skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And as journalists have shown over the past couple of years

Hmm...have you heard of the Gell-Mann amnesia effect?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect

My first experience with journalistic "accuracy" was when I was a kid, Der Spiegel did an article on my dad. They mentioned his children (so my sister and myself) but got everything wrong. It's not that it was hard to find this out, they could have asked him, they could have asked us, they could have asked our mother, whatever. If they didn't want to bother to find out, they could have left that "information" out of the article. Instead they just chose to make something up. Who cares?

Once I started to have some knowledge of things in the world, I absolutely experienced the effect that every single time they wrote about something I had first hand knowledge of, they got it not just completely, but outright comically wrong.

But don't take my word for it, here's a recent example that became public knowledge:

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

The guy just made up stories, and I mean that literally. They were good stories, things that felt good, things that had a narrative that felt good. They were, in fact, pretty good fiction, and as fiction they would have been fine. But they were presented as reporting.

If you think is an isolated case, I have some Nevada oceanfront property I want to sell you. Or maybe a New York bridge?

So I am wary and skeptical of "reporting" in general. I am especially wary and skeptical of "reporting" that matches a popular narrative. And I am extremely skeptical of "reporting" that completely contradicts my personal experience and that of most if not all the people around me.

That obviously doesn't "prove" the reporting is wrong, but taking such reporting as primary or even sole evidence is at best naive.

YMMV.
How automatic detection of captive portal works
Thanks! I have mixed opinions on whiteboard interviews; it's definitely a controversial topic. From Google's perspective, I believe they see it as one way to be as fair as possible. I won't argue the merits, though. All I can say is I knew what to expect coming in, and prepared for it. There were no surprises, and that's definitely a good thing.
Apple will mostly rely on its loyal customer base (at least in India) who will support and buy only Apple products, which of course primarily means the iPhone. Plus, if the prices do in fact drop once they start manufacturing in India, I'm sure there will be many more XYZ-Chinese-company to Apple conversions.
Idea: turn them into actual portrait prints. Set up an Etsy page for people to make posters out of these.
If they really use your password to encrypt, they can also decrypt your emails. I doubt they would advertise this as encryption... I'm not sure what they do technically, but using the password doesnt sound like a good mechanism.
Node Zine
List of fruits and vegetables CONTAMINATED with pesticide residue
Mozilla is posturing as "even more privacy focused than Apple". It's annoying.
I work for myself, from home. I answer to no nobody (except clients, which I can drop at my own risk if I choose) and I do what I want when I want. it’s both the single greatest development in my life and the scariest.
greatest for obvious reasons (absolute freedom, my time and output are my own, I can be extremely productive in ways I can optimize, I can work on my house and hobbies as appropriate) but scariest because now that I’ve tasted this life I don’t know how I’ll ever go back. and the limit of what one individual can do (for humanity, I mean) from his house is unsatisfying in the long run.
Uber's Coming Out Party: Personal Mobility Pioneer or Car Service on Steroids?
If you look at the map at the end, they really didn't get very far in rolling it out, just a few neighborhoods (11,000 households). Works out to about $400/house, which seems reasonable.
Vietnam’s GDP PPP per capita in 2017 is about $6500; the US’ is about $60000.

This implies that the US as a nation should have resources to support better education if they are deployed well, despite some discount from Baumol’s cost disease.
The only reason why I install Rust on all my machines is to install ripgrep with Cargo. :-)
I'd easily have one on the wall. Bonus point for the title being the algorithm name and a small print with the initial values, in gray, barelly visible.
Interesting to understand the reason for the attack, it's to recover iCloud passwords so they adversaries can sell stolen iPhones! Wow!
How do you know you escaped surveillance? The government's been doing it to civilians since at least the 1930's.
Note that China also does this, and this is illegal in nearly every other country under anti-trust law. This happens to also be the only way to make passenger profitable, capturing the positive financial externality.
I don't think they would open an office in Detroit, might affect their diversity numbers too much /s
Your server will be isolated from some other servers, but it's actually pretty hard to isolate your instance so that you're completely alone in the fediverse.
That hasn't been my experience at all. I've used it twice in the last few months. Once for a SSD (saved $20), and once for a monitor (saved $160). In both cases, I asked about a price match and in both cases the person ringing me up checked the price on their phone, and then made the adjustment immediately.
It would be if they were on iPhones :) Apple's not a non-profit. There's money to be made selling privacy to those who care, and Tim's on the job.
> It's a video with no transcript

While Apple only started posting transcripts of WWDC presentations last year, https://asciiwwdc.com has been around for a while and is a great searchable archive of WWDC transcripts. Here's the transcript for the presentation you referenced: https://asciiwwdc.com/2014/sessions/715?q=user%20privacy%20i....
> 4 2^3 x 3^0 x 5^0 (1 x 3 x 1)

