skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
compare it to an AMG
Can not agree more
They inherit far more than the standard of living.
Chinese fans love “Silicon Valley”’s satire of China’s tech industry
tl;dr: Uber have not the slightest idea what they're doing, and should not be permitted to develop anything safety-critical until they can properly explain 'object permanence'.

Also, would probably be a good idea to hold the creators, trainers and marketers of anything called 'AI' legally responsible (jointly and severally) for all of such a system's decisions for the next few decades. Might encourage some much-needed caution.
"Can anyone from Invenia explain how they make money or what they're trying to do?"

Whenever you have to ask that question about a tech company, you can generally assume that the answers are "venture capital" and "attract more venture capital", respectively.
Ancient ape offers clues to evolution of two-legged walking
Any company that handles sensitive information, or information about a lot of people (even if not particularly sensitive) has to assume that they have at least one in-house spy of some sort. Partly to make sure they're not more vulnerable than they should be and partly because it's likely to be true.
Android 10 also randomizes MAC addresses when probing, as a client, and as a AP/Hotspot: https://source.android.com/devices/tech/connect/wifi-mac-ran...
I’ve achieved this without so much hassle at a smallish/medium sized company (~60 engineers). A typical engineer had access to anonymized data, only a few had access to query raw data. All their queries were logged with justifications. They also wouldn’t query raw data as a matter of BaU (outside of some very rare situations), it was pretty much only ever done when making changes to the ETL pipelines.

The solution we had wasn’t particularly difficult to set up, and actually made life much easier for everybody, because we’d provided everybody with a very easy to use interface for the data they wanted (much better than the old school shelling into a DB to run your arbitrary SQL statements).
As an Engineering Manager for the recently formed Database team here at GitLab, this tool has proven to be incredibly valuable. We floated the idea of running this on a regular basis back in April https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/infrastructure/issues... and now we have daily reports that we review https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/infrastructure/issues...

samokhvalov helped us to get this set up
Is that to say, a human had sex with a monkey, acquired the disease, then spread it by having sex with other humans?
Yes - (and totally reasonable question, btw - it's remarkable how hard it is for the folks behind it to just plainly state what it is vs. coating it in buzzwords).

BTW - I may be wrong / misunderstanding something here as I'm only in the research phase, but here's what I got:

GraphQL is an alternative to REST as a way for clients to query servers for information. In a REST query, you hit an endpoint and add optional query params. But you get back results based purely on what the server has been singularly designed to give back. For example, if I query:

GET /users/1

I'll get back a user object that the server has been programmed to return. It's of course possible to customize this with query params, and do something like:

GET /users/1?only_include=first_name,last_name

But that's the exception to most RESTful APIs, not the norm.

In a GraphQL query, the client specifies _exactly_ which fields it wants back, and that's baked into the design. So the client would submit a query like this:

{
user(id: "1") {
first_name
last_name
}
}

And the server would return exactly the object the client asked for.

There's no magic here -- that's the part that many people have trouble explaining. When you write your GraphQL server, you still need to write the actual queries (<--- this is the key!). But structurally, you write more generic queries -- you'd say "when a client requests a user, run this SQL", "when a client requests first_name on a user, run this SQL", etc. etc.

That way on the server, you write isolated query resolvers (called, amazingly enough, resolvers), each of which get run when a query comes in.

This is as opposed to a RESTful approach, where you'd do a more traditional single SQL query for the /users/:id endpoint (SELECT * FROM USERS WHERE ID = ... )

Hope that makes sense (and is accurate!)
The way it works in safety critical software safety analysis in my experience is that you have a hazard analysis/failure modes effects analysis that factors in severity x probability (and sometimes a detectibility measure)

So if you identify a failure mode that contributes to a catastrophic hazard for instance, you better build your system to drive the probability down. The resultant severity x probability score you end with has to fall within the risk parameters deemed acceptable by management/safety
Entities that bill insurance. Here's some pretty plain language about it:

https://personcenteredtech.com/2013/05/16/am-i-a-hipaa-cover...

Like I said, most people are very surprised to learn this fact.
It seems the big thing Airbnb should be verifying is the fake "hosts", where an LLC is renting out a dozen units or more in a city as a business, but then lying to the customer that they are renting "Jack and Judy's flat".
Typical Apple these days. It's not the company we used to love and rely upon any more.
While I agree wholeheartedly with your core point, it's worth noting that (for example) not all car manufacturers make 4WD/AWD vehicles. Even fewer make all-electric vehicles. Even fewer make vehicles that are both 4WD/AWD and all-electric. So there's at least some degree of technical differentiation there.
But in those times, relatively rich Americans were selling to extremely poor Europeans, Asians, and Africans. Inequality overall has gotten better, just the geography has shifted substantially so that previously homogeneously equitable places now have a more representative share of world inequality.
My point is that the "5-hour workday" might be more common than many of us think.
I guess the question is, is the PrEP-protected infection rate among people having unprotected sex while on PrEP, lower or higher than the not-protected infection rate among those who would have unprotected sex even without PrEP?
You could safely relax the regulations that set the bar for becoming a licensed MD.

