skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
can it be anything that has tetanus vaccine in it? Sometimes it is combined with other things, that's why I'm asking. Tetanus scares me, I don't live in a city and get cut many times a month while doing stuff.
Maybe you are just racist.
Finding a mentor. Learning the craft from somebody, who started developing with Fortran and served 40 years in the trenches since then, is weight in gold for me.
These ride-sharing companies are still in their mailing DVDs phase of their business. The ultimate goal is clearly to use self-driving tech to cut the costly human labor out of the system and that remains the most obvious path to eventual profitability. The questions then just become which is the first company to get this tech safe enough to deploy to general consumers and which players can survive being unprofitable long enough to make it there. It remains to be seen which companies in the ride-sharing space are the Netflixs and which are the Blockbusters.
> the need to verify citizenship, verify that you aren’t a terrorist and verify that you are a drug lord laundering money

One day these requirements are going to get out of hand. :D
Previously on HN, a similar approach demonstrating that command-line tools can be hundreds of times faster than the fancy distributed approach (for certain classes of problems):

"Command-line tools can be faster than your Hadoop cluster"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8908462
We’re talking about animals that share much of the same hardware as us, not robots. I doubt folks would argue that mammaries work vastly different, or spines work vastly different, but when it comes to the brain for some folks, another species (elephant, whale, dog, etc...) crying works vastly different?
Feels like a lot of moving parts but from this base things can get better. Competent scripted wrappers for instance.

I would like to understand the 'remove device and computer locks' hooks. And OSX integration.

Happy it works. Definitely want to try it myself.
Whoa there...getting all philosophical on us!

In all seriousness though I think humans have always thought of themselves as a higher form of life because we assume we’re sentient. And only sentient beings can experience physical or emotional pain, right? Even before the idea of sentience, we threw around words like “reasoning”. At some point humans must have rationalized away the notion that animals experience suffering because to this day we still enjoy our hamburgers and continue to leave out pets out in the cold.
>No other animal has such a conception.

Tell me your secret to understanding the inner minds of animals.

Seriously, any pet owner will tell you animals seemingly have feelings. They do things that don't make much sense outside of them showing love, hate, annoyance, etc. It's not scientific, but why would humans be so different from animals when we all came down a similar evolutionary line? You don't see great leaps in physical trait happening, usually, it's a gradual process, so I would assume that feelings gradually developed into what humans have now.
It's kind of true, but every situation is different. I'm in a smaller city, not on the coast, and I'm doing ok. It's definitely more challenging in some ways. I make it through doing great work and networking. It's taken me a while but I'm building up a network and now I've got more opportunities available. YMMV, I know everyone has a different experience.
Meta-variety is like the variance of variances.

Heteroscedasticity is like changing variance.

Nice! I hadn't thought about that.
I would rather hire someone with that mindset. They are more likely to be interested in solving the actual business problems. The junior guy excited about frameworks and fads, is much more likely to create complexity (usually from vast numbers of dependencies and inappropriate technology choices). The flip side of course is that if you already have a mess, then the junior guy might be a better choice to maintain it.
It doesn't matter how it works in aviation. It matters how people think it works in aviation.

There was nothing OK about Tesla calling their system "Autopilot."
What I mean is this. The statements "a large moon makes the axial tilt stable" and "a gas giant greatly reduces how many comets hit small rocky worlds in a solar system" are both verifiable. They are not assumptions.

We also have reasonably compelling evidence that both factors are important for intelligent life to arise. Or, more precisely, good reason to believe that extreme axial tilts and cometary impacts are really, really bad for the biosphere. So the importance of those factors is itself not exactly arbitrary.
Denying people their right to gather peacefully at a lawful political rally, simply because you posit them as irredeemably evil, is a hallmark of fascism. And even though I do not agree with your blatant Nazi mindset, I will fight for your right to state your backwards views, and attend lawful political rallies of your choosing, without a multinational company stifling your activism by denying you lodging after they snooped on your online behavior.

The same sympathy that is lacking for anti-immigrant activists, is on display in your posts. Can you think of a single legit purpose of anti-immigrant activists? If not, how are you not anything but creating division and misunderstanding?
I like the topic, but it is just introduction and one post! Looks like it is too early to promote it!

If it is solely shared to validate the concept, a direct Ask HN would be more effective to collect feedback.
I am always amazed at how many libraries and tools there are for programming in Elisp. One of the things that make it so fun.
then those skills are still tied to your technical knowledge.

I think this is a problematic way of looking at it. Thing about it this way: If you are hiring a fairly general developer or engineer, their overall impact is going to be determined by something like 30% technical/ 30% problem solving and communication / 30% teamwork & fit, leaves you 10% to move around in those categories. In the much rarer case you are hiring a domain specialist, it is something like 60-70% technical. But you probably aren't hiring someone like that, or shouldn't be very often.

