skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Needless to say, I won't be one of the suckers investing in the new hedge fund that you hope to create soon.

Wall Street has a long history of arrogant academics who believe that they have discovered the "holy grail" of investment strategies while getting off in their ivory tower on some fancy-pants mathematical formula that looks oh-so alluringly complex on the surface, but in reality makes all kinds of simplifying assumptions that renders it almost completely useless when applied to real markets.

This road to false riches is now well-traveled, littered with the smoldering remains of companies like LTCM and Bernie Madoff Investments, to name just a few.

And of course the infamous fraudster, Andrew Lo, has also blown up a few boatloads of naive investors' capital ... but in his case he was shrewd enough to snag a university professorship beforehand, behind which he could then hide his naked bleeding ass after Natixis had to bail out his Alpha "Herpes" Simplex hedge fund that he was running (on the sly) across the street from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

My suggestion to this former physics graduate student is quite simple: quit playing the role of the high-falutin' Harvard-trained "wizard of Wall Street" bullshitter, Mr. Gordon Ritter, and try doing something useful (for once) in your life.

The cancer research machine learning community is waiting for your resume.

(Hmm, on second thought, I just remembered something:
"sociopaths need not apply." Oh well.)
Sorry, you are wide off the mark. Arbitrary code execution is game over because performing privilege escalation is usually prettyntrivial after that. Also, wayland is just a local IPC protcol.

To be more precise, its graphics related part is a GPU buffer management protocol only. No graphics data is passed between processes through that channel. All that happens is buffer allocation and buffer access brokering. This ties into what the wayland part of a screen capture tool is: read access to the frame buffer after composition. No image encoding, no video codecs or anything else, just the ability to get to the raw pixels.

This also means that sound is a non-issue for wayland because the audio stack is separate.

Also, I remember that adding authentication prompts to compositors was seriously comsidered when screen capturing came up on the wayland mailing list. IIRC it was only rejected because it created weird synchronization issues because of the unspecifies time interval between the request by an application and the response by the compositor. And I seem to remember that there are some compositors who allow whitelisted applications to perform operations that are comsidered privilieged.

Anyway, I consider a display server that doesn't allow an application to query window positions and acreen resolutions and forbids explicit window placement to be broken as far as any serious GUI apllications are concerned. This combination of restrictions makes implementing features like sane tooltips and context menus impossible.
I need a source on the disruption of stable jobs claim.

I support immigration because my ancestors were immigrants, and I believe others deserve the same opportunity.
Athens on the Colorado
I agree as much as the next commenter here that HK can’t survive Tiananmen 2.0, but am not so sure about the CCP leadership. And I do have actual interactions with mainland Chinese (although I don’t know whether you’d consider them “educated.”)

> It will be an economic suicide for mainland China. Is there any doubt about that?

Why not? I would most definitely doubt it. Again, I do assume it would crash, but there is absolutely no actual proof that is the case. This wouldn’t be the first time CCP uses armed forces against civillian protest, and on every previous occassion they ended up just fine.
Of course anyone who wanted to spend their time back then doing what we now call blogging, who wanted to pay for their own hosting, could have done so. However, I am not sure that the ability to read the thoughts of independent bloggers was a major driving force behind the mass adoption of the Internet. It was quality content and services, subsidized by investors who for the most part hoped companies could generate revenue from advertising, that drew the public to the Internet.
I'm surprised bandwidth was a consideration at all given the slow signals involved. What's a typical Nyquist rate used when sampling an EKG?
Which countries manage just fine? Do those countries’ neighbors have substantially lower performing economies?
Would be interesting to see Mu+Tianocore running on Coreboot, if it hasn't already been done.
I think it only works for this particular use case though. Anime visuals are much less complicated then real world pictures. The fact that they are (mostly) created digitally in the first place means a algorithmic solution is likely to be available
I created TXR/TXR Lisp to be great for scripting or smaller tasks. It has a small footprint and is free of annoying dependencies, yet feature-rich.

http://nongnu.org/txr

I released version 223 today, which marks the tenth anniversary, since the project's August, 2009 start.
Shooting down foreign satellites is an act of war, and very few countries have that capability.

