skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So says a friend of mine who has written two books on Six Sigma and for a few years was consulting full time in QC. He told me: "At its core, Six Sigma is a set of very old, well established tools encased in a slick marketing shell. There is nothing revolutionary. Inevitably, Six Sigma fades away and something new will take its place, using the same old tools."
Did that company happen to have a logo that looked like the Batman Signal?
Something that will happen progressively is not the definition of an emergency.
I know a few startups that may be interested and that I'd like to show this to, but I'm not sure if they qualify as "tackling climate". I would describe their "category" as energy-transition related, but definitely driven by the consequences of climate change.

For example, one startup is focused at the intersection of energy suppliers and consumers, trying to create win-win situations that match supply (complex due to wind/solar/etc variations) and demand. This is intentionally vague, sorry.

Could someone at YC give a slightly longer explanation of the startups they encourage to apply for this coaching session?
A good wasm debugger would let you see the source code too, just like how regular native debuggers show you the source code instead of x86 assembly.
> . If you can process content much faster than it was meant to be played, it doesn't mean you're learning much faster than you could, it means the novel information density is low.

I 'read' your comment using TTS at 3x. What does that say about the information density of your comment?

(Little to nothing. TTS at that speed is still marginally slower that I normally read with my eyes. Human speech is generally much slower than is necessary to be understood.)
It seems to me that if you're an IC in a large team, you are a fairly replaceable cog.

Of course a large percentage of the cogs of any machine fly off at the same time, you're in trouble. But I don't think one IC matters much in any large organisation.
Using fines that large is how you get them to not buy insurance, because it would cause the insurance to be prohibitively expensive, assuming you could even find someone to sell you a policy that large.

It also doesn't make any sense to base fines on market cap because the two things have nothing to do with one another. All that would really do is cause corporations to restructure their operations to separate the entity that does all the dirty work from the one that owns all the assets, so that the entity that exists in your jurisdiction and is susceptible to being fined is renting/leasing everything and has only a nominal market cap, whereas the one with all the assets is a totally independent company that isn't even in your jurisdiction and never does anything "wrong" because all it ever does is lease and license things to a different entity.

It also seems kind of obvious that even if you could try to impose a fine equal to 20-30% of a company's global market cap, all that would do is cause the local entity declare bankruptcy, dissolve and abandon your jurisdiction without actually paying the fine, because that large of a fine would exceed the long-term value of operating there. Especially when there isn't any guarantee it won't happen again if they stay. For that matter it would tend to make companies not want to operate there to begin with, because it's possible to do your best and still fail, and that kind of uncertainty is precisely how you drive businesses away.

But most importantly, it still generally isn't the large tech companies who are the ones with poor security. It's the other industries, especially finance and government, that are collecting just as much data but then doing a much worse job of securing it. What does a fine mean to the DMV or OPM?
> One thing I'd also like to develop / wish was integrated into audible and the like is silence trimming.

I don't really use audible, but if you looking for good audio player on Android here is one that can do this:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.ph1b.audiob...

https://github.com/PaulWoitaschek/Voice
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I was mistakenly thinking of the incompleteness theorems when I wrote this, but I guess it kind of works for this one too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_...
Menace: a Machine-Educable Noughts And Crosses Engine
Ok we've consed YC on there.
Depending on the severity of the breach, yes it's generally considered best practice to notify the service first and give them time to deal with it. Depending on how bad it is, the person reporting it may be compensated for finding it. The company would generally fix the issue, and then the person who found it can make it public (based on their agreement with the company sometimes). The time period is often 90 days, but it could be worked out independently per case.

As with anything like this, consult a lawyer who knows this area of the law of you find yourself in this situation.
Where might one acquire these black belts? (I've got bills to pay)
Would this include weakening the effect of lobbying for privacy protection or just things you happen to disagree with?
That's assuming, of course, that the runtimes for those languages are correct: as numerous web browser exploits have taught us, this isn't always the case ;)
It always annoyed me in organic chemistry lab how we would all follow the "exact same instructions" and end up with totally different results and yields. I always hoped a more accurate, programmatic way of performing chemistry would come along. As a chemical engineer who switched into data science, I would love to perform chemistry experiments just by feeding a computer program into a specialized robot and waiting for the output.
So ask the attacker to please pause 5+ min while you wait for the police? No, you want individuals to own effective weapons. Right?

It seems like you are pro-gun ownership, I'm not sure what your point is.