Focusing the hiring too much on that first 30% impact gets you in trouble.
Companies should embrace a multi-branch management approach. Have technical managers, who are experienced engineers that can focus on ensuring that people are doing quality work and building great products. Then along-side them, the team should also have a people manager, who is responsible for navigating the politics of the company.

I've had managers who were both technical and people-oriented. They both bring a lot to the table. But the older I get, the more I value having a manager I can go to who is good at managing optics and helping me deal with political or institutional roadblocks. In an idea world, I'd have both.
Seconding a couple of other replies here: it is not hysteria. In the 20 years I've lived in the Bay Area, BART has gone from tolerable to completely revolting.
Was going to post this, less steps needed than op.

I use my yubikeys as ssh keys and it's awesome, id suggest anyone who does should use the "cached" touch policy as you can then connect to many servers within the 15 seconds without having to keep tapping (good for ansible runs!)

Mac users can just brew install opensc but you'll need to link/copy opensc-pkcs11.so into /usr/local/lib

On Windows you can use the pageant agent from https://risacher.org/putty-cac/ and combine with weasel-pageant if you wish to use it as your ssh-agent in WSL https://github.com/vuori/weasel-pageant
> There is no threshold at which we become greater than the sum of our parts; no inflection point at which we become fully alive. We can't define consciousness because consciousness does not exist

The idea that consciousness doesn't exist is very interesting, and I'm not poo-pooing it, however the argument that it doesn't exist because you can't identify an inflection point is an example of the grains of sand fallacy.

The Grains of Sand fallacy basically claims you can't say "there's no way adding one piece of sand would render a pile of sand un-liftable." This isn't true as I can lift a bag with one grain of sand and can't lift a bag with a billion grains of sand, therefore there has to be a point where I can lift the bag with N grains of sand, and can't lift the bag with N+1 grains.

I agree it's hard to identify an inflection point; but that doesn't prove that consciousness isn't real. If we define consciousness as something dead people don't have and an alive person has (or at least SOMEONE once has had), then there has to be an inflection point as people die.
So you are against encoding domain knowledge in the software? It's better to re-invent the wheel with every application so that "the next developer" can google their questions?
Tufts expelled a student for grade hacking. She claims innocence
We have a mobile application on the product roadmap, so stay tuned!

For our business model, we’re focusing on making GoLinks integrate with all the great applications that you use everyday. We’re currently available in the Slack marketplace, and Okta, but soon to be in Attlasian’s marketplace, with more integrations in the way. The more integrations we can incorporate, the stronger the business.
This is an interesting experiment on the future of user engagement and the effects of monetization.

I suspect that this will improve commenting (compared to other larger, non-HN, sites), as users interested in the reward system will put their best foot forward.

It would help commenting immensely if "downvotes" caused a reduction of accumulated rewards but could also lead to a kind of bland (play it safe) mentality.

From both a sociological and business model perspective... I find this fascinating. There's a $haring (is caring) aspect to this initial push and a hint of group ownership (like stock holders).
I've come to the realization that any app I use unless I'm paying for it directly or lightly indirectly, is sending home as much data as it can about me.
Sam Altman steps down as Y Combinator president – INSIDER
The public market is dumb money. How many people have their 401k's allocated in 'growth stocks' of which surely lyft/snap will fall?

It's almost like it's a rigged system. Someone in Wall Street gets paid off, you IPO at such and such a price, that gets you into the institutional holdings.
Advanced Database Systems Course
See Bayesian networks, Markov chains...
Number 3 might be exercise. If you live in a cold weather city, you can't eat outside all year (i.e. bringing lunch and walk to a park and eating). Walking to and from lunch might be 3,000 steps.
Awesome! Definitely a problem a lot of companies have. Great to know we can help out.
How do you know all the inner thinkings and feelings of these other creatures?
Ya, globalization has changed my opinion on how we should handle these situations. How are US companies supposed to compete against other companies that are just as large if we restrict their size within the US? That just gives us a disadvantage against international competitors.
Absolutely, and why stop there? Neural nets just add up numbers – other physical systems do that, too.
Yeah. They've also got tens of thousands of years worth of selective breeding for cueing off their owners.

There are what I'd call clear examples of animals expressing emotions. I'm not sure this one'd qualify.
In my opinion, Amazon as a platform has leveraged network effects to be both a monopsony and a monopoly: in essence by aggregating both consumers and suppliers, both sides of the transaction feel compelled to use Amazon as a middle man.
I’m not sure that’s quite true. App-enabled ride hailing is a much better service in many cities than taxis were pre-Uber. That in itself probably increases the size of the market.

