skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this not timing the market? How do you calculate what is "high" and "low" - rolling average increasing 7% per year, compare current price to that expectation?
On the contrary, consider Ralph Steinem [0], who was awarded the Medicine prize in 2011, three days after his death. The news had not yet reached the prize committee. There are a couple others[1,2] from decades past that were nominated before their death, and the committee selected them after their death, but that loophole was closed in 1974.

As I said, edge cases.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_M._Steinman

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Axel_Karlfeldt
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dag_Hammarskjold
Touchscreens in cars should have been made illegal years ago. Manufacturers should be forced to recall and fix every single car that has one, even if it bankrupts them. This is such an obviously egregiously stupid thing to have ever implemented that they fully deserve to be on the hook for fixing it.
Even animated child porn is illegal because the theory goes, it drives demand for the real thing. Someone who flies flight simulators eventually would welcome the chance in a real airplane. Besides, getting off on children sexually is beyond reprehensible. If we are to have any laws at all, I vote for the one that doesn’t encourage or support exploiting children, real or otherwise.
That makes sense!

When I write one liners I tend to build them up in bash, and so when I want them to be reusable I do the same as your (3) but targeting bash. Then when they get at all complicated I rewrite in python.
> Rob Pike and Ken Thompson have Sundar as their manager

This isn't true (and I don't believe it's ever been true).

> I saw this at least with other Google Fellows

This also isn't true in general, there are no Google Fellows that report directly to Sundar. Not to mention that neither Ken nor Rob is a Fellow.

> and don't go through perf in any real sense

Why do you believe this to be true? Many people of similar stature (VPs are approximately equivalent to Google Fellows, and there are tons of VPs) have a real perf process, although it doesn't quite resemble the one you or I would have.

If you mean that he has no incentive to "play perf games", then that's true only insofar as they don't want to advance, which is true for the average Google engineer starting at L4 or L5.

> At Google seniority is revered.

This hasn't been my experience at all, I've had quite reasonable experiences pushing back against my directors and questioning my VPs.
Something similar went to court! You can probably google the details and find the actual case.

Guy works at a rail yard, he notices that they are spending a bunch of time doing an inventory of equipment and then a bunch of guys in suits keep visiting. He assumes someone is buying the company, so loads up on stock and so does his family.

Company gets acquired and the SEC charges him with insider trading. I believe he was convicted (nope, went to jury trial), but appealed and won.

His argument was he had no more access to this information than the general public would (say from watching the yard outside the gate).

Edit: found it!

https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/two-thoughts-about-the-jur...

Acquitted after a jury trial.
Maybe so, but the ads were so annoying I couldn't keep reading. It was almost comical how they kept popping up every few seconds, like some kind of parody.

Fortunately, https://outline.com/5nJgjL

Curiously this article presents a different hypothesis about why he is able to read 0 and 1:

> It's also "surprising" that his brain doesn't have problems with "0" and "1," McCloskey added. It's not clear why, but those two numbers might look similar to letters like "O" or "lowercase l," he said. Or those two numbers might be processed differently than other numbers in the brain, as "zero wasn't invented for quite a long time after the other digits were," he said.
While I appreciate that they attempted to use some kind of scientific reckoning, using a weak science (handwriting analysis) and then adding ridiculously high numbers to it (1/2.666E21) is a really bad way to decide on this.

Link below [2] explains that the probability was NOT 1/2.666E21 that it was not fake, because it is more likely than that that the science of handwriting analysis is incorrect, or that the analysis was done incorrectly, or anything similar (i.e. A one-in-a-trillion chance is more likely to be incorrect than one-in-a-trillion).

Bonus round: They also commit the "Prosecutor's fallacy" [1], where they explain how likely the evidence is given the hypothesis instead of explaining how likely the hypothesis is given the evidence. Example: You are found in a store and accused of robbing it. They ruled that you were accused of robbing the store, and you being in the store fits this theory, when they should have ruled on how likely you were to have robbed a store when they only knew you were in it (not very likely, lots of people may have been in the store).

