skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That they live in the same high rise? That they're roommates? Again, this is further to GP's point about exaggeration.
It goes farther than that:

> At the same time, if we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state.

So if it looks like he didn't commit obstruction of justice, they would have said that. They can't prove a negative, but if there hadn't been any evidence, they would have been willing to make a judgement that Trump was innocent. But they did find evidence, so they're unwilling to say he's not guilty of obstruction.
How the Army plans to use Microsoft’s HoloLens goggles on the battlefield
People working at a startup are defacto not working at a FAANG company.

It's a "vocal minority" because this is the virtual water cooler for Y Combinator. They aren't even trying to brag in such cases. They are just trying to make their life work.
Yes, my first thought "I wish the systems I worked on in big corps were big monolithic giants"
> Security people see shit like this all the time

At incompetent startups with no expertise in security

> found a raw request log, which inevitably contained...

But the existence of the log is not inevitable! Is it so inreasonable to hold Facebook to a professional standard?

> they disclosed the log in a way

They snuck in an amendment to a previously posted press release while the press was in an uproar about the Mueller report!

They handled this in about as clumsy and dishonest a way as possible. Knowing the executive team, I dare say that -is- as good as we can expect.
That's not my problem, is it?
Multimap and Streetmap in the UK both had prerendered tiles at multiple zoom levels years before Google. I'd developed a smooth "slippy map" at my then employer (waterscape.com) before Google Maps was released, using Flash and the Ming authoring interface, but IIRC Google released before we did.
Tenuring at BigTech is likely to be beneficial more often than not: http://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/

If you're really into making wealth in short amount of time, then you might be right in wanting to be a founder or join a hypergrowth startup: http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html
Why? How old are you?
I feel this way too. I have a colleague who graduated a semester or two after I did. He currently makes a bit more money than I do, and every so often, I wonder if I'm doing it right.

Then I consider the conversations that we have. He's always having to learn something new (not exploratory learn, but forced to learn due to someone with clout shoehorning some ill-fitting tech into the project) or rewrite a steaming pile of crap left by someone who thought they had all the answers. He works with greener tools and tech stacks, and sometimes he gets to write kick ass proofs-of-concept. Yet he always feels like it's time to look for another job after about a year.

I have a stable job where I'm appreciated. It's not perfect. I absolutely have my complaints, but I know that a fair share of those complaints are shallow gripes. My tech stack is a bit more mature, but it's modern enough that I can keep pace in discussion. I put in my 40 hours, and I'm done. I put in time for vacation, and management just says, "Alright, have fun."

When I stop to think about our ever diverging career paths, I always realize that his career is not the type that I want.
Commercial pilots these days are glorified bus drivers. Pay is similar too.
> rules for auto color change top bars

Is this specific to KDE? This sounds like a really nice feature for when I’ve got tons of windows floating around. I’m a big fan of obvious tells so you can get your bearings at a glance.
Most places I know of use Git Virtual File System or equivalents.
I don't think this is necessarily about the poor state of public education. Two of the top three school districts are in the bay area, and 9 are in the top 20. https://blog.pacificunion.com/silicon-valley-again-earns-hig... I'd expect that an engineer could find a decent public school for their kids ignoring any special circumstances.

I think it's more to do with the cost of private education. I found a couple of private middle schools that charged between $30k and $35k per student per year.
They had a web version, but it wasn't a 'slippy map' like Google had.
This is playing a little fast and loose but just to get an idea: the keyed hash is fast but only secure once. By encrypting it, you get most of the perf benefit (the tag is much smaller than the entire message), and you get multi-message security.

