skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you help me understand how that could be worth 20k?

Is your reputation that good? Why not pay any random person $500 for the use of their identity for the same thing.
Thank you for running a straightforward reliable fast service long term without f-ing it up with feature creep or monetization rot.

I trust it and use it every day.
Sometimes you reach a point where being reasonable and professional becomes counterproductive.

Sometimes you reach a point where the doublethink necessary to seem reasonable and professional leaves you despising yourself.

Sometimes it isn't enough to ask, "What would John Galt do?"

In times like these, sometimes the only reasonable question is, "What would Howard Roark do?"

His answer, when his work was misused in a manner he could no longer bear to tolerate, was to break out the dynamite.
The NSA has an interesting exhibit that talks about Heartbleed at their museum in Maryland (worth a visit if you're in the area—they have some Enigma machines which are a lot of fun). Of course I don't think the exhibit was there before the bug was publicly known.
Framing matters. The headline author chose what they thought would be the most salient feature of the class of affected people—or it was chosen for them, by precedent. And I take issue with the idea that we are in any meaningful way "consumers" of Equifax (one interpretation) or that we are best described in an offhand way as taking a passive role in society (another interpretation). Even if the latter is often true, it's something to struggle against, not accept as The Way of Things.
But that's not conclusive either. There is this:

The research by Hong and his colleagues, published in Geophysical Research Letters, follows other studies arguing that the September 2001 temperature variations can be explained by the clear, dry weather on the crucial days4, and that climate-modelling results do not support the contrail effects claimed by Travis's group5.

I contend the clear dry weather was a consequence of the lack of planes. It sounds the one of the original authors does too.

All I know is the weather here was beautiful. And very uncharacteristically so. Unfortunately nobody is going to repeat the experiment by grounding the entire fleet for 3 days just to test it.
exactly what would be its value outside of the monetary one for you ?
> Why don't they just shut down the leaky APIs, disable all the apps that require those APIs, and make the app devs update them?

Facebook already did this (https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2019/04/25/api-upd..., https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2018/04/24/new-fac..., https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2018/04/04/faceboo...). These suspensions are in addition to that.
Trains are an option, but ships seem equally bad or worse than planes for transporting people
Does anybody actually use TIDL? Sounds more like a "me too" development from TI just so they can say they're in the DL game.
Let's also not make it easier for those companies to abuse the system even more. Why blame the US for Indians' problems when Indian companies are incentivizing us to get rid of rules they're abusing? Reign in your companies instead of telling us to fix our immigration.
It's hard to learn high frequency gradients. It's easy to learn a single edge, but not a large pile of overlapping gradients like the ends of hair.

I don't know why it's so common to have an arbitrary nonsense "sticker" on a face though, I wonder if it's because input photos were trunacted at edges and the learner tried to model the edge as a facial feature instead of pruning it's knowledge to a safe interior of the photo.
Uber provides great value to people like me who can't afford the burden of having a car and driving and only need a car maybe 20% of the time for various occasions. However, if Uber had to charge rates that would make them a real profit, people like me will simply no longer be able to afford it. We would go back to walking, biking, or taking the bus.

Just my 2 cents here.
Unaccompanied Alien Children Released to Sponsors by County
Their ISA isn't even documented?
This is ideal - if you use a C02 neutral power source & use atmospheric CO2 (either directly or via plants) you are effectively making planes flow battery powered.

With the flow battery using synthetic fuel you produce & atmospheric oxygen to produce energy & CO2. Which will then get captured again by your synthetic fuel factory.

Win win. :)
hey I really needed to see this today. thanks.
Whatever you do, either some subgroup will find a way to take advantage of it, or you'll find a way to mess with taxes and incentives and prices enough to mostly compensate for the side effects. That's not a counterargument for a solution, it's already a given in the problem statement. If you find some magical way to avoid any and all collateral economic damage, I'm all for it, but I don't see why people should just wait for others to come up with miracles that may never come just because some businesses will inevitably win and others will inevitably lose.
I suppose the second columnist was more right:

https://www.theonion.com/the-future-will-be-a-totalitarian-g...
Thanks for the article.
Could anybody reading this suggest a reliable payment gateway and merchant service .. thanks!
Yeah, plus customer service is one of those highly manual and error-prone business processes that are nearly impossible to (properly) automate which are so annoying to Silicon Valley.

In my experience the Silicon Valley approach to it is to optimize your product for the 98% of customers who won't need anything more hands on from you, throw some automation (in the form of documentation, chat bots, and phone menus) at the remaining 2%, and don't worry too much about anyone who falls through the cracks past that.

