skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've worked with both. The simple items are nicer in ansible but when there are a lot of custom roles and functions ansible isn't much better than chef from what I've seen in practice.
I wonder if Threefish would have been a better option. It's often overlooked.

Threefish has native support for disk encryption, since it has a tweak built right in. So rather than having to use a complex construction like Adiantum, you can just use a single primitive. Threefish is ARX, just like ChaCha. And its speed is within the ballpark (Wikipedia says 3.95cpb for ChaCha20; 6.1 cpb for Threefish).

Whether or not Adiantum as a construction is proved secure, its complexity will lead to increased risk of implementation failure.

In other words, you can choose to attempt to maintain secure implementions of ChaCha, Poly1305, and AES (which is notoriously difficult to get right without side channels). Or ... just implement Threefish (which is as simple to implement as ChaCha).
I use a pair of Jabra Evolve 75 headphones and use them over bluetooth on my Apple Macbook Pro nearly every day. I love them because the microphones do an excellent job of transmitting my voice and suppressing of the chatter from people nearby.

I don't say that no one else should have a problem but just to counter some of the comment here that imply that these headphones never work with Bluetooth.

Now about that customer support...
A deeper tech concern is at the core of the U.S.-Huawei spat
Makes me think that the NYPD doesn't have any direct connections to Google.
You can’t get 20x leverage on the upside without 20x leverage on the downside (unless you pay for it).

There are not tons of way to get excess risk adjusted returns.
It's probably more one or two of the parents he has to worry about.
Speaking generally about Google News, it's amazing that Apple of all companies has leap frogged Google News with Apple News in terms of customization on top of curation.

It's infuriating when a redesign has half the functionality of the original. It's not like it was feature-rich in the first place!

It's silly not being able to remove entertainment (aka celebrity gossip) or sports (even if I was a sport fan, I probably wouldn't care about every sport -- why can't I filter to MotoGP or what have you?) and having science be mostly several times regurgitated pop-sci and health be mostly fearing mongering nonsense.

I also regularly notice failures where articles they group together are almost entirely unrelated.

In the end, I still do RSS (although support in certain areas of interest are pretty weak) and Twitter (in a read-only fashion) and go to Google News over Apple News only by habit.
I bet he/she.they either 1. made fuck-you-money and retired 2. burnt-out from the stress and decided to make slightly less large piles of money in return for less stress.
I don't know what you are doing wrong but my 280 is still going strong at 1080p. I can run at least medium on the newest stuff and usually get 60fps if not more.
I would say 100% of web "sites" are built on CSS and HTML, web services on the other hand is what really pays to learn.
I can't find a quote like this -- is there any chance you have the source?
I don't think Bezos's post was necessarily a tell-all of everything they could have against AMI though. It just looked like the first shot.

IANAL, no evidence, just opinions, etc.
My local corner store is run by Palestinians who have no compunction telling me in front of the mostly black clientele that they [aforementioned clientele] would “never survive in the old country because there’s no welfare there.” This was greeted during the recent government shutdown with grumbled threats of riots if SNAP wasn’t sorted out. Mayberry and Bodega Cat they all are not.
>For example, in jointly learning to align and translate, the attention is certainly not invariant to number of context vectors. You train the attention to take in a fixed number of context vectors and produce a distribution over the fixed number of context vectors

That's not true.

You compute an attention weight across however many context steps you have by computing an interaction between some current decoder hidden state and every encoder hidden state, and normalizing over all of them via a softmax. There is no constraint whatsoever on a fixed context length or a fixed number of context vectors. See section 3.1 in the paper.

