skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something about this article doesn't sit right with me. Perhaps it's the self congratulatory tone, or maybe it's all the talk of brand building, "culture", or using social media to show off their company's "personality" -- but whatever it is I found it mildly nauseating. It's great they like their new hires, but how did they quantify that they're "top talent"?

I may be too old and jaded for this sort of thing.
Hi, I am the author of the post. I run some fingerprinting tests sometimes for research purposes. Nevertheless I don't see which of the tests would ask for any audio or photos permissions. Which browser were you using?
>Making improvements to those metrics ultimately require newer sensors with lower read noise and better on-chip ADCs.

Which big pocket tech companies could do :)

>If we are doing multiple exposures, then as you know, cameras already have exposure bracketing, and I can do the rest in my PC.

Sure, but we have gyroscopes, accelerometers, electronic shutters and 2Ghz processors on this dream device of mine.
Surely we can do better than using a tripod, exposing entire scenes multiple times and try to align and blend them in the computer hours later.
It's interesting you say that. My wife and I have made a very conscious decision about our income generation capabiltiy vs. being full-time parents.

She retired (at the old age of 29) to be a full-time mom. I found a job where I work 100% from home.

We have not attempted to quantify our decision. All we had to do was discuss it qualitatively and it was a no-brainer.

My oldest just turned 2, my youngest is almost 3 months. These are the greatest times of our lives. Why would I want to miss this for anything? No amount of money can replace these extra long mornings, lunchtime park/toboggan hill outings, and 4pm Mom-induced visits from my toddler who runs into my office, grabs my hand, and guides me to his building blocks.
Doesnt Firefox support chrome extensions now since it has been standardized?
This should depend on whether your "chrome" package has the Widevine content decryption module plugin packed with it. With Arch linux - for example - it's a separate package to install.
Side note, why don't these videos show the slide content? That's just as useful, if not moreso, than seeing a video of the person speaking. You can hear the person without seeing them, but you can't hear the slides without seeing them, even if they're being described. A simple split screen with slides on one side and video on the other would work. Or even a picture-in-picture with the speaker. The top comment on the YouTube video has some real snark in reference to what I thought was a legitimate criticism of what would make this video much better.
The research is using a spiral development process, where flight data from small scale prototypes are used to validate existing simulation and dynamic models, and then those models are used as design tools for the next largest embodiment. So right now, there are three different scale systems which serve different demographics.

The smallest scale system is purely battery power, but offers flight endurance well beyond what conventional fixed-wing can achieve. Traditional 10-ft wingspan drones carry 5-pounds for about 90 min. A comparable weight/payload TURN system can fly closer to 7 hours. This prototype is being used as a minimum viable product for an upcoming product launch.

The company was awarded an SBIR research grant from the Air Force which considered an internal combustion engine TURN embodiment. While not eternal fight, it again offers significantly extended flight endurance. The best research aircraft can fly a 250 pound payload, drawing 2000 watts of power for about five days. My research shows that an IC TURN system could remain aloft for over 30 days.

Finally, the largest scale system is striving for eternal flight while operating within the stratosphere. At 65k feet, the system is above most weather and commercial airliner traffic, and the air is thin enough to warrant a large wing fitted with solar panels. By getting the power requirements low enough, the energy collected during the day is enough to remain aloft throughout the night, thereby eliminating the need to land and refuel.
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This article is just part of a coordinated media cavalcade, accelerating in the last few days, to attempt to justify, and promote censorship by the state - to shut down dissenting opinions. See it for what it is, a crude propaganda effort, by those in power, who feel threatened by alternative media.
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$50k downpayment on real estate has a lot more risk and a lot more work than $50k in an index fund, hence the possible higher return. It's up to the investor to determine their risk profile and whether or not they want to invest time in buying and selling real estate, finding and dealing with good tenants, maintenance issues, liability issues, spending time figuring out tax incentives and/or spending money on accountants.

There is no guarantee that property values will go up, or even stay stable. Ask the people in NJ/CT/IL/KY and other non-booming places facing skyrocketing property taxes and stagnant home sale prices. Who knows, maybe an earthquake erases all those plump west coast gains tomorrow. The index fund investment is placing bets on economic activity as a whole, not picking winners and losers of real estate markets.
No they generally say they have deep pockets and can afford the best players.
I made this comment without reading the post and didn't notice where he mentioned the book.
I have recently learned to make chrome extension, will work on firefox once I get time.
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Because google gets more detailed records than cellular operators.

https://qz.com/1183559/if-youre-using-an-android-phone-googl...
Yeah, then it's likely gonna have some latency problems. But latency will decrease with time. I'd imagine in maybe 2 to 5 years most US consumers might have the latency profile to use a system like that comfortably. Probably not now though. Especially if you're playing, say, Fortnite, against 95 other people who have their game loaded locally on a fast network. You're just asking for a frustrating day.
Damn, the only domain I want is premium. And renews for $720 per year.

