skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Curing ASD is a bad idea. Helping symptoms may be a good idea.

There's an assumption here that NT socialization is the "correct" socialization. That NT behaviors, world-view, all that thing, is what is "normal" and "correct". This is just straight up bias. You want ASD people to be "normal" for your definition of normal but there's actually no natural law that makes it so. Just the tyranny of the majority.
Show HN: Using AI to predict political bias
Hey there!
We here at The Bipartisan Press built a political bias classification AI model using some of the newest technologies like BERT and ULMFit. We explored how new, pretrained models could be used to fine-tuned to analyze political bias and acheived some pretty amazing results. We also explored the use of regression instead of just classification, which, afaik, hasn't be tried and documented before.

We documented some of our results here: https://www.thebipartisanpress.com/politics/calculating-political-bias-and-fighting-partisanship-with-ai/

And we also created a beta version of our smallest model that you can try out for yourself here: https://www.thebipartisanpress.com/analyze-bias/

Let us know what you think and if you have any questions!
It's snake oil!

Note that to fill a patent you only need to fill some paperwork, you don't need a working prototype.

These "inventions" doesn't make any sense and it's ridiculous that the journalist just copy&paste the info without any critical thinking, and adds "Start Treck" just for the linkbait effect. And it will definitively not be ready in 2020.

The fist may be possible, but we don't have a complete theory to explain high temperature superconductivity, so until he has a working prototype, it's just a weird unsupported speculation.

The other two are just some unintelligible ideas about electromagnetic fields and vacuum fields. With the current theories they preserve energy and momentum, so unless he discover new physics it will not work. And to discover new physics he essentially needs a working prototype.

> Thoughts on how this would connect to newly found Space Force?

It's totally unrelated.
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How would people log in from outside the office?
If you have bug bounties at all then you are incentivizing employees to create subtle bugs on purpose to have their accomplices outside the company “discover” later.
Why not just a coloured Silicon mould of a finger instead?
Can I get the source? In other words, how do I debug the debugger?
> inheritance is just automatically delegating messages to another actor and possibly modifying the results.

I don't think this is true. Objects can message themselves as part of base-class code; implementation inheritance means that this has to involve a level of indirection and dispatch, not just explicit delegation.
I think the heterogeneity of empires is a contributing factor to their eventual dissolution though. They tend to last a century or two at their height, and then start to break apart as more cohesive nations emerge. That’s not such a long time as far as societies go.

And the issue at hand isn’t whether homogenous societies could “compete” with empires, but whether they’re more likely to persist (and have less alienation among the people).
> On a good day, it felt like my shift passed in a flash.

Surely that’s a bad thing that a job is so bad you need to wish the day away as quickly as possible rather than enjoying it?
> Nice goalpost scoot.

Please edit snarky swipes out of your comments here. The rest of this post would be just fine without that first bit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
No doubt this will still advance the state of the art in aerospace systems, but there's some old data by Boeing and NASA that seem to indicate some potential compatibility issues with Ti in the presence of a strong oxidizer.

See PDF pg. 66 (not report pagination)
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/197200...

See PDF pg.11
https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/866010.pdf
I agree that it shouldn’t be taken seriously (or even just not participated in), but not everyone is a master of stoic detachment. Some people cannot help but have strong emotional reactions to things like this.
You think "one thing" is probe connectivity over ICMP and I think "one thing" is probe connectivity. Someone else could reasonably argue that "one thing" is probe the network.

People use this phrase a lot but I feel that they emphasize the wrong part. It's all about "do it well", no matter what you do.
I disagree, this seems to require users to read and understand the EULA, navigate all the settings (and again each time they change) and have a high degree of information op-sec for the things that aren't mentioned in the EULA or settings (such as 1 pixel tracker images on third party websites). This would have to be done for each and every service you come into contact with.

People may not be able to opt out of these services. Many people will buy phones and devices and, when they receive them, discover that the Facebook app and similar apps are pre-installed and cannot be removed. Additionally, here in the UK many schools use Facebook to communicate important information to parents. Even without semi-official requirements, the effect of so many people and organisations running social interactions through Facebook means that people have little choice but to join themselves.

I think we need both legal requirements and social standards about how these things are handled to make things like Facebook safe by default, not safe if you and the people you know put effort and expertise into controlling your exposure.

PS. I haven't downvoted your comments, I don't know why one of them looks to have been downvoted.
"Why do vendors like Samsung make their ugly buggy shells and pre-install software I don't need? Do they think they have better designers and developers that Google has?" They have to be VALUE provider, not just maker a rather common and brick-looking gadget
IME Google's OCR is much more accurate than Tesseract. I doubt they still use it.
Thank you! Thank you so much :)
This is good. Obviously it won't do anything to stop leaks (that's an unsolvable analog hole called "humans"), but it will help evangelising Signal ("if it's good enough for the scheming knaves in power..."), which provides superior privacy to the average person than Whatsapp or Telegram.
We're a YC backed company (YC S17). Nothing to hide, there's plenty of information on us online (CrunchBase, blog posts, TechCrunch, etc.)
Food Allergies. Please support food allergies.

