skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Averaging values with random divergence from the truth is useful. Averaging values with random divergence from nonsense is not.
Indeed a smartphone with no sim card is ideal for what's being discussed here, because even without a cell plan it can call 911.
To further complicate the matter, the idea of a "bad" environment is relative.

I've been on many all-male programming teams. Played football in high school.

From my experiences, those men tend to make fun of, poke, prod, and occasionally fight their way to agreement.

Comments were very direct. Abrasive at times. But usually got straight to the point.

I don't think I ever thought of any of it as needing "fixing". Quite the contrary, I think those men loved those other men.

But I could see someone of a different disposition being shocked at the crudeness, the brashness of it all and possibly thinking "it's toxic". It could be conflicting if someone wanted to participate in the team activity, but their approach didn't align with the existing members.
yeah but the GPS has to update too
With AlphaGo in 2015 we crossed an important bridge in the Turing Test - before AlphaGo, we could be pretty certain that a high level Go game was played by a human. After AlphaGo, we can't be sure.

At this point a display of great competence no longer means that a human did it. Sure; all the parts haven't been completely connected to make self driving cars, general game playing AIs or conversation bots. But on any discrete task it is no longer reasonable to say "computers can't possibly do that" the way I could about a Go game between two 9 dan players in 2010.

I can still say "not commercially viable" and I can point to specific attempts that don't work, but computers are now on the same threshold as humans - [data + time = results]. It may be more data and more time than a human, but that is a big change from [logically modelled domain = results] which is where we were before in AI.

> ...AI systems whose actions cannot be closely scrutinized and explained...

Author is one of the large group of people who are in for a shock when they try to scrutinize and explain a humans crazy actions. I can't even explain why I get the wrong result sometimes when I add numbers in my head.
Even when there’s nothing to suggest an election will be close, you predictably get a “polls tightening, anything could happen now!” narrative in the days before the election. I assume those stories get a lot more clicks.
Job Isn't Writing Code
Think of it this way, it is an index fund of a single stock. All the same rules apply to index investing.
Sometimes I feel like removing ownership from the consumer is the goal of moving everything into a subscription service.
I'm suspicious of motives here as much as anyone, but I think the issue of policy enforcement (and policy itself) is very important here. It already occurred to me that Mastodon and Gab were, despite being worst enemies, together inadvertently creating a reasonable content meta-policy. Some people want freedom of expression, some people want protection from objectionable material. With ActivityPub, you can choose your gatekeeper, and still more or less exist in the same social universe.
> People ask me how The Atlantic differs from Harper's.

They do?

Really?
Don't Italy and Portugal and all have reputations for exactly this happening?
Have you looked into the Librem 5 smartphone?

https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/
if you turn WiFi and bluetooth OFF, you might be ok... otherwise your location can still be tracked.
> I'm a woman. I AM A WOMAN IN STEM. You know what makes my blood pressure rise? People in real life and in this thread who tell me that I'm naturally not suited to it, that I like people more than things. Go away! Shut the f(*& up! I want to sit here and deal with my code and not have people tell me that I either don't know what I like or I'm not a real, normal woman.

This is a misrepresentation of what people are writing in this thread. People are not saying that women who work in STEM are "not natural" or are working in a field they are unsuited for. They're saying that natural population-wide differences mean that the fact that women choose to enter computing at lower rates than men is not indicative of sexism. Saying that computing is 20% women because of biological differences is not making any statement of the capabilities of those women that go into computing.

> Maybe we won't get to 50-50 in some STEM fields. Who cares.

Many people do indeed subscribe to the belief that STEM should have parity between the sexes, and many companies are employing discriminatory policies to achieve this. And this doesn't just hurt men. When people witness discrimination in their companies' hiring processes, they look around and at their co-workers and wonder, "would this person have been hired if they didn't belong to a 'diverse' demographic?" Do you think this helps women?
listening and keeping in touch with the customer!

Maybe you don't sell today but keep in touch with the customer.

