skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting idea... Kind of reminds me of (part of) the role artist managers have. Many (but certainly not all) artists find time management near impossible and need someone checking in constantly. Many (again definitely not all) also are technaphobes who do whatever they can do get away from digital tools. A human todo list might well appeal to them.

I think there could be a niche version or this service for that industry - esp if the "bosses" in this service were vetted in a way an artist could know they understand the industry. I could see some mid-high level artists paying for this (esp if social/marketing were slapped on top). Might need to be localised somewhat though...

As a complete aside if anyone running the business is reading this I found the centered text for everything inc body copy pretty hard to read. Solid website overall though.
rsync?

Yes I know this is mainly for browsers.
Ask HN: Biological co-processors that can allegedly smell better than a dog
I stumbled upon Koniku Inc [0] and watched their demo video [1] on their homepage, which sounds and feels like a Kurzgesagt video. How realistic is such an endeavor? Are they misrepresenting their progress so far at all? Should we get excited?

[0] https://www.koniku.com
[1] https://vimeo.com/228147636
> interview the customer, set realistic but challenging goals for the customer based on the project needs and then push them.

Sounds like a normal project manager.
The HTML5 FileAPI has been around for a few years now yet a lot of sites don't support resumable uploads. I know it adds a bunch of complexity server side as you have to restitch those pieces together but it makes for a good user experience.
The user "sama" (the OP) is Sam Altman, president of Y Combinator.
Why has YouTube become so popular?
I guess an alert is better than nothing. But you still have to deal with the cleanup. It seems the only real way (which I figured out) is to have a separate management system from the CMS.

Having the CMS manage it's own files seems like an oversight committee watching itself. :P

This seems like an opportunity for WP to do what Microsoft did, make their own security system to pair up with WP.
The EU. I can study in the Netherlands with world-class education in English and get free healthcare.
Snaps with a reasonable rationale for it can be unconfined (they require the user to acknowledge that with —classic on install). Think a config management system, which needs to be able to read and write all over a traditional file system. That would work for you, and be cross platform, but the snapcraft community would need to be convinced that it’s not a Trojan horse vector.
Experimenting with brain-computer interfaces in JavaScript
Why is that contradictory? You can bring numerous companies on, for whatever reason, without being good at sales. The marketshare remains very low because of it, even though the overall market has grown.
Most mornings that I wake up, I am thankful. I make an effort to be mindful of my continued existence. I take a breath, realise I'm still alive, and acknowledge that today I have another opportunity to do better, be better, make amends, change what I can. Very often the mindfulness only lasts for 15 minutes and I do none of those things. But I'm thankful that every day, I get another chance.
Am I being too difficult?

Nothing of the sort. Hopefully you'll stick to your guns.
> ...while AWS and Microsoft are geared toward serving customers and responding quickly to their requests, Google touts its own technology, selling what it thinks clients need.

This sums it up, and is the core problem with GCP.

Unfortunately the replacement CEO is the person who ran Oracle Cloud, which is far worse currently than GCP. The future does not look bright.
Yes, I travel alot (especially to Vegas, mostly for business) and over the years have stayed in most of the room/suites I mentioned.
Is it worse than reddit?
> baseless conspiracy mongering about Soros has become more mainstream in recent years

The article tells us in paragraph six that Soros was indeed funding many of the groups attacking Facebook:

> Definers “learned that George Soros was funding several of the coalition members”.

So it's neither baseless nor a conspiracy now is it?

Soros has become a metonym* to describe any overly liberal policy. I'm certain 90% of the criticism is not antisemitism.

Sidebar: For those in crypto communities, on any big price move you'll hear 'Soros this' and 'Soros that' as he claimed to be investing $8 billion in the currency. There's also 'Buffet this' and 'Buffet that' when the price plummets as he called the currency trash. This ain't antisemitism, just Internet meme silliness.

