skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have done - and it's awesome on Windows / Fedora. But it's so janky and slow on Android, this is on a Pixel 2 XL. What is so wrong with the Android version?

For the record i've tried to move across for ad-blocking which Chrome doesn't provide, and I do need the account sync. Firefox is just as janky without any plugins on Android.
$50K is more typical in the US for small cities and more rural firefighters.

In big cities, $100k is actually pretty typical. I found a link from 2014 suggesting you reach $100k after 5 years.[1]

[1]https://www.villagevoice.com/2014/02/12/the-fdny-is-a-force-...
Search the most similar strings against the query in Python 3.

State-of-the-art algorithm and data structure are adopted for best efficiency. For both flexibility and efficiency, only set-based similarities are supported right now, including Jaccard and Tversky.

Can be used both on CLI and as Python package.
It's odd to see Firefox being called a memory hog just a few years back. As far as I can tell, Chrome has used more memory pretty much always if you have multiple tabs open.

(Firefox may have been slower on slow hardware, but that has never been an issue for me.)
Why? BlackRock offers solutions to other asset management firms to make investment decisions. They use the same solution in their asset management division.
It's unfortunate this is downvoted because you're exactly right. Those analogies are spot on.

This article blames the internet (a bigger, broader, very useful thing) for the negative actions of specific companies (mostly facebook).. this is exactly the same as blaming the wheel for war machines; or writing for propaganda.

Put the blame where it belongs. The internet owes no one an apology. Facebook on the other hand...
In this case it seems the customers are unlikely to revolt. Most won't even notice, right?
Likely you'd get the same deal as any other real estate developer in the flipping business would give you. They'd be looking for undervalued properties that can be fixed up and resold at a profit. Which means they're on the open market and you're bidding against other purchasers, like normal.
> If a friend were to ask me what the best web browser is, I’d answer “Chrome” in a heartbeat

It was always Firefox for me.
Quants have worked in finance for ages. What's so unusual about Two Sigma? Headcount?
And in fact there are a number of Taiwanese languages, or Formosan languages, as Han Chinese settlement of the island is a fairly recent thing. The Taiwanese aborigines are Austronesian people - and in fact many historical linguists consider Taiwan to be the original homeland of the Austronesian language family.

These have of course nothing to do with the Chinese character set issue raise in above comments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanese_aborigines
The concept of scamming cannot be precisely defined and outlawed. It is essentially a form of opportunism, "self-interest seeking with guile."5 The voluntary participation of the victims and the challenges associated with identifying scamming often result in skepticism toward the plausibility of scams and demands that individuals would be responsible for the choices they make.

Maybe I'm a little out of my depth criticizing an article by two professors from a college of law, but how on earth can you attempt to define scamming without mentioning fraud? The con-man willfully misrepresents his part of the transaction despite knowing the mark to believe otherwise. And it isn't a matter of subjective degree. In the Nigerian Prince scheme, for example, there is no prince, and there is no diamond fund tied up in escrow. It's a complete fabrication. That's the difference between market persuasion and crime.
I’ve been using Firefox as my primary browser now for approx. the last six months. I used to flip-flop between safari and chrome (chrome needed generally for work and Linux).

I’ve gernerally been extremely happy with it. The battery life is not as good as Safari, but it feels faster. I do run into issues with some extensions, specifically google Meet (I think that is being fixed?).

The biggest annoyance, and I didn’t look too deeply at how to fix this, is custom cert mgmt. The system certs appear not to be used (I think?) and for custom CAs, they must be associated both in the browser and on the OS (macOS and Ubuntu). I’ve also noticed some sites cause, or did cause, very large CPU usage, Travis-CI was one.

Anyway, I’m generally very happy, and am glad that I now have a primary browser experience that I enjoy across all platforms. (If Apple had a safari version on Linux, this might have been a bigger question, I think they would do well to release one)
Where the Heart Is [audio]
I've thought about that, but doea GDPR give Facebook the legal right to decide whom it covers based on user data?

Many European expats will have similarly US-centric data. I just don't know that Facebook can (or will be allowed to) determine my true citizenship.
Here you go: Bitcoin the Hard way http://www.righto.com/2014/02/bitcoins-hard-way-using-raw-bi...

This shows you how to do everything yourself from scratch. There’s no such tutorial for ethereum, unfortunately, and it might be too complex a protocol to allow that.
I'm also reminded of https://blog.openai.com/faulty-reward-functions/ (which I saw on HN a while ago), where an AI unexpected learned to

> turn in a large circle and repeatedly knock over three targets, timing its movement so as to always knock over the targets just as they repopulate. Despite repeatedly catching on fire, crashing into other boats, and going the wrong way on the track, our agent manages to achieve a higher score using this strategy than is possible by completing the course in the normal way.
No, it does not; it means nothing of the sort. Your billing increment isn't your working increment. They might be the same, they might not.

