skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a non-Austrian doing fairly well at a top university, IST has put Austrian academia in my list of possible next stops and far higher than much more prestigious places.

From what I've heard from some fellows, they are doing a really good job at creating a nice academic place sans all the bullshit that comes associated with that lately i.e., politics. Probably a fresh start helped.
Hopefully they don't survive...current state of Hollywood's output is garbage, IMO. I'm definitely not the target audience for what they're making. Currently re-watching all the old Spaghetti Westerns, they're better entertainment than any recent movie I can think of.
There's no code of ethics among you thieves, except consumer be dammed.
> What if they want faster shipping? I'm not going to pay for 1-day express shipping for everyone; that's very expensive when you're not Amazon.

People absolutely expect to pay for fast shipping; people just expect baseline slow shipping to be free.

> What if they're in another country?

Depends on the industry you're in, but it seems a lot less reasonable to expect free international shipping, unless you're buying something that costs high-three-figures or four-figures.

> If they only order one small item, the shipping cost is a very large percentage of the total cost to the seller.

USPS and hybrid shipping options can be relatively cheap, for domestic shipping.

> you've now priced all your items with the assumption that they're only buying that one item

You could always offer multiple-item discounts at that point.
I think we'd be silly to not recognise that there are some tradeoffs between privacy and UX. Facebook tracks your cursor for a reason, they're analysing what users do and changing the UX based on it. I can imagine wanting to look at this data using any number of filters for a/s/l/etc., and once you're cataloging enough criteria tying a session to a specific user can be done as an afterthought. I think GP is correct about most users valuing UX over privacy, unfortunately.
Apple and Microsoft run their own pools for their own OS clients. There is purpose and value in not having critical internet infra not held and operated by for-profit companies (see: ntp pool, let's encrypt, root dns servers, etc).

What Cloudflare offers the community is cool, but the world at large should be prepared for them to evaporate at any time (or, more likely, to be acquired by someone not as benevolent).
What a absolutely terrible article. There is little information and less cogent argument.

This is "Community Shopper" level journalism (except for the opening line, "When I was at Harvard...")
> My point behind the keras/ TF comment is that the libraries have front ends in both python and R, so its mix mox/ dealers choice on what you like to work in (since the backends of both are identical).

Not as a point of argument, just additional information:
R's support for keras and TF is a wrapper around the Python interface to those libraries.
Hello, I'm one of the engineers that worked on it. Feel free to ask me questions.
Why Is Facebook’s Co-Founder Against Libra?
Technology does level the playing field. As a software engineer, I can get access to realtime institutional-grade data and write strategies that were impossible even a few years before. Not even speaking about crypto exchanges, where all data is public.
I recently bought a garmin portable gps for a car without nav and it's really quite good.

Very clear directions when navigating, shows you and tells you which lane to be in, live traffic, touchscreen interface, voice command. Everything is offline so it's more private than apple :)
Hong Kong Protesters Keep Up the Pressure
If you aren't interested in super hero movies, just not watching them is a great option.

Black Panther is probably the first one to watch as a standalone.
There are GUI clients like Git Tower (no affiliation, other than being a former user) that support GitLab and might have better accessibility.

They have a free trial so maybe give it a shot? Since it’s a native desktop app it might integrate better with a screen reader.
I use both. IRCCloud isn’t close to slack in terms of features or feel.
If I recall correctly, there is some theoretical work on complex systems seem to imply that if you quickly introduce a large factor in just about any system, the behavior tends to result, almost certainly, in a completely divergent system. Usually with a more or less complete breakdown until the introduced factor is removed.

It's not entirely unlikely that these kind of system level effects, or something similar is why - well intended - efforts regularly end up "tyrannical" in nature after a while.

One argument goes roughly like this: If something exists, persistently, it is likely to have one or several strong driving forces. If you apply enough counter force in a single direction you get a "buckling" behavior as soon as you completely overwhelm the principal drivers. Now the opposing forces, known to be existing from previous behavior, will be almost entirely unopposed/undamped, and together with the introduced factor come to completely dominate the system.

Thus long term stability might only be achievable by small, relatively slow, iterative changes that slowly chane the often vast number of driving forces, and their opposing forces, in relative synchronicity.

