skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We know of Nagasaki and Hiroshima but we don't acknowledge what a mess the U.S. West was made from nuclear experimentation. Hundreds more nuclear bombs were exploded in Nevada and then the Bay Area is surrounded by nuclear facilities leaching radioactive waste into the river.

I can understand why the U.S. government would like to litter Iraq with depleted uranium as they have a vested interest in making large parts of the world 'infertile' but the things the U.S. government does on the domestic population do not have such 'benefits'. But, if you lived in Washington D.C., got paid with the usual pork-barrel politics and had to connection to California, would you care?
Schools already do that with debts, but most student loans for accredited schools aren't issued by the school, who has been fully paid by the lender.
It seems like this is emphasizing the big five a bit much, when there is an entire ecosystem of smaller adtech firms that will be, if anything, harder to regulate since they're scrappy firms operating under the radar, sometimes overseas. At least the big five are likely (under pressure) to put in place the bureaucracy to follow regulations, and attempt to impose their rules on smaller vendors as well.

I also wonder about the idea that it's "traditional" that users own their own data. Maybe that's true in Europe, but in the US, selling customer lists in the direct-mail industry goes back many years. I'm guessing that salesmen keeping customer lists in rolodexes goes way back as well, and these lists were sometimes shared or sold. No user ownership of their own data there! Gossip seems more traditional than privacy.

GDPR-style regulations seem more like a new thing, long overdue as this stuff scales up rapidly.
Ye, it is cool.

How ever, I feel there's a huge difference between pioneering flying and risking the general public's lives to feed your proprietary machine learning model. Because Hortz hasen't released that part of the software right? Last time I checked it was still closed source.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Crossroads was in July 1947, so chances are fairly good its data was used to write “The Effects of Nuclear Weapons” (couldn’t find a first edition online to verify that)

March 1, 1954 was 3 years after this ship was scuttled, so mentioning it is irrelevant.

Also, dumping waste in sea may be stupid, but it was the norm for decades. And yes, that includes dumping nuclear waste. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_disposal_of_radioactive_...: ”From 1946 through 1993, thirteen countries (fourteen, if the USSR and Russia are considered separately) used ocean disposal or ocean dumping as a method to dispose of nuclear/radioactive waste“
packaging imo is THE WORST

i am in japan, so maybe it’s worse (here i can see it because we sort everything) but the amount of plastic garbage just from buy the essentials (soap, tea/coffee, cooking oil etc) and cardboard for everything is absolutely insane

a lot of things and packaging in stores is just to compel you to buy it (sturdiness, printed imagery, size etc), with little to do with the size of the product itself, and this just creates inordinate amounts of garbage... i am always amazed at this

the other thing is, when i buy online, i notice almost always the packaging is same as in-store, meaning more waste... i have already bought it, i don’t need enticing nice packages in that case, just bubble packaging (oh don’t get me started on that) is enough...

we really need to fix this package and wrapping waste: it’s only going to get worse as other economies (and consumerism) keep growing

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This was the main reason I never started using Signal. When I tried it some years ago it wanted virtually all permissions on my phone and wanted to replace my SMS client. I also did not like that they wanted my phone number. The SMS replacement should be an optional feature, and they do not need any phone number unless I want to use that feature.
You're making way too many assumptions. There's no reason to think Midway is either unwilling or unable to make accommodations. There's also no reason to think that if someone experiences trauma working on this stuff that they're forever unable to do the work.

I think your mindset, that someone who is having an issue completing their work should just not do that job, is a really toxic mindset. Workers can adapt to their work, but companies also can adapt the workplace to the workforce. Your attitude, that hiring a more resilient worker is the solution to every breakdown, is not only inhumane it's probably inefficient. I hope you don't have any direct reports.
Its a UK company so they have the British Disease = "don't want to pay for training"
What is really disheartening is for those of us who went to camps.... we're painted with the same brush after people have experiences with our bad classmates.

About half my coding camp class was unemployable by my estimation. At one interview I'm fairly sure they had interviewed a classmate or two before me and the questions they asked were painfully simple to start.... if they felt they had to ask that, I can't imagine they'd ever want to hire someone at that level. Obviously I showed them otherwise and the interview went well, but I felt like their perception was so poor to start, there was no chance.

At least I'm working now so it's not just "coding camp" on my resume as far as coding goes (I had another technical career previous to this one). I"m hesitant to mention the coding camp when I meet other people who are in the same industry. I really enjoyed my coding camp experience (going back to school was a surprisingly wonderful experience as I was a poor student earlier in life) and yet I'm inclined to say "self taught" and that isn't exactly true although much of what I know now would fall into that category.
The problem is there's no incentive to fail out a paying customer. And this isn't isolated to bootcamps -- I've noticed many universities babying CS majors by dumbing down CS101 and offering enough soft-skill electives that you can basically get a degree without knowing how to code.
College Students ‘Want to Speak to the Manager’
How do you think the propriety systems work?
Something similar I've wondered about is grabbing a (full) Chrome OS filesystem image and running the compositor/browser/interface in a chroot with a Linux installation more to my taste on the outside, including up-to-date upstream kernel, etc.

