skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 4) Has applications for industrial uses or for jewelry, guaranteeing that your gold retains at least a base value. Same cannot be said of prime number data structures.

This is really interesting. Gold has physical uses for constructs that were developed during the industrial revolution. And as you say are well tested.

Ethereum or BCH, have information uses, for constructs that either have been developed in the last 20 years, or are being developed in this "information revolution" era.

I think we are about 20 years early to really see if a thing with physical properties will actually be more valuable than something with "informatic" properties. My bet is that the latter will win, given that materials sit on a lower level chain of complexity than information management.
Drive.ai Will Offer Uber-Like Service with Autonomous Vans This Summer
An additional tip: tune all the strings to the A string, not to each other. If you tune the B to the high E and then the G to the B, and so on, then each small mistake throws the rest of the strings off by increasing amounts.

It's good to be aware of this if tuning by harmonics:

http://www.schrof.net/guitar/articles/harmonics.html
> Ugh, except Pozidriv will still cam and tear up their own screws, and same with Phillips.

That's true, but using a Phillips screwdriver with a Pozidriv screw is worse than either system by itself.

Robertson may be objectively better, but that's irrelevant to my point. I was I was addressing was one of confusion.

I think your comment more properly belongs at the root than as a response to mine.
The "you are the product" model might work, but given that most ad-blockers also block trackers(or dare I say, most people want to block trackers, ads are just collateral damage), you might have to come up with self made analytics/advt tools.

Donations + sponsored content might work as well. Some good youtube content creators use it(eg: Kurzgesagt). But this will work only for very small teams. Even better if you live in cheaper countries with a worldwide target audience.
I wonder if just putting the power outlet on a timer would work. Cut power to the charger for a few minutes at night and you're good.

Edit: disregard, I misunderstood the issue
NASA says the Sun is “tangled up in blue”
Payroll is the biggest issue. You have to pay taxes in any state your employee is working. This gets expensive and time intensive as you start filing annual reports and paying taxes in 4 or 5 states.
> Widespread adoption has other benefits. Mapbox doesn't need to send out pricey cars or satellites in space to map the world. "Map data is not like food, air, water that's just around. It takes active work to make it," says Young Hahn, Mapbox's CTO. Whenever someone opens a Mapbox map, that person's phone or computer sends three pieces of anonymous data back to the company: longitude, latitude and a time stamp. These billions of data points constantly improve Mapbox's real-time plug-and-play map of the world. "Every time you touch the map, the map is learning," Gundersen says. "It's that flywheel."

What do they mean by that?
Super-productive UI development with Kotlin
when I don't need too much ui customization and when I want the ui looks more akin to the system default, I go native.

When the ui requires customization that is easy to create with html, and performance and install footage isn't a constraint, I go with electron.
Since flutter paints every pixel on the screen, widgets will work same for every version of OSs. No more support library madness.
We hire remote.

None of these are big problems. The biggest problem we have is communicating effectively with people in various time zones, and making them feel apart of the team. Video conferencing is still an area that is lacking in this area. I've yet to find a service that meets all our needs. Right now we are using LifeSize because it's the best we've found, and still fairly annoying.

The problem really isn't on the "hiring" end. It's how to work as effectively with remote people as you would with people in the same office. When you introduce friction with remote, it causes problems. That being said, I think it's a worthwhile problem to solve.

Not sure this helps, but this is our biggest struggle right now.
But note that, strictly speaking, Stripe itself is also a middle-man.
Nobody has a right to an Amazon account.

Well, yes. But when Amazon are realistically the only place to sell ebooks you have to balance the right of Amazon to deny an account to whomever they want with the right of an individual to sell ebooks. With the supermonopolies of Amazon, Google, Facebook and Twitter these battles will be fought in the courts sooner or later.
The Karen Wetterhahn story (2003)
The biggest challenge to making remote workers successful is the existing company culture. If the organization has not been built with a conscious "remote-first" mindset, new remote collaborators will inevitably be excluded from necessary communications and decisions. Making a remote worker a true part of the team requires a massive culture shift if your company does not already (successfully) do distributed work.
That's what I thought too but then I noticed that someone bothered to put "- Nick Janetakis" in the titles of those PDF pages (check the screenshot in the article).
The quality of OpenAddresses' geocoding (which, I'd imagine, Mapbox uses) seems to be a bit spotty here in the United States as well.

Google's entire advantage here is the amount of resources they've poured into their data; nobody else has been able to match it so far.

EDIT: After doing a bit of poking and prodding, it does seem to be a lot better than it used to be.
I am someone who believes the world would be better off without these companies. My argument generally goes like this:

- Credit existed before reporting agencies

- It's possible to verify creditworthiness without a reporting agency

- Reporting agencies aren't particularly good at their job anyways

You may dislike the first two arguments, because obviously they make debt more expensive. I don't think that's the worst thing in the world. So, I'll focus on the last point.

