skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hah actually you made me curious now :-)

Knowing the FOSS community a bit, I'd personally imagine every GitHub repo flooding with subtly pedantic but well-meaning issues and pull requests titled "fix licensing".

Thanks again for your thoughts by the way.
Why Founders Fail to Grow Their Business
Yeah, good idea, swapping is faster than refilling. It'd work as long as all the containers are a standard.
Facebook's not providing some fungible supply of something. They are taking in text and using their own methods to choose which to feed back, often being paid for it.

If the nuclear plant lets people send in fuel, it needs to inspect it before use.
I just saw this on twitter - it's a lovely bit of work.

In the depths of broke-ness as a cofounder a couple of years ago, I purchased this book for myself; it was a total extravagance at the time (£20). This gloriously drawn recreation of one of maths greatest works was the perfect relief from the stress of life. Highly recommend checking out the original work if you haven't (in any of its forms).

I don't know about the author's background, but he's gone to great pains to get this right. I'd love to see a version where the SVGs were created programatically so they could be tinkered with like in this brilliant game https://www.euclidea.xyz/
Here is good info I have found: https://cabstartup.com/signup/
> tracking who is around your computer at given times

I used to use Smokeping for that back in 2002-3. Had a Vaio running Linux that did `hcitool ping [Sony Phone]` every 5 minutes. Was most amusing.
Here's a book dedicated to compiling closures to C:

http://t3x.org/clc/index.html

It starts with lambda calculus and ends with compiling a tiny Scheme subset to portable C code.
Nobody except Roy Fielding.
Not "extremely probable" -- it says "extremely possible", which is a malapropism or a new phrase. It's easy to mistake because it has no clear meaning. The comparison, though, does not appear to be D's win vs D's lose, but D's win by more than X vs D's lose, and the latter clearly (imo) suggests D is favored to win.
This is a good description of how to use command line tools to connect to BLE devices.

This is not hacking or reverse engineering, but it can be used for it. Also don't forget the Ubertooth, or multiple of them. Useful if you need to listen over multiple advertisement channels and need to know which channel receives what. Have fun!
So sad, but how is it related to HN?
Founders can't grow their business because they don't have proper plan and research to grow and scale their product. If you are startup or business and want to scale your business then here is a good platform I came across: https://cabstartup.com/
Nice work, but citing the FAQ:

> How does it work?

> We use sophisticated AI technology to detect foreground layers and separate them from the background.

You use "sophisticated AI technology"?

Why can't you write, that you trained a CNN and do some image postprocessing? This kind of voodoo-language turns me as a potential technical customer completely off.
To try and explain Taleb's argument as simply as possible:
If someone tells you today that an event is 100% certain, and tomorrow tells you that it is impossible, then you intuitively will not trust their forecasting. If it's certain, then it's certain not to be impossible tomorrow

Now if someone tells you something is a 90% chance today, and a 10% chance tomorrow, again you don't trust their predictions.

There is a probability associated with "changes in probability". The probability of going from 100 to 0 should intuitively be 0%. The probability of going from 90 to 10 intuitively must be something like 20% (it's like 80 of the 90s "didn't happen", with a probability of 20).

A key point is that you can add this up every day, if something goes from 90->10->90 then it's even more unlikely than going 90->10.

So if you extend that intuition, put some real maths behind it, you can tell whether something is "likely to be a real probability" by the rate at which it changes. And if you have lots and lots of repeated predictions, you can be confident that something isn't a good probability (every timeseries has like a <10% chance of doing exactly what it does, so their combined probability [of being good probabilities] is like 0).

Now Nate Silver accepts this, but says that he's not actually putting a probability on the event in the future, but some non-existent "probability on that event in the future if the future was now". But that doesn't correspond to anything useful or measurable (it's untestable!!), and most people will assume it follows the normal meaning of probability, and it's honestly just silly.
The comment you replied to didn't say anything about segregation. And don't say it was implied. Plenty of people of all races would be happier using a social network where the founders care significantly about discrimination.
Child labor
This waste wasn't created from power generation and bringing up power generation is misleading.
Startup should be promoted. Just like Cabstartup do: https://cabstartup.com/
Wait till all the chemicals used for fracking finally make the drinking water of big cities unusable.

And no, Europe won't take refugees from the US.
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Your second point is kind of confused. You don't need the prediction to coincide with the event, to judge the quality of the prediction. If I predict the elections for 2 years time then you can still judge whether I got it right or wrong. If I do that for multiple elections for multiple cycles, you can decide whether I'm a good forecaster.

If I then make another prediction that's always 1 year out, you can decide how good that prediction is and start to make a curve of how good my predictions are by how far out they are.