But I do expect you end up with pricing similar to taxis.
You're absolutely right, but the issue isn't what an aircraft autopilot actually is. It's what the word "autopilot" evokes in the minds of the non-pilot public. To them, autopilot means fully automated with no oversight. ("Planes fly themselves!" and other such nonsense.)
It's not controversial that many mammals have emotions very very similar to humans (my wife is literally an animal welfare researcher). You're talking about more about how they think than their emotions, whether they are sad because they see their dead child or sad because they regret some complex chain of events it's still the same emotion, the only difference is their ability to understand the chain of events.
Same thing happens to me. People look at me like I'm crazy for not getting the flu shot, but I haven't had any issues since I stopped getting it every year.
I believe this is a classic "finger pointing at the moon" issue where you value words more than the meaning. The question isn't whether or not they feel emotions as we have boxed them up and given names to, but as they are in experience.

Of course animals have no such conception of deeper emotions, at least in the same way that we think about them, but that doesn't mean that animals do (or don't) experience them. It just means our method of boxing up experiences into communicable terms probably doesn't match their own.
I agree completely. But I hear so many developers my age say they don’t need to keep up because they can rewrite Facebook in one line of code.
My impression is that pedestrians don't jaywalk in Germany nearly so much as in the U.S., as there is a cultural taboo against it. People get mad at you when you do that in Germany, or at least that was my impression -- you can confirm or deny.

So it could be that with pedestrians more conscientious, you can put most of the blame on the drivers by default and not have it be an unfair system. That wouldn't be suitable in the U.S. where people are generally less responsible both as drivers and as passengers.

In terms of statistics, yes, Germany has ~7 vehicle deaths per billion km-mile travelled whereas the US has ~4, but again, car ownership is much more common in the U.S. and necessary to get to work or do chores. People drive every day, when they are tired, and since almost everyone has to drive long distances you have a lot more irresponsible people doing it out of need. I also think that the streets are laid out in a less pedestrian friendly manner which makes them less safe.
You're just going down the road which leads to the failures of moral absolutism. The conclusion is not that pain can't exist in a machine, or that it is wrong to torture a simulated being. The conclusion is that torture is not wrong simply because it causes pain, but because the pain it causes leads to otherwise undesirable consequences.

Eventually you're going to have to decide what is intrinsically undesirable, which means understanding what your goals are before you ascribe moral value to some process. You can't say pain is good or bad without first understanding how it gets in the way of your goals.
Yes. These days gRPC is a new technology. And yet RPC has been around in one form or another since the 1960s.
> However, knowing all of that, the CDC noted that the parents of the child chose not to give him a second dose of the vaccine or any other recommended immunizations.

Unbelievable. Their child suffered for almost two months because he hadn't been vaccinated, and they were obviously OK with all the other necessary medications and procedures the little guy needed to survive, yet they still refuse to vaccinate...
Won't self-driving cars only make the problem worse?

Many people use Uber because they don't want to drive when they go out, but if their car can drive itself, why bother with Uber?
The economist Paul Romer has done a lot of work on the idea of charter cities.

https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_romer
That was the first video that came to mind when I saw the headline in a chat earlier today.
How would moving more businesses there lower the crime rate?

Poverty is always touted as the source of crime in communities, but businesses moving from SF to Oakland wouldn't be employing Joe/Jolene poor person. If anything, doing so would just rehash the standard complaint about gentrification and alienation of current residents.
> I'm not a vegetarian myself but I think that is more uncomfortable for me than for someone who doesn't believe animals have emotions.

If you don't mind me asking, what do you think is making you still eat animals, given that you are aware of their suffering?
New Gargantuan Internet-Beaming Drone Aims to Succeed Where Others Have Failed
What!? I've lived in the Mission for 5yrs and know plenty of others who also have. Never once been mugged our had my house broken into!

The car thing, though, everyone in SF who street parks has had their window shattered and car scavenged...
Citrix Discloses Security Breach
Not as differently as you might think. When I was more junior, I assumed the wage increases would continue as they had been. But they flatten out after 10-15 years of experience, to the point that the salary of someone with 15 years of experience is probably the same as someone with 30 years of experience.
No way, I have a friend that's a junior front end developer with three years experience making $90k. When I do get numbers in emails from recruiters it's 140-170 for a senior role.
It's been said is some of the articles I mentioned that Uber's business plan is to profit of drivers who are financially illiterate, until those people either wise up or break. That seems like hyperbole, but if there is a kernel of truth to it, that would explain your observation.
You interact with them and see how they respond and behave.

They're are genetically very similar to us.
>It's not working. Anyone can spend $1 to make $0.50.

