skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My job is one of those. I do about 35 minutes a day, I'm paid SFA (legal minimum) for turning up to stand around for a few hours. I can't swear enough to underscore how much I hate it and I would leave in a cold second.

The worst part is that they rely on my skill when stuff goes wrong, which happens very rarely, although they've just assigned me a high end graphics project (I'm not a graphic designer by any definition of the term), a $10,000 project that they've promised to pay me about $100 for.

Most days, I'd rather just drive into the oncoming truck than go there.
.NET already runs on WASM, see: https://github.com/aspnet/Blazor

Although I personally don't think it's a good idea to build HTML UI's with C#, which adds overhead + friction.
Can a Robot Be Divine?
The title is "click-baity" but I've used this repo in the past to verify parts of my code and it is highly recommended. The code is amazingly clean!

Once you've verified that the implementations are correct, it is easier to start the journey to reproduce SOTA on harder problems by playing around with the side-tricks that are often employed.
If you don’t reach people to tell them what you have to offer, no one will ever find you.

If I didn't intrusively steal people's limited time and attention to force my manipulative product spam right into their faces, I might not get what I want, therefore it's ok for me to do that - the ends justify the means.
The QA of Stochastic Processes
I've got the linux-4.17 kernel tree around, 61,322 files.

My desktop is running ubuntu-18.04, is an i5-3570, and has a fairly quick intel SSD.

Running "blush -R -i FunctionName ." takes 15.090 seconds and finds two files.

Running "ag -i FunctionName", finds one file, missing one in .clang-format.

Running "ag -i -u FunctionName", finds two files and makes 0.64 seconds.

So somewhere around 20-25x faster.
Abraxas Corporation bought Anonymizer in May 2008.[0]

> Abraxas Corporation focuses on services, system and technology solutions, and training programs across the United States National Security community, the United States Government, and the United States military markets.[1]

It was founded in 2001

> by a group of former high-ranking agency employees, led by Richard "Hollis" Helms, a longtime overseas officer in the Middle East and onetime head of the CIA's European division, and Richard Calder, who was the agency's deputy director for administration.

0) https://www.socaltech.com/anonymizer_acquired_by_abraxas/s-0...

1) https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.a...

2) http://articles.latimes.com/2006/sep/17/nation/na-abraxas17
Quality prefabricated homes and apartments are a great idea. There's a negative association with prefabricated homes, but I've seen a lot of newer companies that seem to be focusing on quality and efficiency, often targeting the higher end of the market.

And lots of new homes built on-site are of very poor quality these days:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/where-we-live/wp/2017/05...

This approach doesn't seem like a solution to affordable housing, even though many of these companies use that concept in their marketing.

In the least affordable housing markets with worsening trends, including Seattle and San Francisco, construction cost is a tiny fraction of the problem.

Efficient, prefabricated housing isn't going to make housing meaningfully more affordable in places where the majority of the cost of a dwelling is its land.
You don't have to live somewhere with non-recourse mortgages. To get started, you only need 3% down, an FHA mortgage, and a 4-plex that cashflows slightly. You then eventually refi that with something more conventional and move on to your next property.

Real estate is only one investment vehicle where you don't need a large amount of capital to realize substantial cash flows. Whenever possible, seek out leverage opportunities.
> I agree that it depends on who the law enforcement is.

All Law Enforcement is corrupt. The only unknown is the level of corruption. As a service provider in any country, we have no idea whether we will be dealing with a good cop or a bad cop, and the safest assumption to make is that they are all bad cops. Don't let the good cop set a precedent for interaction that the bad cop can abuse.

The system will work to abuse your trust. If the first warrant tou get is to help catch a pedophile who has been kidnapping children, and you sgree to provide logs for that, the Government will be upset when you don't comply with the next warrant which is a wife beating cop trying to track down his estranged wife who is due to appear in court tomorrow.

