skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is how United States politics work. The elite give money to regulate an industry.

Do elites ever give money to deregulate?
Oh, so many places! I generally do a lot of reading.

I love longform.org whenever I have more than 30min to spare and am looking for deeper reading.

Farnam Street (fs.blog) has some really great content on mental models and tools.

I'm slowly reading through 80000hours.org, which covers how to re-think your career to solve the world's "biggest problems"

waitbutwhy.com has some fun long posts on random topics, and is currently doing a lengthy series called "The Story of Us" about the development of ideas, primarily in the U.S.

And if I feel like going on a wikipedia loophole, I go to explodingtopics.com/ (which I first saw in a ShowHN!) and google the top results for the past month.
Isn't it interesting what is more efficient: neural nets or a learning Mealy machine? Anyway, an optimization of an exhaustive search is a slow but assured way of solving a car driver problem. You don't need the most accurate simulation for it as Elon says here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucp0TTmvqOE&t=7358

A "brute-force" algorithm (an exhaustive search, in other words) is the easiest way to find an answer to almost any engineering problem. But it often must be optimized before being computed. The optimization may be done by an AI agent based on Neural Nets, or on a Learning Mealy Machine.

A Learning Mealy Machine is an finite automaton in which training data stream is remembered by constructing disjunctive normal forms of the output function of the automaton and the transition function between its states. Then those functions are optimized (compressed with losses by logic transformations like De Morgan's Laws, arithmetic rules, loop unrolling/rolling, etc.) into some generalized forms. That introduces random hypotheses into the automaton's functions, so it can be used in inference. The optimizer for automaton's functions may be another AI agent, or any heuristic algorithm, which you like...

Some interesting engineering (and scientific) problems are:
- finding a machine code for a controller of a car, which makes it able to drive autonomously;
- finding a machine code for a controller of a bipedal robot, which makes it able to work in warehouses and factories;
- finding a CAD file, which describes the design of a spheromak working with a guiding center drift generator (hypothetical device, idk!);
- finding a CAD file, which describes some kind of working Smoluchowski’s trapdoor (in some specific conditions, of course);
- finding a file, which describes an automaton working in accordance to the data of a scientific experiment;
- finding a file, which describes manufacturing steps to produce the first molecular nanofactory in the world.

Related work by Embecosm is here: superoptimization.org Though it seems people have superoptimized only tiny programs so far as you can see from the ICRL 2017 paper (App. D): arxiv.org/abs/1611.01787 And loops can also be rolled, not just unrolled. That kind of loop optimization seems to be absent here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop_optimization

If you have any questions, ask me here: https://www.facebook.com/eugene.zavidovsky
In 1974.
But I suspect people would be perturbed if the moving companies sold that information.
May I query which exact operating system did you use? Debian aarch64?
I wasn't commenting on whether it works. I was showing that his objection to criticism that didn't include a suggested better alternative was illogical.
Can anyone explain why William Barr seems so intent on trying to change technology in such major ways as this? Does he not understand the implications of the things he proposes? Or worse, does he understand the implications and proposes them nonetheless? I just don't get this guy's motivation.

As far as I can tell, revoking section 230 would just result in people putting up fake content themselves and then suing the platform they posted to. Is there a reason why this wouldn't be possible?

Also, I see a lot of people focusing on major platforms, but why wouldn't such changes also impact tiny sites? In particular, it seems that anyone casually hosting their own site (not something they focus on often), will be forced to remove all user generated content or quit their day jobs to manage their site - am I misinterpreting the implications here?
Currently reading snowden book, "Permanent record". At one point he says that private companies do a huge amount of work for the NSA & Co, and have ridiculous level of access to vast arrays of personal data, which they proceed to give to their employees or subcontractors for processing.

I expect FAANGS to do the same.
This would be super easy and fun to do in Scratch. For sure someone has done a similar game you could borrow to start.

Also: don't worry about a 4YO struggling with letters. It's OK. But do make the game anyway.
So, they basically treated people like low-level employees at a call center in the US?

This sort of thing isn't actually new. Those cameras in retail stores are, first and foremost, used to track employee theft - including theft of company time spent talking to other employees. Are you a call center employee that has to go poop often that day or are 3 minutes late from break? Expect a call from HR for the bathroom breaks and an attendance issue for the tardiness.

I'm guessing if this were in the US and put in place for low-level employees, it would have never been scrapped.
Ssh/sftp can be open.
I think Selenium IDE is still around.

Its a drag-n-drop browser plugin that does everything Kasaya can do (both selenium under the hood) and can export to js/python/etc.
FAANG is just a buzzword acronym, a hook to pull in investors.

