skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For ASD Individuals “Masking and Passing” is the primary mode of trying to “make it” in the world. It means we try to fake being normal as much as possible so folks see us and treat us as normal. This requires constant concsious thought as to our actions, our intuition and our judgement of other people and their emptional state, because we are absolutely terrible at reading other people. As an example, most people can tell the difference between if someone is excited or angry. I cannot. Anger and excitement look very similar to me. Similarly tiredness and extreme sadness looks very similar to me. So I have to constantly evaluate given other contextual clues what mental state the other person is in. This is an ongoing and very conscious process using logic and deduction. Nuerotypicals do not have to do this. You might get confused from time to time as a neurotyoical and ask someone “What’s wrong” to clarify but for us, it is a constant state of confusion. It gets fucking tiring. We spend our entire lives trying to conform to the world around us, while we are lost 90% of the time.

This by the way, is why I made the decision to “come out of the closet” and damn the consequences because for me personally, I am just done trying. It’s been a freeing experience and has given me energy I never thought I would have. The skills I’ve learned from “masking and passing” are still there and are definitely still relevant and helpful, but I just don’t put as much effort into it as I used to.

I really think that more ASD people need to come out of the closet too. We need to start demanding that the world understands us and meets us halfway. So far it’s been a one way street, and that’s just not viable long term.
For that matter, very small studies are safer from certain types of false positive.

The file-drawer problem with small lab studies is serious, and can't be solved with effect sizes; it's much easier to run a few of these and publish the hits than to do that with large-population studies.

But small lab studies provide a lot of value alongside population studies. They help reveal issues with bad self-report data, which are major concerns for sleep and weight questions. They also offer an efficient way to replicate and extend large studies. If you're spending a decade with 10k+ subjects, gathering a huge range of data is understandable (and I would argue, preferable). But it leaves you with a choice between salami slicing across all your variables, or applying multiple-comparisons corrections that destroy your sensitivity. Using large multi-factor studies as exploratory work, then validating effects with small focused studies is actually a pretty healthy outcome.

A final thought: I have a lot of problems with this study, but file-drawer issues aren't one of them. Looking at a bunch of correlated variables (insulin sensitivity, weight gain, outside-meal eating, etc) and reporting them all is a solid way to mitigate that - we know those things should correlate for basically any real effect, which makes it much harder to stumble into a false positive and publish.
While I agree with your post in a rational sense, people don't buy their vehicles that way. They buy SUVs for their daily commute, because a few times a year they like to go somewhere that AWD (or the extra storage space, or the extra ground clearance, or..) is useful.

> I know Americans can drive a lot, but I still think 300km or range vastly exceeds 95%+ of use cases.

For commutes, sure. But I know a lot of people (most?) who like to travel to the next city to see their parents (450km), or go camping/hiking/skiing (wilderness where chargers aren't common, 200km one way). A 300 km range wouldn't cut it for them (and a 100km range wouldn't be good for anything except daily commute).

Several of my family members have gotten plug-in hybrids - 40km range, but backed with a gas engine. That means their daily commute (or most of it, with winter weather range impact) is electric, and they have gas for when they want or need to go further (eg kids sports on the other side of the city).

I intend to buy an electric car, but probably not until my current yaris gives up the ghost. I'm willing to put up with the inconvenience of a 400km range, even though I regularly do a 1400km one-way drive, and filling up the battery with a supercharger will take about 15 hours instead of 13 with gas fills.
On the other hand, if you work at facebook and send private user data to some anonymous source just like that, I hope they sue you out of existence.
> Why would Facebook agree

You are talking about Facebook higher-ups. Who on the face of it, have to abide by the law.

The OP said:

> if there is anybody out there working at facebook who has access to the info

He's talking about an activist/whistle-blower working at facebook who may have access. Who undercover can leak information.

Totally different things here.
That IT person presumably is working under something like an NDA (and HIPAA, etc., where applicable), so there is recourse we’re they to violate their duties and misuse data.
Yes, I forgot about the context when rewriting the title. Can a mod change it?
In 2019 music streaming should be more like video streaming, in that different bitrates should be user selectable, and processing ("cinema" vs. "night mode") is done by the playback equipment.
these ideas aren't good or bad in this way really. only in their execution we find that the integrity of humans is not developed enough for these kinds of services or capabilities.

problem is that with tracking, people on the tracking side become to greedy for profit, and without tracking / censorship, then the people on the user side become vile and corrupt suddenly :D. either way there will be people enjoying it and people hating it at the same time. there's no pleasing some :D in any case , and really, maybe we should stop trying to do so, and just get on with more useful stuff than debating everlasting debates.

in the end it's more philosophical problem than anything, and how useful are those to debate...(except to people who enjoy that of course!) are we in a simulation, or not? no way to prove it, no impact even if it would be, so why try to get the whole of internet users involved and distracted with it.
we can go back and see, that then, it will probably just be people who like to discuss these things who are doing so, and they will always do so.

