skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you a lot!

My first thought was "Oh, I have forgotten the address of that nice blog of that Prof. with all kind of interesting CS stuff that shows 'NP' and 'BQP' and 'P' connected with lines in the right upper corner. That blog will likely have more useful insights. How to find that blog again? I have so many bookmarks and not all tagged correctly, hmm".

But after reading the article and coming back here there is the right link near the top! :-)

People on HN are so great, love that! (Especially when they think in the same direction as me^^).
How advanced are those student in their studies when they take this course?

Their work is probably good but I can't help but think many of the reports/posters seem underwhelming. I doubt they would be accepted at the universities I know.
I've lived in many a city in "flyover country" and I think it's long overdue.

The result of plunging sales tax revenue due to online shopping, for a lot of places, is bridges falling apart, underfunded police agencies, teachers leaving the profession because they don't want to live in poverty, schools without supplies, without music programs, without art programs, let alone STEM programs, colleges shrinking, faculty not being hired, roads going unrepaired, homeless population growing, libraries being gutted, social programs and social service agencies facing layoffs and shortages, and on and on.
Privacy is a right not endowed by the state so why would the court be the one to decide before the fact?
I loved the idea of grand central / google voice. IIRC I got my number right after google acquired grand central.

I have stopped giving out my google voice number because I have less confidence in anybody being able to reach me at my GV number ten years from now (vs what is currently my t-mobile number).
I once saw some project that would have a link to a demo, but the demo would only work after you gave it a star on GitHub.

But this is not a Show HN nor a proper place to complain like this.
For the tax cuts, that's on the local government. They set the rates to attract businesses and that's what they got. Residents should blame their representatives.
HTC Vive Pro Headset Review: A High Bar for Premium VR
Oh you're talking round trip? That's a bit more realistic.
On a related note, there are a _lot_ of indices. FT reports that there are over 3 million stock indices, for ~50k public stocks [0]. You can make an index with basically anything in it. There are indices for emerging markets, for the Gulf region, for companies in Mexico, for companies which qualify as ESG (environmental, social, and governance) criteria. There are indices of stocks that historically perform well in periods of rising interest rates, and there are indices for the Eurozone.

The ETFs just build on top of the index. In almost every prospectus, there is some kind of note about which index it is. You can go look at how the index is arranged, and there are sometimes multiple funds that track indices in the same sectors, with different weights. If you're not happy with the amount of Berkshire in your financials ETF, you can go find a fund which uses a different index and buy that instead.

If anything, a stock market index is _more_ valuable in a digital world, because it effectively adds a layer of abstraction to the typical notion of investing.

[0] https://www.ft.com/content/9ad80998-fed5-11e7-9650-9c0ad2d7c...
Likewise people sometimes make the mistake of comparing prices for different cryptocurrencies. In the case of cryptocurrencies one should look at the market cap, which is the current price multiplied by the amount of coins or tokens available.
So did you guys ever say the person leaving couldn’t also use the code? If not then both of you could use your own copies. If he’s not a dev, what’s he really going to do with it?

With all due respect, I’d be willing to bet that the codebase has close to little value. But your know how and knowledge of the problem/domai does. Worst case, now that you know how to do what you already did, could t you do it over better and faster?
Scooter war caught up in trade war
Kind of like optimistic concurrency? "Lets try, we'll retry on failure".
I agree that a feature doesn't have to be 100% foolproof to be beneficial. I also agree that leaving sensitive things lying around "by default" is a poor approach to security, and think that software should facilitate automated cleanup. However, I fundamentally object to the subversion of my will by my device or any program running on it. In my opinion, DRM in any form is not a solution - it in inherently evil.

I wouldn't mind messages that were flagged for automatic deletion after some time interval, if I were also provided with controls for when and when not to honor such requests. But currently Signal, SnapChat, Keybase, and others don't provide me with such a choice - they do what the sender requested, regardless of whether or not I approve.