Iridium is an existing satellite phone system that will technically work anywhere on the planet.

It won't complete calls to certain countries, and they warn that the phone might get confiscated in a few others: https://globalcomsatphone.com/support7/
What's GT? It performs the best in your examples.

Anime4k looks obviously like a filter (I think Photoshop has an effect that looks like that, but I can't remember the name at the moment), particular at the 4x setting.
The relevance of electricity depends on the scope.

Most institutions have continuity plans that allow them to function, perhaps in a degraded state, with widespread power failures. Hospitals will be functioning, cellular towers will be running, first responders will function and at least basic commerce can carry on. That “limp along” period ranges from days to weeks.

There are also different types of electrical outages. A hurricane or earthquake can wipe out infrastructure. Civil unrest may cause disruption. Open warfare will cause more strategic disruption and limit restoration.
Perhaps I'm missing something but isn't the RTC still used for time keeping when the computer is powered off? Legacy? Perhaps - but I don't know that there is a 1:1 replacement on PCs?
Mentioning Israel or someone who is jewish, in any way, regardless of whether or not its true is anti-semitic.

The fact that you'd even udder the word "Israel" means you are, in fact on par with being a nazi.
They did start out with a shared atom model for all three platforms but switched away from to separate implementations for ELF and COFF http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2015-May/085088.htm...
They should offer to buy back every camera or grandfather in existing cameras.
If I understand it correctly, the whole project is one shader file. Sure it's portable, just pick the glsl file from the repository and plug it into your favorite video player.

Edit: uh-huh.

https://github.com/bloc97/Anime4K/blob/master/GLSL_Instructi...
> and I thought "the night manager" was terribly adapted

Can you expand on this? As someone who loved the series and the book it'd be interesting to hear a different viewpoint.
Isn't the brain responsible for a lot of the hormone levels and such necessary for proper functioning of the body? Would you really be able to grow all those organs in a body without a head?
For me, absolutely.
It’s been great for me as an experienced finance/investment banking professional. I’ve gotten two great jobs from it.

I’ve never experienced a bad recruiter or the level of spam I hear about from software engineers. About 3-5 approach me per year, and they tend to be very legitimate and well connected/informed.
GT = Ground Truth, it's the original image used for the comparison (before being scaled down and then to scaled up with the different algorithms)
"Fox News did to our parents what they thought video games would do to us."

-Ryan Scott
The valuations are fine. Firstly, WordPress is not valued at anything as it is not a private company. You are thinking of Automattic, which is a managed host that owns wordpress.com and makes their money on ads and subscriptions. Their share of and profit from the WordPress ecosystem is much smaller than you think, blogs / websites are commodities at this point, and there is no reason to think there is a relationship between volume of content and valuation.

Meanwhile, Twitter and Reddit are massive social networks with millions of daily active users.
Very well put-together, this is certainly an excellent learning experience.
"Nobody" in the sense that no numbers are rational. You can name lots of them, many of them your best friends, but the probability that a number chosen at random, in any interval, is rational is exactly zero.
> So what is going to happen when Apple succeeds in making it impossible to make any money off advertisements shown to iOS users on the web?

Then they start offering micropayments, and iOS users are such a gigantic market, who Apple already micro-charge for Apps, and who’ll pay good money, that every publisher jumps on board immediately.
I also worry about immigrants taking jobs from citizens. What’s the point of helping a new group of people get jobs if it means taking away jobs from other people. But it turns out that the new group of people actually creates more jobs than they take.

> When labor supply rises, Econ 101 says that wages fall, right? Wrong. The problem with this kind of approach is that it ignores the dynamic nature of the US economy.

