skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of what is considered “left-wing” in the US is “liberal” (and somewhere on the political right) in the global sense, though, confusing things more.
I'm really glad Jibrel's tokens are unlocking in 3 days, don't have to deal with Tether bullshit anymore.
Ugh, as soon as I signed up I got locked out of Google Payments due to "fraud protection"... when I used the same computer I always use and the same credit card number as I've used before without any problems. I have no clue what is going on, but come on guys... nobody's going to want to trade in a government issued ID to exchange for a "free" VM.
Goole my Business
As long as you don't confuse being ineffective for craftsmanship. It's not craft when something takes longer to build than it should. Or is of higher quality than needs to be. It's craft when something is juuuuust perfectly suited to its purpose.

Do more, work less.
As it says at the bottom: "Buy an overpriced Boring Company fire extinguisher! You can definitely buy one for less elsewhere, but this one comes with a cool sticker and the button is conveniently riiight above."
I just bought this game because it looked really fun [0]. I've only spent about 20 minutes on it but it feels well made and certainly is challenging!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHLizp8fARo
A flamethrower is a device which pressurizes a flammable liquid or gel, which is ignited and projected at range. This is not such a device, it’s just a propane torch with a toy gun case. You might as well call a lighter with the valve wide open a flamethrower. History of the flamethrower: http://www.firstworldwar.com/weaponry/flamethrowers.htm
And in this case, the company owner replied "I think you have the wrong company. You never worked for us. There is this company in Singapore with the same name."

Even if the original reviewer didn't take it down, that's a valid response. People will see that and be like, "huh .. let me look that up .. yea that seems legit."

I mean for something as delicate as this, I feel like there is a limit to what Glassdoor can do and maintain integrity.
No they don't. They, like most abuse sensitive recipients, don't accept mail from small indie servers, so people know not to use small indie servers to send mail.
You can get a $1.75 bottle of everclear for $35-$40 [http://www.theliquorbarn.com/everclear-grain-alcohol-190-pro...]

That should translate into < $10 for an equivalent 750 ml bottle of 40% vodka.
a multilevel treehouse panopticon!
You assume that the head of Amazon wouldn't want to hear personally about a lot of very bad code being casually tolerated over a long period of time under his watch. I find that baffling. Ignoring something like that is not very "day one." (To use Bezos' mantra.) Amazon also have a board who are probably competent and interested in the company not ____ing up. That a complaint might get lost in the shuffle or noise of a big company doesn't mean it shouldn't be made; but it may mean it shouldn't be made just once.

Yes, there are bosses who don't want awkward info. At NeXT, Jobs didn't want to know (in those days) he just wanted stuff done, so even though his N.A. managers pretty much knew the European manager was not telling the truth about his spectacular sales success they didn't make sure the information got to Jobs, since he didn't seem to want it. Worse, the European staff regulars who were asked to do the dirty work and did know there was a big problem (if only because they say huge stacks of computers piling up in warehouses collecting dust, say) didn't see fit to inform Jobs. The company failed because the European manager was committing massive fraud to fake sales. (Without that, it might have failed for other reasons but that's why it failed.)

But Jobs was unusual in more than one way (and did learn that lesson.) Why on God's earth assume that upper management never wants bad news? The truth is that upper management is often very well-aware that frequently middle managers, and low-level managers tend to serve themselves even to the point of putting the whole company at risk and see it as a big part of their job to prevent that; but they don't know how and where until they're told. The fault with upper management is more usually that they assume that some floor employee would have knocked on their door if anything odd was going on; but as the discussion here shows so vividly, that's by no means always true.

Yup, again, there are some bad bosses who are going to drive their companies into the ground if they can, but it's a dereliction of duty to assume that. If you're taking money from a corporation, twiddling your thumbs while it starts to goes into a steep dive, or continues one, isn't ethical.

Of course, if you go over a boss's head, you absolutely have to have done your homework, and to be right. It's not something to be done impulsively, but it's a duty.