Taleb is saying that the blue line is so incorrect it's meaningless and deceptive and Nate should product a red line which is a real probability that he can actually be judged on.
It's a great idea and I am all for efficiency. My only worry is that the vertical alignment of the dots drastically alters the word. a,b,c,d,e are all the same exact black square, just moved up and down the vertical axis. Same with p, s, and v. It's the equivalent of python requiring precise spaces for it to work properly.

I guess I should hold any comments until I actually try it properly, but that would take me years :)
I think you are wrong. Often popular things become popular due to deceit. Take tobacco for an example. It's (past?) popularity does not make hating on it a fad. People were told it was good. You can make friends over a smoke. It does have some beneficial effects, physical and social. Then it is likely to kill you after ten, twenty, or thirty years. It will destroy your family bonds and make your children ill. It is bad for society and people on so many levels. Facebook is different only in form. People who have been hating on it forever aren't doing this to be special, despite how convenient an explanation that might be. They get it. Facebook is social cancer.
The demos look awesome, but unfortunately it works neither in FF 64 nor Chromium 71 even without adblocker:
It keeps saying: "Removing background ..." and does not show an edited version of the uploaded image.
Flash version, if your browser still supports it: http://blahg.res0l.net/2009/01/bastet-bastard-tetris/.
It works as a spend able exchange of value and as an investment. Just not very well. I've done both of those.

Given the not very well bit, it's main use in reality is doing stuff discouraged by governments such as buying drugs and pushing scammy investments.

Whether it will develop beyond that I'm not sure.
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Haha that’s a great example. Those are definitely areas where the written language has room for improvement. I could also imagine myself making a similar mistake.

Regardless, I’ve always been impressed that the Chinese can make such a bold change as their written language yet here in the United States, I’m still arguing with people who don’t know how many feet are in a mile as to why we should switch to metric. :)

If I ever get around to making my “hyper language”, I’ll be sure to post or let you know. I imagine it will likely be “not-very-user-friendly”. haha
> too cheap to pay for spam detection tech.

Can you suggest alternative?
I don't usually come to Hacker News to laugh hysterically, but thank you for that great start to the day.
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> Second — despite this sudden, unexpected flood of users, our servers at Voxeet stayed up and running! Our backend devs performed a few modifications to hand our huge new user base, but otherwise this unexpected stress test proved our just how solid our devs and architecture actually are.

Really impressed by this part to be honest. Good job on having built such a stable backend service, speaks for your product, too.
Came across this really interesting read today, and wanted to share it here.
To be fair, you could use your exact post to argue in favor of Juicero, uBeam or Theranos.

More in-depth, yes, a lot of posts here are criticizing - but it seems to me, a lot of it is constructive criticism from someone who actually did find the idea interesting.

I personally would find a HN where each post is just a variant of "woah that's super cool!" a lot less interesting.
Ah, I'm aware of at least one copy protection system where a bit was set so that if read multiple times, would give multiple answers.
If you ripped it, it would be read as a definite 1 or 0, but the loader relied on it being read differently on multiple runs.
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Not qualified to speak on this myself, but I asked a similar question to a friend and he said something like:

Part of good software development is knowing where and when to create abstractions. Category theory has a collection of interesting and very general abstractions - if you can spot these patterns in your software development then they will be good candidates for abstraction/generalisation
Ah, so in your example we're using the term "turn-by-turn navigation" in the textbook accurate version of the term (actually evaluates each turn as you go in case something has changed or the driver missed the turn, etc) to contrast it with a series of turn by turn directions given on a single query prior to the trip (like printing off directions before you leave).

So, to get even more specific with contraction hierarchies, google maps has a feature where you can avoid highways, and/or avoid tolls, and/or avoid ferries.

So in this scenario google has likely done "customization contraction hierarchies" as described here https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2886843

Therefor to answer the original question of this thread, is a* is superseded by contraction hierarchies, the short answer is yes if you have even the slightest amount of time to preprocess a graph (If i'm understanding gugagore and reference material correctly).

However, the answer is no in a more arcane/toy/hypothetical context. In an example of something like a randomly generated massive pac man vs ai ms pac man game where one of the two can can win if he/she reaches a single randomly generated exit first, contraction hierarchies don't really help/apply over a-star. The randomly generated map sort of implies we don't even want to give the computer time to preprocess the map, ultimately its human a-star-ish vs ai a* in real time, while trying to avoid ghosts. Otherwise we could simply give the preprocessed shortest path to ai ms pacman upfront, and tell the ghosts to avoid ai ms pac man. This would seem very similar to the player, but would be far less insightful for someone trying to learn and understand a* vs contraction hierarchies and pathfinding in general.
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first amendment

Second Amendment, I think you mean.
I don’t think anyone anywhere has achieved general GPU offload for a general purpose language yet, so your idea that it would be easier than writing a lisp compiler, which we’ve done millions of times, is probably not realistic.
What I still don't understand is how companies like MaxMind (basically a fraud rating based on IP addresses and some other criteria that is mixed together) or the german Schufa (credit rating) are still able to operate under GDPR. But in general I feel the idea and effect it had is a good thing even though the days before it went live were plain ridiculous.
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Do you perform well under stress ?
The more realistic experience could make your perform worse if you do.