You have shown that you have the required data, the purpose of the warrant doesn't have any impact on the legal requirement to comply.
Smart small businesses will simply try to be reasonable and ignore the more onerous parts (and especially the more onerous interpretations) of GDPR, correctly assuming that no DPA and no noyb-style NGO is going to come after them (and that if it happens, they'll likely get a warning, not a massive fine).

Meanwhile, big data companies are going to be prime targets, and will be forced to either change, or start paying a significant fraction of their global revenue in fines every year until changed or bankrupt.
A friend of mine is a camera operator for a small production firm. They have some really old equipment, including tripods that aren't safe to use for their cameras, but they still cheap out on them anyway.

He gets paid about $16/hour to stand by the camera for up to 20 hours a week to make sure it doesn't fall over, which costs around $10k/year. A new tripod would cost $1500 and could last for a decade, so $it's 100k vs $1500.

Justify that, if you can. I can't, and I'm not being sarcastic or bitchy, I really want someone to explain it.
Testing the CTRL-Labs wristband that lets you control computers with your mind
Here's the most interesting quote to me:

"The crash created a big battery fire that destroyed the front of Huang's vehicle. "The Mountain View Fire Department applied approximately 200 gallons of water and foam" over a 10-minute period to put out the fire, the NTSB reported.

"The car was towed to an impound lot, but the vehicle's batteries weren't finished burning. A few hours after the crash, "the Tesla battery emanated smoke and audible venting." Five days later, the smoldering battery reignited, requiring another visit from the fire department."

Shouldn't it be possible to make the battery safe?
Waiting for the day to use CoreRT with ASP.NET.
Java: Raw String Literals
It's likely an allegation of lax worker safety, i.e. the workers should wear safety (a.k.a "steel toe") boots.
GMO Golden Rice Offers No Nutritional Benefits Says FDA
An interview with a Googler about the internal campaign against Project Maven
If Microsoft is such a great open source citizen this day, why are they charging billions in patent licensing fees to people building things on Android?

It seems like one of the benefits of being really big is that you can act like the evil stuff is only 5% of your business, even if it’s the evil stuff that made you big in the first place.
Everything else was much slower, too.

Oftentimes the biggest cost associated with communication is latency, and the one thing that hasn't changed over the past few decades is the speed of light.
I find development "speed" to be directly correlated to happiness in side projects, as in getting things done quickly.

So with that in mind, C# with the right IDE (VS + Resharper, or Rider) is faster to write than anything else I've ever used and makes working on projects incredibly nice. Add in the solid standard libraries and the ability to make everything from websites to desktop apps in the same language and it's the best choice around, for both work and play.
I used Haxe years ago to make Flash games and tech demos [1] (probably only works with Chrome these days). At the time it was the only free way to create Flash games (at least using an actual programming language) but even when Adobe released some free tools, Haxe was still not only much faster as a compiler but it both produced faster code and provided tools for making things fast (e.g. `inline` wasn't just a hint, if the compiler couldn't inline a function it would error out - and inlining made a difference at the time).

Eventually i lost interest in Flash and moved on to other things. I thought about using Haxe for making HTML5 games (when those were new), but unlike Flash gaming that was huge, HTML5 gaming never took off and was almost entirely about mobile games that i never cared much about. Also Haxe's JavaScript output at the time had some significant overhead that i found it simpler to just write JS directly.

I've been subscribed to the Haxe mailing list for the last 10 or so years, mainly to take a peek at what is going on and sometimes try a new version (sadly it seems Haxe is sometimes breaking backwards compatibility and often found the code needing changes), but that ended recently with the mailing list shutting down. Since then i had no other contact with the language at all.

Although sometimes i see people writing "one-to-many" transpilers, thinking that this is a neat new idea, while i'm in my corner muttering something along the lines "Haxe did that a decade ago" :-P.

[1] http://runtimeterror.com/tech/demo/flashdemos.html
Then let them go out of business.

I reject the idea that I have to hear about ambulance chasing lawyers and diet pills and ways to make $$$ fast and cars I can't afford and watches I don't want and household cleaning products I don't trust and kitchen appliances I have no use for and websites solving problems I don't have.. because it's my responsibility to endure it so those poor businesses can continue existing.

