skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To put it more geekly: it's like uncovering an old git commit from a dead branch. Is it useful? It's only useful to try understand where things came from. Is that useful? In the grand scheme of things if we don't know where we're coming from we don't have any reliable way to asses where we're heading towards. In addition, the exercise sharpens our existing tools.
Given that you are a frequent and tendentious commenter on my posts here, I do not in fact need to provide that. If you need that for your own purposes, you can ask nicely. But I am comfortable with the fact that you will not like whatever I have to say, and that there's no point in explaining more than one or two replies' worth.
Yep, I use Bettement for index funds and their “smart saver” idea is absolute trash. It’s a shady marketing term that is likely going to hurt a lot of people eventually. I don’t even really understand the appeal when most high yield savings accounts give you 2% now (I use Amex FSB).
The catch is that when Robinhood goes bust because of the risky investments they're making to get you that 3% yield, and they take the SIPC down with it, then the government bails out the SIPC and Robinhood you lose purchasing power through currency devaluation.
A Style-Based Generator Architecture for Generative Adversarial Networks [video]
Huawei is treated differently from other companies that have violated sanctions
Ask HN: When is the task too complex for a GUI?
Some people are enamored with a graphical user interface for a tool. Others prefer the command line. Often people will start out using a GUI to do development and then switch when it becomes more complex or too cumbersome.

When developing a tool, the idea of having a beautiful GUI to demo how easy your tool is sounds great to Marketing. But often the complexity of the number of different choices makes the GUI implementation less useful for day to day work.

Does anyone have rules of thumb or pointers to books or articles that discuss where that crossover point is that a command line is superior to a GUI as a tool?

(And I recognize that a large portion of the people here are command-line only users. But even so I'd love to get your input on when a GUI might make sense for the tool interface.)
wxWidgets is the only framework I can think of that uses native widgets.
It's also rumored they actively seek to harvest organs from Falun Gong practictioners...
> I run into conceptual completeness problems of the "how do I think about this?" sort much more than "how do I do this?" problems.

While I agree with you, the latter problem is particularly frustrating to encounter.

Solving the conceptual problems feel more like an exploration or a learning experience, and I rarely feel like time spent solving those problems is wasted even if it's very meandering.

Solving the "how do I do this?" problem rarely feels like more than a very isolated learning experience, and more often it feels like banging your head against a wall. Doubly-so when the documentation is obsolete and leads you in the wrong direction.

Learning the basics of media compression is interesting and worth spending time on. But I'm going to hate myself if I have to spend 6 hours figuring out how to convert a file using ffmpeg.
Really? I've never seen a person living in a tent or caravan in a UK city. Travellers living in caravans out in a field, sure, but that's different.
You may want to have a look at the number of possible events sent to America compared between 'basic' and 'full' (93|112), (410|422).

https://www.ghacks.net/2018/11/23/german-federal-office-bsi-...

Office then has approximately 50 times that number again:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/16/microsoft_gdpr/

People are upset because there is no way to set this to zero aside from unplugging the machine from the network.
I would put the commanul garden/park on the top level of the parking garage and have hanging/climbing plants go down the various sides so interior apartments have something nicer to look at.

It still meets the parking requirements, and yet is a lot prettier and more useful.
Why didn't anyone say anything when they were implementing this feature. It seems kind of obvious, not even with hindsight.
Hahaha, I love this comment because when I'm trying to buy options it always makes me chuckle how they allow these type of people to trade naked options
Turn your spare change into Bitcoin
"Generally speaking, it's a hassle to transfer money to people you know and fees are hefty."

This hasn't really been true for a long time. Most banks participate in Zelle, which lets you transfer money for free to just about anyone via your phone. Every national or regional bank I can think of is a member. Venmo also does this.

"in America, you regularly spend time on the phone talking to robots and objecting to expenditures you didn't make"

Regularly? I am a heavy credit card user and I've had a card compromised once about 10 years ago. I talked to a human at the bank to clear it up and they had a new card in my mailbox the next day.

The whole "points" thing is an oddity, I'll grant. But we're used to it and it's highly advantageous to the consumer if you pay off your cards every month. It's worth about $1000 per year to me.
A Style-Based Generator Architecture for Generative Adversarial Networks [pdf]
The only user-hostile behavior I mostly agree with his forced, frequent updates.

It would be better if:

1) Microsoft didn't beta-test with actual customers.

2) Microsoft figured out how to update things without restarting so commonly (as I understand, this is due to how files are locked and how dependent services are updated).

3) Microsoft didn't push out unnecessary crap as "critical" or essential/important updates.

4) Microsoft didn't force updates on shutdown.

I mean Apple has made their phones the preferred secure devices of several organizations because of how well they keep them updated. It's a pain for me in IT when an app wants to require a recently-released version of iOS, but I do see the benefit to forced, frequent updates.
Call it "garbage collection tax". Economically, you can do it.
500 miles (2002)
Ok, but where is the ML part?

