skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know in my country, the police would probably knock on the door and verify that something's wrong, especially if the caller can't spin a convincing scenario that fits the location. Maybe pistols drawn, but pointed down. If someone answers and says "huh? I didn't call anyone? what's going on?" in a somewhat convincing way, ask them to step outside, hands up, and if he complies the situation is probably solved, right there. You can still have a look inside, confirm.

There's like so many steps along the way where you can make an assessment of the situation before going FULL SWAT-raid. Mother in a night gown opening the door, yawning? Probably not a threat.

I'm not saying I want the job handling these situations or that it's easy, but "well, someone called, let's send in the Wet Ops team!" can't be the only answer, either! There's even videos of cops handling this super calm and professionally, basically how I described it above. So it's not impossible.
Yep, if we really want to cure cancer, we need to go back into the tissue archives and study every single cancer that's ever been diagnosed, at the molecular level, to start getting our heads around what really happened to all those people. 10 million people a year. Every year. For a the last 6-7 decades of chemotherapy.

Meanwhile, there's this perverse medicolegal incentive to retain the excised tissue samples for the minimum necessary period of time, which is 10 years for US laboratories accredited by the College of American Pathologists.

You heard it right, the lawyers won. We spend medical administration time filling out medical administrative paperwork to spend medical care dollars burning most of the cure to cancer. Every year.
I don’t think that’s a fair assumption. Google IAP puts JWTs in headers to attest the end user’s identity in a way you can’t just forge from inside the firewall. Other use cases have you obtain a JWT from a dedicated auth service, maybe even a 3rd party provider, so that other random services don’t have to know about passwords and 2FA. In both cases it would be prohibitively expensive to call back to the auth service to verify each token. The point of using a standard like JWT is to make it intelligible in other codebases, otherwise you could make your own format and serialization.
Yep. Often when people take the time to have a more thoughtful argument where they seek common ground instead of "winning", they quickly find that the differences are not in the logic and semantic games they were playing, but were a difference in either values or assessment of some fuzzy probability or heuristic. They find that one of them didn't think a certain outcome was either A. likely, or B. important, and the other differed on that. If it's about the odds, common ground can be reached by comparing experience and knowledge. If it's about values, that's harder, unless those values are based on further assumptions that can be picked apart, like saying seat belts are good because they save lives. That can be verified statistically. If they say cherry ice cream is the best, it's a case of agree to disagree...
Fair. However, painting tip theft (I'm just calling it what it is) as the norm nationwide is wildly inaccurate. For example, it's a crime to do this on the entire west coast.
But if it's a multibillion dollar industry similar to other multibillion dollar tech industries outside of gaming, why are game developers making so little in comparison to the rest of us? Something is not making sense here, and I don't think passion has anything to do with it.
The brain is connected to the gut via the vagus nerve. It's possible that humans are just a vehicle for bacteria to more quickly and interact with their environment in a more substantial way in a similar way that human use cars as a vehicle. I feel like I am an individual with my own consciousness, but it's possible it is all one shared consciousness by a super network of bacteria
Pizza Hut weren't operating at this unimaginable scale.
Surely it adds security in that an attacker cannot take that new password and use it on another site, even if the user re-used the underlying password?
If you take your idea and step through the login//authentication process, you'll find that what you're suggesting isn't really all that different to what is done normally.

Overview, Scheme_0:
- You send your unique identifier (email, username, etc) and password to the server in plaintext.
- The server looks up the password hashing scheme and salt associated with your identifier
- The server checks that salt+password+hashing scheme produce the stored hash
- Server kicks back proper response

In your scenario, Scheme_1:
- You prehash the password locally and send your identifier + prehashed_password to the server
- The server looks up the password hashing scheme and salt associated with your identifier
- The server checks that salt+prehashed_password+hashing scheme produce the stored hash
- Server kicks back proper response

The only difference is the extra hashing step. From a security perspective, there is no gain; storing the prehashed_password from Scheme_1 in plaintext (e.g. logs) is no different than storing the password from Scheme_0 in plaintext.
The article is quite emphatic that there is "no doubt left", but is rather sketchy on what exactly the claim is that there is no longer doubt about.

Almost nobody thinks that CO2 has zero effect on climate. The debate is about the magnitude of the effect. It is not a yes/no question.
"ideological" meaning not matching the HN ideology of course
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Amazon Doesn’t Just Want to Dominate the Market–It Wants to Become the Market
It is after all the unifying question all Humans have pondered for possibly hundreds of thousands of years now. We still have no answers, maybe that's why we have religion? In any case, humans can't answer this fundamental question no matter how good our science has gotten so in my book, he's okay to give up on that. Life is too short. If theism works for someone, especially after such a great effort to find answers, he sounds like an ideal human to me. Probably a really level headed individual, but I'm just guessing like everybody else.
Seems like everything about the Earth is a positive feedback loop for global warming.

