skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i plan on setting up an "IoT sentinel" daemon on my router: it would just watch my home network and let me know if my toaster has joined a botnet, based on suspicious network activity. is trackerjacker the right tool for me?
Well, it kind of is. In my mind, a screen reader should read anything that a healthy human can. Ideally even text in images and any sort of weirdness.
The one here is open Saturday morning and Wednesday afternoon.

I guess a large chunk of people are able to make one or the other, but it also won't work all that well as an only source of produce.
Give this podcast [0] a listen, the meaning of words evolve over time. much of comman talk in the 1600's would not be very well understood today simply because the actual meaning of words has changed.

[0] http://www.econtalk.org/john-mcwhorter-on-the-evolution-of-l...
I'm not satisfied by his criteria.

There's a particular design failure mode where an emphasis on 'easier to modify' results in a codebase that's difficult to follow. You're making some future code change easier at the cost of all current code changes.

You can infer a concern about overall cost of modification into his statement, and claim that such a person is increasing the cost of code modification, but it's dangerous to leave it unsaid.
Itemizing isn’t the only thing that makes taxes too difficult to do automatically.
>A few days later, a legislator called Bankman to tell him that Intuit’s lobbyists had killed ReadyReturn.

>But then, Frommer says, “We ran into a wall. And the wall was Intuit.”

>According to the L.A. Times, Intuit spent $1.25 million on lobbyists and gave $2.12 million to 120 California politicians from 2005 to 2010. Bankman says Intuit’s influence was obvious. In one meeting, he says, the legislator told him, “I’ve been warned about you.”

>“What Intuit did well was they created a boogieman,” says Dario Frommer. “They said ReadyReturn would put all these accountants out of business, and they organized African-American and Latino accountants against the bill.”

>Records show that tax preparers have spent over $28 million lobbying Washington since 1998. In 2007, Eric Cantor (a Republican leader) and Zoe Lofgren (a Democrat from Silicon Valley) had introduced a bill to ban return-free filing. Both received contributions from Inuit.

>Intuit still tried to kill ReadyReturn. But this time, Dario Frommer says, ReadyReturn had enough support in the legislature to block Intuit. In 2013, 99% of its 80,000 users said they were satisfied with ReadyReturn. ReadyReturn was later incorporated into CalFile, which allows Californians to e-file their taxes. Intuit is not a fan.

But yeah, let's keep up the anti-republican circlejerk
Android Firefox is just showing me black boxes for those Unicode ranges, so this definitely can't be very effectively used everywhere (I haven't tried yet, but I'm guessing some native messaging apps may have similar issues).
I've been part of two efforts, one at a very large company, one at a startup. From where I stand, your biggest issue is going to be getting a sufficient data set, and having sufficient traffic in whatever you're recommending to be able to actually test your models.

Technical aspects in how you train your models and such are fun, but way, way down the list of things that are likely to matter in the short to medium term. Like, data scientists are nice to have, but you're not really going to be able to fully utilize them until you have the capability to build, deploy, and test a model at scale. If going third party helps you do this, you probably should.
There is also a direct comparison with Windows: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=2990wx-l...
I really enjoyed the interview as well. Borges' manner of speaking is wonderful.

> Borges says he's not a thinker in the interview. But I dunno, even if his influences are clear, his ability to understand, and then convey these ideas in such a way as to make them self-evident is in some ways the greater act of philosophy than the raw conception of the ideas.

I disagree here. Borges is a storyteller: he's interested in provoking a response from his readers. He's not arguing for or against a philosophy, but rather he finds inspiration in the philosophical writings of people who are arguing one way or another (ie philosophers).

What he's doing is no more or less impressive than what they're doing, but the two things very different. I think he's absolutely right to point that out to the interviewers.
> After the divorce, I have about $20K left after having to split it with my ex-wife, who had saved a grand total of $2.00 during our marriage.

