skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of my acquaintances/facebook friend's daughter was murdered in Australia and she got ads about "surprising your daughter with this beautiful gift"

It's heart breaking to even think about it.
So what exactly are those correspondences that don't match? Because in a decade of web dev I have not really seen a satisfactory counterexample. Fundamentally everything lives in a request-response cycle and almost everything you load comes from a DB or as a file asset.
In my opion, Cephfs and GlusterFS have much better support for Pandas and others, you don't need change any code between local development and train an distruted way, rather than a path.

Second, the Python library for HDFS provides only subset of filesystem API, which limits what you can do with it.
>My position is just that his skit on this particular topic seemed very anti-intellectual. It's the same kind of bogus logic ...

It really is not; just like others here, I would urge you to go back and re-watch that skit, having in mind that others do not perceive it the way you do. There's nothing more to add to the parent post.
Doesn't the bitcoin blockchain provide the same service roughtime does, and without the centralized authority (cloudflare in this case) problem?

As in : hash your doc, create a TX with that hash somewhere in it, sending money to yourself, and once the TX is on chain, the block hash is your timestamp.

The downside are the fees, and the 10mn delay, of course.

[edit]: now that I'm reading about roughtime, I see that the intent is completely different (secure clock sync). However, if the plan is to use roughtime for notarization of documents, I think my remark stands.

source: https://blog.cloudflare.com/roughtime/
The slowest operation in the linked thread is still taking less than 2 minutes...

Edit: correction, there are two examples that take longer, one at 3.5 minutes, one around 8 minutes. I don’t think it changes any takeaways though.
math formulas on my android phone, chrome, are set in tiny fonts. perhaps it is just me.
I recall similar with the Sony Playstation 2 that made available Linux available so it can be classified as a computer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_for_PlayStation_2
> Sartorially, black suits are for formal events or funerals. They look out of place in “professional” environments. Certainly not for a wedding, unless it is specifically black tie.

Depends on what part of the country you live in and the business/professional circles you move in. For many lawyers, a charcoal-gray suit (which is not quite the same as black, but close) is practically a uniform. I see them a lot at weddings even when it's not black-tie.
Realistically, repair & sustainability is far more important than innovation largely driven by our fossil fuel dependency, which is going to run out in the next 50 years anyways.
The benefit of many things is neither well understood nor objectively measurable.

How do you track the value of friends? The value of meditation?

Heck, how do you track the value (negative or positive) you get from reading this site?

Each of those things affects your mental state in some way, but we have no good way to directly track mental state.

We can track the effect of a good mental state by observing that one is more productive, or marks higher on a happiness scale, but those are second-order effects and there will always be many confounding factors.

We still can't evaluate intelligence nor longevity well enough to track any changes in those regards, and that is likely the area you would need to evaluate for tracking the impact of reading.

If reading makes you feel more content or more knowledgeable about subjects, or if anecdotally things you read seem helpful in conversation or in life, that's probably as good as you'll get.

I personally think that attempting to track and optimize even the most minute details of life is ultimately detrimental, but that's a rant for another time.
So, I just discovered that Adsense has an option to block ads that have "Significant Skin Exposure" so I turned this on a few mins ago.
Life itself has been pretty resilient when faced with the last couple extinction events.

On a very selfish level I'm pretty fond of human life though.
New our ML model beats LSTM
Exactly.

"My tax bill went from $8K per year to $32K per year, poor me!" doesn't buy much sympathy when your house went from $200,000 to $800,000 over the same time period.
Isn't this a pretty well known thing?

I suppose it's approximately as "obvious" as the phenomenon that's actually being litigated, that Asian Americans have to somehow be "extra qualified." By that I mean that both are taken as given regardless of actual truth.

The "dean's interest list" mentioned in the article is interesting. Specifically, I'm surprised that it's as secret as it is. I don't think any highly selective process run by humans doesn't have a backdoor like that, to the extent that when you're applying for things like schools, jobs, incubators, etc. it's just sort of assumed that one must figure out how to get in via the backdoor.
Hmmm I wondered why netflix seemed to use actors that weren't actually very prominent in the show or movie being watched for their title cards. Makes sense now i suppose.
We developed a new ML model, and as a result, the training time become x4K faster than previous LSTM, and the accuracy is the same or better. This link is the demo of detecting speakers using our model.
The API and pip installation will be coming soon.
Bet they were tasty.
> software that is only deployed on one or two servers on a company intranet and the general public will never see it.

I thought that, in this case, it's the company itself who is the "user" of the software and isn't obligated to do anything to/for/about upstream (since there is no stream.. they're not re-distributing it). In that sense, they're not stealing anything, just using what was, explicitly, free to use.
NN and genetic algorithm game
>We don't store it or log it anywhere

I know you have good intentions here, but I hope you are aware that you may unintentionally be storing it somewhere [1]. Not much you can do about it unless you keep actively searching for it everywhere.

