skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And unfortunately this is often how they get away with doing stuff like this. People scream "my privacy!", government replies "but illegal immigrants?!?!", and people are like "ah all good then, I've got nothing to hide!".

It's just so dumb, and I've heard a lot of older people especially who will say the common "Why is it a problem if you've got nothing to hide?". I think some people fail to understand the kind of data people can have stored, and how much of some people's lives are part of their digital devices. I'm sure they wouldn't want police coming into their house and searching it.
Behind The Scenes: 3 Magic Steps to Explode Your Knowledge
There is corruption and deceit in every system, which is why we must demand total transparency, checks and balances on all of our institutions.
In Europe most garages that service multiple brands don't really keep too many parts in stock. But they can order and have them available in a matter of hours. So when I went with my car for regular maintenance and they discovered I had 2 broken springs they got the parts and finished the work in about 6 hours. Which means I can very conveniently drive it there in the morning and pick it up after work.

While I'd like a Model 3 (although not at the 45.000E pricetag for the cheapest model like it is today) I will wait until they can also offer good service after they make the sale.
Why does TOR not release its OWN blocker if it cannot work with the No-Script creator(s) -- Why leave something so important, that may imperil people in countries like china and Russia, to people who can do that?
Having a capability for widespread A/B testing is brain-damage?
That's why I always `brew pin <formula>` I don't need Homebrew to update (although, sometimes it still does). So, not a fully perfect solution… but the best I can have with the current state of things.
Nice curiosity gap there. Where did the mercury come from?
Surprised no one linked to this well-known preprint by Asher Peres.

https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0310035
There is a Ruby port [1] publicly available. From the encoding routine [2], it seems to be an sRGB correction followed by a two-dimensional DCT. The first two bytes encode parameters---the size of the output matrix n x m and the quantization scale used for ACs; next 4 bytes encode the DC, then (nm-1) quantized ACs (2 bytes per AC) follow. The comparison to Facebook's similar solution [3] would be interesting (but I realize that Blurhash tries to hide explicit images, so technically they have different goals).

[1] https://github.com/Gargron/blurhash/

[2] https://github.com/Gargron/blurhash/blob/master/ext/blurhash...

[3] https://code.fb.com/android/the-technology-behind-preview-ph...
Even very slightly rich people who are frequent travelers often don't have to deal with the same indignities thanks to programs like Global Entry and TSA Precheck. I imagine these programs greatly reduce the backlash from those who have significant political influence.
or use `strings`
AFAICT still no update out for the android version either
Systems thinking is better used as an oblique strategy to drive inspiration than as a formal discipline. Often the conclusions rest on assumptions & axioms that even practicing statisticians would feel queasy about.
in other words: "we can't release our finding before retraining it on filtered Reddit data-set, cause we haven't released our first finding for a reason... stay tune for more trained model with filtered content" ( what's the fuzz about the first fully trained model?" )
Where did the mercury come from?
>I don't think it is true. Just a cursory google search suggests that the market, at least globally, is a lot flatter and is likely flattening. Not everyone has an iPhone or Samsung.

He doesn't say that "everyone has an iPhone or Samsung". Quite the opposite. That there's a large flat base of sub-300 phones, and a 10% (or more, depending on country) of people with high end (say over $800 phones), and not much in between.
This. Anyone who thinks they are targeting people visiting Amsterdam's red light district, or Nevada's bunny ranch, needs to read more. This is about people seeking underage sex in countries where it is more accessible than in Canada. Thailand, Vietnam, all of south america ... a single male with no family ties, returning alone from such countries should expect some attention at the Canadian boarder. They are looking for the pictures, the possession of which is a serious crime in Canada.
1) Because this can give officers probable cause to detain you. Just like if they find a hidden compartment in your luggage, even if there's no contraband in it, you'll be held many hours in a freezing cold room while they examine every detail of you and your property.

2) Because it could be a crime. Failure to disclose an encryption key if requested by UK Police and Customs authorities is a breach of The Terrorism Act, for which you can be arrested.

3) If they ask if you have hidden or encrypted data, and you lie about it, in the US you're now guilty of a federal crime -- even the hidden volume itself is empty or innocuous.
From time to time I had similar experience to yours, e.g. a driver in Manila cancelled just before arriving, because it appeared that there was a huge traffic jam close to where I was waiting etc.

From my perspective though both Uber and Grab offered similar level of service in SEA. Uber had better mobile application, but prices were very similar and often drivers used to drive for both companies, so there was really little difference between both services.
Reminds me of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15053064

I normally hate this kind of blur and I'm not sure if this is worth such a big release note. I normally see such filters applied (forced on users by platform conventions), requiring a login to "unlock" and often you find yourself wondering why it was blocked in the first place....

