skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No abstractions isn't much cheaper than the wrong one.

Besides to get the right abstraction you often need to iterate a few times. It actually requires failure.
What would be an example of an evil of capitalism that is not attributable to mispriced externalities? I have trouble coming up with one myself.
> Our ability to represent a concept with an abstract sign is something no other animal, not even our closest cousins the chimpanzees, can do. It is arguably also the foundation for our advanced, global culture.

Human chauvinisms.

Until we can objectively test the likelihood of humans that have never been taught a language, like "feral children" [0], to spontaneously develop a coding system on their own, can we really compare innate intelligence in these areas across species?

For all we know, the trigger for such developments may be watching others of your own kind doing something odd, that is interesting or beneficial enough to catch on for long enough to be passed on to offspring.

In the Blue Planet 2 series, there is a segment about an octopus and a grouper fish, entirely different species, communicating with each other via gestures and changing their skin colors, to work together in trapping prey.

Ants etc. use "abstract signs" of pheromones. Bees use 3-dimensional dances to communicate. Are we dumber than them because of our inability to do that?

Intelligence certainly isn't a linear 1D scale with discrete steps.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_child
Correct me if I'm wrong - doesn't that response basically say "Our policy lets us do all the things you listed, but we totally won't, trust us lol"?

And of course yes the cops can read all of it, but "only if the warrant is totally legit".

And warrant requirements are a poor defense: https://www.popehat.com/2014/07/15/warrants-bulwark-of-liber...
AFAIK, at least for large residential complexes, the reason is that you can borrow against the base rent, mostly regardless of the vacancy rate.

So if you are renting 60% of your units at $4k per month, you can borrow against the income you'd make if you had all 100% rented out. But if you had to lower the rent on the other 40% by $1k to get 90% occupancy -- you'd have a larger income, but be able to borrow less money.

If your goal is to use leverage to borrow as much as you can and cash out before the cycle ends (which I think is what most people are doing in RE) then this is how you do it.
I've seen people offered that little, but it's hard to believe anyone would take a company up on it. I started at a modest $50k, in 2010, in Vancouver, and was barely getting by at that salary. I can't imagine putting in 40 a week for $35k in 2019, that's highway robbery.
you could certainly buy a sound level meter and measure the output from your headphones at your usual volume setting. you would probably not like what you learned, though. as a rule of thumb, any sound that requires you to raise your voice to have a conversation over is loud enough to damage your hearing. most people don't like to listen to music at safe levels.
Leaf blowers are two-stroke engines which have an entirely (and much worse) emissions profile compared to modern four stroke engines. E.g. you'll find things like benzene in their exhaust. Hence results like "waiting near a 2-stroke scooter on an intersection is orders of magnitudes more poisenous than waiting near a car".
I don't know when we'll have practical long-distance neutrino transmitters [1], but I'll bet someday the implementation will be bankrolled by HFT firms.

Why go around the Earth when you can go straight through it?

[1] https://phys.org/news/2012-03-wireless-message-neutrinos.htm...
"Put that in a media query to only target phones/small devices."

Tone: Honest question. What's that, exactly?

I've been trying to figure that out off and on for the last, oh, 5 or 6 years, and I keep bouncing off the problem as being too complicated to be worth it for my personal site. If there's a clean answer that has developed in the time since I basically gave up, I'd (again, no sarcasm) love to hear it. But I'd probably need a link to something; Google is clogged with old stuff here.
well, as long as your serious practitioners aren't trying to get hired they should be just fine
> No ban is needed here.

Actual enforcement would go a long way though...
IIRC someone on airliners.net (not an authoritative source, but enthusiasts) said it was something like 150K. That sounds plausible, given they have produced about 350 of them and the first one flew (commercially) in 2017.
Temporal smear is caused by the varying refeactive index of glass with wavelength and the fact that a short time pulse must have finite (large) spectral width (by the uncertainty principle), not by the bouncing.
I was guilty of the same kind of thinking when I first moved to San Francisco - it was, at the time, worlds better than the suburban Florida environment that I'd grown up in or the other mid-sized southern cities I'd visited frequently. I fell in love immediately.

