skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh - I work for a big SV company in a group that provides key software and hardware. If we have a schedule risk that can be mitigated by paying a 3rd party engineer a reasonable sum we could probably get it approved in a week. It would require at least exploring alternatives and quantifying the risk, but it's really not hard to get (reasonable amounts of prudently spent) money when your project is in the profit pipeline. I doubt it would have to go as high as a VP for approval.
I've been exploring serverless for a project at work, and this is my conclusion too. It's great that we don't need to manage any servers and can easily deploy tasks with one command - but we already have infrastructure to do all that for that for our existing apps.

For someone starting out you don't need to worry about learning Linux and how to configure Apache to serve SSL certificates in the right way, but that is important to know, unless you are happy to always rely on (and pay for) someone else to do that.

To me serverless is similar to Heroku, it's great for starting out but as you start to grow it's going to quickly become a lot cheaper to maintain you own systems. Except with serverless it's not so easy to self-host because you end up relying on all the tooling the vendor provides.
> How is it we value free speech

we don't value free speech at all since this topic is blacklisted from the front page and many of the comments are being censored.

i know that having this den of pro pedo/rapists is a bad look for HN and SV in general. But why censor the people calling it out, instead of censoring the apologist?

do you all really endorse child rape?

Epstein. Minsky. RMS. Eric Schmidt. Bill Gates. Larry Ellison.

Dominos fall.

Go ahead. Censor this comment. Your turn will come.
Someone should make a website of failed technologies and companies HN positively adored complete with gushing comment quotes about how awesome and disruptive said thing will be.
It's a very common style of headlines recently, and a lot of the time you can remove the "How" without changing the meaning. For example, if I look down The Verge's recent posts, the first one starting with "How" is "How sampling and streaming are changing the future of music" [1]. Titling that "Sampling and streaming are changing the future of music" works fine.

I don't know that it's particularly useful most of the time, it's usually just unnecessary. An example where it actually should have been removed that I remember was this article on The Guardian a while back: "Suburb in the sky: how Jakartans built an entire village on top of a mall" [2]. There's nothing in the article at all about how they built it. It's just a trendy headline style for some reason, and gets used even in cases where it doesn't apply, like that one.

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/17/20870347/sampling-streami...

[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/aug/05/suburb-in-the...
>An option for unsupported systems will be streaming,

Do you think a pay subscription using up bandwidth like that is going to work for the vast majority of the low income, very international, old hardware AoE2 scene? It won't. Just like trying to force them up upgrade to 10 won't. They don't care because they don't think they can make money off those people. You don't care because you don't understand. But both you and MS don't understand that they are the AoE2 pro and ranked scene and that by ignoring them AoE2DE is going to be a flash in the pan and everyone will go back to playing AoE2 patched on voobly.
And the remaining companies would probably swoop in to fill the void, so you’d end up doing nothing.
Given that these sorts of things can shock the economy, we usually have significant more wiggle room at all times to deal with coincidences like this. The fact that we're running out of wiggle room is the sensational problem. It's not like these coincidences haven't been happening since 2008..
Gas taxes hurt the lower income brackets the worst.
Do you think that's a good enough reason for a jurisdiction to not make it illegal for an adult to have sex with a 16 year old?

Legitimately, what age do you think should be the limit in the jurisdiction you live in? Before you make any compromises. How old?
If the rules are published people can craft their lies better. Suffice to say interviews tend to surface these issues but that is a waste of my time. Yes the hiring process sucks but typically I know within 5 minutes of talking to someone if they have relevant skills.

The effort in the process shows how much they are or are not willing to work.

Perhaps if we charged folks for the time they waste it would fix that?

Would you be willing to pay 500/hr to interview ( close estimate to actual costs the company incurs )
By the same token, I’m extremely suspicious of the idea that such a sufficiently complex AGI could also be dumb enough to optimize for paper clip production at the expense of all life on earth (or w/e example).
Theoretically if 51% of ownership of an oil company wants to seal all oil wells isn't that what the company should do?
Keeping it locked down is how they keep enterprise security teams happy, and selling to enterprises is how they make a lot of money.
Haven't had this issue, no. Are you running into the same problem if you build the app without the runner? The file watcher (do you mean metro?) shouldn't be running during a production build since the files aren't changing, right?
Show HN: Evvo – an open source framework for distributed evolutionary algorithms
Perhaps, though most people don't buy stock. If you can get institutional investors to divest, that limits most people's direct exposure.

Do I expect it to necessarily make a big difference (especially in the short term, without becoming a broader movement)? No. I do believe, however, that it's not nothing, and that we need to pursue everything.