Knocking 2 or 3 years off would be easy. Right now, the first step to becoming a licensed MD is to get a BS or BA degree. Any degree will do the job, though it is expected that certain classes will have been taken. This is taking 4 years, but meeting the legitimate needs for medical school should only take about 1 or 2 years.

I'll work it out, based on what Yale specifies:

These are bright people, so assume that they have AP credit for all 3 basic sciences. That leaves 1 semester of organic chemistry and 1 semester of biochemistry. That's it. Checking prerequisites at UCF, biochemistry requires Organic Chemistry II. We could thus be looking at 3 semesters. Do the biochemistry over the summer, and it's just one year.

Despite this, Yale requires attending at least 3 years for an undergraduate degree. Yale doesn't care at all what the degree is. It could be music history, military science, creative writing, or whatever. You just need to put in the time, a minimum of 3 years. To help you waste time, not even a "5" on the AP tests will be accepted by Yale.

All we're accomplishing here is a supply limitation. We jack up the time and expense to become a licensed MD. We also shorten the resulting career by 2 or 3 years.
Just a week ago, NYC approved a plan to revamp streets for bikes, pedestrians, and buses:

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/NYC-City-Council-to-Vo...
This is a real dilemma. IIRC, some car companies have already stated they will take responsibility
A person died.

Lots of people die in car accidents.

Nearly 40,000 people die each year in car accidents. At least 8 of the top 10 causes of accidents would be improved with self-driving cars.

1. Speeding

2. Drunk Driving

3. Speeding

4. Reckless Driving

5. Rain

6. Running Red Lights

7. Night Driving

8. Design Defects

9. Tailgating

10. Wrong-Way Driving/ Improper Turns

Well, no. Has any of the systems been tested in heavy snows on icy roads or on a road without maps?

Aside from figuring out where the edge of the road is, the biggest accident risk that I've seen with driving in heavy snow is speed -- no one wants to drive 15mph for 2 hours through a snowstorm to stay safe, so they drive 30 - 50mph instead.

And I'm not sure how to solve the road visibility issue with self driving cars, but presumably the same heuristics that humans use could be emulated in software (which I suppose is primarily following the car ahead or his tracks or looking for roadside signs that mark the edge of the road).
> If you being shown to be incorrect is a "personal insult",

The whole point is that the person in question was not incorrect at all, they simply used one of two perfectly accurate descriptions when you preferred the other. Your description of them as having been incorrect was incorrect. (I note, though, that you have since edited the personal insults about he fitness of the poster you purported to correct for their prior job from your post, which would be commendable were it not directly linked to your dishonest pretense that that insult did not exist and that a reference to an insult in your comment must be to the mere act of proposing a correction.)

Also, the person in question was not me, I'm just the one who called you out on the error in your “correction”. So for someone so critical (incorrectly) of others’ failure to pay close attention to detail, you are doing a poor job of demonstrating attention to detail.
> If a university has no way of determining whether an assignment was written by a human or an algorithm, existing grading systems lose any semblance of meritocracy or fairness.

Just because it was hard to tell if it was written by an AI doesn't mean the paper succeeds at whatever the assignment was. All GPT-2 does is predict the next word. I don't see how this can be used to write a research paper.
More likely bushmeat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushmeat

Someone had a cut on their hand while butchering a monkey. No sex necessary.
Are they:

employees who happened to become spies

or

spies which happened to become employees
Are you looking at Q2 results NI (1,162,XXX,XXX)? If so, you shouldn't be. NI includes multiple book transactions that do not necessarily have a cash impact (depreciation / amortization, expense accruals, goodwill, etc). You'd be better served to look at their STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS.
Foremost, I'm not comfortable with abandoning the meaning of HTTP methods. Changing everything to POST means pushing all sorts of caching decisions to the start-and-end points and bypassing decades of work done on improving GET caching for intermediate layers. (Caveat: this is where people start talking about how GraphQL doesn't _require_ POST. I fully allow I don't know enough to be sure, but on the face it seems problematic).

Secondly, it may just be something solved as the tech becomes more mature and practiced, but there are numerous smaller issues such as versioning (the ability to change rapidly without breaking backward compatibility is separate from when you DO want to break that compatibility) and tooling. These are hardly solved issues with, say REST, but they are "more solved". Most places have some level of versioning, and requests are trivial to read with existing tooling.