But after a couple of years, the little cracks in the armor start to show up - outside of a very narrow strip of Market St and the Mission, getting around to other parts of the region is difficult. The weather is good, but certainly not the perfect beachy warmth I was used to as a kid and got monotonous. Most people I met seemed to already have their circles of friends and they centered mostly around who worked where or what hackathons you wanted to do, and that wasn't my ideal weekend scene. Rampant, aggressive homelessness made simply walking through many neighborhoods saddening at best, actively hostile at worst. Credit where its due, I found a lot of solace riding my bike around in the Marin headlands, but I could only really do that a couple of days a week at best.

NYC, by comparison, I moved to and didn't immediately fall in love. It was huge and intimidating and I showed up in August when it was humid and moving into my 5th floor walkup was painful. It took a few months to feel comfortable with transit options and like I wasn't solely reliant on maps. But I had an easier time making friends who didn't want to code 24/7, yet still take their professional life seriously. Nightlife is waaaayyy better in NYC, and there are hundreds more options. There is still a homelessness problem, but its generally less in-your-face and less aggressive. Its still expensive, but less so than SF. Sometimes I call a car to go somewhere because the weather is bad or I'm in a hurry, but I rarely feel like there is somewhere I simply cannot get to on public transit. Its the only place I've ever lived where the longer I've been here, the more I've liked it.

SF definitely has charm, but like you and your friends, many of my friends and I who have done both find NYC to be a much better example of a functional, diverse, very livable city. I wouldn't trade my time in SF for anything else, it was valuable to a younger version of myself - but I'm happy it propelled me elsewhere.
YEEEEES!
It's extremely common for "too good to be true" listings like this on Craigslist to be scams, where if you inquire they'll try to get you to wire money for the rental. The person behind the listing doesn't have any connection to the property, they take the photos/info from legitimate listings on other sites (often real estate listings, not rentals at all).

I'm sure it's possible that some of these listings are legitimate, but finding a bunch of listings on Craigslist isn't proof of anything and I think it's strange to base a story on it.
I am asking since twitch announced that it might be forced to "shutdown" its service in the European Union due to the new copyright reform(article 13) which most likely passes later this month.[1]

[1] www.twitch.tv/videos/392340867?t=04m04s
The evolutionary psychology of patriarchy: Women not passive pawns in men's game
If you’re talking about services that you’re accessing via a browser, true. If you actually do pinning (properly).

For service-to-service stuff and APIs the number of TLS clients that respect pinning is approximately zero.

Either way, the other problems remain, and running an internal PKI is really pretty easy.
This is just socialism, thinking your hearing and breathing is more important than efficient landscaping. If leaf blowers were really that bad the market would have eliminated them.
1D and 2D convolutions, functional, branchless, cellular automata (Pt.3)
The GP said

> _It's just easier to be an immigrant or hyphenated-American in world class metro areas that can support a variety of ethnic and cultural clustering._

The fact that there aren't as many african-americans in the bay area (outside of a handful of locales), doesn't make the GP's point invalid.

I'm an immigrant in SF, and there are few places in the US where I would feel remotely as comfortable. Even being "white" (latin american of southern european ascent) I have a noticeable accent. That accent has triggered abuse by an elderly woman right after the past presidential elections in an ice cream shop in Hayes Valley, SF. And that is without going into the countless cases of "involuntary micro-agressions" ("oh, we don't mean you guys", "you're one of the good ones", etc.).

Outside of the bay area the landscape very quickly changes to white picket fences with two large pick up trucks and white crosses in the lawn, towns with multiple churches of different christian denominations. All of this within an hour of driving from SF. I wouldn't feel at home, and likely not be accepted as part of the community in places like this.

