skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you even driven a sports car? Tesla has a fast acceleration it doesn’t drive or handles anything like a sports car or even a high performance sedan/saloon.

The closest thing to a “sporty” driving experience is probably the Taycan but whilst you can feel some Porsche in it, it doesn’t drive like a traditional Porsche either, it doesn’t even drive like the Panamera which is the closest ICE Porsche to the Taycan in terms of size and weight.

Tesla has still quite a bit to go with suspension, handling, steering and other driving characteristics before it can deliver a sports car driving experience, yet alone a Porchse or an BMW M series/Alpina.

The Mach-E also delivers nothing in terms of driving experience that is even remotely comparable to a Mustang, even given how wimpy many of the Mustang models have been lately.
"Architecting" ... you see, us software people don't design things. We're not working with construction, where architects design buildings. We're software people, we architect software. There's no design, just architecting. If you need to design an architecture, you architect, and while you're doing that, you're architecting, since you're an architect.

I am frankly surprised that there are not more noun/verb overloading examples in our field. Once you've verb'ed architect while also using it as a noun, every similar process seems like small potatoes. Or maybe it's just "architecture" that's odd. For example, "implementor(s)", "implement", "implementation". No problems there. Somehow, the thing that architects do ("design" or "design architecture") got lost, and we verb'ed it.
Illegal by Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin isnt sci-fi or fantasy but it tells the story of a young boy trying to emigrate to Europe

https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19751970W/Illegal
>>I can’t fathom anyone who couldn’t be bothered to wear one for a couple months longer.

Because the quality of life given up is not worth the risk mitigation. If a child has a 0.00006% chance of dying each month they are not masked (30 deaths / 50,000,000 children aged 5-17), and wearing a mask for most of the school day reduces their quality of life by 5%, they are giving up 0.00417 (1 yr / 12 * 0.05) quality-adjusted life years to gain 0.000045 (0.0000006 risk of death × 75 years lost if they die) life years.

The cost, in life years, is approximately 100X the benefit, in mitigating risk of death.

And this is assuming masks reduce the risk of death by 100%, and don't exacerbate other risks of death (e.g. less development of communication skills, leading to less lifetime income and lower life expectancy). The real ratio, in terms of cost vs benefit, could be 1,000X.
As it should. It was an abject failure. Public military defeat cannot be spun away.
The ability to sideload APKs is the single thing I appreciate most about Android vs iPhone. I don't use it often; the main app I sideload is Mendhak's GPS Logger. (He finally gave up trying to comply with the Google Play Store's changing restrictions on location trackers.) But it's nice to be able to install the software I choose to on my phone without having to have Apple or Google's approval.

Unlike iOS there's no complicated jailbreak required, I can't remember if you even have to enable developer mode (an easy supported thing). And there's a reasonable ecosystem of safe alternative app stores. F-Droid mostly, APKMirror also comes in handy for things that have disappeared.

I understand the value of a curated app store. I get the benefit of that too on Android! But it's nice to have an override in the cases it's needed.
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Tesla does not offer a vehicle that does not require human drivers (not even momentarily). Tesla's autopilot and FSD systems are both SAE Level 2, which means the human is still in operation of the vehicle at all times. All of Tesla's driving assistance technologies require a human to monitor operation of the vehicle and intervene if necessary. The fact that they have given anyone an impression otherwise is problematic.

https://www.sae.org/binaries/content/gallery/cm/articles/pre...
Check the source material. Here's the suit: https://www.classaction.org/media/cottle-et-al-v-plaid-inc.p....

The relevant section is on pg 16, under the heading "Plaid Sells and Otherwise Exploits the Unlawfully-Obtained Private Data".

The suit alleges that "Plaid has admitted that it routinely sells the consumer banking data it collects. At a minimum, Plaid sells the data it obtains from consumers’ accounts back to the very app providers,
including the Participating Apps, who use its services. [40] Plaid calibrates its prices based on the
type of information being sold. [41]".

Footnotes 40 and 41 are, respectively:

[40] See Feb. 21, 2017 Response by Plaid to CFPB’s RFI, https://plaid.com/documents/PlaidConsumer-Data-Access-RFI-Te... (Plaid acknowledges to CFPB that it
sells data to party “permissioned” by consumer).

[41] See Feb. 2019 interview with Zach Perret, https://www.saastr.com/build-a-platformecosystem/.

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IANAL. The suit alleges that Plaid sells the data, with the specific proof that Plaid sells data to the authorized app (Paypal or Venmo in your example above). The plaintiffs do provide proof in the suit that Plaid sells the data to third parties, but suggest that Plaid might, since they already sell the data to the app that users authorized.

