skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting how they've already spotted a number of possible problems with using an algo to do VC, but there isn't really a compelling solution yet.

There are a number of parallels with the time when I was trading fixed income at a hedge fund. We had a senior guy looking at the output of various opportunity scanners, and deciding what to do.

There's several problems with this approach.

- The human is always out to prove himself. If you don't override the system now and again, what's the point of you? This means the humans are always on the looking for some special one-off condition they can claim.

- The algo dev stops short of where he could go with it. You ought to be fully automating it, but you don't because you need to leave something on the table. There's a number of data problems that you just don't get around to solving because it's tedious and you aren't going to use it.

- The VC guys have a much worse data problem, by the looks of it. Not every startup will fill out the form. If they don't need your money, no form. If they crash early, no form. After they fill out the form, how do you track what happened to them? Seems like a big problem. Also if you're going to use ML you need a fairly large number of rows. Not just filled out forms, but also labels for how things turned out. And the more features you collect, the more labelled rows you'll want.

So there's a real risk of falling into the pseudo-systematic hole here. You take the data that you have and make conclusions that are very close to your initial priors. Basically you end up with stylized "facts" that aren't necessarily true, just believed.

Seems like a they've thought about these things though, will be interesting to see what happens.
A lot of this article discusses verifying that you actually bought an authentic Ledger. No device can protect you from your own gullibility.
Linux containers on Chromebook, terminal
What I love about Monad and Applicative interfaces is that I can read that code and almost immediately fully grasp what’s going on without having a clue about the underlying library.

There are a bunch of (well named) functions and control flow. No boilerplate.
Your Ledger is hardware-tamper proof. But if you didn't buy directly you should check that your Ledger is genuine and, if being genuine, that someone has not pre-configured it. This is basic stuff that has been a potential concern from the beginning.

If it's not genuine, your Ledger hasn't been tampered with.

If it is pre-configured, your Ledger hasn't been tampered with either - it's been pre-configured. You can reset it and start over with a brand new seed. But if you use their pre-configured seed, the attacker will effectively have the keys to your Ledger.

Neither of these are physically tampering with the Ledger itself and it's impossible to avoid either attack with any device of this nature. You need to receive a device (which may or may not be genuine) and you need to configure that device (which may or may not be pre-configured by an attacker, hoping you just use the pre-configured seed).
Blockchain's two-flavored appeal
I think it's important to consider what your program is going to do. Discord, for example, uses Electron, and I'm perfectly happy with it (as are most of the millions of others who use it). It's a product with a lot of functionality and it makes sense for it to have slower startup times, higher distribution size, and more memory usage. But if you're planning to make a calculator, then Electron probably isn't the right tool.

That being said, I think the styling thing is a really important point that is often undervalued. I've written UIs in GTK, Qt, and Swing, and perhaps this is close-minded but I honestly can't take anyone who says that they're just as easy as HTML/CSS seriously. I mean, literally just look at how many beautiful websites are out there, and then how many beautiful, not just functional, native programs there are (in my opinion, very few). UX/UI is important, and I think not having to pull your hair out every time you want to move a button to the right 3 pixels and give it a prettier border is a big plus for Electron.
Probably the failure I consider the biggest is that I spent most of my PhD trying to solve supervised learning for computer vision using unsupervised feature learning methods, and was caught totally off guard when Alex, Ilya, and Geoff won the ImageNet contest with purely supervised methods. I think that in general wasting time writing papers that turn out to be dead ends is the main way that I fail in my own eyes.

Wow, what an amazing story.

And worth pointing out that Goodfellows work on unsupervised feature learning is clearly seen in his invention of GANs.

Edit, and:

I think it’s hard to extract value from negative results in machine learning because it can be so hard to tell what caused the negative result. A negative result might point to something very fundamental wrong with an idea, but it might also just be the result of a very small software bug, the wrong idea of the hyperparameter values to try out, too small of a model, etc.

So, so true. I read comments on HN on how important negative results are in ML and I look at all the things I’ve tried and someone else made work, and all I see is reporting negative results just discourages ppl from trying things.

This is a great interview.
This is exactly me and my friends are doing these days. When we have enough time and we want to go someplace on the other side of the city. Instead of using maps to navigate we follow a general direction to reach a landmark first then look at the map once to see our route from there.
Advertisers want require that ads are served from a 3rd party server for attribution.
Chinese employers using brain-reading technology to detect changes in emotion
Why I hate emojis: A case of overabundance
This is literally an empty page with a contenteditable tag snapped on the body. I mean.... yeah, it can be done.
"Look for satellite dishes. They all point towards the equator. In London, that is roughly south-southeast."

If by "roughly south-southeast" you mean "south" and by "in London" you mean "in the northern hemisphere" :).
And this actually almost makes me dismiss her outright. Everybody raising money has heard those.

