skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry for the delayed response.

To your first point, yes, I agree, minus the partisanship - I am not a Republican, nor am I a Democrat, but that said the aggressiveness of your response made me much more likely to just take the opposite position, regardless of the merit of your points - that's one of the reasons I waited.

Beyond your first point -

first, you imply that State policies necessarily have a POSITIVE effect on economic outcomes - I think you'd probably agree with me that while some state policies do, it doesn't apply to all state policies.

Second, while I acknowledge the ability of state policies to have an impact on economic performance, I do not HAVE to acknowledge that this effect is positive. Let's assume that it is, for the moment, though; from there, I logically agree with your premise, given of course that there were no alternative policies (federal, or individual) that would result in better returns.

Finally, to your last point - this doesn't actually make sense to me. Are you saying that because federal governments give a deduction of some kind, this means that they 100% involve themselves in state policy?

I agree, if you have a 1/0 idea of involvement. But if you take a more nuanced view (which I recommend) and understand that there is a gradient of involvement, your statement has no real value - could you clarify or expand it?

[by the way - I know you comment and work here a lot and assume based on your writing that you're an intelligent person - I have been drinking so please forgive me, but do you recognize that the way you write invites immediate aggressive responses and is needlessly complex? For example: "Full deductibility means the sign of the net benefit of State policy doesn't change due to federal tax policy" - this doesn't actually mean anything. I feel like you must know this but I have to be sure. I hope this isn't offensive.]
How information gets propagated in 2019:

1. The study talks about how some vision-based object detection systems don't work as well on black people.

2. The articles makes the leap to self driving cars, ignoring that self driving cars uses Lidar and probably custom made algorithms. To their credit they do say that it's a "potential risk".

3. Everybody shares (including this HN submission) or rewrite the article dropping the "potential" part.
I agree. In the long term, it doesn’t seem sustainable to keep using a proprietary plug design when the rest of the industry is standardising. It will eventually be a disincentive to buy a Tesla if they aren’t compatible with most of the future charging infrastructure. Adapters can be used, but that’s not an elegant or convenient solution.

In Europe, Tesla is already moving to the industry-standard CCS charging system. The EU Model 3 comes with the same CCS charge port as almost all other EVs, and EU superchargers are being retrofitted with CCS cables.

This is a win both for Tesla owners, who can charge at any charger without adapters; and for the charging providers who increase their customer base, encouraging the expansion of their networks.

In North America, the transition would be a bit more painful due to the current plug design. But I think it would be the right move for the long term.
China has surveillance program which looks like jerry-rigged PRISM clone
Exploring Google Colab Notebook
IMO Huawei's just seeking to rehabilitate their image, if the US refuses to publicly release evidence that contradicts the preponderance of sources that couldn't find back doors, then the entire US campaign against Huawei can be dismissed as a smear campaign. It's going to make US look dirty/petty and allows Huawei/China to save face. Huawei shares source code with GCHQ and US have already hacked into Huawei internal emails and found nothing, it wouldn't surprise me if there's actually nothing. Of course the concern is future potential risk, and that's valid. But the short term concern is to dismantle the US narrative which so far seems to be feels over reals. Long term the risk-benefit analysis of most countries probably leans towards Huawei anyway (more advanced and cheaper). By most I countries I mean the the 150+ not under direct US sphere of influence. Hell even 3/5 Five Eyes are currently undecided.
Given the incredible disregard for correct usage of GTINs by Amazon on Amazon.com I've seen in the past, I'm very surprised that this exists.
Or Hacker News is wrong.
Also worth noting that Istio is not part of the CNCF while Linkerd is.
I'll add to this by saying that going on zoloft a year ago has been like the best nootropic experience of my life. In many ways, the first 6 months were like a persistent 24/7 microdose on MDMA ..... it was incredible. I also turned my life around and accomplished some of my life's most impressive work, all while not trying to kill myself anymore!

