skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was really into exercism before they changed the interface. And I know that change is good, but the peer mentorship I got when the previous interface existed was decent, and at least pretty consistent.

With the new interface, I need to wait for official mentors, and while some have been way above and beyond, the dearth of reactions from anyone for long periods can be a real downer. I preferred the semi-OK amateur mentorship over the wildly inconsistent/non-existent mentor assistance.

There was one mentor that I would have happily paid directly to keep giving me feedback, but there was no mechanism in exercism for me to make that offer, even if exercism took a cut.

Also in the old interface, the community solutions were sorted by recency, so it was easier to interact with other fellow learners, and the new interface is not that, I'm not sure what the order is, but it's of no use for me to comment on a piece of code submitted two years ago.
I spent some time researching consumer hardware that consistently sacrificed usability for architectural purity. I'll update this reply as soon as I find an example.
Not that I disagree, but we have possibly the world's most boring login system with nothing but email/password and even then people manage to create multiple accounts. And then john.smith@example.com will email us, asking why the facilities they set up last month aren't working any more, completely failing to mention that they set them up using their john.smith.666@example.com account.
If people are using a real database, likely there is just a boolean flag for that record getting flipped to True/False to signify deletion. Unless you use mongo, then your shit is probably gone already and you dont even know it.
I've never understood this desire to make a web site behave like it isn't a web site. The entire benefit of web sites is that they've got a consistent interface even between web sites. Don't break that! Don't break copy and paste. Don't break the back button. Don't change or break the right click/context menu. Don't hide the toolbars.
Torontonian here.

Lack of details and vagueness describes all the communication about sidewalk lab's project, not just this article.

If I had to guess the reporter doesn't really know and can't really find out.

Note that from the quotes in this article this most recent iteration seems to be a surprise to the city as well.
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> They’re all well-funded, growing rapidly, and have competitive salaries for interns.

Excellent. Unpaid internships should be illegal.
Correct. Relying on keybase's service to keep the PKI running is the definition of centralized architecture, no matter if it's publicly verifiable or not.

Also, I'm not sure how easy it is to run a private keybase PKI (anyone done this before?). For GPG/SKS keyservers, you can spin up separate pools of keyservers for private PKI pretty easily.
Why is revenue the normal way -- lease property -- insufficient such that they need a share of tax revenue also?

And how would that work in practice? The city cuts a deal to lower taxes for just that development? Or the treasury cuts a check to Google every year?
Perfect way of showing that Google's performance argument is bullshit: just measure. And congrats on being faster than uBlock Origin, not an easy feat.
Much of Piketty's work has been widely debunked, especially r > g, so I'm not sure why one would start with his thesis. Top 1% income earners are typically business founder-owners, and reams of evidence from the Forbes 400 to tax data show that the wealthiest in US society are entrepreneurs who again created their own business- not rentiers living off of inherited wealth. (Anecdotally, children of inherited wealth they didn't earn burn through cash so fast that r < g, not the other way around).

I have no idea what 'globalism' means in this context, or what type of alternate reality could exist where foreigners would be polite enough to not, like, turn a wrench or run an assembly line for cheaper than Americans did in the 50s. We as a country don't have the option of 'choosing' an alternate economic reality where developing country wages aren't cheaper than ours
The threat is actually more at IANA than DNS. I would not be surprised if ISP supplied routers would start MITM quad ip DNS servers in order to retake the data and control. A lot of harm will happen if that became standard practice.

DNSSEC do not protect against this.
Google is not in the "smart city" business. They are in the monetize information business, everything else is just smoke and mirrors.
Succeeding as a data scientist in small companies/startups
> regardless of the salinity, sediment grain size, or mineralogy

Yes, I though also about it, but I will add something to the idea of a sand filter. This is not our average dead sand, is marine sand, cleaned and oxigenated constantly by the tides. If we discard an effect of grain size, and sand composition, the really interesting hot-stuff is IMHO probably in what remains, the bacterial biofilm coating the sand.
My Wife Was Dying, and We Didn’t Tell Our Children
This description is not reassuring in any way.
I was momentarily excited until I realized that not being part of the FAANG club excludes me.
I would argue that having children stems from an innate, selfish desire of people's genetics to propagate themselves, and has nothing to do with benefitting society. Is it even clear that children benefit society? Is it an overall good thing to continue to propagate our society?

My attitude is not derisive towards parents. I had parents myself, and I respect their choices. My objection is that parents seem to want to have their cake and eat it too, and then don't acknowledge the significant societal subsidies already in place.