I have personally heard: "Not enthusiastic enough/Too enthusiastic" (Irony: two different people sitting at the same presentation) "Too little/too much experience" "Not enough/too many generalists." It goes on and on ...

You learn to ignore the excuse and move on--the excuse is irrelevant.

"No" is "no". Move on.

"Maybe" is "no". Move on.

"Yes" is no until you cash the check and it clears.
There isn't an easy and reliable way to manually check that it is genuine. However, their software won't work with a counterfeit device.

However, checking that it is not preconfigured is very important.
It has many disadvantages in terms of functionality. Some advantages could be: theming (line-height, inner margins, inner max-width), runs in the browser, easy to modify and build upon, produces HTML output.
Once I was travelling through Morocco and the general advice I got from other turists even before the trip was “don’t trust the gps”. It turned out the medinas (old towns) themselves were so densly packed, that you could not see much of the sky to get any lock on satellites, and the internet coverage was very spotty.

And you “had” to learn how to read paper maps, because otherwise you’d fall pray to the many “tourist guides” that will scam you for 5-10 bucks each time, or worse. In that unique environment, where there's a need and a threat model, you get the hang of it pretty quickly, and boy oh boy was it worth it, after the inital bit were you “learn the map” I could navigate the busy winding streets of marakesh with confidence, spending way more time looking at the splendor of the souk(bazaar), choosing “alternative” routes to explore new areas, while having this worm “at home” feeling.

And that “skill” persisted for quite aome time after the trip. We had an orientation challenge team building event, and my tream beat everyone handily mainly because of the medina training I got :)
The algorithm isn’t arresting people. It’s cutting down the suspect pool from 17000 to 2500, the fact that 2000 of those are innoscent while 500 are criminals isn’t a damning issue, it’s just a point where it could improve. Without the system the 500 people would not have been identified at all.
You said

the country with the biggest economy ends up with the biggest army.

That is demonstrably false, as shown in that Wikipedia article. In fact, there is barely any correlation between the size of a country’s economy and its army.

You're also ignoring the point I was making entirely.

Since your facts are wrong, there isn’t even a point to ignore
How can this be so upvoted. This is crazy.
Very nice! Quick observation, what is the purpose of the # suffix on your variables? I haven’t seen this much and would like to know what it signals, etc.
The standard cron that nearly everyone used to use would have been Williamson cron. Paul Vixie's PD cron (which was the original name for it) was a clone from 1987, and it of course was not used where people used the standard one, so was clearly not the one "nearly everyone" used.

It never became it, either. It was fairly quickly forked. Several times. Debian cron was forked from PD cron in 1994 by Ian Jackson, for example. The "standard one that everyone used to use" but only in the limited field of Debian Linux (and no longer, nowadays with Debian Linux version 9) was that fork, which M. Jackson actually named "Debian/GNU Linux's". RedHat made a comparatively much more recent fork. OpenBSD and FreeBSD have their own (different from each other) forks of long standing, too.

Mike Meyer apparently made a GNU cron for the Free Software Foundation in 1987. If it indeed ever existed in the first place, it has since disappeared without a trace.

I provide pre-made service bundles for the nosh toolset for various crons, and I have so far had to make separate ones for Dillon crond, Debian cron, Vixie (a.k.a. ISC or PD) cron, Guenter bcron-{spool,start,update}, Godouet fcron, and OpenBSD cron; because they are significantly different from one another.

In part, this is because although the crontab utility is actually standardized, in the SUS, cron (like many such non-ordinary-user-facing internals) is not standardized. This is actually a good thing, inasmuch as the radically different multiple untrusting dæmons architecture of Guenter bcron would not have been possible if it had had to conform to a standard of one monolithic cron dæmon.
That’s not the point. Or maybe it’s exactly the point.

The point is that doing the equivalent of blind auditions might solve it for everyone. It is similar enough to the blind auditions example anyway to make the “it is no way similar” argument clearly wrong.
Here you go: https://us18.campaign-archive.com/feed?u=ab0f46cf302c0ed836e...
I didn't sign up for the same reason.
[1] http://www.zeroflux.org/projects/knock
What makes me feel misled is being told what opening the box that it was tamper-proof[1], finding out it wasn't tamper proof[2] and now this.

[1]: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2126/7913/files/Ledger_Tam...

[2]: https://saleemrashid.com/2018/03/20/breaking-ledger-security...
If you're able to copy the archives across to your own site, it might be worth it for the SEO benefits (and you can put the signup form at the top of each page). But your focus on automated workflow seems very wise.

One suggestion - you might want to add an actual unsubscribe link on the site. I once had somebody subscribe to one of my lists, who then wanted to unsubscribe before receiving the first email and was quite upset that they couldn't find an unsubscribe link on the site itself.

Love your logo and how clean everything is!
No, this is not how the law works, at least not in Europe.

