skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also found the quote below to be weak evidence. Especially because the second paragraph makes it seem like "choosing the correct solution" (of two options) was more of a probabilistic thing. For one researcher she usually chose one thing and for another researcher she typically chose another. Does that mean she was solving the problem for her preferred person and prove theory of mind? Seems weak.

"To have a theory of mind is to be able to attribute purpose, intention, beliefs, desires, and other attitudes to both oneself and another person or animal. In order to test whether Sarah could understand that people had thoughts that differed from her thoughts, she was presented with short video tapes where a human actor in a cage was trying to perform a task, like trying to get some bananas that were inaccessible. After watching the video Sarah was shown two pictures, one that would allow the actor to reach his goal (a box) the other not (a key). She successfully solved the problems for the actor.

But there was some concern that she was putting herself into the position of the actors, which would be a pretty exciting cognitive feat on its own, but wouldn’t show that she attributed attitudes to the actors. So she was presented with more videos, one in which the actor was her favorite caretaker and another in which the actor was someone she didn’t really like. Sarah selected the right responses more often for the actor she liked, and the wrong responses for the actor she didn’t much care for."
That doesn't explain the favoritism for BCH over the multitude of other forks (some worth $50-$100 per token) though. Why no Bitcoin Gold listing?
1/2 the world lives in extreme poverty, we have no shortage of consumers.

despite not living in an agricultural-trade system nothing has changed. if the economy is growing but the population is shrinking than either the working class should have more money or the rich and their corporations should. you should be able to get the same amount of tax out of either than you lost through the shrinking population. the rich and the corporations have shifted the tax burden to the growing population which helps them make more money in multiple ways... by paying less to workers because of more competition and then passing on the entire tax burden to the wage earners.

we have no heavenly colonies and when we do they will support very very small populations, say at most a million people probably 10,000 years in the future... in the meantime we'd be lucky to get 100 people to create a self-sustaining colony.
Administration reportedly drafting order to counter social media “bias”
> It seems many people believe in certain ideals, as dogma, to the extent that they expect other people to suffer or even die upholding those ideals

Good ideals are worth suffering and risk of death. I'm honestly surprised you think otherwise. Not saying this is one of those cases necessarily, just responding to the general idea that principles should never be dogmatic.
Makes me nostalgic for the days software actually shipped in a shrink wrap box.
I live in lower Manhattan, and there have been many shootings within a mile of me in the past year, even a few within two blocks of me, but because the per-capita numbers are so low, I'm pretty unconcerned about being shot, and so it doesn't really bother that I'm near the shootings. I don't really see how standardizing by (people * area) does you any good in capturing public safety, or even perceived public safety
It was credible enough to them that they would kill another human being over it.

Perhaps, but the question was directed to you, not to them.
From your story it seems like human guards are profiling African Americans and Latinos now. At least with a bot you'd be able to explicitly prevent them from doing so. Probably a lot harder to prevent a human from using biases
That's usually done in manufacturing when I worked in that - you can shut down whole production lines for big maintenance, plan delivery (demand is seasonal for eg.) and optimize workers required (eg you are running 3 shifts 24 hours you need 3 crews - having flexible vacation and working all year means you need more backup guys than if you just shut down for x days and send everyone off).

This sucks for workers because you don't have flexibility on when you want to use your vacation.
Whoops, I goofed. This stuff is pretty well documented actually. I look like a conspiracy theorist now.
This was a great read.

>Any patient with end stage liver disease who does not have insurance (and is not eligible for Medicare) has the option of trying to qualify for state-funded Medicaid (which includes demonstrating both poverty and disability), stealing moisturizing cream from a department store, or dying.

>I have personally taken care of a number of patients who did not want to put their family through the formidable weight of bankruptcy and opted for number three.
How German physicists reacted to the Hiroshima bomb (2016)
Wow. This just answered a big question I’ve been having. I’m starting a farm this year on my parents property. I’d like to remotely monitor it in the most scalable way. With resiliency being key. This is going to do great!
Wasn't it more like "if you try to subvert current power and install your own puppets, all using money you stole with the help of current power"? I think in China they shot such people. In US/EU that would land such person on a few blacklists instead and certain portions of business would be hard to do.
How often?

People love to act as though government can’t do anything right. Government does plenty of things right, those just don’t get much attention.

I sit here next to my government road with government postal service, lights powered by a private utility heavily regulated by the government, and wish the government provided trash service to me like they do for my neighbor because I’m getting fed up with the shoddy trash service I get from the company I pay, and think, yeah, government health care could be pretty good, just like it is in so many other countries. The US is not uniquely incompetent here.
>Aladdin took flak because they replaced Robin Williams’ Genie with Will Smith, and he wasn’t expected to be as good.

