skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's almost perfect. The minor but irritating problem with it is that I can't seem to use my own fonts in the editor; the selections for the editor and code fonts are fixed. Worse, if I manually edit ~/.config/marktext/preferences.json and change editorFontFamily and codeFontFamily to my preferred fonts, Mark Text fails to launch at all, whining that they "should be equal to one of the allowed values".

Like, what gives? Why restrict this? It obviously ain't an Electron limitation, since plenty of other Electron apps support my fonts just fine.
Was referring to lsd which shares co tolerance with psilocybin

Some others in this thread talk about that drug
That isn't going to happen now, there is way more wealth to go around.
Blog post here: https://developers.googleblog.com/2019/11/open-sourcing-goog...
We only have one timezone so we haven't had to deal with that yet. We just have a scheduler job send the email to everyone prompting them.
> Nope. The Lufthansa bird had one bogie on the ground and one off.

Which is to be expected from a crosswind landing (especially with a lot of lift from higher-than-usual speed), but it took 900 m of runway before enough weight was detected on both of them to activate thrust reversers and spoilers. And even after all wheels were on the ground, it took another 300 m before wheel brakes became active. The accident investigation report recommended introduction of emergency override to cover the whole range of conditions in which airplanes fly.

> With the TAM flight the pilots left one thrust lever at climb power and one at idle, pure pilot error.

The aircraft was firmly on the ground, with one thrust lever in reverse position. Spoilers and auto-brake did not activate because position of the other lever lever was prioritized over actual condition of the aircraft. Critical data was derived from a thrust lever, which has no safety features to prevent inadvertent wrong positioning. Furthermore, lever positioning suppressed aural reminders to bring thrust levers to idle (the famous "RETARD").

> Unfortunately the 737s were functioning as designed, the computers took invalid input and ran with it instead of cross checking it.

Which is irrelevant on the 737, because its design philosophy expects pilots to monitor and (if necessary) override automation, which hundreds of attentive crews successfully did before the Turkish crash. A320, on the other hand, lacks emergency override, as the LH2904 investigators noted in their report. It cannot reliably tell whether the aircraft is on the ground or not, and stops pilots from taking the correct action.
:= wasn't needed. = is just fine.
Of course there would, there's a lot of money to be made from inventing something, even without a patent.

And the biggest companies in the world aren't the biggest because they have patent protected monopolies.
> You're safer having unprotected sex with someone who is confirmed to have HIV but is taking PrEP, than you are when having unprotected sex with someone whose status is unknown.

PrEP is for hiv negative people.

If you’re virus level is undetectable from treatment, then you’re not contagious.
The good internet is history
> I don't understand how this isn't a violation of HIPAA.

HIPAA only applies to "covered entities" - basically if you don't accept insurance, you don't have to be HIPAA compliant.
Who created the technology, though?

If people really think Marxism can be dismissed with a simplistic argument like this, I'd encourage them to actually read the first few chapters of Capital. Agree with his world view or not, Marx was not an idiot.
I would have no problem with AWS were their shit open source. Starting from all the ugly Perl, that holds whatever obscure nefarious systems in perpetual black magic motion.

But they take the successful open source thing, skin it, provide something similar with the same API, and that's it.

This contributes back nothing to the community. It actively distorts the cashflows. (Because instead of hiring someone to set up a let's say ES cluster, or buy it from elastic co. they buy it from AWS.)
You are reasoning about crime in Japan from it's GINI coefficient? Perhaps you should consider access to healthcare, housing, transportation, and education. Japan has a large social welfare state. Also, while low by world standards, Japan has a crime underreporting problem, especially crimes against women and foreigners.

>The reason why you default to this...is because of moral values you have had instilled in you from your surroundings since birth

Yes, like many people, I was priveleged to be raised to believe in justice, empathy, decency, and fairness. But I understand full well that those are not fundamental properties of the universe, but instead very useful fictions some societies have created. Do you not have a moral framework? Or is it perhaps:

> crushing any dissent (probably what was the default since the dawn of the modern era, and is the default in countries such as China)

Also, I've had stuff stolen from me and property damaged by people who probably wouldn't have done so if they had a better alternative.
For a virus that relies on rapid mutation its more surprising this is a headline
I hate questions like "What's the hardest bug you've ever debugged?". It means as I work I need to keep a scrapbook of "will what I did today make a great interview answer in 5 years time". I'd rather just fix the bug and forget about it.
>Edit: ok, I was just making a bit of a joke at first, but I looked it up. Reaction times vary by person, but tend to be between 0.75 and 3 seconds. 2.5s is used as a standard, so I guess I have to conceded that 1.25s is pretty good... I guess, for whatever that's worth.

We have a rare sight here: someone not being right, learning more about the situation, changing their opinion, and then making an edit about it all.