Because there are so many immigrants in the bay area, that gives exposure to the native-born citizenry making them less likely to treat immigrants like the feared "other", as well as immigrants treating other immigrants of different origin decently, for the most part. I think these points are what the GP was referring to. The problem of lack of systematic racism and unequal opportunities for african-americans are still a big problem in the US as a whole, and in the bay area as well, but that doesn't immediately affects the entirety of the immigrant population.
It would make them too heavy. Two stroke engines have a great power to weight ratio, which is pretty much the only reason that they are used.
I get that it’s well intentioned but I wish folks stopped talking about the buddy allocator. It’s so obsolete. It’s not the fastest and it sure has some of the worst fragmentation due to very imprecise sizing.
I don't mean "copyright" as in, Wizards would literally sue you for writing "Black Lotus" on a card.

I mean "copyright" as in the act of paying for the game you are playing, rather than reproducing it yourself.

For another example, what stops you from playing Monopoly by just writing "Boardwalk" and "Park Place" on a piece of paper, and drawing up your own fake money and cards? Nothing really, but generally it's considered a good idea to pay for games people make, as a way to reward them for making the game.
Not having to deal with the politics of the office or working with people you don’t like. Setting your own pay. I dunno, those seem like good ones to me.
Good point.

The way I read the article is that yes in every society some speech is deemed acceptable and some is not. But 80% of respondents think the pendulum has swung a but too far.
That, and how the fick do you machine diamond... regular glass fiber optics needs to be cut to a smooth surface and fused together. The devices to do this use diamond-coated blades.

Oh, and diamond has a large birefringence due to its crystal structure, which would cause temporal smear in signals.
Consider adding a /s ^^;
The cells are welded together with contact strips, you need a spot welder to rebuild a pack. Making cells removable isn’t economic, because vibration resistant electrical connections are not cheap.
Regional culture and political climate also matter: if you're non-white or remotely educated, you're probably not going to want to live in a place where they're flying the confederate flag over the capital and from the backs of pickup trucks, or debating the merits of teaching kids the Earth was made 7,000 years ago. Even if the city you live in has a reasonable culture, you're going to feel like you're in a besieged fortress of sanity.
A high school level English class?
Doing your own thing is not for everyone.
i think it's a bit more complicated than that. very skilled developers that know this tech won't jump ship to many borderline broke startups which could easily just get started with docker with less than 'rockstar' devs
Perhaps the less discretion and selective enforcement we afford police, prosecutors and judges, the more productive we will be in improving the array of laws they are tasked to enforce.

On the other hand, homegrown weed is one of those things the Supreme Court, such as it is, needs to use words like "aggregate" to square federal regulation of it with the Commerce Clause, which is poppycock.
> Debian is still here today, so it must be good for something.

It’s stable and I know they’ll still be around 5 years from now.

They also very rarely break anything on updates.

There are only three Linux distress I’d run in production, RHEL, Debian or Ubuntu (depending.
Wow. I never thought of clutter in the home as technical debt, but it's as similar as you describe. That really makes me see home organization in a whole new light.
> leaking the internal IP isn't bad at all -- especially since there is no way to correlate them with the customer.

You seem to be making many assumptions here, which some may not agree with.
50% garden leave isn’t ideal. A lot of people aren’t in a position to take that pay cut (along with bonuses and RSUs) to hang out for a year. OTOH it makes companies put a fair bit of skin in the game which has considerable value.
Show HN: Using random forest to cluster smart contract functions
Hi All,
A team at EthParis just did a cool thing based on my/Eveem API for decompilation of smart contracts.

They took syntax trees of decompiled contract functions ( https://eveem.org/json/0x06012c8cf97BEaD5deAe237070F9587f8E7... ), and launched machine learning on top of them.

This resulted in groupings of contract functions not by name and behaviour.