Today 'lost' prospects are really tomorrow sales.
Here's a weird idea: is music a supernormal stimulus? I mean, I listen to music constantly, every day, and I become irritable if I must go without music for long periods. It would not be a stretch to label this an addiction. Furthermore, music does not exist in our natural environment. You might protest that birdsong qualifies as music, but even granting that, birdsong bears no relation to the highly rhythmic, bass-heavy music that humans seem to prefer. Where did this preference come from? And if music really is a supernormal stimulus, is that necessarily a bad thing? Can a supernormal stimulus be morally neutral, or perhaps even good?
I think the most interesting thing here is the comparison between these hi-tech options we've got now (FaceTune, cheap and low-invasion surgery) and their lower tech analogues (ie. makeup, haircuts). These hi-tech options may be way more quotidian 10/20/30 years down the line - according to the article, the stigma around the procedures is already diminished to the point where celebrities are willing to promote it. It still doesn't feel like something I'd want for myself, but it's not hard to imagine a reality not too far off where this becomes much more common, especially considering what we know about the positive correlation between conventional attractiveness and fame/money/career advancement.
It goes in both directions

In Germany I paid like 20€ for my mattress
I still sorely miss Microsoft Money and have found Quicken/et al to be terrible alternatives. Any recommendations? Strongly prefer offline entirely, and would be happy if it's cross-platform and can import standard bank statement exports.
"If I'm either with you or against you, then I'm against you. No matter who you are, no matter what you stand for."
Open a window, have your friend waiting down below ready to catch it?
> I really can't overstate how skeptical I am of all the supposed benefits of gender-segregated schooling when attendance of a gender-segregated school is so strongly correlated with socioeconomic class.

I went to an all boys school with mostly working class boys of color (54% hispanic, 26% white, 13% asian, 6% black -- 75% non-white students ) next to Compton, though, so while I do agree that private schooling is associated with higher socioeconomic class, that was not my experience, and all I gave was my experience.
I don't really fancy myself anything other than a guy trying to get to work and back without dying. I'd like to be able to make that trip on a bicycle, for various reasons.

I had noted previously that these incidents were happening and that in many cases they made me feel unsafe. Various police contacts had told me that they didn't have time to be doing proactive enforcement. Submitting some reports was basically just checking to see which exact parts of the process they didn't feel they had time for— turns out it was basically all of it, unfortunately. But it was worth finding that out, I think, for the purposes of shaping other interactions with the PD, politicians, and local media.

In any case, the higher level of government takes these kinds of violations very seriously— not yielding to a pedestrian crosswalk is 4 demerits and a fine of up to $1000, so it really is up to my local PD to pick their priorities, and for whatever reason they choose not to enforce it.
I wonder whether Nest cams are being used in a similar fashion.
If you dont give me your fortnite vbucks i will put you in my white van
> this makes it even harder for remote work to be good, if you have to fly even twice a year.

Well, he's working a continent away from his office. There are still infinite possibilities for remote work without having to travel 2500 miles for those occasional visits.
One of the most horrible things about iOS is that it breaks your apps every year.

This is a terrible experience for customers (since their apps break every year) and for developers (since they have an ongoing maintenance burden dumped on them by Apple just to keep their apps working across yearly iOS updates.)

The main beneficiary of abandoning ABI compatibility (as Apple has done) is the platform developer (e.g. Apple) who avoids the maintenance burden of backward compatibility.

It's arguably the wrong approach because it helps the platform developer (Apple) at the expense of existing customers and developers. There is multiplicative burden of pain - each time Apple breaks something, millions of customers and thousands of developers pay an immediate price.

There is a long-term user benefit to platform evolution, but the short-term cost is relentless and ongoing.

For game developers in particular, the stability and backward compatibility of Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo platforms is a dream compared to the quicksand of iOS development.
> If emotions are a part of your decision, you're going to perform poorly.

I agree. Hacker News readers are more logic based but the rest of the world is more emotional based. For most people, the emotional half of the brain dominates the logical half of the brain. I think we can agree that being invested in a diverse basket of 20+ stocks with 5% or less of the portfolio invested in each is regarded as a pretty safe bet. I also think we can agree that anyone who invests will do better in the long run than people who don't invest.

The news commonly sells convincing chichen-little fear that the sky is falling, the market's gonna crash, and we should all flock to gold. But I know with higher certainty that Amazon will keep shipping packages, Target will keep selling merchandise, Apple will keep selling more iPhones, and VISA cards will keep collecting interchange fees.

We can debate though whether it's better to hold an index fund you might panic sell or individual stocks that you plan to hold forever.
Russian "court" can "determine" whatever whoever paid the court wants it to "determine". It's not a flaw in the copyright law - it's a flaw in Russia having no real independent non-corrupt court system. You can't fix this flaw by writing different license or signing some different papers.
Conversely, if someone smashes into my parked car and flees, most major cities won’t investigate. Whereas they could use stop light cameras and a few hours of work to potentially identify the suspect.

Likewise, if live in SF and someone breaks in your car, the police won’t investigate it unless you’re A-Rod.
It seems like focus on developer ergonomics over actual users has been monotonically increasing since I started my career. It may be great for the OS developers that they don't have to care about back compat but it is terrible for the users. Your API may be beautiful but my software no longer works, so the system is useless.