Could also be exhaustion. Do you notice an trend in that regard?
And you just have to drink 500ml red wine to cancel the negative effect of a cigarette on the heart [1], so in the end you can go home from the pub with better breathing and with the same arteries.

This what I call science at its best ;)

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/1440278/Re...
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If you look at the history of Bitcoin's price, it has dropped 80+ % about three times before and then bottomed and gone up like 10x over the next three or so years. I find that quite a good argument to put to the next bunch of suckers.
I'm guessing the GP has never owned any vinyl. I could forgive someone questioning the density of records if he's not familiar with the tech.

I'm old enough to know about vinyl. That's not really the point though - the principle is the same, just with much higher information density. With a suitably high resolution camera, or set of cameras, or video, and some serious magnification it should be possible to photograph a DVD and play back the data from the image. I find that quite interesting, or at least entertaining, to think about. I guess the HN readers who're downvoting the post don't.

Something to consider - technically we can already do it - it's how DVD players work, albeit with a single coherent light source and only reading one bit at a time.
I don't think POST-ing to a /delete-records resource goes against REST, the original one, not the “common” one.
I'm sorry about what you had to go through, and it should be taken seriously.

But that doesn't mean it's more productive to frame racism as an 'everyone' problem. It's primarily a directional problem, and attacking the imbalance helps many cases like yours too. Taking away discrimination lets people focus less on us-vs-them.

A generic "don't be shitty to people" is a correct message but not a compelling one. It doesn't help people very much.
Ah, my mistake, I switched GRPS and UMTS in my head. In my country, you are being capped to GPRS speed when your limit is reached.
Ask HN: How do you handle your mental lows?
I've been working on a project of mine. I even have a small number of users that care about the product. Yet from time to time I fall into the feeling that everything I'm doing is worthless, extreme self-doubt and feeling that while others are moving ahead with their lives I'm just stuck and useless.

It usually lasts 1-3 days making me unable to be productive. It used to be worse and last week(s). What I learned is to remember how these lows feel. Nowadays I know that "It's just another one of those, it shall pass".
I also try to get very analytical when it hits and find out why do I feel like that.

I have a few questions.

(1) Is this normal? If I take a look at, let's say famous, entrepreneurs on Twitter, for example, most of them seem to know what to do and seem to be very pragmatic. Whereas I just often feel completely lost and I feel like I'm throwing my life away and not being good enough.
But the things is I love this! I love the whole process of creating new things and figuring them out. I can't imagine myself doing anything else. It's just these lows that I don't know how to handle.

(2) If you experience similar feelings do you have any tips on how to handle them?
If it is so bad, why isn't anybody making a short, accessible story out of it?

I read as far as the cancer map. I wonder if the population density is perhaps simply higher around the creek. I can't tell from the map.
I threw away the finger technique, and now I use an instant thermal probe. Works 100% of the time.

+1 for the beurre, but don't forget to buy more for the sauce!
It's all about the sauce.
The Intl.ListFormat API
The main reason to write a new Lisp compiler based on LLVM was the full integration with the hundred of thousands c++ lines of code he previously wrote.
lol'd at FB customer support.
sometime in late 2017 someone with a Pakistan IP has somehow made 2 pages about flowers on my FB account, created an ad account and ran 2 ad campaigns on them.

weirdly enough they paid for the first campaign, but removed their card details afterwards.

FB nags me on my wall to update my credit card info for a failed payment of ~20$, a year after I wrote two emails to them explaining the situation.
A 16x DVD drive is around 21MB/s output. Any modern hard drive is likely to have 5-12x the sequential write performance as a 16x DVD drive. Shouldn't be any need for SSDs.
>> Source: do UQ in day job.

UQ: Uncertainty Quantification.

(Not, say, Universal Quantifiers, etc).
we are about to add new servers to handle the load
people in china don't get a say. many are already irritated by the new points system but are afraid to speak out. china spins every further towards implosion
>I'm not sure what upset this Mr. Graffittis so much, but he seems to be excessively angry with HTTP verbs

One thing that upsets me is pop psychology and second guessing of emotions (about "being upset", "excessively angry", etc) instead of arguments.

>Have fun with it.

