skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Some of data was much more detailed than just the email address and included personally identifiable information (PII) ... ‘Emailrecords’ was structured to include zip / phone / address / gender / email / user IP / DOB

How messed up is it that random 3rd parties collect and assemble all this information to begin with, leaks aside? Sounds to me like all this data fell into unscrupulous hands way before any hackers may have found it on the public internet.
Open source has a working-for-free problem
Hey HN!

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Houses and education both can be made cheaper though? We are just choosing not to by building bigger houses and spending more money on education bureaucracy.

Prices of healthcare, education, and housing are definitely going up a lot more than inflation in general though to be sure, I’d just say it’s because of policy choices we are making not because those items are inherently resistant to price decreases.
Ask HN: What are some unexplored but interesting research avenues in AI?
Would the homeowners have paid back the bailout money with interest?
I suggest publishing it. Or publishing something else that's more relevant to your current or future work. And self-publish. A $30 book that you give to a prospective client is like a $30 business card. There's a wide range of self-publishing methods and services, but there are books on that subject that can help you make that decision, how to price it, and market it, etc. If you can provide a sane PDF, you've done most of the work a printing company cares about; the companies that assist in the self-publishing process should be able to accept almost anything, that's their job.

Write it as a reference that even you'd find useful, with emphasis on defining the basics and getting them right, and increasingly lighter when it comes to intermediate and advanced concepts. Those can either form future books or consulting or both. Since you've started writing, it's worth it to go through the whole process and publish. I did it with a conventional big publisher some time ago, but I wouldn't do that again today. The idea a big publisher would require you use Word is very familiar to me, and I think it's ridiculous.
Robot Rights: From Asimov to Tezuka
I'd forgotten about the gmail trick. You're certainly right about that. Though I will say one thing: I've not been hiding my email this past decade and—as far as I know—it has not bit me.
If the programmer can’tbe bothered to put in enough verification effort to avoid being negligent, they should not be in charge of safety critical code. Plainly: don’t pretend there aren’t ways to ensure correctness of systems.
You do if you want your app not to be flagged as spam. Users are perceptive. They notice when windows brings up a big notice telling them the app is not to be trusted.

Perception is everything in those first few moments a user get his hands on your software. But now if I dont pay the entrance fee I potentially get abandoned by said user bc they have been scared off.

Its not an app store yet. Give it 5 or 10 years when we no longer have an open web and all we have are walled gardens.
> 1) Don't plan on renting your whole life because inflation will catch up with you.

It seems like in your framework (point (2-3) of the first grouping) this is not true as long as your annual rent is less than 3-4% of required capital for comparable shelter (ignoring implicit leverage in a mortgage). You will do better in the long-run in stocks. Risk-adjusted, well that's another matter.
Are you using z3?
https://rise4fun.com/z3/tutorial
Subconscious bias may or may not take place in a specific case. Interviewer's bias can be with regards to race, sex, hair color, nationality, accent, physical fitness and so on. We may keep arguing about which if them plays higher role in me being hired.

HR policies, on the other hand, is an objective reality with a measurable outcome.
> It's not just a matter of hitting targets - the alternative is that everyone who gets in is from a wealthy family or went to a top fee paying school.

This doesn't follow. The alternative is getting whatever the ratio of <people from wealthy families>/<people from underprivileged/nontraditional backgrounds> is. So following your argument, the people from underprivileged backgrounds that meet the "all things being equal" test must be an insignificant amount.
If anyone is interested in a much-much more basic version of headless-CMS (micro-CMS): check out https://www.dropconfig.com/ - we built it as a collaborative repository+hosting for JSON files.

You can use it to manage all variable things in your app, including content itself, of course.

It literally takes less than a minute to get started, because you can create an "anonymous" dropconfig without signing-up.
The claim was never that "‘Sharing’ was supposed to save us" nor any of the other allegations in the article. In fact there never was any unified claims.

Of course the individual companies made claims about how their platform would save you a bit of time and money and friction. And that has largely been true. Millions of people each saves a little time and money, and that in aggregate has benefited us tremendously.

The sharing economy never promised the moon.
Unfortunately this is incorrect. Those minima are not the same. Remember that dual points have a real part and a dual part that indicates the rate of change at that point. The real part is the same but the dual is different.
Isn't that explained in the link in the very first question?

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/parallel/2013-11/msg00006...
I've also given up sugar (it's been about 2 years). Just wanted to compare results.

Hair growth - nothing noticeable.
Sleep - still tend to being a night owl.
No after-lunch sleepiness - agree on this, I still even eat carbs (no gluten, no sugar for reasons).
Sex drive - no noticeable change.
Acne - sugar and chocolate used to cause breakouts for me.
Always hungry - not really, but again, I eat carbs.