If you survey history, bad things are often preceeded by a segment of the population being disarmed.
I would be interested if Rapid Serial Visual Presentation breaks this rule for any language. My guess is that it wouldn't, but I would be fascinated to find out. I would guess that languages with more general density of information per word would force the reader to slow their words per minute rate. Anecdotally, I can read with RSVP at around 620 words per minute in English and retain general comprehension. Sadly, I don't know another language well enough to compare that information with anything.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_serial_visual_presenta...
Made even more difficult by the fact that the current generation did not "do the deed" so to speak. In your example of Palestinians or Native Americans - the "occupiers" were born here, this is their home now, the original conquering generation is very much gone, what solution can there be?
This looks interesting, but it's not clear to me if this supports TLS traffic to the daemon-set nodes running on each individual node. A key thing that I am looking at meshes for are last mile TLS encryption, with a appropriate sidecar.
...will the world be willing to do the bail out next time?

Are the relevant decision-makers still industry insiders and others who owe their wealth and position to the industry?
I can tell from experience that when I lay down in my bed with my eyes closed I could comprehend speech at much higher speed than I would while walking on the street. No surprise blind people can handle it better even though I have no clue how exactly it work in relations to the brain.

I was always curios to make actual research / paper on this kind of thing, but as non-scientist I simply have no time to do so. So I happy someone actually doing it.
In some cases there are very major differences. Dragon Book v2 has entire new chapters on topics that weren't being widely applied when v1 was written. v18-v19 probably isn't a big jump, but that doesn't make all version changes worthless.
> no trial and error should be required; it should be possible to deduce the single unique solution from the clues given

Any sufficiently advanced solving heuristic is indistinguishable from trial and error.
Is this true? Got a link for reference?
Maybe consider an MBA in industrial design or manufacturing. Depends on if you want to run/scale a tech business or fiddle with laser sinters.
No, but I can confirm that in FF69 it's finally blocking those banal CNN videos that seem to accompany every. single. article.
I wish they did this test with people who played the Quake series (Quake / Quake II / Quake 3 / Quake Live). They were arguably one of the most popular non-realism based FPS games of their time (they spanned ~25 years).

The big difference between Portal is, Quake is a multiplayer game where you're playing against a human in real time and there's no backup plan of being able to Google an answer if you get stuck. You either practice and get better or get utterly destroyed. It's really a good case for overcoming challenges and persistence.

There's 1v1 matches where you need to memorize maps to such a degree that you can almost navigate them blind folded. You're also dealing with timing multiple items down to the second, predicting where a human opponent will go, mastering each weapon in every scenario to maximize damage output while minimizing damage input and also generally having a high level overview of how the match is going to figure out when it's worth taking risks or play it safe.

That's just the mental side of it too. Then there's needing very good reaction times and dexterity to aim quickly and precisely and each weapon has its own style of aiming (flick shots, precise tracking, projectile prediction, instant hit scan weapons, etc.).

And then there's other variants of the game like 4v4 TDM or capture the flag that share similar challenges as above but now it's amplified because you're playing with a lot of people and you need to make very interesting decisions with powerups.

All of this happens within seconds and becomes second nature once you've played long enough. It's actually almost unbelievable that a human brain can react so quickly and become so well adjusted to navigating a high speed virtual world under pressure. A lot of these Quake games were played at live events with hundreds of thousands of dollars on the line before e-sports became as huge as it is today.
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Yeah, a similar case to the one in the article is the author "James S. A. Corey" of The Expanse fame. The pen name covers a pair of direct writers working together, and the additional indirect writing efforts over a few years of tables full of RPG adventurers.

(Re: your project. I've long toyed with tools in that way, but never quite finished one. Have you taken a look at Storium? That's currently the most interesting, currently released and used tool of such a type as I'm aware of. I keep meaning to actually find a game in it.)
I really want it to be "samurai", but it will probably be something like "habits of highly effective people".
Hello,

I'd be interested in applying and learning more about your company. Do you have a contact email to discuss more on the nature of this opening?
It's almost as if grsecurity is implying this was not an innocent mistake on Greg KH's part and I may not be the only person that noticed this today. https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/warning-implicit-backdoor
FYI if anybody is interested in doing this without an app, check out ffmpeg's silenceremove filter.
That's the QtQuick approach.
Valve have stated over and over that teleport locomotion is what they believe is the correct one. Portal's mechanic is about movement as much as portals - it simply wouldn't work in this environment.

The Portal/Half-Life universe (they're the same) itself? Absolutely.
A Breakthrough for A.I. Technology: Passing an 8th-Grade Science Test
Pension fund managers.
The sharing of data is what makes RTB valuable and most likely viable.