is it immoral or wrong to make a profit within a capitalist system? Or is it immoral or wrong to expect someone to change their ways or return your investment just because you didn't pay attention and paid for something you didn't want??

example of facebook user mentality i saw in some drunk at a station:
- drunk buys a paper from a bum
- bum gives paper for 50 cents
- drunk gets mad and attacks bum because the paper is a day old.

really, that's the privacy debate in a nutshell.
> majority of my family can still tolerate Facebook despite what is known

They've got a captive audience. Like it or not, the service that Facebook provides is unparalleled, and short of direct, tangible harm, it's not enough for most people to give that up.
Am I the only one or is anyone else thinking about what the angle here could be?

Pretty impressive software though. Finally one strong open-source alternative for reverse engineering.
It's the fusion of material sciences.
Maybe. You owe the 4% no matter what. There’s some risk associated with putting money in the market instead, even over a long period. Historically youd be ok but you are taking on some risk for the potential gains.
This is really strange to hear. What self service site did you use? Our website chat goes right to a slack channel that multiple folks monitor and reply to at all hours of the day. Worst case if we're all sleeping and you leave an email we respond when we're awake.

Just searched for your username in our chat and our email and don't see anything so I assume you've got a different email?
An interesting comparison (maybe) is the LIDAR unit that was developed for the Neato XV series robot vacuum cleaners.

When it was first announced, and the research paper was published showing how it was built and functioned (essentially a 2D spinning parallax distance measuring system using a laser and linear photosensor array), it was thought that the system would be very cheap to make, and would eventually sell to hobbyists for around $25.00.

Unfortunately - that never happened.

I don't know what it ultimately cost Neato to make; it was likely inexpensive in quantity, but it was never sold to hobbyists or robotics researchers as a standalone product. Instead, if you wanted one, you had to either purchase and cannibalize one of the robots, or otherwise obtain one as a replacement or "pulled" component. Even then you would spend much more than $25.00 to get one.

Eventually they started to show up on Ebay; at one point I was able to purchase the units for around $35.00 at the cheapest; these were "used pulls", some needed new motors, pulleys, and/or drive belts (all parts easily found as well) - so that pushed the price up a bit.

Lately, the prices on Ebay have settled to around $75-90.00 for refurbished pulls, or replacement new units.

Interestingly, similar units have also appeared on "Chinese clone" vacuum robots, and you can purchase the LIDAR units they use separately on sites like Alibaba, etc. But even there they don't sell for anywhere near $25.00 each.

I am not sure where the discrepancy for this device lies; maybe the quantity just isn't there, and honestly $100.00 for a 2D LIDAR (granted, indoor only and very limited range) is fairly inexpensive, but even so I don't see many people using them on their hobbyist devices. Most research robotics continue to use the more expensive SICK and Hokuyo 2D LIDAR (which are time-of-flight based).

I think it is more likely that if LIDAR is used, it will be part of a large suite of sensors, and likely 2D only, unless the price of flash depth LIDAR devices plummet.

I'm not an expert, but I personally think that computer vision based approaches can work well, especially combined with other sensor systems (LIDAR, RADAR, ultrasonics, etc). NVidia has shown that vision-based approaches can be made to work, and others have done similar work that show the approach to be viable. I'm a bit biased on this because I used a simplified version of NVidia's approach to pilot a simulated vehicle in an online MOOC I was a part of a few years back (I had to simplify the CNN to make the model fit the memory I had in my GPU at the time; I had tried to use a batch training method but wasn't able to get it to work properly before my deadline - even so, the simplified model trained and generalized quite well with the data I gathered).
New exploit lets attackers take control of Windows IoT Core devices
That's very optimistic.

"The median estimate for future growth sees the world population reaching 8.6 billion in 2030, 9.8 billion in 2050 and 11.2 billion by 2100" (2017)

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_grow...
Resamplers these days take advance of our faster computers to use near-brickwall filters, like a 1024-point windowed sinc. With this, you can create a steep filter from 20-22 kHz with better than -100 dBr attenuation beyond the Nyquist frequency. This is enough to stop worrying about the aliasing caused by the bandpass filter.

I've never heard of what newaccoutnas is talking about, but I guess if a high-frequency sound is ridiculously loud, the energy could be absorbed somewhere in the cochlea. I've only heard of experiments of subsonic hearing damage, not supersonic.
I think the point the parent comment is trying to make is that a Ford tank cannot burn, but a battery can.
Whatever we do I hope it syncs with the US, because 9 AM SF/5 PM Dublin meetings are a LOT nicer than 8AM SF/5PM Dublin or 9 AM SF/6PM Dublin
Thoughts on Collision Conference
Wanted to see if anyone has any experience with the collision conference. It looks like a startup oriented conference with some huge names in the space attending.

