skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was recently in Taiwan and needed a ride, but could not describe the address to a driver who did not speak English. Uber to the rescue -- again the market got expanded.

The only time I've been in a situation where I needed to take a taxi but didn't speak a common language was in Paris. I simply showed the driver the address as written and he got us there with no problems whatsoever. Granted Paris is pretty easy that way as rides (both taxi and Uber) from the airport are fixed price.

Alternatively I bet just pulling up the location on a mapping app would be enough. Of course in most countries I've been to, the public transit infrastructure was good enough that I never wanted to bother with a taxi of any sort.
VSCode (and Atom) feels like an Emacs with Javascript instead of Lisp anyway
Unless something has changed very recently, you pay Oregon income tax if you live here or work here. To avoid it altogether you would have to both live and work in Vancouver.

(until 5 years ago I lived in Portland and worked in Vancouver)
Taxis would give me blank receipts and tell me to fill in the amount. Free money!

Now Uber and Lyft has made it harder to embezzle from my job :(
Comany Man – Napster – Changing an Industry [video]
It was easier to follow in the written form.
Remember Flock? These never work out - its hard to make any money and people will often revert to the defaults.
> I strongly suspect that alongside the well-intentioned environmentalists there are malign influences piggy-backing on the movement for their own ends, and I suspect some of these would happily see us back in the dark ages. There is evidence, if one cares to look.

Even if we ignore the conspiratorial nature of this statement for the sake of assuming positive intent... this doesn't even remotely answer or even address my question. Even if there are sinister cabals of powerful regressives, what does Fracking have to do with it? And even if someone might have a less than pure motive, does it matter if there are positive scientific findings and plenty of alternatives?

> That's the consensus, but none of us have a crystal ball, including you. And there are dissenters from the orthodoxy, though they risk severe punishment for their heresy.

Really? "Severe punishment?" Other than being called wrong and having their papers refuted over and over what exactly is that? It seems strange to offer such an unmeritocratic view on this.

> Some say we are better off managing the impacts rather than investing stupendous sums in prevention.

Like that guy who said folks displaced by rising sea levels can sell their homes and move?

> I'll also point out that the same organisations that are pushing climate change hard (UN etc.) are doing little to halt growth in global population, and are also promoting mass migration to high income economies, thereby creating a need for further development of infrastructure

Firstly, are you suggesting the UN is "encouraging" refugee crisis? Couldn't then this symmetrically be spun as tyrranical dictators and religious governments oppressing populations such that they flee, "thereby creating a need for further development of infrastructure, housing etc?" And doesn't that seem like the more reasonable assignment of blame?

> built for migrants magically doesn't generate co2.

Construction is hardly the primary source of CO2 in most developed nations.

> And there are those that argue that non-human factors influence our climate far more than humanity.

I am aware some small minority of people believe in unproven ideas, and that's fine. But simply finding people who agree with you isn't the point of science or my post.

You've said a lot of things but not said why fracking, specifically, is important. It's certainly not a tradition. It, as it is currently performed, is not particularly important for global energy production. It's not the preferred method for helium harvesting.

If I were to stop for a moment in my meticulous assumption of positive intent, I might be inclined to believe you're much more interested in signaling your distaste for technological progress rather than actually caring about the specific legacy technology at hand.
How hard is it to say "these are the types of things we want to do. anything must look like these types of things in terms of (insert x y and z criteria: size, scale, opportunity, profitability, growth, etc)

spoiler alert: it isn't hard and this is what we do at my startup that is currently experiencing hyper growth and is on multiple "unicorn" lists
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That is an excellent point. The topography makes it beautiful, but now that you mention it, I can see how it would make building an expensive hassle.
Shareholders are the public, it's a public company.
> generally no swap in production.

This is a bad policy. The problem is that it breaks Linux's overcommit logic. Many applications allocate huge chunks of virtual memory far in excess of what they actually use. Due to the magic of virtual memory, this doesn't get mapped to physical memory until it's actually used.

The trouble is that there's no mechanism in any programming language I'm aware of that allows the OS to retcon an allocation. The only tool the kernel has at its disposal is the oom killer. So if you allocate too much, and you have swap disabled, the oom killer has to step in and kill something even if you're only using half your ram.

This is bad enough, but in addition to this, you have vfs cache to worry about. If you have 64GB ram, your applications are using 40GB, and you have 22GB cache, you and I might assume you have 24GB free, but the OS only sees 2GB free, and a few allocations might trigger the oom killer if they happen faster than the vfs can dump cache. (which is surprisingly slow) With swap, this isn't a big deal, because the pages don't actually get assigned until they are used, which happens later, so the vfs has plenty of time to evict.