It is also simply not the case that if you work for 2 hours for a client in a day, you can only charge them for 2 hours of work. This might be the single most damaging myth in all of freelancing.
Plan b sounds much better from my perspective, even thought I could hack a if needed. The rarity of opportunities is what scares me.

SV sounds obvious, but why Swirtzerland?
Most communities? The only place I've heard of it is the US.
You need to talk about this to Kim and Donald then.
Based on very little more than other journalism and recruiters trying to chat me up, here is my understanding.

The major hedge funds build in-house big data platforms that allow their quantitative traders come up with an idea (what if the price of IBM is 22% predicted by soybean futures in Tokyo on Tuesdays?) and then essentially replay history and see the result.

Say you have the soybean-IBM theory. You feed it into the platform. It applies your proposed strategy across billions or trillions of data points. It probably does a lot more than an SQL query -- possibly checking for interactions with other current strategies in use at the firm, running sensitivity analyses, blasting various parts of it with Monte Carlo simulations and so on. A lot of the same tech is also used to perform forecasts of the coming hour, day, week, month or whathaveyou.

It comes back with the simulated return. If it's good, and if you think you can disguise your strategy while trading, then and only then can you code it up and deploy it to the trading platform. In this article it's claimed that the models are reviewed by a company founder as well.

By now, going on Google's publications about Millwheel and Dataflow, the hedges will already be advanced enough to provide model testing that can converge to a number quickly enough that you can abort the test if it's not shaping up well, thus saving platform time for other uses.

Building your own platforms is a mixed blessing. If you the first to do it you can get an enormous advantage because you are the only company with that capability. Later, as technology continues the march of commoditisation, others gain the capability "for free". Now you are at a slowly increasing disadvantage -- again, because you are the only company with that platform.
Marketing strategy.
Every big company does this in some way. The only smart move in business is to be where the money is.
There are tons of distinctions to be made. The internet is comprised of a multitude of protocols, applications and use cases. Blogs/newspapers like this are different than social media, old school forums, apps, co-op games, p2p file sharing, chat...

This is an overly broad and reactionary article that's trying to equate recent outrage around FB with the internet as a whole.
It was my primary browser until the new version killed all my critical extensions
hell yeah, just looking at the length of a stacktrace under our good old Java EE makes me sick (and I'm not even counting the additional calls to query the database)

(I understand there's a trade off between productivity and performance, but nonetheless, it's scary)
You'll see the same thing with japan randomly using english words (like one word of a song), though afaik they usually use them correctly (but very awkwardly).

But the chinese tattoos, and the english words, aren't meant for those native speakers to see. The tattoos are meant for other english speakers to see, and the words are meant for other japanese speakers to hear. They're not meant to be understood, so much as just being visually/audibly cool.

It looks good, and it sounds good, and its in an environment where almost no one will understand it, so it really doesn't matter if the content is correct. The idea is sufficient.

Now of course, if you get a chinese tattoo mispelled and move to china, you'll look like a bumbling idiot. Its the same as being a native speaker and mispelling it.

The context/environment matters, when deciding how important that mistake is.
Uh, no, I didn't understand it as belitteling. I think you raised a fair point in the context of this discussion. I don't think we have very good syntax yet to discuss these things.

I don't know, but I have a gut feeling the spiritual awe one gets from one religious sacrament or another and getting it through other means are the same thing.

Effectively, the way I see it, religions claim something that is universal and publicly available as under their domain. It's like a guy came and wanted to resell the air you breath back at you.

Similarly I feel drug afficionados are sometimes overselling their hobby as the one key to the mysteries of the universe.

I don't mind if someone is religious or likes to do drugs. What I don't like, is that one or another claims something that can gained by other means as belonging to their dominion.

The major religions are especially intransigent and arrogant about this in their creed - claiming things that belong to all men and women to belong only to one sect or another - thus poisoning themselves doubly by first trying to fool those outside of their creed, and then being intellectually dishonest of their own experiences.
On Android it's supposed to still be getting better, although it's taking quite a while now and I feel it's not the main focus (apparently it's hard to fix the codebase, so IIUC they're getting there through a detour by first focusing on the embeddability of Gecko - which will take a while). That said, Nightly is already somewhat better, so I've been using that to relative satisfaction for a while now. You might want to give that a try.
Firefox Quantum is extremely fast and feels much faster than Chrome / Safari.

I encourage everyone to try it for a full 5 days M-F and see if you feel the same way!
Proposal to restore a destroyed Ethereum contract
How do you stop thousands of people from cramming the ballot just to have a little fun at the taxpayer expense? There has to be some qualification process which will cost money to complete.
It depends what you really mean by 'learn'. I have heard it said that there are certain levels of insight that you can gain only after meditating constantly for a long period of time such as 10 days.