More ice melting, less reflection
More ice melting, more methane released
Co2 released from soil
Less rain, less amazon rainforest
More forest fires
More deserts
Clouds changing
More water vapour

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_feedback
The thread then goes on to not support this statement very well. Including a Tesla employee disagreeing with him directly.
What exactly do you mean? Have you seen the new service manual? They welcome contributions from outside NHS Digital, anyone can contribute to it in theory, so long as you can show there's a real need [1].

The NHS are doing more in-house, where it's sensible. For example the NHS Business Service Authority are building a replacement for https://www.jobs.nhs.uk whereas before it was basically entirely out sourced to the private sector.

[0] https://beta.nhs.uk/service-manual/
[1] https://github.com/nhsuk/nhsuk-service-manual-backlog/blob/m...
or... damning articles about the situation in Turkey have been popping up regularly for 5ish years now. IMO they need to keep popping up frankly.

Likewise, Turkey's increasing moves away from NATO towards Russia were always going to reach a threshold where some steplike point was crossed (the F-35 vs S-400 thing) and some public consequences happened.

I would've thought if this particular timing was a case of "Manufacturing Consent" rather than just a coincidence, it would've happened earlier.

I'm basically of the opinion that it is pretty clear Turkey is heading in the wrong direction, and the powers that be in the west have no reason to manufacture that story.
In Australia, Xero is very good at the last part. I know Xero has a US presence as well that is integrated with Gusto and Stripe, have you seen that?
I think consciousness is one of those things that is not defined well enough for us to understand it.
Until there is a breakthrough in the understanding of consciousness itself there won't be any real conscious ai.

It's like when we learned to fly, we needn't understand how birds' wings work.
We had to understand the principles of aerodynamics or what is flying itself.

That's why I think imitating the brain won't work, (deep learning etc.) just like the early attempts to fly didn't, even if we'll know the function of every single neuron.
I'm betting that an FTC antitrust probe will have no effect on other nations using FB. I lived in Brazil, and it was typically a year or two behind the trending here in the US. While US use of FB is down in their previous major demographics, it is spiking internationally.
I read an economist's back of the envelop calculation on what the appropriate BART fare should be. When automobile subsidies and externalizes[1] were included the appropriate fare was negative. Ditto for Muni.

And example, I took HWY80 to work and paid nothing for the pleasure. Why should the AC Transit or BART riders have to pay a fare when the freeway commuters don't?
I wouldn't. That kind of user testing is extremely time consuming, and often pointless because it's obvious what works and what doesn't.

Google famously did silly amounts of AB testing on button colours and whatnot, but material design is much better than any of that achieved and that was just fine by getting some good graphic designers and thinking about it.
I am rather speechless... This is just... wow.
Chicago Police Search Warrant Data and Visualization
Guess people like fiddling through an ipad while driving a 2 ton machine at highway speeds? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Looks like Tesla drivers are becoming the "Toyota Camry/Prius" drivers of the past.
Reminds me of this post from Venkatesh Rao: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/08/17/the-premium-mediocre-l...

> Today, you’re either above the API or below the API. You either tell robots what to do, or are told by robots what to do.

It seems like we're returning to a state of inequality seen for most of history, and the second half of the 20th Century was just a historical anomaly. See PG's essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/re.html

> Which in turn means the variation in the amount of wealth people can create has not only been increasing, but accelerating. The unusual conditions that prevailed in the mid 20th century masked this underlying trend.
I already had npm installed. And I think npm comes within the Node.js installer.
It might be nostalgia but ...

I believe the peak of user experience was Windows 98 sp2 when USB actually worked.

I miss how you could hear the computer loading stuff when the HD made the arm moving sound. When it took time to open "My computer" you could hear the floppy drive looking for a floppy and the delay was fine becouse the reason was obvoius.

I also miss the snappiness of Win32 GUIs just starting up in a heartbeat. No animations to hide bloat. If it crasched there was a blue screen and pushing the power button actually shuts down the PC power instantly.

Oh, and spamming ctrl-alt-delete resets the computer.
I know at least one person that's decided not to buy a Tesla simply because their future is so murky and is not sure if they will be around for repairs. That's a problem they need to tackle now before it spirals out of control.

Also, it seems to me that Tesla should work with one of the big three automakers on manufacturing. Tesla has spent a lot of resources reinventing car manufacturing and yet they can't produce a vehicle that meets their needs. They need to focus on the high tech aspects and leave the mundane manufacturing to experts.

At the very least, Musk should trust his manufacturing experts on how to produce a car rather than try to make every decision by himself. He's a great marketer and should focus on that role and leave the rest to the experts.

