skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There has been no push or attempted justification for single party politics

He's vocally questioned if the democrats are "traitors" during public speeches[0], a wild accusation even for US political discourse.

> no centralization of power unique to this president

Today, he proclaimed in a speech that Article 2 of the US constitution gives him the right to do whatever he wants[1]. He's spent much of his administration embroiled in scandals involving demanding loyalty from subordinates, and has been repudiated by members of his own party for acting beyond the bounds of his authority.

> no signs of a complete unwillingness to trade

He started a massive trade war to protest the current trade situation with some of the largest players in the global economy. Sure, it's not state capitalism, but his trade strategy directly contradicts both major parties' philosophies regarding trade and is often subject to authoritarian rhetoric.

Sure, this administration doesn't meet all of the classical definitions of what past fascist regimes have looked like.
He may not be making a ton of concrete progress towards consolidating power, but he makes it very clear that he sees himself as having far more power than he actually does, and often gets frustrated when he isn't able to accomplish what he wants. He clearly hates our system of government and isn't afraid to question many of the basic tenets of our democracy.

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/05/us/politics/trump-accuses...

[1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-falsely-says-constitut...
This happened to me in Central Park a few months ago. It certainly is Google and they offered me a $5 Starbucks gift card for completing the process. I discussed in length with the Google rep who was doing it and got some interesting answers if anyone is curious.

They are certainly using this to train a model to authenticate faces similar to FaceID. I had to fill out a survey before which asked about my eye color, if I wear colored contact lenses, etc.
What was the phrase before the election? “But her emails”? I’m not American, but that phrase seems to have shown up a lot and been about inappropriate storage of classified material.

One can store material inappropriately even without authorisation.
More clearly phrased:

Snowden provided evidence (to the fourth estate) proving that trust has been already been broken.
There are some interesting exceptional cases where a CS degree can be a disadvantage for developing advanced software applications, though you still need to know CS.

For example, the conceptual framework for reasoning about distributed systems provided by chemical engineering is superior to the traditional CS version when applied to software systems, and more mature. This has been a persistent advantage over the course of my career designing scalable software. And it is much easier for a chemical engineer to learn computer science than the other way around.

I've come across a few other examples of this in computer science, particularly as it relates to complex systems design and behavior, and not just in relation to chemical engineering. Extremely complex real-world systems as a model are relatively new to CS but have highly evolved solutions in other disciplines out of necessity. There is still much value to be had in learning CS from an unorthodox perspective.
This article is short-sighted at best. I am a system administrator which sadly cannot do much automation.

The reason is simple: I manage systems not installed by me, where problems are often a one-off issue and more important, every system is installed a bit differently (differently enough that there is no portability for automation between systems).

Automation is awesome. But sometimes it just cannot be done, because of constraints put in place by others.
Do we?

Law enforcement seems overeager to label anything and everything terrorism if they possibly can. For instance, someone at my previous workplace vandalized prod in a fit of rage when he left and they called it terrorism because the system had utility companies as customers. Why would law enforcement be so interested in juicing their terrorism numbers if the real thing was plentiful?

My hypothesis: real terrorism isn't plentiful, but the budget to go after it became plentiful after 9/11, and the people who benefit from the budget do what they can to keep it that way. Erosion of freedoms and judicial overreach are side-effects.
> Discrimination involves hate

Not always, no. That would give an unworkably narrow definition.
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US attorney general says encryption creates security risk
It would depend on what percentage of the data revenue is purely going to bounty hunters (my guess: low). Also, my understanding is that most bounty hunters are basically doing collections, not chasing down hardened criminals.
Remote code execution vulnerability in VLC remains unpatched
We changed the URL to that from https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3321445. Thanks!
Delegation of authority is key here. If not for the commander in chief role of the president it’s conceivable they could just delegate decision making to the cabinet.
Wow. That’s a lot more professional looking than I expected it to be.
> The wide variation from 55x to 64x Earth's radius is because it changes over the course of the moon's orbit, due to the Sun and Jupiter's gravity

I think you’re not only wrong but even Kepler and Newton already knew that better than you:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_orbit

“Strictly speaking, both bodies revolve around the same focus of the ellipse, the one closer to the more massive body, but when one body is significantly more massive, such as the sun in relation to the earth, the focus may be contained within the larger massing body, and thus the smaller is said to revolve around it.”

But maybe you have some better information?
This is absolutely legitimate. I was approached by a Google Rep and completed the series of tests for the $5 gift card. Mostly out of curiosity to see what they’re up to.

