skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show HN: A simple assistant for software tool management
Me and my co-founder have built a unifying assistant https://kloudi.tech/ for software bug monitoring and management tools(like sentry,datadog,Jira). We have gotten elementary feedback from within our network and would love to know if it helps you save time or eases your monitoring tasks. Also comments on ease of usability are welcome. We have designed it with the aim of helping developers save 30-60 mins of debugging time per bug.
Best of luck, Benjie. Yes, let's connect at the next one for sure!
That sounds almost identical to my (English) experience except I did it 25 years ago. In fact that's pretty much what happened when my baby brother was born 35 years ago.
>planting a mass backdoor is probably not worth the risk of it being detected.

everyone is ignoring what was pointed out by "kennywinker"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20884384

the fact that both for android and for iphone seperately, there is a correlation with sound / silence and data usage, even if in the opposite sense. why did this not at least prompt the investigator to dig deeper?
The most gender-switched names in the US
It's actually a terrible system though. It relies on the original issuer of the number maintaining essentially a "proxy" to your new provider. So if I transferred from o2 -> EE, and o2 had network issues, it's possible (and has happened to me personally) that I am affected even though I have left o2. I think also calls are actually physically routed through the original network. Lots of weird things can happen like texts from certain networks never arriving.

I had to get a new number when I discovered my NZ family could receive my texts but their replies never arrived at my end.

For more info, see https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/20/uk_number_porting_c...
It appears the automation/AI revolution that was going to render millions jobless was smoke and mirrors after all.
It seems like a good direction to heading. Not sure why it is considered as a hidden agenda.
I think that's the point you're missing, feeling bad and how much, then feeling better is fixing a real measurable symptom.
This is really awesome!

I can see a really huge impact for this in allowing those who are less abled to create art. It's hard to express yourself when you physically can't but technology like this can make it possible to create art in many different forms!
No, it’s not ridiculous. It’s complex, time consuming, and expensive to retrofit fully automated systems on to existing lines. Like any other project, the costs (disruption, financial) must be balanced with the gains (capacity, safety). Automated systems will continue to be rolled out worldwide at a reasonable pace.
Is this position for both a Junior and Senior Developer?
Making tunnels that are large enough and safe enough to transport people is a much bigger and more expensive endeavor than making ~1m diameter tubes for transporting goods.
>it's an important point to make, that clearly there is an "organic" component and a "psychic" component to every ailment (or human experience for that matter). as anyone who has recovered from a primarily psychosomatic chronic illness can attest, you're eventually faced again with the contradiction between organic and psychic when you get your first head cold or whatever. this is a question of internal vs. external, dialectical vs. mechanical.

What a load of unsubstantiated claims. I'm pretty sure things like cancer don't have a psychic component to them (unless you define the psychic component as being depressed because you are about to die).

The rest of your post is not even wrong.
How to better remember the books you read
LIGO is bunk. Zero optical counterparts since April. It's all noise. 170817 is no proof, LIGO was hours late. You guys are real crackpots and fringe cargo-cult fakers.
Should you buy your stock options when you quit?
The most important part for me was chapter 1: "the best optimizer is between your ears". Before you go unrolling loops and doing bit shifts to shave time at the micro scale, see if there's a different way to do what you want at the macro scale. Different algorithm, data structure, etc.
Correct. The entry card you fill out on the plane literally has "DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKERS UNDER SINGAPORE LAW" in red letters on the back. Easily verified by a web search.[1] Flying in with a pound of Marijuana to any country where it isn't legal is an incredibly bad idea, in parts of the world it may be suicidal.

[1]: https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fassets3.thr...
If your photos live on the service's servers, they are no longer yours. That's intrinsic to the nature of software as a service.

I realize that makes me sound crazy, but after years of reflecting on software, privacy, data ownership, and decentralization, I have not been able to avoid the conclusion that Stallman was basically right.

