skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. It’s pretty useful for building most kinds of common web services. Lessons learned will translate well to othe tools, and in particular it will help you to avoid making some common mistakes while getting to grips with the nuts and bolts of web applications.

Don’t panic about it “losing popularity.” Tools and techniques learned using one framework are pretty generally applicable to others.
A titan. Very sad.
Wiki says only Libya, Syria, and Algeria operate it currently. I am skeptical it has flown above Mach 3 in decades.
Thanks!

1. I'm definitely just starting simple. My first goal that makes sense to target is: a) quality control algorithms for the data that make b) it possible to do data assimilation into WRF. I would not expect this project or myself to do the actual WRF data assimilation, that would probably require outside help.

For example, I know that this process can be done with the barometer data, but it is difficult to do this for a couple reasons. First is user privacy, most methods of using this data require a user id attached to the lat/lng and barometric pressure. This isn't great, it's a log history of user's location. So that's why I'd like to make 'virtual weather stations', which would be my first target.

Perhaps in the distant future this project could span its own predictions/models but I don't have a particular plan for that.

2. Well as I alluded to above the raw data is sensitive to user privacy, so the ideal system deletes that data after a few days of processing/QC control, hashing, etc to preserve as much as we can of the useful information while deleting the user's private location history. This makes the dataset a lot less monetizable, since fewer weather-industry folks who'd like to integrate with WRF would be interested in the data, given how far removed my final product would be from the source barometric pressures (virtual weather stations are a brand-new abstraction and they have not been tested).

I'd say that at first the data that I make in terms of 'virtual weather stations' may be an open API, but it depends on how much that costs to run. The project is supposed to make money from users buying it: it has a $1/month subscription optional to show users how to directly financially support the project. Any future sales of weather data would be a long way away and would require me to prove out its usefulness, something that hasn't been done with 'virtual weather stations' yet (but has with the raw barometer data, darn)

Great questions, thanks!
I give it another 3-6 months before OP has to seek treatment for mental illness.

Source: I got diagnosed with major depression after leaving a job almost exactly like OP's. Doing better now, though.
> Putting an origin and a destination in a form and asking for the price is a clear representation of intent, not to mention buying said ticket.

It's a clear representation of intent to purchase the ticket.

Whether it is a representation of intent to use every leg of travel included as part of that ticket is...at best, a point on which you have provided no supporting evidence, reasoning, or case law.

I think its pretty obvious that in the general case purchase of a composite (or bulk) good or service is not a representation of intent to use all the components, do if you think there is something special about either multileg airline tickets in general or United’s tickets in particular that warrants different treatment, please, feel free to enlighten us.

> It absolutely holds up, in the same way that clicking an "I agree" button in an online transaction is a representation of agreement, which courts have already held to be valid

No, it doesn't, and the cases are readily distinguished, because the representation you wish to infer is (unlike the “I agree” case for contract formation) of a different intent than what is expressly stated by the UI element being interacted with. We aren't arguing over whether a “buy” button indicates intent to buy tickets, but whether it is a representation of intent to use every leg of travel covered by the purchased tickets. Even if the contract of carriage has language to that effect, which might give you a breach of contract claim, I don't think you’ll find much support for the use of language in a contract of adhesion as a representation by the non-drafting party for fraud claim.
There's a ~long history of people attempting to answer that question:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm

From the article, "Firms exist as an alternative system to the market-price mechanism when it is more efficient to produce in a non-market environment."
Or you run a popular free service or service that makes so little money this is important. Consider F5bot. It wouldn't take too many subscribers getting several emails per day to hit 1000000 per month.
I'm not tracking exactly what your point is here. You ask things like "Can power dynamics be boiled down to men vs women?" And "Are we saying that Elizabeth Holmes is treated the same as some no name immigrant founder?" and the pretty obvious answer to those in no but I don't immediately see anyone here arguing against that so I'm not sure exactly what your objecting to.
We're on RDS right now. We use connection pools from https://www.yesodweb.com/book/persistent
SendGrid is up 17% while Twilio is down 3%.
a little too soon, imo
Havent you heard? In America this is just plain smart!!
”When you increase the number of parameters (weights) in an NN by a factor of 5 you don’t just get 5 times the capacity and need 5 times as much training data. In terms of expressive capacity increase it’s more akin to a number with 5 times as many digits. So if V8’s expressive capacity was 10, V9’s capacity is more like 100,000.”

