skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You figure out a way to remove the name / identifying info and just have someone classify the transaction.
I have experienced similar, not as extreme but the feeling of being overly mindful of "risks", creating lots of spikes rather than just doing what needs to be done. Estimation in scrums are meant for exactly -- estimation, a way for developers to do a sanity check on if there are major disagreements on how complex an issue is and therefore its value when comparing to current business priorities. If you're breaking it down so small just so you feel you have "completed" sprints, you're gaming the system and lying to yourselves. Just understand that it is OK to not complete sprints, as long as you have a goal you can measure against and get a good feeling to how well you did.

Why not try to be more transparent and open with your team? Exactly what you just wrote here and let them know and then maybe you can have a discussion and see what happens from there, maybe they could move to something else like Kanban, or maybe they can improve the current way they work. If still nobody is willing to change and your frustration continues, then consider if you should leave your job. Sometimes people in a team develop this group-think and it doesn't necessarily mean there's no hope, often it just takes someone to take the initiative and voice their frustrations.
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Depending on what market makers are up to, this will work or won’t. Trend would be towards eventually not working if it does at all. Difficult to say how liquidity differences will affect ability of your strat to work.
You want to hit your number by age 35 but you still need to work for 15-20 years? Does not compute?
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> Indeed! I have recently been trying to come up with a new term to use instead of "identity theft" (open to suggestions). As the term itself seems almost Orwellian to me.

I'll have a stab at coining the new word.

The concept is referring to attempted or successful deceit of the bank. Let's take the Latin word for deceit, fraudem, and modernize it so it won't sound so quaint. I think that "fraud" would do.
> If your only experience with CloudFormation is hand-written JSON, it's worth another look.

Strongly agree.

YAML and sensible formatting conventions really do transform the usability of CloudFormation.
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Out of curiousity given your seemingly strong sentiments, what is your background and what authors/researchers would you say have influenced your thinking the most?
1 - Do not run very large jobs on AWS spot instances only (specifically GPU instances)

2 - If you have to run something large, make sure it can be paused and resumed later.

3 - Run that job on the cheapest Spot/OnDemand instance you need.

4 - If the price is right on the other side of the spot/demand side, provision a new machine, checkpoint the job, and restart.
I wrote myself off as "bad at being supportive" for a long time. Eventually I realized that being supportive is a trainable skill just like software development or healthy eating. I am still not great at it, but getting better. I respectfully urge you to examine yourself and try to modify your habits rather than looking for excuses.
Currently 31, will likely have the option around 40 (or early 40s) at current pace. Don’t think I actually would that early though.
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throwaway account.

I plan to spend 20k-30k/y in investing startups for next 5 years, what resource would you suggest apart from angel.co syndicates?
As far as I can tell uMatrix covers this (XHRs).
If you don't mind, could you share some resources on existing models that approximate the neuron behaviour more accurately? If you're talking about feedback-driven models like RNNs/LSTMs/GRUs/etc, then I can safely say that there are people working on realising these models on custom computing architectures. The simple feed-forward neural network could be thought of as the low-hanging fruit in this regard, which, nevertheless, is still an impressive feat.
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EDM? The resurfacing of 90's Eurodance? Is there anything more commercial? Maybe that's my European viewpoint, so please elaborate if I am wrong.
I absolutely recognize the fact that everyone learns from others and having a space to do that and people who are willing to invest in others is great -- my problem is that it's a requirement and not a differentiator.

Not every good engineer is a good teacher and not every good teacher is a good engineer. The two things are almost orthogonal in my opinion.

The kind of teaching you mention in the second paragraph is second nature to any good engineer. That's a base level realization, possibly even just a component of maturely working in a team as a human being. It shouldnt even be a differentiator between a 'junior' and 'senior' person to begin with, that's just hiring people who work well in teams/understand team dynamics.

To expand more on why i I dislike this requirement, I have seen companies use it only as a barrier to being promoted. "Oh yeah you're up for a promotion but you haven't lead a class on X technology yet". Having a policy like this also lets companies ignore the real problem: inadequate new hire training.

To sum up, the kind of teamwork you're suggesting is vital/good for companies, i agree. I disagree that it's a differentiator between juniors and seniors though.

Another argument is that value (being good at teaching/mentoring other engineers) is VERY valuable to the company, and the pay increase they're trying to offer for people who can do it (well, I assume) is inadequate.
No, this implies that the victim is the end user, not the bank.
We will be back to the world of public domain and freeware.