You can however certainly learn how to get started, and reap benefits, from Vipassana in just 20 minutes a day.
Great point. For now, it is limited to AZ and NV and for wholesale purchases only. But it seems like a conflict of interest that's hard to prove isn't being abused.
I switched to Firefox as my primary browser a couple of months ago, and have been happy enough that I haven't looked back. It is significantly more smooth and performant than it was; the work on Quantum cannot be understated, and the minor fiasco with their extensions ecosystem, though painful, I feel was the right move. With that said, a few anecdotes keep jumping out at me:

- Pocket integration. Dive into about:config, turn it off, lather rinse repeat on every device and every fresh OS install. I have about a dozen.

- The default theme has two large "spacer" elements that shrink the address bar towards the center. These might not bother anyone else, but they drove me nuts; fortunately they can be removed with the customization menu.

- Bookmarks sync well (yay!) but don't always retain the same ordering on each device, which gets a bit confusing. I can work around this easily enough, but it's not quite as smooth as the same feature on Chrome.

- JavaScript performance is not as fast as Chrome. This is normally a non-issue, but occasionally I'll run into someone's ShowHN demo here and find that while it technically works, the performance is sometimes quite slow. Ditto for anything using WebGL. Again, mostly a non-issue, but I do find myself firing up Chrome to run the odd app.

Most of these issues are relatively minor, and fortunately Firefox still has a fantastically intelligent community, so any time I ran into an issue the solution was a quick search away. I think the value add in feeling like I'm in more control of my browser is well worth it, and I hope Mozilla continues moving in this direction. More competition is good!
This was my thinking as well, they can decide what they want to buy based on their data on prior listings and closing prices. It is an interesting advantage.
Facebook wasn't that early to the internet. When it opened for public access in 2006, there were 1 billion internet users.
Isn't there a firewall between the units?
> Many, but not all (I think Japanese uses some of those hints as well). But if you have "character from some ancient text" that doesn't have that radical you're SOL.

The Japanese pronunciation hints are way less reliable than the Chinese. First, Japan inherited Chinese sounds and characters in drips and drabs. Because Chinese has so many dialects, and a dialect may pronounce a certain character a vastly different way, the onyomi today may be a presentation of old Fujian pronunciation or old Cantonese, not the Mandarin. Second, because the characters were introduced to different parts of Japan at different times, those characters were used for different purposes in the different regions in Japan. Today this means a single character can be used in different words with different meanings, with more than one onyomi. Nevermind what happens in kanji compounds.

If a Chinese character was suddenly introduced with a new radical, that would be akin to suddenly finding a new letter in the alphabet. Highly unlikely. When is the last time a letter was added or removed from the standard English alphabet? A quick google says the last letter added to the English language was J, added 1524. Currently there are 214 radicals in Chinese. A new character would almost certainly be a combination of those existing radicals. Furthermore, the character could still be systematically written in computer language with brush stroke entry. That character would simply have to be added at a unicode level for image rending, same as having to define Alien Emoji as U+1F47D so that it does not render as a ?
That looks quite similar (though much nicer UI-wise) to EIN (the Emacs mode for jupyter). I guess if you're doing D3-based viz stuff it will be a better choice than EIN, as you can render those properly.
I don’t think so.

It’s time to try spinoffs/mods of major browsers, especially those with enhanced privacy. I use two of them and I’m very happy with my approach. I uninstalled FF which came with the OS, use Chrome with some picky work apps, one privacy-enhanced mod for personal browsing and another for work with non-picky work apps.
"the work on Quantum cannot be understated"

I agree 100%, which is why I am not switching back.
“Giving an impression of future return” has a wide spectrum...from outright lies, to willful misleading, to over-confident misrepresentation, to accidental miscommunication, etc.

Does a work of art have any objective value? Well, the value is generated by society being pursuaded that it has value. It’s ability to continue to sustain value is dependent on continual re-buy-in of that premise.
Nobody will tell you about the platform itself because those are closely guarded secrets.

A more specific description of the problem might help though. There's a huge amount of data in many forms, a huge amount of unpredictable major events, a lot of noise, a lot of hidden data (take hidden orders on exchanges as an example), and any action you take is going to affect the market. If you do something dumb, like place a bad order , nobody would take it in simulation but they would in real life. This makes it extremely difficult to understand why your model performed the way it did, what needs to be fixed, what sort of risk it entails, etc.

Research platforms help answer these questions without quants having to do do complex bespoke analysis over and over again.
I've been using firefox since 2004, and before that, sea monkey.

