skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Solar power will come online faster than nuclear anyway, just need to make 100x more solar panels per year to have solar for all energy usage in a few years. Seems to take 10 years to build nuclear power plants. Store excess power in batteries or convert to chemicals. There's enough gas in the gas pipes of the world for days of energy.
Whenever I work in a company that uses Gusto for payroll and benefits, I breathe much easier as an employee. It's easy and out of your way. Please send the design team love and compliments from me. A+
The radical answer is to go out and kill as many other people as possible. Can't kill the planet if they ain't alive. The good news is that it's all media scare anyway. If you live long enough you too, will learn to not trust the media. Just think about the stuff you know a lot about and how the media depicts it. Media is clueless about everything.
How to Improve Your Thinking in One Step
Do you offer that for freelancers?
I'm curious how much it's affected Australia since they passed a similar, though incredibly weak law.

Web Crypto + WebRTC + keybase === end to end, peer to peer, encryption.
Did you mean "humanity's intelligence" or was that a play on words?

I too am disappointed in the low comment quality here
Caller: “hi 911, I’m being held hostage by an armed and violent individual at this address, this is the only opportunity I’ve had to use a phone”

911 call taker: “Thanks for your report. We’ll work on verifying this and might be able to get out there in 2-3 weeks.”
My office is based on a very uninspiring,private road,which among others,has a police station,UPS, post office, a couple of construction companies,music studio,law firm, recycling centre, furniture company and BMW centre. The road looks like crap,zero glamour.. There's a little cabin in the middle of the road- that's where the owner of the street is based.It looks like a cabin of a ticket inspector,while in fact it's the home for nearly 20 companies the guy has.The only clue is plenty of luxurious cars parked outside. 100 meters further,anothet shabby office,which turns out is the home of a nearly £30Million company,again the only clue are very expensive cars outside the office.Next to our office,is so called dark kitchen,which makes food for multiple restaurants listed on Deliveroo. Since they moved in, the road is always packed with mainly asian guys on scooters collectind meals for delivering.They all look overworked,tired and simply miserable. Makes such a contrast when you see all those Ferraris parked on the opposite side of the road...
Transforming implicit mental models into explicit is the most important step in learning for me. And it's only possible to understand whether I had done it right when I try to apply them in practice.
contentious? Genuinely curious for a source here. everything ive ever seen says Waymo is far in the lead, though I dont work in this space.
No, that’s exactly what “opportunity cost” means.
Veganism unavoidably implies a moral superiority where vegetarianism doesn't.

That's pretty irritating.

It also just doesn't mesh with most people's understanding of simple animals as simple and food-driven, not in any way equal to the long existential agonies and traumas of humans.

Their implied moral high-ground, in the face of rampant predator killings in the natural world, adds up to too much Disney and too little sense.

...and lions eat their own young let alone warthogs.
Lock Picking Detection with Machine Learning – Audio Classification
It's taken me 8 days to answer, because I've rewritten this a few times. I may write this up as a blog post.

OK, so...

1. It doesn't do one job and do it well. It tries to do it all.
2. It has magic. Why does this setting do this? Don't know, just do it.
3. It's vastly overcomplicated (related to 1, and produces 2)
4. It's a black box. It's not at all transparent about how it does what it does, and the output it produces seems to be arbitrary. I mean, you could probably work back from the minimised mess that you get to relate it to the source, probably. But it's not at all clear why tweaking this declaration makes that function move to that module.
5. It's not instrumented, or predictable. Changing a declaration can make it double its processing time, and there's no way of knowing which of the 5 changes you just made caused that.

And finally... It's a solution to a problem that only exists because of the dependency culture in the JS community. Because each dependency contains a lot more code than is needed to solve the one problem it was imported to solve, web apps tend to bloat. So we need to break them into modules and only import the modules we need. So we need a tool to do that and package the modules up. So we get Webpack. Instead, why don't we just import less code in the first place? We really (and I mean really) don't need 500Kb of javascript to create a basic web app. If we could cut that down to 100Kb then we could just minimise it and we wouldn't need webpack at all (maybe Gulp to run Babel for those oh-so-necessary new cool JS features).
Switch to electric everything (heating/cooling/transport) and buy renewable electricity. Stop eating meat. Stop buying stuff you don't really need.
That seems like a pretty huge difference.
> Drive by, see if there's any other evidence of any of this, leave if there isn't - because an unverified phone call alone really shouldn't count as probable cause?

Exactly! Especially since law enforcement has (successfully!) argued that they have no legal duty to serve and protect you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maksim_Gelman_stabbing_spree#L...

You can't have your cake and eat it too!

