skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is Facebook's response to this article from NYTimes: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/11/new-york-times-update/

Quoting:

> Yesterday, The New York Times published an article about the past two years at Facebook. There are a number of inaccuracies in the story, including:

> 1. Russia Investigation: The story asserts that we knew about Russian activity as early as the spring of 2016 but were slow to investigate it at every turn. This is not true. As Mark Zuckerberg told Congress, “Leading up to Election Day in November 2016, we detected and dealt with several threats with ties to Russia … [including] a group called APT28 … we also saw some new behavior when APT28-related accounts, under the banner of DC Leaks, created fake personas that were used to seed stolen information to journalists. We shut these accounts down for violating our policies.” After the election, no one ever discouraged Alex Stamos from looking into Russian activity — as he himself acknowledged on Twitter. Indeed as The New York Times says, “Mark and Sheryl [Sandberg] expanded Alex’s work.” Finally, we did not name Russia in our April 2017 white paper — but instead cited a US Government report in a footnote about Russian activity — because we felt that the US Director of National Intelligence was best placed to determine the source.

> 2. The Muslim Ban: We did decide that President Trump’s comments on the Muslim ban, while abhorrent to many people, did not break our Community Standards for the same reasons The New York Times and many other organizations covered the news: Donald Trump was a candidate running for office. To suggest that the internal debate around this particular case was different from other important free speech issues on Facebook is wrong.

> 3. Commitment to Fighting Fake News: Mark and Sheryl have been deeply involved in the fight against false news and information operations on Facebook — as they have been consistently involved in all our efforts to prevent misuse of our services.

> 4. Sex Trafficking Legislation: Sheryl championed this legislation because she believed it was the right thing to do, and that tech companies need to be more open to content regulation where it can prevent real world harm. In fact, the company faced considerable criticism as a result.

> 5. Android: Tim Cook has consistently criticized our business model and Mark has been equally clear he disagrees. So there’s been no need to employ anyone else to do this for us. And we’ve long encouraged our employees and executives to use Android because it is the most popular operating system in the world.
Eat fatty meat including organ meats and you can eat nothing but meat for years with no ill effects health wise.

http://www.mendosa.com/stefansson1.htm
It's often a faulty transformer
According to the developer the upcoming release will be faster even for small blocks

https://twitter.com/cmuratori/status/1060718409296437249
An interesting idea from the paper is how low achievers often mistakenly think that "working harder" is all that's needed to move up to the next level.

> Having seen that "more is better" withing local situations, we tend to extrapolate. If I work this hard to get to my level, how hard must Olympic swimmers work?

> It is not by doing increasing amounts of work that one becomes excellent, but rather by changing the kinds of work. Beyond an initial improvement of strength, flexibility and feel, there is little increasing accumulation of speed through sheer volume of swimming. Instead, athletes move up to the top ranks through qualitative jumps: noticeable changes in their techniques, discipline, and attitude, accomplished usually through a change in settings, e.g. joining a new team with a new coach, new friends, etc, who work at a higher level. Without such qualitative jumps, no major improvements will take place.

I made this mistake when I was younger. All I wanted was to be good at drawing. The stock advice given out to budding artists online, and which I ate up at the time, is "draw every day". Just draw. Draw anything. Set a timer and draw what's in front of you. Make it a habit. It's assumed that more quantity is all that's missing. I did this for years and only improved slightly. Then, many years later, I returned to drawing, but with a different approach. This time, I studied other artists and tried to mimic their techniques, and in doing so improved significantly over the course of two months. That experience alone taught me the value of deliberate practice. Unfortunately, most people have become indoctrinated into the School of 10,000 Hours, and it's hard to convince them otherwise.
Roscosmos shows image of future nuclear-powered spacecraft
The Vertical Limit of State Sovereignty [pdf]
A female friend of mine ranked #2 junior champion in Germany, and she received special coaching to encourage her to take more risks. So apparently the German Chess Federation believes that women's disadvantage in chess comes (at least in part) from excessive caution.
If you never sign up for services on the web and are not part of mailing lists.
They should be a state owned utility and tech improvements should be made to reduce the fire risk.
It's a fascinating idea but I'm not clear on how you would get back data? Modulation of reflected laser light? Active antennas that powerful radio telescopes are looking at?
Can someone confirm, what is actual market coverage of U2F/Yubikey? I am reading about it for some time now and it looks to me that only few web pages and/or applications is actually supporting it. If that's only to get secure access to Google or GitHub then it seems an overkill to me. Am I missing something?
I love Zapier and we use it more and more for various bits of glue, but I haven’t found a robust development workflow for it. As soon as you begin editing a Zap, it turns off, which is a sort of “code it live on prod” I haven’t done since early PHP days :)

We don’t use it for truly production-critical things, but at some point integrations like this for CRM, support systems, etc need to be working and can’t just turn off for 30 minutes as we hand-copy a new idea into it.

