skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cars are huge machines bound to roadways. Despite this people are constantly driving on suspended licenses, without licenses, without insurance, under the influence, speeding, etc. Regulating them mostly works because they're limited to specific spaces, are a huge time and money investment to construct, and so large they're fairly easy to monitor.

I don't see why the apparent "success" of license plates on cars means something even more convoluted will work for drones, which come in drastically different sizes, and are extremely simple to assemble and use.

We seem to recognize that licensing bicycles isn't really a feasible thing, and licensing tiny objects that move quickly in 3-D space, and which present even less challenge to assemble than a bicycle, doesn't seem all that likely to succeed with actors who want to do things outside the system. Or even cover people who just do stuff without thinking about it.

As technology gets advanced maybe there will be more of a carrot - maybe registration gets you access to autonomous navigational beacons and traffic control or something, and you'd prefer to have those things. But operating what amounts to a large cell phone attached to some electric motors unregistered seems like it'll always remain trivial for anyone who doesn't want to cooperate in a way that's not really the case for cars.
Great post. I had no idea that Galileo essentially caused his downfall through his own hubris
There has never been any other product in modern history, or possibly in the entire human history that has advanced as fast as transistor fabrication. Moore's law has been doubling transistor every 2 years for the past 50 years from 1965 to 2015. It wasn't until then we hit a hiccup.
I have no claim, I have no idea what happened, but I do know that video footage of prison cells where prisoners killed themselves does does not disappear by accident, saying it dies in such a high profile case alone requires quite a high burden of proof (I.e, the prison burned down, there was an unexpected solar storm). If there is no obvious explanation, the most likely one is it was deleted deliberately.
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Disclaimer: This is reaching the limits of my math abilities.

The differences comes in the fact that higher dimensional tuples may contain data that is independent of other fields. Say, if you have a tuple that's: (name, dob, address,) and you have a projection function that accepts such a 3-tuple and returns a 2-tuple of (name, dob,). For that function, the address dimension has no relationship at all to the other fields, meaning, that there is not unproject function that a person could create such that 3_tuple == unproject(project(3_tuple)).

With manifolds, the higher dimensions can have a relationship with lower dimensional data, and such a relationship can be encoded into a function. What the research appear to have designed is a system that, given a priori knowledge of task and enough n-tuples for learning, can produce and approximation of such an unproject function.

Thus, after learning, they have a system where, unproject(project(n_tuple)) ~= n+1_tuple. Because they were able to inform the learning system about the nature of the relationship between the two dimensions.
That issue was already resolved much more poignantly in the American Civil War.
This is a classic, but I think it applies here: https://web.archive.org/web/20200108125657/https://www.jwz.o...

Edit, I've been informed that the direct link has a NSFW redirect, so using archive.org instead
This is a game that has gone through a few revisions by different authors. And whilst I doubt any of them were happy with the hand they were dealt it still shipped after their work. So maybe it had increased QA effort over the baseline version that doesn’t exist but it certainly had no bus factor.
Wow, people during the Great Depression must have been really efficient. If only we were that efficient now....
How to prepare for Culture fit assessment in an interview?
War is still a racket [0]. Interesting closing reflections from the article:

... not enough Americans know or care about what happens in other countries or what their government and military is doing in their name. Do many Americans know that there are at least 1000 American military bases around the world, or that there is a fast growing Africa Command branch of the military that is involved in almost every country in Africa? Certain politicians would like to cut “discretionary” spending for such unnecessary things as education, health care, infrastructure, and protecting the environment, but over $1 Trillion a year in allotted to the military, secret intelligence, and “homeland security” in order to continue such unholy activities we have seen for over 100 years.

