skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's more googlable and gets the project free PR. What's not to like?
I sure didn’t study for the SATs, nor did any of my close friends.

Our college educated parents told us to not worry about it.
The fact that it works just like waitstaff in restaurants (which is the first tipped job that comes to mind for the vast majority of people) makes it seem reasonable to me. Either way, though, they didn't do as the OP said they did

> they used to withhold the total tips out of a delivery drivers base compensation so essentially taking the tips for themselves

The driver's base pay was something like $1 or $2. They did not take tips out of that.
> big applications are more likely to get quick communication from Apple and small ones get tend to get drawn-out silence

Don't most companies provide better response time to larger customers?
You don't think it takes brashness, as an entrepreneur, to speak out against VC sexual misconduct when it could put your business's lifeblood funding in jeopardy?
Have you never found yourself alone in a car waiting for someone / something?

Imagine being this eager to shit on someone else’s pleasure.
Nah, a minutes scale would require data entry frequently, and HN's volunteer moderators probably don't want to have to click "Reset breach counter" all the time, plus you'd need to write code for both that button and the minute counter.

Let's keep HN Javascript-light: "Days Since" is much easier to implement. Just one line of static HTML will do:

<b>Days Since Last Breach: 0</b>
“Honestly your honor, I wasn’t going to use the loan I applied for with false information, I was just trying to briefly confuse hackers and advertisers!”

But I really don’t know, because I’m also not a lawyer and therefore do not give people legal advice on the internet.
What's ESL?
I don't think that everything scales 1:1.

I took this from the College Board website:

"Your raw score is converted to a scaled score of 200 to 800 points, the score you see on your score report. We use a process that adjusts for slight differences in difficulty between various versions of the test (such as versions taken on different days).

We do this to make sure there’s no advantage in taking the test on a particular day. A score of 400, for instance, on one day’s test means the same thing as a 400 on a test taken on a different day—even though the questions are different."

https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/sat/scores/how-sat...
https://www.programming-idioms.org/idiom/117/get-list-size/1...

lol
> overly complicated tech

It solves a problem, just like any other engineering solution. There are trade-offs involved like always. Obviously you understand the problem I'm trying to solve, since you're passing judgement on my suggestion - do you have a better one? Even given all of your verbiage, I'm afraid I couldn't devine one.
It's not only intelligence. The success of humans depends just as much on their social traits. Can groups cooperate? Can they have division of labour? Without that, you're not going to get far even if you're super smart.
I feel like based on my own life accomplishments i should be on the 30 for under 30. Married, child, successfully living as an adult for a few years now. THAT is a real accomplishment.
The totalitarian state is much less likely to actually make the trains run on time than to create an environment where you wouldn't dare to complain about the fact that they aren't.
Though the article does not outright say it, read between the lines when you see this:

> They even had file sharing through them. "If we could take those over," Neal said, grinning, "we were going to win everything."

Then see some public CVE's around that time, such as:

> CVE-2015-5474: BitTorrent and uTorrent allow remote attackers to inject command line parameters and execute arbitrary commands via a crafted URL using the (1) bittorrent or (2) magnet protocol.

> Project Zero 2018: Simply put, those JSON-RPC issues create a vulnerability in the desktop and web-based uTorrent clients, which both use a web interface to display website content. An attacker behind a rogue website, Ormandy said, can exploit this client-side flaw by hiding commands inside web pages that interact with uTorrent’s RPC servers. Those commands range from downloading malware into the targeted PC’s startup folder or gaining access to user’s download activity information.

And the remote code execution via media files / video virus (Hollywood movies, porn) https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-5842... .

So you have file sharing going on, and can remote code execute, if: you get the target to visit a website you (partly) control, you get the target to click a (.torrent) link you crafted, you get the target to download a manipulated video file, compromised (Adobe) software, or cracked game with the payload. These if's are for a military that can easily DNS hijack, spoof (update) certs, ask help from allies who control 25% of all internet advertisements, set up convincing websites targeted to the region, or reroute internet traffic.
Is there a list of all disclosed security breaches somewhere?
I feel like MIT wouldn’t be MIT if it was named Maker School

Just like Stripe and dev/payments

Also, idk AFAIK the prestige is built upon exclusion + top notch research + beautiful place

When you don’t have that, it’s hard to sell someone on “a more hands on experience and same salary prospects” imo

But it’s probably me, I’m such a school snob
Propylene Glycol and Vegetable Glycerin are not good to inhale. How is this 'Vaping' related?
How to Enable Unattended Upgrades Ubuntu/Debian
"Nothing to do but bail" is very rare, orders of magnitude below the frequency of misused force-unwrap.
Is the tree thing viable? Can we plant enough trees and keep them long enough from burning or rotting?
Neural ODEs? "Instead of specifying a discrete sequence of hidden layers, we parameterize the derivative of the hidden state using a neural network. " - https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.07366
Wonder if they'll do tequila shots after the Jet leaves the building?
I think I understand you. At a lower level, there is a very good reason why, during our teenage years, we develop our prefrontal cortex to moderate between our desires and our actions (and why for all of us, going from childlike "I see, I want, I do" to adult "I see, I want, I plan, I evaluate, I might do") is so traumatic.

