skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article just says that the system has a lot of false positives. It says nothing about the sensitivity or specificity of the system, nor does it say whether the system was tuned to, for example, maximize for sensitivity at the expense of specificity (as you would probably want to do if your goal is to identify criminals).
And in my opinion, the problem is that the cycle itself is too long. If they merely tweaked that, the impatience would be lowered, and you might even get smoother traffic.
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The one problem with us that might be different from europe is density. People usually work in further locations compared to europe, and lack of public transport is a major bummer.

I think schedule-dependent is probably what i mean. Lanes here do have 8 shaped measurement systems to detect near real time traffic, and in theory government could collaborate with google who has this data as well. Run some simulations, and extract schedules and that should be a big improvement(assuming it is not already done)
I can't see how you'd think those are absolute truths when they're all prefixed with the word "Maybe".
Yeah but you can do that by means of "salary and work hour discrimination," see what I'm saying? Those are things you can state outright, legally. Just make it clear that those are parameters of the job, and if they accept the job, they accept the job. I dunno maybe I've gone completely batshit crazy up in here.
>Apple cider vinegar

How is apple cider vinegar better than any other vinegar?
Because "developers get dumb by 30" is an HN meme that just won't go away. So every new batch of impressionable 20 year-olds hears it, at the same time VCs and big corps are telling them "you're so smart, now just submit to this series of hazing rituals."
I have one suggestion. I'd add the ability to click outside an image to close it, rather than having to click on the smallish X in the upper right corner of the image. Works mostly fine on desktop Firefox 67.0.1, except the "More" button doesn't work at all.
Slightly pedantically - England and Wales. Scots law doesn't require consideration.

I'd certainly check with a lawyer though - it's been a long time since I studied it ( English law), but my understanding is that not paying is a breach of contract, and it doesn't necessarily make it void for lack of consideration.
No, it doesn't - it just uses a standard IoC container per plugin and some simple classloader isolation between them.
Sounds amazing and scary at the same time... if it works, the amount of AI power that it concentrates to the company that implements it can get a monopoly in lots of industrial applications.
Sorry, I didn't mean to focus too literally on the idea of "testing." I'm using the term broadly to include things like pair-programming or job interviews (and other things, obviously), which are examples of "tests" that try to tease out some of the things you're talking about.
What’s the problem in flashing yellow for a longer period of time? Make a delay long enough for a driver to safely react.
Otherwise why bother with flashing yellow anyway?

We have such thing in Ukraine(and probably other ex USSR) countries. There’s no surprise red light. You always know when it’s going to come and have enough time to finish a crossing.
I don’t think it’s fair to single npm out here. The truth is any package manager that lets anyone publish package updates is vulnerable to this type of attack.
Some background: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-05/tiot-hsc0527...

Anybody more up to speed in this field of work able to offer some insight into what we as consumers can expect down the line from this development?
> I wasn't inexperienced (I started working full time at 16). It wasn't that I hadn't earned it.

Above middle management, political calculus dominates meritocratic concerns (in the short term). This is true in any organisation because we’re primates. You won’t “earn” your way into senior management and you won’t help your case by informally complaining.

If you want a promotion you need leverage. Relationships with (potential) shareholders and creditors, a credible threat to decamp (and cause damage), et cetera. If you can’t threaten to leave you have no leverage. If your leaving wouldn’t cause the Board and senior management pain, you have no leverage. (If you have no leverage, that’s fine—get it.)

Speaking as someone who spent a lot of their career being young (and impatient).
I'm 47 and have run my own companies, exited some of them with handsome returns, enjoyed many cool start-up projects, worked for some fortune-50 companies, have an IQ that is through the roof, but despite everything, since around 7 years am unable to get a job. Mostly I'm "overqualified" or "just too old" ... never mind I am still hands-on and happy to just get paid whatever the Junior gets, but nobody is interested. Since I've hit the end of 30ies I've become invisible.

This has costed me my marriage, the relationship with my kids who don't talk to me. That lead to a decline in my mental health and physical health. Lack of connections costed me a lot of friends too. I quit all social media because that too radicalized me a lot (nothing else to do when you're sitting on your arse).

For some parts of 2018 and most of 2019 I was homeless. In the past 6 months tried to kill myself twice. Once with heroin (never took it before), second time with Fentanyl. Making sure nobody would find me I went into the woods on a several day hike and shot enough to kill a horse, but both times I woke up with a massive hangover 2 days later. I can assure you it wasn't a cry for fucking help. Everything was done right and I am not supposed to be here, yet for some reason I still fucking am.

When I still had the energy to open up to people after they asked why I'm falling apart nobody listened. Everyone focused on me losing my family so they told me I should get "help", others told me I should just lower my expectation when it comes to jobs. How much lower can you go? Junior jobs are pointless because they don't want to talk to people my age but people who they can "shape" to their ideology.

