skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought the point of insurance is buying lower variance with higher expected costs. You can have that even if the insurer has perfect knowledge of the likelihood of whatever event you're insured against. If you have probability p to have to pay $X, I can sell you an insurance for $(p+my profit margin) * X. You get the benefit of lower variance at the cost of $(my profit margin) * X.
In a democracy when has a voter base ever acted out of shame? I almost feel like it’s a socially impossible thing to happen given group dynamics.
A recent example from reddit: An influential person in a small community came out as trans and preferred to live as a women now. The OP who wanted to bring this to the attention of the community and wrote:

> Given the misogynistic reputation that the community has, I think it would be good for people to go out of our way to send a message or say something about how her coming out is a positive thing.

Que the comments being about this inflammatory statement and not about what the post was meant to be about, and for good reason. People that criticised OP were met with angry replies and stuff like this:

> Lotsa male white fragility all over this thread.

2 hours later another user made a solid post highlighting nothing but her, her achievements and detailing just how influential she has been and still is for the community, the comments were nothing but praise, positivity and celebration.

IMO a pretty good example of something being politicised for no reason and directly being a detriment to the community.
Scapegoating in its literal form is described in the old testament. And the concept Jung described as the "shadow" 70+ years ago, goes back to ancient mythology.

Your desire to attack and sneer rather than reflect and learn is notable.
Last I'd heard, American labour mobility had been declining for decades. In 2011, the percentage of US residents who moved to a different state for work was half the rate from 1991 [1]. Though, I'd be curious to see what the data looks like beyond those dates.

[1]: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2012/07/07/m...
I'm not American. However I think the current president is entirely on Americans. Sure, Russians may have helped a little by running those ads. But most of it is the Democrat candidate, and the general attitude towards America's Red populace in the Middle states.
> Take Facebook Watch. Ask a journalist or HN commenter, and they’ll tell you that it’s a content wasteland, a flop

Maybe. For me personally I’m just not interested.

To me it seems like yet another “me too” feature which Facebook has copied from instagram or Snapchat or whoever did it first. Not to mention I don’t care about this feature on the other platforms either.

The feature itself just looks like a desperate attempt at trying to show that they are still “innovating” their fairly stagnant platforms, just for the sake of innovating.

And here Facebook looks even more desperate in plainly “me too” copying this non-feature.
We've always been 1 natural disaster away from total destruction
This seems dangerous to anyone reverse engineering an API to, say, port it to another language or runtime. Is the Win32 API copyrighted? If so, is the ReactOS project in danger? Is Haiku?
> Nevertheless, the blogs still seem to be ticking along.

Unless something changes fundamentally about the web, which I doubt, blogs will be here long after current social networks are dead. RSS / Atom too, for as long as there are blogs around, in spite of what some people would like you to believe.

And if there's one thing that you can say about the Internet, is that the Internet's stack of technologies is long lasting and the more things change, the more they stay the same.

So yeah, if you want to publish content for others, the safest bet is to have your own blog. With RSS and email subscriptions. And your own domain of course.
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The planet is fine. The people are... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c&t=2m27s
But it doesnt look like a fun environment to post your stuff in.
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Tổng hợp trường đại học – học viện khu vực Hà Nội – Tuyển sinh số
Hà Nội là thành phố tập trung nhiều trường đại học, học viện nhất khu vực miền Bắc, đây cũng là nơi có trường thuộc top đầu Việt Nam nên được đông đảo bạn trẻ lựa chọn để theo học. Click vào link dưới đây để tìm hiểu về danh sách các trường đại học, học viện tại Hà Nội được cập nhật mới nhất.

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All they need do is contact the owner first and suggest changing the password, then offer the penetration test service. There is no need to do it without the owner's explicit consent.
Western countries don't have overpopulation problem. Like, we don't have it at all.

Being overfocused on imaginary problem is not solution to existing problems.
Not the OP, but maybe I can give opinion. A lot of young (and often well educated) people are leaving to USA, Canada, Germany etc, taking their families with them too. For example, there are about 30K immigrants from Serbia to Germany each year. From Croatia to Germany it's about 50K per year. Significant number of them are doctors and nurses. Average salary (and consequently, pension) in most of central and eastern European countries is quite low, making nursing homes unaffordable. This, combined with the fact that a lot of children/relatives now live 1000+km away and that the prisons are, say, not well known for friendliness there makes situation quite dire for current and future pensioners there.
In support of your comment, when talking about weight it's common to talk about "fast metabolisms" keeping people skinny. Studies have shown that metabolisms don't vary much at all. What does vary is how hunger signals work with different people. The people who complain about being too skinny and can't gain weight simply find it difficult to eat enough to gain weight. Their body tells them they're not hungry. If you force feed them they'll still gain weight.

