skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Growth Ponzi Scheme (2011)
People are still sending their condolences for the passing of Steve Jobs
Haha I just took a look, expecting a cool Github project page.

Nope - its green, and hasn't been updated since June... of 2003. I have no idea how it is able to be effective against the modern web, considering in 2003 the biggest issue was annoying pop-up Flash ads which no longer exist. Maybe there are updated plugins or something.
This article is the only reason that night make me try Edge... If I ever use Windows again (which will never happen)... And I was very drunk...
This is already incorporated into the site. After the roads render, click "Customize", then "Onto a mug" and a link to zazzle.com will open to order a mug.
Geothermal is more reliable than solar. Calif. is finally building more of it
These posts usually have insightful comments about the persons life that I never would have read had it not been posted here. I would have read about his death in a headline, and moved on.

But since I came into these comments I learned a lot more about him, and will probably spend the evening watching some of his history docs.

Maybe the article its self isn't gratifying, but the comments usually are.
The other article was

https://www.ft.com/content/916a766a-3d27-11ea-a01a-bae547046...

http://archive.md/lhUeF
> Win 7 is generally retarded as...

I presume that was a typo, but it's beautiful!
I believe these value transfers are reported on a person's W2 in the USA, so this doesn't seem like a reasonable avenue.
Feel like all decently used open source projects need technical PM contributors to help organize the backlog. Issues can range from no information, to incredibly detailed posts, to what belongs on stackoverflow. It must be exhausting as a maintainer to deal with this.
I’ll talk about whatever I like, thanks.
The building depreciates and eventually is worth zilch unless you spend to keep its value (maintenance), but the land where the building stands is not a consumable.
That is cute, thank you.
The Power of Small Numbers
What do these chemicals do to humans?
Lol

I hope it has more potential than art, though art in itself is very strong and inspirational thing!

For example, one could use this tool to debug missing areas in OSM. You could also use it as a source of large natural graphs to study network flow, deseas propgation, etc.

Finally it could also be used for educational purposes: you could show various graph algorithms on this data with something more realistic than abstract graphs :)
I find this quite disgusting. There are many more outrageous violations on HN where you do not post, yet you appear under this particular one. Interesting indeed.

I understand there's a need to enforce some etiquette, however Brazil may be close to a time Germany was in 1933, not sure this is the time to call both sides equal.
I think one of the reasons its still frequently used in some parts of academia is a Grad student can figure it out in a few day of self-study and move on to doing their actual research from there. As opposed to if you want them to work with a large C++ program, getting them familiar enough with the language to be useful can take half a semester.
I was under the impression it used to be patent/licensing encumbered?
Tetrisly – Start Wireframing Faster
The "dirt" you're referring to is a large amount of criminal activity that lead to the the most important figures in the workers party to jail. Are you implying that all the evidences that lead to the prosecution of those politicians were created out of nowhere for political purposes?
It depends on the lethality and whether or not they have vaccines to counter the threat posed. Also, we understand the flu. This virus and how it spreads and so on isn’t well understood yet, so I think caution is in order.
PwC executive leaves firm after Dos Santos revelations
My point specifically is that by increasing build and deployment security. You actually are decreasing the amount of people who can potentially review and audit the build. Thus making it more likely that someone in power could introduce a backdoor that nobody else in the large org knows about.
An experimental story about gender and warfare shook the sci-fi community
Type in the company name and then wait for the drop-down to come.
Things started getting explicitly dangerous a couple years ago, internally we always did no wrong, externally, everyone was praising us for being the one company focused on privacy...when pretty much everyone who cared to think about knew why we didn't encrypt iCloud backups, and knew we were collecting app store searches, News articles viewed, and location for ad targeting (this is easily found in public documentation). I left shortly after I realized how little my colleagues knew, cared, and were willing to think about it – a manager on Safari refused to believe that data was being collected, refused to read our documentation on it, and told those concerned that we needed to read up on differential privacy. (note: that didn't apply at all in the conversation, they werr reaching for buzzwords they remembered)
What is a better engineered membrane than gore-tex?
Earlier today, researchers at Imperial College in London estimated that a total of 4,000 cases of Coronavirus in Wuhan City (with an uncertainty range of 1,000 to 9,700) had onset of symptoms by January 18. This compares with a Chinese government report of 440 confirmed cases as of January 21: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-infectious-disease-ana...

