skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the human brain fails at this if it's rotated also...

If you showed me the rabbit rotation of the picture, i'd tell you with pretty high confidence that it's a rabbit.

If you showed me the duck rotation, i'd tell you with pretty high confidence that it's a duck.

That's the point of this, it's an illusion.

And it did give a bit of an "I don't know" answer for many of the rotations in the middle of the gif/video, which is exactly as I would expect it to, and when I pause the video at those points and glance at it, it doesn't look like much of anything to me either.
similar experience to noirbot, outside of rush 'hours' my commute would be 25 minutes, during rush hour it would usually be 75 to 90 minutes.
Apparently my bank checks cheques

One of mine, too; though only sporadically, it seems.

Now those people at the Board of Elections are hard-core about signatures. I've been hassled twice when trying to vote because my signature on their pad didn't match what is in their records.

I have a "good" signature, and one that looks like a doctor writing a prescription. I have no idea which one they're looking for.
ForwardCom has abitrary length vector support. http://www.forwardcom.info/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19340267
Whoa, I had never even heard of c-inlining. Then again, I never really got into perl.
Yeah. A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you're talking about real money.
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> Figuring out where to eat lunch causes you stress?

Reaching consensus on where to eat with my group of lunchmates definitely caused stress, especially after we'd all gotten mostly burned out on the nearby options.
AWS is 10% of sales but 58% of operating income. Margins on AWS are hovering around 30% and growth has been double-digit every quarter for several years now.

AWS profits were worth a few hundred billion over the past seven years. As Amazon only as $40 billion in cash on hand, it's hard to argue they haven't put that money to good use.
At this point I'm convinced this is a troll account
It's likely just you. Orcas are big, the projectiles are small.
What about those mornings when you want to have a 4th cup of water?
In my rig, both my work and home machines, the drive is also exposed to massive local fan noise, not to mention the case. At these sensitivities, footfalls, even keyboard typing, might be enough to mask voices.

It is all just another nail in the "spinning rust" coffin imho: A novel technique applicable only to a declining target base.
I just now Googled Scorpio (found a sign that isn't "mine", as an example) and saw dates that varied by up to 19 days on the tail end of the Scorpio range.

Depending on the sources I scanned on the first two pages of results, the cutoff is somewhere between November 2 and November 21.
Or if you’ve already memorized some digits of pi, just use odd and even digits as left and right (or 0 and 1).
thanks for CoCalc and your prolific open source work; it sets a technical, academic and moral standard to aspire to.
>Hiding revenue is something multi-national corporations do really well.

I thought it was profits that were easily hidden. Hiding revenue seems like it would be very difficult.
Thanks for posting this, please reply back and let us know their reaction. It might be popcorn worthy, or it might be 'meh' - either way, it is of interest to me and I suspect HN.
The two founders will each own between 3% and 4% of Lyft after the IPO (so $600m to $800m at a $20b market cap). Recode pegged the number at a combined ~7%. Even in a bad scenario in which the Lyft stock dumps in the 6-12 months post IPO, the founders will be very wealthy (consider that its value could collapse to $3.5b and their stakes are still worth roughly $100m each).

More interestingly, despite the relatively small ownership stake they nearly majority vote control Lyft through dual-class shares with a very unusual 20 to 1 vote ratio versus the normal shares.
And they get combined in novel and creative ways to create effective practical exploits.
There is definitely something to this. I've been having a breakfast smoothie/shake every morning for about 4 years now- while the recipe changes a little every once in a while, I absolutely love the predictability of the macros, calories, and satiety I get from it. Perfect start to the day for me.
Some companies only have one kind of career track. If you want more money, you have to be in a manager position. They don't have a way for experienced programmers to keep moving up in their careers as programmers.
The researchers use that very word in the title of their paper: "Hard Drive of Hearing: Disks that Eavesdrop with a Synthesized Microphone"
The US repeatedly defeated in simulated war games against Russia and China
Handcrafted gradient folders for your computer system
Google would have to own the cars that this point tho right? They can't just plop a LiDAR on a car and call it self driving. So 10k+ the cost of car. Maybe 50k.
Correct me if I am wrong but if I visit my tax account page or something where the ssn is displayed - you can see it too?
probably extend to Austin as well over time

I thought Austin was one of the primary targets, not a "probably as well over time" target!
I wonder how much evidence there is for this effect. How much is “wow, my employer spent money on me, i must be important and valued” vs actual physical function improvement.

A cheque (or flexible per firm) could do the job of the former.

For the latter, if I’m going somewhere nice, i’d Rather they book me a hotel room for a couple nights instead of a lie flat seat.
You could almost call him the successful / less pathological Elizabeth Holmes.

