skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah, helicopters are relatively simple machines, literally every person in this site can understand the basics of helicopter technology (of course, getting proficient and enabling a career in heli-tech is a whole different story). The only difficulty is making them bulletproof, but nowadays the crashes due to technical problems are rare.

Also, helicopters are generally used for other purposes than planes. Transporting thousands of men thousands of kilometers is probably not a job for helicopters but that does not imply that helicopters are useless.
I liked this quote from Tolstoy:
> That saying is strikingly true not only of art but of all life. One may say that true life begins where the tiny bit begins—where what seem to us minute and infinitely small alterations take place. True life is not lived where great external changes take place—where people move about, clash, fight, and slay one another—it is lived only where these tiny, tiny, infinitesimally small changes occur.

It reminds me of some words from another, more recent, visionary: "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."

(though some investigation shows this quote originates from before Lennon)
I read a fantastic article on Stuxnet. I can't find it now, but this should cover it, if you don't know the details https://www.csoonline.com/article/3218104/what-is-stuxnet-wh...

To pull of what they did, they knew multiple zero-day vulernabilities in Windows. To any reasonable security-minded person, knowing that many vulnerabilities and having the ability to capitalize on them is likely only achievable a few different ways, one of those ways being having an arrangement with the company whose vulnerabilities you were exploiting.
>In 2017, however, Solnik was hired by Apple to work on its security team, specifically on the so-called red team, which audits and hacks the company’s products. His talk at Black Hat had apparently impressed the folks at Cupertino. A few weeks later, however, he abruptly left the company, according to multiple sources.

>The full story of Solnik’s short stint at Apple is a closely-guarded secret. Motherboard spoke to dozens of people and was unable to confirm the specifics around his leaving the company; one source within Apple told me information about Solnik is “incredibly restricted,” and another confirmed that even within Apple, few know exactly what happened.

Why hire someone that was previously selling "offensive security tools and exploits to governments" into a sensitive role like that? It's incredibly naive to think that just because you're employing them now that they are actually loyal to you. Surely the insider threat is greater than any expertise that person has. Just pay them a bug bounty for specific information and keep them at arms length. Finding high integrity security researchers to hire is more important than raw talent.
Google reveals Chrome zero-day under active attacks
I applaud this vision, but Facebook is not the one to do it. They have gone too much in the other direction over the years.

I believe the main problem is the lack of GOOD SOFTWARE alternatives to facebook and google. How would you collaborate on a document without google docs? Or share videos without YouTube or Facebook? We have all the hardware we need but not the software. And I mean this in a big way: we don’t even have consumer software for local area networks anymore!

Watch this and let me know what you think:

https://youtu.be/OzXnVSZbvAw
I think I wasn’t even sure that Haskell had a Monoid instance for Data.Map, I knew it wasn’t the interface which I would naturally expect though. I agree that the interface for MonoidalMap is more natural.
Never heard of this project. I would think it was influential on the development of the Falconer V-12 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falconer_V-12 for the Thunder Mustang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papa_51_Thunder_Mustang
France unveils plan to tax internet giants
They don't talk to each other? So you've never seen an smtp server store its spool on an nfs mount, authenticate against ldap, and log to a remote syslog server?
"The attacks exploited CVE-2019-5786, a security flaw and the only patch included in the Chrome 72.0.3626.121 version, released last Friday, March 1, 2019."
It's like Freaky Friday but it's Wacky Wednesday. Waiting for Trump to announce that he's opening the Whitehouse to immigrants until they get on their feet.

Sorry Mark, no one believes you dummy.
JetBrains.
I wasn't hired for my legal skills or experience and the companies I worked at had their own outside counsel that they paid for. I was sometimes asked to get involved in legal issues but that was less than 1% of my work. The founders understood that my value was far higher on technical and product than on legal. But I also tried hard to set myself apart and to bring a different mindset to product and tech that might have been influenced by my time in law.

The main point is still to leverage experience and skills that are valuable outside of technical ability that might be out of fashion in a few years. It doesn't matter if that experience is in teaching, legal or just being an extremely likable person.

I routinely see a lot of articles that are over 10 years old making it to the front page of Hacker News.
Do this mental exercise: Imagine writing a long form blog article about what you are currently working on / improving about yourself. Imagine posting that blog article on Hacker News in 10 years time. Would it get a good amount of upvotes?
Subheading from midway through the article asks a better question than the headline does: "Why would people invest in unprofitable IPOs?"
Given Facebook's massively global user base, it's not unlikely that it was edited to have a similar style as Wikipedia Simple English.
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> The largest share of the data they collect is about Americans.

Could you provide a citation on this?