Could perhaps even prune away all the stuff that's not used/wanted in this configuration. Essentially using Chrome OS as an alternative and conveniently pre-built graphical interface on the front of a proper Linux box, give the only non-command-line program I use is a browser anyway.

I've not actually tried doing this, so maybe it's just doomed to failure or has more downsides I haven't thought of than upsides.
Does that type of aggressive research just assume that the systems being impacted are durable enough to withstand the destruction (2tons of tnt, in one of your links), or has that really been studied? I don't know the context of this, but I can't help but think of how many of the ocean's submersibles damage the ecosystem.
Student loans need a TILA box: you're taking $100,000 loan for a $30k/year job. It'll take you 20 years to repay, do you wish to sign?
I think the experience has improved a lot recently, and it's grown much more popular than Wire, so you may find your friends already on Signal rather than needing to convert them. For comparison, Wire for iOS has 204 ratings (3.9 stars) in the App Store, while Signal for iOS has 190,000 ratings (4.7 stars).
> Unlike math students, snowboarding students were all very motivated. Nobody forced them to be there.

Who's forcing anyone to do an undergraduate maths degree? And who does a degree in maths without being extremely motivated?
In the UK, student loans are not dischargeable via bankruptcy. But repayment is income based (9% of income), and is only due at all for people who are earning above a certain income (currently ~£21k). This seems like a decent way of dealing with this issue.
After attending that bootcamp do you thing you could design tests to stump people who only knew how to do tests.
Wow. I'm very glad you persisted and kept going. How do you keep your morale so high? The thing about cold-calling is, I've done it before in the past -- I mean, who hasn't worked at a call center before?

But it doesn't feel the same when you're selling YOUR own product. Where every rejection feels like you're a failure, you're failing, and everything you've invested into your company doesn't matter.

I'm still struggling to get my first customer, but just like you and the other comment suggested, I'm definitely working on my SEO, content marketing, inbound marketing.

Do you have any tips besides just optimizing SEO? That feels a bit like a crapshoot based on luck.
Making Playgrounds a Little More Dangerous
Passive Income – April 19 Financial Report
Again: Who fucking cares?

It was sunk under controlled circumstances. The location of sinking was planned as a disposal effort. It was put down in a place, such that it would come to rest in a zone suitable to render its radioactive payload distant and unreachable.

Knowing where it was destroyed on the surface gives a high reliability cone of descent. It goes down from the surface with a degree of drift that will not exceed certain parameters.

It would surprise me if they found it on the moon. It would not surprise me if they found it 100 miles from the point it sank.
Because your loan didn't come from the taxpayers.
In those days it was common practice for folks to blindly accept permissions that apps asked for. If someone stole a database filled with access tokens, they'd in-turn have access to all of this data.

The sets to consider are:

- The cases where they did it. We know they did it. We're making a big deal out of it (CA, etc)

- The cases where they did it. We know they did it. We're not making a big deal out of it (Obama, given the sad state of much of western media)

- The cases where they did it and nobody knows, and nobody seems to care about.

I suspect the last case has the highest numbers. There were probably hacking operations that took whatever access tokens they could find, ate the user's entire social graph, and sold it off.
Err no compare what Google pays in London with what Google pays in SV
I'm thinking more blatant, like paying people to write about them, then paying for internet points on HN
GPT-2
Mass surveillance and reducing the security of the US by undermining cryptographic standards (eg Dual-EC DRBG) are unethical.
If I disable Android "Messages" (Google LLC) app, Signal, which is configured as the default SMS app, stops receiving non-Signal text messages.

Occasionally, when an SMS arrives, the Messages app will crash, suggesting to me that Messages is still playing a roll in handling text messages on my Android phone.

Where is the line between Messages app and Signal?
https://agilemanifesto.org/
> Working software over comprehensive documentation

In-app education = documentation
Agreed, the incentives are all wrong for camps.

A classmate said "it's a boot camp... people should be kicked out / quit".

But presumably that might mean a partial refund and the camps do not want to do that.... so they sit in class weeks behind not doing well and dragging the whole class down with them.

At least in universities you MIGHT fail a class. Not so much in coding camps. But yeah I've ran into and worked with some CS folks I wondered about... like dude you should know a lot more than me... you're having trouble logically doing anything here...
Signal lags pretty hard on ubuntu 16.04, reason why I switched to Telegram despite the latter's inferior privacy
People hate surprises. Talk with your manager to give them a heads up before you accept the new offer and officially resign.