In the case of Linux everyone is now shipping entire userlands with their applications via docker just to workaround compatibility issues. We'd be shipping entire VMs if the kernel wasn't the only one holding the line on compatibility.

Its been a long time now since I saw a programming post talking about how some new paradigm or way of doing things would make life great for the users.
> We need real CI resources

It would be easy to boot the 32-bit kernel in a VM as part of a CI pipeline and then run some automated tests to catch issues like this.

(Unless by "real" he means non-virtualised? Is there anything about these bugs that would only reproduce on bare metal?)
You can deploy it as a docker image in a few minutes. If you already run a homelab of any sort (which most of HN does), it's basically free.
Not sure I would buy that system administrator's don't write code and writing a webserver which is closely related to a sysads job.
It's really too bad they never released a compilation DVD set of it. AL is consistently funnier than SNL. Much of the humor is local, though.
Also:

https://coderadio.freecodecamp.org/

https://9128.live/

https://dewtone.com/
Sounds more like trade secrets / breach of contract
I actually think the opposite is true. Typically customers choose MacOS over Windows (when price is no object). The features in the Darwin/XNU systems are certainly very customer focused.
Having said that anecdotally I think that while it could be said that developers enjoy having new capabilities rather it is more often the case than not that when old APIs are deprecated and new APIs are used to replace them (forcibly) developers end up upset (see: Metal replacing OpenGL on MacOS / 32-bit application deprecation on MacOS).
https://www.portal.qb64.org/
https://www.freebasic.net/

QB64 maintains compatibility with QuickBasic (mostly) and can compile to DOS. FreeBASIC has newer bits added for a more modern approach.
Agreed feedback is tough. One of the problems is that it depends a lot on the setting and team. A person in one team might get some kind of feedback, but in another team the same person could get the opposite advice.

The other problem in our industry being relative inexperience of many people. When everyone in the team has had < 5yrs experience who is really qualified to objectively describe what a person is doing wrong? I know when I was a an inexperienced manager I gave "constructive feedback" that I now recognize was wrong.
GRU have been severely embarrassed quite a few times in the last few years. It does seem that they're much closer to thugs with batons.
It’s getting more difficult to run 32-bit x86. The main Arch Linux dropped official support in 2017, Ubuntu dropped it in 2018, Fedora in 2019. Mint is good for old hardware, but they intend to drop 32-bit in 2020.

There are LTS releases committed to supporting the 32-bit OS for several years to come, but the writing is on the wall: They have entered the long twilight of no official support, but still working if you can hack it together.
I've deployed Huginn a few times but never gotten off the ground with it. I found agents a bit too cumbersome to configure, but maybe I just need to give it another shot.
And what exact US law would that be?
Given nothing more than your descriptions, the first game sounds like a description that could be somewhat applied to Infocom's Leather Goddess of Phobos, and the second sounds similar to a description that could be applied to Infocom's Zork series.

Both are pure text adventures however, no graphics.
See Skype -> Lync -> Skype -> Teams for example
==seeing as our entire criminal system is primarily driven by eye witnesses of crimes?==

Do you have a source for this? In my yearlong experience on a Federal Grand Jury, the vast majority of evidence we deliberated on was "hard". By that I mean video evidence, financial transactions, text messages, emails, cell phones tower pings for location, etc. Eye witness testimony helps solidify a case, but you typically need some form of "hard" evidence to even indict someone.

Even in your example, the video is what identified the suspect and lead to arrest not eye witnesses.
Nuts are good. Or any kind of dog or cat kibble.
>Why do you think that their cooperation must be required before they will cooperate?

Because they have written Law Enforcement Guidelines that are pretty clear and otherwise as a lawyer I know they don't just turn over customer data and information without a written order (and even then, they may object and fight it in court).

Why do you believe they are just turning over consumer data/info/video without any court order (besides, police are customers and Amazon wants to keep customers happy)?
Is there any evidence that this has created food allergies?
Not only that, but most of Microsoft's discontinued products were replaced by arguably better alternative products.

Windows 95 -> 98 -> XP -> ...

Microsoft Works -> Office

COBOL -> ... -> Visual Studio

Unlike Google, where, for example, Reader is gone and they don't have any alternatives.
A Cosmology Primer [pdf]
The term for this type of attack is credential stuffing.

