skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I see folks tweeting out jobs or promoting them a great deal I often think:

"That is pretty visible, a lot more qualified people than me are going to apply."

Granted I'm a bit of an noob due to a career change so that probabbly applies to me anyway, but I wonder if other folks respond the same way to seeing heavily promoted jobs?
The author's last key implication,

> Finally, and perhaps most ominously, the digital revolution has the potential for a pernicious effect on the very legitimacy and thus stability of our governmental and societal structures.

But they then proceed to say things like

> Will Western liberal democracies, already straining under the combined demands of decaying civil infrastructure, aging populations, upgrading militaries and so on, be able to afford these investments? Given that there is no specific forcing event to require greater resources, but rather a trend, history suggests that we will appreciate the seriousness of the underinvestment only when a crisis has occurred.

Meaning that currently, our system of government is simply not built to deal with modern technology. Yet they state that the fundamental threat of forcing change within societal and governmental structure is 'ominous', while at the same time implying that it is absolutely necessary.

Discarding stability and tradition for the sake of progress is inevitable, and will happen either deliberately, through policy (this rarely happens), or by revolution.
EU will learn the hard way that this kind of protectionism is creating far bigger problems than it tries to solve. Soon all the big tech companies (read lots of jobs) will leave for greener pastures e.g. UK, South Africa, SE-Asia, AU.
I've been talking about the prophecies of William Gibson for some time. He seems to have nailed the 21st century more than any other sci-fi writer.
While I agree in general, in specific, a significant proportion of Uber drivers I've used in Canada were doing it not even for supplementary profit, but for Fun. I've been picked up in $80k vehicles by guys who did it a few hours a week to see the town, meet people, kill time in productive ways.

Of course, I've also seen people who were current or ex taxi drivers, working fulltime on several services.
No I am referring to Cybaero.
No, we tried isolationism before WW2, different from GP is asking for.
/r/SubSimulatorGPT2 – posts and comments are generated by GPT-2
Exactly this. Warm water is less dense than cold water and "floats" over it. The volcano has created a temporary nursery for fishes basically.
> so that they own the billion dollars of bitcoin again

which is now worth zero :)
Then why am I paying surge pricing at times of high demand or low supply? Don’t you think that companies can profit share with their employees on that price differential?
A lot of this information could definitely be framed in a different way to make it sound almost Utopian, I agree, but I think it is hard to argue against the idea that we're relying on technology more and need cybersecurity to scale up. Otherwise its going to be like everyone with access to a computer has a bazooka. Speaking of which, I wonder if there will come a day when the solution to this problem is just heavily restricting access to hardware, background checks before you can buy a laptop/smart phone, etc.
That's a great point. Hrmmm... let's do some math on that.

So 50,000 BTC at 100x leverage would create contracts valued at 50,000 * 100 = 5,000,000 BTC

5M BTC * $10,000/BTC = $50,000,000,000

Yea LOL, Bitmex is liquid... but not $50B liquid hah.

I can rest easy now!
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The part about reference counting in the DOM is poorly researched BS.

First, none of the P0 reported exploits attacked the DOM. The WebKit bugs were all JSC and none of them had anything to do with reference counting. One of them was a garbage collection bug.

Second, WebKit’s DOM has a powerful use-after-free protection called isoheaps. Isoheaps mean that virtual memory is never reused between types, which neutralizes the UaF->typeconfusion vector. This is a better protection for the DOM than a garbage collector since garbage collectors are more likely to have bugs than isoheaps.

I think that comparing browser security so hard. Maybe too hard for this Andy Greenberg person.
Wow, that's a disturbing read. Thanks for posting.
In fairness, Snowden himself was at the NSA, so that's at least one data point that they were getting what I would call more "patriotic" people. Not necessarily the "best and brightest". I've been to MS Research. Some of my best friends work at Google. I've worked with Carnegie Mellon and MIT post docs. There is a big objective leap in capability between someone like Snowden, and the guys at MS Research.

We can only hope that NSA actually has some of these types of guys and we just don't know about it. But I'd argue that if the NSA was getting any of those types of guys, they weren't getting very many.

Another thing to think about is the athletics analogy. Schools like Stanford and Northwestern can't get the athletes that a place like Alabama can get. However, they do a good job of training up the athletes they can get to the point where these schools have actually been respectable from time to time. It would be interesting to consider the realistic feasibility of hiring "2 stars" or "no stars", so to speak, and then training them up. (Of course, this doesn't always work. Most schools have teams that suck. That's kind of the danger with the "train them up" idea.)
I'm not sure what "database rights" refers to specifically, but the whole matter is actually rather complicated, because the EU copyright directive has a lot of optional exceptions that member states may or may not adopt.

Most of these exceptions only apply to non-commercial use though. So they wouldn't apply in a case like hiQ.

