skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As long as it's publicly known, it's the perfect deterrent - the equivalent of a famous game theory idea about playing chicken. You and an opponent are driving towards each other, and the first to turn aside loses; a quick way to win is to publicly and conspicuously rip out your steering wheel and throw it out the window.

Making something like that and keeping it secret, though, defeats the point. Note that the Wikipedia article mentions it also for its domestic political purposes - reassuring those who are really committed to the revenge theory of nuclear weapons.
There are services designed to figure things out before the general public. Because companies tend not to keep good news secret, what’s left to figure out is typically bad news.
So when querying a count of citations, did anyone consider adding a GROUP BY contributors which will at least give you distinct groups of contributors (assuming they always get listed alphabetically)

Even better split it into individual contributors to give a count of researchers who have cited the paper?
A five word phrase is roughly a 5m x 5m region, so 1m wouldn't be enough to move into the next block.

But in general yes, locations that are "close by" will share the same set of words.

The mapping itself is extremely simple. A geohash is encoded as string of alphanumeric characters where each character is in base-32. This means each character encodes 5-bits of coordinate information. To get to a 5m x 5m region you need 45-bits worth or 9 geohash characters.

To map this 9 character geohash to a phrase is simple - we simply use the binary representation of the characters as a numeric index into a fixed dictionary of words. The first character is mapped to a word in a dictionary containing 32 entries. After that we map characters in pairs to dictionaries of 1024 words; 2 geohash characters being 5-bits we get a 10-bit index.

So two geohashes that share the same prefix will also share the same words, modulo our grouping scheme.
Probably because they dont make Solar panels anymore and the panels in question are well out of warranty.
> the config system mostly used the name of a directory where lots of software would use a filename (qmail.ini => /var/qmail/conf), the name of a file where other software would use a variable name, and the contents of the file as the value of the variable. This is really, really easy to read and write without writing a parsing library.

this djb-ism has seriously affected a lot of the ways i unix, to date. envdir is such a great idea.
It's practical in the same way that a bulletproof backpack is practical for school. The person introducing the element of danger bears the responsibility for handling that danger responsibly.
DoorDash still hasn’t changed its tipping policy
over, seemingly, hundreds of years.
Perhaps after the Xcode 11 beta?
The alternative story told internally is that the predecessor to AWS originated from a white-label storefront offering sold to traditional retailers entering the digital world in the early 2000s.

Edit:
Target, Borders (the late bookstore) and gap were example users. It was called merchant.com (website url now redirects).

Supposedly AWS came about when merchant.com and the main site became hard to manager resources for, so they were broken out into services and APIs a la AWS.
I’d recommend re-reading the original GPT2 announcement, particularly this section regarding their release policy:

This decision, as well as our discussion of it, is an experiment: while we are not sure that it is the right decision today, we believe that the AI community will eventually need to tackle the issue of publication norms in a thoughtful way in certain research areas.

This release approach is an experiment used to force the conversation around a release strategy before we actually and unambiguously need it.
Should've used microinverters, but then again, the technology wasn't mature yet at the time SolarCity was still independent.
The US has some of the lowest tax rates in the world, IFF you are making a large amount of money.

If you are earning a median wage a lot of other countries have comparable tax rates. If you are earning minimum wage a lot of other countries have lower tax rates.
> Where is this obsession with cars being the issue come from?

Cities that have the whole motor vehicle danger thing under control are safe for kids under 8 to wander around barely supervised. SRSLY.
Fairly hard to invent seven roof fires in retail premises and Tesla's first act when they took over Solar City was to massacre the sales department. That means that things had got so bad in there that taking money from new customers was not worth the risk, given the product.
Use a fucking text file
I am annoyed at this news.
v1. Bitbucket == Mercurial
v2. Bitbucket == Mercurial|git
v3. Bitbucket == git
However, GitHub is better at git, so now
GitHub > Bitbucket

May bitbucket and it's management forever have it sheets and stocks shorted. They deserve it.

Since I want my repos' outsourced and I'm being forced to use git, I am moving to GitHub.

Define: git - https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+a+git
FastAPI is my new favorite python api framework. Pydantic and starlette are such powerful combo.

https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi
As soon as you add features to more than a one item per line list you've added useless friction.

Unless you've got org-mode then its OK
Another famous short seller, Citron, issued their counterargument to this report: https://citronresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Citron...
Apple just released a long-lost font from the original Mac–for free
My current understanding is sucrose gets converted to glucose and fructose pretty much instantly once it hits your stomach[1].

The difference is, no one dumps a dozen teaspoons of sugar per serving in home prepared food and drink. Where drink and processed food manufacturers carefully buffer their recipes to accommodate the equivalent amount of HFCS.

