skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What's you're point?

I'm pretty sure the point is that designing software to run in specific conditions is different than designing software capable of running in all conditions. This isn't just about the driver, it's about other people on the road and pedestrians. Just because the autopilot is sufficient to drive the car under the constraints the car ships with doesn't mean it's sufficient if the motors are putting out significantly more or less power, and its ability to detect this if it exists is somehow compromised.

Tightening your lug nuts is fairly straightforward and easy. Verifying physical functionality of an AI driving system is not. The only safe way to react if it can detect the system is not as it should be is to disable itself and require manual driving. It should do this in the case of standard components operating outside of acceptable specifications as well.
For the context: partial passwords have been the default and a de facto standard for Polish banks since early 2000s. They are not "cutting edge novel idea" but more a common legacy.

I think people got used to them, so changing this now for everyone would feel weird (and would probably annoy many).

In some banks you can opt-out in settings and have regular password instead.

I guess it's an equivalent of swipe cards in USA.
I'd add hosting on top of that - like Apple, Google, etc., they don't charge you for distributing your app (which could be hefty, per paid transaction, if you have a low-converting trial or freemium app).
> The investigators said they found other issues too, such as that Quadriga kept "limited books and records" and never reported its financials.

New SaaS idea: Skin Lotus 1-2-3 and sell it as a "decentralized on-premise bookkeeping solution for your blockchain"
Thanks god Tensorflow is doing something with global variables and sessions
You can also make UWP command line apps https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/launch-resume/c...
It's because nothing's actually happened, from a day-to-day standpoint. Sure, their data is "out there", but what does that even mean? Nothing actually happens, as a result. The problem is too abstract, too theoretical.
To me, this isn't nit-picky, but nuanced. From my experience Kubernetes and the microservice architecture is essentially a technical substrate for an organisational problem.

I'm not 100% convinced there's inherent technical value until you're running at the kind of scale the big hitters do, but by then you're also looking at the hosting solution as a whole, not a deployment in a cloud. Docker, Kubernetes, offer the illusion of being easy but as soon as you start getting serious, they are anything but.

What it does do, for smaller businesses, is create a more-or-less 1:1 mapping between a team structure and a deployment pipeline. At the end of it you're distributing functions in a codebase and depending on the network for resiliency, as opposed to the language or the VM.

At the same time, the knowledge of these systems has great value because those skills are in demand now.
Anybody out there using J2V8(https://github.com/eclipsesource/J2V8) for such purposes?
It's something of a GitHub-wide standard/best-practice to have a "help wanted" or "probably easy" or "good first issue" label:

https://help.github.com/en/articles/helping-new-contributors...

It's the Open Source issue tracker equivalent of the "Welcome mat". It doesn't necessarily mean that Microsoft's employees here need help, but it certainly shows that they welcome it.

(Which is a very useful indicator for engagement and shows presumably some stake in actually continuing to develop Calculator out in the open, as opposed it being a one time or rarely-if-ever code drop.)
It’s a great episode, highly recommend it.
It could definitely work if you could get more money selling the data to companies than the money you are paying out to your users.

It's been proven time and time again that most people don't really care about their privacy...so finding users for your service will be fairly easy.

If you are tracking this much information, what happens when your users are going to illegal sites?
Google is shutting down Google fit
Well, why are all of those remote workers moving to your town? If you live anywhere remotely desirable, I think it's only to be expected that housing prices are going to go up over time until we start to see an overall decline in population.