Beyond solving a massive sudden depression, it was actually quite enhancing. I felt like I was in the movie limitless. Given the pathways SSRIs target in the brain, I'd say they have similar benefits to all of that SV legacy around psychedelic use....

Sadly, things normalized and the burst of awesome tapered off. Now the medication is the new normal, and skipping doses brings the depression back, just not nearly as bad as it was. Hopefully some day we will learn how to tweak it so the immensely positive experiences last forever.

These days, I no longer think of antidepressants as any kind of crutch. If anything, it is another tool in the transhumanists toolbox allowing the human body to perform better than nature has provided.
And the reverse: I use facebook for very little else than to run my hobby life (and it's been transformational at that!), but my non-hobby network is still connected to the account and I don't want to annoy them with a flood of deeply specific posts (in part because life demands keeping a facade of being a somewhat normal person). So much self-censoring because it would be shown to an uninterested audience I care about.
Hi nik3r do you have any screencast using the product? If so, could you share the links pls?
Back in the day you didn’t have “pages that you follow,” you had interests listed on your profile. These later became pages that you were automatically signed up to, which the relevant companies post ads on. My feed rapidly became mostly adverts which I’d never actually signed up to receive, and it was more effort to fix it than to just stop checking Facebook.
Cool. I would love to see pypy support for this major version.
Its just a underground tunnel that connects some exhibition halls with people movers. I think Elon's company got the lowest bid to do the work.
I’m not even thinking about if Facebook is ruining democracy. I just don’t like the company and I don’t want to use their products. Should be straightforward, but isn’t - to the point that you’re even ignoring your own opinion and using it anyway.

My comment was just a reflection on Facebook’s ever-increasing sphere of influence; I would have had no problem using WhatsApp before it belonged to Facebook.
Can confirm. The artificial sweeteners in Pepsi MAX make my farts smell goddamn awful.

Coke Zero doesn't do that, but I still try to stay away from diet sodas.
The NSA Makes Its Powerful Cybersecurity Tool Open Source
I had to request refunds on half of the apps that I purchased because they disappeared or completely ceased functioning?

I only bought items on the Windows Store because I had a few $25 Windows Store vouchers as well.

They stopped selling Music around January 2018?
Tell HN: Bash 'pwd' has different results from /usr/bin/pwd
$ mkdir tmp1 ; ln -s tmp1 tmp2
$ ( cd tmp2 ; pwd )
/home/user/git/install/src/tmp2
$ ( cd tmp2 ; /usr/bin/pwd )
/home/user/git/install/src/tmp1

Apparently bash assumes the "-L" option by default, and coreutils assumes the "-P" option by default. So depending on whether you're running pwd from bash or shelling out to /usr/bin/pwd, you may get different results.
Linux is another good example how C doesn't cut it, even among top developers.

They have a very strict patch review process in place.

They have kernel static analysers.

The kernel has been adding security gates through the years.

Yet 68% of 2018 CVE's were caused by memory corruption bugs, with the others ones left out being UB, numeric conversions, and very tiny fraction remaining of the logic error kind that are bound to happen in any programming language. [1]

Just the other day we had a Linux 5.0 pre-release bug caused by a GCC "optimization".

Oracle went with hardware memory tagging for Solaris/SPARC, Apple is following along on iOS, Microsoft security advisory (as of Blue Hat conf) is C# + Rust + constrained C++ [2], Google is pushing for hardware memory tagging, Kernel Self Protection Project, constraining what the NDK is allowed to do and Fuchsia is getting more Rust/Go modules by the day.

What is clear is that hoping for the best and the mythical 10x developers that write perfect C and C++ code won't ever happen.

[1] Source, Google talk at Linux Kernel Summit 2018.

[2] Following the Core Guidelines
This is likely an ad but what makes a good gym attire?

Why would I want to wear a hoodie when I'd like sweat to evaporate?

