skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the 900 pound, white elephant in the room

Interesting phrase, a mixture of at least three phrases:

- "800-pound gorilla" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/800-pound_gorilla) -- something big that can do whatever it wants

- "white elephant" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_elephant) -- an expensive but useless gift or thing

- "elephant in the room" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_in_the_room) -- something obvious that no one wants to discuss.

It's not clear which meaning you're trying to convey. C is definitely not useless, so I imagine that the "white elephant" part at least is not intended. Note that an adult elephant weighs several thousand pounds, so a 900-pound elephant is probably a baby elephant.
"The charity then offers to pay off `A`s loan, and the money comes back to `C`."

That isn't a charity. It violates the Federal laws about tax exempt organizations.
Ah, I read that phrase differently, but think I see your point now. There's definitely a type of "plan" that can be very micromanagey, and problematic.

I've lucked out and most plans I've worked with are super, super high level and gives everyone a lot of freedom.
My Misspent Years of Conspiracism
> Is the only thing preventing you from running red lights the fear of enforcement?

This is a very telling question. Of course the answer is yes--if you qualify "running red lights" to mean "running red lights when it is clear that it is not going to cause any harm or violate anyone's property rights". For example, it's very late at night, it's an intersection with clear visibility in all directions, well lighted, and there is obviously no one else in sight. In such a case, yes, the only thing preventing me (and probably any reasonable person) from running the red light is fear of enforcement.

But of course that's because any reasonable person has the common sense to know that running a red light under circumstances where it will clearly violate no one's property rights and cause no one harm is not a crime; it's just a violation of an administrative rule, which in practice is used as a revenue source by localities, not to improve traffic safety.

And of course any reasonable person will not run a red light if it would risk causing harm or violating someone's property rights. But in that case, it is not because of fear of enforcement; it's because reasonable people understand that harming others or violating their property rights is a net loss for everybody, including them, so they have a good, rational reason not to do it and would behave the same even if it there were no enforcement.

> we violate property rights in many ways, like peeing in a forest that may be "owned" by someone

If this does no harm, how is it a violation of property rights?

> Or by using an idea that may be "owned" by someone.

Ideas are different because there is no such thing as exclusive "ownership" of ideas. Governments create "ownership" of ideas by making laws, but that doesn't make ideas the same as physical objects. If I take your car, I deprive you of it; we can't both have it. If I take your idea, you still have it; I can't deprive you of it. That is a key difference.
Well for one separating the art, the artist, and the apparent reading of it by the context. Even putting aside that featuring something in a work doesn't imply approval for it at all look at how many have failed to make anti-war films for one. There are countless examples of this separation and dissonance from intention and differing values.
Rényi Entropy
And that is why I also understand that he is dead by bow and arrow.

Sometimes is terrorism.
Larger: http://electricaircraft.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/a...
Plus caloric content is measured by incineration. Which our bodies aren’t doing.
IIRC under current tax code this results in $100k of taxable income for the original debtor. For C, well, getting paid from the charity counts as taxable income, so things net out. Donate $100k, receive $100k in debt repayments, net change to AGI is $0.

The best scheme I can come up with is this:

Make the note performing again by giving the creditor a small amount of money. Claim that it is now worth significantly more than $10k due to being a performing loan. Donate the loan to a controlled charity, pocket the tax deduction for the "fair market value" of it, and then stop paying to make it be "performing" and have the charity take the losses on it. The IRS will still fault it, probably, but it lets you actually get ahead on your taxes.

NB: this system can be a price support for rare artwork getting sold in distress. If you think you can claim to the IRS that a piece of art is worth $100M later, and you pay a 30% marginal tax rate, then the post-donation after-tax price is essentially $30M less.
While the lifter clearly represents a manifestation of some reall effect, they do themselves no favours by linking to a book called "Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion" that claims to expose the secrets covered-up by NASA with respect to the B2's "highly secret electrogravitic field propulsion system" and Rocketdyne's secret antigravity propulsion project.

I hate the fact that phenomena worthy of proper scientific examination are often also massive nut-job magnets.
Mental problem solving paradigms.
Javascript/web performance on Android is universally bad but truly awful on the low end. A Moto G5 pulls ~14 on speedometer 2.0 which puts it in line with an iPhone 5/5s (5-6 year old devices). An iPhone XS scores around 123 in this benchmark for comparison, ~9 times faster.
Can you build it on Windows?
Ask HN: What are alternatives to Chrome?
I am curious, what people usually use. Is Chromium safe and bug-free enough to use it? Is anything worth outside Firefox/Safari?
A really practical one is some type of finance course. It’s amazing how few people understand basic finance, accounting, debt management, etc. An alternative could be a business or entrepreneurship course, if you’re interested in going your own way.
> you're going to end up using brute force and getting mauled...