UK specific exceptions are explained here:

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/exceptions-to-copyright

Unfortunately, both Labour and the Tories have taken a relatively hard line in the EU copyright negotiations, so it seems unlikely that things will be relaxed very much after Brexit.
Modern Presentation Format? Creating Slides in Reveal.js
As someone who built his business on django, I'd say I'm super happy with it. However, my biggest gripe with it is it's continued push for updates with breaking changes.

Moving from django 1/python 2.7 was quite painful but possible and now they're suggesting that third party developers stop supporting django 2.2? It was released in April this year!

I know I'm not using any new django features that weren't there in 1.0. I imagine most django users are the same. I'd love to just have a LTS with security updates and conservative non-breaking changes.
There is no doubt about OBL provenance really, question is at which point you associate the act of a (former) citizen with his country of origin.

One of the hijackers was Egyptian, can't remember ever hearing calls for severing (substantial) American ties with Egypt off that. As reprehensible Saudi regime was (and is, under the rule of bonesaw prince), saying that the USA supports Saudi despite 911 is factually exactly backwards.
It can be regulated as much as Gold trading can be I imagine. Jurisdictionally speaking.
You are correct. They could. This comes down to offering a minimum income to people who work for Uber and Lyft and giving them benefits that they would otherwise never qualify for like paid health insurance.
This opinion piece is borderline screed and I'm not sure what to make of it.

Part of the piece is "OMG China!" with some pretty dubious assumptions, especially things like their GDP being bigger than the US is an existential threat.

"The world is scary" is not a narrative I will respond to. Of course it is - it's bloody frightening. But have you tried framing the discussion in a way that is not so warfare and zero sum-focused but rather collaborative?

The rest of this piece contains the kind of Cold War logic that, while understandable from someone whose job it is to solve these problems, is also alarming to see in what is supposed to be a "new approach" to preparedness from an agency.

This seems like a backdoor argument to compromising privacy, asking politely for businesses to be friendlier, while at the same time asking for more money than their already astronomical budget.

The obvious first step here is to Fix. Your. Own. House.

Become more transparent about what you are doing. Don't talk about secret bunkers in the first paragraph but instead about what you are going to do in order to share more with industry, and the kinds of investments you are going to make to ensure government can keep up.

Included in that is staffing proposals, workforce management changes, being more lenient with behaviors that are not relevant to your ability to hold a clearance to broaden recruitment, doing more work in the open and possibly a new imperative to focus on privacy and help protect privacy for all Americans despite best attempts of companies to destroy it. Some of that was alluded to but I find it really hard to take this piece seriously.
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Every time a Rails link appears on the home page it's filled with a bunch of technical reasons on why Rails is good and then there's a bunch of posts about how other frameworks might be better. These are healthy discussions IMO.

But I think a lot of people overlook that one of the main reasons why Rails is so good / popular is that you get to see posts like the one we're looking at: Running GitHub on Rails 6.0

There's not too many other frameworks where there's a really strong track record of it running really popular sites (github, shopify, basecamp, airbnb). Not only are they popular, but they are well done sites that are pretty tech friendly. It just gives a sense of confidence that it will work for your small / large app and you don't get that with most other frameworks.

Knowing that billions of page views have been through the framework irons out so many edge cases. Both bugs and performance issues, and you often get that perk on day 1 when a new release is out because it's already been running on basecamp for months (and maybe other big sites too).

I mean check out this quote from the article:

> GitHub engineers sent over 100 pull requests to Rails 6.0 to improve documentation, fix bugs, add features, and speed up performance.

Combine that with the Rails approach of batteries included and you know that the core of your app is in good hands. You can't really go too wrong by using it along with a few well maintained gems.
You were writing about images being posted out of context. I'm still struggling to determine the context that would make these things (or other things, like slowly sinking your thumbs into a hospital patient's eyes while they're restrained) OK. You've replied by discussing other incidents, which doesn't answer the question.
ah, well, for preexisting Keybase users with linked GitHub accounts it fits that description - I found out about it because I got given some without doing anything.
PDFs are notoriously hard to convert to anything else. Imagine a web page where every single character is positioned absolutely relative to the `body` element: This is how PDF layout works.

It's easier when the PDF also contains HTML tags. So your approach may actually work though it's kinda silly.

Pandoc[1] is a better solution.

