skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is this a concern? They never paid for Android to begin with and still get to use Google services like Maps, Play, GMail, etc.
That's actually around the median for Harvard students, IIRC. It's not enough to guarantee your admission, but then 2400 isn't either.
A day off to vote for one thing.

And lots of small things like making it easier to vote, more polling places so that people aren't waiting around for 5 hours, better civics education in highschool so that young people know how to engage with their local party, clearer and standardized ballots, etc.
Democracy by Jury
I see what you are saying, but as far as I know this is happening everywhere. Jobs have centralized and you are paying a premium for the opportunity. Otherwise service jobs are mostly what is left. While these apps are less common we certainly have the same pattern all over Europe.
> If you haven't programmed before, you may not actually like it.

And even if you like it and find it fascinating, programming for your own pleasure is a very different experience than programming 8+ hours a day with a team of people trying to meet an impossible deadline under pressure from management. After years or decades doing it, the excitement starts to wear off.

Also, the culture and work conditions vary a lot between employers. E.g., open office vs. enclosed workspaces; work-life balance vs. spending all your waking hours at the office or partying with your co-workers; contempt for "old" people or people with differing political views vs. a diverse group of people who can get along with each other; etc.

Before investing a lot of time and money into this, you may want to spend some time talking to people who've spent years doing it for a living.
Starlink would have to comply with what the country they are transmitting to permits or doesn't if they don't want to get in all sorts of trouble.
An effect that Starlink could have though, is, that people might protest censorship more because all that stands between them and freely accessing the internet is their government allowing import of receivers (instead of no cable or mobile available at all, ISPs, government, ...).
"AI" (or whatever rebranding it gets) always works in cycles, with a phase of excitement and overpromising followed by a phase of apparent underdelivering and skepticism. But what actually happens is that the innovations just become part of the normal tooling, and stop being called "AI".

At some point there is no need to hire a "data scientist", as any python programmer is already expected to know how to use numpy, pandas, sklearn and keras, just like before it was already expected for them to do any kind of data manipulation with SQL without requiring a dedicated database expert.
That's unfortunate that it doesn't go that far. Increasingly, people are willing to call mandatory single family home zoning what it is: economic segregation.

If, to live in a particular neighborhood, your household has to own or rent a large home on a big plot of land, that's obviously going to keep out the poor and working class from living there. We tend accept this as if it's natural and fine, but is it?

This isn't even a case where you can say, "well, that's just what the market has decided, it's the invisible hand," because it's actually government regulation that's enforcing the segregation here. Why do we want the government to do that again?

I'm not saying that every neighborhood has to allow giant apartment towers, but that they won't even allow fourplexes or townhomes or small apartment buildings that would still allow for a peaceful neighborhood is an issue.
preommr asserted that we might see better outcomes with better voter rights.

AlexTWithBeard did not make the claim you seem to be making now. He specifically asked what rights are missing, as if the status quo allows everyone to vote.

I'm arguing that voter disenfranchisement and other roadblocks lead to a situation where technically people have a right to vote but in practice have difficulties.

You can argue about the quality of the vote, but we are currently not in a position where everyone who is eligible to vote actually has an opportunity to vote. Having to wait many hours on a business day to vote is malicious compliance.

The nonsequitur here is conflating "is it necessarily better if everyone can vote?" with "does everyone have the right to vote?", which are fundamentally different questions
Adorable Little Discord Bot Is a Devious Game in Disguise
According to these guys, they'd come in to do an installation at 2-3AM (standard time for maintaining a cell network), but security was lax and they would be left to do their own thing mostly unsupervised. These were smaller shops that were later bought out by the big handful recognize today. They were dumb. Maybe they let it happen, but it takes two to tango.

According to the particular story that I might be foggy on, the engineer responsible for the station and surrounding stations came in to check in on the installation unannounced, and the people on site were not really aware or concerned that they were in back working. The engineer found out what was going on, and everyone shrugged, saying that what harm could they do, etc etc.
At my previous company data science has become synonymous with data analysis, to the point that the number of data scientists on staff is starting to outnumber data analysts. I think it's more a sign of a maturing field than anything else.
The more narrow view of data science as big data, models, and machine learning is probably less a thing now, but data analysis overall is only getting bigger.
I think that this one is flexible and easy to adapt to the UI.
What exactly is the endgoal here?
We know that attackers have reason to exploit literally all compute resources they can find a way to access. This is more like worrying about leaving the house during an epidemic of exploding ebola-infected pigeons — if you can do something about it, you should.
https://v8.dev/blog/spectre

> Second, the increasingly complicated mitigations that we designed and implemented carried significant complexity, which is technical debt and might actually increase the attack surface, and performance overheads. Third, testing and maintaining mitigations for microarchitectural leaks is even trickier than designing gadgets themselves, since it’s hard to be sure the mitigations continue working as designed. At least once, important mitigations were effectively undone by later compiler optimizations. Fourth, we found that effective mitigation of some variants of Spectre, particularly variant 4, to be simply infeasible in software, even after a heroic effort by our partners at Apple to combat the problem in their JIT compiler.

