skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hear a lot about the prisoner organ harvesting in China, but something seems off. There are more that 1m prisoners in China. About 7,000 people on the organ donor list die each year. I would think that if the organ harvesting was as real as the news makes it seem, it would be common for people on the donor list to go to China and get the surgery. I am pretty confident that using the dark web and Bitcoin I could buy drugs, wives, weapons and other illegal products. Yet I can't see how to buy organs. My guess is because the organ harvesting is much less common than the news makes it appear.

(PS, just in case someone reads this wrong, I don't think it is good that China does any amount of forced organ harvesting.)
I hate those first two a lot. It has definitely caused my Twitter usage to decrease. What metric could Twitter possibly be optimizing for, and why not at least give people the opportunity to disable them?
Security must be the primary design goal, at least right now. I don't think the way Sun implemented permissions in java offers enough protection.
> I don't trust autopilot for anything but long road trips (it's excellent for that), it's tried to kill me too many times - I think the marketing hype is way ahead of actual capabilities.

What about in heavy traffic situations? Is autopilot practical for that? I tried to get the driver assistant package (adaptive cruise and lane keeping) for my bmw x4 3 years ago. It was being marketed as good for stop & go situations. But when I talked to the rep, he strongly recommended against it, saying the tech is all right but most drivers would not bother using it. I guess the same can be said about auto parking.
We look at:
- income over the last two years
- rental & utility bill history over the last two years
- evictions, foreclosures, bankruptcies, judgments, liens in the last 5 years
- DTI (debt to income; their monthly debt obligations divided by their gross income)
- We don't have income mins or maxs, but we can only have their housing payment to be 30% of their income, so there are incomes that would be too low for us considering that
After I checked the legality, I went as far as not hiring someone who was a smoker and told my manager exactly why I wasn’t hiring him. I didn’t want to be around the smell.
Zipline are already using small drones to deliver medicines in Africa:

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/apr/25/m...
My RTT from the midwestern US to AWS/Azure/GCP in Germany is less than that. I think your ISP has more blame than your distance to the nearest zone in NA.
Fast and Reliable Dwarf Unwinding, and Beyond
The Left that cares about the working class is not the same as the Left that runs a dominant political party in USA. In order to convince us otherwise you'll have to use an account that isn't green.
Anecdotally, I feel like the way people use Facebook has changed. Most of the people I know who do still use it aren't really using their wall, they're either using messenger, groups, or maybe the marketplace. It also seems like a lot of people my age (early 30s) who say they don't use Facebook, really mean they don't use the wall feature anymore.

If my anecdotal evidence does hold true for the larger population, I think that helps to explain why it feels like everyone is saying they don't use Facebook, but Facebook continues to post solid user numbers.
Best Way to Do Market Analysis for a Foreign Country
generally enjoyed the article, then hit this:

> By the end of our coffee, he resolved to pull together a tiger team of four engineers to rearchitect the company’s technology stack and make it possible to launch a self-serve version of the product by end of year.

wonder what the fate of this 7.5month x 4 engineer rewrite was
> What’s so compelling about your company

Paying for the interview is compelling. Almost nobody does that, so it's a differentiator. My first assumption on hearing that is "it sounds like they respect their engineers as professionals more than most companies do".
I was taught to avoid inline CSS, like the CSS used to apply these filters. Was I taught wrong or does this site use less than ideal practices?
I like the look of Zola, and I bookmarked it when I saw the README pick a bone with Hugo's templating engine. Take a look at the Hugo Discourse forum and I can't imagine less than 99% of the topics are about Go/Hugo templating issues. The Hugo docs basically say "we use Go's template engine, go learn that confusing shit and then we'll tell you 5 different deprecated ways to get today's date if you are enough of a masochist."
OMG what a great comment. I can't see your upvotes but I hope it was in the 1000s!
It probably is. Why would they rewrite their UI if the Qt one works?
> Unless (or until) we see fit to ensure our scientists (and inventors, and developers, and economists, ...) are polymaths

Well, are we going to (a) increase barriers to entry to the scientific professions until most scientists are also poets and warrior sages, or (b) punish bad paper writers with mandatory writing camps (that set back their scientific agendas), or (c) ???