It goes without saying that providing such an easily accessible option would almost certainly result in it being used at times in socially inappropriate or distasteful ways. But consider, do you really want to give up control of how your device behaves in an attempt to prevent others from behaving poorly? Perhaps applications should focus on providing practical security (ie facilitating, not forcing, automated removal), and leave the social aspects up to the humans to sort out.
Gracefully Scaling to 10k PostgreSQL Connections for $35/mo, Part Two
All because of online shopping? It is difficult to believe some of these aren't the result of changing demographics and/or economic forces beyond online shopping
This is solved by folding. Or hanging up your clothes.
So did the US, including at the same time the Nazis did, but also regularly, for a number of different populations, starting nearly a century before there was a Nazi Party.
Well, it did die to become the icon of saving... (sorry >.<)

I wonder how much longer the symbol will be in use.
Amplify your own audience
It's a 10 week course, while taking other courses, these are quite good.
You realise they weren't doing it out of the goods of their hearts right? They were being paid...
I know I will miss him. Say what you what about Fox, but I always saw him as intelligent, eloquent, well reasoned, and perhaps most importantly: respectful.

Here's the WSJ obit:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/pulitzer-prize-winning-columnis...
Yeah kind like a super duper high end vending machine at locations where there might be a person that normally is tasked with doing other stuff could do minimal burger robot maintenance (i.e. refill, clean at the end of the day, etc.). Like at a gas station, corner mom and pop grocery store, wework office lobby, etc.

Japanese Vending Machine Unboxing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8Z80J3jOao
My understanding is that, generally (because (again in my understanding) this is all compiler-specific, not mandated by the standard) is that in C++, there's a single pointer that points to the combo of the vtable and then the data, after it. See http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/storage-layout-of-polymorphic-obj... for example. While a Shape is a position, outline, and fill, if you have virtual functions, the pointer points to a vtable pointer, and then all of the data.

In other words, in Rust, a pointer to a shape is

(pointer to vtable, pointer to data)

whereas, in C++, a pointer to a shape is

(pointer to shape)

where shape is

(pointer to vtable, data)

If that's incorrect, I'm quite happy to be corrected! This isn't an area I'm an expert in.
Not slated any time soon. There are major questions about the approach; the current implementation is "do whatever LLVM does" which is not in itself stable, and so cannot be our final implementation.
Not sure I understand your question, or what you're trying to achieve. It's the same as if I asked you " What does it really mean to do hardware/firmware design at the hobbyist/research levels?" Does it feels like cheating when you're just throwing things together and seeing what works?

First thing you need to understand is that data is king. To use DL models you need lots of data. If you don't have lots of data, you will probably have more success with older ML models.

Hardest part of any DL/ML project is getting/cleaning/augmenting data. In the real world, dataset preparation will consume >75% of your time/effort. Size and quality of your dataset will affect the resulting accuracy more than a choice of a particular model.

Once you have data, you can just try several models which have been used for your task, and see if size of model makes a difference. Language or frameworks is not that important, but most people use Python and Tensorflow or Pytorch. Again, does not matter. Of course you need to understand the basics. For example backprop in RNN is tedious to trace, but you should be able to do it, if necessary: it's no more complicated than linear circuit analysis, or designing a FSM. There are no "nuances", just apply the chain rule backwards, and think in terms of unrolled computation graph. You rarely need to think about low level details like that, but occasionally you might need to use an operation which is not differentiable, or does not have gradient implemented in the framework you're using.

If you want to get "better" at ML/DL, go to Kaggle, and try to solve problems. Read about winning solutions. Read relevant papers. Read code. Try things. Eventually you'll get it.
Wow, that's a heavy thing to deal with. Why'd she cancel the surgery and how was it related to procrastination?
Its obvious, based on interactions with others, asking how they think and its well documented in research
What about them amateur grumpy engineers spamming "Show NH" with useless rants?
That's incorrect. The amendments strip out other protections from the 2015 Open Internet Order.

