skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Burisma investigation was dropped by the shady prosecutor before the prosecutor was replaced. The opposition to the previous prosecutor was multi-national
How We Discovered Water on the Moon
Phones becoming bricks when stolen AND reported hasn't and won't stop most thiefs from stealing them and it won't prevent you from losing your expensive phone and having to buy a new expensive phone. And if the phone is insured, well then you are paying a monthly fee for having a money holding device
> GPT-3 doesn't have any knowledge of how the world actually works. It only appears to have some level of background knowledge, to the extent that this knowledge is present in the statistics of text. But this knowledge is very shallow and disconnected from the underlying reality.

Without excessive effort, humans don't have any knowledge of how the world actually works. They only appear to have some level of background knowledge, to the extent that this knowledge is present in their faint memories. But this knowledge is very shallow and disconnected from the underlying reality.
Hi! Yes, all of them are live events! We have modified the web and will add it to the FAQs, appreciate the feedback!
Big fan of Among us here too :)
Appreciated, thank you!

(feel free to off-topic downvote this troops, just wanted to make it known it was appreciated. Anonymous upvotes can only convey so much gratitude)
>All the factors you cite impact driver earnings, but do they impact the analysis?

Probably not. However, if the analysis doesn't provide enough nuance WRT revenue generation, how useful is that analysis, except as a primer on using those particular techniques in a novel fashion?

>At the end of the day the argument boils down to "drivers make more money when they can drive faster", which seems pretty indisputable.

Absolutely a fair point, although ignoring the time-based variations in the demand curve likely has a measurable effect on revenue generation.

To illustrate that point, during the pandemic, overall traffic volumes are down at least 50%, presumably allowing even day time drivers to drive faster. However, some estimates of taxi driver revenue have it down 80+%.

Even more, traffic lights on one-way avenues (at least in Manhattan, where the bulk of medallion taxis operate) are generally set at slightly less than 25 miles/hour (the citywide default speed limit), so "driving faster = making more money" isn't really correct. "Driving faster than 12 miles per hour usually results in higher revenue" is probably more accurate.

>So if overall traffic speeds are slowing down, then in aggregate all drivers will suffer as well, although the daytime driver suffering through rush hour gridlock will be comparatively worse off than a driver who focuses on long airport rides in the middle of the night.

That absolutely applies to day time drivers, and night-time drivers can (and usually do) generate more revenue. However, some of that difference is unrelated to speed. Rather it's related to demand. Because people know that traffic is bad during the day makes them less likely to use a taxi during the day and more likely to do so at night.

However, your example of airport rides is flawed, as rides between airports/Manhattan are a flat fare and not based on time and distance.

I don't use Uber or other FHV services, mainly because I find their business model offensive, given the huge fees they charge are way out of proportion to the services they provide -- and that's fundamentally unfair to the drivers.

Which is also why I always pay cash when using a taxi, as there's usually a fee of at least 5% on credit card transactions in the taxi, and drivers often don't receive their money for days -- yet the fleet owners require up-front payment for leases, and the drivers must fill the gas tank before returning the car.
Having visited Peru, I'd bet this was long known about by the locals and got "discovered" for the tourism boost.
Well it's an easier read than this: https://academic.oup.com/nc/article/2020/1/niaa016/5909853 but it lacks details.

Regardless, my question is why did consciousness arise? What was the need?

Would humans not have been able to achieve unprecedented control over the environment without it?

Everything I read about self-control (which is a major problem of mine) points to an eternal battle between the conscious self and the subconscious in the brain.

It's like the "I" is an impostor taking over the body. Theories and writings around the "soul" have been around since the dawn of civilization.

Clearly, it worked for the species, but was it really necessary or just a fluke?
> Also a performance/battery suck

That's far from obvious. Good cache control and offline usage are great for battery usage.

> Apple refuses to implement it in Safari

Wrong, Safari supports them. What Apple doesn't do well is enabling webapps that you pin to your homescreen ("PWAs") to work (they allow it, but from what I hear it's buggy and has weird restrictions), because they'd rather force you to make a native app.
Not a big fan of this headline. Everyone should maximize their employee match. Going up to the max yearly contribution is slightly inefficient, but the few who can afford this already know that.
Partly I agree, 5% of users is a lot.

However, this number will only continue to decrease as time goes on, and it also has to be questioned for any specific product whether that number is bigger or smaller on average.

Both for the (near?) future when ES6 is near-universal and for projects that have the luxury of just ignoring older browsers even today, it would be nice to have a proof of concept project like this that uses modern ES6 features, since many of them address precisely the types of problems that many pre-processors also fix.