> Our research reached the conclusion that, in principle, untrusted code can read a process’s entire address space using Spectre and side channels. Software mitigations reduce the effectiveness of many potential gadgets, but are not efficient or comprehensive.

The “some variants” include MDS, which the author was aware of but which were not at the time of publication out of embargo.
My pickup truck has one, I was pleasantly-surprised to see it.

You're right though, all cars should have it. Cars idleing for hours puts wear-and-tear on the engine that isn't evident by the odometer.
I think you're not understanding battery tech then. While fossil fuels suck, they just have massive energy densities. Even the most advanced research batteries don't even come close to the energy density of the least efficient fossil fuels (this is why we use fossil fuels in the first place).

> Re renewables not being constant. That's my point, and nuclear isn't flexible enough to take advantage.

I am utterly confused by this comment.You can vary the output from a nuclear reactor. To over simplify it: rods go in, gets less hot, less power; rods go out, gets more hot, more power. You can load balance. This can be done all day, all season, and in any climate (this latter part is actually extremely important and the whole reason why we need diversified energy portfolios). Solar only powers during the day. Wind only powers when it is windy (most wind is morning and evening when there are shifting temperatures).

I am ALL for renewables. But we just have to be real. Batteries aren't there yet and we don't expect them to be there for a few decades. We needed to stop climate change a decade ago. While we should continue investing in new technologies, we have to also start fixing the problem NOW. If it takes 10 years to build something, well then you better start yesterday. But we can't wait 10 years for a new innovation (that might not even come) and then start building (all the while burning fossil fuels in the mean time).

That's the trade off. Wait and burn fossil fuels, or do what we can to get off them now and build better stuff as new technology is created. I for one would like to act NOW.
A few months ago, I merged two data sets: one depicting Seattle’s history of redlining in the 20th century, and another that showed every building demolition project since around the year 2000.

What I found was that these historically redlined districts have see over 10x the amount of demolition that explicitly white neighborhoods have had.

I’ll put this online sometime soon. It’s really astonishing to see the data.
2 must have Churchill quotes:

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on (unsourced, but why not attribute it to Churchill anyhow? he deserves it)
Right up until 1964, when all the Dixiecrats had finally had enough and switched over to the Republican Party, which welcomed their votes and bigotry with open arms. And that’s how it’s been for the last 60+ years, but surely you knew that, being such a student of history and all. LBJ thought that Democrats siding with the Civil Rights movement would drive away Southern Evangelicals for a generation, but he never counted on them being so devoid of principles, values, or integrity that they would double down on party over literally ever other factor, even their own religion, even their own interests. And here we are on Reddit, 65 years later, where someone to this day is claiming that Democrats are the pro-segregation party. What an awful time to be alive.
I think the while the article paints a picture of "choice" with the highlighted examples, there is probably a much darker reality of "suburban moms" having fallen out of job prospects and doing those gigs to make ends meet, akin to a minimal wage job.

In more prosperous times, suburban moms (and most people with regular gigs) wouldn't even think about "delivering groceries"...
Can I suggest that "90s simplicity" is an oxymoron?

I was alive back then, and I've always been under the impression that the nineties were extremely fast paced and increasingly complicated.
its gaming centric news, nobody cares about these exploits when running fortnite
Jesus Christ dude, I give up.
She's a knowledge worker, highly paid and was in her 20's when computers became ubiquitous.

Her education, the job she's supposed to do... it's like a carpenter who don't want to learn about electric screwdrivers.

As soon as you try to get a bit more general: “Ctrl-A works in any applications or folders or anything with multiple items... it allows you to select everything at once.” She shuts down and gets back to her task of writing stuff.

The thing is: computers aren't magical enough yet for that kind of user.
I'm with you on this.
I really don't like the 'gig-economy' being a replacement full-time job, but I can definitely see the advantages of it when you're at a loose-end and just want a bit of extra cash.

~ to when you decide you really should get off your ass and ebay off that stuff that's been sitting in the corner for a year.
How to advance your career by contributing to open source projects
pc enthusiasts aren’t really into running javascript either.
Since it's turbo, I thought it means "as long as the CPU likes it", rather than indefinitely. Or did they change how turbo works and now it's "it will run on turbo frequencies as long as there is enough load and the CPU is not temperature throttled"?
I’m talking about the Chrome v8 team’s white paper on why they are giving up on trying to mitigate Spectre class attacks in software, which mentions, among other issues:

> Fourth, we found that effective mitigation of some variants of Spectre, particularly variant 4, to be simply infeasible in software, even after a heroic effort by our partners at Apple to combat the problem in their JIT compiler.

