skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was no informed consent; users were completely failed by both governments and journalists.

Governments didn’t think any of this was important until recently. By the time they did, Silicon Valley outspent wall street 2:1 on lobbying in the US.

Most journalists found understanding technology boring and difficult (beyond eagerly regurgitating spec sheets) and have little interest in understanding businesses beyond reporting a citable stock-price fluctuation. Most of the reporting during the ascent of surveillance capitalism has simply been “look at the boy genius nerds! A tshirt in the boardroom!”.
Coffee tastes terrible unless you add cream and/or sugar. Why would anyone think it's healthy?
Indeed. The first one, for example, reads to me as a dead ringer for a case where someone didn't bother to think about ecological validity until after they started having problems in production.
The Teflon Toxin (2015)
Here's the most recent article I've seen:

https://www.designworldonline.com/energy-efficient-lighting-...

Near the end of the article is a diagram of the new SDL (Dr. Shuji Nakamura's new company) laser diode, phosphor, and beam dump in an SMD package.
> Show me the actual connection, or admit the halting problem isn’t really a concern in practice: where in the course of my life as an SDE does it actually cause problems,

But were it not for the halting problem, we could automatically prove programs to be correct! So it affects you all the time: Because of the pesky halting problem, making sure that your program does what it should is really really hard instead of being plain automatic.

I think the point you don't get is that the halting problem is not just "you cannot prove that a problem halts", it extends to "you cannot prove that a program does what it should do, period". And this is the reason why we need exhaustive tests on one side and elaborate verification methods on the other side, both still never giving 100% confidence.

> because in my experience, I work in the subset of programs you can reason about.

You can reason about them, but you cannot guarantee that they are bug-free.

You ask me for a program "where the halting problem matters", and I say "pretty much any program you can find". On the contrary even, I ask you to provide me with a non-trivial program (i.e. one which is not just an academic exercise) that has been proven bug-free, through testing or other methods.
Add me to this list. Just spent a week with a 2018 MBP and grew to love the keyboard. The keys are bigger and something about the feel makes it easier to type. I got use to it in an hour. Looking forward to getting one myself.
> "When is a company abusing it's first amendment rights and dangerously coercing behavior, a la "yelling fire in theater"?"

I really wish people would stop using that example. That standard of free speech is obsolete, and it comes from an abhorrent case where a draft protestor during WWI was arrested for telling people to dodge the draft. "Yelling fire in a theater" was used to justify upholding his conviction. It's a deeply immoral standard of free speech.
Its mostly the lookup table which takes up the most space. This work is about breaking it into 2 layers and continuing to train to gain accuracy. The output model becomes 90% smaller compared to the original model.
OP here. This is the subject of the excellent 2018 documentary, The Devil We Know.
a need that governments should be filling: providing an organized way for individuals to communicate with each other over the internet

This is bizarre and wrong. The purpose of the internet is communication. If it exists, communication does. It supports a multitude of communication modes with varying levels of "organization" (whatever you mean by that), and none of them rely on government to function. Of those that have seen improvements (e.g., better spam filters for email), none of those improvements have come from government.

Of course, Facebook is just about the worst of all the modes of communication supported by the internet, so if you like how bad that is maybe you really just hope government could make it worse...
https://archive.org/details/ucberkeley-webcast-PL3E89002AA9B...
Java SecureRandom: a userland CSPRNG!
I helped not one, not two, but three friends with my Jeep (also grand Cherokee) last week. We had eght inches of snow and my Jeep could easily handle it so when their cars got stuck... mine was there. Living in rural Illinois it’s almost a must to have a truck or larger vehicle
This is shown in one of the plots, the less you compress the less you loose.
While there is some analysis in the paper on how the computations reduce etc, the results are mostly emperical.
That's not how things work here. The software is already installed with instructions to behave differently at some point tomorrow. They are asking that users delay the switch to the new behavior.
IMO the UK has very little negotiating leverage with the EU.

For its preservation, the EU leaders know they must make an example of the UK.