Books such as "The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers" by Ben Horowitz take great pains to convince those heading or managing businesses to make sure every employee takes responsibility for what happens to the company as a whole (from the employee's action and inaction) if that boss wants their company to survive. I could name many others.
Blockbuster shares
Is any part of the Democratic Party not pro-capitalist? (As in, “we should have a fundamentally capitalist economy, shaped by some regulation and redistribution to deal with negative externalities and alleviate hardship.”)

Maybe some people who believe in total collectivization vote Democratic as the lesser of two evils, but are they really unseating the capitalists?
> and automated license plate tracking is pretty darn common across all EU countries yet no one here yells Stasi about this.

A huge chunk of Europe doesn't use driving as their primary means of transportation.
It is possible to do this in O(1) memory, for arbitrary sized collections, efficiently.

The first trick is to make a function that can calculate the nth set with k elements from some universe U (in this case U = {0..2^5-1} without order (no duplicates) directly. This is done using the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorial_number_system. This is very efficient.

Then, to encode duplicates you use the stars and bars trick.
A list of deltas should do it. In the worst case, the deltas would use log2[2^32/1000000] * 1000000 bits, so about 1.5 MB. Plus some space because of base 128 encoding (it increases size up to 37/32, rounded up per byte).

I got a worst case of exactly 2 MB (1.907 MiB) (all deltas being 4294, so the list is 0, 4294, 8588...), but maybe it's possible to get better than that.

It would be uber slow though, probably n^2.
It's the opening problem from Programming Pearls: http://www.fusu.us/2013/06/bitmap-sort.html

(edit: better link)
Do you understand marketing?
> It seems these should be very illegal

Why should they be illegal?
try combinatorics branch of mathematics
[sorry for the delay]

UPS. I totally missed the log in the definition. My example of 2.5 is wrong (slightly wrong :))

Anyway, the proposed factorization of 2.5 is something that involves only 2 and 3, but if you multiply it by 2 then magically a 5 appears. So the main problem is still there.

I think that a UFD is not a structure similar to your idea, in particular it doesn't use fractional exponents.

My idea was to use R as a Q-vector space and use the base {log(2); log(3); log(5); log(7); log(11); ...}, but to complete this base you must use the Axiom of Choice, so you get a lot of crazy values, not only the logarithm of the primes. Then the idea is to use this base to express the logarithm of the number.

For example, if x=12 then log(12) = 2 * log(2) + 1 * log(3) that is equivalent to 12 = 2^2 * 3. This construction provides good values for sqrt(2), 1/6 and other simple algebraic numbers. The problem is that if you pick something like pi, you get a decomposition that is not very meaningful.
There are a lot sold for weed control in gardening https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lawn-Weed-Burner-Blaster-Blow-Tor...

Guess it's hard to draw the line between that and the nastier ones.
> I don't see how that debunks it -- seems like that legitimizes that it is an actual working flame thrower.

No, it's a working blowtorch, not a flamethrower. (Which incidentally seems to mean that it isn't restricted by California's licensing requirement on flamethrowers, because it doesn't meet the definition of “flamethrower”, either generally or in California law.)
The western world needs to somehow get rid of our taboo on income. In a lot of eastern European countries, paychecks are just laid out on tables. Everyone knows what everyone makes.

There have been countless articles that talk about how there isn't a huge pay disparity between men and women in skilled jobs, and articles like The Confidence Gap (Salon) that show that when disparity does occur, it's simply of women not being confident enough to ask for what they deserve.

(On a side note, I hypothesize if you could objectively measure confidence and then compared incomes to confident vs non-confident people in their field, the pay distribution would be low to high among them, regardless of gender. That's difficult theory to prove though).

At larger companies, you have pay grades listed and everyone in Active Directory has a pay grad associated with them (BlueCross orgs are like this). So you can actually look up, within a $8k range, what everyone around you makes, and it pretty much stays accurate until you get up to the VP/board positions.

I wish more companies had transparency on this, but I feel like income transparency is going to stay limited to the public sector.
What I don't get about these conspiracy theories about the "current elite", is if they thought bitcoin was such a threat they could just put money in it.