Here's the outline:

https://twitter.com/willprice221/status/1104739673593835521

Here's a direct link to an example contract:
http://35.198.178.99:8080/contract/0x06012c8cf97bead5deae237...

They were able to cluster various implementations of the same functions (e.g. transfer), and also found out that some of the bugs in functions make them pushed into separate clusters.

I think it may be one of the first analysis of contracts based on their decompiled bytecodes (and not just bag of word assembly).

Compared to analysing the original source codes it has a few benefits:
- way more data to work with (~3M contracts, not ~200-300k with published sources)
- the codes after the decompilation have a form that is close to canonical - that is, two contracts that implement similar functionality will look similar - with source codes this can vary.

The team behind it is Will Price, Aleksey Studnev, Ankit Chiplunkar and Alexander Azarov (ccing them to this post)
Take block-chain insanity out of this, and a distributed reliable consistent unpredictable random value feels like a socially useful thing.

Put signed public ledger (which is block chain shed of the economic games to ICO) back on the table, and It feels like this, alongside a trusted third party time stamp, would become enabling technology for a non-repudiation 'happened on this day' service.

I would prefer to use GPS than NIST. If this is combined with mix-in from Glonass and Galileo, Does it get stronger or weaker?
What I found was that 12k USD inflated adjusted was same as 5k USD in 2007

No, $5.000 in 2007 dollars would be $5.060 in 2012 dollars[0]. You are off by over 2 orders of magnitude when speaking in "USD inflated adjusted" terms.

[0] https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=5000&year1=200...
Ah yes, those Democrat Theranos board members and investors, George Schultz and Henry Kissinger! They contributed their significant liberal viewpoints to the well-known Democrat partisan politicians Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan!

In seriousness, I know in some narrow and uninteresting sense you regard your point of view as accurate. But surely the fact that so many supposedly smart people were duped is what made these stories newsworthy.
I think you need to reread 1984. Telescreens were used to spy on the populace. That's more than potential indicated by overly broad language in a privacy policy. No one's made the case that Grammerly is spying, hence "predatory" is inflammatory.
No, I mean we were sending invalid command sequences to the XHCI controller, and as a result it wasn't sending anything to the ports at all.
That's not really a security hole except in the weird browser context of having to execute content-controlled code --- and then only due to the same-origin policy. Being able to redefine anything in the system is normally a virtue for a language.
And a lithium mine, somewhere.
In the very early 1980s, my father took me into a bookstore in Auckland, New Zealand. While he browsed, I wandered over to the personal computer section where another shopper noticed my interest, asked my name, and typed

10 FOR I% = 1 TO 10
20 PRINT "HELLO, NATHAN"
30 NEXT I%
RUN

into a BBC Micro. And I was hooked. Mum and Dad saved for a year or two and bought me a Commodore 64, and I was away.

Now I try never to miss an opportunity to show the magic to young kids, and I always think of the kindly stranger when I do so.
Political correctness, as a phrase, does not adequately convey meaning in the same way "common sense" does not.
I wonder if a lot of money is going into research on "spooky action at a distance".
Is a problem that we use a single label ('recycling') to describe many different efforts with different outcomes? E.g. paper and aluminum recycling seem to result in products being efficiently returned to use. While some mixed recycling basically gets routed to landfills?

Edit: Agree on turning off the tap. That's the primary thing we need to focus on.
It's not "farcical". If you could prove that physical states are deterministic, you could prove that there is no free will. That statement makes no claims whatsoever about what it means that physical states are not known to be deterministic. In other words, it could have been useful as proof negative of free will, but not as proof positive. And that's okay.
Please elaborate on how my comment was unsubstantive.

