skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's how these things typically work. So long as he explored the vulnerability and reported it ethically - and there are both laws and industry norms about that - than typically a small cash bounty is paid if the bug is serious. This is because you want hackers to report vulnerabilities to you so you can fix them. It's more like returning someone's wallet. You give the person a couple of dollars for their trouble. A company like Amazon, you definitely expect them to have an explicit bug bounty program. This system is good for both consumers and businesses and there's no reason, even if purely from a business calculus perspective, not to throw someone a few bucks for the professional reporting of a vulnerability.
I took it more as a fun game: figuring out how to memorize the largest known prime. Along the way I learned something about the nature of this prime. I don't plan to actually memorize it, but I enjoyed the read.
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And when Henry Ford made vehicles to the middle class, did all who sold horses and horse carriages forever go jobless? Nope. They did what most people did and retrained and got new jobs. More technology often creates higher paying (skilled) jobs, which people can be retrained to do.
I think that's a very totalitarian/utilitarian view though. Some of the people in the article have "valid" reasons for their hatred/distrust:

> The trouble started, the couple said, when their 10-year-old son was nearly hit by one of the vehicles while he was playing in a nearby cul-de-sac.

> "They didn’t ask us if we wanted to be part of their beta test"

We all know self-driving cars are going to be safer, but very few people would sacrifice their own loved ones to make self driving cars reality.
> clang also has far better error messages than gcc.

This was true a number of years ago, but I believe GCC's diagnostics have gotten much better in response to competition and don't believe it to be true anymore (although my experience is with C code, not C++ — maybe Clang is better there).

Another distinction is that GCC continues to hold a significant lead in producing accurate debuginfo, which is invaluable to me as a developer.
Regardless of the findings, I think it's funny that they think they were able to "statistically verify" a -1% impact on conversions...

That's a hilarious thought to me. How can a 1% change in a sales funnel be considered statistically relevant?
Needs are relative. I suspect society as a whole will be better off when no one loses a child to drunk drivers, asleep drivers, or elderly drivers who have impossibly slow reflexes due to age related factors. Self driving cars make those things a reality.
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Has anyone done an analysis of the btc addresses associated with the recent bomb threat spam, to see how much money they received?

ref: https://www.google.com/search?q=bitcoin+bomb+threat+spam&num...
We live in a country where rewarding success and freedom to fail is more important than general welfare.

People who are excelling obviously endorse the status quo. But also many who are lagging also endorse it because they get to directly control their finances and think they will make it one day. To give an example, if the USA allowed individuals to opt out of Social Security, many would do so and then live out their senior years in penury.
Regardless of the LTO relaxation, I believe it is still the position of the FSF and GCC that any middleware that links in to GCC itself is GPL-infected. Obviously, this is not the case for LLVM/Clang.
> Cities shouldn't be designed for cars. If anything, it should be the other way around.

I think that would be easier to do with self-driving cars as opposed to human driven cars for the reasons I mentioned in the parent post
I suspect it's a matter of time.

https://electrek.co/2018/12/24/tesla-supercharger-anti-tesla...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gcb84qn3mU
Thanks for sharing these thoughts. I appreciate you.
I love this quote:

“People are lashing out justifiably," said Douglas Rushkoff, a media theorist at City University of New York and author of the book “Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus.” He likened driverless cars to robotic incarnations of scabs — workers who refuse to join strikes or who take the place of those on strike.

“There's a growing sense that the giant corporations honing driverless technologies do not have our best interests at heart,” Mr. Rushkoff said. “Just think about the humans inside these vehicles, who are essentially training the artificial intelligence that will replace them.”

Why is it that for every act of random vandalism or hooliganism, there's always an academic who will find a way to blame the victim?
The whirr is likely straight cut reverse gear in a manual transmission. Used to be common ages ago but cars have moved to "helical cut" for noise reasons. The straight gears survived a fair bit longer for reverse since they're cheaper to make. They're still around in racecars since they're stronger.

My 98 saturn still made that cool sound, but my 2012 doesn't :'(
There are many shades of gray between a new Escalade and living on rice and beans to due to medical debt.
Things were repairable in the past because they were both mechanically simple and far more expensive up front. If you want, you can live as people did in the 50s and spend $2,000 for an automatic dishwasher, $3,000 for a washer/dryer combo, and $4,000 for a refrigerator. If you spend that much today, you will get something that will last you decades.

But you probably won't. Instead, you'll go for something that is a third of the price, and it'll last you about 10 years.

In particular: cars are far more reliable and efficient than they were even 10 or 20 years ago.
Modern scientists are wrong far more than you think (2017)
It doesn't really matter that it's everyone's to blame.

Just find the biggest offender who has pissed off everyone.

