skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you consider that shortening someone's life is not a continuum but discreetly bad, then there is no paradox. Moreover, I consider that to be the only ethical way to view it. If you take the life expectancy of the victim when judging the killer, you may find yourself giving lighter sentences for those who kill impoverished people, who have a shorter life expectancy, than those who kill rich people.
Yes and no. The indictment explicitly mentions the hackers got paid through HackerOne but didn't have a HackerOne account. HackerOne manually sending a payout so large manually via Bitcoin no less is strange to say the least.

https://www.hackerone.com/resources/reporting/the-2020-hacke... says they paid out $40mil in 2019 and undoubtedly would have been much smaller in 2016. This would have been a whale for them and their cut.
Accidentally overwrote the middle step:

Junior developer puts the one liner on google, finds the typical macro definition and does the change.
how? i just read through. nobody would "assume a greater degree of association between you and the Git Project than actually exists."
Because he apparently works at Shopify?

https://twitter.com/swalkinshaw
> This would be much more reasonable if there were a frictionless way to do it. Nobody is going to take 5 minutes out of their day after each little video to support the content creator. If there was a button I could use to support them built-in to Youtube? Sure!

I didn't know this before today, but apparently there is such a feature called "Applause." Although, I personally have not seen it anywhere, so not sure if it's opt-in for Youtube creators, and perhaps it is not fully rolled out yet. This does seem like it could be a good way to directly express support for Youtubers: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9632365

> Somehow I knew it'd get picked apart if I used the word "favorite." Obviously I've got plenty of merch! And still I'd like to support them when I listen to their music - even if minusculely.

Admittedly, I knew you were just giving an example and I took a cheap shot. :) Couldn't resist.
if you’re interested in causal inference, offline RL in particular is actually a problem of causal inference. unlike online RL, where you can essentially run experiments by acting on the environment and seeing what happens, in offline RL you must infer good actions from observational data alone. lots of interesting work looking at RL more broadly from this perspective — e.g. the classic “actor critic” RL algorithm is actually equivalent to the “doubly robust” estimator from causal inference.
Someone replied but deleted right when I was posting this answer, so I'm replying to myself:

What I didn't understand was why the listed performance optimizations couldn't be implemented in the monolith itself and ensued the development of a new application, which is still Ruby.

In a production env, the request reaches the Rails controller pretty fast.

I know for a fact that the view layer (.html.erb) can be a little slow if you compare it to, say, just a `render json:`, but if you're still going to be sending fully-rendered HTML pages over the wire, the listed optimizations (caching, query optimization and memory allocation) could all be implemented in Rails itself to a huge extent, and that's what I'd love to know more about.
this is old news from last year, also there seems to be only one issue with one article, which means this project is stillborn. https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/14932/browse?type=d...
Ignoring mass formatting reformatting commits with Git blame
Ridesharing is profitable today. The reason these companies lose money is because of investments in other areas. Whether that's wise or not is up for debate, but both Lyft and Uber are public companies. Neither is seeking VC money at this point for further injections.
You need to rebalance if the stocks included in your top 5 index change, i.e. if some new stock displaces one of your original 5. Otherwise you've got a fund of 5 stocks chosen by some metric on historical date blah -- which may be a reasonable idea but doesn't seem to align with the spirit of "S&P 5".
I mean if you're just going to conflate the concepts of race and ethnicity there's not much point to having this conversation at all.
Docker Logging Magic Constant
Looks really cool! Any plans for an Emacs client?
Of course not. Although, he did blame the last fires on insufficient raking of the forest [1]. If he actually stands by it, and didn't do anything to address the lack of forest, uh, raking, then one could reasonably assign him responsibility for the current fires. I don't advocate for that, because raking forests makes no sense.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/19/make-america...
We also need a journal to publish methods that failed. I did so much work during my PhD that was dead end and is not documented.
I am reminded of the profession "programmer–archaeologist" in Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky. In roughly 2010 I reminded my grand-boss that a great deal of the important business process we had consisted of largely uncommented C and various mismashes of shell scripts.

It's true, there's something about all of the frameworks and the fads and such which causes so many projects to need, well, continual attendance to the dependencies. One proposed platform at a previous job bothered me for reasons I could not explain, so I mapped out the major dependent technologies, pointed out that we had nobody who had even a passing familiar with with them, and also pointed out how quickly some of them were moving.

There's something to be said for keeping your tower of dependencies short. It's a tradeoff, to be sure.
If the only goal is p 0.05 and there's many groups around the world trying the same experiment, we should hope that they all publish their non-results otherwise by chance someone is going to have a significant result just by luck.
It is extremely clear why this is happening. By reducing the efficacy of the USPS, they can delegitimize it. Then when voting time comes they can say "Hey look, they couldn't even get you your package, what makes you think that the the USPS can safely and securely handle your vote". And guess what, they'd be right because the USPS won't be able to do it safely b/c they actively ruined it. This has been the common tactic of the republicans for a long time and it is continuing to work.
San Franciscians can no longer dine in a bubble
(contributor here)

The project does still use code from Rails. Some parts of ActiveSupport in particular are really not worth rewriting, it works fine and has a lot of investment already.

