skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had the chance to do significant interviews with DO for a senior position, and it made me so skeptical. They seem more interested in the shortest path to an inflated IPO than in basic investment in their product offerings. They also seemed overly bureaucratic for a company of their size / type. A lot of decision making and investment on the tech side seemed to roll up to a particular business operations executive who talked about buzzwords and seemed like he thinks TED talks are reality. In other parts of the interview, people explained to me how there was some prescriptive slide deck with 30+ slides on all the minutiae of how Agile would work for a certain team. Brainfucked with process and not informed by engineering experts.

To top all that off, their compensation offer was way below market, no bonus, and very poor equity terms, all after telling me they were very excited to hire me. It really seemed like a bleak place.
Wood framed buildings are much, much safer in earthquakes and with plywood shear walls can be considered the very safest construction method.

Aesthetically, I dislike it because I have a taste for very solid, permanent things, but if you live in California, stud-wall ("stick built") construction with plywood shear walls over them is really the only choice.
http://aiweirdness.com/post/176589646292/its-time-for-cookin... this apparently
Much of the sarcasm targets the mixing of multiple units that is everpresent in imperial measurements. Feet + inches instead of one or the other?
I am not sure it is "magic" so much as "still beyond the state of the art." I would be surprised if we never get to the point where AI can handle that kind of nuance, especially given how much progress has been made just in my lifetime. Maybe it will take longer than some expect, but it is not an impossibly hard task.
Late-stage capitalism in a nutshell.
Thank you for this. Now, all we need is to bring back the View Image button in Google image search.
I transferred a 1TB Cryptomator vault to Spaces to test it and I’m finding quite a few files unreadable with errors. This is not an issue I’ve had with any other storage provider. They’re easily reproducible files, but I’ve lost dozens of files at this point, which is unacceptable for a storage offering.
>You read the book. Start on page one. Eventually you get to a formula. You can scrape the text all you want, but there are characters without a definition.

If I remember correctly, this is much more common with more elementary math books which are presumably trying to be more informal and 'user friendly'. You might seek out a book pitched at a more advanced level which will be much more formal (and pedantic) if that is the kind of thing that's bothering you.

Also many books will have an 'index of notation' inserted at either the beginning or the end, so make sure to look for it - if it's there, the author might assume you know the convention and won't necessarily define everything in the exposition.

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One note about abstraction in mathematics vs computer programming. When model something in a program, you are often modeling a particular thing, or kind of thing, so it makes sense to give it a descriptive name. Contrast that with, say, a number: I have a small or medium or large pile of apples. I make the adjective more precise and say I have a 3 or 6 or 25 -pile of apples. Then i notice there's nothing special about apples, I can do the same thing for piles of rocks or tea bags. And I can do the same thing for non-piles, like links in a fence, or countries, or more abstract things like counting permutations or combinations or discrete transformations of whatever you can imagine.

The point being: in mathematics you are not working with a particular kind of thing, you are noticing patterns satisfied by many very very different kinds of things (hence the lack of descriptive names - there is often not much to describe). You stop asking questions about what it is, and learn to characterize things entirely by the logical properties they satisfy. Its a different thought process than what you might be accustomed to.
I don't want to link to the comments because the comments themselves aren't the evidence. After participating in a few threads where I politely argued some ideas that were unwanted, my account was shadow banned. I didn't realize it for a while actually.

Discovering that the mods read my comments and somehow thought the account needed to be banned was pretty insulting to me. I really appreciate HN and the broader YC community and so being singled out that way for making polite and respectful arguments was (I think) really rude and inappropriate on the part of the mods.

When I emailed the mods to discuss, the excuse was that there was a "flame war". In my opinion, respectful discussion is productive even if both parties talk past each other a bit for a while until something closer to a consensus is achieved.

We are at an important time in the history of the US and I think it is profoundly irresponsible of the HN mods to try to ban any sort of political discussion from HN.

Over the years I've learned a great deal from HN, most of it technical but occasionally have gotten some valuable political insights as well. Also, occasionally reading a political interpretation from someone whose technical views I respect can be really mind expanding.
While I don't disagree with your point, the company that bought the patent paid a lot of money for it from the company that developed it. Patents being exchangeable is not necessarily a bad thing.
We just finished a project in rural communities in Panama and gave laptops (ThinkPad 13) with Mint 19 Cinnamon to people with very little experience with computers. However, we kept Windows 10 in one of the computers and guess what, that's the only one that gave us trouble, when the user got all scared and confused with the Office trial version telling them they needed to pay. All the other users had no major problems at all with the user experience.
"The design must be simple, both in implementation and interface. It is more important for the implementation to be simple than the interface. Simplicity is the most important consideration in a design." - http://jehanne.io

I've been looking for examples of good comments about simplicity to help focus my own view of simple. I love the quote above.
Pretty sure he was joking about that.
You could also set up a lifecycle policy to delete anything in the bucket after a day to add even more security.
"Rust and Kotlin are also on the rise, both of which find built-in audiences in JavaScript and Java, respectively."