That, or you've made a subtle joke which I'm not quite seeing :-)
Sure if you’re driving only on the highway. What about driving around the city at 5-20 mph? Tesla’s end goal is to have autopilot do everything, so if they are serious about it then it makes sense to consider the impact at non-highway speeds.

Let’s say you are driving at an average speed of 20 mph - then by your estimate you’re using ~4666 watts. So if your chip is 500W it’s a significant portion of the power budget.
Yea my memory was fuzzy and I knew it was planned and being worked on but couldn't remember if it had happened yet. I think F2FS and bcachefs are also supposed to support it but I'm not sure about their level of support either.
I was selected for the 2018 Forbes 30 under 30, together with my co-founder. It has brought me absolutely nothing, besides scoring some points with the in-laws. Well, it did get me spam, offering discounts for private jets. For some reason, these companies paying for ads think that Forbes 30 under 30 people have "made it". Completely untrue, running and growing my startup has been just as hard after as before getting the award.
I think that's because Warp doesn't let you select the location of the server you're connecting to. Almost all VPN services have servers in different areas, and you can choose which geographic area you want an IP address from. In contrast, Warp only lets you connect to a server that's close to you.

Based on speed tests, it doesn't look like Warp is bypassed for video content.
> poverty spreads, and pain/suffering become more widespread

They haven't? Both of those have been trending down with no sign of stopping

https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty
I'm a member at WeWork in Brooklyn - personally I think they could use more staff. Our community manager told me her inbox is flooded w/ "tickets" from petty things about chair noise to room temperature. Overall, I like it here though.
Ask HN: What are the motivators for back-end Python, compared to Node?
I've done a good amount of JS and only a smattering of Python. The two languages obviously have a lot in common:

- Fully dynamic

- Convenient dict/array primitives and list comprehension features

- Optional static type systems

- Vibrant library ecosystems

But for web servers, JS has a leg up: native understanding of the web's primary data transfer protocol, and even the potential for code-sharing with the front end.

Which makes me wonder: what is it about Python that inspires many to use it instead, when it comes to web servers? Is Django just that amazing? Is Python meaningfully more performant? Just personal preference?
That's why you use it only when you can prove it won't fail. I'm ok with that, and said so at the start.
Curiosity doesn't always need a point! For example, details can sometimes be interesting.
Maybe they can keep the staircar
I ninja-edited my post. Previously the EV for uniform guessing was zero, because the points value for all the answers (1, -.25, -.25, -.25, -.25) summed to 0. Now the EV is positive because they got rid of the -.25 penalty.

To make things more complicated: if you were gunning for a high score in the old system, it was even more important to guess, because your partial points could get rounded up.
Amazing how quickly the WeWork brand has been demolished
When Filming in New York, the City Is Always the Star
True of most startups that aren't turning a profit.

However, it doesn't seem that Doordash is struggling that much, and is outpacing it's competitors in growth rate

https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/financing/delivery-...
Simple: disparate group of elites that realized monarchy has too many pitfalls and so they worked to create a better system where no one group could so easily dominate the others.

The war itself went well due to the huge geographic separation and the support from countries that wanted to end British dominance. Local governments were already in place, nothing local was "burnt down" except the British tax assayers office, roughly speaking.
Android Auto is very underwhelming. I don't even bother, since it requires you to plug in your phone via USB. After having a wireless charger in the car and at home, I never want to have to mess with a cord again.
nice so in a few weeks i get an indian scammer on the line: g'day sir wanne try this pizza very cheap only for you
I'm a little confused; Spotify has been available in the US since 2011.
Obviously it depends heavily on what you're doing in your app and where that string is coming from.

Is it a hard coded string that will never change? Force unwrapping is probably appropriate.

Is it based on user input? Then you should probably tell the user the string they entered isn't a URL.
How to Watch Eagles vs. Packers
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I am not even sure who to blame for all these shenanigans. The CEO or the people financing him?
WeFucked
Anecdata Alert:

I got my eyes checked last time I was back in the UK because it's cheaper to get new glasses there than in NZ. My prescription has dropped from about -5 to -4 since the last checkup. The optometrist was surprised as 'that never happens', but her theory is that a decade of living in a country with higher UV exposure is the cause.

