skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recognition of the powerful pattern matching ability of humans is growing. As a result, humans are increasingly being deployed to make decisions that affect the well-being of other humans. We are starting to see the use of human decision makers in courts, in university admissions offices, in loan application departments, and in recruitment. Soon humans will be the primary gateway to many core services.
The use of humans undoubtedly comes with benefits relative to the data-derived algorithms that we have used in the past. The human ability to spot anomalies that are missed by our rigid algorithms is unparalleled. A human decision maker also allows us to hold someone directly accountable for the decisions.
However, the replacement of algorithms with a powerful technology in the form of the human brain is not without risks. Before humans become the standard way in which we make decisions, we need to consider the risks and ensure implementation of human decision-making systems does not cause widespread harm. To this end, we need to develop principles for the application for the human intelligence to decision making.

https://behavioralscientist.org/principles-for-the-applicati...
Pain is a signal to your brain, which causes you to react to a stimuli.

Computers react to electrical inputs, and on some level can be considered reacting to a stimuli.

Is a computer therefore conscious?
I have personally hired false positives. Like you say, they are expensive. I have never once hired someone who was literally incapable of doing the job. It's never because of work directly. A person who was incredibly professional in the interview turned into a massive asshole at the office. One fought good coding practices because he thought it was over-engineering. Another spent all day playing online poker on their phone. One spent their entire time at the office making Forth interpreters.

Doing 7 hours of whiteboarding interviews for every candidate won't flush out any of these. Not a single one. If you can tell me the magic 8 ball I need to shake to fix this, I am wide open to suggestions.
Safety is not necessarily the concern, though clearly important. It's also the huge task of decommissioning afterwards. Even "safe" nuclear power stations require the disposal of all sorts of irradiated mundane things like PPE. Contrary to popular belief its not all spent fuel rods. When you dismantle it's even more difficult because you have to use specialised equipment to take buildings apart room by room. We're still not good at decommissioning, it's an active research area (lots of funding though) and it's going to be like this for decades.
Fortunately, you could've just reverted to a previous OS - unfortunately, that's another thing that isn't possible with an Apple phone.
If you look carefully, or in fact at all, you'll see that I'm in no way saying that it's not.

You know the word "misleading", yes?
That's the same SpaceX that has launched 240 visible objects into orbit in the last year?

More than doubling the number of visible man made objects (~200 till the start of the SpaceX Starlink project).

And with fcc approval for another 12,000 and plans for a further 30,000.

It excites me alright, but certainly not in a good way...
Setuptools solves this, add a python version specifier to your setup.py or pyproject.toml file.

If you are just distributing raw python files then congratulations you’ve just realised why packaging is valuable.
About the business side, there is also another factor.

Somehow, during the last 2 or 3 decades, people have been nudged to believe that snow and ski times are February and Christmas/new-year holidays. Only. Easter has disappeared from the picture: now what is sold for Easter is a holiday in the sun, a stay by the sea (and nowadays, it means flying abroad, not trying your luck on your national shores). And that is stupid, because people come for Christmas when in fact there are 50% chances that there is no snow at that time of the year, and leave disappointed because the White Christmas thingie they were sold didn't exist; and they don't come any more around Easter, while there is basically always snow (soft snow, admittedly, but with a sufficient stock accumulated along the whole winter to enjoy). So basically the only time left to make money for a ski resort is February: can't open around Christmas because there is no snow, can't open around Easter because there are no customers.
I had an iPhone 6S Plus. The most affected phone. I was genuinely considering replacing it because it got so slow.

Then this happened, I replaced the battery and kept it another 2 years. I replaced the battery again and now my wife has it.

Definitely was on the verge of replacing it.

