skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zoning law and housing code were enacted across the nation in response to the crowded, unsanitary, and unsafe tenements of the industrial revolution. But, we’ve gone too far and allowed too much local control of housing. Now in 21st century American boomtowns, you can’t convert your single family into a duplex or small apartment building, you can’t convert the first floor of your building into a small business, you can’t have organic growth in your city the way cities had grown up until the early 20th century. Far from just outlawing tenements, we’ve outlawed our cities from adapting to change, which is why we see such absurdities as in the bay areas cost of living.

For decades now we’ve been surviving off technical debt. Cars and roads allow us to survive even when our cities are absurdly inefficiently organized. But as the nation changes more and more, our top cities’ roads and street layouts don’t adapt to the change, so we have unbearable traffic in every major city. On top of that, we continue to ignore the needs of a more efficient method of organizing ourselves - relaxing zoning to allow organic growth in the city, and construction of mass transit between the dense regions that develop under this system.

That’s how we developed cities before we started relying on cars, and what we need to do to continue scaling American cities. Or we can just accept as every house in the Bay Area reaches multimillion dollar price tag.
Learn to learn quickly
That's just nonsense, you can't.

Feel free to add a source that is transparent about all non-fuel costs.

There's tons of false advertising, e.g. rent a car for 1 euro a day (service charge), but also pay a maintenance charge, an insurance charge, a monthly membership fee etc etc.

For example I have a 3 euro a day rental, but I also pay monthly.

Typically cars will cost about 30-35 euros or so per day, for the cheapest ones, with possibilities here and there to do 15-20 in certain seasons under limited conditions.
> Critics say it is bad service that is driving people away.

One datapoint: I live in Rhode Island. Recently I attended a concert in Brooklyn. The obvious way to travel there was Amtrak to Penn Station and MTA (train or bus) to the final destination. However, I was warned that MTA service is unreliable. I decided to drive. Next time I probably won't go at all.
Ask HN: How to create a self hosted dynamic link service like firebase or branch
I want to know how to create a hosted dynamic link / deeplink service. Is there any specific protocol? There are just few services and I want to create one for Appogram.io without dependency on firebase or branch
WHich is something that is completely controllable, as the Vancouver example you point to. Irrespective of whether that’s a good thing or not, the point is, the problems with real estate investments isn’t because of the trade deficit, but because the US doesn’t take any steps to prevent the money being invested in real estate.
I have to agree. His racism is critical to understanding both his work and also his editorial impact. Just as with Lovecraft, it's not some incidental factor, but actually central to who they are and what they did.

In Lovecraft I think the racism fuels something remarkable (an argument for another day I suspect). In Campbell I think it is a terrible influence. I can enjoy Who Goes There, or Twilight...but his emphasis on physiogonomy, ideals of male beauty and his extrapolation of a seemingly perfect now into forever always struck me as mildly ludicrous. I suspect he could have been a much better writer if he wasn't hung up on that rubbish.
Its not so much something that "just happens" as something that is learned. Go out for a trip with your local serious bike club (after training hard for 12 months just to be able to keep up) and try "half wheeling", passing on the wrong side, standing up incorrectly, speeding up after the crest of a hill, slowing down at the start of a climb, or using your brakes in anything other than a life-threatening emergency. They wont be scared to set you straight.
That page is wild mix and nesting of tables, paragraphs, and divs (in no particular order and sometimes more of the same tag in itself).

I don't think that page looked better in any of the old browsers. It's likely the site passed through some redesign or CMS migration and the poor text got mangled on the way.
I wonder if we will get to the point where servers will start exposing sql access layers directly.
Or Mesos/DCOS?
Another really scary thing about SSRI usage is post-SSRI sexual dysfunction (PSSD). It can be permanent. Google that and read, it's a nightmare.
don't use web browsers, they can see the web pagess you can see :O:O:O:O
About access control in context of this article, Hasura gives GraphQL APIs with a role-based-access-control layer that can be integrated with any standard auth system.

https://docs.hasura.io/1.0/graphql/manual/auth/index.html

PS: I work at Hasura
Gotcha! It might just be my inexperience but that completely flew over me from your landing page. I can see how the auth bit implies it, but that sounds pretty cool and isn't really clear IMO!

Do you have something like Prisma's conversion from a very small datamodel to a very complete GraphQL types + functions file going on in the middle then?
I think that agricultural breeding stuff also wierds people out a little, on first hearing. Our instinct to notice this sort of impropriaty is keen.

But being an agriculture practice, goal-oriented... most people leave it at weird and move on.

Here, there's more eccentricity. LSD, interspecies communication, alien languages, animal personhood.... It doesn't take many leaps to get to "drug fueled bestiality."
That's a problem of HN site norms. Mods here specify that titles shouldn't be altered by the submitter.