He promises the future before it has arrived, but unlike Theranos, he actually delivers a product. That product might be inferior to what was promised, but it is an improvement on the status quo nonetheless. And once released, Musk does not lie about its capabilities.
This was around... Oh... 8-9 years ago and I'm still trying to figure it out. It's honestly bothered me since then. I just really want to know how they connected us. I'm not mad they did, I just want to know how.

We never had an insurance policy together or anything else like that either.
This. Backend IT was most definitely a cost center and even more so one that was very poorly run and incentivized to not change. They have a pension program there and there are soo many people who made it and are pensioned that the only incentive they have is to ensure things do not change.
Probably not. The Clinton-era law that relaxed check verification rules so that we could deposit checks remotely online moved a lot of the burden onto the consumer instead of the bank. That was one of the reasons it was opposed so loudly by consumer groups.
3M is not even close to enough for retirement in Silicon Valley. Also... 1.6M after taxes.
Interesting that I found that everywhere in the USA, coming from asia, driving in the US is so much less stressing, easier and most people are actually following the rules.
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Something I have been using for some time now. Very easy to set up and it makes it easy to find folders faster.
I hate getting sick. It's hard to take time off, so even if I stay home I'm working hard and late and it's hard to get over being sick. I get sick maybe once a year or every other year - and even that feels like way too much.

I would pay $2K to avoid the flu / colds each year.
> Many more people have started a Scheme interpreter than their own C++ compiler.

And yet many more people are writing C++ code. Toolability definitely matters, but the empirical observation is that a relatively small number of tools for complex languages used by a large number of people seems to provide a lot of benefit.

> My point is that as long as we are stuck in text-file-oriented thinking, no one is even thinking about these possibilities.

Thousands of people are thinking about this. I've been reading blog posts and manifestos about the death of text-based syntax literally since the 90s.

What I think most of those people overlook is that if you think programmers struggle to write text, you're really underestimating how much they would struggle to layout boxes and lines or do whatever other spatial/visual user experience you have in mind instead.
So university students are going to fix my car?
What type of apps do you build? What languages?
Keto diets are sketchy science at best. I can't believe anyone still falls for it.
I save my security questions in a password manager and just generate it. Though I've thought about instead giving answers that would serve as a message to customer service rep to actually validate it in cases of someone trying to impersonate me.

Q: Where were you on New Year's Eve in 1999?
A: demand-exact-answer-over-phone
Did anyone else find this depressing? I realize the payoff is set up to make you feel cheated (see "crdrost" below), but it had a more existential impact on me until I tried using /dev/urandom parity and after 500 presses it was still within the margins described. I feel like there's a psychology experiment under the hood here... (And also wonder what kind of exciting behavior data unrelated to the "game" that the webdev captured! e.g., average play time, average win during playtime, # of times the B(2,6) showed up, # times Pi parity showed up, etc...)
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Most generics work by monomorphisation, which basically means the compiler is doing a copy paste from int_btree.go to string_btree.go with the types changed. There is no runtime cost except text segment bloat. Generally modern compilers are smart enough to unify the identical machine code paths too, so you might not even get the code bloat.
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According to the December 2017 OECD data, France and the U.S. are basically tied in terms of fiber deployment (12-13% of total broadband connections): https://www.oecd.org/sti/broadband/1.10-PctFibreToTotalBroad.... Which is pretty remarkable because in the U.S., fiber is a relatively smaller upgrade, because fast cable alternatives are available in almost every fiber market. (Just 1/3 of people who can get FiOS actually subscribe, for example. Google fiber has struggled to break 40% too.)

And how quickly is France's number going to grow given that France's second largest ISP recently cancelled its plans to deploy fiber? https://www.reuters.com/article/altice-sfr-france/altice-aba....

Also note that the French deployment is being heavily subsidized by the government (to the tune of $24 billion). Except for a small amount during the post-2008 economic stimulus, broadband deployment in the U.S. is not subsidized. Whereas the French government is paying a direct subsidy to build fiber in rural areas, in the U.S. rural deployment is financed by a cross subsidy (taxing ISPs in urban areas to subsidize ISPs in rural ones).
All that would be required for reform, I think, is a small revision to the FCRA. Remove their near-immunity from libel law and let our famous hunger for civil suits do the rest.
Also I don't see how something like libraries linking has anything to do with an ISA, which is mostly an OS implementation detail, AFAIU
It was the coolest thing in the world when Foursquare first launched at SXSW years and years ago. You could see local checkins per-venue somehow so that you could find, or avoid, hot popular places. I'm glad to see they've gotten back to those roots — but I'm also glad I deleted my data when they turned into a data marketer.
The Western notion of marriage is somewhat skewed towards prioritizing feeling "in love" first, then acting accordingly.

