skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The word hacker has many meanings. To me it never changed meaning something like MoD or CDC and not startup innovators.
> Developers love to be able to write their magical code and their clever abstractions and often forget that their code is paying the price by becoming less clear and less readable.

Clearly, that justifies the fact that you can't sort an array of doubles and an array of floats with the same function.
Ask HN: Where is 'Who is hiring (September 2018)'?
Social science experiment replicability in Nature and Science 2010-2015
There is this thing

https://getfreewrite.com/
please don't gut rare vintage hardware to install commodity x86 hardware.
Don’t you consider Hacker News to be social media? All the links are sourced and ranked from the community, plus all the comments.
> I am sick of people painting India as some bad place where minorities and women are treated badly.

What is accepted as entirely normal treatment of women and children within a marriage in the subcontinent would make your average westerner very uncomfortable. This would be obvious to anybody who has experience with both cultures.
Stop future-proofing software
Unless Julia can gather the uncountable amount of libraries and frameworks (and keeping the same quality) it’s doomed to be just another “me too” language.

It’s not about the language itself, but what can you actually make with it and with its ecosystem.
This seems to have only one review (a one-star review) on Amazon [1]. Is it a well-known book? What did you like about it?

https://www.amazon.com/Resistance-Useless-Art-Business-Persu...
Does YIMBY support getting rid of rent control?
Ha! Didn't realize car firewalls existed - thanks for that.

Back to my question; if two autonomous wehicles by the same manufacturer crash into each other what mitigation can there be?
10 Notorious Internet Trolls Who Were Exposed
It will always appear on the first >weekday< of the month

- https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring
Muslims Burn Alive Christian Pastor and His Family, BURN 95 Houses in Nigeria
My point is that it’s premature to say “Nothing great has happened from recent companies.” It takes a longer time horizon.

The high cost does put pressure on companies though. Most startups quickly branch out of the Bay Area for their Sales and Services. The economics of founding (premium for access to capital and talent that isn’t risk-averse) is different than mature companies (premium on margins).
> I personally wouldn't even consider moving there unless the pay was 1 million+ a year

It really depends on where you're at in your life. As a young unmarried person with no debts and family, it wasn't hard to justify moving to the valley; I wanted to learn a lot and diversify my skills and work with really smart people who get things done. The learning aspect was a greater pull than the financial one precisely because I didn't have other costs (childcare, mortgage etc.) that would blow up enormously with moving to the Valley.
Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto may never be identified
I couldn't find the specific lecture/demo that I went to, but I found a video by the same guy with a similar presentation elsewhere. Coincidentally he's also one of the researchers who published the original paper on Meltdown

https://youtu.be/DU-HruI7Q30
The true victory and underappreciated skill of first world country is in their scalability to earn profit from massively overpriced machines.
Sure because fb, google knows how to protect your data ..eh ! I agree with your general view point but no one side is right here. Solution is complicated
Doesn’t that assume |v> evolves the same way |u> does (according to U)?
By the way, here's a nice video on the topic of simultaneity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wteiuxyqtoM
I don't blame you. I have hit embedded stones in chipboard and had pieces of TCT hit my goggles. I have had a collet work loose and the bit come out. I have had them fight back on too many occasions.

I once purchased a 2" wide flat cutter designed for cutting wide tennons. Even run at the correct speed it was jumpy as hell. The whole router would jump out of the work piece! You had to take tiny cuts. After doing a small number of tennons it was blunt! Waste of money. If you want to do woodwork as a hobby, get a set of chisels and a tennon saw... and enjoy yourself
There are issues with solar loading on aircraft fuel tanks, which are essentially the inner volume of an airliner wing.
The induced gas flow in a tank can result in hotspots as heat pools in the internal structure.
Or "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Menard,_Author_of_the_Q...

There are stories I reread after many years, where I had a rather different understanding the second time. I'm fine with saying that it's the same text but a different story, because the text is interpreted by the reader to become the story.

I'm also fine with saying it's the same story. The Mississippi is the Mississippi even though it isn't the same river.
You still have to change the workpiece every six minutes, and change the bit every few pieces...and I presume you mean you could read a book in another room...
Building a Telecom Threat Intelligence Sharing Platform
I agree that I did sound defeatist a bit. My reasoning for that is I am directly working in an area where I'm literally watching the technology be employed, and workarounds being created to "protect" privacy, for example, employing machine learning on a device to do image processing so the raw input data never leaves the device.

However, the ultimate goal of this technology is to uniquely identify you for the sake of personalization, tracking, etc. There's an implicit grant being invoked that if anonymized properly or if certain measures are taken, then the privacy breach is ok.

I'm reminded of some culture I heard of once that refused to have photographs taken of themselves out of fear that it would steal their souls.