Kudos, and thanks for making this a better place for discussions :)
One might say it's morally fine because it was explicitly allowed by the license.

There are a lot of different reasons [1] why someone might want to maintain an open source business and the threat of someone forking your business might not outweigh other positive effects.

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[1] Transparency for privacy/security reasons, political leaning towards free software, hope of third parties tracking down bugs, PR boost within the open source community, etc.
Or, don't, because it looks better varied.
Interesting that MBS has ties to both Jack Dorsey and Jeff Bezos, CEOs of the companies where these spies were placed.
You're telling me in the market today, there's absolutely nowhere for you to productively allocate capital for an expected return of over 1.8% per annum? Even though Ally offers savings accounts that yield 1.8% per annum? And treasury bills yields are 2.2%? Remember, a savings account or CD are also valid investments assuming they yield more than inflation. What I'm saying you shouldn't do is store literal cash in a mattress. A savings account serves as collateral for loans which are in fact productive investments.
"In the second case, the driver was knowingly not doing their job, and was knowingly engaging in unsafe behaviour."

Maybe, but the bigger picture is if you hire people for low wages and give them impossible tasks, you're not paying enough for them to make a good attempt or be a scapegoat. The problem is management.
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21467921
There were articles in July 2017 about Volvo's self-driving cars not coping with kangaroos (they bounce) which make up the majority of car/animal collisions in Australia. A kangaroo is a lot bigger than a bird but couldn't be identified as being on the road.
In Australia we have a compulsory pension fund.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superannuation_in_Australia

The pros are obvious but the cons are significant; it can be a very poor investment for some people. It's also criticised for locking up a lot of savings in an unproductive way.
Note that this was posted September 13th; before the full-size GPT-2 was released yesterday after concerns about GPT-2's danger were unproven.

The practical use case for GPT-2 in writing is writing assistance/autocomplete, such as with Write With Transformer (https://transformer.huggingface.co). Text that partially AI-written would pass a Turing test so-to-speak.
It's very effective however. I family member is doctor specialising in HIV, she says that with the current state of medication, if she had a choice between an HIV infection or diabetes, she'd take the former.
It's not about is it taken it's who can do it better
Ok, so after using for a couple of hours, the trackpad feels great! In fact, side by side they are identical in size with the Macbook Pro 2013. Clearly copied the size from Apple, but the feel is fine. The keyboard feels a bit different, but you get used it.

I also did not change any setting on the trackpad. This is out of the box.
Yet. It may still come to that. If the Germans can go after Martin Winterkorn long after he thought he was in the clear then this may still happen as well.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/24/20881534/volkswagen-diese...
Ray Dalio leads gloomsayers at Greenwich Economic Forum
Still not great. It hardly makes sense to pull $300k/yr just to pay it all out to a landlord.
True, but you don't need access to production data to build an audit logger. And any commits to it should involve code review.
If self-driving cars were remotely possible, it would be obvious, because Google Maps would be insanely perfect. That's the bottom line as far as I'm concerned. Every time it directs me to do something stupid, I think, what if it were telling my car directly?
This is totally true, not sure why it's downvoted. Psychedelic enthusiasts will often say "oh well that person who had a bad experience was predisposed and shouldn't have taken it." When there was literally no way of telling that the person was predisposed until they took the drug. You can be a fairly stable person but be predisposed to psychosis when you take psychedelic, but have no idea that's the case until you take the psychedelics. Maybe you family history is clear because nobody experimented with psychedelics and thus never triggered that predisposition, or maybe you just don't learn about every instance of psychosis in your family tree. If you try to bring this up to psychedelic enthusiasts they get defensive even though they're obviously in the wrong.
Using NYC as an example, how many casualties (which would have been prevented by bollards) happened before bollards became a fixture?
I think perhaps you misunderstood me? You're saying:

> I don't have any [difficulty] seeing how someone could view [postponing scheduled downtime] as nefarious but they aren't the same thing.

Didn't you instead mean the following?

> I don't have any [difficulty] seeing how someone could view [partnering with the US government in order to overthrow governments] as nefarious but they aren't the same thing.

Or maybe you did mean that postponing scheduled downtime looks nefarious to some. It just seemed like a weird thing to say compared to the other option.
You need income to accumulate into wealth. The more of it that is taxed away, the harder it will be.
Question: with this kind of optimization, how does the program run different functions on different CPUs? Like the ones that don't support AVX512? Some kind of runtime dispatch based on CPU ID?
Yea I understand that there's a technical definition that it falls short of, but again they're very explicitly noting that it falls short of that, so I don't see how it's being ambiguous or misleading. And I don't buy that it's not "open" - it's out there in the public; it's open for contribution from the public; it's open to be modified and deployed except if you're a monitoring provider. The OSI doesn't have a monopoly on the definition of the word "open".

