skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The SEC enforcement arm doesn't have much outside of debarment and fines.

Because any fraud committed by a CEO (or other executive position) can be solved by simply removing them from the position. You really can't commit fraud vs investors if you aren't the CEO (or other major position of power).
How does a layperson without retained counsel handle this? Is there an ACLU hotline? Do I need to be prepared with a number in my wallet?
Thanks for letting me relive nightmare memories of Grand Ave in Chicago! I always wondered, why couldn't the bus drivers be in communication and have the front bus just skip a couple of stops (where people are waiting) when they bunched, which was often even 3 buses!
Key takeaway: Over the last five years, hiring of white males for tech roles has declined from 47.5% to 33.3% (of total tech hires). Somewhat surprisingly, hiring of white females and all non-Asian minorities has barely budged. The major increases were in hiring of Asians, with women increasing somewhat faster proportionally.

No data on age at all. I'm guessing it would look pretty bad for those over forty.

Kudos to Google for publishing this in greater detail than ever.
That's not quite genuine. I feel MoviePass showed that of course //more// demand is accessible if the price of the product is lowered.

We already knew this from basic economic theory, but MoviePass also showed us a different set details.

1) Which movies were so bad they were not worth the time to watch.

2) A proxy for the average price someone would pay for movies that they would watch (since the service is a self-selecting sample of those that would go to many movies if the prices were lowered).

The idea is very stupid as a for-profit business model; it doesn't even have a likely chance for probably being successful. The idea is pretty great if put in to another context, such as one where there's a lottery for the option to buy such a membership and using the collected data as described above.
This is already some news for me, waiting for the desktop information on this.
recommendations for similarly easy but better/more "modern" alternatives?
These CBP searches happen all the time near the Mexican border. I've been stopped at a few before traveling down there. The CBP checkpoints are permanent in some places, so there's plenty of people who have to go through it during their daily commutes.
There is the auto-train. Washington DC to Florida: https://www.amtrak.com/auto-train
>Is it bad though?

Yes. Hence the 'mal' part.

Investment should be going towards enterprises which produce actual value. If the only way you can produce value is by throwing away money through predatory pricing, then you aren't creating value. And so without any value to create, eventually you blow up and lose a bunch of people their money.

When enough people lose enough money, people stop lending their money so freely and the business cycle starts the contraction phase. Now good enterprises have trouble getting capital, so they delay purchasing all of those cool servers/computers/whatevers. Since the companies selling those things now receive less orders, they order less from their suppliers, etc. Suppliers go under. People lose their jobs. People without jobs spend less, which kills demand further. Fuck. etc.

If it helps to have a misleadingly simplified 1 phrase summary: you can think of malinvestment as taking money from workable enterprises in the future and funnelling it into shitty enterprises now.
This is very common in Manhattan. Whenever I saw a full bus, I'd skip it and wait for the next one, because it was almost certainly going to come along within 5 minutes and be pleasantly uncrowded. On a busy route, it's the sensible choice.

On longer-distance commuter routes, where the scheduled times are 30-60 minutes apart, I wouldn't usually take a chance on waiting for the next one, but I even did that on occasion when a bus was particularly-overcrowded.
They didn't even give him the chance to make a call. You're completely helpless unless you've done your research and come up with a game plan ahead of time.
I wouldn't call Boston a slouch, at all! It is an amazing city with a lot of great tech stuff happening.

But having raised VC money for three companies, Boston definitely feels like it doesn't have the same VC culture as SF and NYC. In some ways, this is a really good thing!

A lot of Boston investment money is much more conservative about valuations and business models. There's more late stage money than early stage money. There has historically been a lot more life sciences money than "software" money (on the professional investment side). My memory is that the last numbers I saw (2017) put Boston overall tech venture funding at something like 1/8th of the Bay Area's totals.
Location: East Coast, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python : TensorFlow, Keras, Pandas, Other machine learning and data science related libraries ; Web technologies : React, Vue, Node, other JS etc.

Resume:

My name is Satvik Pendem and I run a machine learning dev agency called Aria Labs (https://arialabs.io).

We primarily use Python and associated libraries for machine learning related tasks (Tensorflow, Keras, Pandas, etc), and we also create web apps (React, Vue, Node, etc) that combine the backend machine learning predictions with a great user interface to make a cohesive product rather than simply a trained model.

Here are some problems that we've solved in the past:

- Client (a big consulting company with many employees traveling) wanted a messenger app to book flights and hotels directly from various messengers such as Slack. We used NLP to automatically parse and identify intent for the incoming data from these messengers, searched optimal flight and hotel combos, sent the data back through the messengers, and automatically booked these flights and hotels if wanted, saving hours of manual searching by executive assistants and generating 20% more billable hours.

