skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would put my money on Tesla

I'll bet you $1000 Tesla won't be the first to develop self-driving that is at least as good as humans (wrt. accident rate) in all weather and terrain conditions. Hell, I don't even think they'll be the third.
So, the first member of any mammal species must, ipso facto, be a rapist?
Pocketbook Color review: is color e-ink finally ready?
The DOJ lawyer was the worst part. Why was that clown even taking a such a strong side in a technical case like this?
The total amount of money stolen by governments worldwide each year is much bugger than Denmark's GDP.
And finding these bugs of comparable severity isn't worth the $250k each time?

I can easily see the iCloud photo worming one making it's way into mainstream media and causing millions of dollars of reputational damage.
> Covid is comparable to flu with a higher mortality rate.

So, like 1918 pandemic flu?
It seems like a lot of people are defending credit card pricing, but the idea that they’ve been charging the same % since before the internet and are still absorbing the same “cost” of fraud protection is absurd.

I would love Stripe to start advocating for lowering credit card fees, either through regulation or providing more avenues for competition.
uh what??? No most games do no scale like compilation does. For instances when compiling a large program GNU make lets me the following: make -j 16

That will create 16 instances of the compiler each compiling different compilation units. I could even do the following: make -j 128 and that will spawn a 128 processes, and still scale. I can keep scaling this assuming I have enough compilation units (aka files)
In Common Lisp, T is the "any" type (which makes sense there, as type specifiers can be formed using unions using (or type-A type-B ...) lists), the value NIL is the sole instance of the type NULL.
Undoubtedly this'll get removed from the front page but before it does, as someone who is Asian thank God someone calls these institutions out for this racist BS.
Since when is a little discipline disgusting?

Being strict doesn't harm kids it equips them for success in the future.

Raise them to be lazy and undisciplined, and, well you reap what you sow.
In mathematical terms it might be similar to lay persons confusing inverse for converse.

“Reverse” is not the most precise word for the term, but so long as there is no compiler error when a person uses the wrong word, human natural language will continue to be sloppy. Let’s stop being overly pedantic — that is one of the guidelines of this site
The theory is that it's better not to respond at that point, because if they change their mind in 3 months, they'd rather not have rejected you so they can say "sorry we were slow".
We actually support that exact use case natively. Each Doppler project has the concept of root and branch configs where branch configs inherit their secrets from the root. There is a root config for each environment (dev, stg, prd). More here: https://docs.doppler.com/docs/enclave-config-branching

In your specific case I would recommend creating a Doppler project for each app. Then you can add the common secrets to the "prd" root config. From there create branch configs for each locations:

prd (holds common secrets)

- prd_us_east_1 (inherits secrets from root plus hold us_east_1 specific vars)

- prd_us_central_1 (inherits secrets from root plus hold us_central_1 specific vars)

When you need to add/modify/delete a secret for all production configs, just modify the "prd" config.
As far as I know all Threadripper chips and board were required to support ECC. Mind you this means UDIMM ECC commonly targeted at workstations, not the RDIMM ECC used in servers.
Perhaps more legally relevant, Android's first public beta dropped in late 2007. But still, technically after OpenJDK's release.
Can't help but think in this era of Bill Barr's politicization of DoJ investigations that this is an attempt to directly appease Asian American voters going into Nov.3.

I wish I could be less of a cynic, but unfortunately not under this admin.

Some interesting notes:

> Yale uses race at multiple steps of its admissions process resulting in a multiplied effect of race on an applicant’s likelihood of admission. And Yale racially balances its classes.

That is a sentence fragment, not sure why they included it in the press release like that. It seems 'tacked on' and rushed.

Also, I've heard a lot about Yale's affirmative action policies, but I haven't heard much about the nationality based admissions policy. I'm interested in knowing how that works.
Procedural trivia time: the Google vs. Oracle case is about copyrights, but if it weren't for patents it would not be at the Supreme Court.

Originally, Oracle sued for both patent infringement and copyright infringement. When they appealed, the appeal went to the Federal Circuit because of the patent issues, and so the Federal Circuit ended up handling the appeal of both the patent issues and the copyright issues.

If the case been just a copyright case, the appeal would have went to the 9th Circuit.

If it had taken that route, the 9th Circuit would have almost certainly upheld Judge Alsop, and the Supreme Court almost certainly would not have taken an appeal from that.

The Federal Circuit is suppose to apply the precedent of the circuit that the case came from when deciding issues like the copyright issues that are only before the Federal Circuit because they tagged along on a patent case. In this case, that means they were suppose to follow the 9th Circuit precedent.

I think we need to change the way the Federal Circuit works in cases like this. If they decide issues that got there via tag along, I think the appeals path for those issues should be to the circuit whose precedent they are suppose to be following. In this case, that would mean that the copyright issues should go to the 9th Circuit after the Federal Circuit.