Good for OP for giving that garbage up. It was the hardest of all the foods I've cut out of my life (gluten, caffeine, sugar, sodium nitrites, msg). Curious if OP had the same experience, but I went through full withdrawal each time I cut it out (it took a few tries).
> Uber, which declined to comment for this story, could still be sued in civil court and be forced to pay damages. The government could also potentially pursue criminal charges against managers or employees of Uber.

Looks like they still have a lot to deal with.
But that same developer can put the same effort in at another field and not be constantly at risk of a mistake doing massive damage to them. You would have to be paid an incredible amount to make it worth it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Philadelphia_train_derail...

dead man's switches don't activate when the engineer is simply distracted.
It also fades in rather than starting. They took a longer applause clip and started in the middle. As someone with a lot of audio production experience, this stuck out to me immediately. So either they used stock audio or there was an edit they didn't hide properly (or both).
> We all know that bugs in software happen and it’s impossible to write bug free code

The go-to counterexample is the code that ran on the space shuttle, which took years and hundreds of people and $200 million to produce. I have been told that nobody has ever found a bug in the final production system. The development practices involved in creating it seem like they would make most software engineers want to curl up and die. One tidbit from the following link I found is that 60 people spent years working on the backup flight control system, intended to never be used!

https://history.nasa.gov/computers/Ch4-5.html
> Until prices then rise

Which they didn't do entirely through the invisible hand. In many areas, taxi regulation was also used limit competition (e.g. medallion systems, unnecessarily difficult licensing exams). In addition to higher prices it permitted lower quality service. If you want to prevent destructive wildfires, you need to do forest management to reduce the fuel that builds up. The taxi industry was a forest full of dry, dead wood ready to burn.
Screen size isn't the real issue, typing can't be done in even a semi-reasonable fashion without a physical keyboard. That's a fundamental necessity for anything else productive to be plausible. Without it, the cross display thing is a huge waste of developer time and has killed every single project that has attempted to implement it.
Hey look it's uhhh.... Vincent ... um... Adultman!
Maybe, but that doesn't seem like an intractable problem if you're willing to take some fluctuation on margin from region to region. Which corps do already due to differences in minimum wage, suppliers, etc.
The title seems totally unsupported by the article to me. A less misleading one might be "The 'sharing economy' has evolved into a collection of large, unregulated, rental businesses"
Right. They disabled Volvo’s system and their own emergency braking didn’t work (apparently created too many false positives). It was criminal negligence to put the car on the road in that situation.
It is only grey as long as the law allows grey. Like some states have enacted no-fault insurance, it would be straight forward to create a no-fault framework for self driving cars. May not be a good idea as it may create bad incentives, but could be done.
The code wasn't faulty. The configuration was explicitly set to not brake, as far as I understand. If someone got in trouble here, it wouldn't be for programming.
A strict reading of his statement finds it congruent with yours, since you control the toleration parameter.
I literally closed the window because of this as a reflex to knowing ill have a poor reading experience - surprised me.
It happened just as much because one driver/monitor wasn't doing their job.
They're probably one of Medium's biggest publications so I'd guess they're part of the Partner Program >> https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/115011694187-Join-...
I hope the pre-commit hook validates the commit message follows the correct format which links the work to the correct ticket number and if you left off the ticket number inserts it for you based off the branch name etc.
You can’t learn in high school what you can learn in college for two simple reasons: 1) there’s not enough time to learn it all, and 2) even if there was, the human brain does not work the same at 14 years old that it does at 18 years old.

And you don’t get an expansive view of human knowledge in “general studies courses,” you get it by taking a broad array of specialized courses. Again: takes time.

Trade schools are great for learning a trade but there is a lot more to life than a trade. There’s more to a society than who has a higher salary.
This was long and somewhat meandering, but offered a much more thorough explanation of the “50 words for snow” factoid’s saga than I’d ever heard before. For that, I’m happy I read the whole thing.
There's also http://gishpuppy.com which I've been using for about 14 years now.
I believe Terry Goodkind notoriously used this as a plot point (evil chickens).
they could use a bit of tesla's marketing and website pizzazz
Historically it was spreadsheets that killed (financier) interest in APL (which was going gangbusters at the time). They were much easier for this crowd. APL does actually work for non numerical stuff. There is the famous example of OS360 being written in a couple pages of APL code. The model was actually used at IBM and at the time was heavily used there. Iverson went on to shepherd J, a much sophisticated language. K, another much modern offshoot, in the mean time has taken over the financial (trader) world.
> In the six seconds before impact, the self-driving system classified the pedestrian as an unknown object, then as a vehicle, and then as a bicycle, a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board explained. While the system identified that an emergency braking maneuver was needed to mitigate a collision, the system was set up to not activate emergency braking when under computer control.