[1] https://pandoc.org/
I think you are referring to PHI not PII.
With respect to the insistence on low ceilings, the actual Buffalo Public Library has a hidden floor between the main floor and upper floor which is mostly for storage, which I recall had a disorientingly low ceiling and spartan lighting.
Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 1 vs. 2 Compared
Tremendous (YC W11) is hiring
It's a common assertion that worker's rights (most notably the illegality of non-compete agreements) are the reason that Silicon Valley beat out Boston and other likely candidates.
This government lawyer sure writes essays that sound like they were written by a government lawyer.
When the NSA says power will move to the private sector, I don't think they're referring to 'the people', but the wealthy who control most of the private sector.
I find class components easier to visually parse and understand because of the organization of lifecycle methods into separate functions. I do understand the benefit of hooks, but I still reach for class components when working on something new because I'm extremely productive with them.
Important Things to Know About Tensorflow 2.0
I don't think it's economic to buy an SDR rig with the intention of maybe transmitting on HF one day. Most HF digital modes are audio-jack based, meaning that you connect any radio, particularly a used one that you can get cheaply on eBay, to your computer via a line-in/line-out connection. You do not need any fancy SDR stuff going on; popular digital modes like FT8 put the entire band in the space of one normal voice conversation. So no special equipment whatsoever is necessary to use digital modes.

One time I had my audio misconfigured to use my microphone instead of the line-in, and I had my radio disconnected from the computer to tune the antenna. As I was listening through the radio's built-in speaker, my computer properly decoded a number of FT8 transmissions... through the microphone. You really don't need anything expensive or interesting to do SDR stuff on the HF bands.

People that buy the "real" ham SDRs are doing things like contesting, where they really need to see entire bands, or even multiple bands, at once. And they're paying over $10,000 for that.

The cheap "hacker" SDRs are largely inadequate for ham work. They are OK, but not great. They don't have proper frontends, so transmit a lot of out-of-band garbage. They don't have niceties like an antenna matching network, or even a power amplifier. I have a KX3 which has a maximum transmit power of 12W. But these hobbyist boards will max out in the mW range. It is adequate for some digital modes, but even then, it's pretty low. I typically run FT8 at 1-3W. So generally, would not recommend these for someone new to the hobby. Buy an RTL-SDR stick for $20. Listen to some stuff. When you get bored, find a proper HF radio in the $300 range and use that. If you then decide you want to spend $10,000 on the hobby, then you can start looking into the SDRs ;)
Interesting to hear someone who clearly tried to use it seriously. That said I do agree with the first comment on the article itself, he is using his "useFetch" in a very far fetched (haha) way. A hooks should not be called as a callback to an event, you should "trigger an action" (whether redux, a callback from a higher component etc.) that update a state which in turns trigger the hook. I understand this can be length / annoyingly administrative but that is the cost of the react architecture, with the payoff being to better understand the flow of the application.
Not clear if it just warmed the water and it rose or it created a system that also dragged cold water up. But it was the nutrients in the water that seem to matter.

(Also a huge huge carbon sink, might negate the volcano's CO2 emissions)

10.1126/science.aax4767

Subsequent remotely operated vehicle observations during September 2018 confirmed that lava intrusions ultimately reached depths of 725 m, and low-temperature venting directly associated with the fresh lava deposits was also observed (23). Upwelled waters from this depth would contain sufficient concentrations of nitrate to fuel the observed phytoplankton bloom. After the lava flow substantially decreased on 6 August, the much smaller flow that lasted for an additional month was insufficient to cause buoyant plumes of nutrient-rich deep water
I just listened to the Grubstakers episode on WeWork and the founder. I'm fairly convinced it's all a racket at this point.
True.

dev.to runs on Rails too.

Currently I'm looking into AWS Amplify, which tries to be the Rails of serverless. Building a serverless app as you would build a monolithic app sounds intriguing to me.
I land on css-tricks constantly. That's loaded with neat ideas.

For me, learning is always easiest when I'm learning what I need right now Soo my personal suggestion would be: just keep making things and don't let what you already know how to do be a limit for you.

Can't-do almost doesn't exist.
> approximation of the target language is good enough for certain tasks but the entire process is inherently flawed

That is pretty much the definition of a "model" :)

I recently went through the "Tensorflow in Practice" specialization on Coursera and it was illuminating. The thing about ML models, whether CNNs for images, or word2vec+RNN, or whatever else, is that they really don't have any rigid scientific basis for why they work. You're doing, say, Stochastic Gradient Descent to optimize the neuron weights across your dataset. Out the other side of the training, you have a mostly meaningless set of coefficients that work well to classify other unseen data.

I dual-majored in CS and EE, and I leaned towards the "science" side of things, where things get modelled mathematically and analyzed, accepting that the model is likely incomplete but still useful. The thing that drives me nuts with ML is that there's no explanation of what the terms in the ML model actually mean (because the process that produced them doesn't actually investigate meaning, it just optimizes the terms). But... I've accepted that even though the models are pretty much semantically meaningless, they work.
It’s a good tv series too.
What are APIs? Why should businesses invest in API development?
> But it does indicate that they want Python 2 dead.

Being less uncharitable, it indicates they want to avoid brand dilution (which is wholly reasonable.)
This works really well, but with one caveat: you're not gonna store it for a really long time. Otherwise you get a lot of freezer burn between each slice, way more than on an uncut loaf.