My startup was offered their ALPHA package which gets us a booth and part of their startup programming for $600 CAD.

Was wondering if anyone had thoughts and experiences with the conference. Thank you in advanced!!
Ok, so the select committee system questions have compulsory answers?

In the US, the committee would have to subpoena in order to legally force the answer. Is that not the case here?
The few degrees is a global average. It won't be evenly distributed, so some areas will suffer more from rising temperatures.
and it is free
What’s so puzzling? It’s a Mayan site so it belongs to the Mayans. They have full rights, even if that means preventing the study of it to non-Mayan archeologists. Simple.
No, they don't force that at all. You're free to find another job with hours you prefer, or try to get your boss to let you work different hours. If all your coworkers don't like the hours, you have a better chance of getting the management to change the working hours. If you're the one weirdo who wants different hours, then maybe you shouldn't be trying to get everyone else to do things to your liking.
Hm... here's a question:

The G# minor fugue in Book II of Bach's WTC has a rather long sequence around the circle fifths. It starts on E# minor.

Did the well-tempered tuning system open up the possibility for Bach to start writing longer chromatic sequences like that? Would that sequence have sounded out of tune in the meantone tuning system?
It’s not pop-sci at all. It’s a term typically used within the field for what is described here.
Or just improve cycling and public transport infrastructure, and let more people wfh
Emphasize that engineering is the power to create. Everything around them, from the building the sit in to the computers and cell phones they use every day, is a result of teams of engineers using their knowledge and creativity to make them functional, reliable, and safe.

> Engineering is a flexible and well paying career with good work life balance

While somewhat true, that's not really the kind of thing that's worth emphasizing. You're trying to inspire the imaginations of students so that they choose engineering, not bribe them into becoming an engineer.
I'd like to think plenty of folk here would have ethical objections, too. Perhaps that's wishful thinking.
How to Encrypt Your Internet Traffic
While I agree with you, I will note that even set union in Python is not commutative. a | b should equal b | a in the sense of __eq__, but the actual objects in the result set depend on the order of the arguments (and in the opposite way from dict + dict). This happens with objects that are distinct but compare/hash equally (x is not y and x == y). Whether that actually matters for any useful program is another story...

Dumb program to illustrate this point:

class Dummy:
def __init__(self, value): self.value = value
def __repr__(self): return 'Dummy(%s)' % self.value
def __hash__(self): return 0
def __eq__(self, other): return True

a = {Dummy(0)}
b = {Dummy(1)}
print(a | b)
print(b | a)
print(a | b == b | a)
Link to conference site:

https://collisionconf.com
I tried to read it as a first Lisp book, that was very theoretical. I just write Lisp these days while looking up what I need on-demand. Will probably give it another read when I have a better idea of what Lisp is.
Activation atlases for visualizing neuronal representations
Investors => We use AI.
Employee => Cutting edge machine learning
Actual code => linear regression.
It's a shortcoming of languages that don't have multiple dispatch.
Because although you don't have source code (like other commenters are saying), reversing a program to get into a company would be the hardest way to go. Red teams are used to test a company's overall security, and reversing normally wouldn't make sense compared to phishing, using common exploits, and owning the network. Reversing binaries is not the job of a red team, but pentesters of specific systems.
Yeah, sorry, as I understand it, it uses Capstone as the disassembler and implements an LLVM lifter over it. It was pretty dumb to describe it as "based on Capstone"; I was just mentally breaking tools down by which CFG recovery system it relied on.
OpenAI (https://blog.openai.com/introducing-activation-atlases/) and Google AI (https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/03/exploring-neural-networks....) also posted updates related to this release
> That app have no lesson, nothing is explained, there is just quizzes slapped on your face until you remember the good answer.

The design of the app isn’t an accident. They want you to start trying immediately. The testing effect works even for vocabulary. If you guess which of four words is the Spanish for milk you’re more likely to remember the answer than if you’re just told it. When you put effort into learning something you’re more likely to remember it, even when the effort is as trivial as a multiple choice test.

> The distractors are bad (you can find answer using capitalization in some case), sentences seems to have been generated automatically etc.

None of this is wrong to be honest. I wouldn’t use any Duolingo course that hadn’t been out of beta for more than a year because there are often plentiful mistakes.

> I cannot fathom how one can learn anything with that nor why it is so popular.

It’s actually pretty good at getting you from nothing to novice for European languages as far as reading goes. And it’s free and gamified, which helps a lot with motivation. You might be mistaking the feeling of learning with actually learning too. Almost everyone does. That’s why most people do massed practice (cramming) instead of distributed (multiple reviews) and interleaved (practice different skills together, not one at a time, even though massed works worse. You feel like you’re learning more with massed.
Not to mention when people say PST when that is explicitly the _wrong_ time zone half the year.