* metonym
/ˈmɛtənɪm/

a word, name, or expression used as a substitute for something else with which it is closely associated. For example, Washington is a metonym for the US government.
The last 3 presidents have all supported the expansion of executive power, torture programs, and used (and expanded) the purely executive branch assassination program. They've all been terrible people who support torture and assassination. Obama and Trump take it even further by assassinating US citizens including minors.
Store the length L of the password, its salted hash H, and its bytes, XOR-ed, X.

For every message typed, compute a running XOR of each sequence of L bytes (2 XOR’s per character, so as good as free). Whenever it equals X (about once every 64 letters or so, because typical text doesn’t use all bits in each byte equally), compute the salted hash of the last L characters, and compare with H.

Unicode and Unicode normalization will complicate that, but I think it should be fast enough for a chat.

You probably can also improve on that factor 32 by storing multiple XOR-like (but slightly more computationally expensive) hashes and computing multiple running totals.

Given that this is to protect users from falling for scammers who claim they need their password to help them, you may be able to run it on the user’s machine.

I fear, however, that a scammer will just ask them to type their password with a space inserted, spell it in the NATO spelling alphabet, or whatever. If you fall for a scammer, that won’t stop you from giving them your password.
What if this is part of someone's policy, with the knowledge of users of course? For example an app for the technically illiterate or for small children?
This from the Simpsons comes to mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H27rfr59RiE
I'm thankful for everything I've learned in the past 5 years while living in Seattle. I learned a lot about who I am, what I really value, and how I want to go forward and build my life with the people I care about. There was a lot of disillusionment involved, but it was necessary for growth.

I'm likewise thankful I will soon return to a place where I feel totally at home, and that I will be returning there without most of the baggage that made me want to leave. I'm thankful that my friends and family are patient with me, and though I may try their patience or be frustrating sometimes, ultimately, it doesn't change our core love and affection for one another.
Don't MLflow Projects exactly meet this use case? A project lives in a Git repo, which can include both code and data, and specifies its software environment (currently Conda but will eventually also support Docker): https://www.mlflow.org/docs/latest/projects.html. You can then run it wherever you want to run code: CI system, Kubernetes, cloud, etc. The reason MLflow doesn't force people to use Projects is because many users like to develop ML in notebooks, but we definitely expect engineering teams to use it with Projects.
I still love that the story here is that Facebook hired people to say something true about George Soros. NYT, etc. are reporting that someone else saying something true about Soros is bad.

I’m not clear on what the motives are, but it feels Orwellian that we now have news stories that smear people for telling the truth. I guess some anti-Semites don’t like George Soros, so the reasoning is that any criticism or even mention of George Soros must be anti-Semitic.

I’d like to hear some coherent refutation to this. Why is this story at all controversial when Soros did, in fact, fund FB critics? I’ll entertain any reasons other than, “Nazis.”
Not sure this has anything to do with American holidays or traditions or whatever Thanksgiving is. It's not a thing here and idk if it's a thing in the country GP comes from. I wouldn't have known it was this month if you hadn't mentioned it.
You can also vector the flux with electromagnets.
>> modern engine like ...game maker...

No, no, no. I started on Game Maker about 12 years ago. It taught me a lot of crummy programming practices, and often took care of too many of the underlying aspects, to a point where I was often doing things without any understanding of how they worked.

Unity is free, and offers something much closer to a proper IDE. It's usage of C# also encourages newer developers to learn the fundaments a language they can very much apply elsewhere if and when they need.
No single solution works for everything. If most people get out on bicycles, then there's more space for the ones that have to use cars.
Internet meme silliness brought you Gamergate, then Breitbart brewed that into the alt-right.
I think that comparison is in controversy, because in these cases the older language didn't stop being spoken while transforming into the newer one. In the Assyrian case, scholars seem confident that ancient Assyrian stopped being spoken entirely some time before the emergence of modern Assyrian and that modern Assyrian can't be viewed as directly derived from ancient Assyrian (although both are Semitic languages).
I remember Indranil Gupta. He was my professor for Distributed Systems in college. He was also my academic advisor but that's just a symbolic thing at my college. Kinda like an "ask this professor stuff about the CS curriculum at this school if you feel like it" arrangement.

