skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh.

To me it seems like "Trump threatens to punish colleges which challenge conservative or Christian views."

I'm sure I'm reading too much into it, though.

It's not like his party considers academia to be a cesspool of Marxists, liberals and radical feminists that needs to be purged for the good of American culture or anything.
Yep, users made it clear that they can't be trusted to make such decisions, so now the apps have to comply with new requirements, including security audits by 3rd parties.
Wikipedia says IGM Panel is geographically and ideologically diverse and are a good sample of the leading economists in the nation. The reason you see the diversity in confidence is because it is represented by a diverse variety of economic schools of thought.
Not if Zapier paid for the audit and passed.
I recommended that book as a source when I was teaching calculus, and still do :)

It's a very opinionated book, but that's no a bad thing. And, unlike the Stewart doorstop, it's compact, as a text should be.
That would be great. The drive across Kansas is torture.
You might be thinking of aversion therapy. Conversion therapy is also considered outdated, unproven, and unethical.[1]

[1] https://www.hrc.org/resources/policy-and-position-statements...
How about Recaptcha?
Tesla justly deserves all of the negative criticism they get.

Their marketing is fraudulent and their lax approach to safety is going to kill people and directly harms the overall industry. If you care about self driving cars you should be criticising Tesla at every opportunity.
Are you hitting the differently colored word "run" in the sentence on that screen, or are you clicking the play button above the code that's above that screen? I was doing the former at first, until I noticed that button. Also on Firefox, but Windows 10.
Analog Input Technologies for Keyboards
Yeah, here is 1994 using genetic algorithms in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBt0imn77Zg
It's not that pop singers aren't talented. It's just that pop music as a genre is pretty much boring, and the artists that appear every season, or every "America's got talent" edition, they all are easily forgettable. You could switch covers and sell Selena Gomez album as Ariana Grande album and noone would even notice the difference.

Pop music is a commodity, and as any commodity it's pricing/value is basically a race to bottom.
They can only realize the cash 6 months after IPO. The question is how much will the stock be worth then?
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/10/game-changing-study-...

Word of the day 'BP' - 'years before present'. The 'present' in BP is set at 1950, as this was close to when radiometric dating began to be used -
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-20026-8
The age thing is complicated... yes, a lot of over 50s voted leave, BUT a lot of over 80s voted remain on the basis of remembering WW2, and those have been dying like flies.

That said, pretty much everyone that was 15-17.99 would have voted 'remain' had they been given the option (and many of them now feel cheated by their grandparents), and that's a lot of new voters.
Pareto for Acquisitions?
I wanted to know what percent of startups are acquired for <10 million, < 20 million.. and so forth. Would any of you people happen to have a clue of how the curve would look like ?
It's bizarre - if corporations are people, then surely the converse is true as well?
> Seems like it would be much less useful to copy his configs rather than building your own organic system after years of use, though - which is what he did.

This is a great point and one I've been thinking about more recently. Tools and/or setups like the one displayed in the post with this level of specificity or complexity seem like they would be almost useless packaged up as a standalone. Much more valuable would be the system on which this was built (vim and the collections of extensions he used, not saying this is anywhere near an idea workflow but as you know if you use vim - it is extensible in its own right). Or, rather than that system, to take inspiration in it and design tools with much more intentional flexibility to allow people to build their experience.

I recently had a great conversation about how science educators might wish to have 3 brown 1 blue style animations or experiments, but such a programming tool would be much too difficult to teach to the educators. I think that is totally true, 3b1b generates his videos programmatically and while I believe some version of his tool is open source, he does not offer any support. But there is something to the idea of having one's own publishing tool and workflow to allow the exploration of ideas in whatever field it may be. For Science teachers, they ought to be able to play in a tool like 3b1b uses, but it can't be his exact one, it seems they'd need some well thought out foundation upon which to express their mental models of physics or geometry or whatever it is.