A new referendum will take time - if it ever happens.

And if it does, the country may remain as divided as ever.

They need to secure an extension from the EU. With no extension, a disruptive, hard Brexit will happen in just 10 weeks and the UK is not at all prepared.

I just don’t understand what the UK MPs are thinking, and I don’t understand why David Cameron opened this Pandora’s Box in the first place.
Airbnb actually disrupted them https://growthhackers.com/growth-studies/airbnb
I'm waiting for the Miata of EVs to appear. If the original Tesla Roadster weren't so expensive and had supercharging support I'd already drive one.

Not interested in the EVs which resemble smartphones on wheels, surveillance I can't control in my automobile? No thanks.

At this rate I'm very tempted to buy a wrecked Model S and retrofit the powertrain into a 60s something or other.
Can you prove it? For starters, can you provide stats of "out of work" / "unemployed" people who are single vs have a family?
Why wouldnt American car manufacturers do the same? They don't have the technology?
I love the 2016+ Macbook keyboards and find them far more pleasant to type on than the '15 15" keyboard I'm typing on right now. Unfortunately, the reliability issues on them were traumatizing, and I'm viscerally afraid to try the new models (which supposedly rectify the 2016 problems with a gasket).
Yep. Use Chrome Dev Tools, Network tab you can see each mp3 as it is opened and downloaded. Here's the intro: https://storytime.voxsnap.com/30/audio/2018/09/14/ycombinato...

Either iterate through each section guessing the URL or give dev tools a go.

EDIT: See my comment here for all of the mp3s: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18917784
They failed with their ad network in part because they weren’t willing to share user data with advertisers. You’re conflating correlation and causation.
Not as a podcast but downloadable. Use Chrome Dev Tools, Network tab you can see each mp3 as it is opened and downloaded. Here's the intro: https://storytime.voxsnap.com/30/audio/2018/09/14/ycombinato...

Either iterate through each section guessing the URL or give dev tools a go.

EDIT: See my comment here for all of the mp3s: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18917784
Steve Losh's post on how to learn Common Lisp is an amazing resource. I encourage people to check it out!

It happens to include many of the books mentioned in the parent post.

Link: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2018/08/a-road-to-common-lisp/

Accompanying HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17852194
The data underlying this study were taken most recently in January 2013. I wonder why it took almost six years to publish the results? Given the catastrophic nature of the findings, six years seems a long time to wait before publication.

It's hard to replicate this kind of data six or seven years out. If someone repeats the survey this year and gets different numbers, it can be discounted as an anomaly. It would have been better if the study could have been repeated right away: in the same year, or in the following year.

Also, the authors are overwhelmingly biased in favour of climate change as the cause. This is mainly a bug count. How hard is it to count the bugs and present the data and the analysis, leaving speculation about the cause to the discussion? I have to be very suspicious of a study that starts off implicating climate change instead of following the evidence. Especially when the conclusion is "we need more money to study this".

It does not make much sense to try so hard to fit climate change to the curve of this data. If it turns out that something else is operative, such as pesticide use, or the unusual solar minimum, or the unexpectedly rapidly diminishing magnetic field, then we have missed an early indication of something huge.

There is overwhelming evidence that humans are screwing up this planet, but no matter how politically correct and funding-expedient it may be to nail everything with the climate change hammer, it's not really how science is supposed to work.

It's hard to lay an insect apocalypse at the door of a 2C change in temperature. Measuring the temperature of a whole planet is hard. Pons & Fleischmann had trouble measuring the temperature change in a beaker and look at the stupidity that occasioned.

Lister & Garcia mostly rely upon increased variability in the weather to make the connection, but the fundamental mechanism is never explored. It's pretty hard to swallow that all the insects in a tropical rain forest died because they were a little too warm a few days out of the year.

Climate change has become a religion, and, like a religion, it makes a lot of money for its practitioners.

