skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another story, this one from the other side.

It was summer 2001. The 3Com Audrey internet appliance wasn't quite canceled yet, but it wasn't thriving in the marketplace, either. I picked one up for $50 from uBid and started poking at it, blogging about my discoveries along the way. I figured out that the OTA image checksum was relatively simple to generate (something like two's-complement addition of running 32-bit integers that needed to sum to a specific constant). This enabled me to alter the next OTA image that came off the wire, which allowed me to begin replacing resources and binary components in the system.

By this point people were following the blog, occasionally linking to it on Slashdot. But then something strange happened: I started receiving anonymous emails from individuals who knew a lot about the Audrey OS's internals. They gave me hints about where the more vulnerably coded parts of the system were; they suggested hard-to-stumble-upon but valuable URLs in the Marimba OTA system; and one day when I foolishly overwrote the bootloader with a malformed image, just a couple days later a brand-new Audrey motherboard mysteriously appeared on my doorstep (at the time I didn't live very far from 3Com, and this was an age of the internet when nobody had much reason to hide their identities).

Thus, with the help of numerous knowledgeable individuals, I was able to bootstrap the Audrey modding community. The focus of the world changed soon thereafter, one Tuesday in September, but it was otherwise a similarly exhilarating experience to the one TomVDB describes. The difference was that I was the hacker, and the opposing team -- the one that had built this amazing machine (which I still have two of, by the way, both unopened) -- actually wanted me to succeed, hopefully giving the Audrey a better chance than it got during its initial, ill-fated, mid-dot-com-bust launch.
RSA talk description never said anything about open sourcing it. Only about "free". And from WikiLeaks Vault7 documents it appears to be buggy.
See my other posts in this thread. I'd guess the money is largely wasted on stuff like incorrect medical "discoveries" that slow down progress. Ie, the money is being used to create problems that require more future money to fix.
In places with a raising population ideally with raising wealth
Also, it's a 10 year old DRM system at this point. Anything encoded for on-demand distribution across networks 10 years ago was probably done at poor qualities in general. Source: Used to work in the industry.
- Lidar and visible light both use EM radiation, just different wavelengths, coherence and active v. passive

- Passive sensors have huge range, power and deconfliction advantages

- The better system is passive sensors in superhuman wavelengths

- Even Levandowski's come around to Elon's POV on unnecessary lidar
You don’t expect to see an unvarnished historical perspective derided that way here, but I suppose you have a point. Can you tell me where I’ve changed my mind on this issue?
> You're right this is why mortgages exist, but you're not explaining the demand. It's also easy to imagine an alternate universe where most homes are owned by institutional landlords, people rent, and invest what their interest payments would have gone to in index funds

Not realistically, because the institutional landlords will charge purchase cost distributed over expected life + maintenance/operations/management cost + return that could be earned investing the purchase price as the minimum rent (plus a bit more, because the m&o cost is also a lost investment opportunity.) Otherwise, the institutional landlords would be better off just investing and not being landlords. The savings to the renter is (something less than) the difference between what the renter would have been forced to pay in interest and the returns the landlord is giving up by not investing elsewhere, and that's before even considering the costs associated with risk-based deposits or rent premiums charged by the landlord.

> winding up with a more reliable chunk of cash when they retire instead of a home whose value is hard to predict.

Even if true, is a certain home of uncertain value better than a certain cash value with uncertain residential rents? In the former case, you at least know you have a place to live. In the latter, you know the dollar value of an asset with no certainty of what it will provide. Which is more secure?
The+Wealthy+Affiliates+Review:+Best+Work+Home+Job+-+Making+Over+$10k+Monthly
No, mortgages are thousands of years old.

https://books.google.com/books?id=Z_NnBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA281&lpg=...
If you don't think there is a huge difference between 140 and 150db then you don't understand decibels.

I can most certainly tell the difference between 320kbps lossy and red book audio on well done recordings.
Ask HN: What were your top 5 reads of 2018?
Pros and Cons of a 30-Year Fixed-Rate Mortgage
Is there any form of rent control which would limit the increase?
"Wanting to buy a Wraith as a status symbol" isn't the scenario I'm positing. "Wanting to have a million dollars in the bank" or "wanting to be a billionaire" or "wanting to make 1000x on cryptocurrency holdings" is. There's a key difference - in the former case, a transaction has occurred, and now Rolls-Royce is $350k richer. In the latter case, no transaction occurs - the person's enjoyment is derived entirely from the number on their bank statement, not from any product that they bought with that number.
Many things are antibacterial and work fine on your skin, but not in your body. Drinking hydrogen peroxide for example would be at best pointless and at worst harmful.
Many people don't realize that Bluetooth requires compression applied to audio too. Theoretically the latest revisions allow already compressed music in certain formats to be transmitted as-is without recompression, but I'm guessing the data paths to allow that to happen don't usually exist. Double compression will be far more damaging.
Go take an undergrad philosophy course
Boom Supersonic closes $100M funding round for Overture faster-than-sound jet
Yep, I definitely remember this. If you're a developer, the feedback loop is immediate -- you ship a bugfix or new feature and it works or it doesn't.

