skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I forgot to mention this is in the city of St Louis. They all know they've got far bigger fish to fry.
It's unreadable by default with Javascript disabled on Firefox, but Reader View fixes it.
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In reality the amount of alerts a SOC has to triage is so big on avg I doubt they would really be looking into someone accessing twitter.
>>SpaceX proven out booster re-usability

That was proven long ago
That was the the prime example of the better tech losing.

You have to have marketing and market fit with tech that's good enough. That's the lesson of history, time and time again.
Primitive types in Java are special. Like you have boolean and Boolean. You can't invoke methods on primitive types.

I think there were plans to change it in future versions of Java.
What a silly man.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18706193
Yeah but the finger makes you look like the real deal :-)

Another thing with that technique : rest the meat long enough. Makes a huge difference (not necessary with sous-vide/low temperature I think)

And contrary to what I've read, good precision cooker and vacuum machine (dunno how to call it in English) can be quite pricey. A few hundreds euro down here, so not cheap at all.
I think that goes to say that probability isn't really useful to most people when we're talking about elections.
Amazon is pulling ahead. Siri still adds 'All man milk' to my shopping list instead of almond milk.
If you haven't, be sure to check out Futilitris[1]. A tetris clone with a twist.

[1] http://twinbeard.com/140_futilitris.html
Likelihood of injury is irrelevant. If your actions recklessly caused the injury of another person, you are liable for them, even if there was only a 1 in a trillion chance of it happening.

And yes, by the way, if you drive by someone knowing that by doing so you will launch debris towards another person in a manner that could injure them, and your car kicks up a rock and hits that person in the head, you would also be liable.

Innocence is also irrelevant, as you do not have the right to injure another person, even if they stole from you.
Spider-Ham’s Very Unkosher Journey from Joke to Spider-Verse Star
This is a very interesting observation. The whole point of speech to text models being biased towards the US in terms of training data and innovation is valid not only across the larger things (gender/race/religion) but just small things like this. And these are likely to cause daily problems.
I had to create a new account since I lost password of my last one, but I had noticed in my last account that my submissions (not comments, but link submissions or Ask HN submission) would be shadowbanned right from the start? And this was on a fresh account that I had. Does HN shadowban by IP?
Mapping the Race for Quantum Computing – Quantum, AI and Geopolitics
my top 2 would be c++ and javascript.

I started with qbasic, and used it for many years. Then in college, I learnt c#/java for oop. And because I wanted to write games and do computer graphics, c++ was the only viable choice at the time, so I had to learn it.

Then I kinda settled on my language search, because I could write just anything with c++. And it's like a master language, which makes learning other languages quickly. I had tried go, swift, python and dart, but I always went back to c++.

These days I started to like javascript, because of intensive web programming, but my web server is still in c++ though.
Thanks, I completely missed to talk about type providers, active patterns and unit of measure, but then the post was already so long lol. I think I'll add other good blog posts which cover all these topics to my final notes!
F# features that are unique or not present in all other functional langs:

* multi-threading (vs Ocaml)
* type providers (perhaps totally unique)
* units of measure
* active patterns
* computation expressions
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True. I love Cal Newport but he’s a great example of this. Best thing is that if you read a lot of books you get a quick easy feel for whether a book will be in the first or second grouping. Just by reading the description or look through a few pages. Table of contents is usually the best way to tell.
Why not start introducing F# via unit tests?
Amazon is renting vans from Uhaul here to get all their packages out to houses. They are delivering (probably) 12 hrs a day not even including the Fedex, UPS, and USPS deliveries (I'm not sure how they decide which option to ship with).

There is way too much volume to fit deliveries into times when people are home.
> If you value being able to feed your family, learn to love your boss and his ideas.

I would modify this: "learn to support your boss, and make them look good in front of their peers."

I've had situations where my boss and I didn't get along.

In one case that led to a dismissal with a very comfortable severance, which I believe was because while I wasn't a good fit, my boss respected me and bore no ill will toward me.

In another case my boss was openly hostile to me even in front of my peers both inside and outside the organization almost from the first day; I survived about three years there because I was effective and did my best to keep our disagreements behind closed doors. Everyone knew that my boss and I didn't get along, but I did the job well and took every opportunity to make them good and make the best of their strategies and decisions. Over time I developed a reputation for having strong opinions, a strong personality, but being very easy to work with. I learned a lot during that time, built lifelong professional relationships, and believe that I changed a few lives through mentorship of those with less experience.