The MVC part of Rails is not used for this project, because the storefront of Shopify works in a very different way than a CRUD app, and doesn’t benefit nearly as much. Custom code is a lot smaller and easier to understand and optimize. Outside of storefront, Shopify still benefits a lot from Rails MVC.

I’ll also add that storefront serves a majority of requests made to Shopify but it’s a surprisingly tiny fraction of the actual code.
> which, by the way, is now being built

Yea, over 25 years late.

The Green Line (opened 1995) was originally supposed to have a real LAX station, instead of the (current) station-near-LAX-with-a-bus-transfer. The Crenshaw Corridor train (which connects to the Green Line) will open an LAX station sometime in 2021, if it isn't delayed.
nobody's mentioned them so i'll toss them in here - https://tuple.app/ is also focused on the pair programming problem.

I don't believe they have IDE integration, but like others have said, Tuple + Live Share would be a competitor to GitDuck. Glad to see more attempts at the space though!
This is neither common knowledge, nor intuitive.

There’s a famous YouTube video of a law professor encouraging people to never talk to the police.

Civics classes regularly tell students they have an absolute right to stay silent.

The idea that US citizens have an obligation to report crimes is not obvious, and sounds like “compelled speech.“

If this is true, I find it shocking. I thought I had an almost infinite right to keep my mouth shut, and the exceptions involved a judge telling me “you must answer the question” - or at least signing a warrant.
I'm not so sure how false it is. If there were a better option, wouldn't people be using it already? And since they're not, aren't we just... firing them and leaving them to figure it out? Seems heartless. Honestly it comes across as "F the little guy, give me the policy I want." (I'm not accusing you of that, your tone came across as quite polite.)
Try again. It's really that good. Especially in "custom scenario" mode (option 6, then arbitrary prompt). It seems to work particularly well if you switch the input to Story, and start describing the narrative (instead of what you say or do). Some spectacularly good results come from leaving sentences unfinished, for the game to complete.

--

The most mind-blowing scenario I got recently started with this prompt:

$ You are Ted, a holodeck technician. You test this AI-generated world in order to determine its limits. You start the simulation with a program of a beautiful beach. As you enter the holodeck,

...

I don't want to spam the comment with too many examples, but I must say that my mind was completely blown. With zero hinting, the game was able to pick up on the interaction styles like ($ denotes what I write, > denotes the reply):

$ You ask, "Computer, create an anvil 5 meters in front of me and 10 meters up in the air."

> You see an anvil fall from a great height in front of you and land on the ground, mere centimeters from your foot. To test the limitations of the program, you try to move the anvil. You are surprised to find that it is fixed in place; you cannot move it at all.

$ You say "Computer, what is the mass of the anvil in front of me?"

> The computer responds: "The anvil has a mass of 555.9 kilograms."

$ You say "Reduce its mass to 10 kilograms."

> The computer responds: "I'm sorry. The mass of the anvil cannot be changed."

$ You say "Explain why the mass of the anvil cannot be changed?"

> The computer responds: "The laws of physics in this program are pre-set. I cannot alter them." You note that as a software bug.

...

After which the game started coaxing me towards a mystery story on a holodeck and tried to suffocate my character through safety failures. I tried the lamest way out:

$ In desperation, you tap your commbadge to initialize emergency beamout. You pass out.

... which worked. The game generated a realistic story about my character's hospitalization - while keeping the Star Trek setting - and then a page of text later, it pushed a narrative where the character gets kidnapped by alien robots and later dies in a shootout with Andorians (which the game introduced by itself, out of the blue, but in a way consistent with the story).

--

Point being, its training database is good enough to pick on a franchise in which you do your world building, and can sometimes keep the context for longer than you remember it yourself. And even when it confuses locations or people a bit, it often isn't that jarring. To me, the transitions feel like how my mind does it in a dream.
the hypothesis is being an employee is better for the workers, and if so it's something they'd willingly choose if given the option. The current data says that's not the case, but would be an interesting experiment. If given the choice of the current setup vs one of being an employee, what would drivers choose.
While it may not be an explicit penalty at time of prepayment, the risk of losing revenue due to prepayment/refinancing if interest rates drop is definitely modeled priced into the terms of the loan, just as the risk of you going bankrupt and not being able to pay is.
Maybe they mean that you might have been unintentionally relying on double evaluation, and then you take it away, and something breaks. Because it worked for the wrong reasons.
This article doesn’t make a lot of sense.