Aladdin took flak entirely because the CGI genie they released in the teaser trailer looked so bad.

I don't recall much reaction to Will Smith's performance, pro or con.
Could it be an extension? Have you tested with all extensions disabled?

Do you see the same issue in any other browsers?

If you want to get to the bottom of this, you need to treat it like any other bug and come up with a reproducable test case to share. Until we know more, there's no point in speculating.
If I see a car with two cops in it, I just follow them and pretty soon one of them will do something racist.
Creating Custom Images on Google Cloud
I frequently run this thought experiment in my head. The world's smartest chimp is as smart as a young child, maybe. Now imagine an alien race who are like us as we are to chimps. In the same way that we are unfathomably intelligent to chimps (so much so that they don't even understand how far the gap is between us and them), consider how scary it would be to encounter an alien that was that much smarter than humans are.
Rather than opinion polls, I would love to see some specific accusations with specific supporting evidence, that doesn't consist of a 500 page narrative. I've never encountered anyone who could provide this.
This is a really lame argument you're making, and your trolly style isn't helping you.
The transformed version looks way better. They should hire that guy to do the whole movie!
Active P0f Inside Kernel
In one of Grace Hopper's lectures she mentions that she intially made a multilingual programming language, but this upset the people she showed it to, as it would make it easier to use for people who didn't speak English, so that feature was removed.

I have thought ever since, that this descision is something that has fundamentally affected the culture of software development in a number of profoundly negative ways.
First warning with neutralizing acids: You're going to release a lot of heat, make sure you have a large thermal mass to absorb it. Someone else mentioned mixing your ingredients with water first. This is why.

From what I understand the last thing you want to experience is an explosion of hydrofluoric acid.

The internet seems to suggest lime (->fluorspar) or soda lye (->NaF, used for fluoridating water) to neutralize HF, but that's two other substances you wouldn't want raining on your head... be careful out there.
A New Approach to AGI
Why is this a thing? Why would Google invest money to create this? To use it, you must hold your phone in front of your face, with camera on, while walking. It is a regression in my opinion, because it adds no value to their current walking navigation system, and also encumbers the user with having to hold their phone up at eye level. Is it a cool novelty? Yes. Is it useful or productive (other than creating a new surface for advertising)? No. I strongly advise against using this gimmick. Please don't feed the bear. That is all.
> That certain topics can't be discussed because they disappear from view is a defining characteristic of Hacker News

What topics are those? When I hear claims like this, it usually turns out to be a topic that gets plenty of discussion on HN—just not as much as someone feels it should. It never feels like one's favorite topic gets discussed enough (see https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... for why), but that's not "it can't be discussed".

> But on Hacker News it has always been justified by it not being moderation.

We answer questions about moderation all day. When asked what happened to a submission, we say what happened. If users flagged it we say users flagged it. If we moderated it we say we moderated it. How do you get from that to something sinister?

> "It was flagged by users" is the common explanation.

Yes, because it is the common reason.
I pay for YouTube premium to turn off the ads. It's worth every penny.
I've been working on a quite unconventional approach to AGI using nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and digital evolution. I am looking for smart people to join me. Please sign up on the website if you are interested.
Oh that's easily defeated. A motorized spy platform falling over is no big tragedy.
Hope someone will find this code useful in his project. This is a proof-of-concept, full code can't be published.
OpenAPI Generator (REST API Code Generator) v4.1.0 Released
Thank you. Last time someone commended me on my writing I was all sorts of chuffed. This time, I'm just embarrassed. I'm ashamed I can't carry the weight of my dying family.

It's probable that I'm angry at a system as a proxy for anger I would otherwise direct myself. I should be able to handle this.
So according to this, they are owned 88% by current employees. This should be very easily verifiable. Who is telling the truth here?
"low on pedagogical focus"

Although I have some duds, the hundreds of pages of wiki contributions I've made are nearly all designed to be what I wished existed when I was learning said details. Sadly, they only help to a certain degree. The individual really needs to want to learn to get any real lasting benefit.
I'm suggesting using HTTP/2 between the frontend and backend. I'm saying this is the only reliable fix, not that it's easy to implement.

Regarding HTTPS between the frontend and backend, remember that's just HTTP over a TLS stream instead of TCP. As long as the frontend still reuses these TLS streams, it's exploitable. To be clear, this is in a scenario where the front-end terminates the HTTPS connection from the client then routes requests over a pool of persistent HTTPS connections to the backend. Does that make sense? Since I've been exploiting this from a black-box perspective, I can't really tell for sure whether I've successfully exploited any websites actually doing this.