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GrtbTAPfkJa4D6jjH/confidence...
HOAs are rather necessary for condos. When multiple people own a building, some entity needs to manage the common infrastructure.
Cartoons are already illegal and how the hell are you going to defend this in court? Just because its completely "innocent" and absolutely zero child are harmed, its still illegal.
This is a tangential point, but I find the use of the word "analog" for "physical control" very weird. To me, an "analog wiper switch" signifies something very different, and a system found on a lot of other cars: a knob connected to a potentiometer to allow adjusting the wipe delay infinitely, possibly combined with pure analog time-delay circuitry. Something like this:

https://siber-sonic.com/auto/sl6/delaywiper.html
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I really doubt that. Most likely the vacuum efect is overrated as hell compared to the other various inefficiencies (e.g. not all the compressor's heat being vented outside)

I paid extra for a dual hose unit and find myself almost never using the second hose at all. The effect is negligible and not worth the small effort of picking up the second duct from the closet.

And on my unit (trotec) you _can_ close the intake vents with a simple switch if you install the 2nd hose, so its not like all manufacturers are idiots.
The topic is Japanese bullet trains.

And dedicated cars is a disappointing solution. Unfortunately, having any witness call out the perpetrator and let the crowd break the perps fingers is not a very suitable solution, either.

A more obvious step is to limit the occupancy of a car. I've been smashed into the crowded cars. It's a bad idea for more reasons than this. But if you cut the occupancy to 1/3, you have to run 3x as many cars. Maybe start by charging 2x for rush hour or otherwise peak times to pay for 2x the trains. Of course, there is a limit to the number of cars you can put on a track. But if it takes more money to build more capacity, raise prices.

It's not a problem easily solved with a single paragraph on HN. "Dedicated cars for women" takes a lot less thought and accomplishes much. It just doesn't address the real social problem.
1. What's your goal of learning to code? If you want to be a professional software engineer (which you may or may not need more data to decide), then perhaps some kind of education is necessary. Bootcamp can work. A completely new undergraduate obviously works. If your education is close enough maybe you can get into a CS/SE masters program and go from there.

2. If your goal is to have deeper technical conversations with engineers, perhaps you can ask to "pair program" with them if there are engineers at where you work and you'll learn about what their jobs involve.

3. If you just want to be more of the engineers community, then I'd say being able to actually code is not required. You can go to a bunch of different events to get to know more of them. Hackathons, various career/hiring events, board game sessions etc etc.

4. If your goal is something else, then there are other options. There's codacedemy, there's udemy, there's freecodecamp etc. If you want to be more hands on, maybe you can join one of your engineer friends on one of their side projects and let them teach you in that concrete situation.
FHE is just a math equation. Can you accept the requirement that you process the state more than once? If so you could do something like encode the atomic state of a silicon circuit somehow and step it forward in time.

That is probably what the researcher is referring to. You can encapsulate computation, but not in a single math equation.
Some other commenters have mentioned environment variables as input.

IMO there are broadly two types of command: plumbing and porcelain. There's a certain amount of convention and culture in distinguishing them and I'm not going to try to argue the culture boundary...

For the commands which are plumbing (by whatever culture's rules), the following apply:

* They are designed to interact with other plumbing: pipes, machine-comprehension, etc

* Exit code 0 for success, anything else for error. Don't try to be clever.

* You can determine precisely and unambiguously what the behaviour will be, from the invocation alone. Under no circumstances may anything modify this; no configuration, no environment.

For the commands which are porcelain (by the same culture's rules, for consistency), the following apply:

* Try to be convenient for the user, but don't sacrifice consistency.

* If plumbing returns a failure which isn't specifically handled properly, either something is buggy or the user asked for something Not Right; clean up and abort.

* Environment and configuration might modify things, but on the command line there must be the option to state 'use this, irrespective of what anything else says' without knowing any details of what the environment or configuration currently say.