Science papers are mostly made to be read by scientists.
Troll farms rejoice at this news for sure.
We’re the other numbers in your funnel similar as well (phone screen pass, on-site pass, offer accepted)? I ask this because the numbers I saw in the article look remarkably similar to approximate numbers I’ve seen or been told about other companies.
The standard business laptop msxes out with 16GB, which is good enough if you don’t run all the secondary stuff like databases locally. But 32GB would be great.
They replaced the headphone jack with a barometric vent which other phone manufacturers just put in a different location. Apple didn't have to get rid of the port. They decided to get rid of the port because they knew that their users would buy the phone anyway and then have more of a reason to buy AirPods. There is plenty of space in that corner though. Some guy wanted to see if he could add the headphone jack back and was pretty successful for a hand crafted solution.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utfbE3_uAMA
I'm guessing you are located in the US as that's the only country Bill.com serves.

The startup I work for (https://rooks.co) operates in Canada and as Bill.com is not available to our Canadian clients, we use Plooto, which is a pretty decent competitor to Bill.com.

We haven't had any issues with Bill.com either though - may I ask why you're looking for a Bill.com alternative?
Looks cool, but I distrust Facebook too much for this
The article is a nice read, but it fails the answer the question in the headline. If a company has a huge business and it's shrinking by a couple of percent a year, does the company unavoidably go bancrupt? I don't think so. There are plenty of successful businesses with a smaller customer base. The problem is mismanagement, corporational slowness, lying about the facts, creative if not illegal bookkeeping etc etc. Best demonstrated by the fact that management has got multi million bonus payments during recent years.
Crack is a very good product from the perspective of the producer/vendor.
I second this. One of my favorite podcasts.
Consistently do smaller things for larger impact
What do you think about getting rid of the "laugh" reaction? I feel like that could make Facebook less toxic in one stroke, since it is so often used to troll and deride, as you observe. There are non-troll uses of the laugh reaction, to be sure, but the like/love reactions can absorb these.
Different market segment. The Mac Pro has 64 PCI lanes, and eight PCI slots, along with supporting 1.5TB memory. 3900x for example only has 24 pci lanes and 128GB memory support.

Edit: My bad... I misread thread ripper for Ryzen for some reason
Their documentation still encourages unnamed parameters:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.drawing.r...
Show HN: Pristin - An App for Artist, Musician and DJ's
Hi, I'm recently started this project, Pristin.

https://pristin.net

In this app any dj, musician, artist can create a profile showing to the world contact info and media, like photo, videos. The main purpose is hire them for events, parties, etc.

The app is an MVP, for that reason I made a section where you can send me ideas or improvements.

This app for now is only for Spanish language.

Thank you!
Best regards
Nico Fuenzalida
How powerful is the tech is good to know.

What is the rate of false positives, and how do we know it, is of vital importance.
I have a similarly specced iMac Pro and I use it for very similar tasks. Could not be happier with the machine. I think the RAM + the very speedy storage make this a great choice for the kind of dev work I do.
Some of these decision problems have thousands of examples because they correspond to industrially relevant problems. So, not automatically generated all at once, but gleaned from people who have been using CAS for decades to solve specific problems.

Still, I fear, the numbers are currently too small to get past the information bottleneck (mere thousands). We'll see.
Sansar , High fidelity , vrchat ... they all struggle to get traction (and mostly fail) - why does facebook think they can do better
One thing I've noticed is that getting many Likes or Retweets on a single tweet rarely leads to increased follows.
Is this the system you’re talking about? [1]

If so, it’s constantly disengaging to the point it seems unusable. This is not anywhere remotely 95% of what AutoPilot does.