Too bad they can't lower the cost of batteries enough. If they did that, they could lower the price of the car to a point where it would be a no brainer to buy one.
Teenager can walk again thanks to Dutch 3D printed spinal implant
Everything is a "hit piece" when the truth threatens your interests.
The most annoying part of everything changing so fast is how hard and slow it is to analyze, make sense of, and actually get to the bottom of things and what should be done about them. Like, even if we do figure out if Uber etc is good for the people in a utilitarian sense, then the next thing will come and make it our sense-making apparatuses all haywire again, getting us back to square one.
> Restaurants have to make up the difference for the whole pay period, not per-order, which means any individual tip goes 100% to the waiter.

That is definitely not a useful place to use "which means".
Huh? How so? I'm a Model 3 owner and I love this damn car.
Is that Youtube video fake? The ~90k vehicles Tesla sold this quarter? "Fake news"? I have no excuses, just proof of hundreds of thousands of Tesla vehicles on the road, and billions of dollars worth of manufacturing capacity running.

Come back in a year we shall.
I don't doubt that that is necessary, but I'm not sure that would be sufficient. Like, if everyone in the US switched to electric heat/cooling and went vegetarian, does that make up for China, India, and Africa?

I feel like I want a Drake equation for climate. Number of petawatt hours / year, number generated by fossil fuels, how much it needs to decrease (or have its growth slowed) to reach 1.5 degrees by whenever... but something simple that larger amounts of people can understand.
> unless that standard is consuming gruel in a formless concrete cube somewhere.

Why would that be? That’s a fallacy. We have the ability to produce far more than everyone would need to live a pretty abundant life.
There is more to this than just economics. I worked as a delivery driver for a pizza place while at uni. I loved it, the driving was fun, but more than that I loved the shop.

The kitchen and wait staff were great fun. We worked in the kitchen in dead spots, we knew that business, we were actually employees.

Now I look at uber eats drivers and see people who are disenfranchised. The flexibility inherent in these models doesn't just create financial insecurity, it also creates social insecurity.
I personally don't have hard data on it, which is why I used qualifiers such as "likely" and "people expected". Tesla has repeatedly said they expect higher demand for the Y and that fits with what usually sells well in the market. Plus it addresses common complaints about the 3 being "too small" and about the X being "too expensive".
Plus there are a ton of over 64 folks on there...

Riddle me this: why would they lie? Shareholders could sue, since they try to infer some value from it there could be other legal consequences. If they only had, say 1billion daily active users instead of 1.56billion, would that really water their value down much? I don't see a competitor coming to eat their lunch that would rationalize lying about that stuff.
The only way that would change is a boycott. As long as the sports ball leagues know they’ll get your money no matter what they do, they’re going to try to extract as much as possible.
Legibility need not be global legibility.

In a pre-adtech surveillance capitalism world, it was possible to physically enter a location and be known to some but not all.

An IFF system that's readable only to friends addresses much this need.
Your comment directly conflicts with what was stated in this letter:

>During the quarter, a majority of orders continued to be for a long-range battery option and the Model 3 average selling price (ASP) was stable at approximately $50,000. At the same time, manufacturing costs continued to decline.
Right, and you will move the 120 million people and requsite infrastructure to this promised land in the north yourself?

And what will you do about the parts of the middle east that will have unsurvivabled heat waves, move abu dabi and dubai to Alaska?
Anything faster than bcrypt is practically clear text due to brute forcing, and running bcrypt inside the user interface is needlessly expensive. The common practice is to ensure that passwords are checked and discarded before they can be accidentally disclosed, or to avoid re-usable passwords altogether. Production logs should also only be accessible when there is a direct need. Sometimes this still fails, but it is relatively rare in well run sites.
Well, maybe. Since most of this data will be very repetitive, I don't think we can know for sure how much it helps?
Yes. Real-world accessibility software.
Sorry to be so direct, but I have to say it like this otherwise it doesn't get through.

Consciousness is that which makes us go take something to eat in the morning so we don't die of hunger, keeps us from running into cars or falling off a high place, allows us to work and be intelligent in our actions so that we cover our needs, guides us to form relations and make babies (thus replicate consciousness further).

I think we are agents with the purpose of survival and reproduction. That is only possible by adaptation to the environment, including society and nature. While we're busy at keeping ourselves alive, we have to act intelligently and learn from our mistakes. There is nothing outside the realm of physics and nature, just plain old agent+environment+learning+self-replication.

It feels like something to see blue (or to be a bat) because it is linked to survival, because we have senses and brains to create models of the world, because we have positive and negative signals (rewards) that guide our present and future actions and the value we attach to all life situations, and ultimately because life depends on it and self-replication would eliminate inefficient agents and leave those who are fit.

In short, consciousness is an adaptation mechanism in service of self replication in an environment with limited resources and competition.

