skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I saw this headline, my first reaction was that a salesperson in an org could download all customer contact info and immediately go to a competitor and start poaching customers extremely efficiently. How likely is this scenario? What sorts of recourse, legal or otherwise, would the org have? Non-competes are hard to enforce, and I don't know enough about trade secret laws to have a good opinion on this.
Seems like tall Semis are an issue for Teslas, one of the crashes a year ago was also a similar scenario.

Perhaps they should add more vertical FOV on the sensors?
> > Philips suggests it could be used to monitor the physical state of drivers to prevent accidents from medical emergencies or fatigue, among other scenarios.

> I'm not sure why, but that makes me very uncomfortable. I honestly don't know why.

Because any initially existing privacy policies will be undermined gradually, or simply changed wholesale without notice, after enough data has been gathered, to allow that data to be sold to insurers and other "interested parties"?
O'Reilly let me put my book up. Thanks O'Reilly for being a cool publisher!

https://buildingtoolswithgithub.teddyhyde.io/
I smell a new service for backing up and then deleting the emails for you
It would be really cool if this enables "Minecraft artists" to build and place impressive models. I'm an avid hiker and would love knowing I can pull out my phone at the top of a mountain to see a digital model that doesn't exist anywhere else in the world. Sort of like an imaginary geocache.
Because Mac applications are more than just rendering APIs, its about the windows, menus, controls, and a complete cohesive UI that works like all the user's other applications. As a Mac user I'll always pick a Mac only app over any cross-platform app.

The second reason is that Mac users pay for software. You can sustain a business as an independent software vendor by targeting only Mac users. Linux users tend to want all free & open source software. Windows users tend to steal apps. A disproportionate number of Windows users I know are happy to steal all their commercial software—I'm not just talking about students and economically disadvantaged people, I'm talking about 6-figure salary software developers.

By building a cross-platform app you will decrease the amount of paying Mac users while increasing the number of Windows users willing to steal from you. The amount of work required to support Windows and all the missed Mac sales may not be worth the effort.
Yes, thread-sanitized code is unbearably slow. Plus, you cannot use both ASAN and TSAN in the same build (but either can be combined with UBSAN).
I fully believe it to be a reasonable expectation which is unfortunately violated daily and routinely often under the nefarious guise of marketing.
Black is an awesome tool. You might not like one or two of their decisions, but it completely eliminates discussions related to taste on a given team and the fact it is not configurable is its biggest value proposition.
That is also my experience.
Kind of like how Dropbox doesn't stand a chance because rsync or some of the various competitors that are cheaper and better?

The past is strewn with dead technology that was superior in every way to the status quo. But adoption and network effect is very powerful.

Just look at all the superior alternatives to Facebook that have come and gone.
Second book, aptly called “The Dark Forest”
Not by any means. The narrative is covering nature, covering the limited park space with augmented reality. This is likely going to sour some parents on it. It would have been much smarter to speak to an urban setting.
I think this is one of the best sets of responses to a security incident I've seen:

1. Disclose the incident ASAP, even before all facts are known. The disclosure doesn't need to have any action items, and in this case, didn't

2. Add more details as investigation proceeds, even before it fully finishes to help clarify scope

The proactive communication and transparency could have downsides (causing undue panic), but I think these posts have presented a sense that they have it mostly under control. Of course, this is only possible because they, unlike some other companies, probably do have a good security team who caught this early.

I expect the next (or perhaps the 4th) post will be a fuller post-mortem from after the incident. This series of disclosures has given me more confidence in Stackoverflow than I had before!
>Its just the way capitalism works.

I would say that it is more to do with they way human nature works (in some people), than capitalism. Applies in every field of life, not just business.
I'm still bound by various paperwork that (probably) prevents me from disclosing that, but if you root around on the company site you can find a few relevant patents with details.
Toxicity and fraudulent misadvertisement is a far cry from sugar being bad for you if you choose to eat too much of it.

