skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From Toronto here, and just wanted to clarify that the headline is somewhat misleading in claiming that "it worked". Article begins:

> One year after Toronto turned King Street in a transit- and walking-priority street, streetcar ridership, biking and walking are way up.

What "worked" is that removing cars did indeed make space for faster streetcars and biking - but this is not surprising, practically a truism!

The purpose of doing a pilot was see if the trade-off is worth it in real life. Worse traffic congestion for cars in the downtown core in exchange for a fast street for transit and bikes. It will be interesting to see what the city decides.
Not a rider, but HD's story sounds very similar to Gibson's and Fender's - whose past is going extinct but having difficulty moving or even figuring out their future.
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> Pew found that 64 percent of recommendations went to videos with more than a million views.

That drives me nuts. I wish Youtube had knobs I could tweak to exclude anything with more than 1000 or whatever views.

I really have no interest in a video that one million Normal People watched.
I bought my first bike here earlier this year aged 35. I took the MSF course at a Harley dealer and talked a bit about what bike might fit me best for riding as a casual/weekend rider (up to maybe 5k miles per year if I ride a lot). No one really recommended a Harley. I got a couple Indian recs, but mostly it was Yamaha and Honda. I ended up with a 2017 Honda Shadow Phantom after sitting on it for a while in the show room of the Honda dealer and I'm quite happy with it.

Harley absolutely feels like a fashion thing to me. I know a few folks who really like them, but it doesn't seem to be based on anything other than "they're Harleys, man." I don't think the Harley brand is going to die off, but it does feel a bit pigeonholed right now as the rough and tumble, leather & dome helmets type of rider right now. Honda doesn't feel like any particular type of bike. I don't feel like I should be wearing anything in particular on it, and I haven't had anyone look at me oddly for riding a matte black cruiser with a high-vis helmet yet. I feel like I would've if I were on a Harley.
So you never update Firefox? For most users it automatically updates itself.
The list of specific patches applied is here:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/corretto/latest/corretto-8-ug/pa...

Looks to be mostly or maybe entirely backports.

Good to see another option out there, it will be interesting to see how many of these get folded back into openjdk8 as it transfers maintainership.
Part of the problem in Buffalo was that they closed main st for 5-6 years to car traffic in the late 70s / early 80s while they built the above-ground portion of the metro rail. During this time, business along the construction zone withered and died because they were too hard to get to, and the department stores retreated to the suburban malls. By the time they finished it, there was no reason to go there, except to transit through that section on the way to Sabers games / concerts at Memorial Auditorium.
I think a gram is significantly more material than fusion reactors need to use.
Basically everything computer that interfaces with humans is graphical. That doesn't mean it's in the designers domain to fix.

A designer is not responsible for making sure that the implementation of their design runs at stutter free at 60fps in a browser -- that is an engineers job. If the engineer who implements such a design is insensitive to these things and needs convincing that it's important to not have the implementation not stutter, jerk or jank you are never gonna get good results.
> Our experience with Sync 1.1 taught us that this does not work with real people at scale; people often lost data as a consequence of this design.

Far better to lose passwords, bookmarks & history than to have them exposed — which is what the current design does (because the user's password can be stolen if the users logs in to his Firefox Account via the HTML page).

There are reasonable countermeasures I can take against losing my passwords: I can record them elsewhere; I can reset them if I lose them. But the only reasonable countermeasure I can take against Mozilla stealing my password is to never login to a Firefox Account (the alternative, hand-verifying HTML and a JavaScript bundle myself on every login attempt, is patently unreasonable).

So that's what I do: I don't use the Firefox Sync functionality, because the security of the system is broken.
You can also use stolen phones for spare parts, though I suppose they're much less valuable as such.
> Why do you need to search my car for illegal drugs if you can't already prove that I have them? Why do you need insight into my finances if you can't already prove that I am evading taxes?

The law already imposes those requirements, in theory. A warrant should only be issued, according to the US Constitution, if evidence is presented to a judge that it's more likely than not the search authorized by the warrant will find evidence of a crime. That usually means a non-consensual search is only allowed when there's already significant evidence of guilt.

If that sounds like a fairly high standard, you're right. It was intended to be. If it sounds like a higher standard than is often used in practice... well, you may be right about that too.
Do you happen to know what, more specifically than "ai ethics," the board considers part of its job?

Is privacy issues around data sufficiently "ai" to be part of this.

I mean, I can easily picture a board of hyper-intelligent academic types who are only interested in skynet or brain-in-a-vat situations.
Sure but then you're just trusting a different party (the packagers). Now you have to trust two groups of people.
Apple hasn't proven to be untrustworthy with data, they have a much different business model than the others. I've never heard of Netflix doing anything that bad with data either.
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How will you charge for this? Because if it's free, it won't stick around for long.
Not necessarily.

