skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the power of modern day corporate actors, this is a competitive tactic, morals notwithstanding. I thought it was interesting that one person in the video did not view this as a form of fraud. But I have difficulty seeing how this is not fraud. It doesn't seem likely that everyone knows what is authentically or artificially amplified. Even if people do view the internet social atmosphere around them with caution, it's difficult to find who exactly is behind the amplification and to what extent. On other platforms such as reddit I suspect that there has been further political activity.

For nation-state actors, it is a modern form of agit-prop that is probably superior in both its effectiveness and its ability for fine-grained control. What's interesting is how this approach can utilize the idea of proxy control on so many fronts. In the US, the citizens themselves are being gamed as proxies for foreign voting power. Malicious actors hide behind proxy servers as well, which adds another avenue of difficulty in dealing with the problem. And then there are the botnet overlords.

An instance of a normal person posing with their own identity once is its own bit of fun, but now that commercial and then national actors are involved it's a whole different ball park. If your fridge supports the other candidate and products from its superior overlord should this be the advent of bot rights or total bot enslavement? I partly jest.

I did a quick Google Translate and read the Vice Germany article they referenced and it's an entertaining read. I recommend it. If you want to look it up, the title is "Die Applausfabrik: So funktioniert die Industrie hinter gekauften Likes und Followern".
I feel that pain. I live on a side street right off a very busy road. EVERY time, it suggests that I make a death-defying left turn, even though I could go one street over and turn with a stoplight.

Sometimes I do choose to make that left turn myself, though. In light traffic (middle of the night, etc.), it's easy and it's faster. In heavy traffic, it can be impossible.

If only they had access to traffic data, and if only they had people skilled in algorithms and AI, they could use those two things to figure out when to suggest (unprotected) left turns and when not to. Oh wait... they do have that data and that expertise.
Some relevant links:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00874-8

https://www.fharrell.com/post/pval-litany/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-significant-p...
To be fair, there's a bunch of prior art here: hasn't FB's Scribe has been doing this since 2008, for example?
No, the DNS should return NXDOMAIN and that’s it.
>First of all, please don't use "random homeless person off the street" this way. It's insulting and also many homeless people are highly intelligent.

>Try "random walmart shopper" (a box store that everyone visits.) or just random person.

Random Walmart shoppers are people too and they can be intelligent as well. I use the word homeless not to imply lack of intelligence or to insult, but to imply that even a person with no ability/capability/desire of getting a job can with minimal training gain those skills.

>As for your claim that a random person can learn to write glue code, well, we're going to disagree.

Can any person learn algebra? Can any person learn arithmetic? Can any person learn to read an english book? All of these things, seem trivial to learn, but they are not trivial at all. It is only because of the context in which we learn these things do we find it easy later in life, but fail to remember that at the time of learning, these concepts are just as hard as programming.

Programming is not easy to learn just like how reading english is not easy to learn at all. But make no mistake, just like how basically anyone can learn to read english, anyone can learn how to program. Some people have talent for learning languages others don't, but with time, everyone can learn it. That's how cheap this skill is.

The very existence of bootcamps hinges on this concept that anyone can learn. People walk out of a bootcamps thinking they have talent or were taught incredible skills. The reality is, everything they learned is available online for free. They paid money to learn because they lack the self control to do it themselves.
Excuse me, but what makes you think of OCaml, SML and F# as "future of programming"?

As much as I like OCaml, for example, I don't see it being mass-adopted in the near future, nor its tooling reaching the state of more established languages. All those languages you mentioned are most likely to continue being just niche ones.

The only mostly-functional language I can see being mass-adopted right now is Elixir, and it still has a long way to go.
"[Javascript] has dramatically improved developer productivity by allowing developers to write both client-side software and backend services in the same language."

I see this mentioned a lot as a theoretical advantage, but I don't really see this happening much. It doesn't take that much to switch between, say, Javascript and Python, or Ruby, or PHP, or whatever. Most web scripting languages are, sure, different than Javascript, but it's not like the difference in switching to SQL or R or CSS or something. I don't really see, in either myself or others I've worked with, much of a bonus from using the same language for client and server side.
Even after your edit, I don't know what you are saying and how it relates to trusting people less for a relevant short comment mentioning Monero. Care to articulate that specific sentiment or how its doing more than painting with a large ignorant brush?
I would really like to use such a service, but my biggest concern is: Will this still exist in 5 years?
The export feature is a neat first step, but I simply don't want to have to think about ever needing to switch again.

I also appreciate that you've got a pricing page (too many startups ommit this!), it signals that you're trying to build a real thing. Do you have any plans on how to sustain in the long-term?
EPS has been used in economy cars for years now; most cars on the market now probably have it. The few laggards that don't have EHPS (electro-hydraulic PS), where software runs a pump that pressurizes the hydraulic system.