Wow, that is brutal. I'm guessing common law state? Even then, shouldn't you have 50%? Was it attorney expenses?
If the market does crash the way you think it will you can make a killing betting that it will crash. I almost bought a bunch of puts during the last recession but did not pull the trigger cause i did not know enough then.
Very handy, thanks
HyperTransport and Intel QuickPath isn't chiplet technology.

AMD "upgraded" HyperTransport to Infinity Fabric. Which IIRC uses a bit less power (taking advantage of the shorter, more efficient die-to-die interposer).

Intel has UPI (upgrade over Intel QuickPath), but it hasn't been "shrunk" to chiplet level yet. Intel has EMIB as a physical technology to connect chiplets together... but Intel still needs to create dies and a lower-power protocol for interposer (or maybe EMIB-based) communications.

So Intel has a lot of the technology ready to create a chiplet (like AMD's Zeppelin dies). But Intel wasn't gunning for chiplets as hard as AMD was. Still, Intel demonstrated their chiplet prowess with the Xeon+FPGA over EMIB. So Intel definitely "can" do the chiplet thing, they just are a little bit behind AMD for now.
Risk/rewards. Banks implies low risk investments that also have low reward. You need some of this as emergency backup - if a big bill comes in. (Big bill could be unexpected like a job loss where you have to buy food from savings, or could expected like where you are putting a little extra away for a vacation)

Investment/retirement implies long time, you can afford to take a large risk because the reward is worth it long term. Stocks historically average 10% any 20 year time, but in that 20 years there are some years where they drop 20%. It works out in the long run, but you better not have near term savings in there because you can't know for sure that your money will be there.
Guns aren't as illegal and uncommon "in the rest of the world" as people think.
> and cost to maintain a competitive IT infrastructure

I would actually counter this with the point that many of the historic banks are so steeped in technical debt that newcomers are at massive advantage in terms of iteration speed and IT cost. This comes from a lack of competition (until very recently), and cultural problems at the executive level that stop them from considering themselves technology oriented firms.

Look at Monzo in the UK, recently given full banking license, been on the scene for 3 years now.

No bank in the UK has been able to come close on ease of use/access, onboarding speed, settlement speed, customer service, clarity and feature set of their current account. From the outside, it looks like they aren't even trying...
Right but you are very OT at this point. The parent was arguing that for the vast majority of people taxes are boring and do not involve 1099-INTs or taxes on numerous stock trades. While true, these people have the easiest time calculating their required tax.

No one ever was trying to say that IRS doing your taxes for you would never make things easier.
Turkish Delight as preposterously described by C.S.Lewis: "Each piece was sweet and light to the very center and Edmund had never tasted anything more delicious."
But don't forget that past performance is not a predictor of future results. It may crash 50% in a month. Don't take growth for granted.
He's now 34, though the study was released earlier this year and carried out sometime before then. But it would be very unlikely that he would have been one of the respondents in the study :)

Edit: apparently based of census data from 2014, so yeah he could be in there!
Oh, my. Are you sure you're not addicted to doing things?
Let's define here "being a scholar" as having a good sense of where your field is (and for anything people are interested in, there is a field).

The standard way is that PhD students (often non-scholars) team up with more senior, well-read researchers (i.e. experienced scholars), with the latter at a minimum explaining and framing the work and in many cases guiding and shaping it.

You get marginalized by the community for bad scholarship just as proposing crappy conference talks will lead to "marginalization" by the conference organizers: there's already so much content to consume, and scholarship and other requirements serve to shape and organize people's contributions in a way that means the community as a whole can make progress.

As for advice on how to write better: Read a lot. Get rejected a lot and learn to read between the lines. If you want a friendlier environment, aim for workshops rather than major conferences. Don't be afraid of putting in the work that's necessary for a good paper.
Its being debated whether ballot selfies should be allowed or not, because it is protected by free speech or because it violates current laws about voter bullying. So a system that allows third-party verification of an individuals vote is probably against the law, at least currently.
OK, my mistake, so that adds to 67%, which is a lot. If you add Social Security and Medicare to US taxes I still think North East comes to 55%+. With virtually nothing to show for it.