IMO there should be an original title and an edited title (and users could optionally display only one title of they requested) ... but then there's lots I'd change ...
> I trust Apple as much as Google

I trust Apple more when it comes to privacy, because there is hard proof they are more trustworthy. Note that I'm not saying they can be trusted 100%, but they are far, far better at protecting their users' privacy than Google. Of course, that's a given considering Google's entire existence is based on selling your information to advertisers, whereas Apple makes their money when you buy their hardware.

Honestly, there is no practical way to not end up in some company's database somewhere unless you eschew all 20th and 21st century tech, live in a cave, and forage for food. Even then you're bound to end up in a news story on the Internet if you're ever spotted, even if it's just Weekly World News talking about another Bigfoot sighting.
That's pretty much what we are doing at Hasura, expose Postgres to the client directly with a powerful enough query language on top of GraphQL so that developers can get away with writing as little business logic as possible.

The biggest challenge is access control which we have modeled based on Postgres's RLS but for application users and roles.
An Analysis of the ProtonMail Cryptographic Architecture
Why financial companies fail to recognise cybersecurity threats
Little disappointed to be so downvoted for calling this out; I don't really do it very often. Also a brit, but I didn't know that the others in the conversation were men. It's pretty easy to use `guys` instead.
you might seem this is shocking, but it make the request and parse the content handle the encryption for you. literally access to all of the bits! :O really! if u care about privacy don't use web browser!
Tests like these are a relatively effective way of weeding out people who simply aren't up to the job. You can say anything you like about yourself, and you can curate your online presence to make yourself look like an experienced, competent developer, but your code doesn't lie.

I agree that tests can be bad, frustrating, badly designed or just plain incompetent - but ultimately I'd rather hire someone who knows what they don't know than someone who thinks they can wing it. When I've been tested like this in the past, I just explain which questions I can't answer and why. If they want to talk it through, then great. If not, then do I want to work for them anyway if the attitude seems negative?

The real issue you need to overcome is fear of failure. Aside from some specific cases, nobody in the hiring process really cares whether or not you 'pass' the test - it is (or should be) more important to assess how you approach the problem and whether you are capable of acknowledging what you don't know and talking through your thinking.
Why do I need to give my name and email so I can be added to a mailing list before I can even see the content?

Obviously this isn't a problem because the submission has the content, as does the other commenter's direct link, but I just hate this sort of UX.

Let me see the value of your content (not a sales page) and if I really like it I'll subscribe to a mailing list after.
Here are the remains of Dolphin House,

https://zoom.earth/#18.318131,-64.859424,19z,sat

We used to sail past it in the 1970s, and the buildings were abandoned but had roofs then. Back in 2011 there were plans to develop the area but I guess they fell through. Back then the risque part of the story was well known, though the LSD experiments were not. They had it all backwards, the LSD should have generated an outcry instead. Mammals are similar enough that the scent of female human would surely provoke such a response.
Nice try. :-)
You don’t have to buy into motivational speaking nonsense in order to start a business, and it’s reasonably safe to ignore people who give advice in that style.

So when you see Zig Ziglar and Tony Robbins quotes everywhere you can move on.

The trick though is not to let your distaste for a certain kind of content-free motivational business writing prevent you from taking a rigorous and scientific approach to management, business, and sales, which does require realizing that charisma, charm, interpersonal skills, motivation, emotional stability, and so on actually do matter and you’d better have a plan for those areas as well.
> the consensual

As a species, we’ve pretty universally said that some humans can’t legally/morally consent. A prisoner can’t consent to sex with their captors, even if they want to. A minor can’t consent to sex with an adult, even if they want to.

In short, I think declaring this as consensual is in question, rather than assumed. The power disparity here is huge between human and dolphin, in this context.
And if you don't like Firefox Quantum for its own egregious privacy issues, you can use Waterfox. The next major Waterfox release will have all the speed enhancements of Firefox Quantum without the privacy issues.
> I was listening to a friend's music podcast tonight and they were talking about how industry will seize on any shred of creativity so that they can use it to sell cars, and this contributes to people getting defensive about the things they like becoming popular. There is a latent fear that just over the horizon, some marketing asshole is waiting to get their hands on something that is meaningful to you, in order to abuse that connection so they can buy themselves a boat.

What was the podcast out of interest?
Taming the Rate of Change in Production Systems
Jerverless: Use python,c++,or any executable as on premise serverless function
I think Borenstein's thing was a joke about people not being very ethical.
If you think about it, really all relationships start out with zero trust.
Whoever simply makes more money from the goods they export. In this case, China has more to lose.

You forget that in China, you have a dictator who uses violence and fear to keep people in check. They are stuck with his foreign policy abilities, which many analysts will conclude, Xi fucking sucks, including those around him who aren't happy about him being a dictator and praising Mao (has anything ever good come out of ppl who idolize Mao?)