If it is supported, it is difficult to tell, and thusly I can't use the service.
Thank you for this. It's something I try to explain to my younger brother (who can't understand why I prefer life in Europe to the Northeast US).

Interestingly, here's a photo I took of a park at sunset, in Kiev, with people outside enjoying each other's company and said sunset.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BxnIIPAnDpQ/
You might think Bloomberg would be less-than-strict about enforcing this (who wants to sue their customer?) until you realize that “we’ll forgive the breach of contract if you buy accounts for everyone we caught cheating” is a very lucrative sales tool.
I'm actually half-way migrating from Kubuntu to Arch..

But sure, I'll get .tar.gz done.

And if you'd like to get notified when done, just send your contact info (my email is in the 'contact' page). Thanks for the feedback!
I'd like to chime in here and suggest you have a look at PeerTube. https://joinpeertube.org/en/

I haven't tried it yet but it uses the BitTorrent protocol for video retrieval, so there is your magnet link? Of course it is self-hosted if you can't find an instance that'll take you, but it might be a good option.
I Can’t Promise I Will Never Be Problematic: A Twitter Thread
And even more things can go very wrong with more complicated control systems.
Well, since the discussion was about iPhones that both have a tighter security model and where every app has to go through the App Store, I fail to see the relevance.
Ask HN: What are some “Money Stuff” newsletter equivalents for other fields?
> I was just about to write something similar - the reason nasa projects fail is because they refuse to allow for iteration.

If that's why they fail, do they regularly succeed in spite of it or also because of it?
Hard truths about starting a career as a developer
This doesn't work if source code is not available. I can get a trace of the function calls but no arguments, or return values or anything. This makes it entirely useless as a reverse engineering tool, something i was very excited to use it as due to it essentially being a tracer. It also NEEDS modern java support.
99.9% of entrepreneurs are never going to actually compete against Google, Facebook, et al. And if they do, it's actually not that hard because the entrepreneur's approach will be completely different.

That's the whole point of the advice: stop worrying about being copied. It's a fake problem.
It is, in the end, what costs to you as a person. It is the ultimate limited resource. An hour spent doing work for a customer is an hour ticked off of your finite list of hours you'll ever have in this life.

In contrast, results are somewhat of a renewable resource.
It isn’t, according to NIST.
Robert Gottlieb, the Art of Editing (1994)
You missed the next two sentences which paint the complete picture:

>In the long run, however, successful immigrant societies have overcome such fragmentation by creating new, cross‐cutting forms of social solidarity and more encompassing identities. Illustrations of becoming comfortable with diversity are drawn from the US military, religious institutions, and earlier waves of American immigration.
Hackers don't have the need to convince anyone else of what the word hacker means. It is of no consequence what "regular people" think we mean when we say hacker. We have our forums and our and we all know what it means.

But if we were in a situation where it mattered what other people I thought the word meant, then we would be fucked. And that is evident by just talking with regular folk and asking them what they think about hackers.

The situation with OOP is different. It is our community itself that uses the word incorrectly (according to some people, including the original commenter).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20600357
I would like to see NASs allow me to basically allocate a percentage of my capacity to various peers to store encrypted-at-rest duplicates of their data

This is something I've been thinking about, too. We have so many Internet-connected devices with increasingly cheap storage-- Some universal protocol for distributing data across this network would be really cool. (I understand this could sound like blockchain. I have no horse in that race.)
7z file explorer works well for me. Now I am mostly using Linux though.
Show me any adult that doesn't "have issues".

NT people are so broken in your own ways: relationships with parents, relationships with spouses, relationships with children, relationships with the environment: you don't get any of them right. You are all so broken and unhealthy! Why are you all on anti-anxiety meds, why are you all on anti-depressants? Every NT person I know makes so many weird decisions, against their own interests, against their own emotional health. You are broken in this world.

But for some reason it becomes so important that ASD people just "act more normal". Whatever.
Crazy Objects That Defined an Even Crazier 2019
Does Huawei need to make money to survive?
You get paid by results by becoming owner [stakeholder]. The rest is all BS.
You’d Pay Not to See Your Stock Price
That's an opportunity cost, not an actual accounting cost.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Consumer_Privacy_Ac...

"The intentions of the Act are to provide California residents with the right to:

* Know what personal data is being collected about them.

