skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> distributing ownership of productive assets instead of just income

Yeah, that's pretty much standard communism ("collective ownership of the means of production"). The million dollar question, is "how do we go about doing this without setting up a fascist state?"
This sounds great. Basically the web created a cross platform & sandboxed API to access everything we need (Camera, Sensors, OpenGl through WebGl, etc.) but it was very opinionated (for historical reasons) as it imposes the slow JS, the DOM, CSS/HTML etc.

Now this is the same idea but, this time, one layer lower so that we can have performance, the language we want, etc. This is kind what I always wished would happen.

It will be interesting to see how the sandboxing will work with already existing sandboxing solutions. For e.g a WebAssembly app packaged as a Android/Flatpak/UWP/etc. , there will be the need to make mappings between the permissions of the two sandbox systems. Or even maybe one day we'll have the Webassembly sandbox as the only sandbox (like in https://github.com/nebulet/nebulet)
I’ve given up trying to understand this. For me, buying a physical disc, transferring the files to my computer, and either putting them into Dropbox or transferring them via VLC to each of my devices is so easy.

Amazon music downloads & Bandcamp downloads are even easier.

What’s not easy is needing to manage a subscription account, log in on multiple devices, and either manage caching music local to the device (and frequently needing to clear items out of the cache to switch with other items) or always use cellular data services to stream music.

I obviously cannot argue with massive consumer trends, but personally I do not understand how anyone thinks streaming services are more convenient. I cannot empathize with any use case where streaming would be more convenient.

Whether I’m discovering new music, sharing music, making playlists, or anything else, the absolute number one thing I need is the raw music files. Convenience starts & stops with that.
And "Bitwise" is suppose to be trusted? Where is this report of their findings...
Two jobs ago we were crammed into open office like sardines. The city even complained that they gave the company permission to build the buildings based on X occupants, but we had 2X. Some people had to park a mile away from the offices on a street. Yet the city wanted the tax revenue and looked the other way.
Microsoft sues to take control of domains involved in Iran hacking campaign
Physicist (PhD 2017, hep theory/phenomenology) currently working as a researcher (in the context of AI and robotics) in a Silicon Valley startup.

I am greatly excited about ideas at the interface of probabilistic inference and quantum/statistical physics. On the one hand, these should help create better ML models/algorithms; on the other hand, I believe that tools from probabilistic inference will help better understand emergent phenomena in complex systems. The former is what I'm focusing on right now, the latter, I think might take a couple of decades.

When graduating with a PhD and thinking about what I'd like to do next, I didn't think I was a good fit for life on the academic track (post-doc, tenure-track, etc), given the kind of questions I wanted to think about and the manner in which I wanted to pursue them. I also wanted to gain some experience writing software and applying ML to real world problems (as a "regularizing" effect on my theorizing), so I took the path I did.

I've come to realize that I'm a researcher at heart, and it's difficult for me to not spend time exploring new ideas. I just need to find the time and space to do that, and I'm trying to structure my life so that I can.

> Also I have noticed a growing trend of physicists becoming data scientists post phD. Although I understand the money factor, are there any other reasons for this as well?

I think this has always been the case, at least as far back as software in the '90s and then finance and now "data science" added to the mix. The typical physics education/training makes one a generalist with a broad background in problem solving and mathematical tools, and a flexible mindset, so that one can adapt to be effective on the problem du jour, while there is a dearth of specialists with the specific skills necessary. I imagine this overarching trend continue to be true going forward as well.
Particle phenomenology (hep-ph) PhD in 2014. Left after 1st postdoc (3 years).

I had two kids during my postdoc and quickly became disenchanted with the prospect of hunting for postdocs in a random part of the world. I was as interested in statistics and machine learning techniques, so moving into industry was not terrible. I still love the formalism of supergravity, but it looks to be becoming less and less relevant in hep-ph.

You're absolutely right that data science is a common destination for exiles. It makes the most sense because we get to still read interesting mathy papers, develop computational tools. The mechanics are very similar for physicists (in certain fields). Literally every single former physicist friend I have on LinkedIn is working as a Data Scientist, except one who is teaching physics at a private high school in NYC.

When I left my postdoc, I worked at a data science startup for a year, and now I do general software and applied ML at google.
The open-plan areas at my company are kept limited in size. Our area seats about a max of 14 people and right now we have 10 people. Everyone has their own movable standing desk and the company provides pretty good noise-cancelling headphones if you want.

Given the limited amount of people and decent sized area, there is a good amount of space between desks and the noise level never really gets that high since there aren't really that many people around.
ah, copy the title and search it via Google worked out (using the link in Google search did not worked).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomar_Explorer has often been considered one of those items, given that there was seemingly very little to gain by bringing up a ship twenty years after it sank.

