skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious, do you travel internationally?

In my experience, unless I do an inordinate amount of prior planning (printing out map directions, itineraries, hotel reservations, etc.) it is very easy to have navigation difficulties in unfamiliar cities with street signs in foreign languages....or no street signs at all. Where do you get an accurate map when you are trying to meet people at a newly-opened cafe in Hanoi's old French Quarter?

Nobody can send you an IM? So if you strike up a conversation with a Shenzhen entrepreneur, he wants to stay in contact to talk business and suggests WeChat, your only response is [US phone number] or [email]?

No web searches when out of the office? So if your next course of action is contingent upon a piece of information you don't currently have access to, you can't proceed with a decision on-the-spot because you possess no ability to access remote data while you are mobile?

I dunno, seems like a lot of potential inefficiencies and lost opportunities compared to dropping $150 on a dual-SIM rugged Android phone from China, and then installing a few apps on it. But hey, if it works for you.....

I took a family trip back to America recently and my jaw dropped watching my (74yo) father and his wife use a paper map to navigate to DisneyWorld. They complained that Google was giving them "bad directions". My older brother and I just looked at each other and shook our heads. PICNIC (Problem in chair, not in computer).
Its most likely geographical arbitrage
>The cryptographic definition of constant-time postdates the algorithmic one by decades, i think.

The normal usage of the phrase "constant time" predates CS by centuries, and it is much closer in usage to the crypto version than the complexity version.

Crypto uses the term "constant time" to mean same time for any input, while the general CS community uses O(1) to mean bounded time and also often uses complexity to hide log N terms. It also allows variable time, as long as it's bounded (and that sometimes allows hiding terms like log N or log log N...).

A good example is most algorithms treat addition as a constant time operation, but, for example, addition of indices for lookups is not constant time when inputs are unbounded. So if you compute an index by addition and ignore the logN time to do the addition, then you fudged. Yet this is commonplace in complexity theory, which models many basic operations as constant time when they are not for unbounded inputs.

For example, a "constant time" hash table operation, which often indexes arbitrarily large indices with addition, ignores the log N needed to add arbitrarily large indices.

Thus crypto uses the phrase in the more precise, centuries old usage.
That sounds like a textbook case of trading away privacy to get security. No thanks.
Everyone wants to hire like google, no one wants to pay like google.
Shoot, unfortunately this looks like it may actually be a real thing.
Yup, you can read some of their sorrowful submissions to the court when it came time to collect the money - they were so sure he was a stand up guy who would stand by his word, and of course to him they were just more tools to be used and discarded.

Bail isn't ordinarily an option in the UK. But these people were so certain that their friend Julian would show up that they signed over their money. The judge asks them if it occurred to them to actually supervise him and make sure he showed up, and IIRC they had never even considered it. If you're a con man looking for victims, that list of people who promised a court money for Assange's bail is a good start.
> Apple creates these new names that are unique, exciting, and evoke something concrete. It makes it easier to remember what they mean when they’re talking about something.

There is a thought here: when something is well designed (including branding), it's possibly attributable to a better process used to create the product as a whole (in this case the frameworks and API).

I've worked at places where acronyms are rife, and they're usually places that didn't feel the product needed to be sold (possibly because they didn't think they had any competition).

Other places I've worked where we actually pitched/sold the product (either internally or externally) resulted in a lot more overall thought about what the product did and how the customer would use it and consequently the naming.
> Unlike some other "driverless" truck companies, Starsky isn't building a completely autonomous solution. Instead, it uses teleoperation to remotely drive the truck between freight depots and the freeway where a highway-only automated driving system takes over. ...

The video hints at "lane keeping." How much automation is involved?

However much it is, it's not hard to imagine a smooth transition between remote operation and autonomous driving over time. Each iteration would eliminate one more thing the driver needs to be concerned with until nothing is left.
Why? Who owns them?
> I'm curious as to the ways that the self driving problems in trucks might be different to the problems of self driving cars. For example, with heavy trucks, your braking distance must be a lot larger than a normal car. So things like following distance must be different. Also having to worry about skidding and the direction the trailer might move.

Right on the money. If you slam on the brakes on a truck, you and your trailer can jack-knife, sending the trailer the wrong direction. It's a more complicated controls problem than in a car as well!

> Also, I imagine that you have to be pretty careful about cars cutting you off. It seems to happen all the time on the road, and is more dangerous than people give it credit for.