And yeah it would have been nice of this had done better on HN but between presenting it at two major security conferences and adding automated detection to a popular web scanner, it ought to achieve decent awareness over the next few months. Hopefully.
I'm not sure it is economical, but I had some Sodium Persulfate etchant that was full of copper and accidentally dropped a piece of steel in it. The copper plated onto the steel almost instantly. You could probably use iron filings (or some metal that won't dissolve in your acid) to pull most of the copper out of the acid, and then neutralize. I'm not sure what you would do with the solid copper after that. It might take some effort to get a system that was reliable and economical, but the basic idea of precipitating out the copper before neutralization should work.
Why bother? You're doing such a great job.
I bet there's some overlap with thee the $300 UV resin printer technology that has just become available - they print at 50micron - essentially they're just a TFT cell phone screen with a UV backlight.
Yeah it's being talked around in this thread but I think most of the participants seem to get it.

The solvents can be broken down to things that are compatible with the sewer system.

The hard part to deal with is the material you dissolved with the solvent.
You might be interested in The Agoric Papers [1]

[1] https://e-drexler.com/d/09/00/AgoricsPapers/agoricpapers.htm...
The social pressure on a fully surveilled society will be a mess.
I have no idea who that is. But it reads like a bad parody of an alt-right list of grievances.

Seriously: someone who thinks he can make a coherent argument invoking "gay jews joining the Nazi party" doesn't belong on any unversity's faculty.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/04/great...

As the climate and the Earth's ecosystems move into unprecedented states (including treating it like a tensor and including the rate of change) there is little reason for that degree of optimism.
This is really cool. Jeri Ellsworth made some videos several years ago about homemade silicon transistors, but it was impractical due to the low precision and large size. Getting down to 5 um is a few orders of magnitude worse than a top end chip foundry today, but it's at least useful and you can fit all of the necessary equipment into a spare bedroom.
Google Flights won’t show all OTA options, primarily the ones with unreliable reputations. SkyScanner, for example, will scrape the bottom of the barrel to find options to save that final couple of bucks (which is perfectly fine) but if you have problems with the ticketing post-booking, you will wish you didn’t go that route.
You are right. In fact Google flights is regularly missing some airlines. Also the flights I found are often great on Google but then not available when actually trying to book, making the site quite a bit useless.

What sets it apart is the UI and fast search. But I guess with fast searching (caching) comes inaccurate results. It’s a thin line.
I wish that were (still) the case, because listening to someone talking about "cyber"-anything makes me feel like a 5-year-old.

Sadly the term has stuck, and making fun of it these days has reduced to just maturity/age-signalling.
ITA's customers before the Google acquisition were not interested in sharing large infrastructure that would make contiguous querying (as opposed to on demand when a consumer searches), presumably mostly for cost reasons.

The QPX search engine is actually the same behind Google flights and all the airlines and what Orbitz used to use. The limitation pre google/flights was the on-demand querying only.

Now the contiguous querying, obviously, gives you a load of useful historical data. After running it for a couple of years now they seem to feel confident that they can predict prices changes with enough accuracy that the payouts for misses will be an acceptable price for the publicity, or increased use of their other travel products.

(disclaimer: ex-ITA/Xoogler, opinions my own)
> Radio Shack gutted itself, IMO, albeit probably in response to the reality that they couldn't sell very many single 555 timers for $1.99 anymore once people had obvious alternatives.

I don't have any firm numbers on this, but I doubt that discrete components for building circuits from scratch were ever a significant portion of Radio Shack's business. Seems like most of their sales were in manufactured devices (for example, amps, pocket radios, walkie talkies, computers), accessories (antennas, microphones), cables, replacement tubes for radios and TVs, and, of course, batteries.
Maybe he has undiagnosed prosopagnosia.
Impossible burgers being slower to market did allow beyond meat to cash in, as I said,but impossible burger has an interesting product with the yeast sourced heme.

As I said, beyond is just a veggie burger with a slightly better recipe than the last guy, cashing in on the buzz impossible created before they could come to market.

And now wonder - impossible had a novel product. Beyond has a veggie burger.
Great. Plato's Cave is tricky enough to navigate as it is, without it being covered in graffiti.
It's a shame that the elegance of Erlang has been distorted with Elixir.
There was a CVE in February [0][1] that escaped out of Docker's default settings. runc has a few of these over the last few years, it isn't inconceivable that there are more to be found.

Docker does do a decent job of setting some sensible defaults - but it isn't a security sandbox and they don't market it as such.

[0] https://blog.dragonsector.pl/2019/02/cve-2019-5736-escape-fr...

[1] https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2019/q1/119
Time-boxed Slack channels for remote teams
I think an example of social ownership would be in Karl Marx own family. Karl Marx was cousins with son of the founder of the Philips N.V. through his mothers sister. In the first 100 years of Philips , a lot of decisions made by the Philips family had social underlying motives.