If Lightroom only wiped data that “were not already synced to the cloud”, then how did some users lose years worth of data?
Some people explicitly want gigs.
There is a basic explanation that was written by the guile maintainer in 2013: https://www.wingolog.org/archives/2013/01/07/an-opinionated-...
I would love to see this number for computational scientists.
You’re assuming the Newtonian theory of gravity, the parent poster uses Einstein’s general relativity. These theories disagree on quite a lot; e.g. general relativity predicts that light is affected by gravity, while Newton’s theory would not since photons are massless particles. Einstein was proven right here too.

Note however that the quoted effect – difference in weight between a compressed and uncompressed spring – will realistically be so small that I doubt you could measure that in a lab. To get a sense of how small that effect is, try comparing the E=mc^2 mass-energy of a spring to its E=kx^2 compression energy...
JetBrains is coming in the next few days! We are already using it internally.
> They replaced existing ones - namely, taxis, and they achieved disruption via unsustainable economics & exploitative practices.

Corrupt, exploitative industry gets replaced with less corrupt, equally exploitative industry while also delivering far better value to consumers. Seems like a win to me.

Why are we so up in arms about Uber, when Dominos delivery drivers get about the same paltry compensation, no benefits, and far less freedom? The same could be said for pretty much all minimum wage jobs.

Like the parent insinuated, all these socialist / egalitarian arguments don't explain why we are in such a rush to fix for Uber drivers what has been broken for every low-paying job ever.

(That being said, with a rise in independent contractors, we should fix unemployment insurance to include them)
You know it's a ride with pickup in an area. You are free to take the gig or not. You get paid for the gig. That is you choosing your work. That makes it a contract. People who do more work can be compensated better -that has nothing to do with whether or not its a contract.

W2 means you get paid salary or by the hour. Have you ever seen a W2 stub? It doesn't have 'projects' on it. It has a pay rate. Becoming W2 for drivers means they have a salary, and a bonus. So now they're hourly employees. This is literally on the W3 form employers submit to the IRS every year. Not knowing the paid amount before hand is one of the things making it a contract, yet you're claiming not knowing how much you will get paid makes it W2. Amazing gymnastics.
In practice the line between bug bounties and extortion can often be a bit blurry, as well as the line between proving an exploit exists and actually exploiting it.

I think you’d need a lot more information to draw a reasonable conclusion. That said the prosecutors arguments that $100,000 is so much that it implies criminality, and that NDAs are non-standard (or that they also imply criminality) is complete and utter BS, and instantly makes me incredibly skeptical of the theories they’re operating on.
When you open the field to reward research itself rather than p-hacking, everyone benefits.

It's like a flea market. Bargain bin discounts, junk to many, valuable to some, but it shifts the economics of the whole system and lets specialty niche researchers not have to reinvent the wheel.

Also, knowing that a method or study was statistically insignificant is statistically significant for future study design.

Thanks!
Not OP, but of course. This is a realistic threat when traveling internationally and passing through customs. In most countries, if border security agents want to walk off with your phone for a while you can't refuse. Many organizations have a "devices that enter China stay in China" policy for exactly this reason.
> Does anyone disagree that Apple and Google have the right to just go "this app store business is just not worth the headaches, we're gonna shut it all down."

Depends on what you mean by that. If you are saying that they have a right to not run any of their apps stores anymore, then sure.

But I do not agree that they should have to right to force me, by law to not install other app stores on my phone. If I bought the phone, then I should be allowed to do whatever I want with my own property, including installing other app stores that 3rd parties voluntarily offer me.

> think these app stores are some kind of public commons.

It is not about public commons. Instead, it is about physical property that I purchased, the device, that I own.

> Who do you think customers will blame when someone uses an alternative payment approach to steal from customers

I don't care. That is not my problem. That is not an excuse for apple or google to tell me what I can and cannot do with my own property.

> What's a customers recourse

If customers don't like a ceratain app store, or solution, then they don't have to use it. I am not trying to force other people to do anything with their own phones. I just want Apple to stop doing this to my devices, when they, for example, sue people who offer repair services.
I think the reaction to cosmological origins rather depends on how much you are trying to (implicitly) stay within your existing beliefs.

If you approach with a healthy nihilistic attitude, it's just cool stuff but doesn't matter(because nothing matters and as a nilhilist that's OK). But if you're chained to upholding or championing something, the existence question may become an enemy, one that is so hard to dismiss that it drains you.
Soviet Union and Russia have always been incredibly paranoid about the vulnerability of the populated interior.

I believe NATO has the capability to bomb Moscow from Latvia in minutes.

