skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's an algorithm out there looking for girls who don't ever get phone calls or texts from their dads...
This story makes no sense to me. Why would someone who has all the money in the world to prepare their kid to get into the best schools pay $180k to get their kid in a mid-ranked public school with a 40% admissions rate?

Like how badly unqualified could his son be to require that kind of assistance to get into UT Austin (no offense, but this is not Harvard or Stanford we’re taking about here..)
Having encrypted backups means that you are throwing away PFS.
I've purchased a 2017 MacBook and three MacBook Pros (2007 15", 2009, and 2014) and while these are used every day, it's my Carbon X1 (third generation) which really shines. It has three "input modes" (TrackPoint, touch screen, and TouchPad, a great keyboard, and a 14" matte screen that doesn't reflect light. To top it off, the X1 is less expensive with specs better than any MacBook Pro. I'm an Apple/MacBook Pro fan, but (to echo others here) if I had to decide today on a new laptop it would be the X1 6th generation. I agree that Apple is losing its way when it comes to laptops.

That being said, the X1 touch pad with Synaptics software can't match a Mac touchpad. If you're not willing to make a compromise on this specific requirement then stick with your Mac.
MobileCoin != Signal.

I literally do not work for Signal.
I get that it's a popular tech interview. And if you took a formal class in the subject you can probably blow throw those types of interviews.
That's all fine and good until somebody burns a cross on your lawn. Pretty sure you're not going to be happy with their free speech rights at that point.

Free speech absolutism is naturally at odds with property rights absolutism. The question then becomes under which circumstances should one be given precedence over the other.
> I've heard and observed that the Ph.D teaches you one crucial skill - how to take a vaguely defined research problem that nobody has done before, where you're not even sure that a solution exists, and make tangible, rigorous progress on it

I like the way you put this. I am researcher in academia, and my parents (who do not have advanced degrees and have never done research) always ask me "When you get into the lab, how do you know what to do?".

No one really tells me. My PI only gives very general research directions. It's up to experience and intuition, part of which was gained during my grad student years.

But also agree there are other ways to learn that as well. There will never be a one-size-fits-all solution.
White nationalism doesn't advocate killing all non-white nationalists.

Bad take.
"Blockchain" isn't a good descriptor for the set of properties that the Bitcoin protocol relies on for tamper resistance, so it's no surprise that other "blockchain"-having systems don't share that resistance.

"Proof of work" is a much more accurate descriptor, but it's been tainted in the media to mean "evil climate-destroying obsolete thing."

Most software hype cycles don't affect anyone but developers, but if this blockchain thing continues on, there's going to be a lot of money stolen.
At least this is a nice change from the prior environment in which a PhD was often a negative in the private sector ("head in the clouds" "no practical experience").
you can use html/css/js with it, I guess :/

Or, more accurately, its easy to make UIs for it?

I'm personally bearish on the whole idea from a community / technical standpoint (in that I'd like us to return to more native stuff than follow JS into the browser), but I can't argue that WASM and co won't enable some really cool uses.
I don't know the full veracity of this piece, but IIRC the Foxbat once acquired a lock on it: https://theaviationist.com/2013/12/11/sr-71-vs-mig-31/
Regardless of people's positions on working with PhDs, the article falls flat in explaining how employers are "hung up on hiring PhDs" based on some low-level exploratory analysis.

For example, the article's graph of "PhD Proliferation" shows a 20k increase of PhDs from 1970s-2010s.... but that is a fairly unremarkable presentation to make on its own when the US population has increased 100M people from 1970 to 2010: http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/us-population/

How is the graduate education population different from 1970s to 2010s? What percentage of college students go on to get PhDs? Is the PhD per capita lower or higher today than it was back then? What is the PhD breakdown by field over time? What other factors affect this?