LinkedIn is Microsoft, which should also be included given it's scale. It should be FAMANG.
This can be solved by making all ordinary transactions public. Blockchain is not needed in 100% of the cases when central authority is in place.
bad answers aren't wrong answers. You are arguing on the basis of facts, yet throttling who is able to access to those facts.
The solution would be to accept that the classification algorithm was too error probe to be usable for non-toy applications.
Well, by the fact they are allowing some voices and silencing others, largely in one political direction, it would seem they are expressing an opinion indirectly.

I don't think anyone wants Twitter to be responsible for every tweet. What most people want them to do is be more like they used to claim to be "We are the free speech wing of the free speech party"
Optic Nerve was one of these things. Basically, GCHQ or NSA hacked Yahoo!, GCHQ used that to collect stills for every single webcam feed on the platform (this! was! back! when! Yahoo! was! still! relevant!), including a lot of intimate photos, so on. Lots of fun stuff there!

But that's a modern example. There are some pretty interesting ones. Here's a fun list of some celebrities that were the targets of a Five Eyes country and were spied on by multiple agencies as a result:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_under_Five_Eyes...
Kudos to the swedes for working methodically to try to find a way for the central bank to issue digital money. They have been working for a number of years on this and seem to be thinking effectively about all of the issues involved.

One of the reasons that most interest me in this type of digital money comes from its use by the government itself within its various branches. Moving the financial accounts of the government from internal systems to a public blockchain potentially opens up the government accounts to public scrutiny in a way that has not yet been possible. This offers a potential for transparency which matters less, perhaps, in Sweden, than in other governments around the world.
So to reverse the Trump administration's support, everyone should just start tweeting how Trump agrees with Obama and supports the Obama administration's position on this issue...
Of course we're 5 years from L5. Always have been, since the 1970 lane-keeping Mercedes. You just need to understand that this is a codeword for "we have no idea what interesting and hard problem pops up next week, this research is SO EXCITING!" If you are expecting actual L5, in production, five years from any given date...you're gonna have a bad time.
That mostly talks about using other date libraries instead of momentjs, not that you don't need date libraries.

Yes, obviously you can forego DRY and write and maintain a bunch of boilerplate for date manipulation, or write and maintain your own date library, but for most uses itmakes a lot more sense to use an existing library. For new uses, probably not momentjs, though—probably date-fns, or luxon, or...
I seem to remember a social media story about someone who was fired for posting a meme on their Facebook account that said "Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime; That's why I poop on company time".
Windows "A file name can't contain any of the following characters":

\ / : * ? " < > |

which means "*:|" would need to be removed if you want to support that use case
Show HN: Budgee.me – Your budget buddy, a small tool o create budgets
The fiber thing might have the opposite effect: going poop even more. Best to remind employees to eat at regular times so they poop at regular times. Then one can plan their breaks around pooping. After all, that's what rest breaks are for, after all.
I wonder if that means that since they're moving their customers therefore revenue to the US, they will pay taxes there too, instead of Ireland.

Probably not though. Flags of convenience is the Google way.
This is referring to RSA the company, not RSA the public key cryptosystem (both created Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman)
It certainly is not a selling point. The reason I pointed it out in the title was to get professional feedbacks in addition to user feedbacks. You do not have to follow all gamification scheme to use the application, you can think of them as extras.
A little electrical tape can trick a Tesla into speeding
Problem with a central server for money is that it makes the whole state vulnerable. If everybody use central bank e-currency you can just attack their sever to destroy the flow of all money.

But if it is distributed like real crypto currency, you have to be able to attack and take down hundreds or thousands of severs geographically spread.
Congrats on the launch!

I've been using PostHog with my app for about a week now, and so far the results have been good. Pretty straightforward to integrate with a Swift iOS app too!
Except it’s not extortion bc there is no threat of action particularly of the sort where one is obligated or expected by duty or ethically, despite your dogged perception that circumstances can entitle one to a pardon.

Further, there is no muh quid pro quo threat of prison time as it predates this.

Of course it also helps that none of this even happened and is Fake News and misinformation, but again muh “extortion”.

>Upon my return, I spoke briefly with Gen. Kelly. I told him that Julian Assange would provide information about the purloined DNC emails in exchange for a pardon. No one followed up with me including Gen. Kelly and that was the last discussion I had on this subject with anyone representing Trump or in his Administration.

https://www.rohrabacher.com/news/my-meeting-with-julian-assa...
Dictionaries are descriptive of majority usage, Charles. So to put it bluntly, that's the average white person's definition of racism.

Expert definitions often differ from common usage. E.g., people talk about the "memory" of their computer, meaning their hard drive space. (And when they say "hard drive" they often mean the whole tower.) The common definition for "energy" contains things that would horrify physicists. And the dictionary gives definitions for things like astrological signs, too.

