skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Peter Muller has the most succinct summary of this that I've seen in his (very worthwhile) opinion piece on proprietary trading [1]:

Sharpe Ratio, Marketing department

≤ 0: Runs the firm

0.25: Very important; involved in all investment decisions; major focus on asset gathering

0.5–1.0: Secondary

1.0–2.0: Almost superfluous

≥ 2.0: What marketing department?

[1] https://faculty.fuqua.duke.edu/~charvey/Teaching/BA453_2004/...
if someone is skilled enough to migrate to US, then let them be paid decently.
Why can't there be some project that can take static export of sites and serve them via torrent or IPFS https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs like system. Users who care about this stuff could then pool their bandwidth and storage to keep these things alive, if only in a static form for historical preservation.
would IMDB's ToS be OK with this?
Well) Starred it ^^
From a reasonably quick skim, that study seems to boil down to "All we have to do is simultaneously dramatically increase wages, decrease unemployment, increase hours, decrease employer flexibility, increase collective bargaining, and regularize undocumented workers."

Seems easy enough; I wonder why no one's thought to do all those things together before...
IMO you seem to try to brush of the opinions of anyone who disagrees with you as stupid.

That is not good form.

We are trying to argue against you in good faith but I must admit I find it frustrating.

Edit:

FWIW, here is some more data: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm...
Vizio Agrees to $2.2M Settlement Over ‘Invasive’ Data Collection from Smart TVs
> is (1)habit-forming,

Tee drinking, coffee drinking, news watching too.

> (2)distort one's views/expectations of sex & intimacy.

You'd need to define what views/expectation of sex and intimacy are undistorted.
Fascinating and well written. Thank-you.
It is unlikely that many servers are strong enough to resist penetration and theft of the mail server's private key. That key then can be indexed and matched as well. Is your mail server refusing downgrades to non-PFS ciphers? Is your kernel not affected by zero-days leaking the state of your secure random pool? Are there vulnerabilities in openssl we don't know about but collection agencies do? Is the reason that the government hasn't announced the CNSA Suite yet because the NSA is busy taking advantage of EC weaknesses combined with quantum computing capability? To say nothing of various direct TLS attacks, which are easy enough to translate from HTTP to SMTP, are agencies putting these to work? How far does the integration of passive collection and active attack go these days - there's plenty of evidence to indicate they have been significantly combined in the past.

To say there is no evidence that anyone can break a TLS session is a bit like denying climate change.
Senate confirms DeVos
Has anybody actually measured it in the last decades?
Apart from crazy souped-up dragracers, there's also several "non-production" cars that are actually available for purchase and which can be driven on normal roads and are faster. E.g. the Ariel Atom 500, or some of the Lingenfelter- or Hennesey-modified Corvettes.

Tesla defines "production cars" to exclude cars built in very small volumes, for obvious reasons (otherwise Tesla wouldn't be "fastest"). In related news, the Tautology Association of America has offered Elon a complementary lifetime membership.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13590943
Yes, but that's only true for driving on the public road in what is "the wrong gear" for any serious racing driver. On a track it is all about power, because torque is just a figure that you change with the gearbox.

High revving high power output engines (for example Formula 1 until 2004, which still holds half the lap records) have a low torque number, but more rev-range to apply to the gearbox allowing higher actual output to the wheels in the end. Essentially the torque number is just power divided by revs (Newton per meter in SI units).

So an older Formula 1 car that revs to 18.000 rpm has a far lower torque number than your mom's diesel road car. Yet that F1 car does insane acceleration from 0 to 200 km/h and has 700+ bhp while the road car would have around 100 maybe 150 bhp.
Surely - but 'AI' is new. Surely 'Deep Learning' is something at least they are not doing widely, because it's difficult to pull off.

That said, anyone actually doing it would be smart enough to shut the hell up about it.

Finally - one might argue that the big money is all made in 'soft insider' information anyhow, and that with so much tech, analysts already there ... there's just no way to win without clear leverage i.e. relationships, servers on premises of the trading facility, or some other non-market advantage.
My laptop, I use SumatraPDF with bookview (Ctrl+8).

