skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need to be careful of cargo culting though. There have been a lot of "traits of successful organizations" types of books and papers over the years. And it often turns out that there are unsuccessful organizations that often have very similar characteristics and successful organizations that take the opposite approach.
Interesting. Could you provide an example?
I find it hits a bit close to home, so much so as to ruin the comedy sometimes... it’d be funny if it weren’t so true, which is depressing.

Still watch it, and love it though. And super impressed that a Hollywood production finally understood Northern California. That never happens (see: The Social Network, Hackers, every Steve Jobs movie, etc.)
Yeah, Idiocracy is kind of insidiously awful because it thinks that cultural changes are actually genetic. You don't have to follow its arguments very far at all to come to the conclusion that ignorance can be fixed, not by education, but by restricting breeding rights. We all know where that leads.

(Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/603/)
Ironically, I haven't changed my system font on Linux because the majority of webpages load web fonts.

I did change my terminal to use Hack, however.
https://aeon.co/essays/if-elephants-arent-persons-yet-could-...
It seems to me that the main advancement here is that the native extracellular matrix is being re-seeded with differentiated stem cells, as opposed to ordinary tissue engineering which uses a manufactured ECM or tissue transplants, which do not involve making stem cells.

There’s still a long way to go before organs can be engineered, even with this tech. We will need much finer control over the delivery of differentiating signal factors for pluripotent stem cells as well as ECM structure.
He’s come a long way from Beavis and Butthead!
It’s fairly straightforward if you use the irs definition.

Small business owner: files 1099, pays self employment tax.

Employee: files 1040, doesn’t pay self employment tax.
Poppy Seed Tea Can Kill You
There are L4 SWEs (so ~5yrs of experience) at Google that make upwards of $400k (including mild stock appreciation ofcourse). Directors (L8s and above) are easily clearing $1M with the right competing offers.
The World Will Be Our Skinner Box
FYI is i.e "For Your Information".
Sorry, but I'm going to need a lot more weed before any of this makes any sense.
Building a Dice Game DApp on the Ethereum Blockchain with Truffle Framework
GP's experience is also anecdotal because software engineering clearly is a well paid field, AS IN better paid than the majority of other fields.

Feeling victimized because you have to commute for 45 minutes, do your cushy job, and get paid incredibly well compared to most of your fellow citizens is just sad.

This mentality does not represent the majority of software engineers. Most of us are (among other things) grateful and content, thank you.
The problem is that you're trying to own a house in a city. That's not the goal of city living. Nor is car ownership. In cities like SF and NYC, you should expect to rent forever while raising a family if you refuse to move to a cheaper COL area.

For reference, I live in NYC with a partner, kid and dog.

The problem arises when you have more than one kid and need more than 2 bedrooms. That's when single income can't afford a bigger apartment, and dual income can't afford double daycare. The kids will always share a bedroom. (I grew up in a family of five sharing one bedroom. Parents slept in living room)

The best you can hope for is to space them out so you never have to pay for double daycare: the new one is born when the old one starts free public school. But then you're at the whim of the quality of public schools.
It kind of sucks if you draw something nice, but it can't tell what it is, so that's that.
Yes, they won
No sarcasm. When I've had to work projects in New Jersey its been an ordeal. If I can make $180,000 in New York versus $210,000 in New Jersey, then I'm going to stick with New York. I put a high value on being able to walk home after work. My clients are typically between 14th street and 59th street. I live on 98th street. I often walk home after work. Sometimes the walk is the only exercise I get. I would not want to give it up.
Divers routinely breathe >90% helium mixes with no ill effects provided they ascend and descend at the proper rates. I very much doubt that helium embolism is a real phenomenon at normal atmospheric pressures. More likely that article is just completely wrong based on misinterpreting postmortem changes.
I have to admit that I don't understand how sanding an iPhone down to dust has anything to do with using the internet "mindfully".
PCs: A Recent Bright Spot for Tech WSJ (audio)
>your body compensates by increasing the affected neurotransmitters (GABA