The current way can lead to a situation where in a given circuit you can effectively have different laws for X depending on whether or not someone sues you just over X, or over X and patents.

If sued over just X, the law on X is what the circuit court of appeals for your circuit says. If sued over X and patents, the law on X is whatever the Federal Circuit thinks it is. Those can diverge, and then you have the situation that plaintiffs can choose what they want--sue just for X to get their circuit's law, or toss in a throwaway patent claim to get the Federal Circuit's law.
> How much of this happen to be is accidental?

A lot.

It's not like anyone is appointing judges with an API-copyrightability litmus test.
That was only announced this week. Something like this would have to be in the works for a long time, so it’s very unlikely that the H1B changes had anything to do with this.
Might wanna read the article "The complaint alleges that Yale discriminated against applicants to Yale College on the grounds of race and national origin, and that Yale’s discrimination imposes undue and unlawful penalties on racially-disfavored applicants, including in particular most Asian and White applicants."

"For the great majority of applicants, Asian Americans and Whites have only one-eighth to one-fourth of the likelihood of admission as African American applicants with comparable academic credentials. Yale rejects scores of Asian American and White applicants each year based on their race, whom it otherwise would admit. "
not true of all cryptocurrencies, you're talking about unstable coins
Was the phone or the traffickers run by CIA?
needs 1989 in the title
Regardless of one's opinion on whether college's ought use race as a criteria in admissions, and still receive government assistance, or what the law should be, a simple reading of Title IX makes me believe that such behavior would be clearly breaking the guidelines of Title IX.

And I am surprised that the current behavior of most colleges regarding this issue is so pervasive, has gone on for so long, and so far out of line with a simple reading of the law.

I would think either the law would have changed, or the behavior of colleges would have been brought in line with the law a long time ago.

Here is the law, for reference, as quoted from the article. It feels pretty clear to me.

"No person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin, … be subjected to discrimination under any program … receiving Federal financial assistance."
Cable modems are powered up and online 99.9% of the time, little to no productivity is being lost here. If it makes the engineers' lives easier, up to 5 seconds would be totally reasonable, in my opinion.

If you want to talk about human productivity being pointlessly wasted while waiting for things to load, let's start with modern web apps.
If the game has a CPU bounded work load that scales well across multiple threads/processes. Honestly, most games do not, and are likely gonna run into Amdahl's law much quicker than compilation.
The browsers could buffer the text in text fields until the field loses focus (clicked another field or submit) or hit enter. It would break search-as-you-type functionality, but not the biggest loss in the world.
Thats messed up. HCQ has you all acting nutz.
Exactly where would they hide it? California is good, they don't manage their guests, so there's plenty of room.
"Well, let's not risk going live with the new version for such a small improvement. You know, premature optimizations are the root of all evil!"
A million dollars for iOS's source code?
I don't know if you read the article, but the main focus of the lawsuit is that Asians and whites have a much smaller chance of getting accepted than black people.
> Can't help but think in this era of Bill Barr's politicization of DoJ investigations that this is an attempt to directly appease Asian American voters going into Nov.3.

As a Chinese american, AFAIK, this has been a crucial issue for majority of the community. Could you stop labeling a core issue for a group of people "pliticization"?

Show some respect to a group of people that have been systematically discriminated through well-known laws. Even black people are not treated in that fashion nowadays.
Floating point yes, but SIMD depends.
As someone who’s constantly appalled by the number of TVs on the market that claim HDR but can’t even reach the minimum spec of 1000 nits, this was me!
Well, they can only do as much as we let them. Sadly, they can spy on the world and nobody cares, because privacy matters don't generate a strong push-back. OTOH, If they had an exec who so much as commented on a woman programmer's looks, he'd be immediately fired after a twitter outrage.
>The complaint also alleges that Yale injures applicants and students because Yale’s race discrimination relies upon and reinforces damaging race-based stereotypes, including in particular such stereotypes against Yale’s racially-favored applicants.

I don't know the merits of this case, but I know the second paragraph in this release is a load of BS. The Justice Department is claiming that those African Americans accepted into Yale are actually hurt by being accepted because their acceptance is reinforcing stereotypes that they needed extra assistance to get accepted. This is just the same conservative talking point that we have heard for generations that you can't do anything to help anyone because any assistance just makes them weaker.
Californian residents are currently voting on whether or not to repeal an act from 1996 that makes it illegal to discriminate admissions based on sex, gender, ethnicity, etc. They're trying to make it easier to base admission on these characteristics [1].

[1]: https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_16,_Repeal_Pr...
> Procedural trivia time: the Google vs. Oracle case is about copyrights, but if it weren't for patents it would not be at the Supreme Court.