When you're in management, your successes and failures become a bit murkier, or the feedback is heavily delayed. You sort of need to learn to become highly self-critical and introspective about your choices and learn from the moves you make, both good and bad.
While this is true, knowledge of other treatments can in a number of cases actually harm the patient as well through malpractice.

See:
https://journals.tdl.org/jrwg/index.php/jrwg/article/view/97

https://www.dailydot.com/irl/trans-broken-arm-syndrome-healt...

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/07/09/feature-the-dangers-of...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-lgbt-health/briti...

Sure this is a minority, but it still harms people.
If rent was .01 a year I would rent everyplace and rent them out at a higher cost while I lived in a home I own.
I wish I had done something like this. Some of the insane days where you are being pulled in every direction can feel so scattered that they become impossible to recall even a week later.
Franny & Zooey... meh. The characters are cardboard cutouts, not people. I couldn't relate to them at all. You can't imagine wanting to have a conversation with any of them.
> Digital computers deal with integers, binary sequences,
deterministic logic, algorithms, and time that is
idealized into discrete increments. Analog computers deal
with real numbers, non-deterministic logic, and continuous
functions, including time as it exists as a continuum in
the real world.

As a computer scientist/computational neuroscientist, I don't really buy the analogue vs. digital distinction. Basic information theory tells us that any noisy continuous system is equivalent to a discrete system of a certain resolution/bit-depth. As the author continues to write

> [...] analog computers embrace noise; a real-world neural network
needing a certain level of noise to work.

A few bits are sufficient to describe the output of a real-world neuron. Action potential timing has jitter in the sub-millisecond range, which means that relatively coarse discrete time steps are sufficient for a simulation. Yes, our brains are extremely noisy systems, yet this is exactly the reason why they (in theory at least) can be simulated on a discrete/digital computer.

In practice there is little to be gained from analogue computation, except for a (potentially) reduced energy consumption compared to a digital implementation of the system in question. But on a theoretical level, nothing changes.
I've been on the inside of some leaks and associated internal investigations. There may not be an external penalty, but these are a serious internal headache. You often have to bring in external people, who then always see the worst in everything. The board has to be kept up to speed. The meetings and late nights pile up. The absence of external penalty doesn't mean that those on the inside don't care. I'd say that most corporate infosec is motivated primarily by the desire to avoid internal investigations. Avoiding the need to report anything to shareholders and/or corporate partners comes second. External penalties is a distant third.
Wow! Beautiful results.
Count me in :)
For the record I didn't think anything you wrote warranted a downvote and hope my response (though sincere, and I definitely disagree with you) didn't cause anyone else to downvote your comment. I don't think it varies much from much of the sentiment expressed in this discussion.
I basically agree with you that we overfocus on the single-payer vs. private distinction. But I think there's more to it than that: when you get down to it, most Americans who want to reform the US health care system don't really care whether it's public or private. They care whether it's universal or not. The Swiss system is universal health care because the basic plan is capped at 8% of income at the federal level, with cash subsidies given to those with incomes lower than that.

By contrast, Medicaid in the United States is administered to the states, who have broad leeway in determining who is and who is not eligible for the system, especially after National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius. Income level alone does not necessarily qualify one for Medicaid. Medicaid is not considered universal health care, even with the ACA, and that makes a huge difference.

It's not so much that Americans don't want the Swiss system as that we're missing the crucial part of the Swiss system that makes people feel secure that they'll be insured.
The loudness wars started way before lossy compression was widespread. That said it could be worsening it.
This is very useful, thank you
It's nice to hear this kind of concerns; don't be afraid! At last, C++ committee members are just people like you, hopefully nicer than expectation.

> I find reading C++ "standards" papers onerous and feel like they're written in a way that's deliberately inaccessible.

Sadly, it's somehow true; standard wordings are typically not readable for laypeople because its primary purpose is unambiguous specification but not education. Generally, I find that it's a good idea to avoid "wording for ~~" proposals if I haven't followed that specific line of proposals from its beginning.

But many proposals are still fairly readable technical papers; for instance, Herb Sutter's proposals are generally easy to follow. (ex. https://wg21.link/P0709)

> I feel like I'd be marginalized for not using template metaprogramming, not knowing the new hotness by heart, and generally being a proponent of C-with-classes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ItVEVjHc

Don't worry. Mike Acton is not known to be a strong proponent of "Modern C++", but his session[1] is one of the most popular CppCon video on Youtube. Even if you don't like templates, people will generally respect you.