According to the Imperial College researchers: "Exit screening (which reportedly came into force on the 15th January) had no impact on exported cases reported up to 16th January. Exit screening may have reduced exports in recent days, in which case our baseline prediction may be an underestimate of the true number of cases in Wuhan."

The researchers also write: "We assume all cases in travelers flying to destinations outside mainland China are being detected at those destinations. This may well not be the case. If cases are being missed in other countries, our baseline prediction will underestimate the true number of cases in Wuhan."

If anyone has more recent or higher-quality data or information (especially if it contradicts the Imperial estimates), please post it here!
By coincidence, I ran across this last night:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=cameronsworld.net

https://www.cameronsworld.net/
The last two books I read were Station 11 and Severance, and they make it tough not to be at least a little paranoid about this.

Great books, though.
You can pretty much do this with haveibeenpwned.
rreusser made a more generic version inspired by Float Toy: https://observablehq.com/@rreusser/binary-input
Isn't this a little like saying "in part that's due to the fact that conservatives are persuasive"?
I've never personally seen an account of an algorithm with any ethical bias. I would love to see one in all seriousness, the implications of such an algorithm would be massive. What I have seen is objectively unbiased algorithms (such as neural networks) given input data with objectively true labels (such as racial, gender, etc,) producing objectively unbiased (albeit alarming) results. Now I would love to sit here and argue about equality, equity, and the like but I'll still be waiting for the example of a biased algorithm.
> Mumble / Murmur [1][2] is a nice self hosted alternative to Teamspeak

You mean an open source alternative, because TS is already self hosted.
You'd think that all people interested in something like this have an ad-blocker. I wonder what the revenue is like.
Is that actually the problem though? Or is it that you are still here discussing of ways to prevent airplane hijacking in a world where cows still kill more people that airplane hijacking terrorists?

I don't mean to come across as condescending, I believe that as long as we spend our time talking about possible "solutions" to what-if, abstract problems, without addressing the real issues, we are just going to waste our time.
Am I the only one who thinks... This is based on npm and this is the sole reason to not even consider using it??
How to Calculate Customer Value
The flight attendants union is also lobbying for all the extra security. They're well aware that thanks to their corporate overlords, flying is paramount Chinese water torture and they'd rather everyone be safely disarmed for when someone inevitably loses it.
QE has impoverished us all

US home ownership rate is 65%, gotta be quite a few winners in there besides the bankers.
Locally it is limited by ram, video card capabilities. Remotely it depends on overpass turbo API being able to process huge request s. Which error do you see?
Interesting, I've been really happy using Intercom for support so far. Why did you transition away? Curious to know what roadblocks are ahead (or what I'm missing).
Helmets of for the prayer. 5 minutes for the chaplain before the murder resumes.
Fortran on Funicular :)
https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/comey-say-apple-encryption-b...
Even if there exists a set of data that would produce a more ethical result, would it be fair to say that a potentially biased algorithm cannot be considered ethical until there is a corresponding algorithm that can either filter out biased data or generate unbiased input data? Otherwise it seems a bit pedantic to differentiate between data bias and algorithm bias when both need to be so closely coupled together to produce any meaningful output at all.
Nice work! Easy to use (and fast).

Reminds me of this print I still have on my wall called "All Streets Limited" by Ben Fry.
Cue a cacophony of “were migrating to FORTRAN.”
I use DuckDuckGo for web searches. Technically, I've just transferred my lack of search privacy from one company (Google) to another (DuckDuckGo).