Once you realize that love is a choice and an action/behavior, it generally sorts itself out. The funny thing is that the feeling of being in love soon follows.

A good friend who married before I did once told me that, and I thought it sounded a little crazy. Then, I got married and understood.
These where made by people- for people. There was not market, thus there was no need for the meta-scam that art is today.
All it was, was a way to eternalize the life and missery of people, capture those moments before we all vannish.
It was art, while we have nun, but the one in a thousand photos we make.
I think the days of college being a needed step in order to enter the workforce are ending. Unless you want to work in academia or need a specialized track of education like a career in the sciences, the days of the Ba opening doors are basically over. The corporate jobs that require a Ba are hardly worth the bother these days. Electricians and plumbers can make more without all the PC mind control crap in the corporations.
Does your wife also eat the same meals? Do you eat together for breakfast and dinner?
That's very possible. Although I'm not sure how he imagines escaping to another planet would be a solution for whatever threat AI specifically might pose. I'm pretty sure it would find a way to follow you through the solar system :)
I once had a nightmare set of one where I was setting things up over the phone and had to do KBAs, and asked me who held my Auto Loan. A. Who has my loan has changed since I got it originally. B. The options they gave were (Names changed) Wachovia, Ally Bank, Ally Bank Inc, Ally Bank of New York, where the original lender was Wachovia, and I know it got sold to Ally at some point.

I literally have no way to know which one of these they think is correct. At least 2 of them were correct at some point, depending on how up-to-date the data was, and the last three were indistinguishable, even when looking at my actual statements for my loan... So I failed out of my KBAs 4 straight times because they kept giving different variants of the same question, just with different sets of answers, until I could venn diagram out which one must be right because it was the only one that came up in all 4.
SSNs are used widely enough that they can leak from anywhere. For example, my wife made an appointment with the eye doctor the other day and they needed to look up her vision care insurance. Since she's on my insurance, that means they needed my SSN. I asked my HR department what's up with that and where I can just get a plan number for the vision plan instead of having them look it up by SSN, and they said, "oh yeah, your plan number is just the last four digits of your SSN."

So, yeah. I bet you could obtain tons of SSNs from fucking Lenscrafters if you wanted to.
Why in the world would someone doing self driving cars want to acquire them?

Self driving car companies be able to offer competing service for 70% cheaper per mile. Riders will migrate for the drastically better price.

There's no long-term defensible asset in the Lyft driver network, and switching costs for riders are minimal.
That is insanely bad diet. Hilarious. How are your numbers? Btw, meat causes cancer[0].

0. https://www.who.int/features/qa/cancer-red-meat/en/
> Nowadays most compilers are multi-pass and have a separate symbol resolution stage that operates on an in-memory representation of the code (e.g. AST). It's not a huge extra cost to search for symbols "in both directions".

That's true, but treating all top-level declarations as occupying the same unordered namespace means that a change in any module can require a large amount of non-local recompilation, which makes incrementality more difficult.

> Personally I think the right way for procedural languages is to require explicit function signatures.

Even then, you still spend a lot of time doing inference inside the bodies of functions. Once you mix in inferring parameter types for lambdas, inferring generic type arguments, overload resolution, and maybe implicit conversions, there is a lot going on.
I thought if you used the Oracle JDK for commercial purposes you would be required to buy it from Oracle.

Now if OpenJDK is kept at parity with the OracleJDK that could work.
No health insurance :/
Many investors are extremely short-sighted.
Dumb question: how possible is that the plane landed in a country that wanted to save paying $ millions for one?
This is Agner Fog pet architecture. It has zero chances of ever being implemented. At best is to be considered a wishlist from a well known assembly programmer.
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If it is a publicly traded company, and that person is an executive, then yes it is both a lie and securities fraud. If it's a startup or anything else where it's not a public company, then it's ok to be simply delusional.

His sins may be less than those of the CEO of Enron, but that's a very low bar (after all Enron was the largest corporate bankruptcy ever when it collapsed), and people have gone to jail for much less. I get the hero worship, but it doesn't stop Musk from being a criminal.
To clarify, the OP is talking about a Bachelor of Science (not bull poop).
What's interesting about this proposal is it goes after "proprietary marketplaces".[1] Anti-trust has historically focused on breaking up huge companies that have acquired/merged with their competition. She's recognizing that another lever of power in the world: owning the platform.

Lots of tech "monopoly" power comes from network effects. Once you're Google or Amazon you don't necessarily need to buy up all the other search engines or ecommerce platforms. They can't even get off the ground.

Also interesting: she doesn't mention Apple at all. Yet they run one of the biggest platforms, and their cut (which they call "service revenue") is one of the highest growth categories for them.