It's PDT in summer.
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Nah man, I'm sure he's a cool dude. If he's a cool dude, isn't that an adequate reason to violate both your employment contract and the privacy agreement FB has with its users?
Out of interest, why do developers use the SDK and send these events?

Is it just for ‘sign in with Facebook’? I’m surprised at the specificity of the event-data; do they offer an analytics interface like for GA?

Do they give you any cash or other benefits for all the data?

I’m very surprised that companies like banks are including it, when I’d assume they have their own analytics and identity systems.
Should they not be using remote-controlled drones first and 3D-map the tunnels first before going in with humans?
You'd be interested in how cheap silicate bricks are then. Spoiler: very cheap. Plaster-cardboard, very cheap too, or HIPS board. Actual plaster, base paint, base fiberglass or rock wool for heat. (Or sacrifice space for insulation.)
As is concrete and even the know how and material design tools are not that expensive.
Wiring is cheap, hydraulics are more expensive sure to amount of metal involved, unless you out in for plastics.

(AutoCAD with modules for stress analysis and building design libs would cost you $20k or so, but it can probably be rented as cloud license.)

Rigging can be rented, even work clothes and power tools. Even then the tools are not super expensive anyway.

The expensive parts are rental of lifter, crane and mixer machines as well as good operator. Barring that, more people to set up the building and much more wood and metal rigging.

Building is cheap compared to prime land and marketing or sales markup, as well as paying off credit. (Most buildings are built with financial leverage.)
> I say it's natural to wake up when the sun raises, you say it's natural to stick to the same hour all year long.

Either of those is fine. What's not fine is making everyone change their clocks twice a year so that those options are more similar to each other.
How big of a fuckup do we need to see to realize that running megabytes of arbitrary code from a dozen different domain for every website we visit is a bad idea?

What needs happen for engineers to realize that process isolation is something that needs to be taken serious at the lowest possible level (hardware + OS), rather than through some magic abstraction layer (VMs, hypervisors, containers, etc).
I think parent was saying that Binary Ninja _didnt_ do those things (implying that IDA did).
I think Sikorsky's probably ahead in the race for realistic autonomous flight. Sikorsky isn't a trendy/hot company by any means, but they're reliable, they deliver, and they have the contact infrastructure with FAA and NTSB and other government certification orgs that would handle this new development. I don't know if they'd offer "air-taxis", but decreasing the cost of helicopter travel so that a seed/Series A startup CEO can travel vs. the Fortune 500 CEOs would be a major improvement in and of itself.
Oh also, just to clarify -- are you talking about Binary Ninja or something else? That would explain a lot of my confusion. :-P
I'm not sure the author fully understands what big data is and where his point actually lies.

Big data is about processing large amounts of data in a fashion that can get your results. This is typically where distributed/clustered systems lies and often deals with system optimization.

If your data requires fast enough results and you need answers quickly sampling is done. Now he does have merit in his argument that considerations about sampling or approaches to sampling needs to be considered. Big data can get his accurate results on the population of the data. (I worked with a company with 35 PB of images, they did get analyzed via ML and image processing algorithms. There was very little "sampling" involved.)

My bone to pick with "big data" is that it tends to be ambiguously thrown around to have cookie cutter systems such as Hadoop/spark or a large db (i.e. redshift) that don't work for the needs of the business. (Hadoop is horrible for everything except for 1-time batch ops, or image stitching)
Worst or not, many businesses are using skype. I am use skype for web, to chat with colleagues. Now I am forced to install chrome browser, to use skype.

It could be incompetent team, if they had no FF support at all. But they had and it was working perfect, even better than their hot pile of react native app on linux. But now for some reason they close it, without any explanations.

I guess, they forced to use some "special" proprietary WebRTC layer, for video and audio streaming, which not compatible with FF, and management decided that firefox 10% of users are not worthy to support.

But obviously, they just could not compete honestly, their 4% of browser market is laughable, especially take into consideration their desktop OS share. They have long going plan, to dominate browser market.

Strategy is very simple. If your system browser is chrome based, users would not bother to install chrome. The only competitior is firefox, easily devastated by EEE strategy.
Even if what you're saying were true, it'd still drive housing prices down for the poor. I.e. the rich would slightly shift towards these new luxury units, leaving more supply for those in mediocre housing units.
I 100% agree with that if memory is operating correctly then you will read exactly what was last written. And I believe there are of course exceptions to that rule: what if you're reading volatile RAM and it was just powered up? What if a cosmic ray literally changed the bit? These are no-brainers to me.

But I don't think you satisfactorily answered some of my other questions. What trade-offs do you think were made which shouldn't have been made?

How would you improve density, throughput, or latency while maintaining 100% correctness in the face of unknown (or perhaps unintended) access patterns?