Engineering is not about having arbitrary fun with whatever "standard" we are given.
Fine, the Neo-Nazi already has a pistol but you want to sell him an AK-47. Sure, it'll be used to murder innocent people, but there's nothing to indicate he would have kill more with your gun than the gun he already has.

Google is technologically superior to Baidu, and well, basically every company in the world. Less people using VPN = more people exposed. Superior tech = can imprison/murder more innocent people. More companies and governments supporting China with tech + billions = they'll become evermore powerful and continue to do great evil. Google becoming financially dependent on China will give their government more leverage to force Google to share data and add backdoors to their other applications, and they'd be more likely to help build other tools that will help their government build a dystopian surveillance state.

Do I boycutt all Chinese goods? No, but I do avoid everything "Made in China" whenever it's possible (e.g. clothing, DSLR camera, etc.), and I try to discourage other people and companies from doing business with China, as well as protect their online privacy.
Ok it just says "Removing Background", and never finishes that. Is it HN Effect?
Do you honestly believe that's the only reason?

Like, do you think Facebook is a paragon of virtue being kept down by the big bad old media?
> Also, I, personally, find that portion of REST to be silly. I like the organizational hints and guidelines, but the resource discovery seems far too pipe-dreamy to ever be built on a large scale.

The amount of work really isn't that great when compared with having to layout routes.

Proper HATEOAS is like unit testing: people complain it takes too much work but then complain that the lack of tests is a problem.
A minor nit, but memory tagging is in ARMv8.5, not 8.3.
Oh they apologised? Well everything is cool then.
I could have done a SEP but AFAIK the only difference is supposed to be less expenses vs. a 401k, but my 401k plan admin has very low fees. Also not sure if the SEP allows for a pre-tax benefit for the employee.
Yep - difference between empathy (explaining) and sympathy (justifying).
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Just configure it to not pronounce the "Mathematical Bold Franktfur Small" bits
Any CS book on garbage collection algorithms worth its place on a good paper bibliography, places reference counting among the possible implementations of garbage collection.

What the common dev without compiler background knowledge calls GC is actually named as tracing GC on CS literature.
> maybe we'll learn the lesson that shorelines aren't constant, and stop building right on the water?

Coastal cities will never /not/ be a thing. The ocean and river mouths contain very many important resources for societies to ignore.

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> rise will be slow enough that no one's going to drown.

It depends on the solution: the cheapest usually is to build seawalls, and this obviously puts the city at greater risk of flooding.

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The comment you're replying to states rising sea levels as an example. There are, of course, known consequences that you don't address. To name two, it is a very direct consequence that 1) the weather will get more violent, with the additional amount of energy it contains, leading to a more frequent occurrence of natural disasters. Next, a change in climate will cause a massive redistribution and likely destruction of land suitable for agriculture, as well as lower overall quality for agricultural land, thereby 2) threatening worldwide food security.
Nope, since this is a GmbH, they don't need to publicly disclose their numbers. But I read they have about 4 million members.

I agree on 20k not being very much given the circumstances. However this is the first time that a company had to pay for a thing like unhashed passwords at all. So I guess it's a step in the right direction.
Modernized version of sc:

https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im
Hello! What's the bigger app? Are you still working on that and this is just a nice little side project?
Debian & its friends have it as “bastet” package if you want to give it a try.
Should've used pepper spray and glass wool.
This is a question I would encourage everyone to use a search engine for. To answer your question: https://edps.europa.eu/data-protection/our-role-supervisor/c...
Think the Archives have the film reels, strips, which you're free to go look at and copy whenever you want. Amazon paid to digitize them and put them on the DVDs, so Amazon gets to make the rules for the DVDs.

I assume the film is still around in boxes, so event he DVD window drops someone is still free to go digitize them again, but given how fragile film is that's touch and go.
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Well, state machines can also be implemented as coroutines, so...
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That's the reference, yes.
Neural Networks and Graph Algorithms with Next-Generation Processors [pdf]
In addition to state, coroutines can also have side effects. So you kinda need effectful, stateful "finite" state machines to get started.
Dragonfly is a search engine with the ability to track people who use it, said ability being there for the express purpose of cracking down on political dissent.
To what extent can RISC-V adopt ideas from MIPS, assuming compatible licenses? Is it not really transferable because of core differences?
cannot test now. "Removing background ..." :-(
Hey, that's me! :)
I haven't looked at this in ages. That's a walk down memory lane.
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you should warn people about the average wait
Of all the very rightful criticisms leveled at Trump, ridiculing him for not putting his money into index funds is one of the worse ones. Building businesses is its own reward. People don't get it that just like painting or writing, people can get satisfaction from seeing a venture to completion or inking a good deal
Unreadable code – can it be a good thing?
A super-active region at the Sun and coronal mass ejections