Make an example out of him. Completely redicule him in front of others and even throw their belongings on the floor. Use most profane language, Steve Jobs style. Make sure you explain loudly why he is being treated like this and leaving the company.

To make it clear, yell at him, "so you want to be a rebellious tech bro?"

Be careful why doing this:

1. Make sure your example person is a man because people sympathise more with women

2. Make sure he looks unfriendly because people sympathise with friendly people.

You want people to comply, be an authority who they fear.
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Sell your house. You live in the ghetto.
Take a look at SCORE (www.score.org) and EO (eonetwork.org)
Note that since banks have to make a profit, if they're not doing it via an annual current account fee then they're doing it via setting interest rates and one-off charges for things like going overdrawn. What consumers will put up with can vary between markets (eg UK personal banking is generally fee-free, but a current account for a small business usually has monthly and/or per-transaction fees). It's as much about what the bulk of users are used to and thus what the bank can get away with as anything else.
I got a couple of those, both demanding $800. Maybe the $650 threshold gets a few more hits.
This is then compounded by giving more money to the successful schools and less to the failing schools. This seems paradoxical as most students are zoned for a school and don't get to elect to transfer to a better one. So they are stuck in a bad school that is going to get worse due to reduced funding for failing. So kids who's parents can afford to send them to a good school district are rewarded driving home that generally where you start socio-economically is where you end up.
You know, that does make me think about my step dad a bit differently...
Wait -- Scientist kills innocent bystander with his experiment and the public shouldn't be mad about it? Would you have said the same thing if the professor defended Waymo?
For those betting on Fuchsia to help Flutter's adoption, work has started to create an UI compositor that is framework agnostic and there is a prototype of a Rust based UI.

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/garnet/+/master/docs/ui/sce...

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/garnet/+/0a214f5721d723a7d0...

And Android is being ported to Fuchsia, similarly to what happened to ChromeOS and Brillo.

https://android-review.googlesource.com/q/fuchsia
Printing the lyrics to "99 bottles of beer".
It's funny how close everything is connected. It turns out you can even derive the hinge loss using a mixture of normal distributions, so it is also connected closely to OLS.

Some people have had good luck with hinge or multi-hinge loss for neural networks instead of the almost universal log loss, since of course the hinge loss can be used in things other than linear models. It doesn't care how you get the y output.
Blue eyes are recessive and brown eyes are extremely dominant though. With parents having brown eyes, there could still be up to theoretical 50% chance that the children could have them.

However, if both parents had blue eyes, then it's near impossible for the kids to have brown eyes if they're genetically related to both parents.
Its kind of neat watching The Deep Space Network - https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html

Nearly every dish is receiving or sending to NHPC.
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Imagine how furious the citizens of Chandler, AZ will get when they find out how many people are killed by human-driven cars every year.
Flutter is trying to be Dart's killer app, while playing political wars with the ChromeOS (PWA) and Android teams.

Meanwhile Fuschia is showing signs to adopt a plugable UI support via the Scenic graphics composition engine.
In principle, I’m with you. In practice, “build a better product and they’ll come [with no marketing]” just doesn’t work in the world filled with loud marketing by your inferior competitors.

In this specific case: ExpressVPN has been my default choice for 2 years% I travel a lot for work and maintain subscriptions to most top-tier VPNs, which I speed-check every few months. ExpressVPN hconsistently gives better speeds and latency across US, EU, and Asia-Pacific. No affiliate link but would recommend anyway.
It's definitely chroma upsampling artifacts. This is a problem with the decoder, not the encoder. The chroma channels are upscaled with nearest-neighbor filtering. I resampled them in ImageMagick with a Mitchell-Netravali cubic filter, which is reasonably cheap to calculate, and it looks much better:

$ convert 400px-President_Barack_Obama.jpg.av1.mkv.png -colorspace YUV -channel 0 -separate Y.png
$ convert 400px-President_Barack_Obama.jpg.av1.mkv.png -colorspace YUV -channel 1 -separate U.png
$ convert 400px-President_Barack_Obama.jpg.av1.mkv.png -colorspace YUV -channel 2 -separate V.png
$ convert U.png -filter point -resize 50% -filter Mitchell -resize 200% smoothed_U.png
$ convert V.png -filter point -resize 50% -filter Mitchell -resize 200% smoothed_V.png
$ convert Y.png smoothed_U.png smoothed_V.png -combine -set colorspace YUV -colorspace sRGB combined.png

Result: https://imgur.com/a/AwoVmh1
Now all you need to do is track down who sent the payment, then blackmail them with (1) I know you've been watching porn, and (2) I know you paid somebody off...
> I never said they didn't.

I never said you said they didn't.

> Yes, that's correct. Why did they "prefer the old ways"?