If you had kids, it will be harder to start a side business. That was a trade off the parent chose to make. I choose to have more free time and opportunity.
The average salary was to be 150K, which I feel is likely to be well within the margin of a desire for minimization.
You could argue that an autonomous robot may be morally better in that it could be more discriminating as to whom to attack than say artillery shells.
Stripe as an acquirer does have bank relationships. Visa isn't paying the merchant directly.
OP says capitalism provides everything someone is willing to pay for. I agree and point out government meddling is the only thing keeping the market from working and providing all the child sex content pedophiles could possibly want.

I am singing the praises of the unfettered free market. No central bureau would ever think to meet the demand for this stuff.
From their 2018 10-K:

"We have tax benefits relating to excess stock-based compensation deductions and accelerated depreciation deductions that are being utilized to reduce our U.S. taxable income. The U.S. Tax Act enhanced and extended the option to claim accelerated depreciation deductions by allowing full expensing of qualified property, primarily equipment, through 2022. Cash taxes paid (net of refunds) were $412 million, $957 million, and $1.2 billion for 2016, 2017, and 2018. As of December 31, 2018, our federal net operating loss carryforward was approximately $627 million and we had approximately $1.4 billion of federal tax credits potentially available to offset future tax liabilities. Our federal tax credits are primarily related to the U.S. federal research and development credit. As we utilize our federal net operating losses and tax credits we expect cash paid for taxes to increase. We endeavor to manage our global taxes on a cash basis, rather than on a financial reporting basis. In connection with the European Commission’s October 2017 decision against us on state aid, Luxembourg tax authorities computed an initial recovery amount, consistent with the European Commission’s decision, of approximately €250 million, that we deposited into escrow in March 2018, subject to adjustment pending conclusion of all appeals."

Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000101872419...
> Those fancy 'nacl/box' thingies? I'm willing to make a bet that they won't be around in 5 years time.

crypto_box is Curve25519 + XSalsa20-Poly1305.
Is it possible yet to take a recording of singing and generate a model of the singer for synthesis, like a Vocaloid?
Just a random aside. You couldn’t download third party apps on the 3rd generation AppleTV, but without jailbreaking, the community made a Plex app, merely by running a Python script and redirecting DNS to your computer that intercepted calls to the Apple Trailers app.

https://github.com/iBaa/PlexConnect
I’m sure some inventive person could figure out a creative use for a ChromeCast.

But overall, I agree with you.
Exactly. The Central valley is already cheaper than the bay area. The fact that tech companies aren't relocating out there tells you something.
I have tried/used the providers mentioned and others, and am now with UpCloud which really has great performance, better than Do etc for what I have seen. Only thing is that they don't offer much more than just servers yet.
Building NLP Classifiers Cheaply with Transfer Learning and Weak Supervision
> This work was motivated by one of the claims formulated in the Manifest V3 proposal of the Chromium project: "the extension then performs arbitrary (and potentially very slow) JavaScript", talking about content-blockers' ability to process all network requests. From the measurements, we do not think this claim holds, as all popular content-blockers are already very efficient and should not incur any noticeable slow-down for users.

There's a few issues with the conclusion here. First, they article measures and discusses only the time required to block a single request. Modern web pages are issuing many, many more requests than that, like the 35 that this page issues. At median timings, that would put the DuckDuckGo blocker at almost 300ms, well within what humans can notice.

The second is that this API is not used solely by the popular content blocking extensions, but by a variety of other extensions. The Chome team's performance concerns likely stem from the fact that a user won't be able to differentiate the browser slowing down and an errant extension slowing down the network requests, and there are examples of extensions that use this API to issue additional network requests or do slow things down. If you cherry-pick the good citizens of this API to show that performance isn't a problem in general, you're not showing that performance can't or shouldn't be the reason, just that it isn't the reason for the fast good citizens. What this data could be used to argue is that imposing strict deadlines on the execution time of these extensions would allow the content blockers that the community cares about to continue to function as they do today while also placing a performance cap on bad extensions.
What's the point in doing this? The bay area isn't dense at all, building up would be easy, and better for the environment to boot.
For the past 24 hours I've been a bit befuddled, like "Amazon would have brought sorely-needed employment to [checks notes] New York City."
Most non-terminally ill people who attempt suicide aren't making a rational choice to die at the time they attempt it.
That's how felt about my 8080 disassembler written in COBOL back in the 80s.

<grin>
Were you really under any illusion that all set top boxes/dongles weren’t proprietary widgets?
The trend of the large assistants (Google Home, Alexa, Cortana) to all be female-voiced by default is pretty awful. Recently I tried to change the settings on an Alexa to try to get it to answer in a male voice, but I don't think it's possible.
> I preferred the semi-OK amateur mentorship over the wildly inconsistent/non-existent mentor assistance.

Just to chime in with data here, there is 5x more feedback per day on the new system than there was with the old system. Depending on the track, you'll get feedback in 3hrs to 7days (very occasionally longer), so it is definitely inconsistent in that respect, but you will get feedback. In the old system, you'd get feedback at all in under 10% of submissions.

