skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think not only the language features but the new features of iOS and idevices and Macs, which xcode usually supports on day 1.
It's a pop-sci article, and it does a wonderful job explaining what's going on
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In the US, in the biomedical sciences, it is pretty easy to be paid to get a PhD, but far more difficult to become faculty, and even more difficult get a grant as faculty. This imbalance has created the funding problem we have today.
Why would it impact it? They are already using Sprint and T-Mobile, aren’t they? I guess they will just use SprinT-Mobile now.
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He didn’t meddle in software if he trusted the people who
were working on it, but you couldn’t bullshit him for a
minute because he was a programmer. A real, actual,
programmer.

I stand corrected. Thank you for the read.
We're already at the stage where one can't trust the video evidence, unless it's backed by the camera's signature/encryption.

Creating a very realistic fake is now trivial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohmajJTcpNk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsuAQcvafCs

Google is very close to synthesizing realistic voice.

It's game over, as far as I can see.

It's a matter of time someone creates a fake video of someone famous saying something very outrageous, like nazi propaganda, and it will result in the destruction of that person's career and life.

We really need something like Secure Enclave in every camera.

EDIT:

Another related video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPksv1gJet4
Quantum physics is a vast field, what are you interested in? The basics like single particle quantum mechanics, or quantum field theory, or something very specific like entanglement, the Higgs mechanism, or quantum electrodynamics?

Some areas are more amenable to classical analogies than others which in turn somewhat dictates how far you can get without math. But I would say generally quantum physics just requires math if you want to get more than a very rough and superficial picture. The classical world we developed our intuitions in is just a very strange world as compared to the way nature really works at a fundamental level and so we are not well equipped to understand the world at those scales.
Aluminium isn’t the first material I think of for cars, certainly not for ones built in Germany shortly after World War Two.

Because of that, I wonder whether this is a one-of (google gives me https://www.lanemotormuseum.org/collection/cars/item/hoffman..., which agrees with that) and that coachwork is recycled from an airplane, just as the front axle seems to be recycled from a kubelwagen (https://ww2db.com/vehicle_spec.php?q=359)
Reading over the technical description [1], I agree that this does not live up to the standards I expect from Mozilla (although it's not as bad as some people make it out).

That said, rolling out new features to 1% of users first is not that extraordinary. Especially considering that we (or at least, I) hadn't heard of this experiment earlier, and that there's only now erupting some fuss over this, it seems like a good idea to still consider it in the experimental phase and thus just roll it out to an initial batch. And hopefully back out of it later.

[1] https://gist.github.com/solso/423a1104a9e3c1e3b8d7c9ca14e885...
Yeah, sure, I got the difference between these prefab home modules vs prefab parts for very large buildings. I don't really expect these things to translate into the building of 20+ story office/apartment skyscrapers. Totally different domains.

I think that last paragraph (about specialization vs being a local jack of all trades) has a loth of truth to it.

Having lived in the Swedish outback.. without these modular homes made in factories it's all about your personal connections to local people who can do building work. There is no other way of making sure that your house gets built correctly. This obviously doesn't make for a very dynamic marketplace. People get screwed constantly. (So that's a plus for prefab factories - it's a lot easier to screen their quality than for individual contractors - out of sheer volume of customers.)
Why do startups fail? Because hardware is hard
the Facebook part makes total sense. If I have 100k worth of stuff in china just sitting there, I'd very much like to click "like" on the cat video the guy in china who could move my shipment up in the queue just posted.
What kind of load? My understanding is that they really specialize in loads that would be far too large for FedEx. Think shipping containers.
Not sure what's with the downvote, but you are in essence right about going long.

"Markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you and I can remain solvent."

As for BTC, approach with caution, short or long.
"For the last 8 years, various sources have been predicting a Bitcoin collapse over and over again. It's still here, alive and well and quite high."

It's 'high' mostly because there are a large number of holders who are just sitting there on it.

If it's not being used as a currency, than I can't see how in the long term, people consider it to be a 'store of value' when it could be regulated, deemed illegal, or declared all sorts of things by regulatory bodies which fundamentally change it's nature.

And as an arbitrary store of value? We have tons of 'stores of value' available to us already that are considerably less volatile and more liquid.

So what is the point again? What problem does it solve, and why should anyone want it for a material reason?