If 98% of the bugs in Luquillo are dead, then we are likely in dire trouble. If true, this finding is way too important to screw up with curve-fitting.
The owners of a commercial search engine say that it's inevitable that a commercial search engine will succumb to evil.

Hmmm.
I think it's probably that DDG does a better job at marketing themselves. Whenever there is any sort of privacy scandal there always seems to be some comment from their PR dept.

Personally, I am highly skeptical regarding DDG and find much of their marketing to be hyperbolic (see the duck.com foolishness [0]). For me, I feel that if I'm just going to get Bing search results and Bing ads, I might as well just use Bing.

[0]: https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/20/17595612/google-antitrust...
You can't come up with enough tests to prove that software is bug-free. No program has ever been written which is bug-free.
People on these discussions should stop playing these games of ignorance or shifting blame to the user and acknowledge the pervasive industry wide culture of data collection, open deception and fraudulent help messages deployed ie 'can we do x with your data to provide a better experience' conveniently forgetting to mention the full scope and what else they are doing with the data. This is fraud.

If you think users are so stupid then why even play these games? There are no regulations, no one cares about user privacy and everyone's sold out, fair enough but being 'coy' about it makes a mockery of informed discussion.
Oh please! Apple may not represent the same privacy clusterfuck that Google does, but that doesn't make them good. They still are absolutely abhorrent with regards to vendor lock-in and planned obsolescence.
This has actually been around for a couple years now. It is so good, in fact, that we actually require new hires at Kodable to read this as part of their onboarding, since it describes how we operate and make decisions as a company so well.
My IRB Nightmare
Government records aren't "text" though. They're documents, which need to be preserved with any margin notes, markings, signatures, etc. intact. So if you're storing government records, you're storing images.

Physical storage space definitely does have a cost, but so does software licensing, hardware maintenance contracts, etc. And a lot of government organizations have physical space in abundance, but IT resources, less so.
FSF is 5,000 members strong
Training adjusts all whole net's weights. And you are right, we get the joint changes and decompression machinery to work together.
Comparing nuclear waste with other waste like those from manufacturing solar panels does not help. You don't need to build the facilities like the Yucca Moutain Project to contain the waste from making silicon chips. (Yes, comparing the waste from making silicon chips to solar panels makes more sense)
I can’t speak to left turns, but someone attempted a careful evaluation of the turn-by-turn options and Apple’s estimates were generally more conservative, leading to the conclusion that you point out, that Apple looked slower but wasn’t.
I don't get it. Having owned both SUVs, wagons, and hatchbacks, I'll take a wagon or hatchback every time. Better handling (usually), better fuel economy (usually), and easier to get into (SUVs are tall), and usually less expensive (because SUVs have higher margins). If I really needed a third row, I'd buy a minivan.
The kernel knows how many bytes you've fed into it. But it has no fundamentally sound way of computing a lower bound on how much entropy those bytes contained; the best approaches involve calculating an upper bound and then say "well hopefully it's at least X% of this".
I'm using it right now—it seems like keys towards the right get put more on the right channel of audio and the ones on the left more on the left, which is a nice feature.

I think some subtle variation (like, adding an effect randomly or having ~10 recordings) could make this even better.
Well, of course. Remain is the current, familiar situation.

A Remain victory wouldn't have come with a 25% drop in the pound, rampant inflation, the worst growth rate of G8 countries, stockpiling of food and drugs, and an increasing risk to see the world order that brought about the longest period of peace (70 years) in this corner of the world, being toppled.

A Remain victory would also have been obtained in spite of, not thanks to, Russian interference, fake news, and overspending by Vote Leave (as found by the Electoral Commission who referred them to the police)

So yes, somehow the idea of a second referendum makes more sense in one case than in the other. Dunno why...
I mean I don't even know what you are asking for when you say "show me a program where the halting problem matters"... Can I not just pick any program you (or anyone else) have not proven to be bug free?