I find it very, very hard to believe that. I know ‘expressive power’ is a fairly vague concept, but if things scale that well, there must be papers out there that at least hint at such (IMHO) insane scaling laws.

I think it also must mean that it is fairly easy for those with huge budgets to build a system that’s way better, except for the fact that it is too slow or takes too much power (just as 3D graphics in movies show what will be on our desks/phones in a decade or two)

I’ve asked it before, but does anybody know of papers that describe an offline self-driving system that’s as good as perfect?
There are still some essential government, military and corporate websites relying on these protocols that will not be updated any time soon - it should always be possible for a user to override this block.

I really dislike this "browser smarter than the user" design.
This is my experience with IoT devices. Often it feels like a grab for customer data provided by the device and a way to get the customer locked into the device ecosystems.

I wish there were more IoT style systems that cared about privacy and portability.
'We Were Working 100-Hour Weeks,' Red Dead Redemption 2 Head Writer Says
>> payed me

Should be "paid me". I see this so frequently on HN, is this how it is taught in school now?
>Literally nobody gains from this.

Small consolation, but we can think of airline shenanigans like this as just another hassle that makes flying less convenient / enjoyable, and so people will take fewer flights. Air travel (especially intercontinental flights) are a large fraction of a western individuals contribution to global warming. So the earth thanks you.

https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=air%20travel%20climate%20chang...
GitHub's game jam returns next month
you're missing the obvious methods, used by the wealthy. and it has the single hallmark, of being the preferred methods - as it is propped by other rich people, also evading taxes.

;)

cryptocurrency, is about the pump-and-dump.
Sounds like an incredibly pure form of bikeshedding. Admirable, in a strange way.
I think you misunderstood the paper. Grid cells don't encode location, a set of grid cell modules do. So there isn't a grandmother cell here at all. He's simply proposing this theory because of the noted presence of grid cells in the neocortex.

His new theory, if I understand it correctly, is pretty basic. It is simply saying every sparse encoding of sensory inputs is also tied to a spatial encoding by sets of grid cell modules within the same cortical column. For deep learning practitioners, it would be like saying every embedding comes with it's own spatial encoding, or placed into the same embedding space, however you want to look at it.

These spatial encodings are then related to other spatial encodings of other sensory inputs on different cortical column stacks (by displacement cells?), to firstly build up representations of objects, and then, he surmises further, the relationships of these objects with each other (part to whole).

I think the last part is probably what Jeff will need to substantiate a bit more.
Other than escaping the bloodthirsty data-slurping of the Google ecosystem, I don’t see that solution being much better.

If they have to make their own proprietary browser, the situation will just be streaming “with a client you need to download” rather than “in the browser” generally.

(Disregard this if I’m misunderstanding and by “their own browser” you meant an existing project like Firefox.)
"It must not have security problems to begin with"

No product is bulletproof from a security standpoint, and there's no way to make something bulletproof. What are you suggesting they do?
As are Google, Apple, and Mozilla:

https://security.googleblog.com/2018/10/modernizing-transpor...

https://webkit.org/blog/8462/deprecation-of-legacy-tls-1-0-a...