I think all this dualist incredulity towards science is bullshit. Instead, the evolutionary process and the reinforcement learning process are sufficient to explain it. If we want to learn about consciousness we should not look only at the brain but at the environment and its limitations. It is the environment that shaped consciousness into existence.

I know it's not as poetic as souls and hard-problems, but it is the simplest explanation that fits.
Sure you shouldn't expect everyone to have the same standard of living but you can bring a little closer with different taxation and benefits, minimum wage, better conditions, etc. Which leads to a society where we benefit from the creative spending power of a broader middle class (in that very Ford way) as well as the creativity of this person and their children who have more opportunity to be better educated and start businesses of their own
“How’s the weather in <blank>?” is not sharing a name and is most certainly covered (“we consider information like physical location to be a higher risk than other types of information.”) Even if the information is public, the policy also calls out intent as a factor and he was obviously sharing it in an attempt to intimidate them. Not to mention, according to his tweet it took him 6 hours to uncover; I think it’s debatable how “public” that makes it.
>But the only people that talk as if they were the same thing are creationists, not scientists.

What do you mean, "the same thing"?

Are you implying the evolution of matter into chemistry into life into consciousness is not an interconnected process?
>beside the first loading every now and then

I don't keep the tabs opened. I close gmail when done reading or responding email (I check my inbox every 2-3 hours.) I even close the browser very frequently during the day.
What frequencies are they able to redirect to? My understanding that photovoltaics have specific frequency ranges that are more efficient, but the paywalls mean I can’t tell what frequencies they’re currently able to target not how tunable this might be. I can’t imagine it’s visible light because that would seem like press-release gold
I'm trying to explain why de-escalation is not the preferred tactical response from the police when it comes to active shooter scenarios. I think it makes sense from a law enforcement point of view to take every threat as credible until proven otherwise.

According the FBI there's been 250 between 2000-2017.
https://www.fbi.gov/about/partnerships/office-of-partner-eng...

I also think it's important to understand why the police respond like they do. It isn't arbitrary, it's statistically suppose to save lives, but SWATing is intentionally abusing that response.
This seems logical and tempting, but there obviously must be some reason societies haven't evolved to do this?

My suspicion is that those remaining 40% are significantly less employable, and you can't just swap them in like a fungible good. I suspect also that as technical skills become more valuable - and our education system remains stagnant - that 40% number will grow.
If you ever run a service, make sure you're not storing nginx logs with the contents of POST requests. A few years later you'll realize you "stored passwords in plaintext"

I assume this is what happened here, but maybe Robinhood will elaborate at some point.
I don't know how I feel about the latter case but can stipulate that it's problematic. What does that have to do with the former case?
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I'm very sorry for the Journalists affected, but I have to say I'm glad it happened to them. We need high profile issues like these.

It's the only way it will change.

Untold thousands of regular joe's get hit with this every year. No one cares since it only happens to 'the bad guys'.

When you have authoritarianism, it doesn't always go your way. That's why we should be against authoritarian tactics, such as sending armed men to break down doors and terrorize people over an anonymous phone call (I personally think we should draw the line in the sand much more on the side of freedom, but this basic level should be agreed by all)

I grew up long enough ago when there was a feeling that the Western world was superior to the Iron and Bamboo curtains because these things didn't happen in America.
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From what I can tell (traveled to US, EU, live in non-tipping culture), it is often:

"service with a FORCED smile" which I find far worse than service without a smile.

and

"PRETEND the customer is always right" which happens in non-tipping culture too (do whatever makes the least trouble for yourself at work).
Not many Dutch actors were good enough to make it internationally, Hauer deserved every bit of fame he managed to collect. His best films are in Dutch, in spite of his Blade Runner fame.
I don't know what your point is, then.

Haskell didn’t have it originally. Ok. But what do you think that says about whether it’s a new idea or not? What’s the connection? Why mention it in this thread about whether it's a new idea or not?
That makes a lot more sense, I interpreted "ripped up" as "torn to shreds".
Even with that feature, not sure if that sounds justifiable to some but that just seems even stranger than paying a tip upfront to me.

If I buy a couch online, how would it feel if the retail website has a optional 15% tip for the delivery guy opted in by default in the checkout flow. And, provide an option to modify the 15% in case your couch was delivered late or damaged. Somehow, this workflow is widely accepted when its food delivery :)

No idea, why is it expected to tip delivery persons for some commodities while its not expected for some other :)
Same thing, its expected to tip a driver for a shared lyft/uber but not expected to tip a bus driver. It's just funny at this point :)
Go on? By the definitions being used on this thread, a good part of all of journalism constitutes "doxing".
Previous versions are still free, just hidden behind a survey.
I think the present is amazing compared to the past.