- Client (an Amazon product seller) wanted to raise and lower prices based on product demand in real time. We built a custom solution that would analyze many factors on Amazon to figure out when and under which conditions to set a specific price for each product. This generated more than $10 million over the previous year for this client.

- Clients (lab scientists) wanted to efficiently clean and categorize lab research data. We ran OCR on the handwriting, and used NLP to categorize the types of data from a previous training dataset with a 95% accuracy level.

Email: satvik@arialabs.io
I was having a hard time finding the statement that SpatialOS can't run apart from Google Cloud, but they do not allow self-hosting, meaning you are tied to wherever they put their servers which is Google according to the parent's source.

I suspect Hadean is similar, they've listed Microsoft as a partner, and presumably it's a cloud service that they are offering, so wherever they host it is where you get it, you're never directly dealing with the cloud provider or it's billing.

It's plausible, arguably, that both could shift to alternate cloud providers if they wanted, but I get them impression their customers have no choice in the matter.

Also, they do get a little further into the weeds, but it's hidden behind a hamburger menu: https://www.hadean.com/developer/how-to-get-started-with-aet... though a code example without access to the library or cloud service isn't a whole lot of use for testing out!
Sci-Hub and LibGen Now Blocked in France Following High Court Order
Techniques for learning programming languages efficiently
For those of us datahoarders, how large is sci hub? Surely it compresses extremely well considering it's all human readable text? I would love to mirror it via a torrent or on ipfs and whatnot, and I have a gigabit connection with roughly 80TB of space I can throw at this.
> that said he may be in violation of a policy not to travel with proprietary info

How is this policy supposed to work? Seems like it would a huge pain point for any sort of travel.
Zabbix 4.2 Released
> The SEC enforcement arm doesn't have much outside of debarment and fines.

The heavy lifting is done by criminal referral to DOJ; other federal agencies don't get to do criminal prosecution even when they are the frontline enforcement agency for a law with criminal penalties.

Criminal referrals tend to be slower than SEC civil enforcement action (especially settlements), so if they happen behind the scenes, you won't necessarily know about them until later.
I'm the hiring manager on this role, I can take this one.

ML engineers fall between data science and production engineering. They're responsible for doing their own data analysis and experimentation, plus some light engineering to implement their models in production. We also hire backend engineers to handle the more hardcore infrastructure tasks, so we don't expect quite the same insane level of coding ability as some companies do.
They can also intentionally lie to you about what they can and can't do. There have been reports of this happening.
Another point (not in Sweden) is that the rail operators are government-owned companies which often operate like the government does.

Couple of months back, I tried to buy a ticket to the car-train to Lapland (I can take the car with me to train in the evening, sleep in a cabin, wake up in the morning and set off for the remainder of the journey with my car). When booking the car slot, the booking system required me to enable flash and when it got started, it just rotated that thing on the browser window.

I got bored, checked out flights. In 5 minutes I had flight tickets, with extra bags paid, and a rental car, at half the total cost of what the car-train would have been. I returned to the booking window, it still had that rotating thing on the browser window. I closed the window and did not miss it.
There is a difference between social privacy and data privacy. I close the curtains and cover my credit card statements because I want social privacy. I don't care if Google's machines have the same information on me.
If you love these kind of things you will be blown away by this: https://codeklavier.space/

Which can be seen in action here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrUNrb3ihl0

And no, no April Fools here ;-)
This slightly confuses a few issues:

- Under Martinez-Fuerte, CBP can briefly question anyone at a checkpoint within 100 miles of the US border to ascertain their citizenship. The only privilege over usual reasonable suspicion / probable cause searches is to ascertain citizenship (so searching your glove compartment or your pockets isn't granted).

- There's a border search exception _passing through the border_, which allows for CBP to search you & your possessions, with _no_ requirement for reasonable suspicion nor a warrant.

- Under Cotterman, the border search exception does _not_ extend to forensic examination of your devices. The agents need reasonable suspicion or a warrant or consent.
There is a pytorch port from Ultralytics (https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov3). Nobody seems to have figured out how to achieve the training performance of darknet though, which is entirely uncommented C. The source is all there, but the loss function changed between v2 and v3, and its not documented in the paper. I think it's been fixed in that pytorch port now though. The only frustrating thing is that every commit in the repo is called update...

Alternatively... you can train in darknet and then run inference in another framework of choice.

Also shameless plug: I wrote an annotation tool which is designed to output darknet formatted labels: https://github.com/jveitchmichaelis/deeplabel
> Structures composed of wood do not remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Why not? Just some napkin math here but:

Say you have three 10K kg trees. Wood is ~50% carbon, so that means they collectively contain around 15K kg of carbon. Cut them down and turn them into framing lumber and build a house. You now have a house frame with roughly 15K kg of carbon.