Is this a typo? Why is rust drawing an audience from javascript programmers? I would imagine c and c++ to have more synergy here.
They'll never fucking get it. They cling to their masters and love the whip.
Where I'm from, it's a hybrid system. kg, celcius, litres and inches
Even if that is the case, they are effectively not.

The UI has serious holes, and containers do not work with Firefox sync.

I also haven't been able to find a way to clear the cache or history for a specific container.

At this point, containers are barely even useful. Putting the UI in an addon was an awful decision.
A Divorce Ruined My Life, but I Clawed My Way Back
> - A lot of people who work remotely still need/want cars.

Sure, but working remotely means I put gas in my car every 2 weeks instead of every week.

I do agree that it's mostly like too small of slice of the population to make a difference yet though.
"For private land creating a defensible space is on the books but is not being enforced."

That depends on the area...

I am a volunteer firefighter in Marin County (basically San Francisco) and we do defensible space consultations all summer and the paid firefighters of Marin County do indeed drive around all summer writing fix-it sheets for homeowners that are in the wildland-urban interface.
Somehow the Free Market Fairy is supposed to ensure everything is rational and efficient. https://bitworking.org/news/2008/01/The-Free-Market-Fairy
This book has the first 20. I have read through the first 5 or so and highly recommend it.
https://www.amazon.com/ACM-Turing-Award-Lectures-1966-1985/d...
I can handle the new design, but on my (albeit underpowered) Chromebook, new Gmail takes ~30 seconds from initial page load to starting a reply to a thread. This is not progress.
The last sentence of the article sums it up pretty well:

"If it's not commercially viable to produce a certain therapy, unfortunately, in our Western society, it does not happen."

And it is far from clear that this is not as it should be, because it's not just LPLD carriers about whom tear-terking stories can be told. $1M can be deployed in other ways that could potentially save more lives. Instead of "Sorry LPLD carriers, you have to die now", it might be, "Sorry, 100 poor African children without access to clean water, you have to continue to die of dysentery so we can save this one LPLD carrier."
Video for article https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBSv0deIVzM
Here is quote from 1894 by Albert A. Michelson that captures the attitude of that time:
``[...] it seems probable that most of the grand underlying principles have now been firmly established and that further advances are to be sought chiefly in the rigorous application of these principles to all the phenomena which come under our notice.''

That was before quantum physics, GR, transistors, lasers, etc...
CMake is on the rise? Anyone has an explanation for that?

Edit: I mean it's an old build system for C. Is there some new developments that would cause it to rise in popularity?
It's conceptually difficult for me to understand how anonymised data can be useful in any way.

There's probably, like, a particular way I move the mouse from the bottom left to the top right corner of my screen. A 'mouse cursor gait', if you will.

To be frank though, there doesn't need to be a reason. You're treating this as a Stockholm-syndrome esque situation - I don't need to use Windows, I definitely don't need to justify why I don't like certain aspects of it.
This brings back memories... One of the greatest heads-down hacking I did was back in the day, running some variant of Common Lisp, working myself through Koza's _Genetic Programming_ book. The designs arrived at were literally non-human. The story of the FPGA tone recognition circuit (spoiler: lot-specific design) was delightful.
So ... like Gnome then? It hides all the "advanced" settings so well that you can't actually change them without resorting to the command-line.
You work remote, but you drive further than if you went to the office?
I don't have a problem with the idea of patents. I just think we could be a whole lot more pragmatic about them. They're supposed to incentivize useful behavior.
(Cloudflare team here) cloudflared proxies the traffic through the Cloudflare network to the service behind Access so that Cloudflare can ensure the request is authenticated first and then issue a token to the client through cloudflared.
It’s funny , I get the feeling that 50% of the contributors on this thread are would-be philosophers :)

Gettier cases and the life and times of a bat are far less interesting to “civilians” ;)
If you do that, magnitudes of resulting units will either be huge or very tiny, depending on the composition of fundamental constants in said measure. The constants are very carefully chosen to match old units.
> Working together is the only way to take back tech from the corporate overlords. We need to support Mozilla's efforts to liberate critical technologies like Voice to text via Mozilla DeepSpeech.