To make things more exciting, some binaries might be considered porcelain or plumbing contextually, depending on parameters...
(Yes, everyone sane would rather this weren't the case.)
Ah, stripping the signature from a binary you have modified. Glad to hear that others get to enjoy this previously mostly macOS-unique diversion now ;)
I’ve always pondered a mobius strip with a river-like motion .
I don't think it's that simple.

- Ford's early (and I think current) touchscreen interfaces were pretty unintuitive and they were one of the few manufacturers in the US doing touch interfaces.

- Tesla has probably put a lot more into the UX of touch screen interaction (albeit completely ignoring the fact that touchscreens aren't great while driving).

- Now touchscreens are so normalized in new car sales that they're just accepted as a part of a new mid-top trim car, so the question of "should this really have a touchscreen?" is out of most buyers' minds.

There are exceptions to the "more touchscreen" trends with Mazda[1] recently dropping touchscreens in their new cars and Honda[2] following suit with some models. And in the Hondas that still have touchscreens, I believe most/all 2019+ models had at least knobs to operate radio volume and AC while looking at the road.

[1] https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1121372_why-mazda-is-pur...

[2] https://jalopnik.com/honda-follows-mazda-by-ditching-some-to...

EDIT: getting used to formatting
Boglehead stuff is safe and easy. It’s too dogmatic for me in 2020. Following their advice Is good for a 401k, but means holding a lot of garbage. Owning the whole market was smart in 1990. We do not live in 1990.

My portfolio of 5-6 stocks + cash has beat any Boglehead portfolio, and has for decades now with a minimum investment in time. No bonds except for GNMA 15-20 years ago.

It’s not that hard. AAPL and AMZN have outperformed the market for 15-20 years.
Indeed, though you'll only manage to break or DDOS the server by doing that.

It seems that the Ghost vulnerability explained in the paper relied on the handlebars engine calling the equivalent of `eval()` on a string value, in the global scope, plus a path traversal vulnerability allowing loading a template from node_modules.

Are there are any other examples of this being exploited in a meaningful way? Even if you end up passing raw user input to key and value, user payloads will never be able to define a function, so the possibilities are very limited. I think having every NPM library that does object assignment using a user-provided key be marked as 'vulnerable to prototype pollution' is quite different from it 'being a problem very often' in practice. Happy to be shown otherwise.
People who consume child pornography have severe mental health issues. They need counseling and treatment. This idea is not what they need and is repugnant.

Also, who in their right mind would build, QA, or market such a soul crushing product.

Some Taboos will remain Taboos despite “hurting no one”.
NCMEC works with law enforcement once they determine that a crime has likely been committed. NCMEC is an excellent org and such public-nonprofit partnerships help free up LE agencies to pursue arrests and prosecutions. The sheer volume of reporting would overwhelm most agencies. They’ll wait until they have more concrete leads before getting involved.
Can you please take a picture of your setup? I’ve considered this before myself, but I’d say the barrier is people’s “imagination” around the design.
Then we can all say we live "in the Valley"!
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A quick look at the manual suggests that there's a light that tells you when it needs to be filled with water. It might be easier to just trace that back and piggy back off of whatever sensor it already has.

It may be too small for an ultrasonic sensor to work well. The ultrasonic sensors I've used are all basically blind to anything closer than 5-10cm.
For reference, from the article:

"Sara Ajina, a neuroscientist at the University of Oxford who studies visual awareness deficits such as blindsight—a residual, unconscious “sight” in people with damage to the brain’s visual system..."
Mojolicious and Dancer (now Dancer2) are still very actively developed as well.
And here I am amused by Caltrain's Baby Bullets doing the same thing…
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I agree that it’s good to have the button there, and prior cars I’ve driven also have it. I don’t think the existence of that button or its utility is in dispute.