At least we have the benefit of 14 aircraft carriers.
Funny how everyone thinks other stuff is hard. Me, I think gathering requirements and deciding what to build is the fun part. Following through with the plan, managing the project, coming up with a schedule, making sure everything gets done on time, that's what I consider the hard part.
The hand rail doesn't give you bonus points (with sounds) when you touch it. Games are designed to get your attention and excite you
If the last 10% takes 90% of the time, well, this is only 70%.
More Insight into Determining How and What Neural Networks Learn Using TDA
Being able to say "Freeze all motor functions" to a furby-class toy as an industry standardized voice instruction could be handy in the future.
Precisely that, as far as I am aware* (and I am not a financial adviser) the tax code in the US does not understand a mostly or easily liquid account that will only be touched for major life "investments" (such as a house) or during 'crisis' such as medical or employment hardships.
Simple implementation of NALU in TensorFlow
This reveals all kinds of bugs in current software.

For example, if I use the tool to make a url italic, then pasting that url into Chrome's url bar gives me back a bunch of unicode rectangles.

But that's not what I wanted. I wanted Chrome's url bar to interpret those unicode code points as an italic version of the actual unicode code points I want. Chrome should add a check for edge cases like these and add branches to map the string to the corresponding non-styled code points automatically.

Someone needs to send lots of bug reports to all the relevant pieces of software that currently have this bug. Firefox, Chromium, probably Edge, Webkit. Those are just the browsers, but I'm sure there are more. I'm not actually sure about Firefox tbh, but maybe just send the bug report first and see if it gets accepted to find out.

Ooh, here's another one-- if you paste some unicode.style'd text into LibreOffice does it convert it to the "normal" code points and add the relevant styling? If not, it should, otherwise it's broken.

Actually, I just realized another issue. If I type something in the url bar that is styled with unicode.style, then there is no way for Chrome to know whether I want it displayed styled or not.

For example, maybe I'm pasting it there temporarily so that I can copy/paste it later in a Tweet. In that case I probably want to keep the current styling for the tweet.

So Chrome should map to the normalized unicode code points (just in case I'm typing a url or want to instantiate a search), but still display the styled version. Then when I copy it again, it should put the unicode.style version into the buffer. And the app which receives the pasted buffer should receive the unicode.style code points. And of course that app should also normalize it underneath while retaining the styled display for the same reasons.

To deal with this complexity, there should probably be a standardized way for all apps to deal with styled text.

Please help by testing every app and filing relevant bug reports.
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The Generator Functions of Existential Risks
I wonder what this can mean for fuzzing, optimization, learning or any kind of task that has to do with tip-toeing into potentially high dimensional spaces?
I'm trying to use this, but I cannot get it to see anything by following the examples. Will this work with any wifi card on linux or only with certain ones? Perhaps not all cards support monitor mode? I have an Intel 7260 card.
Precisely, it isn't scalable at all. That's why they should get rid of the niche.
Then why hasn't the Schengen area admitted north Africa or the middle east?

Spain is a lot closer to Morocco than to Norway, but Spain partnered with Norway rather than Morocco because they share the same descent (European) and culture (Christian).
Was wondering why LispWorks wasn't mentioned. Am learning Common Lisp and this is the editor I went with.
I have heard people complain that everyone is glued to their phone these days while riding public transit. But humans are easily bored and want something to do. Here's a photo of a train full of people reading newspapers, what's the difference?

https://www.raconteur.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Digital...
I think GP was making the point that the retirement account balance may be largely due to the recent run-up. You're right of course that it can (and will) go down in the future!
Bought an XPS 13 last summer. When I got it, they had left some kind of paper/plastic backing strip inside the CPU fan. The system made a horrific noise when the fan spun up and started grinding against it. Luckily I was able to remove the errant strip and the system has been fairly nice ever since.
Unfortunately, I chose 1080p matte screen before their terrible content-aware backlight adjustment setup was discovered. They released a firmware update to fix the 4k glossy screen, but my system with its otherwise fantastic 1080p screen will always have that undesirable quirk.