The problem is that it's very hard to really anonymize data[1] and the hospital may not necessarily know that.

However, with Google, Facebook and (yes, even) Apple getting into the game my trust is ever more shattered. Let alone any shlocky "health-app" maker which sends your most personal data straight into "the cloud".

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/09/your-secrets-liv...
Wow, was thinking of this exact comment. 100% correct. (Somehow the online mattress craze seems immune to the same downfall.)
> the big returns investors think they are getting from private equity funds are really just the result of leverage and the bull market

This suggests one way PE firms can beat passive indexing.

In bull markets, capital, and therefore leverage, is easier to obtain for niche or exotic investment firms (citation needed) and therefore for PE firms overall. And if they manage to get 10x leverage in bull years and 3x leverage in bear years, they end up comfortably beating the S&P even if they have zero or negative alpha.

I'm skipping over a bunch of details here, but doesn't this seem plausible?
Problem is that "common sense" is not easily encoded in law.
I interviewed at Palantir last month, and the process is still very similar to what you've described. However, regarding the last point, after the product demo they did directly address the potential for misuse of the product.

They described a culture that encourages asking hard questions, and doing the right thing in ethically complex situations, even if that meant turning down a business opportunity. It came across as frank and sincere, and I didn't get any sense they were grooming for a cult, more that they were looking for people who were smart and passionate.
Yep. Sounds like another case of the same thing.
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No, definitely not (at least on the latter two; my school did say take home assignments had to be done independently, if graded. People did get help on the ungraded assignments, though I didn't).

I wondered if bootcamps/online were more like in the adult world (where it's basically always OK to get help) or like traditional degrees (where everything graded has to be done on your own unless a team project). You are saying it is more the former, I suppose.

I just wanted to know if everyone did it. Like are most people in bootcamps friends or spouses or children of working programmers? or are there also people doing this "out of nowhere" like at community college?
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The post states:

>"In such cases, user-space developers must fall back on syscall() to access that functionality, an approach that is both non-portable and error-prone."

I understand about portability but can someone elaborate on why using syscall() is inherently error-prone?
8k @ 40 is 220 ppi, so getting well into close enough range.
Isn't that kind of just a markov chain?
It really depends. I have a friend that used to work for Kroll Ontrack under their forensics unit. She quit after a few years due to the disturbing amount of child porn she had to recover. She knew she was doing good stuff in putting those predators in prison, but it really eats away at you. She's now working on an internal infosec team at Verizon, a job she really loves.

To answer your original question, she has a degree in computer forensics.
The idea of a brain as doing Bayesian inference is pretty compelling. It makes sense evolution would eventually produce an an algorithm that approximates Bayesian inference, since the optimal decision is always found by maximizing expected utility over the Bayesian posterior.

I can't find the reference, but I have also read there is evidence that "gut" or intuitive decision making is also informed by information that the conscious mind does not have access to.
> gochujang

Stuff like this is a bad example, as far as I can tell it doesn't go off because I only buy it once a year and if you know you like Korean food thing things like this are used in loads of it and if you don't know if you like Korean food maybe go to a restaurant.
Depends on the nursing home. I've seen that looked okay and some that stunk of pee. I'd rather live at home on my own, but if I can do something (other than lay in bed) with my time I want to live. There are plenty of interesting things I can do sitting at a computer all day.
He was hired after he made keras
the online mattress store business model can't be any stranger than the brick-and-mortar mattress store business model. I'd love to read more about that.
I didn't notice any? I just tried with my ad/tracking blocking disabled as well.
I don't think these match up very well. While Gibson's most iconic guitar is the LP and Fender's is the Strat, they still make a bunch of different guitars that are NOT expensive, but play great. This is moreso true of Fender, who makes amazing guitars in the $500-750 range. They also don't come with any particular image associated with them. Strats have been used for all sorts of music, from Iron Maiden to John Mayer.

Gibson feels a bit more stuck to an image, but it doesn't feel old and crusty the way Harley does.
Ioctl was a horrible mistake, since it prevents configuring and introspecting devices with general interfaces and ad-hoc scripts.

This elevates the mistake, and polishes the worst of the early Unix conceptual fuckups.
>If you've already got a process running on the victim's computer, aren't there easier ways of installing a keylogger?

Now system designers have to very seriously consider this risk when building sandboxes or other forms of process isolation. Say the attacker controlled process is in a sandbox and would normally be assumed safe.
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Whataboutism only really applies to state actors bickering when both are being hypocritical.