I would of course prefer a zero-trust solution, but absent that, can I at least avoid giving my data the companies that are openly spying on me right now? At least until we figure out how to make Tor scale better for normal usage like streaming/games?

Transferring trust is definitely problematic, but it's also a thing that we do basically every single day all the time, and it's only in the context of VPNs where I see people suddenly advocating that anything less than a zero-trust solution is useless. Zero-trust solutions are the exception when we deal with companies. Most of the time we're just moving/centralizing trust.
I imagine most of these are support issues handled by contractors they have had over the years. Windows 95 through XP had Keane and Convergy's in Tucson running their Windows support (which then forked into Canada and India.) Not sure who they have doing it now.

The Windows parts of these records might be a good resource as it's probably part of the documentation which builds up to become the MSKB articles. Each support case was documented and linked to either a KB article, an internal "not yet KB article" or you had to submit it as a unique issue. After the "not yet KB articles" were referenced X times, then it would go to consideration as a KB article. Collectively, all this formed their internal KB.

Worked there. Pay was terrible once Convergy's took over. Then they moved everything to India and the support got terrible also. Too bad. They had quite the brain drain from that process. There were a lot of Windows gurus in that building. I learned far more than I needed to know about Windows and went way more in depth than I ever have tinkering with Linux.
Everything is relative. What you describe doesn't come anywhere close to some of the stuff Amazon does, or Palantir's main line of business.
That one is also from anvaka :)
Interestingly in my high school, we had more people who studied Latin than German.
Yeah I guess that explains the fond memories part.

Some 32-bit parts are totally flat. Like low-end ARM parts with SRAM and no MMU. Compare that to a 8-bit or 16-bit PIC microcontroller where you need to bank switch to have a usable amount of memory for your application and its heaven.

But yeah, I see what you are saying. Still, pulling the wool over someone's eyes doesn't seem so bad to me about virtual->physical memory and TLBs as it does making them jump through a distinction between pointer types, but maybe I am in the minority on that.
No, you would become a slave in your hypothetical.

People who say they would just starve to death instead of do something immoral don't know what it's like to actually starve.
When the axe finally fell, My boss walked my resume over to a sister company in the same private equity group. Had an offer within a few weeks. He gets maximum internet good guy points.

However, in the meantime, I wound up speaking with a diverse assortment of scum, villainy, and ineptitude.

https://resumeskills.us/talent/shortage
Land and buildings as an asset has never made sense to me—it allows charging many times the investment cost as rent, which seems incredibly inefficient, without comparable depreciation on resale. What can I read to understand this perspective?
Office 365 ProPlus users only, not the basic Office 365 that comes preinstalled on so many pre-built PCs.
Now go through them and weed out the plots that were actually sting operations where all the motivation, allies, funding and training came from three letter agencies in a million dollar operation to trick an angry young Muslim man into building a bomb instead of just graffitiing walls with ACAB.
With the 32-bit one, if I set the highest bit of the exponent from 1 to 0, the exponent goes to -126 (ok), but if I then toggle the lowest bit of the exponent (rightmost green bit), it modifies the mantissa, not the exponent.

Is that a bug or do I not understand how IEEE754 works (very likely :p)?
Charles Moore’s Margaret Thatchers
Are you sure 440 is an estimate? According to LA Times that is the number of cases reported.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-21/anxiety-...
It is easy to consider Ethical Issues when your mouth is full of food and your pockets are lined with gold. The vast majority of people, including those in tech, don't have those options.
IIRC, my Steam account dates back to a bundle code in a CD for what I believe was an HL: Blue Shift bundle and an encouragement to use Steam for multiplayer because of better anti-cheat protection, around when that was new enough (it came out in 2001 and Steam officially launched in 2003, so it was maybe two or three years after the original launch as a bundle?), that code included all of HL1 up to that point. It's weird to recall there was a period where I had the entire Steam catalog unlocked, but it's also been a long time since the entire Steam catalog was just HL1 and its expansions and mods.

