skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's better to fail fast than to waste 5 years getting a PhD you don't really need. I've had a lot of professors who started out pursuing theoretical physics in grad school, but quickly switched to experimental physics after realizing that they were simply not the right material for theory. I was always surprised to hear it, because I regarded those professors as very bright. It is very humbling.
The difference being that these scooters are typically if not always left on sidewalks which are public property, not land the business has paved over for a parking lot.
Yes, but this comparison doesn't favor APT/PGP at all. Using OpenSSL or similar for your HTTPS implementation means you're running code that the entire world already depends on for security, and which your own OS probably also depends on in other scenarios. Using PGP means you have some kind of custom transport implementation that you're responsible for. To the extent that you're solving the same problem, not using HTTPS is much riskier than using it.
I think we will find limited use for general AI since we won't be able to properly regulate or understand the behavior of machines that are smarter than us. Alpha Go Zero can't explain why it plays chess the way it does except for showing how it evaluates the board, but the reasoning is buried in millions of mathematical calculations accreted via millions of games of self play that we can't understand the intuition of. Of course, many smart players can't really tell you systematically how they make the moves they do either. AI will be like a dictator who makes his decisions by intuition only.
This is a great example of Spiral Dynamics Stage Yellow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0d1TsOcbQs
>The reason that rich people worry about superintelligence is that it could bring the same uncaring devastation to the rich as climate change brings to the poor.

The problem with this is that I believe one is a genuine threat, the other is a fad.
Regular hat:

The immediate solution to this (assuming the feature stays) seems to be a stricter sign-up / verification process that ties your account closer to your real-world identity before you can use political features like this, to make bots and fake accounts more difficult to create and/or influence politics through these direct lines.

Tinfoil hat:

Fortunately (or unfortunately), that's also a step closer towards (but not at, yet) the verification necessary to start, I don't know, actually voting through Facebook. I wonder if giving bots a direct line to local politics would actually result in people/lawmakers _begging_ more verifiability to Facebook accounts, instead of Facebook trying to implement such a process/feature without the inevitable backlash they'd no doubt get if they said "you can now link your social security number to Facebook!". Being verified as a real human on Facebook ultimately helps Facebook get closer to a potential goal of giving petitions (or votes) on Facebook more weight.
Leaving their trash on street corners and door steps seems like littering.
If the definition of tolerant society S is one where everyone is tolerant of one another, then by definition it can't include anyone who's intolerant of at least one person in S. The intolerant person simply doesn't belong in S.
Jack Bogle, founder of Vanguard Group, dies at age 89
It's already the case that you can ascribe any quality to any group by fiat and so therefore any criteria for being intolerant can be abused in the way that you say. There is nothing you can do to preclude dishonesty and sophistry.
> The perceived need to learn something new is inversely proportional to the rank of a manager. Those at the top feel obliged to pretend to omniscience, and therefore refuse to learn anything new even if the cost of doing so is success.

Wonder what happens when a manager spends his career perched atop a giant tower with his name on it.
Predictions for the global economy in 2019
In my bedroom I can feel the morning dew in my lungs. I've been wondering if it is bad. Could be lead as well, it's an old house, but I don't think I would be able to feel it.
How is this maintainable? What do you use to describe the inputs and the outputs (if it resembles a programing language then we're basically pushing people around, don't we)? Is AI supposed to design the interfaces as well as the plumbing?

Let's say, a bug appears.
If the internals are produced by machine learning, chances are it's basically un-freakin-fixable from the high mountains of the spreadsheet/lisp interface. So someone has to dive in, and do it by hand. I doubt the business folk will do it, they won't know where to look!

The result, seems to me, is a metric-ton of machine generated code that now someone has to rewrite. Better hire a team to do it...
Was wondering the same thing and just used a screen recorder to try and find out. Still can't answer why it happens, but in the recorder, if I flip from one frame to the next, the flash happens and it's impossible to freeze frame "mid-flash."

This means its either an optical illusion or something with the monitor refresh rate. My money is on the monitor.
Compilation of public failure/horror stories related to Kubernetes
The number of unexplained but apparently natural heart attacks in middle aged people with disgruntled partners would sky rocket.

Weight trainers can and probably already do (ab)use insulin to maximize their gains by manipulating blood sugar levels during workouts.

self-diagnosed and self-medicated diabetics showing up at hospitals that have no indication of this and pump them full of glucose.
whatevs. I never saw the guy make grandiose claims about what he was doing, and if the results generalize to no one besides his future selves, so what?certainly useful to him and better than some half assed anecdotal justification.

and most science is absolutely buried in possible confounds. sheez
I've felt for a long time that Singularitarians are looking in the wrong place. They see accelerated technological development and assume that the endpoint will be an artificial brain in a box. What they fail to see is that these inventions and breakthroughs haven't been about increasing the intelligence of a machine... they've been about increasing the intelligence and efficiency of human systems.