EPS has been on production cars now since the 1990s, and I've never heard of any software problems with those at all. In fact, it's probably been more reliable than hydraulic systems since it doesn't have so many moving parts, just an electric motor, and no hydraulic fluid to leak or get contaminated (due to not being replaced on time, a common thing for people to skip on maintenance).

Steer-by-wire is a no-go for now, because it's illegal to not have a mechanical linkage. That might eventually change when we get driverless cars, but there's no sign that those are coming nearly as quickly as many people used to think; there's just too many problems with them.
Rest In Peace Mr. Mead!

Your inspiration will not be forgotten.
Can those things be exploited for other purposes?
> Dislike would provide a way to display displeasure and drop the value of the orginal like.

And would double the business of the like factories, because they would expand into doing paid dislikes as well.
I think this is a "Nobody got fired for choosing IBM" thing, where you might be better off with something else, but don't want to be the guy who picked the something else if things go wrong.
3.5% genetic association with intelligence means that 96.5% is not genetic.

So your your citation does not support a strong link between genetics and intelligence?
As robots take over warehousing, workers pushed to adapt
Bloomberg promises to turn Whitehouse into an open office
Psychedelics in American Religious Experience
A separated bike lane is supposed to have a physical barrier; SF's 2nd street bike lane was just a "buffered" bike lane, which means there's just some extra space between motor traffic and the bike lane. Poking around it seems like the city may have recently added some safe-hit posts to improve it a little bit.
People working at Google are probably given a powerful computer with an outrageously fast Internet connection, which naturally leads to things like this not being noticeable for them. Combine that with a lack of intuitive notions of size[1] and the prevalent dogma of avoiding "premature optimisation" and it's not hard to see how this was created.

[1] It's not just "non-computer people" who don't understand the units. I've taught students who have no trouble writing code or doing the maths in CS, but wouldn't be able to appreciate just how much 1MB of text is, or why trying to send me a 15MB screenshot as an email attachment is a bad idea.
The article keeps mentioning that modern architecture is less likely to help with healing, which is a very odd terminology, I would have liked to see some explanation of what it means by that. At first read, it sounds very much like new-age mumbo-jumbo, but the rest of the article doesn't have that vibe, so I was left confused.
Legendary sci-fi artist Syd Mead reported dead at 86
In the Face of Global Anti-Semitism, Jews Must Never Hide
That's a fair point regarding visibility. I'll have to reconsider the pluses and minuses because before now I only really saw it as a "too lazy to make a ticket" thing.
Thanks for the TIL word!
707, 727, and 737 all share the same “41 section”. The 757 and 767 also share a common 41 section but don’t have any commonality with the earlier models. The latter two were designed at the same time, with Boeing using some risk management strategies: They used “new fangled computers” to aid in the design of the 57 wing, and the old way for the 67. The 57 wing turned out much better than predicted.
Thanks for the heads up! I'll keep an eye out to see if any come up cheap. As I mentioned I did try to keep using Type 6s but they would usually fail after a year of use or so. I punted and bought a buckling spring keyboard although it's been sitting in a closet because I didn't want to be that guy and be the only one with a clacky clacky keyboard. Now that several of my employees brought in mechanical keyboards of their own volition I feel like I have license to do the same.

The type 6s are soft without feeling like you're typing on a marshmallow. Would love another if I could actually keep one alive.
Heritability is not only genetic, it includes a wide variety of social factors.

Strict genetic heritability studies do not support a stong association of genetics with intelligence.
What I've noticed here in Ontario is that everyone is growing their own instead of buying it. Even my mother's book club is basically 15 minutes of book talk followed by 2 hours of people trading grower's tips.
Now that you point out that all of the houses are mostly "underground" the dome seems especially odd since climate control would likely be relatively easy.
Pretty cool that we have a firefighter here on HN! What led you here?
Bill Gates: How we can make our tax system more fair
Thanks for the summary. (edit: although I do not think CFS is an appropriate diagnosis as it doesn't even come close to describing all the symptoms.)

I led with the details on a different account. My karma was destroyed and afaict my posting privileges were revoked for posting too frequently with explanations. I don't think you understand the huge amount of anger that some people have towards people like me saying mercury caused this illness.

Leading vaguely and easing people into the details prevents my karma from being destroyed. I'm not sure how else to handle this except by not talking about it at all, but the only way I can make meaning out of my experience is to help others with the same illness, so I will continue to do so. I found the cure from posts like the one's I make now. I'm paying it forward.
Swift for Tensorflow also isn't at 1.0 AFAIK and hasn't been deemed "ready for primetime".