How to have a “test endpoint” for a given Zap, or to promote/copy a change from one Zap to another — has anyone worked out a best practice for this?
Blisk release 10.1.262.144
That's the same problem in the South East with tornadoes. They happen nearly every week (in summer) and can destroy neighborhoods. Yet we build lightweight framed houses and rely on insurance because the overall odds are low.
GANs for believable movie dubbing
Automated car washes scratch the crap out of your car, so I doubt it.

They're more likely to just do it themselves.
I thought this meant insects and that reminded me of a favorite paper with the subtitle "A bird in the hand is worth log n in the bush" https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.07428 In this different problem (estimating the number of species you have yet to encounter based off the number of individuals from that species you have observed so far), the cute answer is that you're "done" finding new species when you have found at least two individuals from each species. Would this generalize to software bugs by saying that at least two testers had found each bug in order to assume that the software was bug-free?
optimizing for expected averagevoccupancy is a good way to fail when facing a region wide medical emergency. excess capacity needs to be there.
I'd love to see a more capable Raspberry Pi, perhaps based on the RK3399.

There are some devices out there already but the community support of the Raspberry Pi is unmatched.
Using an OpenID connect provider with one of Hans Zandbelt's plugins for Apache (mod_auth_openidc) or Nginx (lua-resty-openidc) would give you centralized authentication which could use U2F or any other supported 2FA mechanism.
As a php developer I don't share this pain point.
> Nuclear isn't an option, it's simply too expensive compared to renewables.

Sure, let's ignore energy storage and subsidies altogether. I would believe e.g. solar thermal in Spain to be cost-effective, but these empty claims of "cheap renewables" are tiring.
Smartcards aren't dead, they are all around us in sim cards and credit cards.

> They died when everybody ditched Java applets for web.

How's that relevant? Are you saying no one uses Java anymore?
You should consider revising your opinions and not making unwarranted assumptions. Or at the very least being open to the idea that it is because they are in fact not (statistically) equal in innate ability at the sport. It is certainly, prima facie, the obvious conclusion to reach.

Yes there are other factors such as the massively overburdened 'lack of role model' explanation, but these are better explained as positive feedback from an already unequal situation (and in any case does it matter so much if you can have separate men and women sides to the sport?).

The world is a very confusing and complicated place if you don't accept clear evidence however inconvenient!
Can't you duplicate the zap, edit the dupe, then replace the original?
IME unfound bugs tend to cluster in specific areas where testers didn't realize that they needed to look. Once the tester is aware of where they need to look for them then they quickly evaporate.

This method requires that a tester is looking for bugs randomly and is as likely to cover any realistic use case as any other use. In practice I find that's almost never true.
Really interesting app. How can I use Loops with my marketing agency?
Similar to mine. We vote on the complexity of a task and have a discussion if people's estimates vary wildly. And a 20% 'extra features not accounted' for time.
> "More specifically, you should believe based on your examples that they shouldn't be in the money management business. Because they are really bad at it."

How so? One is within a reasonable scope of governing. That is, most citizens want and expect a reasonable amount of economic stability. The others are outside of scope and simple a tool that politicians use to buy votes. And if that's going to be the case, then the least we can do is be honest about it. Denial doesn't make it any better.

Just because something has persisted doesn't make it right.

The fact is, Amazon (and others) played __our__ elected officials/ representatives against each other __at our collective expense (read: to Amazon's benefit).__

Not only that, __we__ paid to help Amazon find a new HQ location. So now imagine all the communities that did __not__ win.

Finally, imagine is that time and money was not put into a roll of the dice?

This was a __big__ win for Amazon. This was a big win for politicians. As for the taxpayers all across the country and going forward, the true benefits should be questioned. If we dare.
Outsourcing to a Software Development Agency and Its Not-So-Obvious Benefits
I don't know much about the EE side of the world, but surely there is a way to design grid/transformer equipment such that the circuit can be interrupted immediately when a pole falls over or whatever.

Is this possible? Is it just a matter of spending the money to upgrade the infrastructure?
Running rspamd on some servers which filters fine and the dmarc reports are an awesome feature. A comparison would be interesting in the future.
I know at least one community college that will pay for your advanced degree but require a two year contract. If you break it you have to pay them the cost of your education.
"The legislation also didn’t change how California applies “inverse condemnation,” a legal doctrine under which the state’s utilities can be held liable for any economic damages tied to their equipment, even if they follow all of the state’s safety rules. That’s left the utilities exposed to open-ended liabilities."

