skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I owned a trucking company and my family owned a freight brokerage business.

Trucking is a hard lifestyle, especially over the road. The job is physically demanding and there are a lot of ways to do it wrong.

Owner / operators and small trucking companies are, in some cases, like sharecropping. You don't make premium money, that's taken off the top through a series of intermediaries / brokers. You have to buy sub par equipment, because it's cheaper. You can't pay your drivers as well and often times, you do so in cash, which eventually bites you. And to boot, the business is very capital intensive. If your customer pays you in 30 days, and you run coast to coast, it could costs you 1100 gallons a week (3000 per week) and you don't get paid for 5 weeks (15000). Add to that cost of maintenance, insurance (650-800 per month - physical damage, liability and cargo), truck and trailer payment ($2000 per month for something newer, but not new, that you wouldn't mind living in or), you have to eat, your cell phone, oil changes ($150 per 15-25k miles) and the 1.25-1.35 per mile you earn, doesn't go all that far. But don't worry, if you need an advance on your shipments pay, for fuel, someone will give you up to 50-60% of your cash, maybe even a little more, for 1-2% or more of all the money you're due. And if you want to get paid faster than 30 days, you can get paid a day or 2 after you deliver and turn in the paperwork, for another 1-2% of the total amount you are due.

One truck shops or small companies can't service the needs of most shippers, so shippers choose big trucking companies or 3pls to manage their transportation. By the time a little guy touches a Bill of Lading / rate confirmation, the shipment can be double or triple brokered, each hand passing paper taking 10% off the top.

On top of that, there's huge theft. Gangs steal tires, cargo, trucks and drivers sometimes choose to transport drugs along with whatever you're asking them to haul...if you are in the business long enough, the stories are epic.
“Every time I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.” - Mark Twain

“Any library is a good library that does not contain a volume by Jane Austen. Even if it contains no other book,” and lamented that “it seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.” - Mark Twain
I can add that I have experienced upgrade problems firsthand while running FreeBSD on Digital Ocean. In my case, rebooting after an upgrade would hang.

https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-15:05...
I would look for used equipment if that's at all an option.

A "real" scope is a workhorse that lasts forever with the features and the convenience you don't get from those cheaper options. You also want real scope probes. In my area I see someone selling a TDS220 for $200 which would be a good buy. Also an older 4 channel 100MHz Analog scope...

Quality multi-meters are also workhorses.
Yes, but that's not the problem the GP was addressing.
What will happen to this Hill guy?
Maybe you are not aware, but you are replying to the owner of rsync.net - which runs on FreeBSD.
> What is an "unregulated company"?

Something like a DAO contract that doesn't have an issuer (assuming the DAO had an issuer, not sure). Or a payout mechanism like zcash where the mining function pays out to founders wallets over time.

It seems inconsistent that ICOs are seen as securities whereas the underlying asset isn't. I think the differentiating factor is the degree of decentralization. If the SEC could shut down bitcoin they would. But they can't. So instead they'll go after ICO issuers who happen to be in the US. But many ICOs won't have to be in the US, or issued by humans for that matter.

Personally, the genie is out of the bottle. Value exists in the decentralized digital world, and it now has programmable properties. Trying to regulate securities has become the equivalent of regulating TCP packets. It can be done but at what cost..
It's not just his iPhone. It's iPads, any Apple device that has been "away" for a while and then comes back.

TFA describes how Apple is taking shortcuts in the DHCP negotiation. I blame them for assuming that the previous IP address assigned to the device will still be available.
For me, this style of writing really detracts from whatever the article might actually say.
> The accused must usually be given the benefit of doubt in cases of anonymous allegations without any corroborating evidence.

The accused must always be given the benefit of the doubt in case of any allegations without corroborating evidence. This current trend of "anyone accused of sexual harassment is guilty unless proven innocent" is not justice.
This is a known issue on iOS 8.0-8.1. Lookup 'WiFried'.
I encourage you to convert some of your JS code. In my experience converting something like 10k lines, this is absolutely true.

I convert using strictest compile rules + TsLint with most rules on. In those 10kish lines I found hundreds of potential bugs. I'm sure at least a third were real.

The biggest culprits in our codebase were classic type errors and improper use of truthy/falsey. Adding types enables a ton of static analysis like identification of broken conditional statements. I found over 100 if statements that were always true/false or otherwise ineffective.
It's true; "fool me once" and all that. But it really doesn't make the world a better place to live if it's easier to get fired by accident.
Honestly, this doesn't surprise me; seems fairly indicative of the culture. Yes, this is an extreme case, but who hasn't seen things like leaving 1-star reviews of competitors, or frivolous complaints to consume competitors' resources?