Everything will have a light version open source, with the actual goodies only available in the commercial version.
I wonder how many of these pilots planned to fly AA flights to get to their vacation destination.
Actually, the reason the taxes on this parcel were only $14/yr was Prop 13 and Prop 13 was passed by the Californian electorate. And calling Feinstein any kind of Socialist is a hoot.
> Bitcoin is the only real crypto-currency, because it is the only one to have achieved actual decentralization

This is ridiculous because Bitcoin is arguably much more vulnerable to centralized manipulation than fiat money. You only need to compromise 2-3 of the major mining pools and suddenly a 51% attack isn't so unfathomable, and that's just one potential attack vector. The pools obscure the real source of the mining power -- wouldn't it be funny if it was a nation-state who had a backdoor, or even one who was just interested in promoting bitcoin because it makes it so much easier for them to track their citizen's activities and exchanges? What happens if a bitcoin core dev gets compromised? What about MtGox^WCoinbase? What if you wanted to destroy bitcoin, and blew up a hotel where the central bankers^W^Wmajor pool operators were all meeting at the same time, as they've been known to do? etc. Could go on for a long time.

If I wanted to disrupt the Federal Reserve the same way, where do I start? Can I get the interest rate changed by phishing Janet Yellin's Gmail password?

Bitcoin as an experiment in a democratized, decentralized mechanism of exchange that normal people could use as an alternative to conventional payment methods has completely failed. This is, in large part, due to the short-sighted design of the difficulty mechanism, which makes it impossible to mine on commodity hardware. As soon as someone releases affordable hardware that is useful for mining, it defeats itself on the next difficulty bump.

Bitcoin is something weird right now, but it's assuredly not what it was meant to be, because a central cartel of power brokers have it wrapped around their finger and the average citizen can't do anything about it, exactly the circumstance that most early adopters were hoping bitcoin could help solve.
Australia had one of it's most dramatic Union disputes with airline pilots. The airline / government (Labor/leftwing!) won. During the dispute the Air Force supplied some pilots and some pilots were brought from overseas.

The result is much cheaper airfares and no loss in quality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Australian_pilots%27_disp...
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Shhhh! You'll get lynched talkin' like that around here.
The canals and rails are the expected endogenous result of a unified european or east asian people blessed with such land, after being formed by a thousand years of scarcity and warfare. It's not a monetary policy or tax thing.

These people just don't get that civilization is energy flows and culture, not laissez-faire economic policies.
When was the last time you tried sphinx? The library has changed a LOT. Their guides, new website and other resources basically walk you from zero knowledge to working demo.
"Perhaps Azure needs to work on marketing? Is there a legitimate reason Azure isn't getting more traction in the non-enterprise world? I mean that as a totally serious question, not in a dickish way. Is it because it has the Microsoft name attached to it or just because AWS has so much traction?"

The problems of support and network effects go two ways. People perceive that Azure favours Microsoft tech, and may not support other platforms as well, which may or may not be true. More definitely, the tools and libraries for non-Microsoft languages tend to support AWS as the cloud of choice by having more features and being more heavily-used and tested with AWS than GCP or Azure.
I have to agree with you. If I take an empty hard drive and fill it with information, clearly it's information content has increased but its physical weight would be the same. You could argue that it contained 0s or 0xffs to begin with but since they are all the same the quantity of information is less. So information itself does not have a weight but it exists in the state of physical objects which do have weight.
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I can easily work 8 hours per day straight, however throw two or three interruptions into my day (meetings or the like) and I'm lucky if I can get back in a solid flow. Put me in three hours of meetings and I'm completely toast from that point on.
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The ESP32 is just like a tiny Amstrad PCW 1512, with dual core and extra network support.

Which for anyone that used a PCW, means it can do a lot.
I wonder how many of the major US banks have binding arbitration clauses? I don't claim to know one way or the other, though I thought I heard that one major bank did & it had been standing up in court recently, but I may be mistaken. I also have no idea if they'd hold up in general -- but I'd be curious how many of the T&Cs that you sign have these clauses...
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Radio DJs have been cutting out intros for at least 50 years. When I was a kid I didn't have enough money to buy albums and got all my music from the radio. When I finally did start buying music I heard all sorts of intros I never knew existed.
Economists think that you should let markets set prices. shocking.

What is strange is all these free market people in tech who only like free markets that don't apply to them.
Until then we have the actual goodies only available in the cloud. ;)
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So you have only one user on your Mac and that user is named "root"? Really? That would be very strange.

I'm fairly confident most Mac users never enable the root account at all. We don't need to. I'm not sure people who've only used other Unix systems understand that; I didn't when I came to the Mac after using Linux and FreeBSD in the 1990s. You need an administrator account, but that's not really the same thing. I haven't had a root account enabled on a Mac in about 15 years. (Well, except for a 14 hour or so stretch from yesterday evening to this morning, between the time I enabled it with a strong password as a "fix" for this bug and the time the actual fix was pushed by Apple.)