A wholesale prevention of crime in public places would likely be such a factor, and while I can't predict the outcome, it's almost certainly going to be disastrous. Criminal activity is driven by extremely strong forces, some of them likely related almost purely to, potentially misdirected, survival instincts.
http://archive.is/Y9oBx
True, I was playing around to get examples in runJS. I think I mis pasted that one. Oh well.
How can you be certain about Firefox? They did disable all addons due to a "failed certficate update" and then proceeded to bash Chrome for 2 weeks about a fake story of adblocker addons being blocked, which turned out to be completely false, then they had two 0day exploits in 2 days. Same can't be said for Chrome or Chromium, which actually has video decoding hardware acceleration on Linux because they are more serious advocates for open source.
Lose is relative. If a retail investor picks a stock that ends up outperforming the market then they’ve still done well, even if the hedge fund bought and sold at better time than the retail investor.
From https://github.com/google/private-join-and-compute:

"Our protocol has security against honest-but-curious adversaries. This means that as long as both participants follow the protocol honestly, neither will learn more than the size of the intersection and the intersection-sum. However, if a participant deviates from the protocol, it is possible they could learn more than the prescribed information."

Also:
"Disclaimers: This is not an officially supported Google product. The software is provided as-is without any guarantees or warranties, express or implied."
The blog says they were trying to test an attack against a secure system and failed until they used an NTP vulnerability to roll back the clock on the PC. If NTP was secured against that vulnerability, their test attack would have failed and made their project more difficult.
Also, if you wish to know exactly what's in Telemetry, Mozilla publishes a report https://data.firefox.com/.
The "good" universities in the US are very much postmodern left institutions. The Koch money barely moves the needle at all.
You can't really rain burning battery pods down on the landscape, though. What if the plane is over a populated area?
Piloting a drone in VR while still seeing the drone in AR
> imgpush requires docker

I find that extremely hard to believe.
1 kW/kg for electric motors looks a bit on the low side for me. Tesla Model S with the highest power rating has 581 kW, and I don't think that its motors weigh in for more than half a ton combined.

I've found a statement that some version of their motors with 270 kW weigh 31 kg (70 pounds). Which amounts to 8.7 kW/kg and isn't far off from your 10 kW/kg estimate for modern turbofan engines. Also it's probably not the latest number for an electric motors, and newest motors have better power-to-weight ratio.
But this data can be collected with differential privacy, some learning can be done on-device, etc etc. There are ways to get the best of both worlds, but they require more careful engineering.
Is this something that someone has actually fleshed out with real numbers? The infrastructure and efficiency problems involved seem at first glance to be extremely challenging.
As we've seen, if Google, Amazon, or other big names go down or lose routing, things break fast.
And see the data for your own browser with about:telemetry.
"Q. How much damage will be done to my plane if I land it with a parachute?
A. In all likelihood the aircraft will suffer some significant damage. The terrain where you land will affect this greatly. Though the extent of damage has varied from plane to plane, most GA aircraft that have come down under a BRS deployment have eventually (or will soon) fly again."

Call me a skeptic until they provide hard numbers and details of what planes make it back into the sky v's scrapped, and those planes have a year or two of a service history showing they make it back into a reasonable service lifestyle, I'd be shocked to hear this is great at saving planes. I find a lot of the old 172's i fly have plenty of bumps and scratches, but wouldn't be super excited to trust the frame of a plane that went through an experience like this.

I like it from a safety perspective, but in my mind, the reward you get out of a system like this should be your life...I have zero expectations the plane will ever fly again.
> I'm happy to use YouTube, but Google YouTube? I don't know.

Sure we do: Google Video was a competitor to YouTube that few used. Then they bought YouTube, and eventually killed Google Video.
Something like 90% of the population lives on 15% of the land. We have a telecommunications oligopoly, which is why service is expensive in the U.S.
Pascal was pretty popular. Turbo Pascal sold a lot of copies for good reasons.
What's up with my branch on GPU?
> Once a language gets beyond a certain complexity — say LaTeX, Common Lisp, C++, PL/1, modern Java — the experience of programming in it is more like carving out a subset of features for one’s personal use out of what seems like an infinite sea of features, most of which we become resigned to never learning.

This is how I felt about Racket, and I felt I had to do an opinionated pruning before I could use it for teaching, but the problem is that the docs don’t have such a boundary for learners so you feel tempted to rewrite the docs.
It's history repeating. After ww2, Japanese electronics was the cheap stuff like we perceive Chinese products as today. During the 70s Japan caught up and got ready to overtake in certain fields. Surprise. Than this repeated with south Korea. Now China is getting ready.

And every time it's the same pattern. First it's "hah look they make these cheap inferior copies" then quality improves and gets on par so it changes to "well they just copy our products and then sell them for cheaper because labor costs are much lower" and then when they finally start to innovate and excel everybody is super surprised cause it was just stupid Japanese/Korean/Chinese copying our technology without really understanding it so how could they possibly make something on their own?

(yes, obviously not everybody, but this is pretty much a simplified/exaggerated version of the overall sentiment)
Considering cats are the subject of some of the most ancient memes and foxes are arguably trending in their meme status... Could this new hybrid revolutionize memes as we know it? We live in exciting times
Ask HN: Series B – Join or Not Join
Hi all

Need some quick advice.