But there are also some conspiracies about why the sub had fifteen extra people onboard and that Kissinger was looking for more information on that.
I'm not familiar with what happened from beginning to end, but regardless of the actual chain of events or if the CEO was right or wrong to kick him out, I'm not sure how users can still trust Daniel after destroying signing keys.
On the certificates, we'd state e.g. "this policy runs from 27th March 2019 at 16:52:12 (GMT) to 3rd April 2019 at 17:52:12 (BST)" for a 168-hour (~7 day) policy.

Logically, we think of it as the "wall clock" time, plus the location ("Europe/London" - we don't operate outside the UK yet), plus the local zone (BST/GMT) to handle ambiguity when clocks go back.

Practically, right now the start/end date-times are stored using a Postgres timestamp with no timezone. As we've never issued an individual policy of more than 28 days' duration or more than 7 days in advance, we've never actually had to deal with any situation where the point-in-time is no longer correct. And this case is not likely to happen without a decent amount of notice.

We're very much in favour of abolishing seasonal transitions though - causes lots of confusion.
Yes and no. I live next door to a couple (who have become our friends) that are ideologically opposed to us. Despite our houses being physically next to each other, we might as well inhabit a different world when it comes to politics. It would not be accurate to say they disagree with us on the issues, because to get to disagreement we would at least need to agree on the underlying facts. Without that structure, any discussion stalls immediately. It's like living in a different country.
I don't have personal experience living in China. I've followed SerpentZA and laowhy86 on youtube for many years, who share and film their own experiences living in southern China. They have a shared channel, ADVChina, where they ride around on motorcycles and discuss often controversial topics related to China and the upsides and downsides of being a foreigner there. They have some great content and a few good documentaries too: Conquering Southern China and Conquering Northern China.

[1]:https://www.youtube.com/user/churchillcustoms
Which is why storing the time data in UTC isn't a correct approach, because it just become countdown timer. A user may need to be reminded at specific time in a future, on a specific time zone. And it can't be reached by merely put a countdown timer.
It is never too late to have a happy childhood.
IMO, unless you really need to live in China for whatever reason, you should focus on starting a career in the States and getting an expat assignment in China. You will have a much more comfortable lifestyle and have something at home to go back to if things don't pan out.
It doesn't matter how complex a studied phenomenon; if proper methods are not used, it is not science.

Both astrology and astronomy can study the same stars -- the difference is in methods they use (and only one is science).
Au contraire, the estimates on empty housing units in SF varies between 15,000 and 30,000 (SF Tenants Union claims this IIRC). I've seen estimates as high as 1 in 8. Some blame this on rent control. Others on parking money in real estate. Vancouver and Oakland have reacted by enacting an empty house tax. SF I believe is also considering it.
I love cross-over episodes like this.

Patiently waiting for when eBPF gets it's turn inside the browser.
I do not believe to be true any longer. A recent law passed by congress, H.R. 1865 made that illegal in an effort to fight online sex trafficking.
There are ways to do it properly, e.g. how Chrome lets you bypass HSTS by typing "badidea".
I disagree with your points, and think there is no need to act so jaded.

When asking these questions, you will sometimes get honest answers and sometimes get the pre-canned responses. How people choose to answer questions tells you a lot about the kind of person you're dealing with. I value the answers not just for their content, but also how the person chooses to interact with me.

If a CEO only flatters me with sugary answers then he's likely lying to my face, which is a trait I dislike in leaders. Unfortunately, this behavior will trickle down to managers and peers (with occasional short lived exceptions). If he's honest about the issues they face then I can likely expect the same from others.

Culture in a company extends far beyond hiring, firing, and promotion. Those are unique events that combined happen a couple days a year in a smaller company. Day to day culture is far more significant, and focuses on how we are expected treat each other. Honesty, acknowledgement of problems, and transparency are the things to look for.
Actually the council tax pays for a large proportion of local government spending its not a hypothecated tax.
And by 10 years, I mean 25 and counting, but I don't count the first 15 since Im self taught and there wasn't much of any internet then.. so even if I sucked.. I was still an expert compared to the next guy in the phone book.
Been a Mac user since the very early fat Macs. Love Macs. Will miss iTerm. Can’t stand the new keyboards, let alone their reliability issues, my fingers feel like they are typing directly on a desk/concrete. Fingers hurt.

Went to Dell XPS 13. Awesome
Machines. Run Linux great. Got given a Thinkpad T407 and fell absolutely in love with the keyboard. It may not be perfect, but comparing side by side with the MBP 2017 one, it’s so much better that I can’t believe I put up with the MBP one.
> reprimanding and alienating state and local officials who sign contracts for voting machines without any sort of serious security, auditing or compliance provisions.