At any rate, I'd be very surprised if there was even a single user literally locked out of their Mac because of this change. I think it'd have been better on general principle if they'd done some kind of check that boiled down to "if the root user is enabled but it doesn't have a password set, disable it, otherwise leave it enabled," but there may be perfectly valid reasons that they couldn't do that.
The y-axis on the Venezuela chart is denominated in Bolivar. I assume it's Bolivar being traded. Why would you assume otherwise?
You mean, each entry doesn't get revealed at 6am as it does here in Europe?
HTTP request logging in Node.js
One of the most basic kind of logging every backend application should have is a trace logging of all incoming HTTP requests. Yet it’s not easy to make it right and useful. Most of the backends we create at Bright nowadays are Node.JS applications based on Express. Although there is a plethora of libraries that are to handle logging for you, we would not be ourselves if we haven’t tried to build something on our own (even if only for the sake of knowing the internals better). Let me show you what we have learned and what we do to ensure our logs are meaningful and useful.
Why are you easily able to see gold as having intrinsic value but not Bitcoin? Both are valuable because a lot of people say so. There is no other value but utility and most currencies, including the dollar, do not have any utility other than their ability to function as currency.
Nah. At this rate people will simply abandon the ship sooner or later. There's definitely some deterioration going on instead of only a cynical strategy shift.

The new MBP isn't attractive anymore. The software stagnates. The only reason I keep using Mac for usual use cases is just its wonderful collection of dictionaries (I like to constantly learn new languages). I wonder why no publisher ever bothered coming up with a decent dictionary software on Windows/Linux yet instead of making do with crappy online versions. If they did I'd happily just use a Windows + Linux dual boot machine.
It's kind of hidden, but if you select the wildcard in the top-left domain list of uMatrix, you can disable classes of requests by default. eg Cookies, XHRs, iframes, then whitelist them per-site.
Thanks for the note about HW. In my field in robotics openness is not common (ROS being a major exception).

I hold a rather uncommon view that a path to a more free society requires abundance of open source tools. In the software world we are getting closer, but the whole hardware world is still one big unmoving binary blob.

I make open source robots and I’m hoping to help in that area. But we need open source machine tools, open source factories, and open manufacturing processes. There’s lots of work do be done in hardware land.
I doubt you could sign a BAA with offshore workers who don't have to comply to such US standards. Furthermore, this space will get shaken up in 2018 in Europe when EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect.

Re 3rd party audit -- yes, a Pen Test by a 3rd party & BAA should be the standard for healthcare companies dealing with service provides. If Expensify has any healthcare companies using their service they are either too small to employ such due diligence or Expensify is headed towards a disaster aka Equifax #2.

Either way, tech companies should take privacy more seriously.
Isn't the intrinsic value of Bitcoin the fact that it is decentralized and that no government or other entity has direct control over it?

Sure it's cryptographically secure, but what is the difference between that and a regular bank using encryption on their money transfer network?

I think the reason it's hard to say whether or not Bitcoin is worthwhile is that there has never been a decentralized currency at this scale before, and for all we know, unless it can serve some kind of purpose that a regular currency issued by a country cannot serve, it's not that useful. This is why Bitcoin is used a lot by people from countries were their own currency is struggling.

But with the central banks of many first-world countries printing money uncontrollably, some even bringing about negative interest rates, many fear the collapse of large economies in the near future. If that happens, Bitcoin will be a way to store your wealth and prevent all your money from becoming worthless pieces of paper.

Other ways of doing the same would be buying gold or some other form of valuable goods and storing it in your house or have someone else store it for you somewhere, but obviously the fact that Bitcoin is digital makes it a much easier to use and viable option.

But, we don't know if that will ever happen. Bitcoin itself also has so many problems. It's also arbitrary as to which digital currency to use since there are so many to invest in, some more popular than others, some have evolved to fix problems with previous versions, so it's really hard to say if all of this will amount to something useful.
Run as much as I can in kubernetes

Have 2 ASG's in my kubernetes cluster

1 is for dedicated (or RI) instances that run more of stateful apps. The ones I don't want to move around a lot

The other ASG is for spot instances. I use a lambda job to replace a instance spun up with a spot instance. Those will stay up as long as it stays below the bid price. I've saved companies around 50-60% min of their ec2 bill this way.
I'm not really sure if calling rust a kind of mushroom is being that fair on it.
In other countries, the government provides a reasonable authenticator for personal identity; the banking system is not so easily fooled.

