skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even on a lighter note, I'm getting more and more frustrated at cloud device providers changing features on a whim. For example, I own Nest products that I bought to integrated into my 'smart home'. Now Google is ripping out the API for Nest products and making us use Google Assistant. Google Assistant is repeatedly changing behaviors and breaking my workflow.

I understand I'm a tiny segment of the market, but it's hard not to want to switch over to fully owned, open source alternatives. Any suggestions?
Why Wouldn't I Use Redux?
I recently encountered the term solastalgia (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solastalgia), a name for the pain caused by environmental change. Global heating isn't the only phenomenon that can lead to solastalgia, but it has already affected all people on Earth in ways that are increasingly painful.
I never used it but I remember Angular coming with unit and e2e testing.
Some rule changes after 2008 made it impossible to short IPOs, unfortunately.
If you want to make a service with positive environmental impact and positive financials, you have to start somewhere.

The place you start is likely to be close to your expertise. In Ecosia's case, it could scale massively and they could replace the search stack with their own as the business grows.

Until a carbon tax is implemented, most businesses trying to have a positive environmental impact will be hard pressed to find financial stability.
> You wanna discuss Phaedrus or The Republic, or the Sacred Band, or something else?

Sure. How much Plato have you read in Greek? What do you think, for example, he means by ὑπηρετεῖν when applied to χαρισάμενα παιδικά?

> Waters is indeed...steeped in and derived from...

This makes me suspect what the answer to "How much Plato have you read in Greek?" was, and exactly how much that postgrad degree was worth.
The Gameboy did similar. For some odd reason they only verified the top half of the logo, though, so some devs got creative http://fuji.drillspirits.net/?post=87 Technical details here: https://catskull.net/gameboy-boot-screen-logo.html
Awesome. Have you ever seen the movie The Recruit with Colin Farrell? There is a great scene where his character remotely "hacks" a TV at a job fair.
Do you have any numbers or anything concrete to back up that argument?
AI is the biggest fraud of the 21st century. Especially Deep Learning. Deep Learning is a bubble that has no application in reality. And I mean NONE. Even in cutting edge FAANG companies that claim to use modern AI techniques, Deep Learning is barely used. Because it's simply not reliable enough for real datasets. Classical statistical techniques, along with human domain expertise are what runs the world. Not new-fangled hyped up stuff.
Please provide an example of a live television channel in the UK that has not received any funds from the licence fee. To my knowledge, even small local channels receive funding which is directly traceable to the licence fee, though of course the BBC gets the lion's share.
All large companies, certainly 100% of the Fortune 500, are engaged in financial engineering. That GE does it is not at all surprising.

To specifically call it that, publicly, is interesting. Was this a recent ad?
Protected value
I said in my opinion. I think going from JSX to templates is a bad idea and going back to where we were.
Probably the AI part is in the configurator, at most spec generation. Development is still done by humans.

https://imgur.com/a/hlsALdj

So a fancy new SAP but with cheap consultants.
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20706702
I don't think the claim that that is his opinion is a big claim, and while it's possible that he is misrepresenting his opinion the fact they he claimed the opinion on HN with no obvious benefit from misrepresentation is itself fairly strong evidence that it is his opinion.
I installed Ubuntu on the Switch using some of these methods.

The best part is that one MicroSD card can store Nintendo games and another MicroSD card can store a complete Ubuntu install. Switching between Ubuntu and the native Nintendo OS just requires a card swap and reboot.

Ubuntu even works in docked mode with a monitor and peripherals, so this hack adds the capabilities of an entire GNU/Linux computer to the console.
What's so structurally fascinating, in a very morbid way, is the difference between the balance sheets of the most heavily-funded late stage companies.

I have an opinion but regardless of it, if a no-asset/no-liability company is losing money and the music stops, they can cut costs and survive. It's messy but it happens.