Also, my hypothesis is that employers hire PhDs for their particular research experience and thesis topic relevant to their business; not just because someone has a PhD in a technical field. For example, a hedge fund is probably more likely to hire a PhD quant analyst with a research speciality in econometrics vs. autonomous driving. Therefore, not all PhDs are equal when it comes to hiring because the demand varies.

Further, the author says "Master’s or even bachelor’s degree holders are often highly talented, and many can learn Ph.D.-level research skills on the job as they go." While it may be true, it's not the point. PhDs are hired not just for research, but also analysis and insight. Why would an employer pay a PhD more money than a pure researcher unless they are getting something else out of it? Nothing says someone needs a PhD to be able to research, but there's a difference between knowing a skill and having the capacity to learn a skill over time, which is the distinction in hiring.
Fun fact: a monoid is a category with one object.
I state that by clearly stating the premise and assumptions in an if/then format:

> If users trust the key because they trust updates coming from Daniel ..., then

That's a big-ish "if"; I didn't weigh in on whether I think it's true. A reasonable person could go either-way on that. If it is true, then Daniel was justified, if it's not, then he wasn't.

> ... when the users have no control or say over this decision?

If we assume that people trusted Copperhead-the-organization because they trusted Daniel and that Daniel's removal is a change-of-hands, then the decisions is:

- Do nothing (and stop receiving updates)

- Start trusting the new engineering leadership of Copperhead-the-organization

From that perspective, it makes sense that Daniel should destroy the key: Making the active decision to start trusting the new Copperhead requires the active technical step of installing the new key; making the inactive decision doesn't require action.

If on the other hand we assume that Daniel was an implementation detail and that people trust Copperhead-the-organization as an institution, then the decision is:

- Stop trusting Copperhead-the-organization (and stop receiving updates)

- Do nothing

From that perspective, it makes sense that Daniel should not destroy the key: Making the active decision of ceasing trust requires the active technical step of disabling updates.
ubuntu 18.04 for both
Anyone who has worked on mapping software knows that China has all these special rules you have to abide by if you want to sell there. You basically end up with two separate products: one for China and one for the rest of the world. It’s not just that you need to show borders a certain way, but also you need to exaggerate the size of certain islands and show some things where they don’t actually exist. They even use a different coordinate system so if you get latitude and longitude from a GPS you cannot plot them on a Chinese map without applying a mathematical transformation
To the coordinates beforehand. Lots of special case code and parallel data!
What? In his current situation, even if he doesn't zone out, he can still produce erroneously transcribed data too. Why even go to work?
...

“Good people on ‘both sides’?”
The problem is democracy is about popularity, not reason. Most people do not elect the "best" leaders. We are very far away from that ever happening, regardless of culture.
> Assuming a title is on a streaming service that I have a subscription to, piracy is definitely not more convenient.

I'm not sure. A friend watches shows on a pirate streaming site, even though they are available for free (but add supported, not that this matters with addblock) on a legal streaming site. It's just easier to always first check the site that always has the desired content available for that particular target audience than some try and error or even an additional google search.

But context matters. If you pay for a subscription, wanting to get the most "value" out of that makes sense psychologically (just like the other mindset... "already payed for that, who cares where i watch"). Also if you already got the necessary subscriptions and google always directly leads you to the latest weekly episode, starting there doesn't make a difference. One that's not the case (e.g. you can only watch ever other show an the high sea)... well, having to repeat the search on more than one site would certainly be more effort.
To get a job right now: Go

For a great low level language with a pleasant syntax and a good community: Rust

Skating to where the puck is going to be: Elixir.
In a town, the only way for people to physically hear your speech is to be present in the town itself.

Facebook users are not restricted to only using Facebook. If they want to go to your blog they can.
You're right. The correct solution is for everyone to stop using the services providing by companies when they begin the downwards censorship slide. Unfortunately most people value using facebook in the >$1000/year range.
This works great for incredibly tech savvy people who have an offline way of verifying public keys. This is completely and utterly useless for 99.9% of whatsapp's 1b+ users. Heck, how many times have security-aware software engineers blazed through the "THIS KEY IS NOT TRUSTED" warning from ssh?
Far right: private businesses such as bakeries should be allowed to refuse service to whoever they want!