Look at Autonomous Day presentations on things like cut-in detection and lane changes. Look at what the active accident avoidance technology accomplishes in the real world. The Toyota system is not even trying to do any of that.

[1] - https://youtu.be/5QNw1n5JLLw
I love that completely perfect or catastrophic failure are both acceptable out comes AND the only acceptable outcomes for that scenario. If a couple cars clipped each other or there were a couple fender benders everyone would be like "this is bullsh*t!"
> It takes almost 20 years for a modern human to become a productive member of society.

The expectation of attending school for most of those years tends to greatly hinder the speed at which one can become a productive member of society though. Three years is certainly pushing it, but those in early adolescence have proven that they can be productive members of society, even modern society, if they focus on the right things.

We allow people to delay becoming productive members of society well beyond the time they technically could be productive because:

1. Thanks to modern technology, we now can allow it. Go back into earlier human history and not being productive in early adolescence means you would not survive. That is no longer an issue we need to worry about.

2. Since the above is no longer an issue, we are able to see the human experience as being about more than just being productive. We want to give time to explore the world in ways that is not directly useful, but enlightening nonetheless.
End of an Era. She was incredibly helpful and kind in helping students navigate MIT and Course 6. It's going to take an entire department to replace her.
Firebase App Distribution, Fastlane, Docker, Bitbucket Pipelines, Telegram
For beginning developers: What is Git and how do I use it?
Posting Rule
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.

From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.

But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
So the people that weren't convinced by the scientists will now be convinced by the children? And no, she's not changing my mind because I already support protecting the environment.
i m referring to this https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2019/09/23/Greta-Thunberg-1...
The 3900X is not a threadripper.
https://www.learningtree.com/courses/8542/microsoft-azure-ad...

Are you taking the cert to get a job or is your job making you get the cert?

Getting your employer to pay for training and the actual cert is definitely the way to go. I have always discouraged anyone looking to get the cert first
After I got a Tesla I had a lot of fun writing javascript software for the big touchscreen. It was especially cool for hackathons. YMMV.
The 'Climate Change' Exploitation of Children [video]
I sure hope your office isn't all on one circuit!

This conversation reminds me of the movie Apollo 13: "You can't run a vacuum cleaner on 12 amps, John!"
I get why our behavior should be protected with privacy, to prevent bad actors from exploiting us. But DNA matching seems to be a reliable way to find criminals without impacting anyone’s standard of living.

Can someone explain why it’s bad to solve crimes with this data?
I've had a lot of trouble getting permission to use Wolfram Engine. If authors are at a BigCorp, might be true for them as well.
Its for many reasons:
1.It scale better: less memory/rendering time.
2.It allows low-end hardware.
3.It appeals to children(probably a huge chunk of audience).
Facebook isn't going the Second Life route(visuals-first,scripting, limited capacity servers), they're making something that is essentially a casual/social videogame with VR and scripting added - and capable of hosting hundreds(like VRchat).
Have the headsets gotten good enough to read text?
I strongly recommend not looking directly at large noisy pixel scrolls.
I think you are subscribing to a view called scientism[1]. If that is so, I would encourage you to read books like "Alchemy of Finance" by George Soros [2] which contains serious arguments against that position. You could also listen to David Wood or Edward Feser on YouTube if you are pressed for time.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientism

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Alchemy-Finance-George-Soros/dp/81265...
> The NASA effects are the Disney version. As many countries have already found (and many will discover) you can get an "apocalyptic future" with seemingly small changes.

What countries have experienced an "apocalyptic future" due to climate change seeing as you are smarter than NASA?

> if wars of oil were bad, wait for wars for water

How! I am flabbergasted you think the trillion dollar market for oil will be usurped by water. Pretty much all cities are based around water sources (rivers usually).
> Because it is unconscionable. I dropped out of high-school at 16. I was able to go back and earn a degree in computer science at the age of 28 at a Canadian school. Under the European system where your life path and career trajectory is decided for you at 14 years old, I wouldn't have been able to do this.