We’ve been creating these mosaics for decades...
I changed the original title because it seems unnecessarily provocative. Regardless the article has some interesting paragraphs:

Ms. Meng is charged with violating U.S. sanctions on Iran. Yet, consider her arrest in the context of the large number of companies, U.S. and non-U.S., that have violated America’s sanctions against Iran and other countries. In 2011, for example, JP Morgan Chase paid $88.3 million in fines in 2011 for violating U.S. sanctions against Cuba, Iran and Sudan. Yet Jamie Dimon wasn’t grabbed off a plane and whisked into custody.

And JP Morgan Chase was hardly alone in violating U.S. sanctions. Since 2010, the following major financial institutions paid fines for such violations: Banco do Brasil, Bank of America, Bank of Guam, Bank of Moscow, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Clearstream Banking, Commerzbank, Compass, Crédit Agricole, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, ING, Intesa Sanpaolo, National Bank of Abu Dhabi, National Bank of Pakistan, PayPal, RBS (ABN Amro), Société Générale, Toronto-Dominion Bank, Trans Pacific National Bank (now known as Beacon Business Bank), Standard Chartered and Wells Fargo.

None of the CEOs or CFOs of these sanction-busting banks were arrested and taken into custody for these violations. In all of these cases, the corporation – rather than an individual manager – was held accountable.
Show HN: A Twitter bot that sends you random abuse
They are selling a platform for putting advertising in front of kids. Targeted or not, they make money from kids asking parents for stuff they saw in adverts in apps.
For context, the predecessor of SpaceShipTwo reached an altitude of over 100km in June 2004, becoming the first commercial venture to put a person in space [1]. A few months after that, Virgin got involved and it seemed like commercial passenger spaceflight was just a few years away. 14 years and two fatal accidents [2,3] later, the 80 km flight seems to pale in comparison to those expectations. In that time we’ve seen the rise of SpaceX and Blue Origin, whose aspirations and capabilities look set to far exceed those of Virgin Galactic. As impressive as this spaceplane is, its competitors are starting to make it look like the product of some (very expensive) backyard tinkering.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceShipOne#Development_and_w...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RocketMotorTwo#Related_test_pr...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VSS_Enterprise_crash
I agree the possibly criminal behavior in the NN repeal has been known for a long time, but the fact the FBI actually believe it's criminal enough to investigate is definitely new.
An airplane can get closer. It can actively compensate for air resistance.
People on HN tend to be a bit picky about web design, but this site is absolutely terrible. In addition to the lack of a scrollbar it has navigation links that let you read _most_ of each section and has several different methods for scrolling in it (sometimes it gives you a big down arrow, sometimes you need to rely on the side bar, the side bar is apparently truncated for "ease of use"). Though, in firefox, arrow keys, space bar, home and end do work while pg up/dn randomly pan the map for some reason.

I am wondering if this was considered an interesting article or just a really good page to send front-end interviewees for as a "let's see how many terrible things you can find" game.
I have indeed described cash. If you are in a set of businesses that includes banks, credit unions, currency exchangers, pawnbrokers, insurance companies, car dealerships, or any other business designated by the Secretary of the Treasury that has cash transactions with a high degree of usefulness in criminal matters, your use of cash is highly regulated. You are legally required to file reports with the Secretary of the Treasury (or their designee) whenever you make certain transactions. Failure to do so is a crime with a $250,000 fine and a five-year jail term. This is doubled if it is part of a pattern of illegal activity involving $100k or more.
If you're looking for a good liquid place to park cash and you don't have a Robinhood invite, check out Dollar Savings Direct. They currently pay 1.8% interest on their savings accounts.
No it doesn't, I think you may be reading way too much into my comment.
Major operational risk is not linear. Joe's Coffee shop doesn't have an army of lawyers to defend their collection and us practices that would possibly be lawful, while BigCorp has an army of lawyers to successfully defend their unlawful practices.

Even if the fines scale (I don't know what the punitive measures are) the cost to litigate won't.
Eh lets not overstate it too much- this isn't the first time it has happened, paypal and a few other "internet banks" back in the early-mid 2000s was offering 5% interest rates when big banks weren't offering much. The big banks are as strong as ever.