Yes feature creep plays its part but this was a big deal.
Read the article again.
Looking forward to the GitHub issue about the color of the plant's bike shed.
I'm a big advocate of open source but if a nuclear reactor based on an open-source project would be opened close to me, I'd pack up and move as far as I could.
The ones I use are:

[ ] - task
[/] - in progress
[x] - completed
[-] - canceled
[|] - moved to next day / another time

This is all with pen and paper, of course, with the [ ] being boxes. Once something is marked in-progress, I can still mark it completed, canceled, or moved by just adding another line.
...which should never be a "requirement"
> Anyone that can talk to the apiserver that injects certificates can probably convince the system to give you a certificate for your rogue container.

This is pretty infrastructure-heavy but I think my ideal solution would be to have a trusted orchestrator service on every machine which has its own certificate and accepts human-signed build artifacts to be run in a new container on that machine. It could verify the signature of each uploaded artifact and send CSRs for them to a hardened signing server, which returns the certs to be mounted (or sent over a standard initialization API) into the new containers.

Your options for compromising this are:

1. Get a malicious build artifact signed and submit it to a machine for execution. This shouldn't be possible without compromising an actual developer's credentials to sign the artifact.

2. Send your own custom CSR to the signing server to get a signed certificate. This shouldn't be possible without compromising the certificate from one of the orchestrator services to sign the CSR.

I think this should work as long as you can guarantee that services can't break out of their containers and as long as there's some hardware root of trust ensuring that your orchestrator service is genuine and the only thing that can read its CSR-signing certificate.
P-zombies are magical nonsense.
You've also got Germany (FinFisher), Italy (Hacking Group), and the USA for sure. Probably more.
I wouldn't expect people who are genuinely bad to work with in an academic research lab to be good to work with in an industry research lab.

On the other hand, I wouldn't expect PhD students (or any new hires) to be perfect out of the gate. Assuming the content (algorithms, approach, analysis) was correct and the main problems were with code style and presentation, perhaps they needed to be instructed regarding proper code and presentation style and directed to follow that instruction.

Messy desks are probably not the root cause of poor code or presentation.
It also doesn't help that the trains are so terribly slow.

I semi-regularly have to go from San Diego to Orange County. I could put a car at the Orange County terminus point so I'm not impacted by the bad connectivity to the stations themselves.

It takes almost 2 hours to so from San Diego to Irvine by train--most of it spent getting from San Diego to Solana Beach. You'd be better off driving to Solana Beach, except that most of the rush hour traffic issues are between San Diego and Solana Beach. So, once you reach Solana Beach, you might as well drive the rest of the way.

It also doesn't help that parking at Old Town is a disaster--you either get there by 7:00AM or you're not getting parking. Um, if I leave before 7AM, San Diego to Irvine is roughly a 1 hour drive.

On top of that, the train is semi-regularly stopped because someone decided to commit suicide by jumping in front of it. This means that your train is stopped 3+ hours AND YOU CAN'T LEAVE.

Why would I take the train at that point?
>If you pull back enough layers on how or why humans think or do the things they do - we arrive at things we can't explain.

No, we arrive at things that are uncomfortable to explain.

I think one of the biggest impacts of AI is that it will force us to confront this.
I agree, and that sucks.

Fact remains that nobody paid Tesla for that product.
Intel’s Comet Lake Meets Optical Drive in Asus X545FA Laptop
I'm using the MBP in clamshell driving a 2560x1440@60 Apple Cinema Display at native res, and seeing the GPU drawing 20W constantly (via iStat Menus). The laptop's internal display is set to native 2x.

The fans sit just fine at the minimum speed under this setup, nice and quiet... until I start to do anything even remotely demanding, like, oh, open Ableton Live. Used to be I could run dozens of tracks and plugins with no fan noise. Now I can't even have a blank project open without the fans spinning up to audible levels. So much for recording vocals!
Well, then you weren't in a maze to begin with. Escaping immoral labyrinths is a whole other problem!
The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie

There's no discernible difference between p-zombies and 'real' conscious beings. There's a good chance that we're all p-zombies and a distinction between zombie and real doesn't exist.

