skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all, is this a place where there is significant uncertainty about the feature? Lean Startup-like approaches work best under conditions of uncertainty with unproven ideas. The easiest way to get someone's hackles up is to ignore work or testing that's already been done. Sometimes people have already validated an idea and the next chunk you can learn from is going to take some time.

Once I know that they've actually just been sitting around a table writing for an imaginary user, I have three options I've used:
If the feature is clearly segment-able, I pitch it as delivering value sooner, rather than "testing". "We can build the whole feature in the same amount of time, but start making money in one month instead of 9" is a compelling proposal. And then once I've shipped part of it, I go back with the outcome of that and say, "based on what we've learned, we could improve the outcome by making these changes..." It is almost never the case that we make it through a 9 month project, because we've learned so much by then and we prioritized the most valuable parts up front, but I often don't say "MVP" at all. Frame it in terms of what it delivers to the business, not the users.

Second, which is useful if you don't have the power to actually structure product development, is the JAQing off approach: "How are we going to know if the project is a success? What are we measuring? That's an interesting design decision: how has that been received by customers?" The goal is to reveal the extreme uncertainty we are operating under and make the easiest solution the one where they adopt a learning mindset and iterative development. I had a CEO who used this to great effect: he never told people they had to build things iteratively, but he showed up to about one out of every four product reviews and if you wanted to be able to answer his questions most easily you just fell into that pattern. (His questions were always, "what are we trying to achieve?", "how will we measure if we succeeded?", "what evidence do we already have that this is worth investing in?" and "have you actually tried this with the intended user? What was the response?")

Alternatively, I just build user testing into the product development cycle/plan. You can have a 9 month project and still be learning along the way. Developers have to build some part first after all; it might as well be a part that you can learn from. Instead of getting management buy-in you get team buy-in, which is often easier because a series of small achievements feels good and iterative development is SWE orthodoxy. For this approach, I'd use user testing, internal customers or even just Monday demos of the current state of the feature to the team building it. If engineering already has a feature-flag framework it makes this much easier; if not, adopting the technical tools to make testing easier can also lead to more testing.
>> We're not talking about insects, or birds, we're talking about human beings.

Well aren't we special then.

We're talking about evolution, so the part of "we select partners with whom we may or may not mate" where people don't mate is not even relevant. In fact, if there is a genetic component to not mating, it is selected against in evolutionary terms.

I thought we were talking about what people are attracted to (i.e. make one feel like mating), not who they like to hang out with - if you find both of those characteristics in one person that's great and I think we all strive for that. But don't kid yourself that humans don't have primitive instinctual drives governed by biology and evolution.
1) WTF, FB? Don't go around violating license terms.

2) Why do developers tolerate a platform that doesn't allow developers to deploy apps wherever they want?
This seems primarily targeted towards technological innovation.

I'd be curious to see a similar index for sociological innovation. By this, I mean systemic experimentation and progress in social systems.
AFAIK the fob is normally just a transmitter, so this would require it to also have a receiver in addition to a buzzer and other circuitry. I imagine that could significantly reduce the battery life.
>The issue with Apple regulating apps that abuse data is that this now encompasses a significant portion of the App Store.

Can you expand on this a bit? The original issue is not with an App Store app, but with an enterprise certificate that circumvented it. What other apps exist on the App Store that constitute this or any level of data abuse? I don't think the issue is with sending 'any' data off the phone -- Apple has designed around being clear with what data is going where as a feature.
I think the clicker can only send, not receive
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This is true, there’s also the aspect that if you bought a movie on Vudu and opened an account on Flixster or some other UV service, the UV compatible (all?) movies would show up there too (not just the code entered ones).
> It's interesting & typical of modern war that the politics of the fight constrain the weapons choice much more than the tactical situation.

Not just modern war, but pretty much for most of history.

Clausewitz's maxim that "war is a continuation of policy by other means" ought to be interpreted as a reminder that war is (or at least should be) subservient to the political goals that are fueling war, and that the military needs to be a tool, not a driver, of the government's foreign policies. Sadly, not all governments do a good job of remembering this fact, and that is often where the great military failures start from.
Product-building articles by PMs at major tech companies
I don't think power locks were standard until roughly the early 90's. Same with those completely useless "alarms".
I think there's a difference between tools used by industry/hobbyists and products used by the general public. People who buy table saws are either professionals or at least have enough of an interest in woodworking to know the risks and know they need to learn safety tips. As opposed to products like cars or toasters, used by the general public who usually have no interest in how they work.