>you have a corresponding oversupply of GABA

Isn't it the other way around? I had thought that alcohol was a GABA agonist, so your body adapts to produce less of it. Then when you stop, you're _undersupplied_ which produces the DTs.
Getting screen brightness right for every user
Why not just do:

var f = new Function('a', 'b', 'return a + b')
I think it's irrelevant if I'm the problem or not. I'm still hired for the job and given (1) I have no communication problem when we're face to face and (2) when people wfh I observe people other me also have communication problems, the only way this can be relevant if my employer is willing to fire me -- and nobody else -- for having communication problems when people other than me disappear (I never ever wfh unless I'm sick so I have a potential to make other people at work sick).

> I have multiple colleagues who just casually disappear from the office (sorry, "work from home") for days to weeks and it's beyond irritating and disruptive to the rest of us.

I cannot agree more. I would also add that (you might not agree with this) this is not just a tiny, minor problem, inconvenience, I think this can possibly cause major problems, especially in the design phase of systems. If the design is not communicated perfectly there will be problems and the only way to ensure this is to communicate face-to-face long enough that all engineers agree design is impeccable. Call me old school.
Yet another memory leak in ImageMagick or how to exploit CVE-2018–16323
There's also the short-lived Betas, on Amazon Video. It wasn't as good as HBO's show is (the characters are far more grating), yet the younger and scrappier milieu feels like it captures the youth-obsessed, juvenile segment of startup culture better. And it's also based in San Francisco, unlike the South Bay-centered Silicon Valley.
“Research” seems to be branch node, with live links only on the leaves, “Projects”, “Our Reports”, and “UC Olive Database". Which is a website fail, sure, but since the leaves are on the page navigation, not one that stops you from getting to the data (and since “Research” isn't a link on the nav bar, just a label, the only way to get to the broken page seems to be following breadcrumbs from one of the leaves.)
I quickly browsed your site, and you don't seem to publish contact details for sellers, so back to Pavel's question: What does the site that scraped your listing do if someone wants to buy a scraped product? Send them to your site?
FYI, FYI is a TLA for “For Your Information”
yeah that's the present. or rather, mo-lo-so is a few years old now
Wamp user here. Config sucks, but usage rocks. Very versatile yet easy to use. No auto reconnect with asyncio though, and no django integration, so i had to code that part.
I guess you are right. It's ethically wrong but not morally wrong.
Without this device, they have to drive up, close and personal. They have to essentially stalk their victims. There is a greater chance of getting captured on CCTV or having eye witnesses that might get their license plate.

With this device there are a few problems:

1) Parents will have a false sense of security. They may let their child wander off a litter farther, possibly out of view.

2) The abductors can passively determine which kids are likely to be farther away from their parents and determine the safest path to extract their victim.

In terms of being silly: This could be a former (abusive) parent that is legally blocked from seeing their kid unsupervised. This is the most common scenario and many of the amber alerts are for this.

In my opinion, if parents are going to rely on something like this, it needs to use military grade encryption and military grade implementation / process and be pentested by numerous independent researchers and come with a multi-million dollar guarantee that it can not be compromised. If that is too difficult with current tech, then this device should not exist. Rather, parents will need to stay with their children until their children are able to defend themselves.
No it wasn’t ye mad thing
I had the same thought! It's so smooth.
This college student tricked 17,000 coders to run his imperfect script
Israel is capable of conducting bleeding edge science in many fields. Their results are not published or reported on at the rate and level that would be justified.

You have most certainly come across and used things that has an Israeli origin without knowing.

One product, that sadly Google bought for a huge amount of money, is Waze, developed by Israelis.

Keep up the good work!
Worth noting that a big chunk of the core TTS code here is built on tools from other researchers like Ryuichi Yamamoto and Keith Ito, and they have great implementations to check out as well.

The best quality I have heard in OSS is probably [1] from Ryuichi using the Tacotron 2 implementation of Rayhane Mamah, which is loosely what NVidia based some of their baseline code on recently as well [3][4].