The singularity isn't a brain in a box... it's us, the collective, a metasystem transition that's been underway for millennia. A movement toward a whole that transcends the parts.
Are we still talking about France? Wasn't the vignette abolished some time ago and now, I guess, funding comes from tolls? (Which I guess you can call "road tax", just confused by the vernacular)
You're claiming that the NYT is letting Trump off too easy? It is to laugh.
Possibly because there's an opt in gap between "I need larger breasts" and "If I don't find a way to pay for my chemo, I'll die"?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161...
For type I diabetics, that option is off the table.

It isn't that they are resistant, it is they don't produce any at all.

It is insulin or death for them.
Her most well known song is 'Every time the sun comes up﻿', which features in the Volvo Wedding & Lighthouse commerical which came out a few year years ago. Another widely played song of hers is 'Taking Chances', but there are several others. She is an original but raw talent and her videos are a bit uneven but when she shines, the result is brilliance. She is influencing others, and that is always a good sign.
Ask HN: What are must have concepts/languages for UI development?
I am a SDET and am fascinated by UI design & development wanting to make a switch.
Are Scooters Cluttering Your Property?

What if someone trips over a Scooter on your Property?

No More Obstructions Blocking Customer Access

It seems pretty clear the removal service is targeting property owners, not public spaces.
Interesting analogy.

I bet there's scope to twist it beyond all sensible bounds, and compare the ability of the 99% to the 1%.

I suspect there's top level classical, jazz, and session musicians - who're the industry equivalent of 10x programmers. (And all the other stereotypes probably exist too, I bet there are occasional untrained but gifted musicians who can produce 10x output, but who're amazingly difficult to collaborate with compared to degree level music theory trained musicians... And I bet there are "10 year" musicians with one years experience repeated ten times over.)

The other interesting point there is that probably 99% (or more for, five, perhaps six nines) of "programming" doesn't actually require that much hard-core CS theory. You can get paid well playing covers in bars with a good ear and not being able to read a single note from a chart, just by listening to the originals and copying them over and over in your bedroom. Same as you can make a decent living building basic CRUD websites/apps without having written your own compiler that can compile itself or defended a phd that advances humanities start of the art understanding of something fundamental.
It's just as important to understand the history/genesis of cron as it is to know when to not use it.
Wow. Didn't realize how important it was to aerate. I seldom open the windows at my place.

I also remember often getting really dizzy working in my previous office, and I couldn't understand why, maybe you're on to something.

Now I'm wondering how all of that has affected my health along the years
Ethernet doesn't have encryption or security layers.
I suppose "move fast and break things" cuts both ways.
Show HN: Caption This – an iOS to make Instagram story videos accessible
Hi HN,

I made an iOS app called "Caption This" that adds real-time captions to videos for Instagram stories.

If you've ever tried to watch Instagram stories in a public space, then you already know the problem I’m trying to solve. The “Caption This” app solves this problem by using speech recognition to automatically add closed-captions to videos.

Instagram stories with captions get more engagement. They're also more accessible to deaf members in your audience.

You can edit the captions in case the speech recognition thinks you meant "ducking". You can also change the font and text/background colors of the captions.

The app is built with React Native. At this point it's about 2/3 React Native and 1/3 native iOS and Objective-C. It's also open source (GPL v3) so you can check out the source too if you're into that kind of thing!

Here is a link to the iOS app store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/caption-this/id1449087035

And here’s a link to the GitHub: https://github.com/jonbrennecke/CaptionThis
That was a very interesting read. It occurred to me as I was reading that “peace” as a moral precept is ostensibly central to Christianity, right down to not defending yourself. Obviously that doesn’t describe the actual history of the religion, an probably doesn’t describe any extant group. Any group that was so unwilling to defend itself was probably destroyed or absorbed centuries ago.

His descriptions really resonated with me, especially as regards the usual framing of the Israel/Palestinian conflict. Israel, so the usual rhetoric goes, is much more powerful than Hamas or the PLO, so they shouldn’t respond using that power. In essence they should suffer a death by a thousand cuts, because of how it makes people feel to see a weaker group lose to a stronger one. Of course it’s also a convenient bludgeon to rely on schoolyard logic to try and restrict people, groups, or nations from defending themselves.
I've found NPR to usually present "no sides", which exactly what I want. Simply facts. Minimal analysis or hypotheticals. Just, "X happened." The "both sides" mentality presumes a conflict, and implies that the content either lives in the sphere of opinion or includes "alternate facts". I've no interest in it from my news source.

