skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also just as a point on High Speed Rail: this job was put out to bid and awarded before the owner had secured property access for the contractor (Tutor) and Tutor sought damages for this legitimate delay. Shame on Tutor for being good at playing the game that California has set up I guess?
It's good to see someone building something easily explorable. If people had more access to experiments like this, there would be far less BS hype around deep learning, since the public would get some intuitive feel for what those networks are doing, how they work and what are their limitations.
Sadly, I don't think love hotels would work in America. Too many people disrespect and trash public spaces. It's the same reason they don't have net cafes like they do in Japan (where you can informally crash and use the internet).
Me too, ran into them by accident basically. Was so cheap, bought three pairs in one go -- and ready inside the hour. Averaged out to $100 or so.
Kara Technologies: an avatar-based sign language translation tool using UE4
> the article fails to identify what I believe is the true reason for tunneling increases in the USA: third parties and their ability to sue projects

Why do you believe that's the true reason? I have no idea if it is or if it isn't, I'm just wondering where you got that from.
I have to imagine that at some level this is just a step on a long path of modernization, and we are reaping the benefits with a little bit of convenience. As their technology improves, they will probably start offering some kind of virtualization like virtualpostmail. I've long wondered why the USPS hasn't yet leveraged their unique position in the mail system to do something like this. Certified electronic mail, etc.
Adi Shamir visa snub: the S in RSA blocked from his own RSA conf
I respectfully disagree. People aren't simply motivated by taxes -- there's other things like friendship, society, sense of purpose, opportunities, their place of business and the country they live in as a whole. Further, perceived value of money operates on a logarithmic scale so for someone with $2M in income $1M is a lot of money to take, but for someone with $100M $1M just isn't. I don't think you've factored in a whole lot of aspects. For instance, the top tax rate in Denmark is 62.5% and yet they have wealthy people -- why aren't they all in Hong Kong or Singapore or Malta or Gibraltar?

The hyperbolic example is "the only place that won't tax me is this deserted island, so peace boys, it's just me and my money over here." Feels a bit unlikely doesn't it?

There are places with truly nominal taxes already (Saudi Arabia for one), so why aren't all our rich people ... there in one big pile already?
If that's the case, what manufacturers are actually going to be in a position to take advantage in < 5 years?
Please do not beat the strawman. And don't set him on fire. He's innocent.

I offered to beat whatever you've done by tweaking the Py3 stdlib. Not by writing a plain C implementation.

If you for some reason doubt that this old python thing is of the real world - let me disappoint you. It was done because nothing else could do those 100K rps back then. And it did the thing for five years, until the whole stack was ditched.
Which is what the company behind lenscrafters did. IIRC, Oakley tried to compete fairly, and not play their monopoly/collusion game, so Luxottica threatened to pull from any stores that carried Oakley. When Oakley inevitably lost a huge amount of sales and the companies value tanked, Luxottica bought them.

Nintendo did the same thing, minus the buyout, in the eighties when video game manufacturers tried to subvert Nintendo's control in that market.

You don't need a full fledged monopoly to upset market forces. Even the existence of a single large entity that can make unified decisions destroy a healthy market
I wouldn’t see it as that surprising; most of human history is... not fighting. Its doing exactly that: staying at arms length, because war is expensive (and even victory can leave you weak enough to a third party invasion).

If you want to see combat, increasing the number of actors beyond sustainability will naturally cause fights until the same equilibrium is reached.. add total resource depletion (not just regeneration) to break the equilibrium again

You don’t need anything as complex as boredom to break pacifist behavior; just variable resource constraints will easily do the trick
There are many interesting developments in fusion reactors, but this project almost certainly is not the one. If I could bet on betting markets, this CFR reactor project is the least likely to succeed.

People involved know enough about plasma physics to get in
trouble and run plasma simulations, but they don't know not enough particle physics to solve the problems or see the problems until they start building one.

Edit: this news is from 2014.
>Question: do people want to buy cheap glasses

Absolutely, so long as they function. What do I care if the microprint logo on the frame is a recognizable brand? Especially if I'm buying frameless glasses where there just isn't much material work with for fashionable design. Just give me good lenses and a minimalist frame that won't fall apart. I don't want to pay $200 for $5.00 worth of titanium that people can barely even see on my face.
One HTTP connection, one request, one response, connection closed.

I admit I didn't first see that they actually don't do any i/o over those connections.

Well, you know, handling x accepts() per second and holding onto y fds is even less than nothing to be proud of.
I don't get what they are trying to say here. They talk about positioning and overlapping as if they are new features. All this stuff has been baked in for a long time the hard part is making the layout adjust to multiple form factors.