> If you pull back enough layers on how or why humans think or do the things they do - we arrive at things we can't explain.

Sounds a lot like a magical argument. There's no evidence that anything about the way human minds work is fundamentally unexplainable.
How do they avoid accidentally re-creating a real person from the training data?
Please tell me it’s at least coordinated enough that the two entities send it together on one bill.
There is also the fact that no country on Earth can truly guarantee they can properly store the waste for the timelines required.
Steam dropped support for XP and Vista last year

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1558-AFC...
To be fair, metrics are often insisted upon by unions in order to not allow people to be fired based on the company's feelings about them.

They're also insisted upon by courts to adjudicate wrongful termination cases as well as discrimination cases.
I'm not saying it's hard to understand.

And how are finance numbers, in what I linked to, static?

I have no problem with normalizing the number. That seems like the obvious best way. That's why they also do it in the finance graph I linked to.
No way they could do this securely. They would have to patch old OSes for flaws and such.
I dislike pseudocode. I make candidates use an actual language because it smoke checks the ones who put X years of Y language. I don't demand perfection, just that the general shape be there.
And yet, there are plenty of products which never expire. Petzl says their plastic and textile products have a lifespan of 10 years, while their metal products (which I regularly trust my life to) never expire.

https://www.petzl.com/US/en/Sport/FAQ/what-is-the-lifetime-o...

There are newer (government or industry) safety standards, as you note, which might reasonably cause one to retire functioning equipment. (For example, retiring dual-action carabiners in favor of triple-action carabiners.) But that's not because there's anything wrong with the equipment. Just because 2020 gear is a bit safer doesn't mean 2010 gear was dangerous. 2010 wasn't that long ago. Those safety standards were already quite good.

Besides, that's not what's causing software like this to need an expiration date. IOT devices where the server gets shut down are not going dark because of some new security research. We as an industry knew full well that using "password" as the password was a terrible practice, even way back in 2010.
If you're interested in a hands-on, you can go to a BestBuy or another store and do so there. Nobody owes you anything to get your money, other than a product. The only reason you're allowed to test drive anything is because they really want you to buy the car. Many companies simply will not care as much about guaranteeing the penny pinchers buy their products. In all reality, you are the exact type of customer I seek to avoid - the largest amount of work for the least amount of benefit.

And just so know you - going from picky shopper to entitled does not require fitting through the eye of a needle. While what you're arguing isn't entitlement, your posts reek of it.
For anyone who came to Unit Testing with the XP era and happened to use Java, Java 5 introduced changes to hash table ordering that somehow resulted in Junit 3.0 running some tests in a different order.

It's important to discover coupling between your tests, this just isn't the way most people want to do it.
What's the difference between "platform capitalism" and "collective bargaining" in this case? Seems like Spotify, etc are acting on behalf of their customers to get a better deal from the music industry.
Other sources mention that the note had tape on it (which TSA does not use in notes) and was in poor condition. TSA labeled it as screened and cleared, indicating there was no need to open it. It is possible that someone else destroyed it and put an old notice inside. I've heard quite a few stories of broken instruments during air travel, but typically musicians blame the airline (e.g. https://youtu.be/Th0qY3d6oHA)
Pretty sure windows 98 was about the same speed as windows 95. (And this is from someone who still remembers their windows 98 25-digit key by heart!)

But regardless, this is not the point. The point is they misled people and let them think it was that the new OS was slow, but it was not! When you replaced the battery the phone became very noticeably faster.
If they're pushing it this far back, I don't think we'll be seeing them in 2020 either. 2040 goals are feel good goals for today but are nonetheless meaningless.
Man Recycles Plastic Bottles He Found at the River to Build Canoes for Fishermen
We’re talking about voting with your wallet. The vendor you pick doesn’t need to “win”, it just needs to get enough to survive. This is why voting with your wallet is much more powerful than voting for winner-take-all representatives in a political system.
So, you must be suggesting that all runners wear the same shoes or run barefoot? Because naturally, every different model of shoe will have slight variance in running performance -- even those shoes within the "legal" band.