And to reiterate my point, advocating X based on "don't we already Y" instead of the actual merits of X is a big part of how dangerous slippery slopes occur, even if Y was a good thing.
It was a visible logo apparently, not just a pixel.

> The tracking software appears to be “an unusual logo of an American flag with a bald eagle perched on the scales of justice” included in an email from the lead prosecutor, Navy Commander Christopher Czaplak. Images in email are routinely used for tracking purposes, though the image files are typically transparent. Navy technology, it seems, is less subtle.

http://www.caaflog.com/2019/05/14/navy-prosecutors-accused-o...
I suspect that part of it might be legal. It's too easy for someone to say something in chat that will look bad when you're sued.
>For example, if a collaborator sends data for analysis where the sample size was too small for the effect, or worse, asked to find statistical differences between 1-2 samples per group, you can't fix that with any amount of algorithmic mumbo-jumbo.

Au contraire: a few years back my colleagues came to me with an shRNA screen with no replication. I said you can't do this, without an estimate of variability this is meaningless (NOT the first, or last, time i gave this lecture). The reply was, analyze it anyway. I made up some bullshit. The reviewers did nothing. We published in Nature Genetics.
>We've gotten to a point that many (maybe most) people won't pay $5 for a high quality game that they get hours of usage out of.

I would love if I could pay $5 for a high quality game I got hours of use out of.

Currently my only option is to pay $5 for a spin on a shitty slot machine that 95% of the time gives me template trash or a college assignment.

As a result I'm happy to pay $15 for a game on Steam, but I'll agonize forever over a $2 phone game.
I think it's ethical. Why do you think otherwise? What is your hypothetical basis for reporting it to the state bar? What Model Rule do you have in mind that it could possibly violate?
I was especially confused when they were talking about "size" multiples one minute and "radius" multiple the next. Unclear from the article itself if we're talking mass, volume, or diameter.
I uninstalled them, and started reading instead. When I got the urge, I would use that energy to read or focus on the side-project. Must have discipline and hold yourself accountable or have someone hold you accountable.

It's difficult, but figure out the 'why' you should stop playing games and that will give you a reason to stop so you focus on your why instead. I.E I want to stop playing games so I can spend that time with my kids and be more part of their life's etc.
TeamViewer Confirms Undisclosed Breach from 2016
"Those people don't work for free." except at my church they do. We've got nearly a thousand people in the congregation, including lawyers, construction business owners, accountants, professionals of all sorts. We have agreements with other churches to share resources. You're right it doesn't scale up to city wide levels, but it's got a whole lot more top talent than you could get paying below market wages at an NGO.
This is pretty sinister, let's hope HP's marketing doesn't become aware of this.
NASA's tech advancements fuel startup development
Not trying to argue (wp is not a source) but it says he closed down in 2004?
If you're going to make an inflammatory claim like that, you should articulate your basis. What ethics rule are you claiming was violated?
Nothing to gain, everything to lose. She's doing the right thing. Huge self sacrifice.
But the money didn't disappear either. Now the person that got the money can do that. If the money is kept from circulation for a long time that's obviously good for everyone else as more their purchasing power for things like homes and food increases.
no, but they lie close enough to flush against my back
In the US, for those of us who are fortunate enough to have proper fiber, latency is regularly near speed of light, at least in my experience.

Afaik (someone correct me if I'm wrong) the latency overhead with non-fiber (e.g. cable) mostly comes from analog signal processing.
> It's really, really hard to find a good therapist.

And sometimes you can find a good one and watch them, over the span of 5-10 years, turn from good to bad. Then you're back and in the market looking for a new person to divulge your innermost thoughts and intimate experiences to only to realize they're all actually shit now.

/endrant
You mean this? https://www.percona.com/blog/2018/07/11/amd-epyc-performance...

If by crushing it you mean performed nearly identically, and if by 5 years old you mean the very latest E5 chip Intel offers[1], then yes.