FWIW, Poly1305 in e.g. secretbox works the same way: it's really Poly1305-AES. The Poly1305 is equivalent to GHASH here; AES encrypts in both cases.
The irony of software is that it is the only discipline in engineering where results can be proven with logic. Yet we still do testing on it as if it was a blackbox.
A naked GHASH is not a secure MAC; the key can be reverse engineered from the value. So it's encrypted to make the tag.
in the book Digital Minimalism Cal Newport does devote a chapter to this type of 'Leisure' activity. he makes a case that humans are evolved to interact with physical world and such activity is a lot more satisfying/relaxing than the simulated kind (digital world). its well worth a read and making me re-consider my evenings. Even though i avoid TV i still spend "productive" time on a computer. working on a garden would be an excellent candidate!
I have the same objection that allears had: Until you have a definition of "common sense", no, you can't - not even with infinite money. Even with such a definition... let's just say your position "assumes facts not in evidence", as they say in court of law.
Democracy slowed bacterial growth? Sounds cool.
Work is work
I'm in the same camp as you: client is OSX, and server is Linux through a terminal window (or drive share, or whatever sql-tool for the DB).

I love linux, but the desktop is hard to get all the little things done right. On server, Linux just kicks ass, and all the tooling is built for it.
> external power banks don't really address this use case

Can you elaborate on why not? For me they address it far better than swapping out the internal battery, since you don't have to interrupt that extended use by powering down the phone to make the switch. They're also way easier to recharge simultaneously, without needing a bank of dummy phones.
In your mind, do you think a physics degree or a statistics degree is better suited to doing data analysis, and why?
So you are yourself deciding if you are qualified to work for Google! Now on people can just tell Google that they are qualified and Google can hire them.
Can you tell us who you work for now? Some of your coding projects, things you have accomplished? If you are really good, you can just create your own software. Btw, i am not white. I am Brown
Just because the features exist does not mean you have to use them.
Oracle JDK 8 is EOL (without support subscription, just like Windows XP) and has been for some time. If you need Java 8 (which you shouldn't, just like you shouldn't need Windows XP) grab an AdoptOpenJDK version of Java 8 which is still supported. But seriously...get off Java 8....
This story template increasingly raises conflicting and mostly negative reactions from me. It wasn't always this way.

To the author's credit, $500k in comp as an engineer is not easy. Kudos to anyone who pulls that off.

The reason for my reaction is this: the title can be interpreted two ways:

"I had a great setup but I'm giving it up to take a risk."

"I want to feel motivated again and I'm willing to give up a lot of money to do so."

But I increasingly dislike these posts because (1) we know there's a strong correlation between having a lot of money and success in entrepreneurship. Starting out with a safety net is the best way to derisk! In that sense, this post is just saying "I'm taking a risk after I've derisked it!" And (2) talking about how much money you'd give up to feel motivated is pretty explicitly signalling success to other people in the "I earn enough to be able to talk about it like this" group. That's just upper-middle class signalling.

The author's other posts also don't really address the elephant in the room. He was pulling in $500k. If he fails, and even if he wipes out his savings, he's going back to pulling in more than enough money to live very comfortably while still saving enough for kids and retirement. That may feel like more risk than he's comfortable with, but that means he's about as derisked as it gets at a personal level. His explanation in the post titled "How I set myself up financially before I took the plunge." has to do with allocating his savings to make sure he and his family are taken care of, but it doesn't really talk about the point that he at any point can choose to go back to earning more than enough money. That's a privilege that very few people have. He certainly earned that privilege, but how many entrepreneurs can say "I'm setting aside $1m of my liquid money to bootstrap a startup"?

If the author had left the money out, it would have been a great post about searching for motivation, which we all struggle with, but I think the money aspect undermines the point.
It's just incredible that they don't offer an option to avoid left turns. This is something major freight carriers figured out a decade or more ago.
You also learn the XOR or the two plaintexts, which can be a catastrophic loss of confidentiality.
Just my perspective, but I thought the Northam story got blasted for days. That he's still in office is staggering to me.