I guess that miiight stop squatters, but I feel like it will result in a squatter with deeper pockets.
Data source is OMDB. I have seen it work decently on Indian movies
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I wonder if you can use this to predict the Tesla stock price for Q1 (or Q2) of 2019. For instance, does a large influx of inventory mean that there's a good chance that they will beat their estimated earnings within Q1 or Q2? Since they converted their cash flow to so many assets, once the asset gets converted back into cash, Tesla's number should look great for that particular quarter (?).

E: Hmm, Tesla sells over 16000 cars a month so these numbers might be insignificant.
Who cares what someone wastes their money on? If you believe a “fool and their money are soon parted” then the only explanation for life-long wealthy people is that they don’t waste it.

There are many problems in our country. Are you doing something personally to make it better, or just attacking others and asking someone else to fix it for you?
Yeah but my job has all three elements. Long term improvements and projects, being on call and making sure all the widgits are spinning, and doing tasks for X time a day

If I was making 62 burgers an hour it would be easier to quantify but rarely are things so fixed
I can confirm it works for the Spanish site.
I played a couple of hours of some Lego 3D game with game streaming and latency wasn't an issue at all. There are many games out there that don't require twitch reactions.

Many years ago, when the Netflix CEO said that they'd switch to video streaming sometime in the future, I thought it was a crazy idea: how could you possibly have so much bandwidth? (I'm not the worlds greatest visionary.)

I think things may go the same way for streaming. If it's cheap enough with no installation hassle, why not?
Here we go again, someone is conflating reaction time with latency sensitivity...

Try the following: write a simple snake game in JS or whatever your preferred language is. However, instead of turning the snake in the keyDown/keyUp event handlers, start a 60ms timer and change direction only when the timer fires. Experiment with various time intervals and snake speeds to find out what’s the acceptable latency/speed region.
I see these types of articles way more than I hear fellow millenials discussing being 'self-made'. It seems almost trendy these days to try to point out all the ways that successful people just got lucky or substantial assistance.

It seems highly related to this trendy idea that all people are fundamentally equal in all forms of capability, except maybe where poor diet hindered education or something.

Individuals vary tremendously, and that's all luck too. Nature+Nurture. Everyone gets something from their parents:

Personality is 40-60% heritable*
IQ is 50-80% heritable

So around half of who you are comes from who your parents are. The rest is luck. Even before you're born. My point is that every single person is basically 100% a combination of inheritance and luck. Maybe that inheritance is good genes, good parenting and money or maybe it isn't. Maybe in that context, a 15k loan isn't that big a deal. Maybe it is. Either way, it's counter productive to pick out a single aspect or two of a person and dismantle their success because they had THAT particular advantage.

* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5068715/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ
There's an image. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5901f9f12994ca40051ae...

Basically, the whole thing takes off like a helicopter, before turning the wings on their sides.
If you use the word "wealth" instead of "privilege" there's not much to argue about.

The problem is that there are many people today (with very dubious motivations) trying to confuse the issue of wealth with other issues. The great divide is today, as it has been since the dawn of civilization, between the people that have money and the people that have-not money.
I'm curious of what the benefit of Canvas is over just a random string of characters generated based on OS, browser, etc?
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has a good point, would communicate it better if they cut the length in half.
Isn't that normal? How strange would it be for me to tell my friends "this stock is going to skyrocket, buy some!" without owning any myself? Anything otherwise would come across as extremely disingenuous.

This is a non-issue.
>OK, but that seems to be turning the camera into a point-and-shoot

Not at all.

>For me, I would ultimately want to control things like exposure, shutter opening, etc... myself (who is to say a "bad" over/under-exposed photo or some blur won't make for a better photo?).

100% agreed. But if instead of “shit, I missed this shot” I could have 3 taken before I even pressed the shutter, and one of them is perfect, I'd take it in a blink. Besides all the pie in the sky stuff that I imagine could be done as well.

>I think people who want a point-and-shoot like experience are by-and-large are happy with smartphone cameras today (especially with advanced processing like Android's Night Sight), and they are not going to carry around a bulky ILC just to take photos.

You're probably right. I don't know if it's a viable market, but one can dream.
> I purchased some wire cutters a year or two ago from Amazon and they were fine for the speaker wire I was cutting... Until this year when I tried to cut a guitar string with them and found a perfect guitar gauged hole in my snips every time I tried to cut.

This is normal.