Should be 4 2^2 x 3^0 x 5^0 (4 x 1 x 1)
This looks really fun to use for algorithmic trading (we have to deal with and sandbox client code not written by us here at KloudTrader). Wonder how hard it is to integrate with numpy etc.
https://twiecki.io/blog/2016/06/01/bayesian-deep-learning/

This is a good example. There’s not much info I’ve been able to find - I’d be interested if anyone else has a solid tutorial.
Look, mahcine learning is hard guys, we need to give amazon another few years to work out the kinks and then no more false reviews ever again...
If one school runs an experiment and it's a success, more schools (most of them state-run) can follow.

If one school runs an experiment and it's a flop, it's a sad but it's limited to one school.

If a government mandates a particular way of schooling, the initial good effect is multiplied faster. But the initial bad effect is multiplied, too.

The fact that the US have a variety of school programs is a boon for the nation at large. They are mostly not great, but that's another problem. (See also e.g. http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html for some good pointers at problems.)
Thanks for sharing your stories.

It would be nice if such administrators and bureaucrats somehow had some skin in the game. Unfortunately, like you say "paying lip service" looks like it often wins out in America's public schools, and our children and future is what suffers.
Man, this article is bananas! Not because it's trying to sell astrology, but because it's willing to cross the boundaries of wellness by exploitation.

What a fucking idiot.
Nice little tool.

You may want to provide some details/examples on input data formats for those of us not from graphing community
Computers with 6TB of affordable volatile main memory are a reality now
You need to take another look at the landscape bro... This was true a few years ago but less the case now
Insert grousing at the HN markup input and parser here
The overhead is exactly what keeps the bad guys out. Without it, the spam and counterfeit problem will continue. Amazon can't have its cake and eat it too.
Find Lock Picking Lawyer on YouTube and his reviews of the locks Amazon recommend. See him open them in seconds. Share videos with wife. She will be with you on cutting the umbilical cord to Amazon after that.

The locks they recommend in 'Amazon Choice' have known vulnerabilities that design solutions were found for many decades ago so the products are essentially naive. If Amazon deliberately set out to hype the most useless locks so you would have your stuff stolen (and have to buy more from Amazon) then they would struggle to do a better job.

Of course the locks come with hundreds of five star reviews even though they can be opened in seconds with low skill attacks.
On the other hand, by now you probably have more fixed function hardware in your brain for string/regex matching than any other human alive.
Tax for revenue's sake (as opposed as one legislated to change behavior, like a carbon or environment tax) should be 0% on businesses. The rhetoric I see coming from the left is very worrying. "We will pay for this by just taxing 'corporations.'"

What happens under high corporate taxes is that executives of the corporation manage to extract their share, while using the share of those not in control (the workers) to pay the tax. The end result is that the government does not decide who must pay; instead, those with power in the corporation decide. This outcome is always unfair to the worker: a line cook at McDonalds cannot decide whether McDonald's should cut wages or decrease dividends to pay for the corporate tax this year.

That doesn't even describe the case where a business cannot operate under a heavy tax burden and ceases doing business, which is a loss for everyone in the economy.

Taxes on corporations should be reserved for those situations where we need to control behavior at the corporate level, where a tax at the individual level cannot efficiently be used. For example; a carbon tax levied on a corporation to effect the corporation's behavior re: carbon.

This is not an argument for lower taxes.
Giorgio Agamben Releases Statement on Julian Assange's Arrest
> I've built systems which required "helpdesk" type access and had auditing, but the problem is where do think "audit summary report" is on the TODO pile for the people getting those summaries? I'm guessing it's between "Delete unread" and "I really ought to get around to it but I'm too busy so I never do".

Auditing isn't a system feature, it's a business process feature. A system can have logging and even detection of situations requiring auditing, but if no one is systematically reviewing—auditing—the results, it doesn't have auditing.
> I agree with an above poster, this seems to me like a political or legal concession just for Apple to be able to sell in India more easily (or maybe at all?).

Yes it is. And it has paid off well for India and it's people.

> India by comparison is a disaster. You don't even know which official to bribe to get the power to stay on properly. Almost more trouble than it's worth to enter that market.

There are hundreds of thousands of factories already set up in India. India has almost all the major car companies manufacturing here, there is Samsung with its biggest phone manufacturing plant in the world, I think almost all of Xiaomi's phone sold in India are made in India. With a market as big as India's, a company as big as Apple can surely figure out how to navigate through the process.
I bought a Leica M10 ($$$$) from them, and discovered a defect about a week after the return period expired. They took it back without a fuss.
You got the idea. Break it down into steps. Design it into 3~ tabs.

like so: https://imgur.com/a/XaOwZND
Yes, I've heard this recommended as a strategy for sellers - leave yourself negative reviews that are clearly not issues with the product.
> So now house prices in Mountain View and Sunnyvale go from $800K -> $2.4M, and you must be a dual-tech-income family to afford a house.

