skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is actually a great idea. The government acting as a white hat and securing the vulnerable network infrastructure, including the home routers.

Not only can a compromised home router be used to target its users, but they are often used to attack other targets while hiding the tracks, those routers seldom log anything and if they do, the log is either in volatile RAM or otherwise easy to delete.

As long as it is indeed white hat activity without shades of gray.
I'm struck by the almost painful irony of nodding along to this comment whilst I spend/waste time reading Hacker News.
Uhhh, the people of Wisconsin voted for those in power, several times, even despite fairly clear evidence that walker and others were of questionable morals out motives.

When are Americans going to take responsibility for the society they continue to create, or allow to be created?
If you're confident you're smart, why not fight idiocracy by having kids ?
Hardly an Asian only thing. When I lived in Vancouver, I was frequently noticing that some people were spending more money and affection on their pets than on their own children.

Seeing that made me rather uncomfortable, and contributed to my doubt of the West.
TBH I don't think dwitter is about the comments.
How's this a good argument? The entire point in favor of lidar is that the hardware gives more data to software which can in turn be used to make decisions. There is no hardware/software distinction here. Nobody claims that lidar isn't capable of detecting objects. (Note that this is not a comment against lidar, I agree with you but I don't think your argument is sufficient)
A concern of mine is that in a situation where an autonomous vehicle is "at fault", its owner has a strong incentive to have it flee the scene.

If "caught", the liability exposure is the same, so there's no downside. You can't incarcerate an algorithm or even take its license.
So the question might be; is Facebook too big to fail?
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I'm glad they're moving forward, but I still don't buy it. Someone is tossing a big load of money on them (you know that when you see their ad in twitter every day, and articles like this), specially in the last year. When that happens, investors will want their return, no matter what.

People saying they respect your privacy, but... how do you really know? Also because "improved privacy" != "no targeted ads". They can still do massive amounts of money from the data we provide.

At some point:

1) they would have to comply with some law somewhere, handling user data (logs).
2) they may become the number 2 search engine. Spammers will target them and they would have to start doing some behavioral analysis on "what links worked well to those kind of users" to fix that.

Are they so transparent and well intentioned? Is their system so simple, so innocuous and filled only with anonymous data? Fine, they should Open-source the engine and servers, prove that they are using the same code we see, give us RO access to the DBs, and the equivalent of a MacDonalds kitchen tour.

Otherwise, they are just relying on nice words.
And a bad time to bet on Hong Kong's long term future.
"Science is made up of so many things that appear obvious after they are explained." ~ Pardot Kynes, Dune
that's why this is news. it's very rare.
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>Plus the world is going to shit. How do you justify having a child who could expect to live to about 2100 when there’s no clear guarantee that the earth will be inhabitable then?

People had kids all through the worse times -- not just accidentally as some implied here, they actively wanted and had kids.

The "climate change" etc excuses are just excuses (the same could have been said in the 10s after the Spanish flu toll, in the 30s about the unstable world politics, in the 50s to 80s about the possible "nuclear holocaust", and so on).

Or does somebody believe the billions having kids today are "bad people" and they're some kind of enlightened figure?
How can I bring a child into the world when it appears likely that the child will suffer greatly?

The West hasn't really grappled with this question yet, but give it 15 years - when climate breakdown starts seriously affecting quality of life - and I expect the birthrate to crash.
At least in Germany, we started with a British pronunciation and then in our I believe 4th year of learning english we had one year where the textbook presented american english and we listened to recordings of american speakers.

Overall I think our teachers spoke a mixture of american and english dialects (and remnants of a German accent) that you could probably not put on a map.
> it's hard to find high quality content, yet it's easy to find mindless dribble.

+1 to this. I watched a few Super Smash Bros Ultimate compilations at around the time it was released, and got some recommendations. I don't own a Switch so I don't know the game, plus its a novelty, so they caught my curiosity.

I went down a such rabbit-hole of mindless dribble --endless videos of videogame characters punching each other-- I actually tired myself and am no longer considering buying the game/console. It's such mindless consumption.

> Often, I click on "smart" videos, which I have no intention of watching just in the hope I get better quality content in my "feed".

I need to try this.
And the planet has never been so close to destruction...
It is plausible. Dick was known to consume large amounts of amphetamines, and amphetamine use significantly increases the risk of stroke.

"He clearly descended into abuse after his fourth wife left him in the early 1970s. Afterward, according to Kyle Arnold’s biography, he was taking speed by the handful. “He stuffed his refrigerator with thousand-pill jars of amphetamines” and “told his mother he consumed a thousand-pill jar per week.”"
https://www.thefix.com/philip-k-dick-s-high-life

"Conclusion Increases in stimulant drug abuse may increase the rate of hospital admissions for strokes and stroke-related mortality."
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/...
> It's so much different than, say, a copy of Photoshop 2.11 or Winamp 3.

