skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm attempting to offer you some insight in good faith. I can't offer you a mathematical proof of this so I'm not sure what you're looking for. If you insist on asserting that Google Fellows are treated the same as other engineers then I'm not sure what to tell you. Holding that view would call into question exactly why they had that title but I'm not you and I don't hold that view.
The second you sign the lease you owe the landlort the full amount. It is a debt you owe.

Does not matter if you realize the use of the property or not, for example if you signed a Lease on an apartment in January, then due to a global pandemic you could not move (through not fault of the landlord) in until July you would still owe the rent for the 6 months even though you did not occupy the unit.
In my Saab, I can actuate everything required to drive without looking and while wearing winter gloves!
This is not true. It is only illegal to crack DRM of copyright-protected works. Once a work falls out of copyright, it's fully legal to crack any DRM.

Sure, it's legal, but to the extent it's not already impossible for consumers to take advantage of that provision, it will be soon enough. There is no law against deploying cryptographically-sound DRM that would require the resources of a Kardashev Type III civilization to crack.

And that's the problem. If you rely on such measures, you should at least be required to deposit an unprotected copy of the work in escrow for open release when the copyright term expires.

Additionally, the law casually conflates access to a work with the ability to copy it. Now that everything is moving to the cloud, DRM can block both, potentially forever. That's a one-sided bargain if there ever was one. Talk about "privilege!" The use of DRM on copyrighted works amounts to taking from the public domain without compensation. It should be prohibited by law, not protected by it.
> It seems more concerning that Tesla’s wiper controls can’t be operated in manual mode w/o visual attention from the driver. I own a Model 3, and I don’t think I could reasonably change the wiper settings w/o looking at the screen, despite knowing where the UI options are and their general layout.

Even the budget no-frills "3", while lacking a lot of things that makes a Tesla a Tesla, has a more traditional wiper control. There's no reason to futz with the touchscreen.
I think "insider" has an actual, statutory, legal definition, and it would not include random bystanders or observers. Of course, I'm not a lawyer and my comment is not intended to be legal advice.
No idea why you are downvoted given the historical content outlining the controversy of TikTok being a security risk before all these bans taking place. It sounds more than just about the Tulsa rally if even Biden is telling staff to delete the app. [0] These investigations aren’t limited to the US, but Japan and Australia also share these concerns. [1][2]

They talk about ‘freedom of speech’ in TikTok which first of all for its US operations, it doesn't apply to private companies like TikTok, FB and Twitter. However the censorship case is far much worse. Anyone who appeared ‘Ugly or Poor’ was censored [3], they ‘apologised’ for censoring BLM posts on the platform at the time calling it a so-called ‘Glitch’ [4] and still actively censor activists or anything against the CCP in order to comply with its censorship laws.

If anything, TikTok is far from being a platform to supporting this ‘freedom of speech’ if that ever ‘existed’ before it rose to prominence [5].

[0] https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/10/politics/dnc-warning-tikt...

[1] https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20200728_39/

[2] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-02/tiktok-under-investig...

[3] https://theintercept.com/2020/03/16/tiktok-app-moderators-us...

[4] https://time.com/5863350/tiktok-black-creators/

[5] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/26/tiktok-says-it-doesnt-censor...
I don't know... screens require you to actually look at them to be able to do anything while mechanical controls can be designed to be tactile and to not require the driver to be distracted/focused on the control.

I drive 2014 Skoda Rapid and every single control I really need for operating the car is tactile and operated through muscle memory.

Muscle memory effectively lets me offload my visual and conscious parts of brain.

For example, when driving in rain I just manually activate wipers when I need them, except for heavy rain. I don't move my eyes to operate it, it does not occupy my conscious brain, it just becomes second nature the same way other things become second nature when driving a car. I don't focus on it. I see something interesting I want to see better, I just run wipers without ever thinking about it the same way I don't have to remember to move my right and left leg to walk straight.