I will be happy to discuss and clarify over email.
Management might consider $0, a -, or blank to be an indicator of poor performance, whereas "cash" clearly indicates "I tipped, just not via my card".
I found this site for comparing my mixes to the requirements of different streaming sites before uploading:
https://www.loudnesspenalty.com/
Your writing style is verbose and bombastic. Do you write often? I'd enjoy more of this.
> a mysterious process with hidden rules, gotchas and changing goal posts, designed only to allow the largest, well-known of publishers in

I have also experienced, quite often, the opposite problem, i.e. very low quality sources creeping into my Google News feed. You know those clickbaity sources that primarily aim to create "viral" articles to be shared on Fb and other social media sites? That type of website. Especially in Google News' thematic sections, e.g. "health" or "entertainment" or "technology". For this reason I now seldom visit Google News.
Maybe Google News is in a death spiral towards cancellation.
There is a different level of criticality for "my post didn't go through, hit refresh" and "my transaction didn't go through - the restaurant said my card isn't working."

Would you honestly want to go to a bank and say "if we unplug this, we can find out what fails."
JSON shouldn't have comments added to the spec, because people shouldn't be trying to read or write JSON. It's an application interchange language, meant to be written and read by machines. YAML is a markup language, meant to be written and read by people. Ever notice how most YAML libraries don't even have a "dump" function?
These stories with Amazon, Postmates, etc are getting traction because they're tech companies. At least now more people are realizing that this practice is in addition to existing abuses against service workers.
I would recommend starting with something like Duolingo. It will give you a head start on listening comprehension and grammar.

In my opinion, reading texts is more efficient than listening to conversations. It's basically "on demand language streaming", you can slow down or speed up as desired.
It takes less than an hour of paperwork to spin a new business entity that is exactly the same as old. Bankruptcy laws limits financial losses for owners. Entities like AMI are often set up in a way so such financial losses would be negligible, if any.
Ask HN: Why did the Jeff Bezos post fall off suddenly
The Jeff Bezos post was the number one post on HN a few minutes ago. And now it’s gone from the first (and second) pages. Usually I see graceful degradation of post as the lose oomph. But how can the post just drop off suddenly? Am curious How does the hn algo work
Oh sure. I was talking in the context of Thiel and Gawker, not Bezos and the National Enquirer.
I assure you it's optional.
I think it's only for their Amazon Fresh / Amazon Prime Now deliveries, not the general "we're replacing USPS / UPS" ones.
In NJ they announce the checkpoints ahead of time in local newspapers. This is (presumably) to avoid breaching the 4th amendment.[1] Otherwise police would have to establish reasonable cause to pull a car over. Or at least that's what a shitload of case law looks like (they had a window obstruction or were driving 'erratically', for instance)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Department_of_State_P...
Jeff Bezos goes public with alleged AMI blackmail over nudes
Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions as well as you did.
Standard Ebooks has it, too:

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/epictetus/the-enchiridion/...
I think HN has Trump bots.
Peter Jackson says "I mean" 27 times in that interview.
> As we can see here, this is obvious.

Funny and to the point. That’s kind of what I saw every time before. Now I’m learning with Fastai, and feel like finally someone made it easy for the rest of us.
What struck me was how brazen AMI was about the blackmail. Then I realized: they were comoftable doing it that way, putting it in writing, because in nearly every other time they've done this, it worked.
Both this article and solid itself are unmitigated nonsense.
I don't see a reason that a DSL can't be Turing complete and still a better option than an existing language. If you look at old-school make files, they are little more than shell script with top level rules that you can invoke from the command line. You could theoretically just use shell script but the make scripts still simplify the task quite a bit.
Yeah I feel bad for Owen, but the site is pretty clearly a personal blog and not a news outlet. Just reading through samples of the articles and newsletter a lot of it is personal opinion and personal perspective. A lot of "I" in the blogposts. There's nothing wrong with that for a blog, but I don't expect my news articles to be about some guy named Owen and his opinion. I want impartial news that just sticks to the facts. Personally I think that Google News is working completely as intended to keep this personal blog from showing up as news, because if it did show as news then so would the thousands of other small personal blogs, and Google News would be worthless.
> He might have made a worldwide empire which drives the economy, but he also helped wreck small-town shopping alongside costco and walmart, and their international cohort of economically efficient traders.