Could be good to hide spoilers thought
This story sounds so familiar it's painful.

Took 5 months to get my 2016 Model S back after I was hit.

I loved this car, but frankly I never again want to deal with them. Cancelled my Model 3 order, and now tell everyone that asks me about the car to stay away.
This a very cool repository indeed! Have you compared the speed/accuracy of spikeflow with other SNN libraries like Brian2 on decent GPUs (or even TPUs)?
Yes, but today is an odd-numbered day at HN, so we become meta like reddit. Otherwise we scold them for their memes.
The guys giving those interviews are real former military personnel, recruited as they completed their service, and are being compensated to perform on camera. This is all part of a secondary program that pairs with the introduction of new, highly advantageous technology.

To each of those guys in the interviews, this is a way to earn a little extra cash now that they're effectively retired. There's likely a pay scale, where the higher ranking officers (the pilots) get paid more for their performance. They've likely all been trained on improvisational performance techniques, so that they can speak convincingly at in-person events.

The program is there to serve as a deterent and create doubt about the new sensor fusion systems being deployed. Somewhere in the ranks of the military, there's always a little paranoia about a military coup. Air defence would be key to staging a successful coup.

So, these UFO incidents are there to send a message with a wink and a nod, not to get any crazy ideas that there might not be some technological checks and balances built into these systems. To those of you that operate them, it would be wise to think twice before hatching any plans to hijack these systems or sell out to the enemy at a crucial moment. Note that the Navy and the Air Force are being stacked against each other, in this architecture of balanced power.

Anyone getting ideas about seizing control or sabotaging these systems might experience a visit from little green men. Get it?

So, the space alien MacGuffin is just window dressing for the larger con game. These stories create FUD about technology misuse among potentially corruptible staff.
> “I’m wondering if this breaks accessibility standards”

> Used as last resort when you are running out of arguments to convince other designers their design is not working.

If you break your {app, website} for millions of people because you want it to look just so and the platform widget just doesn’t fit with your “brand”, I have no sympathy for you.
Citing Piketty? Duly ignored.
>The idea that everyone will be riding around in shared cars and live in the LA megalopolis is a tech industry fantasy.

It's also nowhere near anything TFA says.

What he says is that where people want to live is not very gaussianly (normal) distributed, but there is a peak for major urban centers (LA, NY, SF), and a large plateau of smaller places.
If Tesla was making 10 times as many cars, I doubt this would be a serious issue. Much of it is a matter of scale.

Tesla is doing something nearly impossible. I'm not surprised it's having difficulties here. It has always been the case that failure is a serious possibility.

Not only is starting a car company hard, but an electric car company is especially hard. Margins are so thin in carmaking in general, that you depend on scale to make things like maintenance doable.

With gas prices low and EV credits disappearing, the natural outcome of all these pressures when fossil fuels are not paying for their externalities is that the electric car maker will fail.

And unfortunately, it's not like other electric car makers in the US are doing any better. EVs tend to be a loss-leader (halo cars or compliance cars) for traditional manufacturers. GM ended their Volt production. And my experience on Volt forums is that it's incredibly hard to get dealers to service electric cars because they also don't have qualified staff. And that's for vehicles that can take advantage of the GM ecosystem for things that aren't powertrain related. I own a Volt and a Leaf. The Leaf also has had many issues with powertrain maintenance (more than Tesla) in spite of using a very similar vehicle platform to the traditional vehicles Nissan produces.

I look at those saying we have to pull out all stops to address 1.5 degrees C of climate warming, and then I look at our utter failure to pass meaningful federal measures to support electrification of transport, even letting our previous ones expire while China takes enormous strides in standing up their electric vehicle industry... It's as if we literally don't care. We're just going to let the American electric car industry fail. In fact, several states are passing and have passed extra taxes on electric vehicles in order to "compensate" for lost gas tax revenue (although basically universally over-estimating how many miles EV owners drive per year, thus actually taxing them HIGHER than gas drivers).

...and considering all that (Losing a $7500 credit and gas prices now about $6000 less over the life of the car compared to a few years ago), I actually think Tesla is doing fairly well. They're going to have to quickly expand beyond America, though, because we are failing them.

EDIT: Rivian is in a similar boat. Their products look amazing, but they're starting from scratch in a low-margin business at a time of low gas prices. Hopefully both Rivian and Tesla can make it. But without the support from the federal government like firms in Europe and especially China, it's quite possible both will fail.
A quick google of "CFS exercise" lead me to few articles, this is the one I'm reading now:
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/10/02/5543693...

The information is sourced from the official CDC guidelines on ME/CFS: https://www.cdc.gov/me-cfs/index.html
Startups are not the answer to everything... Capitalism and healthcare do not go well together because you profit from negative health.
Banning people like Alex Jones and Paul Joseph Watson IS election interference.

