skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is just bizarre to me at this point.

There's so much content available elsewhere, with no commercials, for less hassle.

But you're putting up with the frustration of a box and paying for legacy services (you want some story with your ads, I guess), just because?

Capitalism and neoliberalism have taken human propensity for mass delusion and turned it on ourselves. Its outcome, in terms of human psychology, is no less abusive than religion.

At religion didn't also have us destroying the environment.
I think the parent misunderstood "inability to get it passed through the Django module to the callback". At first it sounded to me like you were trying one of your own values.

But if you actually plan to use this code in production, I would strongly advise against it :). There is a better solution available that will survive django upgrades:

Add a middleware that stores the session object in a thread-local variable for the duration of that request. You can then access that variable from your event handler.
> Can anything be done there? Eh, probably not.

Perhaps if over time viewers and those running YouTube channels migrate to other platforms that give a larger percentage of advertising share to the people creating the content, then the number of people who can support themselves by streaming will increase.

Also, as technology improves and hosting costs go down, the proportion of advertising money that could go directly to the content creator can increase.
...?? By not having buggy drivers?
Ask HN: Is Optimizely's $50,000/year minimum short-sighted?
We are a small company that is looking to implement an AB testing platform. Since we have experience with Optimizely before, we signed up for a trial and was contacted by a Sales Rep who indicated that Optimizely now has a $50,000/year minimum commitment.

Our budget doesn't support that commitment and so we will go with a competitor instead.

I feel this is short-sighted of Optimizely, not having a lower-priced, lower-featured option as customers will become familiar with competitors and small companies turn into big companies.

Does the HN community feel the same?
Amazon is getting into the home delivery and grocery business. Walmart is providing door-to-fridge deliveries via smart doors & web cams. I'm sure Amazon is looking to provide the same play. With their video AI, they can sell a fridge that scans the contents and figures out a pick list for you automatically, order it, and have it delivered to your home. Delivery person enters a one-time PIN to get in. Webcam records their visit. Delivery person puts all the groceries in the refrigerator and leaves. You could also have other packages, appliances delivered and installed, while you are away.

This is the future of home delivery & shopping.
> So if intelligence has a negative correlation with creativity than how do we have people like Conan O'Brien or Quentin Tarantino?

I don't think you understand what “correlation” means: it doesn't imply a fixed relationship that has no individual-to-individual variation.
Venmo settles with FTC after it “did not live up to” promises to users
> Your lie is easily disproved with a bit of research and I encourage readers to do so.

When you call someone a liar, the onus is on you to do the research and present your case for others. Asking everyone else to do the research doesn’t cut it. Your position should include citations that provide evidence that what you say is correct. What you have achieved here is essentially name-calling.
Lol.....that's why I asked for clarity, because I didn't want to assume :)
Well, the guide data has only gotten worse since the acquisition.
First ad hominem attacks don't help your point. Second, Google can help you out with some of your questions. Third, "they" is Chavez and his government. Chavez was socialist, socialism implies that the government takes over production from capitalists.

How was all this inevitable? When a government doesn't like that private companies are making money, and steal their property then replace skilled managers with party cronies, maybe things aren't going to work out so well. Maybe other companies will be afraid to invest in the country. So yea, the country gets a short-term boost from acquiring billions of dollars of assets, then all the profits that used to go to the company go to the state. But then it doesn't grow or handle problems properly because no one has the same incentive to work hard and innovate.

If the price of toilet paper is high in America, there are dozens of companies that are going to compete to get that profit, supply will rise and the price will drop. In Chavez's Venezuala, the toilet paper companies get nationalized, and government bureaucrats do their best to make and distribute enough toilet paper. Or maybe they don't and just report that they are doing a good job.

Here's a short list from 2012 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-election-nation... and you can be sure there were many companies that bent over backwards to comply with governmental demands to avoid being nationalized. It turns out the Venezuelan government, like most other governments, is not good at managing production and providing a prosperous economy without a free market. And when regulations mean a company (for example a toilet paper company) can't make a profit to create what they are selling, they can't make enough of it, and soon they won't be able to make any of it.

It's all about human nature and incentives, and yes most 5 year olds understand that.
Something I think is true that most people disagree with is that the importance of distributed-ledger technology is simply how it utilizes ledgers to create these tokens as an alternative to currency.

Stock prices are affected by metrics but the goal is to always monetize these metrics. Attributing a token to them turns them into an ends to monetization rather than just a means.

There's problems to solve going from there, but yeah I think going from unlockng value from users to unlocking value directly from use is a revolutionary shift.
Yeah, it's not that I disagree with the general message of discouraging your children from pursuing internet stardom.

It's just, their phrasing was maybe a little bit extreme.
This won't work since the request is not yet available when the callback is set up.
>I would pay $10,000 for an API that classifies an article into a topic such as politics, tech, etc.