It is telling that such a high profile person like General Butler could give such influential speeches in the ’30’s, and that even a president (who was also a general, perhaps not coincidentally) could warn against the military-industrial complex in 1961. Such a thing has been unimaginable since the Carter presidency. With the possible exception of Bernie Sanders, there are no politicians today brave enough to take on this problem, and certainly none with as high a profile as president. Maybe it’s time for less money in the hands of arms producers and war profiteers. It’s time for less war and weapons in general. Sadly, this means that it must be time for new politicians. Only a citizenry which not only votes, but is also informed and involved, can do this.

[0] https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/01/15/war-is-still-a-racket/
This is anecdotal, but men I know have more expensive hobbies then women. Men are more eager to buy what they want while women save money more and feel bad about unnecessary purchases.

Think gaming equipment, steam sales for games they will never play, flying, cars, tech, 3d printer and what not.

Compared to that, feminine hobbies are few bucks once in a while.
In Horowitz's defense (on the options pricing matter, hopefully not taking this thread too far off course), I thought he had explained his position on options pricing reasonably: https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/02/06/how-ben-horowitz-avo...
I think that's a bit draconian, sounds like a way to ensure only the Facebook's and Google's of the world hold a monopoly as I could see that to discourage entrepreneurs and new startups.
I'd be more convinced if there weren't reasonable explanations for every one of these facts already in the public record. At this point, were this an actual criminal trial, proof of homicide is way far out there.

Further, if someone powerful was worried he'd implicate them, killing him is a terrible way to keep the secret. With him dead, his effects and possessions are now no longer subject to Constitutional privacy protections and the FBI can go over them at its leisure to string together a case against his accomplices or any who used his "services" to arrange illegal sexual encounters.

(... civil trial burden of proof is mere "preponderance of evidence," and IIUC his estate is seeking civil trial, so they may win that case, make of that what one will).
Create your own programming language
> We've had a decade+ of men being told they're useless oppressors, who've earned nothing for themselves, whose "time is up", and that they haven't a place in the future.

That's pretty disingenuous. When they say "time's up," they aren't talking about being a man and having a job. They're talking specifically about sexually harassing women with no repercussions and disallowing women and minorities an equal place at the table.

Nobody's saying men don't have a place in the future, just that they'll have to share it with the other 50% of the population.
I haven't seen a tv ad in years.

Back then, facebook had a tv ad series. It was a vague, "what's this ad for?" kind of ad. The jist of the ad was "friendship is great" with some sort of facebook=friendship reveal at the end.

The ad was creepy. The suggestion that facebook is providing the core human need of friendship is creepy. Facebook is incidental.
Sure it’s perfectly possible, just really improbable, that he happened to kill himself when the video happened to be deleted.
Interesting comment from Bill Maris from Axios.

Bill Maris, who founded Google's venture capital arm and reported directly to Drummond before quitting in 2016, tells Axios...

"The news of David Drummond leaving Google today brings to mind a quote from one of my most favorite creatures. 'At an end, your rule is. And not short enough, it was.' I had been asked in the past why I left Google in 2016, and I have never really commented on that. David Drummond is the reason I left Google. I simply could not work with him any longer. It’s that simple. We have very, very different ideas about how to treat people, and this was a long time coming."[1]

[1]https://www.axios.com/alphabet-david-drummond-departure-7572...
Of course there's no solid evidence.

But there are also serious questions that need to be answered - a very, very long list of serious questions about very important and influential people involved in some very suspicious events that culminated in some very rare and unusual security lapses.

Linking anyone asking those questions to "crackpots" is simply disingenuous.
This assumes you can unlock the bootloader and make an AOSP build.
I was fearing the worst when I saw Buddy Rich at #1 — he's usually the token Jazz drummer on rock-oriented lists. But to my pleasant surprise, the list actually represented Jazz drummers fairly (disregarding the rankings, which are bound to be more subjective).
Watch out, this gives a NSFW redirect
The motivations around those kinds of factors are different for games, though.

e.g., bus factor has to be weighted a lot more highly on software that needs to be maintained indefinitely than it does on software that is going to be shipped on a fast-approaching deadline and then (probably) never touched again.