At risk of misrepresenting their argument, the suit seems to claim that Plaid doesn't do enough to give consumers (think average non-tech savvy person) enough of a heads up on what's happening behind the scenes. According to the suit, a consumer using Plaid doesn't understand that they give banking credentials to a third party (Plaid), which uses the credentials and "sells" data to the app that is being connected to the bank.

The above seems consistent to what the Plaid CTO wrote. I haven't seen anything that indicates Plaid sells your data to unrelated third parties. That said, I agree with the suit - Plaid should do a better job of making it clear exactly how your banking information is going to be used.
Google juniors are more like £40k in london.
Jobs over £100k are not the norm, even in finance in london.
The awful london housing market (small market, people do NOT sell) starts around £320k for a terrible studio.
Banks nowaways tend to loan around 4-4.5x gross salary. (And you need a good chunk already saved, which is also hard as tax and rent is high)

£100k salary doesn't buy an average 1 bed in london (and you're competing against at least 4 cash buyers)

As someone who recently left london, the story checks out.
Many common wifi APs (eg TP-link EAP225) will allow you to create separate wifi networks on different VLANs. You can use this to isolate internet of shit devices onto their own networks where they can’t talk to your other devices, without increasing your hardware costs or causing wifi interference.

You’ll need a router/firewall and an AP that are both VLAN-aware. I personally use an EAP225 and some eBay industrial PC running freebsd.
I don't know if this actually makes things better or worse - I do it in the hope I can shut down spam by removing a compromised address - but I try very hard to use a different email address for every business I purchase from.

You don't always have to provide a phone number, either. Most of the time yes, but I don't think the phone number is actually required to complete a credit card transaction.

There also used to be credit providers - maybe there still are? - that would let you generate a new card number for each purchase. That too may accomplish nothing from a tracking perspective, since the credit provider would be able to match up all the numbers. But, if I had that capability, I would use it.
It does make sense. You're confusing corporate liability with personal liability. The parent's point is that if the investors / shareholders would be responsible. Stuff like this would be severely reduced because resources would be allocated to prevent it. Right now, the only damage is a financial one. And as long as the damage is lower than the cost of prevention, hacks like this will continue to happen.
Everything wrong with statistics (and how to fix it)
I'll tell ya whats next, VR Blockchain for Bees!
"..most accidents happen in city driving where autopilot cannot be activated so the with."

Yes it can. The only time it can't be activated is if there is no clearly marked center line.
>Pretty sure my number was leaked in some breach.

Why do spammers need leaked phone numbers? Can't they just call/message every number?
I thought this was a fascinating page that simply shows the history of anti-vaccination. It started right at the beginning and has never gone away.

Interesting that ethics and public discourse (or lack thereof) can trigger the most adverse reactions. Make me think that the medical profession may need to do a better job at transparency and communication.
That’s the video I was hoping for!
Regarding the ACLU specifically, that's been my impression in the past. For example, their defense of Westoboro Baptist Church during the Bush era.
I still think getting into one of these topics in-depth would be more interesting. Like this one:

> Nintendo are renowned for their titles and IPs, but their games are far from innovative at times, and their prices are not competitive in the slightest.

They aren't priced competitively, yet they are incredibly successful (depending on the decade). Could other companies, especially indie devs, price their products similarly? I'm no game dev, but I assume it doesn't feel great to sell your game for $0.99 on Steam.
Agreed. Allow me to be skeptical, but I find it hard to believe that less than 4000 lines of NetLogo are going to accurately model a system as complex as bee ecosystems.

I say this as someone who has spent many years writing ecosystem models for schools (some of them with NetLogo). Toy models often require more than that to be useful.

You'll have a set of assumptions. You'll have a number of formulae that you can individually say there is experimental evidence they roughly models reality, if everything else is held constant. But you almost certainly do not have the experimental evidence to say that when these six formulae are interacting together, they will behave in known, deterministic ways.

The paper does not appear to show any applications where researchers were able to predict something novel using the simulation, test it in the real world, and see how well it matched the results. Their "results" (if I'm interpreting correctly) appear to be mostly summarized in figure 3, which seems to be created by trying different settings until the model very, very roughly matched some historical dataset. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
Didn't Settlers III abandon the routing by roads and flagposts? The little guys still go from building to building, but you don't set any roads or route markers beyond that.

I haven't played any of the games after the third one so I don't know what kinds of changes they've made past that, but Settlers III definitely did away with the roads-and-flags routing.
Been playing this for years - it's brilliant
Iirc the ebay thing was yet another way to fingerprint you to re-identify fraudulent account creators.
1. short company

2. hire cyber-mercenaries to hack company

3. ???

