skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This must be a troll. Google and Amazon hire a lot of different people ranging from Black, Asian, Indian, Straight, Gay, etc.

You can read more about their efforts here https://diversity.google/ and https://www.amazon.jobs/en/landing_pages/diversity-and-inclu...

FYI - I do not work for Google or Amazon.
Would this be compatible with Turris Omnia?
We're agile now. We don't have a solid view of the problems we need to tackle, we're just given a little user story that says "Plane noses down with these inputs" and we code it up, send it over the wall.

The larger the org, the less likely the actual engineers that will design the system are invited to the planning and arch meetings. So when stupid ideas come up in those meetings, there's no one to say "no, that's dumb" because management only knows how to say yes to their boss.
Having uncontained human poop in public places is also a huge public health issue, for the poopers and everyone else. I'd say that's more important than many social norms as well.
Not this bad.
One theory is that the abundance of corner store plastic bags served street people as disposable poop receptacles. With the bag ban the street poop increased.
Agreed. I can't help but think that some calls for more data is just intentionally delaying doing the right thing. Will any amount of data ever satisfy diehard fans and those who financially benefit from college football?

Great talk about this very point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWaPXzTDEDw
Density of mental illness and a relaxed environment to do drugs and be weird.
US man could face death penalty in Thailand over ‘floating home’
Yes they probably will, which would be such s shame really, better download it for safekeeping while you all can! What an amazing project!
I don't necessarily think that human-engineered gray goo is impossible. But the context is whether gray goo is going to be created accidentally and that seems unlikely.

Just self-reproduction is a different problem than breaking down X energy source and moreover, the breakdown of each given source of chemical energy is a different and hard problem (the breakdown of cellulose by bacteria took a long time to evolve, for example). So creating a "breaks down anything" micro-organism (or nanite or whatever) merely by doing a bit of haphazard DNA manipulation doesn't seem like a big danger.

If you had human who grasped the broader principles behind micro-engineering and wanted gray-goo, well, then you'd have reason to worry. There's little evidence of this, however.
I agree that there should be plenty of public toilets, but I also fear you may underestimate how small the number of those "craziest" people there are in certain concentrated areas in San Francisco.
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> There's a noticeable difference between homeowner and renter neighborhoods. And it's not an income level thing.

I'm actually not sure of this, and it comes from living in the Bay Area. Over the last 8 years, we've seen a large increase in the number of high-income families who are renting, largely because of our screwed-up property markets where a condo that rents for $3K/month might have a PITA of $8K/month if you buy it. We're even starting to get the phenomena of millionaire renters, people who could pass the accredited investor test and yet still don't own their own home.

And I've noticed that when rental areas gentrify, they get nicer. The apartments are more well-kept; there's less junk on streets and balconies; less loitering; nice shops spring up with clean (but often sterile or artificial) interiors.

I think it really is about the money. When richer tenants move in, landlords and property managers have more money for repairs & landscaping. The tenants may not be able to afford a home, but they can certainly afford someone to cart away their couch. They spend more money in the local area, which means that shop owners have more disposable income to hire people for cleaning & repairs.
There are thousands of “hacks” like this in every modern airliner. That’s how complicated problems are solved, you come up with a basic idea, and you iterate on it thousands of times until you squash all the edges cases.
MIR is where the research is at. Not nearly as much work has been done in the general audio IR domain. But most methods are easily transferable. E.g tempo estimation would perhaps serve his anomaly detection needs.
This isn't my project, I just saw it and thought it looked neat and would fit with HN's audience.

I especially found the server-side asset fetching interesting:

"Spilled.ink fetches all related images on server as soon as the email is received and encodes them into the message. This hides your location, and whether or not you opened the message, from trackers."

This is really clever. Do any other services do this?
Taipei Taoyuan International Airport (TPE) has libraries.
The city of San Francisco provides homeless people with $520/month in cash, via an ATM card that refills on the 1st of the month.

They give away $24 million a year in cash.

It's a genuinely good idea to provide assistance to the homeless, but it should be in the form of Care Not Cash and given away equally across the state. Otherwise, you are funding a drug demand epidemic and likely creating incentives for people with drug problems from around the Bay Area to move here for the cash.

I filed a FOIA with the city to get data on the total cash given away.

http://www.disclosures.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/CAAP-d...

http://www.disclosures.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/CAPI-d...
The fact that they're also often covered in blood and open sores and surrounded by previously- or currently-used needles is another indicator that perhaps the availability of public bathrooms is not the primary problem.
I completely agree with this statement. Autonomy and a feeling of ownership are essential for most people to feel content. My go to example is a guy running a food truck/burger stand vs a guy working at Wendy's (making the same take home as the burger stand guy).

