skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I should have said "mens rea," but it's a legal term that roughly translates to intent.

>I don't think that that's a hard fit for the publicly-reported facts of this case.

Agreed, unless (again 100% hypothetically) Uber misled the driver about the capabilities. Even then it would still require that a reasonable person would believe a (hypothetical) incorrect statement about the car's capability.

>No, if “Uber” said that there is an even greater case than there already is under simple respondeat superior for the actions of the driver alone as agent of the firm for Uber to be charged with negligent homicide, manslaughter, or even 2nd degree murder.

Not sure respondeat superior applies to criminal law. In either case, I think operating a fleet while (again 1000% hypothetically) misleading the drivers would be itself the act of criminal negligence. So I don't think you'd even need to resort to master/agent liability.

>But I don't think any representation by Uber could reduce the standard of care owed by a safety driver to members of the public to something below “not watching a video on the phone while supervising the safety of the operation of a self-driving vehicle”.

Not my area of expertise and I haven't looked at any case law on this point, but I think a believable statements made by Uber would be considered as the circumstances wrt "standard of care that a reasonable person would use in like circumstances."

If a reasonable person would believe it was safe to watch the video while driving, it wouldn't qualify as criminal negligence.
Depends on what you’re harvesting but the challenges are likely to be in the actual picking motion not dropping/bruising/cutting the food, if there is any selection happening the senses of touch and smell are largely gone, navigating the plant without damaging it, not compacting the soil around the roots more than necessary, overall speed, etc.

Bespoke harvesters for things like potatoes and almonds obviously destroy humans in the productivity department. If we’re still picking it that’s a good signal that automation will be tricky.

We probably have the technology to do most of it now, but you may wind up with a half million dollar robot.
You are assuming that billionaires create "billion dollars of value" .. quite a leap.

Do we really need to take time out of our day to praise billionaires? What about the workers who's productivity they robbed to get their status?

I think the billionaires are well compensated enough by society. Really odd to see people rushing to defend them.
1 kB is 1000 bytes, though.

1 kiB, on the other hand, is 1024 :)
> If it's an academic building, I think it makes more sense to name it after someone who contributed to the field. Or it could simply be the "CS building".

Have you seen the halls of the US univerisites?
Interesting statistics! But I am not quite convinced use of various new terms necessarily conforms with advocacy.

All news outfits are biased, including the WSJ, but some try a lot harder than others to be unbiased, and some have given up all pretense of being news.
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So is this evidence that there is widespread disdain for the current president among academics, or evidence that many non political organizations and institutions are getting politicized? News like this could be taken either way. One person might say "these institutions have no credibility anymore" and another might say "things have gotten so bad with this guy that people are feeling the need to step in." So which is it?
I have mixed feelings about Bill Gates. He is doing good things with his fortune now, but Microsoft are/were not the good guys.
> vast segments of industry dedicated to selling goods to the US

If they don't want anything from their trading partners, the output of those industries can just as easily be directed to their own population.
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I'm looking for someone to review code for a web app: node.js + mongodb, react.Minimal hours for now, maybe like 3-5/wk. I tried looking on UpWork but know the good ones are here!(obvs paid)
Stakes are certainly high with this election
How can you be sure the license notice wasn't meant to apply to the project as a whole, as I imagine is overwhelmingly the more common intention? That is the obvious question here.
It would be super interesting to overlay the scale of efforts like this one that follow publisher licenses with those of scihub that ignore them.

The amount of effort we put into curation due to license and the amount of content lost because of our ownership policies seem to be coming more clearly into view as we consider the costs those choices incur.
Honestly, say no. You are going to spend a large amount of time, energy, and possibly money, on what amounts to a sales lead.

Instead, tell them that if the SOC2 is required to sign a deal with them, you want to resolve all other due diligence first, and sign a preliminary contract stating that if you then perform a successful audit, they will become a customer. At that point, you aren't putting the money into a sales lead, you are taking on a large step to on-board a new large customer.
You also need to file a California Form 568 tax return with the Franchise Tax Board and pay the $800 annual tax whether or not you have any income, or you get a big fine that increases every month you don't file...

Ask me how I know :)
I would say latter, this coming from a very non political person who in the past didn't care if the president had a R or D next to his name. For the first time in my life I feel compelled to step in and vote to get back to somewhat normalcy
Are you not familiar with the very prevalent conspiracy theories about him wanting to microchip people, how the coronavirus vaccine is his attempt to do, etc? It's been all over the internet.