There's also a personal aspect - I want nothing to do fossil fuel stocks. I try to limit my emissions in my personal life, so why not exercise that preference in whatever small way I can in my financial life?
Sounds like they were authorized and the court administration just made a mistake in the contract.
Why you should NOT get a free domain name from your web host
For a long time you could use them within a grid, but not between a grid and the outside world.
Hadn’t most of the world moved to “first to file” already?
It wouldn't. They're just trying to get their talking point in.
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Divest from fossil fuels and invest the funds in clean energy. What am I missing?
Also, coffee is relatively new. Espresso, latte etc. etc. are all recent inventions.
I did something a similar except instead of music I'm a huge theme park fan and wanted a portion of my personal site to be dedicated to my trips (instead of hosting the pictures on Facebook or the like) so I decided to separate out the roller coaster portion of my persona and put it at a subdomain of my personal site (https://coasters.joshimbriani.com for those curious) whereas my main site remains mostly tech focused (https://joshimbriani.com). I've been pretty pleased with the setup for now seeing as how I can nerd out about coasters without alienating the other half of my (non-existent) audience
> and possession of burglary tools

Is that a crime? Like picks and stuff?
Lots of H1B filings for Xoriant: https://h1bdata.info/listlca.php?em=XORIANT%20CORPORATION

Maybe this role? https://h1bdata.info/lca.php?id=7054315&em=XORIANT%20CORPORA... (Data engineer @ $122k/year salary, March 2019 posting date)
Beyond BLEU: Training Neural Machine Translation with Semantic Similarity
Imagine a climate innovator that is selling stock worth $1 billion based on expected returns. That stock can be expected to sell for $1 billion, and no more, even if $0.5 billion of that comes from altruistic investors. The altruistic investors can't drive up the price - as long as money from amoral investors is needed, the amoral investors are the price setters, because they won't pay more than what they think the expected returns are worth. They will step aside as the altruistic investors move in. The altruistic investors would do better to just invest for maximum returns and donate money.

Note, I don't act according to this advice: I'm invested in sustainable funds despite my own arguments. But I don't expect this to go very far, so I'm also donating to appropriate causes.
Wow, thanks a lot for the feedback. I decided to hide pricing for now until the user signs up. Pricing then shows up. I agree it's a little cagey for now. Any reason to display pricing publicly?

As for creating a separate account, eventually the tool will evolve into something beyond just Twitter. Maybe Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, to become like Hootsuite.

The chat widget is just the fastest implementation of a "contact us" that I can implement on short notice.

Thanks for all your feedback, really appreciate it!
Why can’t they use any number of the video / chat apps available?
We're two Northeastern University students (jfz and drassaby on HN), and one professor (not on HN), who started this project because there were no frameworks that allowed people to productionize evolutionary algorithms by running them in distributed environments. We wanted to make a type-safe, user-friendly interface to a parallel backend that would allow optimization problems to be solved more easily. We have validated the framework, using it in a paper that evolved fair and accurate machine learning models (https://github.com/julian-zucker/evolving-fair-models/blob/m...). This project is still in early beta, but it is mature enough to be used for proofs of concept and to play with high-performance evolutionary algorithms.

Let us know what you think and how you want to see the project develop! We'd be happy to answer any questions you might have either here or at: julian.zucker@gmail.com and drassaby@gmail.com
Honest question from someone that knows nothing about valuations, does this seem kind of ridiculous? Aside from investors basically making this stuff up, is there any actual validity to a billion dollar valuation anymore? What would I look at (aside from %s) that would show me, someone that knows nothing about finance, that this company is this valuable? What is their actual revenue? I’m mostly curious to see how reality stacks up against hope and what the actual financial outcome of this would be outside of seeming like these companies are being dumped on the market for a big payout.
its annualized revenue is growing at a rate of 143% year-to-year, with net retention of customer spending at 153%.

Net dollar retention is the metric anyone judging a SAAS business should be looking at. 153% is nearly the best I've ever seen - Twilio was 155%, Slack 140% at IPO[1], Sendgrid 115%, Mulesoft 117%[2]

[1] https://gopractice.io/blog/slack-ipo-reading-between-lines/

[2] https://about.crunchbase.com/blog/net-dollar-retention/
Could certainly happen, but there's a couple mechanisms that mitigate this:

1) The network will only allow you to bid on a name if it has been at least `hash(name) % 52` weeks after mainnet launch. Squatters cannot purchase all of the good names on day 1.

2) The network limits the total number of domain renewals that can occur each block. Eventually this will lead to fee pressure and make renewing 10,000s of domains expensive for squatters.