If your data lives in a cluster with a bunch of other people's, it's a tempting target, both to legitimate businesses and to outright theft. It's only a matter of time before someone gets it, as the constant parade of breaches and data sharing scandals show, and once it's out there you can't undo it.

I have speculated that open source services that are easily self-hosted (start the installer, enter a domain name, and pick a cloud provider) might be a passable answer to the desire to have both accessibility, shareability, and independence.

Funding their development is trickier, obviously.
I've been looking for something like this for a while! It's awesome to be able to search videos like this.

Any hope for a Chrome extension?
Less jobs will be available as fewer workers are required if one human can do multiple tasks remotely.
So I will be fined if I follow the speed limit, which is way slower than any other traffic?
JanusGraph Online Meetup with Enharmic, Expero, and Target
> Red flag laws have been associated with huge reductions in gun-related suicides.

I upvoted your comment, because you implicitly raise a very popular, and I believe very dangerous point: That results justify taking away rights. Dangerous, because the 2nd amendment is not the only one that can be sacrificed for safety.
Microsoft's latest revisions of the WinPhone were software engineering wise the best mobile phone OS on the planet. As you say, it was quick, silky smooth and yet ran on low end hardware with excellent battery life. I gather they achieved that buy tightly locking down how software developers could do things. Perhaps is why their app store was so thin which was major factor in their downfall, but still it was a remarkable effort. I take my hat off to that team.

It as even more remarkable because if you went back a few short years WinPhone was the worst phone OS on the planet. It crashed regularly, a misbehaving app could drain it's batter in no time, and the UI was horrible.

So much for "if you build a better mouse trap them will come" I guess, especially if your reputation is for making crap mousetraps.
Can you find a single case of hammer suicide? It’s a very poor choice.

Anyway, the real issue is you seem to be trolling rather than bringing anything meaningful to the discussion. What’s your actual point within the context of watch lists?
> the AR-15 which kills less than bare hands

Right but the AR-15 kills more people each year than the bare hands of people named Robert.
This is great, but what would be even more awesome would be to also go the other way!
I'm quite annoyed by the superficial critics that are currently overflowing the comments. Of course this is an ambitious project that is driven by (of course slow paced) academic research. This is very serious and is of course actively not giving a fuck about current mainstream trends in software engineering.

It is technically ambitious: no-bullshit distributed systems are hard with the current Xcoin trends. GNUnet strives to imagine and implement a networking stack that is mostly friend-to-friend, eg a network where the topology is dictated by the real life trust relationships (just as most old low-level protocol did, think bgp). It wants to support delay-tolerant and low bandwidth networks that exist outside of our privileged western world, have privacy protections on the routing level, etc etc.

It is politically ambitious since much of it is deeply anti-commercial, striving for local self-management (and that on several stacked levels). In particular it strives to have an architecture that defuses the network effect that comes with walled gardens. Applications built on top will probably do the exact opposite of the neuropsychology-based methods of drawing attention that is being used in almos every single mainstream private and free software web application. Imho there is limited value in reimplementing all these mechanisms like suggestions, notifications, infinite stream based information architecture (think mastodon) that have negative aspects on the content (superficial and intellectually aggressive content) and negative aspects as a tool (no decent archiving or information retrieval).

So yeah, this is very much in progress, but GNUnet as a whole is currently federating a lot of academic (and non-academic but still very much based on experimental science methods) work, it's already a gold mine of papers, thesis, experimental protocols, foundations for radically different applications, etc. Please take the time to go deeper than just the front page, it is really worth the time (this is a website, not a marketing page, you have to actually explore it to understand what it's about).
Yes and No.

1. If it was really $400, the problem is most ( pretty much all apart from Apple ) gives plenty of Retail margin and incentive to carriers. That means on average it is highly likely not even getting $250 out of it.