4. profit
Nothing is free. The energy input of this system is the time-value of the coins in payments waiting to be buried by succeeding blocks. It's kind of like proof-of-stake, but the stakers are the transactors themselves.
The obvious follow up question, after they ran the credit report, why do they continue to store your SSN.

They are not periodically running credit checks. If they were, then people with active credit monitoring would be notified, even for "soft" checks.
Raja Koduri is Intel’s lead architect for their new product line; prior to this he was the lead of the Radeon Technologies Group at AMD, successfully delivering Polaris, Vega and Navi. Navi is AMD’s current GPU product architecture.

Things seem promising at this stage.
The amount of unwanted calls has skyrocketed this last year. I was forced to automatically reject calls that weren't in my contacts. Anyone important already can email or message me.

Big email providers are very good at filtering spam, so if enough people blocks calls, the only spam venue left would be instant messaging.
One thing worth noting about Subaru's approach to this that is specifically relevant to bumper-to-bumper traffic, is that it will stop by itself, but it won't start moving by itself - the driver needs to tap the accelerator for that. It will warn you when the car in front starts moving, though.
Ethical Hacking: Password Cracking with Python
> “ Before the April contract award, NASA had handed out nearly $1 billion in concept development contracts – with SpaceX receiving $135 million, Dynetics $253 million, and Blue Origin receiving $579 million.”

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/16/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-takes...

BO took a ton of money during the first round. Now the execs are pissed they weren’t awarded the contract. It seems BO just didn’t submit a compelling proposal and now they are using scorched earth behavior to get their way in court. It’s a shame because the BO team is being humiliated by the execs with their bullying antics. I have a huge amount of respect for the BO team. I KNOW they are really good and care a lot about the mission and space exploration. Too bad about the execs…
and Beyond All Reason, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28201265

Zero-K is at https://zero-k.info/
While I love Total Annihilation and Supreme Commander, I never took to Planetary Annihilation.

I think the problem was that they worried too much about making it Twitch-friendly and forgot to, you know, create a fun game.
Just because the problem is that cost of compromise < cost of security, the solution is not to raise the cost of compromise to infinity. That’s treating it in a very black and white, binary way. It also increases the incentive to spend more on covering up any compromise.
Honestly, I've been guilty of treating much of the last year as a loading screen. At times I've been hyper-focussed on doing that lovely personal development we're all supposed to do when cooped up alone at home, and at others just pissing around making cocktails and talking shite with my friends over social media.

So basically what I'm saying is - "same" :D
I've used Anki every day for almost a year now for Spanish vocabulary. My deck has over 4000 cards. Most are one-to-one translations of nouns and verbs, but some are phrases and Spanish idioms.

To your first point, it has basically become a habit for me. The key is to really commit to it for the first several weeks and establish the habit, then you won't feel tired of it as reviewing your cards daily becomes something you "just do".

Definitely agree with point 2. The Anki practice really shines when I combine it with my conversational practice. Memorizing the words alone doesn't make me a better speaker, but it does mean there's a lot fewer "what's the word?" moments in the middle of a conversation.

I believe Anki memorization + regular conversational practice is second only to full immersion as the best learning strategy.
So isn't the solution here to up the penalties, specifically with codified minimums ($X per leaked phone number, $Y for leaked SSN, etc)? The corporate death penalty would end up hurting the consumers significantly more than this method, which would primarily hurt the share/debt-holders, which is the intent. Corporate dissolution seems like a concern when fraud or malfeasance is specifically involved.

For context, I'm very likely in this breach, but it wouldn't make me any happier to hear T-Mobile was shut-down tomorrow.
I don’t know what your partner/family situation is - I feel like I could easily wind down my spending and comfort level, but I don’t want to put my partner through that. I think in most cases this is the constraining factor
A lot of people fear losing their money more than they fear death. I think corporate capital punishment, in theory, could work. The other side of that coin, however, is the number of people put out of work if that were to happen.

Either way, there needs to be far stiffer penalties levied against companies who don't secure their systems better and lose sensitive customer data.
There will be a licensing agreement, of course.

(Napoleon Dynamite 'Gawd!')
Give Lingvist a shot (commercial, but there is a free trial).
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Mexico too. Before the pandemic I had a few spam calls a month, but now there were days when I received 20-50 from a misconfigured call center automatic caller.

It forced me to silence all calls from strangers. We have laws and a system to block and report spam callers, but it seems they don't work anymore.
Alone: The decline of the family has unleashed an epidemic of loneliness (2019)
Context from wikipedia:

"The Global Times is a daily tabloid newspaper under the auspices of the Chinese Communist Party's flagship People's Daily newspaper, commenting on international issues from a nationalistic perspective."