Before that, my Lenovo X230t tablet went through three motherboards before finally stabilizing (bad clock, then bad displayport, then total failure) so yeah, I try to stick with what I have as long as possible, and buy at least one year of warranty to fix the near inevitable defects...
Conflict reigns over the history and origins of money
This. Addiction is a temporary escape from reality, and anything that offers such escape can become addictive: games, Netflix, drugs, training, hiking, social networks, books, etc.
Show HN: Fancy PNG/JPEG/SVG optimization with trade-off charts, 100% in-browser
Here is the key: the tax code has to be such (so simple) that 50-75% of people can just quickly look at their return statement, and deduce that "yes this is right". For example: there should typically be no deductions possible.

It shouldn't require any form of "trust". A person should be able to tell within minutes that it's correct.

Otherwise the filing method isnt't the problem but the complexity of the tax code (for the large majority).
Hi, I'm the author of this tool, happy to answer any questions. Built it to get more nuanced insight into the per-image tradeoffs at varying levels of compression, and to get something that supports SVG. Most of our assets are SVGs these days, and other image optimizers don't give you trade-off graphs and most don't support SVGs.

The algorithm does pick a reasonable trade-off so you don't have to futz with the graphs if you don't want to.

(Your images never hit our servers, which is why this can and will stay free)
It is hard to sell technology to companies when they have their own teams (often using free libraries). Embedded teams are always experts and will often discredit better technology.
Often the only method of testing is A/B. These can easily be manipulated. For instance at Netflix (ignoring more blatant practices), P-hacking (run thousands of simulations and report ones that worked), and HARKing (come up with a hypothesis after the results are known) are rampant. That is part of the reason the recommender has been degrading over the years.
Fun fact. Intuit spent just $2.4 million on lobbying per year and $775,000 on campaign contributions: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000026667&c.... If their lobbying dollars are what caused the IRS to stop those programs, you could "outbid" them with just a Kickstarter.

Intuit and friends are a red herring: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/grover-norquist/grover-norqui...
I’m surprised he ended up with anything. Divorces can be financially brutal on men. Even more so if kids are involved :(
> Ableton cannot multi-thread a single track (at least in Version 9)

This is still the case in 10, and one of the reasons I have been seriously looking at Bitwig (Linux support being the other).
Well, for one they have a reputation they need to maintain, so it's unlikely they would install malware or backdoors on their devices, as that would breach their users' trust; whereas Lenovo have no problem installing rootkits on theirs. It's also a question of principle/values, and I like Apple's more than the alternatives.
Yet, I feel like frequently people do the same to "train" dogs.

Apologies, the concept is so foreign to me at this point (as a result of training <g>) I just didn't consider that. But you're right, folks do attempt to train dogs in that manner. I suppose it would be like lifting weights for that big marathon you have coming up. If you ask me, a runner, if that's training I would say no. But I'm fixated on the specificity. More accurately, I'd have to admit that it is, indeed, "training".

But without that specificity, it degrades to semantics. I mean, c'mon, who thinks solely lifting weights is going to get you to the finish line? When I say I'm training for a marathon, the vast majority of people would assume I'm spending most of my time running. And when I say I'm training my dog, I imagine most folks expect something along the lines of "when I say a specific command, the dog takes a specific action". Because the desired outcome of training generally is not "the dog's butt hit's the ground", the desired outcome is "I say 'sit', and the dog's butt hit's the ground". If folks are content to have a dog sit with non-specific inputs, they are free to call it whatever they like. But it is not what most people call "training", and no professional trainer would consider it to be "training".
Some good answers here. I'd recommend two books:

1. This free O'Reilly book about good 1:1s: https://www.oreilly.com/business/free/files/the-secrets-behi...

2. Rise, by Patty Azzarello, which is about career management in general, but also has important stuff about how to work with managers and peers.
You are correct-most clinicians agree with you. The usual measuring tool is, "does it affect your family, work, or romantic life negatively?" and GP does not show any such signs.
Well, I'm not a hardware engineer, but...

