skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are HF digital modes a national security risk?
Um what?!? That's astounding.
They don't have any big breakthrough, just hardware-assisted collision detection. That's been done before, by PhysX, later acquired by NVidia.[1] The article doesn't say much about how their collision detection compares with what you can do with a CUDA graphics card.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhysX
I've never had to pay for transportation to an interview - even rideshare/cabs are typically paid for. I would outright reject any company that tried to make me pay for my own airfare and lodging for an onsite interview.
>Over the past 18 months, as I’ve been painted into a villainous caricature, I’ve had lots of time for introspection.

Anthony then proceeds to show literally no level of introspection. The designs he was working on at Google went on to mysteriously turn up at Uber. The designs he was working on at Uber went on to cause someone's death. Arguably his false claims leading to the acquisition of Otto went a long way to sinking Uber's self-driving cars. All either ignored or white-washed. This is clearly not a man capable of self-reflection, which seems like a pretty basic problem.

Any investor would have to ask themselves - if he succeeds will I get a pay off? Or will he abscond with the IP again. Any engineer would have to ask themselves - will I be on the team that finally pays the price for this guy's complete lack of concern for basic safety practices.
You have no idea what the fuck that glitter is made of in the video. Don't assume.

And for the love of god, do not start comments out with "I know i'm going to get downvoted for this"

I flagged you just for that.
Here in town, I'll drive, and I won't charge for the gas. Ditto for the next town over (40 miles).

Plane travel? On my dime? For something where they can decide on a whim not to hire me? Absolutely not. Forget that noise. Ditto the hotel, and meals while I'm there.

I've flown out for job interviews a few times. I have never paid. If I had to, well, no thank you. I'll look for a different job.
I have a set of ornaments of the twelve days of Christmas. Last year I sorted them into order so that I could easily make sure that they were in ascending order on the tree. I'm going to do the same thing in two days time when we put our tree up again. I'll admit that I did it by eye, putting 1 and 12 at opposite ends of a table and then slotting the others into what seemed like the right places.
Speaking of LTV, the power users in online dating can easily be worth several hundred a month. Super swipes and super likes are about $1 each these days and in crowded dating markets you have to rely on them heavily if you're hoping to cut through the noise of everybody else's profiles.

I'm actually surprised Tinder and co haven't started selling an option to bid money to have your profile be seen first in your city. Same as any other real time bidding in advertising. Have users try to outbid each other to be within first x swipes in the city, instead of "potential match in position 10574" that nobody will ever swipe to.

I realize it might mess with their products' Aha! Moment of seeing only super attractive members within your first few minutes of the user journey, but there's likely a ton of money in it, and a way to strike a healthy balance. I know I would probably end up using something like that.

On an unrelated note, seeding your app with "fake users" siphoned from your peer companies sucks if you're charging for the service. You end up having your users spend hours swiping or paying money to connect with fake profiles. Can't be ethical.
Noise-canceling headphones + focus at will (www.focusatwill.com) to get into a productive zone and stay in it.
This is also the norm in the UK.

If you're not in they try and leave the package with a neighbour. If that doesn't work, they'll try again, and if you're not there again, try for for a neighbour again. If that fails for a second time, they leave it at a nearby depot for you to pick it up.

I've never heard of a package being stolen here in the UK.
Maybe you haven't used it in a while but requirements.txt lets you specify packages and lock (or unlock) the version.
Why are you assuming he didn't?
How a global media agency overcame AI silos
TIL this was a thing :-) But then I've never been very good about rules.
"Attorney" is a noun. "General" as used here is an adjective.
It's unusual in that the adjective follows the noun without a hyphen, but it's common enough, and it's where prepositional phrases are seen, like "Big man on campus" and "powers that be".

Did ancient Romans have attorneys general?
Stories like this, and other logistical issues I've personally faced (e.g., counterfeits), have pushed me back to shopping brick-and-mortar for certain things. Yes, I have physically to go to a place to shop, but for some expensive/desirable items, it's more discreet and simpler.
If I know nothing beyond high school biology about taxonomy and nothing beyond a reasonably educated layperson about biology generally, is "The Vital Question" accessible? If not, do you have an example of a well written but quick introduction to the subject matter.

I occasionally read pop-culture articles about, e.g. the discovery of giraffe subspecies, and think about how I'd like to know more about both the human-focused taxonomy side and the evo bio speciation side, but I don't know where to start.
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Dude. Read the whole comment before replying:

But it becomes problematic for me because I either have to eat the same meal 4 days in a row...

"Lunch and dinner throughout the week" is not what parent is looking for.
"Good people" wouldn't want their image degraded by the discovery of such tactics. Even when they don't really do these things but they just potentially could, they will be a target by their opposition (George Soros style).

