skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So that probably isn't the cause.

It looks like diversion, at least to me, whether pointed out or not.

> I've never seen so many throwaways appear out of nowhere before.

I have seen it many times on radioactive topics. Some people don’t like to discuss under their extremely traceable accounts, especially if they’re close to the subject in question (resides in the country, works at the company, etc.), where it may lead to undesirable consequences.

Anyway, a mod should be able to connect the throwaway to my main identity easily.
WhatsApp Says It Won't Lobotomize Accounts That Refuse Privacy Policy Update
> No, every FTL construction can be used to violate causality.

Not necessarily, compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novikov_self-consistency_princ...
Plexiglass Barriers Are Everywhere, but They’re Probably Useless – Reason.com
From 2008 to 2012 a friend and I spent at least 2 - 3 times per week obsessively 'running track' in the Paris metro.

It's definitely one of the most interesting systems in the world, with a lot of hidden secrets. Despite years of systematic exploration, and having walked the length of the entire system, we were still finding artefacts.

For the interested, in my opinion the most complete writeups of the system was written by my exploring partner.

http://web.archive.org/web/20130513204844/http://www.sleepyc...
Yes, but you can't observer other people's consciousness, only infer it. This is a problem when it comes to animals, infants, intelligent machines and coma patients. Or aliens if we ever made contact.
> I wish you would lower yourself to talk specifically and materially about the claims that you're supporting

You mean the links I put in the original comment? They are here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27324119
> Not just schools, this should be taught to everybody.

Doesn’t everybody, at least in the US, go to school. By law?
Everyone posting about $CURRENT_POLITICAL_ISSUE is not a great way to learn about the world, especially when they have no idea of what's actually happening and just post to feel good or be part of something. It's also way too biased for current US things. I don't need to see people talking about California fires for a month, and never ever hear about what's happening in my country. This is not "learning about the world", this is just a new flavor of the US cultural hegemony.
I recommend the Missing & Murdered / Finding Cleo podcast series on the subject:
https://solutionsmedia.cbcrc.ca/fr/emissions/missing-murdere...
Slight bit of complexity there, THC-A usually needs to be decarboxylated into THC via heating to a certain temperature before infusion or the resulting butter is pretty mild.
I have absolutely heard people describe themselves that way who were within the US.
AndroidEnv – The Android Learning Environment
> Additional reasons for me included visa uncertainty

> I moved to the US in 2006

So that very likely means Brendan continued to be on visa by choice? Given AU has dual citizenship that's certainly an interesting choice to not pursue US permanent residency or citizenship, former of which would have addressed the visa issue and latter the voting rights. (However, this would have still left open the dual taxation issue which can be a substantial problem for high earners.)

Anyway it's 2021 and remote work has come farther along and one should work wherever they like. The pandemic helped fix the trust issue and remote work is more or less going to be a norm going forward.
Despite the Universal Service Fund paying for decades, some $8 billion a year to telcos (plus more coming from Pai's FCC work) yet rural broadband is still far from universal. Those CFO's had a huge head start and a golden subsidy still arriving daily. They still aren't touching rural.
Is it appropriate to ask an on-topic but naive question?

It seems as a layman that safer and more legible AI would come from putting neural networks inside of a more 'old-fashioned AI' framework - layers of control loops, decision trees etc based on the output of the black box AI. So at least if your robot crashes or whatever, the computer vision output is in some legible intermediate form and the motion is tractable to traditional analysis.

This can't be an original thought, it must already be done to a large extent. But I get the impression that the way things are going is to get the trained model to 'drive' the output, for whatever the application is. Can someone with current industry knowledge comment?
> This glitch caused a single image to be lost, but more importantly, it resulted in all later navigation images being delivered with inaccurate timestamps.

It was not a single lost frame which caused this issue. The issue was that the glitch then corrupted the timestamp accuracy of the frames that followed. I guess the dropped frame was just a symptom, maybe an initial memory corruption or something like that.

But it was not the fact that the frame dropped and that this missing piece of information then had the negative effects.
Based on some of the comments, I presume there were invaluable lessons, and there are brilliant things to come from this venture (not in the form of Loon, LLC). There were also some painful lessons and not so pleasant things from this project. Regardless, this effort and “moonshots” as they call them are better than not testing at all. “The only right answer is test.”
> when an institution is given power over children, more than that of a family, and the auditing is lax, you're gonna get maltreatment

I don't follow your logic leap. You exampled a lot of incidents with institutions but that only, in the best case advocates for institutions being nasty, not family, because it doesn't account for abuse within a family context. Is it quantifiably greater in institutions? We can't answer that by the information provided.
I'm starting to flag medium content now as I cannot read things anymore. They're paywalling me and I can't be asked to login or pay or whatever they want from me.
I personally have been using LastPass since it came out. I am much more secure than if I didn't use LastPass. A friend loved trying to break into my accounts for fun so I feel like I was a much more secure person just for stupid reasons. (It really was a game and nothing he did was nefarious)

Companies that use password managers are infinitely better off with one then without. My co-workers would repeat their passwords and make them incredibly simple and easy for anyone to break the it with basic social hacking. My old company had the lowest level of tech skills and the company contracted their IT work and had the stupidest password policy. You just had to change one digit. So the joke was people would just +1 their passwords and they would know how long they worked there.

