skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the Marxist conception of racism, because Marxists believe that any interaction between two people is primarily one of power. People who don't believe that every single interaction they have with someone is predicated on the power struggle between the groups they belong to, have no problem excluding systemic oppression from their definition of racism, because they believe that interactions exist between two individuals. If one individual makes a blanket statement about a person because of a racial group that they belong to, then that's racist, if you believe in the divinity of the individual.
Yes, that is what he is saying...
of course this rests on the assumption that teslas revenue continues with the investigations looming

everything you assume and hope for costs a lot of money

>I do believe that vision trumps lidar and they'll get to level 5 automation
and the robotaxi meme are just dreams for elon to sell to pump the stock
Another good resource that aided in my understanding: http://notes.komputerwiz.net:8000/wiki/Calculus_of_Finite_Di...
It's not passable...it's pretty obviously algorithmic.

The program does not have volition.

Why would you think that using statistics to generate a model of a piece of art (which is just data in the case of MIDI and pixels) would be "off-limits"? People have been doing this for decades.

No one knows the answer to your last two questions, but there is no indication that this program is leading there.
Could you please try to be less rude and also tell us something we can learn from?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Accusing people of racism when they're not racist is doing something bad. Just like racism is bad. Both are and neither help anything.
Hiring Engineers for Upward Potential
can we please get "Number of contributions in the last year"? one of the only things keeping me at github

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/47320
What speaks to me here is this is one of the closest things we have to creativity in AI and while AGI is a ways away, this is a key step, even though it may not seem like some hard tech we can put to use in industry immediately.

I think it’s a subtle distinction, but imagine a model where we can throw in thousands of math proofs then give the model some initial assumptions and just let it run wild. I think getting a neural net to model the creative spark / the ingenuity is what has been missing.

A part of me doesn’t want to believe that it is possible, but a part of me is genuinely curious as to the consequences.

An exciting time to be alive, folks.
Looks like a meme programming language. Dev trolls gather up, time to have some fun.
In the case of Facebook unless it becomes a subscription it does not indeed. In the case of Netflix, Spotify and G Suite it's baked into the subscription already, what the regulation would do is alleviate vendor lock-in.
thehelm.com advertises on twit.tv and they claim in the advert to work around those issues
Thank you. It's not the specifics I'm interested in, but the generalities, like what the NDA's are used for, and what makes them shady (other than silencing people). Are there other reasons for them, besides hiding prices?
Because it's more profitable to fork it, pay 2-3 engineers to maintain their fork, than to pay royalties forever.
That's a good question, why don't recruiting firms filter leads through technical guys rather than just looking for term matches?
Kenya's government to use Artificial Intelligence to allocate affordable housing
Go is a game with a strict ruleset. The comparison is not valid.
As a parent who added a second child when my first was 2 and a half, I think you're doing it wrong.

A year later, both children are still extremely demanding. It's all about setting limits and knowing when to bend them, like last night when my daughter finally figured out how to wake herself up in the middle of the night to go poop. That's one of the rare sleepless nights that's worth it.

Otherwise, knowing how you sleep is also important. I fumble around in the dark, use extremely dim lights, and have no problem letting my kids sleep with me for an hour or two. A full night's sleep is vital. I'm really good at falling asleep after giving a bottle because I make them before going to bed, turn on no lights, and keep my eyes closed once I'm in the rocking chair.

> You have to add in a boss who spends 2/3rd of the time you're home screaming at you to the mix.

You really need to learn modern discipline techniques. We use 1-2-3 magic. When our toddler screams at us, it's usually an immediate "ONE!" If it's really bad, there's a time out with no counting. It really works.

I even help my wife learn by shouting "ONE!" "TWO!" ... when I'm out of the room and hear my toddler get tough. The 1-2-3 magic technique requires a lot of disciple to not get sucked into a toddler argument.