Which can lead to a great experience most of the time unless you're one of those unlucky leftovers, in which case the ground falls out from beneath you into a labrynthine Kafkaesque hell proportional in brutality to the size of the company and the extent to which you depend on it.
That's my current belief too.
I'm convinced we need zero emissions aircraft. Efficiency improvements alone are going to suffer from the Jevons Paradox. In fact, that "paradox" could help explain why air travel emissions have increased so much even as aircraft have gotten much more efficient.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

So to avoid the Jevons Paradox, we need actually zero emissions aircraft. Battery-electric or possibly hydrogen are the main contenders, here.

Battery-electric in the near term is limited to about 1000km, maybe 2000km range. That's technically enough to do transatlantic crossings if you stop by Greenland and Iceland or possibly the Azores. And you could do transpacific by following the Aleutians. Pretty much the hardest place to visit is actually Hawaii. But for domestic flights, battery-electric is actually a superior option to high speed rail in the US. Typical HSR routes in the US are only about 300 miles or so, well within range of existing electric battery tech that could be adapted to airplanes, and even a fully subsonic, Mach 0.5 propeller-drive electric airplane would be much faster than even the fastest practical HSR. And operating at high altitude (with far lower air density) would mean that the electric aircraft would be more efficient than a hypothetical Mach 0.5 high speed train. But all of this will require probably non-traditional aircraft makers. The duopoly is culturally unprepared for the kind of radical engineering necessary to make a 1000km battery electric aircraft feasible (almost sailplane-like efficiency, combined with very high battery mass fraction, combined with extremely efficient battery packaging, state of the art structural mass, and transition to higher performance chemistry where possible).

Liquid hydrogen is also a possibility for electric air travel. Compressed room temperature hydrogen is hardly more energy-dense than battery-electric, though, so you're going to have to go at least cryogenic, if not liquid, for hydrogen storage. Liquid hydrogen wouldn't be too bad in this application since the time of storage wouldn't be too long, and the scale would be large enough (if used in a widebody aircraft) that boil-off may not be too much of a problem (besides, you need a constant feed of hydrogen anyway). But a big problem is the fact that anthropogenic high altitude water vapor is maybe even worse (by a factor of 2) for climate change than CO2, so you'd probably want to condense the output. That means using fuel cells and then storing the condensed water on board and doing occasional low altitude dumps (it may even be feasible to store the water for the entire trip, dumping only right before you land) or perhaps freezing the condensate into pellets (small enough to not pose a lethal hazard but large enough to not evaporate on the way down) and then dropping them along the way. So long-haul air is a major challenge.
Really we need to do a study that says when you exercise less and sit around your body fat increases specifically in your internal organs. I think this is common sense and how fat accumulation works. This has been proven in the past and should be common knowledge. Insulin dependence related to this makes a little sense for a study but it is pretty well accepted that being obese increases your risk of type 2 diabetes. The fact that if you create a calorie deficit you will lose weight/body fat and if you don't you will increase weight/body fat is simple yet there is a diet industry built on fads and a bunch of over educated people with too many degrees in non physical science fields pushing their ideals so they can make money.
> At Shanghai-NYC distances, that's 34,300 kg of fuel

That's sounds very low for fuel burn at that distance for a 747. The 747-8 carries over 191,000kg of fuel, yet has a maximum range of only 14,320km.

As an aside, I wonder if using "carbon" as shorthand for "carbon dioxide" does more harm than good.
This is not a tax. It is a minimum price which must be charged. This is an important difference.
The writer is very quick to assume Exxon Mobil's own figure for political spending is disingenuously low, but very quick to countenance the idea that the total amount of spend on political influence is publicly available. Maybe more money is being spent nontransparently? For example, it's a common practice in the UK to hire former (or current!) politicians for sinecure positions at greatly inflated salaries. I doubt anyone admits to these quasi-bribes as being political spending.
Here’s a Vox piece on a successful carbon-neutral natural gas plant: https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/6/1/17416444...
You're paying for pulling the carbon back out. The cheapest way to do this is to pay someone to plant trees for you.
There's only so much time each day, and a plane gets you to your destination so much faster. Trains? Maybe for shorter trips like NYC to Philadelphia or DC, but NYC to Seattle? A train going 150mph would take 19 hours for that trip not counting stops. It would probably be more than 30 hours with stops, and significantly longer if the train can't average 150 mph. The flight is 6 hours gate to gate. You can't beat the speed of modern air travel, its just so much better than any other alternative.

And no, most people can't just work from literally anywhere on a ship or train. That probably isn't even workable for a remote programmer let alone a marketing manager, welder, electrician, office assistant, salesperson, etc.
I don't think it's possible to do without learning a hidden 3D model from 2D data.

