skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google has long used lobbying for business objectives. For example, because Google profits from being a middle man for content created by other people, Google has lobbied for weaker copyright protections. Joel Splosky calls this "commoditizing your complement": https://www.gwern.net/Complement, and it explains Google's political positions to a tee. The idea that they were "forced" into it is wishful rationalization.
Why is a free press that deliberately meddles with the US electoral process a bad thing?
tig https://github.com/jonas/tig

here are some screenshots https://www.flickr.com/photos/jonasfonseca/sets/721576144707...
Could the algorithm "detect" this and change the grams then? And then you will fight at an higher level where it will be whether you increase it or not?
It's definitely something you should be trained for.
Google's build and test execution infrastructure is both huge in size and absolutely amazing. One of the biggest positive surprises for me when I had my technical onboarding period.
Coconut milk is extremely fatty.
She's called out Comcast before too — don't jump to the conclusion that someone can't chew gum and walk at the same time without at least a 10 second Google.
Giving the founders 20-to-1 voting rights over regular investors while losing as much money as they are is insane. This really looks like a lemon, and the VC's want to cash out and leave public investors holding the bag.

I don't see how self driving cars are going to help them. Waymo and Tesla are both the farthest along, and they're going to run their own networks - competing against Lyft and Uber.
Not to be pessimistic, but you’ve been hoodwinked if you think this is a “personal site” without financial incentive.

This looks like just the type of website that people make to cash out with referral codes to amazon (or in this case, banggood).
https://www.moen.com/whats-new/innovation/u
The problem with both Lyft and Uber is they have MASSIVE VC investments they need to pay back, and while the business model is good its not nearly good enough to payback VC within the 10 year window. Uber will be in the exact same boat next year.
The US hasn't had a recession while ride sharing was a mainstream thing, but other markets have.
You could say the same about many things. My car is idle most of the time. I usually only use it for 1-2 hours a day during the week and less on the weekends. I could use Uber or Lyft instead but I don't. I could rent out my car when I am not using it but I don't. It is idle because I want to use when I want to use without coordinating with anyone.

The same is true of my computer. I once worked at a Unix shop where people would routinely log into other peoples computers to do builds. It locked the machine up (this was in the 90s) and made it hard to do anything else on the computer. The whole point of a personal computer it to have all of the power there for your use when you want it.
He printed all of the keys together so as to make them unreadable.
I remember the day the doctors told us my daughter wasn't going to live. My wife didn't even want to be in the room, she knew what was coming. It was something we were prepared for so frankly it doesn't matter if it would have come through a video conference. So long as the doctors are respectful I'm not sure what someone expects. Death is coming. It's horrible news. We talk about so much through glass these days anyway I feel like this won't be a concern for long. Death is coming. There's no good way to spin this or make it go away. Just, prepare.
Nah, just a lot of people clearly don't care about the law, and care more about making sure "their side" gets an advantage.

Tribalism instead of law and order. But that's standard politics for you...
Most answers are about CS degrees.

I imagine almost all Electronics, Electrical, Mechanical engineers at apple and elsewhere have degrees in their respective fields. With good reasons. One being that it is really difficult to learn these fields on your own, unlike CS/programming/coding/etc.
I think this because I've seen the pcap traces. The server closed the connection before it received the 2nd request -- it can't possibly send a status code. See my timeline in a sibling comment.

The Keep-Alive header [1] is optional, but has parameters timeout, indicating the idle timeout, and max, indicating the number of allowed requests. Max is useful for pipelining, to avoid sending requests that won't be processed; timeout is very helpful for avoiding sending requests when the server is about to close the socket.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Ke...
The Connection response header is specificed to have two optional parameters, timeout, and max. timeout
> “We deployed an experience that embraces both security standards (using a multi-factor and layered approach to verify the consumer’s identity) and reflects specific consumer feedback on managing security freezes and fraud alerts online without the use of a PIN,” she continued. “The account set-up process, which involves the creation of a username and password, relies on both user inputs and other factors to securely establish, verify, and authenticate that the consumer’s identity is connected to the consumer every time.”

She tosses around the word security, but really what she is saying is that Equifax decided to make the experience as simple as possible because having people create accounts with them without the need for boosting CSR headcount is more important that securing those accounts.
I remember the day I tried to get my mail, it didn’t work, I went to the website and saw that cryptic message. Then a few days later... The news broke about Snowden.
Can you please stop sprinkling flamebait like "utter baloney" into your posts to HN? Especially on divisive topics, where we're trying to delay the inevitable slide into lamewar.

From the guidelines: "Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Huh just curious, do you perchance ride in cars? Or trains? or planes?

Do you use electricity?

Do you own anything plastic?