This seems like a very inefficient way of allocating risk. California is naturally fire prone and has become more so over recent years due to drought. Anyone operating an electricity distribution network is therefore operating assets that are inherently fire and explosion prone - even if operated and maintained correctly - there is no way to move that much energy over those distances without it occasionally being released in an undesirable way - in a place where the consequences of that are severe.

Simple logic dictates that you only expose companies and individuals to economic risks that are within management control, otherwise you just end up with an economic role that is necessary but impossible to fill.

Even if state standards for safety were updated to reduce the chances of a transformer explosion, circuit breaker arc, or fault in forested areas you'd never get the risk down to zero nor would you remove all the other sources of ignition.
> I’ve never heard of contracts like this outside sports and movies

And the military
Does it work with mathematical formulas (LaTex)?
There's RFC2136 and RFC3645 but they're not very widely implemented.
You realize that Soros is just the right wing Bogeyman.

He is just a rich old man with an agenda of which, even on his level there are dozens of not hundreds. He has no mythical powers or anything
Unless the other company manages to get more value out of trainees than they pay them, in which case the additional revenue lets them beat your offer.
Claw backs are fairly common for relocation and major training like paying for degree programs. I don’t know how successful companies are in collecting.
Serious question - why didn't rationality kill off this debate?

We have consensus on basic ethical norms - isnt it possible to identify which courses of action/inaction (regardless of bent) lead to ethical outcomes - and review the results of past actions under an ethical lens?

This debate just seems like some (maybe great) philosophy buried under a mountain of incentivised people searching for ammo.
Japan's cyber-security minister has 'never used a computer'
Yup. You can't tilt the board and say it was "fair".

If a given community put out a RFP / RFQ that said, "Here are our assets. Here are something things we might be able and willing to offer...Which of you are interested in coming here?"

Perhaps not free market, but certainly closer to fair and less corrupt.
Would you be looking for the solution where you subtract every number in the array from 5050? If anyone says that they 99% studied it.

I was asked this exact question at my on-campus interview with one of the Big Five software companies for a Program Manager internshi between my 3rd and 4th years of college.

I had done no “leetcode grinding”-style prep.

Subtract from 5050? No, I didn’t think of that. But I did think of summing the numbers 1..100 with a for loop, sum the numbers in the input array, and subtract.

Not the perfect solution. But it’s O(n).

And I did get the internship.

My point being not that I’m some kind of algorithmic prodigy: I’m very much not. But if a college kid can solve it without any prep, nor rote memorization as GP suggests...
Weird, I posted this yesterday, same article, same url, but it doesn't show up under the past link.
Fundamentally something has to fault before you detect that fault and interrupt it. Newer protection relays and circuit breaker equipment can make that interruption faster but the amount of energy required to ignite a tinder-dry forest is so small that I'm not sure it would be possible to detect, trigger, and interrupt the energy escape in time.
Ask HN: What all can I do with a shared host?
Hey HN.

So, Google seems to not yield very many results to this question. Basically, I want to know what creative things one can do with a shared host. Obviously, I can use a shared host to host a website but can it do more (if so explain)? Thanks!
Cowboy capitalism strikes again!
> That said, if it were proven that PG&E were directly liable for this fire, how would that play out?

As it always plays out: regular people will only sue via class action lawsuit, meaning there will be a settlement that is a fraction of the damage. The lawsuit with the state as plaintiff will drag on until either a settlement or the statute of limitation is reached.
Just a nitpick, but NTSC and PAL are always interlaced. They were designed for CRTs, and so there's no provision in the standards for indicating progressive frames because it didn't make a practical difference on those display systems.

It became a headache for digital systems, but not until the early to mid 1990s — before that digital video was usually stored at a half-frame resolution anyway because the processing power wasn't there for full-frame 480/576 video.
I agree with your general point.

Though we are talking many, many orders of magnitude less damage from tornadoes in the Southeast when compared with California forrest fires. My state gets an average of 20 per year, and almost all of these hit uninhabited areas. If a tornado destroys four houses, it makes state news.
Astro shutting down is not a big deal afterall. New game players are just around the corner. The app looks pretty neat, will dive in.
Eyes were batted.

Let's also note that FoxConn is not Amazon. Also, NYC doesn't really have a problem attracting employers - especially not one who is likely to crush their local economy one same day deliver at a time.

Your point is valid. But the scale and precedent of this latest "deal" is more questionable.
Yes no problem
"Header files" can be generated as well.

You could even make them part of the build, if you want a continuous up to date version.
> [...] once trained, they will leave to some competitor who can pay more.

That comes up a lot, but it's not true. That employer ALSO has the ability to hire someone that was trained elsewhere and pay a premium-- it goes both ways. Moreover, it is not the case that "once trained" the employee can easily find work elsewhere. Employers who are willing to pay a premium for skill want _experience_ and not just a training certificate (especially an in-house one of possibly dubious value). There's a lot more to do for the employee after they're trained and the best way to do it is to stay and practice the newly learned skills.