> I just feel like so much of the C++ "standards" work feels like it's led by academics who think the concerns of working programmers like me are beneath them.

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/n479...

You can find the list of the participants for the last meeting. Most of them are just engineers and even Bjarne is now working for Morgan Stanley (I think most of "designed by Ivory Tower" concerns can be generally credited to Bjarne being a professor before) They're just writing C++ code as their daily job like you (and very likely suffering from C++ as well). That's why they're writing proposals to improve the language.

Some tangential story: except for few exceptions, PL academics are generally not working on languages like C++ because it typically doesn't align well with their interests. Usually they tend to use more elegant, academic friendly languages like Haskell or ML. Or even fancier languages like Coq, Adga, Idris, depending on topics. Or design their own languages. For formal verification researches, maybe C or Java. But C++ is typically considered as a complex, inelegant beast for researches.
Have you ever paid for a new roof, furnace, A/C, paint, etc? Maintenance on a house is expensive. If the value of your home is mostly in the value of the house and not the land, then maintenance is usually 2-5% of the value yearly.

Our total cost of our house monthly is over twice the mortgage when you include insurance, taxes, garbage, water/sewer, and maintenance (~$5000) and I can do most things like fixing minor electrical or plumbing myself.
Definitely an important lesson. In the beginning when I moved to management, it was hard for me to detach myself from the technical side. I would even take on side projects that only I worked on so I wouldn't slow the other devs down in a team project because my availability was all over the place. I soon realized that I wasn't doing my job by focusing on development.
People who buy as their financial situation improves will naturally experience lower-quality rental housing and higher-quality ownership housing. That demand pattern shapes the housing stock, so ownership units will be nicer than rental units on average. But luxury apartments can be very pleasant, and price-competitive with ownership. In San Francisco these are very popular, servicing the legions of tech workers who have $3000+/mo to rent but not $5000+/mo to own.
Until buyers have no other spending or saving left to cut.
This is what civil courts are for, there’s no need at all for a new law. A general frustration that’s pretty common in internet communities is how regulators and legislators deem it necessary to create so many new laws just for the internet. We expect that the 4th amendment should apply to our packets just as it does our mail, and houses, and persons. So I can’t help but see hypocrisy whenever I hear demands that companies should be financially or criminally punished after being a victim of a cyber crime. If there’s a legitimate tort, then you already have legal recourse.
For all the Catcher hate in this thread, the short story collection "Nine Stories" may be more interesting to those who quit on Salinger based solely on traumatic coerced readings of Catcher.
Once you view, you will own.

(Or so many years of experience with DRM says ;-)
After investing in equities for 30 years with the savings from renting vs. buying, you will also be sitting on a huge chunk of value.
Some criminal could commit fraud if they can find a mark stupid enough to fall for their tricks.

If said stupid mark is lawered up enough,
they will try to fob their failure to do their due diligence off on anyone they can including you with the imaginary crime of "having your identity stolen" as if such a thing was even possible.

Which is more plausible?

a) I am not me anymore because my identity is stolen.
b) Criminals stole from someone else. (likely leveraging their expectation of profit using the information available on absolutely everyone either from 'legitimate' brokers or
shady darkweb stuff; not that I can't tell the difference)
Typically, everything in civil aviation is done to DO-178C. Almost everything we work on is level A, the highest level of criticality. Military stuff is generally much less rigorous, believe it or not.
>> ..cannot give more to an official or campaign or party than any other private citizen; $5,000 per election.

Are you typing from the past? The 5k rule means nothing in today's world of dark money. A lobbyist can give unlimited amounts to third parties, organizations that will either support a campaign or not. Or they can just spend the money themselves. A billionaire may only be allowed to hand over 5k in cash, but they can spend millions on people to attack you online. So you listen to those lobbyists with the deepest pockets because they pose your greatest threat.
If their money is in the bank, you can almost guarantee that it’s being productive. If they withdraw all of it so they can keep a huge pile of cash in their house to look at, then your argument would hold. But the system highly incentiveses people to not do that.
It could also be a trust issue. Ilfak Guilfanov and Hex-Rays are known to be picky about their clients. They also aren't under US jurisdiction.
Because if one State could dominate Congress entirely the policies of the country would be disproportionately shaped around that one State.

The State is an entity that matters, according to the Constitution, because the Union could not have existed without the States, therefore the Senate is the chamber of Congress which represents the interests of the States rather than the people which is the function of the House of Representatives.

The mechanism for selecting Senators may have changed, but not the function of the Senate.

Or to put it this way, why is it that the United Nations is designed to give one country one vote in the General Assembly and not proportionate representation according to each nation’s population? It is the same principle in play. From the lenses of the Founding Fathers, the Union was an agreement between States and People and so Congress represents States and People. The United Nations is an agreement between Nation-States and so it represents Nation-States, no single Nation’s and no single State’s interests should override the interests of all the other Nations or all the other States.