... and reeking of tuna.
all this FUD around facial recognition being bad for everyone feels eerily similar to the FUD that strong encryption is good for terrorists
> I would be surprised if purchasing a mine for some particular mineral immediately after learning that your tech company will suddenly need an enormous amount of that mineral in a closed door meeting, didn't constitute some sort of insider trading.

Then prepare to be surprised

> Similarly, if advanced real estate purposes were made with the intent of resale I'd imagine you'd also get hit with insider trading

You'd imagine wrong

> I think it'd be pretty reasonable to prosecute them anyways since they are using insider knowledge of market movements to gain an edge in the real estate market.

That's not what insider trading is in the eyes of the law.

Insider trading applies strictly to securities. Commodities markets have laws against front-running. But that's about it.

If you take information that your company is going to suddenly need a new metal and you go buy all the mines then about all your company can do is fire you.
100%. My go-to saying is “lettuce is for rabbits”. And I opt out of lettuce on anything I can.
A one-day-old account that's posted nothing but military/btc/russia articles, announcing a "hack" of whatsapp when the string "hack" appears nowhere in the article, and is describing informants infiltrating group chats the old fashioned way... by being invited.

This type of thing has no place on HN.
My theory is that African wildcats were already so well suited for the role they ended up in (hunting vermin without being annoying or dangerous to humans) that there was very little selection pressure on them for anything but general sociability and smaller territories. Most other domestic animals took much more drastic changes from their wild ancestors to become more than marginally useful.
Seems like a stretch to invent hypotheticals for how a common person might benefit. I am curious what the usage stats are for it and what reflections that has on society.
Rust is good at solving certain scaling issues in large applications: Servo, the lead usecase for Rust, can safely take many parallelizing optimizations that would be unfeasible to debug anywhere else.

That does not make it a defacto winner for any other problem space. For games, for example, having to reason about concurrency is the status quo for most of the gameplay code regardless of the memory management system, and tightening memory only addresses a fragment of the problem space, because dynamic memory allocation is not a primary requirement(fixed sets of assets and fixed design constraints mean that a heavily static, early-binding approach to game coding works for most things, most of the time - so the difficult errors will tend to surface outside of memory management as an odd runtime behavior). [0]

As a drop-in "better C" it's not a great fit, either, because the focus is on making these in-the-large problems a top concern at all times. It creates friction in migrating to Rust, leaving the floor open for a smaller language that operates at the lowest levels of safety, doing its best to be both C-compatible and improve the parts that can't be addressed by leveraging or patching up the existing C ecosystem.

Zig is my top pick for a language that can address this niche, though it's still an early stage project.

[0] AAA-scale code can still benefit, of course. Most games aren't AAA.
Yes. Collection agencies normally are used for unsecured debt. Mortgages are secured by real estate.

There has always been a brisk market for real estate paper ("notes"). This might be someone that lent on a second mortgage and now needs his cash back, so he enters the note market and takes a hefty discount to turn his stream of income into a lump sum. Or someone that just sold their house with owner financing, and wants to be free of the hassle of servicing the loan for the next fifteen years, so they sell on the open market. Supply and demand determine the prices, and the discounts are easily 40% off the net present value of that mortgage note's stream of income.
I played around with Rekognition a few months ago and frankly wasn’t that impressed with what it could do. As far as I can remember it could sort of compare if the same person was in two photos (definitely false negatives with various photos of myself I compared), basic OCR of text off images, and not very accurate recognition of certain things/objects.
FUD aside, I'm with the GP on a question that you might have an answer for: How will Rekognition positively affect the common person?
Off the top of my head, there will be positive usecases in assistive technology for the visually impaired. Also, if the computer knows where I am looking, it may enable some productivity tools.

That said, I agree with you that these potential positive uses do not outweigh the negative ones you allude to.
I'm sure it will be used for nefarious things too however,

Programs involving photography, yes the big dogs have their own solutions already but this lowers the bar for us hobbyists.

Photo affects (Blurring the background and not the face), sorting images by labels (search for trees and get your photos with trees), searching by people.

Potentially things traffic monitoring, foot traffic in a mall, security systems (record a photo of all customers in the case of theft), automating tracking objects in videos.
Exactly. I learned to find different instruments in songs by watching YouTube videos of producers putting a song together. Now it’s much easier for me to pick up that mellow instrument way way in the background of a hook.
I went to a concert the other night, and they where scanning driver licenses and running facial recognition on everyone entering. It was very disconcerting. It is clear to me that we need new laws to protect against the misuse of this technology. Laws that apply to everyone without exceptions for law enforcement. If we don't I fear we are headed towards a 1984 type of future.
Our fellow human comrades in the country next door have a very similar belief system that contains the same defense mechanisms. Spread the word and fight the enemies of their deity.