I will always be frank with my immediate boss; the cost of not doing so is too high for me. I'm also clear that I see my job as contributing to the company's success, and that I see their voice on my behalf as my most effective means of impacting the organization's direction. I recognize when I don't have the final say on something, and while I'll not pretend that I support something I don't, it's their job to determine strategy, not mine, and that I'll execute their strategy to the best of my ability and without grumbling about it - and without undermining them.

Of course there are some people who simply cannot accept that the people who report to them have opinions contrary to their own or believe that they are making a mistake. I don't want to work for those people. There are too many good jobs doing things that will change the world for me to spend my time being unhappy and working on something I don't think matters.
To be fair, when you have $100 Million, the goal of the game is not "growth", but holding onto that money.

$100 million isn't much different from $108 Million (8% gains over the year)... or even $500 Million. In both cases, its still more than enough money to live on for the rest of your life. The S&P 500 has dropped 50% in the past (ie: 2008), and it doesn't make sense to risk that much money on that.

You can't use bank accounts: FDIC insurance only covers $200k per bank. You'd literally need 5000 different bank accounts to hold $100 Million safely. So what do you put it into?

Answer: things that don't grow as quickly as an S&P500 fund. Things that are safer: municipal bonds, international (German, Japan) bonds to hedge the dollar, and US Bonds. Maybe some high-quality corporate debt, like Apple's debt, and maybe a real-estate project or two.

All of which probably returns less than the stock market. But your $100 Million will still be there in the next crisis. That's not necessarily true for an S&P500 fund.

------------

Finally, the average volume of Vanguard Total Market ETF is only ~3-million (at a price of ~130 or so). Which means that Vanguard Total Market ETF only has ~$300 Million changed each day.

If you pump $100 Million into an ETF with only $300 Million worth of daily average volume, what do you think will happen? You'll over-centralize the price and get a bad deal. Its not easy to move $100 Million, even into a major fund like Vanguard's Total Market ETF, without a manager.

At $100 Million+ size portfolios, you need to start thinking of Dark Pools of Liquidity (ie: somewhat hiding the order book). So that when you execute the buy order, the wolves of Wall Street won't own you.

$100 Million+ accounts don't work the same as a normal account. Pump that into the market in one day, and the price will rise dramatically. Sell that in one day, and the price will drop dramatically (losing a % of your value on both legs of the transaction). Having an expert guide you, so that you can minimize Bid/Ask issues, is essential.
This is great stuff!

Thank you for sharing.
Honestly, it's just a lame business model.

It's sort of like when you see the college kid who doesn't know how to do laundry. It's amusing, but even the most inept and lazy individual doesn't need alot of time to learn how to fold pants. In the food space, if you have the money to have pre-packaged groceries fedexed to your home to save time... why wouldn't you just get takeout?

My wife did a personal chef business with a friend when she got out of school. They would cook meals for dentists and doctors and deliver it. The most insane customers even had clean silverware and plates delivered, and one asked paid a 5x markup for them to go to Williams Sonoma and buy a fully outfitted fancy Thanksgiving dinner, with place settings and all. (ie. "Make it look like the catalog, please")

Blue Apron appeals to some middle ground of harried people, but the customer isn't rich enough to pay a wacky markup for burgers and isn't getting enough done to save a ton of time!
That correct. It was a case of nested loops and some code that was in the wrong loop.

Braces are most definitely not whitespace, even if they serve the same function as whitespace in Python.
You should always have something else lined up, even in the best of times :)
But the person who built the device did so with the intention of recording people in private spaces. The person committing the theft did not explicitly consent to being recorded in a private space. They are still being recorded unknowingly by a device designed to do that.

What I'm saying is; the thief broke a law but the person making the recordings could have also broken laws as well. Two wrongs don't make a right, and all that. Just seems like a good gag for YouTube but a bad practice to encourage.
You need volume for liquidity which you need to execute the arb.

So, for instance, cryptoA trades for $99 on exchange 1, but $101 on exchange 2. Quick, buy on exchange 1 and sell on exchange 2!

Congrats you made $2 on each trade x 5 cryptos. That is hardly enough volume to make it happen.

Now imagine that the volume is so thin that after you bought the first one on exchange 1, the price gap closed, and by the time you sold on exchange 2 it collapsed.
Are they now legally allowed to use a facial recognition match as grounds for reasonable suspicion?
While this doesn't take away from your point, I'd just like to mention that Vernon Unsworth isn't actually one of the two British divers who saved the kids (contrary to what the media seems to be implying). He is just one of the many divers who tried to save them.

