skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is already happening

We have a 2018 Nissan Rogue and Toyota RAV4 (as well as previously a 2015 RAV4). Every time you start the Rogue, it flashes a message saying that "Vehicle Data Transmission is ON" (or "OFF"), and that certain features (live traffic updates, etc.) may not work if data transmission is off. It is clearly stated that data is transmitted to "Nissan and its business partners."

And these days the trend is for devices to have non-owner-controllable software updates, so there's no guarantee that purchasing a car without this antifeature will keep you safe.

With the Rogue you at least can (apparently) make a choice on keeping your privacy or selling out in exchange for a better navigation system (still kind of sad that this needs to be done after spending >$30k on it...), but with the Toyotas there's no choice... they have some "HD Radio" technology (not related to audio quality) which is used for traffic and weather data, and there's no way to find out or control what it sends.
Just noticed this, under the projects headline, first sentence, I believe it’s s meant to be *Opportunity
they're like halfway to inventing SPV :/
This is kinda off topic, but how on earth did the team who took 300,000$ for light table end up foisting it off on volunteers?
> a HUGE risk for practically no gain

The same thing happened in the Libor scandal, those involved took a very big risk for not such a big gain and look what that caused: a market worth hundreds of billions of dollars (if not more) being manipulated in exchange for stuff like Champaigne bottles and some fancy dinners out (all of the latter worth at most $10,000).
I have to wonder how much of the uptick in conspiracy theories and extreme perspectives are nation state actors attempting to sow discord. I don't think people need help being crazy, but social and new media are the equivalent of getting to drop millions of flyers into enemy territory for a small fee and little to no risk.
Just don't allow stupid and crazy people to buy guns and you won't have to care much about what do they believe.
So you're saying that I'm entitled to sticking a bunch of signs on your lawn and utilizing my right to free speech to protest on your property?

If you don't agree, why are you pro-censorship?
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Or is there some third factor that causes both such as stress, high levels of innate immunity activation, etc.
There was a quote on that effect (which I can't recall right now, sorry)—one from pre-WWII USA pro-nazi groups.

Not that anyone who uses the techniques are necessarily pro-nazi, but that it's a technique with an established history of [attempted] use, IIRC, in the popularization of presently unpopular ideas.
You might find it helpful to make to-do lists and only work on one thing at a time. By limiting your work in progress and context switching you might find that you don't need to work as many hours in order to get the same results.
To answer both questions:

1) I would want Amazon-like businesses to succeed -- in the sense of "someone who finds a sustainable way cut the fat out of retailing" -- even if I could not profit as a shareholder. But I still think I would benefit (as a buyer) from that success.

2) I would want decentralized, arbitrary-money-printing-proof cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin to exist as a shield against governments that inflate away their money (like Venezuela or Zimbabwe) or abuse their central bank status for bailouts (in the first world), even if I could not profit as a holder (sorry, HODLer) of the currency. But I still think I would personally benefit as a prudent saver and (non-politically-connected) investor.
It is a conspiracy theory to suggest YouTube has a conspiracy theory problem.

If you don't like people's opinion, stop spending your time in places where the sole activity is people spreading their opinions.

Is the national narrative of Nigeria a conspiracy theory when it doesn't meet all of your "facts"? Are large swaths of Indian religions conspiracy theory because they don't align with Silicon Valley's agenda?

Humans are storytellers, not hard drives that blindly repeat experience. Get over yourselves.
That's what I meant.

> English needs parenthetical binding.

No I think it is. (Enough to take) care when communicating and rely on our falcuties to rveceor qikucly form flaiures wehn tehy hppean().
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Supposing that's true where's the harm there? why should we restrict "speech" because of your colleague's beliefs?
Great post. If you don't mind me asking what do you store on your phone that takes up 512GB? I've always wondered what people store on their phones that takes up the room.

I know I am definitely in the minority, but my iPhone SE with 32 GB never gets full now that I use Google Photos to backup the images and delete them from the phone whenever it gets full.
Is anyone surprised that your cellphone location is used in a criminal investigation? Silly people. Just a few years ago they caught a killer like this around here. They asked the cell phone providers for location data, pruned the group with what they knew about the killer and took a DNA test of the remainder of the suspects. Easy.
They are pretty common. Kansas City. St. Louis. Des Moines. Dayton. And that's just the Midwest.

You don't need a great job market; you just need the one job. Works for some people.
My favorite YouTube is the rainbow conspiracy it appears the person is not aware of the color spectrum.

That said filter bubbles and ai feeding us more what we “want” is probably increasing conspiracy theories and making us less tolerant of different views. There has been little talk of the morality of ai algorithms.