I do end up finding myself on The Atlantic fairly often through links. It has some good opinion pieces, but I don't really think of it as "news" so much. Or at least, not the stuff that I've read.
> I'd let them know they were free to terminate the lease and move out within a reasonable amount of time...

This would be accurate, but depending on the terms of the contract the tenant may have no obligation to do so, and you would still have an obligation to provide the same quality of lock, secure under the same reasonable threat models, as what was present at the time the contract was signed. In other words, it may be that you would not be entitled to force a smart lock [that adds extra things that compromise the security of the implied threat model such as remote unlock] on the tenant, just as you would not be entitled to remove the lock entirely.

> ...or not renew their lease when it came up for renewal. Being expensive to service is a trait I can legally discriminate against, and is not protected by fair housing laws.

No argument there.
So what? So it's actively misleading and draws people to unsubstantiated claims such as what are being flooded in this comment section is what.
I think your analogy is kinda missing the point. The point isn't that you somehow have to sort people into "tolerant" and "intolerant", and then remove the rights of those you have categorized as intolerant. The point is the simple observation that tolerance is not unconditionally a virtue, but rather lends itself to its own destruction when regarded as such, and therefore you should have a limit on your tolerance if you actually care about it.

And that is obviously true of democracy as well: Democracy can be used and has been used to put dictators into power, and if you actually care about democracy, you therefore should have a limit on what democratic decisions you are willing to accept, and not just go with whatever the majority has decided as the supposedly "most democratic" way of making decisions. So, yes, you kinda have to "prevent undemocratic members from voting", but you may not need to sort people into "democratic" and "undemocratic". You can do it by banning undemocratic parties, for example. Or you may not need to really do anything at all, except for watching out for when something does need to be done.

Noone is saying that "populism will overwhelm democracy". But it obviously can, and has, and you should not discount that possibility, and refuse to prevent it just because it is superficially "anti-democratic".
Bird learns from this issue? They’re just going to go out of business. They have no tech and a bunch of depreciating Chinese scooters. No one needs to buy that company.
Lovers of the 1-bit "dither-punk" aesthetic must give "Obra Dinn" a play. Lucas Pope's dev diary on TIG forums is an epic, legendary document describing the painstaking process of recreating the mood of classic MacOS gameplay ;)

http://dukope.com/
Just as the article states. Treating a date as a binary yes/no doesn't work when people have contradictory feelings and desires. Perception is everything, and I'm not sure making a legal framework for consent with verbal and written that turns a quiet nonverbal lean in kiss into an assault, is fair to anyone.

This is why I always thought kids should have dating, bullying, assertive training classes. It won't fix every scenario, but it would help some of the misunderstandings, and train young people to be more responsive and communicative to others.

We have HR classes at work, but nothing for youn adults. We know teens will date each other, and hollywood movies don't count as traning. Lets fix this with some simple communication classes.
Public property does not mean you can obstruct it and use how you want. You have to be respectful to other public property owners, people
And I recently remember hearing forced air is bad for air quality inside! Did I hear wrong or is there something more to the story like “forced air brings in outside air, so if your outside air is bad you’ll have trouble”?
Ray Kurtzweil is certainly super smart, but I find his views about the Singularity disturbingly myopic. It's as if he has been living in a bubble for decades, and doesn't realize how the world works for real.

I still have a lot of sympathy for him, as I'm sure he means good. Still, these views distort our reality for many people.
That is a logical argument, but presumes existence is logical. - Another thing to cast into doubt when staring as deep as you do seem to into the abyss.
I'm a single man, I date, and it's confusing as hell. The examples given in the article are no surprise to me since my whole adult life has been peppered with similar events. Women who later tell me they wanted to sleep with me but I didn't push hard enough, etc. Not pushing women to sleep with me has likely cost me a lot of opportunities, but it's also meant I haven't accidentally assaulted someone. On my birthday I had 5 previous sexual partners call or message to wish me a happy birthday, so I figure my philosophy of treating people well is doing ok.

How assertive should I be when interacting with women I am dating, given that every woman is a unique individual with their own preferences?
Agreed lots of flaws, what I like is because it's state based it's in their interest to cut costs of medicine rather than try give as much medicine as they can to increase profits
There were plenty of bad and buggy games in the 80's, it even crashed the market [1]. We just don't remember them.

Also modern non-indie games are orders of magnitude larger and intricate than 80's games, and have about the same distrubution of quality/bugs. They're now made by teams of size 10-1000 rather than 1-10 though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983
> This one was bad enough that Bezos left the field, yet Amazon (like every other software company) still asks these style of questions of its engineering candidates.

