skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Power is always expressed through violence. Someone wants to use the land you're currently using. They leave it alone, even if their situation is miserable. Why? You can call in the cops who will subject them to violence and make their lives worse. What if they can take the cops? Well, wherever you happen to be, it used to be part of someone else's domain; it was taken away by violence. Violence shapes society, it shapes history, the threat of violence keeps the world ticking along smoothly, and responding properly to danger helps to ensure that smooth action. your sympathies don't matter.

You're probably right to not be afraid, but things can kick off when the circumstances are right for it. And we haven't arrived at this historical moment by being nice.
So your view is that Uber specifically chose to not classify pedestrians correctly because of car maker propaganda? You actually believe that?
The complaint [0] is both very interesting – particularly the details on how sloppy/non-existent Twitter's user-access-control was back in 2015 – and pretty funny, such as how one of the suspects tried to fake a digital document but didn't fake the timestamp, and the FBI noticed the receipt having a creation date the same day of their interview with him (pg 13).

According to one of the suspects' LinkedIn, he left Twitter in 2015, and then worked at Amazon for 3 years in marketing and social media. While I have little doubt Amazon's internal auditing and access control are better than Twitter's, it'd be nice to hear confirmation from Amazon that he didn't access any private user data.

[0] https://context-cdn.washingtonpost.com/notes/prod/default/do...
How did the first means of production appear?
You'll run out of memory eventually... an "unlimited size" queue usually just means that the original developer won't be around to deal with the fallout.
I can't find the textbook this specific professor assigned but the assigned textbooks for this semester's section are:

Testing Statistical Hypotheses (Cl) by Lehmann

Theory Of Point Estimation by Lehmann

Theoretical Statistics by Keener
It isn't (just) that there was an accident and somebody died.

It's that this quality of software was allowed to operate in a capacity where that could happen.
Shhh! He might hear you...
GP is correct. Current taxpayers (individuals and their employers) pay tax into the trust fund, which then pays out to current social security recipients. You earn credits on the amount you pay in, which determines your eventual benefit, but make no mistake -- current taxes fund current recipients.

This is why some people call social security a pyramid scheme - built into the system is an assumption that the number of workers will always increase or that interest rates will make that moot.
The cherry on top is what they plan on calling the next major release. You guessed it! .NET 6.
Pretty much nobody at Google has that kind of access. You can be an SRE of just about anything at Google and never access user data. The "break-glass" means of emergency access is ridiculously booby-trapped. A person wanting to do this thing has to 1) badge into a special room, at which time both production security and privacy incident teams are notified, 2) use a special hardware security device that is used for no other purpose than to activate a VPN box with a hard-line into the production network. By the way if a random Googler just rolls up to a datacenter without a reason to be there, that also triggers privacy incident response, even though physical access to production storage is virtually useless due to all the encryption.

I would say it is much more likely that Google will accidentally lose the organizational ability to become root-in-prod, than it is that a person has done this thing without being noticed.

In short, insider risk cannot be mitigated with hiring practices. You need robust technical measures against insider risk.
Japan, the safest country in the world has a GINI coefficient of 0.462. I don't think that's particularly good.

> We should provide them the tools and resources to do so in a prosocial way.

The reason why you default to this instead of simply defaulting to suggesting crushing any dissent (probably what was the default since the dawn of the modern era, and is the default in countries such as China) is because of moral values you have had instilled in you from your surroundings since birth.
This is audio of the President, Donald J. Trump, demanding a $4 billion dollar bribe from child rapists to “take a blind eye” on January 3, 2019. Trump becomes one on January 14, 2019. Also, here is the big reason the major networks do not report any of it.

//Download the video, turn the volume all the way up and put head phones on. Trump is on a call from with Henry Porter and Gigi Hadid. See page 63. Bribe demand at 10:18am:

3JanCh3_900-1100.avi

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Grdr8xF2psKNsuYlEnl9dIRV-77...

//President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, rapes and kills his first boy at 6:32am. Video link below:

14JanCh3_600.avi

https://drive.google.com/file/d/154QvA5hwyHGYIVXtod1ZbsOHFUJ...

14JanCh2_600-700.avi

https://drive.google.com/file/d/19UkqmnMwZiWy7xxWngltqwoKLTJ...

//On January 18, 2019 at 8:31am (see page 8) Trump acknowledges the four billion dollar bribe and says: "Let's get it done and get to fucking some kids." Video link below:

18JanCh3_725-.avi

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bVTcGq5Z9oOSAiOQcKYrmuK4Two...

