skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even without new physics, processes can be improved with new tech. As far as I know current computers are based in the same foundations as in the past century, but they're many orders of magnitude more powerful. Then, after some threshold, quantitative changes become qualitative ones.
Why coding is a difficulty for many
> Please someone who knows much more than me about deep learning tell me how a deep learning ai can explain how it came to an answer.

A mouse can't do that either. Yet we are unable to mimic mouse intelligence with any of our current tools.
Most people don't have the financial wisdom to judge "too good to be true" on a macroeconomics basis. Specially not before the bubble burst, when even most experts regular people had access to thought there was nothing wrong with it. Someone offered them a great deal and they took it, simple as that. If a bank offers me a loan with very low interests should I consider the state of the whole economy and the impact of my loan on the country in 10 years before I take it?

Compounding to that the fact that these people weren't even benefited by the whole scam. They lost their houses, their savings, everything. If they knew what was at stake they might bear some responsibility, but they didn't.
Is AWS going to eat the enterprise routing industry for lunch?
No, it leads to the only valuable definition of competition: competitors are products that serve the same need. Netflix and Youtube are entertainment. They compete with each other, as well as TV, video games, and a bunch of other things. They also serve other needs (e.g. education). But there are (many) other needs that they don't serve (e.g. nutrition (you can't eat Netflix), healthcare, human relationships, etc.).
I have not found my preferences to be significantly different from my peers. I work mostly on large codebases all in Python with occasional compiled extension modules. The lack of compile-time verification in Python has not affected my work in the manner you mention about JavaScript. If anything, not waiting for long compile times (e.g. like in Scala which I also occasionally work in) improves my productivity and there are frankly just no serious classes of errors that get caught by the compiler in a time-saving way compared with low effort unit tests in Python.

I think the rise of bloated IDEs is a more modern phenomenon, popular with younger developers who were trained on those tools and haven’t invested time yet to learn there’s a much better way to work.
I feel like I've read this article plenty of times, just replace the scooter company with a rideshare company or a delivery company or anything else from the "gig economy." And after a few months or years, how many of these jobs remain stable and well-paying, if they still exist at all? Of course it's good that someone who was homeless is given a chance to reenter the workforce but looking to these incredibly volatile startup/gig economy companies to provide that seems like, after all the recent examples, a bad idea.
Good article. This is what I try to explain to my (non-techie) friends who never turn off their phones and carry them with them everywhere they go.

They just don't seem to grasp the implications until they see data heat-maps of user activity. Visuals like this really help them understand.

One thing the article didn't include is that 3-letter gov agencies with backbone taps and links to official record dbs are mapping us in high-fidelity as well.
China bans sale of nearly all iPhone models
But you have to coexist with everyone else in a society that finds advertising, manipulation (to an extent) and other things psychopaths excel at tolerable.

There's a whole range of "bad" things that society finds tolerable (I'm talking in general, not specifically advertising or trying to manipulate people) and if you cannot stand one/many of those things then you're free to live in a log cabin in the woods.

I'd love to not play the taxes game or put up with the paternalistic government I live under but it just so happens that it's a prerequisite to being part of society. I'm free to screw off to some log cabin in the woods but I'd rather live within society even if it had some problems.
65 merges the tab and titlebar into a unified CSS element because your tabs are on top now, too bad.
> Note that currently web browser developers are implementing a fullscreen mode with keyboard lock that is much harder to leave because it blocks most of system key combinations. The only keys that will still work are Ctrl + Alt + Del or holding an Esc for two seconds. And as I assume you cannot leave it using mouse or touchpad.

What possible justification is there for this? Looks like this can become an ideal way to 'force' unsuspecting users to interact with a malicious site...
> Only thing is, you can't choose what content you want to experience

On the plus side the content during sleep is curated based on your personalised tastes, with special preference to what you recently saw...

The recommendations are generated in real-time using an unique algorithm running on the world's fastest neural network.

Also the transition from one program to another is completely seamless, with no credit-scenes and ZERO advertisements.
Read one book. Dostoyevsky's ‘Crime and Punishment’, concentrating on all of the various ways he portrays righteousness.

He helps you see what's right in front of you, namely that people do wrong things not because they are evil or bad, but because they are weak.

Once you understand people as inherently weak, that they do stupid shit because they are essentially helpless, not because they're bad or evil or cruel, it becomes so much easier to forgive.

Mental toughness is all about forgiving and forgetting, and you learn to forgive only by accepting that people are weak, that people are essentially incapable of doing what's right.

Here one of my favorite quotes from the book:

“She is so unhappy! Ah, how unhappy! She believes there must be righteousness everywhere. She expects it. She doesn't see that it's impossible for people to be righteous and she is angry at it.”
Ok. Most every other agency runs a fairly tight ship. I'd take that any-day over the patchwork of different, and unaccountable, entities that I both know and don't know that hold my PII
Reminds me of when Obama claimed upwards of 50 attacks have been foiled by bulk data collection programs. However other officials said that the NSA was unable to provide substantial evidence that even single one was foiled[1].