Also, they were using EPYC through a cloud VM provider, which means not only is there the typical overhead of Xen, but also possibly some aggressive Spectre mitigations. Their Haswell machine was likely bare metal.

[1] Because E5 and E7 chips only migrate microarchitecture every few generations. But since Intels fab headaches they're actually stuck nearly 4 generations behind, rather than the typical 2-3. Only desktop and E3 series chips use the latest microarchitecture.

EDIT: I forgot they changed their naming scheme. The latest 56-thread capable Xeon Platinum chips available last year used Skylake. I was confirming my understanding with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon but didn't see this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Xeon_microproces...
This isn’t the case of the CDC describing what should be normal. I quoted a statistic about actual consumption to contrast the anecdotal claim that binge drinking up to 5 times/week is “typical”.

Now, if you don’t like the standard definition of “binge drinking” that’s fine. 40 beers/week is still very, very far from typical.

Edit: I don't find the risks to be particularly suspect. Drinking lowers inhibitions and reduces ability to engage in critical thinking. Drunk people regularly do stuff they regret later, ranging from saying embarrassing things to driving intoxicated to getting into physical fights with strangers, friends, and partners. Certainly the person having unprotected sex or assaulting their partner is responsible for their actions, but alcohol also makes those actions more likely.
Might run into chipset compatibility issues...
Really? For me it's getting halfway undressed (no jacket, belt off, shoes on the conveyor, empty your pockets) that takes the most time.
Even when I was flying out of ORD, I doubt I ever arrived more than 30 minutes before boarding started, and I was always early enough to grab a bite and chill for a bit. In DCA I tend to clock the "door to gate" time at 35-40 minutes, and that's from out in Bethesda.

Nowadays I probably arrive 15 minutes before boarding to my local airport, which is tiny, so it's never a problem.
Yep. It is turning off Spectre/Meltdown mitigations. I also see the new MDS mitigations turned off.
> It's not malware, really, and it can't harm a local computer that opens it.

Can't harm a local computer? I think you're wrong.

Malware has often hidden inside of specially-crafted images.
Does Google really delete the full emails when you delete them? For example, if they used the content of an email to generate a profile to show you ads, do they reverse the process when you delete that email?
They can still hire people and pay them. The situation is the same as before the translation it's just another person with 100m now and a different one with a painting. There is no waste there.
Most of what HP got from DEC went into HPE. And the old HP offices in Cupertino are now Apple's new spaceship campus.

Those were dark days.
Exactly. Chat means you need to stop what you're doing all the time and chat, which is hell for people who need quiet time to actually get work done. Email can be addressed when there is time for it. (and yes, in principle you can wait to reply in chat applications as well, but the drift is for people to expect quick response).
HN conversation on this from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19932918
Capitalism accentuates that underlying nature. It's a lot easier to say no to something clearly unethical/unscrupulous when there isn't a pile of money riding on it.

When there's a heavy incentive to pursue this nature for more fundamental needs like food, family security, etc. then it takes a heck of a lot more will power to not participate.
Would you recommend to get "Introduction to Linear Algebra, Fifth Edition" by Dr. Strang instead?
Just pay for Fastmail, I finally did it and its so nice. Easily worth the money.
Introduction to Search by Analogy, with Videogames (2019)
Corporatism is not capitalism.
Sorry, should have clarified: my example was written in C[0][1]; cmplt is something like (Dtyp* ,Dval* ,Dtyp* ,Dval* ), which is what I was alluding to with "just need a type checker". Also, in the code I anonymised that from, cmplt and munge are imported (well, #included) functions from a different library.

0: which doesn't have tuples anyway; you could use structs, but it doesn't really work well in context/practice.

1: I don't use python frecently enough to have ready examples of autoformatter stupidity on hand for it.
It's grossly lacking context.
People here in Kansas City will gift their paid-for cart to someone else rather than leaving it in the parking lot.