Having an open conversation with your manager will help build or preserve the trust in the relationship in part because you are including them in the decision that you'll be making.

Your manager cares a lot about you and your career. They will probably be supportive and it gives them an opportunity to provide feedback, will give you opportunity to share your appreciation too.
Which is a very different question than whether or not it worked. After all, people pay billions every year on useless nutritional supplements which have a lot of evidence to suggest they don’t work as people think.

Yet they still pay. People are irrational.
Outside of the tech-bubble we are all in, security-blablabla sounds good - but ordinary people just prefer any sorts of like WhateverAppMyFamilyUses.

We're stuck with alternatives, that the crowd doesn't prefer.
Yes, on Android at least the photo selection is better now, you can mark up photos and in general it's on par with other messengers.
In the past year or so it's definitely filled out, feature-wise. Audio message UI has been improved.
>>Is he not allowed to call people names for some reason? I once called my friend a douchebag, so can he sue me for defamation?

Pedophile is very specific (Musk even pushed his luck by suggesting to journalists that they investigate his claims) and I can't think of a worse thing in today's world.

Example: "Son of a wh*re" is an insult and probably not actionable. "Your mom, named Jane Doe, did this and that at this hotel with x guys" is very different.
Yes, but training it is very expensive.
For those who haven't seen Openpilot before, or recently:

* George Hotz (not "Hortz") is working on other stuff now [0], and is no longer CEO.

* While "I'm running open-source self-driving software from GitHub" sounds terrifying, the software is very good at what it does, which is very limited (LKAS / ACC / driver monitoring). Browsing test videos on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=openpilot+0.5) is a good way to get an impression for how well it works; the consensus I've found is that it's better and safer than any stock systems except Tesla AP and Super Cruise.

[0] http://pixie.tech
Pasito, pasito: Europe's anti-Google roadmap (in lyrics)
I registered my Signal account with a burner number not linked to any SIM card, and thus I didn't use it as my SMS app. Don't know if it's default behavior when you register it with the phone number attached to your SIM or not.

I agree the permissions (especially the forced contact discovery) is problematic.
For those like me who aren’t used to the term federated...

“Federated architecture (FA) is a pattern in enterprise architecture that allows interoperability and information sharing between semi-autonomous de-centrally organized lines of business (LOBs), information technology systems and applications.“

—Wikipedia
the relevant question is whether it influences on a scale we want to stop. Treating it as a binary isn’t very useful.
Good question. Ask Google or check the android platform source :)
That doesn't sound like a problem with the people you're hiring. It's perfectly normal to train new hires. The problem is that you were not hired for a training job, but they're making you do a training job.
Companies like infogroup estimate credit score for all Americans. You can buy that + estimated income + addresses for every American for not that much money.

This has nothing to do with social media. Credit card companies and other direct mail orgs have been buying and selling this stuff since the 80s.
I wish I could keep recommending Signal to my friends. For an app as famous as theirs, the applications and tooling don’t feel mature at all. Their MacOS desktop app insists on updating multiple times a day. Indeed, every time I have it open, it starts bugging me for updates. I can’t have conversations anymore because the app insists on restarting signal. These hourly demands for updates has caused me to ignore them entirely - devaluing the core value add in the process. Was the latest 5pm update a security update that I desperately need? Well, I don’t know and at this point no longer care because I’d like to use the app to talk to people instead.

The app also doesn’t work if you have multiple phones or a tablet. I can have signal either on my iPad or my phone. Not both. Why? I don’t know. But Signal insists that it is more secure.

It’s a problem with these security focused applications. They often sacrifice usability on the altar of best case security; making applications that are hard to use for anyone but the most ardent of folks.

I want to love this app, but their bad UX makes it really really hard.
> When someone does a bank heist USD doesn't get devalued

This is a bad comparison. If a bank experiences a sizable heist, their stock price will probably fall because shareholders eat dirt before depositors. Such explicit seniority doesn't exist in the cryptospace, however, so depositors would probably eat dirt alongside the exchange.
Little bobby tables we used to call him. I hope you learned from this to sanitize your database and your AI Input.
It’s for a preview for select styles that we have pre-trained models for. If you like it the artist is given the style image to paint it for you.

It’s a gimmick but often the results are not bad. Plus a lot of people always ask for an “instant preview” and this is the best we can currently do.
> Recommending a solution for a critical need without communicating the limitations doesn't seem like good engineering practice.

Good security advice is about harm reduction.

Security advice is not "bad" because it does not achieve perfect security.

Using Signal instead of an app the government can access through subpoenas (Facebook Messenger), that is closed source (iMessage) or transmits in the clear (traditional SMS) is good advice because it reduces harm and reduces risk.
> Who's forcing anyone to do an undergraduate maths degree?

People are forced to do maths classes as part of other degree courses.
> Your post reflects narrow mindedness and a lack of empathy.