That being said, The Democratic party absolutely does not take their own medicine on this one. They're just as likely to circle the wagons, I just think they're more susceptible to a particular kind of shame (though not due to any kind of moral conviction, I'd chalk it up to something more like vanity.) I'm more or less as left as they come, but the idea that the Democrats have the moral high ground when it comes to keeping their people in line doesn't square with what I've seen.
Microsoft Digital Whiteboard for $9K
The Submit Queue is the name of the complex ML stuff.
I think it really began with the web. The mainstreaming of "nerd" culture began with the mainstreaming of owning and using a computer, which used to be something only nerds did outside of business. Video game culture came after bringing nerd culture with it, with the advent of forums and social media, fandom and fan generated content. A lot of people have learned about D&D by watching streaming plays like Critical Role, for instance, or gotten into fandoms through fan fiction sites.
I interpreted OP to be referencing things like school, home, car, etc as luxury goods, not living in SV. I do obviously agree with the rest of your comment though.
echo "127.0.0.1 facebook.com twitter.com ycombinator.com youtube.com" >> /etc/hosts
ITT: a bunch of people with engineering physics or masters’ of physics who are either doing really well or not so well and ascribing that to their degree. I’m a loser because I have anxiety and don’t know how to sell myself, not because I have an MS. I keep going for shitty IT/programming jobs and they ask me “why aren’t you doing physics.” I say “I don’t think I’m smart enough.” Which is honest but I could just as easily bullshit them and use it to talk myself up. I don’t think many recruiters would last a month in those courses anyway.
Ceding control to algorithms is dangerous, though. It kills the human element, the magic that could've happened if only you were given a shot.

Algorithms make assumptions that are often wrong, and if the platform is prevalent enough, you're effectively forced to submit to it since everyone else does.

Worse yet, some platforms will actively prohibit creating a new account, so you effectively end up tied to the worth placed on you by a proprietary algorithm.
The Notre-Dame Cathedral in Art (1460–1921)
We've said "things should be better" since GLX became a thing. The real problem is that every Linux-based OS is too stupid to realize when something in the windowing system is broken. Every time I upgrade Ubuntu, I run into a login loop where Xinit refuses to work, gets sacked, then redirects me back to the login screen. The fix is a simple one liner. I see the solution to my problem has 11k upvotes. The solution is 5 years old.

It's been like this for almost a decade, and I haven't even gotten into Laptops with Integrated/Discrete "piggyback" setups. That nut still is not cracked.

It's kind of sad.
It is my understanding that VFSForGit only works on Windows.
> Death does. Pain and torture don't deprive you of your future.

They take your time when you go through them, and possibly break your body in some way, which reduces the number of things you can do in the future.

Of course there may be scenarios where accepting pain or death gives you some advantage, but in that case the pain is not bad! (think dying to keep your children alive, cutting your hand to not die in the desert).

> It doesn't make sense to use assumptions based on death being the ultimate end when reasoning about death not being the ultimate end.

My assumptions are that brain is something that can be simulated on a computer, there is no soul, and that the people who die and are buried cannot be brought back to life. So my choices are either to become brain in a jar for experiments, or feed earthworms.

> By that reasoning, if there was a program where you could donate your body to science while you're still alive and they could do any tests they want

No, because if i am still alive, i can do something more useful for me with my body, but when i am dead, (or at a point when i want euthanasia), i do not have any use of my body, and hell with a small chance of helping people i love is better than nothingness.
If I can't use it on the desktop, though, it's not much good to me.

Edited to answer daveidol's question due to ridiculous HN rate-limiting: Apple doesn't license Apple Maps for anything other than their own mobile platforms as far as I can tell. It can't be used as a general-purpose Google Maps replacement.
The real trap is feeling like you need to be focused eight hours a day when it's not strictly needed.

There's an occasional crunch where I have to heads down get something done, but in that case there is actual motivation to be heads down and get things done.

I find a due date way more motivating than a mere thought of "I should be working...".