Seeing two pages side by side, like a book, even on small screens makes a huge difference for me. Also the ability to switch between documents easily (ctrl+tab and ctrl+shift+tab) is really handy, when I am researching a topic.

I haven't figured out the annotation and highlighting part yet. I just copy and paste important parts into an Emacs org-mode document and summarize the article I read.

It's also easier to remember, what I tought when I read the article at the time, if I take extensive notes.
I didn't say that I assume mine to be the peak. My intention was to point out that any efficiency that could be reached beyond what is statistically possible (i.e. if you only rely on statistical metrics and parsing), could be considered unreasonably efficient. At least, there is an argument for that to be made.

My method should in no way, shape or form be considered as a "peak".
They're not mutually exclusive:

The Koenigsegg Regera combines a powerful twin-turbo
V8 combustion engine with three electric motors and
cutting edge battery power via new powertrain
technology called Koenigsegg Direct Drive. This
revolutionary technology removes the traditional
gearbox, making the car lighter and more efficient.

http://koenigsegg.com/regera/
Teller founder here. Bixtr looks cool. Would love to grab a cup of tea. sg at teller . io
Email, or SMS? Though I don't see why Apples Push Notification Service, can't be opened up for the web side. They are already going through Apple servers correct? Safari has push notifications, let's combine the two.
Possible release dates of LG G6 – Sim-unlock.net unlock blog
Node was written in c++.

Not even sure if you read the original article, because that's far from what I took away from it. I guess we all choose to see what we want to see.

There's a difference between someone complaining when they are bad at something, and someone complaining when they're good at something.
why do you need a license to use something that is posted and publically accessible? A license makes sense for a copyrighted work that you are copying, but for a web service it's less clear.

If I had a physical analog of facebook (a bunch of photos, a travel journal, and a list of my friends) and left it on a table, then do you need a license to pick it up and review it? No. So why do you need one if I do the same thing as a web site?
I would call that enforcement of a term of the service.

When I said arbitrary terms of service can't be enforced, I meant that the site owner won't have good luck trying to obligate users to do things (their typical response to a problem with the user will be limited to withholding access from the service). I wasn't very clear.
E-skin for prosthetics could detect the warmth of human touch
I don't think the tech industry will ever be saturated, especially where software is concerned. Ski all day and read/code all night! You'll be fine.
And those companies had no choice but to go along with it?
Right. Thank you, comrade!
Yeah, pancreatic, esophageal, anything with a "glio" prefix... time to get your affairs in order.
Is there an acronym for the Pollyanna opposite of FUD?
The batteries heat up terribly as well. I am not sure whether the power electronics can dissipate the heat, but they are generally easier to cool than batteries because the electronics are centralized and smaller. The problem with batteries is that their heating is proportional to the square of their current output, so when you are extracting a lot of energy from them, the batteries get very hot, and there are a lot of them.
One thing I wonder is why Top Gear (the old one) / Grand Tour never has the tesla in it's episodes or drag races?

Especially the latest episode of Grand Tour did some kind of road test with a hybrid car and made a laughing stock of it.
And they laughed about the "future of cars" if it would be like that (they used some ridiculous bmw hybrid). Driving very slow to preserve electricity and long charge times every 40 miles or something like that.
Why didn't they test with a Tesla to give a realistic picture of "the future"?
That's my #3 question in a nutshell. And this seems to be a rather good strategy imo. However, the way everyone is talking about ML makes it seem as a diamond bullet to solve all that is holy and sacred!
There was a nice article about this in the Economist a week ago:

http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21715686-why-indian-judge...
> Do you happen to know if there's a bug logged for the custom keyboard shortcut lacuna? And/or for there not being a preset shortcut for emailing links?

This is Firefox Bug 429824 - User-defined (custom, System Preferences) shortcuts don't work

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=429824

I found this extension that lets you add or custom keyboard shortcuts for many Firefox menu items. It mentions the Email Link menu item, but I didn't dig much deeper.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/my-keyboard-n...

