skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think you do Snowden a disservice when you lump him in with Assange.

Correct. Snowden is a Whistle-blower. Assange is a journalist, though perhaps not the kind Snowden would have trusted his stolen data with.
This is the correct response.

For whatever reason, people seem to think "50/50 chance of beating the market" = 50% chance of generating 40% return on any given year.

Try randomly picking stocks over the last 20 years, and run 1 billion simulations and see if you get anywhere near that (even letting you have survivorship bias for free)
We laugh even if it is rotated by 180 degrees.
Authors don't always have a final say on what the headline will be. Sometimes they don't have any say at all.
You said it yourself: software engineer

So we are allowed.
And if you simply refund the money to citizens, you preserve the market's ability to self relate instead of picking winners and losers through subsidies and regulations.

Maybe increasing gas prices will favor electric cars, maybe we'll see a resurgence in hydrogen or other alternative fuel sources, idk. What I do know is that polluting will be less attractive and we'll see innovations.
Beta (by definition) is not a zero sum game, but alpha is.
I think what parent commenter means is that it would be unlikely for almost anyone to make money that way, no matter how smart they are or how much time they put in.

I think they aren’t saying that it’s a hard profession by itself in the way that you are talking about — only that the expected returns are negative for almost anyone.

So in that case it’s not calling day traders smarter or harder working than others. It’s saying that no matter what your level of intelligence or other personal attributes there is likely some other job that would have much higher expected returns.

For person A it might be to be a firefighter, for person B, to be a gymnast, for person C, to be a brain surgeon, for person D to work as a maid. Etc etc.

At least that’s the way that I read it.
> Not to be prescriptive, but that is why I don't do the "hip" thing of numbering from 0.

Are there any old HN threads discussing/debating this? I’d be interested in hearing both perspectives. Any idea who started this trend and how long it’s been around? I once looked at some super old threads to see if it’s been a thing from the beginning and I didn’t see anyone doing it.
You don't need a smartphone or 2FA device to generate TOTP codes, and in fact, can use applications like Bitwarden. SMS is obviously not adequate, or the Jack Dorsey wouldn't have been hacked.
I think this was why Rogue One was so bad. The shift from a group of misfits to a group united by The Vision was completely unbelievable.
China and India are both building out the suburbs much the same way as the U.S. and Europe did following WWII. Suburbs may be inelegant and tacky to a lot of folks, but they're functional and people seem to like them. The citizens of China and India are no exception.
You do know you can file your own taxes for free (or very little $) online if you can read?
Configuration Management Software
IIRC that only buys you 2-3 orders over LHC energy.
I'm talking about modern architectures
Hello, i just want to ask. i just created and keybase account. that was before sept 9. does this mean i don't get any airdrop? not even for the next month or so?
Why not use two cameras for training AI then?
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15836782
I think DNA has semiconductors beat on average information density though. A tube of DNA can contain a datacenter’s worth of information. Read times are abysmal and error rate is through the roof, but it’s relatively stable on the order of hundreds of years.
And what part is rigged? In the case of this food printer, sure I suppose it should be able to actually do what it claims is its breakthrough. But if I make a prototype of, say, a wallet that gives you haptic feedback to reflect your money moving digitally, is it rigged if it’s not currently in a manufacturable form, tethered to the lab somehow? No, because it was designed to 1) demonstrate a new user interface, and 2) spark conversation about the effects of dematerializing currency.

Sometimes missed in talk of what research deserves to be funded, is that a valuable function of the Media Lab is to conduct the flow of ideas from science fiction to reality. And the projects fall all along that spectrum.
That really is the difference between "proven secure" vs "not proven insecure", which would you consider best practice?
As far as fingerprinting WiFi devices goes: It is an rf device and all rf devices vary in behaviour due to component tolerances. This shows in such things as spurious emissions, power variations across its transmission spectrum, oscillator drift, etc, etc. These are fairly easy to detect remotely. One example is shown in this paper: https://www.cs.ucr.edu/~zhiyunq/pub/infocom18_wireless_finge...
this is an interesting way of looking at things -- to compare the potential discovery of mind control to the investigation of a long time grifter. Your phrasing almost makes it seem as if there is just as much truth to each "rumour".
Major Tech Companies Use Staffing Agencies to Get More H-1B Visa Candidates
>I have never seen a signing bonus. Options, yearly bonus, even rev-share, sure.

Anecdata, but I have worked for two of the big faangm companies and myself and every coworker I am aware of had a signing bonus.
You do realize that the version you read isn't by any means the original, and is going to be the result of millennia of narrative drift? I'm not saying that it couldn't have been complex, but whatever you read isn't going to be how Homer told it.
I don't think the British have ever really had a huge problem with foreign countries owning significant British companies. Is this signficantly different from Tata motors owning practically all of british steel production? or French companies owning big chunks of our energy production capacity?