[1] Read though that low end processed foods and drinks often contain very high levels of fructose.
Different entities can be entrusted with different responsibilities, not because I trust one more but simply because they're different.

I'll never ask my friends to memorize my schedule and remind me on time. I'll also never ask Google to take care of my cat. Sounds pretty straightforward to me.
Ok, let's exclude solar panels. WMT's business model doesn't include extreme capacity Li-ion chemical bombs traveling at highway speeds.

To be fair, I admire and hope one day to afford a Tesla. But the risks are clear. High capacity Li-ion batteries have high risks and incident rates of explosion.
How would that cause a fire?
Yup, not a great country to be poor. Also tax-pressure is still considerable (33% of GDP). This implies the US has lots of regressive expenditures and taxes.

On the whole, I think the tax rate is the main difference between the US and most of industrialized countries, and net immigration is hugely positive for the US.
I just looked up information on Phoenix, and it seems that it more or less corresponds to the 7th and 9th congressional districts, which seem to have had Democratic congresspeople since they were created, and also voted for Democratic presidential candidates in every election.
Does this block react CDN hits?
Carnap vs Popper

Popper = create hypothesis and falsify

Carnap = see instances and use induction to create hypothesis

Everything else they say about the scientific method is the same.

Herbert Simon, in thinking of sciences of the artificial, used the Carnap method to create a ton of valuable science.

It's not that post-facto is bad - carnap showed otherwise.

It's about the quality of the science and the specificity of the recommendations, that lead to bs.

For instance you can mitigate for survivorship bias by studying the dead as well as the living, and driving deep into the differences. But that's a lot of work!

As a theory, effectuation studies the difference in decision making processes between expert entrepreneurs and corporate CEOs. The result, while similarly post-facto, is delightful. See effectuation.org - Vinod Khosla remarked it was the first useful study on entrepreneurship he had ever read.
I certainly don't mean to dismiss financial regulation. It's an important reason why today's banks are lower risk than in previous times - at least, for depositors. But people used and trusted banks long before FDIC insurance. (And often, that trust was broken.)

I expect we will see more regulation of the companies storing personal data, along the lines of the GDPR. I don't expect people will stop using the big tech companies to store personal data.
Ask HN: Credential Security
Hi,

TL;DR; My internet banking credentials were compromised. I want to know how to better mitigate risk.

I use a KeePassX database as my password manager with a strong master password. It's synced to my laptop via syncthing, so it's not stored in the cloud. All my passwords are randomly generated, strong, and different. I use the official client on Solus Linux, and the Keepass2Android client on Android (Pixel 2).

My bank has not yet given me the official version of events. In fact, I do not trust them to provide the correct and actual version of events including details, as I have been given contradicting information from different sources at the company.

They believe the compromise occurred by a keylogger, or other method of stealing credentials, leading to a successful login. This was identified as suspicious, and my online account was suspended (good result). Although the resulting action taken by my bank is good, their communication of the issue is horrendous and I am going to lodge a complaint.

Now I do know that RSA is not infallible, however they would have needed my credentials + valid RSA token value to login successfully. This concerns me, and I will be asking my bank whether the token was used and is likely compromised.

I have changed all critical account passwords (bank, Google, socials, PayPal,etc) and also changed the password of my password database.

From my (limited) cyber sec knowledge I can think of the following ways the attackers could have gotten my creds.

1. Keylogger is present on one of my devices.

2. Hacked password store master password (unlikely unless keylogger).

3. Clipboard sniffing (I used to copy+paste from password manager to input fields,now I don't).

4. Social engineering (bank).

5. Brute force

6. Insider job (bank employee)

I want to be able to use internet banking and other critical payment services on my phone/laptop without risk of compromise. Can you provide any tips?

EDIT: Bank has indicated that there were coordinated logon attempts but no actual logon. So RSA was not compromised, just user + pass. Also about 60 customers were affected from what they say is the same attack.
Reading that whole conversation in the voice of the Architect. Goosebumps!
>Meanwhile, "price gouging" laws virtually ensured lines at the petrol stations.

Or maybe it was limited supply... Demand for gas seems fairly inelastic.
I don’t have as much faith in the system as you. And I wouldn’t want to wait a decade for it to be fixed.
Firefox isn't as stable in a few areas. Since it's been released, the main UI has changed drastically many times compared to Chrome which has been the same forever. Not the settings UI, but the main UI and menu system... Furthermore, nobody fucks with Chrome's settings on any Linux distro like they do with Firefox. And then the integration occasionally resets settings and other bad things happen when packages get updated. Can't stand that.

The other kind of instability with Firefox surrounds the corporation that produces it. Mozilla is a bit of a wildcard because you never know what sort of guerrilla marketing advertisement or third party integration they're going to throw into your browser without giving you much of a choice. I actually trust them less than Google because there are way fewer eyes on them.