Now plant 3 trees where the old ones were. Once grown you have now collectively sequestered 30K kg of carbon - half of it is in the trees themselves, half in the house.

Keep doing that. After a decade you now you have 1000 houses that have each sequestered 15K kg of carbon from the atmosphere, or 15M kg of carbon.
So could I write a custom Content Decryption Module that would be able to decrypt Netflix content? Or would the content providers have to support my custom Content Decryption Module?
I think I might be able to help - I've just sent an email to the address listed under "contact" on your site.
They've been too busy winning the F1 championship every year for the last five years.
Let's just say I have a lot or respect for the possibilities I'm aware of, together with a general sense that there's a lot that I don't know.

In any case, just because you usually get your laptop handed right back, it doesn't follow that you always will. If it matters to you, buy that burner.
That's why I use Brave Browser, it blocks everything by default. Doesn't even download them.
If nobody signals to get off, buses sometimes will skip if they're bunched. I've seen it in at least three cities before. I have no idea if it's policy or if the drivers on those routes juts took matters into their own hands.

I see bunched buses on the stop right outside my work basically every day. Sometimes four from one route and another three from another parallel route all within a ~5 minute span.

Mercer in Seattle is... not great for traffic.
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> Why not just produce the drug and let people take it (who know the above risks)?

Because terrible things have been conducted in the name of research [1,2,3] which made humanity decide to form IRB and consider the actual impact on the participant. While you open up the "who know the above risks", what about child/prisoners/mentally disabled people? In current research, these are protected groups specifically because they can't really make these decisions for themselves. Furthermore, we don't know the longer term effects of things. Quaker didn't know radioactive oatmeal to track nutrient absorption in orphans would be harmful [3] and even made the case that "at least we were feeding them". Yes, again they are a protected group, but what if, say, this drug had the statistics you presented, but then 10-20 years later it was discovered that it gradually caused dementia? Simply saying "they knew the risks" is not enough.

In the end, human experimentation is a tricky gray area BECAUSE of the possibilities for misconduct. Someone could be coerced into doing something they didn't need/want to. This is both the annoyance and best thing about IRB. Yes, its annoying that I can't just experiment my novel teaching approach on a subset of students without their consent AND IRB approval, but it is ensuring that my control is getting equal learning opportunities AND my experimental is negatively learning.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentatio...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/01/us/settlement-reached-in-...
Buses have to let people off, as well as on, no?
It's mostly been fixed in London. They used to be famous for no busses for 20 mins then 3 at once but they are now controlled by a central computer system which knows all the positions via gps and cell data.
"This bus is being held at this stop for a short while to even out gaps in the service". - Welcome to London.
The introduction to State and Power by V. I. Lenin says exactly this - the state will always become a proxy for the rich owners of production (GDP generation.) And not in a nefarious way but in an inevitable "forces" way. Democracy is the best government for large/rich entities in a capitalistic environment. It presents the appearance of fairness and legitimacy, yet delegates most of its power and direction to the heads of production via influence, lobbyists, etc.
Early and longtime EN user here. In addition to bloating the app with little features and collaboration tools —and the distraction of selling desk accessories and a food app— one of Evernote’s failures was in not helping users put the information they captured to better use. For example, if I was collecting code snippets, my IDE could hit the API and have access to them. There are many ways they could have similarly helped users better leverage the information and become more valuable in daily life.
Like Warren Buffet says "Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked". Most of these companies didn't exist when the last recession happened. Let's see how many will exist after the next one.
Steal 17 million dollars from investors, literally not a day in jail.

Steal 17 dollars from a department store and see how that goes.

Welcome to America.
You know that you can't truly "wipe" SSDs, right?
MTA has this interesting animation to explain the same problem, but in the context of subway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eShtZSx4kWc
You're not alone. I've cut my U.S. travel significantly in the last years due to what I've experienced as hostile border agents for reasons I could never quite figure out but probably related to my nomadic lifestyle. I'm not a U.S. citizen but I do come from a "friendly" nation and it's shameful some of the things that have been said to me in an effort to catch me out in a lie that didn't exist.
Precheck alone is $15 cheaper.
The other side of this is for that the past centuries things that were on _paper_ (letters, photographs, newsletters, zines, personal notes/journals, whatever) could be just left sitting around, and _some_ portion of them would still be there and legible decades+ later for historical purposes.

When it's digital... if you don't keep feeding it, it's gone forever.

There has been some coverage of historians and archivists concerned about this, here's just the first random thing i found googling:

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/digital-era-end-history/st...