Also the far right: why is Facebook censoring my ability to spread hate speech!

I'm oversimplifying it, but the hypocrisy and lack of self-awareness is astounding.
For embedded devices you'd always be better just compiling C/C++/Rust directly to the native code. You don't have any portability possibility there in the first place anyway, so why ship inferior code gen with arbitrary restrictions?
Not everyone is piling open source frameworks on top of each other in order to sell ads and personal data or throwing ML and AI spaghetti at the wall and seeing if what sticks turns them into the next Gordon Gekko.
"Only white people can be racist because they got the best color. The unfortunate need pride to feel good about themselves so we are keeping them"
I think there is a lesson here that applies to more than just planes. Speed often can solve a problem in a simple way.

The enemy will fire missiles at us. What shall we do? (1) Invent missile-proof armor, (2) Build computer-guided anti-missile lasers, (3) Just fly really fast.

I guess all of those are hard to do. Making the SR-71 fly at Mach 3 wasn't easy. But to me it seems more elegant.

In the early 2000s, Google made a big deal about speed in web apps. I think it still does, but I don't hear about it anymore. And everybody knows that GMail is slower. But I appreciated it while it lasted.
I wish more companies would do this. April 1st on the internet is a pain.
> Though perhaps "cool looks" is maybe not the prime factor in fighter jet selection...

The urban legend about why the X-32 lost out to what become the F-35 is it having a stooopid looking mouth on it: https://i.imgur.com/1GW21we.jpg
I think you are referring to Apple and Apple's CMs (contract manufacturers) lawsuit against Qualcomm?

These are really one single lawsuit orchestrated by Apple. The issue isn't overly complicated -- they are essentially refusing to pay Qualcomm licensing fees for their wireless patents on the ground that Qualcomm's licensing practice is in violation of antitrust laws. Thus, their claims rest heavily on the outcome of the FTC case.
Apple has not fix MacBook keyboards problem
This is a strawman. Who actually says both these things?
Keybase is awesome.

I wish they would take my money as a customer. I don't want to see them to away.
I've recently started learning elixir and it's an absolute joy to use so far
Except when Google tried it, they failed.

Not even size will save you.
Henry George thought that land was our common inheritance, but was in favor of free markets. He did not support rent control. He thought of rent as a fact owing to the value of the location, and the question is not how to make the rent lower. The question is who gets to profit off the fruits of nature.

Rent control, in effect, converts tenants into pseudo-landowners with less fungible rights.

If locations are valuable, and by extension the rents, that is good. But to whom does the rent belong?

If rents are unaffordable, it is because wages are too low and the rent is not shared... which comes back to bargaining power and the overall health of the economy.

Taxing production, for instance, harms economic health.

But allowing speculators to hold the land for ransom creates stagnation, sprawl, and harms the bargaining power of labor... by worsening everyone's best available options for living and working.
The problem is, if they are forced to allow "any legal content", they'll be overrun with spammers and other no-goods, and the users who just want to keep up with their family will all leave.
The problem is someone can screenshot a Nazi Facebook post with the Facebook logo right there in bold blue and spam it across the internet as evidence that Facebook implicitly supports white nationalism (by giving it a platform).

I don't think there was ever an outcome other than the one we've seen - Nazis getting banned. The company town precedent doesn't make a good comparison in my head - this is Facebook content stored on their servers and printed on their timelines. I believe they should be allowed to control what appears in their timelines.
If you're coming in from out of state, (presumably the family is based in CA), public school admissions can be more difficult than for in-state applicants.

From what I remember even for in-state applicants, when admissions years are big meeting the minimum requirements does not guarantee matriculation.