Personally I was recommended “hot” dating sites advertisement when having relationship issues. Not what I needed but surely what most likely pays the best. The issue is lack of ai moral or for that sake profit first. Obectivivly the ai was right but morally not I am a parent.
Ads probably should be regulated at least you should be able to say no to ai algorithm and behavioral psychologist maximizing profit for private companies.
Sure, it's impressive enough to turn $15k into a profitable business but most people could only take that plunge once or maybe twice, realistically. How many successful businesses were started by people who could do that ten times or a hundred times? Or more pertinently: how much of the market has been captured by such people? That's the real differentiator.
> But that doesn't imply that the soldier will always be wrong either.

Completely agree! I maybe implied too strongly that soldiers claim to be right against contrary evidence, which isn't what Julia said. Not only are soldiers often right, people often defend their stance and stop looking for the right answer precisely because they are right and know it. The risk is just that sometimes that decision is made prematurely.

Personally, I probably revert to soldier when I think I'm being a scout more often than I want to admit.
I was watching a video by Jeffrey Sachs a little while ago about sustainable development. He had some interesting charts that show if you add up all the figures in total we are working less than we ever have and there has been a consistent downward trend over recent years.
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> the likes of McKinsey or Goldman Sachs who have repeatedly shown a pattern of screwing over their clients

Goldman has a history of doing terrifically by their clients. They aren’t the best counterparty to trade against, however, in the same way that one would rather play poker against a bad player than a great one. (McKinsey, on the other hand, is a consistent dumpster fire.)
I had never seen the building so I looked it up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Academy_of_Sciences
In the abstract the undulating roof is similar looking closer shows there are a lot of differences even in where the lumps are located
It's very attractive in an unpredictable world if you're feeling vulnerable, scared, disenfranchised. Someone out there has the answer, and oh man it's great because someone's answer are these things I'm inclined to belive and reinforces / validates my values.
Salaita might have strong family history reasons for not having a particularly nuanced take on Israel, but I'm not sure character limits are the main factor driving tweets suggesting the Israeli ambassador takes sexual pleasure in seeing pictures of dead kids...

It's not exactly as if Israel and its actions are seldom criticised on campuses, or indeed on academics' Twitter accounts.
Time Tracking to 15 minutes or unicorn points in sprint estimation, beancounters will glom onto it and the stats will be juked, padded, and hoarded.
Creative Tools in the Post-“Deep Fakes” World
Hmm, any idea why the list of countries are so limited?

https://support.google.com/domains/answer/4639612?hl=en
How old are they? I know plenty of people who bought a house 30 or 40 years ago on blue collar salaries. I don't know any <30 year olds who bought property without parental help.
There are times when you're not focusing on anything specific, hence why you get ideas / breakthroughs in the shower, or when looking out of the window of a train / car or just mindlessly walking, because you're not focusing on anything and your System1 can solve stuff.

Though I feel that System1 can't work while System2 is focusing on other stuff like playing games or browsing social media so I don't think they're necessarily running in parallel.
This article goes a little deeper in exploring the definition of "self-made." Did those millionaires who didn't inherit money have their college paid for? Did they get help from their parents for a down payment? ...etc. The author makes a valid point by exploring this definition, and it suggests that most people, especially the well off received some substantial help that isn't available to many.
Resonates strongly with me. Many of my school friends went to the best colleges in my country - all the time attributing their success solely to "hard work". However, they always seemed to ignore the fact that their parents paid a lot of money for them to attend the best tuition outside of school. I did not have that option and did not get admitted to any of the famous colleges (I am discounting the constant mental tension associated with poverty here). Luckily, I have done quite well for myself (till now) - but I am under no illusion that it was solely due to me. For example, I got my first data science job via a personal contact - without that I would forever be stuck in less paying jobs.

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> ignoring the many many people who turned $15,000 loans into failed businesses.

As far as I understand it, most (VC-backed, tech) companies that raise millions of dollars manage to turn the money into failure.
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I interpreted GP's comment differently:

Unusually high CPAP intensity indicates unusually severe sleep apnea, suggesting a connection between sleep disorders and mental disorders.

Reflecting on the impact sleep has on my mental health, that makes intuitive sense.
> So why do millennials act like [financial help from parents] doesn't exist?

I would argue the exact opposite. I would argue that with the rise of socialist tendencies among millennials, and the hyper fixation on gender, racial, and economic privilege, there is almost an outright rejection of the existence of merit at all. I think that the position is so extreme, that many millennials believe the output of an individual belonging to a group they consider to be universally privileged is almost entirely the consequence of their group's privileges or disadvantages.