He had early lectures but made them fun so I ended up not minding it. If the Coursera follows the same curriculum, I remember it being a pretty comprehensive introduction.
They might also have prevented a lot of users from being hacked. We can't know for sure.
How different is this from the Nebo technology?

Sounded great but in practice was too fiddly.

Why not allow scanned documents to be OCR'ed to diagram + text. Thats the killer app!!!
Well, two active moderators (dang&sctb) and one administrator with unused moderative powers (pg).
Interesting. It seemed to be just git-renamed, but the concept of "no staging area, smart-add everything" and "autostash everything on branch change" looks useful. Not as powerful as git, but it's always possible to fall back to non-abstracted git.
Some amount of randomness/inconsistency is to be expected for the reasons you're indicating. As you said, it's just some moderators, not a court system.

But, when that arbitrariness always, always favors one set of viewpoints and suppresses others according to content, then in becomes a problem. That's not randomness, that's bias.

Eg: Person A says controversial opinion X, person B counters with controversial opinion Y. This can lead to a flame war. But which controversial opinion gets censored? The one the mods disagree with. And the excuse it, to prevent a flame war. Which is valid. But it's always the same side of the discussion that gets silenced by power.

The pre-judged outcome really drains the life and value from a lot of the most enervating discussions around here. I'd rather have read "flamewar" (as long as it's not personal) than an enforced echo chamber.
GCP does have limited Cloud Functions available, and is now working on Serverless Containers* product to let you run any container.
>It's extremely disingenuous to assume that attacks on George Soros are necessarily anti-Semitic.

The messages may be paid for by people with other overall intents, but the receptive audience for the messages is people like that recent bomb maker. And the people paying for the messages know this.

I could tell people all day long that something was being funded by Warren Buffet and nobody would give a shit. Tell them it is funded by Soros and suddenly you have raised a following crowd of prime fuckwits and I do not think it is because he is Hungarian.

edit - assembled prime fuckwits, you know who you are, there is a reason I picked Warren Buffet for comparison and once you have bothered to look it up, you are really not going to like it.
Back button hijacking = not even going to consider this.
Marble run is a safe bet for a surprising range of ages
sounds smart. not only you prevent users from giving their passwords, you force them to choose better passwords.
There was a firsthand video where a guy came back after the fire was over to find his neighbors as a bunch of skeletons inside their burnt cars.

"I went to their house right here in this white car to get them out.

She had to put her makeup on.

She died because of it."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rmu2-P18Is
The control scheme and physics in the demo leave much to be desired.

I understand the effect is to make the mech feel 'heavy', however I found fundamental things like turning, and especially jumping under a certain level of acceleration, to work a very limited amount of time, making the game borderline unplayable to the point where I closed it very quickly.

It's personally very much a turn-off for me when I see a framework who's example doesn't present what seems to be a full package.

The graphics system looks fantastic, and it runs at a very solid framerate, however, if I can't play it, what good does that do?
Casomopolitan is probably the best hotel experience in Las Vegas because of the balconies. Pricing varies wildly depending on what type of room/suite you want and the time of year, but rooms with balconies can often be had for less than $200/nt. Be warned that there are some rooms there that do not have a balcony. The room types of all those that have balconies have “terrace” in the name - if the room type you book doesn’t have that in the name, it doesn’t have a terrace (unless you book a penthouse). Cosmo is also pretty much the dead center of the strip, with Bellagio to one side and Aria to the other.