The point of swap isn't to give you more memory. It's so the OS can keep its promises about memory allocation and overcommitting.
I was responding to your framing things as a choice between a 5 year time frame Vs a 20 time frame. How can anyone asses without proof a 5 year time frame is possible? So I said don't fall for people who claim they can do things fast without asking for proof. Otherwise anyone can claim anything is possible by tomorrow.
The longer you wait, the more likely it becomes that someone else figures it out too!
The potential for this kind of application is great; it allows people who would otherwise decline, postpone, or forget to get this kind of therapy. All while delivering it through a much more cost effective medium.
>China halted soybean sales,

I'm sure it was a mistype, but China halted soybean purchases (not sales) from US soybean farmers and now possibly other agricultural products.
Hilariously wrong for me too. I guess that means I think for myself.
Never had the 70 year old driver who drives 5mph under the speed limit and stops for any thing that looks like its near the road? Then I say your post is a big lie!
How a journalist discovered and reunited identical twins separated by adoption
Big Pharma is using faux generics to keep drug prices high, critics say
Why don't you like Strings? All prototypes (Number, Array etc) have a capital letter.
Does Cross Platform here mean only Windows, Web and Mobile or Mac and Linux as well?
HomeTrust Visa: https://www.hometrust.ca/credit-cards/preferred-visa-card/

Similar to Chase Amazon: no forex charge. No annual fee.

Pro: Includes roadside assistance and rental collision insurance, 1% cashback

Pros/Cons: Doesn't support tap/RFID payment.

Cons: Application can take forever (not sure about current state).

Cons: Higher foreign ATM withdrawal fee than Amazon (1.5% vs 1%, with similar minimum fee
If a stronger and lighter material is used, that just means they use less of it.
"More is never enough." Mae West
See you later space cowboy.
Also Origin
People who want to live on Mars could start by showing self-sufficient in Svalbard or Antarctica first. I assume it would be far easier because of the ideal gravity, protection from radiation, atmosphere and water. Manufacturing everything required would still be challenging.
Yes but how many of them would donate a spare kidney for him if he really needed it.

People risked their lives for each other. I’m not sure that it’s the same case with people who like your selfie.
> They managed to call me back in 30 minutes (I never gave them my number)

What does this mean? They tracked you down?
I had a similar epiphany, though I'm also a generally cynical person. It was always easier for me to believe that human nature would see us ultimately misuse technology for dystopian purposes. I also believe what's happened thus far is just the tip of the iceberg.
I find this sort of litigiousness to be bullshit because it incentivizes signing up for Facebook. I can't be party to some lawsuit against Facebook if I don't have an account ("users").

I deleted my Facebook a few years ago, so if some class-action suit comes out for people who were users in 2018+, where's my payout? How is such a system fair to people who had the sense to either delete before whatever time horizon is used in a case or people who never created an account? None of these people who could win the lottery in court suffered a real loss.
You should add "Show HN:" to the title.
It's sad because it's true.
What the app something that required deterministic latency? There are situations where your rather hit OOM and kill your app and go buy some RAM rather than have it operate slowly - executing trades too late, or pointing at targets that have moved, etc.
I LOVE that the app is so approachable and easy to use. Great job!!
I'd imagine this is to combat marketplaces like zerodium and the deep web. Traditionally grey hat hackers don't always go through bug bounty programs because the pay is awful compared to what you can get through less ethical sources. By flexing that much cash at bug hunters, they are potentially now offering even more than what you could get on the mentioned markets. The only reason people go underground to sell exploits is for the money. Take away that variable and suddenly there's no reason to sell exploits to bad actors, just sell them straight to the source at Apple and get a fat paycheck.
Idealism will lose some of its luster when the time comes for them to pay off their enormous student loans.
> Fortunately, your replacement battery will continue to work perfectly fine, and you’ll get all of the benefits that come with a new battery.

Literally enough said.
I'd rather not have annoying protestors disrupting the education I paid for and bugging me with pamphlets even if I agree. I counter-protested some annoying walk-out over the election result at college with a "Krusty Krab Unfair" sign and some of them got mad at me, so at least I got back at them a little. Outrageous that some professors weren't counting absences though.
+48 Dem - and I've never voted for a Democrat in my life.

I'm beginning to figure out how they could have called the election so strongly and wrongly for Hillary.
That’s slightly better, but still not enough. 1 million violations at $5000 a pop would be a pitiful $5 billion. IMO, millions of privacy violations are worth more than that.
But money only goes so far. Some things cannot be bought, but they can be coerced.
I guess the moral of the story is: reject the first offer and see if they'll come back for more or not, because running any tabulations.
This is obliquely addressed. The methodology of value investing is well known by now. The goal is to buy underpriced stocks.

If you want to play that game you have to compete against large firms that have buildings full of people looking into the fundamentals of the companies. Or you need some other informational advantage.