I can't imagine having to move my eyes and my hand at the same time to start fiddling with a screen and it just doesn't matter how good the UI is.
Amsterdam also has a large public cycling culture, with a public infrastructure to support public cycling

It also has a climate geared more towards outdoor cycling.

Not everyone has one or both of those factors, making indoor cycling more reliable, safer, and more enjoyable
Chromium was due to the absolute nightmarish amount of manpower on Canonical’s part it took to keep up packaging with releases. Copying Debian’s work wouldn’t have helped because they had and still have fewer resources than Canonical did to commit to packaging it.

LXD ships a private version of a library as it has changes not accepted by upstream. It pretty much needs to be a snap as it doesn’t fit into the realm of .deb packaging due to that.

Two fits “some”. Off the top of my head I cannot recall anything else that has a .deb that diverts to snap. More might come in the future perhaps. 2020 has not been the kindest of years to bookmakers in Vegas and elsewhere.
The logical fallacy is called "bandwagon" for obvious reasons.
I mean, by that logic, does calling a modern intel cpu x86 discount the integrated graphics, which are also very significant?
SpaceX/Starlink have done effectively no marketing spend to get those leads into their funnel. Subscriber acquisition costs (SAC) for home broadband and TV are very high, and due to churn doesn't necessarily even translate into net subscriber adds. Those numbers are good by any measure.

One representative example, Subscriber acquisition costs for Dish network:
"DISH TV SAC was $822 during the year ended December 31, 2019
compared to $759 during the same period in 2018, an increase of $63 or 8.3%." [1]

"We lost approximately 511,000 net DISH TV subscribers during the year
ended December 31, 2019 compared to the loss of approximately 1.125 million net
DISH TV subscribers during the same period in 2018. This decrease in net DISH TV
subscriber losses primarily resulted from a lower DISH TV churn rate and higher
gross new DISH TV subscriber activations." [1]

[1] https://www.marketscreener.com/DISH-NETWORK-CORPORATION-4870...
I think the debate here is whether or not, Tesla's approach to their final user experience deteriorates the safety of the vehicle.

In this particular case the Wipers speed seems to be controlled from the screen, while in other cars speed can be controlled with the side lever without taking your eyes out of the road.

Those small and minor details can make the difference in at least a small percentage of accidents.
So for a for-profit corporation to produce a vaccine it needs to be completely risk free? This is not the first time market forces are suspended as soon as something needs to be reliably done.
What kinds of abuse do you think this opens up? That DOSing the people handling this work?
Some of the original work around FHE implies the researchers were applying ML models. If you had a complicated enough ML model (e.g. of a person) you could simulate a computer in that model. The assertion that FHE with just multiplication and addition is Turing-complete is true, and this is one proof.

If you can think of something besides encoding a Turning machine's state as NN weights I am very interested. Perhaps encoding a quantum circuit somehow? A technically correct but intractable solution would be simulating the quantum state of every atom in a silicon circuit.
> including HOA negotiations

Yah done goofed.
BLE mesh is difficult to do at high performance across multiple platforms and we did it years before there was a spec. Would I use the spec now? Probably. Would I have waited 3 years for the spec to come out? No.

At the time you could lock up Android devices just by sending too many beacons and require users to factory reset there network settings.

When people say Bluetooth is easy I assume they have not done much more than GATT connections and a simple beacon.
> Path2D turns out to be a very efficient way to specify a path for a Canvas. It uses an SVG path string to specify the path, which is more compact than using .moveTo() and .lineTo().

Path2D w/ SVG strings is byte-efficient, but is less computationally efficient vs the same Path2D w/ lineTo(), etc.
Matt Levine writes about this all the time. The current law is kind of murky.

If I remember correctly, 2 things need to be proven: 1) someone shared non-public information they shouldn’t have, 2) there was some consideration (money, etc) given for such information.

So there are cases where #2 becomes the issue because no money changed hands. Then the argument can get weird where the argument is “he offered the insider information in exchange for friendship”.
The US, for all its flaws, is not yet a dictatorship that oppresses any opposition to the government with harsh penalties including imprisonment end execution.

