skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people in the US may not care, but that's because they simply do not understand how it will (or already is) affect them.

The average person thinks that, at worst, they'll just see ads that are more intelligent or targeted. Who cares, right?

The do NOT realize that these troves of data are going to be used to someday deny them health insurance, get them fired or not hired for some job, get screwed in job pay and benefit negotiations (due to companys like Experian selling you pay history to employers), be charged more than other consumers for the same product (due to being able to pay more), getting denied for loans or charged higher interest rates, not accepted to a school, refused entry in establishments because you're not a 'good' customer, etc.

And that is just what big business will do.

Wait 'till big governments around the world see just how much power the Chinese are able to exert over their populace playing the same data games.
Cloning another sucessfull business is extremely sound advice.

One only has to look at Capterra to so how often it is done.

Sure, some of the clones don't work out but a lot do.

Also, there's no reason why you can't start as a clone and then gradually iterated into something original over time.

I.E. Solve the money problem and then move on to something more interesting.

(The trick is to clone something that is sucessfull not something that is a good idea with no proven success.)
This has a strong appeal to my rural roots. It's certainly idealistic but strikes me as potentially workable.
Is one of the goals of OpenAI to help implement government regulation or do you think its better on an organisation/industry basis? I think its going to be difficult to get countries like China and Russia to follow industry guidelines without UN resolutions, even then it's super difficult to monitor until it's too late.
Forget about average person. Read the thread about moviepass on hackernews. Even tech savvy hn users are willing to trade location privacy for cheap movie tickets.
There are also tiny-dnn [1] and Darknet [2]. I'm curious how they compare to KANN.

[1] https://github.com/tiny-dnn/tiny-dnn
[2] https://github.com/pjreddie/darknet
Both are insane, when you consider property tax and maintenance, unless you assume a continued upward march in valuations.
My home state is something like 48th in education spending and considers it a point of pride because it "makes educators work harder". It was normal for every student to be asked to bring a box of kleenex to school every year because there was no budget to provide that resource.

It terrifies me to see how poorly we treat educators and education in general. As a highly developed nation our only chance for the future is to maintain our edge. We are borrowing against the intellectual (and in the case of public university tuition, also the financial) capital of the future and I'm not even sure what we are doing with the money.
Reviewers will help catch bugs, but the engineer who writes the code and seeks to integrate it is ultimately responsible for sufficient testing to avoid issues like this one.
The Silence: The Legacy of Childhood Trauma by Pulitzer Winner Junot Díaz
Like a lot of big blockchain news, this seems like an application that derives no benefit from blockchain and likely adds some drawbacks.

It also mentions that the data will be encrypted (and only accessible to its owner), but some organizations will be able to access aggregate data to do studies... That implies a central authority, which further suggests to me that blockchain doesn't add anything valuable to this application.
Apple says it’s now powered by renewable energy worldwide
Mathematicians and startup founders
Yet if you bought a Nvidia 960 about 1.5 years ago when I did (because it supported HEVC, and I upgraded my 10 year old plasma to a 4k TV), it can do it for you. My HTPC can happily play back high bitrate 4k HEVC content without as much as breaking into a sweat.

Sadly Netflix doesn't see it that way and demands that I update my perfectly functional i7-2500 system to a newer one to play back their 4k content.

(Sorry, slightly OT rant).
SB827 passing will only begin to tickle the situation. It's a good start, but nowhere near what needs to be done. NIMBY'ism is part regulation, part culture. I don't see the culture part going away anytime soon.

Out of curiosity - is there anywhere in the US in history where housing that had the highest value in the country was affected massively (negatively) by regulation?
To some degree yes but there's still neighborhoods that will reject proposals. There's all sorts of debate on this (just yesterday saw windshield flyers against upzones) - to summarize in a fun way see https://twitter.com/YIMBYwiki/status/951255440481857536
What do you think are the main drivers for the hype? (Some that come to mind -- lack of understanding of AI, fear-mongering, deluge of published papers in academia without peer review...) And how are ways we can more realistically understand the state of AI/potential of it?
With BPay, you have a biller code (six character number) and a reference (which is longer, like 12 characters - usually this is like your customer number with that biller, so it doesn’t change). Generally every bill you get will have those details on them. It’s free which is nice.

For a regular transfer, you have a six digit number that identifies the bank/branch, and an account number (variable length, depends on branch). You just always use this method and your bank checks whether it’s a BSB at the same bank and does an instant transfer, and if not clears it through the central bank. I think batches run at 9am and 5pm every business day for that.