Who owns the company has very little to do with whether it's operating in the UK.
Yup, pretty much. Now if they could just use the standard model to explain dark matter/energy or the inconsistencies in the cosmic age evidence, or what ever the non-fundamental physics but really interesting problem is.

I wonder if we figure out how to regrow a damaged heart into a healthy heart with a simple injection and 10 weeks of physical therapy if hope will die in all those cardiologists out there who no longer are able to push the boundaries in heart transplant surgery or heart substitutions.

What is the effect on people who have spent their lives becoming an expert in a field or subject which now seems to be "done." I could imagine they might lose hope.
Unbundling AWS
Was expecting this to be Mario Teaches HTML.
It's not that simple. For a company, a contractor is much different than an employee, and it is much more regulated and costly to terminate an employee.

For example, if you terminate an employee you have to have proper documentation to justify the termination. Even then, you are still vulnerable to a wrongful termination lawsuit...unless you offer them severance in exchange for signing away the right to sue.

You are also on the hook for unemployment.
Elon Musks venture into health industry
I was asking for more context on:

> Very first paragraph, and already a turn-off.

I know the context for the book’s first phrase, I wanted to know why earlier commenter considered the book’s first phrase a turn-off.
> Or the memristors that would allow instantly booting back to the state my computer was in when I turned it off last night?

I would agree with you, but with the current ability to suspend, I don't see the point. I always just suspend when I would otherwise power-off. The only times I power-off now are when I don't use my laptop for many days and the battery just completely drains itself, when I want to load an updated kernel, or when the power goes out in the neighborhood. They're all pretty rare events.
So how do they explain the free-fall? Doesn't free-fall mean that all structural support has vanished from below? Freefall means that the thing basically could not fall any faster -- unless something more than gravity was pushing it down from above? It did not fall any faster but it did not fall any slower either. And they admit that.
The worst thing here is there are genuinely people who are afraid of 2FA because they see headlines about how 2FA over SMS is dangerous, and they (as well as the writers in some cases, to be fair) don't understand that the "over SMS" part is the crux of it, not the 2FA part. It doesn't even make sense. You don't even need extra infrastructure to do it properly. It costs you more money to send an SMS. Just don't!
During most of the period in which memorizing phone numbers was common, most people weren't memorizing 10 digit numbers. Rather, local calls to your neighbors required you only remember 4 digits when you all shared the same three digit prefix. And if you didn't share a prefix but shared an area code, you only had to memorize 7 digits. For the calls most people were making most of the time, memorizing 4 was typical and 7 was occasional.

This did begin to change before the rise of phone number storage tech, but it doubtlessly spurred the adoption of that tech.
Hello Reginald, I am a fan and a fellow Torontonian!

I agree with your points, but optics might depend on a company. In a startup or smaller company being aware that underperforming employees are let go might actually improve morale. For bigger companies it is a typical situation that you notice or get to know that people from other teams are gone, but you may not be aware of their performance.
DeepSource Go Analyzer Beta
Emails are not exposed in public profiles..
I think my answer was highly oriented towards handling real data. But even in simulation, any calculations are discrete.
It helps tremendously to understand continuous Fourier transforms, because most of the theorems have immediate discrete analogs.
I really like Professional Pilot rumor network for discussion of aviation issues or funny stories from pilots and stewardesses. It has its own slang for example SLF is us passengers (self-loading freight)

https://pprune.org
Many Americans also head down to Mexico for various treatments that are more affordable. https://www.newsweek.com/thousands-americans-cross-border-me...
Everything was 100% vetted through two respected journalist. They decided what to leak and when and what to protect. Very well done by any standard.
I don't think it's practical to lug around 2 or 3 boosters. Possible, yes, but a terrible user experience.
Suburbs in many countries are where people live if they are too poor to live in the city. This is definitely true in France, it is true in China as well (you live in changping if you can’t afford to live in Beijing).
What is the additional cost of having an insurance rider to cover when you're rideshare driving? I haven't pulled a quote, but I imagine that could be expensive due to increased liability.
The vast majority of software engineers are unlicensed. I don't think CA even licenses software engineers.
I was under the impression that there already exists enough food in the world to feed everyone, and that it is actually a distribution (inequalities and economic) problem?
Ta. As far as I can tell a lack of an explanation for the Born rule is a feature of all quantum interpretations, not just many worlds. It's pretty much the central mystery of quantum mechanics.
The Great Open Source Shake-Up
Five years seems great, for getting a new up-to-date OS, but I would start to expect security updates to be available for longer. That not only Fairphone, but all phone manufactures.