I do not think that this is the case, many abandonware sites had (non-game) "software" sections ever since they first came up and today there are communities that are dedicated on preserving old applications in their original state often with manuals and photographs of the original disks. Games are way more popular, of course, but people do value old applications too.
Yeah. There's a number of things that make me think we need to desperately re-evaluate things, as a species. Like hunger - we're the most advanced species on the planet, by far. World conquering, right? We've literally been to space. But hunger still exists? How?

I mean, I don't really understand how we got to this point, but now that we're here we really need to take a look around and go "Hey, is this what we're really an about?"
What no one has mentioned so far is that this will have a direct impact on any sites, forums, apps, etc. that use Google+ Oauth for Google log in. My own support forum does and I received my first email about this only a couple of days ago.

>Please update your projects listed below by March 7, 2019 and ensure they are no longer using Google+ APIs, or requesting Google+ OAuth scopes.

Sure, it won't be that difficult to change, but this isn't something you do every day. You do it once and then forget about it. The initial investigation of how to add a Google login and then implementing it was done 2 years ago -- now I have to go off and research and learn how to do it all again in a different way.
I think because it really is interesting to use such a test outside of its intended scope?

For me it was interesting because I spent half a year in California and half a year in Toronto, so I wondered if time there left a mark on me.
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On one level I agree with you, but then I look at the retrogaming scene, and how much of a part emulation plays there.

There's obviously good emulation and bad emulation, although for some neither is authentic enough. Still, one day all my discs will rot, and all my physical hardware will fail, yet I'll still be able to play and enjoy the games - and get that same nostalgia kick - through emulation.

(There's also the fact that some games are now so unbelievably expensive in physical form that the only way I'm ever going to be able to afford to play them is emulated with ROM or disk images.)
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Mueller probably had sound jurisprudence reasons to share documents with other lawyers but having materials subsequently leaked via Russia is very bad. Imagine you are materially subject to grand jury process and subsequently find documents shared with a lawfirm got out. This is not how the mutuality of practicing law is meant to work and I don't just mean FBI data, I mean anyone's legal data being shared by prosecution and defence as part of the practice of law. They have to do this to settle pretrial fact, and establish what matters are germaine and which are possibly subject to some closed door review.

I'm not a lawyer but I am very disappointed. It isn't about TD its about the law. How does anyone get a fair trial if pretrial materials leak?

I suspect were going to be bombarded with "Mueller's fault" stories. Feels to me like somebody on the receiving side has been sloppy.
Tons, I linked a bunch of articles already, you could also Google it and find it if you were actually interested in learning something instead of making the point most ideologically aligned to your own preconceptions.
Sit down and figure it out
China to send over 50 spacecraft into space via over 30 launches in 2019
Yes, Google+ will continue to exist for G Suite customers (enterprise), though only accessible to other users within the G Suite domain. It will have little similarity to the present experience, other than interface.
Thank you for the clarification. Seems like Zapier is also moving to your space, with slack interactions (this came to my inbox yesterday) https://zapier.com/blog/updates/1969/zapier-slack-action
He dropped out of a PhD program in Physics.

Also, he has a startup on AI: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI even if you think he's not proficient in technical aspects of AI, he definitely has a lot of ideas about social implications of AI.
Google Search, Amazon, Netflix-- my guess is there's just have more structured data for these recommendation systems. Amazon and Netflix get high-quality descriptions and information tables about their videos/products, Google Search has to do a bit more digging, but it has the whole text corpus link structure, etc of a site.

Spotify probably has it a bit tougher, but my guess is playlists play a big role as they are curated clustering of similar music (as opposed to just a "folder" to put all videos in a series, like they are on YouTube). Music itself is also probably much easier to analyze than video: extract the BPM and frequencies and you can tell a lot about the composition of type of song it's from. Video on the other hand-- you can do very computationally intensive CV, but that won't tell you much about the mood, meaning, genre, etc. of video something is.

YouTube many times will have to go off a title, a very vague description and a ton of irrelevant comments.

Edit: Actually, they have captions. I'd assume dialogue could give them a lot of relevant information, who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I follow roughly the same strategy. I put money away towards savings and upcoming quarterly/(semi) annual bills, some goes into a No Questions Asked account that I spend on whatever whenever, so that whatever is left in my checking account is the money I have to live on until the next paycheck (food, etc.).