Generally, you really shouldn't be keeping much in a bank anyway, invest most of your money, even if only in ultra safe bonds.
You can get some overview on the chapters about the Pentium on Michael Abrash’s "Graphics Programming Black Book".
This strikes a nice balance between open source GPL and commercial licensing and services, and I like how this makes it easy to distribute your application. I keep reading comments here on HN about how nice QT is to work with, and this seems like a great way to jump in.
any tricks to get full article?
I can't speak for the "big names" but as someone who has done tech hiring for multiple SMBs, having a website that shows off your abilities absolutely makes a difference. I don't care if you hand coded the website or it's a bunch of articles on Medium. Showing that you know what you're talking about and can explain it well in English (or the company's language of choice), puts you at the top of my list of people I want to bring in to talk to. It's also likely to make me skip the stupid first steps that most companies take to filter out candidates that have no business applying like fizzbuzz tests when I'm talking to you.
This comment was fun to read. I'm a couple years younger, but that Boston Legal part hit like a truck. Maybe it was the suggestion, but I can't knock the mental image of wasting hours futzing with compiz/Beryl/fuzion with Denny Crane in the background.

Thanks for the nostalgia trip and smile!
The Business of Storytelling in the Age of the Algorithm
I've seen a few of these being built in Mountain View... now I understand that it's a trend.

I haven't been inside one, but it has to be better than the Karate Kid-style apartment building with all the entrances facing inwards towards a central courtyard/pool/garden which is common around California. Those are like living in a Motel, where every noise from your neighbors echoes around the central area.

The other style is the 'mega-apartment' complexes which have their own issues as well. I have been inside those, and they're universally depressing. I wonder what it is that Americans can't figure out how to create housing which encourages community instead of killing it. Maybe the One-Plus-Five is the answer?
Just a quick note to say thanks for posting this: I've had great fun exploring it: it's a simple puzzle to understand, yet harder than it first appears, and a low barrier of entry thanks to your posted code. Genuinely interesting seeing the symmetry appearing in the low-scoring solutions, and also an element of friendly competition and shared discovery as we post our scores. Cheers!
Huh, that's a pretty good point -- maybe nothing has actually changed, eh?
If this worked well enough to allow 3% interest on checking accounts, literally every single bank would already be doing it.
I'm also using Schwab as my main account and for the most part enjoy it. It's not as (seemingly) simple and intuitive as the other products philip1209 mentioned, though. It's a well-established bank/brokerage firm, and it shows in the UI.
I remember that article - now 8 months later, do the conclusions still hold?
That was my impression as well. A bunch of people using a cheapo trading account and now paying the price for being so cheap.

It reminds of when businesses grossing over a million dollars spend $5/month on their hosting and are offended when their site is down.
I think San Francisco is simply explained by the Georgist interpretation of the same city in the 1900's. The city awards landlords with lots of income from corporate and sales taxes, and reduced property taxes. Then piles on rent-control to produce pseudo-landlords. The interests are very misaligned, and thus you get high rents in old buildings, homeless people and a transient-disproportionally foreign- population.

But the music stops: at some point the bargaing of a tech-job will not be enogh to keep people in.
As with any interaction with government, I’d bet good money this isn’t at all easy to do, and especially not reliably. I can easily imagine a hundred people assigned to scour thousands of inconsistent court determinations a day, to find who’s been added to the do not name list, which probably doesn’t exist in any list-like fashion...
Thanks for all this.
This New Yorker piece on Andy Byford provides a lot more context for why the MTA is the way that it is:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/07/09/can-andy-byfor...
He didn't just let it happen, he actively concealed it when he lied to Congress about it. At the very least he's an accessory after the fact under the government's favorite prosecution crutch: the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
In my neighborhood, we are impacted by constant property crime - burglaries, car break-ins, mail theft, porch pirates, you name it. After being a victim myself, I can say that it does indeed cause an increase in anxiety, especially the sense of helplessness that comes with it. The police department here is woefully understaffed and has been ordered to not focus on property crime because their staffing only leaves room to focus on violent crime. The under-staffing is in part due to the anti-cop sentiment of the far-left activists. This leaves law-abiding residents to largely fend for themselves.

I have always felt it would be very useful to be able to identify people in videos who may have committed a crime locally or elsewhere in the city, to learn of their movements, where they might live, what other crimes they committed, etc. This would help police prioritize some non-violent crime effectively, get a high return on the time they spend investigating property crimes (actually catching criminals), which would then in turn serve as a deterrent that is outright missing right now. I would gladly contribute my video to that cause, as would almost everyone in my neighborhood.

A word on the commenters here going on about 'pearl-clutching': that's just the latest in pejoratives that are nothing but empty stereotypes. Most people on NextDoor in my city are reasonable, but are regularly unfairly characterized by the far-left progressive cabal in this manner. Caring about the safety of yourself, your loved ones, and your property is not a bad thing. We work and live in part for those very things. If you disagree, then try outlawing door locks. It is unbelievable to me that the rights of criminals are more important to commenters here than the rights of those who want to protect their own. And worse yet, the conspiracy-theory notion that we are about to be taken over by a tyrannical government because of doorbell recordings. If this was a topic they disagreed with, those same commenters would readily call this a "slippery slope fallacy".