* Know whether their personal data is sold or disclosed and to whom.

* Say no to the sale of personal data.

* Access their personal data.

* Request a business to delete any personal information about a consumer collected from that consumer.

* Not be discriminated against for exercising their privacy rights."

If it's anything like the GDPR you can send a letter asking for a print-out of all personal data. And request it gets deleted. Note that financial transaction must be retained based on other laws (tax law) so companies can't delete everything.

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-request-your-per...
What you say is true. And yet, a claim of hypocrisy is also often used to sidestep a charge of indefensible behavior. That, in fact, is what we call "whataboutism".

Now, in this particular case, I don't think it is in fact "whataboutism". But I also think the original comment by techntoke:

> Yet nothing about the American spam accounts doing the same thing in American politics.

is unreasonable. It's just not whataboutism.

Why is it unreasonable? Because in American politics, the American spam accounts are run by the Democratic and Republican parties and various PACs. That can certainly be propaganda and disinformation. But it's not state-backed, which is what we're talking about here. State-backed would be the CIA, say, using these techniques to manipulate American politics.
The internet offers superficial social interactions.

It gives reasons to ignore the people in our surroundings. And them, us. We physically socialise with fewer people.

Our social skills decline.

We can choose to completely ignore those of different opinions. We were once forced to socialise with them. No longer in our digital bubble.

This fractures social cohesion.

Loneliness and then anger results. This anger can and will be directed by those willing and able.
True enough, but on the other hand I am happy to keep my 88 year old grandmother's laptop going strong so she can talk to her friends in the online clubs she belongs too. I would feel bad sending her to some stores knowing they will possibly be taken advantage of. I guess just pick and choose wisely :)
Show HN: Booky – app to organize notes from books you read
Hi folks, I've launched "Booky" - app for organizing notes from books you read.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/pl/app/booky-organize-books-notes/id1492092565

With the app you can:
1. Snap picture of the book while you're reading it
2. Quickly highlight your favorite quotes
3. Sync your book shelf with Goodreads
4. Search in the notes you scanned

Promo video: https://www.dropbox.com/s/lfnwb8cvi5oyfd9/preview.mov?dl=0

Those features are similar to what you might find in ebooks apps but the app enables you to do that with physical books. I'm not sure how to build any business model around it so I'd love to hear your suggestions :)
Just a quick grammatical note:

> Monzo API only allows to fetch all of your transactions within 5 minutes of authentication.

The referenced link states:

> After a user has authenticated, your client can fetch all of their transactions, and after 5 minutes, it can only sync the last 90 days of transactions. If you need the user’s entire transaction history, you should consider fetching and storing it right after authentication.

So I would think the sentence would be:

"Monzo API only allows to fetch the last 90 days of your transactions after 5 minutes of authentication."

...which actually seems worse.
I'm not trying to move the goalposts. I'll try responding in a different way.

I don't know why you have stated everyone would provide identical answers if asked about a cure for austism. A simple reddit search which I just did confirms there is a thread where some have been asked this question and said they would in fact sign up for a cure. Other answered "maybe". Many said "no". Nobody said "go fly a kite".

I will concede the majority of people appear to have answered no, but, again, that isn't a representative sample of the general population. More data would be needed to make a more general conclusion.
>Running it on a timer actually works quite well.

It would seem we have an existence proof now saying that the above statement is incorrect.
This is correct, using a commit hash is safer.

However, you'll sometimes want to update the commit hash after the action's maintainer releases new code. If you don't then you run the risk of running an old action that has vulnerable components or bugs.

The easiest workflow for that should be Dependabot's updater for GitHub actions:
https://dependabot.com/github-actions/
Has anyone tried that approach for GitHub actions?

You still need to review the action's code before you use it, and every time you update to a new commit hash. But this approach protects you from automatically running new malicious code pushed to master/re-tagged.
See https://marc.info/?l=git&m=148787047422954 for some of linus thoughts about this.
> Many of the common complaints, such as "my computer is slow," have known solutions: registry cleaners for Windows

Registry cleaners are rarely, if ever, the solution for a slow PC.
It doesn't take perfect stoicism not to react with anger and nausea to every expression one encounters on social media. Most people aren't that sensitive.
$1800 for a 1U server in a 24C/48T and 64GB of RAM configuration? These are incredibly competitive. How much cheaper are whitebox versions of the same thing if this is the HP premium price?
It did reach orbit. They're just not at the orbit they want to be at.
"with" is always a good idea indeed.

But be careful, map() and submit() + as_completed() don't have the same effect.