Because what Google are doing is not dissimilar to how any other RTB participant is acting, saying this is a Google workaround seems disingenuous.

Unfortunately I fear this will only embolden Google to further monopolize digital advertising.
Why is understanding natural language important for resolving IT support tickets
Well you could say it never works optimally, but it depends on what you are optimizing for. A lot of people think that because business need to make money that they should optimize for making the most amount of money and therefore try to maximize productivity. They look at organizations and what they see is very much at odds with that.

In reality they don't try to maximize employee productivity, they try to maximize employee fungibility.

If all the company is trying to do is survive then I'd say it definitely works.
Full version is also available for download if you're outside of LA.
Wake up! Jobs are disappearing as automation increases. The ultimate result is no jobs and lots of goods. If we don't do something, the transition will be a mess - less and less spendable money to buy more and more available goods.
when you buy a product or service, do you get to tell the company how they can spend the money?
+1 for Underground Resistance. I haven't lived in Detroit for 20 years but damn it's good to see UR on HN.
Yep! good stuff right there!
Begining with Sse Coding
We fixed the formatting of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20877657 and detached this comment.
That sounds very secure indeed. Nobody would ever guess that I'd recently called my folks! /s
I think it depends on the speaker. I watch most videos at 1.5x speed, and some slow speakers with gaps at 2x.
My wife suffers from epilepsy. One of its characteristics is the unpredictability of when the seizures would occur. If this technology can be proven to predict outburst in Autistic folks, perhaps it can be "taught" to forewarn when an epileptic seizure is about to occur as well. In both cases, it would significant improve the quality of life.
Worth noting, obtaining DRM-Free Audiobooks is significantly easier.

• downpour.com

• libro.fm

• audiobooksnow.com

Selection isn't as good as Audible, but it's more than decent between all three stores, with titles from many different publishers. I posted about this in a bit more detail a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20450647
> What is it about software development that keeps on attracting these "methodologies"?

Here is one data point for you from personal experience. A few months after got started at a US company operating in about 30 countries (primary business is manufacturing in the Casino and gaming industry) the word came from the CIO that I implement Six Sigma as part of the enterprise architecture activity that I headed. I countered that neither software engineers nor the IT architects and admins worked in the Six Sigma way and wondered at the meeting where this whole idea came from. I was told this was what the Chief Operating Officer and/or VP of Finance wanted to implement "across the company". Such things happen in this world we live in.
Here's a scary thought for you. It's about K-12 but the numbers definitely add up. Texas has a poorly overseen state board that produces a list of approved textbooks from which public districts may choose. It's an elected board of only 15 or so members, and they are elected in the smaller, less voted elections.

https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/19095
Is the background image on the TechCrunch article an UI for monogodb? Or is it just a FB GraphQL query browser UI?
> Do you remember trying to debug Javascript before the creation of the in-browser debugger?

Yes, I used visual studio. You could debug the server in the same session. It was pretty sweet.
Yes, thank you. I logged in just so that I could upvote this. Why isn't this more accepted of an answer? Why is spam everyone's goto?
i think one of these little buggers, would put a stop to that malarchy in a hurry!

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/06/20/south.africa.fema...
Because one side attempts to ease societal bias by including folks often overlooked. The other attempts to perpetuate this system, keeping an underclass.

The old tired argument that "It's just another sort of bias!" is bankrupt. Its a sort of bias that seeks to repair real problems, not keep them.
It's because software development is always harder than you think it's going to be, takes longer than you think it's going to take, and results in more bugs than you think it should. So the temptation to seek simplistic magic bullets that "fix" software development is overwhelming.

A better idea would be to reexamine why we "think" software should be so much easier than it really is. Perhaps it's because when we watch it being done, it looks like typing.
You noticed my point was not about any being better than the other. Growing veggies is a lot more work than buying them too. Again, Freedom.
Link unrelated to post title.
A machine can print the same thing over and over, and yet never repeat its own internal state. For example, "let x=0; while(true) { print("0"); x=x+1;}"
Well, for 2 page views (same session), I have 2 different ‘google_push’ (Chrome with default parameters, no extensions).
> I bet that hurts Google 10 times more.