It's nonsense to learn 2D projections directly from 2D projections, because small errors in the 2D projection can become catastrophic errors in the 3D model that humans use to interpret a 2D photo.
Mistakes of AI adoption: lack of data strategy
Hang on a second, since when are we this paranoid about installing software? I'm capable of deciding whether I trust a browser extension with the privileges I'm giving it, just the same as I'm capable of trusting any of the daemons running as root which could just as easily steal my personal data.

Sure, if all else were equal I guess I would trust Apple slightly more than an open-source extension developer, but all else is not equal - Apple is taking away the flexibility of arbitrary code and dictating that if you want to block ads in the browser then you have to use their regex-based declarative adblock API. I'm surprised to see such a warm reception on HN to a classic Apple "we're taking this away for your own good" kind of move that has historically not been very popular with enthusiasts.
Plants consume about as much CO2 as they create. Its hardly sequestration.
This just sounds like a (fairly unexceptional) tyranny of the majority. Our society may already be heading in this direction, albeit in a softer sense, with the rise of filter bubbles and highly polarized outrage culture
I've seen frito-lay driving electric delivery trucks driving around for years as well. I do not recall the brand.
Asteroid that narrowly missed Earth ‘slipped through the net’
> I am NOT trying to teach anything in a conference talk

I would say you have a very limited idea of what teaching encompasses. It's not synonymous with "training".
That's reportedly how someone gave themselves permanent brain damage by mining bitcoins in their bedroom:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-minor-bitcoin-miner-injury/
Exactly. It reads like an attempt to validate a foregone conclusion using components of thorough investigation. The author threw in a few gratuitous statements about how "maybe MCAS wasn't the best idea" so that the they couldn't really be accused of blindly supporting Boeing.

It sounds like Lion Air were victims of not knowing the systems in place. Ethiopian Air didn't seem to have the altitude to figure things out in a timely manner.

This isn't to say that there's not corruption and other things going sideways in these investigations, but to lay blame squarely on the countries and the airlines is really disingenuous.
> It is more likely that immigration increases cultural understanding rather than travel.

What will the affect on immigration be if going back to the "old country" becomes significantly more difficult?
I believe you’ve hit the nail on the head with this.

This is the most accurate and succinct way to show how this looks.
So, on one hand, everything you're writing is true. Posts like this, assuming they accurate reflect what's happened, mean that customer service has failed, and now the customer has to resort to ad hoc channels for addressing an issue. It's not a good look.

OTOH, every system has its limits and failures, and effective monitoring of communication outside official systems is one way that organizations can figure out what's not working about their system.

The real test is if they handle issues with one-off fixes and situation-specific exceptions, or if they figure out how their official channels failed and fix it.
That seems to be an artifact of 3D model being non-existent, so all the projected angles are wrong unless the output angle matches the common input angle.
Containership is Shutting Down: The Ship Has Sailed
One of the ideas that I cherish is radical transparency. It would be better to see exactly what each company wants to donate to and how money is being spent.

Money is a form of voting.
Have they given up Bin Laden yet?

Isn’t it just a little ironic that one of our “allies” was harboring OBL?

Lesson learned: nukes are a VERY effective deterrent to foreign invasion. That’s what we’re teaching countries in the Middle East.
No thanks, ORMs work fine.
The emails showed space agency employees rushing to discover how the asteroid avoided detection, after a colleague alerted them to the near-miss “because there may be media coverage tomorrow”.
NSA is resposible for so-called SIGINT and SIGSEC, acronyms for signals intelligence, to which you refer, and signals security, which IS to keep our communications safe.

It seems of course that SIGINT is what's "popular" in news.
Wholeheartedly agree. It's amazing how much work you can save by just having the database do it via a SQL query/view.
I think it's our moral imperative to prevent our work from being used for acts that betray our values. Take a second and remember that the gas chambers used by Hitler to inflict a genocide were designed by engineers. I think we all agree that those engineers should have sabotaged their own work to prevent harm coming to the victims of the Holocaust, and it's very surprising to me that you're defending profits and investors over moral values.
Your landing page should have some indication of what the product is or what to expect.

Closed it as there is no hints on what the product actually is.

Is this about doing a structured risk assessment for e.g. Security risks, safety risks etc? Like a design FMEA, security FMEA try to bring up?
It's their SOP. See: eternal blue. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EternalBlue
I'm not sure what conclusions one can draw about the broader NPM culture by reading a single-sided Twitter thread from a disgruntled former employee tweeting about how he lost his job.

I only made it through the first ~10 tweets before clicking out, so maybe there's something I'm missing further in the thread. But to me, it just sounds like what you'd expect from someone being laid off.