[1] I strongly remember reading an article here on HN recently about some security breach stemming from writing production secrets in log files, but I can't find the link :/ If anyone else has it, can you post it?
"it wanted plastic for itself" never fails to make me laugh. @5:35

"plastic. assholes"
>I find it strange to see such animosity against "the rich" on an forum dedicated to startups from a company that has helped created billions in market cap and mint several new billionaires in the process.

There is a huge difference between someone becoming so wealthy that they and the next 5 generations of their heirs don't need to do any real work for the rest of their lives, and someone figuring out a way to create a sustainable organization that provides real value to lots of people.

It is more than reasonable to want to encourage society to favor the latter over the former.
Sesame Street had so many great creative and musical segments before it turned into the Elmo show. It didn't talk down to children or insult their intelligence. It inspired children rather than just try to hypnotize them with colors and repetition to shut them up for an hour.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acBixR_JRuM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JWwOzEDGss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG1nCrnUim4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg71djeZfos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3N8ZW6fCa4
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The GP said take money from “every billionaire”, not from every person in the US.

One surprising thing about America is that there is a very large, almost invisible class of small businesses owners, good sales people, old farmers and random professionals that have in aggregate quite a bit of wealth. More than 4% of the US population are millionaires.
> Heated air enters the bathroom through a duct beneath the tub, warming the bathtub and the floor

I can hear the collective yawn of a few million Romans from the afterlife not impressed with this "modern" copy of their tepidaria and hypocausts.
Back in those days I didn’t think you could buy them unlocked, which I guess makes it a more “fair” private than if you were to do it today.

But yeah it was weird in other countries when you would see “Thing X costs $Y” and everyone would do the $Y * exchange rate and say “why is it so much cheaper there”. Then you come to America and discover that the advertised price excludes compulsory fees and taxes. All American companies do this, and I would argue it is unethical, and should be illegal, but I don’t have the billions of dollars needed to buy a law.
From what I've seen, backend devs are often making either the same or slightly less.

Also worth saying tho, that many companies view their devs as "full stack," that JS != frontend only anymore. Node backends are becoming very common.
It's not just limited to individuals, company can invest and get the tax break as well.[1]

[1]https://www.barrons.com/articles/opportunity-zone-funds-to-d...
The Hooper's-death episode made a big impression on me when I was 3 years old -- it was actually the first frank discussion of death that I can remember being party to. The part where [if I recall correctly] Gordon and Olivia help Big Bird understand that 'Mr Looper' is not coming back is seared into my mind. How Spinney managed to convey so much emotion with only voice and body language is a marvel. I also clearly recall identifying with Big Bird's attachment to his teddy bear 'Radar.'

Big up Spinney!
FWIW I live in Utah, work remote, and am self taught (dropout from engineering program) and my base is higher than that. It's in the 240s.

I'm the first one to tell someone to go to school instead. It's not actually the fundamentals I missed out on, it was the network of peers in computer science as well as potential options in academia. It slowed my career growth down a bit. I'm not complaining though since I'm set to retire in my 30s and I wasn't forced to compromise on where I want to live (I really like snowboarding and mountain biking).

I like to think I took the scenic and unpaved route. Maybe harder overall, but it was a fun journey and I ended up in a good place.
Squash it flat.
Isn't that kinda a value-neutral proposition for the area though? Yes, there's a nicer house or whatever now, but 100% of the value add goes to the person who is now going to sell the property and get their investment back with change. The area ends up with the same effective wealth, since they have to send money to the out of state investors to claim ownership over the renovated house or whatever.

(also that assumes the people ever sell it to someone in the area - if we're talking real estate, there's no reason for them to not just sit on it forever and turn it into a rental or Airbnb or whatever)
If you can come up with some kind of standards for this, you could come up with a hybrid scheme where there is also vehicle to infrastructure communication. This would allow vehicles and infrastructure to do all sorts of intelligent routing, scheduling and congestion control. Using a hybrid system means that this can work even when most of the traffic is not able to communicate yet and when most of the infrastructure is not yet ready for this (i.e. right now).

For example, a vehicle equipped with this and with an intention to turn right at a particular crossing could communicate that intention to that crossing ahead of time to the controller that manages the traffic lights at the crossing and communicate an ETA or even negotiate a time slot. The crossing could than take this into account and schedule the light to be green for the vehicle when it arrives or tell it to slow down slightly to match the next possible green light to minimize congestion around the crossing.

This would allow infrastructure to start taking intelligent decisions based on the traffic that is communicating to it. It would provide immediate incentives for car owners to make sure their car is capable of participating. Even cars that aren't participating could benefit indirectly from other cars reporting their observations of other traffic (e.g. Tesla does a lot of object tracking) or by simply following cars that are equipped.