Sure it would.

Unless they decided not to take it; it was coming to them one way or another. It's not like either side was going to take a loss lying down.

But the Seventh Amendment issue probably wouldn't be in it if the patent issues hadn't had it going through the CAFC rather than the 9th Cir.
I agree. The bigger lesson here, imo, is that companies need to take security of their tools even if they're only used by a handful of people and not just focus on their front-facing tools. A forum that everyone had access to but that likely didn't get much traffic was used to get access to internal networks. That needs to be taken seriously.
Software that gathers data on you for advertising purposes has gotten a lot better.
"We saved a toxic global monopoly millions (if not billions) and got 300k".
you don't need to be actively aware of gravity to not float off the ground. You can act politically without being aware of that fact, that just means you're not conscious of what's driving your decision making.

Most politics and also culture expresses itself tacitly. By requiring some sort of conscious intent you're actually ignoring what is arguably the vast majority of political interaction. For example casual sexism and systematic mistreatment of women was just "normal" but nonetheless political. Of course the people doing the subtle discriminating don't like to think of it as political, because that implies responsibility for action.
Pelosi's nephew. Go figure.
Their goal is to harm Black applicants. If they truly cared about racism they’d take aim at legacy admissions.
Most people on HN have no idea what they're talking about. So I'll give you an idea: DLT (distributed ledger technology) is good for one reason: it's a consensus mechanism. You have a distributed architecture and you want different machines to agree on the same state, even when some of them are compromised. This is not just sexy for handling money (cryptocurrencies) but this is a long-standing problem in computer science. Consensus that doesn't care about compromise exist and is used all over the place in database replication (RAFT).
I know there are a lot of people coming to the conclusion that affirmative action toward one group counts as negative discrimination toward another - and certainly technically it may. Though just like this Justice Department press release, room is rarely left for nuances like the difference between negative discrimination and positive discrimination, and it seems to be assumed or taken at face value that we're in a zero-sum game, that one race can't be helped without another race being hurt. That might be the case for Yale admissions, but is that really true in general?

My main question, without disagreeing with the hypotheses given by the Justice Department, is this: if it's true that blacks are still being discriminated against, and nobody is allowed to compensate for that by taking action, what else can we need to do to solve the pre-existing discrimination, assuming that it's cultural and difficult?
As the old saying goes, the problem with shorting is that the market can always remain irrational for longer than you can remain solvent.
You reject my argument without being able to point to any flaw in it. Because you and a lot of other people do not accept or have not thought of it. I can't really help with that.

If it's about popularity instead of logical argument, of course I'm not the only one who thinks this. There was a really good blog post that laid it out but I can't find it currently. Instead, here's a scientific paper I found just now, the introduction contains the same argument I'm making. And it's far from the only place which agrees.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/2195-5468-2-2

> The problem posed in this way may lead to a lot of controversy, mainly because we do not know whether the behavior of the host had anything to do with your first choice or not.

> Perhaps the host would open a door with a goat only when your first choice was right. In this case, it was not a good choice to change doors.

EDIT: Also several people have pointed this same thing out elsewhere in this thread.
Mental model updated
There are many costs that remain stubbornly fixed as a portion of GDP (Ads has been 2% of GDP for > 100 years). Fraud as an industry, and corresponding fraud protection services likely fall under this umbrella barring substantial technological innovation.
> there are a lot of people coming to the conclusion that affirmative action counts as discrimination - and certainly technically it does

Technically? Technically?!?!
Once it's confident in the technology and business model, Google can absolutely afford the capex of putting a million Waymo cars on the road. They'd probably take out a massive loan, and the worst case is having to ditch the lidar gear and sell the fleet on the second hand market. But it's doable.

But where did you get a million cars from? To equal Tesla's existing fleet?

Uber has 3 million active drivers globally. If you assume that they're working in 8 hour shifts, 1 million Waymo cars is a rollout sized to replace Uber.

Coming at the math from another direction, Uber does 1.6 billion rides a quarter. A million cars would mean 18 rides per car per day. Totally doable.

But Waymo would surely focus on countries with high wages - US, Canada, UK, Australia, most of Western Europe. Replacing Uber in only those countries would only need perhaps 500,000 cars.

Of course they're going to ramp up towards those numbers, but once the tech works and it's just a matter of cash, it's going to happen very quickly.
Affirmative action has always violated the 14th Amendment's requirement of equal protection. And this post has been flagged. How unsurprising...
I'm not going to argue whether I think APIs should be copyrightable, but I believe creating a good API is a work of creative design, and is artistic

I design an API for graphical coding and spend significant creative energy choosing the right words, calling conventions, result types to not only make something intuitive, but emotionally pleasurable to code with

Sometimes I'll spend days writing out possible forms of the API — changing words, tense, syntax, until it looks and feels "right." These aren't arbitrary or purely functional decisions

Do I want my users to "read" text from a file, or "open" the file? Do I want them to handle keyboard events in a simple global function or assign callbacks into a keyboard handler under each character name. How are those callbacks shaped? What's easy to understand?