But yes, professional archivists increasingly recognize you can't save _everything_ digital, we couldn't afford it. Figuring out what to save is a challenge. But if we save nothing, we're not gonna have much history to look at.
This happens all of the time in Boston, especially with the bigger bus lines. No number 1 bus for 30 minutes, then 3 or 4 of them. Regardless of the cause, it's very frustrating as a passenger from a UX standpoint.
Fowler just reinvented GoF pattern Observer. There was a reason we called it „pattern“, which is now being devalued by a new name for an old thing.
No worries. I've been there, too :)

You're not necessarily wrong to evaluate the GP's company based on the GP's views. HN is one of those weird grey areas where lots of people implicitly represent the companies for which they work (and don't do the normal "the views expressed herein are not representative of $COMPANY") without necessarily realizing it. While I don't believe the comment was particularly out of line, I can see why others would disagree, and I do agree that caution is worthwhile in the absence of an explicit disconnect between one's own opinions and those of one's employer.

I will, of course, say right now that my own views are not representative of my employer's views (hell, my views tend to be the precise opposite of my employer's views at times ;) ).
With some changes - yes. I did this in my experimental project: https://github.com/indutny/resistenz/blob/master/python/mode...

The idea is to add an extra 2 params to the output of each classifier cell. Then do L2 normalization on them ( https://github.com/indutny/resistenz/blob/master/python/mode... ) and treat them as a cosine/sine pair.

The loss in this case would be the Euclidean distance between the actual and predicted pairs, which is equal to "2 * (1 - cos(x-y))".
Based on my reading of FAR 25, specifically 25.143 - 25.207, I can't agree it's possible for a transport category airplane to be unstable. So I guess I don't know what you mean by "inherent instability".

I also am unconvinced computers can mediate an airplanes aerodynamic design in order to achieve certification under this part, because again by my reading the expectation is that we (pilots and the flying public) can expect static and dynamic stability dynamic stability, laterally and longitudinally. Can computer control improve these behaviors? Sure. Can computer control make them more linear or consistent or docile or predictable? All of those things. But is it acceptable to have negative static stability, naturally occurring by design, in transport category aircraft moderated by computer? I don't think that's allowed but then I'm not deep diving these regulations either. What happens if all computer control goes down? You can't fall back on the natural static and dynamic stability of the airplane, because it doesn't exhibit those characteristics? That seems bad and not consistent with FAR 25.

However, if any such computer safeguards can be disabled (either by the computer itself becoming confused and removing those safeguards; or by pilots disabling them explicitly), I expect the pilot to be trained as part of the type certification requirements, how the airplane behaves when the safeguards are enabled and disabled.

I'm quite sure Boeing knows the answer to these questions. I suspect the FAA knows the answer to these questions. And when you say "we don't know" I think you mean HNer's engaged in discussion, who maybe aren't even aware that quite a lot of things are mandatory for obtaining transport category aircraft airworthiness certification.
Great too see yet another Disqus alternative. However, I agree with justinjc - I am missing a demo and pricing information. I've blogged about different ways to include comments on a static site [1]. I'm happy to include your service if you provide some more information (even if it's just a WIP) :)

[1] https://darekkay.com/blog/static-site-comments/
This is some good blog. Incidentally, when I was in college, I took a Philosophy 101 class which could be said to have degenerated into a logic course, but all the same I really enjoyed it, as it taught me the basics of reasoning, and was an unexpected foundation to my eventual work in software engineering.
Just noticed my first sticky key on my third-gen keyboard and am glad to hear I'm not the only one. Hopefully Apple has something better in the works.
Same happens in Seattle (and we have some nice services that show you the GPS locations of all the busses on the route, so you can be pretty sure an empty one is right on its way)
I think you might be holding a spherical cow.

Does your math include the carbon necessary to harvest, transport, cut the lumber? And to haul away the existing structure?
Taxi firms don't have massive IT departments.

That is the key to the "Uber will never be profitable" brigade. Taxi firms are way, way leaner than Uber/Lyft.
I'd go even further and say that the larger platforms are anti-privacy by design, because their core purpose has always been concerned with data collection. I think the large online social networks are in the same vein fundamentally rightwing, because profiting from the efforts of others has nothing whatsoever to do with leftism.

IRL, if you want privacy, you avoid groups. I don't see why the digital realm should be viewed any differently. So there's a duality with social networkers, in that they may want privacy for themselves, yet a large reason for being on those platforms is to learn about everyone else. From a safe distance.
How buses bunch is fairly ovious: the trailing bus has few people to pick up so it moves faster, uselessly catching up to the full bus.

Why they bunch up is actually a different reason: the operators don't give a darn
about sticking to schedules and/or tracking the other buses and maintaining space.