From what I've seen on YT, cart rental is a Euro in Europe.
I'm totally in agreement. HN should flag pay walled sites somehow so we know not to waste our time.
TRUWL had a poster at the Biology of Genomes conference last week. Sounds like they're working on this problem. I hope they succeed, because it really needs to be solved.

[0] https://truwl.com/
It's a great quote, but having (tried) to read (some of) all of those authors (in English translation), I think Foucault is in a different class. I'd agree that the others are intentionally obscurantist, but Foucault is not. I'd put him at about the level of Chomsky himself --- complicated, possibly wrong, but insightful and striving for clarity.

"Discipline and Punishment" and "History of Sexuality" are short and clear. Foucault's basic idea of "power" is that one should pay less attention to the explanations and excuses that are given, and more attention to what actually happens. If despite their protestations, one side consistently ends up winning, and their opponents consistently end up losing, it's likely that they hold "power".

Which is to say, while you are welcome to skip Derrida, Lacan, Lyotard, and Kristeva, I think you should read Foucault.
Apparently they were going to go a different way, but this saved them a ton.
The Christchurch Call: The Good, the Not-So-Good, and the Ugly
Diamond Age (doesn't deal with aliens), Anathem (very long-winded), A Deepness in the Sky (this is the closest to the Three Body Problem theme-wise, but also the weakest scientifically, though still better science than the Three Body Problem)
The fact they want to track everyone is the abuse and reason they should be shut down. You dont have to use them, but FB is everywhere to track and gather data for their profits. If America had privacy rights like Europe we would not have this issue then we could sue FB and maybe they would learn after thousands of lawsuits. FB is not being held accountable for their lies and multiple privacy violations.
Auto formatters are great but the problem with Black is that Python is fundamentally incompatible with them, at least if you're only willing to insert whitespace. For example a line of code like this:

x = y[1]['a'] + z[2]['b']

can be broken like this in Black (if it's over the line length limit):

x = y[1][
'a'] + z[2]['b']

But it needs brackets inserted so that it can be formatted something like this:

x = (
y[1]['a']
+ z[2]['b']
)

You can argue the formatting I've chosen e.g. whether the binary operator should go on the previous line (the above line is what PEP 8 suggests). But surely it's clear that breaking in the indexing bracket is atrocious.
+1 for Fastmail, great service.
You forgot the cities of South India (which, incidentally, is the more literate part of the country):

Hyderabad: 11%

Chennai: 6%

Kolkata: 4%

Your comment on beef is not very interesting as we mostly eat goat if not chicken and seafood.

And of course eggs and dairy are part of daily staple.
Right, it definitely makes it more difficult but keep in mind that you don’t need to gain additional information in order to gather additional evidence.

For example, if I have a piece of paper - Exhibit A, that demonstrates you were at a certain place at a certain time, that’s definitely valuable evidence but at trial opposing counsel could call into question the source of the document, chain of custody, or a number of other issues to contest its accuracy and/or validity. But if I have you on the stand and show you that piece of paper and you say, on the record, that it does seem like you were there, now I have Exhibit B - a record of your testimony, at the very least admitting the document seems legitimate and reliable. But most jurors would take your statement as pretty close to an admission.

Exhibit B is highly valuable because it’s almost impossible for your lawyer to contest.

As entertainingly frustrating as Sackler’s deposition was his responses were indeed some of the least valuable he could have possibly provided. I’m sure that was part of his legal team’s preparation for the meeting. “If that’s what it says then that’s what it says” is a meaningless tautology. But keeping up that sort of response throughout an entire line of questioning is difficult even in a deposition and takes a certain amount of IDGAF attitude that Sackler clearly has in spades. A deposition is also a bit different from the grand jury testimony Chelsea Manning would have given because a deposition isn’t a courtroom proceeding. Responses like Sackler’s wouldn’t fly if he were in front of a Judge.
>Finally, I was escalated to the manager who managed to find my reservation and cancel it for me. Imagine my surprise a week later when I found out that my reservation had in fact not been cancelled and I had been charged hundreds of dollars regardless.