This was back in an ancient dial up age when downloading a CD's worth of game seemed crazy, but I liked the idea of having a "backup" of the CD accessible just in case.
That didn't end Latin being used by the Church.
It's about tradeoffs, if you ban live animal markets all over China for long periods of time, you will instantly cause far greater destruction on peoples' daily lives in China as people will suffer from poverty. There's probably millions of people going to go hungry because they lost their source of income and poor farmers in China don't have that much social mobility to get another job.
Huh, didn't find my hometown somehow. Dies this only work for cities over a certain size?
I'm happy to see all the discussion against I2C in the comments here. I thought I was the only one who loathed debugging I2C stuff.

The only things I take exception in the article to is:

> When a single device is on the bus, UART may work just as well.

The problem with UART is clock drift. It's remarkably easy for your two chips to get out of sync if they don't use crystals and don't have autobaud (normally rare). That is one thing that I2C, SPI, and CAN do better. They either don't care as they have a single master clock (I2C and SPI) or they autobaud detect and then adjust (CAN).
The way I see it, we will have the manufacturers of the cars to take the blame and to ask for compensation. They will probably take out insurance for each car they sell to pay out any of these claims with the premium that depends on the accident rate, added to the price of the car. This would be better even if the accident rate is the same as the current human one. I think we would see self-driving cars of limited capability become commonplace in the near future because of the extra safety it offers us especially from blame if an accident does occur. Also, the complexity of developing self-driving systems is because we are trying to adapt them to current-day roads if we make changes to the roads by adding lanes, stationary sensors to help self-driving cars we could make accidents are very rare.
Tips for creating link-worthy content
Cobol on Wheelchair - a Cobol Micro Web-Framework
Elidel
Chicago has got the metra though which goes out to the burbs. I grew up about 20 miles outside of downtown in the burbs and the rush hour metra would get you downtown in half an hour.
Funnily enough, I learned that if you submit a support ticket on a $12/month single-user Microsoft business account you get a call back from someone who saus they're with Microsoft Support.

The rep was very helpful, but a bit puzzled that I wanted him to read me my ticket title. He seemed to think him knowing my name should be sufficient verification.

Note: I can never understand Microsoft's names for different levels of the same product. It might not be called a business account, maybe professional or pro or small business or something.
I saw "actix-web" and I thought to myself...

"That odd, that project is dead now. Why release something dependent on it?"

But then I went to the actix-web git repo and low and behold it is not dead.

Then scratching my head, I re-read this post from my history:

https://words.steveklabnik.com/a-sad-day-for-rust

Clearly stating the actix-web project was dead and I recall going to the link in the article to: https://github.com/actix/actix-web that had a post from the maintainer stating that the project was dead.

Anyone know what is going on with this project?
I am not surprised that traditional Chinese medicine gets advertised in China.

I would be very surprised if they started advertising traditional Indian medicine there though.
Changed. I meant to write report. The 440 cases are officially confirmed. Thanks!
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.05668
Yes. But I think you can also attribute some of it to “the rich* have weaponized conservative politics.”

They have the most leverage so a minority opinion can show outsized results.

*apply all appropriate modifiers about not all rich etc
This is neat. I'd like to see some CUDA code sprinkled in eventually...very interesting possibilities
We're Sleepwalking into a Surveillance State
There is also an 8-bit float used in Lucene. I was surprised that someone was using an 8-bit float format when I first came across that.
> The vast majority of people, including those in tech

Huh? The vast majority of us in tech are very well-off, making us the ideal candidates to sacrifice some small part of that comfort by taking an ethical stand.
How is this relevant to AGI?
I don’t think that works (which kind of proves the grandparent’s point). The appropriate interjection would probably be one of the following:

Ecce?! Hui?! Vah?!
And complexity is the enemy of security too.