Building affordable housing, sponsor of sport accommodations reflected some of Marx's reasoning with respect to sharing profits with society.

A century ago the silicon valley of the world was around the Philips factories and then somebody came in and decided to move the whole company to another place.
You can now see the PayPal timelines here:
https://hackerone.com/reports/488147
https://hackerone.com/reports/510152

Trello patched it in roughly 10 days. In general I found companies took longer to patch this issue than other similar-severity vulnerabilities, probably because it's conceptually unfamiliar so I frequently had to spend quite a while explaining it, and the patch itself appears to be challenging sometimes too.
The thought of handling toxic, corrosive liquids in zero gravity is terrifying.
Wow. Yeah if they can make it fly that would be pretty amazing.
What’s the point of Listen Notes link? I was hoping for some additional info or for some community input. But it has neither. Just the same general info/description of the episode.
Apple does not have an "internal blog".

Bloomberg.
I'd say they should chill out and smoke a blunt, but that would probably make them paranoid as well as anxious. What an awful way to go through life, is there nothing that can be done for them?
What’s been distorted?
I have both books sitting next to each other on my bookshelf. In everyone's defense...both are extremely dense reading material.
Most businesses have customers that will go elsewhere if you ignore them for a month. If my employer tried that I would have no job to come back to.

Maybe it would work for a dominatrix. "You are unworthy to see me for the next month, that will be $5,000, you may pay me now."
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Hmm, that sounds like one of those anecdotes that is retold for more drama than fact. So I looked it up.

I found this which merely sounds like a managers sensible YAGNI decision.

> Management was concerned that Hopper’s plans were too ambitious, and that the Automatic Programming Department was wasting time and energy exploring such marginal areas as multilingual programming. “It was completely self-evident [to management] that an American computer built in blue-belt Pennsylvania couldn’t possibly be programmed in French or German,” she recalled. Hopper had to assure her superiors that the proposed business language would only be in English.

https://epdf.pub/grace-hopper-and-the-invention-of-the-infor...
COM supports multilingual components. Nobody uses it because having different names for the same things makes it harder for humans to reason about the subsequent code.
That is a good point. Because I am from the US I tend to think of companies as starting private. There are some really important exceptions in the US too: The Federal Reserve, Fannie Mae, etc.
It goes without saying that you should be skeptical of any argument someone makes, but discounting something solely based on the messenger seems like a logical fallacy.

In the article written by Poole, the data he quotes is from:

>...The data source is CANSO’s Global Air Navigation Services Report 2017: The ANSP View. This online document provides the raw data, explains the methodology to construct each key performance indicator (KPI), and notes that all cost numbers have been converted to U.S. dollars, for apples vs. apples comparison. Reviewing the data from all 32 participants in the 2017 report, it is clear that there is some degree of economies of scale, but since costs such as payroll are so much lower in developing countries, metrics involving costs are best compared among ANSPs in countries at the same level of economic development.

Is the data source bad? Was the data inaccurate?

The other article which goes into more detail is not associated with Bob Poole.
Its not random data, its almost-live attack/scan data.
Basically we packet capture everything, process it then shovel it off to our backend datastore. Its a minute or two delayed. I realize it may not be the most interesting thing to look at and I'll probably downsample stuff like that in the future, but its real!

I've seen unwanted contact from that IP 7600 times, its hit pretty much all of our nodes and appears to be scanning for some commonly known ports. Its probably a bot or someone attempting to gather intelligence for attacks.

Since its from China in the Hebei Province my guess right now its from the Alibaba datacenter there or possibly China's APT1 unit. Either way its doing bad stuff and you'd want to block it on your edge (if you have one) or load that IP onto a blocklist with your WAF.

Edit: I just updated the map data stream so it dedupes, it should make it a little prettier :)
It wasn't accurate. They mentioned the lesser part of why I moderated the comment and omitted the greater part, which is what most people do when telling a story about how we suppressed them unfairly. That's presumably why such stories never come with links, which would allow readers to make up their own minds about what happened.
Lots of people here conflating "teaching what is right vs wrong" and "teaching how to consider what is right vs wrong". Ethics classes are typically the latter.
"In classes that fall, Mr. Wani and other graduate students turned the problem into a project. Using crowdsourced ground-shaking reports from previous earthquakes, they trained a computer system to predict the areas of greatest impact so that responders would not have to rely on 911 calls."

After a major earthquake, I seriously doubt competent emergency dispatch operators will be proactively sending critically-understaffed ambulances, fire engines, and police to a location identified by old, crowd-sourced cell phone shake data cobbled together for a grad-school project.

Not that emergency systems IT is not without challenges: old (often third party) technology, overly stove-piped administrative domains, and just plain old out-of-date technical skills. In other words, there's lots of low hanging fruit for bright young programmers looking to serve their community!