What about metal?

I think you'll find if you ask yourself these questions you will find that the answer to your rhetorical question was within you all along!
Just because something has a lot of mindshare doesn't mean you have any business silencing their choices. People who don't agree with the policies of private companies like Facebook can simply not use it. Try Gab if you want a private company that is anti-censorship.
This is one reason I still support Bernie over Warren, his ideas are more sound, and he has a purpose. I feel like Warren can come off fringe on a lot of things, and is really just trying to make herself appear progressive, she tosses out ideas into the progressive ether to see which ones will 'stick' per se and drops others. Some days she sounds on point and very intelligent, and some days she does shit like this and feels completely out of touch.

She's also very self-serving and has no sense of loyalty to other left-leaning politicians - else she might've backed Bernie from day one in 2016, instead of play things 'safe'. Her playing safe hurt her career more than anything else ever will in my opinion.

That aside, I don't think breaking up google, fb, amazon will do much...if I were to break them up, I think the only thing I'd do is perhaps have them split their cloud services from their other offerings, and maybe media services -- youtube | amazon prime video, but it's small potatoes.

I think a MUCH bigger issue is media consolodation -- when 1-2 CEO's control 80% of the media and thus the 'message' that people see, that's a much scarier proposition.

For example Sinclair Broadcasting I think owns something like 90% of local broadcasting stations now - and they send talking points and control what newscasters say in order to get political messages out - it's basically propaganda that they control, and it's very powerful esp in the wrong hands.

Comcast/nbc/hulu, att/time warner, disney/fox/espn/etc are all companies that probably are more dangerous than google/fb/amazon (w/ the exception that FB really needs to get it's privacy shit together or just die...), and if you're going after big tech why not Apple/Microsoft, Microsoft is as big if not bigger than it was when they had their antitrust case, Apple is the biggest company in the world ? Maybe we should also have a 25BN = auto-breakup for banks, since banks caused the last great recession, and are obviously dangerous when they get too big to fail.

Or maybe instead of breaking up companies we just figure out ways to tax them better -- esp. on speculation and at the investment layer, so that the money they make that 'you - the politician' feel they shouldn't be making is used for the benefit of society as well as enrichment of the CEO and their ilk.
It's Discover, not Ally.
You're high if you think someone can compete with Amazon out of their garage now.

Hell, you can't even sell a product on Amazon without a good chance that Amazon will just slap their Amazon Basics logo on it and undercut you to death.

Similar to Wal-Mart many of their competitors are dead because they optimized their supply chain. No one gets that kind of access out of their garage.
Trump Admin Weighs Publicizing Secret Hospital and Dr Insurance Deals
Airbnb agrees to acquire last-minute hotel-booking app HotelTonight
The Blue Oak Model License, a new state-of-the-art permissive license
I understand that. But the Key card can act as a debit card / electronic payment. Without a backing bank account. The whole complexity add of turning it into a debit card. Was so that people without banks could shop at card only stores.
I recommend to you the works of Esther Perel.
> Because they are required (both by the law around grand jury process and long-standing administrative policy to protect all of the reputations of people who aren't charged...

Incidentally, this exact policy was why tables were flipped over The Comey Letter/press conference. When the FBI decides not to go forward with charges, they aren't supposed to say jack shit.
Ok, gotcha. So you agree with me that there have been secret accusations and secrets courts handling this case for almost a decade now, and that everyone who brought this up was right and that everyone who called this a conspiracy theory was a completely and utterly wrong?

And now you have the audacity to get upset about the first, possibly to be successful, attempt by someone to make any of these charges public?

It is not about this one trial here. It is about the almost decade long attempt to have secret courts and secret trials and secret accusations against someone.

This most recent controversy is just a continuation of the same exact thing that has been in secret for almost a decade.

It is a huge infringement on justice to have this stuff out of the public light for almost a decade.
"Elizabeth Warren Slams Comcast, Wants More Antitrust Enforcement" https://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Elizabeth-Warren-Slams-C...

2016, but still..
Oh, they use the exact same font. Fair enough; I'll add a disclaimer at the top but Ally did the same thing to me (same zodiac question).
Yeah, construction was definitely going on then. It was a great thing when that express lane opened. :)

Please get in touch if you end up coming down! Email is in profile.
No. I want no throwaway easily consumable venting.

Either take the time to contribute meaningfully or don't comment at all.

Anything else is pollution.
Do you know TICK stack - Inflix DB?

web: https://www.influxdata.com/time-series-platform/
Car ownership will be cheaper during a recession. Driver pay can't go much lower, especially with various social proposals being put on the table for 2020.
I get a lot of promotions from lyft that make me think they're desperate.
It's not the companies (and their earnings) who will pay back investors. Other bagholders will do that once they go public.
He is way early.