1) A ban on circumventing net neutrality at the point of interconnection. The FCC order said it would do this using Secs 201 and 202 (Title II) of the Telecommunications Act. This stopped the Comcast/Verizon throttling and shakedown of Netflix and Cogent.

2) The amendments stripped out the ban on access fees, the practice of charging websites simply so that they load for users. This was banned in 2010 and 2015 as special kind of blocking. Verizon sued over this in 2012.

3) The amendments pull out any oversight of zero-rating, where the 2015 rule allowed the FCC to use the general conduct standard to review ALL zero-rating programs. In 2017, an FCC report said that AT&T and Verizon's self-dealing zero-rating programs violated net neutrality. That's what SB 822 did before the amendments.

That's only the big ones. SB 822 is now far weaker than the 2015 order thanks to Santiago.
Comcast Outage in All of San Francisco
Will foreign companies who sell internet services to US customers have to collect state sales taxes?

This would be a serious nightmare. We already limit our sales to Canada because if we go over a relatively low threshold, we'd have to collect and remit state sales tax for about 12 territories. Having to do the same for 11,000 US jurisdictions would instantly stop foreign entrants into the US market.
Nice. Added it to my Chicago Tech Events calendar http://chicagotechevents.com
Unlikely. This is similar to an occupancy tax... why not soak out-of-state guests who don't have much choice in the matter, and won't be voting to do away with the tax. A SaaS business is going to refuse to do business w/, say, Proctor & Gamble and pay Ohio sales taxes? No way.
Yes, it's a naked piece of propaganda.
You are only taxed up to the point of solvency. So if you owe $2 million and have less than $2 million in assets, you'll pay nothing.
Just puzzled what would really be the impact from a business perspective if those coders move their projects out? Will it damage Github’s reputation that would turn into a mass exodus of people using their service?

I think a fair set of governance on the ICE relationship that MS has alongside conformity from the developers / project maintainers can be achieved in this scenario.
At like a 10% profit (in the best case), that's a pretty terrible full time job.
You also get full control over the local file system with electron. There are plenty of system utilities... stuff like etcher.io, disk partitioners, backup software, custom FUSE-based file systems, etc., that you couldn't do purely in a web browser for security reasons, but that can benefit from the portability and sexiness of an electron-based UI (performance concerns aside).

I actually doubt there is anyone who thinks of electron in this way, in that they only use it because X feature isn't in the browser _yet_. Many electron apps could only be done natively, again for security reasons. Things like the slack desktop app don't meet that criteria, however.
If the service they're providing is only necessary because of artificial barriers, then basically yes. The banking cartel that controls the payment system is a huge fan of collecting economic rents, yes.
Meanwhile in Singapore: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_Rapid_Transit_(Singapor...

Best city public transport ever and getting better every day. For the most part.
One of the major causes of procrastination is being assigned obviously pointless busy-work. It's hard to be motivated when you know that you're just box-checking.
A8y? That can't be a thing... if it is, we should put a stop to it. axb maybe?
Everyone is obsessing about the detail when there's already a company that pretty much does this - Subway!

You could pretty much automate the sub construction process since the ingredient prep process is done at an industrial scale and just shipped in bags to each Subway location.
Interestingly, to me at least, that machine from the 1960s seems better constructed than the machine in this article.
We decided we had enough so we rewrote it! Well, most of it, there were some abandoned servlets that brought in enough money that we kept the old codebase running as well. :)
I think its a rent seeker when uncle sam either dictates you give them money or buries you in shit you have to pay acme shovel co to dig yourself out of.

I think its more tenable for governments to provide an optional sales tax as a service and remit the money to the states. One singular report to file one party to pay.
> "JSON didn't exist because Us and We"?

If you define JSON as the underlying practice that Crawford later named and documented, then sure, what I wrote reads completely wrong headed. However, when we were working on YAML, JSON was not yet called out and given a name.

