skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The financial industry being in NY means actual voters. While a company cannot force their employees to vote in any particular way, they can make their employees aware that some politician did something... They can't actually say raises and bonuses were affected but if you read between the lines you can see the relation.

The auto industry isn't large in NY. When enough voters in NY decide the auto industry is doing something bad, no amount of lobbing from the industry will prevent the laws they don't like.

Politicians need votes. Money is not nearly as powerful as a voter who is informed.
> Given how many hoops the medical establishment makes trans people jump through to "prove" that they're really trans and need treatment

There's not a lot of hoops to jump through as an adult in Canada.

You can simply find a therapist and ask for an informed consent form. Sign it and you get access to Hormone replacement therapy.

The gender marker change is even easier, all you need is to fill a form that you can order at anytime for $140. On that form you write your new name and correct gender. Then, you only need someone else to sign under oath with you.
> Most people aren't all that fun or weird, [..]

It took me way too many runs around the sun to finally get that :(.
I don't assume that the stuff is forever beyond physical explaination, and like I said we can perform science on the behavior of it. But ultimately the scientific method will always conclude that its ultimately an illusion and that there is only the word green, or the recognition of 532nm light. A word doesn't even need be assigned to it, its witnessed either way.

I use color as an example because its very distant and theoretically could be many different ways (e.g. your experience of green may not be made of the same stuff my green is). However geometry seems far less arbitrary. Visualizing a square is more specific, the way the lines relate to space in the 2D plane if misrepresented will be wrong. I doubt we visualize such things with 100% accuracy, but we must visualize them to a certain common accuracy, and thats important, common. Basically, as far as experiencing the visual concept of a square, we all experience roughly the same object in our conscious experience. Thats where things can be studied a bit, because the behavior of consciousness given certain logic is likely absolute.
All the pedants in here claiming that, yea its bad, but its legal, is what makes me fear the utter stupidity of privileged techies. Seeing the forest through the trees isn't a skill that is valued with coders it seems.
yeah. the "base rate fallacy" example sheds some light on the pros/cons of mammogram results. one interesting thing about that section of the book is that it says medical doctors fall prey to the fallacy more often than not.

i always kind of wonder when i see a medical doctor explaining statistics to a general audience: do they really have this right?
I don't agree with your assessment but it was well said and I don't think you should be downvoted. It's too bad so many people are engaging the mantra of, "I don't like it so I'm going to downvote it." Dissenting opinions don't deserve to be buried because we disagree with them.
Yep, as anyone who has ruined a fan by shooting a canned air duster at it can attest. :(
The site is down, but the answer is 33%. (four output bytes for every three input bytes).

It could be slightly less if you want to remove the padding and calculate what the padding should be on the decoding side: base64string.length % 4.

Edit: If no entropy is added, it's still ~33%. C'mon :P
I guess I should be more clear...

batch means you can do things like combine these:

GET /serviceRoot/Airports
GET /serviceRoot/People

into one request (and get the results in one response)

I believe that's what the poster was asking.

Here's a link to a different example from the OData site:
https://www.odata.org/getting-started/advanced-tutorial/#bat...

You're using the word "join". I'm not sure if you meant that in a relational sense or not. If yes, then maybe you're wondering if you can get airports with their related people, or people with their related airports in one request with OData. Again, the answer is yes.
I agree. I would like to see something like we see with Linux distros. Whether I'm using apt, yum or dnf I can add a third-party repo for my package manager to download and install from. When I was into jailbreaking my phone that is what this basically meant to me even though I had to go with a different package manager (I think it was called cydia).
That is one of the code words. All parties have code words that will fire up the base, but they don't really believe in.
> There are still people that think that buying multiple lottery tickets actually lowers your chances of winning.

This blows my mind, but at least it means they aren't wasting even more money on the lottery.
Indeed you are right, you can do it! However they need to add a line to the invoice to sell you something more (e.g. a bottle of water). And when they will report what they have sell and what they have buy there will be a difference. So for few customers it may be OK, but they can't do it every time.
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100+ posts per day, how is that not spam?
That's a circumstantial partial quote from an email, editorialized, that fits the narrative. That's how. I really don't understand how this is confusing. I mean, I'm willing to read the email where he makes an accusation, but you would think that would be helpful evidence in the case presented.
Ah yes, this is another great point. When people think they are being watched or monitored, activity fundamentally changes.
Any more than it is begging the question to assume that there cannot be anything that is beyond physical explanation?