This is precisely what I was critizing. The statement isn't wrong, you just want to justify it. You're not correcting anything, you're defending it. You're tacking a why question onto it when all anyone said was what. They were against the new technological improvements characeristic of that time and place. That's not a common misconception simply because they had rational arguments to justify themselves.
I have. I like Clojure, as well.
That's the thing; not even sure what textbook to start with. Calculus?
sounds like quite a blamestorm
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Hi all,
Here is what I learned this past year
https://shareseer.com/blog/a_year_of_shareseer.html
> Universities are not our parents.

If that were only true! When universities set up grief counseling and support groups for election results. Requiring warnings by professors for “trigger words,” or set up so-called “safe spaces” — it’s clear that universities have lost the plot. Universities have become bastions of coddling and infantilization. It’s a true surprise that universities haven’t begun issuing bubble wrap to student with which they can wrap themselves lest they trip over a challenging idea. Universities have become a farce: institutions originally set up to prepare students for the the messy marketplace of ideas have instead morphed into expensive day-care centers for delicate children. A stand-up comedian can’t even tell jokes anymore without being banished in a chorus of boos and hurt feelings. Chris Rock doesn’t do colleges anymore because of the absurdity.
Yoav Goldberg's book is also a good introductory survey: https://www.amazon.com/Language-Processing-Synthesis-Lecture...
They should be mad about that. But that's not at all what this guy is complaining about.
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Dulles is only really successful because National has capacity restrictions and a limit on how far flights can go.

As a counterexample, Narita, is too far compared to Haneda.
Idk, to me your mindset seems mad. There are bad actors in the world we all know that. So if you ran a online company and I was your customer I should expect that no one will attack your company because it is illegal? And you would not take steps to protect your company because attacking it would be illegal? Saying out loud sounds crazy. There is no legality when there person stealing my data may be in Russia, or China, or India, who may be an individual, an organized crime ring or state actor. The internet does not care about your legality. So by offering a bug bounty program you are at least showing some interest in the white hat people not working to screw you over when in many circumstances it would probably be much more profitable for the bugs to be exploited or sold. Why would you want to send this type of person to prison?
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Simple harassment has always been legal. It's only illegal when some other factors make it so, for example, sexual harassment by an employer or another person in a position of power. It's also legal to fire someone or kick them out for being an asshole.

The problem with the 21st century is that people have lost the concept of anything between "illegal" and "forced to put up with". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_which_is_not_forbid...
I suppose the person to whom you’re responding is struggling to process some aspects of their identity.
I feel like this rapidly moves into Trolley Problem territory. 10,000+ people die in a year due to drunk driving, what's the acceptable death toll for rolling out driverless cars as fast as possible?
Pro Tip: the university police has a conflict of interest, they will prefer to sweep violent crime under the rug rather than deal with it because bad statistics will make the place look bad. The GP poster is correct to be concerned that investigative and judicial powers are vested in the same entity; we usually keep them separate, and for good reason.
Will our online world change from what we know today?
It doesn't matter why the emergency drivers attacked.
It's a hubris of Google Management that they think that they should be the ones who decide whether the victim (the driver) should pursue prosecution or not, and the company should help the driver in his decision, whatever it is.

It was very sad to see that the forced arbitration case was handled only for sexual offences, Google management has too much power over employees when they are assaulted.
I don't know if this is apocryphal or not, but I'd always heard the same thing happened in the 50s when blood typing became widely available. So I don't think anyone in that industry should be exactly surprised at this particular result.
An Ada version using predicates:

with Ada.Text_IO;

procedure FizzBuzz_Predicate is
subtype Div_3 is Integer
with Dynamic_Predicate => Div_3 mod 3 = 0;
subtype Div_5 is Integer
with Dynamic_Predicate => Div_5 mod 5 = 0;
begin
for i in Integer range 1 .. 99 loop
if i in Div_3 and i in Div_5 then
Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line ("FizzBuzz");
elsif i in Div_3 then
Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line ("Fizz");
elsif i in Div_5 then
Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line ("Buzz");
else
Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line (Integer'Image (i));
end if;
end loop;
end FizzBuzz_Predicate;
IIRC that might have been a convenience sample of families where non-paternity was suspected. Most estimates of historical non-paternity in Europe yield low single digits.
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This is interesting to me because in Ontario where I reside, I cannot call myself an engineer. The professional engineering association is ruthless in enforcing it. But my employer is in Massachusetts, where I can be called an engineer. So I'm not sure if my business cards can get me in trouble here.
Maybe you need to try out more powerful dynamic languages? I mean even Python has 'pdb' which gives you a fairly authentic gdb experience, and you can always dir() and help() something in the REPL. For me I find myself not missing a debugger very much at all in Python code, whereas Java code of a certain size and legacy history forces me out of my preferred vim world and into Eclipse for the interactive debugging alone, the language makes it more painful to debug in other ways you can get away with in say Python. Plus I find that language culture matters. Java programmers will assume you have a big IDE and debugger and will write their code accordingly. Other language cultures do something different. Occasionally you'll get principles like "grep-friendly code" in an effort to cut across cultures but they're still not universal.