It is like those Flagship Samsung and Huawei phone, their pricing strategy is always $100 lower than comparative official iPhone price, except they are often retailing for 20% lower. Compared to Apple, you could hardly find any decent discount on iPhone, and iPhone has much lower margin for Carrier and Retail, from low end of 10s to even single digit percentage.

2. Only if it is sold for 100 millions unit +. And Google didn't even manage 10. You need Scale for it to work. That is why iPhone is unprecedented, when was the last time you saw a product in its segment taking 20% of shipment and 80-90% of industry profits?

The answer often to all these question is simple, paid up, and find enough people to paid up, in business terms this means market fit. Unfortunately apart from small bunch of people on HN, no one is willing to paid extra $50 - $100 more just for Software update, they expect it to be free, or they would rather not update at all.
Cloudflare somehow got better lately, I'm curious to know how :) Google search works fine and I'm not using other Google services. I see surprisingly few captchas. Yeah, I'm on VPN too, maybe they treat it differently.
"Motor" is commonly used for rockets too, eg:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_rocket_motor_classificat...
It's a lot easier to dehumanize a person when you are sitting behind the screen of Twitter / Instagram / UAV (unmanned air vehicle), pushing buttons...

When you rob someone of their humanity, then you too lose your humanity, making us all robots that can be disposed of anytime...
Profits are certainly higher with Friends and City than with Star Wars. Lego saves a lot on licensing there. And the Star Wars sets are a bit more pricey, but per piece the difference isn't that big.
Thanks for the pickup. I've corrected the URL.
I'd add one small thing (from the book): There Ain't No Such Thing as The Fastest Code

(A good sum up https://blog.codinghorror.com/there-aint-no-such-thing-as-th... )

There are multiple ways of optimizing a code with different caveats and advantages
We would still have to solve the politics of applying those technological advances uniformly rather than the benefit of a relatively small percentage of the species.

> The crazy thing is, we are extremely close to becoming those godlike aliens.

Yes, I also actually worry about the possibility that the first alien civilization we meet may be less advanced than us, and the greedy fucks among us will exploit them the same way they do their fellow humans.
Not that I think it'd necessarily be a great idea, but you could probably get a decent bounded latency by using dedicated / leased lines, which is e.g. good enough for remote robot-assisted surgery in some places.
My first corneal transplant, in 1993, involved literally waiting for someone appropriate to die, and going into a major operation with a few days' notice. By 1998, when I had my other cornea transplanted, NZ had a well-established cornea bank, a steady supply of donor corneas stored (short term) and ready for whoever needed one next, and so I was able to choose the time in advance.

Any improvements to this process and these kinds of procedure will be very beneficial.

Corneas are comparatively easy to transplant, as they have no blood supply (oxygenated through tears), so there are few rejection problems and no immunosuppression drugs needed long term. That means this kind of stem cell approach is probably mostly useful when there are supply issues, as the article implies, rather than for compatibility reasons.
Its not very different here :/. We have to register kids to school as soon as they are born, else its extremely hard to get one. (There are new laws combating those, but i don't know how effective they are).

Where I live, there has been a massive boost in population because of rapid expansion of industries here. Unfortunately, the other services are unable to keep up.
The fines are probably to discourage this behaviour and improve traffic flow slightly. But I'd be surprised if the law uses the term "dangerously slow", or anything similar.
But situations are never "the same". The input (camera images, sensor data) will always be (slightly) different and – in this example – might just lift the confidence of "this is a truck standing on the road" over the threshold.
Awesome job, Helen. :)
It seems unlikely that they are making more profit per licensed set because they are likely having to pay a cut to a third party (for example, Disney gets a cut of each Star Wars set sold).

So if their license free sets sell better, then it would stand to reason they make more profit off of these.
I don't think realtime control will be much of a thing; keep in mind that companies don't actually want to pay people, that's why they're investing so heavily in automation and robots. At best it's going to be humans that will direct, tell a vehicle how to handle a situation it doesn't know yet. But all of the basics - driving, steering, avoiding obstacles - should and will be automated.
Other than being told its a signal issue, how do you determine that? IoT crap rarely, if ever, actually communicates with the user about error conditions. You usually find out shit 'no workey' after the fact.