Until I hear otherwise, I assume Hanlon's razor is at play here: regulators in all jurisdictions are still figuring out what to think about cryptocurrencies. US regulators have their hands tied in the case of Tether because they've gone to lengths to avoid US jurisdiction. Other regulators around the world may be less resourced.
Given that most cameras are sensitive to IR (but human eyes are not), it seems like you could also wire up some super bright IR LEDs to obscure the plate too. Hmm... idea for a new license place 'holder'...
But if I pick my buckets right, I can store only the lsb in each bucket.

Or more efficient, dynamically construct an implicit trie/heap type thing, where each leaf is the count of times that int appears (and the int itself is encoded in the location)

That feels really, really handwavy but promising?
> and automated license plate tracking is pretty darn common across all EU countries

No it's not. It may be legal in some countries, yes, for example the Italians are doing it for speed-tracking in certain highways, but the data is not shared between the countries, aggregated to form movement profiles or stored longer than required.

With ICE one can be sure that: a) nothing ever gets deleted b) it WILL get data-mined c) it WILL be abused.

> I can fill up a form and get the details including owner details for any license plate in the EU

That's a new to me - in Germany if you want the data e.g. for a lawsuit you have to file a complaint at police and before you get the data the validity of your request will be checked. In addition, this does not allow everyone to build a movement tracking system.

> yet no one here yells Stasi about this.

Oh hell yes people did. In Germany they went to the Bundesverfassungsgericht (~ Supreme Court) and got the legal base for automated tracking banned: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urteil_des_Bundesverfassungsge...
Anything Google, Amazon, Twitter or Facebook store on you is available to the government. If they want to get hold of it to get something to arrest you with, all they have to do is ask. While they may push back on some requests, there's actually very little they can do with FISA/NSA requests, they're almost always complied with.

I've heard them grumble about mass surveillance laws, but I haven't heard about them openly defying them, or using any of their substantial lobbying muscle in Washington against them. If they really cared, they could encrypt a lot of communications data, and simply not store things like real names, GPS co-ordinates and IP addresses as soon as they're not necessary to provide a service. The data wouldn't be as profitable, though.

If it makes you feel any safer, your license plate data is already being sold to private companies who want to build a file on you for profit.

From the EFF[1]:

> Vigilant Solutions' subsidiary Digital Recognition Network, along with MVTrac, are the two main companies hiring contractors to collect ALPR data across the country. The companies then share the data not just with law enforcement but also with auto recovery (aka "repo") companies, banks, credit reporting agencies, and insurance companies. Data collected by private entities does not have retention limits and is not subject to sunshine laws, or any of the other safeguards that are sometimes found in the government sector.

[1]: https://www.eff.org/pages/automated-license-plate-readers-al...
Like a deck of cards, it is the same no matter how it is shuffled.
Too bad the end result is not likely to be as tasty as crab or lobster.
Why should they be illegal? Anyone can whack one together with $100 in parts anyway. I wouldn't choose to own one and if I saw someone carrying one I would give then a wide berth but I don't believe everything that makes me nervous should be outlawed.

It's basically a big ditch burner.
Livers for transplant can now be kept alive at body temperature
Glad to see that the charity donated to is OK, but that is still after the royalties are donated. Hollywood accounting is not yet ruled out.
And it doesn't really help because you know which professors are bad and you might just have to take a class from them anyway.

We did have a really bad professor in my department who got me fired for something stupid. (I was a lab admin). A bunch of students came to defend me. Her husband was the chairman so all of her evaluations went through a different department/chairman.

She got enough complains they didn't grant her tenure! Her and her husband left the university shortly after. I feel like the students achieved something really positive there.
Agreed. KaTeX is much much faster than MathJax.

https://www.intmath.com/cg5/katex-mathjax-comparison.php
> I was surprised except for California (and maybe another state) owning a flamethrower is legal.

And a torch like this thing mislabeled as a “flamethrower” is even less regulated.
I'd suggest fast.ai mooc before keras docs. I took Hintons course and tried to learn through tf/keras docs, but wasn't able to really get going until I found fast.ai. Some of the best "classes" I've ever watched and there's a ton of people helping in the forums.
> Each Gitaly server instance was fork/exec'ing Git processes about 20 times per second

> What's really wrong here is that they're apparently spawning processes like crazy.