Would tracking you differently have perhaps resulted in you being able to graduate high school?
I would like to point out that, Taiwanese people paid a heavy price to break KMT's stranglehold on Taiwan. The price that we paid is the blood of the innocent. Let me give you an example: One of the democrative movement leader Lin Yi-hsiung's mother and daughter were killed under suspicious circumstance while he was imprisoned. The KMT authority said it was a robbery went wrong and the killer was never caught. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Yi-hsiung. There were many cases like that under KMT's martial law rule.
People in China will also has to pay blood price in order to break free of CCP. We have already hearing story that CCP is assassinating people in Hong Kong right now to put down current unrest in Hong Kong. Please remember, authoritarian regimes kill. The lucky one like Jamal Khashoggi got killed without torture. The unlucky one like Lin Yi-hsiung has to live with the pain that his mother and daughters died because of him.
New York to LA ping time is something like 70ms. Are you going through a proxy?
> most college students still use it

Yeah, they use Messenger to coordinate group projects and homework...
It seems like any competent defense attorney would insist on resampling, or alternatively insist this evidence thrown out duebto lack of chain of custody.

Signed, not a lawyer.
The 2nd gen Threadripper has 64 PCI lanes, FWIW, haven't seen specs for 3rd gen yet.
These two stuck out. Also, the advice about commas (for pauses) is not entirely wrong but not quite right either, and the advice about dashes (for emphasis) is simply wrong. If you've read Strunk and White, or most any style guide, nothing in this article will strike you as both new and correct.

The advice I would give most science writers today is:

1. Have something to say.

2. Say it.

Many of the problems with overuse of jargon come from skipping directly to step 2.
A Phishing URL to give you nightmares
Science is often hard to read. Most people assume that its difficulties are born out of necessity,
out of the extreme complexity of scientific concepts, data and analysis. We argue here that
complexity of thought need not lead to impenetrability of expression; we demonstrate a number
of rhetorical principles that can produce clarity in communication without oversimplifying
scientific issues. The results are substantive, not merely cosmetic: Improving the quality of
writing actually improves the quality of thought.

From "The Science of Scientific Writing", 1990; there is a related video, [Judy Swan, Scientific Writing: Beyond Tips and Tricks](https://youtu.be/jLPCdDp_LE0)
The 'Story of Mel' Explained
Note: this title has not been editorialized :)
In Europe a lot of products have to include 2 years warranty by default, which makes Apple Care a lot less attractive. You're basically paying the same price for just one more year instead of two.
> We've seen huge advances in human language modeling and translation due to the success of deep learning.

I wonder if we’ll eventually see a system where instead of writing code you describe in natural language what you want the program to do and then ML is applied in order to generate the code for that.

I mean, a lot of people have been interested in the past in making human programming languages, and had varying degrees of success.

Personally I love writing code but, it could be, couldn’t it?

Write some unit tests, a human description of what it does and based on the source code and description of existing software the system would basically “debug the program into existence” for you.

That’d be kind of freaky, kind of cool and a little bit scary.
I must have less faith in humanity because I always gravitate to the quiet place.

Then later on I find it has gone out of business...
Just in time too.
The Mazda EVs coming out over the next couple of years won't have touchscreens, if that's close enough for you.

https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1121372_why-mazda-is-pur...
This should be a law, not a rule. How do we push this into law, so there are consequences when the databases are abused?
Take home tests are fine by me, but before you ask me to do that you better have sold me on the job first. If I really want the job, no problem. I expect, however, that spending 6 hours of my weekend on unpaid labor translates into a shorter on-site if you like the quality of my work. The goal of the on-site should be to verify that I was actually the person who did the work for the take-home.

Things are a bit different when I'm some schmuck off the street begging for work. If you're trying to build a team and you want my skills, well, in this market I'm not putting a lot of energy into it.

