skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, looks pretty gimmicky to me. Like Samsung is desperate to find uses for its folding screen technology.
"adds random noise to hidden canvas invocations" sounds as clearly signaling you're using something-like-canvas-defender, which is likely very unusual and thus makes you more unique.
This article does its subject something of a disservice in the fourth paragraph: "His fortune comes not from some flash of entrepreneurial brilliance or dogged devotion to career, but from a lifetime of prudent do-it-yourself buy-and-hold investing."

We learn later in the story that Wertheim did in fact demonstrate enterpreneurial brilliance and dogged devotion to his career and was an unimaginably successful buy-and-hold investor. The company he founded, BPI, threw off up to $10M / year in cash that funded his investment portfolio.

That he he was successful not just as an investor, but also as an inventor and entrepreneur, is what's truly amazing.
If we all try to talk about what happens in the "unicorn universe", everyone has their own different ideas about that.

Homo sapiens has this issue with this universe. Even if you subset that group to just scientists, there are still differences of opinion.
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If you hit the threshold, enabling the flag for you, then you are downvoted below the threshold, do you lose access to the feature as well?
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Remark ordering also appears to incorporate freshness (new remarks get a moment at/near the top), and I may possibly have also observed a penalty box: hidden downweighting, or reduction in effective comment score, imposed by moderators upon troublesome users that weren't egregious enough to ban/shadowban.
Isn't the modern interpretation of Keynes a complete bastardization of what he was actually teaching?

AFAIK, Keynes claimed that the market is more efficient than not. But he was decidedly not a believer of the efficient market hypothesis! Further, he was mostly concerned with money supply and risk-free government bonds.

Sometime between the 60s and the 80s, Keynes got associated with Supply-Side Economics and Laissez Faires (which from my understanding Keynes was completely against).

Also, when Keynes was writing -- FIRE (Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate) amounted to about 5% of the U.S. economy. Now it amounts to more than 30%. So, ideas that weren't concerned with those markets probably need to be concerned with them now.
how do you "look" for POC's?
Words mean what the majority of people take them to mean. The fight for Hacker vs Cracker was lost well before the turn of the millennia.
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I would propose doing away with refs entirely, like in Ultimate Frisbee. This would entail pretty radical changes to professional sports, but why not.

At the highest level of play (and pay), contestants should be able to fiercely compete under principles of fairness and cooperation instead of establishing the current culture of flopping, doping and "off the field issues".
Others have more specific answers, but more broadly if you have a case that's Supreme Court worthy there are numerous organizations willing to step in to represent your side. The ACLU is sort of built on this principle.
Not American here, but would SCotUS even be able to rule on anything outside of their narrow window? My impression was that they only rule on constitutional issues. I guess that's why they vacated the rest. When it gets to that level, is there any oversight to ensure that they don't go beyond the boundaries of their mandate?
It doesn't seem to render my results unless I whitelist JS in NoScript. Not very fair to force JS before saying if I'm unique IMHO.
I love Keybase (it has some awesome features, like chat (similar to slack), encrypted file storage, encrypted git repos etc. But you're right you have to have other people using it for it to have any value. I've gotten work colleagues to adopt it so now it's also a great way to stay in touch after somebody leaves the company.

If you want to look me up on Keybase I'm freedomben, and I'll be your friend :-)
http://notarealhuman.com/ has cats as well :)
What I find frustrating about this is if it leads a founder take liquidation preference multiples or other disadvantageous terms that drastically reduce my chance of seeing any payday as an employee. I've been around, so I'll take solid financials over juicy-looking smoke and mirrors any day, but my worry is the median startup employee is young and inexperienced enough that it probably serves the founder to play these games.
I am sure such a study would be interesting to a wide audience.
> If it's not the job of management and leadership to train, manage out or fire misfits within the organization, what exactly is their job?

I personally agree with this.

But, there's this other school of thought out there (which I'm tired of, frankly) that seems to believe management is supposed to "hire the best", pay them well and stay the hell out of their way. The reasoning is that "all these geniuses we've hired" will create a vast new pool of profitability through unfettered innovation, deep insight, and wild creativity. Or something. I believe that Google and Facebook think they are doing this with their hiring practices.
It's almost like `mapStateToProps` is a thing and Dan Abramov has built a web app before. You have to store and transform your data in a normalized form, but you can consume it however you want.

Restrictions are the price of solving hard problems (even if you don't want to admit they're hard) in a deterministic fashion.
@sam0x17 Awesome! The best way to get started is to take a look the basic set of sample components: https://github.com/ElliotNB/nimbly/tree/master/sample

The README is more like a reference manual. If you try to learn how the framework works just by reading the README, it'll probably just lead to confusion.
I don't get this analogy. Are you hiring firefighters to build your house? Are the ad agencies the fire?
This is _exactly_ what I'm talking about. Neither SAF or srcmstr are equivalent to systemd, and you know it. Making the argument that they're even in the same ballpark is fatuous, except insofar as they have some abstract concept of service groups and replacing sysvinit with something better.
MISRA C also bans function pointers, goto, multiple returns and continue statements.