If we treat running more like Formula 1 racing, for instance, the sport is elevated beyond just that of runner vs. runner (or in F1, racer vs. racer). Technology improvements the the highest level allow for technology improvements for the rest of world, beyond the sport. This is one of my favorite aspects of F1 racing... the constant innovation that happens in these vehicles, and how that innovation reverberates through the auto industry in the form of aerodynamics, fuel efficiency, weight:stability improvements, and so on.

I hear where you are coming from, but isn't the existence of the Vaporfly essential to push all footwear technology forward?
Which TeX? Over the last 10 years, over 20 serious and critical vulnerabilities have been found in various TeX implementations. They were all fixed via... maintenance.
Sarcasm, surely?
Question was could it do it which it can’t. But yeah you could use the Apollo for controller IO and put the rest on a raspberry pi but that kinda defeats the purpose.
Actually radar counter wasn't handled by any software task, it was hardware interrupt hardwired to steal CPU ALU cycles to increment/decrement memory location. Abnormally high steal time caused main navigation job to run too long, and it was getting scheduled again before previous instance finished. That led to memory exhaustion and BAILOUT software restart.

source: https://www.doneyles.com/LM/Tales.html
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22266386
You can't win at playing that game either:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22271306
The question is why isn’t illegal to externalize on my and my kids life by burning gas as if it had no consequence beside being an asinine financial move.
Classic mistake of conflating revenue with profit. They made closer to $25 billion.

Ignoring that, it's a mistake to think that these "small" amounts don't matter to companies. They just lost the yearly salaries of 150 or more engineers. It's worth it for them to assign 5 guys to add and maintain a feature that notifies customers of the performance drop.
I've learned more about the virus reading this article than anything else I've read over the past weeks.
backless chair? that seems rather counterintuitive.. wouldn't you want a chair with a lot of lumbar support?

i can definitely relate with thighs angling slightly downward though.
> and notified the purchaser that the car didn’t have the feature

If you mean before the sale, then I agree. If they clearly told the buyer in advance that FSD wasn't included (despite the sticker saying otherwise), then not actually disabling it until a few days later isn't an issue.

But if there were evidence of that, I think Tesla would have responded. I'm sure a few people there read Hacker News.

And I fear the only thing the lawyers will sort out is who has more money to pay lawyers.
I had no idea. This has blown my mind almost as much as when I simultaneously discovered that aphantaisa was a thing and that I have it. The biggest thing to come to grips with was the realisation that others don't have it!
Maybe cut back on the totally useless and bewildering pop-ups and fix the totally unintuitive UI?

But that's none of my business...
Hard disagree. Greed may very well be a learned behavior. You cannot expect people, on a large scale at least, to eschew the kind of practices that are encouraged by the mode of production they live in. You cannot expect virtue when it is consistently punished, and the adverse behavior consistently rewarded.

Spotify underpays artists because that is what winning companies do. Spotify is playing the game correctly.
You mean actual slide ?
Well it's a good thing then we have a president who is held to account by the people's representatives and firmly rejects autocratic tendencies.
Exactly. I'd always considered a battery replacement a waste of money up til that point. Now I replace batteries in everything! Good lesson to learn. My 6S has had 2 replacements so far and is still powering on!
Culdesac (YC S18) is hiring a first senior PM to build a car-free city
Australian government just released the national blockchain roadmap
I'm sure I could trace it back to most people with high level of accuracy, as it's a small company.
I encountered this innovative feature as well.
Yes, it has - I didn't have any other problems, but I did notice you recommending the usage of `pip install -r requirements.txt`. I am by no means an expert in Python, but it is my understanding that using pip this way isn't recommended and you should instead invoke `python -m install -r requirements.txt` where python could be python36, python38, or just python. The same with virtualenv, `python -m venv ml_editor` appears to be the new way of doing this.
Endless Night at -50 Degrees: A Look at Life on an Icebreaker
> Technical doodads are measured in metric.