You can view all the room types and book here: https://www.cosmopolitanlasvegas.com/resort/rooms-suites . I prefer the wraparound terrace suites w/Bellagio fountain view, because they are large (1200sq ft, with a balcony that wraps around the side of the building - nearly 500 sq ft of balcony space) and have perhaps the most striking view in all of Las Vegas, but they are often ~$500+/nt (though sometimes as low as $350). Well worth it IMO, especially if you can write off the expense.
Literally all the example cases you mention are also needed when comparing results for database tuning, load balancing, A/B testing, etc. etc. None of those asks would differentiate ML projects from any other type of general project. So unless you plan to shoe-horn non-ML projects into an upstart system purportedly for ML projects, you’re just wasting resources (usually egregiously) by using a different tool. Even just thinking ML problems are different somehow is usually already a sign that you’re investing in ML in a way that is very unlikely to map to project success.
>Look at the C in Choc; it starts with a little right tick and then reverses. The roman letter C doesn't have anything like that;

An initial swash [or horizontal serif] isn't unheard of for capital C in cursive Roman typefaces/scripts.

Other than that, I think you're spot on.
The battery is as good as most other laptops with the exception of the Microsoft Surface 2* and maybe one other. The keyboard does jam sometimes, but a little compressed air resolved all of my bad jams. The price is higher than others, and I do not agree with that, but no other laptop has the full package, so I'll have to pay the MacOS tax. At least the resale value of these computers is much better than a PC. As for the trackpad is the best part of these laptops.

It sounds to me like you've never owned a Mac.

As for open sourcing their hardware, I really couldn't care less. That's a problem for other manufacturers, not Apple.

* https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Elite...
There likely won't be a tipping point, exactly. When a company pulls in billions every quarter, you can shutter the service tomorrow, and still have enough capital and enough user data to enter a completely different business, like surveillance, facial recognition and security. Don't be surprised if Zuck starts to openly court the Chinese government to build surveillance tech. The current state of affairs in the US is such that leaders are openly saying "my values are for sale as long as you have money".

FB is a data behemoth, with both profile and shadow-profile info of billions of people. They will continue to make money by exploiting that data. People will eventually stop using FB, but many will move their activity to Instagram. Plenty of people don't use FB or IG, but do use Whatsapp, another FB company.

without GDPR-style regulation, FB's influence will continue to loom large unfortunately.
same here. thanks guys!
Partly, perhaps. For me, a large part is the notation. I know conditionals, I know loops (as in for loops), I know SQL... but if you show me logic, set theory, a sigma, or, uh, what's this sigma but for multiplication, I wouldn't have known what you meant a few years ago. It's not only understanding the math, it's also the notation.

I still don't know how to read things like curly braces or matrices or a dozen other things that I don't even know the name for, and figuring it out is usually more work than it's worth. As a result, I don't understand Wikipedia articles that are supposed to be introductory and understandable to the masses, but because the article's writers are being fancy, it's only understandable for a privileged few. Often the concepts, if I do bother to understand them or look them up elsewhere, are rather simple.

It also doesn't help that people use things incorrectly or ambiguously. Sometimes a line over some math will mean the average (or "mean", to use the ambiguous lingo) and sometimes it's an infinite repetition.

Or the lingo: a friend of my girlfriend was baffled I didn't have X in school and didn't know what it was (I think it's derivations). She kind of explained it to me and I kind of understood, not recognising it. Later that evening I used it, unknowingly, in programming. When showing my girlfriend what I made she pointed it out to me.

Heck, I recently used logarithms fairly intuitively where they were never properly explained to me. I just knew the formula for entropy calculation (log(possibilities)/log(2)) by heart and managed to make something that converts a number from any base into any base (e.g. base 13 to base 19). I can do math, just nobody bothered to tell me about the fancy symbols. To me, the symbols mainly seek to obfuscate, look smart, and ensure job security.
"Recently popular" or "popular yesterday" or just "yesterday", or "the day before".
You can use Jinja-style templates client-side too if you want (see nunchucks).