Finally, in my opinion, it's just not as consistently good as Chrome. I don't think Mozilla can compete with the level of production quality that Google has put into Chrome. Not even close. Where Chrome is modern, crisp, clean and beautiful looking with a great UX, Firefox is just ugly, primitive, old smelling and annoying to use.

I know Microsoft can do better than Moz on the production quality front. Who knows what if their UX will remain stable though. They kinda ruin everything with the constant push for signing up to a Microsoft account. Mostly I care about the production quality and the general UX though.
>> "hundreds of unexplained deaths spanning more than 1,000 years, according to a new study."

Id imagine theres quite a few places on earth that would tick that box :) Semi-relatedly, theres a 4000 year old dolmen close to my house and lying beside it is a ~200 year old broken grave stone. Its' suspected that there was a mistake during carving of the gravestone and hypothesised the stonemason left it near the Dolmon as they attached some spiritual significance to the place, albeit without religious (catholic) significance.

Sometimes places just become the "something" place, even over long periods of time. This could be the "dump the bodies" place.
I'm not sure if this captures this full set of tensions at play. I'm a huge fan of Doug Engelbart, and he was my inspiration for a long time...but it turns out augmentation of power without checks and balances can end up very messy (I'm also a fan of James Madison, though Engelbart is closer to a first love!).

One could argue that I actually started work on misinformation though Engelbart. I was working on various projects specifically to achieve a vision like his, and it is still my guiding light. But it turns out that some technologies (initially focusing on Facebook and YouTube's engagement dynamics...), without appropriate checks and balances, are sort of anti-augmentation of intellect. They give an asymmetric advantage to those who are trying to weaken our intellects. So I ended up dropping those projects to attempt to address urgent misinformation issues in May of 2016.

Going back to GPT-2 and research release, I and my co-author recently went deep into understanding the types of risks and tradeoffs in a recent paper. You can see the summary here: https://medium.com/@aviv/reducing-malicious-use-of-synthetic... or go directly to arXiv https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.11274.pdf . The goal of our paper is specifically to go past the angry invective of the "here is the most important problem" (in your case, "AI inequality") and actually dive into the weeds of threat models and tradeoffs.
There are 4 orders of magnitude between 14 and 171,000. I could be wrong, but I don't think those adjustments will cross that divide.
That's not what a vexatious litigant is. Hundreds of thousands of dollars is a real loss.
>So there exists a class of professional services designed to temporarily crash stock prices to make short sellers money?

Yes. The technical term is "activist short selling". The broad consensus is that it's good for the market, as it provides an incentive for investors and researchers to uncover fraud and mismanagement. Obviously someone could just make up a bunch of nonsense about a company to try and tank their share price, but that's all sorts of illegal.

I think it's valid to think of activist short selling as a kind of distributed bug bounty program for the financial markets.
For that reason, most video games allocate large blocks of memory upfront and use their own custom allocators, usually very different from the doug lea malloc() that iirc new is still a wrapper for. (I'm aware of std::allocator, but that's a whole other topic...)

That is only half of the story. The full story is using a preallocated object pool, and reusing entity objects without ever having to dynamically allocate new instances on demand.
> 3D mapping like this isn't about the tech itself, but about actually making it useful for end users.

Spot on. Body tracking has a similar usability challenge with consumers. I'm finding myself focused more on the E2E experience and workflow integration than the 3D pose estimation itself.
Yeah, but it's not connected to your UID, so it's okay!
Reading all the discussions and visible confusion about the best C++ practices, when and where and when a constructor will be called etc. seems to be the perfect illustration of the author point.
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"There is an E.U.-wide directive that requires rail to be deregulated and opened up to competition. If we had something similar here, instead of having government departments operate commuter rail service in say Virginia"

My impression is that in the US, the existing system basically gives priority to freight, and that passenger rail is poor because of that.

I have been on an Amtrak train that had to wait and wait for a (private) freight train, and of course people blame Amtrak and the government for the delay which is a little unfair.

But in the big picture, I think it's not intuitively obvious that prioritizing freight in the US is the wrong decision for the country. I mean, you could argue it, but maybe freight is the best use of rail given the overall lack of density of the country.
Once all the clearance is gone, panels can push each other and all sorts of breakage can happen.
You hit the nail on the head.