Any case where data is harvested via observations of you in which that data that represents you is not controlled by you or you are not aware of, seems like a breach of privacy.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, I'm not defeatist, I believe we have the power to change things. But, I'm also saying, I'm not sure, for a variety of reasons, we'll ever be able to rollback the concept of pervasive survellaince because, it is starting to become part of technological advancement - for our technology to recognize and work with us better, it must observe us. So long as that is the case, that ability can be abused unless it is protected, and, as security experts like Bruce Schneier have said, there is no such thing as absolute security, only security that lasts for a certain period of time [1].

[1] https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2008/01/the_psychol...
I realise it isn't exactly the same thing, but it feels like we've finally come full circle :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleprinter
I believe they are referring to proxying requests to third parties, rather than the first part of the post which refers to proxying to your own backend.

Proxying requests to a third-party will mean browser security features like CORS will assume they are entirely safe due to them appearing to come from your domain, and not “gist.github.com” etc.
I moved away from the bay area, because housing is the problem. Or at least housing + transit. The reason labor is expensive is because housing is expensive, which is totally unsurprising because everyone's cost to live there is high.

Sure, if tech workers stopped living there then there would not be as significant a problem, because housing prices would have to fall.

On one hand, spreading work around the country/world is good, on the other hand there are real productivity gains by having people in physical proximity, as we can see from the fact that cities are the most productive parts of the world.
A Failure of Academic Quality Control [pdf]
People have been proclaiming the death of silicon valley since the late 80s, when tech IPOs peaked in 1983, and the video game crash of 1983. But then silicon valley produced several more innovative booms - PC, internet, social, and mobile, making the local economy 1 trillion dollars and surpassing its cousin, LA economy. Whereas LA economy stagnated after the 90s after aerospace and manufacturing moved out, silicon valley kept its dynamism, innovativeness, and of course venture capital.

There are several hard-to-replicate formulas for silicon valley

1.) Money likes to stay in silicon valley: Other money is in silicon valley. Stanford, Berkeley, and Santa Clara university. Existing networks. Beautiful weather (26c today in san jose), low humidity. Gorgeous landscape. Great wine and michelin restaurants. World class cuisines in American, Japanese, French, Italian, Indian, Chinese, Vietnamese in Bay Area. Many activities to do year round.
Beaches, mountains, coastlines, deserts, and forests. Vibrant immigrations. Good infrastructure. Close proximity to Seattle, Las Vegas, Hawaii, and Los Angeles.

2.) Talents are already in silicon valley, and their million dollar houses are in silicon valley. Easy to interview with various companies when they are all near where you work and live. Safe neighborhoods. Engineers that you can meet one another in meetups. Existing networks.

3.) California is the 5th largest economy in the world. And Silicon Valley is the fastest growing economy within it. Lack of regulations to start a startup, raise money, sell to other states in US, which is the largest economy in the world and has the largest consumer market in the world - 1/3 of the world's consuming power. the next closest consumer market that shares the same language and culture is Japan at 1/3 of US's size. And US economy is fast growing, whereas Japan and China are stagnating.

4.) Inherited knowledge is in Silicon Valley. How to bootstrap better. How to invest better. How to run teams better. How to produce software better. How to innovate faster. Everyone knows a little bit of the piece of the puzzle, and have been practicing it for 40 years.
Groceries are actually one of the things which have not been getting more expensive over time. The national calculated inflation rate is such that $100 in 1983 is equivalent in purchasing power to $253.02 in 2018. In the bay area, "food at home" (in linked document) is found to cost 252% what it did in 1982-84.

https://www.bls.gov/regions/west/news-release/2018/pdf/consu...

This document interestingly shows that motor vehicles have been getting cheaper in the bay area, even before adjusting for inflation.
That doesn't happen on business machines like Thinkpads.
I've been using the IRC method since the early 90s; it works fine. Sure, there's some appearance of discontinuity but that's a feature, and allows one to personally guage whether the choice to exclude was a good one, without having to be exposed to the comments of the one ignored.

Shadowbans aren't akin to SMTP tarpits insofar as the target of force is less likely to be a bot. Behind the silence is a human being who is trying to engage others.
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad (Scooter) World
My third party requests are to a CDN. I think adding a proxy to my own domain completely defeats the point of using a CDN.
Exactly this. Just write anything, and then start improving it.
And that is why I never do automatic OS/platform upgrades on a development machine. When something stops working that was known to work before, I want to know exactly what things have changed, and not have to troubleshoot multiple concurrent changes.
Interestingly I thought ILP is integer linear programming. (The first hit for ILP algorithm.)

And then I read DeepMind's delta-ILP post you linked and was even more confused as that talked about gradient descent, and then looked at your Metagol example, and ...

So, decision trees are a great example, as they were the first thing I've encountered ~15 years ago about machine learning, and I think it's a first class ML citizen. But they are in their pure form absolutely vulnerable to noise.