> Most of their measurable activity is illegal and violates the rights of Americans.

This is a useless metric: it's true of both healthy and unhealthy spy agencies; the former because we wouldn't hear about the useful and legal things they do, only the occasional whistleblowing, while the latter because of the point you're trying to make. (I also disagree it's true.)

However, without a solid metric on their total classified activity, there's no way to determine if it's unhealthy or healthy.
Facebook's reputation is sinking fast
I appreciate the author showing some of the math that drives the optimization. As a reader, I'd suggest introducing SGD ahead of the PD calculations, because it would give a clearer motivation for the PDs.
> So if you can't have perfect privacy, you'll have nothing at all? That's quite an all-or-nothing way of looking at this issue.

I don't think that's the point; I think the OP is saying that in OP's particular case, the marginal benefit of Facebook privacy is much smaller than the marginal benefit of privacy in other aspects of life, and the lack of privacy from these various other aspects seem to be here to stay, therefore why worry about something relatively trivial like Facebook?

There may be other fallacies in OP's assumptions of course, but those notwithstanding I agree with the underlying logic. E.g. if I deem riding motorcycles an acceptable risk, then arguably I shouldn't spend energy worrying about whether my airplane will crash.
That's the present, too, for those that need it, but it will never be the norm for those that don't.
The quibble over definition, when you can replace rationality with utility and ditch the whole page of text.

Generally, we do things, because they work (produce results perceived as beneficial) and do repeatedly and reproducibly so, system or no system.

Now, this is not exactly strictly rational as it depends on self-referential definition of success or benefit, which is always heuristic and limited.

Ultimately, this reduces to biological and conditioned instincts. These can change too.

Cognitivism can be rescued by noting that some things change slower and less chaotically than others, these are easier to study - and that all physical systems still have a quantifiable determinism.

Sorry about breaking nebulosity by retreating to chaos. "Because" in backwards direction is hemmed in by it. The truth is measured as information. And ten the may be true non-determinism possible but due to chaos not leading to true unpredictability.
> “They are stolen from the factory and development campus,” a person who sells these devices on Twitter told Motherboard.

Haha yeah that and employees' homes and cars being burglarized.
Nice to hear that.

I like to calculate stuff from time to time, so I use the default OS calculator app a lot.

The Windows one is actually pretty decent, except maybe for the shortcuts - e.g. raising to the power is under "y" for some reason.

Ubuntu/Linux(es) has by far the best one. The shortcuts are obvious and the whole expression is visible at all times.

The one for macOS is surprisingly lacking.
>the value created in China from producing most of the physical items we consume gets parked in real estate and stocks in the West because the Chinese political system is too risky

Really? Chinese are notorious for investing in the Chinese real estate market, and investing in stocks is avoided. That's at least what most people seem to follow. The hyper-rich have probably better investing ideas..

>On the other hand, the supply is physically limited due to the geographic constraints.

Real estate is not expensive because of lack of land, since almost every country has large areas of cheap land. Real estate is becoming more (and already is) expensive for so many because the trend is to move into bigger cities, inside which supply is limited. (And the supply is typically limited by regulation, not lack of land per se).
> If you invest $50.000 in a car

You spent $50K on a car, you don't invest in a car, outside of some of very specific cases (some classic cars and some exotics that are reasonably expected to increase in value).
The phone metadata program has been shut down, and the portion of that program that was unconstitutional was shut down years ago.
>Alphabet is a Deleware corporation, where executives that leave money on the table for moral reasons have to at least claim that it was their business judgment that the action would ultimately increase profits for shareholder value in the long term.

Naw. In order for the directors to be stopped by 'leaving money on the table' someone would need to bring a claim against them. One which they would almost certainly lose.

And then even if someone did, the executives wouldn't even need to make the claim that the actions ultimately increased profits at all, because the courts just toss them a strong presumption for free.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_judgment_rule

You're repeating a lie. Stop it.
I think PhD project management should explicitly tie everything back to the actual research goals, so that effort can be justified / prioritised against these.

Source: I didn't achieve a PhD (I bailed early with an M.Phil) because our group project devolved into a poorly structured software development that contained numerous software rabbit holes. Once we'd gone down these, we never converged on a useful research output, as opposed to a massive codebase. That said, with the tools described here, our codebase would have been cleaner.
But don't founders typically have common stocks as well? How exactly can they dilute other common holders rather than themselves, without implementing some very bad shenanigans (e.g. a-la Mark Zuckerberg with FB)?
This sort of UI just needs to not exist imo.
The subtitle of one of the sections is "The regional impact of these changes is highly uneven, with four out of five people affected living in Asia."
What NSA does to China is irrelevant. But they hurt their own American companies in the name of cyber security. I personally see this as British King using East India company to build colonies outside.