The guy running his own burger stand can get up everyday and take pride in making the best hamburger he can make. But for the guy working at Wendy's, making the best hamburger he can make isn't his job. His job is to follow the Wendy's standards to the letter, and make the exact same hamburger everyday. If he does his job well, he is essentially acting like a hamburger producing robot. For most people, that will never be fulfilling.
I think when a lot of people made their "maps provider" decision, there weren't a lot of these other options available. Many people use Google Maps because it was the best maps option at the time they were first figuring out their early smartphone apps.

And for newer people, bundling is hugely impactful. Doing nothing is almost always the most popular choice
You can also determine the keyed hash function key if you collect enough plaintexts, which would let you forge authentication tags

https://csrc.nist.gov/csrc/media/projects/block-cipher-techn...
Here's the thing: In the 1400's there were fundamental differences in the general understanding of how the world works.

On top of that, the only problem left to solve was range of movement, in terms of thousands of miles and months at sea, using proven technology, typically utilized not too far from a coast with a known port. Diseases, hostile locals and natives, food supply, the return trip, all were considered otherwise negotiable concerns.

The moon, on the other hand, comes with at least two major problems:

1. Extended side effects of long term exposure to low gravity, within the context of human health.

2. Sustained self sufficiency for resource usage, and sociological organization of an encapsulated non-terrestrial community, with no regimented military context.

So, what would the age of exploration look like, if you were to add those two problems onto the problems already faced?
I stand corrected, as what I had mentioned was only necessary given lack of hardware support for scrolling. Good catch.
How often have you interacted with “hot” packages that both change rapidly and are high dependency? Haven’t worked at amazon but in my experience that’s been low occurrence or a reason to build evolving api / not breaking the api.

I’m just curious, but in fairness both of these schemes have obvious issues that will become headaches or positive design depending on your outlook. Clearly you can engineer effectively in either scheme.
Actually OCaml has low-level memory manipulation features that help like cstruct.[1] Swift isn't currently optimized for the direct manipulation of external device memory. That's solvable, but moreover it's not really something you can extrapolate from to draw conclusions about server applications.

[1] https://dsheets.github.io/codoc/cstruct.1.5.0/_build/lib/cst...
I agree that nations each handle growth differently. I don't agree that any nation is equipped to handle growth, at least from a long term ecological perspective.

There is already more consumption than our current technology can sustain.
To me this is the crux of the issue. And it's non uncommon in software development:

The developer fails to check for an error condition or raise an exception because doing so would add too much complexity to the system. So instead it is assumed (or hoped) that it simply can't or won't happen. Problem solved...

(Edit: Or that the user will just have to reboot if it happens.)
Yes, I do. They’re called canaries by the security teams. It’s especially useful for when you run automated tests when pushing updates in your pipeline. Scan the logs and database entries for the canaries.
You can always click-and-drag the progress slider backwards.

I think I'm more annoyed that the step-backwards and step-forwards buttons skip the animation and just flash to the cube's next state.
I had previously read somewhere that the actual cost to a bank for sending/receiving wires (even international) is less than $1. Why do banks still charge so much for this service?
>If your attitude, airspeed, and rate of climb are all looking normal, then if the AOA says you're stalling it's almost certainly wrong.

Agreed - you can certainly sanity check the AOA data with other data sources. Unfortunately, I'm not sure that will always let you pinpoint AOA as the cause - imagine some nice dirt-loving wasps have built nests in all of your pitot tubes, or they've iced over, and now those values are locked in place. So your IAS and altimeter could both be reading normal despite the fact that you're in a dangerously fast descent at a high angle of attack. (A radar altimeter wouldn't have this issue, of course) Things like this have happened before. Of course, this would require your engines to have failed at approximately the same time as your airspeed and altitude data, but I can imagine failure modes in which that would be the case. (A particularly stupid autopilot attempting to reduce speed but not seeing the speed decrease, repeat in loop)

> And it it says that your AOA is 70 degrees (which the Ethiopian airlines AOA sensor did) then it is definitely wrong.

Or it's accurate and you're about to die unless you fix it. Air France Flight 447 comes to mind. (though 70 degrees is probably past the point of being recoverable)

> MCAS was designed to blindly trust a single AOA sensor, which was known to be prone to failures. To call that inexcusable would be quite the understatement.

No disagreements here.
Where did the idea come from?
Watching Splunk dashboards of network traffic all day long.

Who built the first version of your product?
I did while I was recovering from major surgery.

How did the founding team come together?
We joined forces to collaborate and share our threat intelligence data.

Did you raise money or are you bootstrapped?
Bootstrapped.

What have been your greatest triumphs?
Seeing our work featured in the The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Forbes, Krebs on Security, and many other major publications. And co-authoring a peer-reviewed academic research paper, "A first look at browser-based cryptojacking."
A chance to "own" something is a very deep iceberg. Ownership needs to consider a lot of things from an economic perspective, a rights perspective (law), society, and so on.