And is it better to wear shorts or full length tracks? Cotton or synthetic?
Govt Introduces Strict Content Localisation Norms for Electric Vehicles
From the rust Oxidization page (hip name):

- "Crossing the C++/Rust boundary can be difficult."

- "For components that are relatively standalone, with small and simple APIs."

- "This minimizes the C++/Rust boundary layer issues."

Not only does Rust not have a good JavaScript integration story, it doesn't have a good C++ integration story.

Most of Firefox is still (8 years later) not written in Rust.

Chrome with C++ has a waaaaay better safety record than Firefox. Guess what? The C++ in Chrome tries to ensure memory safety for JS.

The C++ Chrome tooling does a better job of memory safety as a whole system than Firefox.
Ask HN: Starting a Science-Focused Startup
I certainly have my own thoughts on the topic (based on my experience). However, I would like to hear opinions, experiences, best practices and lessons learned from other people, especially those who have gone through starting and/or working at science-focused startups.

Brief background. I've been planning to start a science-focused startup for quite a long time. I think that I've reached the point when it is feasible for me (still need more time to crystallize and clearly formulate important aspects to myself). The eventual product would be delivered a SaaS platform with baked-in secret sauce as unique selling proposition and a core strategy focused on differentiation as a competitive advantage (I know the competition pretty well). Potential customers will include teams or organizations in academia (universities), industry (mostly commercial companies) and government (national labs). The platform's core users would be researchers and engineers in a specific, but very large and diverse, domain (the latter presents both challenges and opportunities).

Please share your thoughts on the following specific areas of interest:

- hiring / team formation;

- funding (I want to go - at least initially - the SBIR/STTR route [I have experience of working on proposals, including for NSF] or, if that fails, bootstrapping; I'm not a fan of rapid/hyper/blitz-scaling and, as a consequence, VC funding, unless it's absolutely necessary);

- co-founder relations, company culture (e.g., full transparency a la Buffer or not);

- advisor relations;

- IP (e.g., trade secrets vs. patents - I'm leaning toward preferring the former);

- technology stacks / cloud / platform architecture (e.g., multi-tenant vs. multi-instance, APIs - REST vs. GraphQL, Kubernetes);

- platform adoption (I want to growth organically, with a minimal sales team);

- strategy (business models, competition, marketing, pricing).

Your feedback will be much appreciated!
The loving nostalgia for dead corporate behemoths is kind of curious. Blockbuster shut down a ton of mom-and-pop video stores. Circuit City and Good Guys did the same for small electronics retailers. Tower Records killed small record shops, then Tower itself got killed and a documentary was made lamenting its passing!
They do have revenue (although the cars have safety drivers).
More plot twist - (taken from cbc article) "Government records also reveal that Robertson (wife of Gerald Cotten) has used three family names.

Deeds for properties she bought in 2016 show she was once known as Jennifer Forgeron. On Dec. 1, 2016, Nova Scotia's Royal Gazette announced she was changing her name from Jennifer Kathleen Margaret Griffith to her current name, Jennifer Kathleen Margaret Robertson."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/quadrigacx-nova-s...
"Indentation error" screams "fix the indentation", and code is indented with whitespace, so yeah.

When something tells you "indentation error", where's the first place you would look, if not the indentation? When you know you have a problem with the indentation, what do you think you have to change, if not the whitespace? There isn't a lot of opportunity to go in the wrong direction here.

Don't get me wrong, Python definitely has unexpected, difficult to debug behaviour for newbies (e.g. mutable default arguments). But this in particular isn't one of them. This is 2+2=4 level stuff.
Tangential: I'd actually like a protocol that allows a way for external programs to ask shells to change its directory at their exit.

I wonder if there are ant security concerns to this.
I want to find a reason to be angry/upset by this but I find I really can't justify ever needing or wanting to drive that fast. The best I can think of is that it won't be very effective at curbing speeding related fatalities. Besides the mostly obvious fact that vehical speed likely follows a bellish shape centered at/near the limit, so most accidents involving speeding will statistically still be near the limit which in most places is well under 112 MPH.
JIT isnt unsafe glue. The very core concept of JIT breaks all compiler guarantees at runtime.
Consider a well-reasoned response of why, instead of just telling people what to do.
Why is that best for the industry?