I believe the most important convention that YAML and JSON shared was a recognition of the typed map/list/scalar model used by modern languages. Further, as far as conventions go, I think there's quite a bit to be said about languages that use light-weight structural markers such as: indentation, colon and dash.
> If a locality can enforce its local tax laws, what other custom crafted local laws can it enforce in return for access to customers?

Obscenity, for one.
Scientific inquiry isn't the same as scientific I think that's what you are struggling with.

In philosophy, these are _the_ questions you ask because you are trying to go the foundation.

But even in science "what is lightspeed" and why is in m/s ARE relevant questions not to do the science but to establish the tools for doing the science.
LG Stylo 4 Launched with 6.2 Inches and Android 8.1 Oreo
Over the past 4 years I have advised startups at an incubator in a mid-size US city.

During that time I have only seen 2 startups run into issues around licensing and taxes that caused significant hurdles to their startup.

However, in both cases I think the entrepreneur was largely using bureaucracy as an excuse for lacking product/market fit and personal sales skills...

In my experience the issue of fewer startups being created is multi-faceted and has to do with lack of affordable healthcare options/healthcare tied to employment, changing attitudes toward risk across generations, student loan and housing debt, lack of awareness of entrepreneurship as a viable career path (and more).
This is a huge opportunity for payment services to value-add. Providing automatic sales tax calculation, collection and remittance (including another couple of percent for their trouble) is a no-brainer.
Any year now, a stainless steel rat will be born. :D
Old fashion and hairstyles come to mind. Just remember the mullet..
> When I ask how a startup launching one eatery at a time could become a $10 billion company, Creator co-founder and CEO Alex Vardakostas looks me dead in the eye and says, “the market is much bigger than that.”

A $10B valuation company better understand the profit between $1 sale of SaaS and $1 sale of food ...
Income based repayment plans solve most of this for the 90% of student loans that are federal.

You only need to pay 10% of your disposable income (income over 1.5x the federal poverty level).

If you don't have an income, you won't pay anything.
The chairman called two votes. The first one came at the opening of the hearing BEFORE any testimony to accept the chairman's amendments. That passed with the help of Republicans and was a rude slap to the entire point of a hearing (voting BEFORE testimony?).

The second vote (8-2) was to pass the bill as amended out of committee. The chairman did not allow Wiener to pull the bill. Several Dems who voted for the final vote say that they did so so the bill would survive, not because they approved of the amendments.
Anyone know of remote companies that hire systems programmer not front end or backend for a web app?
You can proselytize all you want about policy theory and ideals, but the reality of starting a business (not just a side-hustle) comes with more risk to the owner than you probably realize. Trust me, I'd love to have insurance, but it's unobtainium where I live if you don't qualify for subsidies. Considering the benefits from profitable new businesses, including the employment numbers we drive, the taxes we generate, the office leases we pay, the administrative services we buy, etc., etc., I think the "rest of you" will probably get the better end of the deal relative to the risk a business owner directly bears, crap emergency treatment for the uninsured aside (if even needed during the start up years, which I'm gambling won't be). I'm just telling you the reality of being a small business owner.
Sorry, I was wrong. I misread in a chat thread on KB something about md5s. Can't find it now because no searching in KB (yet!).

Exploded messages are just replaced with an image of what people are calling 'ashes'.

Further conversation on KB about this points out that hashing the message would compromise the secrecy. I still think it would be a neat feature.
This is amazing. I love it.
It's a win for a part of Amazon's business, the part that stocks and sells its own products and is already collecting taxes. It's a loss for the other, larger side that gets paid to stock and ship products from 3rd parties who by and large do not collect tax.

This makes it tougher for these small businesses to compete and since Amazon takes 15% of those sales AND makes money off them for fulfillment services.
One must be careful to avoid a "value trap". Occasionally, a company is inexpensive for a reason, and that reason can be hard to discern at a glance.
Fired by a machine
Coat them in something anti-bacterial like silver? It's pretty cheap, and apparently safe for human consumption?
I would be curious to see what the actual economic case is for burger automation like this. What's the labour cost savings here, all in?