At the end of the day, it's really not hard to prevent table saw injuries. Use a riving knife, don't twist the wood and you'll pretty much never get a kickback. If something does go wrong you won't get injured if you keep your body out of the way. So don't stand directly behind the saw and use a push stick (I love my GRR-Ripper) so your fingers are never close to the blade. I'd guess the majority of woodworking injuries are due to people who know these rules but break them out of laziness or rushing. Table saws also aren't the only risk in a workshop. You can injure yourself just as easily on any other type of saw, jointer, planer, etc. It doesn't make sense for the CPSC to only require SawStop tech on table saws and putting it on every other tool would put the price of woodworking out of reach for most hobbyists.

From a quick Google search, 93% of table saw injuries are to the users' hands. The only actual deaths I could find were suicides. Yea it sucks to lose a finger but I'd argue that it's not the worse thing in the world. Pretty much everyone could still do their jobs minus one finger.

The one exception I would make is high school woodshop classes. Based on most teenagers lack of judgement, I think it does make sense to mandate that these woodshops only use saws with this technology. I'd be surprised if most school insurance policies don't already require it.
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I just got back from a month in Seoul, and was very surprised when I heard that Samsung makes men's suits there. But, come on... Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Tesla, SpaceX, Intel, AMD, Amazon, the US list goes on. Also as somebody that has visited both Sweden and South Korea for extended periods, they both are very pro-America and have an appetite for American consumerism and anything American made.
I mean, I'm sure that's what they were thinking.

The fact remains that they have no suitable process for a non-developer to give them a vulnerability report that they pay attention to. She seems to have tried really hard, without having the background to know the 'right' way.

You gotta have a way for people who don't know the 'right' way to submit and have it get somewhere, right? Without having to try really hard. They're doing you a favor.

> To report security or privacy issues that affect Apple products or web servers, please contact product-security@apple.com

You think "emailing apple's security team", which the NYT says she did, was emailing that address? I'm guessing it was, and apparently it didn't actually result in anyone paying attention. The email address they advertise as being the place to report security issues....

If they actually want/need people to create developer accounts and use a tool there, maybe they should say that and not give an email address apparently nobody pays attention to...
This sort of thing can happen for humans in a way where they have time to make a choice. A stick throttle with brakes that can’t overcome it could get you into a situation like that, for example. You’re right that computers would be able to make that kind of decision in a much wider range of scenarios. However, computers will also be much likely to get into those scenarios in the first place. I’m not at all convinced that the net result is computers encountering situations where they can make a choice more often than humans do. I think both will be so rare they any effort spent on them would be better spent on avoiding crashes altogether.
Some ideas:

* multi-storey farms, with "JIT" food production: lots of our food production is wasted, what if we streamlined it, by locating food production centers closer to population centers? Homeless people/other "undesirables" could be given some work maintaining a food production source they can be proud of (availability high tech solutions for various problems, lunch and learns with power point presentations and fancy marketing speak, rapid solution iteration by close interaction between (think, same office) engineers and green-collar food workers)

* traditional farms will keep their roles as is, but will have attached to them food preservation facilities, so that they can build stockpiles for when JIT fails us (natural disasters, etc.), and also be able to sell preserved stockpiles in general as special foods in supermarkets (bunch of "culinary engineering" will have to be done to take traditional preservation methods which have tasty output, and mass-produce it, or better yet, come up with new methods (with tastier output))

* public washrooms with automated cleaning facilities (janitors who maintain the washrooms are inducted into a 24 month MOS on mechanical design and robot construction---they don't need to be become experts on the physics, just aware of the possibilities so that they can combine their experience with this knowledge to come up with designs for engineers to construct, and are then responsible for testing in the field, and iterating on design)

* people who are willing to take risks exploring (maybe again, many "homeless" people/undesirables) could be recruited into fancy programs with the goal of most expansive deep sea exploration to date: mountains of geological, biological, meteorological data for scientists to explore; plus, an excellent training ground for deep space exploration (hostile outdoor environment, massive pressure differentials making structural design complicated)

* programs which involve the "mentally disabled" (think Down's syndrome, or other "obviously mentally deficient" illnesses) not in order to study them as "specimens" to be kept in the confines of their home, or a nursing home, but by involving psycholgists/neuroscientists to work with them in order to figure out the answer to: "sure, they suck at XYZ, is there anything they truly excel at? are there jobs/work/problems that other humans dislike doing which the "disabled" enjoy doing extremely, and are particularly well suited for? are there surprises regarding their capabilities (i.e. could it be that certain illnesses make you extremely good at certain types of mental tasks, which we don't know of because we simply don't interact with such people enough)?