It's really strange to me that it's supposed to be about banning hate speech, yet only right-leaning people are banned.

Logic dictates that there is hate speech on the left, but I don't see it getting banned at the same rate.
Installing the hotfix package directly worked on Firefox for Android for me.

https://storage.googleapis.com/moz-fx-normandy-prod-addons/e...
FWIW, I did this for 2.5 years while dating my now wife. As long as i had proof that I would only be in the country for less then 90 days and always told them I was working for an American company and that my American company was consulting for American clients, they were ok with it. Traveling with a recent bank statement also helped to show i had enough funds to cover my stay even if I was on "vacation"

I basically had my mornings free every day until I ate lunch then i would sit down and start work for the day.
I think that article overestimates the number of people that saw "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" in the USA when it came out.
>He talks about categorical variables and then points out that they are not normally distributed.

Smartphone prices and city populations are not categorical variables...
Storytive: alternative-driven storytelling
500 years ago, only 1-2% could afford "whatever" and the rest had to scrap by and pinch pennies. I'm not sure we're moving to a world of less evenly distributed wealth.
I think that gets to the heart of one of the problems in the current system, which is that Class 2 is hilariously broad and the distinction between Class 2 and Class 3 is also little odd... For example, I actually had no idea that metal in plastic hip implants were Class 2. I think the fact that metal in plastic hip implants are Class 2, but metal on metal were shifted to Class 3 points to something being really off in how the system is implemented.

Like I understand that metal in plastic has a long history of use and that in practice that means that they likely have lower risk (in the sense that there are probably less unknown unknowns and known unknowns). But it still feels a little weird, since it doesn't automatically reduce the risk of any specific product/implementation.

(For context, compression socks designed to prevent blood pooling in the legs are also Class 2... but all other medical compression socks are Class 1).
That's mixing three issues though. The fact that Teslas have stuff that can break (obviously true), that they're having supply chain problems with parts that cause long delays (seems true given the linked article), says absolutely nothing about the frequency of Tesla failures. By all accounts they seem to be quite reliable, as you would obviously expect given the lack of the whole fuel/combustion/exhaust and cooling subsystems.
Obviously income. Are you in the upper 20% that does great (or still fine), or in the 80% that's increasingly scrapping by?
Yes, running experiments on unknowning and unconsenting users is unethical, especially when the metrics being optimized for usually aren't in the users' best interests. The widespread acceptance for this behaviour could definitely be classified as brain damage.
Inequality is not “top X%” vs. “the rest.” Every part of the distribution is stretching. Every pair of points is further apart than it used to be.
Having this capability is useful and is certainly not brain-damaged. Adding unsuspecting users to the pool of testers is.
While there certainly have been changes to Internet usage patterns, I think all experiences are still possible. In the early 90's when this mother's group was taking off, my usage of Usenet wasn't very social, it was more like the image boards of today--downloading content and running uumerge if you know about that.

Later in the 00's, I got into Wordpress blogging and found some nice communities, as well as created my own. (And I suspect this submission is related to the interesting mommy-blogging submission the other day). I also got on Facebook and reconnected with high school and college acquaintances, but like others here, I mostly restrict fb to people I know personally, so it's not a discovery of new social circles (and I find I don't have much n common with those people but it's nice to share news now and then).

I think my most social online communities have come through forums starting in the 00's and continuing to now. HN is a big one for me obviously, but also some local area forums. I moved away from family and friends during this time, and through local forums, I connected with people near me that I didn't know previously. Oddly, even though they were local and we did have a few meet-ups, our connections and discussions online were much stronger.

But the closest experience I've had to the international connections of this mother's group has been in the past 2 years through Instagram. I started posting only photos of a niche hobby, and by using and searching for specific hashtags (once I found them), I connected to others doing the same. And they are all over the world, US, Europe, Austalia--mostly English-speaking but not all. I mean, when was the last time you connected with someone from Luxembourg (and I actually once knew friends in Luxembourg but I never communicate with them any more). Granted these Instagram connections aren't as deep as with the mothers group, but through likes and comments we support each other's work and help out with tips and advice. All that to say it's not about the tools, it's how you use them.

The key is I use my Instagram account only for this hobby and only to view, search, and post related images and comments. So all my followers and following are related and only in this one community. I do actually browse/consume other topics on Instagram (pretty travel pictures for example), but I do that with bookmarks in a browser, not in the app with my timeline and following.
Does AI have a dirty mind, too? – adversarial examples for humans and machines
Another example of a government agency that has been captured and lost the will to govern
So when deploying changes it should just go to every single user with no incremental rollout?
Very timely question: I'm in the process right now because my current Model S has a sticker that expired in 2019, so I'm looking into trading in (or selling) my current S for another Tesla.