//A big reason this has not been reported by the major news networks is right here. Lester Holt of NBC Nightly News, apparently a member of the Illuminati since the 1980's, along with ABC Nightly News lead anchor David Muir, stop over to the Porter studio in Buffalo on January 14th, 2019 at 5:00am. They both rape and kill about two dozen boys by 6:00am. Muir starts around 5:15am, then Holt about 5:38am. Multi-billionaire Rupert Murdoch, owner of News Corp & Fox Corporation, takes his turn after Holt. Video links below:

14JanCh3_500-601.avi

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i7NKepeyG_FfdQRrM7KsnFOZOOX...

14JanCh2_530-600.avi

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NZzgN5ilI7ToroU5cfqMaL4o2u1...

//This is the tip of the iceberg.

//Full 88 page PDF [updated 5Nov]: FBI_FinalDraft_26Jul2019_BSchlenker.pdf

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sj9EN_pHmicKS6rFQlmk67knMdJ...

//This post will be censored when this account logs off, the posts are "shadow banned". They try to make it look like the post is live, but it is not. Here is an example.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zxS8JESoIg7uxRkUgdptMsF6SuJ...
Look at the original metal fatigue investigations that lead to round windows.

They pressurized and depressurized an airplane (inside of a water tank) 50,000 times until it failed.
> So what do you say to someone like me?

Welcome to the club! You are an entrepreneur. It is really hard. Depressingly so sometimes. You are on your own because you can do it!

Learn to sell. Learn what selling is. Find a problem you have. Solve it in a repeatable way. Sell the solution.

Talk to people. What are their problems?

Repeat. Build up multiple cash flows. Software. Real estate. Consulting. Find entrepreneurs near you. Team up.

You can do it. Many people way less capable than you are already have.

Find an existing solution. Solve it better. You don't have to be first. Just be better. You already are.

You can do it. I know you can. Be relentless in the face of overwhelming odds.

You can do it! I did. We did. Everyone you know will think you are crazy. You. Are. Not.

You are wonderful. You make the world a better place. Keep at it!
I'm not saying you shouldn't work when you want to / have to. Just do your best not to broadcast that you are, because that's how expectations get set unrealistically across a company.
Physicists Explore Unknown Energy Regions – “New Frontier of Physics”
This sounds like something you can use your credit card to do charge back. Easier to deal with, almost guaranteed to happen.
Anyone know what happened to NY Times VR? They shipped Google Carboard to a ton of subscribers, launched an app, had a whole section of their site... it seems to be all gone. They had a great immersive (pun) story about dolphins that I loved to revisit.
The first capitalists stole it from the poor people :)
In many places (e.g. in Europe) there is no standard definition of bedroom at all. Rather generic room, which is space surrounded by walls.
Employer expecting you to be available 24-7 on a 40 hr workweek contract sounds like the sort of thing I'd talk to an employment lawyer about: seems like they are not paying for 128 hours/wk of 'engaged to wait' time.
Except HPC clusters do need all the Spectre/Meltdown fixes and more. Those are shared environments (with the exception of a handful of people who got research grants for their own internal clusters). In fact, hyper-threading has also been disabled completely is some clusters.
Those "ideas" are just occupations, as categorized by the US federal government, called "Standard Occupational Classification System".
Jetson Xavier NX, the World’s Smallest AI Supercomputer
For many BigCos, it is explicitly forbidden to access the network in certain countries, or bring any company devices into those countries.
Any chance you'd be willing to share more about your setup, at least high-level?
In my opinion, somewhat due to the breakdown of the nuclear family.
I'm working for state government, and every one of my co-workers is a woman, and my boss, and my bosses' boss. Also, they're union members, and some of them belong to a coven.

Also also, nobody wants to talk to me about right wing ideology? Well, https://xkcd.com/810/

...but seriously, nobody I know wants to talk about the president, practically since the election, but it's obvious when someone is following the latest talking point of the right. Like right now in NY with the bail reform.
tl;dr I lucked into cash while doing the bidding of one of the US's top ten evil oligarchs.
It is misleading to say that "illegal immigrants aren't typically eligible for benefits".

Eligibility for benefits happens via children and partners. The group of people thus receives benefits that are then shared.

Via this mechanism, families containing non-citizens consume more benefits than families composed purely of citizens.
I'm not sure if businesses spend roughly the same on advertising. I've experienced wildly different %'s of total spend depending on various factors.

Regarding the efficacy of online advertising, some businesses do notice but at the same time there's a larger question which is the trade-off between what online ads can achieve for different products at different stages.

Imagine a scale from "sitting in front of someone and explaining the value prop" to "an adwords ad."

If you're trying to remind someone about a brand they already know about, or attract them to a value prop that is easily explained online ads are great. If you have an unknown or hard to explain value prop you'd be better off starting elsewhere.

