead of being scientific or philosophic, he gives interesting examples such that people immediately get it.

Alan's all about looking at the big picture and not getting lost in irrelevant details. He tries to get his point across right away by showing how NIMH is so focused on canonical mental health problems that they don't think about where these problems come from, nor about even bigger mental "problems"(such as the 99,77% if you watched through the talk) and what mental means in the first place.

He may not know how to fix healthcare, but he shows what is necessary for us to think about if we ever want problems to be solved. He then follows with examples from the areas he's more familiar with, namely tech and education, to show how to get to solutions without brute force.

Human critical thinking at its very best.
It can usually work out to a 3-6% return if you don’t think too much and just buy gift cards with the miles.

It’ll be hard to earn enough on domestic flights, but I eeck out a $50 gift card every couple years for my annual trans-Atlantic flights.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18355668.
Ask HN: App to see input on Apple MBP touchpad?
Hi all, I'm looking for an application (whether paid or open source) that enables me to see the input on my Macbook Pro's [extremely large] touch pad.

I think it'd be cool to use ML to be able to get a person's heart rate (i.e., heart BPM) by simply letting the user rest their hand/wrist on the touch surface.
And “Net”BSD. Collaborating over the Internet was novel at the time.
Even if you do upgrade every year, iPhones hold their value very well, so you can sell your old phone for a substantial proportion of what you paid for it and only pay a fraction of the cost of the new one.
I pay cash for coffee at Starbucks at least once a day and coworkers can't believe I don't have the app and collect stars.

Yet somehow I'm the sucker who doesn't get it.
I have some (more bio, less cs) colleagues who only distribute and edit in google documents. I don’t think avoiding all google services is exactly trivial.
I have been suggesting something slightly along these lines.

I think that the monopoly companies provide the platform with the large network. This platform is desirable. The monopoly control over it is not.

We can replace the monopoly platforms with decentralized peer based platforms running on technologies like Swarm Framework, IPFS, WebRTC, cryptocurrency, etc. Diverse companies can build varied opportunities that leverage the common platform and large network.

Its a challenging goal and most distributed technologies haven't been proven at Twitter scale. However I believe it is attainable and should be attempted.
There is a lot of climate model validation that goes on. I wrote a comment on another thread about just one such paper/campaign, that may help to illustrate how this works:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15613090#15620293

(Please pardon the initial "straw man" sentence - the comment was directed at another post, months ago.)
Re-read his post: people should be able to sue in lieu of forced arbitration, they're never advocating for "create an environment for sexual assaults". Nowhere and no one is arguing for creating an environment for sexual assaults in this thread. The reason it seems like an absurdity is because you're setting it up to be one when no one is advocating it, which is the definition of a strawman.

Sorry, but if you're still going to stick on this point then this'll be the last thing I say on the matter.
What's the alternative?

They value it at 423,000$ and they give that to their creditor instead? Can they really do that and would it be better? How so?
Luckily, with modern dependency injection frameworks wrapping every object in layers of generated proxies, it's now impossible to understand it in the debugger, too.
Why do you distinguish between people working for the film industry and people working dor Facebook?
I have been with my current bank since I was 3 months. I needed a loan to pay deposite for my first after college apartment -- nearly couldn't get it, had to provide a budget, etc even though it was a very reasonable amount.

The thing I don't get is, do they expect me to ask them should the time come to get a loan for a house?
There are two parts to this: writing a spec and formalizing it.

Writing stuff down helps you organize, clarify and communicate your thoughts. You should write down a spec if you think the spec you hold in your mind can benefit from organization, clarification and communication at a level that's higher than the code.

Formal means mechanical. You should write a formal spec if you feel it is complex or subtle enough to benefit from machine-aided analysis. Code is a form of formal specification (it is a specification because it describes what the system does; it is formal as it is interpretable by a computer). But code is a formal specification at a very particular level of abstraction, that may not be convenient to answer your questions.

Some people think that high-level programming languages are convenient enough for the kind of analysis you want. Sometimes they are right, but often they are wrong. Explaining exactly why a language like TLA+ is more convenient than any programming language that exists or could ever exist requires some technical details (I've attempted to give a high-level explanation for why that is so here[1], but roughly, some useful levels of abstraction cannot possibly be compiled/interpreted -- as doing so in general is uncomputable -- but compilation/interpretation is a strong requirement of programming languages). However, a more concrete example of why code is insufficient is in the case of a distributed system, where you want to cocisely describe not just the behaviour of a single program, but the interaction among a set of communicating programs, the network environment and the behavior of the users (the last is relevant for any interactive system, which is a special case of a distributed one).