While doing business in Europe I sometimes got some things wrong, for example with taxes. I wasn't really punished even once - I just had to pay what was missing and correct the documents, even if the maximum punishment for what I did (or failed to do) was some years in jail.
A new study of the rules of spacing in English sentences
CEO pay is not just supply and demand. You cannot even tell what "supply" even is, because "CEO supply" is nothing that can be well defined. You could make a lot of people CEO from the 2nd and 3rd ranks who also have the experience and knowledge, or you can seek only people who already have been CEOs - which does not guarantee anything at all, because CEO success depends a lot on context and circumstances. CEO supply is extremely flexible based on psychology for one (who you are willing to accept for the role is extremely subjective and based on personal preferences), and can also very easily be changed through actions (whom do you give a chance to learn to lead, and how). So the possible "supply" of CEOs is decided on a whim to a large degree, based on subjectivity (even if it's attempted to be hidden by some "thorough search" - which uses those same subjective criteria and selection heuristics).

You misuse economic theory by simply using it to make unsubstantiatable claims pretending that it somehow proves anything as long as you use the right magic words from economic thinking.
Good interview. It really surprised me to see a Stanford undergrad fail at anything to be honest, much less admission to a similarly ranked school for a specific PhD concentration they are known for.

I guess in this circumstance it actually was their loss.
Tech, entertainment and non-tech
Your statement is false. What it is is the upper bound. The letter of the law clearly says the punishment must be adequate.
Tried it out now and while typography changes do persist, I can't figure out how to change line height or background color.
Revisiting Mouslr and having some fun with mouse tracking glitch art
The ads shown in the article aren't blinking gifs so I'd say it covers enough ground.
Yup, math checks out. 80k words a book, so say 120k words/week. If you read 200 wpm then this would take about 10 hours or 1.5h per day.
Perhaps also interesting for people who like this: Firefox Notes.

https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/notes
It also tells us what Alice's optimal strategy is: pick the first number at random, and then select an adjacent integer as the second number. Thus, there's no space between them that your prior can assign any probability to.
Depends.

I've downloaded a fair number of Electron apps, and ultimately deleted or aborted the download of most of them. VSC is the one that currently survives.

If it's something that needs most of a browser and HTML - like an email client that cropped up as a Show HN recently, or a client for a wholly online service, Electron may be the right choice.

If it's something more trivial like a notepad, reminder, or timer, Electron is just needlessly making it unfriendly thanks to start time, and memory load. Multiple MBs shouldn't be necessary for a timer or calculator but Electron will make that so.

You may say that we have lots of memory these days, and we do. But I run lots of things these days, and if I have half a dozen such apps running in background I basically have half a dozen instances of Chrome. That's quite an extra load on memory and start times. It's also going to be one of the early casualties if my (or family tech support) laptop is starting to run low on memory.

Last, I think there is something to be said for Electron as an early version while testing, especially while still exploring UI and feature changes as you can focus on that not platform issues. Once you know what is needed, 9 times out of 10, give them a proper native program.
You can fire at least half of the labor after launch and maintenance can be done by fewer people or ad-hoc contractors.
The Pioneer Effect has been explained as "anisotropic radiation pressure caused by the spacecraft's heat loss".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_anomaly
AI will spell the end of capitalism
A Web browser is not more lightweight that notepad.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=markdown+editor
Iraq war and patrioct act both saw more support than opposition in polls, when they happened (law passed, invasion was started).

Wars did get less popular when they went badly, so you can argue that they would have been shorter if public officials would have retreated when polls turned against them. But that's a separate discussion.
Hmm, hire more faculty? Plenty of PhD students are waiting to get an academic job.
Dog Stolen by Amazon Delivery Person Recovered After Owner Emailed Jeff Bezos
I got the same advice in Edinburgh. Apparently the old crazy roads and verticality really don’t translate well into a 2D-ish plane and route finding algorithm!
I think you're making the mistake of thinking the fines mentioned are the minimum fines, when they're the maximum possible fines for the worst repeat deliberate violations.

EU regulators tend not to apply fines for companies making simple mistakes. They do want the companies to come back into compliance.
These are solvable problems. Just because a group of engineers agree on a standard tool, doesn't mean that they are blind to the world around them, or that they are now doomed to be single minded "legacy" people. I'm sorry if in your experience this hasn't been the case. Maintaining a balance between using modern technology and having a healthy "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" attitude is certainly do-able.