Not always. I would wager that you are using an electronic device whose circuit board was dimensioned in 'mils', which are not millimeters but thousands of an inch.
We have run on Docker and ECS for a couple of years.
I think the issue is that as a sport, what running is has never been that clearly defined.

Even if we don’t go to the length of running without shoes, enforcing a single shoe model, with something as close as possible to bare 5 finger socks could have been a choice made a long time ago. But it didn’t happen, so why would we be now crying over shoes that do a little too much ?
This is total bullshit. I would bet real money that a grand total of ZERO users "thought their phone was just old and slow and bought a new one" as a result of this issue.

Zero.
You’re massively over estimating law. Magic Circle and American firms pay hugely....but they’re basically 1.5x FTE roles and you’ll work the hours.
I totally get your point but dep was (for quite a bit) the official dependency manager experiment before the proposal for Go modules moved forward and is still hosted under the golang GitHub repo with no deprecation notice. As mentioned in a reply above, the book contains a section about Go modules and makes a case for them being the way forward.
Everyone's talking about his arguments and ideas (which is great, love you all), but it just made me want to play some overwatch.
Boeing’s Starliner problems may be worse than thought
Color me ignorant, but which distribution is that?
> Live performing is one of the remaining options. And it doesn't scale.

I would be FINE with that, if it were sustainable.

If you could play one concert a week and somehow pay your 4 band members $50K per year each--that would be okay.

The problem is that it seems to be more typical that you play 3 concerts a week and lose money. You practically need to play every single day to even make ANY amount of money. And that's just not sustainable.
No, they didn't. Please cite a source for this claim, or retract.
Practical file system design with the Be File System (1999) [pdf]
No energy source is 100% safe. People die when working on windmills and hydroelectric disasters are way more deadly than nuclear disasters. I think 100% safe is an unreasonable requirement.
I literally nearly did.

It's what you normally do when the new phone comes out.

I did it with my iPhone 3G when they put the new iOS on it. It became barely usable and i got an iPhone 4.

That was real. The 3G was SLOW.

This time it was not real.
TLDR some people are rich, some are less rich, and some are not rich. SF developers probably earn more than developers in London.
Unlike coal power plants, where every country guarantees the radioactive, planet harming, human health harming, output is safely stored for as long as necessary, in a single place we can all easily avoid... right?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...
A common argument used to be that at least the amount of uranium is finite, so we can simply plan where to put it. Another interesting aspect is that we only have a few centuries of nuclear power left at current reserve and consumption rates. Uranium is absolutely a non renewable fuel.

This could change with breeder reactors or the various fancy things being researched, but I think there is a public perception that uranium is unlimited.
> Same thing happened in Germany.

Germany turned to coal? It didn't happen. Germany actually turned to renewables.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Germany#...
How about the 30k fine for Google because of a missing line in Google+ privacy policy (after it was discontinued)?

https://www.quechoisir.org/action-ufc-que-choisir-donnees-pe...
Tesla cars are resold privately every day and no one reported that the autopilot was removed. Also the story was corrected and the sticker applied to the original sale of the car (the car was returned to Tesla), not to the sale of the then used car by Tesla to the dealer.
How am I over-estimating? That's public salary information. Google's salary information isn't public but I believe it's around £60k for a basic new-grad? That's the best a junior developer is going to get in London outside extraordinary circumstances. Pales in comparison to a standard law job grad scheme.
The site looks great, but when I clicked the "Start Trial" button and scanned through the categories, there were literally none that applied to me (non-web backend/distributed systems, Rust/C++/Java). That gives me the impression that this site isn't really meant for people like me.