They show some pictures of intricately laid out shelves and all I can think about is how they are going to look when you squish them. The "free positioning" in their 3.0 illustration reminds me of using tables to lay things out precisely and having everything break when you need to change the text. Forget about providing content with a CMS.

At the end of the day it's not about "better tools" it's making tradeoffs between a tight elegant design and a need to show dynamic content on a wide variety of devices.
What's the percentage of Segment customers who use Segment Warehouse? I believe that their Warehouse offering is a deal-breaker for data-driven startups which want to see the big picture.

We're working on building a product which provides Mixpanel-like UI for Segment Warehouse users so I would love hearing your experience.
In other countries the exams are totally free (basically because of the reasons you mention).
I found this article really fascinating.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...
Nope; here are the gory details: https://plus.google.com/102612254593917101378/posts/2CUPZ5yV...
For sure. It still doesn't explain why the octave is the specific point where the cycle of pitch perception repeats. The perfect fifth is very consonant, for sure, but there is no "perfect fifth equivalence" in any musical traditional as far as I know.
I didn't think it had to be said, but apparently I was wrong. I know the gp is a flagged/dead now, but I came back to the comment today and wanted to thank you for your succinct and correct summary of my implicit point.
FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb Is Resigning
Have bought only retro super future for this very reason
With Python/uvloop I can easily get 10K-12K connections per second per core, so 36 cores will be fine with Python too.
Web Design 3.0 = Print designer who just won't give up the good fight
OpenTTD's economics is fundamentally flawed, it's trivial to have billions of dollars before long, meaning you never have to worry about money again (although local authorities will still hassle you for too much demolition.) It would be nice to see the economic system revamped completely, but I don't think it's a high priority for anybody. I think most of the fun in the game is in the finer logistics of optimal rail networks, particularly junctions and switching, not so much the money management.
As an Agile coach, I agree to an extent. Metrics can be and are often times weaponized by management to exact control over a project.

I wish more organizations saw Agile metrics, or any metrics for that matter, as conversation starters for the team to discuss how things are going and how/when to adjust course. It's a challenge to change habits of making binary decisions based entirely on metrics.
Decimation
Guidelines for Human-AI Interaction
Yeah, the fitness metric was simply survival time, which is diminished as soon as you encounter conflict.

I would expect conflict behaviour to arise if the metric was modified so that say.. defeating another entity acquires the victor some portion of the other entity's current score (e.g. log(score(other-entity))).
Why, why didn't I just go into a ton of debt right after college and buy a house in Atlanta...
Step 3 in this flow is sometimes painful for big teams because developers have to wait in line if other developers are already using staging and may have to roll back databases after testing. Dockup gives the reviewer a chance to quickly test the feature without having to manually do deployments or start the app before merging the PR. Thanks for asking!
Mammalian Near-IR Vision Through Injectable, Self-Powered Retinal Nanoantennae
The color schemes used in these graphs are not usable for me as a colorblind person. The green-yellow and orange-yellow are indistinguishable to me. That seems like an odd choice when there are only 3 colors in the graph. My general rule is use primary colors and fall back to variations in brightness when you run out to maximize the distance between the points in the gamut.
Not mentioned in the article, but bit packed data structures are easier to interpret in hardware and offer more guarantees. If I'm designing an FPGA/ASIC I can predict how many clock cycles a statically sized data structure will need to move through my system, and how much RAM I need while it's being processed.

I have spent a lot of time working with FPGAs that process network packets and many of the performance guarantees relied on the rigid structure of L2-4 protocol headers.
From the paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.00446.pdf

1.1 Our Contribution

We have discovered a novel microarchitectural leakage which reveals critical information about physical page mappings to user space processes. The leakage can be exploited by a limited set of instructions, which is visible in all Intel genera- tions starting from the 1st generation of Intel Core processors, independent of the OS and also works from within virtual ma- chines and sandboxed environments. In summary, this work:

1. exposes a previously unknown microarchitectural leak- age stemming from the false dependency hazards during speculative load operations.

2. proposes an attack, SPOILER, to efficiently exploit this leakage to speed up the reverse engineering of virtual-to- physical mappings by a factor of 256 from both native and JavaScript environments.

3. demonstrates a novel eviction set search technique from JavaScript and compares its reliability and efficiency to existing approaches.

4. achieves efficient DRAM row conflicts and the first double-sided Rowhammer attack with normal user-level privilege using the contiguous memory detection capa- bility of SPOILER.