3) It's possible to atomically trade names for coins on-chain, so squatters that self-custody will likely do this to make selling their names easier. The names will end up with someone that actually uses it
>>> Mr. Demercurio told the deputies that part of the job was to “check out law enforcement response time,” the documents say

HA! There is nothing that cops like more than to participate in random timed response tests. I cannot imagine anything worse that one could ever say to a cop. Even if it is true, do not ever admit that you are "testing" police, not to the overworked, under-staffed and generally frustrated officers who are stuck working the night shift.
student loans are typically not dischargeable in bankruptcy
Also posted on reddit with the owner trying to answer some questions: https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/d5iv4y/decentralizi...
This is a handy time to mention that my employer makes a Slack app for shared channels that provides support-like operational assistance and analytics.

We’ve helped a lot of companies, especially serious tech/infrastructure companies, manage dozens of active channels with their most valuable customers. They also use it with internal-facing “escalation” channels to facilitate collaboration.

On the operational side it uses PagerDuty-like notifications, state management, open convo reminders, and webhook integrations.

https://frame.ai/frame-for-slack
We're not seeing any inflation threats yet.

Aug 12, 2019: "U.S. consumer inflation outlook declined as Fed weighed rate cuts .... The Fed’s preferred inflation gauge, known as the core personal consumption expenditures price index, gained at an annualized 1.6% pace in June."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-inflation-survey/...
I would modify your statement to say “the schools are good because of the type of parents the kids in the school have” - who are well educated, higher earning parents that can provide the guidance and resources that results in the qualities “good” schools are known for.
Notice that almost all the positives of quick release cycles are about how they make it easier for developers? I think is telling of where tech culture is these days.

IME frequent updates terrify non-technical users, any given update might change the UI, remove a feature the use or add some other complication (like simply not working) at an inopportune moment. Big fat updates give them a chance to prepare for these changes at a time of their choosing.
First to file, simplified some processes and bring US patent law closer to international patent law. But you are correct that it removed what amounts to an edge condition.

Public disclosure is great for making prior art to block future patents. That's why some big corps white paper just about everything whether they intend to patent it or not.
Or ask them to fix it and submit a PR. If their edge case broke it, then they should know best how to fix it.
Facebook uses their data today to target ads.

What the data gets used for later by Facebook, the government or organized crime, when it inevitably gets stolen, is anybody's guess.
Each state is different: https://toool.us/laws.html
You can say this, but I'm pretty sure my post history tells another story.
This time it's different.
Anything used to commit burglary is a burglary tool. A hammer, screwdriver, picks, etc.
Upholding the constitution is not a citizen's job. It is the supreme court's.

You can invoke your constitutional rights as a citizen,but you don't get to enforce it on behalf of somebody else, nor do you as an individual, decide what action constitutes a violation.
certainly they could elect board members who'll hire CEOs to execute that plan.
That varies by state and circumstance.

In some states it's legal to own them, but if you are caught using them or being somewhere you shouldn't be while carrying them it can be tacked onto your charges.

Other states it's totally illegal to own or carry them.
Depends on the state. I believe in some states it's legal so long as you're not actively engaged in a crime, but becomes illegal if you get caught with them in a criminal act, even if they weren't directly related to the criminal act?

Edit: People REALLY like answering this question, apparently. :D
At public schools, state funding cuts are part of it. States have been cutting funding for schools (directly or in proportion to expenses/inflation) for decades. At the same time many more students are going to college than they used to. These things combined increase funding share that needs to be made up by tuition significantly.
In most states, unless you are a locksmith, yes it is a crime.
Depends on the cost. Domains used to be free but nobody gave a shit because nobody used the Internet.

Ah, the good old days.
> It was a dark and stormy night.

The night began with a low-frequency hum that began in the northwest, then subsided into a softening, then continued on to the north, ending in a violent thud, which was followed by a pause of silence, followed by a long shower of thunder.
TASO: Optimizing DL Computation with Automatic Generation of Graph Substitutions [pdf]
Το πρώτο βήμα για Ολυμπιακό και Τότεναμ στο Καραϊσκάκη
The point is that it takes near universal coordination to actually hurt liquidity. Otherwise, you're just funneling money to amoral investors.
That is already dystopian not to mention people also use this to cover their medical bills. The gold fish doesn't know it's in a fish bowl.
LOL yea I noticed that too and took a screen shot of all of us with "0 minutes ago"
> Seems indie frameworks in AI can't survive?

AI frameworks are enormously complex pieces of software—a mixed bag of GPU acceleration, math utilities, low and high-level implementations of state-of-the-art components, and a (hopefully, eventually, but not usually) friendly interface to tie it all together.

While Keras is certainly useful, it was only possible because of the underlying libraries (i.e. Theano, TensorFlow, etc.) However, maintaining useful frameworks on a shifting landscape of underlying libraries often results in mismatches which leads to weird incompatibilities, performance regressions, numerical instabilities, etc. Even the big players deal with these issues internal to their own AI frameworks.

Moreover, due to performance and deployment requirements, and the rapid development of the field, these underlying libraries are often tightly coupled or have poorly defined API interfaces for third-parties outside of "model development".