You could add priorities to this as well where e.g. ambulances or other emergency vehicles never encounter red lights and cars ahead are directed to make room. You could also allow people to pay for upgrading their priority so that they encounter less red lights and can get more reliable and faster ETA to their destination.
Fun story: when the Soviets tried to reverse-engineer captured B-29s bombers (into Tupolev Tu-4s) they had a lot of trouble because their production of sheet aluminium, rivets, etc. was done in metric sizes, whereas the B-29 used imperial-sized components, and thus extensive re-engineering was required to compensate the slight differences in thickness (and thus in weight and balance) of all components.
http://deadmalls.com/ no further comment needed :-)
Volt has 2 maintenance modes it automatically goes into

Engine Maintenance mode: haven't used the gas engine in some period (month?) so it uses the engine for a small period of time (less than my 12 mile commute) so get the engine oil moving.

Fuel maintenance mode: doesn't let average age of gas be over a year. i.e. I filled my tank August 30, 2017 from basically empty. On Aug 29, 2018 it went into fuel maintenance mode and even though I had a full battery, it would only use gas. I was probably around 1 gallon left, I filled it up, so expect around june 2019, it will go into fuel maintenance mode again unless I finish off the tank and fill it up again.
Just by people I know on twitter, there's alot of great women from accounting and project management that have done bootcamps and made the switch recently.
It's pretty obvious that certain groups are trying to draw the focus of the public away from the Asian American discrimination scandal at Harvard and other top schools and instead dangling these stories of preferential treatment being given to a few children of mega donors as a distraction.

Of course the difference in scale of discrimination between these two cases is huge, but it's convenient for certain groups to be able to say "hey, hey, look at how Harvard is favoring these predominately white students! Forget about how they're discriminating against orders of magnitude more Asian Americans!"

I suspect this is because the uncomfortable fact of affirmative action policies actually causing discrimination against racial minorities is a significant source of cognitive dissonance in the minds of many, and it's easier for them to just focus on preferential treatment being given to children of the mega rich than focus on the problematic aspects of racialized admission in the first place.
I love most of the old musical bits, but there was an animated short music video called "Carefully" that scarred me for life. In it, a kid is running down the hall and then a dracula pops out at him from a broom closet or something.

Of course, it was meant to be just one of a long list of situations in which one must proceed 'carefully,' but I was deathly afraid of vampires and closed doors for years.
Yep, I follow him pretty closely, and knew about his account and comments on here.

Funny story: That is at least the second account that he created on HN. He registered an earlier one just to reply to a comment that I had made[1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=alanone1
How do you think people become wealthy in the first place? It's almost always connected to providing value to lots of people.

These ranks change all the time as wealth is created and lost. Very few stay rich through generations, but even then it's always invested in something, like businesses that benefit others.

These same wealthy people are the LPs that fund the VCs that fund the SV startups. It's a cycle.
When I wasn't working remote, informally the ceiling seemed to me to be around $120k. That was a few years ago and these days I would have guessed more around $140k. Obviously I didn't have all the data points so good to see people who are at $175k-$200k.
Android-based.
This is the kind of tool I've been tossing up making myself. Such a great job! Quick, well presented.

But, I wish I could correct the statistics.

* I haven't had this email for a year (doesn't extrapolate)

* My salary is much higher than $60k

* I work a 37.5 hour week

Also a way to combine meetings across my multiple email addresses would be icing on the cake.
Thanks for responding!
Thought police!!!!
> The odds that someone compromises a Helm update and the odds that someone walks out of us-east2a with a drive are not in the same ballpark.

Sure, but why are you comparing a software compromise against physical access? There are attacks that work against cloud providers which don't work against Helm. If somebody can compromise a Helm update they essentially got root. And that is a step up from just read access to storage.

Here's how I see it: There is a provider that runs my mail infrastructure. They can either run it on AWS, or host it at my home. If the data is in my home I don't have to trust Amazon. I still have to trust my mail provider ultimately, but using AWS doesn't improve on that.
HTTP/2 for Ruby Web Development
Nice! GitHub repo link so we can follow?
Good points, perhaps why the 300 year old house in the woods in New England I have stayed in occasionally has withstood the elements. Foot thick beams helped. And maybe there is some type of preservative in all the bat and mouse crap.

A recent stay in England has shown me you can have plenty of air circulation with no water intrusion, they have these wonderful skylights that you can keep cracked open even during a storm and no water gets in, I was pretty amazed.