Like it's some kind of charity and I'm obliged to give them my attention just in case I'm part of their target market. Spare just 2 hours per month to ensure this Chigaco company sells more product.

In the limit case, there are more companies and more products than I could learn about if all I did was watch advert show for the rest of my life.

And they would be perfectly happy to waste the rest of my life showing me adverts because my life is meaningless to them compared to even $1 more profit.

No.
Only fingers-in-ears Musk fans cannot see that.

Speak of the devil...

It’s amazing that given the slander Tesla has been passing off as PR in this case, that anyone could defend them in this, yet here we go.
unless this post is a thousand pages long, the title is a bit over-the-top. I look forward to the "How to be a particle physicist" installment.
"He made $3 billion on GS"

Which is less than this year's $4.1 billion bonus pool at GS. So hardly a "loan shark".

Furthermore he made the $3 billion by converting warrants to common stock, so it's actually not like GS paid out of capital or profits. Perhaps GS stock was diluted somewhat by issuing new shares? (Not sure.)
What makes a country good at football?
Lots of things don't have language bindings with Tensorflow...Lisp, Ruby, JS.
Not correct. They can't contact without positive consent. How can they prompt consent if they can't contact them in the first place?
I see that you have garnered a few down-votes for this - for not putting it in the passé présomptif, I would guess.
Obligatory source code: https://github.com/BloombergMedia/whatiscode

(I have a merged PR in there... do you? :))
> Given that no one has full self-driving, no one has an actual list of the necessary hardware.

Exactly what makes this false claim. Imagine someone gave you a drug and claim that it can cure cancer. It would be a false claim, even though it is possible that in future, it might turn out to be capable of curing cancer, by some specific method of application. The only problem is that that method is unknown today and no indication that such method might actually exist..

So just because in theory, you can strap on two forward facing cameras and call it full "self driving hardware" (because that is what humans have). Would you consider it legit?
Wouldn’t work. Clearly upper management is incompetent if they have 10 managers for 3 devs.
Humanity is racing ever faster to craft its own replacement as a species and we need to acknowledge this as our finest gift imaginable ... the cat is out of the bag on AI and no amount of corporate double speak can shed responsibility for any organization who employs armies who then freely spread these skills ... passing the torch to that which runs at light speed and is free of the limits of time which self evolves its own hardware and software can only be something we collectively should be proud of not afraid of ... rejoice as we molt and fly into the infinite now
Twitter engagement rates (2.7% good?)
Sounds like a good opportunity for integration with GPG, keybase, and other signing tools.
That's a completely different suggestion from the one I replied to.
If the compiler does tree-shaking, I wonder why it takes ~4 MB just to print a message on the console using the standard library. Is there any way to do a more fine-grained breakdown of where all that code is coming from?
You are right. And to think I worked at a place that made silicon wafers in the 80s in Pennsylvania
Anomalous Charging Behavior of Inorganic Materials
You and thousands of others can contribute tens of dollars to an organization that does that.
Shortwave trading, part II
The article claims a per unit cost of almost $800k in SF. Cheaper, prefabricated units could make a significant difference here.
Malthus’ Marshmallow
Justice Dept Seizes NYT Reporter's Email and Phone Records in Leak Investigation
I am new to social media marketing. From what I have read online, 2.7% is very good, but I don't think the few blogs I read are authoritative sources on this.
Good. Then we should immediately require fossil fuel companies to do this or pay for someone else to do it as well as long-term storage and insurance for the storage.
ops and security will shoot the back end devs first if it makes you feel any better.
I don't know if I'll move yet. Since 2006 or so, I've maintained a personal website for code/résumé, etc.

At first it was hosted on http://peterburk.free.fr, my parents' ISP. That was fine until I no longer lived with them, and I can't trust that it'll always be available. Also, I wanted a .com subdomain instead of a .fr domain.