* similar to last point, except for elderly, rather than treating them as old junk---figuring out ways to take advantage of their experience, for their benefit, and that of humanity

* fusion reactors

* deep space asteroid-mining

* energy storage research

* UI research
When the BART train can’t even show a display of upcoming stations, I sometimes do wonder if I’m in the world’s hotbed of innovation.
Here's the source article in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-0892-1
You are right, but just recalculate with 8 TB drives (more modern, quite cost effective) and 3 disks at minimum (RAID5) and you reach $600 for ~ 14 TB usable and safe storage. Add a CPU, MB, RAM and you reach $1000.
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Don't look now but you just made a decision.

The result of your choice, to brake or 'just stop' means there will be situations where passengers die to save real or theoretical pedestrians, as soon as this is established in the media the sales of these cars will plummet, and your decision will have repercussions increasing the number of human-accidents across the board.

> The car cannot calculate the probabilities

I think we may be talking about different things, probabilities are the foundation of self driving algorithms, there is never a 100% right place, just adjustments and corrections, calculations that lead to percentages that lead to choices. Maybe you are thinking about the older cruise control (like in some BMWs), they tried to anticipate things on the road and would brake faster than a human could, saved a few bumps, caused a few..
Yes. The broader context of why it started and what the result has been is very depressing. The article even says “There were many other terrorist groups, criminal gangs, and war profiteers involved”. It is referring to the non ‘allied’ side but should probably apply to both, particularly the bit about profiteers. The regimes in place before the conflict were terrible, but the end result seems only marginally better at colossal humanitarian cost.
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What's odd about that paragraph is that it's not an either/or situation. Apple can enforce a licensing agreement and fight for user privacy by having a licensing agreement that is predicated around user privacy. Which is what the licensing agreement does.
I wonder if some of last quarter's profit is being poured in producing op-ed pieces to attempt to slow the traffic bleed... My son and his buddies call them fagedbook and instagramma.
This isn't about the fact that they're enforcing the law. It's about how. Even if I loved the way the law is, I'd still object to enforcing it in a way that takes resources away from catching serious criminals and uses them instead to go after people who pose little to no threat.
If a methodology doesn't motivate you to actually do the work (i.e. finish the course) no matter how intuitive it might be, it will not work. That said of course everyone is different, and what motivates one person, may not motivate another.
Should have set up a new, disposable company to handle the research. Helps shield them from more than just Apple.
Also, America. At least in cities. I know a load of married couples with pampered dogs who hate kids.
Your entire argument seems to be "it's impossible to do this because we don't know how to do it."

I don't get how people argue about the plausibility of future par-human AIs and say things like "we don't even know how to build a positronic brain" or "right now, in the current state of technology".

It's the same kind of incomprehensible confusion that leads one to tell the Wright brothers that heavier than air flight is impossible; just as birds exist to conclusively disprove that, so do HUMANS disprove the impossibility of human-level intelligence.

Maybe the three laws really are as physically illegal as a Warp Drive, though I would be remarkably surprised to hear it, but you cannot reasonably argue that position by claiming brains are impossible.

None of this should be taken as an endorsement of the three laws, which are clearly silly.
Sounds like the Battle of Alesia was a conventional siege, whereas Sadr City was, well, "urban warfare", a battle to weed out the rebels from lived-in neighborhoods.
The solution you propose requires 2-way communication with the car. Virtually no cars do this (in their OEM configuration anyway.)

Without 2-way communication, the remote has no way of knowing if the vehicle acted on the signal.
I had a small bit of my finger removed by the table saw. It was actually a great lesson since I'll never forget it, but it wasn't permanently damaging (other than feeling slightly numb on the tip of that finger). Now I always think twice about the blade path and what things could go wrong.
Huh? What's wrong with Java?
Damn, funny to see how these things are perceived years after the event. The residency cap didn’t coincidentally exist. The AMA pushed for it and they pushed for similar things in universities https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/health/2005-03-02-docto...

The AMA is actually evil. They’ve probably killed people in America though their protectionism. A truly banal evil : the pursuit of increased physician salaries.
> That's great, iff you have root-level access.