Template-strings, custom elements, etc. add a huge amount of possibilities for web-application development and imo should get way more attention outside of a small circle of excited people.
In that particular case, you still lose a device you paid a lot of money to have and you might even lose any data not backed up
You can create a separate profile in Firefox by going to "about:profiles", desktop only (it looks ugly, and it's hard to use, I know, but it does work). This way you can have both personas on the same device without mixing them up.

Too bad it does not work on mobile and the UX for it is so bad on desktop. It's a great feature that I wish Firefox invested in.
MirageOS 3.9.0
Nothing of consequence happened to them

This right here sums up the entire issue. A workplace will reap what it sows. You want to allow weeds to take over your fields? OK, don't be surprised when there is no crop at harvest time.
It's funny how the exact problems you were unprepared to face in life are what you think should be taught in schools to the exclusions of other things.
Love the domain! haha Activities are live yes! Just added in the FAQs for clarity, thanks :)
SSC Tuatara speed record under scrutiny
Earnings calls do have hard questions in them, but you might miss them because they're asked with a big dose of circumlocution.

If you look at the incentives a bit, management gets to decide which analysts can ask questions, so analysts need to stay on management's good side.

Analysts know the company's figures inside and out (often have a 10-tab spreadsheet with an extensive operational model of the company), and are asking questions to tweak key model assumptions.

So analysts ask pointed questions in shared jargon with management. You don't ask 'are you seeing a big sales drop because the crypto bubble blew up?', you say 'can you provide some color on when you excess inventory will clear from the channel?'

Analysts get their answers. Management avoids bad headlines written by casual listeners.

There's an additional layer, which is the analysts know the industry and company very well, so general bad things are already background knowledge (there's no reason to ask about them). If you want to know what the analyst already knows, then pay for their report—they're not reporters fishing for a sound bite.
And that is why i dislike the term "self-driving".

It makes people think "driverless", which "full self-driving" is not.
Marcus Buckingham on the Sources of Resilience
Is the mental model switches between classes, HOC's, and effects really that taxing? Rewriting your code to match the current framework flavor is really less exhausting?
Analysis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3daTG4_JS_4
I've spent more time actually reading the papers and extended data. This statement written above is factually untrue. This procedure does involve needles in the brain. It is invasive. It is surgery. The press writers you quote misunderstood.
How do you know it was a waste? Maybe that was time well spent.
Off the topic, props to Slack for making sure deleted channels stay deleted!
It's useful to imagine this way: When a motor is forced to spin by some external influence, drawing more current out of it on the other end means it has to spin with more torque in order to maintain the same voltage. Here, the generators are connected together to supply power in unison. They must all be in phase with each-other otherwise the out of phase generator will find itself fighting with the other generators, and as beautifully demonstrated here will very violently lose the fight. You could describe this as a very cruel demonstration of destructive interference!
My experience with Qt is with the Python bindings via PyQt and PySide, but I was able to easily work from the C++ documentation which is outstanding. I developed a desktop app and just worked from one of the code examples as a starting point and built the app up from there.

The GUI designer seems pretty capable and I did try it out but I ended up coding everything directly. That's not a mark against QtDesigner, that's happened with every visual GUI design tool I've ever used.
Doesn't require active internrt connection. There is an SMS and credit based fallback for when connectivity is low.

Scanning is better than tapping as it can be done from range.
wegs reminded me experience with Ubuntu. I've started with GNOME, tried XFCE, Openbox, system become brittle and it raised questions like "How to configure WiFi without DE?".

I've switched to Arch Linux, base install covers network configuration. It gave me stable platform, I can grow my knowledge, I can fix my system.

Void Linux and Alpine Linux are just examples of what could match voiced concerns. I lot of people recommend Manjaro, looks like a simple way to try Arch based distro. Some problems stem from upgrading release, Debian Testing could help. But I have not tried them.

I've tried Ubuntu, I don't like distribution upgrades, default theme, constant experiments on users. Gentoo is my first distro, as C++ dev at that time, compilation was fascinating. I still enjoy 3 commands joke [1], looks like it is possible to install binary packages these days. I've tried Alpine, I don't like apk, systemd and glibc are good enough for me. I've tried OpenBSD, hardware support was not as good as on Linux. I'm playing with NixOS but I am so used to Arch.

And I want to stress, each of these system has something I enjoy. It is just me who is driven by minimizing negative points.

[1] http://bash.org/?464385
"it's not an overreaction to say that the CCP has been undermining other countries for decades to gain the upperhand"

That is most certainly an overreaction. One based on projecting the current situation backwards in time. China has been engaging in foreign intervention to widen its influence for, at most, 10 years. 20 years ago, China's GDP was 12% that of the US (hell, Japan's GDP was 4x larger than China then). 30 years ago, it's GDP was just 6% that of the US. China was simply too damn poor to have much global influence. Even today, China's per capita GDP is on par with Mexico, not any developed nation -- it's just a lot lot bigger.