3b1b about page; first item is his modeling approach: https://www.3blue1brown.com/faq

3b1b animation: https://github.com/3b1b/manim
I'm sorry that happened.

I remember in Boston, a couple guys walked out of a bar, one pointed at me, and after some quick talking, realized I had to either fight or flight, and they pursued me. They both looked pretty muscular, and I dont know why they targeted me.

I called the police, let them know I was running, and the operator told me "OK maybe we will send someone" and hung up.
I've often joked that the companies I work for should give their source code to their competitors. By the time the competitors figure it out, our company will be so far ahead :-)

It is interesting to speculate on the value of source code, though. For Tesla autopilot I'm more than willing to accept that there is some "secret sauce" of trade secrets in there that would help out a competitor, but usually I find that source code contains the most mundane stuff. Most professionals could write it nearly as fast as they could learn to work with the legacy systems if they knew what they were building. Instead it's the requirements that are gold. You figure out exactly what needs to be built in a great amount of detail, then you are at least as well off as having it big ball of messy logic.

Take note those that want to "steal" a competitor's project: just buy a copy of the executable and start figuring out exactly what it does ;-)

BTW, as a (on topic) side note, I once had an ex-colleague tell me that they copied all of the source code for every company they ever worked for -- just so they could look stuff up. It is not completely implausible that an ex-employee would copy the code to help their own performance without any involvement of their new employer.
I've done so much air travel for work and would love to catch a train on the way back. But the fact that it costs such a ridiculous amount just doesn't work. The price really need to compete against driving your own vehicle. If you plan it right air travel can be very cheap, just wish I could afford taking a slow train on a Friday to be home in time for work Monday and cost me $100 or less
What applications besides games use these? Has anyone used them for user interface studies?
Plenty of people are making money in music, just not artists.
In theory, sure.

In theory Britain can remind everyone that referenda have never been binding, and always been frowned upon as unconstitutional, so we're ignoring it and staying in.

The practical chances of either at this point are, shall we say slim?

I'm waiting to see what happens when we inevitably have a longer extension and so have to conduct the European election.
IMHO, giving an additional third party access to your main email account which is usually the key to your entire online identify seemed like a major increase in security risks. I think Google's concern is less that IFTTT is going to hack you and more that IFTTT may not be securely handling this data and may be hacked.

I would only give IFTTT access to a secondary email address that recieves specific types of emails, possibly automatically forwarded by Gmail's filtering rules.
Avery Brooks has distanced himself from DS9 intentionally; he considers that part of his career done.
No self driving program is relying entirely on camera based systems otherwise they would struggle at night. Tesla for example is augmenting it with radar.

I am not an expert but I wouldn't trust a camera only solution purely on the fact you could never keep it completely clean and therefore you could have the car mistaking dust for an object.
A pair of these is just begging to be pointed towards each other and modified to form a Free Space Optical communications link.
Anyone knows how AI Gigapixel differs from DLSS? (outside Topaz Labs ofc). Thanks!
Good news for IFTT, who presumably can afford to pay this (and could use the results elsewhere).

Bad news for smaller players.
My pet theory is the combination of a rise in CCTV and cell phones + the increased use of credit cards put a big damper. Think of how many situations would be scary, if it not were for the fact that CCTV and/or a passerby on a phone would lead to a swift arrest?

While there will always be smash and grabs and the like, I think smart criminals have realized there are steep penalties for muggings, the response time is much lower than it was previously, and even if you succeed you won't get much out of it since the CCs will soon be cancelled, the phone is IMEI locked, and the wallet only has a twenty.
they don't really manage it well, the drugs they use depress all cognitive activity and patients almost always stop taking them.

their cure for depression is pills that zonk people out too
Majority of scooters in LA will share your location with city
Poll Shows 1 in 4 Prefer AI to Make Policy Decisions
well if you can get bash, ssh, fswatch, rsync and socat we could get something going... ;-)

For iOS coda is pretty good. I've used Codeanywhere for android; 2-way sync would need to be integrated in the app itself on these platforms, I would think...
I'm hitting the play button. Something is definitely running, there's lots output in the little text console (at least initially)
Tree fitty.
That's around the time you started being able to do most of your major shopping by credit card. (Grocery stores, department stores)
Ok, so further down in the comments there is this:

> Superficially there is some sense - the higher frequency signals are rendered less and less accurately, and nearer a binary on-off. Who knows what nuance and harmonics may be lost affecting what's heard at lower frequencies.