I'm never in a position where I have to mentally keep track of the fact that some $Y out of my balance $X is unavailable to spend.
Fox News has an average daily viewership of less than one half of one percent of the population. (Adweek)
Have you found your differentiator?
There are plenty of places in the USA where $200k will get you very far, you just choose not to live there. You have to account for the fact that you're paying for that.
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If you’re going to do an experiment like that you will probably want the file to be a whole lot bigger for more accurate results.
To be fair it is unconstructive. If you read the question carefully, it is clear is can be solved using a regex because it is about identifying tokens, not about parsing them into a tree. Parsers typically use regexes for the tokenization stage - indeed, what else would you use?

The answers are ridiculing the OP for asking a totally reasonable question.
I only started reading Hacker News when I got a job and left the house and had the combined feelings of "oh geez commuting sure is boring", "I need to stay up to date with technology", and "Reddit users, mods, and admins only know how to feign knowledge and sure make me want to shoot myself"

I'm not using HN as some sort of substitute for social interaction. I'm not on HN all day engineering every post to garner maximal attention and approval like the people who abuse FB the hardest are. I AM getting that constant stream of novelty that is typical of social media. However tech IS constant novelty so that's unavoidable regardless.
> Some others tried starting forums to no avail.

As someone who never really used G+ or FB, why isn't forums working out for them? It seems like the perfect fit for a narrow interest based community.

Plus people already know how to use them, as they were around before Social, and it should be a natural thing to return to. Are there discoverability problems?
The two hours I spent surfing Blind were honestly some of the most depressing in my life. I try to forget that place exists
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Simple: Never couple your budget to your income.

Fit your life into $10k/year. Or $20k/year. Whatever you can pull off in your comfort zone. Then when you get that big raise, don't change anything. Don't buy the new car you can afford now. Don't buy the big house you can afford. Don't buy anything.

Most people don't do that, and let their expenses rise to meet their income. Lots of people budget to have that happen. It's a recipe for never having any savings.
I said relatively, they certainly had less domain knowledge than the competing teams. I have always been a strong proponent of combining ML and NNs with traditional methods.
My point was that dismissing the ongoing investigation and its emerging findings as a “meme” implies it is un-substantive and trivial when this appears not to be the case. Conflating all the multiple stands of a complex and far reaching investigation as “fake news” is, I believe, dangerous and reductionist. For example, Muller’s 37 page indictment against the Kremlin’s Internet Research Agency and its leadership and affiliates is detailed and has been widely reported on. Mounting evidence suggests we are talking about something significantly larger in scale than the $100,000 advertising campaign. Is the US not right to investigate it and the press to report on it? Isn’t this in our, the publics, interest? Using terms like “fake news” and “meme” in such a context is unhelpful and I believe dangerous. I increasingly see the term being used to shut down debate, undermine opposing viewpoints and sow doubt. It is myopic and doesn’t help discourse and I think we'd all do best to drop the term. I’m assuming we both want to know the truth right? I know some argue that the concept of absolute truth itself is a fallacy but I don’t subscribe to that, do you?
"Fun and weird" is hate speech. Humor does no longer have to be funny, according to the Huffington Post.
>Is it feasible to write to one's political representative in Japan?

Because that ever achieved anything in the US, except letting off steam?
H1B = Organised mafia
The first thought that comes to mind is Tor's pluggable transports used to bypass censorship.

Admittedly 6Bps isn't good enough for that (I think), but it might be possible to combine it with other mechanisms or increase that number?

https://www.torproject.org/docs/pluggable-transports.html.en
Orthogonal to being physically outside and interacting with people, is the issue of social networks and their effect on mental health. I’d argue that reddit and other anonymous social networks (ahem hn) which allow users to register under any nick and without a forced email or phone verification, are much healthier for people’s mental health. There is a large gulf between semi anonymous and “real-name-enforced” social media.
Do you value your own existence? Have you considered that you owe your existence to the fact that every single one of your ancestors went for the bullshit?
> A great improvement would be to allow H1B holders to change jobs easily (maybe after a year). It's too easy for them to get stuck in not great situations. It would be great for everyone if they could move to better fitting jobs, especially for startups who have trouble running H1-B programs.

Josh, what's needed in US is a simple plain work visa, without any pretence of "high levelness" - something that was common in all Western countries before immigration alarmisms became a such a severe thing.

For the society to accept immigrant workforce, it needs to become more open and less xenophobic again.

The primary reason for messed up immigration systems across the Western nations has nothing to do with the labour market, but plain closet racism of unwashed masses that uses all arguments above as a cover.
I've worked with lidar data a fair bit in a VR environment. It can be quite hard to tell what's going on in any kind of complex environment. The date is so sparse and the datasets I was working on were static.