But client-side rendering and server-side rendering have different use-cases. It doesn't come down to just which is 'particularly readable'.

> If you absolutely must do JavaScript you should keep it separate of your HTML and other stuff

Why? This argument has been lost. If you're writing a rich client-side UI that makes sense to be "component-oriented", there is literally zero value in splitting each component into HTML and JS, it is a completely arbitrary 'separation by technology'.
I can feel it, there is an amazing startup name waiting to be discovered there. Huur een BaaS or something of that sort.
"Not having the time" to introduce new engineers to the problem at hand, task, system or what ever is a recipe for wasting even more time in the future. It's very short sighted. Neither "10x programmers" or mere mortals can grasp a code base by reading it alone as by a thorough introduction.

I mean, a mediocre engineer that knows the system well is way more useful than an excellent engineers that just got his hands on it, for like half a year or more depending on complexity. If you give guidance you don't need excellent engineers. At least not as many. It's kinda surprising the way companies think of this.

Rather than officially allocating a developers time for introducing new employees or writing documentation for the system, Company 101 is to put 10 or 100 times the amount of dev time into catching up for the devs replacement when he quits, after he quits.
HN itself is unsubstantive.
How interesting the new stuff I can learn in an open forum like this!

Well no it's not the same it has several differences but the two major are:

One, it can shrink storage up to 100 times, unlike traditional compression which saves 50-70% with prohibiting performance loss.
Two, data access can actually be up to 100 times faster, while in traditional compression data access for many small files can be too slow.
Yep. For people who struggle with procrastination or discipline, here's a reddit thread with more info on adult ADHD: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9wg9p0/a_no...
And as an aside, I absolutely love your writing.
"Hire a boss"?

I don't think that's how its supposed to work...

(something something disrupting entrenched renumeration models something something exit round...)
Disclaimer: My company works with Teyit and I've built the archiving product. Also: This is a shameless plug.

Teyit.org[0], the biggest fact-checking organization in Turkey, has their own archiving site called teyit.link[1].

It's a non-profit organization and they automatically archive any link that's sent to them via their site, Twitter, Facebook etc.. It's also usable by the public.

It's open source on GitHub[2] and we've actually been developing a new version[3] and have a plan to add `youtube-dl` along with WARC.

[0] https://teyit.org

[1] https://www.teyit.link

[2] https://github.com/teyit/teyitlink-web

[3] https://github.com/noddigital/teyit.link
I'm somewhere on the autism spectrum, which isn't a big deal, but it does have the effect that I don't come across well in phone calls. So if that's my first meeting with someone, I am doomed. It's challenging enough navigating a regular social situation, but it gets even worse when I'm down to a single source of information, and that happens to be a tiny little speaker linked to a tiny little microphone over six concrete buildings and a thunderstorm, and the interviewer's voice is oddly muffled but I didn't bring it up at the start of the conversation and now I'm wondering if I should mention it ten minutes in and damn I lost track of my notes. That isn't a comfortable situation for anyone, but I get the impression that people are usually able to fill in the gaps with their own intuition of social norms and protocols.

I suspect many of the gut feelings people get doing phone interviews are a matter of luck.

I do appreciate the convenience of a phone interview, but it would be incredibly good for my peace of mind if more of them could start off with a simple email conversation to introduce each other. I tried to do that myself for a brief moment where I was interviewing people, and I thought it went quite well. (My boss, wondering how he almost didn't hire me, put me in charge of hiring someone like me, which was surprisingly non-destructive, but I'm grateful I don't need to do it on a regular basis).

With that said, I really dislike the jobs where they ask you a bunch of random questions right in their application form. That's way too much work when your answers to those questions probably won't even reach your interviewer anyway.
Math textbooks
a) Anti-Semites rarely make any effort to criticize Sheldon Adelson, though, and b) because ignoring them doesn't lead them to disappear, since the popularity of falsehoods is well understood to exceed that of truth over the short run.