That's fairly doable at decent accuracy with using current NLP techniques. At that budget I guess you can find a smart freelance dev to do the job (wink ;)
Yeah. If nimbys don't want stuff built, imo they should buy the land themselves. I don't know what happened to property rights in CA.
Ian Goodfellow and others have done a lot of great work exploring the properties of adversarial attacks. While all the things you’ve mentioned are great practices and important to avoid overfitting, adversarial attacks are not due to overfitting (nor are they random) and none of the things you described are sufficient as defenses.
This isn't true, the only thing that is "fake" is how much time they spend asking questions. From speaking to a "dragon", they spend about 45-60 minutes assessing the product/idea. After that, if they choose to invest, they invest.
Bruce Schneier says¹:

> There's also a credible rumor that Cellebrite's mechanisms only defeat the mechanism that limits the number of password attempts. It does not allow engineers to move the encrypted data off the phone and run an offline password cracker. If this is true, then strong passwords are still secure.

¹https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/02/cellebrite_un...
You ignored the main detrimental effects of Prop 13 I described in my comment and addressed only the rent control aspect.
> it applies to all EU citizens regardless of their geographical location

It does not. Article 3[1] clearly limits it to people in the EU. It says nothing about applying to EU citizens.

[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-3-gdpr/
Dell confirms Kaby Lake G won't have disabled Vega GPUs after all
Okay a good page that goes into depth is history of Venezuela oil Wikipedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Venezuelan_oi...

The Chávez administration used high oil prices in the 2000s on his populist policies and to gain support from voters. The social works initiated by Chávez's government relied on oil products, the keystone of the Venezuelan economy, with Chávez's administration suffering from Dutch disease as a result.

When prices collapsed they had all eggs in one basket.

Now what was seized and not discussed in the wiki was oil platforms from foreign companies. Sometimes instead of Chavez paying a debt, he would seize the platform and "nationalize it" so this caused foreign companies to be wary of investing.

https://books.google.com/books?id=TFY_DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA116&lpg=...

On to hyperinflation

To assuage the oil price decline which began back in June 2014 and continues through to today, President Maduro printed more currency,
First thing I thought too... I'm glad I've been investing in real IPcams and setup my own security system. HomeKit will never come to ring
>> ...any license you got was snake oil. ...

[In Los Angeles County, USA]

This is phrased rudely, but has an element of truth.

The facility (it's a county facility) wanted the therapy dog to be "licensed," and we went through the process to do some training, and got a vest, a patch, and a certificate (http://www.tdi-dog.org - I forget what the more rigorous one was). I doubt that we paid anything to TDI beyond a nominal fee, so that association of "snake oil" is off base.

But like I said, and as you note, the "therapy dog" process was highly variable, and it's not like there was some kind of national standard. And I would add that we did take unfair advantage of the airline exception for therapy dogs - this was in 2000 or so, before they really came into vogue - and I was uncomfortable with doing that, although I was overruled. ;-)
Do you really not see the value of a live feed of who's at your door and a clear 2 way audio feed?

The current existing solution either have really poor quality, are complicated to install (require technician), and don't integrate with your smartphone.

I'm not talking about the Ring specifically, there are other competitors too such as Nest Hello, but the idea seems pretty straight-forward and valuable to anyone with a door.
RIP HomeKit Integration Promises
Some search terms that might help: types.FunctionType, __code__.co_code, pickle, cloudpickle/dill
Actually, most iOS games in recent years have been using Metal, as are most “off the shelf” engines internally.
Hah! I was the same way. Some kid in 7th grade got glasses, and everyone at the table was trying them on. I put them on and realized "Holy shit! I can see whats on the board!" I used to squint or just write what I was hearing, or walk up to the board at the end of class and quickly write things down.
Unconscious? Eh. The evidence looks weak.

Not sure someone ever unconsciously gets in the shower, and all else being equal, it’s more parsimonious to say the person wants to shower to feel better, and isn’t inventing a rationalization (Wow, I’m just really dirty today. I should shower again. This has nothing to do with the crushing loneliness I’m feeling) for self soothing behavior. Their evidence that it’s unconscious was “people don’t assume (in a statistically significant way) other people are sad because they shower”, which could be easily read to mean “people aren’t very good at theory of mind.”

Criticism aside, though, it’s interesting to think that the cognitive mechanisms might overlap. There seems to be increasing evidence that our abstract reasoning is built from the cognitive building blocks acquired by exploring the physical world as infants.
Specifically, it modifies the file in place (-i),
Matches lines between paragraph tags(/PatternStart/,/PatternEnd/),
Then, doesn't delete those lines matching the pattern range (!d), which has the effect of deleting all other lines outside the pattern range when passed the in-place argument.
TCP connection hijacking in rust
IMHO, Lack of a proper dashboard/steering wheel controls in Model 3 is a dealbreaker for me too. It is not even available as an optional package. Audi has a virtual cockpit, model 3 should have some thing like that.
And this is an area where globalism excels. There is a demand for good indian cooking recipes in the US, and a supply of excellent indian cooks willing to share their secrets in india. Win/Win really.
I've never understood this argument.