This will have ugly consequences.
Nobody except the site admins knows the details, but from various comments that have been posted here, I believe it is the case that a few factors come into play. The mods may manually adjust the ranking of certain stories for various reasons, and there may also be algorithms that adjust rankings based on things like the ratio of votes to comments (or the inverse), and probably other factors that none of us know about.
Using Control Flow in Elixir to Improve Discoverability
Luckily, highly interesting and good design are not mutually exclusive.

I think Juggernaut tries to be "highly interesting" and "competes for our attention" with high quality content and writing. As they get their product out there they'll improve and mature their design.

I think the trend of startups with bad web design is actually interesting. If they can get away with something ugly maybe that means there's something intrinsically valuable in what they're building and their early customers/adopters are willing to look past that. Perhaps this trend is good and it indicates that these startups are focusing on their core value instead of a pretty facade?

If the product is content, then the text should be all that matters?
Concourse CI v5.0.0 Released
Right, so people have more money than before just as sjwright said.

Real income is, by definition, after inflation.
Seconding Ng's course here.

I took it in 2011 (ML Class) before Coursera existed, and it finally opened my eyes on not only what and how backprop worked, but also how everything in a NN could be represented and calculated using vectors and matrices (linear algebra), and how that process was "parallelizable".

The course uses Octave as it's programming environment, which is essentially an open-source and (mostly) compatible implementation of Matlab.

My first thought was "Finally! A use case for a home Beowulf cluster that is somewhat practical!"

It really opened my eyes and mind to a number concepts that I had looked into before, but couldn't quite wrap my brain around completely.
>Computers, quite literally, process information – numbers, letters, words, formulas, images. The information first has to be encoded into a format computers can use, which means patterns of ones and zeroes (‘bits’) organised into small chunks (‘bytes’).

Sorry, now you are looking at a computer at the logical level, not the physical, what is it REALLY doing. If you are going to claim there is no place in the brain where a word or a piece of music is stored (presumably because there is no literal, printed word representation in your brain?) then you can't quite make the same claim of a computer.

We consider the components of a computer to be logically digital, but under the covers all transistors are analog, and all the workings of the computer are analog. We just throw away voltage transitions and we lump some range of voltages as "on" logically and some other range of voltages as "off" logically. It takes time for the circuits to reach their final state.

I assume the same is true of the brain. At some level, there are no symbols or numbers or memories to be found. There's just neurons firing or not, in context with other neurons. Same with computers, there's just little amplifiers supporting some voltage in some context with other amplifiers. That's it.

Or not, depending on what level you want to look it.
Ask HN: How's Your Sex Life
How is your sex life on a scale of 1-10, and how do you break free from the work work work cycle, I could use some advice here.
>Common Lisp is the only language with reasonable compile-time computing right now

How does D compare, with its CTFE (Compile-Time Function Evaluation/Execution)?
Snap Paid Settlements to Women Who Alleged Discrimination
Not really. Children are naturally loud, even when behaving. I don't want MORE noise in my office.
Identifying a users via their typing style
True - but that would require that would require that the AI partner is both overpowered (they can kill the whole room without risking to take damage) and completely ignores me.

maybe an alternative appraoch could be to have an AI that tries to figure out what you're trying to do - and then help you with it.

E.g., if the two of you have frequently witnessed a certain enemy launching an attack that can only be deflected by a particular shield spell, an AI healer could "learn" to cast that spell in advance when they see such an enemy.
Yeah, it kind of implies that you should spend 100% of your waking time being "productive", which is not realistic. Everybody needs time to recharge, and depending on your personality, that can be anything from going to a bar with friends, to playing recreational sports, to watching TV, to scrolling through the internet.
Now read the above but instead of “it’s not super obvious what

d1 | d2

should be because losing information/desirable properties/weird errors”, read “it’s not super obvious what

{**d1, **d2}

should be because losing information/desirable properties/weird errors”.

Except I guess one could throw in something about TOOWTDI too.
You should also prioritise credible behaviour that will keep a gamer immersed. If you can achieve this with simple rules / tables etc that might be better than a full-blown AI.
> We plan to start by making it possible for you to send messages to your contacts using any of our services,

Didn't Facebook Messanger use XMPP back when the service was new? It sounds like they're going to a closed version.
> I'm sorry, but this seems a little naive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY.