Furthermore, why has the movement of people to your town created an affordability crisis in the first place? If the existing residents are opposing increased building, then it's not really the newcomers fault. If you're building to meet demand, why are prices going up?
Mathew Solnik is not impressed, full text:

"The article that has been published regarding me is a complete hit piece. It provides no hard evidence and is based on pure rumor. It’s sad to see the publication stope to such levels. This is not worth any further response and will get none. End of Story."

https://twitter.com/msolnik/status/1103395763068043264
DiCaprio? This whole affair has been at best a Weekend at Bernie's-level plot. The accounts were emptied 8 months before the death, and yet QCX pretended they were solvent the whole time so they could keep the party going.
Your edits should be showing no problem. Can you try again? If it still doesn't work, email hn@ycombinator.com with your desired text and we'll put it in there, as well as try to track down the bug.
I am excited for the day when we can fully understand just how the gut-brain connection actually works and where depression/anxiety come from. Giving people real genuine long-term relief over the course of their life.

https://www.genengnews.com/news/depression-and-gut-bacteria-...
"If your modified gas engine seems to work, you are quite safe"

I think you are overstating your case. I have seen cars on fire by the side of the road...although it is possible it started with an electrical fault.

I believe that it's not that rare for a model of car I own to have a leak develop in the fuel lines and drip fuel onto a hot manifold and start a fire.
Flip that around: Why would you want to be continually reliant on a designer drug for the rest of your life just to feel normal?

To me, that defines a dystopian nightmare. I'd sooner go without than be shackled to the pharmaceutical industry.
I'm guessing they brute forced into his laptop (or used a windows exploit or something) and opened up the program to find the cold wallet addresses (which is amazing they didn't have elsewhere) and then found them to be empty. Even if they didn't have the private keys, they'd just need the address to discover the balance. Though, the keys were also probably on the laptop.
> If only they had spent that money on actually making the OS better. Imagine that.

What do you think they were trying to do? Apps are what make an OS good. Even if they caused 10,000 trash apps to be created and only 100 good ones, that's still 100 more good apps than they had before.
Do you feel the same about cable TV or Netflix?
Good question. Honestly not sure, but I would assume yes as well
You're basically sitting on top of a giant bomb in an EV when it's fully charged. Shoot a bullet through a full gas tank, and nothing will happen. Shoot a bullet through an EV battery pack and it will burn to the ground. Liquid electrolytes are the real problem here, not battery tech as a whole. Fortunately solid state batteries are only a few years out, and that will totally change the safety equation.
TFA says that Ernst and Young was the company to crack the laptop. Ernst and Young would not burn a zero-day exploit on an auditing job.
That's a great idea — we currently send out a email notification, instagram update, and twitter notification every afternoon after we've published a new piece. Our twitter is @bethejuggernaut and our instagram is @_thejuggernaut. Thanks so much for signing up - can't wait to hear what you think!
May your unusually good fortune continue indefinitely.
If I have a large FLAC collection and want to export the whole thing to MP3 or AAC copies, what would I do to automate that?
Yep. Still want to re-do it. Sigh.
Bingo. There's a subset of battles I just gave up on to spend my energy elsewhere. The info Facebook has on me is extremely trivial compared to what's actually out there for anyone to see (like my home address, my phone number, associated with my property value and my email address...which is something I actually care about but can't hide...by law. So what silly things my cat did yesterday? Go right ahead.)
Which is why we won't ever have those carbon taxes. As soon as politicians implement (or probably even seriously suggest) carbon taxes with enough pain to legitimately incentivize people to give up their homes (and all their stuff) to live in "microhousing", some other politician will come along and tell your constituents that you're crazy and they have a better way. And poof, just like that you're out of a job.

We're not going to solve climate change by democracies adopting high carbon taxes.
The app is going to be in the Store either way tho, it's only a question of how the user ends up there.
Yes, in most cases.
This guy is alive (or dead, but not due to Crohn's Disease complications, as stated initially).
This is not a conspiracy theory anymore. It's clear there's a massive fraud behind all these events.
Online Hipaa Training for Early Stage Employees
Does anyone have a suggestion for a simple, reputable online HIPAA training course for Business Associates? Ideally <$30 a head? I'm looking for an online course that will be required for all future hires- most of whom will be working with de-identified data.