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Credential_stuffing
I think the last one pretty much covers it.
FTC Said to Consider Injunction Against Facebook
Boeing’s Fixes to 737 Max Not Likely to Get FAA Approval Until February
You think $44K is a middle-class income?
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Thank you for this. The before after was striking. I’m used to seeing these contrasts in corners of Asian culture where high levels of makeup are common, but had been unaware of what it looks like in western faces and how prevalent it is.
Former CEO of Rambler at the time already said that the company had no claim on this and that they had an agreement about this exact issue back when Sysoev was hired. It can't be more clear than this.
I was thinking that for a while too, but started to swing back towards caring for how a post frames the recipe. There are an infinite variety of the same basic recipes, and how do you choose between any given two of them? The people and the art around them, where the recipe came from, what the recipe author was trying to capture, thought processes to follow that might lead me along to what I'm hoping to capture in my own cooking, etc. There is no objective evaluation of what makes a "good recipe", it is all subjective.

The UX balance of that is obviously tough, and probably more such posts should have a "skip to the recipe" button. Sometimes it seems like a technical expertise challenge that a lot of these recipe blogs are basic (or worse) off-the-shelf CMSes and some of the ugliest blog platforms humanity has built, and there isn't enough flexibility or training to do something so basic in those platforms.

Also, some of them legitimately have audiences that read every post as a blog, and the day-to-day audience isn't intended to be "I'm in a hurry, I just need this one recipe today", but "follow my stories and I include recipes to go along with them". It's sometimes tough to make both audiences happy, and that day-to-day audience is more regular and likely the better one to focus on for the most sustainable revenue/readership.
Sorry "Never give work full rights to everything you make on your own time." is not going to work there is to much precedent in US employment law.
If someone robbed your home and you recognized them, would you report them to the police?
Situation: Investigators can perform dragnet surveillance with the assistance of google

> Investigators need to do their jobs and chase every lead they can

That's circular reasoning. What they can and cannot do is defined by the rules we set.
I have no problem with this. I have ring cameras all around my property and so do most of my neighbors and it's already caught multiple people attempting breaking and stealing packages.

They get hacked because of poor password choices.

You are fighting against a changing tide and the benefits of the cameras vastly outweigh the privacy concerns.
I haven't actually measured, but I would swear the mattresses are smaller than standard sizes as well. Every king bed hotel room I've stayed in for the past decade is certainly smaller than my king bed at home.

Timeshares and resorts are hit or miss, personal rentals like AirBnB are often normal mattresses, but hotels must be buying some weird hotel only stock where they undersize the mattresses enough to save money in volume but little enough where they feel like they can get away with still labeling them standard sizes.
Possibly Google Play Services? That's where they stick a lot of this sort of thing, IIRC.
Breaking news politics are off-topic https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I listen to Kizomba (Portuguese) or Salsa/Bachata (Spanish) music while I work. I enjoy the rhythms, but I can't speak either of those languages, so I get the enjoyment without the distraction.
Twitter to embrace and extend a decentralised system and bend it to their own will using their incumbent position.
Blockchain is probably not the best (or maybe even the worst) solution for decentralized messaging.
Pardon him, Theodotus, he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
-- George Bernard Shaw
No, a democracy dies to thunderous applause.
The entire model of Sonos was to release one set of base products and improve them through software. I have had 2x Play 3's, PlayBar and a Sub for years as a home theatre and it works solidly.

For me the software has got so much better.
> there's no meaningful business value to capturing biometrics or pictures of things in your home. Also, ethics.

And that'll be the company line, until there is 'business value'. FB is just investing in facial recognition technology to "help protect you from a stranger using your photo to impersonate you" [1]

Regarding ethics, have their been any meaningful changes since the FTC handed down the $5bn fine for data privacy violations? Or was it just an unfortunate set of actions taken by individuals and aren't representative of the company's philosophy?

Will there be any changes forthcoming when the Illinois class lawsuit alleging illegal collection of biometric data without user consent goes to trial? [2]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/09/technology/facebook-facia...

[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/09/facebook-...
It is easier to be against something than it is to be for something else. A lot of revolts break down after they remove the power they are opposed to because the participants are not united by a common constructive vision for an alternative.
There has been one ABI break in iOS ever. In over 11 years.
The fact that some people commit crimes out of desperation isn’t a very good argument for removing disincentives to commit crimes. You don’t lock your door at night because you think someone might break in for fun and you want to deprive them of that fun. You lock your door to protect your family and your belongings.

The question of moral culpability might be relevant when discussing legal punishments, rehabilitation, social welfare, etc. but it really isn’t relevant to what basic measures one can take to protect their home. To use an extreme example, someone could be forced under duress to break into your home. They clearly wouldn’t be morally culpable, but that simply isn’t relevant. You still lock your doors.