Also, the diver was unnecessarily aggressive and condescending toward Elon Musk (who was just trying to build a submarine to save the kids), which is what actually prompted Elon to insult him.
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Useful maybe for extended friends and family, but (when I used FB) I never even considered it as a viable option for contact beyond that small group. Maybe there's a generation that accepted Facebook this way that I'm not aware of (my kids don't even use it)

Also, there's a large gap between the 90's and when Facebook took hold that it could be considered the "default" online identity for anyone. In that time, free email that lasted years/decades exploded and we were no longer tied to work/school email.
> GIL in python is something that was talked about 5 years ago and will still be talked in 5 years. It limits the ability of python to reap the benefits of better hardware.

It's also a huge source of misattributed problems — I've seen more cases where a complaint about the GIL was really “my algorithm depended on a single locked data structure” or “I was calling a C library which isn't thread-safe” than where the GIL was actually the limiting factor. That's not to say that there aren't real problems for people who want to run pure-Python computational code (not e.g. libraries like Numpy or Pillow) but it also seems to be popular as the bogeyman to blame when someone doesn't want to run a profiler.

> This may be minor, but I really missing ruby rich set of collection methods: take_while, group_by, sample. Yet I can see a point in extracting that to a external library.

See https://docs.python.org/3/library/itertools.html and https://docs.python.org/3/library/random.html for the sample function. I believe the difference is mostly that the Ruby methods are on Array but the Python ones are seen as processors for iterables so they're in a separate part of the standard library.
The thing that actually sucks is in python is parallelism.
Can the F# compiler not convert a lambda to a single-function interface instance? Honest question. I'm mostly a Java guy, and I know that is how Java works under the hood because the JVM does not have the concept of delegates. But it seems like a fairly simple and safe transformation, even when your underlying target does have delegates.
This example seems like something you shouldn't be able to do. Now you have 2 private '#x' properties with unique values. It's very surprising.

Intuitively, you would expect the subclass to essentially be saying "my version of this variable is equal to 200, not 100". Then both calls should return the same result (200)
Maybe you're right - maybe Facebook is doing all this bad stuff and Walt Mossberg happened to notice and decided to follow through.

But I'm skeptical - I think the more traditional news media (aka the folks who write stories and collect facts) tends to view news aggregators as a threat to their business model. I think the idea that Facebook ought to be required to screen whatever news it aggregates for "truthfulness" is absurd and I (sometimes) think that the constant refrain of "Facebook did X Bad Thing" is closer to activism than journalism.

But I could be wrong - I'm not as certain as my first post indicated.
> Why we allow these laws in a Democracy/Republic is mind blowing.

I disagree with your assessment, and fully support "at will" employment.

What is your perception as to how many people agree with you versus disagree?
It's really rude to ask someone about their medical conditions, even more so in public. Please don't do that. It is also not a good idea to attempt to diagnose psychological issues from a distance.

(But if we're playing that game, Wikipedia defines "autism" as "a developmental disorder characterized by troubles with social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior", and Knuth is supremely good at communication and remarkably good at social interaction for a (self-described) "geek" -- if you go over his life history (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVV0r6CmEsFzeNLngr1Jq...) and consider all his activities -- being part of social clubs and fraternities, helping with the basketball team, dating and getting married, playing pranks on people, the affection with which he talks about his wife and children, his humorous outlook, etc -- then there does not seem to be any evidence of what you're thinking. Even the current article speaks of his warmth. But really, we shouldn't be doing this.)
> The reason anyone buys from a startup is desperation. That startup needs to be offering something that cannot be obtained from an existing, stable market player.

Thank you! That is one more encouragement to get my prototype started and think about how to do my marketing.
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Typically in organizations this large, trouble makers are "promoted out" so as to minimize the damage they can do to the organization while minimizing the risk of any legal blow back from an outright firing. I think the author here understands what is happening to him and seems to be describing these events with a sense of melancholy or sadness about being removed from a project or product that he cared deeply about.
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Researchers slam Hola VPN over absent encryption, user IP leaks
Is there data on what percentage of cryptocurrency transactions are "Real, actual, humans buying and selling real, actual, things or compensating each other for their ideas and thoughts" and what percentage consists of "traders shouting at each other in the echo chamber"?

Exchanges use off-chain transactions. When you see a transaction on the block chain, it's very unlikely to be a settlement between two exchange customers because it's far more efficient for the exchange to settle on its own private ledger.