I came across HIPAAtraining.com and Supremus Group's training, but can't quite figure out what's legit. We're too early stage to warrant creating our own program.

Thanks for any ideas anyone may have!
Why do you think FLAC is better than ALAC for your archive? They are both open source, lossless formats.
>h = hidden, o = output, y_pred = predicted value of y, etc. are quite clear

∀ abbr + to the cogntv load prsn wht mntn in thr hd.

∀ -> every
+ -> adds
wht -> who has to
h -> head

Was that easier to read than the following?

Every abbreviation adds to the cognitive load the person has to maintain in their head.

This isn't code, but the principles of making code (un)readable are exactly the same.

If you see that full-word variable names create too much clutter, it means your code structure is wrong. So you fix it.

You go from this:

self.w1 = np.random.normal()
self.w2 = np.random.normal()
self.w3 = np.random.normal()
self.w4 = np.random.normal()
self.w5 = np.random.normal()
self.w6 = np.random.normal()

To this:

set_to_random_numbers(self.weights)

After 9 years of maintaining several dozen legacy codebases (which sometimes involved financial math) I am fully convinced that the only people who like terse code are people who write it and never read it after.
But if you're your counting on rent from your friends to pay the mortgage, you're no longer a residential homebuyer, you're buying an investment property and typically higher standards apply.

So realistically, the only way you could buy a house and rent to your friends is if you can qualify to buy the house on your own.
Neuroactive potential of human gut microbiota in quality of life and depression
War and Peace reminds me of David Lynch's "Dune". Aspects of it are utterly brilliant. Perhaps unsurpassed. As a whole though, it suffers from the effects of poor decisions.

Tolstoy famously said that he didn't even consider War and Peace to be a novel, but something else that sort of passes for one. Where another author with an axe to grind would tell a story that leads the reader to the desired conclusion, Tolstoy spends entire, insufferable chapters hammering home his message, sometimes in seeming contradiction to the plot. His portrayal of Napoleon in particular is comically ham-fisted, perhaps intentionally so.

One of his central points, on which he expounds endlessly, is dealt with in the first part of the article. Namely, that society and war are impossible to understand or predict. They just are. On the battlefield, it's not the army with the better strategy or equipment that prevails, but the one whose soldiers simply decide it's their time to win. It reminds me of Japan's "Shikata ga nai" (It cannot be helped) saying. While this is a valid coping mechanism for the incompetent or someone caught up in the heat of the moment, it's hardly a productive approach for those with the time to tackle tough problems. Kutuzov ends a strategy meeting on the eve of battle recognizing that it's too late for further revelations in understanding to be implemented, which is sane, but Tolstoy does indeed take things further and state such solutions are impossible to come by in the first place, which is unfounded. Complex systems can be understood. Just because they don't immediately surrender to analysis doesn't mean there is no solution. War and society are hard nuts to crack because they change based on the current understanding of them, like self-modifying code. That doesn't mean they're fundamentally impossible to understand.

This, at least, is my belief. Holding this belief made reading War and Peace a bit of a chore. Tolstoy creates wonderfully nuanced and realistic characters, but in War and Peace he hammers you over the head with his own philosophy and it's an unpleasant experience if you happen to disagree with it. The book would be better if he'd been more subtle, and could still benefit from having entire chapters (you know which ones) excised completely.
Right ... It’s just a long term frustration which was versed here in two seconds ... where else ???? :)
The odds of it not being a scam is pretty tiny number. Not scientific notation small, but getting there.
F-Droid maintains a repository of open-source only android apps, and either doesn't allow apps that has telemetry or at least flags apps which may have such anti-features:

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/
If he was building an experimental amateur-built (E-AB) category airplane,
then there was likely no regulatory issue.

I have no idea how much these particular engines cost, but even at $100 a pop buying hundreds of them at once puts the applicability of "amateur" under some strain (or that of "experimental", TBH).