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/nsa-program-stopped-no-te...
I watch YouTube a lot compared to any other TV or entertainment. Both TV and Netflix seem to have got obsessed over the idea of the "box set".. dragging a story out to 20 hours+ when I'd rather just get a novel story in a short time and then move on to something else. I just haven't got the time for most shows Netflix considers good nowadays when I can watch lots of 10 minute videos that are more entertaining in a variety of ways.
Now that's got to be a Submarine Article, with the repeated mentions of one company and the underlying narrative of Scooter companies being job providers. Simultaneously a job ad and an attempt to sway public and/or local government option in favour of scooter companies (or at the least, this scooter company) remaining in SF.

Otherwise, it's hard to believe that 'person gets a blue collar job' is something that an article would be written about...
>if I disable location and then reenable it when I have moved more than 20-30 miles, the GPS has to reacquire the signal and can take up to 2 minutes (I also tried it when I drove several hundred miles, it took several minutes to reacquire). This is indicative of the GPS module being off totally. This was not so when it had Google Play Services on, it was able to reacquire my location extremely quickly, sometimes almost instantaneously even if I moved a long distance. I suspect that Google Play was still tracking my location even if I turned off location services

This is more likely access to network assisted GPS.

To know your location, the receiver needs the GPS ephemeris and almanac data (basically the status/location/trajectories of the GPS satellites). This is transmitted by the satellites themselves, but extremely slowly (50 bps with the entire navigation message taking 12.5 minutes)#.

To speed things up substantially (almost instant vs minutes), this info can be delivered over the network instead. I presume that in your case it was being provided over the network as part of the Play services.

# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_signals#Navigation_message
Is Chrome Going to Be ONLY Browser? (Microsoft Ditching Edge)
8 Ways to Prepare Yourself for Business Crises Ahead
...who is great at figuring out what they want to make progress toward?
Just throwing this out there because I’d like to hear the intelligent and reasoned answers from HN and get a discussion going:

Should we have a totally digital and cashless monetary system? It seems to me that the internet infrastructure as a whole is quite fragile, and a few well placed nuclear bombs could cut Internet access to a country, and therefore kill their transactional capability too. Would that make them more vulnerable?

(With most of the banking system computerised, have we past this threshold already?)

What did they do during World War II? I’m guessing cash was still common and this wasn’t an issue...

Interested in everyone’s thoughts...
Intel Further Boosts CapEx to Meet Demand for 14nm Chips
Princeton’s Ad-Blocking Superweapon May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking Arms Race
> Remarkably the SEC did inspect Madoff Investments and did not conclude it was a fraud even though it obviously was.

> Ultimately as a potential investor this would have been easy to spot as at least suspect.

You think that even after the SEC failed to spot the fraud investors with far less power should be able to? I don't quite follow your argument here. A little more clarification would be nice.

> Finally it did result in people losing their retirement funds, for some people absolutely everything.

Taking money that people have received 20 years ago off people will also result in some people losing everything. (I know that they say that the people they are extracting the money from are keeping the original investments but what if some of the money has been spent?)
That does not make advertising and other manipulation less immoral.

> and if you cannot stand one/many of those things then you're free to live in a log cabin in the woods.

If you have nothing intelligent to contribute, don't post.
These extra features and thus the complexity are the opposite of what I'd like in a self-hosted file share system.

Why does everything have to be bloated into oblivion like this. We need more purpose built software...

What i like? OpenBSD for firewalls, and public facing terminal servers. Just lovely.

/rant.
If she has an iPad, take a look at Codea. It uses Lua and is focused on game development. There are plenty of bundled examples. I created Pong in a couple of hours, without having used Codea before. It really helps to have a bluetooth keyboard so that half the screen isn’t taken.
Bikini app maker draws another disgruntled developer to its Facebook fight
Because if they were competent they wouldn't be a group of ex-KDE developers working on a PHP dinosaur of spaghetti code.
You might have missed the other half - where he doesn't want free speech for people he disagrees with.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/5/17940650/how-history-gets...
It would be nice for the code to have some kind of 'check digit', so that the code cannot resolve if the geocoding returns the wrong square, or if any letters are off-by-one or transposed.

Check digits don't work well with truncatable codes though :-(
That's great but I hate how they mark suggestions with a star and add an extra comment. It should just work, not add UI clutter and noise
This is why most password managers use encryption to store your passwords. They should never be sent to the provider of the password manager in plaintext form.

