skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It just demonstrates that Google/FB/[SOFTWARE] is a wonderful business, and Tesla/Cars/[CAPITAL INTENSIVE] is a waste of money. The market realizes this pretty well, so most money goes into developing and funding new software companies.
Activision pays employees to share data about their pregnancy
I'm not an expert, is this (93%) by conviction or plea deal? One would assume he doesn't plea guilty.
Thanks for the links, man. More info about MH17 fake photo: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2014/11/14/russian-state-tel...
Will regulators allow machines to kill people? Human drivers killing themselves and others are a part of human nature, but will politicians and the public accept that people get killed through no fault of their own by mistakes machines make?
To be fair, China has a HUGE rural population that might be close to 10X Germany size. They can’t even work on tech or any high value added industry because of their low education level on average. So I’d bet per-capita China will NEVER beat German while tech sector 10X more productive and 100X bigger in scale
I just want to know, from the people who seemed to have turned against Assange, how do you know it's not a concerted disinformation / propaganda campaign to remove all his credibility and reduce public support?

By my reckoning It's really hard to know what to even believe about a guy who might credibly be targeted by that.
Mostly it's due to the accused's right to confront the accusations and be heard. There is also a lot of ugly history of using trial in absentia to, for example, get rid of political enemies: quickly convene a trial and convict them while they are abroad, avoiding a long trial allowing them to make their case and forcing them into exile.

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

Note that Mallya has not been convicted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijay_Mallya#Accusations

He is charged with different crimes and therefore there is a warrant out, and a request for extradition: "When he failed to appear, the Supreme Court said the contempt case would only proceed further after he is produced before the court".

There are also multiple court verdicts in favour of banks and business partners, but those are all civil law, not criminal.
I believe there were never any criminal charges filed against him, he was only ever investigated.
He did not run to the UK. The charges in Sweden had been dropped and he was allowed to leave the country. I'll give you that the UK is a bad choice to go, but at the time he was free and clear of any charges. Only after he was in the UK, Sweden reopened their investigation, and at first reported him as a "witness" they'd like to interview, and that's what they based their request for extradition on. He wasn't "accused" at the time Sweden filed.

His "pre-text" wasn't that he feared the UK would extradite him to the US, but that the UK would extradite him to Sweden, which would extradite him to the UK. So he was fearful of Sweden, not the UK. You can say that this is stupid or even claim he cannot genuinely believe that and is therefore disingenuous, but unless a true mindreader shows up, we cannot know what he thought and feared, really.
>An investment in the gigafactory would be more like investing in a new city.

Like a Chinese ghost city?
AFAIR, the idea is that they all spy on each other so that they cannot be accused of spying on their own citizen. So when Germany needs to know more about one of their citizens they can ask the USA.
So I guess I'll just let GP be miserable in their choices then!

Take my post as advice on how to enjoy something that may not be your passion.
People don't surrender their outside political views, their lineage, sexual orientation and other background either. See how stupid the article would sound if titled: "Jane Doe: The divorced homosexual black democratic woman with three children behind the first black hole image". Science matters.
Really nice.
Why is there no syntax highlighting in the editor tho ?
I mean there is color only on the rendered object.
>"Windows 3.1 in my BIOS? It's more likely than you think".

That is a pretty misleading title to me, it sounds like they discovered many bios's have embedded windows 3.1 to run the user interface.

Instead its about someone purposefully loading windows 3.1 onto their bios flash chip, and how they made it functional. "How i embedded windows 3.1 into my bios" or something would be a more descriptive title.

edit: Or even "Windows 3.1 Flash edition", as the original page & hn post have, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19630502
Bravo. Does anybody know of an energy-efficieny criterion or so to drive the 201x's webapp abominations out of existence going forward?
I'm 46.

I cannot say whether age bias had any impact on my job searches. There have been interview processes that did not result in offers, which did not happen when I was younger. Maybe I was lucky early on. Maybe something has changed.

But I can say that every time I have looked, I have found work.
> Now if you worked at SpaceX and worked on testing their flight systems, then I'd be more inclined to trust you

Wow that's harsh. You may want to add a bit of sugar to that; it's not nice addressing fellow developers like that. Just a thought.
In Assange's situation, I would have made the same gamble.

It's only logical to hedge a potentially decade-long sentence with a likely inescapable two year sentence.

When the charges are bogus and you know that they are being used to censor your work, which positively impacts the lives of millions of people, you may also consider it your civil duty to evade a wrongful arrest.

I'm incapable of providing a good reason why Assange should have just submitted to the bogus rape charges.

