skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Where I live in Maryland, you can do two years at the local community college (which is excellent) for $8,000 in tuition and fees, before finishing up at a four year-college.

This is true for the majority of students, but not generally true for the top ~1-10% of students who often need all 4 years to compete for slots at top law schools, med schools, phd programs, and employers. And getting into the top 4-5 of any of those things (except maybe phd programs, outside of a few fields like CS) will pay itself back in spades.

I'd be curious to see a study that figures out who thinks they are in that 1%-10% vs. who actually is. I.e., are people just being idiots, or are they over-estimating the trajectory of their early career?

Also, even for the other 90%, the same is true for lots of stuff. Including housing and vehicles. People aren't rational.
I’m going off very little info here, but this is almost always not Google’s fault. Double-check everything and try a prebuilt application that’s known to work with those scopes.
How funny that this pops up just a few hours after I looked into it again.

It's an exciting product. Even if it has no direct use, I feel better being driven around by an open piece of software that I could in theory inspect and change. Closed-source stuff is just a black box expected to do magic. Doesn't feel good.

The story behind the man is quite interesting as well. When I was 9 he was the guy I got the jailbreaks from that would allow me to install cool tweaks and other non-standard software Apple wouldn't allow on my iPod Touch 3G.

Apart from this, I think this rap [https://youtu.be/9iUvuaChDEg] he published when he was sued by Sony for allowing alternative operating systems to be installed onto the PlayStation 3 demonstrates his attitude quite well (admittedly the self driving situation is more complicated, but what a response to a law suit).

You might guess that I'm still a GeoHot fan. While I'm not sure this will be competitive with commercial systems in the future, I'd love it. Having the world's best self driving system be free for everyone to inspect and use in their cars would be a societal gain similar to that of Linux.

Open Pilot will be the only self driving system retrofittable to older cars (by consumers themselves), which is already very cool (it's just unfortunate that none of the cars are old enough for me to consider buying).

I wish them the best of luck (and may they get the tests to a level at which everyone is happy with them).
"endorsed by criminals" is now marketing blurb :')
Ad spending as percentage of gdp has not changed in at least a century. So i m not sure if these new media are any more effective than any other media. I honestly am baffled at the lack of scientific research of the effectiveness of advertising in the digital age, to the point of being suspicious.

https://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2018/3/20/607954-152...
What you are saying is that classical should appeal more to popular tastes.

Maybe we should restrict classical rhythms to 4/4, ensure that all songs are around 4 minutes long, 132 BPM, and have Intro-Verse-Chorus-Verse-Chorus-Middle8-Chorus-Chorus-Outro structure.
Maybe we should also ensure that all classical music has a young moron rapping over the song, maybe about his "hoes" and "biches"!
Missing option for charcoal.
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Among the other disadvantages, OTC NSAIDs cause tinnitus.
Is there any location that comes close to SV?
I ran this playbook in ‘15 in the off year between local elections. Before mainstream awareness of the leverage, I found it easy to get electeds to adopt my talking points. I’m not sure it would be as effective today.
Native UI toolkits (with “native” defined as system standard) have system hooks and access to functionality that third party toolkits don’t. Not sure about Android but on iOS I’m pretty sure that a Flutter app would have a battery impact closer to that of a 2D game than a traditional app, even if it’s reasonably efficient.
The violence in Doom, Quake, and such was always quite stylized, even in games like Doom (2016), and usually inflicted against demons, mutants, and other monsters. (It's relevant because the uncanny valley is more forgiving when you're seeing something decidedly not human.) These days, Mortal Kombat is going for a style of violence that looks particularly gruesome and realistic, and is committed against humans or creatures close enough to human as to make little difference. And Netherrealm staff are scrutinizing footage of real murders, executions, and other deaths for reference. The sort of person who enjoys looking at that stuff, over and over, is pretty much constrained to the psychopathic serial killer aspirant type. MK is really raising the bar on how extreme video game violence can be, well beyond what was ever countenanced by Carmack and Romero.
The problem with saying "let's just match the EU" is that key parts of the GDPR are still undecided. What is a "legitimate business interest" for data collection? What are the limits to algorithmic decisionmaking? No one knows.

A regime with 50 state privacy laws would result in every website you visit having a consent click-through where you agree to abide by Alabama privacy laws (or whoever wins that race to the bottom).
The investor who turned down Uber at a $5m valuation
Tell me where I get wrong.

1. I created CSR with CA:TRUE and send it to the server.
2. The server signed it and returned me a certificate.
3. I use the given certificated with CA:TRUE from the server and sign a new certificate with the username administrator.
4. I install the certificate on my browser and should get in.

All of the above sounds great. however, it is still(!!!) not working for me.
Where am I going wrong
I have a feeling that these things worked in synergy and would not have had much effect if deployed on their own.