Apple released an update with some mitigations, but they are by no means perfect, and their message is that if you want to truly be safe, either don’t run JS, or disable hyperthreading.
> It turned the city into a judge dredd style dystopia of luxury condo towers

Is it really that bad?
I’ve been doing iOS since 2008 and the “specific fixes” are definitely more common these days! iOS used to be a simple platform with one standard phone size and tablet size but it started to increase in complexity with all the new devices today (I’m looking at you iPhone X). iOS 6 -> iOS 7-8 was such a pain to main backward compatibility because of all the navigation/status bar changes.

I still find iOS to be my preferred platform but the “it just works” feeling is no longer there.
Praising the economy of the South seems a strange strategy when economically it's so weak. GDP per capita in Southern states is generally lower than average, sometimes much lower.
I'll go further with the example of the U.S. car industry in the 60s, when the evidence was clear that consumers preferred safe, reliable, affordable, efficient cars -- from increasing sales for Volkswagen and Toyota, and most of all from the success of Unsafe at Any Speed.

I doubt anyone then would have predicted that two of the U.S. big three would declare bankruptcy and that Toyota, then manufacturer of podunk little cars, would become the #1 manufacturer, but it happened.

Had U.S. regulations met consumer demand, U.S. manufacturers may have innovated what consumers wanted instead of more chrome, tail fins, size, etc. Regulation came eventually, but too late for the industry to avoid bankruptcies, unemployment, and so on.

In fact, regulation didn't stifle innovation but directed it. Engineers can innovate around safety and efficiency as much as on speed and tail fins. I'd rather have 100,000 mile warranties and electric cars than more chrome, which U.S. market forces created.

Today, regarding the environment, the governments that regulate to reflect citizen demand for clean air, land, and water will create markets and companies that beat ones that don't. I hope current U.S. policy doesn't bankrupt more future U.S. markets and companies.
What might be a good indicator: is "data science" taught in major universities?
maybe it is just hard. amd isnt shipping clearly better stuff either.
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Sounds like a land value tax, which libertarians have been suggesting for decades.
The title should probably be edited. The article itself is quite interesting.
This probably doesn't contribute to the conversation but with the number of serious vulnerabilities that have popped up recently I'm not inspired to solve the truth table for the CPU vendor that leaves me the least exposed. As others have said - and I have seen - some of these can be exploited with Javascript in the browser. (I do not know much about Zombieland presently)

Looking forward to a less complex architecture even if it means cutting me off at the knees with execution speed (for a few years):

RISC-V
Sure, but I guess it's more flexible that way?
If CF is caching, this won't work. https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/217343117-W...
Why would you need 1GHz for writing, e.g. in vi/Emacs? 1kHz I'm not sure, but 1MHz should be enough.
you can start by realizing "global cooling/global warming/climate change is a racket.
what you do next is up to you.
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per the v8 team, efforts to fully secure the JS JIT engine are simply infeasible against some Spectre class attacks:

> Fourth, we found that effective mitigation of some variants of Spectre, particularly variant 4, to be simply infeasible in software, even after a heroic effort by our partners at Apple to combat the problem in their JIT compiler.
One of the really cool things from the pdf is the ability to construct a normalized face from a video frame: https://i.imgur.com/SdRHCJ0.png Basically they are taking a video frame, making it face forward, cancelling out lighting for pure albedo, and removing accessories like glasses. This is incredible in terms of tracking individuals. It's a digital mugshot.

Also, I think it's interesting that the classifiers can pick out ethnicity with a high degree of accuracy. Seems like an easy way to fool this tech, from a privacy perspective, is to talk stereotypically like a specific ethnicity.
Cool, but this seems like a very fancy age, race and gender approximator.

I wonder if the NSA has an in-house version already.
Pair up with an engineer and build a terrific dental software package.
No doubt the HN crowd will not like a comment like that that is grounded in personal responsibility and planning. When did taking into account potential bad life occurrences and/or living beyond your means turn into sympathy for people who spend money on '2 masters degrees' but can't get employed with those because of life choices. And some other things 'prom dress' that honestly are not life essential (little things do add up; read further below)

And this:

> But now there's also soccer, swim team, lacrosse, broken cleats, a junior prom dress, trips to look at colleges, AP exams, SAT tests and summer camp.