Doesn't mandate static analysis tools either.

Nuff said about that.
Re. comments lingering high based on account karma, I've suggested the same but dang says not. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16441687

Perhaps such remarks are retaining position by their own merit. An experienced or high quality commentator may simply produce remarks that are better received.
> If I'm reading this correctly, it sounds like they already have a high-fidelity 1st-principles model that is computationally intractable to solve at scale, so they are using ML techniques to create an surrogate model that is computationally more tractable -- the AI modeling is a model reduction exercise.

So in the end is this really different from simulated annealing (which appealingly actually sounds like materials science process)?
Is there not also a weird clause where you have to agree in the existence of a supreme being (it can be any supreme being, I think) because otherwise you can't take the oath of office? I suppose an atheist is very unlikely to become president of the US any time soon, but I always wondered what would happen if one did get voted in.
Hacker News temporarily lifts new comments towards the top for a couple of minutes to give them a chance of being seen.
It in fact did not test anything about dazzle camouflage. The study [1] (linked by the linked article) did test how predators vision works and determined that Zebras camouflage doesn't serve much purpose at long ranges, but doesn't prove anything about shorter ranges where dazzle camouflage may make it easier for zebras to run away because predators aren't following them accurately.

[1]: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
FWIW, these were not serum levels, this was RBC (red blood cell).
Even including recent events, I think the actual judicial track record of the Supreme Court proves its legitimacy. These people put huge amounts of research, thought, and reasoning into their decision.

Every single person will have some sort of bias. We are all human. Sometimes the court will 'lean' left, sometimes it will lean right. Over the years it has been an anchor of reason and stability that is very much appreciated by this American.
"Logging it is great, it's the fact the interface says "look in the log" rather than doing it for you."

So now I have to go digging instead of being told upfront what the problem is. No thanks. Time is money, and having to dig through a logfile when simply putting the error message after the failure to execute would have sufficed, just wastes time and money.

That's why we removed every Linux machine from our production lines at the solar plant I manage, and went back to (ugh) embedded Windows. SystemD is a waste of time and money in every single one of our experiences with it.
Worker Shortage Leaves Restaurant Owners Scrambling Ahead of Busy Season
These are FTEs. Hospitals need 24/7/365 coverage for certain roles and no single person can cover that much, thus shift work is required. Do you have suggestions for software that can help them distribute the available shifts between each-other?
An exit is an exit. Failed companies getting acquired is still an exit, whether it happened early without funding or later with a ridiculous valuation.

The difference is the expected value of income that the employees are given in equity, which is especially nefarious.
Firefox is apparently working towards integrating Tor into a private browsing mode type of thing, so perhaps someday soon that won't be necessary [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17205441
this is exactly the reason why i feel the nba getting into gambling is such a problem, it’s true that gambling on the nba happened before the nba decided to get involved, but i dont see how the nba can totally regulate match fixing.
> Canvas Defender

My understanding is that these don't actually help. Even their own blog suggests that there is a lot of limitations[0]. And they even talk about how TOR just returns 0. But if everyone did that (say FF did that overnight), then wouldn't that help solve the problem?

Or does there need to be a way to force these things to be pixel perfect (data perfect for the other fingerprinting things like battery, mic, etc)?

[0] https://multilogin.com/blog/
haven't looked at rifling, but making single point boring cutters for a lathe isn't at all hard. you can just screw a carbide cutting insert onto any old piece of steel.

seems like you'd have stiffness problems for long barrels (?)
While you raise a good point about evolution being inscrutable - the stripes do effect files...

"
By watching and filming the stable’s horses and zebras, the team confirmed that horseflies were much worse at alighting on the latter. The flies had no problem finding the zebras or approaching them, but couldn’t stick the landing. “You get a quarter as many landings,” Caro said. “The flies just can’t probe for a blood meal with the zebras.”
"

I think the evolution angle relates to the question "Why did this trait evolve? What function does it serve?" with a potential Answer "It repels flies."
> Most movie-goers are primarily goers and only secondarily viewers. They decide to go to the movies, then they decide what they want to watch.

Any cites for this? I am very curious to read more about this.
I'm waiting for the day where there's one reliable place in the world where someone can look at info about a vulnerability and see very important and basic information like this. I think the interesting technical discussions for security experts get mixed in with the useful executive summary for the rest of us.