The US is on it's way to prosecuting a Russian KGB asset who has been compromised and being blackmailed to willfully corrupt in order to launder the billions that Putin and his buddies stole from his own fucking country. Thankfully, the US president doesn't have absolute power, cannot stay in power indefinitely, is not immune from the institutions that the American forefathers have created to keep the President in check, a continuity in all the core national security organs such as the CIA and NSA which prevents somebody like Xi from ever pulling the same shit, and cannot just roll over people with tanks and then make a stupid song about how much people love the Tianmen square.

In China, the trade war is having a far more profound impact on society and economy but you will never hear this and neither will the vast majority of citizens in China because information cannot flow freely and it's censored.

If China seems invulnerable and powerful, it's only because they specifically crafted their image in that manner. The fact is China is dysfunctional by and large and anyone who had exposure to their political system knows it can't continue no matter how many active measures they take.
and RR!
so funny seeing one social media site saying that another is out of fashion... i wonder what their game is :D ....
Charles Monnett was grilled by agents about his research.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Monnett

Here's some original material:

https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/mammals/polar_be...
In some countries, software patents are not enforceable.
So, don't use Digital Ocean? They are far from the only fish in the sea[1]. Vultr stands out, they offer Bitcoin and WeChat Pay as alternative payment options to the usual Paypal and credit card methods, and they have an awesome ISO library that includes OpenBSD. They aren't the only provider with those options but they are my go-to.

[1] https://lowendbox.com/
I'm a bit confused by your reference to HackerRank -- is not "extract max value without a binary search tree" a kind of problem that might show up there? Is it that type of problem you're complaining about, or the fact that you've already done enough in public that you shouldn't have to be subjected to it again time after time?

If it's the latter, a counterpoint is that doing these sorts of tests (usually not strict pass/fail ones but ones with levels of progression or orthogonal points of detail like "handles the divide-by-zero case without it being pointed out") lets me rank candidate A and B in a consistent and arguably more fair way. Sometimes A will have lots of impressive github contributions, while B will have nothing but schoolwork to discuss. Personally I'm unwilling to automatically grant the job to A on such a basis as publicly available work artifacts, or indeed anything on their resume (such info probably made it easier to get to the interview stage, of course) so I test A and B the same way. I might expect A to do better, but I give B the chance anyway, and B sometimes does way better. If A's past work/volunteer experience isn't directly related to the jobs which they'll be asked to do, how valuable is it? I think minimal. (It may become more valuable in the future, but such hidden future utility applies just the same to B, just in likely less obvious places such as the ability to read a crypto paper and pump out exploit code in a couple days rather than a month or two.[1])

All that said, I'd love it if I could just give (and as a candidate, receive) a certified IQ test (or perhaps the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderlic_test) and OCEAN personality test once every n years that can be reused. A lot of jobs don't require anything else but "smart and gets things done" (i.e. high enough IQ and trait conscientiousness). Maybe something fizzbuzzy in addition in order to lower job onboarding costs, though you'll find anecdotes of companies hiring smart people who couldn't program and successfully training them / otherwise supporting their education to become good programmers.

My advice for finding a less-BS job besides the already-linked no-whiteboards repo (which is a bit suspect since I know at least one company on the list shouldn't be in general) is to find one that isn't in high competition from candidates (they're more likely to shorten the process to find someone good enough, i.e. "smart and gets things done") or one with a very defined job role (in which case they'll test you on that knowledge specifically if your public contributions don't make its presence evident rather than give the usual generic quizzes that sort of act as proxies of IQ or ability to do real non-quiz work).

[1] https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/03/06/the-hiring-post/
Most places aren't so much looking to make sure you know things, they're looking to see _how_ you do things.
Cloud stocks take a beating
> Second, there's a body of theory that asks what the optimal strategy for investment is given a certain number of years, and it turns out that the ideal strategy is to follow the Kelly approach until near the deadline and then to switch to the investments that maximize your own utility as the time to act grows short. This work is known as turnpike theory for reasons that never really made sense to me.

Could you give some examples? I searched for "turnpike" and "kelly criterion" together and I couldn't find any examples of situations for which people had proven that the Kelly criterion was optimal even for nonlogarithmic utility functions.
Yeah, once I read that I couldn't stand to read on, it was like, oh, this is just BS then, that's not a signal of success or market fit, it's a sign of convincing investors there is.
Yeah, though I'm not sure about that (Seinfeld not being appreciated because it was a pioneer show).

I still find funny very manny pioneering shows -- heck, even back to Charlie Chaplin, ‎Buster Keaton, and Laurel and Hardy, and all kinds of 80s and even 70s sitcoms.
I've heard this phenomenon is called Trump Derangement Syndrome. It's not nearly as bad here as it is on Reddit, thankfully.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_derangement_syndrome
Sure! So our model server usually replaces a bunch of docker containers with different standards with zero ways of inputting data.