We’ve got serious problems and are well down the path of a fascist police state, but we aren’t there yet. Compared to China we very much can take the moral high ground.
>Plenty of places in Europe are just as diverse as the US and still manage to come together and collectively fund important civil and social priorities.

Mind naming some ?

Europe is relatively homogeneous ethnically and racially compared to the US. The exception could be largest metropolitan areas, but even there I'd say US is more heterogeneous.

Not saying anything in support of arguments related to this just saying I don't know what plenty of places you'd compare to US.
There are two kinds of ground stations: the one at your home/business (the modem/"pizza-box antenna") and the ground stations that connect the satellites to the trunk lines/backbone.
Child pornography accusations are often a bell you cannot unring. There is often no “proven innocent” step.
Well from what I’ve read the observable universe is fairly flat, but I was wondering what if we’re just living in a basin or on a plateau that extends beyond our observable reach?

I suck at math though so I’ll just wait for theoretical astrophysicists to tell me interesting things on blogs.
Striving to get promoted to management. The result has been minor salary gains, while my soul orbits a black hole.

Attempting to “downgrade” will take a while because pandemic.
Does SAC include new subscriber discounts?
If you want this fixed forever, a regression test needs to be created for it. I have no idea how this works for the Linux kernel, but Google search reveals this project:

https://lwn.net/Articles/625969/
Misleading title. Retorted.
When the internet was handles you could say anything and rarely worry it would follow you back in life. Now people use real names on social media.. which makes it about defining what imagine I want to be.

Real names attach constraints.
Noobs aren't using Ubuntu though.
At my job, we're relatively optimistic about Perl 7, and will probably be willing to move over a few months after a stable release. Yes, it's a mature product with 3 million lines, but the requirements are easily to meet if we make a modern product. Not doing indirect method calls? Most of those are gone years ago, and for good reason.

On the other hand, I'm a bit worried about Cor; it feels like Ovid is trying to repeat in a few months the same work that TimToady took a few years to do. A good object model is nontrivial, and it feels a little rushed to meet an arbitrary deadline. And I generally feel that Moose syntax is not that great, and it's making a lot of the same mistakes. Maybe I'm not the target audience for this.
This is a good point.

American exceptionalism is based on the premise of taking the high road (free, open democracy, rule of law, basic freedoms, "give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free...", etc) and being a success because of that.

To now play by China's rules basically says America has been doing it wrong the last 100 years.
Why don't they do what many other cars do, and put the wiper controls on its own stalk on the right-hand side of the wheel? Then they don't need any buttons at all, on either stalk (on my 2003 VW, the left stalk is for high beams and turn signals, the right stalk is for the wipers, and the steering wheel buttons are for cruise control).

Or is the gear shifter on the right stalk?
That's kind of the point though. It's a style and delivery method that makes the content enjoyable. A few bullet points could be broadcast via text+image alone, but that isn't the same thing.
Fleetwood Mac was definitely fueled by cocaine.
I would love to have this as a backup internet option. I live in a town that has Google Fiber (literally 50 feet away from me), but I don't have access. I'm oncall and cannot be without internet at almost any time, and my internet goes down much more than I'm comfortable with. I hope Starlink is an option soon!
A lot of the stuff on the wiki and site is massively simplified and not strictly true. If you don't know much about finance, stuff like "return is always associated with risk, there is no free-lunch" is a good place to start, but more knowledgeable and quantitative investors know that this isn't true (according to CAPM, only systematic risk generates return, not specific risk).

If you haven't thought much about what kind of volatility you are okay with and aren't really interested in managing your money, a boglehead kind of portfolio is good place to start. It's something, for example, that I might recommend my mom, if I wasn't willing to put in the work to manage her investments for her.

But for a technical crowd, like HN, the stuff on the site misrepresents modern financial theory and perpetuates people saying stuff that doesn't even make any sense, like, "you can't beat the market", "don't hold a leveraged index fund", "active management is a scam", etc. Like all things people say, these have a kernel of truth, but the specifics and context are so far removed that these statements become meaningless, or even flat out wrong.