Remember when Intel ME bugs started coming out and we all had to go to Hacker News and trade rumors to figure out what was really going on?
BackerKit (YC S12) Is Doubling Their Engineering Team
I’ll be brief; our product here at BackerKit is growing like crazy, and I’m looking for a few good folks to come pair with us as we ramp up this year.

We are a small, agile, Ruby shop who love to pair program, and I’m looking for a few special someones who can help grow our product for our thousands of customers and millions of users. Our engineering team has always been small (we believe this helps us stay close to our customers), but we have a few exciting things on the roadmap which means it's time to DOUBLE OUR HEADCOUNT… from 3 to 6!

My dream situation is to get to Agile TDD Nirvana: “Three pairs”. One pair working on big new features, one pair iterating on live stuff, and another pair working with customers and fixing bugs we totally didn’t write last week. Specifically, I’m looking for two more “Tech Lead”-y folks, and maybe one mid or adventurous junior dev to round out the team.

We are kind of a weird company. We are YC W13, but never raised any real VC, but mostly just because our customers just kept buying our software and we kept making it better. We like it keep it simple, well tested, and make sure everything we ship is super impactful for our customers. If you’d like to know more about our story, check out our {key: values} profile here: https://www.keyvalues.com/backerkit

So are you the person we should be talking with? Or did you read this post and think of that one weirdo person you know who loves to pair?

If so, drop me a note, maxwell AT backerkit DOT com, I'd love chat!

- Maxwell

Co-founder, CEO BackerKit

Maxwell at BackerKit dot com

@maxwellsalz
https://github.com/maxwell

P.S. I’ll be at Railsconf this year if you wanna chat IRL
The most interesting parts (to me):

"By watching and filming the stable’s horses and zebras, the team confirmed that horseflies were much worse at alighting on the latter. The flies had no problem finding the zebras or approaching them, but couldn’t stick the landing. “You get a quarter as many landings,” Caro said. “The flies just can’t probe for a blood meal with the zebras.”

“When we looked at the videos, we found that the flies simply aren’t decelerating when they come in to the stripes,” Caro said. Either they miss and overshoot the zebras, or they bump into the hides and bounce off. Something’s clearly throwing them off, but the details are still a mystery. Caro said that they might treat the black stripes like a pair of trees, try to fly between them, and end up colliding with the white stripes. Alternatively, the stripes might mess with their optic flow—their sense of objects moving across their visual field.
> Nobody outside of that world had any idea what we all were doing.

Ha! So true. There was a technical debt that had to be paid for entry. Really kept things from de-evolving. The best we have today seems to be invite-only sites but with limited features in comparison.
Rumored 16-Inch MacBook Pro Keeps the 17-Inch Dream Alive
AMD's next Ryzen CPUs will be 7nm as well. And their Radeon VII uses 7nm Vega chips
To combine phishing and swatting? Come up with a license plate that looks like someone else's license plate, then commit crimes so the police comes after them?

What if license plates could be used like QR codes? Some police already have such equipment attached to video cameras in their cars.
Hold on, are laptop thieves skilled in cracking encrypted password managers? Even if they are I think you'd have time to rotate passwords.
Just one comment about vouch, which seems to have have changed behaviour fairly recently.

Used to be that if a shadowbanned user posted a clearly substantive comment a vouch would always (nearly always?) restore it. Now it never does - I guess vouch is now just a vote that needs x votes.

Suspect that's going to unintentionally have even more people talking to themselves, because they've not yet noticed the shadowban.
yes, but the key part of your statement is "if there are people offering to buy". Everything else about spread/bid/ask/etc is just mathematic sugar.

"People offering to buy" is key.

It's very easy for a founder to tell employees "hey I met with a VC yesterday, and they were interested in investing at $x a share!". It's easy to say that, but making it actually happen is the real deal. When someone sign on the dotted line and hand over real $. It's a much more accurate test of value.
While we are on the subject of downvotes, I'd love to have it require a comment (reason) to downvote. Not knowing why something gets downvoted is super frustrating. The comment doesn't have to be visible in the default listing; it perhaps can be a side option/listing or pop-up.
The "vast majority of circumstances" are not investment rounds propping up a unicorn.

Investors who play in this arena are not stupid: https://angel.co/blog/liquidation-preference-your-equity-cou...
This would be great. I have a 2009-era 17" MacBook Pro that keeps humming along (on its 2nd screen, 3rd battery and an SSD replacement of the original hard drive). I have a 15" modern one for work, but still prefer the larger screen. Also, this fan on this one never seems to kick on like it does on the latest version.
Very recently. Not a great change in my opinion. The google search always had the article in position one. The ddg so far has failed me every time. :(
I wasn't aiming for absolute technical accuracy and don't think it was expected. I'm well aware of the specific technical limitations related to age, time living in the US, and citizenship requirements.