Sounds like it depends on the use-case, rather then blanket "two dozen processes per second is clearly absurd".
> The Spheres are kept at 72 degrees and 60 percent humidity during the day, and 55 degrees with 85 percent humidity at night.

Working late is going to be an adventure.
Many common data structures fail to preserve order. Maps (aka dictionaries) based on hash tables come to mind.

Slightly adrift of the topic...

I have a HAMT (hash array map trie) implementation that uses a 32-bit unsigned int as a bitfield to indicate which of the 32 possible children nodes are populated. With this trick I could encode any node with 5 or fewer bits flagged with a 16-bit unsigned int instead.

I just checked and 1 million keys created roughly 1.3 million nodes (1 million keys, 300k internal nodes). Nearly 90% of the 300k internal nodes have 5 or fewer bits set. This trick would make the HAMT overhead nearly half the size.

Very useful!

Now, how about 6-bit values in one 32-bit value? I'd like to try this with a 64-bit HAMT. Can this be easily generalized?

Edit: Oops, that should be nodes with 4 or fewer bits set, there are only 4, 5-bit values. Interestingly that apparently doesn't make much of a difference for HAMTs only about 2k internal nodes out of 300k have 5 children. So the results remain the same.
This is a function of how many H1Bs you work with + your stock compensation. Adjust accordingly.
> to refuse the enemy its humanity and justify total war

Humanism was invented in late middle ages. Before that, everybody was “refused its humanity” simply because there was no such thing.

Also, in ancient times, total wars and genocide were normal state of things. I recommend this book about the subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Natur...
how are you getting 3876 unique values for a set of 4 4 bit values (16, 16, 16, 16) ?
That's a typical RISCism, going back at least to MIPS. Among popular recent ISAs, AArch64 uses a zero register.
Blame game: Self-driving GM Bolt crash highlights tricky legal question
> Reporting was contributed by Manuela Andreoni, Jeremy Ashkenas, Laurent Bastien Corbeil, Nic Dias, Elise Hansen, Michael Keller, Manuel Villa and Felipe Villamor. Research was contributed by Susan C. Beachy, Doris Burke and Alain Delaquérière.

I already knew he worked for NYT, but still: I wonder how much it matters that the creator of Coffeescript was second author on this article.
spammers can and do trivially setup SPF, DKIM and DMARC
One of my clients does license plate reading and tracking. They have hundreds of tiny customers, and a handful of VERY LARGER customers, so I can say with 100% certainty, there are hundreds of agencies across the USA already doing this.

For fun, I tracked my rental car from Georgia to Texas after a vacation a few months back to see how often I hit one of my client's customer's cameras. It was a lot. I saw myself hit toll booths, go under over passes, and parked at a service station. About 25 hits that my account had access to (probably hundreds or thousands that I didn't have rights to see).
The main reason why bootstrapped companies have a better chance is that they grow more naturally/slowly. Once you take VC money you have to go full steam ahead so the investors can exit in 3-4 years. And in most cases that forces you to take directions you don't want to.
What is this in reference to?

Edit: oh, I see, never mind. I don't follow Musk much.
In b flat: http://www.inbflat.net/
VoiceOps is hiring engineers, salespeople in SF to build AI for B2B voice data
Can fan merchandises fund a serious industrial company?

Also, the ROI for humanity for a Musk company seems to be a great deal for humanity overall, not just dollars and cents.
Christopher Domas implemented this idea in his one instruction compiler, the M/o/Vfuscator:

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator

Here's a really nifty talk he gives about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7EEoWg6Ekk
They're not ordered: that's the whole point.
It's because of arbitrage.

If people didn't value tether at $1, then the price for X/USDT pairs (on other exchanges) would be lower.

As it isn't the case, if the price dropped below $1, you could buy USDT here, transfer it to a different exchange and make a profit by buying back your coins there.
So I'm allowed to read/write only once to the backing media?