WeWork is a completely different beast. It's occupancy costs + G&A are 105% of revenue. If it can't sustain its losses with free flowing capital it can't cut long-term liabilities as easily as headcount and perks (again, this is morbid), so its only option would be bankruptcy.

So in this case it would seem that the most rational way to invest in it, if you absolutely had to, would be in its debt. I have to assume, though, given this ridiculous structure, that the opco would be shielded.

Man, we can't predict the future but it's pretty clear that if something does go wrong, it would be an AIG-level mess to unwind the complexities.
I could imagine how their conversations with investors are going.

“When we said we use AI we meant An Indian”
Even food they say!
I specifically used the word on-demand, which is not live TV...
Which to me is saying that a burglar's right to know he's being recorded outweighs the property owner's right to catch burglars.

I don't really think the former should ever outweigh the latter.
Wow, it's been 6 years??? That's surprising.
"The company claims its AI tools are “human-assisted,” and that it provides a service that will help a customer make more than 80 percent of a mobile app from scratch in about an hour"

By the 80/20 rule, that would no doubt be the 80 percent that takes only 20 percent of the time to write; the remaining 20 percent that the tools can't do is what takes 80 percent of the time to write.
Joining Logic, Relational, and Functional Programming
Democratic U.S. senator asks Facebook CEO if he gave 'incomplete' testimony
The camera inside my building is not for deterrence - the burglar is already inside at this point and will not be deterred. Either way, as you note, my stuff is gone.
If their attention is drawn to an internal security camera by a light, then they may disable it or otherwise take extra steps to conceal themselves or avoid the camera. If they do not notice the camera, I may get better/more footage for identification purposes.
Why did you start a new account to post this? Who are you? Use your real account.
I adore, and extensively use, Cloudflare's free services for a couple of hobby projects. I hope they don't substantially change them post-IPO.
I think the question is, if you removed their tech, would they still have a product?

For WeWork, yes, absolutely. Uber, not so much.

Of course, being dependent on tech doesn't make you a tech company, but I think it's a simple heuristic to quickly falsify the WeWork cases.
Thanks for making the cdk! It’s awesome. Would love docs / examples on how to connect to aurora serverless from fargate with secrets in kms. Also, auto rotating certificates for the load balancer. And lastly, a fully functional ci/cd pipeline with staging/prod and backfilling aurora serverless from prod->staging, and also how to import data into aurora serverless from a postgres dump, and how to get aurora serverless data copied to a local postgres. Thanks!
>If you're talking "used a human to learn the steps and then slowly automated those steps", then you're describing basically every company that's ever existed.

So, obviously not that definition then....
Depending on your profiency :
- you can actually contribute to the compiler itself : https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Ais...
- you can contribute to the low-level abstracting graphics library : https://github.com/gfx-rs/gfx/labels/contributor-friendly
- and more generally you can also take a look at the weeksletter (and previous iterations of it to see where help was requested) :Week's letter : https://this-week-in-rust.org/
One submission, and 58 points, in eight years; not exactly a high-engagement community member on a website I'd consider to be community-driven. If you're not part of the solution, and all that.
Just dev. Production size is minuscule.
Now they'll have even more incentives and pressures for censorship.
Getwaves.io – Generate SVG waves for your next design
There was a fairly hyped scheduling assistant which had human intervention to start...

Ah here [1] it is, X.ai.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11520681

* Interestingly, searching on Google for “x.ai human” lead me back to the HN discussion as the 4th link! I’m seeing HN discussion surface in organic search results a lot more lately.
Another unicorn strikes. Is it just me, or have all of these companies decided to do IPOs around the same time? I mean uber, lyft, we work, and now cloudflare. I wonder who's on the menu tommorow
Another point of investment could be to buy, hold, and collect dividends without thinking about an exit.
This is absurdly wrong, DL is used in industry all the time.
To be fair, Amazon only recently bought Ring (early 2018), and I recall the products being quite popular even before Amazon's acquisition. So really it may be the case of someone actively choosing not to buy a FAANG product, only to be sucked in later by Amazon's blackhole.
Is this securities fraud?
There is no such thing as a self-driving car, and there won't be for at least 20 more years.
Sounds like we need to expand WebKit's implementation of Storage Access API to cover LocalStorage.
Of course they'd make that rule, those in power don't want anybody calling out their vaporware ponzi scheme IPOs and poo'ing on their party.
I've asked a lot of Lyft drivers about this. Only one said, "Yes, exactly, I've tried to explain to other people that after my expenses I'm not really earning any money." The others blew me off.
This thread is so interesting, and so sad, at the same time.