It's not an essential property of central banking that banks will give you the money in an account, or courts will enforce a debt against someone, simply because you know some basic demographic information about the victim.
That is totally normal, this is for billing and tax issues. Just give an electricity bill.
What is the problem that email solves that regular mail does not already solve? The answer to that is also the answer to your question about Bitcoin.
Handoff is definitely a weird one. I don't think I've ever gotten it to do anything useful. Its functionality is seemingly limited to popping up a random icon to the left of the dock from time to time to distract me.
I'm a fairly newer Qt developer so I really only have experience with QT5. Perhaps I was fortunate to miss the growing pains you seem to have endured. For me, the ease of doing cross-platform development along with the ability to create really high quality GUIs with QML made me fall in love.
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Is this supposed to completely replace your bookkeeper?
Just used an arbitrary range to convey "a significant amount of time". Didn't want to give away my age on here, heh. I've got a few years in the industry under my belt, but by no means nearing retirement anytime soon.

Also to be clear, I probably wouldn't stop working if I hit my number - I would probably just work on different things or have a more flexible on/off work schedule.

Also remember, luck is an important piece of it, so if you've got some to spare, I'd be happy to take it off your hands.
Shoutout to this service - from what I can tell it is the least concerning of several options in terms of data leakage and trust. At the least, it seems to work after testing several domains blacklisted through Steven Black's host file on Github.
Is it so hard to get SV/Seattle remote jobs even for someone like you (national living in the US)?

I know a bunch of people from eg. Eastern Europe who work for SV startups remotely. I'm European and planning on looking for remote US jobs within the next 2-3 years, hopefully the market is not that bad?
It limits the freedom of the author yes. It severely expands the freedom of the user. That is the whole point of the license, any user has the code available to modify, inspect, or audit himself. I don't see how you think that it limits the freedom of the user too.
Indian here, never heard of CME before. NASDAQ yes.
The thing that really shocks me about this incident is that, basically checking that "root cannot be logged in under any unusual circumstances" is a fundamental, basic test of any OS development group, and there must have been at least 2 decades of this test running somewhere internally at Apple, and .. somehow .. thats not happening.

Like, I seriously hope this was just an oversight in the testing system somehow - but I'm really rather concerned that Apple is not testing these things as rigorously as it should be/used to be.

This is such a fundamentally corrupt security issue that we all have to increase our levels of suspicion over the QA team at Apple. Truly a shocking hole.
Personal assistant devices are selling like hotcakes, and there are tons of options for creating smart lighting and such. Maybe I hang around tinkerers too much, but I think it would be nice to have a method of speech control that doesn't rely on someone's remote speech recognition API.
> Not to bash the BBC – all web publishers are using this stuff and loads more. The BBC are unusually good actually, as their sites don't run adverts and all the adtech crap that comes with them.

Recently I was surprised to discover that the Australian equivalent that also has no advertising has half a dozen trackers on there main page. Plus twitter integration and CDN material.
That sounds suspiciously like a strategy that could, eventually, lead to automation of the whole process...but it will be costly in the short term so it's better to just turk it until you make it for now!

/s
Sadly, thats the IoT world I want to live in. All the devices communicate only through the internal network. This increases security a ton by default.

If you want to use it outside your network, then you do it the old fashioned way, by setting up a vpn to your router.
Yes, our long term goal is to automate all the bookkeeping duties and when I say automate I mean automate with machines, not outsource :)
racial bias in computer vision strikes again!
Or just never sell ;)
What "illicit market" could possibly be interested in a pile of random receipts?

Receipts would have any value if all of them are from the same person and can be used to reconstruct that person's activity. And even then it'd be pretty damn tricky to sell that "file" as it still has no exploitable value.
Definitely on the pure-hardware one. VMWare's running their stuff on that.
This might be a bit off-topic, but after gaining some experience, teaching something to others is one of the best ways to reflect on the things you learned and gain new insights. You have to do it first, but teaching stuff will probably provide you with some deeper insights.
There is one important difference between Box and unique_ptr though: unique_ptr is nullable while Box isn't.
Aren't the bitcoin transaction fees actually higher than what you would get with banks? I don't know how it works in the US, but I can do free almost-instant transfers inside Germany with no problems at all, including for online transactions (like Amazon).
Lots of things to be improved, but even if nothing changes and Bitcoin is frozen exactly as it is right now, it would provide the best store of value we have for years. This "honeybadger" resilience attribute is rather an advantage for a store of value. Especially now that the big players will get in the game (CME, Nasdaq etc.)