I'm not saying that the Russians or whoever influenced the election necessarily knew what they were doing from the outset but I think that they have stumbled on a combination that works or at least worked at that time.

Which leads me to another interesting point: Will these techniques work again in the future? Will the application of them need to be tweaked for differences in our culture or in different localities? How so?

It's all very interesting stuff. I wish there was more data.
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I made this as a fun project to play with the container registry API, CNCF buildpacks and Google Cloud Run. It's a silly hack, don't depend on it for anything real.

Some fun things to try:

docker pull random.kontain.me/random:5x100000
docker pull buildpack.kontain.me/buildpack/sample-java-app:master
What to wear to the beach: the most fashionable swimsuits of summer 2019
It's a globalist way to say "noose" and imply slavery of the masses, and still have an "excoos"
Hmm... perhaps I'll try Signal again. It looks like they've add videos calls since I seriously used them too.
I wouldn't say it's necessarily so clear-cut that you could call it "unethical" but it definitely requires a different set of values. The classic hacker ethos involves collaboration, a disregard for artificial boundaries like national borders, and a distaste for secrecy. Working for the NSA involves lots of secrecy, working to undermine the efforts of the crypto community, and buying into some level of American exceptionalism. (For example, it's believed that they knew about Heartbleed but didn't disclose it because they wanted to use it for themselves. Even as a US citizen I'm not sure I'd be comfortable putting the national security interests of the US ahead of the interests of my friends and colleagues around the world.)
Paywall http://archive.is/RJySp

Also in the article:

> Venture capital heavyweight Mark Cuban ...
Hard agree. If an engineer asked me for this I’d assume they have no concept of how an actual business operates and likely be a hard pass on them
Flappy Bird in Rust
That's rather disturbing!
How might we solve this problem? It seems that gesture input is impossible to standardize simply for the fact that the signifiers are invisible and the use cases/edge cases are complex from a human factors perspective.
> Adding resize support requires additional, though usually small, work

Adding good resize support may require a serious rearchitecture of your display engine.
Actually I find Signal to be among the easiest apps to use for secure communication. My 68 year old mother uses it. 50 year old brother uses it. Co-workers who aren't techies use it.

Now matrix on the other hand seems like the next step for us nerds, so far less available than Signal.
> which of these bits of "made up bullshit" should be allowed to rise from the layer generating them

That will be a lot of bullshit to filter out, if such agent doesn't provide more of less detailed description of what has to be generated. People with Broca's aphasia probably demonstrate a part of such input.
it's too difficult for me. I wonder what the economic loss of having people sort their trash is, regardless of productivity and education level
I work as a lead autonomous vehicle engineer.

Here's a few thoughts:

* This isn't really open-source. The most important part, the neural network perception pipeline, is closed sourced. Without the training data and the network architectures, the supporting code is not that useful.

* This system is non-deterministic, which is a no-no in critical systems like autonomous vehicle. There's no guarantee that vehicle detection or throttle/brake commands will be executed on a acceptably safe timeline.

* I think the supporting tools like Panda and Giraffe are great for those wanting to get into car hacking.

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By the way, if you want to to become an autonomous vehicle engineer I put together a resource guide here: https://becomeautonomous.com
and i m pretty sure it will be forgotten in a week
By all accounts it seems like there was a major reshuffling that took place on the night of the Democratic National Convention.

The entire mood of the subreddit changed overnight from posts that vilified Sec. Clinton to posts that glorified her - it was completely crazy. I read that subreddit quite frequently during US election season and the difference was staggering. People dismiss it as "everyone rallied behind the nominee" - as someone who was there practically every day. It definitely wasn't that. There is definitely something shady going on with that subreddit in particular.

Incidentally, the TV news media was also seemingly doing a blackout of the fairly heated protests taking place outside the building where all the disappointed Bernie folks were trying to get inside. I only found out of them much later from online videos.
>Journalists and dissidents are being encouraged to use this software, on platforms we know to be insecure.

What specific platforms, and what are their insecurities?
What kind of "stealing from the state" you mean? The common practice of appropriating materials from construction zones and using them to build/repair one's own house? If so, it's still present today in the west in the form of stealing office supplies from employers (and gas, through running private errands with company car). Bricks or pens, socialism or capitalism, it turns out if you provide people free goods that can be useful outside of their intended purpose, and there's no enforcement to prevent theft, a large enough fraction of people will start stealing, making it a recognizable phenomenon in social consciousness.
Music Superstars Are the New One Percenters
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WSJ Article: https://www.wsj.com/articles/music-superstars-are-the-new-on...
The app could be better on desktop though. Launching it takes ages (sync messages), and after that if I receive a message on my phone it does not always propagate to the app. Messages I send via desktop are also missing on the phone.