What if that manager wasn't actually a manager, but just a colleague of the first person? That person told you you that he found and cancelled your reservation just for you to get off the line.
Considering that just yesterday I had to quickly cancel an operation that had the wrong criteria specified, I can absolutely see it...
I've previously profiled pipenv and found it to be slowed down massively due to launching pip for each package it was working on. Unfortunately the maintainers think the progress bar is more important than performance: https://github.com/pypa/pipenv/issues/2207
I was told about similar experience in Moscow. To still a small bag from a man at least three thieves were involved. One distracted, one “accidentally” pushed, one picked up the dropped bag.
I went from San Jose to SF which is about 1h 35min for a distance that's slightly less than Basel to Zurich, once you get there. There's two major factors that make it slow for me: One, American trainstations are often far away from town centers. Two, BART stops everywhere even though it's quite a sizeable distance. For these distances we'd typically have an interregional connection that only stops 3-4 times. Basel Zürich takes about 55min btw. and you arrive right in each city's center, with tons of public transport to connect you further. SF main station by comparison looked tiny to me, with less connections than lots of Swiss towns with maybe 200k inhabitants have. And I'm not even talking about HSR, for that have a look at Paris to Lyon or Tokyo to Osaka for some example.
Apparently Reagan was Governor 43 years ago. Why haven't the various Democratic Governors and Legislatures since Reagan addressed the problem?
Unless I'm almost certain that I really want to work at the place and it's just a last step of the interview process I'm fine with coding for a few hours, be it on-site or at home.

But otherwise, if it's more than 2 hours, there is no way I gonna do that again, such a waste of time. The longest one I did was more than 10 hours and I didn't even get any feedback about the code. Billing is smart though, I'll always ask for that from now on.
I like fastmail and I take full advantage of it all- including the webhosting.
Black does add brackets in some situations.
Most of it uses Dat and IPFS under the hood.
The same way they know the AP is safe over x billions of miles and saved lives of course.

Both Tesla and Musk do everything in their power to overhyped the AP at any cost (for drivers). Between insisting it's overall safer than human drivers and Musk suggesting the driver supervision is only needed due to pesky regulations we can assume they already have all the needed supporting data. This means they know who was responsible for saving the situation each time. Which makes them not publishing any kind of data (beyond a report that was already refuted [0]) that much more telling.

> The consequences of the public not using Autopilot, because of an inaccurate belief that it is less safe, would be extremely severe. [1]

Supported by comparing the number of deaths between a fleet of new, modern cars driving almost exclusively on freeways in good(ish) weather and a fleet of random cars even decades old, in every possible road, traffic, and weather conditions.

In the meantime Tesla AP is the only system that killed multiple drivers. An infinite times more than any other system if we make the statistic. Don't you think it's reasonable to assume it's because its capabilities are overhyped to the point where drivers are so confident they actually put their lives on the line?

This isn't trying to say the AP is bad, just that Tesla and Musk created unrealistic expectations at the expense of people's lives.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/05/sorry-elon-musk-theres-...

[1] https://www.tesla.com/blog/update-last-week’s-accident
> contained a bug, which allowed an attacker to log in to our development tier as well as escalate their access on the production version of stackoverflow.com.

Why are the credentials for production granted to development systems?
Some people actually believe it be so. Here's a recent example from HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19927745
Spotify made a Tastebreakers playlist at the end of the year to recommend music I might like but is outside the genres I typically listen to.

I thought it was decent.
Keep in mind companies like 23AndMe and Ancestry typically only provide a small fraction of your genome (the parts we currently consider most important, which is a moving target). If you want your whole genome you'll need to go with something like Dante Labs (~200-300USD during sales).
They're probably following the legal description of the technology in question, not the actual method.
Maybe the real problem here is capitalism and productivity porn.
Most books aren't really profitable. Even for the publishers the only really profitable books are few and far between, especially for non-fiction. The main benefit most authors gain seems to be to stake their claim as "expert" and charge higher rates/start consulting on this basis.