After all, it was created as a US propaganda term for saying that it is hypocritical for the USSR to propagandise the hypocrisy of the USA, when both governments are hypocrites.

Outside of that, it is called making comparisons and it is a completely valid thing to be doing.
Sorry I wasn't clear - By communal cantine I meant someone else is cooking. Like a work or school cantine
5. Friend caused the breakup of his manager with his girlfriend.
Although I happen to agree with you that podcasts were successful before being added to itunes, Apple's adoption of something seems to validate it for the mainstream. Google had tap-to-pay years before it showed up on Apple devices. Now that it's been made ubiquitous by inclusion on recent Apple phones many point-of-sale terminals read 'Apple Pay' and I've had more than one cashier question whether it works with non-Apple devices. LOL.
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I don't see how this is realistic. Here's Wikipedia's list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fastest_production_mot...

There's only 3 production motorcycles here which can do 0-60 in 2.5 sec. You're asking for a cruiser which accelerates faster than, say, the (200hp supercharged liter bike) Ninja H2, with "capacious luggage", while getting double its fuel economy, and costing less.

I think if any motorcycle company could drastically increase performance and efficiency while dropping prices, they would. Harley's brand is married to vintage styling but others are not. Bragging rights for "fastest bike" have been hotly contested over the years.
Houston, Austin, and San Antonio have quite a few jobs and decent cost of living, too.
And what exactly is Google doing with our data?

And how does that apply in this context? Are you conflating Google and their parent: Alphabet?

Also, comparing Google to Big Brother is disingenuous at best. Google isn't trying to control or limit what people think. They are merely trying to allow advertisers to target audiences precisely.

I hate advertising, for sure. But the anti-Google fear-mongering and hate based on nothing substantial and leveraging an inaccurate view of what Google does is harmful for everyone involved.
Income as in revenue is steady. Cash flow has more variance since people pay for GitLab one or more years upfront.

On average we have negative cash flow since we're investing the money we raised in growth by doubling incremental annual contract value every year.

But in some months we have a few large orders that push us to cash flow positive.

We could be cash flow positive every month but that would at the cost of our rate of development. Right now we're focussed on making GitLab a single application for the entire DevOps lifecycle. That means we have to make a lot of progress every month https://about.gitlab.com/2018/10/22/gitlab-11-4-released/
The cover of the new "Noma Guide to Fermentation" is an illustration of this phenomenon. https://www.workman.com/products/the-noma-guide-to-fermentat...

P.S. It's an awesome cookbook; highly recommended.
I think Javascript's ubiquity -- it has an implementation in every browser -- is the cause of much of its hatred. No one hates on SNOBOL because it's been superseded and no-one uses it; but if you're wanting to interface with the web, there's no other first-class langugage, everything else transpiles to JavaScript.

I think an opinionated JavaScript interpreter which considered the worst elements of JavaScript to literally be bugs (e.g. single equals) would help immensely...
Could they not simply have put it flight mode? I appreciate that may not be possible for all makes of phone, but this was an iPhone X.
From my understanding of OpenAI they plan to be open with their research but not necessarily share code.

Sure, anything they patent gives a foreign government a starting point and the U.S. government can use secrecy orders to prevent patents from being public or even flat out locking them down via things like the Invention Secrecy Act but I think OpenAI, and similar initiatives, will still considerably benefit mankind when they actually start to develop 'AI' with practical applications and certainly if they develop AGI.

For example with OpenAI this work they're doing with learning dexterity with the robotic hands could drastically assist amputees in the very near future by learning quickly from input from the user to make considerably more functional artificial limbs.
>>> "will never be linked or associated with Google [...] products [...]"

>> is [...] a Google product

> I can't tell what you're trying to say...

Surely it's clear...said it wouldn't be associated w/ Google products and became a Google product. You can bring up nuance or twist words or whatever, but it's clear that at the least they misled.
But isn't it exactly what Oracle offers? For the money, of course.
> Amazon Corretto 8 is in Preview

Probably a good reason to keep it out of the repos
I tend to believe that it isn't a problem with the core idea or philosophy of privacy (and I'm an intensely staunch privacy advocate). I believe it's a problem with Google. Or more generally, any company which has any financial incentive to use data in ways that the customer does not expect. It's about the human responsibility on the receiving end of the data, and Google is a Bad Seed.

With the Apple Watch, Apple partnered with Stanford for a heart study to identity a-fib using smartwatch-sourced heart rate data. They attracted 400,000 participants. [1]

I would guess that exactly zero of these participants feel cheated by their participation in this study (so far). Why? It's the same general concept as this DeepMind stuff. I'd argue its three things: clear, precise, & opt-in consent of the data shared, clear & constrained explanation of its usage, and trust in the receiving parties.