I'm of two minds about this:

1) Yes, exactly what you described happened and wiped out a lot of decent, local jobs

2) Holy hell, the vast majority of local businesses were mindblowingly horrible. From customer service to selection, they were just Bad with a capital B.

My go to story (I have many) was a local auto dealership who accidentally broke the back window on my parents car. No big, shit happens. Until this conversation:

Dealership comes out to talk to me at 11:00AM: "We're done with the car repairs, but, sorry, we broke the rear passenger window."

Me (waiting in the coffee area): "Well, that's annoying. But, no big, I'll pick up the car tomorrow then."

Dealership: "Um. It won't be done tomorrow."

Me (eyebrows just shot up): "Would you care to explain why it won't be done tomorrow?"

Dealership: "Well, the window isn't in stock locally."

Me (skeptically): "Okaaaaaaaay. So, then get it from Pittsburgh."

Dealership: "Um, it's not in stock there, either."

Me (starting to get steamed): "So, then get it from New York or DC and finish it the day after."

Dealership: "Well, they don't have stock either."

Me (getting well and truly wound up): "Really? I find that excessively difficult to believe. My mechanic in California is probably awake right now. I'm about to call him to find this window and have it sent here via FedEx if required. If I call him to look this up, am I really going to find that there is no stock?"

Dealership: "Erm, well...they have it in Pittsburgh, but it's an extra $20 to have it shipped tomorrow since our normal shipment just came yesterday and we're not scheduled for another one until mid next week."

Me (hitting the roof): "So, let me get this straight: your mechanics broke my window and I'm going to be down a car for almost a week because you lying dipshits are worried about 20 fucking dollars. GET THE GODDAMN WINDOW, ASSHOLE! I will pay the twenty dollars myself, if necessary. However, I WILL find someone at GM and make his life miserable until he calls this dealership's owner and makes his life miserable. GET MOVING AND GET THAT WINDOW NOW!!!"

This was around 5 years ago. While I still occasionally have an absolute gem (my favorite candy store from my hometown, for example), my general experience is that local customer service is worse than the big companies--something that you wouldn't think possible.
Of course you're a local. It's ridiculous to judge a person's involvement with their community by how much money they can afford to waste at specialist shops. I grew up in a town that had little shops like that, but the only businesses that were at all accessible to me was the coffee shop and a diner, both of which were priced competitively with chains. My parents had to drive a town over because the only local grocery was an "organic" hippy place that charged double.

But I attended public school in that town, I attended church in that town, I volunteered at the community center, I basically spent every afternoon after class at the public library in that town. I learned to play harmonica on the sidewalk of that town. I knew the names of the old people and disabled people who hung out in the same places I did, places that wouldn't kick you out for not having extra money to spend. So yeah, I knew families that loved to brag about how they support small business by buying $40 books and statues of gnomes made by a well known artist. They usually sent their kids to private schools and had to drive in 15 min from mcmansions in a private neighborhood b/c as much as they enjoyed spending money in my town, they wouldn't dream of living in my part of town, next to the old mill houses and apartments. (That's all starting to change with some gentrification though.)

So yeah, people who don't have the luxury of being loose with money are absolutely locals - and it's ridiculous to suggest otherwise.
I hate to point this out, but it's been 10 days from re-launch and you're still on just that first episode from 2017.
Ahh... The VAX war. http://bogpeople.com/funny/content/vaxwarstory.html

> VAXen, my children, just don't belong some places.

Suffice to say... yes. There are fire suppression systems that will pull oxygen out of the room. People are advised to leave the room before the fire suppression system takes effect.
Assuming Jeff Bezos' quotes of their emails are accurate, it seems like a pretty open-and-shut case of criminal blackmail. I looked at Wikipedia's tiny entry for "blackmail in the United States", and it is definitely not federal blackmail. I looked at the state of Washington's legal code... ( https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=9A.56.110 )

WA defines "extortion" pretty sparely as "knowingly to obtain or attempt to obtain by threat property or services of the owner, and specifically includ[ing] sexual favors". It is a class C felony when the threat is "(e) To expose a secret or publicize an asserted fact, whether true or false, tending to subject any person to hatred, contempt, or ridicule; or (f) To reveal any information sought to be concealed by the person threatened". (see https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=9A.56.130 )

So it seems pretty safe to say that AMI's behavior is a class C felony under Washington law _if_, by making the threat, they were attempting to obtain any "services" from Jeff Bezos. What did they ask for?