I made the list not to condemn old houses, but to consider when building a new house. However, if you go to the downtown areas in old towns, the old commercial properties can tend to hit almost everything on the list. Apparently these things were known, just not applied to residential construction, probably because of cost.
> Doesn't the bitcoin blockchain provide the same service roughtime does, and without the centralized authority (cloudflare in this case) problem?

Oh god, I can only imagine the horror of trying to use Bitcoin as a public notary service.

The whole point of an append-only data structure is that you can replicate it and if someone's node is being dishonest, they cannot do so silently.

You'd be better off with something like Trillian (and/or Certificate Transparency; see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Binary_Transparency for more).

I wrote something in this vein called Chronicle: https://github.com/paragonie/chronicle

Main selling point? It's not a blockchain, but it solves a lot of the problems that cause people to point to blockchain solutions.

My goal with Chronicle is to ween the industry off of poorly thought-out blockchain projects by demonstrating that they don't need a blockchain after all.
https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/artwork-personalization-...
> It's almost always connected to providing value to lots of people.

Actually, accumulated wealth to that extent is almost always connected to anti-competitive practices and monopolizing a space to such an extent that people have no other choice then to do business with you.
Yes, the owners of company A can sell their shares to profitable company B for an amount between $0 and $210,000. Obviously you wouldn't burn a million to create tax losses.

Remember: this company has $0 in the bank. It's essentially the same as a newly incorporated company, but with tax losses. There would generally be a discount on the value of the tax loss due to historical liability risks of the previous operating business.

The things written above are highly simplified though, and might not give a completely accurate reflection of the situation. There are likely some anti avoidance rules in place to stop this behavior. But this again depends on the country.

Billionaire John Malone (who hates taxes) talks a bit about tax in this business talk at a university: https://youtu.be/v5QfCLeloEg?t=2174.

Also this: https://www.businessinsider.com/what-liberty-really-loves-ab...

"There are some catches here. To use the NOLs (net operating losses), Sirius can't undergo a full change in control for three years. So Malone has to bide his time with his 40% for three years before scarfing up the rest of the company."

This is one such anti avoidance mechanism.

By being smart about taxes, he essentially got that business for free.
It seems interesting that with all its investment in original content, Netflix would rather re-skin "white" movies than invest in "black" movies.

I wonder if this is a sign of institutional racism at work and lack of diversity.
Did any of the critics making unsubstantiated claims like this even bother to read the Working Group mailing lists where people are discussing the security and privacy requirements of these APIs? These specs are being developed in the open, with input from organizations like Mozilla and security engineers from all over. If you have a specific claim, you can reference the spec and make it.

Also, the whole point of the "silly web authentication API" is to do away with passwords and usernames, and let users supply authenticated credentials, which would enable -- if desired -- creation of as many user credentials as you like, without having to tie everything to your email + password, which could make it a lot easier for people to have many different identities that can't be linked between sites, as well as make it easy to create 'throwaway' identities.

This 'silly' API doesn't increase data collection, it simply fixes some of the biggest problems with web security: passwords and 2-factor authentication.

This is the tech equivalent of the following fallacious kneejerk reasoning you see in anti-vaxxers: "big pharmaceutics/Monsanto is evil, therefore since big pharma also makes vaccines, any new vaccines that comes out is bad because they just want your money." This kind of knee-jerk conspiracy theory stuff doesn't help public health and isn't linked to any specific claim.

If you've got a specific technical critique of a new spec, you should make it, but to dismiss a new security API as "silly" is a non-sequitur.
Tutorial to contribute to the CPython project
> Most of the complaints about gentrification are coming from lower middle class families getting pushed out of their home in a cute little neighborhood because taxes are too high.

Maybe that's true somewhere (I doubt it, for reasons already articulated in sibling comments), b ut certainly not in CA, because Prop 13.
Apple is the most valuable company in the world who makes the most profit in the world, in the last 2017 FY they made 48B in profit compared to Google 12.6B

Apple makes so much money that they’ve given back more than 200B in buy backs and billions more in dividends, Google has yet to return anything.
A Microsoft template for Vue+Typescript (which I've since learned was unmaintained) pulled in 400 dependencies.
I completely understand your point. Maybe I am noticing those ads only after I have consciously made the decision of buying the product. Or maybe the ads of that product are sub consciously nudging me to buy those products. Most of the display ads are meant to do just that
Chinese Propaganda Course on EdX: Xi Jinping's Thought on Socialism
The page is here but now it's in Japanese.
So if we are ready I post more information.
https://www.qcore.co.jp
https://github.com/qcore-info
Banksy reveals how Sotheby's shredding stunt went wrong
"Please stop belittling me." - Eli Cash

Seriously, +1 on the above -- as someone who has been defeated several times by the calculus terrors preliminary and otherwise, I can say with some confidence that the last thing calc-shy students need is being made to feel dumber.

Down-to-earth books like the one in question are a boon.