Credit reporting agencies often have incorrect info. Here's an FTC study that says one in five have wrong info that was corrected. [0]

You may argue that I should use the other number, ie. people who still had errors after fixing it: 2.2%. But, it oftentimes by the time you fix an error, the opportunity to get the thing you want (ie. job, apartment, car, house, etc) has passed.

But even if the data was correct, the way they generate the score manipulates people into taking on more debt than they should and take on worse debt.

Getting and using one or more credit cards is the easiest ways to improve your credit score, and this is honestly bullshit. Credit cards encourage bad spending habits and trap people in debt. The credit card companies rely on people carrying a balance and a really good way to make that happen is to make sure everyone uses their credit cards for everything.

Meanwhile, things that should improve your score often don't. For example, rent and utility payments only count if they are reported and a lot of landlords or companies don't report or only report if you don't pay.

Maybe it's not the credit reporting agencies' problem if people don't report good behavior. And, I don't know what efforts they've made at getting more people to report. But my bias tells me that they probably just don't care.

[0] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2015/01/ftc-i...
Bail is set absurdly high to force false guilty pleas.
Sounds like it is the consumers who are benefiting. I don't see the problem.
Why not GTK? Gnome developers should make "standard" Linux installer - Software app works pretty good and fast.
We are a pure remote company but Tax/employment-law is for us the biggest issue. Or to be more precise, it's the biggest issue for potential co-workers. We find that people are super interested in us, but when we tell them they have to do their own tax and basically act as freelancers, most say no to us. The majority simply wants a standard legal employment. Which I understand and I would like to have that too.
A PHP framework written in C that focuses on API development. Asf aims to shorten project development time, address the framework's performance costs, regulate unreasonable development, and encounter security issues. Asf continues to make complex things simple.
That is the truth.

I know directly of at least one recent instance where a local news company was not allowed to interview a professional directly related to a story it was airing...because one of their big advertisers wouldn't allow anyone in that field to be interviewed unless it was an affiliate of theirs.

I'm being purposely vague there, but even the reporter was really upset about it.
Can I still kick the device into recovery mode with a cable after 7 days with this mode? Or would I have to unlock the device to re-enable recovery mode?
> below the worst in the world

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. And this is a most extraordinary claim.

Ridiculous bombast aside about an internationally recognized journalism outfit: you can't be "below the worst" thing.
> Are you really sure you want to stand by that equivalence?

Yes. Both require some knowledge of how to use the tool and rules, but both are not difficult for even a novice to pick up quickly. Not to mention both can be done by either a dev or a sysadmin in the cloud right now, neither of them require in-depth knowledge of the code, and the scope of the change is simple enough that it can be tested and applied quickly.

> "Months" is not our timeline for any kind of systemic appsec issue like SQLi or XSS.

The discussion was about a dev or sysadmin fixing all this themselves ("taking appsec seriously" etc). Not just running Burp on their website. After they identify the vulns they have to have meetings to discuss fixes, figure out how to patch them and test that it works, go through QA and then roll into production. A fix may involve several systems and most people's deploy process is painful. I've never seen that take less than three weeks, and six is more reasonable. Can you do it in less time? Of course. Does that actually happen? Not without paying a consultancy $300k to hold your hand for two weeks.

It is completely plausible to get a WAF up and running and have it provide real protection immediately. CloudFlare's is probably the best example of this, considering the extensive add-ons they provide based on the intrusions they've seen. I don't like CloudFlare's TLS MITM either, but tens of thousands of their customers don't seem to mind.

Just like iptables, ModSecurity doesn't do anything at first. You have to actually make some decisions. Does that mean you shouldn't spend the extra 15 minutes to read a manual and enable some protection?

Earlier it was suggested that protecting against Drupal or Wordpress vulns is unnecessary. I disagree! There's no reason not to protect against drive-by vulns. Filters for XSS/SQLi, unnecessary HTTP features, malicious bots and scanners, directory traversal, RCE, etc are well worth preventing whenever possible.

As for false positives, they're not as bad as they used to be. There are thorough guides designed to help you identify and remove them from your site. https://www.netnea.com/cms/apache-tutorial-7_including-modse... https://www.netnea.com/cms/apache-tutorial-8_handling-false-... For a sysadmin this may take more time, just like it would if you were using iptables to secure a black box. A dev can change the filters immediately to suit their app.