It's true that at a given sampling rate, if you choose a sine wave with a frequency right below Nyquist it is composed of fewer samples per period than a lower frequency sine. But lots of audiophiles-- like the one I quoted above-- seem to equate "fewer samples" with "less accuracy" which does not follow[1].

So here's the question-- what would it sound like if you built a filter to make this common misunderstanding true? So the closer the frequency content gets to Nyquist, the more the filter distorts that frequency.

It would be fun to build so that people could apply it to digital input and realize just how awful the output would sound if their misunderstanding of digital audio were true.

[1] https://www.xiph.org/video/vid2.shtml
> They fill up the whole block almost, leaving hardly any space for a garden.

You're welcome to live in a tiny house on an otherwise empty block if you prefer. Me, I like to have room inside my house where it's nice and air conditioned.

Or are you saying people should just be rich and be able to afford nice big houses on even bigger blocks of land (but still within a reasonable commute time of the city)?
Honestly, I have found reading "How do Design Programs" challenging. May be it doesn't flow perhaps because of the use of an unfamiliar language? Do you have a specific approach that helps you?
Why is it nuts?

Last year Amazon did $10B in ad sales. That was double the year before. Google did about $130B for the same time period. Doesn't seem nuts to me that Amazon can grow their share of the pie quickly. They are #3 globally now.

For context, AWS did about $25B and everyone raves about how high the margins are there -- I bet the ad margins are better!

https://adage.com/article/digital/amazon-makes-quick-work-ad...
"thraed ripper"

Maybe not the most compelling example, but I think it's usually with really blatant misspellings that Google will second guess my quoted terms, which can be annoying if I'm actually looking for the misspelled term.
I think perhaps I wasn't clear enough on the boundaries of my analogy and where it falls apart.

You work in the industry so you know that the FDA is not highly prescriptive. They give you a general outline of, essentially, process. HIPAA goes into more detail, but still, an organization has quite a bit of leeway as to how the meet regulatory requirements.

As far as passwords go, you're correct. Passwords in logs aren't a direct violation as far as I'm aware. If e.g. an employee gained access to data they shouldn't have access to per internal policy and used that data in an illegal manner, _then_ you have a problem.

Still though, I never meant to imply that what happened at FB would violate FDA regs. What I said was:

>I've worked in healthcare / biotech for more than a decade and I can promise you that the FDA would see no difference between the two types of gaffes.

The "two types" in question here were defined by the GP ("easy to make" mistakes like logging and something something about database design.) I wasn't referring to passwords specifically, and I don't believe that this is as bad as e.g. PHI just sitting around for anyone to see.

The analogy was meant to convey this; in a health care environment we are required to secure (encrypt) PHI and PII at rest. If we were found in violation of that, it wouldn't matter if it got there via logs or poor database design.

Again, I realize this is not an FDA/HIPAA situation. My experience with sensitive data is in that sort of environment, and I believe the same sort of mentality should be taken by FB in regards to the security and privacy of their users.

Wow, didn't expect that to get so long. My thumbs aren't made for this.
Maybe you have something to teach me.