For those kind of payments, they’re bringing in two new things this year - a new real-time clearing system for small interbank transfers (that is, under like $100k or $250k or something - larger payments you have to use a special system called RTGS), and ‘PayID’ where you can have a mobile number for an individual or your Australian Business Number for a company, and I think internally it resolves back to the account number / BSB (I guess like a DNS system for banks).
I had the honor of seeing one of my designs at the De Anza electronics flea market before it was even in production. Turns out it had been stolen from the shipping and receiving area.
I've used it for a month or so and I don't want to go back to the old one. And yeah mobile sucks but it always did, the app is great though.
A shot in the dark here, but is it Retroactive Jealousy?
If you want to waste it working.
Hm, I’m failing at all 3 of those things.

Oh well. Already kind of knew I’m a failure.
I came here to post this link, too. :)
The price of RAM has actually gone up in the past 5 years, so that's not a terrible idea.
I can't figure out why e-bikes are considered bicycles and not mopeds or motorcycles. How does this not require a drivers license, with or without a motorcycle endorsement? Is the output limited (like the 50cc moped)?

Why are motorized vehicles allowed on bike lanes just because they have electric motors instead of gas?

I'm also totally blown away by Seattle's disregard for helmet laws to enrich some venture capitalists. We didn't even bother repealing the helmet law, we just don't enforce it.
'young college drop out makes billions'

*Translates to: "someone made a lot of money + no effort required!"
AT is Austria ;)
Interesting take on passion vs. money.

Does anyone else think "requires a reasonable commute" doesn't fit on the list of "keys to career contentment"?
Ask HN: Do you have the courage to abandon your high paying job?
I'm in my early 40s and live in a rental condo with my family in a West Coast city. I have a high paying job in one of the FANG companies, making close to 500K/year. At the same time, I have a decent amount of savings (600K 401k and 1.1M in cash in my bank account from a property sale).

The only problem is that I can't really stand my job. I had prestigious positions in other major companies but I pretty much hated them all.

Yes, I should be thankful to have a gig at a major tech company. But just because I'm okay at what I do and was able to profit from my skills, it doesn't mean that I like it...

I'm considering moving to a cheaper area of the country (also due to family reasons) to start my own company. I'm not ready to share what I'll do, but just for the sake of my question, it will be something I love with a risk profile similar to creating a mobile game company - high chance of failure, average to low chance of making some money and low, but not zero, chance of making a lot of money. I'm decent at this particular activity, but not world class (yet)! This company will need at least 2-3 years before actually having a chance to make good money. Due to my savings, I can wait this much and then some.

The reason I'm writing this is because I'm panicking at the prospect of throwing away my high income, high stress, low happiness career for a risky enterprise that will likely not work out. I'm particularly concerned about having to come back to the job market if my company fails, likely working on an even worse job outside the major tech centers (the bright side is that if the company fails, given its small costs, I'll still have ~500K in bank)

My question is: has anyone here, in a similar situation, done something like this? And if your company failed, have you been able to come back to the market in a good situation?
I see it the other way - software development is one of the few jobs that can be done entirely remotely. You can live in a location which is far cheaper than where your employer is based, and your salary is largely decoupled from the costs of living in your chosen location.
I don't mean some custom thing, it was an existing off-the-shelf product with FreedomBox preconfigured… I mean, I heard this from someone who went to LibrePlanet and came home with a FreedomBox they specifically got there.
I moved out here last year - I do not live in Seattle proper, but I work there. I love Seattle but it is a crazy town that to me seems like it must've always been in flux. For the love of God do not move here if you don't want to be stressed out about housing costs and don't want to deal with an insane commute regardless of almost anywhere you live.

I'm trying to find it but there was this old video recording from either 1995 or 2005 (I don't remember which) of a Bob Dylan-ish parody song being performed on acoustic guitar and the lyrics were complaining about the exact same things back then that you hear complained about here today. As a matter of fact, don't move here if you can't handle complaining.
I’m struggling to find a source, but I’ve read in a few places that during the the gold rush in New Zealand, ships returning to San Francisco took timber - Kauri specifically - and it’s found in older houses there. Judging by the lack or sources I can find this may be a NZ urban legend.
Are any of them actually making money? We had Pronto too but it was hopeless as a business.
[I can only speak for what I experienced personally, and what facilities I was in and passed thru along the way. It varies from place-to-place and state-to-state based on many factors]

Assaulted no. Did I have to fight? You bet. Inside, if you don't protect yourself and/or stand up for what's rightfully yours then you're not going to have a good time at all. At some point someone who is bigger, stronger, tougher, whatever than you _IS_ going to attempt to take all your shit. It's more of a test than anything else, to see what you will let people get away with. If you don't stand up for yourself, well, prison is full of predators especially if you're in a medium or higher security facility. This does not apply if your charges are for anything to do with hurting children or extreme violence against women -- in that case they're never going to stop coming... ever.

