skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, that was the state of speech recognition, too, until it wasn’t. We’ll get full self-driving eventually, but it may take 5-15 years. It’s hard but not intractable, like supersonic passenger air service.

I’m not patient either.
It doesn't impact the validity of the results of the study as far as I can see... If they got closer to a perfect rating system, the predictive power of the model could only be better.
If you stop insurance companies assessing risk then there will be no insurance industry.
Reddit: What are the pitfalls of ERP implementation, and how do I avoid them?
Youth is not the problem, and I don't agree with the other comment saying that youth has it better than previous generations. People just see all the "good things" and how "easy" it is for young people to do things they weren't able to when they were young. But understand that the young people of today have to deal with all the stupid decisions of previous generations, they have to conform to society like never before, and there is so much pressure and uncertainty about so many things (climate, political non-sense), they are being bombarded with violent and sad information all the time. I can understand why young people go to drugs to find some piece in the middle of this mess.

I'm 29 and I'd gladly throw away some of the modern "progress" we made for more freedom, more privacy, and a society that doesn't flat out reject some type of people for their view, their ideas, or lifestyle which doesn't allign with our single minded society.
> I don't understand your hesitancy in using these enhancements to enrich your user experience.

Not your parent, but I know of no mobile app that allows me certain enhancements that are simply standard on my (mobile) web browser: tabs, ad-blocking, & accessibility.

Tabs: because I multi-task, and I compartmentalise my reading. If all I have is an app, then the app either needs to re-invent tabs within it (none I've found so far) or I am forced to have at-most one post/thread I could be reading. The latter is particularly bad. Extra bad when it happens automatically: say I pause reading a post, go to a different app/website, and click on a reddit link there.

Add Firefox's Containers to the mix and the 'Tabs!' benefit becomes even better.

Ad-blocking: Need I say more? Well, more than blocking ads, the general ability to block annoying (highly so in the case of reddit) elements of a page using uBlock Origin or uMatrix. RES doesn't yet work on the mobile web (likely due to the lack of popularity of mobile browsers that _do_ support add-ons), but if it did, I absolutely would use it.

Accessibility: I can print, copy, link to, search in, or have read aloud any page or part of any page on the web. I haven't yet seen a Ctrl+F equivalent in a reddit app, but my mobile browser has Find In Page.
The difference that I would see is that most designers probably don't want to be restricted to just the colors that are defined in the spec and it would be useful to have the colors associated with their purpose (e.g. text color, background color) so that they could be changed without having to change them throughout the various rules.
The native toolchain on my embedded board is a mess. You don't want to learn to deal with it if you don't have to. This comment applies to every embedded toolchain I've ever worked with. Even doing embedded linux with yocto is a mess of a toolchain and it is the best attempt I've ever seen at creating a good embedded toolchain. The problem is just messy.
Pure click-bait. Even with Brexit it's still 10-50x easier to found a limited entity in UK than eg in Germany.
Definition of iatrogenic : induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures
Please stop spreading this bullshit on HN and go back to Reddit.
Drought, Heat, and Victoria Falls: A Climate Story with a Twist
You might be able to laugh over the well illustrated satire 'Motel of the Mysteries' by the excellent illustrator David Macaulay.
Looks like civilian GPS accuracy is 4m or so. I could imagine that dropping someone's dot in the middle of a street, and then a driving having to guess which side of the street the error is coming from.
> It is clearly beneficial to not send whole teams of people looking for weeks for your stolen wallet like they would for a missing person.

A massive miscalculation -- stolen wallets, cell phones etc are individually small-ticket items, but the criminals who make a living stealing them do hundreds per month and thousands per year. Taking the perpetrator of a thousand muggings or pickpocketings off the street is a job worth doing, possibly more so than chasing small time drug dealers or runaway teens.
with the TSP, any permutation of the list of cities is a correct solution. They just differ in length of the tour.

An optimal solution S has
len(S) = min {len(P) | P in Perm(cities)}
Visual Studio Code November 2019
Yes, sorry, I was being flippant.

Giving names to colours in a universal spec like HTML5 would be asking for trouble. You'd be on a never-ending treadmill of new colours. Constants (however that's done, e.g. SASS variables) is clearly the way to go.
A few years ago I got interested enough in this that I bought the book mentioned in the article "The Ultimate Challenge: The 3x + 1 Problem."

