skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've consulted for companies trying to get a good go to market plan for the legal sector.

The sector is bonkers and the incentives are terrible. Most tech adoption is in the low-margin high-volume sectors, where 'good enough' products are dominant. Superior execution in this segment could lead to big wins. In the low-volume high-margin sector, many firms have proprietary workflows/inhouse staff dealing with their KM needs.

That said, there's a few cute 'novel' approaches in new generation TAR and AI assisted [Insert mass document type sorting/classifying/digesting]. Beyond that I think the big developments aren't going to be in the area of 'can technology do something fundamentally new'. They'll be enabling tools to allow new business models. Think 'data-science consulting, reporting and expert witness testimony for legal discovery databases'.

I also think that overall, professional development tools are underdeveloped, but young lawyers are undercapitalized and the core value bottleneck in low-volume work is the client intake pipeline, not getting good people to do the work.

Edit: Added a missing word.
I really enjoy using Node-RED; I’m using it to handle a number of tasks:

Social media automation

• scrape news sites for legislation stats and tweet about them when they’re changed

• send me push notices when verified and/or popular accounts engage with me or my tweets (via Twitter user activity webhooks)

• notify me when certain thresholds are met with engagement, e.g. when a tweet has reached 500 likes, or its engagement velocity suggests it’s going viral

• auto-retweet posts based on time of day, or if engagement velocity is slowing (so a post has a chance to be seen again)

• brand monitoring/engagement, triggering GA/other analytics events when a tweet mentioning my company or a client is posted/retweeted/replied

Chatbot/Chatops

• Largely replaced Hubot to send notices to Slack channels based on other triggers

• Listens for certain identifiers and auto-expands them (e.g. a ticket number gets linked with a Slack attachment containing additional details from the ticket)

• automate some AWS operations, like spinning up VMs for students

• quick-and-dirty Alexa skills (it’s seriously fun to do this with my kids!)

Data-based navel gazing support, by regularly logging

• my location

• various sensors from my HomeAssistant setup

• all social media engagement

• all email metadata

• other stuff (most of this gets securely posted to a separate ES cluster)

(I use other tools for reporting on those logs, but I use Node-RED as a more visual Logstash to manipulate records.

I could use standalone NodeJS/Python/Ruby/etc for all of that, and I’ll often “graduate” some long-running tool once its specification has stabilized, but I have no performance issues with lots of various Node-RED flows running in a Dokku/Docker setup, and I really enjoy “designing” services for various pet projects as well as for production use by various clients.

I’m still missing a nice OAuth “node” for visually building mashups with third party tools, but since they added git management for flows/projects, it’s been such a joy to work with.

Coolest of all: my kids—who started programming with Scratch—are able to grok the flow-based architecture really well, and they’re currently playing with Node-RED on a BeagleBone Black (works GREAT, btw) I have on the network to automate some stuff of their own, like push notices when their friends post certain things to social media/gamertag feed/YouTube/etc. I’m planning to teach them to use LittleBits (they got kits last year) to do some other things, like tie into our HomeAssistant setup, or to perform physical actions with servos, like making “haunted” Halloween decorations.

It’s a playground, sure. But it’s got the chops to handle serious work-work-type-work, too.
Just from taking a quick look at their description of how it works, this appears to essentially be a glorified pattern-matching approach to decompilation. This is generally the worst approach to take to the issue, since it's extremely brittle and trivial optimization or obfuscation will complicate your approach.

A modern decompiler framework tends to take a very different approach. For native executables, the hardest problems are actually disassembly and higher-level type recovery. Bytecode is easier in that the type information is essentially retained and code is very nicely and obviously differentiated from data; no need to worry about jump tables or constant pools.

Control flow for a decompiler is recovered via some form of control flow structuring; the problem is essentially a graph grammar parsing problem, but this is not an easy problem to solve. In practice, it's the existence of goto-like edges (gotos, breaks, and continues) that really screws things up. It's usually easy to tell what the structure should look like without these edges, but identifying which edges fall into this category turns out to be challenging in practice. Especially if you start trying to undo jump threading.

The other interesting issue is working out what the decompiled variables are and should have been. SSA is actually a pretty clean way to separate out different variables that get assigned to the same register (this identification problem exists even in bytecode, as local variable slots due get reused whenever possible), but doing the PHI elimination and finding out where you've got bitcasted type magic going on (more of an issue for native code) can be a challenge.
RayNet: Learning Volumetric 3D Reconstruction
No, BitTorrent's Plan for Speed Boosts Doesn't Violate 'Net Neutrality'
Eduardo was cool, dude. I saw it in a movie! :D
Women's club the Wing quietly stopped banning men after a man filed suit
The majority of my loans (about 70k of 80k total) had interest rates above 6%, some were over 8%, and my wife's are about 13%. Considering how low the risk to the lender (in that they can't be discharged in bankruptcy) I would say the interest rates are borderline exorbitant.
That Turing guy was on to something..
Soy contains phytoestrogens which certain populations (e.g. women pregnant with male fetuses) may be advised to reduce intake of or avoid. Something to keep in mind as meat replacements become more popular - that it may not be a one-size-fits-all solution.
an example lish:

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["site id", null],
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["site address", " "],
[["staff", 2015, 2016, 2017],
["assistants", null, null, null],
["supervisors", null, null, null],
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Americans use "wee" too
AI Research and 21st Century Pythagoreanism
Last year, I took a contract leading a dev team at a top company here in Austin. The team, largely educated in India, said doing substantial ETL-like cleanup of the pipe-separated 15GB input file would take then about 3 days: 1 day to write the Scala & Java code, and 2 days to process it through the Spark cluster. I shocked them when I called B.S.! I spent the rest of the afternoon showing what you can do with pipelines of grep, cut, paste, and awk. Took 2-3 hours to build the proper pipeline and only 15 minutes to run it on my local laptop hard disk. The sad thing is they were impressed, but still inclined to use the ridiculously complicated cluster pipelines instead, since that was "the way we were taught..."
Another version of this is called "OctoBlu":

https://octoblu.github.io/

https://github.com/octoblu

What I recall of that project:

I first came across the project at a meeting in Mesa or Tempe, AZ where they first started. This was sometime in 2013, I recall going to the TechShop pre-open-house, and also a Desert Code Camp around the same time period.

Chris Matthieu was the leader behind the whole thing, from what I recall. At that time, it was called "SkyNet" (if you scroll to the bottom of their page they mention that - but originally it was only called SkyNet - OctoBlu came later; Chris always mentioned the name change as being better for marketing).

SkyNet/OctoBlu was pretty advanced by this time, so I think it had been in development prior to this for a while. I don't recall when Node-Red first came out, though the GitHub repo has the first release (0.2.0) in October 2013.

OctoBlu/Skynet were later acquired by Citrix:

https://thenewstack.io/citrix-acquires-octoblu-the-drone-net...

...but then sometime later that didn't work out and Citrix dropped them, and Chris open-sourced everything.

Actually, it had been pretty much open source prior to that; in fact almost everything. What wasn't open source was the flow/node editor. Even now, it's difficult to find in the various repos, but if you dig, it is there.

I always liked the project because of how well it worked, how easy it was to create a flow diagram/system using the various node types available (there were a ton of them that I recall), plus how relatively easy it was to create new nodes (all in javascript/nodejs, that I recall).

It's too bad that Citrix didn't keep them around, but I am glad that Chris chose to open source everything for others to play with.
Humans, not AIs, will save us from the endless slurry of fake news
Where are the lab classes in edx?

Where are the vocational courses in edx?

Where are the teaching assistants and the study groups?

Where are the 12+ course bachelors-degree curricula?
So, such a period would be a sensible time and place to look in an examination of cultural factors. The fact that Facebook is still young means that those roots are closer in time than for other companies and would seem to make that more relevant.
Sorry if I didnt understand sarcasm, but in case you are serious, "speculation" is not the same as "store of value." Whether crypto is a good speculation target is a difficult question, but most do not sell crypto as a "speculation target" as its primary attribute. It is also unlikely that something whose primary attribute is speculation can have a positive roi long term.
The technique of attemping to load web accessible resources does not work in Firefox. For starters, Firefox uses moz-extension: instead of chrome-extension:, that's obviously trivial to adapt to, but Chrome then uses the extension's global identifier in those URLs, while Firefox uses a locally generated identifier, specifically to avoid this sort of fingerprinting.
You "just" need to find all the common segments between different downloads; those are very likely to be the actual content, and not differing ads. Naturally this doesn't work very well if the pool of ads is low and you get repeats.
Maybe we should think about location data in a similar way to photographs. Both are generated by smartphone hardware and software, but the person who presses the shutter button legally owns the copyright to the photo, not the device manufacturer or carrier.

Why don't I own the copyrights to my location data, and why doesn't the carrier need to license it from me in order to sell on to these bounty hunters?
Thank you!!!

I spent way too long getting a useless degree in physics at Cal Poly SLO. They wouldn't let you switch majors (because every 17 year old knows what they want to do with their life) but it turns out changing schools is tough when your grades show you've hated your major the last 2 years.

The best thing I EVER did was sign up for classes at Santa Monica College after getting my Bachelor's. They're fantastic - this was a while back, but offering everything from Assembly to Android Dev and having great profs who actually listened to you was fantastic. I can't praise that school highly enough.

Funny enough, my wife and I both took German from _the same professor at the same time_. But I did it at SMC at night for basically free (I think $140 or so), and she paid a couple grand for the privilege at UCLA.