Word from the older guys who had been in there for a long time is that prison isn't what it once was in the 70's and 80's. Bad inmate on inmate assaults is almost always gang related, forcible rape doesn't really happen [at least in the facilities I was in and passed thru along the way] because they don't really have to do that -- there are plenty of willing participants (with exceptions for internal gang retaliation, but it would have to be something major). Another big change that reduced a lot of violence was they started giving people additional criminal charges, "outside cases" to use prison parlance, for crimes they commit inside such as stabbings, murders, serious contraband, etc. instead of just doing internal institutional discipline. This also cut way down on inmate vs. corrections officer violence -- stabbing a guard now became attempted murder of a law enforcement official -- an A felony, 20 more years to your sentence minimum.

That's not to say it's fun or peaceful or anything, it's still prison, still a city within walls segregated intensely by race and where you grew up, and there are some truly messed up people in there. It's 90% boredom 5% loneliness, and 5% small bouts of intense violence. But if you carry yourself with dignity, don't do anything stupid, and don't back down when challenged (particularly over something petty) you'll be allright.
My view is that many companies in the US are over-funded because the fed stimulated the economy too much. Investors flocked to the stock market in 08, when there was no money to be made in bonds, and then the stock market got whipped up by more people joining the trend. Then it happened again when Trump got elected and investors thought republicans would be easy on businesses.

All that funding is being burnt by companies to grow and compete with each other, which is why you see an overheated job market. They also inflate the value of GAFA, because these companies spend a lot in software, hardware, cloud services and ads.

When interest rates go up and bond yields get better though, it's likely that investors will no longer fund companies as much as they used to (which is why I think we're starting to see a slowdown in stock prices). This slowdown in funding will cause companies to have some painful debt crunch, and start the bursting of the bubble...

Anyway, just my opinion
If you're hedging with other plans then you're not really following your first passion 100% are you?
The flip side is: Just imagine if Kerberos 1.0 with 40-bit DES was baked into X11 or even IPv4. We'd still be fighting those downgrade attacks. Or maybe we'd be layering real encryption over the broken-but-unremovable encryption, with all the overhead that entails.
It's amazing how much you can learn in your free time, to get a taste of a new field. I've watched some lectures on type theory. Which is super hard, and I didn't understand most of it but it gave me a flavour. I attended meetups on compiler design, spent a few hours on machine learning courses online. Most of these things gave me a flavour of that field but no expertise of course.

I've settled on Elm development as something I am passionate about for various reasons (wont go into here) and want to spend a lot more time on, so I am building a side project that could become commercial in the future. So I found what works for me by experimenting in my spare time, but you only need a few hours to "spike" if you will like a topic.

I guess it's a bit like the 'fail fast' approach used in start ups. For example I thought that I 'should' enjoy stats/machine learning but really I hate it. Someone else can do that thanks, glad I only spent 10 hours on it.
> also a good time to remind people that backups are not backups unless they're geographically diverse.

... and backups are not backups until you can reliably restore from them.
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> where it describes design choices driven specifically by compile time

I'd like to point out two things here:

1. There are common library functions that we put in single files. These are imported by a lot of other files. The fact that these incur a large recompile cost is unfortunate and I think it doesn't have to be this way if dependencies were calculated at a more granular level.

2. The far larger implication to compile time becoming exponential is coupling of concerns. This is solely in the developer's responsibility. For a type system that guarantees correctness of code, there is no way around the fact that all affected modules must recompile. eg, if a fundamental law of physics were to change, the whole universe would have to recompute.

So I think for a 'substantial group of developers', the focus should be on helping people to recognise what is coupling and how to design de-coupled systems.
Tend to agree. Law went through a huge spike in graduates and private law schools last decade, and when the economy hit bottom, many lawyers felt the worst of it, especially recent grads who've still never really been able to get a foot in the door, while still paying off six figures of law school debt.

The difference between law and software engineering is that you can't really BS your way in software for too long without being caught. I knew a few friends who would never have been able to pass the math and engineering courses a decent CS program requires, but they were admitted and essentially paid a huge bribe (with loans) to get a law degree from a low-tier school, cram for months for the bar, and get certified.