If you want to see dead ends other people have gone down and read some actual results and learn some history it is a good read for the mathematically inclined. Some of the maths went over my head but I enjoyed it!
I am generalizing of course, but as an I don't think we have the engineering rigour of other engineering practices to ensure their security. We also tend to rely too much on third parties being trustworthy, be that software dependencies or SaaS providers.
Biweekly
I always wonder if all those reports are real, are inflated (to show some bad-looking-past and how noble we are today) or if was a form of hiding a kind of robbery (see, I found something, but wasn't possible to bring it to the museum/king/whatever because... my team just burned it).
Yeah, templates forces many C++ libraries to be header only. I suspect this came first, and only after a c++ header-only (because they had to be) libraries existed did people realize there were advantages to header only and so people wrote them where they wouldn't have to.
Huh? I doubt that anyone is turning their backs on the UK after a Tory win for business reasons. If you're for lax regulations and live in the UK, you might already be drunk earlier than usual.
and https://i.reddit.com

It's probably 5x faster than the new mobile site, too
"until it wasn’t" => After the AI winter, we had to wait for the phone revolution which enabled data collection at scale, and google et al's big ad dollars in order to fund speech recognition.

Moreover, speech recognition isn't a product you can't launch in a faulty state. You can sell a bad product, make a profit, and iterate without any consequence.

It's not the same with self driving cars, which won't be profitable till you get rid of the driver entirely. And you can't launch a ok product and iterate. It has to be almost perfect when it comes to safety.

Barring geofencing or legislative changes, you have to get it in a perfect state before you roll it out.

When the VC money dies down, and when such big companies are no longer optimistic at having a viable self driving car, the research is going to slow down drastically, till a new wave of funding comes along from some other boom to resuscitate the research.
Thank you for the Apollo recommendation! I was getting tired of the official Reddit app constantly changing the buttons under the posts.
It's almost certainly done by non-employees now, through contracting arrangements. While it's possible the unfiltered stream never leaves Twitter's premises or Twitter's computers, and the individual contractors sign an agreement directly with Twitter, it's only one step removed from just sending your stream to the service and getting back an annotation.
Mozilla does this with popular devices every year around the holidays.

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/
It was. It's called Usenet.

And Usenet even included posting a single message to multiple groups, and people from both can respond.
> To be fair, that was the state of speech recognition, too, until it wasn’t.

I regularly yell at Google when I ask it to play me a song, oftentimes even when I spell out words letter by letter, painstakingly slowly, and it still fails me.

Speech recognition doesn't work all that well for me.

Anyway, I think nuclear fusion is a much better comparison. There is an inflection point where it just works, and until you reach that it's not really useful to anybody except as a research problem. And based on what I hear from my peers who work on self-driving cars (including at Cruise), it's still decades away. Most of them already quit because they just stopped believing it was ever going to happen.
i hate this argument so much! it has been thrown in my face soooooooo many times...
it's the go-to excuse managers and sales people use to tell a woman in IT that she's weird for doing what she does.
even in teams with 90% men, it was almost never the men in the team that were the problem, but almost always those looking in on the team: managers, sales people, marketeers, project managers, journalists, ...

please, stop telling women they are weird for wanting to work in IT or for enjoying their IT job.
I guess there is a difference between a "infinitely accurate risk profile" and "knowing exactly what will happen in the future" (prescience).

Being prescient about getting the number 4 when you throw a dice means you can assign probability 1 to getting 4 when you throw that dice.

Having an accurate risk profile means knowing the odds you'll get 4 with that dice might be 1/6.4 because you precisely measured the shape and weight distribution of the dice and you can see how biased it is.

Let's assign a cost X for the unlucky event of rolling a 4. You're expected loss is X∙1/6.4.
If the event only happens once, obviously you either pay full cost X or you don't pay anything.

If you pool with a large number (N) of people, each throwing once that same dice, then the expected loss of the pool is N∙X∙1/6.4, that is, if each member of the pool contributes their share, the pool is going to be able to pay off the individual losses.
Unlucky people are better off because they saved X∙(1-1/6.4); lucky people are worse off because they had to pay X∙1/6.4. Pool members agree on those rules, because they don't know if they are going to win or lose, and their contribution to the pool is smaller than the worst case scenario.

So far so good. I deliberately used the "custom" probability number 1/6.4 to show how arbitrary that is.

Other people might have other dice, each biased their own way.

The expected loss for the pool would thus be X∙(P₁+P₂+P₃+....Pn).

Each person contributes to the pool backing proportionally to the contribution to the pooled expected loss, thus the system still makes sense even on the case of 1-sized buckets.

(Disclaimer: I have no idea what I'm talking about, this is not my field, just an average person with everyday math skills. Happy to learn why I'm wrong, in case I am)

(EDIT: formatting and typos)
this, it's capitalism/consumerism feeding on the green wave. while it's actually the cause of the mess.
What makes Python a great language?
Ask HN: Where do you find authoritative resources?
No offense, but thanks to marketers lots of websites became sales pitches.

Before I used to read Quora and get some insights, now for each question there are 10 answers with advertising product they are making.

I think we need different kind of internet.