Community Colleges also don't destroy young lives with crushing debt that can never be discharged. We should be encouraging them and end with the cargo cult that is "everyone should go to a 4 year university"
If the "industry" adopts them as a standard, then they could take off (and if not encumbered by intellectual property lawsuit risk). XUL also looked "too Webby" to me, closer aligned to HTML than desktop-like GUI's.
Is that really legit in German? I know Finnish umlauts (ä, ö) get sometimes mangled to ae or oe, but they are definitely not valid alternative spellings nor are they pronounced even close to similar.
You’re right that there is a third option which wasn’t mentioned in the article, which is a non-edible biodegradable separator.
That's something else: x == y, so the difference must be 0. What you said above is

if x != y, x - y != 0

which holds for all x and y, but is different to

if dx != 0, x + dx != x

which fails for some (many!) x and dx.
Yeah, it's more e.g. in DIY scenarios for a central Raspberry Pi or small server coordinating things, not for small nodes.
That's a pretty narrow view you've got there. Hell, there are plenty of non-profit defense companies too.
Faster than JS doesn't make it fast enough. Look at how it fares versus C in those same tests.
I do not have a college degree. I was not speaking about politicians promising to subsidize higher education but I can speak to that anyway. I said that in many parts of the country, even in areas where voters are willing to cast a blue vote, education is viewed as a tool used by the wealthy elite to disqualify the viewpoint of the commoner.

George W. Bush famously spoke of following his "gut" when asked about his decision process concerning foreign policy. In doing so science, research and general means of informed decision-making were dismissed as a way for an elitist to tell laborers that they're too stupid to understand his thought process. The hypocrisy is that he himself went to Yale and Harvard and clearly values higher education; he joined the same secret society at Yale to which his father and grand-father had belonged. This trend has continued to the point that lowly insults are preferred by most voters over policy discussion. This is true of both parties. (e.g. "Pocahontas", "motherfucker")

The reality is that education in and of itself is a societal equalizer. A liberal arts education was developed in the ancient world to equip people with the skills that they needed to live freely as members of a society: logical reasoning, self-expression and the ability to record your thoughts and interpret the thoughts of others. We now speak of education in terms of time commitment and expected pay-off, the massive debt considered an unavoidable nuisance. It is often after a child has selected a college or university that they consider how they will pay (or accrue debt) for it. The elites know that education is a equalizer and that is why they try so hard to frame it as a tool for the enemy of the common people. The last thing that the elites would want is commoners getting wise. When common people do see the value of education they are buried in debt to stifle their upward mobility.

To answer your question, non-college graduates should support the subsidization of higher education because nothing could do more to serve them and their interests. For the time being tough, pursuing an education may mean separating the concept of education from what we have learned to think of as an educational institution. I don't have a college degree and I don't want one (i.e. I don't want to earn one at this time) but I am convinced by the reasoning behind supporting education that has been repeated for thousands of years. In my opinion it is tantamount to supporting the advancement of human civilization and right now we desperately need a renaissance.
I should have made clear just how ancient I am. When I was a kid, it was still the heyday of department stores like Lytton, Goldblatt,and Marshall Field which had their own candy shop selling their own candies, and a department called "millinery." Some of these stores were notably stuffy and seemed to cater to my grandmother's generation. But they were still prosperous. I had never seen a Wal Mart.
I switched to a futon-style very firm mattress several years ago. Now any time we go out of town my back feels miserable in the morning. I honestly don't know why people subject themselves to the torture that is the modern box-spring mattress.

I think people would have much less back issues if they spent the two weeks it takes to sleep on a firm surface. Its all about learning to actually distribute your weight across the surface area of your body.

But I guess I am also relatively young and fit (I.e. 30 and not overweight or obese), so maybe I'm just not representative of the average person.
> Huawei, U.S. authorities assert, retained control of Skycom, using it to sell telecom equipment to Iran and move money out via the international banking system. As a result of the deception, U.S. authorities say, banks unwittingly cleared hundreds of millions of dollars of transactions that potentially violated economic sanctions Washington had in place at the time against doing business with Iran.

> [...] In the United States, Meng would face charges in connection with an alleged conspiracy to defraud multiple financial institutions, with a maximum sentence of 30 years for each charge.