OTOH, something about this story doesn't entirely make sense: who would get to the point they were ready to drop six figures on buying engines without, y'know, checking the regulations?
Why? Now all the universal keyloggers don't work (because they remember which keys were pressed, but not which positions they refer to).
The author raises some points which would've been interesting to dig in more deeply, but then mainly digresses to an ad hominem argument against the author of the original tragedy of the commons essay. Also I don't understand how he can just equate Hardin's personal views with the "intellectual roots" of the tragedy of the commons concept.
Surely there's not much room for racist thoughts in a metaphor based on 19th grazing laws "exclusive to a defined set of indidivuals"?[0]

Please don't take this to mean I want to defend Hardin here. But just saying "the guy who wrote this was a racist" and "it's based on some really old essay" does not convince me that the argument itself is flawed.

I wish I'd gotten some nerdy know-it-all material to throw at someone the next time they bring up the tragedy of the commons :/

[0]user wahern (in the comment section here) re-read the original paper and confirms this suspicion of mine
This is a blog post that seems to just be reporting on this tweet: https://twitter.com/justinschuh/status/1103087046661267456

which in turn is referencing this new release from this past Friday: https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/03/stable-channel...

which seems to have been motivated by "CVE-2019-5786: Use-after-free in FileReader. Reported by Clement Lecigne of Google's Threat Analysis Group on 2019-02-27".

That CVE is still reserved/non-public on the Mitre NVD though.
The Great Gatsby...
If he was going to sell the plane as a kit why not simply sell it sans engine for the buyer to order individually? Beautiful plane by the way.

edit: I see someone else had the exact same question with almost the exact same word choice too!
The American Bystander Is Back
This is the problem that is common with most last-click attribution models, and isn't unique to this Microsoft store.
Don't write off non-profits and NGOs. Working at an NGO is probably the most content I've been career wise, even if the technical problems being solved are not the most challenging.

The people there are amazing, and being in an environment where people are not just trying to help the company earn more dollars is like a weight off my soul.
Was there any timeline given when that order was announced? It could have been over five years, for all we know.
The scam conclusion is stronger than, and does not rely on, the fake death one. The combination does seem to be the most likely, but even if he's really dead, this still looks like a scam.
The results I've seen show the $1200 GPU playing at 1080p resolution with less than 60FPS.

RTX is clearly a compute-hog: its barely usable even if you pay for the best-of-the-best GPUs. I mean, not to knock Nvidia down or anything, raytracing is one of the most computationally difficult problems in existence right now.

But from a practical and pragmatic perspective, you suffer a major loss in frame-rates and force the GPU to drop in resolution to make the jump to raytracing. Even if you spent $1200 on the card...

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I'm personally excited to see offline renderers use the RTX features to accelerate offline raytracing. That's probably the more important use of the technology. As it is, RTX isn't quite fast enough for "real time" yet. Just grossly accelerated offline raytracing (which is still impressive)
A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking – Facebook
Who gets to break the law? Based on what ethical framework? Who decides whether those actions were indeed justified?
Doordash is "valued" at $7,000,000,000? What planet am I on? How many people use doordash and how much food would they have to order to justify that type of valuation?

I guess that shuck-and-jive with the tip payouts is done out of necessity. Pretty crappy though?
I wish the NSA made their metadata records available to citizens in some form or another. If I could download my personal history via phone records, locations, and such it would be a nice tool for me to help me review and better understand my past. I don’t want to see the analyst’s notes about me, just a unified set of records. Under a GDPR-in-US legislation this ought to be on the table. I’m sure people could abuse it to find NSA blind spots, but that doesn’t mean they haven’t been filled since.
This has nothing to do with FB. The government has that data from ISPs already.
My impression from the analyses I've seen so far is that it barely improves the visual quality, since the game designers learned to fake it so well over the last two decades, and it comes at a significant cost to frame rate. In particular, good ray-tracing with acceptable noise levels comes at around 500 rays a point. RTX cards are capable of 2 rays a point.