5. explores how SPOILER can track nearby load operations from a more privileged security domain right after a context switch.
Ok, this is worth reading for the section on “Incuriosity” alone. It’s worth quoting in its entirety but too long to paste here, so I’ll just say if you do nothing else, click through to the article and read that section.
Disclosure: I'm a software dev, but my fiancée is an optometrist.

There are already machines (called autorefractors) that can try to calculate your prescription. They operate on more complex principles than flipping lenses back and forth. They can provide a good starting point, but sometimes they aren't accurate.

A good optometrist can do a lot more than just give you your prescription, though. They should be checking your eyes for signs of disease, and treating things that they find. Seeing an optometrist for a checkup is preventative medicine, like regularly seeing a primary care physician or a dentist.
That's fine I think. Elixir is their primary language it seems and using Erlang bits from Elixir is pretty easy, which is nice. It's a great benefit to the BEAM VM ecosystem. I think Elixir is the newer language and people enjoy up-voting it more. They could have said something like using BEAM VM and Cowboy maybe...? But I don't think it's a great misrepresentation either way.
It means not buying from a market with sufficient competition.
Ask HN: Product management or startup marketing quizzes?
One of the ways to understand marketing (in a consumer oriented startup) is to read about some situations and think how you would have acted in such a scenario. I am thinking of "Suppose this was day one of Instagram. How would you acquire users 100 to 1000? Option A: Give a talk in photography class. Optiob B: Post on reddit".

Do you guys know of any quizzes/marketing exams like this?

Thanks!
At RSA Conference, look for ‘post-perimeter’ security to dominate
Yeah, wanting building not to fall down really slows down construction.
>The workaround is to do a temporary change of address, and contact each company that sends you mail forwarded from your old address individually, to update your address record. When the mail stops forwarding, you stop getting mail from anyone that you didn't explicitly inform of your new address.

This is a real dick move. Someone will have that address after you and you leaving your junk behind for them to deal with on an ongoing basis is straight up douche baggery.
This is not how we wanted to be featured on Hacker News but here it is. First of all let me start by saying: yes, we are legally required to ask all those questions in the Netherlands at a certain point, and to delete all of the data if we don't hire you. Do we have to ask all of this information in the first mail? No! In fact, our only goal was to have an efficient hiring process. Improving privacy is our company's mission, so we took the author of this post very serious, even before we came across this. Although we always made clear this information is optional and can be shared at later stages as well, we did not realize that it could be interpreted by our candidates as if he/she might get rejected if they refuse to share information. We do not want anyone to feel pressured. We therefore went back to the drawing board and changed our procedure.

Fortunately we only sent this mail to a handful of people before we realized that this is not the right approach. In the end, what we really wanted to know was: "Are you allowed to work in the EU?" But then we realized why stop there? We improved our process to ensure candidates are only asked to share a minimum amount of data! Feel free to check it out: https://summitto.com/hiringprocess

As other commenters have already stated, most information we ask is standard and in ~70% of the cases already answered in CVs we receive anyway because most of our applicants come from Germany, the Netherlands or Belgium. We learned now that as we target a global audience those "standard" questions are not a worldwide standard.

Some of you were suspicious that we base our hiring decisions on this information.

Let me state this very clearly: this requested information was never used to evaluate applicants. Summitto evaluates you only on your coding skills, and nothing else. We point to the fact in our first mail to the author of this post: "Please note that if there is some personal information which you prefer not to share yet, that is ok!" Moreover, we clearly stated this again in a second mail to the author of this post as well.

Regarding the IBAN account number: this information is essential to reimburse any flight expenses and of course to pay your salary. For the US citizens in this thread: no, sharing your bank account number in the EU is not comparable to how it works in the US banking system. IBAN numbers are not private or easily exploitable data. Still, we have now scrapped this question from our first email.

Although we truly appreciate the author's criticism in this post regarding the threat of theoretically losing his/her privacy, we would like to point out the irony that by complaining without properly anonymizing the data he/she actually violated ours.

We value the privacy of all of our candidates. We encourage them to protect the data they send using PGP, so it is encrypted in transit and at rest. Any data which belongs to applicants which were not hired is deleted within 30 days after the last contact.
Human-pig hybrid created in lab to help grow donor organs
Let’s take the UK for example. Grayling, the transport minister, is currently getting pressure from all sides and definitely from the public to quit his post because of his poor decision making that led to a 33m pound out of court settlement.

Theresa May, the Prime Minister, is facing questions and tremendous public pressure on a daily basis for her austerity led decisions to cut the police budget (something that would be unheard of in the US).

They have tremendous incentives to cut costs. In fact, the UK, which was also booming (growth which has slowed since the Brexit vote, however) over the past 5-6 years, continues to be engaged in austerity measures.