It seems like the sanctions are only part of the story. The charge is to do with defrauding the banks into violating the sanctions.
I think that they're saying it would be interesting to use music detection to have the podcast playback switch from an accelerated playback speed during speech to normal speed when music is detected.
Functions are more like verbs than conjugations. And Verb Subject Object (which is rather lisp-like) is not uncommon among natural languages. Arabic and Biblical Hebrew (Modern Hebrew not so much due to influence from Western languages) use that order a lot.
In my experiences, both as a meat-eater for most of my life and about a year of not eating meat, most of the reason you (or I, previously) couldn't stomach that kind of vector is because (at least in my case) it's the difference between thinking about where the meat comes from vs not. I was fully aware of what animals were, and that they died so I could have that food, but I never really tried to think about it.
Basically, it seems hostile because it makes us feel challenged. That's not to say that no vegans/vegetarians are ever hostile, because they can be, just as much as anyone else can. But overall, the general idea is a challenge to your/our current worldview, and no matter how they word it, we're going to feel challenged.
> Often it doesn't pay to be too early

As the old adage goes -- the pioneers get all the arrows.
I'm not the person you're asking, but most websites offload the ads to a different service on a different server. It's the difference between your favorite podcast performer reading some copy, and a movie on TV fading out to showcase the great deals at Luke's Honda Dealership & Taco Shop Come On Down For The Tastiest Deals In Town.

It also strongly indicates that the podcast author has vetted the ads, and is at least implicitly approving of the product; on the web, it's very likely that the author has absolutely no idea what ads are being shown to their visitors.
The same reason why you'd put money on Gold or the Stock market. Exposure. People are not putting money on crypto because they are not exposed to it. Ever wonder why the stock market bubbles out of fundamentals?
Yeah, exactly.

They supported the Iranian revolution expecting they will be able to control the outcome. That was ending the British relationship and starting an only American one with their oil.

This worked out pretty well in Saudi Arabia, which was very primitive and had very small population.

In the end,though,in Iran they are Muslims first and Iranians second, with a long History. They could have accepted all the money from infidels that they could get, and promised whatever to them, but their own religion says they could(and should) lie to infidels. So they did it.
I see food from hit bars and restaurant take-out in cardboard sometimes too, but this is prepackaged supermarket sushi.
Unlikely. The main difficult issue between python 2 and python 3 is in library changes, where features such as what type range() returns or the handling of Unicode strings impact code correctness. Transpilation would mostly be an issue of providing the expected library semantics along with a fairly simple AST transformation, which doesn't require the lossiness of compilation/decompilation.
I don't think it's enough or sufficient to make "bad" actions against the law. It's better and more comprehensive to make it difficult to take "bad" actions and "easy" to take good ones.

People break the law all the time, and if you're high enough up the food chain Eric Holder will leave you be.
The UN has peacekeeping forces deployed around the world, using soldiers taken from members' militaries. Mostly in Eastern Europe & Africa.
Has Uber started actually turning a profit yet?
it kind of looks to me like someone ran amok in the 8020 catalog. It looks pretty cool, in that prototypish kind of way.
I'm always baffled when I see the stuff employees complain about in SF. Not that they're wrong, but my experience is that these things are 100% standard across the board.

I've never worked somewhere that I could openly call out my chief executives in front of the whole team and not expect that to be a thoroughly career limiting move.

I've definitely never worked anywhere that I could organize protests and still expect to have a job by the end of the day. (I'm aware of unionized workplaces that do this on a semi-regular basis, but that's about it and you can bet that participation guarantees you won't be considered for joining management any time soon.)

I hesitate to say y'all are entitled, because maybe you're right to be doing this. Maybe I'm jealous. I dunno. But I feel like at a minimum the people at these companies don't recognize how uncommonly privileged they are to even be able to voice their concerns like this.

By all means, fight the good fight, but if you ever leave the valley... good luck to you.
> there is an implicit but well known notion

I wish it was well known. There are many people who don't even realize that Bash and Bourne shell are two different things. From there they assume that if their system runs it correctly, then it's portable.
my bias would be towards achieving that goal with a demo of quantum computing :)
"Sadly if everyone did this it would probably mean we would only see cows, sheep etc in zoos, rather than grazing in fields."

Eh, not really, as cows and sheep and goats still provide valuable resources. Milk and wools, for example. I'm guessing lots of other things can be taken as they die naturally - leathers and stuff from bones and pet foods and whatnot. Sure, we could eventually engineer ourselves out of needing farm animals, but it is going to take some time.

Granted, I am excited for this meat/burger to be available to the public even if you shy away from eating it. I don't eat meats outside of fish anyway and I'm always excited to get tastier edible stuff.
Shameless plug, but for WebXR on Magic Leap github.com/webmixedreality/exokit has been the go-to for a while.

I wrote it because I found browsers too slow to move on features like html to texture (powered by webrender) and multi-site blending, which become quite manageable if the browser core is written in JavaScript.
I agree. But I don't think this is targeted at established vegetarians though. Maybe those who want to eat less meat, or stop but don't know how?
To the people complaining about the format, does it make more sense if you look at it in the context of a social media story? It looks weird as images presented vertically on the New York times website. But this would be right at home in an instagram feed.

I personally appreciate the hand drawn look and artwork, but supplementing that with a text version would be an improvement for many reasons.
Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen debate trajectory of innovation