But seriously fuck them, and fuck their ignorance. They dare to ask "what is the problem" yet when they hear they are so incapable of helping that their best and only suggestion is to "seek professional help". Yes why not outsource the problem to a professional because sure as fuck I have no time to bother with your problems (which compared to my non-problems sound pretty fucking real).

Nobody even considers that my problem isn't drugs, or being suicidal, or becoming estranged, and that my problem is simply that I don't get a job. I never thought I would end up at this point because everything went well for me. Well at least until I got "old". Guess we all gotta go at some stage. I had a great time so maybe I shouldn't complain. It's probably better to leave when you're still ahead (I made the mistake of still being here).

throwaway for obvious reasons.
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You don't believe there is a great deal of benefit improving road safety despite the abysmal safety record of personal car transport?

Vehicular deaths are the leading cause of death for teenagers and below, often killing people that weren't even driving themselves. The vast, vast majority of those deaths involve trivially controlled and avoided law-breaking such as running red lights, stop signs or exceeding the speed limit.
> tables inside tables inside framesets

FTFY
Mobile apps written in Python might be too slow though.
Direct link to the research that the Economist article is talking about:
https://voxeu.org/article/advertising-major-source-human-dis...
Of note, is they make not firm conclusions about _why_ advertising makes people less happy in a society, only that it does, and that this is true even when controlling for economic growth and other normally understood factors that influence this.

In fact, for a given country, looking at the growth in ad spending in one year, is apparently a good way to predict if people will be more or less happy a few years from now.

It will be interesting to see if this relationship holds up over time.
Drowning is one of the hardest homicides to prove. Cops want to change that
In addition to being hard to scale and subject to bias, it's hard to know, even for you, if it was actually a good system or not. The best you can hope for is to have decent confidence it had a low false positive rate.

Short of industry wide collaboration with some kind of longitudinal study, getting an idea of what does and doesn't work in terms of false negatives is nearly impossible.
Have the Public Clouds Killed Hadoop?
No, you're right, they are just doing it the quick/lazy way. Older workers are also less liable to drink all the other corporate koolaid that might be harder to test for.
>...they feel compelled to switch tracks to management to continue to make progress, regardless of whether they have any innate ability or desire to excel at management.

Can confirm: Once you "plateau" in a division, the only options are lateralling to a technology you don't know (with the same expectations exacted upon you) or simply going management and that assumes that there's room in management.

Given how frequently "organisational shifts/changes" occur, that could leave you out in the cold, just as well.
I wonder what they thought of that.
> I still require to work in a company where my manager/boss/CTO know much more than me. I'm almost 40.

This is a hard requirement to meet because as you go up the hierarchy of positions, the first level leader initially knows more than the junior contributors, but that pretty rapidly flips. Maybe the second level of leadership still knows more than the first, but almost never after that. How could someone be an expert practitioner in all the varied disciplines that they likely oversee? It skews towards general tech leadership quite quickly.
The problem is that American land use is organized in a way that basically requires driving. If you want to do something as trivial as travel from one supermarket to another across the street, the roads are high-speed, the crosswalks are far away and inconvenient (fast walk cycle time, slow red time), and on top of that you have to cross large parking lots to get to and from the front door. Just look at the environment between this Trader Joe's and Whole Foods: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.86918,-73.1275739,464m/data=...

We make everyone drive for the shortest of trips and then are shocked that we have so much traffic.
In Houston we have also lights programmed to rush hour so that in the core downtown area, lights are timed so you can make it from one end to the other without hitting a red light if you drive the speed limit.

The problem is that I don't think these lights can be remotely programmed, so after bad weather (tropical storms, etc) the power will inevitably go out and the lights will reset. And then it feels like they only get fixed when someone feels like making a 311 call. Repeat ad nauseum.
Vroom Vroom gotta go fast. Who cares how many die?

Cars > People in NA. It's insane.
Just attach a GPS tracker to the battery with a DC converter.

Far easier and more reliable than using a phone.
Attempt at a serious question here:

How many people here who want to ban glue traps would not outlaw abortion performed at home using "traditional methods" (e.g. in states that now outlaw most abortions)?

If you don't like the question, can you explain why instead of just down voting it?

The reason why I ask is that pro-animal rights groups tend to lean left politically whereas pro-life groups tend to lean the other direction.