If you don't have an obligation to protect, you don't have immunity when you shoot at anyone who is not shooting at you.
Me too. I think since around ~ 2013-15 there are so many management people and corporate drones that this place should no longer be called hacker news. Hackers are not conformists. Just today the groupthink was calling an employee to delete his comment and stop speaking his mind. Old accounts are getting older but they re not being replaced.
That it's not worth it is the entire implication of their FAQ answer.
Very cool idea. Doesn't seem ready for prime time yet -- tried running it on a small Go program to score boggle boards, and got errors in the interpreter.

Playing around, it seems to have problems assigning int literals to int8 variables, and it seems to sometimes have problems re-assigning pointer values.
They've achieved a 0.5% increase in production volume in Q2, compared to Q4 2018, to 87,084 vehicles. I'd hardly call that "rapid progress". For comparison, Toyota make around 2.2 million vehicles per quarter.

A more reasonable brand comparison might be Mercedes-Benz Cars, which made 575,639 vehicles in Q2. It's quite impressive that Tesla have got to about 15% the volume that Merc do, but they're hardly going to take over the world with that kind of growth rate.

IMO they should stop chasing volume sales of lower cost vehicles and concentrate on premium vehicles with higher margins. What's the point of killing themselves trying to lift production numbers to try to make all the analysts who seem to be obsessed with that happy, which doesn't yet seem to be working, if the margins aren't worth bothering? It won't end well.
But many other countries have guns too, eg Switzerland. They don't seem to suffer from the same issue though.
The problem is the world won’t end, it simply changes, for every piece of land in a Bangladeshi river delta that gets flooded there’s a piece of Siberia where the permafrost will melt and become fertile farming ground.
Motl is often too agressive and not fair to the target of his critiques, but when it's about quantamagazine vs. Motl he's the safe bet. (I've not read neither in this case, though.)
No it doesn't. In your example, the hash of the password becomes the new password (I.e. the new secret). The nonce/salt adds no security because it must be open to anyone attempting to authenticate.
This. The only way I can see things changing is to not tip. I know this will anger some people here but I just ordered on grubhub and tipped 0$. Why would I tip more if I already pay 6$ of delivery fee? Also, why would I tip a percentage in general? Can’t a waiter appreciate my 5$ tip without making a face every time like I’ve under tipped them?

If you think this is outrageous, you should consider that many people are like me and waiters get stiffed all the time by us. So every time you’re paying a tip you’re covering for me too. Isn’t this unfair?
"They have gun next door - there's shouting, I'm really scared WHAT DO I DO?!"

"Is something on fire?"
"Is someone injured?"
"I'm sorry, 911 is for emergencies only, not personal therapy"
Take a look at SRP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Remote_Password_protoco...
> under our current economic system

With philosophers like you on working the case, our economic system will be replaced by something much greater in no time.

Would you mind hitting me up when you have a chance to email me the blueprints.

In the meantime, would you mind setting up a quick go fund me account and getting a campaign started to raise money to purchase space engine so that we can make it open source?
It's ok, only millions will die, not billions?

Then mass migration as crops and water supplies fail, leading to xenophobia, racism, riots. Already started.
some additional discussion: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/53594/why-is-cl...

I've also wondered why this isn't more common.
This is not an “innovation” problem. We know how to solve climate change. It is a policy and funding problem. It is a political problem. We need more protests!
I might be wrong, but a whole bunch of heavily armed guys busting down doors in response to an anonymous phone call is not in the spirit of prioritizing de-escalation over violent resolutions. I want cops de-escalating situations, not shooting up the neighborhood, or going on high-speed chases on neighborhood streets.

Now, I imagine swat teams don't like doxxing either. Sounds like a business opportunity.
Here’s some data: https://www.gao.gov/assets/690/683984.pdf
Define consciousness in a way such that it can, even theoretically, be objectively measured.

If it cannot be so defined, then it cannot be explained within an empirical framework, or "science" if you insist, by definition. Empiricism requires objective measurement. The kind of consciousness people are talking about, the experience of being, cannot be objectively measured because it is a purely subjective concept.

If you want to talk purely about ideas that exist within an empirical framework, then you're talking about things like minds and brains, complexity of interactions, etc. All objectively measurable and perfectly scientific things.

But that isn't what people are talking about, because it isn't interesting. Because when you get right down to it what people really want to know is how badly we're allowed to treat things. If it isn't "conscious", then we need not concern ourselves over its apparent suffering need we?
To make solar panels certain materials are needed, which we do not have an abundance of. There's also limited space as to where to put them. On the other hand, if there weren't as many people consuming energy, we wouldn't need as much. But killing off 95% of humanity is unethical, after all.
> This is true, though for awhile in the past few years, the Far Left was catching up, though the Far Right surged ahead in this year.

According to https://www.start.umd.edu/pubs/START_IdeologicalMotivationsO... there have been no deaths from left wing terrorism in the USA for nearly 40 years.