Otherwise you are almost certainly buying correctly-valued stocks. That's not value investing, but you can do something else that is useful, like buy an index.
What if you sell it to the repair industry? There are plenty of people who want to break open Apple's walled garden, and those are not necessarily what most would consider "malicious" or "unethical".

Unfortunately the intersection of "security researcher" and "right-to-repair advocate" is probably tiny, but that would be something I'd love to see: someone finds a crack that enables a lot of third-party-repair scenarios and sells it to that industry instead of to the black-hat criminals or even back to Apple itself.

The third-party repair/aftermarket industry is huge and would love to break through the proprietariness of the ecosystem. In that light, $1M seems rather small...
I don't know the middle steps, but the end step is everyone wishing they had made the area car-free earlier.
The “Piano Solo” Attempted Coup of Italy (1964)
you can also win by presenting a public persona that is slightly degenerate/shambolic, so such an embarrassment will only add to your appeal in your support base...
It depends. Sudden peaks of latency can get comparatively more expensive on a trading floor than buying an absurd amount of RAM.
>> seems the downvoters don’t like what I have to say, but that doesn’t make it less true.

Except that it isn't true. A quick look at https://cs.stanford.edu/degrees/ug/Requirements.shtml paints a completely diffrent picture.
An early stage company doesn’t have much to pay you with, but they’re thankful for the help.

From my perspective, protecting the data of 10k users was just as important as— or more important than— protecting the data of 1.5m users.

I feel bad when people assume negative intent. I don’t think anyone at this company wanted to violate the privacy of their users— they just didn’t get the message through the right channels.
Generally boils down to whether or not the company has some kind of bug bounty program. If they do and it’s in scope, you will probably get paid...in this case likely $1-5k.

Smaller companies that don’t have a bug bounty might provide a token reward just because, larger companies generally won’t.

Any company that hasn’t explicitly authorized ‘research’ might also choose to sue.
I wonder how this gets reported to the credit bureaus.
Proof of All: Verifiable Computation in a Nutshell
Another benefit of this is that researchers are no longer incentivised to hold onto bugs. Currently, you need to find a vulnerability just to get onto the device to do further research. If the researcher reported that bug then they would lose that access. Now they are free to report any bugs they find without jeopardising future research activity.
Everything's a function, right?
I think it transcends PR stunt if it actually changes the market for vulnerabilities. $1mil for kernel hacks and 100k for app interactions is just being price competitive with the market.
I'm super worried by these lawsuits. Instead of forcing the oil industry to invest in cleaner energies, to clean the atmosphere by for instance paying for planting massive amount of trees, or even to extract oil more sustainably... They want them to pay investors that were deceived by a fact everybody fucking knew for decades.

Makes me feel we're doomed and incapable of focusing on real challenges.
It doesn't take dozens. GM, Tesla, and Google are already making the expensive part of the investment (developing ai cars in the first place). Will Uber make more money with one competitor or four?

I mean, is there a chance these three companies develope autonomous vehicles and decide NOT to compete in ride sharing?
To better grasp nuclear winter, scientists study wildfire cloud
Or we just don’t need politics to infest every aspect of life, public and private. Voting only happens every other year.
Wild weather: Frankston Pier snaps, extreme winds lash Victorian
They knew that their product would mess with the climate and they not only hid this information, but actively lied to convince people of the opposite, all so that they could make more money. And they made an incomprehensible amount of money. This sure sounds like fraud to me, and people have gone to prison for far, far less. Madoff got 150 years in prison for fraud equal to just a couple years of Exxon’s profits.

Rough justice? Maybe for the victims. Exxon should feel very lucky if it stops at losing this lawsuit. Of course, this is the US, where real punishments are reserved for individuals, and large companies are effectively outside the law.
When I was a college student and in my early twenties I was aware that my opinions on political stuff changed a lot. So I didn't worry about politics much, I had an opinion about right and wrong but didn't take it seriously. That is apolitical.
I imagine most mobile apps have access to the basic dialer info of the phone they're running on.
Money is not a problem to Nation state actors. Not even $10M will stop any country. Even an African dictator motivated will easily pay $50M if that means getting what it takes to stay in power.
the last man
Yeah what I meant by bunkhouse is more or less a converted trailer with a row of bunks like a low-rent dorm but cheaper and all of the workers share the same room (or were split between trailers) with shared facilities. These could take forms other than trailers but often they were built cheap and only suitable for growing and harvest season habitation.

The impression I got from the author was more of a single family dwelling.
The issue here isn't with "Mr No", it's with those who mindlessly parrot his policies.

I've met "Mr No" at Google, and he is in fact quite a reasonable and funny guy.
Please point out where something I said isn’t accurate.
> So if you allocate too much, and you have swap disabled, the oom killer has to step in and kill something even if you're only using half your ram.