Even by just holding simple, automated ETFs (I don't call this passive investing, because passive investing doesn't exist), there's tons of room for really interesting optimizations that increase return and decrease risk. Things like risk parity portfolios, minimum variance optimizations, persistent factor portfolios, etc.

And best of all, with zero commissions, super tight bid-ask spreads, and easy to access APIs, "quant-lite" investing is more accessible than every before.

In conclusion, every portfolio is an active portfolio, from deciding a equity/bond ratio, to investing in real estate, to deciding to buy some TSLA. It's all the same, so stay away from any dogmatic approaches to investing (I would say the bogleheads are pretty dogmatic). By becoming familiar with the biggest and most important advances in quantitative finance, along with understanding your own risk tolerance, you can construct a portfolio that is perfect for you, and that will give you so much more than a one-size-fits-all boglehead portfolio could ever hope to.
He said: “If they are caught actively searching for this, they will have no more of a defence than someone that’s doing it because they want to find it for their own gratification. It is not a defence in court going looking for this.”

I wonder, with the rise of deep fakes and CGI, why a company hasn't come up with a business model offering professional rendered synthetic child pornography. It seems to me that there would be demand for it, and if an ethically un-encumbered product is indistinguishable from the real thing, much of the demand of child sexual abuse imagery would evaporate.
Ask HN: Should I learn to code (again)?
Hi HN / long time reader, first time poster.
I've tried to learn to code by myself many times. Got someplace intermediate each time, but couldn't be consistent enough to take it to the next time and make it a life skill.

During that process, learned a lot about underlying technology and how to evaluate them, use them, and work with engineers.

Now my day job is a VC, side hustle is basically a PM on a machine learning project.

Am frustrated that I've come as close as possible to working in tech without actually doing it. And feel powerless because building cool things yourself seems much more fun than talking about them or analyzing them.

The best convos I have during the week are always founders and hackers, not VCs. And the best VCs are ex-founders or ex-operators.

So 2 questions:

1. Should I try learning to code again?

2. How should I go about this to maximize chances?
I guess the perceived problem is using this fact to dismiss serious requests, or as defense in court of real criminals.
I'm curious about how bad jitter has to be to have an effect. Does it cause problems at +/-10ms? As I understand it, the link will change from satellite to satellite as they fly overhead
Why are volunteer, non LE groups doing this in the first place? And how do they screen their "volunteers"? And how do these people get dispensation to view illegal pornography? The whole thing smells rotten to me.
For powering my ESP32/ESP8266 stuff, I use "trustworthy" USB power supplies (e.g., stuff from a brick-and-mortar store, or leftover iPhone adapters, not random Aliexpress adapters) and use short USB cables to connect them. Costco usually has some kind of appropriate adapter for a reasonable price.

For controlling 110V loads, I've found that the Ikea TRÅDFRI outlets work well. If you stay within the TRÅDFRI ecosystem, you need a "steering device" such as a switch or remote to pair them to the gateway, but if you're willing to step outside that ecosystem Zigbee adapters like the ConBee II can talk to the outlets directly (I'm in the process of migrating my Ikea gear to this). The Home Assistant TRÅDFRI component works well.
Without criticism how can there be improvement? Criticism isn't a bad thing. Criticism leads to self reflection which leads to self improvement. At least it should.

Personally, I'd rather listen to 1 person criticize me than 10 people who praise me. That 1 critical person's going to have the most valuable thing to say that leads to improvement.