This is what happens when a culture encourages people to use any opportunity to get ahead - and it's those with real claims that suffer from this crying wolf.
I found an even older reference to impure Lisp; doubt I'm going to do better than this: McCarthy's 1958 paper "An Algebraic Language for the Manipulation of Symbolic Expressions"[0], immediately after introducing our good friend car, says: "For example, statement beginning car (i) = causes a quantity to be computed and stored in the address part of register leaving the rest of the register unchanged."

0: http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/MIT/AIM-00...
This is off topic but I have been told if you have questions to the site you email it to them. I think the contact email is at the bottom.
Pfsense does a great job offering a GUI for how configuring DHCP should work.
I've been using FreeNAS for over two years and I would hate to try to use plain FreeBSD. FreeNAS is, as they say, "batteries included". If you're specifically setting up a NAS, I can't imagine why you would want to do more work for apparently little benefit.
Adobe Flash end of life announced by 2020. Start thing of the migration
He'll end up paying millions of dollars in damages most likely not covered by insurance and might be subject to criminal charges if the State decides to prosecute
PoW is not often used in consortium networks because there is no need for the excess power usage when the blockchain network is not in the public domain and participation is limited by some form of authority or centralised management structure.

I'm not sure what you mean with sybil resistance in this context though. Do you mean to say that PoA reduces the "51% attack" vector?
Train tunnels, underground car parks and other reception black spots seem to have avoided litigation. Have we really reach the point where going outside to get reception is not something a reasonable person would think of?
For those curious, here is the accused rival's about page - http://btrax.com/en/about-us/
A friend who read it described it as "okay, but too much Pride & Prejudice and not enough zombies."
Show HN: Asio, a tool that generates police body cam footage requests
Part of the problem is that the penalties for doing this are usually just civil. I imagine people's behavior would be very different if the next person who manufactured an allegation to attack a business competitor got a twenty-year (or even two-year) jail sentence.
Hey this is pretty great, thanks! Dunno why I didn't consider it to be that simple. But it really is working. Well, along with `npm install @types/node --save` which I found somewhere else, so it quits complaining about 'require' not being found.
It's the fact that it's an unreasonable and unhealthy comparison.

It's like watching someone's highlight reel and thinking their the best player ever. Of course not, no one's ever as good as their highlight reel.

We all have time and means for a vacation or two but when everyone only posts their vacations on a platform like FB, it makes it seem as though everyone's life is wonderful. We never see the day to day drudgery.

As much as everyone shits on Snap, it's been the perfect platform for a more 'realistic' view into the lives of friends and acquittances. You feel a lot more connected with folks when everyone's posting shit like morning coffee, memes, stupid selfies, small wins and the day to day.
There's a press page buried in the footer if you'd like to get a sense of our future goals.
Wow, sounds about right. Hopefully, set up as a good example for people who prepare to follow his suit.
Loads of buildings don't allow (or practically don't allow) cell signals :: nothing stops them from being built.

It's active interference the FCC takes a dim view to - passive interference (thick walls, loads of metal, etc) is fine.

There's a theater near me that I can get 4-5 bars of LTE outside, 1-2 bars near the doors, 3G just 20 feet inside, and only 1x or a bar of 3G in each screen room.

Don't see the FCC dropping the hammer on them because it's the way the building is constructed, not active interference
tldr: AWS EC2 has the concept of I/O credits for storage. If your instance runs out of credits, bad things, which may seem completely unrelated, will happen.

I was having similar issues last week and did not consider I/O credits. I think AWS could do better at notifying you if your EC2 instance gets into this state (without having to set up a cloud watch alarm).
He should do something with crypto that's novel/tongue-in-cheek enough for people to want to send him money
Back in the Dileep George days Numenta sought mathematical support for their theory in a Bayesian approach à la Judea Pearl. But I don't think they ever had any illusions that the brain explicitly performs statistical calculations. Hawkins et al. at Numenta are now embracing the theory of sparse distributed representation, developing upon the work of Pentti Kanerva as a formal foundation. It's biologically much more plausible, but technologically less feasible (with the current hardware paradigm). I suspect Dileep George in the end was more eager to put the theory into use.
Ask HN: Starting an open-source project, What are your “must-do”?
As a junior/self learning/independent programmer, and will start a open-source app as side project,

Do you have any tutorial/advices?

I will be using python, and have some doubts,

For exemple i dont follow that much PEP8 and kind of have my own style of writing,
Is it mandatory to change it and follow 100% PEP8?

I use to make a lots of commits, minor changes, but all the project i read make few.

I would like to have people contribute and use it, do you have any tip or tutorial of the most do in open-source developement?