There's a lot of articles and twitter feeds. Go look up the "Internet of Shit". There's a reason why it's called that.

And Zipcars are no exception, evidently.
No, it should lead to someone fixing the problem. The customer centric thinking in this thread is amazing.
As far as I know standard car batteries are fine with this kind of trickle discharge. Where they fall short compared to deep cycle batteries is providing a more substantial current (think tens of amps) over a prolonged period of time.
Better at what?
Only because the autonomous system restricts itself to drive in safer than average conditions. Stopping for a stationary object is something humans do dozens of times per journey in city traffic.
Less captchas.
I tend to listen to audio books at 2.5-2.8 times speed and all media I consum is at 2x speed.

Tip there are 10s of chrome extentios that allow you to change all html videos to 2x speed or even higher (including most ads on sites like YouTube and Hulu)
It's an in-between step. Already they're reducing costs by making work simpler, reducing the workforce, etc. One person can operate a dozen delivery robots, vs a dozen delivery people doing the same work. It's the common trend in automation and industrialization.
Why don't you just say his name? It's McRaven.
Seeing a Bank run with lines of citizens queuing at banks does tend to concentrate politicians minds.
you have been ABLE to do that for as long as I can remember (I've kept the same number since 2005 now on all the major networks. I only didn't keep my number prior to that because it was a work provided contract) but depending on which you were dealing with would put up a number of different obstacles when you contact them to make the process as painful as possible (to keep you as a customer... THREE I'm looking at you!)
so the new automated SMS process introduced in July is a welcome addition
fair enough, I still think it is good to deny a person a gun, especially when theres red flags going off, but I agree that there should be an appeals process. I guess the reason there isn't (if there isn't, what do I know) is because authorities do not want suspicious people to find out why they are suspicious... but that should mean either nobody gets the right to own a gun, or everyone, ... unless authorities do disclose why some person should be denied a gun...
Could it also help with bruxism?

EDIT: Unrelated but, wow, there's even a book about weighted blankets: https://www.amazon.com/Weighted-Blanket-Guide-Everything-Con...
Quatico.com |Lead (React+Java), Fullstack, Backend (Java), Frontend (React), DevOps | Zurich, Switzerland | SALARY: 90k-130k CHF | ONSITE | Swiss or EU member-states passport-holders ONLY
We currently urgently look are a team lead.

We have a true "engineering over management" culture where you find engineers both with formal computer science background and also ones, who are self-taught. Our CTO worked with Erich Gamma, got offers from Apple, Google and similar firms.

We currently building tailored web apps with heavy number crunching on the server - e.g., we built the software analyzing all the weather data in Switzerland. We do custom development with a heavy engineering part and we regularly impress our clients with software that rarely needs maintenance.

Our interview process:

1) Phone screen with our CTO

2) Two sessions of remote pair-programming with our engineers (no algorithmic questions but reasonable pair-programming tasks).

3) Onsite half a day with us.

Tell us if you want to hear more and say hi:

iwan.gulenko@quatico.com
But to an AI, a certain situation has millions of data points, it's very rare for a certain situation to reoccur. Similar types and classes of situations? You betcha. But they'd be handled based on other data points as well.
Fair enough, the ones I was involved with implementing/complying with (FIPS 140-2) ruled out things like DH(E) key exchange.

We had to comply with that standard to sell to the federal government at the time.

Things may well have changed.
"numbers scraped" from Facebook's database. Of course this is about Facebook's database
I think there's only a tiny number of bitcoin payments on any given day.
Enabling developers and organizations to use differential privacy
Being descriptive about behavior is not a personal attack even if it puts someone in a negative light. “You’re a mass murder” can be a purely descriptive statement even if it says bad things about the individual.
So simple. Just stop worrying! Incredible.
LEGO sells clothes with a 3D 2x2 brick, isometric projection, looking at the corner, red, with the lego text on it.