I've spent hundreds of hours in our truck over the last 3 years and my god drivers are absolutely terrible around trucks. You have an incredible view of the road from up on high in a semi, and the spatial awareness compared to a sedan is way better, so the crazy maneuvers happening around us seem a lot crazier. In California trucks can only go 55 mph, so we get a lot of folks (even in normal driving) trying to speed around us during merges on/off highways.
There are some interesting videos showcasing what you can get from fiverr. I enjoyed these two: search for "samuraiguitarist fiverr" and "draw with jazza fiverr".
Yet you did not name examples?
Land Rover has this now:

https://jalopnik.com/the-2020-range-rover-evoque-lets-you-se...
Manning was convicted. Pardons are not a statement of guilt or non-guilt but a political tool. Assange might yet be pardoned, but I'd be surprised.
I'm liking the auto refresh feature, but it'd be nice to have a setting to refresh to the main page, not the page I left off at.
But they won't show the EULA until after I've agreed with it, so it'll be invalid!
Do you usually find salary to be a strong indicator of skill?
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It's called the oracle problem, and was identified for blockchain apps as early as 2011. It's a difficult problem to solve, but it is solvable for certain applications. For example, MakerDAO solves their price oracle problem by using a set of whitelisted ETH/USD price API's. The whitelist is controlled via governance through the MKR token.
> apologists for the continuation of rent-seeking policies that entrench the rich and mighty.

This.

"THE IMF CONFIRMS THAT 'TRICKLE-DOWN' ECONOMICS IS, INDEED, A JOKE"
https://psmag.com/economics/trickle-down-economics-is-indeed...

> INCREASING THE INCOME SHARE TO THE BOTTOM 20 PERCENT OF CITIZENS BY A MERE ONE PERCENT RESULTS IN A 0.38 PERCENTAGE POINT JUMP IN GDP GROWTH.

> The IMF report, authored by five economists, presents a scathing rejection of the trickle-down approach, arguing that the monetary philosophy has been used as a justification for growing income inequality over the past several decades. "Income distribution matters for growth," they write. "Specifically, if the income share of the top 20 percent increases, then GDP growth actually declined over the medium term, suggesting that the benefits do not trickle down."

"Causes and Consequences of Income Inequality: A Global Perspective" (2015)
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C43&q=%22...

I'll add that we tend to overlook the level of government spending during periods trickle-down economics and confound. Change in government spending (somewhat unfortunately regardless of revenues) is a relevant factor.

Let's make this economy great again? How about you identify the decade(s) you're referring to and I'll show you the tax revenue (on income and now capital gains), federal debt per capital, and the growth in GDP.
> Why would I use a fork of Brave?

Yes, that's true. But I wanted to let you know about a way to avoid BAT.

> Gab promotes itself as a vehicle for "free speech"... ... ...

I run Dissenter as my primary browser, but don't have a Gab account, so I pay no attention to the comment feature. I just want a browser that blocks all the things natively, and doesn't have BAT.
Thanks for writing this up. I think this clarifies a lot of the issue
The FDA.

IIRC approval time takes about 10 years minimum. Then you have 20 years to cash that cow out before the patent runs out.
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Mainly targets Android Debug Bridge (ADB) endpoints (5555/tcp). Recon scan uses ZMap.
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What kind of browser do you have?
But the German numbering system is a brand. You know that a 3-series BMW will get your a certain size, an M-class is high performance, etc.

The predictable numbers are as important to the brand as the manufacturer name.
Vue.js is one of the most used JavaScript frameworks out there.

If this was a commercial project, his income would be magnitudes higher.

Yes, $20k a month is comfortable. But is it appropriate given the popularity of Vue and considering how many organizations profit from it?

Now, if you scale this down to a framework that has half or a quarter of that popularity. When do you reach the point where it isn't comfortable at all anymore? And does that still seem appropriate?
I don't understand the EULA part. Are you saying that if a company sells eyeglasses with 24/7 audio and video recording to an microSD card, then that company would have an interest in adding a EULA that prevents using their own devices in a court case against someone else? Or are you saying that a hospital would have an EULA that prevents one from using any recording one might coincidentally hold of interactions with them in a court case?
diane vaughan talks about this stuff in the challenger book -- she found claims of fact by SMEs that were vetoed by nasa managers, and thinks that this is one mechanism for groups to leak risk.
The idea would be that the 3 missing widgets would be impossible to replace with fakes, and other mechanisms for reporting undelivered merchandise would fill in the rest of the gap.
I think the key question is: how many institutions are involved in selling a house, vs how many are involved in selling a company?
It's sad we can't all collaborate together on something as deadly as cancer.
Systematic racism doesn't require a person somewhere saying "I hate black people" - it merely requires that the system be unfair towards people, correlated with their skin color.

Systematic racism could affect someone because the history of oppression against their race has resulted in them being born to a family that constantly gets evicted from homes due to poverty, which exacerbates the poverty for them and their eventual offspring, which means that the history of oppression against their race continues indefinitely.
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Purged the Jews, purged the Japanese, purged the Latinos, purging the Chinese...
>No one would actually pay 30% interest instead of 4% for a house, and there's no way the contract would hold up in court

Who will reimburse me the legal fees?