Humans cause accidents in certain cases, mostly by carelessness.

AI causes accidents in certain cases, mostly by its stupidity.

These are different cases they fail in. You shouldn't be comparing a driverless AI to a unaided human, but a human aided by the driverless AI acting as a driving aid (you know, like automatic emergency breaking). this way you get the best of both worlds, the attentiveness of the AI to dumb things, and the smartness of humans.

I am sure a driverless AI if good enough won't beat a human aided by the same driverless AI acting as a "autopilot/supervisor"
This question could be much wider in scope than AWS, so I'm surprised we don't have a wider variety of responses that touch upon everyday B2C ... bookstores (vs the original Amazon), shoe stores (vs zappos), home services (vs Amazon's task rabbit like service) etc. (Yes, I know this is hackernews!)

For my contribution, we're working on something where we expect AMZN to go far deeper into in the not so distant future: furniture. We're "safe" now because AMZN doesn't let you touch, feel and smell their offerings. That clearly could change if they continue to expand their physical retail footprint.

AMZN's impact on us: TBD. We think they may disappoint a lot of consumers. We focus on vintage and artisan furniture to cater to those that will want more variety and character.

https://attic.city
You don't have to be a fascist to condemn the Holodomor.

It's also shocking, though, how unaware we are of atrocities committed by Western powers. It is difficult, for example, to understate the culpability of the British Empire, and its economic system in Ireland's Great Famine.

Much like the Holodomor, it was an engineered famine - there was no shortage of food - it was just not very evenly distributed. The free market, and British colonial policy proved itself to be highly effective at providing a solution to the "Irish Question"[1] - which involved killing a quarter of Ireland's population.

Utter contempt for human life is a function of power, not of economic system.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_question
Sure, that's a good point especially considering he's a one-man show so it probably makes sense to keep the user base as ruthlessly small as possible just for support reasons alone.

It does make me curious though who the target customer is - somebody who's comfortable setting up a Unix CLI tool for their backups (creating a cron job etc.), yet who wants to cede bucket ownership to a 3rd party and pay a 25x markup for the pleasure? I personally don't mind having to click "Create Bucket" in the AWS console if I get to pay $3/mo instead of $75/mo on my 300GB of data. shrugs
Yeah, I want to do this as well. When Tesla announced the gigafactory in Reno, I really wanted to pool together with others to buy an apartment complex or something.
David Lynch Teaches Typing
You cannot compare billion dollars established a company, existing years ago, to today's SaaS startup. It is like comparing solutions form 2010 car to 2016 car. Web market changes fast.
>"We have an extreme sense of urgency on insuring security of the 2018 elections, because you don't get a chance to do it over," said Alex Padilla, California's secretary of state, who said there was no evidence of a successful hack in California.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/california-vo...

How do they say this stuff with a straight face?
Seems like they're pretty up front about that, right on their home page:
"Online backups for the truly paranoid."

We can argue about whether that really differentiates them from GCP etc, but that's their spin.
OpenAI is not a company. It is a non-profit.
When I noticed that I could read the board from the floor in front of the desks, but not from the desks behind the floor sitting area.

It hadn't always been that way, either. :/
Amazon is typically a good steward in their acquisitions though. Twitch.tv, Zappos, imdb, audible as some examples of how they really do keep these purchases as pretty close to the original/successful idea of the company and sometimes even better. I'd say Amazon are maybe the best at not destroying what they buy. Amazon usually buys because the company is a success and not just for tech or to shut down / acquihire etc.
Ask HN: Use a banker to sell a seed stage company?
(Going anonymous for obvious reasons)

My B2B software company raised a pre-seed round, built a product, and got some great customers. Our industry's long sales cycle, along with resistance to buy from startups, has made raising our next round of funding harder than we thought it'd be.

An investment banker with deep knowledge of our industry thinks they can sell our current product and team for ~20X what we've raised. As a good steward of my investors' money, I'm inclined to give it a shot.

Has anyone on HN used an investment bank to sell a seed stage company? I would have thought it was crazy, but this bank is really confident in their ability to elicit a transaction.
It does not apply to people outside of the EU. Article 3[1] is quite clear about that it applies to people in the EU.

[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-3-gdpr/
That is the standard way of doing it, yes. However not every non-standard implementation is insecure.
HelixNano (W17) is hiring protein explorers and vector engineers
Not odd at all, actually. Numpy might implement certain functions differently from other libraries. With a background in algorithms, you could make an educated guess as to complexity, but without knowing the exact implementation it's still a guess.
It’s at least partially cperciva’s reputation.