No person in their right mind wouldn't acknowledge the privileges we can be afforded. You can be tall, attractive, smart, have both parents at home, not need to work jobs to help your parents take care of your many siblings, have parents that don't abuse you, have access to a network of successful people willing to take financial risks on your behalf. These things are inconceivably helpful. There is a reason that the public's reaction to Donald Trump's "with a small loan of a million dollars and [inheriting my dad's business and network]" was almost unilaterally one of repulsion.

Most sane people don't object to the concept of individual privilege (inherent, universal group privileges are a different discussion). What people object to is the disregarding of merit altogether; the extent to which we are divorcing consequence from actions. Where you start matters, but so do the choices you make.
A Review of 2019 Predictions for the Space Industry
The Secret History of Women in Coding

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/magazine/women-coding-com...

Contains some great stories about the early days of programming.
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And so the legend goeth: A friend exclaimed, "how do you afford to buy a house in San Francisco?" I, too, laughed! For lo': huts in the wilderness were mere pennies. He hadn't ever been to the bush, and had assumed the insane cost of living in this area exists in other places with high-paying tech jobs.
Russian Hackers Are Eight Times Faster Than North Korean Groups
I suspect you didn't mentally contrast the stringency of power management on a professional level camera vs Android, iOS devices. "Trust them". Lol.. go google battery drain, and see what these modern OS permits..

Last all day means nothing in the context of what you brought up.
The premise of our society is that it's not the law's job to make sure everybody only believes true things. That's a rather Orwellian idea.
Your premise is reasonable, but the "mainstream media lies" movement is rooted firmly in reality, so root cause analysis points elsewhere.

From the Russian collusion narrative, to the Avenatti client claims, to the Covington school coverage, to the recent Jesse Smolett coverage. Western media increasingly does not bother to check facts before running with stories.

It's fair to blame the "msm lies movement", but that movement itself has a root cause.
You're in good company in my household. We have four MBPs (2015, 2012, 2x2011). Not getting rid of them until, as you said, Apple starts making laptops I want again.
Yes, that's the exact same line of argument I see from people touting inane conspiracy theories.

Unfortunately we see a lot of conspiracy theories have very real and damaging effects on people, often not those indulging in it. Just look at the idiot that attempted to burn down that pizza place because of pizzagate or how many people harassing families of school shooting victims because they believe they're all government orchestrated tragedies.
Unfortunately that's just the reality of how people think. The person who is making confident declarations is going to come across as stronger and more inspiring than the person who is being careful and thoughtful, no matter who is actually correct.

It's not really a liberal or conservative thing, either. Someone making a passionate progressive speech is going to appeal to those inclined that way more than someone making a careful, nuanced progressive argument.

Politicians know this and so will always hedge towards appearing decisive and "strong".
Thanks for sharing that story.

It's scary that sheer happenstance saved your aunt's life. I wonder how medical record keeping could be improved to help with that scenario.
This is such nonsense. First of all, there are absolutely people who come from dirt poverty and become wildly successful. Second of all, plenty of people receive lots of help from their parents and amount to precisely nothing. IMO it's fair to refer to your success as "self made" if you exceed the median success level of your class peer group by a substantial margin.

If you immigrate from Africa with nothing, and you get yourself a law degree and an upper middle class income - that's self made success. If you're born in the US and your entire family is lawyers, maybe that same accomplishment is not "self made success". But if you say, start Microsoft and become a billionaire i'd say that it's fair to call that self-made success.

I feel like this trope that self-made success is a myth comes almost entirely from people like the author of this article. People who were born with lots of advantages, who still couldn't hack it. They want to justify their own failure to live up to their family's expectations by tearing other people down. Whether or not self-made success is a thing, self-made failure certainly is, and i'd say the author of this article more than qualifies for it.
OP here. For some reason the initial "this" gets eaten from the title. Tried submitting a few times and deleted each submission attempting to correct the title, thinking I had just made an error, until I realized it's just something HN does.
They actually can. IPv6 support was recently enabled by many ISPs, online services and mobile applications.
I am in no way shape or form advocating for restricting speech. I speaking strictly to whether or not he believes it.

I believe he believes it. But it's impossible for me to know.