Overall, if I'm not already focused in, it's because it's something not as important as other things in my life.
The StreetComplete app makes it fun and easy to contribute to OSM when walking around, by asking you simple questions about your immediate surroundings (how many stories does this building have, is this street one-way at this location, etc.) I highly recommend it.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/StreetComplete
Because the private sector is free of corruption and scams?

The UK ordnance survey[1] is government run and is generally fantastic. They cover every inch of the UK in excruciating detail, provide centimeter precise GPS coordinates for everything and publish invaluable, cheap maps of it all. Why do you assume that the seemingly inept and corrupt US standard is the baseline that everything else will be?

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey
Depending on home the road is deriving the matter needed to repair itself.
Having been at both Lyft and DoorDash where I've been an engineer responsible for unit test health, I decided to do a side project called Flaptastic (https://www.flaptastic.com/), a flaky unit test resolution system.

Flaptastic will make your CI/CD pipelines reliable by identifying which tests fail due to flaps (aka flakes) and then give you a "Disable" button to instantly skip any test which is immediately effective across all feature branches, pull requests, and deploy pipelines.

An on-premise version is in the works to allow you to run it onsite for the enterprise.
5 Tasks You Didn't Know Could be Done from the Developer Console
The later iterations of Poly1305 removed the need for AES by using a synthetic Salsa20 derived key that is unique per key-nonce input pair.
Better Predictive Modeling from Foursquare
"I don't experience this problem, therefore this problem is not real."
The top SF Bay Area school districts are all in areas with high housing prices (big part of the reason why the housing prices are high to begin with).

Unlike other parts of the US, there are few or no "magnet" schools in lower-income areas. Public school assignments are solely based on your residential address.

So in an indirect sense, sending your kids to a good public school is still costly. In some cases, even sending your kids to a top private school while living in a cheaper area may save money in the end.
McDonald's Pulls Signature Crafted Burgers, Doubles Down on Quarter Pounder
I bought a house that requires a remodel. I'm doing it myself. I agree with you, but you don't need a turnkey house either.
Ian McEwan's Machines Like Me and the Thorny Issue of Robot Rights
> minorities are probably more likely to participate in polls

on what basis do you believe that to be the case?
I wish there was an option somewhere to disable this. I middle-click-paste by accident way too often. I hate having two separate clipboards that I have to think about what's in each.
This is just more anecdata, but I notice a small minority of Bloomberg articles, including the server hacking piece, where it seems that some competent journalists tried pretty hard to break a real story.

(edit for clarity- Clearly they got a lot in the server hacking piece wrong, but in the situation it seems like they were intentionally misled, and were really not expecting so many of their "sources" to be basically repeaters of the same falsehoods)

BUT, most of their articles seem like extremely low quality drivel. They fail to get basic facts or ideas about the situation correct, and/or they sound like someone shit out a 1-sentence long opinion and then expanded it into a page or 2. I haven't been flagging these and don't think most do, but maybe we should start.
Is this a big problem? I thought people loved mechanical keyboard sounds.
Dont you think calling it a leak is disingenuous. Passwords were available and NO evidence points towards them being accessed. Thats a vulnerability that was not exploited, as far as they know. A leak would mean the data WAS accessed.
It depends on the number of evaluations. The more evaluations the stronger the model built by the TPE algorithm. With very few evaluations, we would expect TPE to match random sampling. This effect can for example be seen in the plots of the "Bayesian Optimization and Hyperband" paper [1, 2], where the plotted "Bayesian Optimization" approach is TPE.

Also, there might be model bias: for example if the objective function is stochastic (e.g., a reinforcement learning algorithm that only converges sometimes) or not very smooth, TPE might exploit areas that are not actually good based on one good evaluation. In those cases TPE might perform worse than random search! To alleviate the effect of model bias in model based hyperparameter optimization (e.g., TPE) and to obtain convergence guarantees, people often sample every k-th hyperparameter setting from a prior distribution (random search) (this is also the case for the plots in [1, 2].