Weird that this is a problem in Vancouver, Toronto, etc. The larger trend that you're ignoring is that global capital finds real estate in these areas to be good investments compared to their domestic options for storing value.

Instead of competing locally or domestically for real estate, people in the US, Canada, etc are competing with the richest people on the planet for a slice of the pie.
You can see those with a microscope (or at least an SEM) pretty easily.
Designing Painless Protocols (2009)
The catholics in france are not active. This is a documented fact. Mass attendance (and thus parish involvement) is notably low. Only 5 percent attend mass and are active, putting the truly devout at between 2 and 4 million. On the other hand 40 percent of californoas catholics attend mass, making that 4 million active catholics (and growing). Thus the most conservative estimates in California put it on par with the most liberal of france which is ... shocking.

The value to the 13 million tourists simply cannot compare to the value of a church to the Church. It is cultural appropriation to pretend that the church is worth more to non catholics than to actual Catholics. Thats like pretending Mecca means more to all of humanity than to Muslims. Thats just... Wrong

Its not a miserable stance to take... The resources of faithful catholics are better spent elsewhere. If humanists want to rebuild notre dame into a cathedral to the human spirit... Fine, but it would lose all meaning it once had and thus the value it currently holds.

I would love to see a resurgence of french Catholicism but it seems like the boat has sailed.

Sources:
https://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/

https://www.ibtimes.com/church-decline-frances-vanishing-cat...
I don't think that's an Indian outsourcing issue, so much as an artifact of the dynamics of the consulting environment.

Your above average talent gets trusted with high stakes, client-visible scenarios like new business development, RFP pitches, and high-visibility fire fighting. The roles tend to be a combination of subject matter expertise, solutions architect, client management, and sales.

Once you have a contract in hand, theoretically the engagement is structured at that point. It no longer needs the independent competence of members of your A Team, but rather competent project/program management, client/engagement management, and execution resources.

That's the stage where a lot of problems get introduced, and it's not always a result of cost cutting or profitability measures. A lot of it comes down to operational competency (both for the agency and the client), as well as the structure of the contract itself.

The biggest thing I've learned in my time consulting is what to do (and not do) when structuring a contract for a consulting/outsourcing engagement. Everything else cascades from there.
There's no way Alibaba is giving away 15% of their revenue in stock grants, so I'd take that with a huge grain of salt. Regardless the vast majority of their employees aren't going to become millionaires working there.

>If long hours is the industry standard, to me that is exactly informed consent. I mean, no one will be surprised by the standard workplace arrangement.

That's not what informed consent means--informed consent has to be voluntary or it's not consent. If 72 hour weeks are standard and your choice is long hours or being unemployed, it's not informed consent.

The logical conclusion to this argument is that there is literally no limit on how bad you make your working conditions so long as everyone else is doing it. A century ago it was common to pay employees in company scrip and to not pay them enough to live so that they ended up permanently indebted to the company. It was the standard work environment in many places so by your argument all the employees freely consented to it.
What if we troll it? Or wisdom of the crowd is too strong?
The problem with powerpoint is it doesn't give people leverage, which is to say it doesn't make poor presenters better at presenting. I've never even seen evidence of it making good presenters better at presenting.
I think some people are just mad for whatever reason. Maybe they really like amazon? Or maybe jeff? Or maybe they find the idea of a CEO email address that is never actually read by the CEO to be just silly in general.

I don't know for sure, someone will need to speak up.
The actual title is "EWG's Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce™". The given title here is clickbait.
You can flag me all you like but this article is dumb.
One of the best task management app I've ever used. Not a fan of their theme choice though but overall, it helps me with my work. Simple enough to not create any confusions.
I recently ordered a small device from Amazon, it was poor, so I gave it a 1 star rating with a short, negative review.

About a week later, I received an e-mail from the seller (via Amazon's payments communication system) asking for me to delete my review in return for being refunded the total amount, and stating that I could keep the device.

Whilst I didn't take up their offer, I assume many others did which shows how Amazon is 'not flooded with one-star reviews'.
My robot companion has changed my life
> pretty positive as far as user submitted reviews go, but is one of the worst movies ever if you were to go off the critics reviews.

Probably I say this about any superhero movie :-)
Back at my old job, people would have trouble knowing what to do when on-call.