See https://www.amazon.com/1-2-3-Magic-Effective-Discipline-Chil...
Hi! Thanks for the feedback. I see that issue hasn't been commented on by us in a while, so I'll pass that on to our product team
What about libraries like npm packages like Lodash which contain a collection of small helper functions right? You might have to import everything from the package though...

I suppose it's similar to the Unix philosophy, "do one thing and do it well". Also don't forget that people can repackage these fine grained tools into a single library package too.
Swappable batteries likely won't be cost effective for cars for safety reasons, if nothing else. Most EVs have the batteries "buried" in impact-protected spots, with firewalls between them, and in such ways that the battery is reliant upon and sometimes in turn contributes to the structural integrity of the car. Even if the packs were standardized by regulation, getting safe access to the packs in most EVs is expensive and unsafe access is potentially hazardous to long-term fire and/or structural safety of the vehicle.

Anyway, yes, the focus on charging inside of cities should be places that cars are already parked. For travel between cities, it will be businesses that can best take advantage of 30-45 minutes of downtime (assuming fast charging), and I do think it's going to be a restaurant chain and/or mini-mall concept that's going to be the best fit for highway travel. It's going to take a smart franchise or two to experiment there, and it may even be an existing franchise like Pilot or MacDonald's perhaps, but it will be a shift away from smaller convenience stores to probably something larger with more to do.
Gotta say, you just dropped a lot of insight in that post
Ah, interesting, it does look much more competitive. More range, less cost, and better acceleration, looks like a direct Model Y competitor. However it's still called a concept vehicle by Audi, couldn't find any mention on a planned availability date.
Seems like they invented Gaelic Football
Deobfuscating APT32 Flow Graphs with Cutter and Radare2
Because what you quoted, "if they're here for a fight, they'll win.", isn't the mindset of any military worth its salt. The military mindset has to be "where are their weaknesses, so we can beat them if we have to."
I kinda want a JioPhone2. I miss having a qwerty keyboard on my phone.

I wonder if it could run postmarketOS
From your 0th citation: "Please don’t cite or circulate it beyond the workshop."
You don't have to log in to the blue Facebook app for them to make money.

https://www.facebook.com/audiencenetwork/
Make stuff people want to pay for? If they don't want to pay for it its shit and you move on.
Navy SEALs War Crimes Brushed Under the Rug
Quite true. I've found this to be the case with almost every "composition AI" system ever created, with the exception of those that aid human composers, such as those designed by David Cope.
Criticism != demonization, you know. I find it fucking outrageous that you think they're equivalent.
It's a generalization that the data seems to support.

Sure, there are always outliers, but in general, 70+ hours per week over several weeks to months will severely damage your health.

Note that we're talking about 70 hours of actual work. Being in the office for 70 hours but only working 50 hours is what's more common, and doesn't cause the same hit to your health.
One question I have is why these objects are only detected via sight and radar. Don't we have so many telescopes pointing at the sky that if something were to be approaching our planet, someone would notice before they entered our airspace?
Thanks for the clarification.

I don't think these are narrow distinctions. To see why, try this simple thought experiment: imagine what would happen if we removed the "showdead" option and simply made all dead comments permanently unreadable. There would be a huge uproar in the community—a scandal to end all scandals.
As a practitioner, I found myself nodding in agreement again and again and again.

This blog post is full of the kind of real-world knowledge and how-to details that are not taught in books and often take endless hours to learn the hard way.

If you're interested in deep learning, do yourself a favor and go read this.