That means only "bad people" who don't care about integrity would do this.
Just want to express my thanks as well. The final little challenge was my first successful foray into crafting a ROP payload. I found it thoroughly enjoyable and look forward to more of your stuff in the future!
It's worth noting the second can't be used inline.

I don't know the history, but it seems like that might be one of the reasons `x() if y()` isn't allowed in python. [x() if y()] if it existed, might carry an explicit else None.

On the other hand [x() and y()] does something different when y() is falsey.
Isn't that a strawman? Wouldn't a more apt example be:

def foo():
nums = [...]
sum = 0
for x in nums:
print(x)
sum += x

I don't know python well, but it seems like there could be subtle issues with indentation that wouldn't cause a compiler error, but would cause the wrong output.
I didn't do arbitrage but running bots for statistical data via API. I think latency is not even the big problem, although of course you have to account for it when doing arbitrage. The latency can be quite high even during calm periods (also don't forget that exchanges can be on different sides of the globe, that already adds quite a bit of latency).

During times of high volumes as in the period of the last rally, the websites of many crypto exchanges break easily and even the API are not that stable.

You can also see that on reddit. Every time the price spiked, you got people complaining about exchanges breaking. There's still a long way to go for crypto exchanges.
Does it have machine learning and is it on block-chain?
I don't think news media outlets are very concerned about social networks anymore; NYT is on literally every app in everyone's pocket, whereas before it was just in the hands of their direct subscribers and sales.
Bryan Cantrill: Visualizing Distributed Systems with Statemaps
(This is all from memory as a fan, so take it all with a grain of salt and please correct me if i'm wrong on anything!)

So Starlink (the name of the network SpaceX plans to build) is different than most other satellite internet projects. While most try to put their sats in GEO orbit (which is about 35,000 km above the earth), Starlink is going to LEO (their sats are planned to be from roughly 350 km to 1,500 km above the earth, those numbers aren't typos).

Starlink is also planned to have multiple orders of magnitude more sats than any other network (mostly due to the lower orbit, since lower orbits must move "faster" relative to your position on the ground, each individual sat may only be within signal range for a short amount of time).

The latency from a "normal" GEO internet sat is on the order of a second or so for a round trip, the latency for a Starlink sat is expected to be on the order of 100ms for a round trip! They even have some plans which show that it can have SHORTER latency in some cases than ground-based communications!

Throughput is still yet to be shown entirely, but with such a large number of sats which all communicate between the others around them at any given time, and some clever routing algorithms, they should be able to get a worthwhile amount of throughput from the system.

As for future-proof-ness or updates/upgrades, the path is pretty elegant if not a little crazy sounding. Their plan is to just let them deorbit on their own after some time (I believe on the order of a year or so), and constantly replace them with new sats by leaning on the cheap launches that their rocket tech provides. Since the sats are in such a low orbit, the natural drag of the atmosphere will slowly pull them down over time, and I believe they also have self-deorbit capabilities. This solves the issue of upgrades (don't upgrade them individually, upgrade them as a group over time!), and future-proofing it with those upgrades (as the tech improves, so will the constellation over time!)

Hopefully this wasn't too rambling and difficult to understand!
People who think Musk is eccentric/unhinged/unstable/etc should consider a much simpler possibility: He's just a regular guy, and simply does not filter himself like his peers do.

Other people in his position adopt the public/private persona and for the most part just plain shut up. They don't tweet anything than platitudes, they don't joke, they don't speak with random people on Twitter. They probably do this to minimize their downside exposure, but that might not be very effective. Bezos's bland Twitter feed hasn't stopped anyone from making into a villain.

Musk OTOH, makes Monty Python references, fart jokes, strikes up random conversations, shittalks randos etc. Ie, things normal people do. So the downside is a deluge of tusktusktusking at his "unstable" behaviour, but the upside is that a lot of people like him because he comes across like a real person rather than a PR bot.
Another comment in this thread noted this is how Java works. I very much agree with you, but I guess there are different interpretations of how this should behave.
You don't need commas to do that in text parsing either. Newlines, for example, will do.

When spoken, a shopping list is not a sentence. There's a small pause and/or different emphasis on the start of each item that can be learned (humans, for one, can discern it).

"Eggs milk peanut-butter" sounds different than "Eggs milk peanut butter".

(Besides it can easily learn that peanut, singular, is not a thing people order: it's either "peanuts" or "peanut-butter" etc).
I regularly wish python required some sort type indication for function parameters

As others pointed out, Python has optional type annotations and has had them since 3.0. They're static-only (you don't get runtime type checking from them), though, and getting what you want out of them will effectively require every single function, method and variable in not just your codebase but in every third-party dependency and all of their dependencies to be annotated.