Basically, I guess I'm just saying – it's really complicated and just concluding giving away resources is missing the forest for the trees.
As bayareanative just said, just provide compostable bags, and dumpsters for collecting them. And simple public urinals.
> Panic's software blows all software on these platforms away.

You'll find that literally impossible to prove.
Neat project. A couple of articles yield funny, yet true results.

A few queries:

- “PHP use rising”

- “Women in mathematics”

But I was able to break it with something nonsensically narcissistic:

- “Programmers are an elite race”

Great work!
The slave hysteria and general illiberal views by the government shut down the web sites that allowed professionals control over their business. Pros became independent and prostitution was moved inside.

Now a girl has to hustle on the street where it is dangerous.
I think my comment about controlling for income level stands. We need to compare your gentrified renting neighborhood to a homeowner neighborhood at the same income level.
I think they are more common than you are thinking. I am familiar with several, even going back to the svn and cvs era, all of which predated the whole formalized-and-named CI/CD thing. In my experience, we called this model submit-to-commit, and depending on the specific manifestation, worked with diffs or branches. I'm talking 1990s.

The fancy bits in this implementation from the paper are interesting but the model itself is not that unusual.
Maybe? IBM is mainly a Windows and Mac house for dev machines, with Ubuntu being a very, very small portion of workstations.

I’m not sure the acquisition will create a mass exodus from the status quo there.
I'm confused with your response. So nothing to see here? Nothing to learn and change? You seem to say we should accept design flaws (like we did with the MD11?)... correct? Or?
Controlwise they were limited by the 4-way digital joystick with one fire button. They are fine what they had to work with.
I don’t think it’s a problem of discussing difficult topics, but rather there’s a tribe mentality in tech that tends to coalesce around certain ideas/topics etc, and anything that’s not within that sphere gets beat down.
The OP was crude and perhaps hinging on taboo, but there are well established schools of psychology on the topic, namely Freud's psychoanalytic theories come to mind.
Could there possibly be more than one reason?
"I think that ZFS is a solid alternative for the Raspberry Pi with a proper linux installation.

However, ZFS on Ubuntu on Ubuntu, for example-- does not seem to allow zfs itself - it is the only way to zfs to be installed and run Linux. It would also be good if it had support for the ZFS kernel.

On Ubuntu you can't use the ZFS kernel_ - but on Ubuntu, there is zfs enabled:

http://www.ubuntu.com/community/zfs/ "
That's roughly how I broke in to technical work, modulo the patents. 25 years later I actually do feel at home in particular domains. But I was a young college dropout in the early 90s, and while I never outright misrepresented my experience, I did tell myself that nobody else had any idea how that stuff worked either. (Which I tend to believe more now than I did then, but for different reasons...)

As programming and systems engineering slowly formalizes, it seems to me that's getting harder to do. I see fewer self-taught folks in their early-mid 20s these days at least, although I could be observing my personal bias from aging. Anyone else have an idea?
One thing that I've learned (from someone else) is that unfinished software should look unfinished. Even if you have to muck around with CSS, disable some buttons here and there, maybe add something out of place.

If the UI looks perfect, then everyone will deem it to be finished, even people who should know better.

Yes, I'm advocating knowingly crippling demos. Your master branch may have something prettier, but take a sledgehammer and uglify the bastard before showing to decision makers.
Does anyone know where to find a guide to HN markup? I've exhausted my google-fu and have come up dry...
You would miss partial or manipulated passwords (e.g. base64 encoded) with that approach, but it's a first step.
Here's another article about the moon settlement designed by SOM https://www.dezeen.com/2019/04/11/moon-village-som-news-desi...
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Increasing your salty standing! I like your proposal. We have coyotes, wolves can’t be far behind, no?
I hope the port is more stable than their server. Anyone have a mirror?
> It's looking at real life

Collecting observations aka data.

> deriving the mathematical laws that govern what you see

Fitting a model.

> Your neural network doesn't tell you what features make songs distinct

It literally learns better features that you could ever come up with by hand. This is why CNNs do better in computer vision that hand engineered filters.

> I guarantee you they'd do a better job, and their models would work on a commadore64, with real time training.

LOL if you think that a room full of people can listen to TBs of audio data, decide what mathematical functions when combined together are better descriptors of that data than a DL model learning its features.