Why change a good thing?
this. For a 4KB intro, well, coding skills/cleverness makes a difference. But at 64KB, the artistic side can exist and that's where you can make a difference. Farbrausch stuff is cleverly coded, but the aesthetics were just ahead.
And those city states in the Greek peninsula which were doing it 1500 years prior?
Good point, and a good reason to learn how your DBMS of choice does common operations. Most query planners will explicitly tell you what yours is doing. I remember even back a long time ago MSSQL 7 had a nice GUI for its "query explain" and pgAdmin also gives a really nice graphical view of query plans, which really helps visualize when it is looping, doing hash lookups, etc. I suppose that would be part of the recommendation for learning: use a graphical query plan view if you can find a client that supports it :)

http://www.postgresonline.com/journal/archives/27-Reading-Pg... (example pictures if anyone reading this hasn't seen it before), it is pretty cool.
The Quantum Pascal's Triangle (2002)
I never left FF. It's been a great browser for me and I've never been tempted to leave. Recently though since the big update that rendered half the add-ons I came to rely on useless - I'm in limbo with no alternatives to them or half-hearted promises that the dev will get round to porting them "sometime".

Chrome has a lot of them as well as alternatives available and for me this is where I do consider jumping ship.

I completely understand FF wanting to change things up in the name of performance and modernising but I do feel they didn't really appreciate how important add-ons are to keeping people using it.

A lot of those add-ons are many years old but still had 1000s of users who suddenly were in the same situation as me.
Searle's argument isn't that there is something 'magical' about the human mind, it is that biological systems are fundamentally different from mechanical or digital systems and that sentience (not intelligence!) is a unique feature of biological systems.

This argument deserves much more recognition than it gets because 1. it's at this point still empirically true, we have not observed non-organic sentient life and more importantly, because not Searle but everybody else employs 'magic'.

Searle's point is simple. Computation is subjective. Electricity flowing through a machine doing complex things is just a physical process like anything else. You (the sentient observer) classify that physical process as meaningful, but a computer is no more 'computing' things than a falling pen computes gravity.

So sentience really is related to physical agency and sensory experience in the world, which creates conscience in organic brains. That doesn't imply complexity or intelligence or understanding. Syntax and Semantics are different things. Your pocket calculator processes the syntax of mathematics, but it does not understand the semantics of mathematics. A compiler processes symbols according to rules, but it does not understand the meaning of the computation, it has no cognition. It might be very good at what it does, but it has no capacity to understand. That's the essence of the Chinese room, and it's still a convincing argument.

An even stronger point might be made, namely that sentience actually limits intelligence. That it requires a degree of slowness and introspection that is unsuited for fast decision-making. For a fictional treatment of this, Blindsight by Peter Watts is an excellent read.
Right—I was only writing about the character form. 食べる is used to mean to eat, but as far as raw characters are concerned, Japanese doesn’t use 吃 but rather 喫, the non-simplified form.
9% seems rather high to me. No mention of how the survey was conducted. Was it a telephone survey? How were the respondents chosen?

It will be interesting to compare this 9% figure with the change in users that Facebook reports at their next earnings release.
Shameless plug for my open source library fbs [1]. It lets you create PyQt and PySide apps in minutes, not months.

[1]: https://github.com/mherrmann/fbs
Thanks but no thanks. I really tried to switch from Chrome multiple times, mostly because I find Chrome to take too much memory, the tracking, etc.

Every time there is some kind of update, either for speed, less data tracking, vpn, etc. I give it a try and always end up being disappointed, even on things that should be so obvious and simple, like scrolling. Even recent versions for FF on a brand new macbook pro, scrolling lags.

FF always has a great story that really makes me wanna switch, but I won't waste time for this one, sorry.
On a related note, I'd like to strongly recommend the book "The Moral Basis of a Backward Society"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moral_Basis_of_a_Backward_...

From Wikipedia:

The Moral Basis of a Backward Society is a book by Edward C. Banfield, a political scientist who visited Montegrano, Italy (Montegrano is the fictitious name used by Banfield to protect the original town of Chiaromonte, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata) in 1955. He observed a self-interested, family centric society which sacrificed the public good for the sake of nepotism and the immediate family. Banfield as an American was witnessing what was to become infamous as the "Mafia" or families (in Sicily and other parts of Southern Italy) that cared only for its own "members" at the expense of their fellow citizens. Banfield postulated that the backwardness of such a society could be explained "largely but not entirely" by "the inability of the villagers to act together for their common good or, indeed, for any end transcending the immediate, material interest of the nuclear family".
Yeah, I've already read about Tesla, and was not considering them already.

Do you know how hard it is to get these Google opportunities? Do they do whiteboard interviews as with SE?
Pop Science. Nice...
Bootstrapping your compiler is a vanity project for languages. It's cool to show you can do it, but pretty pointless in a practical sense unless your language is targeted at building compilers.