But when every team is doing it's own version of the same thing, that's another story. It can be crushing to productivity, in fact it's likely to be the deciding factor if some types work get done at all. And, unlike your concerns about preventing stagnation, the only way to solve that problem is to stop doing it.
English text would be slightly more machine-readable (sentence segmentation) if everyone followed the period + two spaces approach, but alas. I personally think it looks better.
Nope that’s more like cache write speed. Single-threaded sequential access to RAM is typically more like 10-15GB/s for current server CPUs: https://panthema.net/2013/pmbw/results.html - it’s true that workstation machines tend to have somewhat higher sequential throughout compared to the server-heavy list at that URL, but it’s more like 20GB/s, not 50-60.
The billion-dollar, Alibaba-backed AI company that’s watching people in China
Reminds me of Snowcrash & Bob Rife:

""I deal in information," he says to the smarmy, toadying pseudojournalist who "interviews" him. He's sitting in his office in Houston, looking slicker than normal. "All television going out to Consumers throughout the world goes through me. Most of the information transmitted to and from the CIC database passes through my networks. The Metaverse -- -the entire Street -- exists by virtue of a network that I own and control.

"But that means, if you'll just follow my reasoning for a bit, that when I have a programmer working under me who is working with that information, he is wielding enormous power. Information is going into his brain. And it's staying there. It travels with him when he goes home at night. It gets all tangled up into his dreams, for Christ's sake. He talks to his wife about it. And, goddamn it, he doesn't have any right to that information. If I was running a car factory, I wouldn't let workers drive the cars home or borrow tools. But that's what I do at five o'clock each day, all over the world, when my hackers go home from work.

......

So we're working on refining our management techniques so that we can control that information no matter where it is -- on our hard disks or even inside the programmers' heads. Now, I can't say more because I got competition to worry about. But it is my fervent hope that in five or ten years, this kind of thing won't even be an issue." "

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/830.Snow_Crash
> You learn to ignore the excuse and move on (...)

That's actually a great attitude in almost everything in life: recognize that some things are best modeled as a random variable, and if you fail there might not be a causal explanation and you just have to keep trying.

The downside is that you might be given valuable information (feedback) and you might dismiss it as noise.

So it's a real skill telling signal from noise.
Hugo + Bootstrap + Jquery + Mailchimp + Netlify + An image or three from Unsplash.

Simple enough to create a standard marketing site that takes emails for 0 cost.
TOR is not meant for security, it's meant for anonymity.

If you are logging into services that can identify you, checking your personal email over a TOR connection, or doing work over a TOR connection, you're putting yourself and your company at risk.
I would be worried- but knowing the Chinese, there is already a sensor data generator, woren by every worker to give these super-conductors the ability to be super even on a rainy brain day.

Imagine if a citizen could smell governments fear- what would that smell like? Like thousands of brand new cameras and sensors?
Like the surveillance harassment with a thousand needle stings by a jealous spouse?

If everybody wears those caps- then you as a government produced evidence, that you do not trust anybody- which is a consensus that you have nobody really loyal to you.
How to make a fulltime income winning lottery using a genius software?
In the end this is still an investment, and the stock purchase agreement will probably include terms that would require companies to upload their P/L each quarter. They could easily track progress based on that.
The evonomics of it are still good but at the same time you can use chromium as a web view and often that's better. Where I work rather than electron we use a chromium based webview with a native windows desktop rather than electron.
Yes, and in the tropics it depends on the time of year. For instance I've just been reading this thread on the walk from the hotel to the office in Nairobi. It's about noon, and the sun was high on my right shoulder, so as it's May I was walking West.

When I did the same walk in February at the same time the sun was high on my left shoulder.

However assuming the sun does rise (i.e. you're not in a polar region near the solstices), it will always rise somewhere to the east (even if it's south-south-east) and set somewhere to the west.
Well the direction depends which satellite is been tracked on the geostationary orbit.

So depending where you are on Northen hemisphere and which satellite provider are you using your satellite dish points to anywhere between south-west to south-east.

For example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astra_(satellite)
u son win a reptilian of the month award
I hope you understand that Facebook doesn’t sell your data to anyone. It sells targeting capabilities.
I was thinking mainly when I'd had a bottle of wine the night before, what time am I clear the next morning
Workers are not exploited. If they have a better option they'll take it. If they don't have a better option, then you're not exploiting them, you're offering the best option available to them.

> we should abolish minimum wage

Certainly.

> we've already agreed that workers need protection

Actually, not all of us have agreed that.

> you're arguing against the status quo (and calling it a tyranny nonetheless)

Just because something is the way things are doesn't make it not a tyranny.
A more "prestigious" team/project?
You get downvotes because you make many factually incorrect statements.
Hotel night shift and then crazinesssssssss
Why was this downvoted?

It will setup exactly what was asked for. Specifically qt 5.9.5 with PyQt.
How is tax unconstitutional?

If you allow a 1% LVT to accrue as a charge on the value of the home, that's only paid on disposal, there's no affordability problem either. Own a $2m piece of land at age 18, each year 1% of the value gets added as a charge. Die age 108 and 80% of the land value is then taken to pay the back-charges, leaving 20% for the estate.
Cool, then you probably don't care about EU customers anyway