Here's a bbc article: https://www.bbc.com/news/52847648
As a lawyer, but not your lawyer, please consider a Delaware LLC. California is not where you want to litigate and it’s yearly fees are absurd. Delaware is the gold standard.
Well that's what I'm arguing. I think algorithms have less power than people think they do, even the computer scientists. Social sciences/economic theories that study how crowds work all say that it's driven by information. You don't need an algorithm to do this you just need someone in your group to share that information with you, and this is actually is what really is happening when you look at it and get out of data and charts.

People are leaving these algorithm ran places in droves especially now because they already believe that the government is working with these companies to track their movements and radical plans. They're already going to decentralized networks, and once that happens you will not be able to control the radicals just like you couldn't control the pirates after they switched to decentralized piracy networks. This isn't trying to stop someone downloading a couple Metallica songs. This is trying to stop the proliferation of fascist/totalitarian thought and foreign actors stoking it up. It's much more dire, and the world of John Perry Barlow is dead. Not to mention the last few right wing terrorist attacks weren't planned on Facebook or were they radicalized through there. Neither was QAnon. That all came from 4chan/8chan/etc. There are no algorithms there, no AI, and anyone could basically code something on that level of complexity in a day.

Information should not be free. It should have limits. Once such information threatens the proliferation of a free society and brings people back towards totalitarianism the slippery slope "first they take away the press and then we get Hitler" argument falls flat on it's face because large swaths of the population freely gravitating towards Hitler gets you the exact same effect, and not only that the nuance between society trying to regulate information for the general health of said society and a fascist dictator doing the same is completely different.
It is a duck test. The more your LLC operates like a "real" company, the harder it is to pierce the veil.
> from users perspective I can't really get the issue ... If say NVIDIA wants the driver to contain malicious backdoor, open source is not going to stop them.

No, but if such a backdoor were discovered, it would be possible to do something about it. The quote from the article in top comment here says it well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23944954

> Anyways, not all code that runs on your system is open source.

Not yet, but it is my goal. If/when that's achieved, I'd also like to run it exclusively on free/libre/open (FLO) hardware.

> Why not demand your bootloader manufacturer for open source with the same intensity.

My bootloader plays a much smaller role in my computing endeavors than my gpu. And less importantly, as a practical matter, there's many more major motherboard vendors, and few FLO alternatives; whereas both nvidia alternatives (amd, integrated intel) do have FLO drivers.
75% percent of the classes are free now. On the web is all free now but we plan to turn on the subscription soon and will add more live classes soon.
I appreciate whenever I see people in your position get angry about ghosting, but in my experience, for positions that I’ve interviewed for and didn’t get, I think only one ever let me know.

I’ve come to rationalize this as a risk-avoidance tactic, and I think the negative effects of reputations damage to the company are mostly unaccounted for.
The best one in my book is number 5:

5. When one gives directly to the poor without being asked.

Why would anything following that actually be better?
Thanks for stating this so lucidly. I believe that software engineers oftentimes have a libertarian bent in their inclination so the Republican party gets a lot of leeway here that it does not deserve (since it is perceived as being closer to libertarian views because they pay some lip service to the idea of small government) . I somewhat identify with some libertarian ideals but there is no reason to sugarcoat that a good chunk of the Republican electorate are batshit insane and believe in some of the most laughable nonsense.
> pay the $800 annual fee whether or not you have any income

Really? In the 2 states I've lived in, there is no annual fee for LLC's. I'm curious what the reasoning behind having a fee that large is.
> with Google Classroom and it's just embarrassing how they are using our taxpayer money in name of a privacy issue that really doesn't exist.

You're saying Google doesn't have privacy issues?
That's actually a pretty good idea. Kind of like an official @mention/#hashtag for an exact topic, if somehow wasn't abused by people, would definitely improve related search results. Navigating user intent algorithms is getting more difficult.

Does schema.org etc support ids beyond keywords/categories? I guess the id could just be a keyword.

Maybe a public registry where you claim an id for a topic, similar to claiming a yelp page or an ISBN number. Then anyone posting related content includes that id. Popular topics could be grouped. You could generate memorable ids for most known topics/products/etc, and people just utilize them organically, robots could apply them automatically over time also.

It's especially bad for words with many definitions, like "bridge repair", could mean a dental bridge, guitar bridge, or a bridge over a lake.
I'm excited by this but also a bit sad. I spent most of this year building this exact thing:

https://github.com/qlyoung/lagopus

It was such an obvious thing to do - ClusterFuzz but self hostable - I couldn't believe it hadn't been done yet.

Alas, Microsoft and their infinite resources...well, looking forward to trying it.
Word Problems in Russia and America (Swedish Mathematical Society Meeting) [pdf]
If you live in CA and you’re going to cheat the taxman by not registering locally as a foreign corporation, then you might as well register as an Ohio LLC. $99 initial registration and zero annual fee to maintain it.
I heard something similar from an older boss working in a place with a lot of complicated machinery to maintain.