You don't have the slightest clue what you're talking about.
the portland loo website linked reports that there are 18 in portland, so still not sure where you got the number one from (see faq at https://portlandloo.com/faq/), and a quick search on google maps shows more (simply entering "portland loo" on maps.google.com shows a lot more than 4). most of them are concentrated where homeless are, as well as homeless services (that, you know, have restrooms as well).

i'm not sure how long the timer is, maybe you can try one and let us know?

my point was that even when restrooms are provided, there are still large problems with defecation. my favorite instances were people pooping on the building housing the (open and available) restrooms, instead of entering the building in a small 1/4 block park - the whole park is now fenced off (there is a Portland Loo one block away, not to mention the bathrooms in the building that was being defecated on - now those restrooms are closed for all).

editing to add that a previous reply also talked about being able to choose between other public restrooms and the portland loo, so not sure why you would think there are no restrooms available.
Well, no robotic control columns, but the effect of silently adding uncommanded trim is the same.
What do you think the qualifications for an MBA are?
I really recommend Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: A Neurochronometrics of Mind (A Bradford Book) by Vincent Walsh for anyone who wants a really concise view of one aspect of the field. I was super interested in this when I was in my first few years of college but the fear of electrocution pretty much dissuaded me from trying anything like building an apparatus myself.
Thanks so much for sharing.
> Btw. if you agree that brain is equivalent to a program that can run on a computer, then you should also agree that pain, infinite torture and other "hellish" things are not a big deal, they are just pointless computations.

That only follows if you think that about your life right now. If you think it's not a big deal right now, then it's not a big deal if you're a brain in a jar. If it is a big deal right now, then it is a big deal if you're a brain in a jar.

Pain is useful for living organisms as a variable to use in our fitness functions (minds) that allows us to avoid situations that decrease our survival rate. Ir may be mostly useless for a brain in a jar, but that doesn't necessarily mean it should be ignored.

One can make an argument that complete rationality should discard feelings and work only on whether something is useful or not. I think that argument is incorrect when taken to that extreme, as it looks at a shorter horizon than the evolutionary scale which has produced us, to good effect. I would argue that the social aspect of our species is what has allowed us to not only thrice, but completely dominate the environment we are in. To ignore our empathy is to ignore what has brought us to this point.

We can say that a brain in a jar in pain should not be catered to because it has nothing to provide (which also might be incorrect), but by that reasoning we should also say that the person in hospice with weeks or months left to life with no relatives should not be catered to. Should we cause pain to or end the existence of each of those without any regard to their own feelings? We could just as easily use the person in hospice for testing. Amazing scientific discoveries could be unearthed.

But if we agree that emotion has played a positive role in the development of the species, then "hellish" things and the avoidance of them is not pointless computation.

> But until that the choices we have here are nothingness and an experiment with unknown outcome. Given this choice i don't see any experiment that is worse than the nothingness.

Given the known outcome of coming back after death for an existence of even known time, say one week, where that time comprised of pain and suffering exclusively, I would opt to not have that time, thus opting for nothingness. Given an outcome I would not choose, and an outcome I would choose, it them becomes an equation of what is the likelihood of each, and how much to I want or want to avoid each.

Given that the possible negative outcome is as close to the biblical interpretation of hell as I can imagine, and one of the benefits of being an atheist is not having to worry about that, I'm not in a hurry to opt into something that then provides that possibility. That's what I was getting at before.
> I would doubt Boeing was accurately able to assess the actual risk of MCAS causing a catastrophic failure or else the decision to rush to market wouldn't have happened.

That's most likely because upper management has been cutting staff and not investing in their people.

They should be sued and fined out of business. Whoever picks up the pieces will know: "Don't cut corners, or it's absolutely ruins."
What products support WebThings right now?
Just get a container of lady bugs, they're natural predators
I think we’re in general agreement but I would counter that it’s possible to feel a sense of ownership even at Wendy’s. It all comes down to how the work is distributed. For example, if the manager tells a worker “you are entirely responsible for the grill. We’re counting on you to take care of it,” I think we’re providing the opportunity for the potentially transformative experience of ownership.

Owning your own business is obviously a more powerful version of the same phenomenon, though.
yes mDNS
Can’t tell if sarcasm, but IBM’s had massive headache and trouble in this segment too. Good customer service agents are expensive. Bad ones are cheaper. But both still have a far higher success rate than conversational bots do. And a hybrid approach is, again, harder than one would initially assume (you know... why it’s painful and infuriating to press fifteen numbers on the phone to get to a real person? Same concept)
It is certainly easier to report now. The 311 mobile app for San Francisco launched in 2013. "SnapCrap," a 3rd party app focused on poop, launched in 2018.
Long ago, I worked for my uni's departmental IT group.

We made our own etherkiller, hung it on the wall with a sign "USE IN CASE OF SUN".

Never used it in anger, but it was fun to dream about...
It's certainly a trade-off: by not partaking in social media and/or popular culture, you are bound to come up empty and alone in modern day. I usually like to say, do whatever you like to do, but remember to wear the world like a loose fitting shirt and don't let it bind you.