skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is off topic from the headline.

> Future Applications

> While it’s easy to get caught up in the Orwellian nature of an “always on” network of license plate snitchers, there are many positive applications of this technology.

I don't agree with this. The consequences of constantly being watched and recorded aren't good for humanity. Given the Australian government's penchant for creating laws to spread mass surveillance, I couldn't think of a worse place that could do with this software.

> Imagine a passive system scanning fellow motorists for an abductors car that automatically alerts authorities and family members to their current location and direction.

Sounds like a "Think of the children" kind of argument to me.
> I can imagine GDPR being useful in the EU for corporate FB accounts. Wasn't FB working on a work-specific version of their site? If so, corporate legal teams would get involved in leaks, I would imagine.

I can imagine GDPR working very well for consumers as well, and it seems we are up for some real legal entertainment in the next few months/years :-)

Edit: It also wouldn't surprise me if it gets worse before it gets better. If I was a publisher right now I'd seriously consider blocking access from EU countries. (But that would of course be an invitation for a small, agile publisher who'd succeed either with a micropayments based approach or a context based ads approach.)
Really nice work by Matt. Haven’t seen a project before that makes some of that stuff quite so quick and simple.

Tangentially, anyone have a transpiler recommendation?

Started to look at Babel but it seems most inclined to targeting Javascript. Looking to go bidirectional between Python and a proprietary DSL.

Would have to reverse engineer the DSL grammmar I assume but it doesn’t seem very complex, so hearing of any good tooling would be interesting.
It is for beginners - you get over that. Learning how to fall by kind of sitting helps.

When I lived in Chamonix a lot of the enthusiast boarders had fractured spines - now there's one to avoid. Mostly from going over cliff like drops by error, off piste.
OTOH it's easy to dismiss something as overly complex before you understand it yourself.
Its such a shame that he took that ultimate step. He seemed very savvy legally so its odd that he would commit to taking his own life before even being convicted. He wasn't completely backed into a corner, he had options. That alone makes me think the depression and suicidal ideation existed previously.
To add to that: India's share of world income collapsed from 22.6% in 1700, almost equal to Europe's share of 23.3% at that time, to as low as 3.8% in 1952.[1]

And, India got partitioned into 3 countries, all of which have spend insane amounts of resources fighting each other when that same could have been spent on economic development and other hostile neighbors of the unified India would have been smaller in size to be a threat.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_economy_of_the...
As general word of caution: is that extra fraction of interest worth the hassle/risk of dealing with a less known bank?

What I mean is, banks like Ally offer both near-highest interest rates, are well established, and provide a nice experience. Your savings account is bread and butter in your financial life. Using some "janky" bank just to squeeze few dollars probably isn't a good use of your time.

I'm not saying mysavingsdirect.com is "janky"; I really have no idea about them. But I've seen a number of higher interest bank accounts and turned them down because they were from unknown vendors.

As an example, I was pissed at Ally and needed a new vendor. I decided to try Discover Bank, figuring they'd be good with a well established reputation like Discover, and with the same interest rates as Ally. But the experience has been decidedly worse. Slower deposits and transfers, for example.

Also worth noting that usually you shouldn't be carrying a lot in savings anyway. Excess cash should be sitting in investments and doing work. So savings accounts will only be carrying emergency funds et al. If you've got, say, $12k in your account, an extra 0.4% is only going to give you a few extra bucks a year.

Is a few extra bucks worth working with a lesser bank?

Or, to the focus of the original article, is a few extra bucks worth working with an uninsured bank?

I advise extreme caution when it comes to savings accounts, which are explicitly for "safe" money in a health financial portfolio.
Samsung to bring 4K OLED laptops to CES 2019
Youre a dispicable human, a pathetic excuse for an american and should be thrown out of the country immediately. hang all globalists
Even then, I think the great UI in the compiler explorer still puts it apart from the others.
This is only around 20-25% of the median discretionary income in the US i.e. money available for savings after all ordinary expenses. So while it can have a significant impact on savings rate, I would agree that it is misleading to state that this will make you "broke".

Being broke requires spending the other 75-80% of discretionary income too, and that is a much larger pool of money.
> and threatened with a sentence way out of proportion to the crime

What I quoted says nothing more. And what I replied to was "if you can't do the time", implying "the time" was appropriate to the crime.

> to suggest he was just a naughty schoolboy

What in what I quoted suggests that? Can you quote the bits you consider "a load of nonsense"?
It depends on the software...

I wouldn't care about the overall number of users, just the number of users in the market that I'm targeting. The creative market didn't abandon Apple when the overall Mac market was in dire straights because the market they cared about still had a lot of Mac users.