Repeated passwords is something people do because we all have hundreds of passwords if they don't have a password manager. Even me and my paranoid ways had several because I had to use a system that was based on the url of what I using.
Hi! I am the author of this post. I think that taking the user to `www.foobar.com` when he/she typed `foobar` does violate the expectations for most users. All browsers which I've used take the user to their selected search engine. Most people outside of HN do not know that what they type in that search bar would be visible to anyone listening on the wire.
This 1000 times. Any news org trying to invoke an emotional response should be treated as toxic. Get what important details you can from the article and move on. I don’t want AI to tell me what’s true, I want AI to remove the author’s bias.
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Status Code Registry
Yes it is, this product is CNC cut from carbon fiber sheets, and it was a real pain getting the fitting slots dailed in correctly, the cutting tool wears out quickly making de diameter smaller and the tolerance higher.
Disinformation Ops Affected Integrity of Democratic Elections in Latin America
Most people realize they can hurt themselves if they use a hammer wrong. If someone can be expected to put four years of their life into a degree or prepatory trade training they can be held accountable for not caring enough to spend 10 minutes reading about effective use of their password manager.
Unless I'm missing something, Twitter does support lists?
You could hardly have more prior art if you tried to patent tacking a sailboat.
Monitoring Exploits and References for CVEs
The Renfe stations are still there, but rather uninteresting - empty concrete cut and cover affairs. The Barcelona metro does have a few abandoned stations. They also have the mosos police, which wage violent war against graffers, making 'innocent exploration' a high stakes game.
In two words: “thoughtful” and “good-faith”. Content should be interesting and thoughtful rather than optimizing for clicks (obviously this isn’t compatible with an ad-based model). Dialog should be civil, charitable, kind, etc and strong norms for objectivity and neutrality. Low tolerance for overt ideological advocacy, authoritarian rhetoric, flame baiting, etc.

That’s “what it should look like”. To get there, I expect it’s “establish the right norms from the start and incentivize the right content and behaviors along the way”. To monetize, I don’t know and I don’t especially care.
There’s a pretty common four word slogan called “Loud pipes save lives” - if you look out for it you’ll start to see it everywhere, bumper stickers, tshirts, etc. Its somewhat controversial and not widely accepted by all motorcycle riders.
I agree - it seems that all social media platforms suffer from this. Original/useful content seems to lose out in the battle for user engagement. I wonder if you could create a new type of social media platform that overcomes this problem?
> Consciousness is merely the capacity of the brain to keep track of everything that's happening and adapting behaviour.

Problem comes in when you take into account color, sound, pain, etc. How does the brain keeping track of itself produce conscious sensations? They're not coming in as such from the outside world. It's just EM radiation, vibrations in the air, molecular motion on the skin, etc. Our nervous system turns that noise into sensations.

It's easy to see this problem when you think of how you might go about making a conscious robot. A sophisticated robot can keep track of its sensory inputs and adapt its behavior. But what would you add to turn that into colors and sounds and feels?
Educated voters’ leftward shift is surprisingly old and international
Was a flying killer robot used in Libya? Quite possibly
The residential school are a very sad state of affairs with regards to the thinning down of the aboriginal stance and culture in Canada before, during and after the Dominion.

My country has had a very bad holier than thou attitude with regards to history and culture.

In typical aboriginal kickassness, the Ktunaxa took one of those residential schools and turned it into a luxury golfing resort for the rich gentile folks to enjoy, pay for, and be reminded of history.

"About Us, Culture and Heritage | St. Eugene Resort" https://www.steugene.ca/en/about-us-culture-heritage/

Fun Canadian conundrum with regards to the aboriginal divide. One of our National heros named Louis Riel was a metis man known as a fighter of aboriginal rights during the dominium of Canada. In all of english Canada, he is presented as a man consumed with mental illness fighting along side the natives, whereas in Quebec, which is francophone and healthily feuding with the anglos on all sides, Mr Riel is presented as a franco hero without any mentions of mr Riel's illness and our country's treatment of the man and his condition. Mr Riel saw himself as the gods next prophet, and went into the british/Canadian courts, after killing a british general, convinced that god would reveil him to the world as the next prophet. That did not work out.
It's a social ponzi scheme...
I second this. As someone who used to do iOS dev with autolayout, then switched to React Native/web, autolayout is way more powerful.