What other options do these officials have?

The companies have the choice to improve their security of their hardware at the possible expense of lowering their profit margins.

Whenever you're deciding who to point the finger at, one simple rule is "Can this person actually effect change?" If the answer is "no", then blaming them isn't helpful.
Because maximizing local task performance ≠ maximizing group task performance.
Well, that's part of the deal if UBI is ever to get off the ground.

Normally UBI is considered to be sort of a truce between the left and the right. The left wants the UBI, and the right wants to get rid of government bureaucrats. The left gives up on the government bureaucrats ("gut social programs") and the right gives up on tossing out all forms of welfare.

Of course, both sides are motivated to break the truce. You just admitted that in fact, wanting to not "gut social programs". Enforcing the truce doesn't seem possible.
If you can't afford to live in a non-rent controlled apartment in a given area, that's not going to change if your own apartment becomes non-rent controlled. You'll just be forced to move out of the area to somewhere more affordable.

I really don't see how making more apartments expensive to live in helps anyone but landlords.
I feel like this should be an obviously true statement. It would be inordinately improbable to be good at something complex that one doesn't understand.
Coding boot camps are all the rage in tech. Can that model work for biotech?
Red (the angry/ grumpy father character) is the reason that show resonated with me.

I'm not much of a TV watcher but the "wise/understanding/caring adults" on TV were not my experience growing up in the 70s and early 80s. We feared the adults, and we knew they didn't get us but also they weren't completely stupid.
I am sure it changes but I wouldn’t want to live there for sure and I feel sorry for the people who have to put up with it.
Wireless Networking in the Developing World
Devaney was my advisor's advisor when he did he his PhD at BU. I took a course on discrete dynamics and chaos and wrote my senior year thesis on bifurcation diagrams.

We used this textbook by Devaney:
https://www.amazon.com/First-Course-Chaotic-Dynamical-System...

Was absolutely fascinated by the class. One of my favorites from undergrad.
None of these people do that though, they all work on theoretical research.

Do you hold the same opinion of the people at Bell labs who got Turing or Nobel awards?
The thesis behind this editorial is in direct contradiction to your idea. The reason that people become apathetic is only tangentially related to ownership...it is actually about incidence: who benefits from improvements in public services? In a world where landowners successfully push for land scarcity, all benefits of public services go to landowners, regardless of whether or not they are residents, pushing non-landowner residents to apathy towards public service improvement.

If you don't restrict land uses, allowing everybody to live in the city without being sucked dry by landowners' economic rents, then both renters and resident-owners will be pushing for public service improvements, while the institutional or non-resident owners will be the ones apathetic towards improvements. Renters don't make the city worse, concentrated economic benefits going solely to landowners does that.
It saddened me when Boyle and Smith won the Nobel prize in Physics for inventing CCD which powers digital cameras and is of no use other than surveillance by big brother. Don't get me started about Alexander Graham Bell /s
Just after New Year I got some email from Spotify about looking at stats for exactly that kind of thing, it required giving access to a 3rd party (which I revoked immediately after), which suggests to me that it's all data that you can grab from the API.
That's like saying "now that we have Minix there isn't any need for Windows anymore". WASI is awesome, but the Web is here to stay.
evil people can use money for evil, does that make money evil and thus we should avoid having money? then only evil people would have all the money

evil people can use guns for evil, does that make guns evil?

evil comes from the heart into the hand and into the tool

if we demonize the tool then we surrender it entirely to evil
true that @Upvoter33.Nice response
Are you a programmer? Because that doesn't sound helpful. If I didn't have internet at home, I basically wouldn't learn.
Keybase's UI is still bad. It prominently highlights the "Let them (the eavesdropper) in" button, and the warning has so much red that it's hard to read the text.
Thank you for explaining the context. I appreciate your willingness to engage here. Your characterization of my perspective is correct. I had not heard of your project before encountering this link, and if I've got a moment later I'd be happy to read your paper and find out more about what you are doing.

[after reading: this is a great project and I deeply appreciate the amount of thought that went into its design. It would have been nice if there were some way to bring more of that awareness into the initial reading experience, instead of just dropping us into something unfamiliar and confusing, but that's a limitation of the hackernews interface and I'm not sure what you could have done about it other than show up and explain as you are doing here. Keep up the good work!]
The 227 slide presentation, with sources & methodology, is here:

https://www.sec.gov/comments/sr-nysearca-2019-01/srnysearca2...