But, I love the idea and signal is the only app I use for messaging, so obviously these things don't bother me that much :)
College degrees are mostly about signaling. Employers can already check your credit history, so this wouldn’t tell them much they don’t already know.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_radio#References + https://sites.google.com/site/napiratehof/landing
Telegram has gotten decent adoption because it makes a good compromise of security and convenience.
Nice touch with the choice of the port number!
Now I only have to install telnet on my Mac to be happy! Thanks for the project!
You are expected to put a few tags on a question if you ask one and normally some editor person will mangle your English to remove the nuance that your question was really about to possibly also update the tags to maybe not quite fit your question. This is remarkably unappreciative, however, it is interesting how any website that gets established garners an army of helpers who do these things. Wikipedia being the classic for this expertise-ism.

So even if tags are not your thing then whatever question you see on StackOverflow will be fully tagged up. If the software doesn't suggest some when asking some keen person will add them in.

If you are interested in a particularly obscure software package that does not have its own StackOverflow site then you will fond the square bracket search option (for the tags) is a good way of finding out what is new in that niche and what cool features or tips you can borrow for your own project.

At a guess the unrelated questions - 'top network questions' - are more likely to get clicks than the SO search box. So, to answer your question, the answer is 'no'. Aside from the one DDG user on HN that maintains a gopher site and the really computer-phobic uncle that uses Bing! with Windows XP the whole English speaking world is using Google.

China is different.
Wait, why are people losing their driver's license because they can't pay a debt?
I want to punch this guy on the phone in the face.
Beyond Quantum Mechanics [video]
Gish galloping is burying an opponent in an avalanche of claims or factoids that would take far longer to refute. The practice of just making stuff up without regard to its truthfulness is called bullshit, and has achieved some traction as a technical term thanks to this excellent little essay on the topic: http://www2.csudh.edu/ccauthen/576f12/frankfurt__harry_-_on_...

It reads like a joke at first, but is well worth your sustained attention.
I couldn't agree more with this, the constant requests to restart drive me nuts. It wouldn't have been so bad if it happened once a day, but 2-3 times make the usage as annoying as it can get.
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> This assumes that targeted ads are truly effective for changing politics

No it doesn't. "Targeted ads" had very little to do with the CA/Facebook scandal and I see them as largely irrelevant in what happened. So I don't see that assumption present in the top comment at all.

A significant amount of the "noopolitics" done with this kind of data is done through peer-based evidence - "regular" accounts posting political things, with "regular" accounts responding, but where both accounts are false personas, spies if you will.

The 'targeted ads' line is a misleading spin. Very little was done with targeted ads and a lot more was done with impersonating Americans and posing as GOP officials, etc.
Bitcoin is a strange animal. It exhibits many traits of a Black Swan (an event that comes as a surprise, has a major effect, and is often inappropriately rationalized after the fact with the benefit of hindsight.)

The switch to believe in its value happens suddenly in many people. It is difficult to make sense out out of its price movements. I am skeptical of any advice trying to rationalize its price movements.

Do your own diligence on how it works, your risk tolerance and stay long.
similarly, i decided to forego pain meds for my dog when she broke her tail (against recommendstion), because the vet also told me the biggest risk was further injury through activity. i felt conflicted and kept a close eye on her, but the pain told her to stay still long enough for it to heal sufficiently before being active again. i do the same for myself for any pain that isn’t excruciating.
So here's the thing. What do those people do?

tech people have been automating jobs away and insisting the future is code for a long time now. Now all of a sudden we get "coding is hard" and the non-traditional bootcamp education they pitched only really works for highly motivated self-starters, often with preexisting engineering or science backgrounds.

So what do they do? What exactly are they going to train into?
Signal's hostility towards third-party contributions and staunch refusal in federation makes it hard to recommend. Not to mention for an app that touts itself as both being secure and being easy to use, it has a rather crappy UX.
> which were judged to be a necessary strategy to end World War II to attempt to defeat fascism and save democracy.

This is emphatically not true, and a common lie used by the US to justify atomizing Hiroshima and Nagasaki. By that time in the war, Germany had already been defeated, the Imperial Japanese Armed forces were already signalling a willingness to end the war, with the one condition that the Japanese emperor (who most Japanese view as divine) would not be harmed.

The US (and specifically Truman and Leslie Groves) wanted to demonstrate the power of this amazing weapon that they had developed to the entire world.
Hey, this prediction is interesting, but not resonant with my experience as someone who works in this. Cambridge Analytica's impact on 2016 is significantly overstated. In fact, I would feel confident saying their impact was zero. The really interesting story about Trump and his digital operation is not CA, but the organizational innovations that Brad Parscale brought to the campaign.