There's also a colab notebook for this stuff, so you can try it directly without any pain https://colab.research.google.com/github/r9y9/Colaboratory/b...

I also have my own pipeline for this (using some utilities from the above authors + a lot of my own hacks), for a forthcoming paper release here https://github.com/kastnerkyle/representation_mixing/tree/ma... , see the minimal demo. It has pretty fast sampling, but the audio quality is not as high as WaveNet. I'd really like to tie in with WaveGlow, but it's work in progress for me so far.

NOTE: None of these have voice adaptivity per se, but given a model which trains well already + a multispeaker dataset with IDs such as VCTK, a lot of things become possible as getting a baseline model and data pipeline for TTS is quite difficult.

[0] https://github.com/keithito/tacotron

[1] https://r9y9.github.io/blog/2018/05/20/tacotron2/

[2] https://github.com/Rayhane-mamah/Tacotron-2

[3] https://github.com/NVIDIA/waveglow

[4] https://github.com/NVIDIA/tacotron2
The Simpsons didn't.
Microsoft Windows by filter.net
Software origins always fascinated me. It was a new world discovery in very recent history.
I can think of 1,000 "real use-cases" for cryptocurrency that are far more valuable than sending money to a country facing sanctions in violation of U.S. law.

I can probably think of more than 1,000. If you want cryptocurrency to "take off" I can assure you that using it to commit a crime will result in the opposite.
So is The Big Bang Theory
Great video detailing the Musk's internet satellite constellation
Little boy fan repair tutorial
Ethereum smart contract analysis, exploit generation and auto-looting
Not to mention Idiocracy, which is pretty much coming true even as we speak.
Were you on the Gary Vee podcast as a 4D's guest? Business sounds familar
You are probably looking for advanced people (or you might just be a shitty recruiter...). As a second data point I can tell that having OSCP can help you significantly in the beginning of your career (and for a reason, most entry-level certs are just complete bs and it's nice to have something to show off when you are lacking actual experience).
If you're just looking for a tool that you can use to define (and play with) a state machine, take a look at https://sketch.systems - it's not a 'drawing' tool but you could export an XState object and put that in another tool
Betting everything maximizes your mean wealth. Using the Kelly Criterion maximizes your median wealth.

Let's say there are 1024 (2^10) people with $1 each, and a bet which is 50 / 50 of returning either 3x or 0x (i.e. you bet $1 and either get back $3 or $0). Let's further specify that there will be 10 rounds of betting.

Using the "bet everything" strategy, you end up with the following distribution of outcomes:

10 wins, 0 losses -- 1 person: $59,049
1 or more losses -- 1023 people: $0

The average ending balance is $57.67, while the median ending balance is $0.

Using the Kelly Criterion, one will bet 25% of the bankroll each time. You will end up with the following distribution of outcomes.

0 wins, 10 losses -- 1 person: $57.66
1 wins, 9 losses -- 10 people: $28.83
2 wins, 8 losses -- 45 people: $14.41
3 wins, 7 losses -- 120 people: $7.20
4 wins, 6 losses -- 210 people: $3.60
5 wins, 5 losses -- 252 people: $1.80
6 wins, 4 losses -- 210 people: $0.90
7 wins, 3 losses -- 120 people: $0.45
8 wins, 2 losses -- 45 people: $0.22
9 wins, 1 losses -- 10 people: $0.11
10 wins, 0 losses -- 1 person: $0.05

The average ending balance is $3.25, while the median ending balance is $1.80.