Here is a comparison of the regular global illumination vs RTX real-time raytracing, particularly take look at noise levels generated by RTX in the background. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuoER1DwYLY
Shared appreciation/whatever you want to call it is only really appropriate in my view where you have a strong view that your income is likely to grow more quickly over the next few years than house prices.

This is because these schemes are usually limited in availability in such a way that you can't rely on them being there again when you decide to move up - so you need to be sure you can borrow a mortgage of the size of the amount of shared appreciation you are paying back to be able to move up (otherwise you'll get "trapped" - you can only afford to move to a cheaper house or stay where you are).

If you don't think your income will rise that quickly, or you think house prices will rise even faster, you'd be better off buying a place you can afford without shared appreciation and taking the biggest traditional mortgage you can get.

If you think prices are going to fall but want/need to buy now anyway then they are a fantastic deal.
could you please tell a bit more about social progress? I'd appreciate it.
It’s important to note that it’s not just splitting up your own transactions, it’s that it’s actually other people’s coins that end up in your destination wallets. As such, it becomes very difficult to trace: techniques for doing this are similar to large scale deanonimization of Tor traffic, and involve large scale pattern analysis.
"On the battlefield, it's not the army with the better strategy or equipment that prevails, but the one whose soldiers simply decide it's their time to win."

whoa- things people say .. here's a chance to reconsider that line ..
You seem to be confusing trends and data points. In my original comment I was pointing out that a trend tells us a lot, while an isolated data point tells us almost nothing.

My issue with the article is that the author uses a data point and frames it like a trend. It's sensational, sure, but it will only be statistically significant when we can observe a trend.
>>I think this is the $137 million dollar question.

Minus the laundering fees...let's be fair ;)
Specifically, developer-fused hardware allows for stuff like setting boot arguments and having them actually get passed to the kernel. Basically, it lets you get in the way of and modify the "chain of trust" that the bootloader → kernel → userland processes normally ensures.
SSRI withdrawal symptoms can be pretty rough, seems chronic high-dose ketamine withdrawal is also quite bad. However, ketamine therapeutic dose is ~ 1/4th low recreational dose, so I think withdrawal is likely to be minimal with this dosage regime.

Certainly something to be concerned about. I've read ketamine abusers can often end up with kidney issues (presumably proportional to dosage as its related to elimination), but I'd also think monitoring kidney health with chronic dosing, even at low levels, could be prudent - especially in individuals with pre-existing kidney issues.
Applying a zero-day exploit without making it public doesn't burn anything. After all, no one knows how they did it.
That sounds like a very common empathy gap in the form of "it isn't a real problem until it affects me".

When your neighbors get laid off it is because they are lazy bums. When you get laid off it is a recession or mismanagement. It is easy to understand why it is so common - it is so much easier emotionally to pretend the world is just except when it would imply you are at fault.
Fun and challenging is key.

One thing about predictable AI's that irks me is once an optimal strategy is discovered, variance from that strategy is no longer rewarded. This creates a tactical endgame I wish didn't exist.

For instance, I played a lot of Gears of War Horde mode and difficulty is increased by increasing health, accuracy, and damage of the enemies. And the same strategy will win over and over. That's great for a grind-y game like Gears 4 Horde, but beyond a certain level it becomes a race to build an automated killing machine that once solved is no longer engaging.

Once you build a wall of turrets, why in god's name would an enemy keep rushing? Just the smallest bit of learning would go so far. The game would be way harder, but also WAY more interesting. Playing on normal where you actually have to hunt the enemy instead of holing up and waiting for them to rush your lane would have been awesome!

That's just one example in one game that I'm very familiar with, but isn't a unique problem. Even in 2019 there is a lot of room to make a challenging and fun AI.

The trick is to make every match feel like you could lose, not like you can't win. AI/ML should figure out what makes close games close, and keep evolving the enemy's strategy to keep them close, not just their stats.