It also seems that Amazon is using Sprinklr as an "enterprise marketing platform" to handle these FC ambassadors [0].

[0]: https://twitter.com/GarrettShorr/status/1161881614256705536
> thinking about a math problem at the same level as talking with someone

Plenty of people can hold a simple conversation while doing differential equations. As the conversation’s complexity increases that stops being the case.

There is clearly a difference when talking to a distracted person. But, decoding “Do you want a soda?” and responding appropriately seems to require little if any attention.

Neuroscience gives support of this in terms of what parts of the brain are involved in different aspects of language.
Speaking of UEFI ... if anyone wants to try Secure Boot with OVMF—the open source implementation of UEFI for virtual machines—in a Linux-based environment, here's a stupid shell script (usual caveat, please inspect it before you run :-)) that I sometimes use for testing.

It installs a minimal (@core-only in 'kickstart' parlance) Fedora with Secure Boot, which you can verify by `dmesg | grep Secure` once the guest boots.

I wrote this script on a Fedora 29 host, with KVM (the Kernel-based Virtual Machine), libvirt, QEMU and OVMF / EDK2 packages.

[1] https://kashyapc.fedorapeople.org/Create-a-SecureBoot-enable...
It wasn't a really a secret. They ran into all sorts of issues with Travis, and people from Azure offered to run the Rust CI instead. The initial discussions were public.

Unfortunately, the build times still seem to be close to four hours, which limits the amount of changes that can be merged.
Looking at that S1 once its public the stock will be mostly worthless. But the founders will be billionaires.
I agree. What would age have to do with recalling syntactic idiosyncrasies, or being able to theorize about problems with a dry-erase marker and a whiteboard (or a pen and pencil, or a keyboard and a computer)?

Reading between the lines, you seem upset about having to answer questions about technical problems you perceive to be irrelevant, and that these technical problems are more likely to be solved successfully by those who have recently practiced them (e.g. graduates).

I too agree that, while abstract technical interview questions have little bearing on most day-to-day work, they do some things quite well:

1 - Define a well-bounded problem of sufficient difficulty
2 - Give the interviewee a good baseline for objective success
3 - Exercise a person's mind to think about complicated problems

While they are contrived and not entirely representative of daily work, they are not without value.
Show me one example where Deep Learning is used in production?
So she, basically, is using it as an emergency fund.
I like this S-1, and in my opinion CloudFlare aren't even scratching the surface of their full potential. Their future growth opportunity is unicorn x 10.
Additionally, people who own the sites can use them together via methods like this, while third parties will have a more difficult time. Bravo.
Anybody who's sat through several corporate PowerPoint presentations knows this on a gut level.

My kids have all had to use PowerPoint at school to present some work. The enthusiasm they had for including as many wipes, masks, and effects as possible was a real joy. It's just that I expect more from a software architect, or a sales engineer.
I dont really agree with your comment. DL is used heavily in the semi industry for image segmentation, defect classification, simulation speed cut-down, and plasma optimization. It's been a game changer, saving engineers up to 30% of their time.
"Financial engineering" is pillaging the company while diverting money into ludicrous bonuses and raises at the corporate office.