> There was one mentor that I would have happily paid directly to keep giving me feedback, but there was no mechanism in exercism for me to make that offer, even if exercism took a cut.

In the future we'll be adding the ability to "pair" mentor/mentees who have both rated the other highly, so this will sort-of happen for you.
>Isn't that one of the most democratic things that he could do, to try and enact what he promised to the people that elected him, regardless of how good or bad an idea it is?

Trump has been quoted as saying he didn't need to declare a national emergency to fund the wall. He just did it because it was more expedient and he didn't want to have to deal with all that democracy and the hassle of having to compromise over it. That's not democratic. If Obama had used emergency powers for such a petty reason, say to fund the ACA, there would already be blood in the streets.

Trump is president of the entire country, not just of the people who voted for him. I would hope, although I don't expect, that he could see the bigger picture.
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Amazon Leads $700M Raised by Rivian, Electric Truck Maker
I disagree.

Sure, there's profit motive. But 80 years ago, US population was extremely against any kind of military involvement overseas, and funding of US military reflected it.

But turns out even if we don't want war, there's always someone/something like Hitler, Putin, Communism etc etc. And due to the size/location of US, US is forced to take a role overseas.
Came here to say that. I was going to recommend it be called a prime threesome though.
Although I like a flat org structure I never felt fully comfortable sharing an open office plan space with my boss nearby. I felt it was hard to have autonomy with them always within earshot and sometimes interjecting.
Yeah, I heard raw sewage flows through Penn Station so often that people aren't even surprised anymore. Not rare at all.
According to the @pythux - author of the post, some neat tricks used:
https://twitter.com/Pythux/status/1096516371163295750
Everyone at the office sends encrypted emails when referring to sensitive data.

It helps that encrypting emails is one button away on Outlook.
or reproductive organs?
>As it is, "j" iterates in the wrong direction with regards to cache lines

I always wondered 'what if' someone released Doom like FPS game in 1993 that required you to flip monitor on its side ;-). Both Ray-casting and Mode-X work best in vertical plane, while video memory access is only efficient when done linearly. Some quick back of a napkin calculations lead me to believe you could deliver 400x320 at the speed of Dooms 320x200.
You shouldn’t use travel agencies never ever again
In California, at least, they are
https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/the-right-way-to-do-wrong/ By Harry Houdini
Blur elimination is usually done with unsharp mask, which works by blurring raster even more and comparing to the original. The output makes the edges more sharp but some information is lost anyway.

Reverb elimination can be done without losses, just with distortions depending on the implementation. To do that, one have to recover cepstral[1] coefficients (with NN) and feed them to spectral filters (no NN needed).

This is feasible, provided somebody prepares a training data set consisting of lots of pairs (sound, same_sound_with_reverb), where sound would be a voice, instrument, applause, etc. and with a different reverb settings. Very likely you'll have to use enormous sample rates, way beyond 44100, because you're supposed to deal with infinitesimal impulse response... Adds up to hardware requirements.

I feel like I've oversimplified something, but it can be done, just lots of fidgeting with all the training sets and a training process itself.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cepstrum
PGP never uses the same key for both either. A PGP "key" is a signing key and a decryption key bundled together and then signed by the signing key.
The very first answer is Toronto Pet users for me, even with special box and the works.
Actual title: "In America, high-speed train travel is off track".
It isn't just the card brand taking a slice.

At best it's a 3 party system between the Gateway (Auth), Acquirer (person actually paying the merchant), and the card brand. I don't think it's uncommon for their to be middle-men between the acquirer and merchant.
I recently interviewed a clinical psychologist who specializes in burnout about this on a podcast recently: https://www.realworlddevops.com/episodes/avoiding-treating-b...

The main takeaways: spend way more time with friends and family, get (back) into your hobbies, and take a very solid break (2+ weeks).
In the meantime, my first gen iPad from 2010 running iOS 5 can Airplay to my AppleTV 4K....
The only time I've seen this an issue with LastPass is when the username field is on a different domain than the password field. In this case I'll save the username and password as different password entries. Otherwise it's a non-issue.

Great Lakes Credit Union is an example of a site that does this.
This thread is about Tinyseed so I won't hijack it with a defense of calling Earnest predatory (folks can read the terms, decide for themselves https://earnestcapital.com/shared-earnings-agreement-digging...).

Uncritically believing that investing in software companies can only ever be a "hits driven business" is the reason why there is such a giant gap in the market that Tinyseed, Earnest, Indie VC, and lots more coming will fill.

The big disadvantage of trying to shoe horn every business into being a unicorn is that you cause a lot more founders to fail by forcing them to try to grow fast enough to raise the next round or flame out trying.
I'm actually surprised that Brave's Adblocker was not the fastest, considering that they have native (as in, their own browser) support.
OpenAI Is Right to Limit Access to Its Fake News Generator
I expect it to change results, it would be a terrible experience if it did not
Many long-time residents are renters, who get pushed out. Isn't New York over 50% renters?