I am currently being offered a role at a Series B startup. Their base is much lower (30% drop) but has an OTE that makes it up to a 12% drop if i hit my targets.

I also get 8k stock options at $1 but i feel like that's just worth very little. They also won't tell me how big the pool is and the percentage of those stocks are.

The role itself would actually be a lateral move but with a wider capacity to build the region out into what I want.

For context, I am currently in a specialised manager position hoping into a more general manager position but with potential to grow into a head role (I am in APAC)
company!

My current company (10k employees), however, is offering to promote me to a lead role at some point as well.

It would be great to get some advice on the stocks component (if this is normal not to reveal) as well as if it's worth hoping to a startup if it's a lateral move.
Did he ever say why he lost faith? Cause at least Chromium has hardware acceleration for video decoding on Linux. The story about ablock extensions being blocked was completely false.
It is tied to their session ID / shopping cart. They are free to modify the cart and it recalculates the discount.
Though I have a great amount of respect for them, I'll point out that Jim Simons may have multiple motivations to downplay the size of any edge that RenTech has over the averages.
Wait, that's an astonishing number of would-be crashes.
Still overpriced and less secure
You want every single bit error to avalanche to the whole key. You also don't want bit errors at some offsets modulo X to cancel each other out. Cryptographic hashes provide these properties. For any custom solution you would first have to prove that it has the security properties needed.

The asymmetric crypto of a connection setup takes the lion's share of CPU cycles. I don't think it's worth the risk just to beat the cheap (relatively speaking) symmetric algorithms.
Rule of Capture and Hotelling's rule aren't ToC, strictly.
In this case there still is the discussion of which Vanguard fund to pick. Putting your money into the SP500 is not the “market portfolio” so to speak. In that case you are overweight large-cap and overweight US. In short, picking an index fund is different (and in many cases leas complex) than picking individual stocks, but it’s still not a trivial exercise.
Ask HN: Do you keep an engineering notebook?
I'm a software developer wondering about starting to keep an engineering journal/notebook and curious about other peoples' experiences and practices. If you keep one, have you found it useful? How often and what do you put in it? What format/tools do you use?
There are still good reasons to buy-and-hold on single stocks as an individual investor, though doing so increases risk significantly over index and Vanguard-style funds.
Gatto volpe in Italian would be best translated as fox cat.

Italian speakers often kind of mangle English pairs that way in that they'll drop the second word, like "Pulled Pork" becoming "Il Pulled" in an online group about BBQ I used to subscribe too.
Yes, but your link makes a good case that our cognitive abilities aren't perfect at this, nor did they necessarily evolve to do this. After all, plenty of other animals meet their needs perfectly fine without our large brains.

Some have thus argued that our cognitive abilities actually evolved to deal with understanding the minds of other humans, to predict defectors and establish complex social systems that encourage cooperation and enhance collective survival. Our ability to cooperate provides a huge adaptive advantage, and so our innate biases supposedly make more sense in this context.

This makes social media doubly dangerous, since not only is information valuable, but information about what other people are talking about, thinking, etc. is even more important to us.
What's shadowing?
The line is not blurring. Non-public information is information owned by the company. This is different from information that is hard to acquire and hence, not available to everyone.

You are making the same mistake the article does when you state this line is blurring.
I don't want an expensive privacy service. I want free/low cost.

I have no reason for privacy, its like buying a Mini Van when you are single.

EDIT: HN is bad at discussing ideas. I suggest not downvoting people for dissent.
Yes, but it's not like the cars are ONLY visible from space. You are welcome to organize a large group of people to travel around to parking lots and count cars and then privately share your findings. What the funds are doing is just a more efficient version of that. It's all public information.
Maybe this isn't ideal, but setting the system text size in Settings should make the street labels larger. You can put text size adjustment in Control Center too for easier access.
There was a lot of that kind of talk after the last election.

now that we've blocked a record number of judicial appointments including a supreme court justice, literally took out an ad in the new york times to try an undermine the Iran deal, claimed that the president wasn't a citizen along with all kinds of other horrible stuff, now...now it's finally time for us to work together. This new guy he's president of all of us. Let's get together and make sure...

No thank you. At some point it's Charlie Brown's fault for even trying to kick the football.
Not all day long. Only a couple of hours. Her eyes are fine
I don't want to agree with you because it seems really craven, but I'm not sure I can disagree. Speaking only for my state, Oregon doesn't seem to have any interest in actually combating recidivism.
And London tickets probably cost a lot more than the US average in 1970 too. Certainly, in NYC movie tickets have tended to cost quite a bit more than the suburban theater norm.
solving a ReCAPTCHA ( a google product that fingerprints users) is required to create an account even when not using TOR.
It's a good thing for markets to reward information-gathering. Truth is a valuable commodity for the public. For every current investor who will lose money when the truth is revealed, there are many more prospective investors who will be protected from investing in a losing proposition.