> 1. A full and complete mutual release of all claims that American Media, on the one hand, and Jeff Bezos and Gavin de Becker (the “Bezos Parties”), on the other, may have against each other.

> 2. A public, mutually-agreed upon acknowledgment from the Bezos Parties, released through a mutually-agreeable news outlet, affirming that they have no knowledge or basis for suggesting that AM’s coverage was politically motivated or influenced by political forces, and an agreement that they will cease referring to such a possibility.

(see https://medium.com/@jeffreypbezos/no-thank-you-mr-pecker-146... )

I don't see how this could fail to be criminal. Getting someone to do what you want by threatening to print embarrassing pictures of them is the prototype for the crime of blackmail.
Wholly agree with this which is why I've been experimenting with a project similar in goals to jsonnet as a side project of my own. I didn't know about jsonnet when I started or I'd probably have just used/contributed to that instead.

Why template yaml when you could just generate it? Or generate json, or toml, or xml, or environment variables...
To some money is a tool. To others it's a high score.
The type of person who asks their lawyer to send a message like that probably only hires lawyers that are willing to send a message like that.
I looked at Kelly criterion, and what's interesting is that I was just thinking yesterday about whether I should optimize

E(log(wealth)) - c * std(log(wealth))

or

E(wealth) - c * std(wealth)

The first one is better for building up wealth over a long time, but when I looked at Modern Portfolio Theory, it is suggesting to use the second formula.

I'm also planning to spend about 5% of my wealth every year, and the second number gives me lower risk in the short time frame, so I think something in the middle would be a better criterion.
In the context of the NYT, this isn't blogspam. This is news; they're reporting it; of course they're going to quote the article. In the context of HN, though, yeah, it kinda is. Why link to the NYT's rehash when the original is available (and has already been shared on HN)?
Nah. The public nature and embarrassment of the reveal may be a factor, as plenty of marriages survive cheating - and there are plenty of cheaters who don't get caught.
You and your grandparent essentially say “it hasn’t happened yet.” Nobody said it’s happened. It’s going to happen.
Beside the technological aspects, there's a cultural one. And the ratio of the two.
I wonder -- often people think of deafness or blindness in terms of 100% disabled.

What about people who have very narrow fields of vision (e.g. from macular degeneration or glaucoma), people with severe hearing loss that doesn't result in total deafness, etc.

Many people don't realize I'm deaf because I have a cochlear implant and a REALLY good set of coping strategies. Sometimes push will come to shove when I ask for accommodations and other parties don't believe they're necessary or that I "deserve" them because I'm not "really" deaf.

Just a thought from my personal experiences. :)
Crontab.guru
In ROS we have these XML launch files that are just awful. They have enough features to be a really bad programming language for configuring and launching (often conditionally) numerous robot software nodes.

In ROS2 the launchfile can now just be a Python script. Very much learned all this the hard way and the solution was to just support Python. I think it's brilliant.
Assuming reinvested dividends, the S&P has returned 7% real, or 10% nominal over its lifetime.
Drunk driving is a serious threat to public safety.

Giving the police the right to stop people without probable cause is also a serious threat to public safety.
See response below. Renato Mariotti is an expert, as is Ken White, who concurs (and also provides a further analysis of the case law on this).
Yes because he would have influence over the ad approval process and that leads into all the same issues.
Imagine getting so upset about the API of some service that you write a tirade like this about the author’s boss’s boss’s boss’s boss’s boss.
Google news is one instance where I wished google spied on me more. For some reason its always recommending stories I care absolutely nothing about like soccer players being traded or small town news stories from the midwest.
As far as YC goes, it seems that they are investing in companies they think might be able to dominate a niche in the hope that a few of them use that as a springboard to a much larger market.
if RPA means robotic process automation then presumably these are lost manufacturing jobs?
Ask HN: When will a technology like Lean Prover overtake LaTeX?
[Edit: Measured by it's adoption in the workflows of working mathematicians, students enrolled in math classes, etc.]