It is worth its weight in gold.
Also, employee CPU cycle opportunity costs. These companies are interested in scale, so any employee's CPU cycles that are working on non-scalable stuff are basically wasted.
oh no, how am I going to safely stroll across the highway like I've become so accustomed to doing in our AI golden age?
It's ironic that China proclaims itself as communist but works so hard to suppress things like... you know... labor movements.
I had NOT seen these. I am a fan of Rich Rebuilds. Thank you. What a nightmare!
The most prescient science fiction author you aren’t reading
You are right, but on the other hand, Amazon shouldn't be surprised when project maintainers then focus their efforts on the platforms (Azure in particular) that cut them in as partners on a shared success model.
I’d better like to know how nomads manage their taxes, with respect of their specific country of origin and/or residency.
Wireless Carriers Want to Throttle Firefighters During Emergencies
As a sometimes composer, the thing that makes me most sad about this stuff is it's all computer or no computer. Deep learning with symbolic stuff is still in it's infancy, so I don't expect to really mix this with hand-composed stuff anytime soon. As far as I understand it as a layman, the way the input is compressed for learning is also how it's fed the sample, so there's no way to "pay more attention" to the piece your augmenting than the pieces in the training data.
Can’t agree more with your sentiment. It’s hard to get people to see that though. I spent so much time trying to help employees prioritize their work, the response was always everything is important. Some people almost thrive on everything being a crisis, because others reward that behavior. People can go take their “rockstars”, I’ll take the people who can function in a team and not spent time trying to suck everyone into their shit vortex.
When I was working construction many years ago there was an urban legend about a guy that always looked busy running around with some tools, but no one ever saw him actually working. Turned out he used to find himself a hidden spot at the site and sleep there most of the day. Just making sure to walk across the site with tools once in a while.
Github UI/UX for what if you don't mind me asking?

I use both regularly (gitlab instance for my company, gitlab hosted for my side project, github for my personal site and toy projects and other people's projects) and while I hate neither, there is nothing really to love about Github's UI.

I think they both do quite well, with minor trade-offs that are a function of which features they have front and center (CI runners for gitlab, issue tracking and community for github).
If there was a platform for doing that, I would offer my interviewing services on it. I bet a lot of high level techs would as well.
Yes, especially given that many of us spend 25% of our day on HN and Reddit...
I'll pass this along and see if we can provide an update. Thanks!
> The nurses may be working 12 hour shifts, but they’re unlikely to work more than 4 in a week. Overtime is expensive for employers, so they prefer to hire more or hire contract nurses where necessary.

Or they're picking up more hours at a different hospital, so there's no overtime but they still make more.
Thank you for that story.
Crime Is Down,yet U.S. Incarceration Rates Are Still Among the Highest
This is the same reason why I hardly participate in Slack and only reply to non-emergency PMs at my convenience. My job is a lot easier when I can actually concentrate on a problem, but for some reason our culture doesn't value enough the state of focus or being in "the zone".
I'm younger...I view manufactured products like Crisco and margarine with suspicion, and consider butter to be much healthier.
I was paid pretty well, but the period of burnout that followed cut my effective hourly rate in half.

The problem wasn't the long hours - it was that places that push long hours tend to get other, even more important things wrong as well, like product-market fit.
The article:

A cryptocurrency exchange that claims real dollars back its popular digital coin Tether raided those reserves to cover up $850 million that went missing, the New York Attorney General’s office said Thursday.

State Attorney General Letitia James said Hong Kong-based iFinex Inc., which operates the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange and owns Tether Ltd., has been commingling client and corporate funds to cover up the missing funds, which occurred in mid-2018 and hadn’t been disclosed publicly.

The attorney general’s office said it has obtained a court order directing iFinex to stop moving money from Tether’s reserves to Bitfinex’s bank accounts, halt any dividends or other distributions to executives and turn over documents and information. The coverup drained at least $700 million from Tether’s reserves, according to the attorney general’s office.

Attorneys for iFinex didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment, and representatives of Bitfinex and Tether weren’t immediately available.

The attorney general’s findings emerged from an investigation into cryptocurrency exchanges that it launched in 2018 and is continuing. A report in September warned that many exchanges lacked basic safeguards and left consumers vulnerable to exploitation by market manipulators.

A so-called stablecoin, Tether is purportedly backed one-to-one by U.S. dollars. Yet the firm has never released a public audit showing it has the reserves to back the coins in circulation, leading many to question whether the funds exist.