Source: https://www.hoover.org/research/economic-effect-immigration
America's Little-Known Mission to Support Al Qaeda's Role in Libya
Europe has managed to significantly reduce the influx of immigrants from the middle east - as has Israel.
Some technical disciplines use "safe" as a transitive verb meaning "to make it safe", either from damage or from damaging other things.

I've seen it most often in rocketry contexts - you "safe the rocket" in an aborted launch scenario so it won't go off accidentally, etc.

"It is a good idea to add a safety release valve to your launcher. Sometimes it is important to abort a launch and safe the rocket after it has been pressurised." http://www.aircommandrockets.com/rocket_launcher.htm (Google "safe the rocket" for occasional other examples.)

So the PRE-SAFE sound means the sound is to "safe your ears" before the crash, making them safe from damage.
YouTube being the only one you've listed that has a premium option. The problem is people will say they'll pay but as soon as the option comes up, they don't.
Emails is definitely a straightforward thing to do. SMS is also pretty possible. For really interesting use0cases like Messenger, the difficulty becomes more of collecting and storing user permissions. I recently came tooling like https://github.com/Schmavery/facebook-chat-api
Why doesn’t the danish govt just print more money? Although part of the eu, they opt out of the monetary policy and still use the kroner. OTOH, how much of the eu debt does Denmark own— and vice versa. If they affect the kroner-euro exchange rate then they could lose money if it moves the wrong way.
If you look at the graph, which is the very first thing in that article, it's mostly TV viewing.
FYI - The 9V Lithium batteries last that long.

https://www.amazon.com/Energizer-LA522SBP-Lithium-Battery-De...
Listening to my coworkwers can be worse!
Check out Kerry Wong [1], he is tearing down old high end test equipment.

EEVBlog has good variety but I don't think he's heard the phrase "brevity is the soul of wit".

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/KerryWongBlog
Not Bill, but I work for Ardan. I’m happy you enjoyed the class! Bill works tirelessly on this stuff and I’m sure he’ll be happy to see you got something out of it.

As an aside, there’s nothing like attending a training in person and I highly recommend it. NOT because I work for Ardan, but because the quality is top notch. And Bill is really entertaining to watch teach X-D
From what I can tell, the pre-surveilence norm was businesses having to find a website with an audience they wanted to advertise to, or a website finding a business that might want to market to their users, and then every website having to negotiate contracts with every business that wanted to set up ads.

Basically the print magazine model.

But as businesses wanted to advertise to larger populations (we want to do a $10million ad spend, how many little phpforums are we going to have to reach out to before spending all this money?) and websites grew larger audiences (how many companies are we going to have to reach out to before we start making a profit?) the overhead was too high.

The model now is, any company can fork over whatever budget they have to an ad network, and websites can serve as many ads as they want and everyone gets the reduced overhead of just dealing with the middle man.

So that's what I think happened.
Dark-energy spectroscopic survey to reconstruct 11bn years of cosmic history
Pretty sure you just described The Island (2005). Key point was that after failed tests without consciousness, they discovered the hosts needed consciousness to be viable.

In real life, I imagine there'd be similar needs for consciousness, or at least the movement and physical stress that a conscious human would experience. From what I understand, bones and other tissues actually require the stresses of everyday life in order to grow correctly.
Luckily for this discussion, the word 'monopoly' has an accepted definition, which is:

> The exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service

Since Apple has, at most, below 50% market share in developed countries (and a much lower market share in developing countries), they do not possess a monopoly on the smartphone market.
This is how iSight is designed, no?
Everyone knows that only the intelligence community I mean Alphabet I mean Google is allowed to surreptitiously record everything about you they possibly can, without your knowledge or consent and regardless of what any law or public oversight says about it.

Good on them for not being the most oppressive pile of fucking shit in the history of reality after all.
The examples seem to focus on characters.