A further aside: The ACLU has been wrong a lot on this topic - for example when they called AWS's Rekognition service a "facial recognition service" instead of what it is, a generic object recognition service. They also did not seem to understand how false positives/negatives are managed and why it is fine to use an imperfect object recognition service as a first-pass filter. And they are wrong again here - people are allowed to film on public property and share it with whomever they want. They're allowed to perform whatever analysis they want and share it with whomever they want, period.
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I travelled around south East Asia, and in Cambodia for example, it was more that most people seemed poor but were scraping by with some kind of job. And not surrounded by extravagant high end shops, or rich people with everything. People lived on the street sometimes, but they had a little makeshift shelter with amenities, beds etc, and turned the shelter into a market stall in the daytime. So even they had something, even if very little.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 Block 5 set for first expendable launch with USAF satellite
Use SciHub
https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.k5250
“Can anyone explain what if anything about VG's CURENT R&D would actually carry over to a real spacecraft,”

Why do you limit it to current R&D?

Build profitable “space” business. Make it cheaper, scale it up, reinvest to grow company, more R&D, ... trips into orbit, around moon...

Maybe VG never does but venture capitalists see a market and invest in more space ventures.

Lindbergh crossing the Atlantic sparked the next generation of flight.
For this specific RISC-V variant, it seems like it requires relative expensive FPGAs. There are some other RSIC-V cores that you can play with which run on small and cheap FPGAs. I’ve played with the picorv/picosoc project on a TinyFPGA BX and those are easy to find (recently sold out at some shops but crowdsupply still has some of you can’t wait a month for the next batch of boards) and cheap.

There are also a lot of new FPGA dev boards with good community support for folks looking at getting their feet wet, like the icebreaker (crowdsupply) and alchitry (Kickstarter).
Lol, I can't figure out if that comment is satire or not.
It would also still be incorrect...
Managing Programmers – Topics include why programming management is hard
The Mill processor architecture deserves mention here, as it basically aims to bridge VLIW-like low power usage with OOO-like performance. The way it attempts to do this is too complex to explain in a short comment, you can find detailed info on their website - but broadly-speaking it involves all sorts of 'tweaks' to ordinary VLIW, that ultimately result in something a bit different. (It should also be noted though that the initial, instruction decoding stages of a Mill-like 'belt' architecture are a lot closer to OOO than an ordinary VLIW. So the projected power savings would seemingly have to come from elsewhere - but they can be quite significant nonetheless, so the effort is projected to be worthwhile.)
> the populism and socialism still thrive in a country like Romania.

I'm not sure about populism, but I'm not sure how socialism is to blame here, or at least socialism in general - any more than capitalism is to blame for the misfortunes of any other country, for instance.
The FDIC is part of the government and the government owns a printing press. You WILL get your money back.

No private insurance company can provide such guarantees and keep then if the entire sector needs to be bailed out at the same time.
All true:

- The system we have is internally consistent, which your comment very ably pointed out.

- Restaurants are incentivized to employ workers whose pay falls under the "tipped workers" regulations.

- Americans are used to tipping, and we understand the trade-offs, and those of us who don't work for tips (like you and me) generally like a tipping-based system. What's not to like about a system that gives us the power to control or punish service workers according to our whims? ;)

Finally, citing profit margins as the reason to artificially depress payroll obligations of employers to employees might be accurate, but it's also a great example of how the system is broken: Why do restaurants exist that can't afford to pay their workers a fair wage?
> what they're doing beyond what's required?

Chef, puppet, ansible and other config management tools are designed to run nicely in an existing system. That means if you want to do action X, they'll usually check if it's possible, try to resolve internal dependencies, handle potential errors, register the state change for report and other things.

Most of that is unnecessary when you're building a docker image from scratch. You control all the dependencies - they're the lines before this one. You don't care about nice reports of partial failures - they should cause immediate aborts. You don't care about managing state - each step is it's own fully defined state.

For example, if I remember correctly, chef will query available package list when you request something installed. It will also continue running independent recipes if the installation fails. When building images I want literally "apt-get install foo || crash_and_burn".

> you have to write the configuration management in a different way such that it doesn't require restarting services after configuration files have been updated

In my experience with cfmgmt - this needs to be implemented whether you build images or update running systems. There always comes a time when you want to change something but not trigger service updates. When building images that time is always.
The two sides of the equilibrium are the business owner seeing how much he can charge the demand(Customers) and pay for the supply(employees).

You can have a demand at a price there is no supply for.
Uni student here. Most people put money in a checking account to use to pay bills/food/etc. You shouldn't be using your savings account money for this.
use sci-hub

https://sci-hub.tw/https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5250

mods delete this comment if it's inappropriate but this is a pretty bewildering release
State of Startups 2018 – FirstRound
You can't get much more dystopian or abhorrent than using a political minority as livestock.