How about not thinking that you have to do or supply all of that to your children to start. Here's an idea. Maybe it would be <i>more beneficial to your kids</i> if you say you can't pay for some of those things. That's right. Let them have a taste of what can happen if you don't think far enough in advance or make life choices with only a small safety net. That will certain be a motivating factor, right? Parents are brainwashed and lemmings to think they have to do things 'to show colleges you are well rounded' or 'because that's what parents do for their kids'. Maybe need to get back to think ahead and plan or you will end up delivering groceries to others as your job earning meager pay.
I don't think there's any partisan name-calling at all in here? If anything, it's partisan introspection.

The content is pretty substantial and goes into great depth about the history of single-family zoning.
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Female Firefighters More Prone to PTSD and Suicidal Thoughts
https://gordol.github.io/date_time_manipulation.html
The fact that she enjoys it gives me the thought that she does not enjoy what she was actually trained to do or went to school for. Honestly doing deliveries is easy and lazy work sure you walk around the market but I'd be more likely to think she could not work if she hadn't mentioned that fact. (Taking into account that she could be saying she likes it solely so in her mind it doesn't seen so bad to be doing..)
> What is pretty much missing from almost all articles about the top N% having M% of some resource where N < M is a discussion of what percent the top N% should have.

This involves a value judgement that goes beyond reporting the facts that the article does. You'd have to go to the op-ed section for that.

Piketty has some ideas in his book:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_in_the_Twenty-First_Ce...

And even given the topic, and the book's length, I found it quite readable. Highly recommended.
No surprise the rust belt is Trump's campaigning grounds.

Americans didn't choose for the great lakes economies to collapse. It was the collective decision of the ownership class.
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DIY Anechoic soundproof chamber for silent PC review (2008)
yes, but have you tried writing macros in the GNU Make extension language and reading them the next day? dude.
It’s interesting how if one takes the smallest snippet of meaningless source code outside the company, the person is liable for a giant lawsuit... Yet when HR, leveling, and personnel artifacts get leaked (and often not to the engineers who the docs govern), there are zero consequences.

Despite growing popularity of Computer Science, there still exists a tremendous double standard with how engineers and non-engineers are punished.

Edit: Dear downvoters, I have seen entire leveling docs, distributions, and HR procedure handbooks exchanged between companies. Execs do this without consent of the source company. Maybe the context of this news item doesn’t fit, but please check your ignorance before voting.
By this point, the US patent system can be considered a self inflicted wound. It's not like there have been decades of activists trying to take it down.

Maybe the US could have a cheap 5G vendor, if it had abolished patents decades ago, but now it's too late, the cat is out of the bag.
It seems to me that most people will be willing to pay for slower js as opposed to an overall slower system.
UC Berkeley has an undergraduate data science major. The choices and bureaucracy of creating new majors is also prone to hype though, so it might not be the best indicator.
There's a much more rational way to try and account for that though- your parents income/wealth. That's what actually determines whether you are a leg up or a leg down, so if you're committed to this type of equality Index on that. Skin colour is a pretty insane proxy! There are poor white people too, and you can't assume they "deserve it because their family failed" it's insane. And your metaphor that it would somehow be justified to "disqualify" white people is bonkers. It's about as logically valid as an argument that we should "disqualify" black people- without slavery they wouldn't exist (butterfly effect), but assuming they did their median income would be that of eg. DRC. Slavery is a bad thing so we should "reverse" the effects right? We're NOT teams. I'm not on "team white" and anyone, regarding of race who thinks I'm on it is on the opposite team, because my actual team is my beliefs.
> "pip install pendulum" is not complex.

For much of the work I do, there's a _big_ jump in complexity from using python (2 or 3) and its stdlib vs. requiring a library. A script using only the stdlib is easy to distribute and get working on developer, ci, and production machines. Once an external library is required, I need machinery or scripts to manage or ensure presence of those dependencies.
"everyone on the planet would need an electric car sized battery"

This is basically what we're aiming for (in the west at least) anyway, with EVs?

Are you saying we don't have the materials to do it? Or we don't have the factory capacity for it?

Batteries can be made from a variety of materials, and we supply near enough 1 car per person in the west, so batteries should be doable?

Id hope some combination of said car batteries, continent spanning grids, smart appliances would get us most of the way there.

The biggest flaw with this model is what happens on cloudy, still weeks? I guess some kind of waste to energy, wood, and bio gas, hydrogen power station would be less expensive than a nuclear reactor.
As a general rule of thumb, I'd expect building denser housing to be more attractive in areas with higher housing costs. However, the reason these areas have high housing costs is usually the same reason you can't build denser housing there.

If California wants to fix its housing affordability issue, it needs state-level legislation that reduces impediments to denser housing. Palo Alto and other high cost areas aren't going to willingly densify.