Unfortunately, I don't know of a way to assign shortcuts to extensions.
There are some applications that will do a full text search of pdfs across directories, but seem geared towards server rather than desktop, with commensurate levels of cost and complexity. Conceptually you could use image magik and lucene to make a Linux solution, but without any added features such as summary or title.

I am experimenting with a lightweight solution, but am working out which compromises are reasonable to take so that it is worthwhile but not overwhelming of the machine it runs on. Still have to give it a real test with a large number of files as well.
Why do so many good people die from terrible ailments, while the evil ones like Dick Cheney keep having dozens of heart attacks and keep ticking on?
I would say the press conferences are the main method as they are from the White House and happen multiple times a day. I don't know that a Constitutional mandate would have anything to do with it.
Vizio to pay $2.2M to the FTC for unprecedented spying on US customers -
Launched a project and no one came? A summary of my recent marketing lessons
are you using bootstrap? the paragraphs of content are only 1 to 2 words wide on my mobile device. Note 4
Currently, the policy appears to be that FOIA requests that take less than two hours of personnel time are free.

https://www.foia.gov/faq.html#cost

This subsidy is plausibly a good one, to avoid discouraging requests from private citizens, but it can also probably justify why FOIA requests would be rate-limited. (In some situations, you might be able to avoid ever paying by breaking you request up into a bunch of sub-requests that can individually be completed in less than 2 hours.)

Are there any sorts of outside investigations that are substantially hampered by the rate limiting? It seems like the turn-around time is going to be more than a day anyways, so you might as well bundle all your requests into one and submit daily. Or is there an aspect of this I'm missing?

Incidentally, are there estimates on how much the FBI (or other agencies) spend to fulfill FOIA requests? This report from 1980 says ~$50M, but that that might be a substantial underestimate since there were large ancillary costs it doesn't cover.

https://www.justice.gov/oip/blog/foia-update-costs-and-benef...
It's great, but I can't stand the chaining syntax. I'm a bit biased, but I think that some suite with async/await will be the future. Here's something that I've been working on: https://github.com/KevinGrandon/ghostjs/
Just did some googling, and _including_ exit and entry through pit lanes, fastest refuel is 51.3s. I think a battery swap would be reeeeeally tough to accomplish.

And most cars refuel every 14 laps, and races are about 384 laps. Totals over 5000km in 24hrs. That's a lot of batteries...
Gastric juices could power microbots inside the body
The object of an election is to win. Trump persuaded the people he was supposed to do to win. Persuading those who don't count is not a winning strategy.
Haskell Bindings to the Zstandard Library
If someone is really of world caliber they can plump for the O-1 visa, which does not have quotas. Fun fact: the O-1 visa is within reach even for moderately successful academics. My wife considered filing for that.

Medicine is probably of least concern. One of the reasons that there is a disproportionate number of foreigners in US science PhD programs is that Americans tend to go for medicine and law postgraduate degrees instead. They simply pay better.
Then those people should really hate the broadband companies.
Notes & tracking: emacs + org-mode. Not ideal, but I can have it and it does 60% of the job out of the box.

Storing: filesystem (notes include where I stored it).

Reading: E-ink.

I started with Pocketbook 622 (a 6", 800x600 display). Worked very well. Can open many formats _natively_ (doc, rtf, djvu etc, check specs for full list). One of the first docs was anatomy atlas from 19century via archive. Rendered only decently, required huge magnification/landscape mode/margin cutting to be of any use. I had varying experience with other pdf/djvu documents - depending how they were created. Some djvus rendered excellently on 6", despite being meant for bigger (close to a4) page size. No problem with rtf/epub and other such formats. Magazines in pdf (a4) very hard to read, not worth it really. Arxiv's pdfs looked good/very good, sometimes they could be reflowed or put into column view, which helped a lot but with reflow I learned math not always shows up properly. Old computer manuals (my hobby, they are just scaned typewritten books) - not good enough.