Also, annotating "complex objects" tends to be an unreadable mess. If you have lots of functions which take complex objects as arguments, rather than a more clear list of parameters, that's probably not going to be solved by type annotations; it will be solved by rewriting the functions. In other words, you probably will not be helped by:

def foo(o: HugeLongComplexTypeDefinition) -> OtherHugeLongComplexTypeDefinition

But you would be helped by:

def foo(widget: Widget, operation: WidgetOperation, tolerance: float) -> Widget
Mods often manually weigh down stories and it is extremely opaque when it happens.
That doesn't make sense. Of course it's meaningless if you don't know the jargon.

The op says the product devs should "put in effort" otherwise the op will "skip over it and move on". This is backwards because it's up to you to learn things you don't know.
The step emulator is really nice and presented well!
The memo that Sunstein wrote that you're referring to was in regards to competing with corporate power with similar state up-front advertisement spend (think PSA), not subversive mind-control like on display in the posting.

The corporate-owned politicians have spent decades convincing people that if the government tells you something, the gov is lying or somehow up to no good.

Sunstein wanted to push back on that.
Researchers make RAM from a phase change we don’t entirely understand
That's how HN works - a flag is much stronger than a downvote on reddit, more than a couple of received flags will remove submission from front page.
Those aren't commodities (unlike tulips, beanie-babies, and crypto).
Qcsimulator: Open Source Quantum Circuit Simulator
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I've used this tool.

It has two properties I really like:

1. It fits my sense of the justice of proper laziness.

2. It produces repository paths with embedded digests.
>Compared to someone who is super frugal, list driven, plans ahead, has one trip a month to get necessities, and grows their food in their yard, sure, it's more impactful.

That's being disingenuous. There are plenty of more moderate options which are perfectly viable for the vast majority of households, like planning a small amount know advance and getting essentials twice a week, or integrating it into other trips (commuting, school runs, coffee runs, walks).
Yeah, at this point wifi cameras are cheap enough there's not really a reason not to just put a real one up instead of this. 15-30 years ago this might have been a good strategy though. Back then any sort of network enabled camera was kinda pricey, as well as the system to run it.
Thank you! I'm glad you like it. :-)
Damn man, where do you live? I can't imagine that happening in my town, then again, you never really know until it happens to you I guess.
For people interested in this kind of work, I recommend The Tangled Tree, the biography of Carl Woese, who discovered Archaea: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/books/review/david-quamme...

Evolution is interesting but up and down from this level of the tree of life too. I also loved reading "The Beak of the Finch" to learn about evolution in macroscopic metazoans.
I would say it's accessible, yes. My background is CS and math, and I have managed to follow most of it, though I have occasionally got lost on some of the chemistry.
I'd say the exact opposite. One of the best kept secrets in the industry is that people know exactly what they are doing.

There are plenty of positions that are stable and low risk. Like running the exchange itself, all sort of middlemen and some form of arbitrage.

A hedge fund is mostly about funneling as much of customer money as possible to the fund manager. It's a fairly straightforward and risk insensitive business.
Thanks for the mention! We designed Keybase with these exact attacks in mind.
Right. So the next step is covert channels. And given how much high-definition video is bouncing around, there's lots of potential covert bandwidth. Even at the ~0.1% level.
No, if you are a functional developer from haskell, you will not be impressed by F#. Why add silly things like this to your sales pitch if F# is your first functional language, and you're still pretty new to it?
Not unless I had plans to go to that area that week and somehow felt like doing an interview in the middle of my holiday (not likely).

Of course, given I'm in a major capital city where all the jobs in this country are located (London), the only interview that would require traveling to a distant location would either be one in a foreign country that required a visa or be a bad choice to take up anyway. So yeah, unlikely it'd come up.
What about custom models?
Checkout The Pyramid Code series. They bring to light research and theories that tell quite a different story about what Giza may of been and was used for.
> An aside: This site has lovely design.

That line makes your comment look unintelligent and unconvincing ;-)
The sun was a stupid idea that would have never worked. A simple fuck off would have so much better than calling him apedo.
Chips will get better, but we're approaching the limit of Moore's Law in terms of shrinking them to get the exponential gains we've seen over the past half century. The improvements in Hash/W are going to continue to slow until they're not worth the additional cost to fabricate. (Unless some radically new transistor technologies arise)

My assumptions about the cost of mining were assuming that one can count the cost of the mining chip as negligible, which is certainly not the case now, but I believe will be the case in future as the chips get much cheaper, much more abundant and the period between iterations of the chips increases. Industrial miners will use the most efficient chips on the market, but their primary cost will be the electricity.
"coffee cream" AKA "half and half" in much of the US or "half cream" in the UK
>As far as I know this is still not a solved problem for speech to text

Understanding pauses/inflection changes doesn't have to be a "solved problem" to work for cases such as discerning common shopping list style items.