It's a little weird that he didn't have a manager who would wish him well on his way out. But that's about it. The bit about a severance with a non-disparagement contract is absolutely standard, not out of the usual whatsoever (especially for a VC backed company like NPM).
I've consulted with a large customer service org at an oil delivery company-- the VP looked me dead in the eye and said "customer service is a free therapy service we provide to our customers when we as a company have decided it is unprofitable to service them in a timely and high quality manner"

I appreciated his honesty. It was a cost center designed to not achieve a favorable outcome for the customer.
Please note, original discussion is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21029598
> I don't think there is an evidence for that. It is more likely that immigration increases cultural understanding rather than travel.

Disagree that travel doesn't matter, but even then, do you really think it being much harder to visit their home countries again will have no impact on immigration patterns?

> In any case, emissions of travel can be greatly reduced by using other modes of transport

Would love to hear how you propose to let Chinese and Indian immigrants in the states visit home sans airplanes

> by making the stay in the target country longer.

People would already take longer vacations if they could, dude. Making it harder and slower to get there isn't gonna help anything.
> Everything I have ever seen is that the whole point of airplane design and pilot training is to reduce flight problems to known solutions as to resolve the problem as quickly as possible. The very design of MCAS is failure must put the pilot into an unknown position and likely be actively combating the pilot’s understand of the situation. If this logic is correct, I cannot fathom how any of this is acceptable.

This is the salient paragraph in this comment. It's ridiculous to blame pilots for figuring out recovery conditions when they can't be certain of the parameters in which they're operating.
CafePress Security Update
> It just seems mean and petty to pick on Chef to me.

I'm picking on Chef because somebody ought to, and it might as well be me.

There isn't a word I could say that would actually harm Chef, so they do not need your concern.
No, thanks. It's pretty unfortunate HN doesn't have its own messaging system. Also lame that I can't edit/delete old posts from e.g. hiring threads. Some of us don't want to cross the streams. (Sorry, I'm not you!)
I’ve come to the same conclusion even working with ActiveRecord. SQL is very literally a domain-specific language for working with relational data; why would we go so far out of our way to eschew writing code in it?
U.S. Orders Duke and UNC to Recast Tone in Mideast Studies
Beyond Unit Tests (2018)
This is a political question not a scientific one.

We'll need to train a copyright-evaluating AI based on human judgments.
You’re kidding right? This is the history of the word blackmail:

https://www.etymonline.com/word/blackmail#etymonline_v_13560
I do not know what were their exact intentions. If someone from Google would like to take a closer look, contact me to have the emails forwarded.
> the Third Reich

Not to get hyperbolic, but... you don't actually think that the U.S. government is equivalent to the Third Reich, do you?
>If you need to travel long distances, there's little substitute for an airplane.

the question if the distance you travel doesn't have substitute. like many business people travel just to meet, which has zero carbon alternative - video call.
Isn't this obvious?

This is why features get cut and crunch is a thing. There are only so many ways to prevent the finish line from falling off the horizon.
When a company is giving you the total silent treatment it means they think you're a spammer/scammer and they think you'll use any sliver of information to avoid detection next time.
> Weird. You'd at least think you'd get a phone call about something so serious.

right? how many accounts are they shutting down every day that somebody can't pick up a phone?
SQL just isn't composable. I know this article is old, but these days it's not black and white. In the space between ORM and raw SQL there are things like AREL which can save a ton of dev effort without the "impedance mismatch".
I don't know if that's happening, though find it (now) curious how MIT Tech Review articles, for years, have been heavy on nonsense and hyperbole.
I'm sure they don't report such things as political spending.

But it also seems hard to me to imagine that adding up to very much. There are what, each year maybe a few hundred politicians who leave office and might be up for such patronage? If all of them get a million dollars, that's a few hundred million dollars a year. The movers and shakers of Washington DC are also... I mean, a lot of them become lobbyists or media people, and while they probably get good deals in doing that, it's hard to argue that a former congressional committee chairperson is going to be a bad lobbyist or whatever.

I think that actually, the people who become movers and shakers in government tend to not have a ton of trouble getting enough money to live solidly upper-class lifestyles, and they have self-selected as people who value having influence more than money.
Even if you use an ORM you should probably know SQL so you can use them efficiently. Also, if you use an ORM, make sure it "starts with database schema" not with objects. Otherwise the mismatch will probably be horrible for you. A dozen years ago I published this article on generating your domain objects from the database, still a reasonable thing to do if you want the added query expressiveness the ORMs have over most SQL generators.

https://javarants.com/generate-jpa-or-gorm-classes-from-your...