I too agree that it will be around for a very long time, but what happens when the very speculative press - and even HN readers get 'bored' of all the news? When the Google queries start to wane (and BTW I think BTC will enjoy a huge surge in interest by 'everyday folks of the world' for a while before it wanes), but eventually, people will lose interest if it's just a 'store of value'.
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The use of the vertical axis here is brilliant! I've seen visualizations where time is one of the axes, but showing a random sampling of arrays really lets you see the "ensemble behavior" of the algorithms.
It won't be if you only send the first letter of the first and last name.
Ask HN: What are you thoughts about working for Tesla with 5+ years of exp?
I understand this is a subjective question, but I am having a hard time deciding whether to even apply for Tesla. I am an establish programmer with 5 years of experience working for smaller startups. I have tons of programming experience building distributed systems. I am now looking for opportunities.

Looking at Glassdoor and other online sources, it seems like there are two camps of previous employees. On one camp, there are the die-hard cult-like employees that just loves Tesla. They seem to be in their early 20s. Most feel like they are changing the world, and just tells others to suck it up. At the same time, admit their pay isn't as competitive. The other camp, are disgruntled employees that are burned out. It seems they feel like there is a lot of mismanagement going on between the middle managers. Overall, I get the feeling from reading online that Tesla has a lot of young managers that are managing teams and are playing cowboy. I know this because this tends to happen a lot in smaller startups.

What are you thoughts about working for Tesla with 5+ years of experience? For those that have worked there, what was the average programmer like? Can you describe the typical manager? What was your daily routine? Would you work there again in a few years if you left?
My experience was a large air shipment. Can't remember the exact details but probably on order of 100 cartons at 10KG each.
To summarise: they're not going to send which URLs you visit.

However, they can set up specific experiments, and will send the results. Thus, they could set up an experiment "did users first visit example.com and later example.com/profile/igorpartola, and then have only you report that to be the case.

That example is of course not that likely and thus troublesome. What worries me, though, is the described experiment "what search terms have led to users switching search engine", and then reporting the search engine. They acknowledge this problem, but the response is "at least that's better than gathering that data server-side". True, but it's still too much data, I think.
Interesting to think about the long term implications. What if Amazon then started a health insurance company? Could they cut costs on both ends for "consumers"?
I'm sorry, but I fail to see the anything but superstition in the refusal to do search and replace through a language parser.
spot on. I think bobjordan has nailed it. Why can't people like Raubacher see this point. As brilliant as Raubacher, Mehta, and Petersen are, not to mention Founders Fund and Susa Ventures, they just don't take the time to see it from the little guy's perspective.
Ethereum has pulled off several hard forks, which they ran within weeks of finalizing the software. There's no reason Bitcoin couldn't do the same, especially for non-contentious forks.
I am a biologist, and while not everything these journals publish is super-compelling, by and large most of it is stuff that changes the way we think about particular scientific questions. The standard is definitely well above "minimum publishable unit".
Almost all of our functions are inlined and furthermore we use the () => syntax on class methods instead of manually binding them in the constructor. I've only run into performance issues because of this once and it was fixed by using componentShouldUpdate. This whole debate seems like one of those memes that hits a nerve one way or the other with a lot of people but has little bearing on real life.
> but it's going to stay isolated to first-hand news discussion forums, like HN, Reddit, Slashdot.

I don't think you can call that isolated. Although I don't have data to back it up, it does not seem unlikely that a lot of their user base starts from there. This reader base includes many people's tech person, that e.g. help their friends install a browser.
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we had them all memorized as kids, until we realized there was a key combo that skipped it.
"their number grows slowly or maybe decreases, while the number of people wanting them increases."

Yes - you are right to point out that as BTC's disappear, it's not such a bad thing.

But why do you assume people would continue wanting them?

"That's why Bitcoin is the best Store Of Value ever devised."

It's currently one of the worst 'stores of value' possible.

It's massively volatile, and inherently risky: governments could decide to regulate it tomorrow - or even ban it. It's highly susceptible to popular whims. It has massive chunks owned by individual investors who could 'change their minds' on something.

If you have $X USD and want to 'diversify' and have 'strong store of value' - there are many other better options. Real estate being on the top of the list. Over the long-haul, there are innumerable places in the world where real estate will hold it's value for hundreds of years. Baskets of commodities, currencies, decent bonds.

Bitcoin is a very speculative asset, which makes it the 'opposite' of a 'store of value'. And if it's not a currency, then why are we using it again?

Let me put it differently:

In 200 years - do you think there will be demand for real estate in London? There has been for 1000 years. What about Tokyo? Shanghai? Of course there will. Maybe less, but certainly some, and probably more.

Will there be demand for BTC in 100 years? It's hard to say. Possibly, but there's a decent chance nobody will know what it is then.
Surely you know how search engines make money? They need users. Can't sell adspace without users.