Next model was Inkpad 840 (a 8", 1600x1200 display). What looks good on Pb622, looks good too on Ip840. Magazines look better, but they require a good light for really comfortably reading. Otherwise, I can go with dim night light. This model has backlight, but I don't like the idea of shining into my eyes.

Huge plus: sd card slot. I go on for months airgapped.
Huge minus: maybe it is just me, but reading html docs almost always sucks one way or another.
What to look for: external hard case so I don't have to be oh so wary. It was a PITA trying to find case for Ip840 thanks to its nonstandard dimensions. I settled down with some oversized tablet case.
Ip840 feels a bit slow and awkward (compared to Pb622) but I got used to it. If I had to buy again, I would have had a closer look on Kobo models too. Kindle does not cut it for me - requires too big commitment.

All of this just MHO, of course.
They did a road trip in a BMW i3 which is basically a commute car. And their point does stand - if you like cars and road trips enough to watch GT or Top Gear you probably care a lot about being able to make road trips.
I don't understand why the x^2 thing is interesting at all.

If I multiply x by 0, the distribution is now just 0.

If I take abs(x) now it is positive.

Are these confusing to anyone?
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
> but the value of JSX is the ability to easily nest elements

There is nothing there that "makes JSX so powerful", its just hiding function calls and varargs. Its only xml-ish syntax. You are welcome to prefer it but its not adding anything functional beyond that.

const Dashboard = (props) => {
const {user} = props;
let link;
if (user) {
link =
DOM.a({href: "..."},
Components.Avatar(user),
DOM.span(user.name));
}
return
DOM.div(link, ...some other content);
};
Actually, breaking an NDA might be theft of trade secrets, which in certain cases may be prosecuted as a crime. See, e.g., 18 U.S.C. § 1832[1].

(But, agreed that a ToS violation shouldn't ever be a crime by itself - that reading of the CFAA would give, for example, website operators the power to write criminal law).

[1]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1832
So you want your children AND your parents living with you for the next 30 years?
Communism over an interval instead of a constant.
"ToS is not a contract, it's a license."

I'm not sure that's correct, but it could be. It was my understanding it was a contract. That's why you have to agree to it - you are providing your consent and acknowledgement that you have read the terms and agree to abide by them.

If it was a license, they could simply grant it to you without requiring your consent. For example - I can buy a license for some shareware/trialware software by just sending them money and getting the license key in my email. Then when I go to use the software, it may ask for me to agree to the terms of service so that there is a formal agreement on the allowed uses of the software.
Thanks, great resource of info presented a very nice format
If anyone interested, I've checked the CPU, it's Xeon D-1531 2.2 GHz.
AI generated music
> I will never rely on my database, regardless of which one I am using for complete data consistency.

I can't imagine developing any software that involves relationships between entities that does not have data consistency. Check constraints, foreign keys, and data type validation all provide a minimum sanity level of the underlying data that allows your mind to focus on more important things. Otherwise you're entire application is going to be littered with those same sanity checks.

I'm not saying that all apps need that type of data store or that there isn't room in this world for NoSQL stores, I mean specifically that complicated interdependencies and validation checks lend themselves well to the relational model.
This article takes a very long time to make an elementary point: if x is a uniformly distributed random variable, f(x) is not a uniformly distributed random variable if f is non-linear.
My understanding is that, under the CFAA, any unauthorized access to commercial servers is a felony (more-or-less; there are some requirements here, but as I recall they're so broad that they basically always apply).

The theory here is that, after breaking the TOS, if you continue to use the service then that use is unauthorized and therefore felonious.

As the EFF notes, previous judges have refused to rule it this way, basically on the basis of "that's insane, even if it is what the law says".

Edit: for reference, the relevant legal bits are here, in section (a.2.C), with relevant definitions in (e.2.B): https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030
i read arXiv on my android smart-phone using Xodo PDF viewer , which lets me highlight and underline in color.