The prosecutor made the wrong call here. This part is absolutely criminal negligence. Putting a “self driving” car out there that doesn’t have emergency braking enabled (apparently because it creates too many false positives) is an unjustifiable risk. Working emergency braking should be the first thing perfected, before the computer gets to control the car.
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>"Rather than micro-optimize protocols to protect race conditions in procedural code, modern distributed systems creativity often involves minimizing the use of such protocols."

Commerical databases 20 years ago had "shared nothing" designs precisely to avoid locks. The term "embarrassingly parallel" was introduced in the 1980s! The technique of multi-version concurrency control is widely used in databases and was first introduced in the 1980s. Maybe the authors forgot.
How do you feel about the Amtrak engineer being charged in the Philadelphia derailment? Does Amtrak deserve most liability for putting the engineer in charge of the train, or does the engineer deserve the blame for failing the most basic duties of their job?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2018/02/0...
Edit: I see you linked to the wrong sub-section there. However, overall the contrast between super-predator theory and (self-)annihilation is a bit more complex than one would think. They're not entirely binary.

On one hand, the self-annihilation idea implies that super-predator civilizations, being extremely rate to exist, would not have strong motivations for exterminating competitors.

What would possibly be the need, given the vastness of time and space, and the thermodynamic arguments given? Indeed, following this logic, the extraordinarily rare galactic survivor civilizations are almost guaranteed a long, peaceful existence.

On the other hand, it all develops on the curve of the galactic gaussian justifying possible pre-emptive defense investments. There's a difference of 3-4 or n sigmas statistics likelihood. In the former case, the likelihood of a rare rival emerging is high enough that pre-emptive defense strategies will be considered, and rudimentary systems of deterrence put in place. In the (high) n theory, it probably would not. How a civilization in the early stages of hegemony determined this fact, would be an interesting and possible civilization-saving (or destroying) feat....

Side note, haven't heard of the Revelation Space trilogy. Does it offer a workable theory for the origins of the predator dynamic?
I know it's really hard to predict what people will or won't want in the future, but... Would people want this, even if it worked really well?
I'm worried about the 3rd party vendor thing, either way you look at it, if I want a hotel tonight bi do not want a Airbnb, or vice versa. I wish Amazon had an Amazon only setting, etc.
Thanks, I’ll check them out, apologies for not putting in an effort before commenting.

One problem I feel exists (no evidence) is that sometimes the options are fluffy interview or none at all, and the interviewer is incentivized not to dig out the truth but to get the guest. It’s a bummer. I feel like the blame lays on the guest more than the interviewer because they tend to have the power in that dynamic.
"Good"
I know it’s glib, but just on the face of it, I find the idea of Uber taking responsibility for anything a laughable proposition.
Ok let's run this scenario (please check my math here, I'm not positive I'm doing the probability right). Let's assume we're talking about a man, bc men are more likely to be affected. Your lifetime risk of developing bowel cancer is 7% for males [1]. Bowel cancer risk is 17-30% higher if you eat a quarter pound of red meat per day [2]. But let's go ahead and assume someone does eat that much meat and use 30%. If you get bowel cancer, you have a 25% chance of dying [3]. That means...

lifetime_risk_no_meat = 0.07

lifetime_risk_yes_meat = 0.07 + (0.07*.3)

risk_of_death_given_cancer = 0.25

(lifetime_risk_yes_meat - lifetime_risk_no_meat) /risk_of_death_given_cancer ==> 0.084

So an 0.084% increase in risk of death if we use the most risky scenario available.

[1]: Lifetime risk of bowel cancer
https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/cancer-...

[2]: https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/cancer-...

[3]: Persons-> Crude rate -> UK
https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/cancer-...
Who even is Michael Mackie?
It's a good point.

I was thinking more about the cost of the land: no matter how efficient we are, it's supply is limited.

Same goes for the education: one teacher can handle a class of 30 kids no matter how advanced our technology is.

Healthcare is a very different beast though...
Because one parses a data format and the other one an actual programming language...
Can high schoolers still test out of college intro courses with high AP test scores? I came into college with a semester’s worth of credits via AP tests and started in some 102 classes.

My college also offered two flavors of popular intro courses... like there was Intro to Biology for people who wanted a taste of it, and a different Intro to Biology for people who intended to major in biology.
Fair enough. That's what I get for trying to make a pithy point.