You're right, that does sound impossible. :O
These need random access to use constant memory, he was talking about streaming access
My bad, I misread!
This has posted, and discussed, to HN in the past.

From the article: "According to the team, firehawk raptors congregate in hundreds along burning fire fronts, where they will fly into active fires to pick up smouldering sticks, transporting them up to a kilometre (0.6 miles) away to regions the flames have not yet scorched."

... where "according to the team" means "we have not actually filmed or photographed this behaviour, once, despite years of trying".

I wish them the best of luck; it would be fascinating to learn of animals other than humans using fire as a tool.

But for now, it's still firmly in the "old bush legend" category.
>these should be very illegal but I guess they are not. That just boggles my mind.

I love the smell of FREEDOM in the morning.
> they've gone to lengths to avoid US jurisdiction.

can you offer some details about what you're describing?
Elon demoing (vid) https://www.instagram.com/p/BeeYW0NA1HU/?utm_source=ig_embed...

He started of selling 50,000 baseball hats for $20 each as a fundraiser and as the Guardian put it:

>Musk, who had earlier, presumably in jest, promised to start selling company-branded flamethrowers once 50,000 hats were purchased, tweeted: “Hats sold out, flamethrowers soon!” https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/dec/31/elon-musk...
It's legit. There's a good documentary about it on FilmStruck at the moment. MLK and Rosa Parks were alums.
There's a fig tree in Balboa Park in San Diego that dwarfs the one in the diagram, and that's only the third biggest in California. But I imagine it's hard to convince people to sell trees that big / transport them into buildings much larger than the one in the diagram.

https://www.balboapark.org/attractions/moreton-bay-fig-tree
IIRC there's an episode of Jay Leno's Garage that features a cop with a license plate reader. He can sit on the side of the road and every car that passes is scanned and checked for warrants. The answer comes back about as quickly as the speed reading on a radar gun.

What they don't tell you is that all those plate numbers are going into a database, time- and location-stamped.
Opposite side. I opened the article, tried to scroll, and switched to Firefox's Reader Mode instead.

Just give the the motherlovin' text.

Side note: NYTimes formats tables in nonstandard ways that break both Firefox Reader Mode and Pocket (these use the same parser AFAIU). That's annoying. Standards exist for reasons.
Indeed, it's all about moichandising!
https://youtu.be/fgRFQJCHcPw?t=36

It really is just a fun/dumb Spaceballs joke. :)
I can see why you gave up on handling spaces :-) I made one over a year ago that handles spaces correctly so that I could use it on Windows (MSYS2), and it was quite the 'fun' project... =P
Well, there used to be a website about an open-source cruise missile. But I'm not finding it now :(
Show HN: An eCourse I made that teaches all aspects of becoming a digital nomad
God I miss my Pebble (had a Pebble Time 2)... I took it off when it was bought and haven't put it back on (pull of the bandaid).

It was pretty much better than any of my friends watches. We used to trade to try them out. I hate the iWatch because the bettery died all the time and I hate the touch screen (I love dials too). The android wear was a bit more my style, but again battery life sucked and I didn't like it wasn't eInk.

Honestly, give me an option to pay double for a pebble and I would. The Pebble Time 2 was the best watch I've ever owned bar none.
I'm working on my data science degree (previously a senior sysadmin), and this is also the workflow I have settled on. Along with versioning/diffs so you can walk back in time to see your changes in a script, I think it's one of the more robust and reproduceable systems around.

So my scripts focus on the data, but around the code block are comments and notes about what is being done, etc.

I've recently been looking at how to integrate makefile into this since watching the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd0HhW8vkSQ

All that said, kudos to the author for this, reading through it I see a few things I hadn't even though of yet, and I live on the command line in general. If it werent for browsing the internet (eww in emacs is nice though) and gaming, I don't think I'd even need a desktop environment.
>It's basically a big ditch burner.

Surely you don't need a 50 foot range to start a fire.
>the ROI for humanity for a Musk company seems to be a great deal for humanity overall, not just dollars and cents

You keep saying that but what exactly has he accomplished so far? For "the benefit of humanity" that is.