And as soon as noise enters the picture it becomes optimization. And I think that's the model fitting that should be the primary concept. (I used curve-slash-model, but I should have used just model.) [And even if there's no "fitting", like with kNN, you still have data, and either you use a constant classification set of points, or you'll see bias, but then the question becomes what set to use.]

And you're right, that treating everything as X is folly, after all, it gives you no information, decreases no entropy. But I'm looking at it from the perspective of what's intelligence. And it seems to be always on this spectrum of how to optimize for something. (Making hard things easy, by learning rules/algorithms.) After all that's why are we really interested in ML, no?

> But you're missing lots of details and the result is actually hindering your undersanding. In a sense, by looking at everything from the point of view of "curve fitting" you're missing the forest for the um, trees.

If you were so kind to elaborate on this, I'm very interested. And in general, anything that comes to your mind about my ramblings! Thanks for your detailed comments!
Links? I loved Neuromancer, Snow Crash and others of the time.
Article is about Lucid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_(programming_language)
10000% agree. Either sell it or even better, donate it to a computer history museum somewhere.
I was really surprised when the original article said mastodon was blacklist by default (and that instance whitelisting was only possible via forking the code!)

I’m actually not certain this is true. I used Mastodon briefly and I remember there was one account out there that auto-followed every user it saw tooting. That way that bot’s instance would build connections to every instance it could see, which gives both (A) metrics - you can get a rough estimate of how many instances are alive at any time - and (B) a way for instances to discover smaller/newer instances if they choose to (I.e follow this bot, and now the global feed visible to your instance sees just about everything).

If Mastodon is blacklist by default, then it must have some other discovery mechanism? Or maybe the terminology just isn’t being applied in the way I understand it (e.g. perhaps it is whitelist-by-default, in that you explicitly connect to instances of your choice, but this implicitly whitelists every instance that whitelisted instance is connected to, recursively, and the blacklist is built atop this)?
BIS and IMF Warn of Risk in Financial Markets That Surpasses That of 2008 Crisis
How to easily test your AWS IAM credentials locally
Link to Pat Helland's ACM queue article - https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3236388
An increasing number of devs are moving to places like Phoenix and air commute to work in SV housing costs have gotten that out of control.
I wanted to add - I think of myself as a "protector" personality type, so, I'm wrestling with this precisely because I personally see it and find I don't have the power to change it.

You are right though, we do have some control for ourselves and our families and we do have rights and responsibilities to protect that. And we can be pragmatic about that. To those things I cannot disagree and it is our responsibility as responsible adults to do that.
Yes my words barely fit on the page anymore. (I'm part of the problem)
There are a few companies that specializes in removing that noise from radar systems used in planes. Apparently it isn't easy.

You might try and look for a ground wave vhf antenna and see if you can pick up something from the TV station. 100m is very close
I want to use protobufs as the primitive further down the line, but the choice of not doing them right now is to bootstrap and dogfood while the proper design is mulled about internally.
This. Interested in hearing Julia acolytes describe some one thing that is way easier in Julia than Python. The scope and combined power of examples like that will determine whether and where it's worth being away from python ecosystem.
In Guatemala mountains,searching for parents deported from U.S. without children
Maybe it's a knockoff, but I'd call it improved. I never liked number 3, and for me the additions in Threes look completely arbitrary. Whereas 2048 features nice, round (base 2) numbers.

And I'm only half-joking. I've been working with base 2 for two thirds of my life now, so powers of two are really more pleasant emotionally to me than multiples of 3.
On Facebook events maybe means no and yes means “unless I get a better offer”. The RSVP there is completely useless.
This isn't a practical solution for embedded web servers where even six concurrent requests can be taxing.
Yes I found the prop-types library, but it doesn't include the word "hint" and I couldn't find any documentation that did. I assumed there this was an obscure term of art you were refering to.
There is also Onyx Boox 10.3 with some pretty good reviews: https://twitter.com/milessabin/status/1035499322882883584

It runs Android. So running Termux app with a BT keyboard should be pretty good.
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I believe the tool works, but I'm skeptical it will have any impact. There's a lot of "no shit sherlock" development that isn't happening. Building dense near the train station is literally textbook urban planning. It shouldn't take a complex simulation to prove it. The problem I see is that the electorate doesn't work the way the founders imagine.

>When communities can see comprehensive data about multiple plans for the future, the startup’s founders say, it becomes easier to compare them and reach consensus.

What actually happens is people like and dislike certain things and will post hoc justify entrenching their preferences in law.
Why would removing rent control increase the supply of affordable housing? Honest question. Presumably a lot of people depend on it in order to live in SF itself.
My prediction is that money will keep flowing into SV companies, but the teams will all start going remote. Shogun is fully distributed and it's incredible. We're able to pay amazing salaries to everyone outside of the Bay Area, for way less than we'd pay in the Bay Area. The result is happy employees/contractors with no sense of entitlement. They're also not all getting hounded by recruiters constantly because they don't have "San Francisco" as their location.