The first one will give you the result in the insertion order, while the later give you the results in the order they are completed.
The Space Shuttle was always hand flown, not automated.
I have to disagree. Sun sued Microsoft because Sun's entire motivation in Java was to keep Java portable. So much so that it was in the contract. It was a private contract dispute between two companies. A civil matter. Not a state criminal matter.
Thinking Militarily about Laptop Theft
Not that it justifies the increasing margin, but cross-AZ data transfer is 2¢ a gigabyte when using EC2, but is free for RDS replication.
most of these influencers think they're famous for their unique talents, that's why it might be sexist to suggest they are famous for their looks only
>Flight controllers recognised the problem but were unable to intervene quickly enough because the capsule was passing between satellite links.

I imagine the reason timers are used is this right here. We don't have complete coverage of the earth for satellite control, so there needs to be a timer running for when it can't phone home to stay synchronized.
We Need to Move Beyond the Car
This isn't always implicit, though: python's explicit self is still "object-oriented"
> As far as I know, it powers all OCR at Google (e.g. in Keep, Docs, etc.).

Tesseract is acceptable only if the text is neatly laid out, in more-or-less straight parallel lines or at the very least consistent orientation that's close enough to being straight horizontal lines.

Google Cloud Vision, however, can read any orientation, any font, through perspective distortion and does not need the different text blobs in the image to be consistent in any way. Superior in every way to plain Tesseract (and if it is Tesseract after preprocessing, the magic is in that preprocessing more than it is in Tesseract)

I would actually be very surprised to hear GCV uses Tesseract; and if they don't, why would they use something inferior for other products?
Technically that's the original use case of futures contracts - you pay now, and lock the price. You might lose some (due to prices falling down, supply not fulfilling the contract) or win some (due to issues in supply, prices going up, etc.).

On the other hand, the supplier gets money now, not some time in the future (like after harvest) and this provides a different kind of cash flow that doesn't invoke debt (usually).

And then there's trading on the contracts all around, trying to get best prices :)
Well, they let Lehman fail, and AIG, Fannie/Freddie shareholders were mostly wiped out, so... That's hundreds of billions of shareholders being wiped out.
Not all adblockers are born equal
There are collision attacks against it but GitHub should be detecting and protecting against those. See https://github.blog/2017-03-20-sha-1-collision-detection-on-...
It's insecure for certain applications.

Here is Linus on SHA-1 in git:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/26/git_fscked_by_sha1_...
> There are various obvious ways of decreasing social alienation in US society; the problem with that is, most people aren't going to like it

There are also not-so-obvious ways. For example, returning to a society where most of our trips are on foot and transit rather than by the isolating and dehumanizing bubble of personal automotive.

As always with public policy, the question arises of what's the better way to address problems. The gulf from recognizing a problem and implementing policy to solve a problem is vast.
Let's not forget that China also is ~40% of the market.
Most of those apps are still made with USA/Western Europe customers in mind and their habits so just translating text in the ui will not add a ton of relevant content in case of a social app.

Google assistant just doesn't work very well outside of USA for example.
I agree for the most part about the money part. I would still want the option for them to not allow me to upgrade plans without re-entering my credit card info. But with regards to personal information, that is almost everything I log into. And those companies share your personal info anyway, so it just gives you a false sense of privacy/security.
It's not just the loss of data in communication, though that might be part of it, it's our lack of mechanisms to deal with the scaling of the number of interlocutors. If you messages are being read by 1000s of people it is a certainty some will be psychos of one shape or another. The medium will reward with attention precisely the unhinged who will say the most extreme nonsense with little fear of real world repercussions.
This comment breaks the site guidelines badly.

"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

Something is wrong with HN when this is the top comment on the top story. This comment should not have been posted here and should certainly not have been upvoted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The problem is everytime someone seems to discuss shorter work hours or work weeks, they also ship in a pay cut as well. If I can he equally as productive in 4 hours as I am in 8 hours as a salaried employee, why should I be paid less?
I've read a lot of books this year (47 so far[1]) and they cover a wide range of genres, topics, etc. So it's hard to say that one is "the best" overall, so I'll break it into some categories:

1. Most interesting, overall: Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter

2. Best in Hard Sci-fi: Foundation's Edge by Asimov

3. Best in Business: Customer-Centric Selling by Michael T. Bosworth, John R. Holland, Frank Visgatis

4. Best in Technology: An Introduction to MultiAgent Systems by Michael J. Wooldridge

5. Best in Mythology: Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

6. Best in "Deserves a mention regardless of category": On Writing by Stephen King

7. Best in Mathematics: A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science by Barbara Oakley

8. Best in Biography: The Man Who Tamed Lightning by Floyd Miller (biography of Charles Proteus Steinmetz)

[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/14999185
I like the Love to Dream swaddle, and recommended it to a friend. They said the zipper broke the first time they used it. Looks like they probably got a fake one. What a nightmare.