Functional, competent self driving cars are not here yet. As we get closer, I think we will find few will want to own them. Why bother?

There are reasons, but those are few compared to those readons for cars we drive ourselves. We are likely to find, people will question the number of cars and share them a lot more.

But that state is still a very long way off.

The current slump in sales is both economic (way too many Americans buying used because new is not worth it, given tepid income)

...and a wait for EV cars to really arrive at price points worth buying new.

Looks like private car ownership is on the wane, but not really, not yet.

My .02
How does anyone? I have plenty of coworkers who eat fast food for every lunch and not much better or more diverse for dinner. Certainly they are not getting all the different micronutrients?
For the whole world, cars kill 1.2 million people per year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...

Though there are better places than the US, quite a few countries are willing to put up with absurdly higher risks.
I don't remember where I read this, but that reminds me of the "Perl Paradox" -- that if your job listing requires a "Perl programmer", you get worse programmers, even though a good programmer can equally well adapt to any language, including Perl. But if you require such a person, your only applicants will be people who could never adapt to a new language.

Edit: Ah, it's actually named that and I found a lot of results for it:

https://www.activestate.com/resources/webinars/perl-paradox/
That would make a crazy snare rudiment
For context: I'm VP of a software consultancy responsible for delivering software on time and on budget.

My take is that older programmers who maintain their skills on new technology are worth their weight in gold. The financial trick is to pair them with younger developers to create an overall cost effective team. If both the older and younger devs go in with the right attitude, it can be wonderful for both the project and their respective careers.

I also think it's really, really dumb to push developers into management positions if they can't do the job. I'd much prefer putting younger managers with great management skills into the mix than just rotating older devs into that role.

Bottom line: software requires lifelong learning. If you can't or won't stay current, you're in trouble. If you can, then it's just agism or a bad business model that's keeping you out of awesome projects.
What we ought to do—to tie into the "let's break up Google" story also being discussed right now—is make collecting and hoarding data about people incredibly risky. A leak of any size should be a "your company is finished" event. Much collection should simply be outlawed or at least placed under strict user control, GDPR-style.

It'd make the CRAs, various other financial institutions (credit card companies, banks), and the tech giants all stop doing a bunch of the most harmful crap they're getting up to. Or else actually pay what it takes to keep everything really secure, while ditching any data they don't absolutely have to have to operate.
Wow, it is really surprising to me that bezier curve control points produced by an optimization process would be good inputs to a neural net model. Small perturbations to the inputs could produce radically different bezier control points depending on the decisions made by the curve optimizer, so this forces the neural network to learn about the characteristics of the optimizer as well as the input.

Neural nets usually thrive on raw high dimensional inputs, so dramatically reducing the dimensionality of the input seems like a strange decision. I'm sure it improves speed, but I would expect higher accuracy by processing the raw input.
What do you mean "pay back"? If you're talking about liquidation preferences those all go away in an IPO.
The FTC looked into the same issue and ruled in 2013 that Google did not violate US antitrust laws: https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/public_sta...
If it’s not multiple choice, You can answer with random digits and keep your answers in a password manager.
Well, yes. We should make your (and my and our) cars go carbon neutral.

After all, and using you metaphor, these are the same wolves that said the sheep's car needed a catalytic converter ... and improved safety equipment.
Unix wasn't a mainframe OS to begin with. It was a minicomputer OS which eventually scaled up to mainframes, but it was still born on minicomputers and retained a minicomputer design: Character terminals as opposed to block terminals, no channel I/O, and batch support sidelined as opposed to front and center.

VMS also wasn't a mainframe OS: It ran on the VAX, a high-end minicomputer.

Looking at what early microcomputers looked like and what their OSes were based off of (CP/M in particular) it would be more reasonable to say that early microcomputers were scaled-down minicomputers, which were still in a different league from mainframes in terms of number of concurrent users, I/O design, and focus on interactivity.
Once Waymo has fully autonomous vehicles on the road, they'll look to acquire Lyft for a decent price. Lyft has the brand value and the infrastructure for ride calling (intentionally not using ride sharing) except that drivers will no longer be needed. Profits will be through the roof when that happens.
Obligatory Feynman quote Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
> You clearly care about protecting the defendant, which means any witness to a grand jury proceeding MUST be kept secret

Umm, no. If there have been secret accusations and secret courts and secret trials against someone for almost a decade, the very best way to protect that defendant is to make the information public.

This is especially true if the defendant is the one demanding it all be made public.
I don't really disagree with you, but I think (or, at least, hope) that there will be room for more than 2-3 players in the "self driving taxi" market.
I agree.