Also, bus factor's importance depends on the size of the team. In the limit case - a 1-developer project like VVVVVV - it's meaningless.
Ugh. Everything about that island creeps me out. Hopefully someone (maxwell) is talking about what really happened there.
The Split Personality of Brutalist Web Development
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S87557...
Remember having a meeting with a charity org. They wanted to spend quite a bit of money on a CRM implementation.We had a few different companies in a room.After going through the entire block of ideas of what and how they want,my manager asked them: have you got money for this? Turns out their sponsor promised the money but then there are conditions and etc..This was for a simple dev project...
I failed the first time and passed the 2nd. I'm interviewing now so waiting to see if I get other offers.

To explain, one of the interviewers walked in and asked "have you heard of the rope data structure?"

I said "no" because I hadn't and he was like "great because otherwise I would give you another question". He then asked me to build 2 key functions for the data structure. I didn't need to study it beforehand, and if I did he would have gave me another question.

I think if they give you an uncommon data structure the expectation is that you have prior knowledge of it. This question was the favorite part of my interview loop (we chatted a bit about how google uses rope data structures)
Looking for Yield Among Global Economic Uncertainty
What works for me is to do things by hand, until all the possible information I might want to share is present. I call it my inventory.

Then work on refining, editing, deleting, modifying.

Separate the creation from the editing/communication.
One interesting aspect of FB's externalized cost structure is that the damage is both to society (like pollution as you mention) and also the individual consumer (more like cigarettes) because the product is designed to be addictive and while releasing momentary dopamine to the user, makes them more depressed on the whole.
This is how I approach any serious business deals – put up or shut up. Either you agree to this kind of deal or you pull out. Either one is fine, but make it clear.
So you're saying you want the bullshit? Look Gandi doesn't have it. What more do you want from them? They lost it, they're not gonna bullshit about it.
> Microsoft would do this in the days when it was particularly powerful

They were so notorious for it back then, that when they attempted to do it to Netscape, Marc Andreessen went into the meeting knowing ahead of time to document everything. That documentation was useful later during the anti-trust proceedings.

From the 2000 Wired article The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing But The Truth:

> It was two months later, on June 21, that Reback received a call from Jim Clark, the chair of one of his firm's newest clients, Netscape. Earlier that day, Clark said, a team of Microsoft executives had visited Netscape's headquarters, met with its CEO, Jim Barksdale, its technical wunderkind, Marc Andreessen, and its marketing chief, Mike Homer, and offered them a "special relationship." If Netscape would abandon much of the browser market to Microsoft; if it would agree not to compete with Microsoft in other areas; if it would let Microsoft invest in Netscape and have a seat on its board, everything between the two companies would be wine and roses. If not ...

> "They basically said, OK, we have this nice shit sandwich for you," Mike Homer told me later. "You can put a little mustard on it if you want. You can put a little ketchup on it. But you're going to eat the fucking thing or we're going to put you out of business."

> The next day, Reback phoned Joel Klein, the former deputy White House counsel who had recently been named the second-ranking lawyer in the antitrust division, and persuaded him to send Netscape a CID for some detailed notes Andreessen had taken during the meeting.

> Asked by Tobey why he'd taken notes on the meeting, Andreessen replied, "I thought that it might be a topic of discussion at some point with the US government on antitrust issues." (During the trial, Microsoft would cite the comment as evidence that the meeting was a setup, and Netscape and the DOJ would retort that Andreessen was just being sarcastic. "Bullshit, on both counts," Andreessen told me. "I'd read all the books. I knew their MO. We were a little startup. They were Microsoft, coming to town. I thought, Uh-oh. I know what happens now.")

https://www.wired.com/2000/11/microsoft-7/
>If you don’t want to have kids, don’t have sex.