He phrased it "If you aren't breaking something, you're not doing anything."
Surprisingly good experience, and even a call from the man himself. I'm actually impressed, I expected way more incompetence and fumbling from a government.
In Minnesota, you pay a one time fee of $135, and renew yearly for free.
Job posts are off-topic (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html) but you can post in the monthly 'Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?' https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
Totally agreed. There are too many problem of using computer vision. Camera angle, lightening and even the cloth you wear will make the differences. End of day people just want to do workout instead of finicking with technology.
how do you know ?
You still have to pay the $800 to California if you reside there.
Basically, because CA can get away with it.
Online Food Ordering App (Eat Home) Using AGC Auth Service – Java Part-1
Optimizing PGX Allocations in Golang with Pprof
A little bit of late night optimizing work I felt worth a post.
A handshake deal is a contract. Breaking that contract (and the law) just because it's hard to prove in court is at the depth of depravity.
Incremental buffer copy?
That's what I'm saying. The above comment was implying that due to Apple's worth, they were benefiting consumers.

I was pointing out that the above commentors personal experience showed otherwise.
If California can tax it, oh they will tax it.
I have to imagine it’ll be a few years before it goes fully independent. I can only imagine how painful it would be, for example, to enter complex WiFi passwords.
Why would you want to as opposed to Delaware?
This should be flagged and removed for breaking the HN rule of “don’t be an a*e”
> Pretty much the only scheme that avoids this is "choose a voter at random and elect the candidate they like best".

And at this point we learn how many people's true preference is to vote themselves as president!
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Sometimes you'd like to visit all elements of some logical array in a random order, with each element pointing to the next, e.g., to benchmark the speed of pointer chasing. Using Sattolo, you can set up such a full-sized linked list fairly simply, e.g.:

https://github.com/travisdowns/MemoryLanes/blob/b6cd7d2ceaa0...

I have used it a half dozen times in more or less that specific context.
> [...] but the requirements to get commercial license is a deal breaker for many.

I don't understand why this has become the norm. Would your company not use smile to, presumably, make money?
That is probably because I don't care about ball sports at all :)
That's quite universal, I think. The aspirational and the nouveaus tend to overdo it. They're out of their element, so they either indulge their existing habits and aspirations, behave unnaturally, or overcompensate according to what they think it means to be "upper class". It takes three generations or so for the habits, attitudes, concerns, and sensibilities to sink in. By then, their children and grandchildren are likely to have squandered their wealth.
Yes.

All the work for this type of an environment will be innovation on IP and revenue structures. So far nobody has done anything novel here that Ive been able to find. Most coop and not for profit references seem like inappropriate proxies.
Definitely. I started deopping breakfast. At first it was hell. But you get used to it. Noe I’m down to one meal a day. It’s very convenient, and my energy levels aren’t affected by food intake.
FB people just make software that helps people to share thoughts. I don't see how they are responsible that people have wrong thoughts and share them. For example, Samsung makes TVs that are used worldwide to brainwash people and to share wrong thoughts. Would you also abuse former Samsung engineers at the interviews?
Just to take a specific example from the list: preventing people from becoming poor in the first place is better. How could it not be? They avoid the mental pain and stress of being poor and feeling like they are dependent on handouts to survive...
Interface here was pretty frustrating but I was impressed with what I saw. It's clearly got a lot of nice little touches that I wouldn't have expected.

It crashed for me after level 1. My dude said there was suspicion that I was a traitor or something and so I needed to answer trivia about unit stats in a super ambiguous open ended text response which I thought was hilarious. Can anyone tell me what happens if you get these questions right / wrong?
If you're in California, they will get their $800 regardless. It doesn't matter where you create the LLC, California has a minimum $800 tax on it.
I apologize for my poorly constructed argument. I should have spoken more clearly and I was in a rush. I'll probably screw this explanation up too, but the apology stands regardless.

Hate speech isn't Section 230 protected speech, in my opinion. Copying from above, with modified italics placement:

> any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected

This is a list of forms of speech that providers, under Section 230, may safely disregard constitutional protections for. Racist speech and other forms of hate speech are, at minimum, 'otherwise objectionable'; and therefore they are not forms of speech protected by Section 230.
Or for system monitoring. You could have different function play different sounds so the whole program sounds melodic in normal operation. If the melody is off or you hear discordant notes then you know something's up.
There are exactly zero undefined behaviors around operations on unsigned integer types in C or in C++.

To get meaningful results may require some care, but the languages provide everything needed to exercise such care.
Ugh, Gates is essentially run a PR and marketing campaign nonstop now to keep the attention of his relationship with Epstein.
This was from way back in 2014.