The top skill of most MBAs is sorting an Excel sheet by salary, in descending order, and deleting the top 10 rows to "restructure".
VCs use portfolio theory. Quantity over quality. Due diligence takes too much time, effort and money that can be better spent just getting into another deal.
Speaking more generally, I do think it is a systemic problem in the world of AI that we have to rely so much on human-labeled data, often done by low-paid workers in other countries (like Amazon's Mechanical Turk) or harvested off friction deliberately inserted into the human experience (like CAPTCHA).

The AI promise was that eventually the need for human labeling would end, but the curve currently is going in the opposite direction and it's reasonable to question whether it will ever reverse.
This isnt only about pir8 sites, its about problematic/negative content being associated with brand[s]

it looks like this sort of survey should be done with some true statistical rigor, the true numbers would be somewhat usefull.
the horses mouth spouts from here:

https://www.brandsafetyinstitute.com/blog/survey-brand-safet...

"The survey of 1,017 adults in the United States was conducted via SurveyMonkey from July 24-26, 2019. The survey had a margin of error of +/-3 percent at a 95 percent confidence interval."

with results:

https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/4962377/TAG_BSI%20Brand%20Saf... [PDF]
Nope, I'm in Boston, but I did the attend the July Rust meetup at Microsoft. You?
Maybe trying to get ahead of the impending recession?
Did not know that.
Isn’t a better question, why are you interviewing for the same positions in your 40s that a fresh grad could do? I’m 45 and still mostly work at jobs where I’m officially a “senior software engineer”, occasional “team lead” or “architect”. But, I am not trying to compete with fresh grads.

In your 40s, you should have a trusted network of former managers, coworkers, and external recruiters that help you bypass a lot of the BS.
Doesn’t it terrify anybody else that you are right in the rotational plane for those propellers? If one of them were ever to break, it’s coming right at you.
Finally an IPO I want to buy into. Technical fundamentals matter.

Edit: I mean that in the software/service way, not the economical way, in case there was any confusion.
I'm happy to have helped on the AWS side!
Todo apps are used as front-end examples for the same reason the factorial function is used to explain recursion: it's simple, it's intuitive, but it exercises what you need without dragging in a lot of incidental complexity.

To demo or teach a front-end framework, you need to show:

1. How data gets rendered to the DOM

2. How collections are handled

3. How events are registered and handled

4. How the DOM is updated when data are changed

5. How form inputs are represented

The easiest thing to do is to show an array getting rendered as a list, then add click handlers which change the list somehow, which naturally segues into showing how the DOM is changed. Adding new items or deleting items also answer important questions about how exactly collections of data are mapped to collections of elements and how updates are happened. Finally, no demo of a front-end framework can be considered complete unless it addresses how form input elements work; adding functionality to add a new item or update the text of an existing item is an obvious way to demonstrate this.
This is a discrimination issue, and this thread is full of comments about people that have not been discriminated against. good for you, but it doesn't mean the problem doesn't exist.
Remind me to register Pseudo Venture Capital as a trade name... PVC has a nice ring.
Of all of these IPOs, this is the one with the most "product" behind it IMO.
I mentioned it in the We S-1 thread, but it really weirds me out that the S-1 is the first chance the public has a chance to see a company’s financial status.
It depends. If you're talking about whiteboarding code, I only have to do that once a year or so, usually because I'm in a meeting and want to demonstrate what I mean and code is easier. If you're talking about whiteboarding a design, I do that much more frequently. I prefer a pair programming exercise in this case, but I've reverted to whiteboard in cases where there were technical issues. It's not my favorite but neither is trying to do it in a text editor without support.

I see nothing wrong in having to show a high level design of a system as a senior engineer, because we are asked to do that quite often.
Ditto, I'm excited about this one.
> We have a history of net losses and may not be able to achieve or sustain profitability in the future.

I never got this... Why go public if you literally say you won't make money?

Who would buy stock in something that will not return a positive?

Are they starving for money and hope some public trading gets them a boost?