An interesting example was a customer that bought a startup. The startup had a docker container that leaked memory (they were using an advanced TF library, google quit maintaining it). The parent company had tomcat infrastructure. They told the startup to get it to work in tomcat. They approached us.

Dl4j itself is built on top of a more fundamental building block that allows us to do some cool stuff in c: https://github.com/bytedeco/javacpp-presets

We maintain the above as well. We have our own tensorflow, caffe, opencv,onnx etc bindings. This gives you the same kind of pointer/zero copy interop you would in python but in java.

Another area we play in is RPA. You have windows consultants who don't know machine learning but deal with business process data all day. They want standardized APIs and to run on prem on windows:
https://www.uipath.com/webinars/rpa-innovation-week/custom-b...

They want the ability to automatically maintain models after they are implemented with an integration that auto corrects the model. We do that using our platform's apis.
On line retraining is another thing we do.

We also do automatically rollback based on feedback if you specify a test set. If we find the test is less accurate for a specified metric over time, we roll back the model.
This prevents a problem in machine learning called concept drift which means the domain changes over time.

Lastly, you have customers generating their own models and you need to track/audit them all. Sometimes to do online retraining like the RPA use case. Some customers scale to millions of models. They need this kind of tracking.
> Everything else is command line HTML parsers (also on different, remote VMs), or API endpoints (HN API as an example?).

This is somewhat how Richard Stallman uses the internet:

> I am careful in how I use the Internet.

> I generally do not connect to web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites I have some special relationship with. I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/womb/hacks.git) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. Then I look at them using a web browser, unless it is easy to see the text in the HTML page directly. I usually try lynx first, then a graphical browser if the page needs it (using konqueror, which won't fetch from other sites in such a situation).

> I occasionally also browse unrelated sites using IceCat via Tor. Except for rare cases, I do not identify myself to them. I think that is enough to prevent my browsing from being connected with me. IceCat blocks tracking tags and most fingerprinting methods.

> I never pay for anything on the Web. Anything on the net that requires payment, I don't do. (I made an exception for the fees for the stallman.org domain, since that is connected with me anyway.) I also avoid paying with credit cards. For freedom's sake, insist on paying cash. When a business pressures you to pay in an identified way, that means your help as a citizen is needed: say, "If you won't take my cash, no sale!"

Source: https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
>Today nobody blinks twice when a horse needs to be manually gotten-off to ship off the semen to other parts of the word.

That's perhaps a city thing. In farms people did similar things (to cows etc) all the time as part of routine job.
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Between having to endure a "stupid test" and have to shelve a wad of cash just to get a very expensive piece of paper, give me the stupid test every single time.

Why not go fot the idea that one pays the cost in advance, but as soon as you get hired, the future employer will repay the costs to you?
Right over my head...
TikTok App Nears 80M U.S. Downloads
By no means will I be ever able to grasp Friston's theory, but the free energy minimisation vaguely reminds me of Curiosity-driven reinforcement learning. Can anyone with more understanding than me confirm or deny this apparent resemblance?
Black Mesa: Relive Half-Life Fan-Made Recreation
Computer Vision: An Intuitive Explanation
Yes, the article is about not changing the language, though.
In Ireland "lads" is (weirdly to British people) gender neutral and is used by men and women to refer to mixed groups of people.

I don't know if itsbenlee is Irish or in Ireland.
ARR is really the big one.
Lessons from politicians when answering questions
Essential Kit for the Aspiring Producer
Yes, I agree that GNOME under the hood isn't the most sensible or consistent of designs. But 'over the hood' that's all hidden away, if you use it as-intended it works just fine. KDE/Plasma has a much better design and is built on more stable technologies, but there are just too many options and too much configuration.
But it won't even go to other stars!
I'll call your LEGO lawyers and raise you Disney lawyers.
(INAL as well, but as far as I know:) Trademark fair use is different from copyright fair use. In short trademark fair use is if you use it to reference the original (e.g., "compatible with WindowsTM") or if its not used as a trademark to describe your service. (WD-40 example I found used "inhibitor" while "THE INHIBITOR" was trademarked)
Why does the author have to write a book just to get your E-Mail? It's a transaction. Obviously as the consumer you would prefer having the upside without the downside. The same is true for the vendor.

We usually meet somewhere in the middle and call it a day.
That's also why I'd also say that cosmonaut is a better term than astronaut.
> At least the people doing the stupid tests are checking for stuff that is relevant to them instead of wasting time with pedantic aspects of a programming language or tech stack.

I've done a lot of interviews, and many of the questions have been very generic, with nothing whatsoever to do with the job I was interviewing for. I've reversed a lot of linked lists in my time, and I was once asked to solve FizzBuzz.
Julian Assange Isn’t Worth It