There's other quality-of-life improvements I could peg on catching more sun (better mood, alertness) but there's downsides as well (melanoma risk++).
Yes I'm outside the camp you describe. I side with due process and the presumption of innocence, name supression (not calling someone out who hasn't been found guilty) and I've been against the mob justice aspect of "me too", and I've seen it and cancel culture in general as a kind of social madness. But recently I started to understand the other side better, and I wanted to share why that side feels the way that they do... it's not as mad or as illogical as I had once thought.
It's not arbitrary; it's based on our best guess of the minimum requirements for sentience.
Surely the actual problem here is that the responsibility for reliable identification somehow falls on the consumer, not the bank or what have you?

I'll give an example: if I get a phishing email claiming to be from my bank, and end up wiring them $1000, I'm out $1000 for not having done the due diligence for verifying that it in fact was my bank; my bank doesn't suddenly owe me $1000. Somehow, though, if some 3rd party convinces the bank they're me, and withdraws $1000 from my account, I'm at fault as a victim of "identity fraud" (and am again out $1000, but this time as a result of my bank's incompetence).

If the onus for verifying your identity were on institutions (and, consequently, the losses in cases of failure to do so) I'm confident that we would have much more reliable means of personal identification magically pop into existence.
I went to a Norwegian preschool. And it was almost an outdoor school. Everyday we would go on long walks and activities in the woods. We would learn how to have fun in the rain with buckets and puddles. That didn't mean there weren't indoor activities, but we did a good mix.
How would you expect to interact with such a system? Part of the way Spaced Repetition works is to adapt its timings based on whether you got things right or wrong. Times to recall prompts can be less than a day, down to minutes, are you expecting to get an email every minute until you respond?

I don't see how the system can implement the fundamental underlying algorithm and still work via email. I've written Spaced Repetition systems, one that works on the command line, another that works via a web page, and I'd be interested o now how you envisage something like this working via email.
Netflix

Revenue — $17 billion
Gross Profit — $5.8 billion
EBITDA — $2 billion
Market Cap — $111 billion
Debt — $14 billion
Enterprise Value — $125 billion

Tesla

Revenue — $25B
Gross Profit — $4B
EBITDA — $2.33B
Market Cap — $39B
Debt — $14B
Enterprise Value — $54B

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Uber

Revenue — $12 billion
Gross Profit — $4 billion
EBITDA — negative $7.6 billion
Market Cap — $53 billion
Debt — $6.2 billion
Enterprise Value — $50.5 billion

Tesla

Revenue — $25B
Gross Profit — $4B
EBITDA — $2.33B
Market Cap — $39B
Debt — $14B
Enterprise Value — $54B

I can go on but hopefully you get the point.
People don't really use them to hack existing accounts so much.

They use them to create new accounts to move money that way.
Similar abuse occurs in Apple's ecosystem as well. It was really easy to subtly sign someone up for a $99/week subscription, but I'm not sure if this is still the case. A lot of these scam apps appeared regularly in the App Store's "Top Grossing" charts — easily millions of dollars every month were/are going to these kinds of apps.

This is an interesting example of incentive alignment — in some sense, it's in Apple's best interest to let this abuse slide since they're also profiting off of it (though obviously that's not a long-term, deliberate strategy).

This article covers it well: How to Make $80,000 Per Month on the Apple App Store (https://medium.com/@johnnylin/how-to-make-80-000-per-month-o...)
I'm very surprised that a static site generator can raise this much capital, but it suggests to me that 1) the security dilemmas of non-static but content driven sites are still big enough to warrant adoption of this methodology 2) potentially, there is something they are doing right in this space.

I'd really like to know what 2 is as there's a lot of other options in this space that are also free, open source, and seem to accomplish the same thing. What is the Gatsby sauce?
That's a pretty clever idea and an easy way to clean $200k a year.
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Is that still true, though?

I think I've seen cases of apps being unpublished for new purchases (even free ones) but still available for downloads of existing users in both Google's and Apple's stores.
One place where I can see this as a being useful is to give people something to do while they're waiting for their car to charge.
The part where they didn’t tell the customers they were doing this is definitely scummy. The pure economics of it is more complicated—DoorDash was redistributing the “tips” to effectively guarantee higher minimum payment per order (a lot of customers don’t tip at all as the social expectations with the delivery apps are not as well established), and after they’ve changed the policy a number of dashers see their overall pay has decreased through no fault of their own (there can be many factors that are correlated with giving more 0 tips in a given area/route that have nothing to do with the driver).