So it could be that the child had halfway decent scores but for a variety of reasons wasn't likely to make it in on a straight application. 40% admission means a most people are still getting rejected.

Or it could be otherwise.
> When it comes to you, nothing is too good to be true. It’s too good to be true for someone else. But you always think, “Oh, I deserve this. This is evidence of how smart I was in making this decision.” Poker forces you to let go of that very, very quickly.

That is indeed a very valuable lesson!
Flaws in Bitcoin make a lasting revival unlikely
From what I've heard, the fact that the X-35 looked cooler than the X-32 was a non trivial component of it being selected in the JSF program.
In the article, she is quoted as saying that winnings from poker can be taxed at 60%. But I Googled it and the first few sites that I clicked on say more like 25%. What am I missing?
Rating: optimistic
Does vacant mean "listed for rent but is not rented" or does it mean "could be lived in but is empty"? That could explain the difference in numbers.
Yes, people actually are claiming that these new NNet advancements are the key that will unlock AGI, which by its very nature implies that they will be as advanced, or more advanced, than humans in all forms of intelligence.

Who are "people" in this context? Are you talking about the general public, or misinformed journalists who are writing about things they don't understand? Because from what I've seen, by and large, the researchers working on Deep Learning are not claiming that DL (alone) is sufficient to achieve AGI, nor do they posit that AGI is anywhere close to reality. Read, for example, Martin Ford's book Architects of Intelligence[1] and note how the various researchers interviewed talk about AGI. That list, BTW, includes all three of LeCun, Hinton, and Bengio, as well as many others.

[1]: http://book.mfordfuture.com/
Any white nationalism that advocates "a nation of their own" implicitly advocates such killing, because we're out of land.

... unless that philosophy explicitly states "... and we'll build that nation on the shores of Antarctica," there's a genocide implied.
> "Is there any single piece of technology that's more retro-futuristic than the SR-71?"

Maybe not more, but up there with it are the Concorde, and the H&K G11.

Also, if you like the SR-71, check out the A-12. The immediate predecessor of the SR-71, very easy to confuse the two, with the notable exception of the A-12 having a single seat. I think that makes it even cooler. Just one pilot, no other aircrew, up there alone with the machine. That's really incredible to me.
Wild. Any idea why?
Containing costs -> multi mission -> giant weird beast. I don't think we disagree.

Still, I think the point about it being a backstop to unmanned aerial assets stands. I don't know if it needs to be optimized for any single mission when it's likely to be a worse choice than one of those assets.
Agreed. Just wanted to see if there was some precedent I was missing :)
I'm not sure why this is downvoted. The reason WA has so much popularity is that it is easy to use and you could use wifi. Signal is not as easy to use (less features) but more secure and so privacy conscious people like it. But people don't like switching to Signal because "it is hard". Making a more secure app is good, but we have to question "do we want people using pretty good e2e or do we want to make the perfect app first?"
If that side has a large percentage of people who actively advocate for violence against my people or regularly try to make it so me and mine can't work to live I'm fine with kicking them to the curb.

No one ever starved because they couldn't call me a f-----. Not too long ago the fact that I am a f----- would have prevented me from working in my chosen or almost any field and gotten me harassed or assaulted on a regular basis.
I love reading about skunk works! Any specific books you can recommend?
> I think the obvious analogy would be banning things like the Black Panthers. Should Facebook be allowed to do that?

Yes, Facebook should be allowed to ban people posting from before Facebook existed.

OTOH, that's unlikely to be practical issue of any concern.
Ask HN: Advice on first round of VC funding
Long-time lurker, using a throwaway account.

I'm the cofounder of a tech startup and we are in the B2B SaaS space. So far we've been fueled by founders' own savings, some angel funding and some revenues. We have established product-market fit, and while the general tendency is a 3-6 month sales cycle, we think we can accelerate it.

We recently began our fundraising efforts for a Series A round, and I am seeking advice from others who have been through that journey.