The alternative is a Soviet-style disconnection from reality. A market planner in a far-away office planned for a farm to produce some amount of output, so, that's how much the farm officially put out, nevermind that there was a drought and part of the output was diverted to the black market etc. But how is the planner supposed to know? Without feedback, without the truth, it becomes impossible to come up with accurate numbers for anything. Without the truth, the economy is a house of cards.
That is a fascinating idea, a plane being "handed off" from one beaming tower to the next, like a cell phone
Obviously, but he stated it indirectly; the way he said it was as an aside. But you're right re: his motivations.
Well that's perfect. Thank you.
The more people see through fear (lies we tell ourselves to be merciful to ourselves in lieu of the pain of knowledge) the more it becomes clear that those they fear are just different projections of themselves. That this phenomenon called higher level consciousness is something impossible to define or categorize and the more we cut away things to get to the center of what makes the "soul" of every individual, the more it becomes apparent that we are what we fear. It's a beautifully twisted contradiction.

Some people would find this truth disconcerting and opt for the kind of simplicity that confirms cognitive biases rather than the primordial truth that is at the same time simple and fractally complex and spiraling. I find the coastline analogy given in the article quite apt. I think the internet making it harder to delude oneself has helped here. Or at least it did prior to this ugly misinformation and propaganda saturating it currently.

Coming from a small town - Kingman, which I understand Sasha Baren Coen is a fan of - with the usual small town bullshit (e.g. "well if we just locked the border and put 'trespassers will be shot, survivors will be shot twice' our problems would be solved") I can say that I continue to be astounded and thankful that I turned out to react to this truth in a scholarly fashion, just hoping I can learn the fractals to their deepest depth. But I can also recognize the allure of the cited "Simplism" and falling to it in horror if they cannot cope with the aforementioned revelation. I think even the most scholarly and even-minded among us can recognize that allure.

Not even sure I can be angry at them. Disappointed perhaps. If I was able to climb out of the droning sludge of this mindset I am almost certain literally anyone else can.

I find politicians to be reflections of ourselves in the same fashion. They're the outer-shell of the fractal. Whereas in our brains we have sides of ourselves that are terrified of the true nature of things and put walls of narratives in front to categorize the world into something we can understand, as a collective organism we prop up these politicians to be the macro-simplicity in the same way the neurons of our individual brains are. I therefore find it appropriate that we loath them much like we loathe the worse natures of ourselves.

Still though, at the end of the day it's us writing the story like that because that's what we want to read. The politicians don't manifest themselves or perform for a void, and I wouldn't know how to fix this segment of the population any more than I would know how to fix our own individual worse natures. Would have to agree it's driving us into a sea though.
On 3, are you sure? The blue-shaded image search results is what it looked like a long time ago.
To me, the biggest confounding variable is the race/culture of the researchers. From the supplementary material:
"We recruited eleven male and two female research assistants to perform the drop-offs. All research assistants were recruited from two German speaking universities and
born between 1985 and 1993." Seems somewhat fortuitous that German/Nordic countries uniformly performed the best. In many countries, they would stick out like a sore thumb. To make this study more complete, they really should have someone who looks and speaks more native do this as well. Especially as race/culture seems to be so highly correlated with the result, it is only natural to see whether factors like distrust/xenophobia play a part. I mean, some random stranger (possibly using a language translator app!?) tells you to do something with a package they drop off and then leaves very quickly. How I react would certainly depend at least somewhat on my impression of the person and how that brief interaction went.
If you have premium brand and do not provide proper customer service, then people will start buying from others. Might not be immediate, but nothing rides on good feelings forever.
one benefit that would never go away is not needing a license/copy/installation of windows.
There are so many guns in the USA, I think an outright ban will take 100 years to clear out gun violence. By then, it will just be replaced with something else. The government probably want's no part of disarming a bunch of 2nd amendment country boys, it just won't happen regardless of how bad our gun problem is.

They need to start with not associating a 12 gauge with a 5 round magazine the same as an AR-15 with 30 rounds of hollow tips.

Common sense is what is needed.
wow. you couldn’t be more wrong! protonmail knows very well that their point is false. it’s just free marketing for them. they are just hijacking the popularity of google to gain some benefit for their tiny company.

they aren’t idiots, they’re just failing and desperate.
lol ... $5mil to hire SRK ... very much true ...

Yes you are correct tech is only the part of the battle ... but its an important one ... lot of small business are not able to compete with big business ... due to lack of good software ...

consider you have to spend 50 lakh rupees to build an app such as swiggy and zomato ...

now you dont need to and you can instead spend 25 lakhs in marketing ...

if marketing done wisely ... you dont need to spend 5 Million to hire SRK ...

Thanks for your inputs by the way ... enjoyed !