Restaurants aren't food factories, not even mcdonaldses. We food factories too, but this doesn't appear to be for them. This was to be more about whether or not people would like to have their burger made by a robot. Price-wise, I'd wager its much of a muchness.
The problem, if i remember correctly, is that you cannot control the purity of recycled glass very well. The last time I checked it was mostly used to lower the temperature needed for the furnace.

But if you want to make pure boro-silicate glass, you cannot tolerate much contamination of oxides, lime, lead, dolomite, salt, etc. or your glass will be tinted, full of bubbles, and possibly even cracks while cooling.

Even with the recycling system in Germany where you separate glass by color, people will not distinguish a soda-lime, boro-silicate, or lead glass. And I don't know a process that could extract the pure SiO2 from old glass (though I'd love for someone to jump in and tell me about a cheap method)
Burgerworld by Delos?
Looking at this apparatus, no.
I agree with all the points you have presented, in that they seem to make sense to me.

Something you said stuck out to me though (triple asterisks around the word I want to put emphasis around):

> ...are using their own theories of mind and inference ability to read more into Koko's actions than what is really there.

Isn't that a judgement, that one should avoid when doing science. That is to say, the following could also be valid options, unless ruled out:

> ...something else into Koko's actions than what is really there.

> ...less into Koko's actions than what is really there.

Your thoughts?
They should blame their Federal representatives. States are left in a position of having to give massive tax breaks in order to attract/maintain large businesses. If Nevada refuses to give tax breaks, everyone will simply build elsewhere. There are businesses that cross state lines and back every few years to regain tax breaks.
Credo Mobile is a MVNO that has made pro-net neutrality statements in the past:

http://www.credomobile.com

I've never done business with them, so I can't say anything else about them.

Another option might be Google Fi.

https://fi.google.com/about/

I've heard good things, but be aware that they charge by the gigabyte for data. Also, the list of compatible phones is pretty short.
I found BossAsAService through this. Nice idea.
A market, maybe, but do you think it will be a big one? Where is the incentive to spend a lot of money on this problem?

Existing libraries already have trouble with low-quality books and film that doesn’t survive very well. Only the most important artifacts tend to be copied to archival-quality material.

Why would digital artifacts be any different? And where is the incentive to preserve this stuff? Look at how much bitrot there is on most web pages after just 10 or 20 years. Even setting aside physical bitrot, there’s plenty of semantic data loss that nobody really cares enough about to fix.

Finally, despite all the above, let’s say we do come up with a cheap and practical way to store digital data for very long periods of time. Unless it’s very compact, it will use an appreciable amount of energy and material resources to store stuff. Which tiny fraction of the massive tidal wave of digital content should be archived, and who gets to decide?
A C++ object with virtual methods and some members looks like this, if you put it in terms of C:

struct ClassVTable {
void (*firstMethod)();
void (*secondMethod)();
}

struct Class {
struct ClassVTable *virt;
int firstMember;
int secondMember;
};

and a pointer to it looks like:

struct Class *objectRef;

A language that uses fat pointers, like rust, has this separated completely:

struct Class {
int firstMember;
int secondMember;
};

struct FatPointerToClass {
struct ClassVTable *virt;
struct Class *data;
}

FatPointerToClass objectRef; // note lack of pointer, it'd be stored on the stack directly for eg.

This means a much simpler object layout in exchange for passing around larger pointers, and it's a good fit for trait-based typing since it doesn't require you to know all possible interface subtypes of the object in order to describe or use its layout.

(please note that I'm using C struct to be precise about the concept, and this should not be taken as a perfectly verbatim description of the actual object layouts in memory)
Why would it? Why in particular wouldn't the fact that you are required to pay for their services allow the entire industry to jack up prices substantially?

Why wants to win by being the asshole who did it for $500 instead of say a percentage of revenue?