That's not what they're doing. Their numbers for 2018 are spending $1 to earn $1.05. Of course, they also spent $0.80 to tell people about it and another $0.30 in R&D to develop new businesses which puts them firmly in the red. But there's at least a business there that is generating positive cash flow. It's an open question if they can cut R&D/Advertising and/or expand their revenue enough to become profitable.
How to define, describe, and think about IoT
Frameworks aren’t about domain knowledge. They are about cross cutting concerns. You can’t imagine how many badly written custom ORM, logging, authentication, web frameworks I’ve come across.
> The underlying platform of each successive Windows version is significantly more secure than the last.

Only if "fewer known bugs" means "more secure".
Most people don't make commits to their "personal git" every day. Or even every week. Or hell, ever.
I've worked with a few Intel officers, military and non, and I find it hard not to label their actions and attitudes as 'aristocratic'.

Your "best and brightest" paragraph makes no sense to me, but strongly reminds me of the BS spewing out of the mouth of James Comey while he tried to convince the members of Congress that you can have a crypto system that is both secure against hackers, but has a backdoor for government surveillance, which is a mathematical impossibility. Pretty sure he said "best and brightest" as well, as if silicon valley can magic away mathematical reality.

I also think that for nearly the entire history of mankind, barring the last few decades, governments have been unable to observe a vast majority of communication of their populace. Not sure what you mean by "too much at stake"... I've never heard of a major, nonmilitary attack that could have been prevented if only we'd had a backdoor into the communications; however I have heard of many, many crimes occuring because we THOUGHT we had secure crypto.
The quality is not that good though. I've tried it and I need to speak directly into it, a few decimetres away or a little to the side and it's beyond recognition already. At least with the two or so earphones/headphones (don't remember) that I tried, maybe it's different with other hardware?
I was not able to actually find the Javascript implementation of the data type in that repo. I have tried to implement from first principles (i.e. the paper) in my language, but large parts seem to be left under- or un-specified. Did I miss something? I would love to be wrong about this...
Why buy a 10-100k car when you can pay the incrementally per use?

You pay per use with AWS instead of buying physical servers right?
> might not exhibit ANY radiation.

They'd still radiate it out, unless they converted it into matter. E=mc² works both ways.
Updates for all three are up in the newest version of the app. Thanks for catching.
Turtle soup all the way down...
Wow. I've never seen this solution before and am a fan. I'm a big proponent of taxing negative externalities and this is definitely an easy one.
Uber is an alternative not just to driving but to owning a car. Why bother owning a car when you can just uber?
Any thoughts on when we might see MoonWire VPN made publicly available, and something the rest of us could play with in comparison to tools like IPSec, OpenVPN, and WireGuard?
In a world where self-driving capabilities are in almost every car, car ownership will be vastly reduced. Most trips will happen through some variety of Uber. The exceptions will be people who need to store things in their car like car seats or work equipment.
One of the less interesting things I've done in my life is memorize a large number of digits of pi. An interesting thing I've discovered is that I can recite those digits faster than you can make up random digits without an obvious pattern. The brain is optimized for patterns, not randomness.
I think you're right. As someone who doesn't own a car at all, I don't think the issue for accident avoidance is preventative effect of these types of laws, because even in states with pro-pedestrian laws, it's still very rare for drivers to be charged. What actually makes a difference is proper design of crosswalks, speed limits -- things like that.
Or more to the point he's making, newer versions of Windows contain mitigations that would limit the effect of exploiting similar bugs.

But that's a bit of a mouthful.
>The bear does not lament its catch, the whale does not wonder at the inner life of a fish it accidentally swallows.

Neither do humans, of course. Do you stop and grieve for the chicken you just grilled and ate?

Obviously animals are capable of recognizing that other creatures have emotions, too--any dog or cat owner can tell you that. But clearly, like us, they don't always choose empathy.
Probably similar to OpenVPN as the performance-critical parts are similar.
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> Personally, I'll be agnostic until consciousness is much better understood.

How does this agnosticism work in practice?

Does it mean that you don't worry about potential suffering and pain you might be causing others, or does it mean you try to avoid harming others even if they may not be concious?
New backdoor malware hits Slack and GitHub platforms
I did the same thing for a year before I got married. I ate my lunch and dinner at a Panera bread next to work place - 5 days a week. I ate half a cup of tomato soup, half a vegetarian sandwich and an apple. I lost nearly 20 pounds over a 1 year period. Infact the team at Panera knew me personally so many times, by the time i paid for my meal it was ready for me to eat. I had a fixed workout/running and meal routine.

My wife hates the monotony but i love the daily structure. I have put on 35 pounds.
My guess is the pin is largely pointless anyway. This new system was put in place because a large number of people forget or lose their pin. This would require a support ticket every time. The new system is intended to reduce support costs.
Cooking quickly becomes a bad time/value proposition when you're cooking for one, so that's part of the equation. And some of us value the enjoyment of many good meals over say, having a newer car. I planned to include daily lunches in my budget before I even left college (couldn't afford it at the time). I don't regret it one bit.