And the fact that sympathizing with him in this regard in an open forum has a high chance of impacting my civil freedoms at some point in the future just magnifies the impact of the work he was trying to achieve when all of this started.
I remember finding out Americans build walls differently than Europe. The stories about finding insect nests in walls sound insane for me to this day.
Regarding the allegations against Assange:

Assange visited Sweden in August 2010. During his visit, he became the subject of sexual assault allegations from two women with whom he had sex. He was questioned, the case was initially closed, and he was told he could leave the country. In November 2010, however, the case was re-opened by a special prosecutor who said that she wanted to question Assange over two counts of sexual molestation, one count of unlawful coercion and one count of "lesser-degree rape" (mindre grov våldtäkt). Assange denied the allegations and said he was happy to face questions in Britain.[7][166]

In 2010, the prosecutor said Swedish law prevented her from questioning anyone by video link or in the London embassy. In March 2015, after public criticism from other Swedish law practitioners, she changed her mind and agreed to interrogate Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, with interviews finally beginning on 14 November 2016.[167] These interviews involved police, Swedish prosecutors and Ecuadorian officials and were eventually published online.[168] By this time, the statute of limitations had expired on all three of the less serious allegations. Since the Swedish prosecutor had not interviewed Assange by 18 August 2015, the questioning pertained only to the open investigation of "lesser degree rape", whose statute of limitations is due to expire in 2020.[169][170][171][172]

On 19 May 2017, the Swedish authorities dropped their investigation against Assange, claiming they could not expect the Ecuadorian Embassy to communicate reliably with Assange with respect to the case. Chief prosecutor Marianne Ny officially revoked his arrest warrant, but said the investigation could still be resumed if Assange visited Sweden before August 2020. "We are not making any pronouncement about guilt", she said.[173][174][17]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange#Swedish_sexual_...
It's fallacious to presume that — because gender, sex, race, etc. shouldn't impact peoples' opportunities — that we should treat is as though it doesn't impact them.

This is a good article on the concept: https://everydayfeminism.com/2013/09/dont-see-race/

[Edit:] Or this, as a complementary one: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-dont-see-race
I believe AMP to be a sort of trojan horse that leads to a fragmented internet. A way for Google to have some degree of a walled web garden. So yes...I'd prefer almost anything else. If you're signing a contract to be part of it, at least you know what is happening, and can read the terms.
have already been dropped years ago

They dropped the investigation and the arrest warrant, not the charges. The investigation can still be reopened and he can still be questioned and charged if he returns to Sweden before the statutes of limitations run out.
someone did, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19630502 this later story got more traction.
Whether it is realistic or not is beside the point.

A bus cannot beat or even match a fleet of self driving cars if the suggestion is that a bus has to be a cramped standing area.

Given a service much cheaper than Uber is today, the only people using the buses would be the poor and environmentally focused.
I am glad she got credit and I am glad in that respect she got treated equally. I am a little sad that her gender is a 'thing', as in I think I have seen more comments on various news site comments, social media, etc. that are quick to specifically point out she is a woman. I get they are trying to be positive, but it also has this weird reverse side where it is like "An amazing feat in STEM has been achieved, but you better brace yourself, it wasn't done by a man, it was done by a woman! A real living woman!". I understand the argument of needing to make a shout about it to help encourage more women into the field and to try to push against previous years of women not being in the limelight for work like this. But at the same point, every time it is specifically called out, it feels like something that is (obviously) only done for a woman, so therefore it is treating the achievement differently than if a man had achieved it.

Damned if you do and damned if you don't.

Anyway, I do not want to sidetrack from this amazing achievement.
Update 6:01AM CST (april 11, 2019) - I am out of money to give away, you have blown me out of proportion with the number of responses I've received. Thank you all, I'll continue to update this app for you all with your suggestions and my own. Head on over to the slack if you are interested in keeping up-to-date with this project.
The UK wasn't going to launch an assault on a foreign embassy in the middle of London, was it? Power is not the same as recklessness.

Now, a covert operation in a third country when there are no cameras around, on the other hands...
> The first is they conclude they're going to get slapped no matter what and then do whatever they want and write off the penalties as unavoidable because better behavior doesn't actually avoid them anyway.

European Commission fines are no small matter. They may be small at first, and may even be zero (just a warning), but the policy is to increase fines on non-compliance up to the point where the target complies. They can't write off penalties as unavoidable.
The technology is clearly the key piece of Tesla... and while that scales well, the platform is another story.

Imagine if Toyota bought Tesla. That may be the best outcome possible as the platform would suddenly be at scale.

The technology could be added to all Toyota cars ICE included (with their level of fit and finish) and the ‘electric only’ line would be supported while it ramped up and lowered cost.