I thought everybody already knew that US corporations serve as an extension to the surveillance apparatus. Remember all the corporations fighting against the government's mandate at an artificially crippled maximum keysize of 40 bits, in order to allow continued surveillance in the 90s? Yeah, neither do I.
The "help wanted" label on some of the GitHub issues[0] is interesting to me. Presumably there are Microsoft employees who are being paid to work on Calculator, are they trying to crowd-source their jobs? I should convince my company to open source the project I am working on so I can offload some of my work too ;)

[0]: https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator/issues?q=is%3Aissue+...
They're usually working from text/notes in mathematical notation and are trying to match the math notation as best they can. I'm sure programming not being their profession may be part of it, but I find myself doing the same thing when implementing algorithms described in mathematical notation. Due to the shear number of variables in a lot of algorithms, it's difficult to give each one a good name. And even if you did, it's unlikely the code would make any more sense, in order to grasp what's going on, you'd likely need some text on the subject to explain how it works.
Radio stations often do additional processing of music to make it louder and more crisp when played on a car stereo, often by using techniques such as multi-band compression: the sounds is decomposed into several bands, and each band has dynamic range compression applied with different parameters to maximize the perceived sharpness/loudness.

It destroys a lot of subtlety and sonic detail in the original, but in exchange you get an overall louder, more in-your-face sound, with highs that come through even on bad audio systems. On car stereos, where you have a lot of low-frequency rumbling sounds, this especially makes a difference. And if you ask a random person to give a subjective quality assessment of original vs that processed audio, they'll almost always feel as if the latter is of higher quality.

For more info see e.g. [1].

[1]: https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/multi-band-compressi..., section "Broadcast Applications for Multi-Band Compression."
I'm curious if your friend's project is open-source at all, would love to see the implementation details of this?
I don’t always, but I’ve never had the luxury of working on a greenfield project. With legacy code it’s a mammoth task to pull apart the spaghetti (more like a drawer of tangled headphones) to get the ideal test.
Recently, I watched a Scrimba tutorial [1] about
brain.js. That one brought me quite a step further to understand how different kinds of neural networks are capable of (NN vs. RNN vs. CNN).

[1]: https://scrimba.com/g/gneuralnetworks
Does it? Why do we have this venerated piece of paper then constantly paraded in front of us like it means anything then? Either it is a foundation and a supreme law, or it is not. I am not convinced that catching meth dealers is greater than a supreme law of the land.. or worth the cost of basically tossing entire framework of the country outside the window.

edit: added more pompous language
This is actually pretty relevant because TI has been goofing up the cube root function in its calculators for decades.
The Untold Story Behind Astroneer's Difficult Development [video]
The science of optical illusions (2010)
But this is similar to any phone/email/contact book app will allow you to upload or manage your address book. Your friends could leak your email address or phone number by installing a malicious app and granting the permission, do you blame Google/Apple for this?
Yes, come to Canada!
danah boyd has an interesting essay on this - Selling Out’ Is Meaningless

https://medium.com/message/selling-out-is-meaningless-3450a5...
I like this better: If you like dogs, go hang out (or work) in places where dogs belong.
OP here. Largely agree with your clarifications. Your comment is a fantastic example of how nuanced the real world is. Maybe it was a bit naive on my part to even try to compress these topics into a 10 minute read, but for anybody who wants to learn more, comments like these are pure gold. (and gave me a few ideas for what to write about) Thank you.
Hmm, I'm not sure what the case is, but it feels like direct search for an app by name shouldn't count. I'm not sure if there's an easy way though to differentiate a direct search and a general search term, depending on the app name.
google visualisation api remains. its in-browser .js, heavier weight, but it works. So this is a replacement for throwing data at a central chart render engine, not a replacement for all current google charting methods. (disclaimer: I've built sites which depend on the google chart & visualisation api)

This replaces the deprecated image chart methods.
Outsource some/all of it to freelancers on Upwork so they can make progress while you sleep, work a day job, etc.
It's really interesting to hear someone else say this. I too have suffered occasionally from intense, violent nightmares. They don't necessarily continue all night, but the imagery is extremely disturbing, like a Hellraiser movie. I also took SSRIs like Paxil and Celexa in my early to mid twenties.

Recently, I've also begun experimenting with microdosing. I know almost nothing about the science of psychedelics but I've heard that they mimic the chemical structure of serotonin. I've also had a couple of intense nightmares recently. I wonder if there's somehow a connection between the effect of serotonin or things like it and the tendency to experience intense imagery in dreams.

Perhaps it's not exactly the quality (negative or positive) of the content but the intensity that is magnified. I think I could just as well say that I've had a number of intensely positive dreams while taking these substances but I can't speak objectively about it.
Please do not confuse the usefulness of 24/192 for playback and listening enjoyment, and it's usefulness for recording and heavy 'in the box' processing.
Seems interesting, I need to take the time to look further into this one. Hopefully, it will help some people.