Tether has marketed the coin as a way to get both the safety of the dollar and the speed and anonymity of a digital currency. Its market value has risen steadily over the past two years, to $2.8 billion from about $10 million at the beginning of 2017.

It has become a major source of liquidity in the cryptocurrency market. About 80% of all bitcoin trading is done in Tether, according to data from research site CryptoCompare.

The attorney general said Bitfinex’s problems began in 2018, when it handed over $850 million to third-party payments processor Crypto Capital Corp. to handle customers-withdrawal requests. Over the months that followed, Panama-based Crypto Capital failed to process the orders, the attorney general said.

Representatives of Crypto Capital weren’t immediately available for comment.

By November of that year, according to people close to the attorney general’s investigation, Bitfinex determined that it had permanently lost access to the $850 million. To hide the missing funds, Bitfinex and Tether engaged in a series of maneuvers that drained Tether’s reserves, the people said.

A gap of that size would represent a major portion of Tether’s reserves. Tether currently claims on its website that the coins it issues are backed by reserves that include currency, cash equivalents and other assets and receivables. The language was altered in March; it previously claimed the reserves were 100% in currency.
I can throw my additional anecdote into the mix: I live in the boston area and have noticed a ton more Tesla cars on the street. I remember previously thinking it was cool Tesla car every now and then, but now I see multiple a day.
So a "the ocho" generator.
https://www.reddit.com/r/theocho/
From my understanding, the sky is huge and most of the telescopes are focused on very tiny areas.
Want to Fly Private? Here’s Every Way to Do It
Please don't think about computers or music this way.
My only gripe with gitlab is that gitlab-runner config is mutated by the runner itself. This makes it extremely hard to deploy gitlab-runners reliably and reproducibly in a declarative fashion which is kind of ironic given their whole sales pitch is "ci/cd".

Apart from that it is great so far
There are a lot of futurists and singularity types that take it personally when people disagree with their assessment. It's no big deal, but the open minded, progressive thing to do would be to have a debate and save the downvotes for trolls.
As I understand it, the desire of US meatpackers for leaner "healthier" other-white-meat pork led to breeders selecting for leaner pigs. There may actually be less pig fat left over these days.

Of course, this means that your porkchops, pork loin, pork ribs, bacon joints etc. will be leaner and drier and tougher than the ones your grandmother or great-grandmother got from her butcher. I've heard old people remark on this numerous times.

This was not universal around the world, though. This place:
http://www.ginzabairin.com/ seemed to indicate that in Japan, flavor and mouth feel were more important than ever-increasing leanness in porkchops...mmmmmmmmmmm
I recently worked on a yellow paper that outlines a data exchange with no centralized authority that puts ownership and encryption responsibility of that data back onto the users of the network. It's a data exchange not a blockchain because all data should be mutable and nullifiable. Blockchain is the wrong technology for so many things that it's been hyped for.
Australia Is Deadly Serious About Killing Millions of Cats
I want to try out/run KDE Plasma Mobile, but so far the only supporter devices are the Nexus 5 (which you can get new-old stock off eBay for <$100) and potentially the Purism 5 when it comes out.

Hopefully PostmarketOSs work can bring it to more devices.

Can any of these KaiOS devices be purchases cheaply in the US? I wonder if the company has added telemetry or other spying related stuff on top of the old FirefoxOS base. Even if they have, it will be good to have another option if it becomes more popular.
I've found that for myself, the joy is in the collecting, not in the having.
The companies ive seen try this receive an ungodly number of complaints about how theyre ruining open source.
Lard is still sold in the UK - its what I use when I cook chips (fries) from scratch.
Thanks. I would rather break those twitter scripts as I'm completely not interested with that kind of functionality :) I hope, web today is not very broken without JS, I used to use noscript with Firefox years ago and it worked good enough for me.
Very different sides to this story.