I don't think that fighting back with specific technologies and products (which all come and go) is a good solution. It needs to be encoded in law. If mozilla makes a thing that is 'free and open', and it becomes popular enough, what happens when a Google or Amazon decides to throw serious money at acquiring it (or even Mozilla) so that they can control it? Nothing would prevent that.
Yeah the names are annoying for all of a few minutes. I suppose if you weren’t working directly with them a lot (like a management role perhaps) it could be really annoying but it’s not hard to make a cheat sheet.

I’d rather google “ebs <issue>” because it’s pretty unique. Google eventually picks up on your preferences for non-unique names so not the worst thing though.
Why is it a goal though? I don't care.

U2F to me is useful for protecting from stolen credentials on the web. These attackers will never have physical access to my u2f device to clone it.

If you fear people getting physical access to your u2f, they can simply use it if they also know the password. No need for cloning. And if they don't know the password, it's still useless. From that attacker's perspective, your security was reduced to password only. Which is still good, if you take care of your passwords.
Does anybody know which virus vector was used?
> Dramatization === Fiction ?

Certainly not. But at the very least, dramatization decreases the credibility of a story.
Generally, annual fee cards have an equivalent free tier card. You should be able to just call the credit company and ask to downgrade to the free tier (usually after a year or two). They will usually honor this request. This conversion also doesn't affect your credit since it preserves your limit, balance, etc. YMMV but this has been my experience.
The point of the patent system is that we are giving inventors a time-limited monopoly on their invention in exchange for them sharing it with the world. We all benefit because we have access to this new invention and soon can make it ourselves, and the inventor has an incentive to promote and sell as much as they can while they own the monopoly.

But it's not working here. The patent holder is effectively saying society isn't allowed to have the invention. They're using a legal means meant to share the knowledge with the world to instead horde it away from the rest of us.

When the system doesn't work, the system must be improved. How can we incentivize inventors to not do this?
Cool idea! I love anything that helps to learn/practice foreign languages. I only wish it would work better on mobile safari (swipe is clunky, works only sometimes, and everything I try to do activates the TTS).
I suppose it'd depend on the definitions of "great" and "work". Original moon shots? Latex? In general, once you reach a critical mass of code, it stops being "great" and starts being "mundane", because "mundane" works.
Does someone have the talk (if there's one) which used this deck as well?
Every time I see a post by Cloudflare, I get more and more nervous.

Why? Because each time they introduce something, they end up at the controls.

What if, if, their internal network is breached; or an unhappy employee is at the wheel?
Not only would it be possible for them to use everything at their disposal, but they can start to sell user data; internal ports exposed.

Considering bugs are a fact of life for developers; how long will it be until there is a big hole? Heartbleed was one; what's the next?
I don't think you could do this in California due to earthquake-related parts of the building code.
USPS addresses do not exactly map onto local jurisdictions.
Amazon's Stealth Brands: Everything on Amazon Is Amazon
Frankly, that's an entirely appropriate way to deal with security. You can make the most secure product in the universe, but no one will use it if it takes forever to develop or is unnecessarily difficult to work with. Of course, how much security is enough is a multi-variable problem, but in general I find that "security people", who for obvious reasons want to sell you on security, way over-estimate its value.
Seriously, I went looking for that one thing and almost forgot about it reading through the article! Fantastic read.
Do Artists Make Good Engineers?
Technically humans do own everything. The problem is not being able to find out who owns what because at some point in the chain, there's an entity outside the country or somewhere that has different disclosure rules.
I think what the parent is saying is that if you listen to the hype, you would perceive Google as bringing a lot of innovative tech into the world. But the reality is many of these hyped projects that provide this perception are quietly shut down, and at the end of the day after more than a decade Google is still just an ad machine. The parent is upset about the difference between what Google sells itself as doing versus what they actually do.
Agreed. I know there's been some buzz about compiling to WASM but that hardly seems as related as Kotlin's "also runs on the JVM, isn't Java and can be automatically generated from .java source files"

It seems like the sentence would make more sense if it was talking about TypeScript and Kotlin instead.
Double tap the address bar in Safari. This goes back to top.

edit: or the status bar (tested on iPhone XS)
Updated from https://www.google.com.ar/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-l.... Thanks!
The government does frequently fund the discovery of new drugs. The problem is that the return on that investment is usually abysmal and the taxpayer ends up not only paying to fund the drug’s discovery, but also paying absurdly high prices to buy it from pharmaceutical companies who passed some or all of their risk onto taxpayers.

One example: https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/YourMoney/story?id=129651
Except $1 millon is not the entire economy.

It's easy to hide resources by equating them to their monetary value.

The fact is that there exist many millions of dollars, and the way each dollar is spent does not determine the way another dollar is spent.
Centralization is of course the problem here, I don't want to give more power to these corp.
This isn’t the first time that code base has been ripped off. Must be frustrating for the authors.
Enterprise apps are also a suitable venue for SPAs. You've got some developers coming from e.g. Swing, MFC++ or even Tcl/Tk, and for those doing every frontend bit in JS is closer to standard UI toolkits, instead of the constricting request/response cycle of old webapps (except those few that did some hacks with server-side continuations).