From what I can see, the consumer market for software is basically dead. Is anyone making serious money on non game personal computer software besides Adobe and Microsoft?

The smaller Mac only software companies are going by the "thousand true fans" strategy. Stay small and get a small loyal customer base.
Exactly. Counting cards at the blackjack table in Vegas isn't illegal, but they won't let you play after they figure out that you are. You can can beat the bookmakers, but once you do, you either get cut off or you only get offered odds with more juice.
I feel like this argument should be a class of fallacy. Lots of things have "existed" for a long time, but that doesn't mean previous iterations were effective. All it proves is that a problem has existed for a long time and people have been attempting to address it.

Historically, women frequently died from child birth. Modern medicine has made child birth significantly safer for both mother and child. These advancements need to be disseminated to individuals, and society has a need to determine whether or not a person knows the latest scientifically sound techniques.

Professional licensing fulfills this role.

Of course, it's more expensive to hire a person whose spent years training. But without some verification, there's going to be a race to the bottom as untrained individuals undercut the competition. And yes, it does act as a barrier to entry for people who could do a great job.

But, the risks of hiring an poorly trained midwife are much more serious than those of hiring an untrained software developer. Thus, society is okay with having unlicensed people writing software but isn't okay with unlicensed people treating them for injuries.
Once again--yet again--it mystifies me that anybody would privilege the literal capability of being an asshole over the moral responsibility of not being one.
A good school district in America is a bubble itself. The diversity is lacking and the politics are even worse than conservative. They're self-righteous.
I don’t believe it was raised anywhere, also just one harp on what you said: it’s not just having infinite cardinality but also having an appropriate probability measure on the space. For example, the positive integers have infinite cardinality, but you can put probability distributions on that space for which there are no non-empty subspaces with probability zero, like (1/2)^k.

However I don’t think this issue would actually matter, because from the observer’s point of view in such a situation the probability of discovering you are in one of the Everett branches where the probability-1 event did not occur is exactly 0, so in terms of forming beliefs, you’d assign zero probability to that outcome.

Think of it this way, if I create a random continuous function on [0, 1], the probability that it is also differentiable is 0, even though there are tons of familiar examples like x^2 or sin(x).

So if I offer you a wager of whether the randomly generated function is differentiable, your belief ought to be that it always is not, even though the technical term would be “almost always” in formal measure theoretic probability theory.
I don't understand this comment.

If tax money of the tax payers of India is used to buy good/services for the tax payers of Britain. How is it not defrauding?
lol because it's a meaningless statement not the least because it implies smart people always produce perfect code.

I don't think it's ever a good idea to bring into question people's competency when discussing software design principles. It's hard to quantify, difficult to verify and not usually relevant.

I am not assuming they're incompetent. I am disagreeing with the idea that their failure comes from just the technology and not in anyway from the actions of a developer. Whether it's because time constraints or just because shitty things happen like they do in any project regardless of how much money or how top tier the talent is.
He's probably on mobile. Google chrome on mobile loves to give AMP pages instead of normal ones.
Given that they were founded in 1930, I think the century is pretty clear, though not favorable.
There's a big fuss over the SuperMicro story because it's notable that Bloomberg appears to have gotten it so badly wrong.

It would not be similarly notable for the National Enquirer to be caught making something up.
How hard was it to set up for you? Is it a small standalone thing or a beast with complex dependencies? Did you configure it to run everything locally or is it still requesting a web service to compile the programs?
Who will? Probably not CenturyLink, but they should. They're responsible for making a stupid decision here.

The law doesn't require or even encourage CenturyLink to notify customers in this way so what is the politician responsible for? For writing a bill that wasn't impossible to interpret maliciously?
Stand in his place for a week and tell me that.

To echo manfredo, if the only people we can nominate to the Supreme Court are people who can just calmly sit there while the absolute worst accusations possible are flung against them, we're not going to be nominating new justices any time soon (Democrat or Republican). Or, alternatively, we're going to get a very, very distorted set of justices who lack all emotional affect or something.

Or, looking at it from another view point, there is this idea floating around (you're not the first place I've heard it from) that simultaneously, poorly-founded [1] accusations of rape are really, really terrible, like, the worst thing ever, more than sufficient to scotch a nomination to any serious office of the land... but at the same time, a person who is so accused of literally the worst thing ever should also have no reaction to this and be completely impassive in the face of these nominally terrible accusations.

Look, either it's that serious and it should be treated that seriously across the board, or it's not that serious at all, and it should be treated unseriously across the board. But if you try to have it both ways, the conclusion people are eventually going to come to is that it must not be serious. That's what's going to win out; are you sure you want that? Do you really want to say that the standard for reacting to being accused of serious crimes is that the accused should just wave the accusations away and be completely unaffected by them? Are you really asking for that to be the standard? Because if you think about it, I bet that's not what you want.