When doing an involved front end app (I was in ag tech working on app that was tying data models with farm field overlay maps and setting values by geographic region - which sounds way more impressive than it really is) I found that GraphQL seemed great for straightforward CRUD apps, where the results of a query and the display of the page mapped closely, but the value add on the front end was pretty minimal for more complex applications. Lots of tooling (Apollo at the time, and I hear "Relay" being discussed today) performs magic to make this all effortless.

"magic" is great when it works - we adopt it and stop considering it magic. The other times it is usually a flash in the pan that spawns lots of regrets. I'd be an idiot to claim I knew which side of magic this falls on, but my experience is currently saying to avoid anything too involved. A GraphQL API? Sure, it's not my first pick but I'll use it. A framework that magically hides all the complexity on the front end? I'm willing to bet I'll run afoul of some hidden boundary.

If I'm at a company that starts talking GraphQL I'd ask about the solutions for caching and versioning. If they have answers, I'll keep listening. If they wave it off as something to worry about later, I'd expect headaches.

A long, rambling, and subjective answer, but that's my answer.
Nooo, another Electron "app"
Anytime I see a story about Airbnb I like to point out:
https://www.airbnbhell.com

I found this site after being the victim of the now infamous "oh sorry something wrong with your flat" scam. What was supposed to be an "executive suite" turned out to be a cockroach ridden dump.

Not sure if Airbnb has improved since but they were utterly useless in refunding my money, let alone helping me find alternate accommodations.

I have used Airbnb since, but as a last resort and after way too much effort to separate what might be scams from (hopefully) legit listings.

I agree with the poster further on who says you need to be prepared (have a plan 'b') for the chance that the booking will fall through at the last minute.
> the same relative increase in value over the next 20 years

Which will just get us what Hong Kong has now
> I honestly don't understand why

When people are inhibited from meeting their basic needs legally by structural impediments to their progress like severe inequality, they sometimes try to meet their needs via methods that are destructive to society, like crime, whether petty or violent. That behavior is usually damaging to people, property, or the fabric of society.

This is a reason why such crime is strongly correlated with areas of endemic poverty.

People have a strong will to survive, one way or another. We can provide them the tools and resources to do so in a prosocial way, or spend the resources defending ourselves against the crime that results from poverty stricken circumstances.
Seemed rather a weird coincidence that after leaving(or being fired from) Twitter, Ali was appointed the CEO of MBS's MiSK Foundation – which is essentially a mafia organization for his loyalists.
What happens when Waymo is in an accident and you shutdown their division too?

Human drivers in fatal accidents don't have their licenses permanently revoked and there's no outrage.
No, not at all. Some people are lazy, just want to destroy things, or believe they have an innate right to the fruits of other's labor. This is obvious to anyone who has gone to high school.
Good and Bad Free Giveaways to Promote Your Startup
> What happens when universities can’t tell whether an essay is written by a human or an algorithm?

Then in that scenario, that means that essays are worthless at evaluating students, and if AI essays really are as good as human essays, then teaching the writing of essays at the college level is a waste of time.

However, looking at the generated essay, it seems to me that the real problem is that universities have reduced essay grading to an algorithm which values form over the content of the essay. The fact that AI can generate content with the required form should come as no surprise to anyone. Perhaps we should be teaching critical thinking and reading skills to evaluate the actual content of any essays.
They do have several software projects: blocks, poly, tilt brush. I also believe they have various VR divisions. Don’t count them out yet- my take is that the Oculus Quest put the nail in the coffin for ‘phone based’ VR (cheap and solid with controllers/and soon hand tracking is just a better product) and most investment going forward will probably be diverted in that direction (whether it be competing hardware products or complementary software)
This looks promising! Downloading now. Thanks for pointing it out!
It looks a lot like <-

Coffeescript has had -> and => for a long time.
Actually his OS is saving him from boated and useless "apps"
I can't see a problem with it?
Military aircraft are designed to be unstable, so that they can perform fast, odd combat maneuvers. The flight computers are the only think keeping those things flying.

Civilian aircraft are designed to be super stable.
Creating Sockets
In other news, Fastly's new compute environment supports C++, C, COBOL, and Brainf*ck. And, y'know, computes, in any time left over. If you like.
VC in Africa: No Patagonia Vests, Blue Bottle Coffee or Burning Man
> I pretty much exclusively write any kind of documentation in Markdown these days. Including my own notes.

Same here. And the preview, particularly of inline images, is what I like about VSCode for it.

The main thing I like about this editor after trying it out for a little while today is the table stuff. For some reason that doesn't work as well for me in raw syntax as the rest.

I think my ideal markdown editor would basically be the VSCode plugin's auto-suggestion of bullet syntax, the ability to paste images inline and have them land in a specified directory with a predictable path, and a good table editor.