I'll not argue as to the correctness or morality of such a requirement.
> VCs generally don't get any meaningful impact from intermediate numbers, they get their numbers - both regarding investor returns and their carry fees - only on exits.

The incentives can change if you look one level deeper. VCs often need to start raising a new fund before all the positions in their existing fund are fully liquid. By artificially inflating the valuations of their old fund, they can demonstrate high performance to LPs, which may help them raise more capital for the new fund.
Yep, I know. I was just riffing on your idea; I think the ranking algorithm should be tweaked a bit. Popularity contests don't lend to great debate or conversation. They tend to shut down one side at the expense of the other.
Well, the NBA can't be fixed on a systemic level, or Battista's use of Donaghy would have little game theoretical chance of success. Indeed, mathematically speaking, it's more likely that it was not fixed, or the success rate this pair were racking up would not have been feasible.
> Replacing human labor with technology is a very old story. It’s called “productivity growth.”

This is true and indisputable in the trivial sense, in that it describes history accurately. However the problem I have with this sort of statement is that it implicitly assumes that the future will be the same as the past. In this case I believe there are reasonable arguments that the future might be different.

To expand upon that point, the position you've laid out says nothing about the rate of destruction of jobs. It seems plausible (though obviously not certain) that the next decade or two of automation could involve rates of obsolescence that have not been seen before in history.

If "productivity growth" happens on the timescale of a generation, then the next generation can learn the new skills, and there is manageable social impact. The historical examples I'm familiar with fall into this category (e.g. power loom adoption over 25-50 years in the first half of the 19th century). In this domain, the rate of job destruction is below the maximum rate of job creation, and so there is no net job destruction.

However if that effect happens in a shorter timeframe, then you could have a large segment of the population all trying to find new work at the same time. (e.g. a self-driving truck makes most long-distance freight drivers obsolete in 5 years, removing 1% of jobs from the economy without an immediate replacement; in the worst case, rinse and repeat for 10 other industries in the same period). In this domain, the rate of job creation hits a limit, and therefore there is net job destruction, until the rate of job destruction decreases and job creation can catch up.

Do you have a model for where this breakdown might occur?

> The other workers will go on to other jobs.

This is true _on a long enough time scale_, but economics is silent on the broader societal and political impact during the re-equilibration period following a discontinuity in employment like this.
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> revenge porn

I've always wondered why USC 2257 is never pulled out to deal with this. It seems like the sort of law enacted to allow arbitrary punishment of porn producers-- just find some fault in their paperwork to wreck their day. An angry ex with your honeymoon tape has no such paperwork at all.
Okay, people, why the "-2". Fess up.
You are very correct! Unfortunately it's too late to edit now..
China’s Uses Social Credit System to Ban Millions from Taking Flights, Trains
Awesome idea and great execution!! Great work, guys.

Found one bug with the "tiles" layout: https://www.dropbox.com/s/p8e31lzzjdmin6x/Screen%20Shot%2020...

You might consider chopping long titles with ellipses.
Rust offers no specific scheduling; only type system affordances for describing important properties around parallelism and concurrency. The standard library gives an API for the OS’s threads, and soon, an API for defining cooperative tasks. Being a low-level language, you can implement any sort of primitives you want. There’s an actor library built on top of said tasks, for example.
It would seem yes?... unless I'm not seeing a deeper connection.

Simulated annealing is a technique--like gradient descent--for finding the optimum of some model.

Surrogate modeling on the other hand is the creation of a simpler approximation to a more complicated model.

They would seem to me to be quite different things, the former being an optimization technique and the latter being a modeling one.
I realize that this guy fits the profile of someone from the future who is thrown back in time and left stranded :-)
I find the best subs fit all or most of the following characteristics:

1. No politics

2. Nobody trying to sell you something or promote themselves

3. Based around a single, external topic, usually an established IP

Examples: r/Factorio, r/asoif,
Thank you, beautiful refutation of an argumentative quarralous, I would even say bad faith, assertion, which we see entirely to often now imo.
Based on the voting pattern at this point, I think several people may have misunderstood his last comment. He is the original person to post in support of a better phone based reading experience, not the Kindle advocate. So he prefers to carry one device, and uses his phone to read.
I don't know what to say other than there is something going on behinds the scenes that can be seen in play in this thread. My comment is 1 minute newer than another comment in this thread. My comment currently hasn't been upvoted yet is several spots higher in the thread. I tried upvoting the other comment and mine was still higher. My account has almost twice the karma and is older than the author of the other comment. It might not be 100% or even 1% karma related, but there seems to be some sort of user reputation effect.
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I don't think there's anything inherent to a utopia that means you stop learning about reality. If anything, you should expect anything you learn about reality to have maximally broad impact according to its relevance to people's lives. There's nothing about a perfect organization of society that implies a steady, non-adaptive state.