Also, in those cases a few extra seconds for the initial load or the general size of the application don't matter. It's all better than your average Swing application ("Challenge accepted", said the Electron developer).

Although this isn't something contemporary frameworks seem to aim for (ExtJS is dying, and that's good), you get close enough to desktop UI development with Vue/Vuex/Ant Design, Angular/AngularMaterial or React/Material-UI/Redux-boilerplate-reducer-of-the-week.
During pentests most testers run the usual route of attacking the domain. In my opinion it's not realistic, because most attackers don't attack domains. They attack applications.
And eventually we could even tie them to the fundamental constants of nature rather than any master reference object.
Really appreciate it! I'll definitely use that. Will get that up on the Chrome Web Store this evening.
And how could we possibly estimate if we are or not?
To quote Aziz Ansari in the human giant: "I don't want you out there on the bully plane calling me up, saying 'hey, I gotta pull up my marshmallow pants and hit the boohoo button, 'cause I don't know where the cranberries are.' You know what I mean?"
Python is an easy to use powerful development language. Ironically, this leads to too many projects solving the same problems. It isn’t just visualization that has so many libraries, it’s almost everything.

I first noticed this effect with Python web-frameworks years ago. There was always some new framework that worked better or differently for some use case. (There are 73 web-frameworks listed in the python.org wiki.)

A few more examples from pypi.org searches:

“Reed-Solomon” 84 packages

“Elliptic-curve” 535 packages

“Nearest neighbor” 408 packages

“Simplex” (as in simplex method) 29

“Django” 10,000+

I just noticed a HN post about a RAFT implementation in Haskell. Pypi.org says there are 22 hits for RAFT in the python package index.
That's just an empty page, you probably meant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_planning_%28econ...
I have a new MacBook Pro, and while it doesn't take 30 seconds, there's still a ridicules slow load time for Gmail now. If you live in Gmail all day it may be completely fine, but if you just check your emails every now and then during the day, it's pretty frustrating.

You almost get the feeling that something is broken when you load Gmail at this point. The Gmail interface is... fine I suppose, but I'd much prefer a native client. Sadly the best you can hope for these days is Apple Mail, and that's also just "fine".
There is nothing stopping you from writing 1/3 meter.
SubredditSimulator uses Markov chains to generate text, not an neural network.

I have made my own subreddit using the same RNN tool as that post: https://reddit.com/r/SubredditNN
I'm expecting Cloudflare, or something like them, to eventually become The Internet Company.
> Rust and Kotlin are also on the rise, both of which find built-in audiences in JavaScript and Java, respectively.

I would have said C and C++ for Rust. Are Java developers actually even in the same universe as Rust?
I actually would object that geographic data should rarely be shown on a map.

A data visualization should be chosen such that it helps the viewer to better understand the information contained within.

Maps are great at showing some very specific types of information, namely boundaries around areas and the positions of those bounded areas relative to one another. If you have information that is intimately related to those boundaries and areas, then by all means plot the information on a picture of those.

The geographical regions in the article serve only as categories. There is no intent to educate or present the relative positions of those regions to one another.

You criticize the extraneous green blobs. What benefit and clarity is gained by adding other blobs (shapes on a map) and divorcing the relative ranking from an easy-to-interpret linear scale? How does that aid in understanding the relative popularity of languages?
City fires are completely different from forest fires. For example, the parapets you're so focused on don't make much sense when houses are 100s of feet apart, as is the case in a lot of places that are burning.

Also, London is a different place than California. Buildings in California aren't built with wood for no reason; they do it to withstand earthquakes. There's a big difference between just fireproofing a building and simultaneously fire- and earthquake-proofing a building - the latter is far more difficult and expensive.

I don't see that many of the lessons from the Great Fire of London apply to the problem in California.
> I was reproducingy wife's opinion (that has a very different background from mine) that is backed by some studies.

What studies? Help me out here. I'm trying to understand how having high quality instructions are harmful to people who can't afford quality teachers.

> I also made very clear that there is lack of evidence that technology (as in computers in the classroom) help so far.

What about the evidence in the article? Did you read it? What evidence do you have?

> Not actually bothering to understand my point.

That your wife is some authority on education and thinks technology is bad. Profound.

> And acusing my wife of corruption or unethical behavior was just shitty.

Didn't say that. But at some point "cancer awareness" organizations exist to keep their members employed and not actually curing cancer. Human nature and all that.
Amazon deal will disrupt plans for affordable housing on Long Island City sites