APIs aren't just restricted simple functions and types. Some may involve the creation of a custom DSL to make it easy to declare functionality in part of your system, or clusters of protocols that work together in very specific ways so users can implement a complex system atop them
Apple hasn't paid them for the largest exploits yet. That $52k will likely blow-up to far more when Apple pays them so their work will end up being much more lucrative. Apple also pays in batches so they'll likely get a few more batches and some of those will be yuuuuuuuge!
If I were there, and I was thinking about leaving, I would have taken that package. It's pretty good.
Right, I'm suggesting that we generate push back as much as possible. One way to do that is to make future Google employees hesitate about supporting their unethical anti-privacy practices. Nerds have to stop giving Google a free pass.
It is much harder to do research then it is to do engineering. I do both at work where we have about 15 ML engineers and only 2-3 of them are capable of doing something novel. Maybe you mean something different by “research” but it is very hard to teach someone how to come up with an idea or a novel method publishable in a top conference. Teaching engineering on the other hand usually goes like this: “Here’s how this works. Here are your options, tradeoffs, pitfalls.” After you’ve done it a few times you mastered it.

I forgot who said it: “In engineering, if you don’t know what you’re doing you shouldn’t be doing it. In science, if you know what you’re doing you shouldn’t be doing it.“
> accounting methods are not of themselves copyrightable creative works.

True. Neither are 'ways of calling library functions" copyrightable.

But in the case of Java API what was copied was the actual Java-code in which the APIs are expressed.

Because the APIs are "fed" to the compiler as Java source-code, it is clear what was copied was not just the "way library-functions are called".

What was copied was Java SOURCE-CODE which allows a Java compiler to ENFORCE and INTERPRET such calling conventions.

Even if the API was rewritten in another programming language it would be a copyright violation if large parts of the structure of the API meaning how the methods are organized into classes and interfaces and how they refer to each other, was copied. That would clearly be a work of art that deserves copyright protection, in my view.
> in certain situations, a modern version of this would actually be pretty nice

I’ve done something similar before in Google Docs, and recently in CodiMD/HedgeDoc (which is much nicer and simpler, and doesn’t have comments except for html ones, reveal.js slide notes, and opt-in Disqus on the published doc). I think Etherpad could be used almost identically to talk, except with color coding differentiating each user instead of panes.
You can follow along with that part of the project here: https://github.com/TheDiamondProject/Graphite
Totally agree with you, this whole story sounds fishy. Kidnap a governor? Why? There's no good outcome.
You’re right on its face, but the american electoral-politics-based culture war likes to appropriate and subsume any rift or disagreement and alias it onto the existing two brawling sides. It’s a real bummer, not the least of why is because of how startlingly inaccurate it is.

These narratives that fuel the culture war “decide” that certain groups are in or out. It’s entirely inaccurate but that’s what the popular narrative dictates.

BLM is, under this system, on the “left” side, along with other made-up narrative entities in this fictional drama such as “antifa”. To the culture war brawlers, entirely disconnected from the actual happenings, they alias to the same thing, the same people, the same group.

Coinbase has leveraged that system to cover for the fact that their silence on the matter of justice and human rights is extremely loud.
Yes I believe GP is referencing the broader political goal of diminishing/repealing affirmative action laws from the books.
That's not a very nuanced read of why the policies are there in the first place.

I think the goal of having a more diverse student body is a good idea and studies show there are clear intergenerational benefits to having first generation minorities attending elite colleges versus a not so clear one for everyone else. I disagree with casting it all aside with 'racist BS'.

There can (and should) be critique, but it shouldn't be a broad swipe.
That wouldn't surprise me. How much of a cable modem's life is spent booting? Probably not much. Fiddling with the bootloader to make it faster on production hardware would make it harder to debug if needed. They did leave the UART pins accessible on the board, so they may have expected to possibly need to tftp boot the boards in extreme circumstances.

You could make that require a jumper somewhere, but 2 seconds added to the boot time, when a working modem probably doesn't boot more than once a month is simply not a lot of time.
Randomly clicked on "amendment", which shows noticeably different topics for biden vs trump. Trump mainly speaks about 'the second amendment', whereas biden tends to use it more colloquially.

Perhaps an n-gram search for multi-term searches and then settling on the top one?
2021 fundraising market predictions and Q3 Pitch Deck Interest analysis
Who said anything about forcing?