Hopefully there will be some data-driven way to find the truth of the matter.
Counterpoint: People will hire you because you have a degree.

You definitely don't need all A && B && C.

Sometimes being like-able and knowing someone is enough.
Ask HN: Why do so many people want to see Tesla fail?
Tesla articles have been blowing up this week, and with good reason. The only thing I'm wondering is why are there soooooo many people that want to see Tesla fail?
Confronting My Own Command Prompt – Start Programming Again Is Not Easy
Hawai‘I’s Most Infamous Crime: The Great Spam Heist
I wish PiHole could be more fine-grained. Being able to respond differently depending on which device made the request would be an amazing addition.

For example, I want to blackhole all X-related stuff because I don't use service X and don't want them to track me, but my girlfriend wants to access and use service X. So either we each get an instance of PiHole and tailor it to our specific needs, or we share an instance and one of us is unhappy.
Nitpick: 111 is the urgent but non-emergency service. The first page asks you to "Check it’s not an emergency" (signs of a heart attack/signs of a stroke/severe difficulty breathing/heavy bleeding/severe injuries/seizure), and to call 999 if it is.
whoops, thank you.
I do the same and I cook anything that requires grease or oil with my saved up bacon fat - eggs, pancakes, etc. It's wonderful. I've even used my bacon fat in chocolate chip cookies - amazing.
I mean ... I'm of two minds with this. You're not going to get people outside of the hard core tech/FOSS community to use something else without at least the most basic stuff we've come to expect (maps, web, contacts).

The hardest one is maps of course. There is HereMaps as a commercial alternative or using OSM data, but not all of them have the same transit or nav data.

So long as this phone doesn't require the Google eco-system for over 50% of the apps to even work, that's something better than Android.
The whole history of lard is a microcosm of how media sensationalism can mislead the public.

It starts with Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle." As the article notes, the book describes how meat-packing workers in turn-of-the-century America would sometimes fall into vats of rendering lard and be incorporated into the final product.

Such stories are, of course, complete fabrication. But more broadly, contemporary sources suggest that The Jungle was largely sensationalism: https://journals.ku.edu/amerstud/article/view/2885/2844

> Journalist Mark Sullivan warned readers of Our Times to avoid "the error, practically universal, of classifying Sinclair and his 'Jungle' with the 'Muckrackers.'" They are "utterly different... in their methods." The best of the muckrakers "confirmed everything," while Sinclair was a "propagandist" whose account of "conditions in the stockyards did not purport to have any more than the loose standard of accuracy that fiction demands for local color and background." Even that was rejected by Ralph Chaplin, a socialist who grew up in the vicinity of the yards and packinghouses and was living there when the novel appeared. In his autobiography Wobbly, Chaplin said of The Jungle, "I thought it a very inaccurate picture of the stockyards district which I knew so well."

Decades later, journalists did another hit job on lard, sensationalizing thin research on nutrition until it turned into a national panic.
I have android 9 and frankly its not that special. Google is just scraping the barrel to find new things to put in their updates. Oh look another redesign!
This is why I am generally unimpressed with the state of AI. These techniques are great for things like recognizing images and text. I very much doubt it will be useful for any sort of intelligent action in the near future.

On the account, classical AI techniques like planning are more promising
Most Uncured Bacon Is a Lie
That's fine. But the cultural acceptance of single-function libraries is still a problem. Before NPM, it wasn't even an issue - plenty of javascript libraries and jQuery plugins were being distributed that way.

Why does a function to check if a number is even need its own namespace, and a dependency on another namespace which tests if it's a number at all, and a third to check if it's odd? What's the benefit to this?

>I suppose it's similar to the Unix philosophy, "do one thing and do it well"

Any philosophy can be taken too far.
One could say music is also a game with a strict ruleset. Indeed having played the piano for 20+ years now, I often think of how no matter how good I am, I won't invent a new form of music or even style of music, I am limited to the 'rules' of my piano.