Luckily things have gotten unspeakably worse since then...
I've seen too many bullshitters in the software industry - people whose technical capabilities extend only as far as their ability to convince non-technical managers that they know what the fuck they're talking about.

I've seen these people be promoted to positions where they can do serious damage, no longer a mere developer not knowing what the hell you're meant to be able to do - but a lead developer crippling an entire team.

In many cases this is an impossible problem to solve - with non-technical executives sitting above the non-technical managers; a layer-cake of bullshitters blind to bullshitters with a vested interest (born of self-preservation) in remaining so.
Everyone in this thread seems to be saying Pratt and PEG matter most, which I don't see in that book. Any recs on that front? (Or do you think they're not important?)
> I 'know' what looks right, and I won't allow for anything that doesn't look right.

The way I view it, it's sort of like when a player glitches themselves outside of the boundaries of the level in a video game and are able to bypass all the battles the game has in store for them and walk directly to the objective. Anomaly detection only works if they are playing inside the realm of the system but if something manages to break out of the sandbox then detection can be bypassed because it was never a condition thought possible and therefore not checked for.

For Example, you can have code to detect abnormal requests http requests, but if there is a vulnerability in a webserver's memory management of reading bytes from a socket then it allows the attacker to "breakout" of the system before you can detect it. Now you might be saying well we can detect when they breach memory but it just creates another cat and mouse game at a different level. This all assumes there are no bugs in the anomaly detection systems themselves
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`On Bullshit` is one of my favorite things I've ever read but it's frustrating that this paper simultaneously cites `On Bullshit` while immediately defining bullshit in a way that does not conform almost at all with the `On Bullshit`

This article starts out by defining bullshitters and therefore bullshit as: "‘Bullshitters’ are individuals who claim knowledge or expertise in an area where they actually have little experience or skill. "

They at least somewhat remedy this by mentioning the better partial definition used in `On Bullshit` which is shared with the word "humbug": "deceptive misrepresentation, short of lying, especially by pretentious word or deed, of somebody's own thoughts, feelings or attitudes”"

The important difference is that bullshit is not lies, and you do not have to "have little experience or skill" on a topic to spread bullshit on that topic, all you need is a disregard for the truth, in favor of whatever is convenient to you which could overlap with the truth or not. In this way this definition is almost directly in opposition to Frankfurt's which makes me think this paper is a bunch of bullshit.

edit: Frankfurt's own words on his definition of bullshit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1RO93OS0Sk&feature=youtu.be...
You can act as your own Registered Agent for a corporation or LLC as long as you have a physical street address in the state where your corporation or LLC is formed.

The actual corporation or LLC being formed, however, cannot name itself as its own Registered Agent.
I’ve incorporated in CA before. Top poster is correct.
I think tptacek's point wasn't about Gates's wealth, it was that Starbucks at the time was pretty tiny. It (Starbucks) has a kind of interesting history, tangled up with Peet's Coffee & Tea in its very early years.

(Starbucks also used to be a lot more, well, serious about coffee, selling fresh-roasted coffee in bins in the store rather than bags shipped out from central roasters, as well as selling a small but well-curated selection of brewing equipment that wasn't just Starbucks-branded stuff. Peet's still has some of that vibe, although they're less eclectic now than they were even 15 years ago.)
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They authors of that article make it very clear that they are in the latter camp for a LONG list of well-supported reasons which are only partisan to the extent that Republicans have begun to self-identify as the anti-science party (as someone who grew up reading, say, Niven & Pournelle’s outrage at cuts to the space program, this didn’t used to be a simple litmus test).

It’s far from just academics, too - if you work in healthcare, for example, you probably aren’t jumping to defend Trump even if you normally vote for Republicans.
That's what water softeners are for.
Thanks for the link. It is incredible to think that one man was substantially, if indirectly and in very different ways, involved in creating both Starbucks and Microsoft. It's a nice story and a reminder of the place for ethics and personal reputation in business.
I'm not talking about rewrites and GPUs. I'm saying we do not have dynamic recompilation of everything. As in – if we would have ALL binaries that run on the machine (starting with the kernel) stored in some portable representation like wasm (or not-fully-portable-but-still-reoptimizable like llvm bitcode) and recompiled with optimization for the current exact processor when starting. Only that would solve the "new generation of VLIW-CPU needs very different compiler optimizations to perform, oops all your binaries are for first generation and they are slow now" problem.

GPUs do work like this – shaders recompiled all the time – so VLIW was used in GPUs (e.g. TeraScale). But on CPUs we have a world of optimized, "done" binaries.