And if you are still afraid of that, use a password manager which does not store it's data on somebody else's server.
If you buy the stolen goods from a big box retailer that is routinely regulated then this analogy might be useful. As it is it does not apply very well to this situation.
I'll be honest: I probably watch more Youtube than Netflix. But, and this is a big but: I'll continue paying for Netflix long after I stop paying for Youtube.

Why? Netflix is quality content that I watch when I plan on sitting in front of the TV. In contrast, I only watch Youtube for a few minutes here and there.

A different analogy is live TV versus a DVD. Youtube is more like live TV: lower-quality, news, commentary, interactive. Netflix is well-produced narratives.
Tell that to Carrie fisher
JAlbum 17 with License for Mac Crack
They're leaving the door open to them working if you match the right strain with the right person (this is their area of research, of course they would like it to work). But the study provides no support for that.

In contrast, fecal transplants have been shown to be effective for some diseases.
Reminds me of this clip from Family Guy [0] where Peter decides to change his wardrobe for work

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-FXgAOGg

I believe most people are conformists and do not really care for those who stick out like a nail out the board; most will try to hammer it back in. If you're not a "culture fit", they might even let you go. Risky.
If the pharmaceutical industry were willing to fake efficacy results, surely they could do better than having over ½ their drugs fail Phase III efficacy trials. Especially since one thing everyone agrees on is that the best way to lower drug costs is to figure out which drugs are going to fail Phase III much, much earlier.
Indeed most phones do. This law however applies to resellers of cheap chinese phones of small brands as well, which was my case.
Despite the fact that I use YouTube only for music videos and technical content and have never watched a Jordan Peterson video, YouTube recommends only Jordan Peterson videos to me.
That doesn't make much senser. As soon as you wrtite a legal document in "plain English", whatever that may mean, you would find out how bad plain language is at capturing the endless nuances of actual life that need to be captured in contractual language.

I also don't actually find the current language of TOS prohibitively obfuscated, even though English isn't even my first language. The trouble is length far more than phrasing.

What could possibly work is to codify certain recurring segments, i. e. specify them once in a (complicated) law, then represent them in an understandable format, such as a visualisation. The "Nutritional Informations" come to mind.

Alternatively, a certification scheme grading different levels of data protection could work, such as it is currently used for organic food.

Or, you know, just outlaw the stuff that no sane person would ever accept unless forced to by the market converging on one, very low, standard.
This. Their sync on android sucks big time. I go to my gallery, select 20 pictures and send them to Nextcloud, only to find only 5 of them have been actually uploaded. It happens every.single.time. Gonna switch to Seafile really soon.
The LSAT is going digital exclusively on Microsoft Surface Go tablets
It’s also pretty well known in math and CS/SE communities.

Heck, the mathematical research into the power of language, and in particular the ability to embed models of reasoning into equations to allow you to formalize your meta-reasoning, is what led to the birth of electric computers.

So I find it shallow skepticism to suggest there’s not evidence that it would be useful to AI, because literally the most cursory glance would show mounds of it.

The real challenge is and always has been how to combine or embed symbolic reasoning capabilities efficiently within a fuzzier approximator, allowing for “getting close” in a fuzzy way then fine tuning it using more advanced rules.

That mimics more closely how we think, where we broadly intuit a few potential answers, then use higher order thinking to sift through them.
The article doesn’t mention a really important dynamic here — a LOT of the madoff IOUs were purchased by hedge funds for pennies on the dollar, from Madoff investors who needed liquidity for e.g. retirement and couldn’t wait decades to get their money back. Dunno if there still is, but there was an active and liquid market for Madoff receipts for a while. A fund could tell an individual who was wiped out by Madoff “we’ll pay you $0.20 on the dollar for your claim against Madoff”, and then collect the $0.80+ that’s been recovered over the past 10 years. I don’t have an estimate of what % of the recovered dollars are going to the original investors...but it’s not 100%. A lot of the claims have been traded.
I think it's not just unintuitive but also slightly misleading, because you have to be aware that surface increases exponentially. The grey square, for instance, has 1.4 times the surface of the red one, but the difference looks smaller than that.
Question: How Hacker News Fights Fake News?
Ask HN: What prominent and high profile companies use TDD?
When adopting a practice I think it is important to look at experiences with it. So far I have found a paper (https://collaboration.csc.ncsu.edu/laurie/Papers/TDDpaperv8.pdf)[An Initial Investigation of Test Driven Development in Industry]

From abstract:

> In our research, we ran a set of structured experiments with 24 professional pair programmers. One group developed code using TDD while the other a waterfall-like approach. Both groups developed a small Java program. We found that the TDD developers produced higher quality code, which passed 18% more functional black box test cases. However, TDD developer pairs took 16% more time for development.

Referring to this as "industry" seems a bit contrived and wrong.