(FWIW: I'm pro-choice myself and do use _spring-style_ mouse traps.)
Semver probably makes the problem worse though.
"Note that, even if Grover fails to detect a given piece as fake, our findings suggest that releasing many such articles taken together would be relatively easy to spot. Thus, if a source of Neural Fake News disseminates a large number of articles, Grover will be increasingly capable of spotting these articles as malicious."
Check that out :

nytimes.com
The Earth is flat.
June 6, 2019 - Paul Krugman

generated: ∨∨∨∨∨∨∨∨∨∨∨∨∨∨∨∨∨∨∨∨∨∨

Fox & Friends, NBC’s First Read, the Washington Post, the conservative National Review, and even the dreaded left-wing ThinkProgress have all suggested that world leaders must either be fools or lying propagandists, or else confused young men who want to overthrow the government. Not only is every country’s first priority mastering an original strategy for global domination and deploying its military for whatever the moment might call for, but all that has to be tested and refined in clandestine underground units!

Of course none of that makes much sense. But it’s one of the many crazy arguments put forward by the dumb doubters of climate change. And other dumb arguments we’ve had over the years in our ever-growing culture wars: whether guns were really necessary for self-defense in an age of mass shootings and real militias; whether Obama was really a Muslim-American socialist and wasn’t actually born in the United States; whether Harry Reid was a tool of the “Iran-Contra” gang or of a real anti-communist who just happened to be hiding it from the voters.

Both Republicans and Democrats should be able to give up these nonsense claims and instead trust that after generations, people will just no longer believe them. How else can one explain the failure of sane arguments to take hold, for climate science or other issues?

We should figure out what we’re afraid of and try a lot of sensible things instead. We should challenge authority and embrace instability, because there’s no meaningful alternative — and we should try and invent better, healthier versions of the original ideas that create stability and happiness. Even if those ideas don’t pan out, we should try them anyway.

It’s the method of living that counts.

#end of generation
For me XPS is an unstable machine: bad firmware, bad wifi chip, bad tb dock, kernel modules crash continuously. Next time i'll buy something else (and cheaper).
The basics of using the semantic tags are easy enough that I'd question if that counts as "spending money" in any relevant amount.
It's alleged that cities will reduce the length of the yellow so that people will misjudge and run a red, thus increasing the revenue.

> The annual report for Suffolk County, N.Y., shows that revenue from the red-light cameras was about $28.9 million in 2017, with about $9 million of that paid to the vendor.
A common objection is that they will leave as soon as they can find a 'better' (higher-paying) job. So not worth it to invest in them.

This sucks, but it definitely explains a lot of discrimination at the higher-end of the scale. The OP has a 71-year-old who couldn't find work. It must be very difficult for an employer to agree to hire this person, get them trained up on their specific business processes, only for them to have a serious health issue (and/or die) inside of a year. I get that this can happen to anyone, but the likelihood is of course greater the older you get.
Maybe employers could take out some kind of insurance on their employees, with the cost based on the actuarial tables and taken out of the employees' salaries (kind of what you suggest).
This would feel better but isn't it less efficient because then there's more stopping and starting? Like instead of waiting at an average of 5 lights for 60 seconds, you wait at 10 lights for 30 seconds, which means you spend twice as much time decelerating/accelerating to/from a stop.
Is this outside of NA? I've never seen this feature in the US.
Instgram Hacking
Just curious, does anyone know how to hack an instagram account?
It's a good point: why is it so hard to scale back? Dale says in the article that he is trying maintain control of Maker assets, which makes me believe the other option is a sale. Clearly, Dale wants to continue trying to build (even a break-even) business, but it's possible that the investors want to sell the assets, preventing this, so there is tension between someone running the business and someone funding the business. Dale says "It started as a venture-backed company but we realized it wasn’t a venture-backed opportunity." Who knows if it could have survived without VC backing, but this statement seems pretty clear that the investors weren't interested in the original direction of the company, and tried to put it on a higher growth trajectory -- hence my reading that the options were growth or death. On the product side of the business, the first customers of the magazine and faire were already Makers, and the interest was very high. Then, there was a big shift to package up all of this maker stuff, and sell it to general public. It didn't work. Had the business focused on the smaller niche group, it may have been viable, but not interesting to VC since the opportunity is limited to people who are already makers. Once the VC is accepted though, it's no longer an option to stay niche, and business decisions (such as opening a physical storefront in SF) only make sense when viewed with "huge-or-bust" mentality. It's mostly speculation, but I've been exhibited at Maker Faire since 2007, have written a handful of articles for the magazine and have friends that worked there.
I think they provide something no pharmaceuticals do - a rapid and acute shift in perspective. In the face of trauma which creates damaged areas of the brain, the perspective shift can allow us to address root problems that would be otherwise inaccessible.
I don't think it's common to blatantly run a red light. In fact, it's extremely frowned upon in Western society, to the point that 99% of people will wait for the green signal even if it's the middle of the night and there's no-one around (compare that to, e.g. India, where I've heard that traffic signals are mere suggestions).