I'm one of those people who gain weight easily due to always wanting to eat. I was morbidly obese at 19 despite coming from a household of healthy eating. I'm now 33 and have maintained a healthy weight for years but it isn't fun. For me to maintain a constant, healthy weight I need to be hungry. Despite 5+ years of maintenance, I am still hungry constantly.
Original 2017 version comments, 300+ points:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14201822
Also struggling to understand what this even is.

Very poor presentation this.
What about the sun which never rises above, let's say 10 degrees in winter in the Nordics?
Todd Neff is the author of "The Laser That’s Changing the World", a history of lidar. It's a PR piece for his book.

The terahertz radar people are slowly making progress. Good resolution, almost as good as LIDAR. Better behavior in rain. Beam steering with no moving parts. Plus you can tell who's carrying a gun.

Musk is in trouble. No way is Tesla close to real automatic driving. Does Tesla even have reliable detection of stationary obstacles in a lane yet? Their track record on partial lane obstructions is terrible. So far, Teslas on autopilot have driven into a street sweeper, a stalled van, a fire truck, a crossing semitrailer, a lane divider....
Life of high-tech savant cut short by drugs
Ideally the computational engine thrown behind the cameras isn't also thinking about what could be wrong with my showers thermostat.

Biology got to be just good enough to make it to tomorrow. Photosynthesis is one of the oldest mechanisms around right? Quick google and at the moment that turns sunlight to energy tops out at 6%, now look at solar panels https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/PVeff%28...

Now, commenting on biology and electronics are topics vastly outside of my ability. I'm just trying to make the point that we can't be the best it can get, surely? We long left the time where industrial progress meaning "pick one things and do it well"
Is you want fun and weird then maybe check out the sites where teenagers get creative: https://9gag.com and Reddit. Although Reddit is more serious compared to 9gag while 9gag users often just "steal" from Reddit.
Works like that in Norway too. Almost every supermarket has a machine for returning bottles.
As an American living in Europe, it's actually a fairly accurate one. The American greater public is generally much narrower than in Europe, in particular due to Europe's history with Communism and the various degrees of strength of the labor class compared to America.

There are a lot of "left" policies that are unthinkable and unspeakable at a national discourse level.
So how come there is 0 tech innovation coming from there?

Your statement is absolutely false covered by facts.
I highly disagree with this. Big companies are big for a reason, they have found a way to create value for an extended period of time.
Learning how they operate can be valuable. That doesn't mean everything they do can be used in a startup but some of it can.

Plus paying off student loans and having a little of your own seed capital is better than scrapping by when you start your own venture.
> customers don't pay for code either! Customers pay for solutions to their problems.

And that's why you don't test code. You test that your application comply with your customer's requirements.

I'm happy to see things changing about tests with people realizing fine grained unit tests are often an hindrance and you should prioritize end to end testing. Test the interface of what you're selling, not the inner workings.
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> Imagine how cool it would be to see the 3D point cloud on your dashboard or reflected on your windshield as a heads-up display

What would be the point of it other than distracting you from, you know, actual driving?
Tim Pool (https://twitter.com/igd_news/status/871794622439313409)

Dave Rubin(https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/9/24/17883330/d...)

Jordan Peterson(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCGewQc9ktA)

And so on. But are these meaningful examples? I would argue both yes and no. No, because it's difficult to argue that the people calling them out are not a minority of activists who are just pushing their own political agenda.

Yes, because even if it's a minority viewpoint, it's effective - people apathetic to the given issue are likely to take the word of the activists as gospel, which leads to deplatforming.

A very visible example of the effectiveness of this tactic is Charles Murray and The Bell Curve. Regardless of the validity of more sophisticated criticism of his work, he has been effectively denounced as a racist and deplatformed.

This also leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy where speakers presenting their ideas find themselves shunned by group X, and supported by group anti-X. As X step up silencing/deplatforming efforts, either the speaker fades into obscurity, or receives enough support from anti-X to continue their work, but now they can reliably be demonized via guilt by association(Jordan Peterson and the NBC news piece is an example).
I see what you're saying, and yeah, I think you're right. You can construct a non-computable function S(n) that returns n when n is even, but does something non-computable when n is odd (kind of like f_bar). Of course, we're not really interested in these degenerate cases where n is even, but rather in the cases where we know that there's some kind of answer we can't prove in the system. I gave "S(1) = 0" as an example (you can replace '1' with whatever argument ends up being non-computable in your case, maybe S(2)).
Same in Finland, and from what I've heard, in most of the developed world. Many young people simply don't want to get kids, and there's probably a demographic crisis looming over the horizon. Migration will probably be used to keep increasing the population initially, but at some point we will run out of immigrants.