I think it's going to be hard to get data-scientists using anything other than Python any time soon, but I'm hopeful it will take off at some point, since it's really painful to work with scripting languages once you get used to a decent type system.

It's also a super interesting project to follow. The stuff they are doing with automatic differentiation, and the stuff they are talking about with metaprogramming is truly fascinating stuff, with all kinds of applications outside of machine learning. I really hope they manage to get it off the ground.
>Is there something we're missing?

Yes: when the user's browser is under high load.
My nvme ssd purchase also blew me away. I never realized how small they actually were
Depending on the code and the dependencies it might not be that free if you run on some unexpected problems after those upgrades due to some incompatibilities or even reliance on now-fixed bug. While I understand that the latter should not be the case given the code is written properly but with sufficiently large projects this is not as uncommon as we would like it to be.

Also there is a more common scenario where updating one thing requires updating other packages and through a long chain of denependencies one of the pieces being updated has something missing in the new version (that was available in the previous version) and anything that relies on that will stop working.

Anyway, even the best case scenario where everything is perfectly fine after the updates still requires detailed testing to ensure that really everything is as OK as it seems. So even then this is not totally free

But then of course, it may still be the easiest path for improving the performance.
not the first, not the last
The point of TFA that the car failure / bad service happened to CarAndDriver's long term test drive Model 3 early on its lifespan and they have never had this happen before for any of their long term cars.

"This sort of shit happens to all cars" misses the significance of this event due not applying basic statistics. Simply put, readers of this article have far more cars than the writers.
Layers of Single Page Applications You Need to Know
>Yesterday I got an email from Facebook saying that I had 4 messages waiting for me. I opened the app, it showed a little balloon with "4" in it. I clicked it, and there were no messages

I also get this, but now it's always stuck at some arbitrarily high number. in the past few years I've reduced my fb usage to a couple of minutes per month, down from a few minutes per day. I'm sure it's underhand tactics like these (tricking a billion dormant users) which upholds their claim of 2 billion "active" users or whatever bullshit number it is
One of the links I provided is a good starting point to understand what his administration has been working on for three years.

https://www.promiseskept.com/

Sorry, but you are wrong on healthcare. Please take a look at this sub-list and tell me how this equates with achieving exactly zero. I want to understand how one goes from a list of undeniable achievements in healthcare to concluding something like "He certainly has achieved exactly zero".

https://www.promiseskept.com/achievement/overview/healthcare...

This article goes into a little depth on some of what they have achieved and the significance of the various achievements:

https://nypost.com/2019/09/21/five-smart-ways-trump-has-impr...

Again, echoing your intent, I am having trouble understanding how, in the face of clear evidence to the contrary, people can believe he has achieved nothing on healthcare.

Look, we all agree that healthcare in the US is a disaster. I hope we all agree that Trump had nothing to do with that. This is the result of lies, political games and incompetence going back 50 years or more. Let's be careful not to attribute the disaster our political class has handed down decade-after-decade to a man who --as all evidence indicates-- is actively trying to fix it.

The reason these things are not addressed after decades of promises is that politicians work for themselves, not for us. It should cause everyone pause that every single election in modern history puts exactly the same issues on the table as the most pressing issues of the time. The incompetence and lack of results is, at the very least, embarrassing and at some level criminal. Anyone delivering these kinds of results in the private sector would be relegated to using a hammer to turn big rocks into little rocks.

Trump is a nasty SOB, but if you leave emotion out of the equation and look through the list of what his administration has achieved in three years it is very hard to argue with the results. As I said before, this is all I care about. The theatrics will be meaningless in ten years. However, the results will have long-lasting effects way past his stay in the White House. That's the part that matters, nothing else.
Uhhhhh... no.

Having worked with Apple in Japan directly (not just engineering related work, but having worked with former Apple Japan execs), I can tell you that the relationships they hold with companies over there are valued internally. It's part of the culture, for better or for worse.

I can't state for certain whether it matters in the context of Cook's Tweet, but it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest either. Don't be so quick to cast it aside. ;P
Statistics can sort this out. How often do we hear about dead Toyotas vs dead Teslas?
You have night riders in fairy chess (which is a type of chess composition).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightrider_(chess)
Soooo this. Recently bought a place (attached house in a row of 3) that won design awards. It's beautiful to be sure, but it's COLD. I made a garden gate with a village of 4 birdhouses above it. I hung geraniums from the balcony, put a pond and birdfeeder next to the front door. Filled the inside with warm browns and grays and green plants to compensate for the cold white concrete. Both neighbors took the time to express their horror.