I agree that we need more research. Also, some suggested reading for anyone who's interested:

Traction: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22091581-traction (Good comparison of different marketing channels)

Scientific Advertising: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2621927-scientific-adver... (1923 book on measuring marketing)

Positioning: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/760025.Positioning (First book to properly capture the ideas behind "brand marketing")
That's not a complete picture, Prince Alwaleed owned 4.9% of Twitter as recently as the end of 2016 (the alleged espionage happened before this). It is unknown how much he owns now after his late 2017 detainment, presumably shares were either sold off, seized by Saudi authorities, or both. It's not unusual for ownership to be split among smaller entities, and there is no requirement for US companies to consolidate myriad unknown foreign stock holders into specific entities in their reports.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/05/citigroup-twitter-held-by-de...
HIPAA doesn’t extend beyond certain health care boundaries. Disability insurance for example aren’t bound to HIPAA in any way. Once you give them your medical records they can do what they like with it.
Fire escapes are a thing, and required in tall buildings, so it works exactly as stated.
How would you go about building your own means of production for creating modern computers?
The difference of course is that when the US intelligence agencies get US workers to spy at US companies they do so for the US government - oh and the countries we see fit to spy on already have fairly severe employment restrictions such that it’s not easy for an American to get a job in one of their companies. There’s an asymmetry that exists here.
Assuming that's a Texas NTTA toll, don't pay that online. Call the number on the notice. If you're polite they'll usually waive the fees provided you pay the toll in full. The website has been terrible since the mid 2000s
A desire to control people for mostly petty reasons in order to better society or some such is what led us here. You know what they say about the road to hell.
Yeah, I had to get a visa & navigate family commitments too. It was a sacrifice, but now I can support my family overseas better.
It's lower. 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.
Interesting. The lecture notes don’t look like point estimation and there’s not much hypothesis testing. Course seems much more probability than statistics.
This works up until you get a big enough group where freeriding can pass undetected and unpunished.

The thing about lazyness & cynicism is that it's viral. When everybody sees everyone else around them pitching in to the best of their ability, they're inclined to pitch in as well. When one person starts enjoying the benefits of this without contributing, contributors start getting angry. When multiple people start doing this but there's no way to either punish or evict them from the group, contributors get depressed, and often switch their worldview. Why bother working hard for other people when the other people are not working hard in return?

Empirically, this seems to happen at a few thousand people, well below the size of a modern nation-state. The cultures you cite all have internal subdivisions (villages, tribes, clans) of around this size. Beyond it, the complexity of society grows to the point where freeriding cannot be detected & punished other than by institutional means (money, contracts, lawsuits), and so there's an incentive for everyone to freeride.

It doesn't even require malicious intent. Take the health care example, and imagine you're a physician's assistant. 99% of the patients who come to you just have a cough that they could've taken care of with bedrest & fluids. After seeing 99 patients, most of whom come from the more well-to-do if neurotic segments of society and none of them needing actual medical treatment, you start thinking "Man, all these folks don't have any actual problems, but they keep coming for medical care because it's free. What's the point in doing anything other than sending them home for rest & fluids?" The 100th person has aggressive lung cancer, but you send them home for bedrest and fluids, where they die. The PA's malpractice insurance covers the inevitable lawsuit, so they don't face any consequences for their cursory examination. They do, however, end up even more bitter about patients who are not only lazy but litigious too. The family of the deceased tells all their friends that the healthcare system is irretrievably broken, but there's nothing they can do about it - since it's a government institution, it's not like there's anywhere else they could go. Instead, it trickles down into how they do their own jobs: they get just a little bit more cynical about how much everyone else is pitching in to the common good, and decide they're going to pitch in a little bit less to keep the score even.
The point of my comment is that violence goes both ways.
As someone who's had to teach programming to novices, I woefully underestimated how confusing (and justifiably so) `x = 1` notation is to students who didn't have the benefit of a CS education (i.e. exposure to C/C++/Java, where you eventually take the syntax for granted). I almost considered switching to teaching R, which has the explicit assignment operator `<-` (in addition to the traditional `=`).

I wouldn't mind seeing `<-` in Python. My biggest issue with `←` is that it's too inconvenient to type, as others have pointed out.
Thanks for proving my point, I guess? I’d love to see a formal write up from google about these procedures. It would go a long way to increasing confidence in how they handle this data.
For those out of the loop: Google has gradually shut down and in some cases, open sourced their VR projects (Daydream, Mirage, VR180, Seurat, etc) over the last 6-12 months to be more focused on their mobile AR projects (ARCore, Google Streetview AR, Lens, etc). A sad day for VR.
not that i believe (or not) that this will eventually be feasible, but the dream is that if you feed an introductory paragraph (which includes a thesis) to the algo, it will be able to generate the next 4 paragraphs, which completes a 5 paragraph essay.
> This is borderline criminal negligence.

Uber had told the world who they are: criminals. They have flaunted many laws since inception.