This would solve a lot of Tesla’s problems and make the outcome far more likely to be positive. As it stands, I want a Tesla, but I am not going to buy one because
1) cost vs quality
2) likelihood of implosion
Current technology doesn't look very promising unless we somehow come up with a "computer" architecture that is similarly scalable and energy efficient as a brain. Machine learning and deep learning aren't exactly new. The big change that made them possible is the availability of faster hardware. If transistor density increases stop before we can reach AGI or even just a dumbed down version of it, then we might never reach AGI ever.
She does clearly credit the rest of the team, which is admirable as she's also clearly been key to this piece of work.

Somehow though my facebook feed is already littered with images saying she was single-handedly responsible and no one's talking about her.

https://bit.ly/2Gkfk7f
That low barrier to entry is just for the more minor changes, like correcting a typo. For anything more complex, you'd have to successfully use their editor, find acceptable sources and correctly quote them.
I'm curious to hear others' comments on this as well. Let me share my thoughts.

I'm a sysadmin for a HPC cluster. I do not have any of these certs. I think my day job involves a lot of diagnosing issues which involves detailed understanding of how the system works rather than actually developing any parts of that system.

A second fun part of this job is when designing infrastructure for use by others. To take into consideration all that can go wrong, performance characteristics of hardware, software, and workload and trade one off for other can be really challenging and fun if you're into that sort of a thing.

I'm not sure the RedHat certs will help you all the way through, although they might be a good starter in this regard. A lot is obtained by getting hands dirty and learning by making mistakes.

If you're into managing systems and building/engineering infrastructure, I'd wholeheartedly recommend spending time with small scale infrastructure in a "homelab" setting or if you can afford $$ with VMs in the cloud even.

Cheers!
Rio Tinto, the world's second largest mining company, already has autonomous trucks and trains.

They've been at it for some time now[0]. Even with a massive budget and highly controlled environments (trains don't have to follow lanes, after all) it's proved to be quite difficult.

[0] http://www.riotinto.com/australia/pilbara/mine-of-the-future...
Tesla's big bet on autonomous driving is very strange to me. They already have a unique selling point with fully electric cars with good performance and design, why are they overextending themselves to try to be first to market with such an advanced and difficult feature? They're a small company with little money, focus on the fundamentals of selling cars first.

It's like the falcon doors on the X, unnecessary, expensive, and caused delays when regular doors would have been just fine. But no, Tesla had to be different, for what? Elon's ego wanted cool doors?
For anyone interested in understanding Assange, check out this excellent article by Andrew O'Hagan from a few years ago:

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n05/andrew-ohagan/ghosting

O'Hagan was hired to ghost-write Assange's autobiography and wound up spending some months in his inner circle, and his account is very detailed and balanced.
Machine learning – OCR – robotic process automation – invoice processing
> "Resist this attempt by the Trump administration"

Funny. Trump has said he loves WikiLeaks, and likely has no interest in Assange getting extradited to the US.
|It's like an idiot going to jail for "SWATing" someone but where the SWAT team can still bust down doors and kill based on random tips.

Or getting the wrong house. Remember kids: Limited Immunity means complete immunity!
You can stay at home or get a job at Foxconn if you don't like your digital job.

The problem is it's not much better elsewhere in China, and what's common to all locations within mainland China is.... the government.

If you're in Shenzhen, you have shitty rights. If you're 10 miles south, you're OK _even if_ you work for the same company (let's say Huawei) because you are in Hong Kong and don't live under a highly autocratic government.

This isn't a problem of worker exploitation in free market capitalism.
Ask HN: Best place to start learning about Markov Chains?
A progressive reading list or process to follow would be awesome
The statute of limitations has run out on some of the minor charges, but not the more serious one. While Sweden has closed the case and dropped the international arrest warrant, if he returns to Sweden before August 2020 he can still be questioned and charged on the remaining allegation.
First Image of a Black Hole Google Doodle
He was obviously free to leave the country, but his lawyer was advised the case had been reopened 5 days before he arrived in the UK
Unfortunately there are quite a few problems in the report:
1. it measures productivity by GDP, which itself is not a great measure
2. it compares Greece vs Germany, and fails to mention that they rely on completely different industries; Greek - agriculture, Germany - manufacturing

But what we are talking about here specifically is the software development industry, where quantity does not always mean quality. So herein lies the problem that potentially a lot of our beliefs that "more hours worked means diminished return" could just be based on bad data analysis.
Nice. I always try to follow the rule don't do it in code when it can be done in markup (and/or css).
Both have pros and cons. Capital intensive businesses, once running, have their own barriers to entry (moats) "literally" built in: all those capital requirements help keep new entrants away. Capital-light business (and I am not sure the infrastructure investments to run a cloud service platform are so small), need to build this moat either by having access to consumer (data, network effects) and/or by keeping ahead of competition with constant innovation.
Boston Symphony musicians send $15k and a message to Chicago strikers
I just went thought the DOJ website. It included both trial and plea deals. So maybe not that impressive.
We could also save so much money if the criminals would not need to go to prison for which we pay, but decide where they want to stay and inform the police.
So delighted this product is shipped and live. Been working on getting this live with the team for a while. It provides a really useful API for extracting useful ecommerce and article data in JSON or CSV formats.
It was dropped due to technicalities.
The US rail system privileges freight over passengers, which is a big part of what makes it (by world standards) a slow system to ride.
And in the long term, one of them is bound to be right. Just like people, the vast majority of companies that ever lived are also dead now.