Incidentally, the choice of maximizing the median is somewhat arbitrary. You can also use a similar approach to maximize, say, the 25th percentile outcome, at the expense of average and median outcomes (You would bet 10% of the stake each time, yielding a 25th percentile of $1.08, a median of $1.25, and a mean return of $1.28).
Show HN: How I Started a Business with Two Lines of Code
I really appreciate the people who include descriptions and links for their list. My list has been pruned to avoid duplication (though perhaps knowing what's popular is a good metric too).

asdf: https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf - installs many different programming languages and supports installing different versions concurrently. I use it for go installs since distribution updates aren't usually fast enough.

solaar: https://github.com/pwr/Solaar - handles configuring a logitech unifying receiver in Linux. Not really something you'd use multiple times, but am thankful it exists (also has a GUI too I believe).
Didn’t know there was a new one. Thanks for the tip will check it out.
Haven't tested yet, but I was wondering if it's possible to use TiDB as SQL layer. [0]

[0]: https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/issues/198
I tried to draw a church but it didn't recognise it.

This is no more advanced, and waaay less useful than this: http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html (which is at least 10 years old at this point).
I agree with you. They can certainly be abused, like anything else ("now you have two problems!"). But crafting a beautiful regex when it's exactly the right tool for the job is extremely satisfying. I think if more people took the time to understand them and practice writing them (when appropriate), they wouldn't have such a stigma.
I'm talking about the general plots/storylines, not the structure of the show.
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use ReX.js." Now they have three problems.
I'm not sure what videos those are, as youtube is blocked at my work, but this is absolutely essential viewing:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
Read on the forums for more (success) stories on forum https://forums.foundationdb.org/ tl;dr: mostly timeseries, but (also there is long thread about a distributed task queue using FDB but I am not sure it's in production, yet)
The DVDs were disappointing because they cut out all the videos which were the best parts. I loved their commentary.
After having dropped Angular in the 1.3.x days, I was pleasantly surprised by how much it's changed. There are still a few mental concepts a new programmer would have to grasp (DI, observables, OO, type-safety) but overall, it's not too bad. I'm not sure I could call it "simple" though. Maybe I'm conflating simple with "easy". I'm of the few that still believe in Redux though. A one-way data flow, a finite state-machine, a new version of the state on every action.... that just defines "simple" to me. (not arguing at all)
Can these “WeWork for retail” startups fix shopping?
Though you can't copyright "Crayola Crayon", you could trademark the name.

However, you could copyright a article describing the merits of a specific type of writing instrument, regardless of who owns the trademark.
Here is the relevant thread in the forum https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/what-do-you-monitor/184?u=...
How Dow Jones Automated Their GDPR Compliance Process with the Dropbox APIs
I guess unpopular opinion: I think this library is excellent especially for making readable regex match/replace code. Even as a frontend dev with 5+ years of experience, it's difficult to read regex by skimming it (perhaps that's just b/c I don't spend much time with it at all outside of matching user inputs). Hopefully, if this library catches on, it may make JS code using regex slightly more readable. Regardless, props to the author for making this library.
I guess you are right. It's ethically wrong but not morally wrong.

Huh? I don't see a significant difference between 'ethically wrong' and 'morally wrong', no idea why you would say that.
How was Machinio impacting your business? They appear to act as a metasearch engine and were scraping listings/imagery without permission. As you don't publicize the dealer contact info, presumably buyers still ended up on your site and you were still able to broker the deal?

My guess is by acting as a central authority for all used equipment deals (bootstrapped by scraping listings from many sources), they were able to use the existence of the listings to better convince future dealers to just list directly with them instead of your business? e.g. increased exposure for dealers, Machinio doesn't take a commission, so dealers just pay a flat rate to gain exposure?

At the end of the day, I have to assume the litigation was over them stealing dealers by disintermediating you? Because otherwise I'm guessing they'd just argue they were providing you free exposure.
A minor pay cut can happen for various reasons. There is not enough information to say it should or shouldn't have happened.
That's true! Thanks for letting us know. We've added a link to the PDF.
AWS develops new services amid open-source pushback
It's mainly meant to be a reflection of the startup scene. If you're outside of that, you might not be able to see the resemblance.
Bingo. Context helps, a lot in some cases. It's hard to gauge what's happening, on your project, a different project, the company, the team, etc. without a little metaphorical-water-cooler discussion.
I don't know that the distrust in similarity between images of noise is unwarranted. They are pseudo-random, not purely random. Each is not independent, but is a pile of sequential draws in a row, perhaps 16384. There are thought to be shortcuts that the NSA uses to quickly short-circuit encryption, and is alleged to have salted public methods so as to make that job easier. Random-number-generation and encryption are related to each other:a properly encrypted chunk of data looks nearly exactly like pure random noise, as does a good pseudo-random number. I would not be surprised if there were similarities that the mathematical methods find that the human eyeball does not.