This is self-reflection: everyone believes what fits better to one, don't push your shit over others or risky getting killed with bows and arrows, and every now and then bombs.

Religions are very creative ancient defense mechanisms. It exists for you to have bonds to your group, for you to survive, and protecting the belief system is to protect your own. But this is not 1600 anymore, time to grow up. Take the good stuff and throw the toxic shit behind or put it all behind.
When I read the headline I thought this was going to be something like slow food or the slow movement in general https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_movement_(culture) and arguing for software to be slower.

I'm glad I was wrong.
It’s quite hard to do this randomly. You need a substantial data set to train the machine to recognise your targets face. You can’t just upload 5 or 6 blurry social media photos.
Yes, they are all absolutely lovely, and beneficiaries of industrial scale tax dodging and apologists to bribery of the UK government.
I think it's far less about control and more about bulletproofing the technology.

If the self-driver becomes better than the best human drivers, there's limited gains in real safety if a 15-year-old with his learner's permit/drunkard/suicidal/homicidal/distracted person can still grab the wheel and steer it into a wall manually.

We may find that there are some opportunities that only become feasible if we remove the human factor. I could see a road network with much higher speeds for advanced self-driving vehicles, especially if you rely on the vehicles being able to communicate directly with each other and signaling mechanisms to keep traffic more orderly than a typical freeway.

There may also be some interesting business angles in it-- I fully expect that the feature after "we removed the steering wheel" is "we put a lie-flat bed, workstation or minibar where it lived."
This will catch lots of criminals. That is a good thing.
Where was this? I would have refused entry and demanded a refund.
...and you teach him how to hammer nails. Teach a man how to make hammers and ...
Outside of facial recognition, the service will allow online marketplaces and dating sites to stay safer. They all have a problem where spammers and fraudsters post images with content meant to deceive or abuse site policies.

With facial recognition, app developers can build services like the ones tgat Google and Apple have built in their phones; the ability to look at your photos to see which ones have you or others that are close to you, organize those, etc. Who knows what else Devs will come up with.
NET Core – Implementing GDPR stop gap coverage
It's better to be honest about not caring about a subject. Behaving naturally is sincerity.

There's always something that can be found for mutual sincerity.
I can second taking a language as the most useful elective...and it leading to moving to Japan, studying here, getting married etc.
I wonder whether that is true. I'm uncertain about the following (due to not understanding virtual memory to physical memory translation and isolated processes well enough) but I could imagine the following or a variant of it:

unmapping the kernel is not enough if another thread still has access to it. From my undertanding: if a process has access to a kernel space memory address. Then as the attacker you train the branch predictor unit to dereference a certain address in kernel space, then the thread/core that has access to it dereferences it and then it'll be cached.

What I don't understand is that if you dereference a virtual memory address the whole time whether you're then training the BPU to remember that address (and that other processes will be influenced if they dereference the same virtual address) or that you're training the BPU to dereference the physical address behind it. It really depends on whether the BPU happens before the MMU or after.

Well whether my reasoning is right or not according to the following post Spectre can also read kernel memory: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/01/reading-privi...
There are probably few organizations that are as consistently wrong as the CIA throughout its history. They've missed basically every significant event that happened in the post-war era, and often famously predicted the opposite. No less true in recent history - the Berlin Wall, 9/11, the Iraq War, the Arab Spring - the list of failures is constant and spectacular. This is unsurprising, since the main feature that produces good results for any analytical group - accountability - is notoriously absent for the CIA. Let's NOT learn methodology from this organization.
In the early days of the USA, "land speculation was scandal bordering on crime and sometimes considered treason (since the USA borders were expanding, so getting involved in not-yet-USA land was competiting with government plans).
I think it is a bit like dating in the modern era: there's always the hope of finding the perfect unicorn.

There's also the fact that people sometimes dont hire until it hurts (they have too much work to do) and then there's little or not time to train.

There's also a flood of folks from the bootcamps that may or may not have skills but want the salary of a jr dev. These folks (understandably!) flood any jr job posting, making it hard to get through to the hiring manager. There's a bit of the flavor of the year 1999 in my opinion, where everyone wanted to be a programmer (and if you could say "Java" you were hired).

Finally, an investment of months of training makes sense if an employee will be around for years. But because of the erosion of the employee/employer social contract, there's no guarantee as to how long a trained employee will stick around. Better to wait and hire someone who can make an impact their second day.