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/10/15/removing-old-ve...
I'm very close to the customer, but am slanging Mortgages. Obviously I am on Hacker News so I'm really a tech guy, know my way around a Linux box. Got into this field for the money, want out desperately. I get so tired of haggling over interest rates.
Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Dies at 65
Can you provide a specific example? I looked through several different cars and can't tell what you are referring to. It depends on what year you look at and when the refresh happened. There are cars that outsell tesla, (like the very popular and reliable econobox basics from Toyota and Honda). But Tesla is outselling on actual model year sales most other cars with the model 3. If you exclude the top 3 or 4 cars in the us (honda/toyota civic, corolla, accord camry), tesla appears to be outselling all the rest, and I don't see bumps like Tesla's if you go outside the top 4. Maybe you were looking at trucks? Trucks sell an amazing number, but Tesla isn't in that segment, & I think it's reasonable to compare just to sedans.
It's hard to believe that someone at youtube decided to screw probably 50%+ of their users in hopes they'll move to chrome.
Which has the best API?
It reminds me of Moneyball; in it, the author points out that the statisticians were frustrated by their inability to get traction within the MLB, but their pitch essentially boiled down to "you guys don't listen to statistics, you should listen to these new ones we just developed," which left unsaid that the statisticians made up new quantifiers because the old ones were ineffective. The MLB had the lived experience of those statistics being ineffective, so they knew Bill James et al were right about that, but the idea that the answer was more numbers that didn't make a lot of intuitive sense was a hard sell.

I would also add that my perception from working at a major east coast hospital has actually been that hospital IT clamps down on new tools more than anyone because of HIPAA requirements, etc, that the doctors ignore/don't care about as much as they should. It's a complicated, layered system.
Statement on the Death of Paul G. Allen
I was on the fence when Star Citizen first showed up, but in the end I avoided it because the goal just seemed so absurdly over complicated. The Wing Commander series was great, and Freelancer was tons of fun, but the idea of having a brand new studio turn that kind of skill based gameplay into an MMO was just crazy talk. I spent a fair amount of time in EvE so its not like I hated the MMO idea, it was just too obvious the core idea was overly ambitious at best.

If they had started with S42 as a single player game, with a massive universe you could actually have an effect on (like X1/2/3, but you know, good), and then said they were building out a MMO version of it, I'd have thrown my wallet at them.
Man, if ever it were black bar time...

One of the early giants of my teens.
It's been a long time since I wrote or even had to look at PHP, but I have done work in PHP. I use React constantly. I do not see any similarities between the two, like, at all.
Interesting to see the many initial attempts to edit Allen's Wikipedia page were reverted as possible vandalism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul_Allen&action...
> "Oh, you're way too hot to be a startup founder, what are you doing here?"

That’s called flirting.
> What we are witnessing in West Virginia today is a government destroying itself. It began as a partisan power grab. It may end in the destruction of an entire state judiciary

Given the amount of criminality and conviction, I see this as a good thing. Treating the political elites as something more than citizens, is already a corruption of the state body.
People who are concerned about privacy should read the policies which are designed specifically for them.

https://slack.com/privacy-policy
Paul was among the top philanthropists in America, and has contributed so much to society. Truly a sad day
If you want Nginx to use TLS v1.2, this is what you need:

ssl_protocols TLSv1.2;

…and if you compile a recent Nginx from source and bake in OpenSSL 1.1.1 while you do that, you can have TLS v1.3 with a TLS v1.2 fallback, too:

ssl_protocols TLSv1.3 TLSv1.2;

See also:

https://caniuse.com/#feat=tls1-2

https://caniuse.com/#feat=tls1-3
Flashy article title clickbait.

Doctors are not fools. If a tool truly made their job easier, it would not be rejected out of hand.

Job security for physicians is rarely the issue, there are plenty of sick people.
> (or drones so effective in replacing reconnaissance aircraft)

It's a combo of this and satellites.

The only credible rumor I believe is that a even stealthier variant of the F-117 was used in the "gap" between the SR-71 and modern drones. But since then almost all ISR is done by drones, with the rare exception when the U2 is still flown.

Otherwise satellites had gotten to the point in the 90s that they could provide real time feeds so it destroyed the need for a high end recon platform like the sr-71 and all other ISR could be done by cheap drones.
RIP man. Thanks for all the good you did in the world.
Ouch, that forced transition was certainly developer-hostile, but I don't want to see Mailchimp go bankrupt just because they pulled the plug on me (and switching to Sendgrid was basically an improvement for me, anyhow).
> Justice Menis Ketchum, a Democrat, resigned from the court in July then pleaded guilty to a felony count of wire fraud.

We need to hold members of the legislature and judiciary to the same standard as the citizenry.