Clojure is another example of a pretty decent experience, e.g. "add-watch" is built-in, it has a REPL (so I've used it to debug Java code before), and the coding culture is functional programming which has its own benefits for debugging. Common Lisp is even better, it's a system as much as a language and so the runtime itself has all the debugging capabilities that you need a heavy IDE for in simpler non-system languages. (break, compile, trace, update-instance-for-redefined-class, object field inspection, extendable print-object methods are all there part of the standard, lots of introspection and redefinition capability, and CL compilers like SBCL can give quite detailed type, argument count, typo alerts, cross-reference usage, and optimization information at compile time, still no IDE needed (though editors like emacs/vim have nice wrappers and can automate some stuff). Check out this short series: https://malisper.me/debugging-lisp-part-1-recompilation/ )
Perhaps? Depending on what "benefits" I actually accrue. Autonomous cars could very well just be a race to the bottom type experience.
Previous discussion from 2 years ago when the man was fined $500 for this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14197512
My current employer is distributed, the majority of roles are remote.

https://www.elastic.co/about/careers#engineering
Grumman Tiger. Great little airplane.
A small part of it is the aluminum body panels, I think. Aluminum body panels can be repaired, similar to steel, but requires additional training/different tools. The Model S and X are majority Aluminum, whereas the Model 3 is mostly steel with a rear aluminum subframe. Basically if you get in a fender bender you need to go to a specialty aluminum body shop, which don't exist in high quantities outside of south bay.
> A man pulled up alongside a Waymo vehicle and threatened the employee riding inside with a piece of PVC pipe.

PVC???
Macroeconomic forces are complex. Technology has wiped out entire types of work many times over the years, and the workers usually, though not always, make out all right. The problem is not any particular technological advance IMO, but overloading the economic mechanisms that allow people to find new careers. Too much technological advance too fast plus too many industries shipped overseas where labor is cheaper in an environment without enough new job development equals a permanent underclass, with all of the economic tensions that come along with it.

Meanwhile, UBI has many serious problems and we don't have anywhere near the level of job disruption to make it a workable solution.
Storage is very cheap these days.
I would absolutely love this!!!
We do. We promote and fire based on both performance and cultural evaluations.

Engineering had some firings in 2017, and we were supposedly left with the best ones.

Problem is, things took a 180 curve somewhere, and it became rough in 2018. Maybe management is to blame, but we changed that too and it kept getting worse.
Yep that’s after my time.
Here is a clickable link https://shareseer.com/blog/a_year_of_shareseer.html
Isn’t there a bunch of them now? Apple Pay Cash, Venmo, etc
This is sort of tangential, but: it doesn't make any sense that there's OCR going on in that process. Surely Amazon could just ask for the digital version of the book as a requirement for SearchInside participation?
Especially when that Governor was regularly offered the use of that company's offices for meetings when he was in California, or their corporate apartments...
For many things I’d agree, but to their credit Netflix has always made it trivially easy to cancel. They’re one of the few modern IT companies that seem to go out of the way to make joining and leaving fair and easily comprehensible. Now if they’d just make that autoplaying a goddamned option!
Saying “this is science” alone as an answer to the validity is really doing science a disfavor. Not only are these consumer grade tests, but there’s been a lot of evidence of the fallibility of DNA testing (particularly for crime scene analysis) in recent years, let alone the fact that everything they show is based on models that are constantly updated and effectively best guesses. I really wish they’d be more upfront but it’d probably be too big a challenge to sweeping in new customers.
Perhaps the stress of law made him go postal.
Why didn't you instead have life insurance for each other?

You could have moved much faster allowing for a far greater chance of success.

I understand it's a metaphor but you have been quite literal.

In relationships this is how people solve this worry, I think business partnerships would be similar.
You are completely missing the point.

He can't monetize the bug because that would be illegal!

This is granted by the law.

So why pay? Paying for bug is useless here.

Sending him to prison and making an example out of him so that others do not break into your system and make a joke of your engineering team/security team is better for their morale.
Who has Waymo killed?
I’m an Apple fan all around. (Even own a homepod). But I have to disagree with “cancelling is easy”. Cancelling a subscription on iOS is so hidden that I can’t say it’s easy. I hope they change this.
Does free speech mean anyone can call themselves a doctor, too?
There's an important difference between blaming the victim and trying to explain why the attackers are doing what they are doing.

Rushkoff is doing the latter, not the former, and pretending he's doing the former certainly makes it easier to ignore his point.