How do you square this with your claim in a sister comment of "by virtue of their right to control their own bodies can abort a baby before it is born"
> provided you have good anti-malware defenses

There is no such thing as good anti-malware defenses. Most of the antiviruses are 80% bullshit + 20% obsolete, yet asking for money and full-time administrator privileges and unrestricted Internet connection (doesn't that sound suspicious?). Besides patching vulnerabilities regularly, being very careful of what files&websites do you open is the only real protection… as long as you don't come in contact with a fresh exploit which doesn't need you to let them.
Thanks for sharing this, a lot to learn from here. I hope you're doing well (sounds like it despite the circumstances).

Also: I wanted to say kudos for your profile link.
As a sometimes paranoid person, the huge list of permissions that Honey asked for as a browser extension has always smelled to me like a privacy/security risk, regardless of owner.

Maybe the timing is suspicious on Amazon's part, but it does seem like a useful PSA as worded.
Use NoScript extension and you'll be fine. It works with other sites too and make some of them load faster.
There's not much of a middle ground between 'perfectly affordable consumer grade air filters that get most of the crap out of the air', and 'hermetically isolated, self-sustaining atmosphere'. HEPA filters work quite well at what they are designed to do, and it is generally cheaper to move someplace else, then to go over-board with improving your filtration.
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I'm 6' tall and I have trouble many times finding shirts to fit these days, because they seem to be cut for fatter men than myself (I'm rather thin). Most shirts and other tops seem to be really baggy to me.
That's kind of my point -- living in Silicon Valley, I'd be paid less than an intern, apparently. Look at it another way - this intern position is being paid more than double the national average salary [0]. Outside of Silicon Valley, that's nuts. Within Silicon Valley, not so much.

Ergo, prices in Silicon Valley are nuts. Which isn't news, per se.

[0] https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#00-0000
Nothing can be "proven" to be quantum resistant. Even if we can show a tight reduction to LWE, and we believe that LWE is efficiently solvable (let's say LWE is not in BQP), it is still possible that the cryptosystem at the given parameters is broken. In the classical case, it doesn't matter whether or not the RSA problem is "hard" (more formally, the RSA problem is not in BPP), it matters if the RSA4096 problem has an efficient solution for many real world instances. So, yeah, the talk of "proving" security---while interesting---isn't very useful.
Keep in mind we're talking about SV jobs here, and particularly in the context of the article, where meatspace apparently still matters. In today's world, as you alluded to, it's not necessary to work that way.
Soviet Venus Images
Past discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4360763

Also interesting, Venera 14 carried acoustic microphones which were able to record the sound of Venus. You can listen to it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jZDW53U8qQ
Reminds me of "Bread and Circuses"
In Southeast Asia, Facebook is the main or only online presence for many, many businesses. They don't have their own websites, just a corporate Facebook page, a phone number (for Whatsapp/SMS mostly) and a Google Maps entry. I'm not saying all these businesses would disappear if Facebook did, but it's not clear how they'd be online. Most of them have zero IT.
In which case the buyer knew what they were getting into, yes?
In other Amazon press releases:

1. Disabling Amazon's deep integration into Ubuntu's desktop search, is a security risk.

2. Android tablets that are not Amazon Fire are security risks

3. The reall MongoDb, if self hosted or hosted by Mongo/Atlas is a security risk, now that AWS provides it's own managed version

4. Using the "one-click" patented workflow on any other site than Amazon, is a security risk
<not sarcasm>Get a dart board. Then throw darts 100 times in a row. This will force you to confront the reality of imperfection. If you are sufficiently compulsive you will have taken the first steps towards a new hobby. Perhaps that is what you really need. Or not. Darts are fun anyway. Good luck.</not sarcasm>
Well, it's more akin to something like Wine where it's not exactly a virtual machine, since the processor instructions are the same. Tho that's about the extent of my understanding.. haha
I met Bill years ago and he was insanely helpful to me at the time. Google lost an incredible person when he walked away.
I'm so happy we live at a time where we can go on Youtube and pull up footage from pretty much any concert they ever played - including ones that we've been to. Which is exactly what I'm doing now!
I trust Barr with regards to Epstein’s death being a suicide. The scandal there would be who allowed him to kill himself not necessarily who killed him.