The honest thing to do would have been to raise the delivery fees across the board, but that doesn’t attract customers. The seemingly optional “tip” preys on the customer’s mistaken assumptions and was used as a sneaky way to achieve the same thing.
You have to acknowledge that there's some selection bias in a sampling from a forum for a particular car brand though.
In my present job, which I am mostly happy at, which I think is the best you can really hope for, I do Python, Python and more Python, and I don’t agonise for a single second that I ought to be learning TypeScript or Elixir or Nim instead then something else in 6 months. There’s plenty of new stuff in Python 3.8 to get stuck into and plenty of Python 2.6 code we got that I can improve. That’s what I mean by deeply into it.
I think they are working to preserve the brand, and are demolishing the personality cult.
Being this HN, I clicked and I was not disappointed.
There were some folks doing it at the mit AI lab where I also was at the time, hence my unfortunate conflation. I know there were folks elsewhere working on it too, sorry.

(Not so much NN in the 80s except for a few holdouts like Rumelhart and Hinton).
> because they had a hard time filling 30 slots for our niche

That's my impression as well. I know someone who made the list, from what I've heard Forbes basically approached the people running the program we were in together and asked "which one of them would fit the slot the best", and that's how they were chosen. At that point they didn't really have anything notable to show for other than a few weeks old company.
Re America: that sounds like exceptionalism to me. It's not an outlier. A bunch of rich dudes wanted to avoid taxes (fair enough), and to continue slaving and stealing indigenous land.

Plenty of countries that used to have dictators (absolute monarchs) were able to limit them to merely symbolic figures, and bring in constitutions and strong parliaments. Some of these were also revolutions. See most of Europe and their colonies. Yes some have since regressed, but there's nothing particularly special about the USA besides the fact that it didn't have quite as much entrenched power, at first, and virtually unlimited ability to expand. So it was special in terms of it's early flexibility, but ever since it expanded to fill all its available space, seems to be pretty non-special.
Partly I think this is motivated by the law that gives tax breaks to companies that show losses. So then no big surprise that many tech companies show losses, regardless of their corporate health. Amazon is one; they've almost never shown a profit ever, and when they have it has been exceedingly slight (surely an accounting "mistake"). Yet they are still in business over 20 years later, and that success has catapulted multiple individuals into the billionaire range. Shady? Definitely. Too much capital? Clearly not, since Amazon has out-performed any possible influx of capital.

There is clearly some dark art in accounting, but I don't think it's always because the companies are covering up bad business. It might be because they're trying to make as little taxable profit as possible.
I've worked for companies who were more careless with even more private data required by law to be encrypted but wasn't .

Always comes down to "we don't have enough time". Then when it leaks we have all the time in the world.
I can't be the only one that thought this was going to be RocketMail, acquired by Yahoo.
> What about driving around the city

Autopilot is highway only for now. I'd expect the chip to be off, at least with the current version, if you are on city roads.

But sure, if you're driving on city roads, lets really math it out. You have 70kW-hrs and maybe you're going 20 mph. Lets call that 4600 Watts of energy usage. Lets say you have a 500-Watt computer, for a total of 5100 Watts.

You can run your car for literally 13-hours at that power-usage. 70 kW-hrs is a lot of energy storage. A 4600 Watt power-usage results in ~15 hours of runtime instead.

Not a big change. And these are estimates only, I don't actually know what the energy-consumption metrics are for city vs highway. But these "poor calculations" are still good enough to realize that even a 500W computer is well within the power-budget of a 70,000 Watt-hr battery pack.

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Absolute worst case scenario (for the computer): you are going 0 MPH. Parked in a parking lot using only the computer. That means 100% of the power usage goes into the computer. What happens with a 500W computer?

Well, 70 kW-hrs can last 140 hrs at 500Ws of usage, that's over a workweek: over 5 days of computer usage. Are we seriously worried about the miniscule power usage of the car's computer system when a 70 kW-hr battery is in the car?
So social divisions in authoritarian countries with a seemingly homogeneous populace are a facade. It is simply because there is no dissident political avenues from which social divisions can attach themselves to and make themselves manifest. Return freedom of expression and the whole charade crumbles.
Patrick Farley's "The Guy I Almost Was" comic has a perspective on those magazines, starting from when he'd read them as an adolescent.

http://electricsheepcomix.com/almostguy/

(Warning: it has some NSFW bits -- apropos of cyberculture messages, and of his thinking at various times/ages -- and it's also a longish read, so maybe best for after work, for most of our jobs. Other than that, it's the most accessible critique of cyberculture that I'm aware of. I never read most of those magazines myself, so I can't say how complete it is, but I overlapped with some people from that space who were still trying to position themselves as future visionary elite, much like Farley describes, and it took me a while to figure out.)
You are correct that we cannot know. I've made some assumptions I can't prove. But I think they're most likely.
I think it could be because personal space is decreasing in many populated areas. Cars are becoming that for many. Even wealthy people in US cities may share space closely with their families, and the option to go for a drive and enjoy a movie night be a real joy.
> Instead they could send you a cryptographically signed receipt and then not actually keep track of which apps you own.

How?