It's not impossible to have well-defined abstractions but "AI" is too new, too varied and too ill-defined itself to have developed those abstractions sufficiently for _large_ indie frameworks to be successful to a broader community. It would be similar to trying to design a high-level framework for "software development". Again, not impossible—Keras did much better than most—but exceedingly difficult for independent developers. Therefore, we're left with only the biggest players.

It's not all bad news, though. There's certainly room for independent development, but outside of hobby projects or thought experiments, I don't think these contributions are effective at the broadest level of scope. The best way for independent developers to contribute and keep their sanity is on implementations of individual components, utilities, or abstractions for specific use cases which don't try to be everything to everyone.
So they are arguing for an logical improvement upon the way things work as opposed to your desire to keep things at the status quo.
No, first class mail specifically is for commercial sending. It even has commercial requirements:

> Standard mail must be less than 16 ounces and must meet a minimum quantity of 200 pieces or 50 pounds of mail.

Your obstinacy in the face of overwhelming evidence against what you are saying is amazing. I feel for you. Life is hard when you act that way (I should know, I've fallen in those patterns at times)
> Extended Support Release (ESR): receives major updates on average every 42 weeks

It feels like they're just taking the piss when the life cycle of an extended support release is just 42 weeks.

Still a step in the right direction though.
I think it may be in part because UI is very transient. Trends come and go very quickly. Well-made libraries can last a very very long time though as programs that work well are always in fashion.
> Hopefully one day there'll be magic spam fighting blockchain decentralized identity dust that makes everything work with p2p.

If you aren't already familiar, you might dig Secure Scuttlebutt. Dat is also in a very similar space.
He took an oath to defend the constitution as part joining the NSA. Many google results, here's one: https://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/did-edward-snowd...
It is confirmed(allegedly) they also broke into Polk County Courthouse two days earlier -

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-court...
Millions of Americans’ medical images and data are available on the Internet
It's not enterprise support, it's simply paying for priority and nobody would be forcing them to participate in this scheme anyway.

And yes, this would be the only voice they get in the development process. Why shouldn't it be? Apple's had a 12 year free ride so far.
China doesn't need more PR, they need more guillotines
Have you done a restore of CrashPlan recently? I tried to do a full restore before cancelling my service, and it didn't work. Downloaded a burst of files (maybe 5% of the total), then sat there spinning for a week or more with no further progress.
Yes, I understand that it's possible to be illiquid but solvent. I understand the concept of not being able to buy things with the house directly so you have to get a loan. I understand that those terms have different definitions.

My point was that, when the illiquidity is sufficiently advanced -- when you the actual ability to sell is far enough into the future, and the possibility of making a sale is increasingly dubious -- then those judgments of how much it's "worth" become likewise dubious, and the venture is more reasonably characterized as insolvent, because the unwillingness of others to buy means the property doesn't have a value that supports its status as sufficient collateral.

Also, in your example, assuming (which was the thing I was conditionally disputing) that the real estate really is worth the $5 million, you'd be worth $0, not negative $5 million.
Does that mean every government agent that broke the law and spied on American citizens should be deported?
A lot of kids are essentially forced. Maybe not with a gun, but there is strong societal and familial pressure to get into the best school that they can, and that’s engrained into them from a pretty early age. They are taught that their value as a human being is heavily dependent on academic success.

Then, the people who raised them, and who they trust the most, tell them to sign on whatever dotted line is in front of them. The finances take care of themselves later! The administrators act as though it’s business as usual. The student is their proxy to government guaranteed money.

Since student loans can’t be discharged, it’s not even that banks relax their standards. It’s much worse than that. They’re now financially incentivized to give out as much debt as they possibly can. The more they lend, the more they are guaranteed to profit.

Money is free, so schools raise their prices and hire more staff.

I don’t really blame the students at all. Most people are surprisingly financially illiterate, and 17 year olds are especially naive. Their brains are not fully formed. We don’t let them buy cigarettes or look at naked people, because we don’t trust them. Yet we throw them in this game with seasoned adult professionals who work with complex financial instruments for a living, and we somehow expect them to come out alive.

Sure, many individuals will navigate this just fine, but, predictably, those ones are lost in the noise when you measure populations.

The only thing that boggles my mind is the fact that we haven’t corrected it yet, and most of the current proposals sound like they will actually make the problem worse. Bernie wants to make tuition free! That sounds like a pre-emptive bailout on a blank check.

If you want to understand why people seem to be inexplicably bad with money, it’s important to realize that their brain doesn’t work like yours does. So any assumptions based on what you think is logical are worthless in furthering your understanding.
The final line really stuck out to me: "antitrust actions are a trailing indicator of a company that has peaked, not a causal force of decline"