Also I think that the assertion that it's "actively harmful" is wildly hyperbolic. Sentry isn't going to be out there copyright trolling people and you know it; they're trying to protect themselves from a very specific category of IP infringement. And there is still much potential upside to it's openness that you're willfully ignoring.
What I would recommend is buying an off-the-shelf retractable lanyard [1] and putting a Yubikey on it. I do so myself, and it has a number of advantages:

* You cannot leave your computer alone with Yubikey plugged in (especially useful when combined with modifying your PAM stack to lock the screen when yubikey is plugged out [2])

* Plugging Yubikey on a keychain which is bulky is cumbersome

* Yubikey on your neck can be a great conversation opener :)

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Updated-CarryLuxe-Lanyard-Polyester-R...

[2] https://tbabej.com/Yubikey-secure-session-setup/
This, whether it's a speed bump, trash, tire tread, tow hitch, bicycle, animal, or person in the road, it does significantly more damage at 35mph than it does at the reasonable decrease to 25mph.

Basically, absent vehicles behind you and to each side, a driver should stop until the object can be identified and determined if it will do damage or be avoided.
Airlines already do this, they have employees that do QA in plain clothes, naturally they QA the whole process, from ticket purchase through helpdesk and so on.

Even though AirBnB, like airlines has all the data, customers love leaving feedback on rentals.
PACER Fetch APIs
Everything that's cool gets diluted and repackaged. Perhaps there's something like euphemism treadmill when whatever could work as a marketing term gets that treatment until it means nothing like the original.
I read the article, I thought it was a point worth addressing in more depth and HN has a rule specifically against this type of comment.
I don't know what the statistic for this was 50 years ago, but today 38% of federal income tax revenues come from the 1%.
False dichotomy, my friend.

Look at Europe (or heck, NYC) for alternatives to a car-dominated society:

* walkable, mixed-use, dense neighborhoods

* public transportation (rail-based, in particular)

* car-free streets (and cities)

The solution to traffic deaths is not self-driving cars. It's moving away from the Levittown-style suburbs that have proliferated the US since WW II.
Making the penalties for breaches far more severe would be a good place to start though.
I know this isn't an option for everyone, but I've been loving browsing the internet with Javascript off on Safari.

I also have Firefox with Javascript turned on, in case I need to browse a website I trust with Javascript.
> Whereas with GraphQL, it facilitates building a single API call that says "give me all friends for a specific user, along with each friend's hometown".

Better yet, submit a request asking for all friends whose hometown is NYC (or whose hometown is the same as one of the user's previous hometowns, or...). That way only a subset of the data needs transmitting.
You probably misunderstood what they're doing. They are not fitting data with a model; that's what economists and statisticians do.

They show that a simple mechanism, with very few assumptions about real world behavior could reproduce a remarkably realistic phenomenon.
And for everyone else who doesn't feel like doing that, Amazon Lambda and a server in your closet are two other options.

If your workload doesn't fit into such a setup, then you simply need to take investment, optimize your code, or move closer to your colo
The EV includes the value of the root comment. If that's large enough and there aren't any bad replies adding negative value, you win :)

(Just to be clear, I'm using EV as a pseudo-technical metaphor. But it's a surprisingly good one, and could maybe be turned into a real model.)
The future of cheating is large corporations and billionaires using automation to accumulate more society points without giving back to the hard working people who make it all possible in the first place.

* Note: this is also the present of cheating.

* * Note: I hope this cynical statement of mine doesn't come true.
There is nothing new in the article.

It also does not mention that the latest calculations on the flatness of the Universe make it flat with a 0.4% error bar. That means it is either flat, and so infinite, or very close to flat. In the close to flat scenario it would not be infinite but still very very very stupidly large.
They shut down their whole NYT Labs R&D operation in 2016 or so.
C# could have been GO if they focused on AOT compilation when they designed .net core, instead of just recreating .net framework for the sake of rewriting it..
Yep. It's all about VALUE. If you are there when it matters and you help your customers achieve the OUTCOME they care about, they will happily forget those few moments when you were late to a meeting or didn't answer an email or Slack message right away.

Life is not grade school. You don't get points for just showing up. You actually have to do meaningful work that produces a valuable result for someone. People will happily tolerate the slightly disheveled dude who shows up with the critical component of their gold mine. They fire the smug well-spoken guy who keeps making excuses.
Airbnb for bathrooms, you can use it to allow desperate strangers to pay you to use your toilet. Preferably while you're not home.
We'll call it Airpnp.
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21467673.
The Strange Rise of Music Holograms
Interesting story here from someone who may have been targeted for an in-person "warning" from Saudi security forces in New Delhi after posting critical remarks from an anonymous Twitter account: https://mobile.twitter.com/marxatfarpoint/status/11921987493...
I'm fine with it and I think it will actually yield MORE open source code, not less.