It also doesn’t change my desire to have the ability to enable/disable continuous wiper operation via tactile control.
I tried cooking Indian basmati rice in mine. I followed a recipe exactly, and it came out mushy. Basmati is supposed to be fluffy, dry, and not sticky, with grains that tumble around if you fluff it with a fork.

I decided one day to experiment until I got the water-to-rice-to-time ratio correct, and I just couldn't find the right combination. It always came out overcooked. I'd love to hear what the secret is.
I’d put $100k in bitcoin, $100k in large cap tech stocks, and keep $250k in cash in the highest interest bearing FDIC account you can find.
Another thing that surprised me is that in a Tesla, of all things, one has to intervene in any way to turn on the wipers?

Why wouldn't they just turn on automatically when it's raining? My entry-level BMW from 2008 does this, as well as automatically adjust the speed depending on how hard it's raining. The OEM rain sensor part costs $230, and this is not a brand known for undercharging for parts.
This was one of the only games I actually played in the Macs they had at elementary school (we spent most of our recess time on Napster...playing 12 different songs simultaneously in the same room, and nobody cared). I spent so long looking for this game, but I couldn't even figure it what to search for, because I didn't remember the title.
Highly likely.

Keep in mind, Comcast owns NBC as well. So probably we’ll get a lot of negative coverage of Elon Musk on NBC and MSNBC in the process.

It’s much easier to lobby against a public villain than a public hero.

So every tweet by Musk will be amplified out of context.

Wouldn’t surprise me even some allegations of foreign impropriety will surface and soon having starlink becomes a national security unless it’s sold to Comcast or it’s offered in a way that won’t compete with Comcast.
His mistake was in criticizing reading books online, shopping, libraries, and classrooms as if they would forever use the technology of 1995.

He did not have the vision to understand that technology would progress ... for example, beyond the lame experience of reading a book on a giant CRT monitor into a magical experience where I can read any book ever published, instantly, and in the dark next to my wife while she sleeps.
Do similar questions come up even for the current snapshot? Are you required to provide comments? Meaningful type and variable names?
What if it reduced the rates of actual sex crimes against children?

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101130111326.h...
Not to mention what went down in Russia:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/06/26/russian-el...
If you follow the ownership of WIRED, you end up with Sam Newhouse.

https://www.newamericanjournal.net/2016/07/so-newhouse-gave-...
The whole point of a window unit is that the very hot compressor is outside the room you're heating. Without that, you may as well get a portable unit.
They've already done that. Currently there are a couple major data centers being in US/Singapore. US data is not permitted to go to china. The data currently is stored in a mix of US/singapore so can't claim solely US. The relevant blog post is here, https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/statement-on-tiktoks-conte.... I'd guess if US requested data to be solely US, that shift would probably be fine as currently singapore is mainly used as a backup and it'd be doable to have data centers in more distinct regions as currently US data is in just virginia.

Also trump already announced he does not intend to permit microsoft acquiring tiktok to be enough to not ban them. I'm doubtful he'd have any chance winning a court case if tiktok did sell to microsoft, but sounds like he'll push on the ban regardless.

Disclaimer: I work at mountain view tiktok.
What do I need to learn to understand this 100%?
Sample bias, I think.
From their website (https://report.iwf.org.uk/en/report):

>We take reports on UK-hosted non-photographic images of child sexual abuse, such as computer-generated images. The images we can take action on must be of children, pornographic, grossly offensive, and focus on a child's genitals or depict sexual activity involving or in the presence of a child.

More detail here: https://www.iwf.org.uk/what-we-do/how-we-assess-and-remove-c...

It's rich to complain about people wasting time that could be spent on "real abuse imagery" when this organization is also going after cartoons. Maybe they should sort that out first?

Also, the HN title is inaccurate. The article claims these reports are mistaken, but does not say they are fraudulent. In fact, I do not see fraudulent reports mentioned in the article at all.
> You can be tough on China without becoming China.