Anytime, any website becomes popular and generated good amount of authoritative knowledge, marketers join and make it pitch deck website.

Please share your knowledge sources.

* https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/ - somewhat ad kind of website, but contains valuable knowledge

* https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/

* https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/

* https://research.swtch.com/
Ask HN: How would you teach programming to kids?
I have the opportunity to teach programming to kids around the age of 12-14. The idea is to give them the inspiration and basic tools to continue programming on their own until they go to university or start their first job. I was thinking of starting off with a simple project that walks them through the basic concepts and finally end up with something simple but cool and working. I'm wondering if that would be the right approach. If so, would you recommend any particular project or resources? Also, how would you distribute theory vs practice (e.g. 30% theory/70% practice)?
I'd rather arrest criminals for committing crimes and not for exercising their rights.
We do support iOS 11. The client being on iOS 11 is an indication that the device has run our of storage space. Because it was out of storage, the files for our app were truncated because there was insufficient storage. A truncated file is there but it's corrupt. iOS doesn't detect this corruption, and the app is broken. Forever, and it can't be fixed without a factory reset, complete reinstall of the OS or somehow jailbreaking the device as far as I know. The customer reporting "stuck on a blank screen" and the User Agent being stuck on iOS 11, even when most people have automatic updates enabled are the primary indications that leads to this conclusion.
Sounds like a cool place!

Lets not go in the direction of semantics - discrimination used in this context has a clear meaning - penalizing a protected group. To hire folks that can be friends with the quorum, means excluding folks who can't. If systematically applied, it probably means excluding entire ethnic, economic or social classes.

Ageism isn't a problem where you work - that's great. Nice upper-class educated people are doing well too - Iranian and Russian immigrants are generally like that.

Assuming the women applicants are identically distributed as the men's (a huge assumption) then those statistics matching is a good sign. If we ignore that 50% of people are women I guess, and only 15% of applicants are. So many women leave our industry (don't know what industry your company is in) the applicant pool is already selected for those who can hack the bro culture. It takes 'affirmative action' to get real parity there.

Hiring is hard, and I understand its an onus on the company to make efforts to find qualified minority candidates. But its also a reason to make an effort. Because there is a pool of overlooked candidates out there, who are not showing up in your middle-class neighborhood with resume in hand.

Anyway, good luck!
Making such "friend-to-friend" lending a major part of the financing infrastructure in the US, it would clearly lead to strong economic and racial disparities.

You don't have to make that kind of stuff illegal, but you also need to make sure that you don't base important parts of your economic systems on such biased processes.
Perhaps physics has a specialized version of "dissipated"? A look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissipation suggests that's the case.

And perhaps corporate_shi11 is using "dissipated in a vacuum" to mean "transfer of internal energy from a hotter body to a colder one across a vacuum"?

shrug - I dunno.
It's the same thing that happens to all "free"/ad-sponsored/VC-backed services. Unless you're FB or Twitter or YouTube, your ads aren't profitable enough to run your business. The business model is unviable unless you get that big. So you lose a bunch of money until you find a way to monetize or close. This always takes the form of user-hostile anti-features. Currently that's forcing users into your special apps, where they can't install an ad-blocker. Historically it's been stuff like increasingly scummy ad behavior, and/or requiring paid accounts to access features that used to be free. Your platform gets less useful and gets replaced by the next "free"/ad-sponsored/VC-backed money loser and the cycle repeats.

It's happening to imgur and Reddit now. Time to find the next big thing.
Was it this from 3 months ago? https://www.colorbox.io/
> and streaming services.

And now they're removing their content from those. They also own several of those streaming services (ESPN, D+, and significant enough parts of Hulu). By contrast their streaming competitors own one single serve (with maybe the exception of Google and Apple who own music streaming services and video streaming).

If nobody sets up a roadblock I fear where it ends, if it does.

I forgot to add a disclaimer: long before I was a developer I worked for Disney. I'm somewhat biased, but I also attempt to not be blind. It's a monopoly on your children to a significant scale. If they stop buying out companies, it still feels like they've bought out some of the more major fandom franchises.

I just went to check, and after their last major buyout they own all of the Narnia movie rights.
One note I find the heavy emphasis on the black lines in the design a bit distracting. The colors itself become a bit of a sidenote here.

Also I get seasick from the animation when changing colors, would be nice if just the colors were fading and the layout stays constant.
Package management is often hideously complex and a central sink of labor effort in linux distros. Building it for yourself is easy, in practice using dynamically linked libraries are the start of all sorts of troubles.
Innovative Invention Lets Student Escape Handwriting Drudgery
If you let them be free to do what they want poor people (or at least some people) will never be insured. But I guess that is the basis of the US healthcare system... how is that working out?
Historically the trend of things we don't/won't own:
land, house, data, right to have kinds, your body.