If you are wondering which HPO algorithm you should use (or HPO in general), I would highly recommend the first part of the AutoML tutorial at NeurIPS2018 [3] given by my advisor.

[1] https://www.automl.org/blog_bohb/

[2] http://proceedings.mlr.press/v80/falkner18a.html

[3] https://nips.cc/Conferences/2018/Schedule?showEvent=10979
OK. Why should they start offering it?
The Heathkit Story
> "For much of the world, OpenStreetMap data is considerably more complete than Google Maps."

This is particularly true for many not-so-obscure niches, like hiking trails in and around major US cities. Once you stray from roads and business locations, Google Maps gets shockingly sparse.

Compare coverage for this park in Seattle:

Open Street Map: https://0x0.st/zqAH.png

Google Maps: https://0x0.st/zqAo.png

Google Maps is bare bones, while OpenStreetMap has tons of detail, even including locations for drinking water and park benches! Drinking water in particular is a great feature. You can't see that drinking fountain on Google Maps from either the satellite imagery or the street view imagery, but I can personally attest to it being there, right where OSM says it is.
This reminds me of a section of the book "Why we sleep"[1] that said similar techniques could enhance an older persons sleep quality. (I don't know the title of the study unfortunately.) It looks like this is an exciting area of research right now.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Sleep-Unlocking-Dreams/dp/1501...
A possible complication would occur if there are tests that occasionally fail.
I use Brave on my Android because it's fast and mobile-ready (unlike Firefox) and it blocks ads and trackers by default. I don't need the crypto stuff, and I with I could hide the icon from the URL bar, but I don't care that much.

I read too that they had plans to switch ads in all pages for their own ads or some crap like that. If they pull that off on me I will switch to something else.
Nonces don't need to be secret. You can just use a counter value if you want, unencrypted. It gets harder when you have many uncoordinated senders. You can shard your nonce-space; give each sender a unique prefix, but this reduces the number of messages they can each send with the same key.

Bigger services, such as Public Cloud providers (I work at AWS, and it's a factor for us) actually end up running up on these limits.
Because with power banks, you either have to keep it attached to the power bank during use or wait for the bank to recharge your phone.
> hundreds of 6-12 seater electrical planes

Problems with lots of small planes:

* They fly like a roller-coaster (4 seaters are crazy scary for many people).

* More crashes - bad "optics"

* Number of pilots required

They do have the potential to have more direct routes, and very short hops, with less security overheads. Maybe run more regularly, but not much of an advantage because most people want to travel at particular times of the day (same problem with buses).
Or pay it to be a movie prop.

I got a rare pre-production version of the matrix nokia phone, to test our WAP sites. Our model would shoot the auto-slider cover on every time we pressed the release button. The cover would fly so well we ended up incorporating the phone into the nerf office wars.
Now if only they'd do this with clion.

/yeah, I know that it went the opposite way; it just bugs me that I can't have great C/C++ support in IntelliJ like you used to get with the plugin that no longer works...
Well we can prove some things behave under certain conditions in a certain way. We can't prove the absence of bugs.
> 20 years ago they pretended that their Deep Blue chess engine was in all their IT products

[citation needed] IBM did not do this, though funding the Deep Thought team from CMU was cheaper than a Super Bowl commercial and brought more durable effect.
Automatic Machine Learning Tutorial [NeurIPS 2018]
One example is that "Hit, Hit Hit" is as extreme as "Chug Chug Chug" might be in alcohol consumption. There's speed, skill, strategy, player rotation, juking, wrapping up, deflecting --- but hit hit hit is the rallying cry.
People love their own, I'm sure. I've never met anybody who puts on a tape of it, though.
Got some references for that?

I ask because ECT seems to upregulate trophic factors, rather than downregulating them. Some sort of hippocampal injury does seem like it could explain memory-related side effects, but it apparently doesn't actually happen (e.g., https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/...)
In SV you would have spent millions for the land itself.
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