Were Mozilla says recommendations I say payed referrals ;)

I mean yeah search engines started as charitable organizations long ago but now? Tangentially related I noticed how it is impossible to remove all the embedded search engines in Firefox...
Well the first smartphone was prototyped around 1992 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Simon
I still don't see any difference between the severity of reading banned literature or banned terrorism videos. Neither should be illegal or, failing that, punishable by a severe sentence (10 years jail is already ridiculous, let alone 15).
Given your liking of Munger's book, you might find this interesting: in the Stress-influence tendency chapter (page 434 or thereabouts, I think), Munger mentions a "description of Pavlov’s last work in a popular paperback, written by some Rockefeller-financed psychiatrist". This is probably Battle for the Mind [1] by William Sargant [2].

The Wikipedia entry on Sargant says things like "his reliance on dogma rather than clinical evidence have confirmed his reputation as a controversial figure whose work is seldom cited in modern psychiatric texts.", and others "described him as 'autocratic, a danger, a disaster' and spoke about 'the damage he did'".

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Mind-Brainwashing-Evangelists-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sargant
My favorites have always been the folk dance versions!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROalU379l3U
Wouldn’t it be more apt to say that side effects are not secondary citizens in haskell republic and they have first class support?
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Is that their normal use case though? Why would you hire any freight forwarder to do nothing beyond what FedEx does? Aren't there more complicated logistics problems they ostensibly solve?
> They're going to be aggregating the data and specifically promise to not create profiles on individual users.

A promise isn't good enough. They say so themselves either, which is why they've described here how they try to prevent themselves from even being able to create profiles, so you don't have to trust them: https://gist.github.com/solso/423a1104a9e3c1e3b8d7c9ca14e885...

That said, a cursory reading does make it seem like they wouldn't be completely unable too, but I haven't dived into it too extensively yet.
I wonder how they created this visualization?
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The SP500 has been growing consistently, has for quite a long time, and it's a bet on the future growth of the American economy. There will be ups and downs, but by enlarge, steady growth.

BTC has been on a wild ride, and could evaporate at any moment. I don't think it will, but it could, since there's no reason for anyone anywhere to own it.

There's no question the safer bet is S&P 500.

Now - in the range of outcomes, admittedly, the BTC owns the higher end of the spectrum - no doubt, there are possibilities where BTC completely outraces the S&P, however, it also owns the lower end of the spectrum of outcomes, where a lot of those outcomes are 0.
generative anime avatars.

https://hiroshiba.github.io/girl_friend_factory/index.html

https://makegirlsmoe.github.io/
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I always have difficulty mapping the algorithm with visualization. Probably d3-dyslexic.
> What, besides ethics and money, stops you from running an evolutionary process that selects for intelligence at a vastly higher rate than real time

You can already do that today. So why don't we have a superintelligence? I can train a NTM to learn counting and give me the next natural number in a single step. I can't train it to give me the next prime in a single step, why?. Computability and complexity, both conveniently forgotten in the discussion of superintelligence.
By far the best comment about programming. It really doesn't matter until you get into the millions of users. And the chances of that are slim. So focus on traction before scale.
FYI he's applying logical operations to sentences as logical propositions, which is valid and precise. Not hand wavey, and condescending like you are doing.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress has replaced Starship Troopers in the last five or six years.
Wow that’s a great discovery. Telkom is a major service provider, and I use them! Any other way to prevent this?
Bitcoin was having drama like this well before it reached the market cap that Ethereum has now. So far Ethereum is remarkably drama-free. There was the DAO controversy last year, but the chain split seems to have resolved that nicely.
That discounts the fact that companies stop existing during 'ride it out' decade.
Sell HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?
In a previous HN thread about selling side projects, someone floated the idea of trying out a "Sell HN" thread - so here it is.
If you have any side projects that you've built and that you no longer have time for, list them here and let's see if others want to buy it from you.
That the competition aren't really dinosaurs.

I looked up a company mentioned in the article "Expeditors". It is a logistics service company so pretty close to what Flexport wants to be. It spends ~$500 million a year on dividends and share buybacks, so it has lots of resources to invest in new technology and could then apply that to all of its existing relationships.
Well, these are really beautiful. I've seen a lot of sorting visualizations, but these were the first that kind of took my breath away.
They can do a lot better than that. Shipping is such a backbone of 21st century that an amazon or Walmart acquisition would be kinda underwhelming.
Face2Face: Creating a very realistic fake (2016)
What does the author mean about timing attacks on HMACs with Array.equals? Does HMAC leak info and is it subject to timing attacks if you HMAC on both sides before doing equality checks? Does he mean for e.g. session cookies?
Despite all the histrionics about 2X -- just read r/bitcoin -- nobody in the 2X movement is a bad actor, they're people who've come to some different conclusions about what needs to be done.