But even if you don't do any active filtering, the passive filters can at least alert you that something is happening so you can go fix it. This is so standard that Kubernetes includes it as an option in their Nginx Ingress Controller. This guide can get you up and running on your existing K8s install in 10 minutes: https://karlstoney.com/2018/02/23/nginx-ingress-modsecurity-...
Google, Facebook to ban bail bond ads
I feel like the "rise of the machines" won't be some bloodbath with terminators or AI killing people outright, it will just be that everything will be a Kafka-esque maze of bureaucratic complexity with no human recourse when you get caught in the system. It's like those Coke Freestyle machines, where you get stuck in line behind someone trying to figure out the touchscreen system when all you want to do is get a Coke. The future of society is all of us frustratedly waving our hands in front of an automated paper towel dispenser before we just give up and wipe our hands on our pants.
GDPR: One Unintended Consequence
Huh, did they copy Brooklyn Bail Fund?

https://brooklynbailfund.org/
> I'm not sure if anyone is arguing for getting rid of bail?

Bail, no, but money bail, yes; there is an active movement, at the federal level and within several states, to move away from, and ultimately eliminate, the system of money bail. Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Rand Paul (R-KY) introduced a bill last year with that aim; in California, SB 10 passed the Senate last year and is now in the Assembly.
No I speak Russian and English. Russian is native.
Indeed it says "apples" and "buckets".

[Now, why op didn't use pidgins and pidgin holes, I'll never know... ;-)
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>where liberal feel-good policies make the lives of actual poor people worse.

are bail bonds a "liberal feel-good policy"?
I don't need a secure MSpaint.

Now you do you, and I'll use Goldwave v4.0 for basic audio edits - exactly the same tool I used in 2000, one that works well and I never had to re-learn.

I despise tools that capriciously change in my hands. Extra "security" is not worth the productivity hit.

Again, Internet connectivity isn't my default. Dropbox can handle that, and that software gets all the updates. The tools I use to make stuff I put in Dropbox better all be offline and never changing unless I say so.

That applies to the office suite, DAW, graphics editor, etc. I haven't seen anything their online features could give except a cloud lock-in.

You may value extra security, often necessitated by the very virtue of the software being online. And I value the ability to use without having to think about whether the signal is strong and my card payments went through.

The reality is that the interests of the users are often not aligned with the interests of software vendors.
Not sure if I follow? For a form submission, you'd set it up like a normal HTML form. The <input type="submit"> would do it's regular thing. If Javascript is enabled, then you'd hijack the button with event.preventDefault and do your AJAX.
It's not really a meta-argument. It's just saying the basic requirements. If you are challenging a strongly supported scientific theory but have no alternative theory, then you are going to have a hard time.

Even a religious theory like intelligent design or creationism should produce abundant physical evidence that could be assessed. And they should attempt to integrate with all neighboring scientific fields of study (geology, anthropology, genetics, etc). But this doesn't seem to happen.
GitCoin?
It takes less time to get a refund than it takes to read the reviews, why do you care?
The advantage of a smaller time period is obvious: if 7 days is secure, then 7 hours is more secure.

But presumably there's a good reason they chose that number, I'm just wondering why that might be.
Since Google Maps jacked up their prices a few days ago, I've been exploring alternatives, including Mapbox. Unfortunately Mapbox is also very steep for a solo developer developer who wants to build a side project - at least if it's considered 'commercial'. $500 / month for only 250 users, and no way to plan beyond that without inquiring with them about an "enterprise" plan.

Also, if anyone from Mapbox is reading this, you need to be more clear about what is considered "commercial". At the top of the pricing page you define a commercial app as:

Paid web app or website (fee or subscription)
Private web app or website with restricted access
Asset tracking app or website to monitor people or things

But then lower down on the page, you seem to indicate a more permissive definition:

If your app is for internal business use by employees,
or if it is not accessible or functional for members
of the general public then we consider that a
Commercial app.

Even with these two definitions, it's not clear how this pricing works for freemium websites or websites paid for by advertising.

There are some other alternatives that are more truly "pay as you go" or have affordable tiers for commercial apps:

TomTom - https://developer.tomtom.com/store/maps-api

MapQuest - https://developer.mapquest.com/plans

Stadia Maps - https://stadiamaps.com/

There is also MapFit, which says it has "Clear pricing that scales with you" but doesn't actually explain any of their pricing:

https://mapfit.com/pricing

If anyone else has good alternatives that are affordable for solo devs, especially ones with good alternatives to the Google Maps Places API, I'd love to hear about them.
I am not quite sure the cases are analogous: Google is a website, Apple sells physical objects. When Google "refused to do business" with China, they doubtless knew that users would instead use a VPN and access some other national version of Google. Meanwhile, if Apple doesn't do business in China, it's not like people in China getting genuine smuggled iPhones that work normally. They're either going to use other platforms or use untrustworthy knock-off iPhones, and all of those probably comply with government regulations too.