I don't know if the whole sticker option will disappear after 2023, but if it is still available then the "trade in" option will still be viable. It's expensive, though (not unlike a lease actually, since you end up selling/buying with a periodicity of about 3-4 years).
Looks legit. On a quick skim, happy to see specific measures taken like

- Population used as weights

- Includes both nominal and real returns

- Potential for Simpson's paradox addressed

Critiques

- The Sharpe ratio is calculated for each group, but the weighted standard deviation is not reported. Given the higher volatility of the equities market versus the housing markets it would be nice to see the IQR.

- Population _growth_ may be a large factor in housing pricing growth -- you can't capture that with birth rates alone (need inflow from immigration) but level-population controls for some of that. But (and I've only skimmed) population may make for a poor time-series control due to serial correlation.

- While housing comes out on top, the p-value criterion shows only the slightest bit of statistical difference (t-stat 1.63) for geometric mean of housing v. equities -- it's on the border of statistical significance. [US Dollar returns, table A-14, geometric mean comparison]

Edit: Simpsons paradox, not ratio
Not seeing any updates in `apt`.
> Yeah but he also says that you're better off investing in productive assets,

I would regard anything that generates cash flow as a productive asset (and that's probably what Buffet's thinking, too). Unlike gold, for example, which just lies around.

> this seems to suggest that, leaving outliers aside, investing in a house is a better investment than a company.
A good investment is about risk as well as return, and it is not easy for the average Joe to build a well diversified real estate portfolio.
> a commercial movie where the lead roles are played by professional actors,

I'm not sure you've gotten anywhere, describing what professional means, when you make it dependent on other entities as an explanation. There are plenty of bad SAG actors. What about just saying "union production"? Although I think that's the minimal bar, there have been non-union successes...which don't look professional to me. eg https://www.reddit.com/r/acting/comments/a59tum/what_are_the...
Well, no one said there is a downside - maybe there is, we simply don't know. Just like we do not know whether drinking two liters of water does have any benefit at all.

Recently, I have read an article which claimed that one should only drink water when their body demands it, you know, like becoming thirsty. The problem is, in most of the popular science circles these kinds of urban myths are propagated almost as if they were basic nutritional facts. I would personally think some mega-companies, such as Nestle, would be really interested in propagating the myth of the necessity of consuming at least two liters of water.
That's just the traffic and drivers. Longer distance trips you're more likely to get a ride, for short distances you should plan ahead and book while you're in your room because it can take upwards to 30 minutes.

I lived in Thailand for 3 months and overall Grab, Grab Food, and Grab Groceries was pretty good.
Only we're not beasts. Wealth is social and relative based on the era.

E.g. nobody feels like a champion as a unemployed homeless in LA, or a single mom making ends meet hand-to-mouth, just because 8000 years ago other people lived in caves, died at 30, and where often hunted by wild animals...

The change compared to not-so-distant decades, when a single-income middle class family had a job for life, could afford a house, and college education for their kids -- compared to living paycheck to paycheck is more relevant to whether we enter a world of more inequality, than what they did in the caves or the wild west.
This is the Mozilla release. It will take a bit for the Linux distros to get it packaged and into the repos. Even the Firefox install on my windows machine here doesn't see it as an automatic update yet.
Globally yes. But not if you look at it country by country, see page 37.
The Science Behind Self-Talk and Emotion
Going to assume given the way this is phrased that the poster means a vaccination.
Uh, LinkedIn?
Let's be clear, it's not just the government but a large chunk of media and voters using immigrants as a scapegoat.
Still, people are reading and consuming more information than any time in history. When the alternative is probably no information rather than some.

The fact it's not great information vs what you might find in a well-thought out book is a different question.
I just want to thank you for an incredibly insightful comment.
I wouldn’t either. But I guess I don’t consider a CDC 6600 specifically to be critical to the methodology. I just meant that a lot of people around here could certainly write a computer program for direct search of the sum of four fourth power integers. It seems like this might even be one of the problems on Project Euler...?
Jesus! As someone who works in the Pharma industry that’s dam near impossible. We’d love to get outcomes data for our product post-approval. Getting that data is damn near impossible as physicians have zero incentive to provide it, even when something goes wrong.
> By all accounts they seem to be quite reliable

Consumer Reports ranks Tesla #27 out of 29 manufacturers on reliability, and removed its recommendations for their cars. Several other surveys have similarly put Tesla's reliability dead last or nearly there.
> the metrics being optimized for usually aren't in the users' best interests

Do you have any source for that? If you truly believe that Firefox is optimizing metrics that aren't in the users' best interest in general, why are you even using said software in the first place?