If you want a direct application of the halting problem itself, as in "does it terminate"... I don't know if my web browser finishes rendering all websites (even without JavaScript), so I guess I pick that?
If you would like to download the entirety of the audio to listen to later, I've grabbed each mp3 and collated them here:

https://storytime.voxsnap.com/30/audio/2018/09/14/ycombinato...

https://storytime.voxsnap.com/30/audio/2018/09/14/ycombinato...

https://storytime.voxsnap.com/30/audio/2018/09/14/ycombinato...

https://storytime.voxsnap.com/30/audio/2018/09/14/ycombinato...

https://storytime.voxsnap.com/30/audio/2018/09/14/ycombinato...

https://storytime.voxsnap.com/30/audio/2018/09/14/ycombinato...

https://storytime.voxsnap.com/30/audio/2018/09/14/ycombinato...

https://storytime.voxsnap.com/30/audio/2018/09/14/ycombinato...

https://storytime.voxsnap.com/30/audio/2018/09/14/ycombinato...

https://storytime.voxsnap.com/30/audio/2018/09/14/ycombinato...

https://storytime.voxsnap.com/30/audio/2018/09/14/ycombinato...

https://storytime.voxsnap.com/30/audio/2018/09/14/ycombinato...

https://storytime.voxsnap.com/30/audio/2018/09/14/ycombinato...
>I'm waiting for an electric Toyota Tacoma.

I bet those would fly off the lots and into driveways in nice neighborhoods as fast as Toyota can make them. A hybrid Tacoma would have all the "I'm handy, but not some hick that drives a full-size" implication of a new Tacoma with the implied environmentalism of a Prius.

I'm not saying this applies to you personally BTW, just that the "image" a hybrid Tacoma projects would subconsciously seal the deal for a lot of buyers.
I think, more to the point, is that more data really is not better data. Oftentimes it's worse -- the larger the volume of data you collect, the harder (and more expensive) it can be to manage sources of systematic bias in your data collection.

One of the more extreme examples of this situation is Big Data, where everything is a convenience sample, and therefore nothing is particularly trustworthy. Combine it with standard statistical hypothesis testing, whose p-values, being designed for the size of experiment that one could realistically manage in a lab setting circa 1910, are as much a reflection of your sample size as of anything else, and you're at great risk of leading yourself into a tar pit.
I used a video rearview mirror on a 2019 Cadillac Escalade recently and it drove me crazy. The low frame rate was obvious and the resolution of the video screen was much lower than a glass mirror, despite the wider angle of view.

I had to flip the rearview up into "night mode" to drive the car without feeling like I was going to get in a wreck.

Anyone else tried these in real life?
Google and Facebok didn't corrupt capitalism, they embody it.
The introduction of the mechanical cotton gin induced a very sharp rise in demand for slave labor in the American South. Mechanizing the processing of cotton created an increased demand for picking cotton, a process which had not yet been mechanized.

Maybe if people had waited a few more years for the mechanization of cotton picking, this would have corrected itself. Or maybe not. Maybe further mechanization would have created other opportunities for the use of slave labor.

My point is, "more industry = less slavery" is an oversimplification.
the type of person to complain about SUVs online are mostly young urban residents who don't have kids and probably have access to public transport. Not exactly representative of the world at large
If that was the case why don’t they switch to Mickey Mantle rookie cards? Or USB drives with BTC? Lugging around a Pollack must get tiring.
Christian Mother, Pastor Fear for Their Lives After Attacks in Eastern Uganda
Yes, it means having all of your data available for any criminal or civil court case. It means that any data breach will likely also include details about your life that you would like to remain private. Sure, it's not abused by the government right now but what happens in a regime change? What if that regime hates black people or homosexuals or muslims? So yea, it means a bit more than being shown personalized ads. How'd that Ashley Madison leak go? How about the OPM hack? How about Equifax, where's my SSN at now? Who knows my credit score? Then it also goes to conversations that used to be private. Mark Zuckerberg started deleting all his old conversations on Facebook, but how many of our chats, blogs, conversations, and comments are going to linger on?
Or, snow tires. Just about any car on real snow tires will outperform cross-overs on all-seasons.
I may have an extreme position on the subject, but to me unskippable advertising is violence plain and simple.
So asynchronous learning has a name. I was never as bright as these kids. I am older now in my 30s, and my life has played out so I kept on looking for a role model, and I met the first when I was 31. Now I know that I should have taken my option to do a PhD in a proper university, which I declined years back for financial reasons, and worked on some random research topic in a different school. Quite late now.