This one does a good job with the tables IMO. I haven't tried it much with images because that didn't really come up today.
Does that mean you'd love to see UPS and Fedex shut down by the government, like you would Uber? After all:

>Not that I'd be against that. Would be great to see Uber die. It's already caused enough headache and pain.
Asbestos Fibers Thread Through Rocks and Dust Outside Vegas
Steve Jobs on storytelling and Disney's monopoly on the business: https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-stories-about-people...
I've been researching these recently. Some things I've found:
- Macrometa is a new startup and stateful edge (distributed database) service. I just tried them this morning. User experience is very raw but it works great. You can shim it in front of existing DBs (Dynamo, Firebase, etc) for better performance.
- Gun: where macrometa runs on edge servers, Gun runs on the client. Mark is a fantastic community and they are doing interesting things. I had trouble implementing it but that's because I'm lousy at javascript.
- Redis uses CRDTs or something similar: https://redislabs.com/redis-enterprise/technology/active-act...
- This presentation is fantastic: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/crdt-distributed-consist...
I think the issue is that an Apple ID is used for multiple things (iCloud backup, the app store, etc.), and also that the seamlessness of SMS/iMessage (usually a good thing) causes them to be conflated.

This person doesn't use their Apple ID for communication, because they have an Android phone. They probably purchased an iPhone for their child and set up the Apple ID using their email address. So to clarify, they weren't using their Apple ID with multiple devices, they just set up their child's Apple ID using their email address.

I'm not trying to slam Apple here, it's a complicated issue. I'm just saying that through a sequence of pretty reasonable steps we ended up in a situation where I was texting a colleague's daughter. Fortunately they were about parking my car, but it was pretty weird regardless.

edit: I guess they may use their Apple ID on their laptop as well, so it is on multiple devices. I just don't think they use it for iMessage.
I don’t doubt that this will happen, but it’s perfectly within the rights of the United States to apply more scrutiny to e.g. Chinese nationals seeking employment at tech companies. We’re in a trade war with them and a de facto state of cyberwar. It’s not at all unreasonable to expect the US Government to look a little more closely at people coming here to work in tech, especially for roles in sensitive positions.
"Electron apps"

Wrapped web engine and the site does not an app make.
That's only if they are offering some sort of product. Based on their website blurb, they're probably getting paid as consultants by electric companies:

> We interact directly with the grids, helping to plan for generation, flow and use of electricity in advance of real time operations. We help the system operators to optimize the power grid to ensure reliability, efficiency, transparency, while reducing harmful emissions.
Why is the Warren head tax (the "employer-side payments", which will be taken out of the hides of employees the same way health insurance costs already are) "clever"? Aren't head taxes generally problematic?
If open source cardboard included Daydream hardware specifications and fabrication files will be nice.

Google has already abandoned the project so it should not be an issue to release hardware and related assets under open source along with SDK.

It might allow different companies to continue daydream, instead of let it die.
If you want to do something that's only possible with a large enough volume of liquid, then yeah.
My concern is that companies and people will laser-focus on the "foreign tech worker" part as if they are the sole threat vector. That presents an unacceptable blind spot, not to mention getting people to think that foreigners are likely to be spies.

In practice, it's not really much more difficult to find a US citizen tech worker who'd be willing to take a few hundred thousand to do the same thing (and it's something that happens routinely), and completely ignores the fact that US intelligence agencies also have a long-running habit of getting their spies hired by US companies too.
No, even US people like police abuse license plate searches for personal reasons. It's not even a matter of nationality. If data is being collected and the only protection is a "policy," then it's being abused or will be.
Me neither. However HN is an echo chamber of intelligent people who aren't going to sway their opinion or purchases based on ads. It's harder for me to visualize but the majority of people out there pay attention to ads and even will convince them to purchase.

When I go to the movies, people will laugh or agree at the most stupid ads. I don't think most people educate themselves or their children about not engaging in such content. It's why those morning shows that are really just ads in disguise are still airing today.
A hack to assemble email list of university senior graduating in 2019
Hi! Great to e-meet all of you. It's the first time for me to post!
Does anyone have hacks on how to assemble a list that has email addresses of university students in the U.S. who will graduate in December 2019? Any hacks are appreciated!
And aerodynamic stability would not have prevented the accident described in grandparent.
It works fine currently in Linux. I can’t imagine this would be any different.
Yes, I suppose I wasn't exact when I stated that. Classification helps very much, but is no excuse to throw away other data you have. It should be an augmentation to the track the object has.
You seem to be the only person making this claim here and without any serious arguments. Russian does not have single words for many other traffic violations too, nevertheless they remain illegal. Anyways, that was not the point I argued.