To an extent, note I'm talking about reasonable criticism, not assholes.
Yes, that is exactly what I'm talking about. Sadistic or Machiavellian people with an interest in it may get the idea that they can send false, marginal, or expired reports to waste their time; and equally I feel like this kind of writing is less likely to be read by people considering making a genuine report.
It’s more like “matter tells spacetime how to curve, spacetime tells matter how to move”.
This is not true. On the S wiper speed is adjustable at the steering wheel as well as enable/disable. On the 3 you can just activate it or sprinkle water but not adjust the wiper speed.
Ford, Chevy, FCA, etc. wiper stalk design is ubiquitous even on extremely low price vehicles. They are even cheap to replace when they break. I'm betting you're closer on the latter
> I wonder, with the rise of deep fakes and CGI, why a company hasn't come up with a business model offering professional rendered synthetic child pornography. It seems to me that there would be demand for it, and if an ethically un-encumbered product is indistinguishable from the real thing, much of the demand of child sexual abuse imagery would evaporate.

I suppose law enforcement could use it in sting operations. but if it proliferates wouldn't it still be illegal otherwise? seems legally and morally fishy to me.
The latter; the right stalk already exists and is the gear shift (and relatedly the autosteer/cruisecontrol interface)
Facebook puts global block on Brazil's Bolsonaro supporters
An effect on what?
Trump says will ban TikTok amid pressure on Chinese owner to sell
Brazil Bolsonaro: Facebook told to block accounts of president’s supporters
Here in Canada that would still be child pornography.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_pornography_laws_in_Ca...
Rust has this same problem. (Although you could make the argument that this specific state of things was explicitly chosen in Rust's case.)
Sometimes I read about split-brain experiments and wonder, if my brain were to split, which side I'd end up on?
The deep-fake has to be trained on something.
Would it really be ethically un-encumbered if the fake videos were created by a NN trained on images/videos of real children?
It’s better, and I wouldn’t want my car to operate any other way.
Thanks for the explanation. As an Asian, I've never quite figured out how it seems to work out until now, and was confused when the BBC suggested a 1:2 ratio of rice and water [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUgOz5emQ94
I don't disagree with you. I think we've all found that a lot of the structure of US society and government have assumed non-malicious and non-criminal actors past a certain point. Frankly, I think the system assumes a capable enough public to elect competent and decent people, and should that ever fail there is nothing really worth saving, anyway.
I’m not saying there aren’t good reasons to ban it, I’m just saying that’s not why Trump is doing it.
You have a valid point about velocity being held back by standards. But you don’t do yourself any favors, IMHO, pointing to the modern web as an example. If anything, the modern web is the perfect cautionary tale. Walled gardens, app churn, bloated apps. No way to use part of a service without all the crap that comes with it.

The modern web could stand to let off the gas.
I've been walking for a good number of years now, yet every now and again I'll trip on something, or bump into a wall. I wouldn't call walking hard.
Luckily for me I was mistaken. :) It's Stylus I'm using not Stylish.
I tried calling the FBI to report an uploader on one of my sites who had posted child porn. They wouldn't take the info and instead directed me to NCMEC - a volunteer non-LE corporation.

I don't know why this is standard practice in the US but it rubbed me the wrong way. LE should be taking the lead on this.
As draconian and harsh a lot of Singaporean laws seem to be it’s hard to argue with the country’s success. I’ve been to Singapore many times and a lot of south east Asia as well and as someone who grew up in a third world tropical country (Rio) I don’t have a romantic view of SEA as many Euros or Americans.

Singapore is a paradise compared with Indonesia, Malaysia etc.
I’m asking for an anecdote or some other practical example of a time that you or another Google engineer had a policy or “stricture” applied to you, and that policy or stricture or procedure didn’t apply to a Fellow. I don’t expect there to be a mathematical proof, but I was curious for something that wasn’t conjecture about what people assume their work environment is like.

Regarding being a Fellow: finding out that people respect senior engineers and take into consideration their past experience isn’t shocking, or an example of the rules not applying to them. Similarly, if you told me that a head chef at a restaurant has more impact on the menu than a line cook, it wouldn’t be an indication that the rules don’t apply to head chefs, or that nobody cares about their performance. And nobody would make claims that restaurant’s menu didn’t reflect their “ethos” because it was designed by an experienced head chef.