I’m pointing out an eerie similarity between the protagonist’s behaviour and Silicon Valley business ethics.
But have you seen aggressive assignment of invention clauses? California is pretty straightforward about "your time, your equipment, your invention".
> Not sure how it’s any better...

this looks like it's half the size of those two... so that's at least somewhat better.
> Generating a shared sequence of random numbers is the basis of zero knowledge proofs

Could you give an example? The zero knowledge proofs I know are of the type: here's an X, tell me f(secret, X) - which doesn't require any shared information (apart from the secret you're verifying).
Authorizing (or not) your USB devices to connect to the system (2007)
Is that what Yascha Mounk thinks or what his data says? My argument is that the two things are not the same. For instance:

"Nowadays, too many ordinary behaviors are labelled as sexual harassment"? 51/49 in favor, not 80/20.

"Many white people today don't recognize the real advantages they have"? 52/48 in favor.

"Many people nowadays are too sensitive to how Muslims are treated"? 49/51 against.

"Today's feminists fight for important issues"? 54/46 in favor.

Yes, a clear majority agree with "Political correctness is a problem in our country". But a similarly clear majority, plotted on the same graph, also agree with "Hate speech is problem is our country". And, again, "political correctness" isn't defined and is a fuzzy concept.
> The lifestyle is very hard, even if you make a lot of money, because the public transportation is insufficient to cover everything you want to do in your life.

Public transportation is the limiting factor in determining what you want to do in your life... even if you have a lot of money???

Once I had enough money, I bought a house 20min from work, 15min from an excellent park for mountain biking, 25min from SJC and 45min from SFO.

All of that can be done by car much faster than public transportation ever could.

Whether or not this is sustainable for a large population is a completely different discussion. But your premise is flawed.
What happened to the futuristic plasma furnaces that were supposed to be able to melt all this stuff into elemental components?
BC has rent control so to some degree that landlord could be locked into that lower rent regardless of market changes.
A brief history of WiFi security protocols
Lithium-Ion batteries have a much longer lifetime than the old NiMH batteries, though. Haven't had much issues with electric power tools in the last couple of years.

And I'm not sure I agree with your assessment of the reliability of gas powered tools. Our lawn mower needed repairs frequently...
You write as if you always have a choice which airline to use. Southwest is mainly USA domestic with a few vacation destinations nearby USA.
I wonder about garbage and recycling why we don't see more sorted stockpiles in a "junkyard" ethos for "might be worth something in the future when resource extraction vs new costs" change. My best guess is that the sorting is too expensive.
Somebody could be born, by no fault of their own, with a rare disease that would cost more to treat than they can realistically earn, and which insurers can easily detect as a pre-existing condition.
> It’s not as simple as flipping a single switch.

Except that's exactly what it is and then manually setting the trim. The NY times had an excellent article about the procedure:

> The crucial step, would be to reach across to the central console to a pair of switches, and flip the switches off. Those switches disable electric control of the motor that moves the stabilizers up and down, preventing the anti-stall system from exerting control over their position.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/16/world/asia/li...
You and billions of others are doing it.

Yet people act surprised when articles about insect and worm population collapse come up.
Ram attack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfLCb4ewDDc
Interesting. I’m curious, can you give an example of what kind of news? Some earnings reports or acquisition or something?

And are the reactions automated based on some NLP? Milliseconds wouldn’t matter if a human has to still parse it, correct?
Honestly I think its more because Theranos pierced the Silicon Valley Charade in a way people just couldn't ignore.

* You mean every AI/Hardware/Cloud start-up isn't a magic factory of philanthropy/social justice/innovation??

* You mean investors/rich-people make MISTAKES?? But they PAY people to do due-diligence right?

* You mean coming from a wealthy, well-connected, family, gives you an egregious head start in the diverse and democratizing tech world??

* You mean a Woman can lie, cheat, and steal, just like a Man?
I have seen a few biodegradable things used for takeout like in chipotle. Can someone tell me why those are not more popular in at least some processed food, e.g. my hummus.
This reminds me of the arguments that the folks at n-gate make over why they won’t use https. Basically, “it’s not me, your client is broken”.

There are too many conflicts on interest to fix the broken client.
Try macports for a BSD style packaging for the mac.