[1] https://medium.com/@teamwarren/heres-how-we-can-break-up-big...
Interesting. I just learned that.[1] I wonder why Apple hasn't apply it to be accepted into the general unicode code points.

[1]: https://emojipedia.org/apple-logo/
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>I mean, I wouldn't choose my mechanic based on how comforting they could be.

I grew up in an auto-shop in the SF Bay, my family still owns one of them. You may not choose a mechanic based on their empathy, but the large majority (~90%) of people do. Trust is a thing that is hard to establish, but incredibly easy to break. One bad part, one snippy phone call, will totally ruin the relationship that you've built up over decades with a customer and their family. They'll never walk in the door again.

We've experimented with all forms of customer communication. From texts, to online booking, to Groupon and Yelp. Nothing works anywhere near as good as an inperson chat. When you've got to deliver the message that their car needs a $3k new transmission, despite the family road-trip in a week's time, it's best to do it face to face. Most of the time, that's not realistic, so a phone call is the next best thing. When the estimate is high like that, then it usually takes over 10 minutes per call. There's a lot of yelling and crying, usually.

People get very attached to their cars. Hell, they'll abandon their house and home before they abandon their cars[0]. When you do extensive surgery on the car they drove their new wife home in, that they drove their first-born in, that they cried in when their Mom died, that they spilled innumerable sodas in, well, you can understand why they throw money into the repairs even when it makes no sense.

Providing that 'deft hand', those years of knowledge and experience, has helped the business not just survive the Dot-Com and Housing crashes, but has let us thrive despite those economic catastrophes. Knowing how to tell someone that the car is no longer worth the repair does take some experience and care. Customers have come to trust us in helping them make decisions they have a hard time with. The majority of what trust is made of, what it can be partitioned out into, is empathy.

[0] one reason I'm not bullish on self driving car services that are all rentals and leases.
What kind of developers are you looking for?
What CRM do you use for your startup/new business?
I started a communication/pr firm. I feel like we can benefit from a CRM tool that is lightweight but don't know where to start. We use gmail for email.
I'd love to see a Chrome plugin for this, to look at text on various sites and flag out of it's likely machine-written.
I’ve defined art as “something you think somebody else might find interesting.” So I guess that is related to empathy.
The problem is that given enough data, you can infer the identity of a what would otherwise be an anonymous driver. If you could track an anonymous data point (person) for multiple days, you could find out where the location data was confined to for the longest times (home and work), etc.
You know, I really admire this. You have a mature and sophisticated approach to a problem that leads many other couples into some degree of bitter, hurtful conflict. You and your spouse are doing right by your kids, and taking care of yourselves too. With the self-awareness, strength, and honesty this takes, I expect things will work out just fine for you guys.
Cities discourage or outright prohibit anything beyond 2 bedroom MDUs being constructed. Its a great way to keep families from putting down roots in an area, or expanding much beyond 2 to 3 members.

Seattle isn't quite as bad as other cities in pushing this policy, but there isn't any extra push to incentivize construction of 3+ bedroom apartments & condos (eg: additional building height/width allowances).

IIRC our auditor wrote a report that came to the conclusion that we had way too few 3+ bedroom units in the city. If we want affordable housing (not "Affordable" housing, with heavy subsidies), set back & step back requirements need to be loosened for construction that includes valuable 3 & 4 bedroom condos and apartments.

Note: HOAs in Seattle proper are very rare outside of condos. Ditto outside the city limits, though some small single family home enclaves choose to kneecap themselves with a HOA.
> Either you have something static, in which case it's got all the negatives of a static secret. Or, you have something dynamic, in which case you have to manage the infrastructure.

I just described a system that is neither fully static nor fully dynamic. It has a static part (Unique ID) and a semi-dynamic part (numerical key) that can rotate as needed.

> Your system is just another static piece of data to keep secret.

Keys can be rotated as needed. For example with drivers license renews. The Unique ID is static but it isn't security sensitive.

> I also don't understand how the "unique ID" doesn't have value.

Because having it doesn't give you the ability to open a bank account, take out a loan, or receive a benefit. It is used by the financial institutions to tie actions to an identity, nothing more.

The actual validation of identity occurs with the key and API, the Unique ID is simply the result.

> There's no way to distinguish between "obtained unique ID via the key and thereby proved identity" and "obtained unique ID via any other method and thereby did not prove identity".

The action of retrieving the Unique ID is more important for verifying identity than the actual Unique ID itself. You could steal a Unique ID but that isn't useful, and there wouldn't be another way of obtaining one.
I'm curious to learn: what C++ constructors have to do with the executable format? I do get that atexit might require a special place in the binary for the kernel to jump to, but how does a relatively high end language feature drop down to binary format?