However, suppose the opposite: Suppose LiDAR gets cheap first. Like, I don't know, $1000 per unit and compact enough to not be a big burden on the rest of the vehicle.

Tesla charges $5000 for the FSD add-on. In principle, they could easily afford to retrofit vehicles with the cheap LiDAR plus maintain any advantages the full computer vision system would add (such as identifying vehicle types to assist in predictive behavior modeling and avoidance strategies).

So trying to go the full Computer Vision (with ancillary radar) route actually has pretty low opportunity cost for Tesla.

Another thing: I wonder how much simply much-improved geolocation could help? That failure from last year of driving right into a (failed) collision attenuator (where an off-ramp split off) could've been avoided simply by having high confidence, half-meter-or-better geolocation (from GPS, cell, IMU, etc fusion) and good mapping. And with good mapping/geolocation combined with other sensors, the sensors could focus on identifying changes to the expected road condition, perhaps increasing their robustness. (and when networked, they could use sensing from other vehicles ahead of the current vehicle to assist in navigation as well)
This is for situations when you can't scp your file, like when I use a jump server to go through some network restrictions.
Because bias. It's not a free press when that press is a corporation with a political agenda.
Spoiler alert: They probably won't be either way. Our population is too small by comparison, we just lucked out in that it took China/India longer to industrialize.
It's part of their value, yes. We can expect a doctor to possess more than one skill.
I don't think I've read a more absurd thing in my life. I chuckled.
Totally agree. The race is a reputable solid state LiDAR which Waymo [1] and Velodyne announced a new one of recently [1]. But still, those are around 5K. Though I am really excited for Bajara's prism based scanner [3].

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/06/waymo-to-start-selling-sta...
[2] https://velodynelidar.com/velarray.html
[3] https://www.baraja.com/
Haha thanks for this, I had a good time reading it.

To be fair, I don't plan to retire at 39 or 40, as long as someone hires me with reasonable compensation (2x would be a dream!). I'm purely trying to protect myself against a foobar scenario where indeed, I become obsolete from the point of view of most employers, due to "old" age.
If enough kids weren’t interested, the science and technology pipeline would dry up. Diversity in the stream may be an issue, but overall dearth is not currently a problem (used to be a much bigger problem in the past when computing was a less reputable industry).

Does it really matter what the technology or application area is? Electricians train and apprentice, as do scientists (what a PhD and post-doc are after all).

Given that you are a senior, do you feel these kids would not benefit from your mentorship? If so, does the organization you work at create opportunities for such mentorships? Do they count towards your promotion case?
That breakfast wouldn't last you through a multi hour surf session.

I'd bonk on that after half an hour.

I think oatmeal would work better for actual surfing.
It's a little hard to tell if you're asking "are there laws against monopolies?" or "should there be laws against monopolies?".

The answer to the first is a certain yes. There are laws against businesses forming monopolies in the United States. You can read up on the Sherman and Clayton antitrust acts from the 1890s and 1910s to start with. There is also considerable case law stemming from this legislation.

The answer to "should there be laws against monopolies" is a little more open. One theoretical justification for breaking up monopolies, is that in some cases monopolies cause economic inefficiencies. Look up "deadweight loss from monopoly pricing".

It's very complicated to measure any efficiencies or inefficiencies from tech monopolies, so I don't think there's a clear answer.

It's also not generally agreed upon that economic efficiency should be the goal of government, so there is a lot of room for debate on that question.
He appears to be asking a question about your statement.
Buried 4/5 down the page: "One limiting aspect of the described technique is that it requires a fairly loud conversation in the vicinity of the eavesdropping hard drive. To record comprehensible speech, the conversation had to reach 85 dBA, with 75 dBA being the low threshold for capturing muffled sound."

For context, a vacuum cleaner is also 75 decibels, with 80db as the threshold for hearing loss:
https://ehs.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/decibel-level...

So you literally have to scream at each other right in front of the hard drive for it to record discernible speech. This is not an "eavesdropping mic" as the subheading of the article claims. Therefore, it's yet another clickbait BS fearmongering article about an interesting tech hack.
Same boat — mid 50's. (Crazy how I didn't see that happening.)

For me it's a combination of 1) I see the writing on the wall: they don't really want me in this profession any longer and 2) I'm getting tired of it anyway — increasingly less willing to (laterally?) "move my skills".

Begrudgingly learned Swift (I like it tho). Begrudgingly learned every new code management system that has come down the pike....

I'll switch careers and move on, go back to "service sector" pay scale.

Maybe I worry more for the current crop of programmers. Those of my generation did all right — had fun. The industry is changing and not necessarily in a direction that looks enjoyable.