The way I see it, there are two ways out:

1) We accept that the population cannot keep growing forever, and prepare ourselves for a society where older people are going to be increasingly common.

2) We coerce, or force young people start breeding. I don't really know how that could be done without massive human rights violations.

There is, of course, the idea of vat-grown children, but that seems somewhat far-fetched.
Yes, all your users would have to be signed up for Apple's Developer Program ($99/year) or have a jailbroken device.
> Increases in productivity, normally called automation

That is a wrong assumption to start with. Inventing the wheel wasn't automation.
> How can I bring a child into the world when it appears likely that the child will suffer greatly?

Suffer from what exactly? In my family, half of my father's siblings and cousins died from war and hunger, the rest also had to hide from constant bombing and assaults, in fact my grandmother's village was wiped completely from the map. Yet they have tried their best to build the country so that now I can type this comment, safe from any kinds of harm. I consider it is my duty to do the same for the next generation. IMO the society should support families with kids more, as they are nurturing the future of mankind, literally.
IBM quantum experience gives you courses, a simulator and the real thing. It's pretty good for learning.
The theorems in this list are in many cases central topics in 1+ semester courses, and aren’t really worth worrying about out of context. Overall you are looking at more than 5 years of full-time (40 hours/week) study, maybe more than 10 years. Unless you have extensive background reading and writing proofs, self-study is not likely to be very effective. You could conceivably make your way through with textbooks and the help of an expert tutor/mentor.

For most people the easiest method would be to enroll in an undergraduate mathematics degree at a decent university.

If you wanted to make your way through more of the topics in this list than an undergraduate degree covered, you could follow-up by enrolling in a PhD program.
This is the old theory that the nobility domesticated peasants while the peasants were domesticating animals.
But someone still had to take away the empty containers.
The clue is in the name - Rome is a homophone of roam.

"Project Rome allows developers to write apps that can run on multiple devices and travel with the user as they switch between devices." [0]

So it's allowing a programmer to sync and script behaviours from Android/iOS phone to Windows desktop to xbox etc using a MS login.

I would assume it's the technology behind the Your Phone Companion app that sends an SMS from a connected PC.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/project-rome/
Tesla Model 3 trunk design flaw
To my reading, it is a bit ambiguous when that 40 minutes starts, but so what? I am still not surprised even if it took 40 minutes from the time it was requested for the reasons I already stated.
Mama, just lost a branch
Maybe Western European, because they shifted so far to the left, even the lefties in the US are right-wing to them.
But then some kid will see goatx by chance and all the hell will break loose.
I switched to DDG for two reasons:

- Privacy

- It doesn't try to be smarter than me

More often when I use Google to search (e.g. for research), it decides to ignore one or multiple words, yielding irrelevant results. It's fixable, I can quote them, it even offers to do that, but it drives me nuts.
Yeah, that readme is atrocious. On the other hand, OP could have linked to something more informative, like this [1] or this [2] or this [3].

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/project-rome/
[2] https://www.techgenyz.com/2019/01/30/microsoft-project-rome-...
[3] https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/project-rome
Tracking Users Across the Web via TLS Session Resumption (2018) [pdf]
I can see Facebook OS coming down the lines. Doesn't seem like they will stop until they have nobody to answer to.

Google are pretty set as it stands.
> REST is a broad term - there's nothing to stop REST apis from doing all those things with HATEOAS, discoverable apis, json schemas, etc.

This fact should be emphasized. REST is just an architectural style, and it's absurd to claim that an architectural style bars developers from implementing specific functionalities.

It's even more absurd to compare a very specific implementation of a specific interface with an architectural style used to design and implement interfaces.

It seems to me that this whole GraphQL vs REST debate has absolutely nothing to do with REST or even HTTP APIs, and is actually a discussion about how reusing a ready-made solution developed by third-parties has some advantages over having to roll your own.
Why would you make such an unfounded assumption and ask a loaded question?
I read the justification for that 576MP number and it looks wildly optimistic. Sure eyes can differentiate two lines close together... when at the center of vision. Then they multiple that by 120 degrees horizontal and vertical.

Unfortunately resolution of your eyes drops off quickly from the center of vision. Yes you can move your eyes to focus on different things, but so can cameras.

Sure the mental image you build is high resolution, but not that directly related to reality. A good example of this is the numerous optical illusions that depend on you looking at a point of an image, building a mental representation of that image, then finding a conflict whenever you move your eye.