So in 2011, I moved to http://peterburk.appspot.com on Google App Engine. No problem, until I moved to China in 2013. All Google services are blocked there, including my page. So I migrated to http://peter-burk.rhcloud.com (Red Hat OpenShift). I didn't like the mandatory dash in the subdomain, so I also set up http://peterburk.tumblr.com to redirect. RHCloud supported PHP, so I could finally run WordPress.

Then RHCloud changed to being paid-only, so in 2015 I moved to https://peterburk.github.com and couldn't use PHP again. Now I code everything in client-side JavaScript and static HTML. More recently, Github removed the .com subdomain service, so my Chinese-learning side project is https://pingtype.github.io and that confuses some users. If something happens to Github, I might try to hop to heroku, but http://peterburk.herokuapp.com is pretty long to type.

What do other people do for ad-free hosting? I think most sites pay for AWS, but I can't have a credit card because I'm a foreigner. The design of my site is very basic, because I've had to re-write it 4 times already, typically every 2 years. I choose technologies based on the platform features, so I did know all about GAE, but now I'm more familiar with Git. My loyalty isn't to the code management tool (this is for side projects, not a business that would need collaboration with colleagues), I just move to wherever is free/not blocked by China/has an easy-to-remember domain name.
Perhaps he's trying to structure it as "Those people from Maine are going to take our jobs."
> The only way I can think to "confirm" this build artifact is genuine is to get multiple hosts to independently build the artifact identically and compare them. So you have to have reproducible builds. Which I don't think many people have.

This is an excellent idea, and has been done for Bitcoin and other projects: https://github.com/devrandom/gitian-builder
It's probably troublesome to setup for a new project of significant size.
This seems testable. IANAAE (I Am Not An Automotive Engineer), but why can't you run both the new and old code side by side and if the actions they take are materially different investigate further? Like, if in one case the new code would want you to move left, and the old code goes straight, one of those behaviors is probably wrong. If the driver corrects, then the new code is probably correct, but if the driver does not, then the new code is doing something probably incorrect.

At the very least, you should be able to get some sort of magnitude/fuzzy understanding of how frequently the new code is disagreeing, and you can figure out where and go check out those conditions.
Twitter survives on faux-follower counts, controversy stirred up by extremists and for-hire zealots, and 140-character PR for the corporate universe. But this is newsworthy, I guess.
>can only be something we collectively should be proud of not afraid of

If AI is used for mass murder of the human species, should we be proud? Humility, rather than hubris, is existentially important when it comes to wielding the most extreme power humanity has ever known
Algo also supports WireGuard these days.
Not disagreeing but there isn't only the negative side (self-promotion, ass-covering). There are people trying and failing. Life happen: acquisition (you or some of your provider), restructuring, negotiation, strategic changes, key person leaving, new people coming, ... all of that produces little bit of inefficiencies in large organisation.

That's not dissimilar to the food you buy and throw away, the antique furniture you bought planning to restore but never got to it, the stack of book you wanted to read but other things occupy your time.
It seems like at $94/ton CO2, we're still a long way from where this becomes viable.

At that price, to offset humanity's annual 36 Gt CO2 emissions (36 billion tons) we'd need to spend about $3.2 trillion. Per year.

Surely the cost of reducing CO2 emissions - the cost of upgrading emissions sources to alternative, lower-carbon technologies - is much less than $94/ton. And that's where we should be focusing our efforts and funding for the foreseeable future.
Sounds like you should "just" target whichever one is easier (cheaper) to pull CO2 out of, then.
Just stopping things from getting worse would be an achievement on those scales.
They’re not wearing steel toed boots, therefore aren’t real respectable tradespeople.
Show HN: How to Write the Perfect Resume Book (free on Amazon)
Wow, Tesla doesn't have auto emergency braking? Even my Kia has that - adaptive cruise for following cars, auto emergency braking for stationary objects (and when the car in front of you suddenly slows down). Yeah, I'll keep my Kia...
That's why we have judges (and why we should preserve the judiciary rather than undermining it with mandatory sentencing laws): to deal with the corner cases. The law could be kept simple and judges be trusted to deal with the complex corner cases.