[1]: You want to consider them true, you want to consider them false, that's your business, but I'm very comfortable characterizing the accusations as very poorly founded either way.
Not wiping your ass properly and washing your hands can absolutely spread disease. I think we need a license for using public toilets.
What was different about America that small towns thrived?

The economic system is short sighted, and doesn't always have to drive politics - this may be a recent phenomena.
> Picking hardware that has direct kernel support will save you a bunch of headaches.

Yep, that seems key. I've just spend full 5 days (I'm in between contracts, so I have the time) trying to install Arch on my Early 2013 15" MacbookPro. I turned out that, due to buggy/nonstandard hardware, a fully functional dual boot with Windows is not possible (if your disk is GPT, you won't have sound on Windows and if it's MBR, the DisplayPort monitor won't come back from suspend on Arch). Just coming to that conclusion took around 4 days of experiments. I've spend one more day trying to set up wireless, and have just given up. There are more interesting things to do with computers than finding workarounds for a minefield of hardware/firmware/drivers bugs.
Maybe we shouldn't be looking at whether or not this law allows this particular message to be communicated in this way, and instead look at whether or not arbitrarily blocking access is permitted under the agreement between the service provider and its customers.

As users of streaming devices will attest, HTTP is just one part of the internet, so many would consider it to be a matter of not delivering the service that was promised if an ISP blocks access for any reason (other than by request from law enforcement or breach of the service agreement by the customer).

If a cable TV provider were to block all access and put up a message on an obscure channel that someone might never see explaining how to re-enable the service, I think it's reasonable to assume that most customers would call and complain that their cable service isn't working (and they'd be right).

It shouldn't matter if someone can use a specific type of internet-connected device (among many) and open a specific type of application (among many) on that device to communicate over a specific protocol (among many) to re-enable their service. For practical purposes and in the broad context of what "internet access" means, CenturyLink is simply cutting off service to its customers without justifiable reason. Customers should hold them to that and threaten legal action if the company doesn't want to deliver the expected service.
You don't seem to have read the article:

"“The statute that we administer says that we protect money with a brokerage firm that is used for the purchase of securities,” he added. “On Robinhood’s help page, it says that you don’t need to invest to use Robinhood checking and savings, that statement is wrong. If you deposit money for any other purpose, it is not protected.”

If they disagree it's a brokerage account, and it's certainly not being sold as such, then it seems to me there's alot he can do.
Immediately sprung to my mind: http://www.lukesurl.com/archives/comic/444-fall-in-all
It will happen if FB have to suffer financial consequences. GDPR will help, but we need companies to understand that personal data is not an asset, they are also liabilities.
I don't know, but it is reported on elsewhere, for example: https://www.boston.com/uncategorized/noprimarytagmatch/2013/...
Depends...

If malicious intent, most likely the business owners, PM or engineering management, but in some cases software engineers.

If due to rushed product, certainly the management and not software engineers or QA.

and so on..

It depends..
I'm a little late to this thread, but wanted to thank you for the paper! I found it interesting enough to blog about it (https://rkevingibson.github.io/blog/neural-networks-as-ordin...).

I wonder if you've given any thought to generalizing to fractional differential equations? My intuition tells me that the dynamics that you're learning are "local" in the sense that the ODE solvers depend only on the current state (and maybe some recent history), whereas learning the dynamics of a fractional system could give the system a larger "history" in the case of your time-series models.
Thanks for the explanation. Yes that’s correct, it’s the same concept as css modules but with scss instead of css.

I have to say though that this doesn’t seem like much of an advantage - it boils down to not having to create class names and use className={...}. The other possible advantage is not having any .css/.scss files, which to me is actually a disadvantage- I quite like the separation of concerns concept, having html and js mixed together in jsx already irks me, adding styles as well is just too much!

Also, with css in js I believe that pseudo elements and animations are an issue, whereas there is no problem with these with scss modules. They both seem like valid options, but for me modules wins it.
Shouldn't everyone support the idea that every philosophy and religious belief has the right to participate in the public sphere?
This app tells your doctor if you have malaria
Don't worry, most of these people suggesting liability for software bugs will soon be the same ones complaining about how everything is costly. The concept of second and higher order effects from adding liability to everything is alien to them.

It's also funny that most of these calls are basically motivated because it's facebook. What they're again not realizing is that while Facebook and other megacorps can weather this, small companies won't be able to. It's like magnified stupidity!!
Which must be why, during most tech interviews ...

the emphasis is completely the opposite.
Purchase under newly formed company. Take 20 dollars worth of office supplies. Declare bankruptcy, deal with liabilities. You've doubled your investment.
60% of India's YouTube traffic comes from outside the country’s six major cities
Do you have any basis for your claims of "narrowly tailored" or are you just making up facts?