Reams of paper saved and I can read anywhere... but I can't do scratch-work on my cell phone!
While you are correct that 3.4 now passes, I feel like your interpretation here is a bit optimistic. It's not like I tested Mongo and it passed out of the box--it failed Jepsen tests, and not just with a read anomaly--it lost majority-acknowledged inserts. The v0 protocol still fails--it's fundamentally broken. The v1 bugs are fixed now, but that's a consequence of our collaboration.

I'd say the marker of maturity here is that MongoDB has put significant time and effort into correctness: they take clock skew and network partitions as serious failure modes, they've redesigned their replication protocol, added options for stronger reads, and invested in their own correctness test suite, and Jepsen tests, as a part of their CI process.
Inside of a Vive Controller
For me, he both made me discover TED and be disappointed with every other TED video!

Who's going to carry on his amazing work now...
Unfortunately for your hypothetical website owner, this is extortion, which is a real crime.
Deceleration of High-Velocity Photon Sails into Bound Orbits at Α Centauri
Paste Image from Clipboard to Markdown (VSCode)
They did. It didn't go well: https://www.tesla.com/blog/tesla-vs-top-gear

Of course there's more to the story - Top Gear isn't exactly "objective journalism" and the team will create a story out of thin air when it suits the show. See also "M3 vs Prius" segment: http://www.bmwblog.com/2009/06/12/bmw-m3-vs-toyota-prius-its...
:F

A more inspiring and constructive individual I have never encountered.
This is a loss with a larger impact than most.
Very bad article.

Tldr; freelancing is hard, keep at it.

Waste!
That is beautifully well documented. Are you planning to extend it further or do any similar projects?
ah, my God, I would love this.
I have some pro-bono to 'spend' and this would really be great!
Relevant Bugzilla entry: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1059392
It's called The Anna Karenina principle. Tolstoy posited an analogy in his novel Anna Karenina that "happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

Interestingly, Peter Thiel starts his book Zero To One with a reference to the Anna Karenina principle by showing a corollary in business: "All happy companies are different, all unhappy companies are alike."
Apple Campus Update
So a client can get the analysis done and leave it unpublished if they don't like the results? Maybe that's standard practice but it doesn't seem great for users.
Most Healthcare dot gov website issues were resolved later. Don't exaggerate.
This argument always comes from an non coding managers. I personally think that managers are afraid of their jobs and hence insist to come to office.
Those jobs are gone forever
Learning about the HTTP “Connection: keep-alive” header
Just moving the mass in and out seems doable with proper design and gear (some kind of hydraulic lift?), but can you find a competitive car design where the battery is mounted properly (low and central) and still allows good enough access? Operator safety is of course an issue as well, you really would not want some power switch to fail.
Software salaries have always been good, usually a bit better than middle middle class. For contrast, I've worked as an auto mechanic. Good, middle-class living that. Left that for software, made a bit more money doing software.

After a bit, but still before the dot-bomb, I went to work for Microsoft. Salary was shit, but the stock options were still enticing back then. All the dot-bombs were paying better, so MSFT upped the salaries. Based on performance reviews, I was apparently a pretty good employee, so the mileage of many might vary. But after one review I got a 35% salary bump that year in an effort to keep MSFT competitive.

One more comparison: my responsibilities aren't much greater than they were back in the day, but I'd say I live a more comfortable lifestyle now than I did then.

tl;dr: it's super-hard to make direct comparisons, but I'd say salaries are better now than back-in-the-day.
>Bonus: you can test your business logic without having to run it on a phone.

You can do that with JS (or TypeScript etc.) as well. Even Java (or Kotlin) and Swift, or anything really, if you care enough to separate it from the UI parts.
If we're gonna be brutally realistic about human nature: most people won't budge if they are comfortable and maintain an illusion that things are under control, unless there's external pressure. I have no links to scientific studies but IMO that's common sense and is widely observable.

I too find the actions of the researcher slightly questionable but he himself said this isn't the first time and he's sick of important fixes being delayed.

You know what? It worked. You might disagree with the approach, but what about the results? MS is absolutely gonna release a fix now, there's no denying that.