I have a close family member who is brighter than me. His family chose to not send him to gifted elementary school despite my objections. He is the top student in a gifted highschool now, and will be going to college next year at age 17.. and has been bored and semi-depressed for the last two years as far as I can tell.

My advice to him is to get in a major school and take it from there. I'm sure that's not hard for him. I feel like I should be able to suggest more but aside from life advice, I'm at a loss. Any pointers? I live here but he is in a country with barely mediocre support for special kids.
South Korea.

Nobody is under any threat of prosecution for talking about our ridiculous censorship regime, and the surveillance side of the program is probably no worse than in any other developed country.

Which isn't much of a compliment, but at least we're not China-level evil -- just incompetent. DPI for blocking SNI hostnames is a particularly annoying way to waste taxpayers' money. It's almost as if they timed it to coincide with wide availability of DoH and ESNI!
And the Panamera can tow a boat (seriously, IIRC, the euro model can tow a few thousand pounds - US car isn't rated because lawyers).
relative:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13680/snapdragon-855-going-in...
Perhaps they will. You better hurry and use this great product before it's gone.
It's not free if you have to buy it! It's just packaged differently to the end user. "Free" hardware used to supply you with Google and FB is paid for by selling your data. Cloud services that businesses subscribe to have the hardware costs built into the subscription fees.

Stop by a Fry's Electronics and see how much "free" hardware they have, lol!
I picked up a google home a week ago. I pretty much use it as a glorified alarm clock, and I love it.

I was running into issues with my phone’s alarm not being loud enough (either off or in a pocket, wrong room, etc) — with the Home, its always there.

The other ‘smart’ features are handy, but I’m not using those very much. When the price is right I will get some lights, though.

Does everybody need one of these? No. Is it any better than a phone? Yes, only because it’s exactly where I want it at all times.
Of course, reneging on a treaty does wonders for the country's future credibility!
> "In fact, since slaves can’t be consumers,"

That's not broadly true. It might be true in some limited contexts, but it's not true when you consider the broader picture of slavery throughout human history.
> One day I prefer Gould, the other this one. It's just like that.

Amen to that! I frequently rediscover interpretations upon hearing them anew, which makes me go back and listen to other versions of the same piece again. It's what I love about classical music.

I do indeed known Gould's very clever fugue.
A Brief History of Lead Regulation (2008)
> This was something the Swiss experimented with a few years back. Not altogether happily, I seem to recall, but I am hazy.

The people voted (constitutional amendment) to limit free movement. The EU said "hmm, no", so they basically fudged it.

There's a summary (in French) at https://www.eda.admin.ch/missions/mission-eu-brussels/fr/hom... which basically says the Swiss parliament passed a law that respected the requirements of that constitutional amendment while still meeting Switzerland's free-movement treaty obligations.
Fedora Decides to Not Allow SSPLv1 Licensed Software into Its Repositories
That makes it almost worse. You're already holding a ticking time bomb, and we'll let you know how to defuse it in a few hours.

p.s. As far as I can tell from skimming the background, no vulnerable contracts have actually been found.
> researchers at MIT showed that using only gender, date of birth and ZIP code, it is possible to identify the majority of US residents!

Source? How were they able to do that?
These companies are responsible for creating a catastrophe on a global scale. We might literally go extinct because of them. All their assets should be seized to repair the damage, and people responsible should be tried for crimes against humanity.
That's not quite correct.
The EU has stated they would consider granting an extension "for the right reasons" (meaning of course, a second referendum).

It's definitely possible to stop the clock.
Netflix will raise prices for US subscribers, up to $13 per month