More to the point, its various infrastructure/resource extraction projects are still quite minor in comparison to the existing US/European ones. China has a handful of military/pseudo-military bases outside its borders. The US has bases in dozens of nations.

From a western governmental perspective, the general "problem" with spreading Chinese influence in developing nations is simply that they are not part of the western (read US) hegemony. This is something the modern era has never seen before. Over 100 hundred years of western nations/cultures being without rival is nearing its end and this scares many people in the west. Which is fair enough, the power/influence game is zero-sum, after all.

From western ethical perspective, the problem is that China tends to not give a damn what the governments they ally with do. They seem to have specific goals and outside of those, they don't care. For good or for ill. This strikes some people in the west as unethical. Many westerners seem to feel that other people's would be better off if they adopt western morality. But at the same time, other westerners feel that the west should leave other nations alone -- except when the Chinese behave that way, of course.

All that said, projecting your feelings forward may be more appropriate, IMO. The rivalry between the US (aka "the west") is only going to increase as the Chinese economy (and thus foreign influence) grows. This is mostly based, IMO, on US insecurity about losing its dominant position. But, currently, and for the next decade or two, the US still overshadows China by a huge margin.
I'd like to see consumer-level CPU + GPU + FPGA products that emulators could take advantage of. I'm thinking of floating point math for PS2 right now, but I'm sure there are other examples where an FPGA could be beneficial.
I wonder what a diagram of incentives and responsibilities of a contemporary police force would look like.

In terms of responsibilities, there is actual enforcement of the law, and there is investigating crimes (there maybe more responsibilities too).

A lie-detector would be a part of the "investigating crimes" section. One could argue that it is a "labor-saving device", but a similar argument can be made for it being an "evidence-creation" device. However, both characterizations yield a common concern: the outcome.

What are the outcomes of a criminal investigation?

For each outcome, what are the costs and who pays each cost?
Is that cost the desired cost given the outcome?

True positive

True negative

False positive

False negative

Given we are talking about crimes, there may be more than one way to get to each of the four outcomes above.
I'd worry more about the security of the control plane itself rather than the shared kernel.
For instance Heroku has been doing shared hosting forever, but they are not using a generic control plane.

Even with a vm based runtime bugs in the control plane, from the scheduler up to and including the container bootstrapper, will yield any protection here useless.
Show HN: Remote Compilation for Your Local Build
Hola HN,

I have been working on project called Stormy (https://stormyapp.com) since last few weeks. It's a CLI tool which picks up the local code changes from the system and compiles them over a extremely high powered remote server.

It runs the compiled app on your local device using the remote ADB. It exposes a URL for the web apps that can be accessed to see the changes.

Please take a look at the project and let me know what you think. If anyone is interested to try it out, comment below. I will share the details with you.
Side question.

How many/which companies have more than one million Linux machines?
Abstracto – Abstract Minimalistic Wallpaper App
> just a fancy and expensive autocomplete

It may be, but there's a lot in that fancy. If it were 'just' an autocomplete we'd all be using markov chains for our dumb chatbots like we were in the 2000s
I think the argument is not that other people's emotions are wrong or nonexistant, but that different cultures assume different behaviors in regards to those emotions. Responses to the different emotions are culturally coded, hence there is no "correct" way to respond to an emotion. Just because someone feels a certain way does not imply or entitle them to a certain kind of treatment.

I'm not trying to apologize for ultra-masculine culture, but this epistemic argument about the presence or absence of emotions boils down to "their culture is not my culture" and just increases the divisions between those cultures and accelerates the culture war.

In the end - if what you actually cared about was people being uncomfortable you'd think through the economic, social and technical structures that make them feel uncomfortable. IMO, it has overwhelmingly to do with naive adoption of technology, with PC culture being a way for those who benefit from this adoption to cope with the negative results of that adoption.
Among Us games.

That's the honest truth :P
Norvig is not an idiot, and one of the humblest and nicest people I've ever met. A lot of people were wrong about ANNs.
Intel: Replace thermal compound “every few years”
Another part of the difficulty with updating servers is that updates are rather opaque. My own software on any given server is maybe 0.1% of all the software running on it (if even that). The other 99.9% is someone else's code: the operating system, the software runtime, the libraries, etc. So one doesn't really have a lot of insight into what is about to happen to the server without running a duplicate setup, which as you point out is pretty difficult to get right. I'm sure NASA has much more visibility into all the software that is running on their spacecraft.
I don't use FPGAs (tooling is too poor, languages are bad, up-front costs are high) but I hang out on FPGA forums and the overwhelming consensus has been bad. Chipmakers and especially high-performance chipmakers have always been focused on high-volume and/or high-margin customers, but the Intel acquisition has made Altera worse in that regard. Their sales and support teams were integrated into Intel and now you can't get any support from them whatsoever even if you spend $MM/yr. You need to funnel even basic questions and bug reports through a distributor contact to have any chance. I forget the specifics but they made tooling even more restrictive/expensive. The only new products out of it are a few Xeons with built-in FPGA ($$$$$), good for HFT guys I guess.
Hard to say, knowing the cost of a new process could have informed a new design or requirements. We don’t know what the other path held. But I believe in general having more information allows us to make better decisions so this is a good act.
We believe this is a major pain point for companies! Organizing activities, allocation of budget, activity votations, invoicing, permissions, etc.