Maybe of their engineers and mathematicians, but as a software engineer, Amazon never asked me these types of questions. Software engineering is significantly different, however, so I wouldn't be surprised that they focused more on textbook fundamentals.
"What topic..."

- The disappointing and rather uninspiring state of programming language design today.

- Developer's inexplicable love for complexity and their complete inability to recognise it.

- The hypocrisy that's rife throughout the programming profession on so many topics e.g privacy and online tracking; the pervasive lack of quality, the low standards.

- We love to say one thing and practice the complete opposite (while being completely oblivious to it). Beliefs like striving for simplicity and the importance of naming things are dutifully acknowledged and agreed by all developers but make not one iota of difference to the way they code.

- How the foundation of much modern computing is built with sticking plaster and quicksand - but most developers couldn't care less.

Shall I continue?
Right, but you also can't steal someone's stuff just because they left it unattended.
It is a mistake to treat tolerance as a binary quantity (which is hinted at in the use of the phrase "unlimited tolerance"). Rather, the appropriate question to ask is, what degree of intolerance should be given to which actions, in order to form a high-tolerance stable equilibrium?
My argument is that if you value unit tests, why not get a whole slew of them for free from the compiler?
Sure, if you lack the nuance gene, it would seem like that.
Quinn 0.2.0: QUIC protocol implementation in Rust
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/27/health/rebates-high-drug-...

> Even as insurers’ drug spending has grown slowly, critics say the rebate game has served to inflate the list price of drugs, which consumers are increasingly responsible for paying. This is especially true for expensive specialty drugs, which treat serious conditions like cancer and multiple sclerosis — and whose prices have been skyrocketing.

> As the cost of these products has gone up, insurers have raised deductibles and out-of-pocket contributions so that many of the sickest Americans must now pay thousands of dollars a year to cover their drug costs. These out-of-pocket costs are calculated using something close to the list price of a product, not the net price.
If they leave their property on your property, you're well within your rights to have it removed.
Hmm I never prayed in my life but i will try. Thanks for the suggestion
What?

ISPs, for example, eavesdrop us all the time, and they do it quite casually. They will modify your unprotected HTTP requests, inject ads, log everything they are able to, and sell the data if they can.
The first signal I look for is how well will it actually solve my problem. Do I have to hack around how it works to integrate it or is it straight forward.

The second signal I look at is activity. If a project hasn't had a commit somewhat recently, then there is a good chance it's not actively worked on, or does not serve a very large audience.

To be clear, not having a large audience isn't always an issue, every project starts with 0 forks, but it's always tough relying on a project that has open Pull Requests sit un-merged simply because the original author has abandoned the project.

If the project has a small user base, the third signal I try to use is to look through some of the code base and documentation. Can I jump in and make a fix, or is the code style so esoteric that it would take me a long time to grok.
Since this comment is made essentially 3 times, let me just ask the obvious question. Yes my comment gives the impression that the government just decides to overspend. The thing that matter is THAT the government overspent, why does not factor in meaningfully. Nor how, nor the historical context. Zimbabwe overspent by willfully destroying it's industry and agriculture for racial justice, talk about finding an original way to overspend. That's akin to quitting your 100k a year job and not changing apartments.

Do you seriously think it matters whether it was a choice to overspend or not ? In Weimar Germany's case it was not a choice and arguably it was not really a choice in Zimbabwe either. In Venezuela I think it may have been a choice.

I find a lot of people are obsessed with this justice thing, in various context. With guilt. As if some all powerful deity is just about to descend and decide if you've been good or bad, despite being atheists. And for guilt, of course choice matters. But being entirely innocent and a sac is worth one sac. So is being 100% guilty and a sac. If I gave you a choice of being a worker in Venezuela, Zimbabwe or Wiemar Germany what do you base your choice on ? I would base my choice on in which case I would be able to change my situation the easiest, so I'd pick Venezuela out of those options, because I think my odds of successfully working my way out of that situation is the highest, and that I think Venezuela is more "guilty" than Zimbabwe and more than Weimar Germany just doesn't factor into it.
If it is, I don’t see any i fringement. Who are they infringing upon?
I believe some states will let you simply take the bar exam and start practicing.

Of course, one would probably get started by clerking or working into a paralegal position, both of which would require independent study and coursework.

Sometimes people just need a cheap lawyer to take a look at a simple will or divorce papers, etc.
Long time? Days??
If you park in an unauthorized zone with "no-parking" signs it can literally take minutes (believe me I've had this happen). I've heard some towing companies actively patrol lots where there's likely to be plenty of infractions - they make money doing this you know. In fact this new service is an accurate reflection of the mindset of these companies. I bet we're going to be seeing a lot of this soon.