It's just very, very unfortunate that this situation has spiraled so far beyond that.
It's funny how much of a different world Europe seems. In Silicon Valley there are all sorts of AI jobs. I wonder if there are more AI jobs in San Francisco than in all of Europe.
Wouldn’t it be useful to have a tool like a thermometer to establish a baseline value?
>> AI simply isn't a field that's deep or broad enough to warrant an entire college with a handful of distinct majors, like an engineering college or medical school.

AI is a field that's over 60 years old, that includes at least half a dozen sub-fields, by my counting (say, NLP, speech processing, machine vision, robotics iiish, game-playing, information retrieval, knowledge representation, inference and reasoning, etc, and, of course, machine learning), with, oh I don't know, out of the top of my head, 50 or so conferences, and about a thousand journals? Thereabouts.

That's broad enough and deep enough to warrant a couple of colleges alright. And if you take into account the age and breadth of subjects encompassed by many of the sub-fields of AI, you probably need a college for each.
Ignoring that the code doesn't handle any errors, there's really nothing wrong with nesting, as you can clearly see the code flow and understand what it does. The example (1) would look much better using Promise's as it's a chain of events. But imagine a horizontally scaled distributed system where each math operation run's on a load balanced cluster, you would need code to handle back-pressure, retry when errors occur, etc.

Here's how FizzBuzz might look like:

function fizzBuzzLogic(nr, multipleOfThree, multipleOfFive) {
var print = console.log;
if(multipleOfThree && multipleOfFive) print("nr=" + nr + " FizzBuzz");
else if(multipleOfThree) print("nr=" + nr + " Fizz");
else if(multipleOfFive) print("nr=" + nr + " Buzz");
else print("nr=" + nr);
}

function fizzbuzz(cb) {
var modulo = require("modulo");
var errors = [];
var maxErrors = 3;
var maxConcurrency = 5;
var inProgress = 0;
var fizzBuzzCounter = 1;

next();

function next() {
while(cb && inProgress < maxConcurrency && fizzBuzzCounter < 100) run(++fizzBuzzCounter);
}

function run(nr) {
console.log("run: nr=" + nr);
var multipleOfThree = undefined;
var multipleOfFive = undefined;

moduloTest(3);
moduloTest(5);

function moduloTest(multipleOf) {
inProgress++;
modulo(nr, multipleOf, moduloResult);

function moduloResult(err, moduloNr) {
inProgress--;
if(err) {
errors.push(err);
if(errors.length >= maxErrors) {
if(cb) cb(errors.join("\n"));
cb = null;
}
else if(cb) moduloTest(multipleOf);
}
else {

if(multipleOf==3) multipleOfThree = (moduloNr==0);
if(multipleOf==5) multipleOfFive = (moduloNr==0);

if(multipleOfThree != undefined && multipleOfFive != undefined) {
fizzBuzzLogic(nr, multipleOfThree, multipleOfFive);
next();
}
}
}
}
}
}

I haven't polished or run the code, it for example doesn't call the cb (which is a common error in callback based code), but you get the idea. As an exercise you could rewrite it using async *function or using Promises, but I believe the benefit of Promises wouldn't be as apparent.
Initiating and Monitoring Single Electron Evolution in Atom-Defined Structures
^^^^^ This x1000000000
Most hedge funds don't pump up their long positions... I'm not sure why, but they just don't.

Also if you buy puts you can limit your down side.
Paul Allen Dies
Too young.
> Whether it is a representation of intent to use every leg of travel included as part of that ticket is...at best, a point on which you have provided no supporting evidence, reasoning, or case law.