Nah. Too big to bother.
Obviously a good thinker checks all possibilities, being paranoid in scientific sense.
You actively want them to kill the headphone jack?!
Oh good lord. Reading that made me happy that (1) I am no longer in a large organisation, and (2) I program in Go. Good luck guys, you'll need it. You've got interesting problems.
$12k a year is a disincentive to work? Oh, please, that doesn't even cover half one's rent in a major city.
They issued a weak guidance for next quarter. Expected loss is $0.07, their guidance is $0.08-$0.09.
It all depends on what you value and how independent and self reliant you would like to be.
You, your family, and your friends via their 401k mutual and index funds.
Yes, it was announced: https://online.visualstudio.com/
Oh, thanks. I was sad to see it missing.
That’s incorrect. The GDPR applies to every company (it has to, as otherwise, shady companies would create small sister companies for doing the work they aren’t allowed to do because they’re too big). https://gdpr.eu/faq/:

”Who must comply with the GDPR?

Any organization that processes the personal data of people in the EU must comply with the GDPR. “Processing” is a broad term that covers just about anything you can do with data: collection, storage, transmission, analysis, etc. “Personal data” is any information that relates to a person, such as names, email addresses, IP addresses, eye color, political affiliation, and so on. Even if an organization is not connected to the EU itself, if it processes the personal data of people in the EU (via tracking on its website, for instance), it must comply. The GDPR is also not limited to for-profit companies.”
> There is unfortunately no way to prevent that part.

“there is no way for google to operate under the GDPR and provide targeted advertising” ?

i’m inclined to agree :/
Ask HN: Intention setting before starting new job
Hi everyone,

I am starting a new job soon (software engineer, distributed systems/ML infra). I wanted to try out setting clear intentions for myself, and track those at a very broad level during my tenure. I have never done it before, but read a few articles which recommended doing this. At a high level, I wanted to work on innovation, and depth of knowledge (about my area of work, and the field in general).

I was curious if any of you have tried this before, either in work, or in general. Are there any small everyday habits that you would recommend to help with this (e.g like writing frequent essays)?

Thanks a lot, and excited to read your responses!
Maybe children's TV doesn't even need to be all that good. https://www.theawl.com/2012/03/farting-puppets-the-terrific-...
In a market where competent candidates start at 300K+ you can't hire a good team unless you a) have resource b)are actually willing to pay for talent. Chase actually has a very competent team. I have doubts there are many (any?) EU banks who's team is on par with Chase.
Thanks for the kind words.

I'm sure 100% of what you say is true, but there is no real reason for any of it to be true. Mainframes have many, many advantages over bullshit like the EC2. The sheer amount of containerized gorp, deployment scaffolding, management infrastructure and nonsense that goes along with it could be abstracted into something like zOS and into a Z-machine. Frankly it should be abstracted into something less ad hoc; EC2 ecosystem is total garbage from any sort of design point of view, and the fact that the world is now victim of their internal operations random walk is a tragedy. Originally it was supposed to be simple: now you need to hire a similar headcount to what you'd need for ops at a data center; arguably a much larger headcount than you'd need with a mainframe. To say nothing of the operational complexity of deploying scalable solutions on EC2 vs Mainframe.

I am not advocating people actually jump in the dying mainframe business; just that it arguably makes more sense than the EC2 from an engineering perspective. If IBM weren't run by risk-avoiding mental midgets, they'd find a way to beat Amazon at this, and the world might actually be better for it.
Post-communist reparations is one big mess in central Europe. I think the case of Lichtenstein is one of the most stark:

> Through the prince of Liechtenstein and his family, this country on the Alpine Rhine was still closely linked to the distant Czech lands in the first half of the 20th century, and after 1918 the prince and other family members had an influential role in Czechoslovakia as late-Medieval propertied aristocrats. There were two phases which led to the complete loss of this property – firstly, they lost more than half from 1920 to 1938 as a result of Czechoslovak land reform (with financial compensation), and they lost the rest after 1945 through confiscation. The fate of the Czech lands, Czechoslovakia and its population in the first half of the 20th century had repercussions for the Principality of Liechtenstein and the Liechtenstein princely family. The prince was both the head of state and the head of the family. He gradually lost 90% of his assets as a result of land reform and confiscation in Czechoslovakia. From the 1920s to the 1960s the prince and his family were plagued by financial difficulties.

It is easy to brush these away as long past history, but for example these properties were confiscated from the hands of the current princes father. That I'd think as pretty close connection still.
Well... the pay gap between men and women is a well documented structural problem.

You see it both relatively (equal competence, seniority and position) and absolutely across the whole work force (women tend to have an harder time getting top positions).

The statistics may vary from country to country, but just as an example here in France, the overall gap is at ~25% while the gap even when considering equal positions and responsibilities is at ~12%.