Which looks – except for colour and number of studs — exactly like the Held der Steine logo.

Held der Steine then tried to trademark it not just as logo for youtube, but also with the explicit purpose to sell merchandise, such as clothes, with it.

At this point, the trademarks conflict. The law, being horribly written, requires one of the trademark holders to either license from the other, or give up the claim.

As Lego wasn’t gonna give up their claim, and Held der Steine wasn’t gonna license their logo, there weren’t exactly few options left.

It’s a similar situation as with Apple vs. Apfelkind a few years back. A german store which used a silhouette of an apple as logo, which was fine. Until they tried to trademark it, not just for their store or for clothes as merchandise, but also for electronic products.
I think a lot of new ideas also get neutralized by modifying them in a way that the power position of the people on the top doesn’t get threatened. I have seen that now several times. Something like agile gets introduced. Management embraces it but after a while when management would need to change, the enthusiasm stops and no further changes happen.

It seems that management only responds to top-down change but not bottom-up.
Loch Ness Monster may be a giant eel, say scientists
E-waste dump in Ghana can be harnessed for good
My GF has had a 10kg chain blanket for ages to help with sleeping (she has ADHD). Not so suprised by this headline :D
The team at Doist (creators of Todoist, Twist) just released long-form guides on remote work (e.g. asynchronous communication, taxes, product design, management, hiring, project management, etc.)

https://twist.com/remote-work-guides/
The frequentist approach states (in simple terms), the observations I have made will help me predict future outcomes, because they are a good measure of the inherent probabilities inherent in what I'm observing.

The bayesian approach says the data is fixed, and the probabilities might change.

If I look at the stats for the NE Patriots, for example (http://www.nfl.com/teams/newenglandpatriots/statistics?team=...) I see that their first down conversion rate is 30/56 so 53%.

Imagine I am watching a game and I am betting in play. I am offered odds of 1.9 (decimal odds) that they will convert the third down they are about to try and convert into a first down.

The frequentist approach says given the implied odds of past behaviour is 1.88 (we can convert percentages into decimal odds by dividing 100 by the percentage, so 100/53 = 1.88), and I am being offered 1.9, I should bet! Kelly says I should bet 0.78% of my bankroll, as I have an edge here.

Now, does that make sense to you? 30/56 is what happened in the past, and we're using that as an indicator as to what to do next. Would you take that bet?

The problem with this approach, I think, is that frequentist approaches whilst practical assume there is an underlying probability we can uncover by measuring it.

The Bayesian approach (in simple terms), says we can't be that precise, and the probabilities change over time based on the context. This makes more intuitive sense: the probabilities in poker are fixed and calculable, it seems to me they are much less so in NFL games.

In the Bayesian approach, we broadly need to think of a probability distribution and understand our confidence interval, and we use priors and observations to help us calculate both.

Doing some maths we might say the chance of the Patriots getting the third down conversion is with 95% confidence the chance of between 51.5% and 54.5%.

Well, now the 1.9 on offer isn't quite so sweet - it's within the confidence interval, albeit off to the edge.

Getting to that distribution and narrowing your confidence interval (it would be great if we could say it was 52.8% to 52.9%, for example), and then figuring out how to use Kelly accordingly, is relatively state of the art.

Doing this in the NFL might be tricky because the data sizes are relatively small - the confidence intervals might be too broad. Also, the frequentist approach is provenly useful in some situations: Bill Benter is richer than either of us, and I don't believe he ever used bayesian statistics.

People often think of gamblers as slightly grimy/shady characters with a gold chain and a wad of bills in their hand. That might happen, but all the ones I speak to spend their weekends reading PhD theses from maths and finance departments where people have been trying to figure out this stuff. I hope this answer gives you a flavour.