That doesn't mean we shouldn't celebrate and support and enjoy them while they're here. Tesla's stated goal is to advance the state of transportation, and they can do that whether they're in it for the long term, or just shake things up for a while and force everyone else to catch up. Sort of like Tucker or Studebaker, IMHO.

I'm too young to have owned a Tucker when they were new, but I'd be proud to have done so. Whatever happens to Tesla, I want to be able to say I was part of it.
The discussion was not about benevolence, or honesty, but of free press. The existence of free press does not eliminate pathological government behaviour, but it offers a channel for them to be aired to the public.

You make it sound like you would like the world to fall into a black and white good guys/bad guys hollywood formula.

"US isn't a dictatorship provided that your views are in-line with their propaganda."

Dictatorships imprison and torture their own citizens to maintain internal status quo - US does this to other nationalities in projects mostly dealing with foreign policy and defence.

I'm not defending US behavior, but I think you would be hard pressed to find a global political power whose officers had maintained a squeaky clean humanitarian behavior towards their claimed "enemies of the state".

Only small countries play by the rules. Large countries make the rules, lie, and maybe apologize later.
It seems like a valid question. We're also told that a black hole isn't visible, and we're told that this image is reconstructed from sensor data. Whether or not it's really fair to consider it a "photograph" of a black hole boils down to exactly how much artistic license is taken in reconstructing the sensor data. Not knowing how much of this is artistic license, I'm willing to take the scientists at their word, but to ask the question doesn't seem like a nitpick.

EDIT: In Dr Bouman's TED talk, she notes that there are an infinite number of ways the sensor data could be constructed into an image, and that they were looking for a construction that looks like what they expect things in our universe look like. So, there's some ambiguity in the definition of "photograph"
2) is interesting because going down this path would involve investigating the motivation behind WikiLeaks communicating with the GRU and what WikiLeaks intended to do with the information they obtained once they did so (just a one-shot dump of everything versus strategically-times leaks). The timing of Assange’s arrest occurring a few weeks after the conclusion of the Mueller investigation seems opportune albeit coincidental. A more sinister and cynical interpretation of this timing would be an attempt to wrap up any perceived loose ends.

Edited a few times after proofreading.
It sounds like your comment was meant to be snarky, but it is an interesting question. When you push the CPU processing of the UX from the mobile device back down to the server, the energy consumption certainly moves. Does it decrease, though?

Because if all JS were to go away tomorrow, and all CPU processing happened server-side, what would that change in server resource requirements?
The last-mile problem is solved by reducing it to a last-quarter-mile problem: improving public transportation density.
That isn't actually a better solution than the bash and awk hacking that I'm trying to avoid though.
Isn't that kind of his point? Initial innovation is expensive, but it soon becomes affordable for all, and thus innovation is good for everyone
Since I was not very familiar with the Swedish case, I checked Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange#Swedish_sexual_...

It seems that the allegations were dropped after initial questioning and he was told he was free to go, then a special prosecutor reopened the case and asked to question Assange, who by then was out of the country.

The statute of limitations for most of the allegations seems to have expired primarily because of the indecisiveness or otherwise mishandling of the case by the special prosecutor who reopened it in the first place, who maintained she couldn't interview Assange while he was in the Ecuadorian embassy- which seems to have been incorrect.

From the wikipedia article:

In 2010, the prosecutor said Swedish law prevented her from questioning anyone by video link or in the London embassy. In March 2015, after public criticism from other Swedish law practitioners, she changed her mind and agreed to interrogate Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, with interviews finally beginning on 14 November 2016.[167] These interviews involved police, Swedish prosecutors and Ecuadorian officials and were eventually published online.[168] By this time, the statute of limitations had expired on all three of the less serious allegations.
Julian Assange further arrested on extradition warrant
Judges and the justice system doesn't like it if you disrespect it. The worst thing you can do is question the legality of a judge to his face. It will end in "a sentence in the upper end of that range."
Not the case in China, the supplier side is huge with plenty of engineers available on the market at most lower experience levels