But they never made much money in law, and probably would have been better off choosing another path.
Is there any resolver supporting out-of-order pipelined DNS requests over a persistent TCP/TLS connection?
The prices jumped more than 15% in a month (based on december vs jan comps)
Looks like my data was old :)
Seattle is a boom(and bust)town. Always has been. That's what makes it appealing to me. I'll ride out whatever happens next because I have no illusions that this crazy growth can continue. I'm willing to accept the complaining, it hasn't driven me out yet. As one of the most educated cities in the nation I expect to be able to challenge perceptions. I hear the line repeated often in local media but nobody has ever been able to explain to me what magic thing Seattle has lost. I suspect that's because it hasn't actually lost it.
What's the next hop for a cryptographic hash? With IP addresses, you have a heirarchy: You match on a prefix to find the router to handle the next path, and that one matches on a longer prefix to find the next hop, and so on.

That allows you to have routing tables that don't include every single host on the internet. This is what allows efficient routing to happen.
Markets can stay irrational for a long period of time and then correct pretty quickly. I’d be surprised if prices aren’t near a plateau. A lot of tech companies are shifting hiring to other states. I don’t see the Bay Area growing forever and rent/home prices won’t go up exponentially forever.
In the arts, the advice I've heard repeated over and over again is: If you can live without this, do something else. And it's pretty good advice in my experience. The visual arts / media sector at least has such an overabundance of desperate workers that a sane working environment seems impossible to achieve. So if you don't have an inner drive that absolutely forces you to go into a field like that, do something else.
This seems likely as there are increasing findings of human activity that go much before 60,000 around the world.
One that recently comes to mind is a sight in Cambodia where there are traces of human activity dated around 71,000 years ago. (https://phnompenhpost.com/national-post-depth/peeling-back-l...)
There are multiple levels of processing here, so this pure trichromatic model turns out to be a somewhat misleading mental model to fix on. The signals from three types of cone cells are processed immediately within the eye into 3 different signals, a lightness response (L + M), a yellow-blue response (L + M – S), and a red-green response (L – M), before those combined signals go through further processing. LMS signals per se don't get sent anywhere further up the chain. If you are red-green colorblind that means you aren't getting much if any useful signal from the L – M response, either because your 'L' and 'M' cones are too close together to meaningfully distinguish, or because you are missing one of the two entirely.

[Calling the LMS cone types Short = 'blue', Medium = 'green', and Long = 'red' creates a lot of confusion. Stick to long/medium/short labels. A statement like 'there is no such thing as pure green' is nonsensical. As Newton figured out, light rays themselves are not colored; color is a higher-level percept constructed in the human brain. Green is no more or less 'pure' than blue or orange or purple.

For that matter calling the RGB primaries 'red', 'green', and 'blue' causes some confusion also, as these primaries are seen as an orangish red, a yellowish green, and a purplish blue, nowhere near the 'unique hues' red, green, or blue. E.g. the use of these names in named CSS colors, etc. is a horrible human interface.]

If you are interested in the details, this is one of the better sources online http://handprint.com/HP/WCL/color2.html [I would refer you to books but those are hard to accessibly hyperlink].

As for rods, their response is pretty much ignored during the day. They are much more sensitive, so start kicking in when the visual system adapts to very low levels of light where the cone cells aren't getting much useful signal.

The article under discussion in this thread is full of technicalities, and in a brief skim I didn't notice any obvious errors, but it ignores several of the most important high-level features of human color perception – and gets a bit confused about the relationship between color reproduction via additive RGB displays, color measurement by instruments, and models of human vision – and therefore isn't the most useful resource for someone new to the subject, IMO.
The thing with subprime mortgages is, noone saw it coming. How do you know some other forces are at play in todays market? Forces that may not be true in the blink of an eye?

Not saying it is gonna burst, and i see the factors, but theyw ere there in 2008 too.
I prefer looking at it instead as "How # of HODL Comments on Reddit Affect the Cryptocurrency Prices."
Well said, I'd love to make an impact on the planet but as a father my first drive is to set the best example possible for my son. That does include self determination and being responsible for your own outcomes, that does not include allowing your personal and financial freedom to be disposed of as another person sees fit.
I assume these still let your provider guess what TLDs you connect to by looking where you connect. Not sure how bad a channel that is.

At least you'll have a better idea that you are getting authoritative responses.
GDPR – Firebase Data Processing and Security Terms
Why do you think that is true? Cipher suite selection and whitelisting is not a new thing--even if plaintext with CRC32 is in the mix--we deal with it successfully enough in TLS and SSH all the time.
I would like to see a network graph of the gathering and exchange of people's information between these data brokers. It would simultaneously be really interesting and really shocking. I can't imagine how many thousands of DBs out there are with a smorgasbord of personal data.
...and that is the story of why I quit graphic design to program CRUD webapps for boring enterprise customers.

Now moving towards part-time consulting and setting up some passive income streams to try and create the space to work on my creative projects before I get old and die.