With voices this would be irritatingly unreliable. Everyone talks differently and sometimes people stumble weirdly.

That's an argument against discerning "milk" from "silk" or "coke" from "cork", but that's still managed satisfactorily enough.
You've had some really bad luck, Will. Where do you live? I wanna get far away from there.
> it should never feel _good_ to criticize.

Why not? I feel good when I help someone. I feel good when I have made a great project. I feel good when I made a good decision.

I feel good when I did something good.

Your sentence is true only if we consider a critic as a bad thing, which I certainly don't.
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The spec's solution is to not solve that problem ;)

Dynamic property access isn't allowed for private fields, so it kind of side steps that whole issue.
When HR advises you to do something in particular, feign obliviousness while taking at least a day or two to consult yourself/friends/family/attorneys where applicable - Not coworkers!

HR serves the company, not the employee.
"a lot of tech organizations seem to be fond of saying they want to hear all ideas and judge the ideas on their merits..."

This is often true, but it is also sometimes perceived as true even if it isn't.

I'm very picky about where I'm willing to work, and sometimes that means there can be gaps between permanent positions for me to fill. I fill those gaps by taking contract gigs.

On one such gig, I was working on code that was dismally bad and, given a number of arbitrary constraints from management, couldn't be improved.

I decided that I would try honesty, and tell management my honest assessments of the issues. I figured that this was not a contract that I enjoyed and although I wasn't going to violate the terms by quitting without sufficient cause, it would be a perfectly acceptable outcome if they fired me because I was too outspoken.

So I did. And for the next few weeks, I had a steady stream of permanent engineers stopping me to say variations of "Thank you for speaking out. I've been wanting to say that stuff for years, but didn't want to lose my job".

Weirdly enough, rather than fire me, the company wanted to extend my contract when the original term was up. I declined.
The US is in its third largest housing boom in modern history
150-200 packages is a really light route, 150-200 stops and 300-400 packages is more accurate. This time of year, 250+ stops for a residential route isn't particularly unusual.

Biggest reason to leave a package at the driveway is a fence/gate. A fence keeps stuff in or out, either way, not respecting that is how you end up with stories like this: https://www.khq.com/news/responders-ram-driveway-gate-to-sav...
This is a great point.

Back when I was a kid the choices available within the budget of a lower middle class person of holiday, house location, schooling, medical care, dentistry, food, restaurants, everything was much less.

You were delighted to even be in a restaurant, on best behavior and it would have to be terrible to warrant complaint.

People can now eat and drink pretty much whatever they want from around the world at any time of the year having service business available to cater to every whim that people of a certain level affluence can have their lives very tailored to their tastes and expectations of service.

To then not get that, not be treated as the in crowd or perceive being valued, can be very jarring.

Easy to dismiss as first world problems but I think it’s a real point.
> even if Google takes Chromium in a direction that Microsoft disagrees with or opposes, Microsoft will have little option but to follow along regardless.

I keep seeing arguments like this and it doesn't make sense to me. Help me understand. My impression is that since Chromium is open-source Google cannot have a monopolistic wield over it. And now the fact that a bunch of Microsoft engineers will be contributing to Chromium seems to imply that Google and Microsoft will have the same amount of muscle mass to struggle for control. For example if Google tries to make a change in Chromium that will break Microsoft's products Microsoft can quickly respond to this. So why is the argument that Microsoft is ceding the web to Google, rather than trying to wrest back? To me it seems like the latter is at least as plausible as the former.
When did the guy risk his life? he was just a consultant for the rescue effort.
Great picks!
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What is the difference between "every time" and "seldom" ?

Yelp has no idea how often I eat out at restaurants.*

* just kidding; of course they do; they subscribe to a feed of my location data published by some game on my phone.
/me puts on tinfoil hat

It's even weirder in context. See links below. Was this deliberately manipulated off the front page?

http://hnrankings.info/1/1-10/ (last hour)
https://imgur.com/a/3HUbU2W (screenshot for posterity)
I think the poster got Crystal and Elixir confused. I do sometimes tbh
You can trivially build banned (some places;) inanimate objects at home, but that does not stop legislators from making those that do criminals. You didnt update FaceRegistry? That's a felony, and another felony for modding your 3d faceprinter to break the FR DRM.
I've always been fascinated by dynamical systems, attractors, the "edge of chaos". I was surprised and delighted to find these topics towards the end of a neural nets textbook. That led to a google rabbit hole and a late night...

Recently there's been some headlines about ODE-based networks. Makes me imagine a distant future where analog computers are back and hold an important spot in the world of computing :D
One life lesson that I wish I'd learned earlier: people who didn't ask for your help don't owe you anything. It is often presumptuous and unhelpful to assume that you know what is best.