This feels like a minimum description length problem. I think that if the agents had to use hierarchical descriptors, thinking of cat as some assembly of tail, legs, body, head, eyes, ears, mouth, and all, that an internal hierarchy would show up in the communication, and a divergence between the training and communicated hierarchies would have a better defining contrast at showing an inferred structure.
It feels like the 80% Lower Receiver of databases, so more layers like an SQL layer or something similarly powerful would be ideal.
Better than the guy who thinks the one thing missing from the modern web are massive images of people drinking wine
This is tangential, but I think that the way that the way Lisp does eval with its macros is incredibly elegant. There was a post on HN a few weeks ago [1] about doing symbolic derivatives in Lisp via quotations and eval, and while that was probably old news to most of the HN audience, it was downright magic to me, and the use of eval seemed appropriate.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18343652
They’re baseless because their concerns haven’t materialised. The Act has had no effect on graphic novels.
It depends a LOT on what you're estimating.

Estimating a CRUD line of business app is very much doable. On the other hand, estimating an innovative product using unproven tech or novel methods requires a proof of concept before even knowing feasibility.

I worked with major consultancies, and the most serious gave you order-of-magnitude estimates, with iterating improvements on the estimation itself until you reached a +/- 15% estimation that was the best they could do.

Very similar to: https://www.construx.com/software-thought-leadership/books/t...

In those cases, it was a very reasonable estimate because they'd done very similar things before.

One of those consultancies used an tool and they had measured their teams' velocity and were very confident on their estimates.

For one of my own projects, we had to estimate a rewrite of an existing app (with slight improvements), which is as easy as it can get in regards to estimation. We used several approaches, the one that ended up being closest to reality was Steve McConnell's tool Construx Estimate (no longer available but you can find a mirror here: https://web.archive.org/web/20170920093850/https://www.const... )
I love my standing desk for these reasons. The tailor that did my wedding tux last year also commented on my posture being near perfect. I attribute it wholly (maybe inaccurately) to using a standing desk (and standing most of the day) for the last three years.

Also, maybe it's all in my head, I don't get that "afternoon drowsiness" at all since I started standing up after lunch instead of eating and then sitting in a comfy chair.
> Bitcoin core derives a good deal of value from being the entry to exchanging for coins/tokens to buy into an ICO, which is now more restrained due to last week's SEC actions. While there are stinky ICO-funded projects, there are also valid projects that are growing. I have always seen it as more of a front door, given that it's the primary pair across exchanges and given tx costs. LTC was, for long, promo'd as the coin that would be used for day-to-day purchases. Unfortunately traditional fiat users do not think in that way as this is not the usual use of something fiat.

I understood most of those words individually, but the combination was a complete bafflement.

And that, in a nutshell, is a big problem for Bitcoin. I understand cash - it has value because the government says it has value and it's directly exchangeable for something that I can relate to that value (say, a huge bag of bubblegum). But how do you explain an ICO and it's value to someone, without an actual, physical object being present?

On the surface, it sounds like something virtual being exchanged for something else virtual which may or may not lead to some other virtual thing, but at no time is anything physical, representing concrete value, present.

In re the bubblegum example - when I was young, my grandfather handed my cousin and I a dollar to buy some gum, expecting we buy a piece or two and hand him the change. You can figure out the rest, I think. He was kinda pissed off.
He should close Saturday, and get a hechsher. He’d get more business and some rest.
Apple CEO Tim Cook: “We have to admit when the free market is not working”