Companies will be able to invest more into their infrastructure without much risk. Customers can still contribute back knowing that they will eventually be able to use the OSS version once it matures.
The devices themselves are popular with educators. I volunteer in schools and have helped them turn old cell phones and iPod touches into fun learning tools. There is a lot of 360 degree video and content out there that is great for kids, and they're always excited to use it. And every teacher seems to have or know someone who has some old devices in a drawer somewhere that are perfectly suited for it.
I was expecting to read that this was newly evolved, but it was actually newly discovered. I’m curious about what factors led to it existing for so long without being discovered.

“The most recent of the three samples used to identify HIV-1 group M subtype L has been sitting in an Abbott freezer since 2001. ... Abbott researchers found two additional examples of the strain—in samples from 1983 and 1990”

I admire the foresight of having kept these samples where they could be studied with future techniques.
True but they can have systems which execute on the behalf of an authenticated user and pass that to the SQL server but the system in the middle would have logs of that query and by whom. Now, to be fair, there are usually holes that allow direct access as well.
AirBnB's existing guest verification process loks onerous, but is trivial to work-around.

For some reservations, they demand to have your Driver's License image, both sides (to include he various barcodes, etc.) and some other items.

For a friend who did not want the risk of having their full set of data floating around out there, I used some readily available & free tools to make some (self-consistent) edits to the documents to reduce personal identification risk in that DB of IDs.

Although quite bogus, the docs passed verification instantly. So, now, AirBnB and the host now erroneously think that they have a verified guest, when they have no such thing.

Their verification is not only an onerous process that crates a massive honeypot of personal-ID information just waiting to be hacked & stolen, it is also a farce insofar as filtering out even any mildly motivated person, whether intent on protecting their privacy, or on scamming.

Dubious that their host-side listing will be any more valid.
I don't think you can describe a person's life experience just because they don't react emotionally in a single online discussion board. That's horribly unfair and a bit out of line, to be honest.
This comment breaks the HN guidelines by name-calling and failing to assume good faith. I'm sure you can make your substantive points without doing either of those things. Please do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It is not a password replacement, you still need multiple factors of authentication. Yubikey satisfies the “something you have” factor, your password is still the “something you know”. Your password can be learned but should not be usable without something you have. Your token can be taken but should not be usable without the something you know. Fingerprints are not infalable, it’s more confidence of a match then exact match - Samsung was just in the news because someone figured out how to trick their sensors to read a false positive. Having a password also would keep that from being exploitable. Also keep in mind that current school of legal thought in the US is that biometrics don’t qualify for 5th amendment protections whereas passwords do - police can force you to put your finger on a reader, but they can’t force you to give a password without judicial review.
Facebook has this exactly this tool, aka Conversion / Brand Lift [1]. It's a real experimentation system, not a "simulated" one like Google's Ghost Ad.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/business/help/688346554927374
> What if it's a bird,

Conversely, there are many things that are bird sized that can do significant damage to a car and even be fatal to the car behind you. Ie: a trailer hitch caused one of the first Tesla battery fires; loose pieces of pavement have been known to be kicked up and kill a following car.
Digital Ocean, Linode, OVH, Heroku, Cloudways, any cloud database provider, DockerHub, etc?
Pricing property taxes to be consistent with the value of a home is not 'making someone leave'. In this case 'so someone else can buy their home' is actually 'they can decide to sell their house for an enormous profit of twenty times what they bought it for if that is their choice'.

To be clear here, if someone else bought the house, that person would pay the proper property tax, so why is someone's inaction so valuable?
The future of cheating is no one having to work so hard, because machines are doing all the boring work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word

There's a great list of examples halfway down the page. For example:

"A growing body of evidence..." (Where is the raw data for your review?)
"People are saying..." (Which people? How do they know?)
"It has been claimed that..." (By whom, where, when?)
"Critics claim..." (Which critics?)
etc...
it's really simple. the world is exponential, not linear. wealth grows (or decays) exponentially. that's it. too bad very few understand exponentiation.
Economic growth is the art of producing more value using the same amount of finite resources.
Students could just be required to write the essays in class rather than as take-home assignments.

Also, if there's a great discrepancy in style, skill, or content of in-class essays vs take-home essays, then that could be considered evidence of cheating.
A Win for Ranked Choice Voting
Be cautious about these statistics looking at wealth only. A lot of people have high incomes, but effectively zero or negative wealth, because they spend it all.

Some of the shifts in wealth inequality are changes in how much money people are saving/investing.
Even Google's policies aren't—or at least weren't—foolproof. In 2010 there was a major incident involving a Google SRE named David Barksdale: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/8003925/Google...