It doesn't make any sense to raise investment in SV and spend it here. Your runway will be 3x or more longer if you hire outside the Bay Area. Also, there are smart people everywhere! There's a pervasive viewpoint in SV that the world's smartest people all come here. It's true that there are a ton of smart people here, but there are way more equally smart people who don't want to deal with the crazy immigration and politics of the US, and the sky high cost of living in SV.
You only cache GET responses, no? For those you don't need CORS anyway, and anything that's user specific should remain strictly between you and the user, right? (And for that WSS is perfect.)
I'll just leave this here:

> Conventionally, Julia's arrays are indexed starting at 1

https://www.google.com/search?q=arrays%20start%20at%201&tbm=...
Facebook's AI Just Set a New Record in Translation
What’s the connection between investment money and location?
I've been using IRC since the early 90s as well, and it doesn't work "fine" when you ignore active members of a community who get quoted and such.

SMTP tarpits are like shadow bans because the perpetrator isn't informed about the ban/tarpit, and its meant to slow them down by wasting their time in their bubble that they are getting "work" done.
Well, this is subjective. Not all of us enjoy being confused as to whether it’s August or January. It is incredibly depressing to see no season change year round. This is a major reason I’ll never buy property around here.
The language is built from the ground up as a fast numerical language. Take LLVM as a JIT and make the most dynamical lispy fast thing on top. It runs circles around Python in terms of fast flexible computing.

That said, not enough for me to switch.
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You're coupling a very complex solution (self driving) to a much simpler one (electric vehicles) in order to solve a niche problem (urban dwellers without garage parking) who could either be served with other potential solutions, like charging at workplace, or might simply become even less likely to own a car than they already are.
How to Sell on EBay as a Business
You’re right of course. I just think reverting prop13 is important enough, and difficult enough, to warrant creating or joining an organization solely dedicated to that one issue. I feel like pro-housing Californians tend to tuck it into a tactical bullet point, instead of appreciating it for the root cause that it is.
I used to think that this was the solution, but it's now clear to me that the state and local governments are too incompetent to fix this problem. Over the past decade, the bay area has gotten so much worse. The cost of living has skyrocketed. Commutes have gotten longer. The homeless problem has become something out of a George Romero movie. None of these show signs of improving, and it's not due to lack of trying. The city of San Francisco spends a quarter billion dollars a year on homelessness.[1] That's $33,000 per homeless person per year![2] The city is experiencing the greatest economic success in its history, but it can barely keep Muni running. Imagine how bad things will get in a downturn.

What laws do we see being passed? Plastic bag bans. Plastic straw bans. Scooter bans. Tech company cafeteria bans. Laws that demonstrate a total lack of knowledge of economics, incentives, or any sort of numerical analysis.

I've given up on the bay area and am preparing to move. I know the tech jobs and community won't be as good, and I'll miss my friends, but I can no longer stand being governed by complete nincompoops.

1. https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/29-million-incre...

2. There are approximately 7,500 homeless in SF according to http://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2017-SF-Poin...
Why do you need JWT and CSRF at the same time? If you have the JWT you can use that as the CSRF token.
Working at a company that makes software for hacking and spying on people that sells to oppressive governments sounds pretty exciting and challenging too. Where do you draw the line?
Personally, I'm fond of https://asciinema.org/
... and someone who would be very difficult to "out asshole" or to out do in male chauvinism.

Those are criticism on personality, on the technical side it took the community a long time to undo the damage of promoting non robust parametric statistics. But this much is certain he pulled statistics into the realms of math -- no mean feat.
This is pretty neat. Super simple, but potentially expandable. I could see this being really useful before a interview.
> Norway has extreme incentives

To expand on that, electric cars in Norway has so extreme incentives...

That price-wise Tesla Model S is not competing with Ferrari, Lambourghini, BMW M3, Mercedes Amg’s or anything like that.

It’s competing with a mid range Audi A4.

Basically, regular petrol cars are so heavily taxed that EVs (which are exempt from all these taxes), can be a luxury car in any country on earth and still come out relatively cheap in Norway.
> fremium and ad based internet businesses

And the actual silicon businesses. Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Cypress, Broadcom Limited, Marvell, Xilinx, ...
Hi, what services do you use for data annotation? We've been using DL for some projects of ours and had to set up a data annotation team (remote) to get more control over the labeling process. We are looking to see if others might be interested in utilizing a service like ours, which will also help the people we've acquired gainfully employed. At present we are mainly looking at taking on small projects. If this is of interest, please do let me know! I posted about this here, but hasn't surfaced enough to generate conversation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17874184