Apple is pretty good about supporting older hardware, but I feel like we reached a point in the last few years where phones are powerful enough that upgrades cycles could be five years for an average consumer. So it should be expected that security fixes would be available for longer.
Fira Code v2 released: 136 new glyphs
Good article in a simple and fluid language. A must read for everyone who want to understand the architectural design patterns of contemporary web application.
Testing Microservices: An Overview of 12 Useful Techniques
Write fewer tests and less documentation. Write more examples
So, let's see: we have a surge of stock market speculation driven by day traders seeking to get rich quick, in a country with a growing influence from Protestant Evangelicals preaching the prosperity gospel.

Brazillians, you can ask any American about this. We've been there. It does not end well.
Would be great to hear peoples thoughts.

Are there any techniques missing in the article?
In the grand scheme of things it just isn't. 14 million rides a day, giving them a generous 1MB of data per ride, is "only" 14TB, 420TB/month. The data relevant to a ride for the clients like GPS location and ETA can fit into a few bytes...

A single video doorbell can use 200GB / month. With only 10,000 users that is 2 Petabytes of data traffic per month. Not to mention recordings that have to be stored and hosted for streaming later on.

Everything is relative (-;
But it's not a natural numbers. Natural numbers are defined as 1 and up, and--

No, I'm not a ring theorist, why do you ask?
Oculus founder Palmer Luckey scores $1B+ valuation for virtual border wall
If you have 2 or 3 kids, sure, that would suck. Anyways, it is a relevant strategy for us (one kid) when we visit China and a car rental isn’t possible. Of course, they don’t have child seat laws anyways, but that option doesn’t sit well with the wife.
1. They don't need plausible deniability because they wouldn't deny they are spying on foreign nationals. Every world power spies on foreign nationals. The controversy that Snowden revealed is that they are spying on their own citizens, spying on foreign citizens is already known and accepted as a reality of modern politics.

2. No one was really questioning the plausibility or legitimacy of the documents Snowden released (there was some challenges on the interpretation of those documents) and revealing unconfirmed and unrelated intelligence operations does nothing to confirm the information about the domestic operations that he released.
OK, so do you have examples of "An entity acquiring deidentified data, if they can get other data and reidentify the deidentified data, they can do whatever they want with it." actually happening, outside of academic articles?

Specifically: can I go to a data broker, today, in the US, and obtain records under my name that were derived from entirely de-identified data, that has been re-identified by the data broker?
It's not only the greenhouses, it's the logistics of getting the food from the greenhouse to the mouth.
Global Climatestrike → SEP. 20–27
So the part where I actually agree with many of the concerns about the man and his administration is ... what? Noise? Doesn't matter, because I didn't use the "right" word?

Real talk: we haven't even begun unpacking the ironies here, dude.

EDIT: No, that's not an invitation. This conversation isn't going anywhere useful to anyone, and I have both a meeting, and deadlines. Have a good day.
Apologies if this wasn't clear but these are California-centric offers (and can probably be extended to include Seattle and New York). They are not across the US, or across all software jobs.
Really well put.
Looks like turning it on enables the maxvisit and minaway categories. Maxvisit is how many minutes you can browse before getting shutoff. Minaway is how long before you can browse again.
If you squint so hard that this failure looks the same as that failure, but also looks the same as successes, you are squinting too hard. Subletting is absolutely a legitimate business model that works sometimes.
There is almost nowhere in the EU that $200K is normal. Maybe Zurich - I don't know.
That's true, but as in other areas I think it probably has a lot to do with how much they value your future business.
I don't understand your point.

If the issue is state influence, anti-trust is the wrong tool. It's the wrong tool AND the wrong target if the investigation into anti-trust is aimed at auto-makers.

If the issue is misuse of anti-trust laws to achieve clear political pursuits (and I'd argue it is) then both of your links are irrelevant. At no point did either of those articles imply that we should use anti-trust laws against book publishers in response to the undue influence Texas has on the market.

I'd follow that by saying your comment is incredibly disingenuous on this point.

--

Now - I actually agree with you in regards to article quality. I'd have loved to see some attempt at putting together the costs associated with moving to cleaner vehicles to the average consumer. I'm not actually sure there is any long term impact on cost, although sticker price may be higher and maintenance cost is almost certainly going to be lower - That said, data is key and this article provides none.

I'd also have loved to see attempts to quantify cost with regards to saved medical expenses over time as air quality improves. Saved costs due to electrical spending on cooling increasing less rapidly if we're better able to meet emissions targets -- Basically, I want to know what the externalities of my policy choices are. I thought this article actually did a fair point categorizing current anti-trust law as broken in regards to handling externalities.
That's way too broad of a question. They can try and prosecute you for anything. Whether it succeeds depends heavily on the specific circumstances.
That makes MWI a "no true parallel Scotsman" interpretation.

Either the other versions of reality are tangible, or they're not. If they're just abstractions, you have't solved the problem - you've taken a long way around a circular argument that starts with the wavefunction and ends with it doing something that results in a measurement, maybe.