It’s using what appeared to be a Pixel 3 with a heavy duty case wrapped around containing an additional camera and some sensors. I went through all of the poses one would do if they were training a model to perform similarly to FaceID. (Ok, now pull the phone out of your pocket and look directly at it. Look up at me then down at the phone, etc.)
Semiconductor CEOs on Computing's Role in Slowing the Advance of Climate Change
>>> But law enforcement says encryption thwarts their access to communications they claim they need to prosecute criminals.

There's already freaking 1% of the population in jail; how many more do these assholes want to imprison?
Banning open source software is probably not feasible (you can distribute the code as a printed book after all). They would have to:

- ban all Internet traffic that uses non-backdoored encryption (all ISPs would be required to report it)

- ban all amateur radio equipment, including all products one could use to build a satellite dish (like aluminium foil?..); keep a fleet of radio-direction-finding vans circling the streets

Eventually, maybe also ban general-purpose non-backdoored computers.
You can absolutely do that, but then you will not get promoted past a certain stage at most companies. I do this because I'm not yet in a very senior position but if I were managing 100 people and in charge of an entire product I doubt I could do that
Surely there's a spectrum here? Conventional, manually-made maps are full of errors too, and there's no army of low-paid workers combing over those— nope, they're published as they are, and it's up to end users to report problems. The better the map maker is (whether it's an ML black box or a team of human experts), the fewer errors there are, and either way, one expects an upward quality trend over time.
I don't follow. If the majority of people create no wealth, it seems unlikely that getting paid only for their data is going be sustainable.

Today, no-one is interested in paying the poorest people in the world for their data.
When there are competitive spirits at work, prices magically drop. I pay Spectrum $69 for 100/5 service in my city, which has no other options. My brother pays $45 for 300/30 service 4 miles away in a suburb where Verizon has chosen to compete as there are fewer poor people.

Right now there's a 5G land-grab going on, with hundreds of millimeter-band 5G poles being dumped everywhere. I assume that's for a wireless fixed ISP service, as it doesn't add value for normal mobile service.
The issue with strong AI is not that "practicalities are unknown", any more than the issue with Leonardo da Vinci's daydreams of flying machines were that "practicalities are unknown".

He didn't have internal combustion engines, but that's a practicality, other mechanical power sources already existed (Alexander the Great had torsion siege engines). They would never be sufficient for flight, of course, but the principle was understood.

But he could never have even begun to build airfoils, because he didn't have even an inkling of proto-aerodynamics. He saw that birds exist, so he drew a machine with wings that flapped. Look at the wings he drew: https://www.leonardodavinci.net/flyingmachine.jsp

That's an imitation of birds with no understanding behind it. That's the state of strong AI today: we see that humans exist, so we create imitations of human brains, with no understanding behind them.

That lead to machine learning, and after 40 years of research we figured out that if you feed it terabytes of training data, it can actually be "unreasonably effective", which is impressive! How many pictures of giraffes did you have to see before you could instantly recognize them, though? One, probably? Human cognition is clearly qualitatively different.

The danger of machine learning is not that it could lead to strong AI. It's that it is already leading to pervasive surveillance and misinformation. (idlewords is pretty critical of OpenAI, but I actually credit OpenAI with taking this quite seriously, unlike MIRI.)
Family. Not necessarily just parents but brothers, cousins, etc.
This is hilarious. It was so obvious that there had to be some personal reason this guy is so disgruntled. He's clearly consumed by envy.
Yeah, agreed about the language choice. With math-y languages, the overall quality of presentation and material is higher than what you would get if learning the same thing in Python or JS.
Among your lessons learned as a productive developer, which are the best?
It doesn't matter if the apps try to be secure. If any point in the communication holds the key-data in memory and is not on a //user// trusted device then the key is compromised.

Since cellphones have a BMC that isn't user owned, which does have access to the full system memory (rather than being an isolated peripheral modem), and since OTA firmware updates can be pushed by the "infrastructure" (including fake 'towers' setup by TLAs, criminal hackers of other sorts, and hobbyists) containing code to compromise and silently ex-filtrate any data (including those keys, or even just the conversation directly); it is an inherently insecure environment.
Looks at VSCode, Sublime. Wonders why?
The other way to look at this was pointed out to me in the book 'Being Wrong' by Kathryn Schulz (amazing book, btw).

What is your goal? Is your goal to be right, or is your goal to feel right? Because those are not the same things at all. When we get attached to our ideas and emotional, it's because we believed we were right, and we don't want to give up that feeling.

But if our goal is to actually be right, then it's super easy to recognize when you got it wrong and move forward.