The definition komali2 is using seems to be a pretty standard expert definition. If you disagree with it, you should explain what books on racism you've read and which one you're getting your definition from.

And if you haven't read any, I'd suggest you start by reading DiAngelo's, which is material to your behavior here. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07638ZFN1/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
But then does Microsoft implement GDPR globally, not just its LinkedIn subsidiary?
As in...railroads?
> The discussion _requires_ framing, and so does discussing "misinformation and extremist content"

The framing is usually implied instead of spelled out precisely. At the same time, I don't see you arguing against this (probably shitty) implied framing and instead just pretending there is none. This makes it hard for me to take seriously, since it looks so similar to the "there is no perfect security so why even try" line of arguing.

And yes, my alarm bells also went off by AG Barr talking about "misinformation and extremist content", even though I actually do think we should carefully observe whether current online platforms / communication changes our societies and if in a favorable way.
Interpretability, Explainability, and Black Boxes
Why not set up a local kubernetes server and let it handle the reboot ?
I'll be following this
> the same government

The same branch of the same country, but with changes in who occupies it they can be vastly different.

I greatly dislike the "both sides are the same" narrative, but there were some strong elements of consistency regardless of occupant.

The current administration is an entirely new beast that reflects the whims of a single individual. We are in uncharted waters now.
They stole the idea from American call centers. This sounds similar to the monitoring in place 20 years ago at a telephone company call center I worked at.
Are you really confused about this, or just rhetorically confused? You can answer the question by googling "sex vs gender".
It's not good for the users. Having less control over your privacy and your data is extremely unlikely to be better for the users. Probably less control and regulation is going to be better for Google.
Flying. Don't forget flying.
We've put a link to that article in the title above. (This submission was originally a short text post.)
This is not a lie if these changes do not do anything but later ones will.
budgee.me is a small tool to help you create and keep personal budgets by showing how much you have left to spend each day within budget period.

I have been working on this tool for a while and would love to get some feedback on it, it works really good for me and for how I intend to use it, but it would be cool to see how it can be improved further.
FYI: You might enjoy my talk notes titled "Using Git (and GitHub) for (Publishing) Data" [1] includes many real-world examples too.

[1]: https://github.com/geraldb/talks/blob/master/git_for_data.md
It's called adverse selection. You don't want to be on the other side of an order from an informed trader, because the market is moving against you in the short run. In the longer run, if the big fund is more often correct than not, then you are also more likely to have made a losing trade. HFTs care mostly about the effect on the market today, so they probably don't care whether the information is correct or not, they just want to get out of the way of big moves.
> "Managers would never get away with breathing down employee's necks, personally monitoring their screens or logging toilet and water breaks,"

They wouldn't? Isn't that reality for a lot of workers?
The 1900 leap year bug is for Lotus 123 compatibility. Nobody cares about that now but it was critical in the beginning - Imaging moving to Excel and all your dates are off by a day.

These days it sticks around because of compatibility with older versions.
Ask HN: How do you form a queue of students for passing individual assignments?
I'm sure many of you had dealt with some kind of personal tasks/projects handed out by teacher to everyone in group. Then you probably would had an extra class specifically for presenting you work, where your group forms an queue of who is going next.
At my college we usually have 3-4 tasks that should be completed by the end of semester and by the deadline of 2nd task it is already a mess. Should I let ones who fall behind go first so they don't accumulate unfinished tasks? But at the same time I want to get rid of this as fast as I can, and it's likely that dummies won't pass even on 3rd try, end up just wasting the whole class hours.
We got that feedback before, thank you again :)
You are right. We will fix it real soon.
WASM cannot access the DOM. Not yet, anyway. I find this ridiculous, but that's the situation.
Well, that kind of casts doubt on the whole "Trump is doing this for contributions" if Obama was on the same side of the issue then.
If these companies are treated as a "public square" then the first amendment ought to apply. It's disappointing to see enlightened ideas like free speech being taken apart by these large corporations to push what seems to be a political agenda.

Recent example - a female Nascar driver shares a selfie with the President of the United States and Twitter's algorithms flag it as sensitive content. When algorithms make mistakes that lead to race based discrimination, it's treated extremely seriously. When this sort of thing happens it seems like everyone shakes their head and chuckles "oh those silly algorithms". Outcomes that marginalize folks based on political views are dangerous for your country. The shoe will be on the other foot someday.
> "Sorry, but we can’t find the page you were looking for"
I read a sci-fi book where three characters were in a punishment squad in some distant (communist?) future.

They were on a planet with incompatible dns, so they couldn't eat anything local. They ended up using some cloning equipment to make "hams" and grafted on extra limbs for travel rations.