What I am looking for is some details of companies/teams/organizations (not individual developers at companies) that use TDD with some significant consistency for production software with real users. That means > 50% of the time, said entities use TDD for some code base. And I would like this to be somewhat verifiable and well documented - not just some person on Quora saying "Some How Yes !!! All major products are following TDD, And if few are not following then they are probably busy to create unit cases/integration tests for existing code and want to adapt TDD in near future as soon as possible !"

With TDD I mean:

- From Kent Beck: Never write a single line of code unless you have a failing automated test. Eliminate duplication.

- From Wikipedia: 1. Add a test, 2. Run all tests and see if the new test fails, 3. Write the code, 4. Run tests, 5. Refactor code, Repeat

What TDD is not:

- Existence of automated tests

- Existence of test coverage metric mandates
Machine learning and cryptography in defence against adversarial attacks
Redmine 4.0.0, 3.4.7 and 3.3.9 released
yes but if you have a subscription and you watch nothing algorithms probably tell them that sooner or later you will stop to have a subscription. There is probably a sweet spot where you are most likely to keep your subscription even without watching much. This would really be what must watch original content would be about. If you have netflix only for showing your kid BabyBoss, then that is when it might be good for them. (until that kid hits the teenage years)
Because the hedge funds are by definition not insiders? They are literally not using non-public corporate data at all.

Insider trading laws don’t exist to make sure there isn’t information assymetry, the market is all about that assymetry. Insider trading laws are about insiders stealing from other shareholders.
Gems of Corrado Böhm
Tom Lehrer, man ahead of his time
> I'd like a fast mode, where you just get immediate feedback on the answer (with correct answer displayed)

I'm really annoyed by unnescesary delays, this mode with improve it tons for me. Even leaving the info could be fine, but it took ~1s delay for it to appear..
>> that some direct Madoff investors were also customers of the funds

> that some Madoff investors.

You omitted the word "direct" (why?)

Person X invests in a fund Y that invests with Madoff and gets out soon enough. Person X then invests those gains "directly" with Madoff. Person X loses money with Madoff. How much does Person X deserve (or owe)?

Another example would be Person A who invests $N in the scheme. Takes out $10N principal & profits (as a test that the scheme is authentic). Invests that $10N and even more in the scheme, loses it.

How much do you claw back for (or from?) Person A?
Here's what torpedo damages look like: https://cleantechnica.com/2018/12/08/tesla-model-3-completel...
I agree with this article 100%. I have posted answers on quora to only have them disappear. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason on posts, moderation, and who sees what answer.
The people buying the houses they couldn't afford took a bath financially. The companies did to a degree. The people running the show whose malicious actions an idiot could have predicted would lead to eventual collapse got a bonus.

You can say people bear responsibility and they do but we rely on our professionals to use their greater education, and their expertise to manage systemic risk by making informed choices and creating systems that manage not create risk.

No degree or number of idiot customers could have created the collapse because banks wherein the bank intends to hold the loan isn't insentivized to give out loans wherein it has a poor chance of being paid. Foreclosure is unlikely to yield but a fraction of the face value of the debt. In order to crash and burn you need an entire mechanism whereby banks can originate bad loans, get paid, and sell them off en mass as securities by outright lying about the nature of the loans being sold while securing this whole endeavor with insurance that can't possibly afford to pay for the collapse you are engineering. Then you need to pump the gas on the stupid until you run the economy into a ditch.

The economy collapsed because a bunch of dumb people bought houses they couldn't afford is a myth that conservatives and the financial industry is retconning in hopes that we are too stupid and uninformed to read. There have always been idiots willing to sign on the dotted line for dumb financial products. There are a million idiots now. We expect the adults in the room not to sell them the same way we don't expect the invisible hand of the market to keep people from eating melamine in their food.
Qualcomm wins preliminary China import ruling against some iPhone models
Prions, Nearly Indestructible and Universally Lethal, Seed the Eyes of Victims
I love being manager A. I always start sprints/epics as manager A. In my experience 1 of 5 projects succeeds with Manager A and I get a very superior result with a solution I myself would have never thought of. Rainbows and unicorns everywhere!

But...the other 4 times I get either no solution, or the Upload button only works as long as one user at a time tries it, or only on Chrome when all customers use IE8, or the documents randomly disappear when new dockers spin up, or the button needed to be WCAG compliant and no one bothered checking, etc. Suddenly I am forced to be Manager B and no one is happy. The feature is 3x over budget and 3 weeks late.

What leading indicators can we use to predict or at least alert to a failing Manager A project early in the cycle so I can do what I love, devs can do what they love, biz stakeholders get things on time and on budget, and customers can get something they love?
I'm still not sure of the history there. I remember one of the selling points of the early OS X was that it was a "Certified UNIX" and I remember that no one I tried to sell one too cared.

Was it just the cost of maintaining the certification? The fact that no other OS went down that route?