Will they ever stop? Who will stop them?
No, I mean what I wrote. I don’t have to agree with it but there are plenty of people who think cooperation, however indirect, with a US foreign policy goal is bad. It’s a viewpoint. Calling a thing something that it isn’t is not a viewpoint, it’s just wrong.
That's a fair question, thanks for the link.
So this could've been done in the past with a manually written decoder but now it's a built in? That's great
It was a blessing and a curse.

The internet in general is probably "better designed" now, but also way more homogenized and boring.
Then we are in agreement.
(long press, though that gesture can get overloaded)
no ones going to jail from MCAS auto-correcting planes into the ground.
Is this an ad-hominem attack based on posting history? How far we have sunk here in HN
Extensively discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21462120
Only one of the two reasons I put forward came down to violence and that's just reality. Humanity is the product of 3-4 billion years of evolution and most of that time has been an extremely violent struggle for survival and advancement. That is what we are. We live in a paper-thin veneer of sophistication and civility while we are comfortable and our bellies are full, but every last one of us is still an animal. We're dangerous animals too and all it takes is a tiny bit of hopelessness and fewer than a dozen missed meals for that to become evident.

You might not be sympathetic to your fellow animals, but you can bet that if a bunch of them frightened, angry, and hungry start circling because they see you as all that stands between them and survival they won't be very sympathetic to you either.

We already make a number of concessions to preserve a polite society. Keeping your fellow animals fed and making sure they have a chance to advance (something to work for) is a small price for security and stability because otherwise those things are impossible.

You can think of it as ransom, but I prefer to think of it as an investment in and routine maintenance of society itself and ultimately we all benefit and see returns on that investment.
I'm not confusing anything, you just don't agree with my position.
If we’re proposing a solution, why not click to toggle ASC/DESC then have the ability to “remove sort” in the right-click context menu?
What Business Are You In?
You're right, my bad. I didn't know TypeScript had ADTs. Should probably take a serious look at TypeScript.
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Has the Quest been a successful product?
Why should people be forced to get in debt to keep the house they've already paid for?
Either that or the consumption itself. Not rare at all to have a wound in your mouth.
Thanks for the detailed response. Fascinating. Where do you come across this information? I’d also love to learn more about this nuclear event from Soviet spacecraft.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugarscape

Interesting!
Exfat-Linux
There is only one Google app, data collection. What we think of as apps are just multiple entry points for the one app to us.

Analogously, why would you log on to a system for each drop down menu?
I always found weird how Americans for all their talk about freedom and individuality, subject themselves to live in such suburban communities with so many restrictions and almost no privacy.

Those communities always looked to me as some sort of protestant prison. Where everybody can watch everybody to make sure nobody is committing some sin. Where all the nosey bodies can keep close tabs on you and probably report any deviation for the pastor on Sundays.

For me I want walls, I want to be able to walk naked in my garden if I want, to never ever have to close my curtains just because the jones from the other side of the street can look inside my house.
The Win is just one layer in the OS/2 API and suspect you might be right in that this layer was probably modeled on early Windows.

However OS/2 had many other layers to it's programming SDK that were not found in early Windows.

For example there was the Dos layer for things like processes, threads, semaphores, files, directories etc.

And then there was the Gdi layer for graphics.

Most of that functionality only made it's way into Windows with the advent of Windows NT (Windows 3.x/95 had poorer versions of those functions. For example running a process and capturing it's output was a real pain in Windows 3.x and Windows 95).

And based on the fact so many of those OS/2 Dos function have an equivalent Windows NT version I suspect Microsoft used that OS/2 design as their starting point for NT.

As just one of many examples consider DosCreateThread from OS/2 1.x

http://www.edm2.com/index.php/DosCreateThread_(OS/2_1.x)

It looks a lot like the CreateThread function found in Win32:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/processth...
Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21467921
Just my 2 cents: I install agda2-mode (official emacs mode of Agda programming language) which supports all sorts of mathematical shortcuts. This way you can type unicode without C-x 8 ing since it's automatic once you type \leftarrow SPACE
Agree, do it until someone has a problem with it, and then find another way to do it, like finding a new job (if you have the luxury).
Where does your money go? Do you regularly audit your finances and account for it all?

I have a bigass spreadsheet I use to track every last dollar, and I ruthlessly optimize everything.

Cell phone plan, down to $30/month.
Health insurance, just $300/month.
No tv. No subscriptions.
No commute. Even if I did, I own my car outright so no car payment.
No B.S. pre-packaged food. I cook pretty much everything at home. Have done so for years.
Minimal eating out, once a month or so at inexpensive restaurants.
No debt. Of any kind. So therefore no interest payments.

A few small "luxury" expenses here like a ski pass because you only live once.

All of this is completely within the realm of someone who makes $70k per year or more, the bottom rung of software development.

You should be able to hit $100K in savings in five years if you are smart with your money. Likely more if you really hustle and audit every dollar. Maybe a little less if you're supporting kids, but you can optimize how you spend your money on them too.