You can allocate all the memory you want, the OOM killer only steps in when you actually use all the the memory.
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I don't think Hacker News is diverse enough for most political conversations to be useful. There's biases just because we're heavily skewed towards engineers, but there's subtler problems too. For example, how everything gets filtered through the Californian perspective.

Hacker News cannot solve all the world's problems. Not even all the problems related to technology. It's ok to focus on the things we can do effectively. HN isn't the only forum to discuss important issues.
Certainly not of corporate culture. People get fired for stuff like that all the time. Johnah Friedland said the n-word and had to step down from Netflix and he didn't even use it in a racist context. He only said the word as he listed offensive words.

Weird sex stuff can certainly be used to affect people in powerful corporate positions.
To be clear, I'm aware of the device your talking about. They did that for sure for dang and sctb's character to highlight how they in particular buck the stereotype but throughout the piece the author makes it clear their focus was essentially on the fringe of comments that occur on this site and how they fit into a larger narrative about silicon valley culture. I provided the quote because it is specific evidence the author approached the writing with this perspective towards the site, and should one be totally surprised it is the dominant narrative throughout?

This is not quite related to your reply, but I will say it's rather ironic that the author had this expectation of the mods in particular because in my mind they are often the ones rushing to defense of civility and often chide people making comments of the disposition that the author expected them to have. Of course, that might be because I use this site and see dang or sctb's replies to dead comments and they don't, but approaching subjects you intend to learn about in good faith instead of tired stereotypes would be best.
OT, but if you have showdead on, you can see beeschlenker's weird comment. It seems that he hears "things" in his own security cameras, and also thinks he is in a "Truman show" setup. Just a heads up if someone in the area could possibly help him.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/to-keep-brian-schlenker-alive
I think that in case you might need to defend yourself against the municipal level too sometimes, not only federal.

I think the way to do is to not make it illegal to own a gun, but, if you want to buy or sell, or to mass produce, then you need a license (but it should not be banned entirely), and you also need mandatory training (but only once, not every month or year) to purchase a gun.

Also, I think that it should be preferred (but not mandatory) to use weapons and defenses other than a gun. You can fight by hand, arrows, sword, staff, stones, gardening tools, sharpening the edges of DVDs and throwing them, etc (or, if you are a pacifist, then you do not have to fight at all). So, having a gun should be discouraged, but it should not actually prevent you to have one if you wish. (If the weapon emits excessive amounts of ionizing radiation, then it would be banned, though.)

And, military service should never be required. (Requiring training to purchase a gun is good, but it should be only once; otherwise the law becomes too obstructive.)

Guns should not be mandatory either; some people don't like guns. (Apparently in one place, it is mandatory to own a gun unless you don't like guns, or cannot afford it, or any of a number of other exceptions. So, such law is not obstructive, and if it is shown to help, then it should be kept, but if it makes it worse, then it should be discarded.)

I live in Canada, and I think the law is that when transporting guns they must be unloaded, and that seem good to me (although the law as implementation may be a bit too strict), and once the police department said that anyone who has a gun but doesn't want it can voluntarily give to them, and I think that is OK too.
Apple actually doesn’t expose this via any iOS APIs. Not 100% sure about Android.
Please do write the article!
Depends on the use case. Intel is still top for many games and some apps like Excel/Photoshop.
My understanding is that aside from what can be inferred from meter / rhyme in poetry, nobody really knows pronunciation before a certain date. Is that correct? If so, what is "that date"?
Legal industry reporting calls the underlying matter a "$30 billion class action lawsuit," so it'll be interesting to see how that matter proceeds now that Facebook has lost its first dispute against standing.
Well I suppose the r in front of them in python made them look just enough "not a normal string" for me to forget how the + operator might act.

My day-to-day experience is in nodejs, where adding one regex object to another coerces them to normal strings first

[edit: hey neat, the hackernews form strips emoji from comments, I wonder if that's just ranges of unicode or if there's some crazy regex going on :D]
>> no compilers or os, no multivariable calculus, no pointers.

Stanford still requires cs students to take classes that cover the material above (except compilers which can be taken as a specialization)
Yeah I mean at their growth rate they would need like 100% profitability to justify the current market cap.

The P/S multiple is what you’d expect the P/E multiple to be.
Careful of any leaks
It's pretty meaningless, and top-tier at that level is fit based, the objective geniuses have a way of not working for other people for very long at all.
Given that a whole lot of Western non-Einsteins moved to Africa/Asia as colonizers, looted and killed everything they could, stripped those countries bare and used that loot to build infrastructure in Euro-America, perhaps they should return the money they took with interest and no one will want to come.
well, black mirror ( the TV series ) has played with this topic. It has already played out in some ways where there's been stories of people being manipulated because they get compromising video by hijacking peoples cams then they leverage that to get more. So, there is a good possibility it's playing out involving people of influence