For instance, when I work on my bicycle, I have to use a $40 Park Tool to cut brake lines and shifter cables. The $40 tool delivers far better results than you could ever get from a conventional wire cutter.
What's this false dichotomy between AWS and on-prem? Dedicated servers at Hetzner, OVH, Datapacket, etc. are much cheaper than AWS and can also be ready in minutes.
Indeed!
However, without range support like A1:A10 or relative references.
Besides, values should be defined in order (top-bottom, left-right)

Try to create a 2x2 table like this:

=(/A1=/”Hello”) =(/B1=/”World”)

=(A1 + “ “ + B1)

Click on Evaluate formula, tadaa. I just fixed a bug to make it work, the publication might take up to 24h.
It doesn't really matter which.

Look, if I'm leading a group like this, I'm going to have an idea of what your output is like in an average sense, both compared to your historical output and the group as a whole. If you blow off a day it's not really going to matter. (although I'd rather you tell me you needed to blow off a day than try and hide it, sure).

However, if you blow of enough days we're going to have a conversation about how your performance is dropping, and why, and discuss your ideas about how to turn that around. If it doesn't, we'll have another conversation, and so on. Eventually if none of this works we'll have a different conversation (about why you are leaving).

This doesn't actually have anything to do with reviewing daily/weekly reports. Those are for different things.
> Between the cost of daycare

Children cost money, budget accordingly and have the income/s to support them or don't have them. That's a wildly unpopular statement in my experience because so few people like personal responsibility, and yet it's still the economic reality regardless. It's not asking much that people wait until they're financially stable to have children, or otherwise accept that they may not get to have everything they want at an early age. Costs and trade-offs.

> health care/insurance

Most full-time employed persons have their healthcare largely covered by their employer. Among everything you listed, health risks & costs are by far the big concern and are often not something you can easily control.

> pet care

That's a pretty easy choice. Stop having pets until you can soundly afford them. What's more important, pets or saving for children and housing? Car payment or pet?

> car payments

There are plenty of good used cars to be had for $12k to $16k. If you take care of them, they'll last a long time.

> student loan payments

Do not under any circumstances go to an out of state school, or in-state school, that costs $30k+ per year, unless you're going to have the income to afford it. There are a lot of quality state universities that are very affordable.

> and then a mortgage

A monthly mortgage payment at the median is no more expensive than renting. Where you take an economic beating, is inflation + property taxes + maintenance over time; in the form of real value capture destruction (net retaining ~$0.20-$0.30 on the dollar of what you put in).

> wedding costs are insane

Stop having $35,000 weddings. It's really not complicated. Down payment on the median $225,000 house, or have a $25k-$35k wedding. Skip the ridiculous wedding cost, spend $5,000 instead on a nice outdoor BBQ for 30-50 guests, keep the rest to throw at a down payment (or pet care if that's a greater priority). It's nothing more than economic sanity and understanding that you don't get to have everything you want, especially all at once.
Yeah, that's what we call "a job". Make yourself useful to a rich enough person or group of people, they'll "give you a bunch of money" and call it a "salary".
My understanding of timing attacks is that they can be used when you can trigger the code path thousands of times quickly. This gives you execution time averages and distributions. Also, they're typically used against cryptographic hash functions which are more expensive than just a string compare.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timing_attack
Good idea, but I am not sure of how to get number of reviewers since OMDB doesn't have it and IMDB doesn't have open API
> It's not exactly as if Israel and its actions are seldom criticised on campuses, or indeed on academics' Twitter accounts.

But that's the thing. Any criticism of Israel requires a 2-page disclaimer in order to make it perfectly clear your criticisms do not in anyway support antisemitism. I have not found a clear criticism of Israel on Twitter that did not require, at least, 10 additional tweets.

It's a poor medium for any academic to use. I fail to understand why he would in the first place. Intellectual debates are quite dry and nuanced. 2 things that microblogs do really poorly.
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Article seems very verbose and only really addresses the natural numbers (it mentions negatives and rationals in passing).

In case anyone just wants actual answers without reading pages and pages of prose, here is one set of constructions (there are other competitors too).

The natural 0 is the emptyset. The natural 1 is the singleton {0}. The natural 2 is {0,1}. In general, the natural n+1 is {0,...,n}. Exercise to the reader: define appropriate arithmetical functions on the naturals.

Define a relation ~ on pairs (a,b) of naturals by saying (a,b)~(c,d) if and only if b+c=a+d. Exercise to the reader: ~ is an equivalence relation. Its equivalence classes are called "integers". The equivalence class containing (a,b) represents the integer b-a. For example, the integer -1 is the equivalence class {(1,0),(2,1),(3,2),...}. Exercise: define appropriate arithmetical functions on the integers.

Define a relation ~ on pairs (m,n) (n nonzero) of integers by saying (m,n)~(p,q) if and only if mq=pn. Exercise: Show ~ is an equivalence relation. Its equivalence classes are called "rationals". The equivalence class containing (m,n) represents the rational m/n. For example, 1/2 is the equivalence class {(1,2),(-1,-2),(2,4),(-2,-4),...}={(k,2k) for all nonzero integers k}. Exercise: define arithmetic operations on the rationals.