Wonder how it works on more "fancy" looking anime like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVGbgBy_yo4
White and Wonderful? Microplastics Prevail in Snow from the Alps to the Arctic
No, they only take a cut if the subscription is originated on the app.
Yeap. And for average people, that leaves a hollowed-out middle-class and not-yet-automated/underpaid tasks like caregiving, teaching, nursing, police, retail sales, retail foodservice, Amazon warehouse stocking, TaskRabbit and Uber driving. People are rightly freaking-out because their existences are threatened while simultaneously others are discussing who's going to be the first trillionaire (much more of the wealth created is only going to the very rich). It seems rational to argue that incel and domestic terrorists, rising homelessness and opioid epidemics are indirectly influenced by the socioeconomic fall-out of rust-belt decay.

Infographic video of how bad it really is: https://youtu.be/QPKKQnijnsM
It looks cool, but needs some mobile love. The screen gets very crowded on a phone, and feels very chaotic with things popping up and moving around. Touching the screen makes stuff scroll away from what the presenter intended, making it hard to figure out what's going on. Also, touching the "go back" button in the overlay triggers the phone's text selector, and seems to randomly bring you back to the very start of the presentation.

It definitely needs a more visible way to lead your focus. It's hard to tell what you're supposed to be looking at.
So Lisp 1, Lisp 2, Sch3me?
It may not be your favorite comment, and it may have been slightly inflammatory, but I disagree wholeheartedly that it's unsubstantive. We should be concerned about this sort of rhetoric passing uncriticized.
I'm old enough to have seen it all, from promising start to today's degeneracy.

Noone begged those companies to try to turn the Internet into a profit center, or to chew up enormous bandwidth and energy costs after being sold a foolish dream about targeting adverts.

The quality of the content was already being shared by millions of talented and thoughtful people. Because that's where the talent arises. Then your investors did for the internet what the music business did for music.

Oh, but that wasn't enough. After the ads, collecting and selling personal data to anyone came along. Regardless of millions of voices saying stop. Now the stream was not just full of trash, but flowed with multiple toxins.

A pox on all of them. I'd like to see all commercial interests limited to a very short list of TLDs. Then let's watch and see the mass migration. Let's call it 'choice'.
There are lots of Hindutva apologists on Hacker News it seems.
Maybe that 'sales and marketing' figure includes discounts on rent to gain new tenants?
Absolutely! I will definitely attend the training in person when I have the chance.
You can mentally tone down the rhetoric and easily see the point. Corporations do not deserve more rights than people.
It handles other weeb art just fine, but anime typically has very different characteristics from the heavier detail that you can often find in manga.
wasn't there something about how it ruins dna unintentionally?
Why boost-up to a graveyard orbit rather than "booting-down" to decay and presumably burn up on re-entry?
It doesn't work. It is still relying on centralized internet architecture we have.

Mesh nets with singular remaining internet access would crumble under the load too.

I guess a lot of economy instantly switches to IOU, barter and banknotes. (Including gold and other assets for the rich.) The old and tried ways.
Is there no money in roadside billboards? They are not highly targeted.

Removing tracking will take some profitability off ads but eyeballs are always going to be valuable.
I don't know how to be not poor :| applying for jobs but takes time to get one
Yes, but what’s the ratio that’s precise within 10^-60
> MFC or Carbon dinosaur

Oof. Yeah MFC was something else.

I hated Swing the bit that I worked with it.. but I'm always blown away when I see the Jetbrains IDE's in the wild (I'm a VS Code guy but a few people I work with prefer the Jetbrains stuff). They managed to make a really slick, and pretty performant (if you ignore startup time) app with it.

I guess you could say VS Code is a similar exception to the rule in Electron land.
Not even that, it's enough to take down a few backbone routers. The same reliability that prevents forging it would break any used cryptocurrency in two, if it even works at all.
What I don't see them saying was that it was the wrong choice in 2013 for a scrappy team and an evolving product, just that it's not the right choice in 2019 for a company with ~infinite dollars and a stable product.