Yes, words are symbols. But when we're talking about consciousness, we're talking about the experience itself, not the association between the word and the experience. And we have no understanding of why or how the experience exists in us.
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This is different, its the opposite in fact. Experience is ONLY directly experienced is what I'm saying. It cannot be measured. Well, it can, but only from within itself

It can express this measurement in a representational form however, so we can study consciousness's behavior or the behavior of qualia.
We were talking about this a year ago. And no doubt before that:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16164106

Foxconn is a bad business partner and that should have been more obvious to everyone. Self serving politicians like Walker and Trump are looking for a photo spray with golden shovels and a big American flag in the background to sell to people desperately looking for jobs.

https://www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_l...

It is transparent and a damn shame for the politicians and voters involved. It's like a Nigerian email scam bilking your grandma out of her savings.
Actually Google anonymizes the data and deletes it after analysis (I have no idea if they do but since we're just making things up with no basis in fact my guess is just as valid if not more valid than yours)
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i stand corrected. thank you.
> If your site is well engineered to progressively enhance without disruption, it does not matter if JavaScript is being loaded in the background.

Yes but how many places actually make this effort? Seems to me that most places are very content to make some monstrous multi-MB React/Angular/etc app, ship it and wash their hands. The number of websites that have actually gone to the effort of optimising their sites is extremely small, so I'm doubtful when someone says "oh but web apps can do this too, if you only just progressively load/build it properly/etc" because that implies effort that so far, seemingly no one has gone to the trouble of actually doing.
"So, what about consciousness? As defined above, it is in fact the most certain knowledge there is. Pure awareness is not even possible to deny, since the very act of denial takes place in and as an activity of awareness. You can not escape or avoid it. Thoughts can of course imagine a brain that existed in the past without awareness, but that itself is a thought in awareness. One can doubt whether the thought refers to something true or real, but the awareness is unavoidable. This suggests that consciousness, not matter, is fundamentally real." -- Tom McFarlane, B.S. Physics, Stanford University

Ref: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-basis-of-reality-matter-or...
Not only can you not do it from a router, Google's chrome browser is one of the leading reason's why you can't.

however, with the browser extension installed you don't need to - they just read the content after your browser decrypts it.
I can't help but feel like there exists a certain amount of jealousy/envy that exists on the EU side in regards to American technology companies. Perhaps this stems somewhat from the inability of European countries to cultivate a foundation of successful innovation in relation to software/computation like the Silicon Valley or greater Bay Area has in the United States?

In my opinion, instead of focusing on regulation to hamper outside competition, the better option would be to spend more on funding innovation/growth efforts for local companies and startups so that they can better compete solely based on the merits of the technology or service itself.

This in the long term will provide far more for European countries and its citizens than, again this is just my opinion and it's definitely not necessarily purely black or white here, the short term oriented sort of feel good action that something like the GDPR I believe represents.
Yes, they show non-personalized sponsored links: https://www.startpage.com/en/search/privacy-policy.html
Is there a name for the "X is not actually illegal, therefore X is good" fallacy? I see it a lot on the internet.
It wouldn't have been sufficient to save the buildings pipes in -30°C in a restaurant full of embedded draft lines, however.

Nest did give her control over the entire building's system. IIRC it was actually an employee that shut the system off after a power cycle/outage thinking they were protecting the equipment, but failed to restart it. If she hadn't had the insight the system would have been off all night.

I think it has its perks.
> Nobody understood exactly at the time what was causing the F1 engine instability.

Hm, interesting, I didn't realize the state of knowledge was that limited at the time.

> Don't mistake the success of the gamble as the same as the risk was low and understood.

I didn't mean to imply that the risk was low. You're right that it wasn't (and you've clarified that it wasn't well understood either).

It still seems like a different decision process from the one that led to the Challenger explosion, though. In the Saturn V case, it seems like NASA made an open-eyed decision to gamble with everyone involved being aware of the risk and on board with it. In the Challenger case, NASA basically refused to properly evaluate the risk in the first place.
When it's up, you'll see the article goes a bit beyond a literal reading of the title: the topic is the overhead of base64 under the assumption that the output ends up compressed with something like gzip.
Ok. I won't
> True, there's always another way. But you can say same about almost any subject.

This thread was started because the article focuses on lock free programming with garbage collection when garbage collection is not any sort of fundamental factor in lock free programming.

> In my experience about lock-free (and wait-free) programming, safe and high performance deallocation of the objects is often a problem.