Also the tarsnap feature set and security model.

The hyper unixy approach is valuable to some as well.
iPhones are produced by contract manufacturers. That's not how the car business is organized: there's no existing contract manufacturer that can produce the Model 3 in high volume. They only exist for low-volume, high-end cars.
Here's a neat bit of Python abuse I stumbled across recently... you can define a method to return itself:

>>> def recurse():
... return recurse
...
>>> recurse
<function recurse at 0x1083b5f28>
>>> recurse()
<function recurse at 0x1083b5f28>
>>> recurse()()()
<function recurse at 0x1083b5f28>
Many CS programs are accredited by ABET, but they're covered by the Computing Accreditation Commission which doesn't qualify graduates to sit for the FE exam. And many top CS programs, including CMU and Stanford, aren't ABET accredited at all.

Nationwide, there's only 27 Software Engineering programs accredited by ABET. So graduates of those programs could sit for it but until graduates from top programs qualify, no one is going to require it.
The Erdős paradox: When a mathematical number and Wikipedia collide
Heat is available now. My post is primarily for people who have bedbugs now. If they want to wait a few years for this research to become a commercial product then that is their choice.
If that customer exists - they sound like a great customer. $75 a month might be too expensive for your needs, but it's certainly not a ton of money if someone believes that product is the right fit for them.
Zapier for $150 a month solves my needs very handily. My lifetime value to them is probably going to be 10k.
I am apparently stupid when it comes to this but what is blocking that sort of key exchange at scale?
not just idle speculation, Communism lead to somewhere between 85 and 100 million deaths in the 20th century:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_Communist_...
> Why should I trust dozens or hundreds of companies worldwide to certify that I'm talking to my local university?

Couldn't the university provide you a copy of the certificate chain it uses such that you can import it into your browser (or other client) certificate authority store? Then you personally have verified the university's identity and can tell your client to trust them as an authority.
I wish that more Christians were like this Christian.
iOS is not the largest mobile OS, so 100% of iOS could be doing something and it still wouldn't be "most of mobile" ;)
You lost me at "it's"
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/New-Portable-Mini-Design-Cha... works well for me, but I must admit I mainly bought it for the hilariously out of spec USB micro connector (look at the fourth photo)
I'm guessing sarcasm doesn't translate well into text. Should have added more hyperbole.
Please make them special license plates.
No they haven’t. When someone clicks on a normal link (not an ad) they found through google search that ultimately facilitates business, google gets nothing.
So we should have a whitelist of countries we decide we are "doing business" in and block all other traffic globally?
It looks like this is disregarding sponsorships tho. My mental model is ~$300 per video for a reasonable sized channel, which(with weekly videos) could well double their income estimates.
>The right to bear arms is a basic civil right, unambiguously encoded in the Bill of Rights

"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

This tweet claims to describe the roots, early debate, and context of 2nd amendment's inclusion in the constitution. I found it interesting.

https://twitter.com/egavactip/status/967923256983420928

I wonder what bias author Mark Pitcavage brings to the discussion. According to twitter profile he is connected to https://www.adl.org/who-we-are which claims to be some kind of anti-semitism group. (Which I have never heard of before)
a B350 chipset motherboard linked from its product page:

"Supports 2 x HDMI with max. resolution up to 4K x 2K (4096x2160) @ 24Hz / (3840x2160) @ 30Hz"

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1681315...

motherboard support isn't quite there yet...
I think Alabama wins this contest:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Alabama

> At 310,296 words,[1] the document is 12 times longer than the average state constitution, 44 times longer than the U.S. Constitution, and is the longest[2] and most amended[3] constitution still operative anywhere in the world.
Isn't the Pixel just using USB 2 over the C connector?
What features do you need?

Firebase has an A/B testing framework too without the 50k minimum https://firebase.googleblog.com/2017/11/announcing-better-ab...
Somewhere, there are probably some reasonable positions like "it'd be great if they didn't build a fireworks factory right next to my house", but we've gone so far beyond those in the US.
But Tarsnap is much more than that -- it deduplicates, it encrypts, it has settings for restricting network, memory, and CPU usage, it caches and checkpoints, etc. I'm happy to pay the premium for the robustness I get from it.
I think this means conventional intelligence. If lots of people think you are smart it is only possible if they all have the same internal definition of smart which must be the lowest common denominator.

Creativity and creative intelligence is unable to hook into established definitions and so such things can't be labelled. Often they are labelled as "different" or even "subversive" until small group mindshare makes it mainstream and eventually it is appreciated.
Do they have the same shielding?
> Add a middleware that stores the session object in a thread-local variable for the duration of that request

This has come up many times, and I've never been able to figure out how to do this without something redis. Do you know any open source examples of this?