To get from the rationals to the reals, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedekind_cut
How much less suck are we talking about? Kind of sucks in most languages.
I actually worked for a company where they didn't allow me to have a bathroom break during working hours while I was remoting...such is life as a 53yo developer trying to make any kind of living in this industry.

In fact, I had to log X keystrokes and Y LOC every hour in order to be paid for that hour...talk about being a factory worker.
You can consider almost anything a number if you can do some internally consistent operations with it.

Hamilton attempted a theory of triplets before setting on 4d quaternions, so that would be one example of a failed number system off the top of my head.
How to Remove Any Class Annotation with Groovy Compiler Configuration Script?
$10 is not inexpensive for wire snips though. Which is my complaint.
Took awhile to find it but they plan on building 33 one room homes. They site that before the fires there were 2000 homeless in butte County. 11 of these 33 will be set aside for victims of the fire. 22 will accommodate those 2000.

Local communities in CA need to get their act together and build housing starting where I live. I will continue to support any affordable (or free) housing project because it just seems that homelessness burdons everyone.
What You Have to Fear from Artificial Intelligence (2018)
Ha. I had the exact same thought. Metacritic has become my go to. It's not as simple as seeing average critic reviews though. If there is a huge disparity between average critic and average user reviews, it tends to be significant (eg critics panning something that's hugely entertaining or fawning over something that's really trash).

But I've pretty much stoped looking at IMDB entirely. One example: what I call the sci-fi fudge factor (SFFF), namely that if something is sci-fi or fantasy (or superheroes come to think of it) it tends to be a full rating point worse than its rating would suggest. Another: there are a lot of things in the 7s where something could be really good or really bad and I'm not sure why.
Thanks for feedback, adding Rotten Tomatoes is in my TODO list
The best part about Ebay is that if you do get a fraud item and can prove it Ebay simply refunds you and you can keep whatever you got since it wasn't what was advertised.

Amazon to the best of my knowledge does make you return items for refunds even when they are frauds.
I don't think values and facts can be so easily separated from each other. You have to value the scientific method to actually believe its facts are true. To me the problem isn't that people mix up fact and opinion, it's more that a lot of people don't value the scientific method, its institutions and its accomplishments. We need people to value the methods that got us to where we are today.

In the age of the internet when you can find a community online that values almost any non-sense this is going to be increasingly hard. I can agree with that.

And I can agree that we do need to come together and agree on some base minimum values, but we have to accept that we need some people in society challenging them. If there's one thing that human history has shown it's we sometimes don't realize when we hold toxic values. We need people challenging them to be sure that the values we hold are actually good.
As another comment says, .dev is about as inconsequential as .ninja.

It just happens to be cute for developers from a vanity perspective, but it doesn't matter.
I had a fun mind-play with my kids; I asked them if numbers like "one" and "two" really exist. They said yes, of course.

OK, I said, show me a plain old "one". Nope, that's one fork; nope that's one ball; nope, you get the idea.

You cannot show just "one" unattached to anything else.

The concept of "one" is an idea. It only exists as a "real" concept in your mind because it exists as the same concept in the minds of others, and it's a very useful concept in describing the world around us.

This odd fact becomes ever more apparent when you find out about cultures that have very different approaches to quantitative reasoning, like the Pirahã in Brazil [1]. They don't have number words beyond "one", words roughly meaning "some" and "many" are used for anything more than one.

[1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080714111940.h...
Going slower would accomplish the same goal, save fuel, increase safety, and probably lots of other things that will look nice in the marketing brochure for this feature.
This slideshow looks kinda incomplete without the story. Is there a presentation video somewhere, or an article?
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Both Uber and Cruise Open Source Their Self-Driving Car AV Toolkits
https://medium.com/cruise/introducing-worldview-749aaf98112d

https://eng.uber.com/avs-autonomous-vehicle-visualization/
I don't think that building (maybe) better solar glider UAVs falls in that category.

They basically combine the existing principles of control-surface based helicopter blade pitch control (e.g. Kaman K-Max) and blade tip propulsion, then drive them to the UAV-exclusive extreme where the individual blades gain complexity until they are a coordinated team of autonomous planes while the "body" of the helicopter along with all the complicated mechanical linkages to the blades is reduced to simple tethers between the blades and a central connection point where a stationary payload could be attached.

I suspect that they are overestimating the structural savings relative to something like the helios glider (where mass was already distributed along the wing) and underestimate tether drag.

The big difference is that a new type of aircraft won't fly at all if it's as bad an idea as solar roadways, whereas the latter could be built mile after mile until the world runs out of stupid money, no matter how bad it really is. If nothing else, the idea of "tethered uni-rotors" deserves a place in the canon of cool sci-to technologies that could theoretically work. They would fit in quite nicely in the future segment of Seveneves for example.