Apple and Stanford have these three things in spades. Google is incapable of all of them, and you can't Design or Buy your way through corporate culture and customer trust. They gather and correlate so much data, their consent process is far from precise or opt-in. Once they have the data, they have a history of using it for Whatever they want. Which all ties back to trust; Google has permanently ruined any trust customers would have toward them for things that Actually Matter.

Point being, other companies can pick up this mantle. It won't be Google. And if you're a health-focused company, joining Google is a literal death sentence for your product. You'll end up prototyping something amazing, then be completely incapable of deploying it for any public good because no one will give you data.

[1] http://fortune.com/2018/11/02/stanford-apple-watch-heart-stu...
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Running is cost is negligible.
- Paying for the domain (19$/yr).
- Using Zeit now's free plan for hosting.
- Very low load on the server as it is P2P.
- No database.

Guess I can run it for free. :)
Interesting.

Already found an error though: The Wandrd Prvke 21 has a laptop compartment that fits a 14.1 laptop. I assume that's what is meant with "laptop sleeve"?
Does not make a sense to sell yet. It is now the biggest independent distribution in all categories. The more mature the market becomes, the biggest the value for Canonical.
I think you are putting a bit too much faith in human cognition: "when you put a person through 30+ hours driving course, they don't suddenly lose the ability to recognize trees or faces". They do. they get tired and their reaction time slows down. they get drunk, they get distracted. Humans do exactly this - unpredictably lose the ability to recognize and react in a timely manner.
I'd argue it matters more when you have that many products because it takes a greater amount of mental mind games to remember what all the arbitrary names and acronyms refer to in terms of real world services.

It also makes discoverability harder. eg when you're already on AWS and you think "is there a service that does something like [insert problem]?"
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No it doesn’t! The citizenship has nothing to do with the law. It’s the residency. An EU citizen living in New York has exactly zero to do with GDPR. An American citizen living in Paris though, would be covered by the law.
You would have to swap out stock anyway as all physical things degrade with use. It would be a natural culling of devices that would need to be pulled from circulation regardless.This idea doesn't exclude owning your own more powerful device that may have been left at home or a friend's house. You're not interested in the physical object and keeping it for long periods of time. It's a short-term convienince proposition.
I don't know how the GP poster is doing it, because it is practically impossible to be the primary caregiver of an infant or toddler, and be able to work at the same time. Don't fool yourself into thinking you will somehow manage, and I suggest you start discussing options with your wife for when she heads back to work.
Vasanthv put it on GitHub as open source so I don't think they have much of an intent of monetizing the service. I think the lasting impact is that it allows others to easily set up video chat on their own servers.
I started baking sourdough bread lately, it takes about 15-20 minutes of work over 3 days to produce a loaf, from my starter, flour, water and salt.

It’s really rewarding to create something from scratch with simple ingredients.
So, like blacks in the US?
That's true, I just grabbed the acronym for a shortcut to "the huge technology companies who suck up user data all costs". It probably wasn't fair to include them, and Microsoft might be worth tossing in. FAAM?
Never understood it personally, maybe it's just the city I live in but the shopping part is the least tedious part of cooking for me and getting a package delivered successfully in my city is way higher stress wise than any ingredient shopping and besides I'd still have to go to the supermarket anyway for house things, essential and alcohol anyway.
..The amount of people who want to cook and prepare a nice meal is probably a lot less than the amount of people who think they want to cook and prepare a nice meal...

ftfy.

We did Blue Apron and Sunbasket both for a while. Both are generally good products, but they both take time we don't really have. (So my wife periodically logs into the app and opts out of everything they'd have otherwise sent automatically.)
I don't doubt a doctor does the same thing with varying levels of success.

I was just curious what the end game was with it.

I am a bit skeptical of just playing the averages but no more / less than individual doctors.
You could always say: "My elastic block service elastic cloud compute machines are not playing nicely with elastic load balancers (but my elastic file system ones are), I think it might be to do with elastic map reduce, or maybe elastic kubernetes service."
No soup.
PHP 5 was released 14 years ago in July, 2004. One of its new features was OOP. Classes were supported at that time. In fact, a comment from 14 years ago shows an example class [1].

[1]: http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.php#46290
BTW appear.in went login-only sometime recently (I think? I used it yesterday and was surprised), no more free anonymous rooms :(

jitsi meet still has free anon rooms though
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Is privacy issues around data sufficiently "ai" to be part of this?

Of course it is! In fact, if an AI had no data, it would not be useful AI. Just like you or I wouldn't be.