Don't remember where I saw it, but a long time just as smartphones were coming out I saw a bold take on what the next major platform would be. It wasn't going to be web, it wasn't going to be mobile, it was going to be NOTIFICATIONS. The app companies that understood this thrived, and the rest withered and died.
I don’t know what the standards are for that but pretty much zero chance. First their shit burned up on your roof, thats a pretty solid prima facie reason to sue IMO, even if you later lose. Second 100k+ is not nothing, federal jurisdiction only requires 75k and to my knowledge there isn’t any kind of test of the money of the plaintiff as to whether the amount matters to them.
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I find this approach strangely condescending. For example the author says:

> Understanding the value attributed to X, Y, and Z in that particular text requires assessment of the rhetorical strategies of the author(s).

They could've just said, if you want to know why the author thinks XYZ are important, you need to look at what they are saying about it.

I'm a hardcore postmodern leftist, but I don't see how writing in such a contorted way helps practicing scientists. In fact I would argue that this kind of listing obscures a politics of its own; it is so busy prescribing citation practices that it won't examine its own politics.

That said, it's the first time I've seen this guide so maybe I need to read up on the issues; a list of do's / don'ts isn't the best way to introduce and help people understand the issues.
"Power cycle all 10,000 (or however many there are) network nodes simultaneously" is so far out of the realm of feasibility as to be humorous. There is a lot of infrastructure designed to keep those things powered up at almost any cost and approximately zero infrastructure designed to intentionally bring a network of that size down in one swoop.
An experience I hope more will be able to at least partially experience through VR.

I also hope in my lifetime it'll be within reach of Joe Average to visit space...
Baffled student tells Twitter: 'I'm not a Chinese agent'
Did you really read the article in full? Are you sure you understood it?
A robust win for freedom of expression, and expected insofar as American jurisprudence takes an atypically narrow view of what constitutes "defamation". This was a last gasp for this odious business, they couldn't have thought the odds were good that this would be upheld.

A patent troll is as a patent troll does.
Cross-platform open source PS4 remote play client
You're making a lot of assumptions here.

Perhaps the person didn't choose their work. They want to be a professional developer, but right now they're working in Starbucks.

Perhaps they don't want to tell you, because they're sick of people fawning or acting strangely towards them. I've spoken to a fair few people like that - say they're a hedge fund manager or whatever, they don't want to bring that to the pub and basically wave the fact they're a decamillionaire in your face.
If you want to be immune, look at the data.

They can lie in experiments and stats, but that is up to you to decide.
Here is a good history of this for those interested. I had to search after seeing this.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/02/andy-jassys-brief-history-...

I think more companies should look at selling their internal core-competencies to outsiders. It would make starting and managing businesses easier for everyone.
Wouldn't replication here just be peer reviews ?
I signed this up when they first announced it but I still don't get the invite to access it. I am not sure how they choose who will have early access to it.
The law is far more complex than you suggest, and I would strongly caution anyone in possession of material non-public information to consult a securities lawyer before proceeding to trade securities based on such information.

See, e.g., https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2017/01/18/insider-trading-l...
Redis would also be nice
> everyone has its own Prelude

In my Haskell experience (including some professional experience) this isn't the case very often at all (maybe not even as often as it should be).

(Which is not to say that there aren't some problems with fragmentation elsewhere in Haskell's ecosystem)
And Forbes lists Lukas' net worth at $17.6B, so unless he has a ton of other debt, he cannot possibly own more than about 5% of Wal-Mart.
Deja vu https://github.blog/2008-04-25-github-s-rubygem-server/

And then removed 16 months later: https://github.blog/2009-10-08-gem-building-is-defunct/

Hopefully this one lasts longer.
> "...these summaries report that patient self- reported memory loss tends to be more persistent than the deficits that can be measured on formal neuropsychological testing. However, for those patients who do experience memory or cognitive impairment, they consider this to be a considerable source of distress for themselves and their families."

https://psychcentral.com/lib/research-findings-on-memory-and...

> "...We aimed to examine whether long-term effects of ECT on discrete memory systems could be detected in patients with B[ipolar]D[isorder]... Compared with healthy subjects, patients had verbal learning and memory deficits. Subjects who had received remote ECT had further impairment on a variety of learning and memory tests when compared with patients with no past ECT. This degree of impairment could not be accounted for by illness state at the time of assessment or by differential past illness burden between patient groups..."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1911194/

I don't think there's sufficient evidence on the long-term effects yet and a high incentive for clinicians to reach for ECT as something that works when nothing else will.
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Pagerank is referring to the graph algorithm known as pagerank, not anything provided specifically by Google.
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Good. It's an accurate opinion most of the time too.
A few months ago a couple of physics postdocs set up a website (vanityindex dot com) and proposed a few "vanity metrics". Can be fun to check out your own vanity index and that of your colleagues.
That does sound useful to talk about, could I convince you to hit up the issue tracker to for that as a section request?

I just added a weirdly missing short section on plain rational beziers (not b-splines, just single beziers), and I'd like to still add a section on turning hand drawn paths into polybeziers.