Or more precisely, which, industry?
Regular PC world has plenty of experience in multi-language integration.

SOM in OS/2, COM/UWP on Windows, JVM, .NET, ILM and TIMI on IBM mainframes.

Only UNIX world has been relatively poor in this regard, sticking with bare C FFI.
FB in the initial days was useful. Now its full of crap and spam articles. Stopped visiting many years back. LinkedIn is still useful for connections. But I believe they need to change their algorithm and policies to make sure the users don't flock to the other networks.
don’t get what’s so great about this? was asked this during a facebook interview and solved it on the spot
I dream of wireless charging on the way. Hopefully, not too far into future.

Ubeam.com have made it possible. On a smaller scale though
This is an oversimification. I have hundreds of friends on Facebook but the algorithm somehow does an amazing job of choosing my top ten most toxic friends and highlighting their most toxic posts. Unfriend all of them and it finds the next top ten most toxic. Saying “Facebook is what you make it to be” ignores the fact that Facebook does a fine job of making itself be pretty terrible.
Same bingo. My hypothesis (at least for the Facebook I see, that is of course a minuscule fraction) is that FB is mostly used now by people with an agenda (self promotion, spreading of an ideology, marketing, political campaign, whatever). Therefore, any disagreement is immediately treated as a threat. Ultimately FB has become a dark forest for casual users. The fun is gone.
It is, e.g. I think tools like MagicaVoxel can construct a voxel object based on a stack of sprites, as you describe.

However, not every engine supports 3d models / voxels, so sprite stacking is commonly used in combination with engines that only support 2d, by simply drawing each layer on top of the previous one but one pixel higher on the y axis.
You are forgeting SOM and COM/UWP.

Actually something where Rust still fails short of being an alternative to Delphi/C++ on Windows, regarding tooling and productivity.

Looking forward to the HoloLens collaboration or Microsoft now pushing for Rust on their security guidelines will actually improve that experience.
Your life left you a month before and you think that it wasn’t that but the fasting that affected your mental health?
how do idiots blame bias for everything? if you have a dark room of course it’ll be harder to detect a dark skin person! the same with a couch that’s black instead of white.
You need to realize that snopes is a propaganda site that lies all the time. They are very liberal and don't believe in the truth.
Over what? For taking yerr jerbs?
And vice versa. Take a graph, write it down as a matrix, apply a discrete Laplacian operator. Then - just as an example - find the number of distinct non-negative eigenvalues. This is exactly the number of connected components in the graph. Pure magic.
Elon said specifically on the most recent Tesla conference call that there are no current plans for 2170-based packs on the Model S & X.
Legal AI Co. LinkSquares Bags $4.8m Funding, Top US Law Firm Invests
Exactly. It feels very much like giant company syndrome. Some directors picked metrics like "frequency of fresh content on top of newsfeed," then that metric become a goal for some manager a few levels down, and when metrics become goals, they stop being good metrics. Nobody with the power to stop it would have been focused on "average value of content item," and everybody else had a motivation to get whatever content their group was in charge of some visibility, so it's more or less inevitable that it'd all go to shit.
> The worst part about USB-C is that it can be implemented so wrong it bricks your device! A Google engineer for a while was testing cables and not infrequently they worked poorly, not at all, or outright fried devices.

No spec is going to look good if you start blaming the spec when manufacturers sell things that don't conform to it. That is what the Google engineer found: these cables didn't conform to the spec. If you are going to do that then bricking the device is the least of your worries as USB is clearly to blame for this as well:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-06-27/knock-off-usb-charger...