Case in point, I've had a company trying to hire me for over a year now. They're in consumer electronics and it is a fickle market so I kept turning them down, but I had a bad week at work and figured I'd go for it. I'd be an absolute perfect fit given my experience and what they're looking for, so it seemed like things were going to work out great.

I accept an on-site, do well on a whiteboard coding test and a general review of my resume, and then one of their senior folks throws me an off-the-wall algorithm question(random sample a stream of data with uniform probability). Now, I'm an embedded guy, with an EE degree, and I specialize in "software engineering". They have many problems I'm perfectly suited to solving. They really, really need a guy like me(to design and fix drivers, abstraction layers, facilitate porting to new devices and enable third party clients). But here's this guy, asking me an algorithm question, and he didn't even explain it right. I googled the answer(reservoir sampling) when I was finished and understood the solution in a couple minutes, but it was too late. I was flagged for 2 more algorithm-heavy, 'cracking the coding' interviews the following Monday. I really didn't feel like spending my weekend reviewing bullshit I never use in my job, so I turned down the offer. It's too bad, I was a good fit for the team, and I was a great fit for the problems they were trying to solve.
A Dreaming Octopus Changes Color – The Social Behaviors of Cephalopods
Not just Threadrippers, but better EPYCs as well. More PCIe lanes, more cores, cheaper (hence higher profit margin), and the only thing you really lose is AVX512 which hardly any software besides Intel MKL makes use of anyway.
ready player one
What cost? Gatsby is free.
Tesla AutoPilot is absolutely fantastic in heavy highway traffic.

It’s the difference between stress and elevated heart rate from the stop and go, versus literally peace and relaxation, while you car avoids all the ridiculous crap that goes on around you while everyone else is on their damn phones.

You look out the window and watch the cars around you driving like absolute garbage, and Tesla keeps you in lane and following appropriately behind the car in front.

It’s about 500ms slow to start from a stop, IMO, once the lead car starts moving. I’ve heard from early access v10 drivers that it’s quicker to start moving again in the latest version. I’ll wait to see that for myself, as placebo effect can be strong.

It’s a weird phenomenon. I’m getting home at exactly the same speed, but because I’m not actuating the accelerator, brakes, or steering and just monitoring the higher order situation, suddenly the traffic just doesn’t fucking matter once AutoPilot is turned on.

With more time to focus on the alertness and driving patterns of the people around you (instead of lanekeeping) you do notice just awful, awful driving practices of everyone around you.
>"I apologize sincerely"

As sincerely as when he said he'd replicated the experiment no doubt. And if he isn't capable of reproducing an experiment, what the frack was the prize supposedly for? I don't think he'd be capable of sincerity if he tried.

As for your other question, I saw a response Sheldrake posted about someone else's rebuttal stating that if the rebuttal's raw data were analysed the way his data was, it would have led to the same conclusion. That the attempt at replication looked at the first time the dog went to the window, rather than the average time it spent at the window. Don't have a link right now though.

Dog ESP is a pretty niche experiment though, I just brought it up because it's one of the more egregious lies Randi was caught in. If you're interested in psi data, there are much larger datasets with experiments into ganzfeld and skin conductivity precognition.
They want you excited so you work harder and complain less.

It does seem odd. Unless I'm begging for a job, you should be telling me why I'd want to work there.
> wonder what the fate of this 7.5month x 4 engineer rewrite was

He got a promo after launch, the project was quietly taken out back and shot 6-9 months after launch. Happens every time. :-)
It's a long shot. That'd require either 1) an administration to prosecute them in our own courts or 2) the US to surrender people to the ICC or something. The US has historically been reluctant to do 2 because the US doesn't want to have the liability of actually following international law. The first is also somewhat unlikely because it would be the kind of thing that consumes a lot of an administrations time and political capital that they'd much rather spend passing new legislation.