As a rule of thumb I'd say that algorithms/systems with any non-trivial amount of concurrency (i.e. concurrent algorithms/data structures and distributed systems) can greatly benefit from a formal specification. Sequential programs may also benefit, if there is a complex interaction of rules. For example, I saw a talk that suggests formalization of the tax code as a means to find inconsistencies[2], but a business system that encodes many interacting business rules could also benefit.

[1]: https://pron.github.io/posts/tlaplus_part3#algorithms-and-pr...

[2]: https://youtu.be/EshxZVMURt4
Thanks for the ad hominem attacks.

The acceptable reasons for carrying a knife listed on that government article are:

Examples of good reasons to carry a knife or weapon in public can include:

- taking knives you use at work to and from work

- taking it to a gallery or museum to be exhibited

- if it’ll be used for theatre, film, television, historical reenactment or religious purposes, for example the kirpan some Sikhs carry

- if it’ll be used in a demonstration or to teach someone how to use it

None of those mention carrying an Opinel to cut up an apple, and are so obscure.

In addition, you have the Mayor of London saying there is never any reason to carry a knife [1]. I suspect if you're on a hike in the Yorkshire moors, you could be ok. On the tube in London, probably not. Either way, you are gambling on a policeman's discretion.

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/mayoroflondon/status/982906526334...
> If someone gets accused of something, there should be an investigation. And if they did something wrong it will be outstanding obvious. If they didn't, then they won't find anything.

Reading this genuinely frightens me.

Our legal system, with due process and "beyond reasonable doubt" and all the rest, regularly convicts people who are later found to be innocent. And, of course, regularly acquits people who are later found to have been clearly guilty. Even in countries with fewer complaints of bias and bad faith than the US, miscarriages of justice are not exceptional.

And here's this reply, suggesting that HR departments will simply get it right all the time. We're talking about people not trained in investigating anything, operating with minimal oversight under rules that have probably never been scrutinized, who in almost every case will face biases and incentives that would recuse any judge and strike any juror.

Discovering the truth is genuinely hard. If someone did something wrong, it will be "outstanding obvious"? What guarantees us a world so convenient and just that no one ever harasses in private and leaves only "he said, she said"? If someone did nothing wrong, investigations will find nothing? How have we gotten free from DARVO and coordinated dishonesty and all the other things that produce wrongful convictions (quite often of victims, on their attacker's word) in actual courts?

The certainty that every investigation will react a decisive conclusion, that official decisions are automatically trustworthy, that people who are found innocent are never harmed by public knowledge that they've been investigated. It's a display of faith in authority (any authority) that I truly don't understand - are people extending this same sort of blind confidence when police forces, churches, and politicians investigate themselves?
Not sure the regulators are part of the group you describe. That sounds more like teenagers.
Is there a way to download all of my photos? I have 25k in a bunch of albums, and it seems like albums over 5k photos in size they wont zip up to download...wtf? Come on Flickr.
and to me..

'Its Still Real To Me Damn It!'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvd3aEsThbc
Developer experience. In other words, improving the tools your developers rely upon to do their job. It's like UX, but for the development process.
justify the billions
Once I started using Firefox Focus, I was surprised at just how much of my browsing didn't need to be logged in. I don't need to keep session state when I'm just reading Wikipedia, news sites, or blogs.
Top 12 things that destroy developer productivity. What are your thoughts?
It's only like 5 minutes of your time (if that), unless you have difficulties following basic account sign up processes on a website.
Moonshots and Oceanshots
This is what we do. Works great.
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I am several parts full-stack web developer, game developer, and all-around generalist, with an interest in computer graphics and data visualization. Solving technical problems that client dev teams might have difficulty with, sometimes in a pinch to handle them. This includes not just web development but also game development. I have experience with overhauling legacy code, engine optimization work, and helped ship two indie games on Steam.
Does Incognito mode solve this problem? I thought it mostly prevented data from being stored on your local computer; I did not think it was effective against tracking.
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Gravitational builds open-core software to automate the delivery and operations of cloud-native software across multiple locations (cloud and on-prem). We are looking for ambitious and talented people across engineering and go-to-market (sales/marketing). We are well-funded and profitable. We are an experienced team: we founded Mailgun[1] which was acquired by Rackspace, we created Vulcand[2] and some other cool stuff at Rackspace and are authors of Teleport[3], Gravity[4] and Teleconsole[5]. Open positions include:

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