Lots and lots of people improperly lost their homes due to illegal robo-signing. They could have saved their houses if they had the resources to fight it in court.
Yes and no. The actual probability Doesn’t increase but the predicted probability does.

If you start adding data points for very high temperatures, then your linear model will probably end up ignoring the temperature.

You would need a non-linear transformation of the temperature that can capture that the further away from the sweet spot the worse the coffee is.
It's true that collecting algae requires effort to collect and transport. But my ultimate point is that the total energy and resource costs of directly converting seaweed to fuel would be far lower than in OP's proposal. Just as in your power plant anecdote. And you achieve the same goal of removing CO2 from the ocean.

Drying pond algae with solar heat is tricky because you can't concentrate the sunlight too much or you get ash instead of dry algae. But with dry distillation the objective is to pyrolize the input, so you can efficiently use concentrated sunlight.

>you need cellulosic ethanol tech to work better first. Still didn't break even against solar

My proposal isn't competing with solar electricity (which doesn't remove CO2 from the ocean), but with OP's proposal to use solar electricity to produce methanol from CO2 extracted from seawater.
On that note, I wonder how long it'll be before we have real-life Half-Life-2-style Manhacks?
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Why was Silverlight so cool sounding? For me it's not a meaningful or evocative name.

A good brand name doesn't require explanation.
> The Guardian has elected not to bring their clout and lawyers to bear on these matters.

Isn't it correct that the journalists stay out of the news themselves? They should be reporting, not becoming the story by 'bringing their clout' to anything.
Fiver is great for quick tasks where you just need a decent job done and have clear requirements. It’s optimized for volume. For example I recently needed a voiceover and was able to quickly sample dozens of British male voices then contract one. I got the finished product in a few hours.

I’ve also used Upwork but find it really clunky and time consuming to use. It’s not at all optimized for short one-time tasks, which is what many users want.
Thank you for these ideas. I think I will keep things free.

I have a day job that Pays great.

I need to find a way to incorporate premium features.
Yep, it's pretty much the way you do discovery of quality work in this sort of market.

I've commissioned vector artwork from 3-4 people and just picked the best one, and then kept working with that person going forward.
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Is that a question for us? I'm not aware of what you're referring to.
I don't care much about the PDP-10, but I'd be amused to be able to say that I'm a TENEX programmer.
> For example, your car breaks down and you need $500 to repair it, but you don't have $500 in cash.

But you need to pay $300 for this line of credit! What's the point then?
Well nobody other than yourself is calling it SUI.

And UWP stands for Universal Windows Platform which is hopelessly generic.
Well if your father in law is looking for a different pace of driving have him check https://www.drivestarsky.com/.

With regards to fueling, there are a good amount of fuel stops around the country that will do "concierge" services for fueling up the truck, giving it a wash, etc. There's some infrastructure in place for when we need to get there.
In every country, in every world, in every decade of humanity, in every department.

But this time will be different.

Very interesting take.
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I had dried cod with butter, which was pretty good. I went to a cooking class in Reykjavik and tried Arctic char with butter. It was much better.
I work at a warehouse with ~300 employees, selling over 70,000 different skus, etc. We have 3 Programmers, and 3 IT/network people, 1 hr, etc. We're hiring more programmers though.

What the heck are 360+ employees doing? You're right you do need lots of management, but there's no way they need that many people. Like, thats a LOT of people.
> The thing is the illegal market ONLY has to pay for the delivery methods

Which is an extension of your first paragraph, which is not what I was replying to, hence why it wasn’t the section I quoted.

Your argument further down was that you no longer believe (“I believed that argument for far too long”) that “illegal content would happen less if a good enough service would exist”. Well, a “good enough” service doesn’t exist. My suggestion was that for some of these pirates, a “good enough” legal service would need to allow them the same advantages they have with piracy, and cost the same as what they pay now for a VPN / seedbox.

I was not concerned with the feasibility of such a service. Rather, my argument was that for a legal service to displace piracy, it would need to be closer to its advantages. Right now, it’s getting farther away.
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Trade war. Research purge. Huawei blacklisting. Bloomberg Supermicro smear campaign.

Why is public opinion about China being manipulated in the media so decisively? This worries me greatly.

Hopefully this is just the military prepping to go attempt to stop the organ harvesting and ethnic cleansing, but who knows. It could also be prep for a DPRK “solution”.

The whole thing is gross. It is disgusting that the US government keeps so many variables hidden.

This is going to end badly.
This is definitely good advice. Also, from my own experience with cancer that spread: get a second opinion from another oncologist (get a third if you feel the need). It's your body, it's your life, do your homework.