Which are the tenets of big corporate, which is why I am getting the hell outta there to a smaller, more "organic" company.
I had that story long time ago. I've got A-DATA MyFlash FP1 stick with fingerprint unlock. Somehow it didn't work on Linux. I sniffed the USB and figured out that after fingerprint check it simply sends a fixed 3-byte command to the stick to switch to real storage instead of dummy storage. You don't even need the password to unlock it.
Probably. The biggest thing was not on social media at all - it was the drip releasing of the hacked email dumps, which controlled the news cycle for months and fed into the corrupt Hillary narrative.
> Wiring is free and instantaneous for anyone sending moderate sums. Fidelity, for example, does this.

What counts as a "moderate sum"? Last time I tried to wire money, every option I could find charged a $XX fee no matter how much I sent.
Gameboy.live: A basic Gameboy emulator with terminal “cloud gaming” support
So much this. There is a trend with these "techie" youtubers giving advice on which programming languages to learn first or which language is the easiest, etc... They are all missing the point of programming.
Encrypted backup and restore works now. Including media.
> It's not really true that there are no coincidences.

Coincidences happen all the time; in fact, you'd need pretty strong evidence to tell that a particular event is not a coincidence.

People aren't being told how reality works in these aspects. A particular person talking about a particular thing with their friends, and discovering ads about it on social media the next day? That sounds like not a coincidence. But a person talking about a thing and discovering it later on a social media platform? With billions of people on-line, with this same 'experimental scenario' happening every day? It spits such coincidences out all the time.

See also: birthday paradox.
If you had a GO-based client, with smooth RAM usage, the level of adoption wouldn't significantly change. Sad but true.
Credit ratings are a dime a dozen when you're doing targeted ads. How do you think the 3 for profit ratings agencies make money? I get tons of mail telling me to consolidate my student loans, it's not random
The easiest way to accomplish this, practically, is to do contract-to-hire. Do a couple of pull requests and take the temperature of what it's like to work there, and you'll figure out pretty quickly whether it's for you or not. Of course, many companies are averse to this for a variety of reasons -- at the end of the day, there can be agency problems if there isn't a base level of good faith commitment from both parties.
I wanted to stay within the parameters of the hearing, and also talk about stuff that I thought had a fair chance at getting bipartisan support (like regulation for making binding voluntary commitments about privacy).

I don't think I've watered down my proposals, but I think choosing winnable battles is important now that the legislative wheels are turning. For example, I think a good way to get rid of behavioral ad targeting is to give publishers a way to demonstrate that they make more money by not doing it (like we saw with the NYT in Europe).
Well, they're often (always? can't say that as I haven't gone all the way into all of them, I suppose) built using actual real-time systems with latency guarantees rather than Python running on off-the-shelf Linux, to start...
Did anyone else find it ironic there’s a scene in the Netflix AOC documentary where she’s crowded around a computer with her boyfriend scrolling through Google Ad spend targeting specific demographics and age groups?
But implicit in that is that HN is not a market place nor a captive audience for you to advertise to either. It is common (and appreciated) that people post details of related services/products and their experiences creating/using them.
PIX CPU Tools Reboot
Curious, what are folks favorite profiling tools nowadays, free or otherwise?
My conspiracy theory is that the whole Cambridge Analytica ordeal makes Facebook data appear to be valuable, which makes Facebook look valuable. And in reality, it is not nearly as valuable as the perception that is cultivated.
Social Networks as High School Stereotypes
Thank you for making mosh!
I also do not understand this. For example, Arizona community colleges (2 years) are $2,400 while Arizona state universities are $10k.

People are deciding to spend more money elsewhere. They have been convinced that to have a successful career and life they must be in a certain program at a specific university. And for those that wish to be academics or working as a part of the 1% at the cutting edge of their field - sure, it makes a lot of sense.
Now we know. Thanks for sharing.
Examples of Bad Metrics
If the pay was lower than their current work. Or the demands were much higher for similar/more pay.
NHTSA came knocking and then openpilot was opensourced. It's to be used as a prototyping tool.
The Moon has some very convenient features for such research - namely, it's a big, dead rock. Hard to think up a bad thing that would happen from hitting it with a satellite, or even a bomb. We already know it receives a regular beating from the solar system, in form of meteor impacts.
>> Most of the time it doesn't even matter whether that someone actually believes what they say.

> It matters when one of your goals is to determine what the people around you believe.

What people say is some of the lowest fidelity information to use when trying to assess what people believe.

Actions >>> Words
Not just seems, it was a bragging point, because back then it was fine in the eyes of public, since the previous administration was a bit more likable. I recall an interview back from 2012, where our previous president was talking about it as an innovative technique for his campaign.[1]

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/509026/how-obamas-team-us...
Wouldn’t the better analogy here be money spent on marketing supplements, which does in fact seem to work?