Edit:
It seems to be following the same pattern as the other tech IPOs recently, just to cash out the early investors.
There are two places where gas is paid:
1) when the customer pays to these intermediate addresses
2) when the funds are moved from the intermediate to the final address

1) is always paid by the customer that initiates the payment.
2) can be paid by anyone, as these contracts are permissionless and anyone can interact with them. At the moment Coinbase picks up the tab for doing this, but we will likely not be doing this in the long-term
This is hands down an amazing interpretation (some great voicing in the upper parts in the left hand, and articulation is textbook awesome) and great to see near the top of HN, his channel is worth checking out. This is better than Lugansky and the Rachmaninoff piano rolls.
This has been the end-goal since the 1980s when everyone realized there was way more money to be made in running companies into the ground to sell them off for scrap, raiding pension funds, and securitizing everything.

Why make things when you can just make money?
> When this all blows up the only winners will be armies of lawyers who untangle this mess.

No, it'll be the one that owns the land, whom create WeWork to raise funds to pay them exorbitant leases back to them in order to "exit" and cash out/profit before all the VCs.
> I understand VCs are not the smartest bunch but if you are investing $30M, please do the due.

Interestingly how nonchalantly you mentioned that.

It wasn't the case with me. Elizabeth Holmes/Theranos case opened my eyes that there exist significant amount of people that hold significant capital (millions) and are, hm, not the smartest bunch, as you politely put it.

It still somewhat amazes me. You'd think these people were careful, considerate, etc.
The free tier of Cloudflare has been really amazing for small to medium websites.

It gives you a basically unlimited CDN, SSL, HTTP/2, DDos protection and fast DNS servers with almost 0 effort... for free ...

Thus increasing the stability and speed of many web properties that otherwise wouldn't pay for it.

I'm afraid this could easily change once the company is public and is under the pressures that come along with it, which is a shame.

(I also try to get them paid business when I can by nudging companies to use them)
It's a big mistake to assume the people of twitter are a good sample of the people of the US.
Talk about cherry picking info. From TFA, if you had bothered to read it:

By the mid-1990s, it became widely believed that the NSA was able to break DES by trying every possible key. This ability was demonstrated in 1998, when a $220,000 machine was built that could brute-force a DES key in a few days
The org chart was absolutely relevant. It was evidence that the company was structured in an incredible way that's just waiting for disasters to enfold.
Stress kills people
Flying Green with Hybrid-Electric Planes
They're not saying they won't make money, they're saying they "may not be able to" make money.
> Who would buy stock in something that will not return a positive?

cough uber... cough
On the surface, this sounds like a great idea (I certainly would pay for such a service)...But wouldn't that create an incentive for the data brokers to double-dip, and sell YOUR data to existing ad/marketing/scammer customers, PLUS sell YOU your OWN data?

(I should caveat, I'm having a "pessimist day" today, so even sunshine and rainbows aren't as pretty today as they normally are.)
How many cameras do you pass each day that have a glowing/flashing indicator on them? None of the commercial cameras in my workplace or condo building have lights.

This change is extremely frustrating to me. I actually got valuable footage from my Dropcam Pro (now Nest) that I would not have recorded otherwise when someone was admitted to my apartment unsupervised in order to perform a task.

The Dropcam was on a shelf with a lot of other knickknacks and had a great view of my desk, living room and kitchen. The guy actually picked up the camera and called his accomplice over to look. Got a great image of both of them.

The light was off and they decided it was broken or not plugged in and put it back - where I then had a clear view of them collecting my personal documents, mail and financial records so they could take photographs for later use.

After searching, they found where I stored checks and credit cards that weren’t in use. They took random checks out of the checkbook and photographed the front and back of the card.

They then completed the work they’d been sent to do.

I noticed something was amiss when I came home, but nothing was obviously missing. Had I not had the video, the two would never have been arrested and convicted. Those responsible for admitting the duo would also likely have avoided their liability, having clear video of the incident allowed me to quickly resolve that claim (and effectively address the more than $200k in false charges, plus tax fraud, plus identity theft that resulted).