You're trying to find a loophole that, as a former Federal court intern, I find extremely unlikely to persuade any reasonable judge. When you declare your destination to be ILM in the search field, one can reasonably infer that your intent is, in fact, to travel to ILM. I concede that there's no case law yet on this subject, but I would be surprised if it made it out of the "laughed out of court" stage if you argued otherwise.
It clearly is hysteria. Maybe it's uncovering a real problem (I am inclined to believe data like from this article), but it's most definitely, obviously a hysteria. The media is very happy to pounce on accusations, and many of the most widely publicised ones have turned out to be either completely false (A Rape on Campus, mattress girl, Oxford Union, Duke Lacrosse, Jian Gomeshi) or extremely overblown (Tim Hunt, Rosetta guy). We cannot talk about this problem clearly and rationally and devise sensible and effective solutions until people stop being hysterical.
if they've already got the fever then it's a bit late for that
[Also posted on the related Firefox thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18223672 ]

If you want Nginx to use TLS v1.2, this is what you need:

ssl_protocols TLSv1.2;

…and if you compile a recent Nginx from source and bake in OpenSSL 1.1.1 while you do that, you can have TLS v1.3 with a TLS v1.2 fallback, too:

ssl_protocols TLSv1.3 TLSv1.2;

See also:

https://caniuse.com/#feat=tls1-2

https://caniuse.com/#feat=tls1-3
Hi Brian, I understand your concern, we try to have a global view of what it means to bring a private-by-design product to the market

And when we consider all this, we are thinking about:

- how can we remunerate people who want to share their data

- how can we ensure that people can buy apps without leaking information about who they are and what they do

- how can we incentivize the creation of an encryption-based machine-learning network which would allow to do private-by-design model training

and the answer to all of these was too build a decentralized AI

you can learn more about this on our blog:

- https://medium.com/snips-ai/decentralized-machine-learning-u...

- https://medium.com/snips-ai/token-curated-app-stores-dec6a0c...
What!!??? But he didn't get to go into space yet :-(
Bezos defends big tech co-operation with US military
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen dead at 65
This isn't the browser acting smarter than the user; this is the browser trying to push the web forward that last little bit so that everyone is more secure.

I'm sure that alternatives will exist for people who know they need to deal with TLS 1.0 for a while longer.
Cybersecurity experts: US needs law requiring fast disclosure of data breaches
> Paul Krugman is saying that it wont be successful because the banks and government will fight it

He's wrong.

It won't be successful because it's pretty much unusable by regular people, difficult to secure (surprise, "be your own bank" implies "be your own security guard" — and 99% of people want to be neither of those things), extremely wasteful, slow and full of scams.

Most people's first encounter with buttcoins is literally RANSOMWARE. Do you really think mass adoption is coming?
> Do you have a legal citation for this?

As far as I am aware, no one has actually attempted to make a fraud claim on the grounds that mere purchase (and/or the statement of intent to purchase) a composite good or service was a representation by the buyer to the seller of intent to use every portion of the good or service so sold and had the case survive to a published decision on that question.

But, you know, if you can find a case supporting your claim that this intent would clearly be inferred from such an aggregate purchase, I'd love to hear it.
Those are high numbers, wow, and Tesla hardly started producing them in mass until mid year 2018. They could get to 50k a calendar year if Q3 holds. Just for estimation purposes let's use that. It's hard to believe they'd do as well as one of the best selling cars of all time, but they are in a different segment too. Tesla is selling cars that are more expensive than average, maybe a more fair comparison is the bmw 3 series, audi 3 or 4 series type cars. At least Tesla is doing pretty well at the current moment, but they are not doing as well as Mustang or Corvair - some of the best selling cars of all time.

Tesla has been limited by production of batteries and cars, now they have scaled those a lot. But they aren't the fastest of history, that seems clear. Unless they suddenly sell 125k cars a quarter they won't catch Mustang.
2 weeks ago: https://twitter.com/PaulGAllen/status/1046864324310982668

> Some personal news: Recently, I learned the non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma I battled in 2009 has returned. I’ve begun treatment & my doctors are optimistic that I will see a good result. Appreciate the support I’ve received & count on it as I fight this challenge

Just now: https://twitter.com/PaulGAllen/status/1051958128885940226
It probably won't save the world, but we developers sure could do more to save energy and not requiring ridiculous hardware resources for what seems like merely gradual improvements over the 90s, with all the chemicals for processing and in batteries, and with all the waste. By this time, we could've achieved long-lived solar-powered mobiles with B/W LCDs. I remember text processing software being pitched as paper-saving devices.