300,000 per second... if you are trying to figure out what's going on in 1/20th of a second that's only 15,000 points. Assuming your scanning 3 lanes (3.7M each) out to 100 meters, say 3 meters high that 3330 cubic meters. So lidar gives you 2 points per cubic meter. Not exactly going to be easy to tell a bicycle from a motorcycle, or an ambulance from a ups truck.

From what I can tell machine learning has led to near human levels of object identification, not nearly as competitive for things like sparse monochrome point clouds.

At 65 MPH, to be able to avoid something you need some lead time, which means distance. The lidar stuff I've seen is pretty sparse that far out. Of course the sexy almost real looking detailed landscapes from lidar are from tripod mounts and long sample times.

Which leads me to the relevant question. Do you have any reason to think that machine learning will handle lidar at 180 feet range (2 seconds at 65 mph) than a pair of color cameras running at 1280x960 @ 30 FPS?
Facebook is symbolic of social media as a whole. They're EXTREMELY large. They're also uniquely entangled in privacy scandals. They're also a company with the gall to create their own internet centered around facebook.
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Thanks! Custom dataset indeed on the todo list. The feature is half done already, I should be able to release it soon.
Humans breeding like rabbits is a _really_ bad thing in the long run. Contributing to that will only make the problem worse, and most intelligent people realise that.

The solution is to discourage the "idiots" from having kids in the first place -- not to compete with them.
Stop telling other people what to do with their money.
> If you find yourself five levels deep in this process and still unable to comprehend what you’re reading, you need to take a step back and ask yourself if you do in fact have any real understanding of the technology you’re using.

... in which case, you are in exactly the right spot to learn the fundamentals of whatever you're trying to learn :D

One reason why I value (good) manuals is precisely that they are not simply a how-to-do-X-with-Y tutorial. Instead, a good manual will explain the theory behind what you're trying to do - and so leave you in a much better position to solve future problems on your own. Because now, you actually understand what you're doing.
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My personal way to deal with the question is that I decided that my kids deserve their own chance to try to survive and make a living.

Also, when I was a kid I believed I would die within 20 years because of some natural disaster (hole in the ozone layer, nuclear war where the fears of the day). People at all times seem to believe that the end of the world is just around the corner.

I know, I know - this time it is for real...

Ultimately, we all die no matter what we do, so why do anything at all?
the last part is the crucial part. I have no idea about Japan, but if my government tried something like that i wouldn't trust them at all.

But maybe devices should force password change for both admin login and wifi password when they are first booted up?
As someone who understands nothing about quantum computing, what are some good resources to begin learning? Hopefully with examples/code that I can run.
In a few countries, yes, but sadly not for the majority of the world population.
> left the intelligent to become an endangered species

As a species, it isn't particularly intelligent to not reproduce.

I can tell you who our natural predators are: it's other people, who compete with us over wealth, resources, choice of ideology. Feeling smart and acting smart (as a group) doesn't seem to be the same thing.
I heard the "customers don't pay for tests" line recently, from someone boasting about how they migrated hundreds of thousands of lines of PHP from 5.x to 7.x.

I didn't have an off-the-cuff reply to this, but thinking about it afterwards the issue became clear to me: customers don't pay for code either! Customers pay for solutions to their problems.

I think the key phrase is "how do we know?": maybe those hundreds of thousands of lines of PHP were needed to solve the customers' problems, but how do we know? After all of that work, does it actually do what's needed? When the requirements inevitably change, how do we know when we've finished our patches?

We can never know for sure, but there are ways to gain confidence in what we've done. Automated testing is a really low-cost way to gain quite a lot of confidence, which is also relatively stable over time. In contrast, manual tests are either very expensive or woefully shallow; and re-running them in the future takes just as much effort each time. Static analysis, code read-throughs, formal verification, etc. can give us more confidence than tests, but at a much higher cost. Simplifying the codebase can also help (code is a liability, not an asset!), but again that can be expensive.

We should get the most bang for our buck: usually that means adding more tests. Occasionally, if that's not enough, we might sit down and prove something, or manually step though a print out, etc. but usually we could get more out of the same time by writing tests.
It is it's just that you don't know where to look.

http://sigma.eruditenow.com/
Actually, no, I can't? You mean uninhabitable segments of the world? As long as there are inhabitable places left, what is the difference to the survivors? People in Europe lived happily for millennia without even knowing other continents exist (and vice versa). So "amount of inhabitable space on the planet" does not seem to be an essential part of achieving human happiness.
Could you elaborate on Mastodon? I've been following it for some time, wondering whether it's worth the effort to join? (And try and drag some of my friends along as well ;-) )
‘Hey you need to rewrite your app and you can choose either our new paid API or that of someone else’

It’s actually pretty nice of them to remove the lock-in effect!
They removed "cons" in the latest version :(