The real USB 3.2 issue is different. As a way of telling the user what they are buying, the USB 3.2 2x2 scheme is so bad it's almost comical. They could have insisted every device be marked with the maximum it actually supported. I guess they thought making something like this mandatory:

20G/3A/60W+dp+tb

for a device that supported 20G bit/sec, 3 amps and 30 watts with display port and thunderbolt pass through would use so much space there would be no place left for the market to earn their wages. Or something.
Not at all, check the Linux 5.0 bug introduced by a gcc "optimization" regarding UB.
its an issue for ocular recognition specifically. I'd say that is worth noting!

If a automated car is better at detecting threats on the road than humans then there is little point to using them.
Yes, that's why it's even more important to spy on other countries.
Point taken. But privacy-wise, does anybody have any qualms about Ecosia?
I first read this article when it was linked on Hacker News. I had always hoped the method would go viral for local environmentalists, hippies, rich landscapers, and Earth/Arbor day organizers.
Can you point out some layout optimizations that are done? I could not make out much of your link sadly.
When did Dropbox customer service went bad?
I don't agree with him but Google penalizes non-HTTPS results etc.
and paying interest to bank is executive theft :)
I realized that the only people I was in contact with were people I didn't really wanted to have contact with... Not all 'friendships' are worth upholding, very few are actually.

P.S.: never seen 'BS' expressed so eloquently...
I would a real surprise if models with LIDAR inputs can detect your skin color.

I also do not see what team diversity should do. Adding such a bias actually on purpose is way harder than one would think (and not the issue), and simply making a better model should be the goal of any team anyway.

In the study they do say that at night the dark skinned people could actually be detected better (according to their very small validation set). Something nobody would expected. So I'd really be worried if their model makes it into production. They still have some issues at least with sample size.

The thing is these types of models are really tricky to get right. When they are wrong/biased it is just because it is difficult to get right. I think it is stupid to frame this problem as a racial issue.
Because blockchain is a slow append/overwrite-only consensus database. It does nothing to provide trust. It's also too mechanical for how humans actual deal with each other.
It is unbelievable that Huawei can do this in US and pretty much in any democratic country. The reverse is absolutely not true. The Chinese government has used every tool at its disposal to make life miserable for foreign competitors - see Google's exit, AWS, Apple, Uber and countless other companies were / are still being harassed. When was the last time a foreign company won a court case in China against its local competitor and Chinese government took any adverse action against the local company?
Webauthn – W3C's passwordless login specification
> 6 ENTIRE HUMAN DAYS

I can't fathom the kind of constant stress one must be under to consider this a big problem.
Maybe you mean Nexus 6P?
So a “Tesla coil”? ;)
Have you been following Huawei in the news?
Very much off topic but being in the process of choosing a "base" in the EU I'm curious to know where you ended up living, that has a good tech scene.
Whoa. That is a lot of efficiency with EVs. But then, that electricity, when coming from a coal powered plant means that the overall "earth to wheels" energy efficiency is somewhere around 30%.
Though if crypto funds are stolen from cold storage due to hack ortheft, there is nothing to do, even if you are regulated. When crypto transfer is done, there is no way to reverse it. Regulation might help to enforce best practices to prevent theft, but it wouldn't help to recover funds if theft happens.
Huawei, and the Chinese industry in general is at the forefront of 5G coming soon, and the West is mad that China can be more advanced than them and scared that all the equipment we use for deploying 5G is from them and, consequently, full of (not backdoors) spying capabilities.

As someone whose country isn't part of five eyes, the hypocrisy makes me quietly laugh.

(Edit: updated for less gratuitous accusations)
It is a good note to make. How does this bear weight on the question above?
For all those not bothering to check the study. It actually says "At night the model was BETTER at DETECTING DARK skinned people than LIGHT".
Questionable result but still in there.
No wonder reCAPTCHA sucks so hard. I hardly ever run into it, but it's a PITA.
I also find Huawei's position quite rich given they built their product stack from stealing Nortel IP in the 2000s.