But what's your exposure? Home mortgages are almost always non-recourse loans, limiting your losses to your initial down payment.

I don't think speculation in the futures market is a very good justification to the argument that home ownership is in general a poor investment--IME the conventional thinking in economic circles. I stand by my larger point that home ownership is a categorically sub-par investment only for those already with substantial wealth.
Facepalm! How could we have forgotten to pick that up before heading down this road of frustratingly hit-or-miss basic research?!
There will plenty of money to pay for the 12500 people that die because of those systems. (WHO says there are currently 1.25M dead each year from road accidents, if that reduces by 99% we'll have 12500 dead). Even if that costs $20B per year in liability, a company like Alphabet/Waymo can pay for it by the amount of money they are making in the actual self-driving tech.
Who is "us"? Maybe upper middle class consumers, but not the workers at these companies.
And how do we acquire that?
This feels like it was published 3 weeks early.
You send heartbeats! There might be a max-connection-time but I haven't run into it, my connections being dropped through amazon infrastructure was solved by sending a few bytes (': <3' or '<!-- <3 -->') every 5 seconds or so.
Researchers Succeed in ‘Growing’ a Working Blood-Brain Barrier
yeah, i started working on something to try and address the fact that all of the tools in this space are steaming hot garbage... after struggling to build a new language myself with various and finding it was possible, but the resulting toolchain was terrible and bug-prone.

its a shame given how fantastic llvm is for the backend problem that all of the lexer/parser tools are terrible.

its very easy to produce much better interfaces and errors than ... well... everything i have been able to find including antlr, flex, bison, haskell parser combinator libraries... an afternoon of lazy work without especially strenuous thought is more than enough.

but performance is hard, especially given the appalling quality of the academic literature and example code for the various algorithms. but for proving the point it is not especially important...

its not a great example... its garbage code, but here it is, able to generate itself and all the usual hoo hah... complete with a scheme shat out with it in 2 hours instead of the usual mundane 24...

https://bitbucket.org/craniumsoftware/cp2/src/c6eb20ce4c05fc...

the parser is awful. i wrote my own totally generic algorithm (can't remember if i solved the left recursion, but its totally do-able) based on conjuring obvious solutions without thinking very much...

i keep thinking it would be nice to take it further, or even to impart the wisdom to those continuing to develop the garbage. if only i had the resources and time...

(generates shitty vs integrations too)

.. no reason this couldn't be extended to remove the c++ and add functionality to describe language features and generate llvm from that.

(oh and naturally the lexer and parser come from the same data, because why make two things where one does a considerably better job and removes a huge source of bugs)
Why is that a problem? The cost of business should obviously include safety concerns.
> Want to learn a specific language? Just do it. It's not that hard, and there are online resources and plenty of books.

This is why I always find myself skeptical of boot camp type programs. So many of them seem focused on specific tools: node plus react! rails plus angular! etc. On the other hand getting a top down view of things is also useful. But I think this is what I enjoyed about my college program; there was time for both. Bottom up theory can seem pointless and unmotivated, and top down practicum can be hard to extend and generalize. The combination is powerful.
Sigh goodbye Karma, but...

I think this is horseshit.

The reason being: most of what you read online will be heavily modified to support the ideology of the author... which quite frankly, outside of neuroscience, is the biggest problem Economics faces: politics and ideology.

Economics is not finance, nor is finance economics.

Economics is about resource management, and both micro/macro are just that at different levels. The real holy grail of Econ is how merge them, what I think lies I the effects of agglomeration...

If you want to get your white belt in economics: go read something historical, not mathematical. Ricardo, Keynes, Friedman, Smith, Galbraith, Veblen, Marx, Krugman... the math and statistics come easily and intuitively if you understand the theory.

Rates of change themselves don’t make you fluent in economics, showing why the fuck you even need that rate of change is economics.
No kidding. The yt video's production values are... unimpressive. https://youtu.be/URgznwTph6M
There are also no ways to run experiments in cosmology.
Huawei Files Lawsuit Against U.S. Government over Equipment, Services Ban
How “good” is that expansive view of human knowledge? Is it worth $100k? Is it for everyone?
Agreed 100%. With a single scroll I was at the bottom of the page. Overriding scroll behavior is so obnoxious and unnecessary. Scrolling works fine; there's no problem to solve.
I wonder if there is some way to use these maliciously that makes offering a free tier undesirable. Five dollars seems like an artificial barrier. It’s basically free, but requires you to put some money down, and get your finances on record.

I agree, developers in general will adopt faster if it’s free, or if there is a reasonable trial period, but in this case I am wondering if there’s more to this.
If I had the disposable income, then hell yeah. This is something straight out of a sci fi movie.