Thank you
There are many viable solutions for commuters.

There are many viable solutions for many problems. The choice of which problem to give first priority to, given an abundance of viable solutions for many problems, reveals much. As does the claim that only that particular problem has a viable solution.

HN's priorities are skewed toward solving the problems of people who are, on the whole, similar to HN commenters. I happen to think this is a bad thing, and reflects a poor set of priorities; it's not "whataboutism" to suggest a different priority order. "Whataboutism" is commonly misunderstood (by those selfsame HN commenters) to mean an evasion of any priorities.
That's right, no one would ever abuse an online system for blacklisting VCs accused of sexual harassment...smh

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14773434
What happened to Magic Leap?
I haven't heard anything about them in awhile.
Private blockchains have client nodes in a closed network or otherwise require some form of "API key" to be procured from the chain's owner to be able to connect.

In this case, because there is centralisation of trust, the 51% attack is not possible as there is only one mining node or, otherwise, only one "actor" can actually add blocks to the chain with as many nodes as needed. This is the case with Ripple, for instance.
I actually found it enjoyable and refreshing. Technical, but fun.
A detailed analysis of H-1B visa lawyers – based on open source H-1B filings
Informed democracy is a waste of brain cycles? You have the power to vote, you can participate in democracy. I don't think that's a waste of brain cycles. I do agree you shouldn't worry too much about things you have no control over. But the government of your country is not one of those things.
As I was reading, I was mentally composing a convoluted reply. Yours said the same thing, much better, and bonus coffee over my screen! well done :)
You could try emailing the authors of some related research papers or professors at your next university. That's basically how I found the advisor for my undergraduate thesis. I had an idea, looked through the CS department's website to find the ML researcher whose work was most similar, then emailed him a proposal.

You will probably have to make an effort to differentiate yourself from crackpots and demonstrate pre-existing knowledge of the field. In my case I had to answer a number of questions of the form "I think you may not be aware of XYZ, which is quite similar to your idea." with "The paper on XYZ inspired my idea, but I'm trying something different."

A targeted venue that pre-selects for researchers willing to spend their time on mentoring others (who are not officially their students) could help, but it would still have to deal with the crackpot problem.
IMO the static analysis that becomes possible from using types is more useful than types themselves.

My favorite JS gotcha is the number of special values a variable can take on. NaN, Undefined, null, Infinity, -Infinity, maybe more? Also the fact that arrays and objects are always truthy. Honorable mention for the seemingly random results of concatenating strings. I'm tired of getting burned by these design flaws and if it takes strong typing to be protected from them than so be it.
That's why I configure my hostname permanently. Using scutil if memory serves.
Yeah, I had that bug too (or another one that caused similar behavior). Great fun.

Edit: I realize my comments may sound a bit unfair. I don't want to come across as saying "they had a bug in their software, so they suck!" I realize stuff happens, and these are complex things. But I'm bothered by the fact that it has happened often enough that I'm actually nervous to upgrade my FreeBSD system, even though I have been using the OS for 20 years and did time as a professional sysadmin. I guess the flip side is that once it's working, FreeBSD is so stable and drama-free that my incentives for upgrading are very low unless there's a critical security issue.
Trucks operators pay a lot of road taxes.
IMO what would actually drive AI breakthroughs is to support people on a large time scale so they can quit their applied AI/ NLP/ Computer Vision jobs and focus full time on their moonshot research endeavor. For example, I work in AI, and this is not a useful proposal for me, in particular. But I do have at least a couple crazy AI ideas that might take > a year to develop, and I can imagine nothing better than a grant I could live on for a year and develop the AI. I know I'm not the only one. Someone mentioned a catch-22 with this idea, have to agree.
Have a reason for it to exist

Plan for and/or create rules for how people can contribute

Publicize it

Show how it will help its users' loves be "better" - don't give a feature laundry list: make me want to use it

Have fun

Don't be surprised if [almost] no one ever contributes, helps, or uses it other than yourself - and be ok with that likelihood
And admittedly, Uzzaman obtained cooperation of both Hatena (ordered by a Japanese judge) and Comcast (subpoenaed). That was no mean feat.
In deep learning, the algorithm that is used, back propagation, is basically a chained matrix multiplication, which is good for the GPU structure. However, for boosted trees the optimization problem is a little bit different, there is a sorting and then a computation of a gradient and hessian. In this case, it is not as efficient for GPU than deep learning.
Rather EBS performance is non-deterministic. This is definitely not new, but is an informative deep dive.