Link that seems to be the source of the 576MP number: https://art-sheep.com/the-resolution-of-the-human-eye-is-576...

Not what I'd call a particularly scientific explanation.
Cities have always been population sinks (i.e. deaths outnumber births), so I think what we're seeing is just a result of urbanisation.
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Cryoseism(Ice quake)
Thank you! Problem solved.
Human experience dies with the person who acquired it, whereas machines can continue to learn indefinitely from a larger and larger pool of labeled data. Think about all the "take overs" when AI fails that Tesla sees each day that are made available to their training set.

As for the point about the training environment, a lot of what AI cars do is learn from simulations.
How to set yourself to failure by starting with "one of the most widely known techniques". You can't outperform the average by using the same tools as everybody else.
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It will stop for objects in front of you. Agree though that it's a nice assist, but as you get used to it, you can predict the situations where it will fail. Definitely would not trust it to drive in an unconstrained environment.
I advise you to forget statistics. They are very hard to relate to (we're not good visualizing large numbers anyway). Instead, think of the pilots who know these things inside and out and still choose to happily board each and every day. They raise families and eventually retire uneventfully. If they know the risks and still choose to go to work, surely you can board a flight.
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I don't think personal value counts in the legal system otherwise people would claim everything was a priceless family item.
According to recent discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19004899 Google (and more importantly, Google's investors) are waking up the fact that they're a mature company in a mature market, and they are trying to cut costs across the organization.
- two years sounds reasonable.

- prohibiting only to not to work with their customers instead of prohibiting to work in the same field like them sounds reasonable.

If this is acceptable depends on the amount of customers they have and what share of your potential market they present.
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Parallel programming:Developing fast solutions for slow programs using threads
>The solution is to discourage the "idiots" from having kids in the first place

Eugenics have been tried several times, all over the world, and both produced terrible abuses - especially of disenfranchised social groups - and also failed miserably.

Please, let's not.
It disappeared long before Google+, didn't it?

But yeah, I want plus back too.
The non-lidar system detected the woman too.
To add to what the other commenter said: Isn't the Busy beaver function uncomputable and we still can obtain some values for small n and prove that they are correct [1]?

So I'm not sure it only applies to some special cases, I think several relevant incomputable problems might have this characteristic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy_beaver#Non-computability
Rich: having wealth or great possessions; abundantly supplied with resources, means, or funds; wealthy: a rich man; a rich nation.

Not sure how income tax would apply to that
Both Mac OS X and Windows NT have pretty weak security protecting local users against each other.

Privilege escalation attacks that require access to the console are usually discounted as unlikely.
Nice to see someone go "lets choose the faster lib over the more secure one" for a security lib. No way that could ever go wrong in the long run. Or if it already did.

Not commenting on the choice from alpine, just comment on this post.
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Note that I said “reading articles” about what Godel really meant, not “reading agodel’s papers” - the point was that once we become that far removed from the underlying work and start mostly talking about individual people’s interpretation of that work as the focal point of the article, it reminds me of literary criticism more than anything else.

Additionally, interpretations are always subjective because interpretation of something is unique to an individual subjective viewpoint.
Why can't the hardware deliver Level 5? The one area that he is saying they'll upgrade is their inference engine – is that what you're referring to?
v · w = 0 was one of the premises.

Your version is the more general statement usually called the “law of cosines”. Personally I prefer the geometric algebra version:

Given any vectors u, v: (u + v)² = uu + uv + vu + vv = u² + 2u·v + v²

Where u·v = ½(uv + vu) is just the definition of ·.
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I don't think it's an assumption, I think it's a tautology. It's not nicotine; if you're using it you don't feel strongly against it.
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How is that a "misuse" of Godel's Theorem? He doesn't draw conclusions from it about consciousness. He only points to it as an example of a strange loop. Godel's Theorem is an analogy, not an explanation.
HN is also quite bad to have long-term discussions about a topic, and suffers from the same constant rehashing of topics happening on reddit. It sort of works for news and random individual articles, where there aren't necessarily longer logical threads, but that's not what many communities need.

E.g. a typical comparison between forums and reddit: A hobby forum often has a "I just bought X" megathread or two, where people post new things they've bought and want to share their excitement about, but that don't warrant a full thread. On hobby subreddits, a large amount of the threads can be "I just bought the thing everyone always recommends and everyone has seen 20 times this week, can't wait to use it!". Similarly, what would have been a single post on an old thread in a forum needs to be it's own thread on reddit, loosing context and making search harder (even if people try to link other relevant threads). Which in turn leads to more repeat questions etc.