It also helps to stop thinking of things as 'correct' or not, and look at them as a spectrum of 'less wrong' to 'more wrong'. If you're constantly working your way towards being less wrong, then it becomes really easy to abandon ideas that have outgrown their usefulness.
Apple showed that they are capable and willing to perform silent over the air updates to operating systems to address security concerns. The specific incident I am referring to is with Zoom.

If you can read your message history from an iPhone, Apple is just one silent update away from reading it as well.
Any idea if this will be visible from the ground anywhere? I've been searching online to no avail.
I love these kind of surveys. They just demonstrate time and time again how gullible people are, especially those that hire companies like TB to help with hiring.

Want to hire best programmers? Pay. Them. More. Money.

"I want to grow" is a polite way of saying "I want my compensation to grow".

P.S. Do you know why people bend over backwards at interviews for Google/Netflix/Facebook and do not for a Domino's? It is because if they do well on interview at FAANG they would be making mid to high six figures while they would be making sixties as managers at Domino
I disagree. For reference, I work in a big bank and all the high level people are always on call when fecal matter hits the rotating turbines. Often times, theres an issue with this or that feature in production or we are having an issue with a release and we need an emergency signoff. The process stipulates that a high level person is required to give this emergency signoff, and they often want to know what happened, what are our options, which one we chose so there's usually a lot of time spent chasing down answers or people who can answer those questions.
The game over is for encephalitis, since that gets transmitted by saliva. Thankfully encephalitis is much rarer, and can be vaccinated against if you live in a tick-infested area.

As the other poster said, borreliosis/Lyme takes much longer to infect you on average, so daily tick checks are an effective borreliosis prevention measure.
This is semantic segmentation, so it has to be a convnet. I've never heard of trying to do semantic segmentation any other way, and a prototype of another approach wouldn't go into production at scale.

OP links to https://ai.facebook.com/blog/mapping-roads-through-deep-lear... which says that it's D-LinkNet specifically: http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2018_workshops/pap... (more or less a Unet).
For any regular non-technical user locking down most Android phones (presumably some phones come with hardened settings and possibly with no Google services) and keeping the data away for Google is a huge challenge. The default settings are almost always very permissive, you have to dig down through settings to disable everything, and a lot of stuff isn't very obvious for anyone who doesn't expect such behavior. Oh even when the WiFi is off it will still scan for nearby SSIDs to get your position?

https://digitalcontentnext.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/DC...
The rep told me that they had intentionally avoided cities with a heavy presence of tech workers. Based on the survey I completed, they are looking for a diversity in eye color and those using colored contact lenses. He mentioned to me they started in Las Vegas. Central Park also makes sense for this given they can test with a large set of tourists.
Facebook to create privacy panel, pay $5B to U.S. to settle allegations
I kinda agree with you, but quoting Benjamin Franklin as a solution is not exactly "taking a harder look" at the problem. How is it any better than "because the Bible says so!"?
I was lucky--we had a spare little _color_ TV I could use as a monitor.
That is just further reason why it ought to support scenarios that the grandparent was describing, like modifying request data, even if that functionality is not useful for automated testing
To abstract the abstract:

2 to 3 million years ago, a gene in early humans was permanently inactivated (perhaps due to a malaria-like outbreak targeting a cell-surface molecule that the protein the gene coded for helped to build). That cell-surface molecule is found in most other mammals (excepting humans, ferrets, platypuses, and New World monkeys) so consumption of certain meats can cause it to be taken up and incorporated into human cell membranes, as the genes that allow for this are still functioning. But the immune system becomes sensitized to it, as a foreign antigen, and produces antibodies that subsequently cause chronic inflammation in the cells that took it up and exposed it on their surfaces.
When I was at Apple, I noticed it was employees at HQ who did most of the "electronic" / photo leaking, usually just to get street cred with zealous users / fanboys on Apple forums.
This looks - awesome. I'm trying to think of something more constructive to say, some questions about the processes and outputs ... but I'm too busy being jealous at the moment to think of anything.
see if cutting out corn has any benefit for you
Thread from 2017 ('Can we ever get away from the misnomer of "prototype-based OO"?'): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14409088.

2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7047953

2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1957511 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1520246

Surely there have been others?
Show HN: Space Cloud – open-source firebase which makes any database realtime
Well sure. But the comment I was replying to initially said "parents" and left it at that.
You should determine your own self worth and it should not be reliant on the compliments of others. The problem with being reliant on compliments is what happens if you are in an environment that doesn't give out compliments? Parents and teachers give you compliments to help you along, bosses usually don't or it's not often. On the flip side, what happens if you are in an environment that gives out half hearted, polite, or just plain fake compliments? Does your self worth get artificially inflated?