You can disagree with that principle, certainly, but I think it is necessary for the Union to have both chambers of Congress. There is no function for a Senate that is proportionate to each State’s population to serve, and you would be better served by abolishing the Senate altogether along with the representation of the States’ interests in Congress and maintaining the House of Representatives as the sole remaining chamber of Congress.
No. I’m plainly stating, “really, you guys think Safari is horribly buggy or bad? I think it is really, really good.”
The body's immune system can attack the body itself though. Cautious approach is needed.
He knows what he's doing, and if trolling the likes of Stefan Molyneux were considered a worthy pursuit, which it is IMO, he seems to be doing great.

https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1081309219377369088

https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1081336627664961536

Everyone else would do well to be less defensive. Having a reasoned, sober debate about IQ is a worthy aim, but right now there are highly prominent and influential figures like Molyneux using IQ to justify some horrible ideological positions, and that's the fish Taleb is trying to fry.

Good on him, I say.
Looks like it runs a series of (small) self-contained applications written in any language as long as it implements the GRPC interface in a specific order and with consolidated state tracking and logs.

The individual steps are jobs and the whole thing is a pipeline. Since it executes arbitrary code, it has the flexibility to do anything from ETL to CI.
I think these are very good ideas, actually I don't recall to have seen an employee handbook that states expectations explicitly, even while working for very big firms.
Well, at IBM they probably have something like that, I may be wrong about that.
I've seen 5, 7, 10 year.

http://www.tdcanadatrust.com/products-services/banking/mortg...

The rates for 10 years are always high.
Here's a fun thing about our system in the US. If you're taken to the emergency room, they'll ask your medical history. And not just once - they'll ask it in the ambulance, radio it ahead to the hospital, then make you wait while they ask you the same questions again and enter them into their system at the hospitsl. Then the next 3 doctors or nurses who come into your room do the same thing, asking you questions you've already answered. Doesn't seem to matter if it's obvious that speaking is painful for some reason (in a case I'm describing a family member had broken ribs).
It's very easy to explain Republican opposition to the ACA. The 2016 election has made it clear that the GOP is motivated not by outcomes, not even by ideology (the current GOP, driven as it is by one person, has no coherent ideology), but by tribalism. Obama was and still is considered an enemy who cannot be allowed to score a victory at any cost, and so Republicans had to oppose the ACA.

I know that this take is likely to be viewed as extremely uncharitable to Republicans, but there really is no other logical way I can see to explain the party's anti-ACA plank.

(I think it's actually quite counterproductive to the conservative movement, because by abandoning ideology in favor of naked partisanship the GOP has guaranteed that Democrats will never give them a seat at the table when health care reform comes up again while Dems are in power. As a liberal, I couldn't care less, of course, but I can't help but note the irony...)
It commences with a fair bit of hand waving, and thus was I waved away from the rest of the story :-)
RFC 4042 which details UTF 9 in good detail.
Science!
pleasure can be found in something behaving in an unexpected manner.

for example, a cup that empties itself without overflowing the brim, but only if you fill it beyond a certain point.
My team managed to do pretty cool realtime deep neural net computer vision demos on Jetson TX2, but this beast is an order of magnitude faster and energy efficient, which seems almost unbelievable! We're definitely getting a bunch of those and sticking them to our robot.
I don't know, this seems like a targeted advertisement
Then the ass in the insurance cart has to do their thing. My wife almost bled out on the table when one of these idiots was literally blocking the medical people. I physically removed him from the area and almost got arrested.
How 2 foundations helped make this down-on-its-luck city a star of Tennessee
Don’t worry, US medical practices will give you a big show about doing anything in the name of HIPPA.

Rest assured, it is a show, and most of your information is fed in real time to a half dozen different entities whom you have never heard of. The people who sell prescription data provide it to the pharma company before your insurer even gets the claim.
Unsolved Mysteries of Fundamental Physics [video]
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on a surface book touch and pen work but battery doesnt, and theres no auto rotate
No. It's a couple orders of magnitude too low.
We do this for a reason. Not only do different people ask specific questions that try to elicit different things, but patients stories evolve with each repetition. People don’t realize how much, but by the third time you’re getting that history, the picture is usually quite different from what the first history depicted.

And since history is 90% of diagnosis, this isn’t some little quirk. It plays a huge role in helping patients. Huge.
I am using plain crystal to make an api server with a spa in vanilla js and cant be happier with my choices. Dropping all frameworks and stacks has me far more productive and a better programmer. My db is postgres and i am hoping to use nuster as load balancer/cache on digital ocean droplets
The real question that matters most in the ER is “What is your date of birth?”