I make no assertion other than that.
Surrender to yourself. Acknowledge your limits and accept them. Know that you are enough and you are not the hours that you work or the effort you put into things. You are not your works. Through surrender and acceptance you'll allow yourself to stop focusing on how you aren't doing enough and instead reframe into a perspective of gratitude for what you are doing and can do.
> Remember, work has to be fun. We value employees who live rich and rounded lives. We run a flexible workplace, and we have ever since we were a blacksmith shop that shut down whenever the waves were six feet, hot and glassy. Our policy has always allowed employees to work flexible hours, as long as the work gets done with no negative impacts on others. A serious surfer doesn't plan to go surfing next Tuesday at two o'clock. You go surfing when there are waves and the tide and wind are right.

From Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard.
TBH bullet journaling has been great for me. Making monthly, daily, and future logs has dramatically increased my productivity/anxiety.

I used to keep all these thoughts cluttered in my head and then they became blockers because if I did one I'd be thinking about the other.

While I use it to organize my thoughts and put plan to action, some may use it just an outlet for whatever.
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Shakna was attempting to use a common social cue, criticism, to prevent Steve from continuing to apply inappropriate social behavior, especially relevant given that Shakna has a decade of experience in the nuances of social dynamics in the context of chronic illness. I interpreted Shakna's sharp rebuke as no different than any other expert informing someone that they're participating in highly ignorant behavior.

By criticizing Shakna, you are also participating in a social cue to try and prevent Shakna from continuing to apply inappropriate social behavior (in this case, criticizing others unnecessarily). Does "It's the internet man. You're quite free to disregard Shakna's criticism." not apply also to you?
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.local is for multicast. Don’t use it for anything else unless you want a headache.
Considering that Amazon fulfills orders using counterfeit items from suppliers that they know have previously provided fakes to customers, and then removes reviews that point out counterfeits, I’d say they’re complicit in it. I’ve personally had a review removed that called out an obviously counterfeit item I received. That was two years ago and the seller is still on Amazon, and Amazon is still removing other reviewers’ bad reviews of them.
So is this entire article about how some successful people got help from parents? (And therefore, all must have gotten help from their parents.) Seems pretty easy to cherry-pick the stories you research and write about here.

Let me skip all the way to the end, spoiler alert:

> If you have the privilege of not having to pay 50 percent of your rent because your parents are paying, how can you advocate for interns to make a decent-enough salary, or for scholarships to support an intern or fellow? That’s where the change comes in.”

I don't understand this thesis. These are the exact type of people who would advocate for "decent-enough salary" because money comes to them for free. The magical thinking required to just demand decent-enough salaries are thrown about by businesses (or other authority figures) that must have bottomless pockets looks very similar to how they think about getting a free ride from mommy and daddy.

Can we find examples of people who get free money from their parents and openly say that everyone else needs to pull themselves up by the bootstraps? I think "Trump" might be the only person others will respond with, cynically at that, given I don't think Trump has said such a thing--he's just a Republican. But otherwise, where are all these trust-fund babies who believe everyone else needs to be a self-made person? Those people don't exist as far as I know.
Nice! Great job just posting all of this online and not privately disclosing this to Tesla to fix. Keep up the good work on moving security back 2 steps.
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A common misconception is that self-driving car companies (outside of a few smaller startups) are using RL to drive the car. They are not. They use deep learning for perception systems which produce tangible outputs that can be processed by what amounts to expert systems.

I work in this space and even if you could assume the RL would never make a mistake it's not auditable in the way you would need it to be for things like insurance. In general, RL isn't ready to be used in complex situations where people can die when things go bad. This ignores the sample efficiency challenges and handling unseen data.
And be nuanced. Freedom of speech is an American ideal, and a Constitutional Amendment.
I don't personally know (or know of) anyone who truly saw this coming 20+ years ago. It's a bit humbling to have been blindsided so thoroughly.
"Vamoose, provincial. These are not your lands."
In this case, the laws probably need to apply universally.

But scale matters.

Systems (even economic systems) at scale have different characteristics than those that are not. Just like you'd implement a massive AWS system differently than you would a little, single Ec2 service - regulations would probably be characterized differently given the scale and power of the entities involved.

One major difference is risk mitigation: individual consumers may have some power to influence a mom and pop shop, especially one that has a physical retail presence. A negative local news highlight could make a big difference. A single legal grievance could have consequences. There's material risk.

At a certain scale, it seems some of these entities simply don't have to worry about fraud, because 'who's gonna do something about it?'. The only public recourse is public institutions.
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> structure and tags can easily travel between computers, filesystems, and OSes.

They can -- they're just files.
The new gTLDs are much more "real" than the ccTLDs in the sense that they are actually governed in ways that protect registrants. A ccTLD operator can unilaterally yank any domain they want with no restrictions whatsoever. They aren't contracted parties.