But like a month or two in the chiller? All good. Had great results with homemade pain de mie that was sliced and frozen and eaten over 30 days.
Are there "recommended", pretrained image featurizers -- maybe intermediate layers from CNNs and all that?

I know easy-to-use object recognition models, but for general clustering, metric learning, etc. tasks it would be useful to have an abstract embedding.
Cronenberg – A crontab-like service to hit HTTP Endpoints in a timely manner
fun times ahead
Interesting to know that Robert Mueller was in the room.
The Amazon Is Not the Earth’s Lungs
Yup, this is one of the biggest problems with American healthcare - a lot of people don't actually know how much it costs, because that cost is hidden in their employee benefits.

When Obamacare came around, I saw people complaining it'd cost them $1k, and comparing it to the $40/month they had to chip in on their employer plan, as if that was the total cost of it.
Discussion of Part 1:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20912380
Although she failed miserably in her recommendation of the recent copyright directive (CDSM). The final Article 17 is a catastrophe.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...
This reeks of regulatory capture in the making. I don't understand at all.

How we got here:
1. Taxis are various forms of monopoly everywhere they exist
2. Startups Lyft/Uber capture market share because riders want an option
3. Drivers _flock_ to use this system voluntarily that didn't exist at all before and make money if they want to
4. ???
5. Drivers are being taken advantage of by evil corporations

Lyft and Uber are already operating at a loss. If this forces upward wage pressure in CA, do they just stop existing there?
Amazon’s New Multistory Warehouse Aims to Cut Delivery Times
So you can't subcontract? That's often within the same industry
Not all tech companies rely on exploitative labor practices.
Well, they maybe aren't forced to work for Uber/Lyft specifically, but they are forced to work for someone. I guess for most Uber/Lyft is preferable to other options, but that doesn't mean that Uber/Lyft aren't bad, it's just that other jobs are worse.

But I'm sure there's many who really only have Uber/Lyft as an option. They are forced to work for them. They need a 2nd job, and they need a job that provides the flexibility in schedule that Uber/Lyft does. There's really not any other options if that's what is needed.
No sane company will leave the second largest market and GDP area of the world, it would take a really lot to make them go to "greener pastures".

"Think of the jobs" is the ultimate callout of corporate defenders, while the EU is a huge profitable market for these companies they will stick around... Just compare to what happens in China, if that country still attracts tech companies then I don't think the EU will be shedding them anytime soon.
Make the Internet Your AI University and Be a Changemaker
Carroll is a big advocate of the Many Worlds Interpretation, so it's nice to see some other interpretations getting a decent hearing in this article as well as a decent treatment of some academic concerns about MWI. That's a testament to his humility as a researcher.

I must admit I struggle with the MWI Born rule derivations based on rational credence. I don't see why proving that one ought to assign credence in such and such a way is sufficient to prove that that's the way nature is. It feels too much like deriving an "is" from an "ought", although in a slightly different way than what Hume objected to!
It became much more common knowledge after the Canadian government issued an official apology [1]. I recall seeing a documentary about it[2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Canadia...

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8TQTuMqM9g
TunSafe client for Windows works just fine. I configured the tunnel about two months ago, and it has kept it working since then. It also has a killswitch mode in case it fails to establish the connection.
I would've preferred her as EC President, but I guess this will do for now.
So instead of supplementary income you think it's better that they have no income.

That's awesome. I am sure that while standing in unemployment these people are going to super appreciate your ability to see through Uber's bullshit.
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Maybe people who will one day work on compilers?

I learned a lot writing a compiler for a subset of C over one semester (in C++), and just recently built a "compiler" that is used in-house for a one-shot conversion task. Without the prior knowledge that would have been a pain (the input language is poorly documented), but that way I just wrote the whole tokenizer/parser/emitter-chain in perl5 (pattern matching is awesome, and performance doesn't matter as long as I can parse in the rang of 10k to 50k lines per minute).
Does anyone else here feel WWIII is inevitable?
Ask HN: How would you go about introducing your children to technology?
So on one hand you have all the distractions of mobile phones, computers and entertainment which are documented to cause (as some studies say) development problems in Children.

And you do also have on the other hand a trove of information and knowledge bank which they can rely on.

How and what and when at what age would you do it?
>Have you actually thought your proposed solution through? Have you considered the larger picture?

The OP's plan seems like a good one to bolster national security. OP doesn't need to lay out every single step of the solution, all the way down to the US education system, in order to make it a good point.
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That seems a bit much. Not great when you have to go through the process everytime you update your site. Or more likely, you will forget you implemented this & also how you did it in the first place..
I wish the EU was more focused on helping European tech companies become successful, rather than preventing American tech companies from doing things.