I like to keep things simple, even though many real-life scenarios don't always bend themselves to simplicity.
Yeah, it could have just been designers wanting to put in favicons for their own sake (which is not intrinsically bad, remember the dark ages before browser tabs had favicons?) and product managers saying, well, the revenue looks good...

New Theory of Software Evolution:

Designers = random mutations

Product Managers = fitness function
Why are these chemicals not being extensively studied and banned if adverse health effects are proven to affect human health? This stuff could be shortening our lifespan and we are just absorbing it all the time in clothing and water etc unbeknownst to us.
Have you ever countered by asking these same individuals if they would be okay working in defense contractors or oil&gas or pharmaceutical. I've heard from some younger people that are very much opposed to the above list, but have not equated the privacy violators into the same category of "evil".
Super-sonic fighter jets probably were designed using a lot of Fortran.
It's hard to observe particles directly (they're very small) so much particle physics involves using conservation laws to observe indirectly.

If you imagine for a moment that particles are integers and "total count" is a conserved property, then if I slammed a "2" and a "3" together and directly observed a "4" coming out, I could infer that there was also an "1" particle somewhere, since 2+3=4+1 (and wouldn't claim that there was a "2" and a "-1", because we already know we can observe "2"s.)

Real experiments use a variety of conserved quantities such as: mass/energy, linear momentum, angular-momentum/spin, charge, lepton number, etc.

This paper describes looking at spontaneous electron/positron pair emission. Electrons and positrons exactly cancel each out for some conserved quantities (charge, lepton number) where they have opposite signs but not for others (mass/energy), so its possible for things in general to lose some energy and generate an e/p pair.

This experiment observes the transition of 'high energy' Helium (He4') atoms to 'low energy' (He4) Helium where the excess energy created an e/p pair.

The reported observations show a high concentration of e/p pairs generated in such a way ("angular correlation") that implies that there was an intermediate particle created with a specific energy. The authors assert that this is evidence for the existence of the X17 boson, which they also assert might be a carrier for a 5th fundamental force (in the way that photons are the carrier for electromagnetic forces).

This is the second experiment they claim has found evidence of the same kind of hypothetical particle. The previous experiment used the transition from "high energy" Beryllium (Be8') to low energy (Be8) that also generates e/p pairs.

If true, this would be a big deal as it implies physics outside of "the standard model" of particle physics. That's what gets people talking about dark matter (which is also outside the standard model).

More likely (IMO), there's some experimental issue (i.e. they recorded bad data).
High-speed police chases have killed thousands of innocent bystanders
Wow, I think of myself as very knowledgeable about Unix and its history, and I arguably got six of these right. It's a pretty tough quiz if you didn't work at Bell Labs and if you learned Unix after the 1980s.
FYI I was trying to reply to DanBissel's comments about how GG is the only one capable of telling the truth and the rest of the media is compromised. I don't want GG to be charged or go to jail. DanBissel's comments were not quite related to the post. But that's fair, I can understand your justification. I respect your downvote.
Programming a globally unique ID per device is a large added cost for <$0.01 devices. The device needs fuses or equivalent so it can 'remember' it's 64 bit ID. it needs logic to both program as well as read the fuses.

Think of applications like LED controllers - previously with I2C all they needed was an 8 bit shift register + comparator for their address, and an 8 bit shift register for their 'brightness', and an 8 bit comparator and +-50% RC oscilator for their actual operation. Probably ~400 transistors.

With onewire, they need a 64 bit address shift register, an oscilator, a state machine for bus states, a counter to act as a timer for long/short bits, multiple comparators on the timer output. I don't think you could do it in less than 1000 transistors. Doesn't sound like much, but when every LED in a million pixel LED wall needs one of these circuits, it adds up!
CAN also autobauds so if you have frequency drift it compensates. That's why it forces bit transitions via bit stuffing if it gets too many 1's or 0's in a row.