Working towards a dashboard for teams to manage this is now top priority! If anyone wants to collaborate for the alpha feel free o ping me on twitter. Thanks!
I appreciated it becausecause youtube-twitter didn't rejiggle their entire websites. They deployed obfuscation on a video-by-video basis depending on the content of the video. A new CNN video on wildfires wouldn't get it, but a slightly older video on [insert political topic] would get the newest version of obfuscation (and require an update). This allowed users to identify the particular topics that the tech giants where most interested in suppressing.
Nice to hear it's not getting left behind, but funny how the post doesn't mention it when talking about Rhi then, but only the shiny new toys.
Are you just dumbing down humans to match the model? LeCunn's post is very sparse on detail, but the point is that humans can easily reason about a vast number of things that any form of sequential language model cannot. That alone is evidence that humans are doing something qualitatively different.

It isn't conclusive evidence however, and larger models may produce significantly more human like results. But from what we know about how gpt-3 works, all the evidence is on the side of it not resembling human intelligence.
At the risk of reigniting the perpetual war about how to characterize machine intelligence, and by extension how to characterize the risk they pose, Yann has been (and still is AFAIK) more in the "existential AI risk is a long-term problem" group. In a 2016 interview LeCun said [1]:

> We’re very far from having machines that can learn the most basic things about the world in the way humans and animals can do. Like, yes, in particular areas machines have superhuman performance, but in terms of general intelligence we’re not even close to a rat. This makes a lot of questions people are asking themselves premature. . That’s not to say we shouldn’t think about them, but there’s no danger in the immediate or even medium term. There are real dangers in the department of AI, real risks, but they’re not Terminator scenarios.

That's pretty measured overall, but he doesn't know that there's no existential AI risk in the medium term. No one does, and that's the problem. Experts simply suspect that it's unlikely. Stuart Russell and him have debated similar topics [2].

To tie back to your point: I keep seeing LeCun brush over tricky questions like yours and the ones at [2] with an arrogant confidence. I wish that he would be more careful, and I hope that I have a skewed view of him.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/26/16552056/a-intelligence-...

[2] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WxW6Gc6f2z3mzmqKs/debate-on-...
Scanning the Python Package Index for Typosquatters – Found Malware
Yes, if you ignore the actual text of the law anything can be DMCAd. But if you read the law you learn that the scope of 1201 is quite limited.
I use Safari and Firefox nearly exclusively. There is the odd page I use chrome for due to compatibility issues, but for the most part I really prefer the former two. I, on a daily basis, have 4-7 Safari windows (work and new home-hunting) with tabs open all over the place as well as a Firefox full screen with another series of tabs (personal tasks). Never any problems.
It's not the case for Google, obviously, but sticking random adverts in prominent places in a desperate attempt to increase revenue is the sort of thing web businesses do immediately before they go bust, and this has exactly the same optics to me.
Interactive API documentation using Swagger UI deployed with Terraform
Introducing Pro1 X: Official LineageOS Android Phone by XDA
>.012% IFR for people < 35 years old

Thanks for running those numbers.

I wonder if you and I would disagree on the significance of the .012% IFR that you calculated?

I started a reply with some feedback, mentioning one of the t-cell studies showing that several times as many people may have immunity than you are showing [0], and also that somewhere between 80-95% of the dead in the < 35 age group had comorbidities [1], which improves the odds a lot if you don't have comorbidities.

But even using your < 35 numbers, .012% is about 1 in 8000 odds of dying after infection, and I don't see that as statistically significant (EDIT: corrected wording).

I guess the reason I say this is that I would not want 6-18 months of my social and/or economic life to be upended by something that only has a 1 in 8,000 chance of happening.

I'm running on worse odd than that, being over 35. I take some precautions, and want to be considerate to those more worried about their odds, but I'd much rather not give up a large percentage of the precious time I have left in this world hiding from something that has less than a one in a thousand chance happening to me.

Rather than quibble over numbers I'm curious if you interpret the same numbers differently? Do you think 1 in 8000 is statistically significant?

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2598-9

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se...
Through Oct 29, so looks to be a temporary marketing play?