You can read the same information here: https://www.gao.gov/assets/690/683984.pdf

> Specifically, tables 1 and 2 show a description, date, location and number of victim fatalities for each far right [106] and radical Islamist [119] attack between September 12, 2001 and December 31, 2016. During this period, no persons in the United States were killed in attacks carried out by persons believed to be motivated by extremist environmental beliefs, extremist “animal liberation”beliefs, or extremist far left beliefs.
> It’s a red herring to focus on the last 1-3% of true “non-believers”

Your estimate of 1-3% is too low by an order of magnitude, at least in the US [0]:

> Majorities of Americans overall say most scientists think global warming is occurring (66%), it is caused by human activities (64%) and its effects have begun (60%).

[0] (2018) https://news.gallup.com/poll/231530/global-warming-concern-s...
Do you mean you honestly don’t understand the message about decrease in survavability that the headline is trying to convey?
So me saying "I am conscious"/"I exist" is not influenced by consciousness? In his view, this subjective experience just happens to be bound to and is observing a person - "me" - that says this?

That isn't intuitive.
Most doxers use public, open sources to discover the true names behind pseudonymous users. And their addresses. People make mistakes, sometimes even about other people's data. Sometimes people have no choice because a lot of the information is public record.

That isn't an excuse for compiling this information and publishing it as wide a possible. You still have to consider the implications if you want to act morally and in good faith.

Think of the stupid pseudonymous twitter user who made a really abhorrent, ill-considered joke and the people used "public information from public sources" to first get to their real identity and then crawl further until they find their employer and get the person fired. The person who did the research and then started the witchburning by publishing the information so that every other bored twitter user could write easily write a mean email to the employer should have considered what compiling and publicizing that dox could do.

Also, I think Krebs does take this into consideration, and is generally acting in good faith and with consideration, it's just that I disagree with his conclusion sometimes.
I largely agree, but it feels a bit like side-stepping the real question. We can make decisions that are completely orthogonal (and a lot of times opposite) to whatever would increase our "fitness". This agency is what's peculiar about consciousness in my opinion. Personally I think it is some sort of parallel, rouge system that has branched of from the higher level controller mechanism that you describe.
Probably why Russia is funding internet conspiracies about global heating being fake.
Meta but about the design on this site: that slanted line/text format made me super uncomfortable for no good reason. And all the pink-on-black... ugh.
ASP on the Model 3 has been falling quarter over quarter, as have margins. S and X demand and prices have dropped significantly.

Model 3 prices dropped yet again less than a week ago.
"Facebook knows, but the public is kept in the dark."

What stood out for me were the two dissenting statements by Commissioners Chopra and Slaughter.

https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/public_statements...

https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/public_statements...

Chopra disagreed with the decision not to charge the `bergs and noted that in the Cambridge Analytica case the former CEO was charged.

Slaughter believes that there was sufficient evidence to name Zuckerberg in a lawsuit.

It is possible that Facebook fears Mark Zuckerberg being subjected to court-ordered discovery and put under oath. He came very close in a shareholder lawsuit some years ago and Facebook settled on the day before he was to testify.
Way to totally misframe the piece. Hardly an off the cuff cry of wolf. He was commenting on the events and summits coming over the next 18 months. To quote the article:

"But today, observers recognise that the decisive, political steps to enable the cuts in carbon to take place will have to happen before the end of next year."

There are two significant summits - New York in September, and London toward the end of 2020.

If substantive and binding global agreement isn't achieved, then we're on for another half decade of pissing about. It's not like 1.5, 2 or 3 degrees is an end point, just which line of the graph we follow through the rest of the century and beyond.
Or maybe the police can still go check, but just not do it guns blazing? They can ring the door bell and ask to check around. If they're afraid of being fired upon they could even use a police robot or something.
I don't know. I had a 2+ year break from it until couple months ago; when first launching after the break, it showed me a consent popup... which I happily declined. Thank you, GDPR.
There is a podcast by Zach Barth (of Zachtronics) where Universe Sandbox is discussed at length. If I recall, its an entire episode.

Edit: yes, episode 4. http://www.zachtronics.com/podcast/
Agree with most of the above except for the "Model Y likely depressing demand"- is there any indication that the Model Y is in demand at all?
Yes but JAR files are basically equivalent to source code parsed and serialised as bytecode with only the most rudimentary optimisations applied. I don't really see a difference between that and carrying gzipped headers with the kernel. Yes, the .class format is cleaner, but it's still very close to what the programmer wrote.
Another plus to carrying the header with the kernel is that you can carry the preprocessed header to make sure the user doesn't set the wrong defines, and you can add compiler checks to check that the user isn't using a too old or too new compiler with incompatible ABI.
Unfortunately in our world of active shooters the thinking is now that the police should enter the situation to try to engage the shooter as fast as possible as research shows this is what saves the most lives.
As a layman I just can't get past the glaring reality of: we simply do not possess the means (i.e. equipment/tools) to examine/measure/control the fundamental elements of matter without utterly affecting the outcome in ways we are not able to control, understand or accurately predict.