Why? One argument that is cooking right now: "you don't know how to properly manage these things to support sustainable progress of humanity (and because you are broke)"
No, the correct solution is the one that achieves the minimum travel cost[1]. If any route at all was a correct solution, the problem wouldn't be NP-complete -- it would be the much easier problem of "determine whether a path exists between two nodes in a graph".

[1] It's actually easier to analyze the version of the problem which asks you to find any solution of length less than some constant L.
As its done now, yes streaming video is problematic. I worked at Sococo, and back when we made our own solution we had good low-latency video. Careful bandwidth control and stream-sharing did a lot to make it more useful.
I haven't read my copy yet, but What the Dormouse Said looks about right. John Markoff.
How computers wrote BBC election result stories
A Dark River Nearly 1k Miles Long May Be Flowing Beneath Greenland's Ice
> Are you wearing flip-flops when you interview them?

Yes, in the summer I wear flip flops when I interview people. Flip flops and shorts are within the range of regular informal clothing at my workplace, and people don't dress differently on days when they're interviewing people.

> Do you tell them in advance to feel free to wear flip-flops?

I don't talk to them in advance of the interview. I'm not sure what recruiters/friends/etc tell candidates about what's customary, but I do think many people get advice like "you don't have to dress up, wear whatever you normally do".

> You just moved the goalposts.

I'm not trying to move the goal posts. I'm still talking about flip flops and shorts.
>Apple can win at this game, all they need to do is price it 25% over the best-quality competitor, as the market is willing to pay a premium for Apple's brand and perceived quality.

I am willing to pay even 30%. The problem is Apple has already pass this range and edging closer to 50%.

One reason being competitors are increasing racing to laser thin margin.
what would be your preferred way of scheduling lambdas and doing storage?
That doesn't mean you have to let them assess risk based on incidental information that should be private. Assessing vehicle accident risk on your driving record is fine, assessing it based on who your friends are is not.
I think everyone here knows that speech recognition tech is pretty garbage, even today. I have trained myself to speak as clearly and plain as possible to (Siri / Alexa / random customer services) and they are still only so-so. Very annoying technology.
The article did say they did additional seismic testing, so that is hopeful they will stand up.
> But let's attack this argument on a technical level again: The data you speak of already resides in Facebook's database. There is no privacy implications of them using data, your messages, your pictures, and metadata that is already in their database or one of their children companies databases, for ads.

On a related note, my lawyer already knows where the money is buried, so are there any privacy implications in him giving the police a few tips? Privacy isn't just about who has my data -- it's about how my data gets used.

The use of ads to target me against my will, or to allow other people to target me against my will is a violation. Facebook does share data with other companies, but even if they didn't, there's no practical difference between a company targeting me directly based on my data and a company asking Facebook to target me based on the same data. Facebook is just acting as a proxy.
This is classic shortermism.

Reddit is, in the short term, driving more external users towards creating user accounts while in the long term removing one of the major value funnels for why they would (i.e. the quality of comments, particularly in certain niche communities/about niche topics).

This will give them a short term "bump" at the cost of the site's long term relevance (as it falls down Google's search results rankings, due to loss of clicks as people stop looking to Reddit as a source of info). Most of the recent moves on Reddit are like this, it feels like the entire site is being turned into a pump and dump scheme.
Learn to Swim. My 5 and 6 year olds can swim but I can't. It's time for me.
Paging u/mackenziechild

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mackenziechild
I am not an expert in C++, but there exists an opinion that it will not help as much as you might think.

https://cor3ntin.github.io/posts/modules/
Yes and it was a subcompact sedan while both people had large backpacks on their lap
Critical Remote Code-Execution Bugs Threaten Global Power Plants
s/maker/self employed/
That seems pretty unobjectionable to me. It's generally good that insurance companies encourage people to behave in ways that result in fewer payouts. Car insurance companies encouraging people to drive in a safer manner, health insurance companies encouraging you to go to the gym, fire insurance companies encouraging sprinkler systems, etc.
Or, I'm recognizing it when I see it. (And so are you - that description is pretty much spot-on a 'local optimization).

Do we believe upper management said "screw with your workers until they stop being effective"? That's trivially false.
It was a 3 lane one direction road and each time he went to the right hand side because the instead of trying the left handside. And instead of waiting for traffic to clear and thinking she might be on the otherside of the building he went to the back...twice.
> The lined up procession of cabs is more convenient than trying to find the one car you're supposed to get into,

Lyft has a new feature (I forget what it's called) where instead of directly matching with a specific driver, you get a four-digit number and then stay in line and get in the car when your turn comes. At that point you match with the driver using the number you got.
All he was accomplishing was thinning the herd of the dumb ones. He's going to be responsible one day for The Incident.