Clearly something there is incentivizing UK politicians to pay attention to costs. I think part of the reason is that in the UK you have (a) a populace that believes that government should be providing services where it is effective, and as a result, considers reductions in services a major negative against the government, and (b) you have actual ministers who ar directly responsible for specific areas, such as transport, who can be held accountable by the public. Not being able to control costs means not being able to provide services effectively, which in turn leads to the government failing in elections.

In the US, there isn’t a transport minister to point to when the California HSR fails, which means responsibility and blame is diffused. Maybe that’s where the difference lies.

Also, contrary to what some believe, most people who believe in government providing certain services don’t believe in the government being inefficient in doing so, and will hold that inefficiency against the government since it means they get less, or substandard services.
Bath houses for gay men worked similarly for years in the US.
I worked on an application that converts HTML to PDF and font rendering on Windows was incredibly frustrating. The kerning made text unreadable at smaller fonts. It's difficult for me to believe someone would actually prefer the way Windows does font rendering.
Granted, I only know Horror-Stories about US-Unions, but it seems that the Europeans are much ... saner.

With some hyperbole, I once read this story about how for a simple job someone had to get three different unionized workers, because each one only can do certain work.
At our company we are currently building an automated machine to do quality control on a manufacturing line - we had to deliberately design it in a way that doesn't actually reduce the number of people needed for the job.

In i.e. Germany this doesn't seem to be so weird. Here, the unions are way more involved in running the company, it's way more about partnership, doing good for the company, then in making sure to keep privileges.

Obviously it's also not perfect, there are other problems for sure.
> Land is not a normal good, it does not work that way.

You are right in essence, but using the wrong terminology.

Real estate, at least the kind we're discussing, residential housing, absolutely is a normal good, normal being defined as having a positive income elasticity of demand. Simply stated, when people make more money, they want more house.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_good

The supply side of the equation, what you're referring to, is less straightforward. While, the long-run price elasticity is pretty high, the short-run tends to be fairly inelastic, this is due to construction having lots of high, fixed costs, and financing tends to have very long amortization schedules. Do a lot of construction in a real estate market and it might be ten years before prices start to come down, assuming demand hasn't caught up in the interim.

Most real estate markets clear. Failure of the market to clear can have many causes, the one I see happening most often is the aforementioned low price elasticity in visible parts of dense downtowns. Political action at the local level can create an economic incentive to reduce prices to meet demand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_estate_economics
And that company is EyeMed. Your Vision insurance is almost certainly through them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxottica
Thats purely corruption. I always explain to my argentinian friends, used to the petty corruption of putting friends and family in public positions, that the us does corruption at a much bigger scale: at the legal one.

The transbay terminal is one of the biggest rip-offs ever. It cost the revenue of sales taxes of the city for years. And it doesn't even work, while the "transient" station that must have cost almost nothing works perfectly fine.
> I don't understand why so many people are convinced that a giant state imposing one-size-fits-all on a hugely diverse population is a good idea.

The people who are convinced of this are the people who stand to benefit from it. People who rely on benefits that require a large population to support them (for example, Social Security and Medicare) will want to have a large population supporting them. But that means one-size-fits-all has to be imposed on that large population. If people could choose whether or not to contribute to those benefit programs, many would choose not to, which would decrease the available benefits.
Has anyone tried this and compared it to https://www.theia-ide.org/?

First thing off the bat I notice is that Coder looks harder to deploy or try out, Theia was super easy, on the landing page they had a docker one liner:

docker run -it -p 3000:3000 -v "$(pwd):/home/project:cached" theiaide/theia:next
Get one of these, stamp everything that isn’t addressed to you and throw it back in the box:

Return to Sender Not at This Address Self Inking Rubber Stamp (Red Ink) - Large https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0745432KW/
WTF.. Because bullying that ostracized certain kids didn't exist before social media -- that's why Columbine didn't happen?

We have got to stop this "good old days" nonsense. That doesn't exclude or excuse the real problems that social media and always being online can cause, but stop pretending that dad wouldn't have been reading the paper or rushing off to work, or otherwise disengaged from Brian in the morning, his sisters wouldn't have heard from the school grapevine all about him falling down.

How about the kinda weird, quirky kid, who finds that putting videos of himself on Youtube helps him deal with his problems, like ADHD or dyslexia? Maybe without those videos, that kid would never have the confidence to succeed in the classroom.

> Teach your children that boredom is important.

Give me a fucking break! Exactly how does that lesson go down -- I imagine it's pretty similar to abstinence-only education. Some kids will listen, and it will probably screw up their lives anyway.

Why do people think kids are a blank canvas they can paint on? Were you when you were a kid?