What boggles my mind is why they’re being so tight lipped about the investigation. The island was swarming with FBI, including scuba divers. Why not a single statement? Nothing!
I’ve been a very happy Tornado user for years.
That banana peel hoax was still doing the rounds when I was in secondary school in the early eighties in Ireland.
I'll be in touch, I'm currently building a new piece of infrastructure to support board-games. I almost have hearts working with full rules, and I want to explore some of the AI side of things.
It takes a very small number of people willing to use nuclear weapons for the bad side of the prediction to come true

And 80 years is a long time for mad people to come to power - if our current worldwide political landscape is any indication, democracy may be a trigger rather than a deterrent for nuclear destruction, in the sense that it may select for progressively more extremist leaders
Switch to .dev then? It's not listed on this graph but its performance should be similar to .app.

Disclaimer: I run .dev.
Cormorant Fishing
In my opinion, the prevalence of software that I consider to be malware has become so extreme that I don't consider any smartphone to be safe enough to use anymore.

Although I'm marginally OK with my current one (an antique that I have a google-free ROM and a lot of security installed on), it will probably die within the next couple of years. At or (hopefully) before that time, I'll have completed my move out of smartphones entirely.
> Epstein was joined by one or two female assistants who appeared to be in their twenties, which made some people uncomfortable ... A Media Lab staff member told us that she was "grossed out" during of one Epstein's visits to the Media Lab, both because ... and because Epstein brought female assistants in their twenties with him.

Is anyone interpreting this as "At MIT, it's reasonable to be
prejudiced against young women who claim to have a job in the
philanthropy field. Anyone actually qualified for such a job would
have a different age or a different gender."? If I'm a professor
elsewhere and visit MIT to talk about my research, can my female
graduate student (who did most of the work) safely visit at the same
time, or will she run into the same prejudice? Does the answer depend
on her physical appearance?
I replied "this is an excellent analogy" and it was voted down. On the assumption that I was too brief, I'll try again.

From the early 40s through the early 90s MIT was essentially entirely (> 80%) funded by various organs of the US government (I used to read the budget when I was a student, and nowadays the development office sends me the budget). With the end of the Cold War that era came to an end. Interestingly Nicholas Negroponte was one of the few who really recognized this and he set up the media lab on a different structure.*

MIT really struggled to make a transition, which it has only partially made progress on. And what I like about this analogy is that it is trading on someone else's judgement and reputation. The landing page and pitch deck that uses other peoples' logos (typically without permission which I think, in the pitch deck case at least, is just fine, as long as the usage is true). "Trust us! Our B2B solution is trusted by Coca-Cola, Airbus and Lyft!"

A lot of schools name buildings and courses after people. One thing I liked about the old MIT is that they didn't really: Building 2 actually has a name but who really knows it? There were a few exceptions, but they were few. One element of the "new" MIT is that they essentially sell their own credibility ("Steven Schwartzman school of computing is merely the most notorious" and also try to trade it in reverse "Steven Schwarzmann may be a scumbag but he thought we were worth giving money to". Harvard (from its very name) Stanford, etc have all been in on this game for decades and centuries; MIT is just trying to catch up.

* I have mixed feelings about his by that's an unrelated matter
"with enough domain knowledge and the right equipment" you could just build your phone from scratch.

Without specialization and trust, there would be no economy, and humanity would be immeasurably worse off.
Why? Do you have previous experience selling a company? If you were in his place, what would you have done differently to avoid being "played"?
Run Broot on FreeBSD
I pretty much consider all auto-update (and telemetry, for that matter) mechanisms that I can't disable to be malware.
20 year old cars did not have electronic child lock, this is how the mechanic child lock worked