And if you don’t have root access, then you can’t read other users’ memory. The MMU must be an evil scheme for DRM!
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I'm trying to understand what you're saying - so lots of apps are abusing privacy rules, thus it would be a problem if Apple banned those apps because then there would be few apps left? Are you arguing that privacy abusers should have safety in numbers?
Sometimes I don't investigate the public transportation options while I'm traveling. This seems like a smart move but curious what Uber actually gets out of this, your 'transportation hub', municipal goodwill?
Pretty soon I'm going to be so irked that I may have to write an article "Death of the Individual: How Countless Pseudo-spiritual Personal Essays on Transcending Social Platforms Reaffirms the Utter Banality of the Human Psyche"
You can find language specific libraries for many popular languages under the GoogleAPIs org on GitHub. To install, go to the defacto package manager for the specific language.

* .NET: https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-dotnet/tree/maste...

* Go: https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/tree/master/fi...

* Java: https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-java/tree/master/...

* Node.js: https://github.com/googleapis/nodejs-firestore

* PHP: https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-php-firestore

* Python: https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/tree/maste...

* Ruby: https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-ruby/tree/master/...
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Wikipedia has a summary, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Catalyzer. Unlikely to be true.
I have never seen a car that doesn't honk when you lock it, alarm system or not (and I rarely see cars with alarm systems around here). Maybe this is a regional difference. Do you live in North America?
Sure, if the entire presentation was in German, that'd make sense. As it stands, it's just sloppy.
Direct quotes from the article:

Prosecutors say the vast majority of the files released by the Twitter account were actually “junk material that has nothing to do with the case,” and were included along with real files from the investigation in an attempt to discredit it. An FBI analysis of the files found that only about 1,000 of the 300,000 released were real documents provided to Concord by Mueller’s team. The Mueller documents were largely “images of political memes from Facebook and other social media” that were posted during the 2016 election by the Internet Research Agency, a Russian social media troll farm. Concord is accused of funding IRA.

Prosecutors say that whoever created the webpage had access to at least some of the material provided by Mueller in the case. They also say the FBI determined the documents were not stolen from government servers.
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Atheism only implies nihilism if you subscribe to the concept that values are objective and morality is universal, which begs the question of who determines values and what is morally "good" and how.
For the full PDF see[0]

[0]https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/99859/9277182...
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That requires the car to communicate back to the clicker, which is more difficult/expensive, and can fail even if the car did successfully lock.

It's certainly possible though, these are usually called "2 way remotes": https://www.compustar.com/what-is-2-way/
This might be a dumb question, but are the logic gates "bare metal" or a software simulation/VM as a proof of concept?
That’s referring to things like racial discrimination, which is definitely illegal. Insurance companies sometimes try to use proxies for race or other protected classes to get around such restrictions, and that has resulted in a situation where any technique for evaluating people needs to show that it’s not being used as such a proxy. The goal isn’t to keep pools large, but rather to keep pool assignment fair in some sense.
We’re on this forum because we, as little guys, can often beat the big guys at things. It’s more of a free market than most things. Though nothing is a completely unregulated market.
Don't these problems already arise when trying to prove bias in a legacy meat-based intelligence?
And asymmetry of military budgets, because using a $100K rockets to kill a single low-rank enemy combatant would simply be too expensive for majority of countries...
I wouldn't say number of patents filed is a good metric for innovation. Patents are more in line with the most bureaucratic and litigious.
(There is no "reply" under your comments, so I had to put the reply on the prior level.)

Goto11, you are correct that I was ambiguous. I was mostly talking about positioning and sizing itself when I said, "browser should be a dumb x,y,z coordinate polygon plotter." I should have said, "browser should use absolute x,y,z coordinates for sizing and positioning objects....". By "dumb" I meant the layout & sizing engine is "dumb", not every UI object. No more client-side auto-flow nor auto-size. Good catch. I'll hire you to debug the wording of my Next Great Write-up :-)
Can't you just do this with tinfoil?
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14 years after my first job. The lost decade after the dot com crash didn’t help. 1M to 2M took a lot less time. Then last quarter happened...
I've had my glove pulled into a regular rotating drill, breaking 2 of my fingers in the process. (recovery was extremely annoying)

It was a cut-resistant glove, made from kevlar with a rubberized palm. Lesson learned that day.

But obviously, do whatever you want, YMMV.
It looks like a lot of car seat brands are considered expired starting at 6-ish years, so yeah, I wouldn't suggest using a 5yo car seat.
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