Historically, political campaigns haven't designed their paid digital strategies around the iterative, test-driven tactics seen in other industries. The answer why is complicated but Parscale, as far as I can tell, was able to avoid all this organizational cruft because the campaign was so haphazardly put together. Happy to share more if this interesting to you, my startup is in this space.
The whole Mortal Kombat thing has died long time ago. The last good release, IMO, was MK3. (I'm still playing it!) The game was about controlling your own rhythm and predicting your opponent - in the first place. Knowing "secret" moves was secondary. If you had the rhythm you could've defeated somebody with "bare hands." Violent scenes was a bonus. The game was built around the rhythm. After MK3, it's all about violent scenes. With jam pouring out of people and high-contrast renders they don't even look realistic anymore... And that music - indeed, no style at all.

R.I.P.. Mortal Kombat. (We still play you in DOSBox!)
Interesting what people will sacrifice to see some barely defined number next to their name, or next to their post in some app.
We can't know all threat models and options of everyone who is the audience of such broadcast endorsements, such that we can engage in noble lies and confidently call it "harm reduction".

(Simple scenario: journalist was told by experts that such-and-such is secure, without qualification, so journalist uses it in some ways that they would not, had they been given a more accurate characterization.)
Sure; the sequence of hypothetical world-states being constructed by the prediction agent would likely be fed back as stimuli to excite features within the generative network (which it would know associations for, since these hypothetical world-states are stimuli of the same "type" as the real world-state stimuli it was trained on.)

In other words, it could operate just as AI generative networks like GPT2 do, first receiving training input/output pairs; and then later, receiving input prompts and "completing" them by generating outputs.
Can you clarify if you meant "she lost her driver's license" or if you meant some kind of professional license?
“... it didn’t stop my coaches from encouraging me to believe I could reach my goal, and preparing and pushing me to work for it. When they told me I had potential but would have to work hard, I listened. I heard their voices in my ear when I dragged myself out of bed for predawn weightlifting sessions ...”

How many adults can clearly communicate the incentives for predawn calculus sessions?

“You’ll do better in college!”
I don't see one of the impact probes having as much force as a meteor, but I could see it being enough to throw off a fragile system. Yeah, its not like bombing ganymede or mars' ice-caps. I'm just curious if they are going to accidentally collapse some cave network, or give it a temporary atmosphere of dust.

Edit: thanks for the response btw
Retraining is hard and will become useless when more and more jobs are destroyed. UBI is an example of "For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong". So what do we do?
OpenRTB specification?

https://www.iab.com/guidelines/real-time-bidding-rtb-project...
telnet is preinstalled.
Now try backing up your conversations and group memberships - I've rarely seen so convoluted and user hostile process which practically ensures people will lose their chat histories and just switch to FB Messenger in disgust.

I do admit the rest of the experience has improved, although the ban from binding more a single device to an account is still preventing me from using it more.
> Indeed, professional mathematicians are usually the ones teaching prospective high school teachers during undergrad, so we are the ones to solve it.

The vast majority of people who are paid to use their knowledge of mathematics aren't doing math research. In fact, mathematics research is so uneconomical that most mathematics researchers spend 20%+ of their job on teaching.

The number of people who are paid a full 12 (or even 9) month salary to do mathematics research is vanishingly small.

> This problem is accessible to anyone who knows basic high school algebra, but it requires a lot of effort

That effort is really difficult to get out of students because few students have intrinsic motivation, and there's very little extrinsic motivation (unless 3 post-docs is your idea of a good way to spend your 30s...)

I'm not sure what the solution is, but showing more people what mathematics researchers in universities do with their non-teaching time seems like the wrong solution.
Cost of tariffs has fallen ‘entirely’ on US businesses and households:Goldman
Another notable trans neuromorphic engineer is Jennifer (Paul) Hasler: http://hasler.ece.gatech.edu
You aren't right here, PWA app can be much much more smaller.
Please review the guidelines for "Show HN":

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

In particular: "Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread."

There's nothing here to try out or play with. It's an ad offering a discount for a design service that costs money to use.

You keep on deleting these submissions and resubmitting them after they've been flagged. This is the third submission I've noticed.
> The most important part, the neural network perception pipeline, is closed sourced.

Knowing what things are is certainly a part, and it may be the least solved part, but surely there is a lot of value in rolling everything else that goes into autonomous driving into a car-pluggable package. Trivial setup for sensing, fusing, actuating, and thrusting is pretty big for most people even if you don't get to see the more fuzzy stuff.
Its mostly people who have self-worth problems, and as in combat the ultimate wager is ones own life, they love to see a situation where everything is crystall-clear for once- where there actions have meaning and the outcome is a purposefull life, even when it ends. Of course this is naive- and deep down they know. So they strife to replicate "realism" like moths longing for the real fire to fly towards.

Oh, meaningless new world, which holds such braves.