Anyone else read this?
No, the alternative is courts that respect the boundaries of treaties. The ECJ can apparently rule that 'The Constitution is Unconstitutional'. Which is a problem.
Yea this idea has been tried and never found a market at least a dozen times over. It's not impossible for the market or execution to change (e.g. Dropbox) but given the recent software is eating the world boom, it's hard to imagine that the market has changed dramatically so recently or their execution is going to be so much better than other teams who have tried and failed.
The reasons of presumed eventuallity is a horrible reason not to do something.
Sure, they say so, and have been for years! That obviously means they haven't been exaggerating then and aren't now; in that case, I have a very nice bridge here that might be of interest to you!
If they intended to listen, or indeed cared an iota about their employees, they wouldn't have rolled this out in the first place. This level of intrusive monitoring would very clearly be hated by those it monitored, and make then feel very uncomfortable.

Seriously, in this day and age, how on earth did this get enough support at the management level to pilot it?
Who knows? My hunch is there's two main factors influencing this. The first is that constraints breed creativity. If you know you only have 133MHz on a single CPU you squeeze as as possible much out of every cycle, on modern CPUs what's a few thousand cycles between friends?

The second is SDK/framework/etc. bloat, which is probably influenced by the first. With excess cycles you don't care if your tools start to bloat.

I think it's primarily an issue of attitude. If you want to write fast software you'll do it, regardless of the circumstances. It all starts with wanting it.
P=NP: A Story
>Pilot wave theory isn't actually simpler because the pilot wave must travel throughout the entire universe instantaneously

Given that quantum mechanic is non local (quantum teleportation), I don't think that this is the big issue.
Why QM is non-local yet cannot send data faster than light, that's much more unexplained.
You might be saying "they said this", but what your audience reads is "this is true".

To take a recent example:

"A renowned firefighter says that bushfires have mostly been caused by arsonists, exacerbated by conservationists protesting harm reduction burns, resulting in an exceptional fire season this year."

"A renowned firefighter says that climate change has reduced the safe period to perform harm reduction burns, and has contributed to drought conditions, resulting in an exceptional fire season this year."

These are both facts. But which one you report on will give your audience an entirely differently picture of the situation.
Or perhaps I actually saw the entirety of his one-line post and thought it was a disingenuous use of a smiley.
Just because you're incorporating in a different country doesn't mean you're not continuing to grow and develop your business in the original country.
I've no idea if the intended audience here would ever run their workloads on Solaris, but like the IBM POWER systems, Oracle & Fujitsu SPARC servers also max out at 64TB of RAM. I didn't see those included here.
Haven't been in a position to sort resumes yet.

If I ever am, NSA in the history is a solid red flag. Be nice or go home. Willingness to participate in all that makes me wonder about your character.

Facebook almost as much, depending on when and for how long. The more recent, or longer sustained stay, again. Be nice or go home.

Google a little bit more reasonable, especially if only ever on the app/project side vs main service.

Adtech experience, I'd have to ask if they'd washed their minds out and won't even consider any of those tactics ever again... on second thought, almost as bad a flag as NSA crap.

Even if it's only a small drop of resistance in an ocean of "yeah, ok, whatever", I feel like we should signal that certain behaviors _against_ your fellow humans are poorly regarded.

Edit: figured this would get downvotes, ah well.
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence moves up a gear
I don't disagree that the data has very large error bars. I'm simply saying that, using the current best guess we can do the following:
- Stratify relative risk based on population distribution.
- Guage the impact of the expected bad case of ~2% mortality.

Will mortality rate come down? Very likely. But it may not... And if not, what is the outcome at scale?
Out of interest, can Hazy learn temporal relationships in streams of data?
Thank you for the great feedback. I guess we need to get some advice from a product vision guy to fix this. We'll fix it soon, I hope :)
"futureproof" is from software development.

"omni-channel push" is from, why, MIDI.

"co-create" is from Microsoft COM: CoCreateClass, CoCreateInstance.

:)

In "What's the business-critical ask", I would rather underline the dubious "ask" used as a noun than "business-critical".
When I read the headlines, I thought it was these guys: https://www.dolthub.com
Tracking links are why I never just click on links anymore. I copy/paste them so I can edit out the spying nonsense.
s/1NF/3NF/g ...point here is that data good design comes from objects in 3NF...1NF is a good start, 3NF would be better...
US courts recognize many exceptions to the first amendment. IP rights fall into that category.
I totally agree :D
Thank you for the feedback.
See my update - I've decided that removing all the bathrooms would be more efficient due to how much time and money it would save. They'd be converted to closets that contain only speed and bananas.