I need my house to be a home.
And it's actually comparable to the _intended_ failure mode of a 737 Max. If the system fails you can't let the computer control the trim, so there are manual trim wheels provided and you switch off electronic trim. Like the steering wheel of a large modern car, these wheels are mechanically connected to the thing you want to change but if you're feeble like me you'll struggle to even move them which is why the computer was in the loop.

As I understand it large trucks existed prior to power-assist, they just hired big strong chaps who could wrestle the steering.

We probably don't want (and Boeing doesn't want) to make 737 Max certification have a "Physical strength check" where you need to exert so-and-so much turning force for so-and-so many seconds or you can't fly their plane. So probably trim wheels need a re-think, whether that happens as part of the 737 Max work, its immediate aftermath or not for years because this incident scares manufacturers away from changing anything about trim.

Seismic shifts in safety considerations do happen, we haven't seen the last of them. And they aren't always ultimately for the better. Titanic had a few effects, many of them really good, but one notable one is that it pushed the narrative that you need to provide and test a LOT of lifeboats on an ocean liner. Titanic, as you can probably all recite, did not have enough lifeboats. But in practice lifeboats are very much a last resort for an ocean liner captain. You've got a whole lot of civilians who are incompetent at sea at the best of times, probably panicking and now you're trying to successfully get them into smaller boats under supervision of a relatively smaller number of crew. Some of them are likely to be injured or even die. A ship's master would prefer _anything_ over putting passengers into lifeboats, except them all drowning. Almost always the sensible course of action, taken by the ship's master, will be to take the still working ship to any port and unload the passengers. Yes even if the ship is somewhat on fire, or has grave engine problems, almost anything except actually sinking right now.

Meanwhile just owning the lifeboats means your crew have to keep testing them and servicing them, each time also has a chance of injury or death as crew fall into the water, boats fall on the crew, and so on. So owning a suite of lifeboats for your ocean liner (which you weren't planning to crash into an iceberg at any time) is probably a net negative in terms of injuries and deaths.
> Have the vehicle checked as soon as possible by an
authorized Mercedes-Benz Center.

what do you think that means?

there are four conditions listed, more or less the same as indicated above, emission trouble or ignition trouble.

are you going to play roulette with your car because you're engine light doesn't differentiate which is which via blinking like modern cars do?

or are you just grasping straws? because two can play: "I said blink and you picked the section for fixed on light"

no wonder they had to add the blinking failure mode, there's truly irresponsible people out there
I drove one. It felt like a car? Not sure what I was supposed to feel.
Case 4: A may or may not be competent, but (because of intellectual blinders) B is unable to evaluate A's competence, and therefore fears that they are in case 3.

I think we've seen this in the US, in growing amounts, from both sides, at least since Reagan. I think it grows out of a certainty of your own rightness. "We are obviously correct, and the other side is obviously wrong. But they won the election anyway! They must be very competent at doing evil things, so we're going to have to go into war mode to stop them! Then, after we stop their evil tricks, then the rightness of our position will be obvious to all, and we will will every election thereafter."

But, in fact, neither side is obviously right to the degree they think they are. And voters see things much less black and white than the parties do. And so both parties lose elections while fully convinced of the obvious rightness of their positions.
Even if you are right 11% is a pretty meagre contribution, when compared to most other biological traits..
Although the article itself refers to the substance as ink, it’s usually called coating(s).
JetBrains is a plague on mobile development. Their current business model appears to be selling workflows which are totally dependent on their proprietary tooling, and make over-complex monstrosities of mobile applications
I wonder if "found its potential" was deliberate.
Then it is not a TODO, it is a NOTE. Don't act as if it will be _done_ magically in the future. If I stumble upon a TODO, I won't fix it (because it will diasrupt my flow - the reason for the TODO in the first place). And if it is not in the issue tracker, I can't plan for it. A solution would be some kind of an "implement as many TODOs as possible" time-boxed spike, but this never worked really well for me in the past.
This is huge. Government & Defence are major enterprise customers.
Oh def. Apple has been too slow and/or conservative about opensource.
Doctors make a lot of mistakes too, just like programmers. But with doctors, it's easy to blame it on the vagaries of the human body. So even when the "cure" doesn't, people expect that because of the differences between individual bodies. This gives them a pass of sorts when they screw up, the medicine doesn't work, the side-effects kill you, you get a fatal infection in the hospital, etc.

With programming, if you are designing the control system for an aircraft and it fails, people will be able to find out exactly what failed and why, and who to blame.

It's hard to compare doctors and programmers, because there are many levels of medical professionals, just like there are many levels of programming.
This is great though. The speedups advertised for using the recommended number of rounds is important (2x or more in some cases). While you don't want to be the guy "who picked it wrong," picking some arbitrarily high number isn't right either, and going about it scientifically as in the paper is the right way to go.