That said, I guess the fact that TSMC (and a lot of other hardware companies) are located in Taiwan is an argument that it's a more important strategic partner to the US than Afghanistan.
I agree with the principle of raising the cost of compromise, but disagree with your proposal of raising it to infinity (which is effectively what happens when you wipe out the shareholders). Getting hacked sucks, but surely consumers aren't experiencing infinite losses when that happens?
I'm not an expert at the details of hardware architecture, but my understanding is that you're basically stuck with whatever associativity and cache policy the chip supports. That, and the addresses that your components happen to be at, will determine whether they end up fighting over cache lines or not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache_placement_policies
Or leaked once, when your phone number appeared on a phone, with an evil app installed.
You think the desire to have decentralised currency is a non/madeup problem?
Not your keys, not your data. These compromises only strengthen the argument for decentralisation and pseudonyms.
That is a bit of an uncharitable reading. The subchapter literally preceding the example you cited is titled "Existence & Uniqueness" and explains why those concepts are important to mathematicians, and right following the stated theorem the author explains it in minute detail and gives an informal phrasing ("there is a unique degree n poly-
nomial passing through a choice of n + 1 points"). The entire chapter is devoted to how to take these kind of complex looking statements and understand what concepts are behind them, and the author explains the concepts in both normal language and how one would normally see them in a maths textbook.

You are right that this book requires high school level math knowledge, as it's the equivalent of a first (and maybe second) year math course. Most programmers I have met do display that amount of knowledge however. What other starting point (or topic) would you suggest for teaching someone mathematics that can be related to programming?
There was a study that adaptive cruise control and lane assist leads to more people speeding: https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/adaptive-cruise-control-spu...

They then use a "common formula" to show that that leads to more fatal accidents, but didn't actually study on actual crash data.
It's such an amazing market to support! Playing any role in helping scientific breakthroughs get to market is a noble cause. We share many of the same customers and they don't describe your offering as competitive to ours, in fact, in most cases they subscribe to both! They refer to wellspring as a passive marketing approach while dubbing ours an active marketing approach. The difference being is with FirstIgnite you will get the email addresses of those to reach out to, which isn't something they are getting from Wellspring.
Access through something like an API and then losing access once you stop paying your monthly fee?
In many ways it’s a prisoners dilemma problem. We can contrive many particular cases where your individual data might put you at risk, but the fundamental problem is that broadly having access to many people’s data allows the people who hold that data to do analysis on it and to have enormous levels of control over the population because they can carefully tune their actions and messaging based on that data.

Ultimately your individual data is far less important than the aggregate data for making these decisions- and you are impacted regardless of whether your personal data is available or not.

The question is whether or not we could get people to collectively act in their own self interest and push back against data collection. Based on what we’ve seen over the last 2 years with the pandemic I have absolutely no hope for humanity ever being able to collectively act in its self interest and the road to hell will be paved with people asking “how does it hurt me, personally, right now”.
Sell a subscription to access current transactional data. Like if Verizon charged $x/mo to have access to call logs, and was sold to advertisers
Not necessarily, I'm on TMO, grandfathered in to an ancient 'unlimited data/100min talk' pre-paid plan (so they have very little on file for me, luckily).
You need to enable screening by going to https://voice.google.com/u/0/settings .
A C-17 Packed with 640 Afghans Trying to Escape the Taliban
"Modulo" is itself part of the techie idiom, no?
I honestly find it hard to believe that they don't have easy access to accounting data for every book they sell.
> Firstly, GDP is a bad measure of productivity. A pill that replaced all healthcare would reduce GDP by 15%, but I doubt anyone (even economists) would call that a catastrophe.

This is only true in vacuum. In the real world, if this pill totally annihilated the healthcare sector, a massive amount of resources would be freed and reallocated in other sectors.
Havnt used a magnetic strip in a decade. It's something from childhood!
You've come out against idiots spreading misinformation and calls to action _in general_ in this thread. You don't want tolerance, you want orthodoxy. Intolerance of all things that are bad, tolerance of things that are good. If only the cowards at Cloudflare agreed with you!
Consider enabling screening in GV settings https://voice.google.com/u/0/settings .
My recollection is that the switchover to referring to them as a "GPU" wasn't integrating 2D and 3D in the same card, but the point where we offloaded MUCH more computation to the graphics card itself. So we're talking specifically about when NVidia launched the Geforce 256 - a couple of generations after the TNT
It’s not an either/or. Having a good nest egg gives you the option of working less or working on something more fulfilling (that still generates income)
This doesn't strike me as a very strong argument. If i'm understanding correctly: I shouldn't share that I do X because in the future X might come under scrutiny.

This sort of argument can be deployed to stop you from doing anything. It's also very apocalyptic because you are only assuming downsides. What happens if sharing X actually helps me in the future?