Sovereign nations have always reserved the right to decide what is allowed on their shores. That they disallow an entity from operating on their shores does not mean that they have "become China".
>Even animated child porn is illegal because the theory goes, it drives demand for the real thing. Someone who flies flight simulators eventually would welcome the chance in a real airplane.

And people who play Grand Theft Auto inevitably go out and run over hookers with their car or seek out videos where such things happen in real life. Oh wait...
In fact, the computer you use to make posts on ycombinator could contain some components from China as well.
> Xinjiang independence activists.

I just looked this up and the “activists” killed 197 people and injured thousands more during those riots.
Thanks for the reply.

Have a lot of engineer & founder friends I talk to regularly. I think overall goal would be to go one step up from connecting and actually be a peer in some respects.

Build up skillset to be a founder-operator in the future. Along the way, I'm sure it's helpful to the day job in investing.

Re: 1. Definitely not this. I've realized my skillset / interests don't coincide with writing code at Big_Tech for a living.

RE 4. Have tried a lot of those programs. They don't click after the beginning stages, and don't do a good job graduating you or tracking you. Also intrinsic motivation is a problem -- i'd like to take a half year off to just do that.

RE 2 and 3: These are good ideas. Have been doing them to some extent. But taking next step of being in community -> contributing to it.
Well that's just it: I had IP addresses and public posts from the perpetrators and NCMEC never called me back.
It is odd that this area got neglected, since one of the first things the FMVSS in the US mandated was the PRNDL shift pattern for automatic transmissions; one of the other patterns widely used at the time, PNDLR, was causing a lot of accidental shifts into reverse.
The huge central touchscreen in Tesla cars look hilariously ill-conceived. Perhaps they’re useful for some things, but if I was given the task of designing the most distraction-prone addition to a car interior, it would be a big screen pointed toward the driver.
Ask HN: How do you drive traffic to your side projects?
Over the last few years, I've built dozens of side projects and I feel like I always drop the ball when it comes to marketing them. I'll release them and maybe make a post on Reddit, Medium, and ProductHunt about it, but after a small spike in traffic, it's radio silence. I've tried running Google/Facebook Ads for some of my projects and they usually have a high CTR and generate a lot of impressions. Which makes me think that it validates - at a basic level - the side projects and confirms that they're at least a little useful to the right audience. Though, I've found the Facebook/Google ad costs a bit higher than what I'd like to spend on a side project.

I'm not really trying to make money from any of these projects, I just want the satisfaction of them being used really. I don't have much of a social media presence besides your normal Facebook/Instagram accounts, but most of my friends are non-technical, so no sense in advertising the projects to them.

I've been posting all of my side projects under the same domain, so I don't have to build up a backlink profile from the ground up every time I release a new project (https://www.digitalbunker.dev/). According to Ahref's my backlink profile is pretty mediocre.

How are you all able to get traffic to your side projects, news coverage, shares, high Google rankings, etc?

I'm not interested in becoming a marketer or SEO wizard, I just want to know enough to jumpstart my projects.
Aside: does anyone still sell these wipers? Ever car I have ever used generally has a fairly infuriating set of options which I like to call the "anti-Goldilocks speeds" :(
That was a really fun debugging ride. I've never really had to debug kernel stuff before, so I also learned some things. Then you topped it off with some serious hacks. You sure know the way into my heart. Thanks for writing about it!

While I don't have a personal use for AppleTalk support, it makes me happy that support for old protocols lives on.
Please let us know how to consistently identify the 5-6 stock which will over-perform the market. You would be a billionaire if you could do this.
Call it lazy, or call it leisure. I’m privileged to take so much time off and still feed my kids. To have this much leisure is truly a blessing.
With Presbot, my hope was to lower the barrier for non-tech folks to play around with chatbots, remove the need for a traditional chatbot builder, define conditional logic or draw flowcharts and make it easy as a click of a button to spin up your personalized chatbot. The chatbots are free. I welcome any thoughts and feedback to help improve the service and your experience. Have a wonderful weekend!