After all of that, do your follow-ups.

Oddly enough, I'm two years out of my initial diagnosis, sitting in the oncologist's waiting room for results of my latest scans as I write this.
One would assume Tesla has tested their semi somewhere?
Ask HN: What distinguishes good from great CTOs?
Currently interested in understanding what are the main differentiators mostly only experience grants CTOs or tech leaders in general
No, it wasn't. Read the cited article if you disagree. Assange and wikileaks also reached out to the Trump campaign to coordinate the email leaks.
This is exactly it. The single equilibrium hinges on the assumption about the monotonicity and slopes of supply and demand. But these assumptions are simply wrong, and so multiple equilibria are possible even with a single market. Multiple markets of course make the problem worse.
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Collaboration is a two way street. I feel for Wu in the article and it seems like she puts research over politics, but the fact of the matter still stands: is research being shared fairly? I seem to think not based on past experiences whenever a new virus strains pop up in China they drag their feet on providing samples, if at all [1].

So, if we share our cancer research, which costs billions, with China, can we expect them to return the favor? Or will it be used as leverage?

[1] https://www.livescience.com/63448-china-h7n9-flu-samples-pan...
China is no Iraq or Afganistan. I think USA might have bitten more than they can chew this time with some serious global repercussions.
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> “Even something that is in the fundamental research space, that’s absolutely not classified, has an intrinsic value,” says Lawrence Tabak, principal deputy director of the NIH, explaining his approach. “This pre-patented material is the antecedent to creating intellectual property. In essence, what you’re doing is stealing other people’s ideas.”

Why are the words "patent" and "intellectual property" coming out of the mouth of someone at the NIH? Everything they do should be a public good.
yeah, the circumstances seem like an integral part of the story, were they helping a distressed pregnant elephant give birth?
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Do you know what happened to the previous developer?

When are they going to give you their first check? What happens if they are "late"?
when somebody technically violated the law, but there's reasonable doubt, it's not nullification
I did classic server side rendered apps, but experimented with pure JS apps early on where the only way to get persistence was to store things in cookies. The "app" was just a html file on the desktop that you double clicked on to open in the browser. Then came AJAX. and during the last fifteen years more and more pieces have fallen into place to make web apps more viable, like service workers, local storage, add to desktop, etc. But JS apps are much harder to develop compared to server rendered app, because you have to manage state, while server rendered apps are just a snapshot of the database.
Fiverr's competitor Upwork IPOd last year and is currently valued at 1.68B
Actually the number of unmaintained apps is relatively tiny.

The reason being that Apple routinely forces developers to update their apps if they want to stay on the store.
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There are lots of successful collaborations happening between US and Chinese scientists.
However, like in all scientific disciplines, there some bad apples, and for some, the temptations to improperly share confidential information is too great. Theft of IP is not a good thing, even in oncology.
Is WPF still a good option? It looked like Microsoft put a lot of weight behind that for a while, they even made parts of Visual Studio in it. But I haven't heard anything about it for years, I guess it got replaced by UWP? Does UWP use XAML too?
I find dribble designs pretty to look at but rarely functional and accessible.
Agreed; it sounds scarier than a fully autonomous vehicle.

Driving is a very tactile activity, but I'd also worry about lag, network congestion, network outages, &c.
> "I bet this situation would be improved with a police officer"

As when the guy held me up at gunpoint?

> "I want to go talk to that police officer"

When something went off in the alley--maybe just a cherry bomb, maybe a transformer.

> "That police officer handled this situation optimally"

When they burst in the door of a burning house down the block to see whether anyone was in it, perhaps. Not optimally as in "better than the fire department", but pretty good for guys without hoses and ladders.
May be but it does offer value to many of us. My wife used it extensively to help her proofreading her academic work, design better quality graphs and so on.

I used it to hire folks to record weird happy birthday wishes for my friends.

I am not surprised they are valued at 700M, I expect them to be in this business for a long time.
Related: I use http://hckrnews.com/ and since discovering it, I've never gone back to the HN main page. Might be useful as well to someone.
GP claimed that Wikileaks and Russian promotion of the Trump campaign was on par with the WMD intelligent in Iraq - i.e. the Russian involvement is just a "smokescreen" - which it is not.
I certainly haven't tried it myself, but um.. I think that customs usually misses it if you're ever entering the states from Iceland and innocently miss it from your declarations.
Sets is just one mindset. There are people with a different mindset who do want unsorted bricks. I do realize you were replying to a specific mention of sets though.
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> “We will have you sign the consent form after the procedure when it’s more convenient for you”

Isn't the consent form for their CYA? I wonder what happens if someone refuses to sign it later.