IMO platforms should consider implementing autolayout, and from autolayout other simpler layout systems (e.g. flexbox) can easily be implemented and used when the full power of autolayout isn’t needed.

Considering autolayout has been used for iOS layout for a long time performance seems not to be an issue (with native, not JS, implementations), even though it may seem more complicated (constraint solving).
Per the grandpost:

> Twitter recently introduced topics, so that you can follow one topic that aggregates lots of tweets from various people. This is not what I want: I’d like to follow @JohnSmith, but only for the JS content.
> it's not polite to call out BS

But it's perfectly fine to spew BS if you do it politely. The "politeness" weapon has been used on me many times
You can probably make 100M out of 40k with a single trade just by being lucky and holding while the gigantic crypto bubble is being blown up. But this story isn't over yet and for every lucky idiot like OP there are thousands who lose everything.
Beautiful thang, straight out of Akira.
It's more that the comment is missing the point of the grandparent.

Having worked across a lot of cultures, it's easy to spot how ignorant it is. And ignorance is fine but the poster is trying to decide how people Should Have Acted when they're clearly not in a place to really know that.
Hi! I am the author of this post. Thanks a lot for your feedback! I hope to make it public very soon.
I have never heard of anyone from Western Europe having to do anything out of the ordinary to attend, say, a team meeting or a conference in the US. And, in the other direction, I have never done anything in the other direction aside from maybe China. No immigration officer has ever cared in the slightest that I was attending a conference or business meetings.
For the naming institution, the prospect that the eponymous person would be found to have done something dreadful is probably a bigger worry.

(Nothing remotely against Dr Perlmutter whom I know nothing about. It just seems we live in a scandal-filled age).
Imagine the horror of seeing two men walking holding hands because they are just friends. Many cultures have it where adult male friends hold hands and it just means that.
If you don't plan to sell access to your search engine, having it open source means people can help you improve it. Open source is also better to get initial users (who will come from here, Reddit, etc. mostly technical people who care about software being open source).
This kind of thing gets angled as a feel good story by the very same people who would call a judge out on letting some kid with rich parents off easy even though such a person would have a higher likelihood of becoming a lawyer.
Yeah I didn't mention that in the interest of brevity. Decarb is definitely necessary.
I’ve learned, can’t say if mistakenly or not, that if an American/Brit really expects you to answer, they will say “Are you OK?”
Child abuse and neglect by parents is also something that exists. It’s easy to see problems, but context and improvements are much more difficult. The US removed sanitariums due to serious issues, but the situation didn’t improve instead dumping the mentality ill into the prison and homeless populations.

Currently the US use foster homes rather than orphanages, but is it a better system, just different, or worse simply a more efficient way to hide problems? That’s the kind of analysis that’s difficult yet essential for actual improvement.
Kafta gave his personal diary to his publisher just before he died. He made him promise he would destroy it. Guess what happened :)
Wolf Warriors Killed China’s Grand Strategy
Libraries (the putative repositories of this data) have also done more than their share in destroying it:

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-doubl...
Frequency block auctions have no negative impact for customers.

[0]https://web.archive.org/web/20160613172732/http://blogs.z24....

(Apologies for the Dutch source, Google Translate doesn't seem able to translate the entire page so you'll manually have to do it).
Can't lie. That Byron Bay scene looks pretty chill ;)
The average family doesn't have a child buried in their yard. So yes I think we can say with confidence these institutions were and are quantifiably worse.
Do you know how to clear the cache inside of a running Postgres instance? All of the articles online say to just restart the db, but that isn’t feasible in some cases I’ve come across, such as when trying to do testing against a remote db spun up to test against more prod like data. Like you said the query perf against a cold cache vs. something that has had a lot of rows loaded into the shared buffed can be quite different!
TL;DR

Unless it's amusing Russians do not smile;
NHS calls for ban on toy neodymium magnets amid child safety fears
Black Swan author: An employee is basically an “obedient, housebroken dog.”
How do salaries compare in Sydney vs the US if you're at a competitive company?

If you knew a talented and ambitious programmer early in their career in Australia would you recommend they stay or move abroad?
It's useful to know what the ranges are in your location.

I never got a job through it though, real life networking and personal connections generally yield higher salary opportunities than recruiter-sourced ones (if you're planning to stay outside of FAANG)
Retired Parisian graffiti writer, here.

The parent article does a good job at explaining the whys and hows.