People see and fear gentrification. Granted, it can't be stopped, but it shouldn't be ignored.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lives_of_Others if you don't personally have that memory but would like to understand it.
Frankly I'd prefer if zillionaire companies were laughed out of the room when asking for concessions. Build in Regina if you don't like the way Toronto currently works, they'll be happy to have you and the lower property costs will more than make up for the taxes.
If you want a general purpose computer to serve as your set top box, buy a general purpose computer.
It is worth to note that systems with preferred system of coordinates and "flowing" time can have Lorentz symmetry (for instance see https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/887/relativistic...) so relativity doesn't tell us about time travel as much as we might hope
Block chains are always permissioned in a way though. The developers create the rules, and if you have commit access, you can change them. It’s more open, but it’s still permissioned.
Hey, dislaimer: I worked on this study. Thank you for your comment.

To me this reaction from the Chromium devs is missing one of the most fundamental issues. I'm not fundamentally against the declarative API because of technical limitations; I am against it because it is a strong innovation lock. The current extension ecosystem is flexible enough to allow hundreds (maybe thousands) of people to actively work on privacy-enhancing extensions (ad-blockers, anti-tracking, etc.) and the technologies, heuristics, solutions to protect users' privacy on the Web are constantly evolving. The APIs are not used today the same way they were used 2 years ago. If Chrome decides to "freeze" the blocking capabilities of the browser into a declarative API that no one but Chrome devs can improve, they will be preventing people from finding new solutions to tracking and advertising (at least from extensions). It does not matter if they replicate 100% of the capabilities of today's ad-blockers, as long as it does not allow evolution and adaption it will become obsolete. There is precedent in this matter: Safari also has a similar API and it has been a huge pain for ad-blockers developers. The reason is simple: Apple or Google do not have the same strong intensives that we have to continuously improve the blocking capabilities of the user agent. My fear is that this declarative API will be an ok-replacement for today's content blockers, but will not allow the same kind of fast paced development we benefit from today in the space of privacy extensions.
If you are going to use the 1996 county map you need to factor out Perot. Louisiana for example is much bluer Parish by Parish in 1996 than any of the elections going back to 1980.
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I don't think I follow you here. What consumer protections does visa offer me if I am using it as a bank card?
You're forgetting that it costs merchants money to handle cash; between miscounting at the till, plus petty theft, plus counting cash at the end of the night, plus time to take cash to the bank, plus time to take cash from the bank back (say when rolls of coins are needed).

I'd be surprised if the cost adds up to 2% of the cost of all goods, but it's still there.

> And if you're someone without access to great cards, then you still pay the same price in stores but you get no cash back, high APR, low credit limits, and crazy late fees.

That's an entirely different discussion, and completely misses out on debit cards (no APR, typically includes some form of rewards), when the bad cards should be used to build a good credit history, not as a daily driver.
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The really bizarre thing about this article is that the headline is about failing to get tenure, but the content is about failing to get a tenure-track job. These are really different things. I would think the author's publication record would maybe put them in the ballpark for a tenure-track job (though maybe not over 12 years, and certainty in a lower-ranked department), but absolutely not for tenure in the sciences.
If they're going to finance it with taxes anyway, there's no benefit to the local government which already has access to low-interest debt financing with that same property tax revenue stream. It's not as if Toronto can't afford the Waterfront East LRT without Google fronting the money.
Could crushed borosilicate glass be used as concrete aggregate when constructing containment buildings?

Edit: apparently yes: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28189090
Those are chat services, which are obviously a different model. Twitter operates their DMs much more like mail or email. If you were allowed to delete the DMs you sent, you could easily threaten someone, then remove the offending message... which is exactly the issue they are having with harassment on the platform in its current iteration.

Maybe, instead of thinking that language is ephemeral, we should realize that what we say has lasting consequences. Maybe then we wont be so mad when we can't take what we said back.
Forgot to close file handle. JavaScript-induced rotting of the brain :-p
This is no different than Toronto issuing a bond based on property tax revenue and giving the proceeds to Sidewalk Labs to construct what they proposed.

Just optics.
Why would they mention it on their press page?

https://coffeemeetsbagel.com/press/

Their press page is a page providing information for journalists who want to reach out to them.
So it's Nature, virtue signalling, not the actual paper. Unbelievable Nature has gone down this path.

It has also created a lie by Nature.

Nothing in the paper has accounted for biological verse the implied alternative.
Wait what? Why are you randomly crapping on Mongo? You can use Mongo in exactly the same way as you described.
When Mastercard and Visa blocked transactions to Wikileaks in 2011, it created the first bitcoin bubble.