I built a slack app that would keep track of my team's pages and what people did to respond to them. As new pages were triggered, the bot would show the on-call person what previous people had done to resolve the page.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steiner_tree_problem ?
I know you're joking, but if you found your way on to a site called "Hacker News" at a URL like https://news.ycombinator.com , it it really going to be so much more complicated to understand that https://mastodon.social is the website of the Mastodon social network?

I'm honestly fine with the mastodon devs not having to spend 1000s of dollars to get the mastodon.com domain. Evidently that domain is so expensive that even the popular heavy metal band "Mastodon" haven't bought that domain (they seem to be at https://www.mastodonrocks.com/ )

BTW, if you're having difficultly finding an instance that caters to your interests, https://joinmastodon.org has a signup flow that shows mastodon instances based on interests. That might help.
More like thanks crappy content provider who would rather block users instead of have a reasonable privacy policy.
Or they keep them the same price and make even more impressive margins. There's a reason they have 87% of the world smartphone profit share [1] and it's not because they're giving them away or passing on the cost savings to their customers.

Import duty on iPhones is 18% and 28% on iPads as of 2015. [2] Wealth inequality in India is pretty high (not as high as in the US, though, GINI 35.6 vs 40.4), and it's GDP per capita is just $1,939. Per your data, they're currently charging $1,100 which is a whopping 57% of GDP per capita.

My gut tells me reducing the price of a super-luxury good by 18% won't increase demand enough to make up for pocketing the 18% savings. That would be like pricing an iPhone at $33,000 in America. I can't imagine reducing the price to $27,000 would dramatically increase the number of buyers. Or a Rolex from $100K to $82K.

I guess we'll see!

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2018/03/02/apple-con...

[2] https://www.labnol.org/india/custom-import-duties/19306/
to be fair he opens almost every lock in seconds
I love ripgrep and I’m thankful for the efforts that went into the project. It’s seems like a delicate programming project. Works great with Emacs btw
Tax Day trauma: Paying for our national debt
Holy crap... That's not what frictionless means. That's literally the definition of appropriate levels of security based on risk profile, but even high levels of security should be frictionless, i.e. they should work the same way every time and should be relatively easy to do, which is what 90% of MFA apps are. What's not frictionless is when your security team needlessly causes you to change your very secure password every 90 days because someone told them that was a good idea. It leads to sticky notes and easily cracked passwords that use formulas i.e. Spring2019! Summer2019! And so on like in so many corporations due to poorly thought out security implementation. Longer time before forced password changes coupled with either a physical key or software token that don't have to be remembered are way better.
ZFS benefited you by inventing features that were later copied by the filesystem that you currently use.
How would one go about becoming a flash boy, if it were still feasible?
No machine is an island (2018)
It's cool how "bayesian neural networks define a distribution over neural networks" –– so you can "sample from the posterior." Reminds me of the Gaussian Process learning framework, which seems quite similar (distributions over functions). Has anyone thought of this overlap?

edit: posted before reading other comments; seems like @syntaxing's link is what I'm looking for: "A network with infinitely many weights with a distribution on each weight is a Gaussian process"
Yes, that's what I meant under "intentionally obscuring their opinions" (for example because of the organizational culture, etc).
I've had a pretty good experience self-hosting with Pleroma. Its quite amazing that I can run a social media server with just a $5 VPS.

Not sure if there are bots / apps that can easily let you follow Twitter users on Mastodon, but I've definitely seen mastodon - twitter crossposter apps before.
Incidentally, 'The Book of Life', page 1: https://www.theschooloflife.com/thebookoflife/how-to-love/
> If an organization like Mozilla fails to reach it, I just want to get a sense of where the bar is set.

Telemetry that's not on by default would certainly be one measure, I don't know about apple but mozilla certainly fails. If they don't understand the need to gain consent before collecting statistics on their users then they don't understand privacy.
http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide
Thanks for clearing that up. To my point about contributions, I was more speaking about how people went directly to look at the code contributions in lines of code measured by github in order to measure her specifically. I agree that it is important to appropriately assess and acknowledge contributions in academic work but pure volume of code written (which doesn't always correlate with what github counts) doesn't necessarily quantify the contributions to an academic work.
The people promoting these schools are only out to line their pockets with sweet voucher money by selling ineffective books and teaching materials. The schools are set up to fail from the start because they're just a means to extract profits.
Uh... okay? My point was that commonplace/large/consequential portions of the nation's economic activity occurs in the context of limited-liability.
Thanks, I've tried to expand the abstract.
Thanks, I've added an existing research section and will reach out to researchers in the field for more feedback.
Some hft firms are rumored to be using short wave radio. Everything old is new again.

https://hackaday.com/2018/05/12/hft-on-hf-you-cant-beat-it-f...
reCaptcha on any other browser than Chrome is nightmare. Hate what Google is doing to web.