On-chain Bitcoin transactions incur fees. Aside from a group launching an attack on Bitcoin, there's little return for the cost of spamming the block chain.
That's hilarious, I have definitely heard of Walt Mossberg but I have never heard of Carl Sassenrath
That Vice headline is simply not true. They note at the very bottom of their article that no ads "got through" because they never bought any in the first place.
AI has started cleaning up Facebook, but can it finish?
I don't think the author of TFA makes the case he's trying to make at all. And mind you, Python isn't my first or favorite language, and I'm not particularly biased in terms of defending Python. My language of choice is Groovy in most contexts.

Anyway, this all seems like a lot of nit-picking to me. Yes, these "issues" are real, they just don't amount to much. And basically every other language has an equally long list of similar nits you could pick.

If the author had called this "Reasons Python Sometimes Annoys Me" then I could get behind that. But none of this, IMO, reaches of the bar of establishing that the language "sucks".
> If nobody ever heard anything counter to the group-think, the organization itself would very quickly become stuck by momentum.

Indeed, that's a great reason not to fire people when they're honest. And yet, here we are.

At least in SV tech companies, in my experience, people really get their feelings hurt over small amounts of honesty. More importantly, the conversations you'll have to have afterward and the way people will sit on it for months until it comes up in your review make it just not worth it.
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That and the people who cook at home either:

1. Love to cook.

2. Are quite price sensitive.

The first group were never going to use blue apron. They have the skills and the interest to do it all themselves. The latter group is tricky to hold onto: margins must be relatively thin, and there’s a high probability that these users will learn how to assemble their own recipes to cut out even the razor thin margins that blue apron was making.

The result is a rotating user base, and extremely advertising costs to acquire new customers. This is probably why they’re on podcasts all the damn time.
As a single father who sucks at everything kitchen.. i need dis.
> average 3 deliveries per day

Wow. I really wonder what the environmental impact is of just one household doing this. I think I order something once every.. two months maybe? Three? And if I could get the desired electronics in a local store, I probably would.

Edit: To reply to the three initial comments at once, I see your point. I was thinking "but it's not just about the last mile, it's about getting that package all the way from China or where ever it comes from"... but of course, if I buy it in a store, it still had to come from china. Someone driving to your home all day seems terrible at first impression, but even without grouping the deliveries, I guess it might not be much worse than someone who gets groceries by car. I'd be interested to hear about research that looked into the topic.
Stealing mail is a federal offense, so it doesn't matter what the state laws are. Now that applies specifically to deliveries by USPS ( Theft or receipt of stolen mail matter gen­erally [1]). Stealing shipments by UPS or FedEx can also be considered a federal offense if the package crossed state lines during shipment (Theft from Interstate Shipment[2]).

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1708
[2] https://www.justice.gov/jm/criminal-resource-manual-1333-gen...
"took him for a cool $1 billion" is quite a way to spin it. https://jezebel.com/5637920/the-special-hell-of-being-a-star...
My point wasn't to devalue his arguments - in fact, I find them valid arguments. My point was he's using inexperience and/or familiarity with C/C++ as a reason to "hate" it.

He complains about Python developers grep'ing directories when he admits to looking through just as arbitrary of a directory. His complaints about random code execution during import is valid but also seen as a feature _allowing_ metaprogramming. It's just as bad as C/C++ allowing clobbering over memory.

These are features that come with trade-offs. The author is focusing _only_ on the trade-offs and how they don't exist in his favored language as a reason to hate the language. That's certainly fine for his subjective opinion but not as appropriate in a blog post where he is clearly trying to persuade others.
If this were code that I was writing myself it wouldn't be a problem because I always use braces even for single statements. And I do use an auto-indentor. But these issues come up when I'm reading other people's code, especially libraries supplied by IC vendors.

As for pasting, if you're using an IDE that ought to be taken care of for you. I use a vim and the sequence for indenting or de-indenting the text I just pasted is now second nature.

For the first 5 or so years of my career I used Algol syntax (and a bit of Lisp) exclusively. But having been trading off between C, C++, and Python since then I've come to prefer Python's syntax, though not its lack of static types.
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European banks bleed millions from physical cyber attacks via Pi-like devices
Assuming you mean order book (=buy/sell curve), how do you arrive at 80% market manipulation numerically?
Our use of acronyms is getting out of hand.
people have no reasonable expectation of privacy when entering another person's private property. Even if they were invited, you can record in your own house without worry.