Are you not convinced that Google Search, DDG, Gmail, Facebook, WhatsApp, Snapchat are all "good" products in the eye of many people? As far as I can tell, all of those products are paid for by sponsors.
Looks like a lot of those would benefit from a little more evolving. Apparently the generations varied from 50-100. This paper is really interesting, and shows how detailed the simulation is: http://www.karlsims.com/papers/siggraph94.pdf
Patent trolls are the secondary market for IP; whether they fund it pre or post hoc is not that important.
I don't get the point? Parents are not your friend they are their to teach you about real life.

As an adult you have to deal with saying no and not getting a no response.

What are we trying to achieve a bunch of basement dwelling adults who can't deal with the hardships of the real world?

We own and have control of our bodies more than any time in history but it's still very little control, some of it all the time, some of it part of the time.

If you can't deal with that you won't handle life.
Honest question, why has nobody gone after them for monopolistic practices?
Looks like a good list to start with.
Quite impressive, you can basically run anything on a VNC, this could even be used for automated browser testing and many other things! Congrats!
Steve Albini on the State of the Music Industry (2014)
Does "A Philosophy of Software Design" need some experience to appreciate what the author is talking about?
The era of medicine where we administer a 100 mg pill of a small molecule to 3000 patients, calculate a P value and release it for sale is dead. There's a huge industry, so it's not aware of its death yet, but the research world has moved on. I think the paradigm will be based around deep understanding of the genomics, proteomics, histology, spatial distribution of the problem in the body, and licensing for sale platforms that produce custom proteins, T cells, small molecules, <intervention of choice>, designed on the fly. It's 30 years out, but if you're betting the bank on a small molecule in a phase 3 trial, that model is only going to hold up for so long.
What's funny is many of these IFTTT integrations appear to have been written by the Google Gmail team themselves.

Like this one, for example: https://ifttt.com/applets/jMfVncBv-press-a-button-to-quickly...
What's the point of these drills? It's not like the cops are going to go into a school with an active shooter and stop him. They'll just wait outside while the children get killed and hope the shooter kills himself like in every other school shooting. Or maybe they like to practice murdering teachers and other innocent people since they think it's part of their job? Seems pretty insane the school would let them carry out their sick fantasies this way.
Researchers create fake profiles on 24 health apps and find dubious data sharing
Researchers create fake profiles on 24 health apps and find dubious data sharing.
I can't tell what article this map is associated with. But it appears to be a summary of when various places on earth were first settled by each homo. Australia was first settled by the Aborigines about 50k years ago, entering via Southeast Asia. Much later, New Zealand was first settled by the Maori 800 years ago, entering via Taiwan, Southeast Asia (after the Aborigines' ancestors), and the Pacific Islands, though these migrations aren't shown on this very simple map.
why is it becoming a trend to make idiot analogies that are clearly useless as an argument (because they aren't the same thing) here in hackernews?!
Game Developers Need to Unionize
Unfortunately a lot of rails internals are like this :(.
The cops will probably claim they felt in danger for their lives in this drill and the prosecutor will refuse to bring charges. Just another day at the office for these scumbags.
Worked in two data sensitive industries as well. There is no excuse, completely agree. This is amateur and completely indicative of a broken dev process
Awesome, just put together a movie poster using the orange / blue combo.
Thanks for pointing that out. It's exhausting reading people in this thread getting very excited and demonstrative about the fact that a flexible system like salt provides a way to do this that results in a serialized data stream. They assume that they know better how this should be done, and posture about their superiority vs. some kind of straw man.
Yeah, make an offer for every dead company, and let’s see
I think the political situation in many of those countries speaks volumes. There are very few countries or peoples which have a genuinely positive view of Western occupation. Most countries that have a positive view of "Western" nations above Russia are the ones that are bribed (weapon contracts, free defense, release of political pressure) or bullied (application of political pressure) to have it.