Who knows maybe the processor had been designed and produced a long time before that, and that made it super super cheap to throw on a BOM because it was technology from a few years before.

Also likely to use sliiiightly less power, and be even more responsive to interrupts.
Great. Then, let's build a team of experts :-)
>Contrast that to today’s conventional wisdom of “plan like your SS payout will be $0.”

In all fairness, people have been saying that for decades.

You're right though that a lot more people used to have defined-benefit pensions. I'll even have a modest one from a long gone tech employer. Certainly don't see that much these days.
It's a kinda ascii-art thing that 𝔩𝔢𝔱𝔰 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔞𝔫𝔰𝔴𝔢𝔯 𝔥𝔫 𝔠𝔬𝔪𝔪𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔰 𝔞𝔩𝔩 𝔣𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔶 𝔩𝔦𝔨𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔰.
𝕆𝕣 𝕝𝕚𝕜𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕚𝕗 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕨𝕒𝕟𝕥 𝕝𝕖𝕤𝕤 𝕘𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕔 𝕞𝕠𝕣𝕖 𝕠𝕦𝕥𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕖.

𝙸𝚜𝚗'𝚝 𝚞𝚗𝚒𝚌𝚘𝚍𝚎 𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝?
Google Play Services is probably the most intrusive app on the phone and good luck if you disable it. This one time I tried disabling most of the Google apps on my phone (Android 7.1.2) including Chrome and I did not have a WebView implementation remaining. Most apps started crashing until I re-enabled Chrome.

I have all Google apps disabled except Google Play Services but that too does not have any permissions granted (thanks stock Nougat). It keeps bugging me every now and then to enable permissions.

By the way, for people who would want to relieve themselves of Google Play Store, I use an alternate App Store https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.yeriomin.yalpstor... Sure automatic updates are a hassle, but I don't have a lot of apps so things are alright. Plus, it lets me download previous versions of apps without digging up the whole internet. I am using an old imgur app that allows browsing without sign up. :)

I still hate the ever present search bar on the home screen even after disabling the Google App. Will try Nova Launcher soon.
From what I understand, the dedicated Ethernet port has to do with vPro and/or having one MAC address all the time. I do agree that another USB port would be more useful.
The average/median salary for millenials is between $25-40k (the statistics I see vary significantly). I imagine that this article is basically a proxy for the poor wages millenials typically have.

I'm a young millenial in a low cost city in Texas with a retirement account balance over the average by quite a bit. If you have the money to max your accounts every year, its very easy. And I've already bought and sold a house while I maxed out my accounts.
I made a slight edit. 1 cedi = $1 USD in 2012...
The problem is the way social security is funded is a ponzi scheme. The numbers don't add up, which means something will be done in the future. A part of the national debt it social security.

What the something is I don't know. There are lots of options. It is entirely possible that the younger generation realizing that the money isn't there will decide to scrap it. It is possible that taxes will be raised to pay it off. Maybe the government will borrow money to pay for it. Maybe benefits will be cut (this is already happening via inflation, but the effect is small). Maybe the retirement age will be raised. I don't know what will be done, but something will have to happen.

As you said, anything can happen in 30 years.
That's still pretty much the case today. Though the underlying java GL library the desktop client uses has been updated a bit and the newer versions have migrated to higher versions of OpenGL; breaking a lot of mods pretty hard with the changes to the rendering engine.

I hear the (Windows/console only?) version is faster for all the reasons you'd expect, but I'll probably end up never playing it.