Having said that, I guess all that happens is statutory law remains simple, but case law grows more complex as the body of judicial decisions grows? What we seem to be missing is a "refactoring" process to periodically rewrite statutory law to replace bloat in case law with a more otimised statute. Like coders, politicians prefer to work on shiny new features than maintaining existing features?
Justice Dept. Seizes Times Reporter’s Email/Phone Records in Leak Investigation
I didn't quite understand what he was saying about President Obama's thinking, so here's the full quote from Obama:

"Everybody who supports single-payer health care says, ‘Look at all this money we would be saving from insurance and paperwork.’ That represents one million, two million, three million jobs [filled by] people who are working at Blue Cross Blue Shield or Kaiser or other places. What are we doing with them? Where are we employing them?"

So it seems that Obama didn't pursue a single-payer system because keeping 2-3 million "bullshit" jobs was more important than efficiency in the health care system, or at least it was part of his reasoning.
They are big leaves/fruit and there are only about 30(?) or so of them.

There is no easy way that I'm aware of. IIRC, early versions of this included the entire framework, so it's gotten a lot better.
I did a great deal of reading on Q-learning around the time of the original AlphaGo, it looks like that was covered in a previous repo (RL-Adventures-1).

This new one seems to not mention Q-learning, is that because all these examples are based implicitly on Q-learning, or are these totally new alternatives?
Who came up with the “who the hill” name?
That’s amazing and I laughed out loud :D
>the only magic is in parsing the format string to a structured representation of it

That's the "magic" being discussed, where the value determines the type of something, hence, dependent typing :)
USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory Is a Trusted Source for the Kilauea Eruption
> a corporation related to his tweet was registered to Musk on Oct 17 2017, the anniversery of the October Revolution.

FYI, the October Revolution anniversary is Nov 7th (Oct 25th using the old calendar).
Can’t deduct the expenses personally in a C Corp, which is a giant personal hit (you can with an S corp or LLC)
Merch? Every kid I know has Minecraft Legos, Minecraft pajamas, Minecraft fidget spinners ...
Wait until the Government can just remotely drive your car into a barrier, it will be great!
I’m the author of the post if you have any questions.
Sheesh, does using Python also mean you don't understand good-natured teasing?
I've freelanced with IVPN for five years. IVPN was "[f]ounded in 2009 by a group of security professionals at the prestigious Information Security Group at the University of London (Royal Holloway)".[0] In my experience, their CEO Nick Pestell is fundamentally a privacy activist.

0) https://www.ivpn.net/aboutus
> To wit, Facebook and Google's shares of EU advertising has risen since GDPR went into effect.

Isn't this the expected result? Now only a small number of (relatively) trusted companies have my data, not multiple fly-by-nights who may or may not be trusted ALL trying to gather it. To me, that's a net gain - Google/Facebook would have got that data _anyway_, but I now have less companies trying to gather it _as well_.
Buy your own domain. It's worth the investment in your brand.
Tech company office taxes incentivize local municipalities to open offices, not to build houses. And in fact that's exactly what happens - offices go up, but the people to work there have to commute in from outside the municipality.
> I can't for the life of me see why Sundar Pichai should be beholden to his (significantly foreign) employees and privilege their interest over that of the nation (his nation).

He's beholden to his shareholders and every move they have made is all about that. They knew it would be bad PR but they wanted to make money so they took the contract initially and tried to keep it quite. Then, all the leaks happened causing it to backfire, tons of employees and users got upset, and so they reversed directions as they think the good reputation for attracting employees and users will pay off more than military contracts in the long term.

> Remember that Google itself is tainted, being complicit in spying over Americans (PRISM, anyone?). Why shouldn't such an entity be regulated?

It wasn't just Google that had to comply with prism. They as long with every other company that wants to operate in the US had to comply with it because every company has to comply with the laws of each country they operate in.