I don't think Russia rates its vulnerability by border ratio vs total NATO aligned country border ratio. They look at how fast NATO could wreck Moscow.
There's a recent case on Misprision of felony from the 9th Circuit, which has jurisdiction over California. [0]

"The panel affirmed the long-established federal rule that “[t]o establish misprision of a felony,” under 18 U.S.C. § 4, “the government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt: ‘(1) that the principal . . . committed and completed the felony alleged; (2) that the defendant had full knowledge of that fact; (3) that he failed to notify the authorities; and (4) that he took affirmative steps to conceal the crime of the principal.”"

[0] https://www.whitecollarbriefly.com/2017/06/07/9th-circuit-cl...
This should be a reminder that mail, while on the decline for two decades, still is an important component of our day to day lives, and that we still heavily rely on its on-time delivery and reliability.
I do not want to get political, but it seems impossible to me that mail would be entirely handled by the private sector. Mail, like many utilities such as public transport or water treatment, is rarely profitable with a low-enough cost to make it affordable for everyone.
It really breaks my heart to know that people may not have had enough food on their table because their paycheck or allowance was delayed in the mail.
The rule we've come up with is essentially "don't do that". But if you need to, instead of having styles cross boundaries, the inner component should be configurable (either by making two versions of it, or having something like "mode=large" as an abstraction over the CSS it needs to apply to itself).
Well, the Russian leadership perhaps. I wouldn't mind betting that many ordinary Russian people would rather be a normal EU style democracy like France or Germany.
And this policy has a name : Starve the beast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast
All you professional programmer-types seem to have forgotten that solving problems (even if they’ve been solved a thousand times before) is FUN.

I wrote a custom-made script parser... knowing full-well there were many libraries available. (For a goofy program I wrote available at cycell2d.com) Why? Because I enjoyed it!
Strangely enough, I think it also wrong to refer to people with southern accents as "oxy-addicted incesty bigoted white trash".

That said, there is a difference between thinking something wrong, and thinking something should be banned - esp when you conflate censorship of an individual within a community (HN poster), with censorship of the whole community itself (a subreddit).

Are you calling me a techbro because I'm posting on HN? Doesn't that mean you are too?
I guess SML would be it then. I'm sick and tired of the OCaML community that tells you to use OCaML, as if it's better than SML, but then tells you not to worry about the OO parts.
Ironically, a navy that doesn't leaves port is a naval strategy of the 1690s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleet_in_being
Wasn't mentioned anywhere that the input is sorted such that you could assume a binary search works.
If your only contribution is defending shitty character testimony you should consider biting your tongue. If there's no actual evidence I don't want to hear about what a nice guy he is.
Stay away from following anything that looks like advice in these comments. I'm frankly shocked at some people's opinions on investing here.

I meet so many investors who think they are geniuses because the portfolio they constructed did so well.

One of the best lessons I've heard about risk is that you don't judge a decision by the outcome, but by the risk being taken when the decision is made.

For example, go to a casino and put your life savings on 10. If you win, did you make a good decision? No.

That's what people who pick stocks are doing. Just massive amounts of hindsight bias and survivorship bias.
The best damage model in a flight simulator so far is [IL-2 Sturmovik](https://hypertexthero.com/il2-flight-joy/).

The next game by the developer of Kerbal Space Program Felipe Falanghe is called Balsa Model Flight Simulator and it is already a lot of fun (I am currently playing a closed beta and it should be out soon):

First ground takeoff in a plane I built:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/715155254

Midair collision during dogfight:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/715177161

Action figures in the cockpit:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/715210985

I am enjoying [MSFS 2020](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/715725728) but the lack of a damage model and the “Empty Screen of Death” is really disappointing. I hope they add a damage model eventually. Seeing things go wrong without dying or hurting anyone is one of the joys of video games.

Also keep an eye out for [Dead Stick](https://store.steampowered.com/app/771800/Deadstick__Bush_Fl...).
Again, disregarding politics why is the USPS, which is well funded and overwhelmed with business delivering Amazon and Shopify packages, downsizing? This isn't a federal directive is it? You would think they would be expanding to meet demand.

It could just be that the monopoly online retail business models that broke the high street are now breaking the post office too. hiring a non postal service ceo/pmg sounds like a terrible idea also
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/management/2020/07/usps-warns...
Exploitation does not just go away when you consensually sign a contract.

In any idea that these folks resemble independent contractors in any way is bullshit. They can't set the rates of the rides or that they give to Uber or Lyft. They can't set the basic terms on when and where you accept rides. When someone doesn't want to drive me across the bay, I can hardly blame them, but they have no leverage to dictate their own employment except by quitting. I guess these people end up accepting some kind of opaque, kafkaesque punishment to their livelihood. Independent my ass.

Granted, single payer healthcare would ameliorate some of the problems here, but it's very difficult to categorize the cut that Uber or Lyft takes for the commodity service they provide, protected by absolutely massive moats of capital, as anything but exploitative.