Unfortunately explaining how that happens is the problem you're trying to solve. It's not an answer to the problem.

If they are real, there are all kinds of other issues, the Born Rule being the most obvious.
A Rocket-Fuel Additive Could Be the Next Great Power Breakthrough
> It means people outside the US can now be fully tracked by US government

How?
Unless Atlassian has made some major changes to the new Jira recently, I'd advise a lot of caution before moving.

My small team is currently on Clubhouse after attempting to use Jira for a few months and finding it to get in the way a ton. There wasn't any configuration locking anything down like everyone has been talking about, but the page load times were atrocious and the UI just felt painfully slow all the time (on a 100mpbs+ internet connection and a laptop with an i7).

I believe I also remember having to move back and forth between various views in the side menu depending on which page I was on - essentially going in and out of the "project" view when clicking into certain features.

Consider it by all means, but do your testing thoroughly. My Jira experience turned me off so badly I likely wouldn't consider using any Atlassian products in the future.
I never felt not owning a car was limiting in that way at all. I've actually crossed the US three times by bike! It feels more... liberating!, than anything else!
Rocky super-Earth named most habitable known world beyond solar system
They did not explain, they tried hard to conceal this fact.
Much more impressive are the gravitational wave detectors.
> "It doesn't matter how you call it - they will be unable to earn extra money by driving, that is the issue. If they relied on that money to make ends meet, they may not be happy anymore."

Your post makes zero sense, so I'll keep it short for you. Uber was the middleman, and without it - both individual drivers as-well as taxi companies have significantly more leverage over the consumers, and can now start charging higher prices.
Zero percent money is too hard to profit from, so the President wants negative percent money.
I thought you were possibly Canadian because your domain name is jonlu.ca. Then again, CA could also be interpreted as California...
Green Tea – History and Secrets – An Overview
Twitter doesn’t use 2FA over SMS. Dorsey’s hack doesn’t tell us anything about that.
Besides the banking issues, when do the people get paid?

If the disappeared payroll company got money from employers, it's possible some employers may not have enough cash to pay a second time.

Then they out of business, or close to it.

The old businessman's phrase "You've never had to meet a payroll" is really meaningful here, the scramble to pay everyone.
I don’t get it either. It’s a trivial consequence of having a threshold: if we say two cities are “far” when they are at least 1000 miles away then Washington D.C. is not far from Jacksonville while Boston is far from Jacksonville, even though Boston is not far from Washington.
>why is trading by banks/hedge funds/Goldman Sachs etc. consistently profitable?

Not a level playing field. It's exactly because you're going up against guys like GS that's the reason for day trading being suicide.
It's working fine for me on Mac Safari, so might be something on mobile?
Random HKer flying by. Dear Brits, please don't let China buy up your country.

To those who thought this has nothing to do with China political agenda, please check the background of current CEO and president. Also, note that HK gov appoint half of the board member.
The title indicates ~4B more people than are alive today.

Also, there is not enough food in the world to sustainably feed everyone. Current average diets for wealthy countries are driving climate change that is reducing the ability of less-developed countries to reasonably plan for crops and build their own sustainable food sources.

It's not necessarily more food that's the problem so much as sustainable and low-cost food.
The Soul of Erlang and Elixir [video]
Thoughts on San Francisco after 2 weeks in Europe
This seems to be the URL https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/09/ny-payroll-company-vanis...
I would like to believe this is a double entendre.
The pennies stay small though
Roughly speaking, the average family has to have about 2 kids or more (to make up for people who choose not to have children).

So the situation of having 2 kids is pretty typical.
California Civil Code section 2080.1 for example

"the person saving or finding the property shall, if the property is of the value of one hundred dollars ($100) or more, within a reasonable time turn the property over to the police department of the city"

https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/civil-code/civ-sect-2080-1.html
New iPhone design setting off trypophobia
I ctrl'ed F this page looking for just this. I loved Gunz, the different style's that existed were insane! K-Style was most prominent, but there were others like D-Style, Environment Style, and so on.
With things like this it is helpful to work from first principals. Ask yourself, are all people with poor credit homeless? Are most?
I actually recycle my entire person after each pen test attempt to prevent people from cottoning on to each body’s unique tics.
Just putting this here in case anyone is interested in a slightly different view on p values.

https://mindbowling.wordpress.com/2016/07/19/p-values/
They already are way more popular. There are 168,000 gas stations in the US. How many electrical outlets are there?
The broadness is more in the specific laws in your jurisdiction. However ask yourself if you think these situations are different:

If you find $10k in cash in a bag

If you find a $10k car parked on the street

If you find the latest iphone sitting on a table
Nope, just another one of those people that accepts higher TLD risk by locating it internationally in exchange for a cool domain. I'm actually Italian!
Assange is an attention whore. I had such high hopes for wikileaks but it was, in the end, a vehicle for him to promote himself.