Concurrency bottlenecks are fundamentally about synchronization. The solution is frequently to synchronize less and that means doing more in between synchronizing. This implies allocating and deallocating more at one time.
In regard to who sold the land...

https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2018/07/17/fox...
Spaced repetition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition

If you don't actively review this material you're going to forget it. I created my own study guide for data structures/algorithms that I frequently review to prevent forgetting any concept. Every few days, or at least once a week, I'll take a blank sheet of paper and try to write down everything I possibly know about every fundamental data structure, including pseudocode and real code for operations such as searching/insertion/deletion. When I go through interviews I read my notes and do this active recall exercise at least once a day every day. Unfortunately there's no shortcut and you have to actively think about and code this material in order to remember it (if your day job doesn't involve knowing those things).
> Go, OpenStreetMap!!

Didn’t DuckDuckGo switch off of OpenStreetMap to Apple Maps recently?
I didn't say it wasn't, I simply said all of it could be encompassed by the specific clause of "TTP's" that is common in anyones read on-off of information. The difficulty becomes in proving what was classified and what wasn't when it comes to techniques and procedures. If you were to use a liberal sense of the term, many of your "Security Professionals" deploying their skills around the US right now would be in violation. It's why there isn't a simple non-compete / non-authorization of future work within that field, it's just not going to stand up in court.

It's all as clear as mud and in this instance the government was more than aware of their former employees working there, many returned and went back to their prior careers.. think about that one for a second.
There are people being loud in the center who are still incorrectly labelled as "far right" or some other meaningless label and targeted for deplatforming.

Unfortunately, politicization is inevitable when double standards exist in moderation. If you're going to have rules, they need to be applied evenly. We've seen that several of the internet giants are incredibly inconsistent in their approaches to banning content or users from the two sides of the political spectrum. Nowhere seems to be safe, including HN.
Operating costs going up makes sense if FB is hiring in order to attempt to address many of the issues that were highlighted throughout the year. I'd venture to say they will continue to grow this year, I think I just heard them mention that during the call.
well, then read it in context: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/elon-musk-thai-...

The claims are quite specific.
In addition to sexism, what other exceptions do you believe HN should add to this page?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The number shared though is usually a weekly or monthly average.

Otherwise it be easy to game
That reminds me of when someone asked if strings that are base64-encoded twice are regular. They are.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49650847/determine-if-st...
Well, it's google groups now, right?

It's a decent ready-to-go forum. I only used it for the clojure groups, but then the clj community discovered slack. All that useful topically categorized awesomeness now must be mined from worthless slack logs.
Well, it is mostly probably survivorship bias... you don't see the comments that say they are going to get downvoted and actually get downvoted.
Figured as much. Interested to see the results. My assumption is that it doesn't change much. However, I suppose that depends on the compression algorithm.
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thanks for this and other breakdowns. what was the primary driver for operating costs rising so much?
Every time I see an article like this, I feel the need to pour one out for Kuro5hin. Man, how do I wish the archives were accessible somewhere!
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Take a look at the fundraising rules in the EU compared to the US. That probably explains a lot why the EU lags.
Looks like everyone is worried about a few percentage points up and down in financial numbers. There are three keys points I took away:

1) We expect the capital spend per unit of capacity for this factory to be less than half of that of our Model 3 line in
Fremont.

2) Since Model Y will be built on the Model 3 platform and is designed to share about 75% of its components with Model 3, the cost of the
Model Y production line should be substantially lower than the Model 3 line in Fremont, and the production ramp should also be faster.

3) This year, we will continue to implement more automation projects, and our ongoing cost reduction efforts will also make an impact.

In the end if Tesla wants to achieve its mission of moving to world to sustainable energy, costs need to go down. Every quarter they are making improvements and the three points above show significantly potential to further improve costs. The global auto market at $2 trillion is gigantic and good fraction of it is going to be electric - it is really a race to improve costs and Tesla is significantly ahead of the pack so far.
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I like the ideal. Something certainly needs to be done.

I've mentioned this in other HN threads, what I'd like to see is a donation system integrated into the Git platform (e.g., GitHub, GitLab, etc.). In short, I buy credits and give them to projects as I see fit. Those projects could in turn give credits, or cash out. The credits can also be used to pay feature bounties and award contribuors.

Sure. Parhaps I only give $5 here or $20 there, but the ease would add up. With the key being the ecosystem created.

Somethink like that.
It did get covered but it materialized, got called, out and disappeared in the span of like a few days.
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People are pretty dumb.