In particular, I would like to learn what level of details to share during tech due diligence, what sort of financial projections make sense, how detailed they need to be, how to best share a product roadmap (any tools that you prefer?) and so on.

Would really appreciate your suggestions. Thank you!
Well, you are talking about something else.

The baseband chips only handle wireless communication and these are really special purpose chips. We are not talking about Qualcomm's SOC, ie Snapdragon, GPU, AI chips, etc,.. these are not in the scope of this lawsuit (or licensing).
I watched the voting online. The way it works is properly preposterous. Things go insanely fast. Alternating risen arm and electronic votes.

Votes are only announced by the president which calls them in his or her native language then translated into all other languages. Quite often translators aren’t able to keep up leading to numerous errors in voting.
That's a damn shame because the X-32 is easily one of the world's cutest airplanes.
> If they are going to get the benefit of _not paying_ for speech that they would ordinarily be penalized for (libel, copyright infringement) then that's the cost, yes.

Why? That's an interesting statement, but I don't see how one follows from the other.

If you create a community online, should you not have some control over that community? Hacker News frequently censors and bans people in order to maintain a certain community. What if you created EverybodyBeNice.com that wants only "nice" posts? Is it not that fair that these companies can enforce their own standards while also getting protection from libel and copyright infringement made by their users? I don't think there is a good argument why one should be tied to the other.

I think arguing that every single website should be a common carrier takes that concept way too far.
So every web site you visit now balloons to 150MB of code that just badly reinvents what Chrome & Firefox did? And also just runs with, what, all permissions & capabilities? Or no permissions? GPU, video, audio, etc... are all just not allowed then?
Taste is obviously subjective, but in terms of "all the greats", Maier's style and work is my favorite. Like you, I can't quite explain why, but she definitely had an eye for great photos.
Context matters. Was he saying that referring to the "terrorist vs innocent people" or "protesters vs counter-protesters" in context of the Charlottesville protest where the terrorist incident occurred? It's a gaffe for sure but I don't think the intention was to congratulate a terrorist.
Is that really cynical? The presence of hate groups on your platform being bad for your bottom line is a good thing, right?
Using AI on iOS to predict people's body positions in real-time
I don't know much about aviation, but I know there's a plane that was faster than the SR-71: The X-15 [1].

I know because my great uncle died flying the X-15 on an experimental flight [2], so it's always been an interesting story for my family.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_X-15
[2] https://theaviationgeekclub.com/the-story-of-mike-adams-the-...
> Fun fact: the government of Taiwan would also object to these maps. Both the RoC and the PRoC claim that all of China (mainland + the island of Taiwan) is actually one country, but disagree on who's rightfully in charge of it.

Another fun fact: the RoC would probably give up its claim to Mainland China if it could, but it can't because the PRC would interpret that as a declaration of independence:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_status_of_Taiwan#Pos...
...and worth one hundred million while turning down somewhere in the ballpark of three to five hundred million dollars in potential merchandising deals. Watterson is a class act like no other.
> Speech that is about "exterminating nonwhites" is already illegal speech. It is incitement to commit crime.

It's not nearly that simple. That speech is only illegal if it is thought to cause "imminent lawless action". INAL but just advocating for the "exterminating nonwhites" at some future time seems legal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio
Find your optimal vehicle and help us solve the AI cold start problem
I'm curious why you're inherently unlikable. Are you are rude to people in real life? Does talking to people online allow you to filter what you say (therefore you can catch yourself before you say or do something off-putting)?
It looks like she wants to talk about symmetric monoidal categories, not just monoidal categories, for that’s where the calculus of string diagrams is actually useful.

Tensor categories is another word for symmetric monoidal categories, indeed it’s less of a mouthful, and perhaps more “intuitive” - it’s conventional to write the symmetric monoidal structure as a tensor product.
The problem is the platform might one day decide you are the witch.