I don't believe there is any amount of quantum theories that will get us past this fundamental boundary.
even when you suspect a hostage situation what's the problem with politely knocking and waiting if you get a friendly response?

I once pulled over a few blocks from a friend's house, so I could call her and get a few final directions. A man from the house I had parked in front of instantly started talking ominously and yelling at me. I think that guy was a meth head crazed out of his mind. In the back of my mind was the possibility that he'd bring out a shotgun and start blazing away at me. (Yes, my friend didn't live in a great neighborhood.) The police here have to be prepared to deal with people like that.

I think friendly looking police androids are going to be quite helpful.
You're still accepting the frame: you're putting your energy and time into fighting against existing structures, which robs you of that energy for creating new structures.

People who actually hold power just go about their lives as if the world they wished to exist actually exists. That's what it means to have power - that you get to live in your version of the world.
Reports. Not approval.

Facebook has to _document_ what they're doing in the privacy world. They have to prepare a report of what they did, and be willing to share it, and accept the consequences (which they already effectively do, just more opaquely).

At no point does the compliance officer have to _approve_ "how they handle privacy data any more", nor the independent assessor, nor the FTC.

They still have complete control over how they choose to behave and steer. They just have to report on it.
It ended up in the wrong class.
90% of the time it's just because people are busy and have a god-awful amount of crap on their plate. They figure your interest will time out gracefully.
Oddly, I see less issues with Facebook than with Google. Facebook has a tight grip on social media, but then there's also Twitter. facebook.com is dying long-term (though Instagram is picking some of that up) and they're not nearly as vertically integrated as Google is, for example (browser, operating system, email, video streaming, maps,...).

In the current political climate, I don't see an antitrust investigation ever leading to any major impact but it's almost inevitable, over the coming decade or so, to see a ton of regulation and forced splits for tech giants. The current system simply can't be healthy.
yeah but they made only 53k ish vehicles in q2 2018, so your stat is weird. and theyre about to bring online another factory (q1 2020).
> I definitely feel like there’s this illusion of tech innovation coming from these big companies that suck up all the tech talent, but at end of day the best and brightest are working on optimizing ad clicks (FB, Goog) or getting people to buy crap (Amazon) or working on incremental hardware improvements (Apple).

That seems ignorant and simplistic (or maybe just using a definition of "innovation" that is less generic than I have in mind). The vast majority of employees at those companies do NOT work on the main money generating product, it's such a small number compared to the rest that it's a running joke inside companies "hey you guys make the money, we burn it".

I feel that there has been made a lot of progress in many areas coming from people working for those companies. Not saying that maybe more progress could have been made if those people worked for smaller companies or for academia but I completely disagree that big tech hiring lots of smart people just automatically means they're all spending time doing some "useless" (to your mind) thing.

Some of the very few things I'm aware of:

- large improvements to distributed systems

- large software building/testing frameworks

- maintenance, scheduling, utilization of large datacenter hardware and networks

- all sorts of specific features being pushed in open source projects (like the Linux kernel) to support these companies' usecases

There's a running theme in most of those things of course, it's all to do with operating large datacenters and that makes sense (and I'd argue that without having had bigtech it would be much less likely to have the business support/money to work on such problems).
> It’s obvious no matter how much political will we will be unable to make a 45% cut in 18 months.

Please read the article.
From the article:

> Artists who work on gory cinematics integral to games like Mortal Kombat suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.

Is it really someone else's fault if someone chooses to work on a game like Mortal Kombat and then complains about having to create graphics like this?

Can we please introduce some agency into people's lives and stop constantly blaming society for issues?
Discussion around hostile design always seems to miss the forest for the trees to me. To point out a concrete example, is it better to address homeless populations with some combination of state housing and UBI programs or, accept homelessness as an axiom and design public spaces to that end? The latter seems considerably more elitist and fatalist.
Oh really? Thanks for the catch. Can you throw me an issue on GitHub, I'll see if I can tackle it or someone else can pick it up https://github.com/thomaswangio/minimal-twitter/issues/new
You're probably right, and those languages risk staying alternative forever.
True, there have been crappy pizza delivery jobs for long, long time now. It's likely an industry worth billions of dollars, and has been for decades as you state.

But, to my knowledge, no one has gone after Pizza Hut and the like for creating that underclass. (If people have gone after them then I was honestly unaware of it.)
Washington state‘s minimum wage for tipped workers is also the same minimum wage as other workers though too.

Im a server in WA and im making 11.50 plus my tips. In the last state I was in I was making 2.50 plus tips.
God is less of a deity but more of a fact.

Something from nothing.

I am in no position to question this ... even given all my dead-end searches.