Your paycheck is the compliment and that's all your self worth should require outside of your own self assessment. (Wow this started to get philosophical quick).
They couldn't move the entire production to the US today no. It would have to be a gradual ramp up with suppliers coming online in tandem with the increase in production. There's no supply here because there is no market here, but if you build it they will come. It's not like it's impossible for an existing company to start up a specialized screw line, or for some startup to appear to fill the demand. It's a slow and painful process, but it's not like the Chinese manufacturing industry sprang up overnight either.

The real question is if the pain of switching over is worth it. Do these extraordinary costs in security and shipping outweigh the increased labor costs and potential for unionization in the US? Trump's tariffs might actually affect this calculation as well, but their long term stability is questionable, especially if you're looking 10 years out past the end of his term.
The "fundamental natural law" you appeal to is none of those things, so it would be disingenuous to hold him to it. I'm not sure how I feel about the quote and don't have enough context on his thinking to really judge it, but your rejection sounds dogmatic, not reasoned.
On average it is fair to assume, politicians do not know anything and just believe what they are told to by their direct reports and advisors. And it is fair to assume that some of those do not know a lot of what is going on in the trenches. I see a lot of analogies with what is happening in big corporations.
I strongly agree - to me the term "professional growth" is synonymous with higher income and greater future employment opportunities. Not with learning a new framework or language.
It turns out that the most financially sound communities are higher density, where you get the most economic activity per unit of infrastructure.
Oh dear ;-)
> People respect you more if you get things done and solve problems. Not because you have a big salary. How often do you think people respect management?

That's not what the person you replied to is saying. The above person is saying that companies which pay well also tend to respect their employees more, so seek out a higher salary because those companies also tend to offer better benefits/culture.
Ah yes, I remember that one, more you think about it - this lesson has been played out many times in various scifi forms. Even to the extreme of Terminator and skynet.

Makes you wonder what will play out in real life as we go into the AI age.
> You can have a degree or not, even bad developpers can hop from one job to another, making more and more money in the process, given they're good enough to manipulate the recruiters/clients into hiring them. Making money does not mean your product is good,useful or well-designed. It means you're a good salesman.

Good developers can also hop from one job to another and make more and more money in the process.

Job security is a thing of the past, whether you went to school or not.

The "ideal" developer isn't some kind of monk who dedicates his entire life to one firm.

Making money doesn't mean your product is bad, useless or badly designed. It also doesn't necessarily mean you're the best salesman.

Sometimes experienced developers without a CS degree and without sales skills still get paid a lot because:

A) the requirement doesn't call for advanced computer science knowledge

B) the requirement does call for a significant amount of practical experience and business knowledge

C) it's a highly profitable industry and the specific work being done will generate the company profit and/or cut costs

It can be perfectly legitimate to perform jobs like this without having a CS degree or ever intending to get one.

It can be perfectly legitimate to work your way up the ladder of such jobs and jump from job to job in the process.

Some of us want to raise a family and/or be able to retire one day. Why should we put our careers on hold to pursue a degree?
I assume you’re being facetious, but people can be misguided about the destination when they flee persecution.

Also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_German_Nation...
Surveillance 2030: It is now illegal to own or operate your own home server for the purposes of distributed communication
Kim Dotcom wrote this article?
Thanks for asking, this is indeed much harder to answer for me.

I think I have a good sense of humour, I am broadly interested, I can listen to understand, I give other people room and don't push myself into the foreground, I keep my promises, I am honest, I don't take myself too seriously, I like harmony and want others to be well, I can sense the atmosphere in a room and adapt to it, I can explain things well for a given audience, ... plus some skills which help mostly professionally.

Thanks again for the prompt to get me thinking about this. I'm actually happy with that, I can see a common theme, and maybe even how some of the traits I see as positive are the flipside of those that I see as negative.

This is actually something I deeply believe: you cannot really diminish or boost one isolated aspect of your character, without also diminishing or boosting its counter-weight on the other side of the spectrum. If you become more organized, you probably also become less creative and out-of-the-box thinking, if you become more self-confident, you will be perceived as more arrogant than before etc. No yin without yang, no light without shadows.
You mean the governments of Western nations who let the evil Nice dipshit into their country?

"We need pervasive surveillance to protect you from the cannibals we imported to lower your salaries, peasants."
Hey @babblingfish! Thank you for the ask! All you do is submit your name and email -- you can skip the PayPal page for now :)
Probably wouldn’t have a digital TV tuner, right?
> I don't think its impossible that this flea market could become a hipster hang out

Reminds me of Camden market