I'm looking at building a mobile product solo right now, and I'm finding Flutter a pretty compelling idea. Building everything twice means being circa twice as slow, meaning I can learn about what the market needs half as fast.

I might be wrong, of course, but this isn't the article to persuade me otherwise.
ML implementations can insert detail that was never present in the original image. You can't get that with other methods. That may or not be a good thing depending on the source material and your desired result.
> I suppose if Verizon is taking the tax deduction on an original $1.1 billion purchase by Yahoo

Yahoo wrote down almost the entire value of Tumblr before the Verizon acquisition[0]

> What kind of business, let alone web business, sells for 1/10th annual revenue?

A business that is losing a lot of money and shrinking. Automattic have to invest a lot more than $3M to keep Tumblr alive and turn it around (200 employees) - the total investment isn't just the acquisition cost

With the headline figure it might seem like a nobrainer but Automattic could end up spending years investing in a turnaround that never happens

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com.au/yahoo-tumblr-write-down-2...
Ask HN: Is there any benefit to having a professional Twitter account?
I am new to the industry and I have yet to join an online development community. I do not have social media accounts because I am a recovering information addict. Lately though, I have been feeling like I am missing out on the latest news, trends and discussions that could have given me useful professional insights. Is it just my fomo or having a twitter can in fact make me a better well-informed developer? Is being a part of the professional twitter community worth the hustle of having to filter out all that distracting twitter noise?
Kryo.se: Iodine (IP-over-DNS, IPv4 over DNS Tunnel)
Grid Storage Using Concrete – Energy Vault
Biometric security flaw exposed more than one million fingerprints
> a good requirements spec

I think that kills a lot of interesting projects right there. If I could write a solid spec, that would mean I believe I wouldn't learn much from shipping the product. And also that my competitors aren't learning or advancing.
I just reviewed some of your notes in comments, especially the CPU ones in the array source. I think they'd be a great introduction on general computer science to someone who may not have done much beyond ultra high level languages (JavaScript, python, Ruby, etc). Good work!
Programming language grammars and spoken language grammars are two completely separate things. Someone can conceivably be a great programming language researcher who sometimes get's a rule of the English language wrong in a sentence.
Apple also still refuse to support Vulkan natively. They are one of the worst lock-in offenders today.
Huh interesting, that does make sense
>If a car mfg forced driving lights remotely and killed your ability to run and operate the car without the driving lights I feel like this issue would get more clear resistance.

This actually already happens: case in point, Tesla (https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/attachments/notifications-co...).

I find the lack of negative press over this disturbing, to say the least- this will kill someone someday.
The cell's ability to mechanically sense it's surroundings is fascinating. There is an old paper from 2006 in Cell that was similar to this study in that it showed onencould direct stem cell differentiation down different lineages purely by growing the cells on different stiffness substrates. Definitely worth a read of you are interested in this topic:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/16923388/
To be fair the biggest issue with CA was the "Friends of friends" data.
Thanks for taking your time to review it.
Young Jupiter was smacked head-on by newborn planet
Big clive on HN. Hurray!

He earned my respect from a video on a USB charger with an electrocution risk and why you should never buy cheap USB chargers. https://youtu.be/3Hdn0MuCK_0
It seems like the real issue was that Dropbox lost all of their senior C++ engineers. That’s a real mistake on their part, losing the only people who truly understand your product can be a death sentence for a company. I know my employer is very conscious of who knows what part of our products, and does their best to ensure that we never have any knowledge gaps.
The thing is, only the few rich will be able to afford this kind of backup. This is Kashmir we're talking about, essentially a third world country still.
I’m thinking of enlisting. I really want to have a baby.
Quick thought: $7.99 looks like it should be the highest tier in a four tier scheme (free, a dollar or two, way less than $7.99, and $7.99) since you're talking about per month prices. Even then the price looks steep to me (currency conversion and other factors considered).