> [...] couldn't the training be offered
> [...] such as if the worker leaves before
> X months (or years) some % of that quantity
> must be given back?

There are places that do that. It's a bit draconian and you usually hear about it Asian countries. Much more practical to just eat the cost of an occasional early quitter-- not like it's going to sink the company.
In finance the actual growth rate is rarely looked at that much, but the rate of change of the growth rate is scrutinized to the nth degree.
Theory of Neural Networks [video]
10 Reasons why you should learn C# in 2018
Perhaps you are spoiled (as am I in that regard) but i would absolutely never take a job unless I knew who I was going to be working with and had a chance to ask them honest questions.

Seems like a trap set up for fresh out of college hires. I don’t know any senior developers who would even consider a job under those circumstances.
I've had an absolutely terrible experience with Azure support and I've worked on environments that have the highest level of support enabled.

Amazon is so much better in my experience when it comes to supporting their platform.
I sure hope the liability laws are not such that PG&E gets wiped out. I don’t think it makes much sense to assign most of the causal weight to a spark when it would do nothing without all that tinder. There would have been another spark, eventually.

If you don’t want to sometimes worry about forest fires, don’t build your house in the woods. It isn’t that complicated.
Stallman Remixed
What about the Linux version?
Actually, my understanding is there is a fairly significant amount of housing (pretty much everywhere?) that for one reason or another is kept off the market. (Likely due to some other gov policy? Maybe?)

That is, there is capacity but supply is being held back.
I'm not entirely sure what he means by that, but SIM-cards are smartcards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subscriber_identity_module#/me...

And you can buy smartcards in this formfactor e.g. https://www.cardomatic.de/epages/64510967.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPa...
>Jeeeeeesus christ, how am I designing how they spend their time?

They want to do some job for money and you're telling them "no, it pays too little, you're not allowed to do that job, you should be on welfare or find another job instead!".

>No, no, they are paid by the owners who decide what slice of the income to allocate to salaries. The customers pay the product and walk away, they don't know anything about the internal workings of a company

The income of the company is connected to the value generated by the workers it employs. An owner of a law firm can pays its employees much better than an owner of a fast food restaurant, because people are willing to pay more for lawyers than they are for fast food service. If the law forced restaurant owners to pay their workers as much as a law firm has to pay its workers, most restaurants would go out of business because people simply aren't willing to pay as much for restaurant service as they are for lawyers.

>The law asks the boss to pay livable salary, the end price has nothing to do with the law. If the service cannot be offered at competitive prices while offering livable wages, it's not a sustainable business

The maximum salary someone can expect is proportional to how much value they can generate for people. If the law requires someone to be paid much more than the maximuim amount of value they can generate given their skills/abilities at the time, then people will simply choose to forgo that service. If you had to pay someone $200/hour to clean your windows, would you do that, or would you clean them yourselves / let them remain uncleaned?

Minimum wage laws don't create jobs; the minimum wage is always zero (if nobody thinks someone can produce enough value to justify paying them the minimum wage, nobody will pay/hire them). Feel free to declare low-paying jobs "unsustainable", but note that the alternative to such jobs in many cases isn't livable wages, it's no wages, or welfare.
So bury all the cables/equipment underground? I'm sure costs are substantially higher to do so, but we could add other infrastructure along these underground lines as well if there was a shred of political will to accomplish this.
> we publicly exhibit more and more of our bodies and lives every day on several platforms

Speak for yourself. There isn't a single image of me anywhere on the internet. Am I not entitled to keep it that way?
I noticed much of the same thing on the big island, Hawaii.

I grew up in a slow, small town so the pace and friendly nature felt more natural to me than living in the city does (don’t smile too much or be too engaging if that’s not your station or people will treat you with suspicion at first).

At the same time (in and around Kona) I constantly saw people excercizing. And everybody seems to hangout outside regularly. And they get up with the sun because it tends to set pretty sharply after 12 hours.
This. If https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/#work-how-do-... is to be believed, compensation and benefits are the most important thing to most programmers. But it's not the only thing, and my guess is that beyond some "good enough" level, other factors become more important.

Imagine you were hired at a company, trained and mentored in a whole new skill set, given work you enjoy and find meaningful, working with people who encourage your further development, and were shown appreciation for your efforts and abilities.

Would you leave at the first opportunity to get a raise? Unless I really needed the money or was severely underpaid, I probably wouldn't.
We need freedom respecting software!
> Zapier is a monolithic application built on Python and Django.

https://zapier.com/engineering/go-no-go/