If it were narrowly tailored, the FBI wouldn't be able to access the information when conducting an investigation that would not have otherwise been able to obtain that information without a court order.

Additionally your attempt to justify why this is OK is also wrong, NSLs are not supposed to be used to investigate organized crime, but to investigate and prevent terrorist attacks.
Why People Wait 10 Days to Do Something That Takes 10 Minutes
One does not simply 'engineer' a moral foundation. While the law of the land hints at what the morality of a people is, the people themselves are responsible for their behavior.

While systems can amplify or dampen certain behaviors, they cannot, without brutal authoritarianism, enforce behavior.
Unrelated, but I'd love to know how that article managed to get a picture of that Facebook sign without people standing in front of it. I drive by it daily and I've never seen it without people posing in front of it :)
An excellent speech by Dr Shashi Tharoor - "Britain Does Owe Reparations to India"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7CW7S0zxv4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shashi_Tharoor
Even assuming the median earner is paying the average for eating out (e.g. is a blue collar family of 4 in the Midwest spending the same proportional to income eating out as a childless professional couple on the coast? I'd wadger no.), you still need to compare that against the cost of groceries. So, it's more of an additional 3%-5% in reality, not a whole 7%.
> That plane hit something much harder than a bird.

Something like a drone? That's what the article says. It's even what the headline says.
I'd be happy in a world where Facebook is run into the ground!
Introduction to MEMS (Microelectromechanical Systems)
It looks like that but the magnitude of inbound is 10x outbound.
But CL already had sufficient leeway to do this before this law was ever written. You can't legislate away bad decisions.
Yes, which fails to imagine the ways that preserved public info can be used to re-shame in the future. If new ways of using that info arise later, and your public info happens to be amenable to the new ways even if many other people aren’t, then it offers permanently-existing surface area for future possible shaming that singles you out in some way previously not anticipated.
> Sorry if my response sounded like a snarky comment or a rant.

Actually it didn't. All good :)

> Now that I know redash fits my needs, I will spend the time needed to read the docker compose file and trace those steps and assemble the pieces necessary to run redash directly on my Linux server without Docker.

Glad to hear it fits! Note that if all you need is Postgres support, don't bother with installing requirements_all_ds.txt and you can skip some of the system packages we install.

Maybe this forum thread will be helpful: https://discuss.redash.io/t/bring-back-bootstrap-sh/2436/12.
Comcast is still doing content injection, for a similar reason. If you go over your monthly quota, they inject a pop-window into HTTP sites to inform you.

Every other business manages to inform customers by e-mail or text message or phone call, but ISPs have these additional options by virtue of the product they provide and they just can't seem to help themselves (at least for the large shitty ones, which they all become eventually).
So a tax cut means that unprofitable businesses ought to invest more in those unprofitable businesses? That is some ridiculous logic.

Since there is such a “shortage” of engineering talent (to hear the H1 advocates tell it,) those laid off people should have no trouble finding a job with a profitable company.
it is defrauding and if you consider the atrocities, shady unethical ways to enslave mass population, the Bengal famine of 1943 - you should be shocked

the so called "sir" winston churchill was after all a mass murderer in a sense. of course it is about power and exercising power, India should have fought back harder to protect itself

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/world-history/winst...
This is such a silly POV. Enforcing too much specifics into law is how you end up with non-nonsensical actions that are done just to comply with a law, like intrusive cookie banners on every single website. This law seems to actually be well written, other than it doesn't seem to specify any penalties for non-compliance, at least from the part of the law shown in the article.

It's clear what the end goal of the law is, and gives several broad, reasonable ways to comply with the law. Century link is the ISP/tech experts here - they are the morons who chose to do DNS hihacking when they could have just as easily sent out an email or added a notice to the bill for the month.
PyTorch dev here. We'll talk with the AllenNLP folks to see if we can make this can happen.

We just released PyTorch 1.0 stable last Friday that adds stable production capabilities, so the stuff is just out of the oven.
https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/releases/tag/v1.0.0
How many PINs your payment card has?
No, that happens fairly often without upvote manipulation, and as far as I can tell this post wasn't affected by such manipulation.
How come Google never has had a breach? Do they do a better job with security? Is Facebook more of a target than Google?
"While systems can amplify or dampen certain behaviors"

That is the topic I'm opening, yes. We're clearly amplifying it right now. How can that be changed?
This was a great read made even better by the simple yet high-quality visualizations. OpenAI does a great job of using UX to make their research more accessible, and I'd love to see more researchers follow suit.