I have been typing up exercises from the end of chapter one of Atiyah and MacDonald's "Introduction to Commutative Algebra" in LaTeX (via emacs plus auctex). As a commutative algebra student, I wonder if it would be fun to type these up with software like the Lean prover (https://leanprover.github.io/about/).

Typing up proofs is reminding me that using LaTeX is already a quasi-programming experience: I tend to try to solve problems on paper, and then go type them up, but the process is never a transcription--I am editing and revising, thinking in the language of LaTeX, as I type up the hand-written proof.

If I invested the time in energy in getting somewhat conversant in Lean, I wonder if I could use it to type up my solutions to exercises at the end of Chapter 1 in Atiyah-MacDonald? I have no idea. Do you think the technology is there, or not? I'm not interested in taking on a computer science research project.
The only custom hacks are my own styles. Every so often it sends me an email saying "hey I just auto-updated to the new stable release". It's great.

and yes I have taken basic security measures to close off a lot of stuff, I dunno if it'd survive an attacker who specifically had it in for me but WP + a decent security plugin does fine.
It's a crowded market, but not necessarily a lucrative one.

I worked for a large investment bank, was paid well, but was also rather unhappy. I'm not a fan of office politics and also hated the fact that what we were doing was actually quite unsophisticated, yet we dressed it up like the most complicated thing ever to clients.

We were using wavelets for analysing market micro-structure and using any generated signals to influence our trades. Wavelets were the topic of my thesis, so I was a good fit for the team. I know it sounds complicated, but if you looked at the signals we generated, they looked awfully similar to a rather basic trend-following style regression model. I believe we found a very complicated way to compute signals that a simple trend follower would compute in far fewer CPU cycles.

Anyway, I got a fairly decent bonus one year (because markets were trending nicely), and decided I want to set up my own tech company. I was always a nerdy guy, and I thought I could contribute more in the tech space. With hindsight it was a good move, and financially I believe I am now better off than most of my trading colleagues.

My advice to new guys joining our desk (maybe it helps you a bit): focus on your exit, more than your entry, and if you can help it, be really, really, really lucky :P
> We don’t arbitrarily stop every single person to ferret them out.

This is NYC we're talking about. Stop-and-Frisk was a fun game the cops played for years.
Heroku – Sales and Use Tax
Somewhere between 1 and 2, but very good guesses :)
i did read his post, and you're trying to slip a couple of huge assumptions in there. again, nothing you quoted implies that trump or his people were behind this. the simpler (and to me obvious) read of what he said is that the enquirer is an ally of trump and has interests aligned with his.

saying "trump considers me an enemy" is also just a slightly obfuscated way of saying "i'm trustworthy" to about half the country.
Yeah, and "nanotech" is going to be a trillion dollar industry by 2015. Sorry "citations needed." Many people can assert things.
I'm quoting from Renato Mariotti's thread here:

> 10/ What is extortion? Typically it's when someone demands money in exchange for keeping something embarrassing private. While we ordinarily have a First Amendment right to say whatever we please, it can be a crime to threaten to say something unless money is paid.

> 15/ To make this out as an extortion case, prosecutors would have to argue that the claims Bezos had against AMI constituted "money or property" of Bezos and that the whole settlement proposal was merely window dressing for the extortion of Bezos by AMI.

But that is nonsense when compared to Washington's legal code, which specifically defines "extortion" to include demands for "services [...] includ[ing] sexual favors". I feel confident that sexual favors and other services are neither money nor property.
Efficiency doesn’t have to imply perfect information. (There are many forms) Just that probabilities are baked into the price so that there are no easy arbs.