Just an FYI, this can be found in about 13 seconds of Googling
A) Parenting. You will mostly have no parenting on your own in China. Tech companies will make you work long hours. It is not uncommon that when you finished work and back home, your kid is already asleep. When you leave home early to catch the train, your kid is still asleep. It is not a joke but many Chinese young couples only see their kids during weekend, even they live together. You think leaving your kid to your parents 5 days per week is good? Noooooooooo

B) Medicare. Every time your kid gets fever: IV. Your parents just love it. They think it is the best. Chinese people love to have their kids get blood test, X-ray for just cough... Children's hospitals are crowded by (grand)parents and kids who simply have cold (see pictures and story http://www.sohu.com/a/212568582_407108). Most Chinese people (including educated middle class) do not understand get cold is not because of cold, it is because of virus.

C) Also everybody knows: the highly competitive education system is a huge burden on kids and parents. It is common to spend lots of money to purchase apartment at good school district (xue qu fang). And many parents do this for kids going to elementary school, middle school, high school... Middle class life is not easy.
Whoa. Personal attacks will get you banned here. We've warned you about this more than once before. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules when posting here. When you do, don't miss this one, since it should have changed your assumption about the GP:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."
original video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNeZWP5Mx9s
One of the many dirty tricks that the Republicans use to remain in power is to pass laws that selectively disenfranchise minorities and other likely Democratic voters. So I don't think this is disingenuous at all. The fact that fewer people vote is in no small measure because of Republican dirty tricks [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/03/us/politics/voting-suppre...
That's not the only edge case, and the blog points that out.
I actually _do_ reverify safety numbers out-of-band every time they change.
Definitely. The fact that I can even make such a joke strongly supports that.
We told them; build it and we'll come. They built it, we came, and we're all better for it.

Now if only MPAA and friends would listen...
None of these tricks will help if I’m insuring myself for international travel. Only the trip to and from the airport is in the time zone of the policy.

Any incidents along the way or after that are going to need an interpretation relative to UTC.
What's the point of using an encrypted chat at all if you don't care if it's hacked?
Microsoft mercifully puts an end to April Fools' Day gags
I don’t claim to be an expert here so please correct me but if the mainframe vendors want to extend the life of this technology then they should invest a bit more in helping curious explorers access them. Whether through emulation, documentation which is a bit zippier (i.e., more Whys Guide to Ruby and less 1978 phone book, etc...). The closed nature of information on mainframes means that it’s hard for people to catch the bug of interest in them by fooling around first.
> From a legal perspective, the time written on the policy doc is inclusive - we can't just decide that we want it to be exclusive because it suits our purposes.

Well, apparently it's not if it's understood that it covers leap seconds as well. With regard to the internal modeling, I always go for half-open intervals, where the open side depends on the data being modeled, they have much nicer mathematical properties than closed intervals.
Join the progressives fighting this FUD: https://www.sfyimby.org/
> People keep buying the product!

Not all of us.

I was saving up for a high-end MBP but the 2018s came out with essentially the same design and little public acknowledgement of the keyboard flaw, so I ended up building a rather beefy hackintosh with that money, instead.

I miss the portability, but gained power, thermal headroom, the ability to upgrade/replace individual parts, and a ton of expansion. It is glorious. And I paid a fraction of what I would have paid Apple.
Over $10 to Drive in Manhattan? What We Know About the Congestion Pricing Plan
GP isn’t asking whether it's legal to sue software companies for the acts of users. He’s asking if it's right and/or sensible.

There are many, many corporations that sold services to Backpage. If the red line is built around awareness of wrongdoing, you are just going to create an incentive for corporations to stop being socially active and an incentive to remain ignorant to customers' backgrounds.

Yes, we may want to regulate certain influential industries to require them to do due diligence on their clientele. No, I don't think it makes sense to penalize these players before this regulation is put in place due to the perverse incentives.
> but the law does create liability if the seller knew or should have known the buyer intended to use the good/service in the commission of a crime.

It does? I’m a (former) lawyer and this is news to me. Not saying it’s wrong, just wondering what the crime is (aiding and abetting? accomplice liability? conspiracy?) I’m not sure how any of these quite fit. Would love to be enlightened!
Highway connections are actually used heavily in NLP in combination with LSTMs.
...Fukushima? Is it a typo for someone (or some company)?
It's probably the only way to get rid of his power of attorney.
> is the intent that miri could find much beyond what the sanitizers could?

I believe so. AIUI miri is checking that the code follows a formally specified definition of what is defined behavior, at least as far as the memory model goes (it doesn't check data races for instance). While it can't say that on any input your program doesn't hit undefined pointer behavior, it can say with certainty that the execution it ran through did not (w.r.t. the memory model).

Here's an example of some code that miri does catch, and where ubsan doesn't catch the closest translation I could make of it to C, despite both containing undefined behavior. If you just run the code (at least with debug settings on the current stable) it does what you would naively expect despite the undefined behavior.

https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...