It's funny to think what an _actual_ bad actor could do to the platform. Every time I hear the cryptocurrency people crowing about the amazing un-censorable power of the technology I just smile.
If say you added a capability to encrypt data (not SSL but static data storage encryption) and ability for multiple users. Without any users yet how do you qauntify that?
Yes - this does happen.

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/dutch-chipmaker-sues-to-silence-se...

[2] http://www.eweek.com/blogs/security-watch/german-software-co...

[3] http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11259

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=security+researcher+sued&t=ffsb&ia...
People also don't appreciate that Bitcoin is infinitely divisible, so the total numbers are meaningless. At the same time, inflation is super low and decreases over time, giving it more and more edge over nation-state currencies.
JavaScript's \b in a regex doesn't like unicode.

But, yes, this does seem an odd thing to call out to a remote api for.

This would need some work to match the features of what was posted, but not much. https://jsfiddle.net/g6nrs5cq/
https://codahale.com/a-lesson-in-timing-attacks/
I don't understand what you mean about formally specifiable postconditions. Genetic algorithms can have formally specifiable postconditions, they just aren't definable in terms of the problem space to which they're typically applied. The postconditions can be defined in terms of the state of the genetic system. I also am not able to find, anywhere, a formal definition of algorithm that unambiguously wouldn't include genetic algorithms as I outlined them in the above comment.

A heuristic explores a problem in a specific domain. An algorithm specifies a process at a level suitable for machine implementation. Genetic algorithms are, thus, algorithms, though they are typically applied in heuristics to explore real-world problem spaces.
I didn't flip - my point is "password hashes" and other secure hashes are similarly secure. You need a long password to trust it won't be brute-forced.
Very cool, I love how new ways of visualising sorting keep appearing.
Great to see bureaucracy not getting in the way of something like this. Is there a link somewhere about Google’s tech and motivation?
I doubt it would help.

So far I've seen four posts that are spot on, downvoted.

The general sentiment is towards hype and bubble, and it's just another echo chamber reinforcing the spiral.

Not just here, and a lot more pronounced lately.
Regarding optical size of icons... for years I've wished that icons were sized (in the dock, in Finder, etc.) to consistent maximum area on top of maximum height/width, so that applications with square icons wouldn't look bigger than the circular or irregular ones. It would make everyone's dock look so much better.

For example, a 32 x 32 icon has 1,024 pixels. If we declared than any icon can only use 2/3 of the available area, then square icons would be reduced to 26 x 26, circle icons to 29 x 29, and more irregular shapes like a printer or magnifying glass would presumably get the full 32 x 32. It's trivial to sum up and calculate from the amount of transparency, and would leave rows of icons so much more optically balanced.

(More advanced -- to deal with hollows, you can "shrink wrap"/"gift wrap" the icon before calculating area.)
Create a two-dimensional array of width w and height h. Fill each row of the array with the numbers 1..w randomly shuffled. Pick a sorting algorithm, implement it so that you can run it one elementary sorting step at a time and observe the partial result. For each row in your array, execute a single step of your algorithm. Store the partial result as an image, with the elements of the array interpreted as the hue component of a HSL color coordinate. Repeat until the algorithm has halted for every row in the array. Make an animation out of the resulting frames.
Telkom has been injecting kak [0] into pages for _years_ [1], [2]. A former employee of theirs told me that at one stage they were replacing ad content with their own adverts - I would dismiss this as hearsay had I not seen it myself.

[0] South Africanism for 'shit'

[1] https://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/704472-Telkom-In...

[2] https://www.sadev.co.za/content/telkom-using-man-middle-atta...
«Hasn't been true»

Yes it's true. I said WEIGHT not SIZE. A distinction few understand. Check the kWU column at https://blockchain.info If a full node has built a 4Mweight/1MB block, it is full, because non-segwit txs have wasted the 4M weight quota and prevented the block from growing over 1MB. If segwit adoption stays low, blocks WON'T be able to grow much beyond 1MB.

In fact the problem is that the rate of adoption of segwit is too low compared to the rate of increased txs that Bitcoin needs to be able to support. Therefore blocks are going to continue to stay at or near the ~4M weight quota.
So okay, if you're using HMAC where the user can provide the HMAC, this would be an issue (like session cookies), but it the user can only provide preimage (as in e.g. encrypting database column and wanting lookup) then this wouldn't be an issue, I don't think.
Says right at the bottom

Pro-Tip: their injection can only work on HTTP and not HTTPS so there is some relief from this inconvenient and dangerous code injection. Installing the HTTPS Everywhere plugin will help mitigate the injection and is a recommended plugin to run regardless. Alternatively install the Tor browser.
This argument seems like it needs some evidence behind it.

Where's the infinite supply of scientists coming from?
Is this real? Better URL?