If you spend some time looking at the divisive, genocidal campaigns of the Americans, British and French across Western, Southern and South-Eastern Asia it's not hard to see why.
S3 Style Object Storage in your own Kubernetes cluster on any cloud
I once crashed a production server by accidentally running an infinite loop.
Ask HN: What do you guys think about Ludwig from Uber?
Uber just open sourced Ludwig. Ludwig allows you to train and test deep learning models without the need to write code. Do you think people will find this useful? Who do you think will use it?
This is a clever point. I think, even if I am being bombed, I don’t want my neighbors to die[1]. I would care very much about why. But if the hammer is coming down on me, it’s better for everyone if it’s only me.

[1] except maybe that one across the alley that starts loud parties at 3:00 am. If I’m going down you can too guy.
Poster might refer to the limited availability of certain Internet services from China - but as your numbers show, it's not preventing China from being largest ecommerce market.
> 40% of the world's e-commerce transactions currently take place in China

> on their local Intranet

As if AliExpress.com is non-exist outside China?

Many non-China websites are blocked in China.

Yet Chinese websites serves globally.

Think about it.
I don't know about you, but I'm paid to perform(much like a live musician I suppose). I don't get residuals on my performance. I don't list myself as the writer or composer of my code and receive payment if someone uses or derives their own work from mine. My employer might.

I haven't seen anyone here saying musicians shouldn't get paid when they perform for an audience or for a certain purpose (let's say a commercial or soundtrack)
Ad Fraud Scheme Drained Users' Batteries and Data by Running Hidden Video Ads
I want the opposite. I want to block China and Russia and a few other countries that constantly try to hack my site.
In case anyone is interested in Mail and Express:

http://utahrails.net/pass/amtrak-mail-express.htm

It stopped in 2004, presumably due to declines in mail volume. (Which I wonder if it would make sense again now, due to more mail-order package shipping.)

Anyway, it's not really "freight" in the sense that most people think of a freight train. It's all Amtrak rolling stock.

They still do offer Express shipping services between some stations. It's a very cheap way to send something between NYC and Washington for same-day arrival, especially if it's a big box. You have to have someone go to the train station on either end to get your stuff, though. They move them around on the passenger trains that have baggage cars (the 'named' trains, typically at least on the East Coast).
If you pull out a big enough "ethics" magnifying glass, you will find ethical flaws in every corporation. One can make the argument, depending on where on the "woke sliding scale" you may lie, that shopping at Walmart is better for the environment than Amazon: they already have a streamlined, efficient supply chain and logistics operation. Amazon relies on a myriad of logistical networks, with many inefficiencies still yet to be solved. But again, not the reason I am shopping/not shopping there.

It has nothing to do with sticking it to anyone. Amazon doesn't have the same value proposition as it once did. I realized I was using it just to use it, among other reasons.
NPK: A mostly-serverless distributed hash cracking platform
Only if the vanilla analytics product without any adwords or partner scheme options (i.e. coming from google-analytics.com rather than anything coming from Google.com). Plus it could disappear on a whim (as did Bing for a couple of days last month), so unless the use-case is unavoidable, why not self-host?
Can we (HN community) please stop upvoting sciencealert garbage? They never cease to post utterly sensationalist garbage that is always clickbait titled and never accurately represents the information.
Look into ASN blacklisting.
> There is nothing humans are even theoretically capable of that is worse [than capitalism].

A bartender once made me an Old Fashioned without muddling the sugar. Are you certain that’s not worse?
Its 1 dollar cheaper to buy a new set than to replace them indivudually. Typical apple.
Animals and plants don't care as much about higher infant mortality, cancers or lower lifespans as humans do. Plus the cumulative effects of radiation are less deadly than human predation and habitat destruction.
> It can be frustrating to experience long delays if you have a tight schedule

Very true. Although I've had some awful delays on airlines as well, and given the choice between being stuck on a passenger train and in a plane, I'd take the train every time. (Though admittedly the airlines have gotten slightly better about not leaving passengers on planes to stew in their own juices on the tarmac for hours and hours. But it took some people really slapping them around in court I think.)
You can replace 'watch' with 'bitcoin' and the article still works.