The other big gotcha is that EBS volumes are lazy loaded. Not necessarily something that's going to bite you in a production environment regularly, but it's something that could very easily throw off your benchmarks and performance testing.
My SO unfortunately has 2 ipones, an ipad and a MBP. There is a confluence of DHCP activity from all these devices that is guaranteed to take my network down.
Yes, we accept cryptographic proof of ownership for accreditation purposes.
We don't know if there's an "incident like this". This is alleged by one side in a lawsuit. Hasn't been proven. I would still give the victim in this instance the benefit of the doubt.

Edit: why is it all about "accusation is not the same as guilt" when a supposed anonymous woman accuses man A, but when man A accuses man B of staging the whole thing, HN believes it 100%? I apologize to fragile HN readers who see me saying we have courts to figure out these things, that HN is not a courtroom, and they get offended and downvote me.
I'd like to tie your comment to an article that was linked to here the other day. It was to a paper by the economist Paul Romer on `mathiness'[0]. It is interesting to me that the standard bearers for progress and achievement (you and others select) are either mathematicians and/or physicists. Why physicists over any other natural scientist? Perhaps because physics is math-heavy and reliant on mathematical domain models to an extent that other fields and disciplines are not.

Let us review the fields of human exploration you have omitted. Art including music and literature, the social sciences, the life and medical sciences, economic and political theory, legal theory, the geo-sciences, … do I need to go on?

What makes math and physics so special? And before you dismiss my comments, I say this as somebody who has studied the history of mathematics and has read books on likes of Erdös and Ramanujan. (For instance, I would place Brouwer ahead of Hilbert, and I wonder how one can speak of Turing and Gödel but not of Church and Russell.) As for the physicists you mention, two of them were involved in the project that created the most devastating weapons ever used by man against man, weapons that hang over humanity to this day. That is some legacy.

Where has this math and physics devotion gotten us to? Collectively I mean. Where has it gotten us to collectively? I have come to believe that our entire culture is so much poorer because of it. Indeed the mindset is so pervasive that it has taken me me entire life to diagnose it in myself.

Did not know about about the age of the 25-page PhD thesis containing only 2 references (a slight exaggeration?) though. That is indeed a loss.

[0] https://paulromer.net/mathiness/
I really don't get the downvotes here. Yes, there are umpteen ways to run a Flash program. But if you goal is "preserve the experience of running a Flash program for future generations", the most obvious solution is to simply emulate the platform on which Flash runs. (This solution also has the benefits of being simple and a solved problem, which the GP admits is not true of other solutions.)

Proposing to preserve Flash apps through a bytecode emulator is frankly somewhat absurd if you consider analogies. HTML 2.0 sites don't render on modern browsers either, but no-one seriously proposes maintaining a modern HTML 2.0 browser to view them. They simply run an old copy of Netscape Navigator, in a Windows 95 VM if necessary. Likewise with old BASIC programs on an Apple 2: no-one (from a preservation standpoint) runs them on an AppleSoft BASIC emulator; they run them on real AppleSoft BASIC inside an emulated Apple 2.
Since I'm not an expert, I went with FreeNAS. It's largely "ready to go" out of the box, and having a GUI makes things very discoverable. Even if you're comfortable with CLI tools, you might not be familiarized with all the tools used in a typical NAS setup. Heck, you might not have much devops experience, which could lead to overlooking a key detail, such as setting up regularly scheduled scrub and SMART tests and having it email you if anything requires your attention.

Even if you're well versed on these topics, I'd still suggest trying it out on a VM, or at least reading through their guides. Seeing the approach taken by someone else might help you refine your own setup.

Unfortunately, the last few months haven't been great for FreeNAS. They had a horribly botched release. It was killed off fairly quickly, but a few people got burned over it. The good news is that they changed their mind on their expected breaking changes. Initially they intended to kill off jails in favor of docker, which made it a painful upgrade process for some existing users. From an outsider's perspective, it looked rush. Even though I'm happy with my setup, it made me a little more weary about quickly adopting major upstream changes.

Go with FreeNAS 11.
Things you can take on a plane would probably be alright.
You can already play Wikipedia's audio files on Edge or Safari. Try it here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Adventure_Lights.ogg

Spoiler: it's ogv.js.
Ask HN: Are there some teamplay(pvp) AI games out there?
Is there a game where you can train AI who need cooperate/teamplay for win?

I am not interested in Pve(player vs environement) games,

I would like a game where i can program a team of bots, playing against another team of bots.

CounterStrike GO competitive 5v5 games would be awesome, unfortunately is it not an option, as a big hardware setup will be needed, (3d game)
Thank you
Wix Code – Creation Without Limits
instrumental is the right word lol :)
It would have been cool if there was a single page with a screenshot of each version to compare
Like turning left on a red when nobody's around