There’s another side to this though, why should a low risk person be in the same risk tranche as somebody who has lots of guns in plain sight, is out drinking 3 nights a week or has high-risk hobbies?

Life insurers have pretty transparent interests. A middle aged guy with guns and heavy alcohol use is a more expensive risk for death. Right now they only use age, occupation, specific medical and smoking status.
No, but for as long as I've been driving manual cars they've had gates to prevent that very action. (1995)
Sadly yes, but they are trying really hard to make the new experience as close to custom CSS as possible while still maintaining the ability to be creative. Unfortunately it's not really a security problem as much as it is a design problem making things mobile and app friendly.
Yeah, I kinda feel this describes so much of the 'Why aren't things like they used to be?' posts... the things didn't change, you did.
IMO the critical thing needed to stop JS bloat is a decent standard library. The _vast_ majority of code on an average site tends to be the same thing implemented 45 times because the stdlib in Javascript is anemic. The current process of adding a function at a time to the language spec is rather pointless at solving this issue since it's often years after the function is added before anyone can realistically rely on it existing. In the mean time we have to keep loading polyfills just in case. Also at the current rate of functionality additions it'll be decades before the stdlib is decent.

What I really want to see happen is WHATWG start a standard lib project. In my mind it would look something like this:

* Open source project that implements the standard library in Javascript only and holds the canonical test suite. Something akin to core-js but the 'official' version of it and with features outside the language spec.

* Every browser agrees to preload / cache all recent versions of the standard library (or most recent version for each major release assuming semver). This allows all programmers to load the version they need without concern for the performance hit.

* User loads the standard library via a script tag with src something like: https://ecmascript.org/stdlb/v1/lib.js. Doesn't really matter what it is, just some recognized url the browser knows about that encodes the version.

* Each browser can provide a native implementation of anything in the stdlib so long as it passes the spec. Browsers could even optimize which pieces of the stdlib it parses / loads based on this. e.g. If the browser has a native Promise implementation then it doesn't need to load the Promise code from the stdlib.

* Be reasonable but aggressive about adding to the stdlib. It's scope should be wide and cover common use cases. e.g. I shouldn't have to write a URL parsing class or a throttle function every time I start a new project (which is where we are today). There are plenty of projects to look at for learning what people need (lodash, etc).

Obviously this would not cover everything; it's not going to add `await` to browsers that don't support it. But I think we're at the point where what we are most in need of is not language features (and mostly these are transpilable anyway), but stdlib functionality.
It's my default search engine now, and the bangs shortcuts are handy if I need to temporarily override the search engine (ie: !g for Google, !w for Wikipedia, etc).
As someone who lives in Phoenix, I'm pretty certain it's too late for us as well...
probably because it's cross referenced with your credit file, which they check when starting any post-paid plan.
I wonder if selling tickets to watch would offset that somewhat?

I'd pay quite a lot of money to camp out in the desert for a week watching fuzzing robots try to crash airliners...
Unless I’m mistaken, your credit score is your financial credit rating, not your social. It isn’t affected if you get a ticket jaywalking, or acting like a jerk.

There are interconnections between the two, but there are pretty clear distinctions.
It’s exactly how it works:

You create a hash chain, then use the final result as an encryption key of your secret (in this case, the key for the data), then store only the start of the chain and encrypted secret.

The only way to retrieve the secret is to recompute all the hashes, from the start, to recreate the key and decrypt the data.

So it’s secure unless you believe there’s a weakness in the underlying encryption or hash function.

Further, you can parallelize this via encrypting the start of chains with other chains — giving a significant advantage to the chain creator: they can do 1000 chains in parallel, but unlocking requires decrypting them sequentially. At that ratio, if you want decryption to take a month of steady hashing, you need only do a little under 1 hour of hashing yourself. 1 hour of 1 GPU is about a dollar of expense, and has more than 1000 parallel tracks.

My suggestion would be that Apple create a chain for each phone and then load it with that phone specific wrapping key — which it uses to return the actual encryption key wrapped in. The only way to decrypt that key is get the necessary information from Apple and a signed request so the SE will emit the encrypted key at all.
> does a privacy maximalist mentality needs to be imposed on everyone?

I kinda think so, yeah. Everyone flies past the privacy stuff, or gives compromises, or is traded free Farmville points, or given extra coins, or a new shiny feature in exchange for it, their friends are on it, their celebrity is on it, etc.

People will opt-in for all those reasons not realizing or seeing what they gave up or its consequences.
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