Still, your point above stands: a company as large as Apple or Google has too many individuals with their own personal interests for "trustworthy" to really be a meaningful term. I trust Apple mobile phones much more than Google mobile phones, but, for instance, I trust Google laptops much more than I trust Apple laptops. I am sure there are good people working on all four products, but for some reason Apple's mobile phone division and Google's laptop division have consistently put out better products.
> MapBox's WebGL based vector tile renderer was a cut above the rest.

It really is. I've done a lot of work in the web with various rendering engines, and it's hard to beat the quality of MapBox GL.
> It feels like JS is a hammer to fix the nail of the page reload.

JS is useful for much more, e.g. collaborative editing, where the user doesn't have to wait for a server round-trip. JS is essential for a real-time multi-user interactive web.
Honestly, I don't see the wordpress backend as a relevant test case. Whoever else you might be catering to, it's fair to assume that someone building a website would have JavaScript enabled while developing.
As someone completely out of the loop on this one but deeply entrenched in modern web development, I have some questions.

1. What benefit does this format give that other schema systems do not?

2. The `@context` just seems like a way of defining variables. As best as I can tell, the use case leads to one only using each of these "variables" once. What's the benefit?

3. What benefit does RDF in any format provide to the average web developer?

Sorry if these questions are asinine. It's just that the article bemoans the fact that this hasn't hit mainstream web development yet, to my mind, does nothing to encourage its use.
Dealing with taxes and with contracts in different jurisdictions. Sure, some people may be ok with working self-employed and handle all of that themselves, but not everyone will do.
To patch the vulnerability, they need to be aware of the vulnerability. An individual who possessed such a vulnerability would likely be more inclined to go into business for themselves (such as the hackers that helped the FBI crack the San Bernardino iPhone, or the Israeli firm Celebrate) than hand it over to Apple for a one time fee. Although I imagine that Apple would probably pay pretty well for it.

IIRC these sort of vulnerabilities don't totally bypass the phone's lock mechanism, but rather disable the pin code attempt delay and allow bruteforcing of the pin code via software.
this!!!

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I posted this on the blog:

Google is banning ads aka paid placements - organic search results are still fine, including reviews of bail bondsmen, etc.

Put another way, Google is simply refusing to profit from this industry and refusing to allow money to skew access to information.

How again is this a bad thing???
It's strange to say that food is "just around" in urbanized industrial society. Maybe for hunter-gatherers...
$125 is pretty much the de facto rate regardless of location (give or take a small percentage). But you're missing several points in the equation that make that rate much much less than $260k/yr.

1. You're not differentiating between the rate that's charged and the rate that's paid to employees. I am billed out at $185/hr. I make a small fraction of that as an employee, even after benefits.

2. You're not including any time off - you're figuring 40.0 hours for 52 weeks straight which is ridiculous. US employees are much more likely to be 48-50 weeks. Europeans are at what, 20 weeks a year or something now? (I jest)

3. For consultants (who are not employees), if you want to bill 40.0 hours you're going to be working 60-70 when including all the marketing and admin work, or you're outsourcing that which eats into your base rate considerably.

4. When I was consulting a big reason why was freedom and time off. I billed $125/hr but made probably $50k/yr because I only worked 25-30 hours a week all in. That included all my marketing, proposals, billing, chasing invoices, and actual billed work. It was great seeing a direct financial impact to the amount of work I did, but also sucked because if you have no motivation for more than a few days that impacts you financially for weeks.
Thank you for your question. It has already been answered. (As above)
Some of us still use Ethernet... But I already have a little section in my Hammerspoon config that puts my current IP in the lower right of my second display. BitBar would also work.
Correct, but I would say it's next to impossible to find a VC who treats a SAFE/Convertible Note as debt. Nobody wants it paid off, the VC will always choose to convert to equity because that is the VC's model.
Interestingly even if they do they still don't treat the poor and minorities very well.
Thanks Jeremy (and Rachel) for everything y'all have done; I learned a lot just from watching part 1!

Somewhat tangential question, but how do you feel about sticking with PyTorch for future lessons/research work? What are your thoughts on the new Swift integration with TensorFlow?
The back up is actually this website:

https://uva.onlinejudge.org/
The whole comments section is worth a scroll-through: didn't know there were so many map nerds on twitter!
Great short-animation format, for interesting ideas!

Has such a form of evangelism been used before for this kind of ideas (philosophy of life/work)? I vaguely remember seeing cartoon booklets (re)telling the story of Jesus, a long time ago.
Question: What is the job market like for folks who spend two months learning deep learning, either through a class like fast.ai or a bootcamp like Insight AI? What sorts of companies hire these people and how much do they pay? I know it varies, but I'm just trying to get a sense to calibrate my expectations of the current market. Thanks for any perspective anyone can offer.