But stretching the green past the yellow and into the red? That happens all the time, and I suspect it's the vast majority of what these cameras catch. People justify it because "oh, it was just a few seconds" or "but it was still yellow!".
Show HN: MoneyGame – Browser-based business simulation
You may have missed how they're defining it:

> We define availability as the fraction of “qualified” RPCs the service answers successfully within latency thresholds: 5 seconds for a Safe request, and 15 seconds for a Recent request as leader re-election in Spanner may take up to 10 seconds. ... To compute availability, we aggregate success ratios over 90-day windows averaged across clusters. Figure 5 shows Zanzibar’s availability as measured by these probers. Availability has remained above 99.999% over the past 3 years ofoperation at Google. In other words, for every quarter, Zanzibar has less than 2 minutes of global downtime and fewer than 13 minutes when the global error ratio exceeds 10%.

Basically, they're counting by number of requests. That's fairly typical for Google, who in their SRE book point out that measuring only total outages is a poor indicator of actual user experiences. Imagine if you had an electric company that had frequent brownouts and rolling blackouts but bragged about never having a total blackout. You'd be fairly unimpressed.

Google SREs also make the point that beyond five nines, your efforts are rendered moot by reliability issues you cannot control. Mostly network issues. If you have 99.99999% reliability but the mobile data network only has 99.99%, you've wasted a lot of money on something most folks will never notice.
I have posted this here before, but it was a couple of years ago and the game has evolved a bit since.

If anyone of you still use IRC, welcome to #moneygame on QuakeNet!

Basically the game is a business simulation, where you operate your companies ranging from resource production to construction and banking. There is a "The Exchange" where you can trade floating currencies, goods and public companies.

Any questions or suggestions are very welcome!

Thank you for your attention.
Where I live, it happens hundreds of times per day. And that's just the ones recorded.

https://denverite.com/2018/12/05/denvers-small-force-of-red-...
They called it the épuration sauvage
I was specifically told by the CEO I would be considered for the position if not for my age. I earned my place by proving my value and reliability for years.

Explaining why we discriminate is not helping those who want to see this stopped.

It's like explaining why old people get discriminated upon. Yes, there is a logic to it. No, it is not acceptable. Yes, that is how it works now. No, that is not how it will always work, humans are constantly evolving. The way you talk sounds defeatist. It sounds a lot like the old 'thats just the way it is' when people talk about change.

BTW, I totally agree with you as to the fact that the logic you are talking about is correct in that is how things work NOW. Though we have been overcoming this. Or else there wouldn't be black or women in any boardroom. Change is happening. I don't believe those who say it will always be the same.

P.S. this happened to me more than 10 years ago. I ended up quitting and since spent the majority of my life working for myself.
Yes, well, you're Walter Bright, though.

The only name in this thread I recognise (although, to be fair, most people aren't using their real names), and as an aside, a name that a seventy-something year-old Vietnam veteran running an apartment full of automated test machines in Greater Tokyo was surprised I dropped when he told me that the Digital Mars compiler was testing well. That compiler was always well behaved. I wonder if his age would have been an impediment to finding work at in the US; in Tokyo he suffered only the problem of being a foreigner.
The Recent Google Cloud Outage and It’s Cause
But it will feel like more is happening, thus lowering impatience, and it will also mean that even if the lights are synced, it's harder to get up to a dangerous speed in built up areas. So it's also safer.

In cities, I don't really care about making it convenient for drivers, but lowering their impatience will make it safer for everyone.
There was/is a similar keyboard available for Android, by Italian developers. It featured hexagon keys with the most popular keys being in the middle. Apart from that it didn't adapt though. It was featured on HN. (Had to look it up, the name is Keybee [1])

[1] https://keybee.it/
They're use products, I just wouldn't call them "technology."

The technology is everything that enables these apps (GPS, mobile chipsets, cellular technology, mobile OS, etc.).
Mushrooms, cannabis and LSD are each much safer than alcohol [1]. (Objectively speaking, cocaine, amphetamine and MDMA are, too.) Legalisation for the first three and decriminalisation for the latter makes sense.

(I’m a wine and whiskey person myself. But my subjective choices shouldn’t have relevance.)

[1] https://www.sciencealert.com/researchers-rank-recreational-d...
NPM isn't being singled out as part of a hypothetical risk analysis, this is about an attack that actually happened via NPM.
Oftentimes through password recovery and island hopping from know data breaches
Another hit piece by bbc; move along there is nothing to see.
Is the join a Spanner query, or is there a system on top of a Spanner that federates/aggregates databases?
At work we've had both Skype for Business and Teams running in parallel with the freedom to use what we like. I prefer Teams to the point where I don't even turn on Skype anymore.
agreed for the most part. "Foiled" is pretty much the wrong word here. Maybe "Detected and halted further loss..."
I'm dubious that accelerating out of danger is the 'best' option in any but the most contrived of circumstances.