For the stations that where actually open at some point, it was mainly a matter of optimization: new hubs being built, profitability, etc. The end of WWII has been the turning point for most them.

Porte des Lilas was a prototype station repurposed for shooting movies in a controlled environment.

Haxo was part of a failed project to connect two lines. It was never officially opened so we, locals, don't really consider it as a station.

The buff between Place d'Italie and Corvisart has never been a station. It's more of a curiosity than anything.

Not mentioned in the article are the former end-station of line 5 at Gare du Nord, now a training ground for metro drivers, Arsenal on line 5, Porte Maillot on line 1, and Molitor, which was never even connected to the surface.

I am not sure how popular the ghost stations of the métro, the prohibited sections of the catacombs, and the "petite ceinture" are with today's teens but they made Paris a gigantic interconnected playground back in the 80s/90s.
> Does any of you have a time machine at hand? Both me and my wife would like to tell him how much we love him, and hear his great stories one last time.

I don't but he knew you loved him. People who have introspection after losing someone usually are great at telling people. I have lost people which is why I do and tell people how I feel about them.
Thank god they put some effort in making the licenses as unfriendly as possible (GPL 3.0) to protect all that good work.
I dumped lastpass when they started forcing free accounts to choose between desktop and mobile. I had been considering paying for a family account, but trying to force me to do it by removing features was unacceptable. Because of this, lastpass will never see a dime from me and another company will have the opportunity to serve me.
Like rats off a sinking ship...
Your point is fair.

Your communication metadata, your choices, you age, gender, location, and many other things are indeed products of companies like Facebook. But in a way, you are, too. Because the mere presence of yours draws some other people to that platform.

And celebrities who are famous outside of social media, are definitely more products themselves rather than the data associated with them.

On the other hand, on dating apps like Tinder, you yourself are the product in addition to any other information they might monetize in numerous ways.
it is possible to use twitter in a nice way.

twitter is also a cesspool that is destroying the world.

both can be true
Quantization and Deployment of Deep Neural Networks on Microcontrollers
Last I looked into this, the whole single focus vs multitasking gender split was a complete urban myth with no scientific background whatsoever. Do you happen to know of any studies to back this?
For me seeing pictures of what friends far away are up to, a la facebook, is actually pretty nice. And twitter is best when a quick thought is linked to a more in-depth article or post. Plus news links to some objective source. And no promoted content. I'm not holding my breath.
I wonder if the DM folks realize that even if the study is high quality and reliable, the fact that DM leaked it first just ads confusion to the whole issue (because of how low-quality the DM is…)
I unfollow everyone on LinkedIn and only see updates from the companies I follow. It would be great if they supported "Unfollow All" natively instead of having to mess with JS.
It's a little hard to tell because these new sites (well, law.com is down, so I can't tell) don't link to actual court rulings or patents.

But based on this article of the original complaint (https://www.theverge.com/2016/6/15/11945318/google-project-l...), I am guessing that the patent in question (on the Space Data side) is https://patents.google.com/patent/US6628941?oq=6%2c628%2c941

The patent is not "just for" the use of this method, the patent is for a system that makes use of this method for the purpose of creating a lighter than air communications network of nodes that operating in predetermined altitude ranges with no lateral positioning control. (specifically, look at claim 40 on page 28, and claim 1 on page 26).

(Not defending the patent... just throwing more context).

I mean, it also looks like this patent is expired now...
Permanent residency does not address voting rights in the slightest. Permanent residents may not vote in federal elections or most state elections, and despite a proposal to allow voting in the New York City mayoral election made at the start of 2020, it does not appear to be the case even for that.

Remote work is indeed the new norm though.
This seems a very complicated approach. I'd imagine for most US citizens just declaring their income on the US return and not bothering with any foreign returns / declarations / taxes would cover things.
That's not what the article claims. It claims Russians laugh when something is funny, and that's not the case.

And - plenty of Russians smile during casual interactions with people they don't know personally.
How to End a Pitch Deck Presentation
The average institute also doesnt have children buried in the yard. Your conclusion isnt logical.
Making a Career
> I believe it's more like a Red Queen race, meaning that as soon as you increase the average education of potential employees, companies will equally raise their requirements.

Competition is always the way these things get tied to absolute metrics and not relative ones. If people can be made more productive by giving them skills, they would be worth paying more. If you underpay employees and pocket too much of the value they produce, then a competitor can come along underpay a bit less but still make a profit, and hire away your employees.
>>www.linkedin.com##div[class^="feed-shared-update"]

Drop this one. Breaks linkedin for me
A mix of disease, medical neglect, fire, malnourishment, physical abuse, suicide, murder, and exposure while attempting escape.

Ethnic cleansing is a horrifying business.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/newly-discovered-b-c-gr...