That said I think there's an enormous opportunity to do this kind of training, create loyal employees, and improve the world by training more devs.
I'm not trying to make 'some sort of narrow point' around any colloquial vernacular.

Merely pointing out that any transaction involves a transfer, and your claim that some transactions are worse because someone has less money at the end of it, is perhaps missing the point.

Unless the people you were dealing with both went into the deal knowing which one would lose money - then it's comparable to your 'placing a bet' analogy.

Sure, I'm not doubting that it was (probably) ethically dubious - and kudos for not participating in that industry any longer.

As to:

> If I give somebody $10 for a sandwich, I didn't lose the money. I traded it for something more valuable.

- that's clearly not true.

You have ten fewer dollars than you did before the transaction.

Whether it's more valuable to you is very much subjective, though if you asked someone if they'd prefer $10 or a sandwich, most people would say the $10.

Between $100 and ten sandwiches, I'd suggest all would choose the money.

Conflating 'winners' with who came out ahead in terms of self-assessed value proposition of a particular transaction is to also miss the point.

> We turned a profit by being smarter or faster or luckier than the people we traded with.

This is the essence of trade.
Beautiful article!

I want to add that specially targeted patient population hospitals are not unique only to London, but actually pretty common before the 1900s.

In New York City, we had the German Hospital (Now Cornell), the Jewish Hospital (now Mount Sinai Hospital), the English hospital (Columbia), etc all with lineages that were originally tied to ethnic groups.

(I hope it goes without saying that these ethnic preferences are no longer applicable; all these world class hospitals are highly multinational.)
Report back in a month, please! I’m interested
remind: https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/

alpine: https://repo.or.cz/alpine.git

mg: https://github.com/hboetes/mg/
flipping houses isn't driving up the cost of housing. The costs go up for other reasons. Flipping is simply trading, aka providing liquidity in exchange for taking volatility risk.
You don't want any holes in the ozone layer because it absorbs UV light, but you also don't want a thick ozone layer anywhere because of its greenhouse properties. It's a balancing act, and mass commercial adoption of this technology would likely mess with that.
It's not harsh, it's acknowledging that windfall income is unearned. That half a million exemption (or half that for unmarried people) is in addition to deductions for all depreciation and expenses.
Alibaba suffers rare 'down round' investment as Babytree's HK IPO prices low
Clojure could just adopt user-defined reader macros instead. As expected there's an open source heredoc lib[0] for Common Lisp; the feature is so easy to add though it's probably been independently added several different ways (this uses ring buffers) to who knows how many projects.

[0] https://github.com/e-user/cl-heredoc alas gpl3, but no matter, easy to write your own
I've done that to sms spammers. I don't know if it worked but I tried ten or so variations. I stopped receiving those messages. I was getting 10 a day at the time. I doubt I actually did any damage but I really hope I did.
I've been wondering for ages why we don't continue activally domesticating other species - what better way to protect them than to ensure we can integrate? It may take a while, bit we've managed it in the past with a fragment of our scientific knowledge
And many people use Homebrew on OSX, or Linuxbrew (homebrew for Linux -- useful especially for users of beowulf clusters who often don't have rights to install anything except in their home directories), and brew and its formulas are written in Ruby.
Also don't go to concerts that do this.
I liked Book 2 the most, less flashbacks to the past and less emphasis on the Chinese culture/themes. I'd give Book 2 a shot and see if that rekindles the motivation.
Work with Outlook for MAC in OLM Format and Converting Meeting Requests to MHTML
> The engineering problem is to be able to input amps into a charge receptacle without it leaking away. But it was only coulombs of charge. 1 amp being equal to 1 coulomb passing by in 1 second.

The problem with stating it in this way is that it sounds trivial - you run 1 amp devices all the time. But the power required is still many megawatts: as you try to feed charges into an oppositely polarized receptacle that is physically distant from the source, the required voltage climbs to levels usually associated with lightning. Good luck pushing an easy 1 amp against a gigavolt of potential...
Why? Likely he made both decisions together, since that's the obvious behavior.
I cannot think of a single way facial recognition will really truly help either of those “stay safer”.

I find Google and Apple’s photo recognition features to be of extremely limited usefulness to begin with. Don’t really except other devs to come up with other compelling use cases.

Facial recognition is a technology without a killer app. Unless that killer app is over-the-top, oppressive Big Brother-like security.
In order to qualify as an equal opportunity employer an open position must be posted to the public. If you wish to convert a contractor to an employee the position already filled by that person must be posted to the public in compliance with EEO law. You can put whatever you want in the job requirements for that position, as the candidate is chosen before the position is posted.

Sometimes companies over list job requirements because they don't understand the position's actual requirements and other times they want a purple unicorn.
Ion drive first flight