skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to get into well managed private equity, buy Berkshire Hathaway.

Most private equity companies use substantial debt leverage to acquire companies and flip them as fast as possible. Berkshire is just the opposite. They use mostly their own capital and leverage from insurance float. They buy businesses permanently. They hire good managers, enforce good corporate governance and the business is free from short term performance goals.
My bank seems to use a similar scheme. It appears akin to TOTP with 8 numbers. But the secret is inside the black box. They also have something like a QR code but with RGB colors (does not work with blue light reducing features).
I don't have a Twitter account and I agree that Twitter (and all the other platforms) use misleading tactics to collect data on their users. To play devils advocate though, Twitter genuinely has a problem with troll accounts don't they? Adding a phone number requirement could reduce the amount. I have the impression that some people are holding Twitter accountable for the way their platform is affecting public discourse, this could be primarily a tactic to curb fake accounts.
Did they dropped them because they "don't work" or because the wealthy lobbied against them?
There's a few people trying to build libraries (https://github.com/rjsf-team/react-jsonschema-form) but there ain't any magic bullet.
For this project (https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash), I built my very own as no other library would work for what I wanted
PG&E now cutting power across Northern California:nearly 800k customers affected
I have to admit, I wasn't expecting the Chinese people are stupid defense. I guess they have no idea who their customers are or what their products are being used for.
I’m a magic and hearthstone player and it just didn’t look appealing to me at all. I watched a couple of game play demos even Richard Garfield playing it, and I struggled to find where the ‘fun’ was supposed to be. It just looked so complicated and serious.
>Presumably this mostly comes from the steel wheels on steel track

Highly unlikely. Steel-on-steel is used because it lasts for YEARS without needing replacing due to wear.
To counter that, they're working on a bootstrap chain that starts with a tiny 500 byte hex editor and ends with a compiler that can build the GNU toolchain.
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We have Harvey Weinstein and rh Disney industrial conplex, our own take on it.
The keyword is "high impact". The link you provided is only ranked by publication count, it doesn't consider the impact factor of journal/conferences. If you look at stats from ICML this year[0], the only Chinese institution TsingHua is ranked #13 in the top #20 list.

Take a look at recent major advances in deep learning: information bottle neck, mask-rcnn, transformer, normalizing flow, all originated from US/Canadian/EU institutions. Chinese academia has very serious systematic issues that discourages innovation and encourages quantity over quality.

https://medium.com/@dcharrezt/icml-2019-stats-4ba18fbc6543
Zuckerberg explains why Facebook classifies “Men Are Trash” as hate speech
Marketing styles it as macOS nowadays, but anyway the modern way is when you are watching a video, click on the button that makes it pop out.

For example this clip on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/361821058
in the bottom-right, one-to-last button is the popout button. The clip will now hover over all other windows. Other websites have other buttons, or have this in the generic right-click menu. And some simply don't offer this.

If you're asking for a way to keep any window on top in macOS, there isn't a way. The above also works in Safari, but not in Firefox.
hey, nice lib you got there :) When I was deciding the API, I did have the idea of just collecting form input automatically (similar to forn), but there are few reasons which lead to the final decision:

1. Support React controlled component. eg some of the popular component libs, they are wrapped input inside their component and it's hard to predict which to include during the form submit.

2. React Native <3

3. Attach validation rules, messages and async validation on the individual field level.
How is this not going to suffer the same lack-of-popularity that his last phone suffered?
A Navigator for America's Deadliest Cold War ICBM
Recent discussion on this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20894044

From 2017: "Dr John Goodenough’s story suggests some people become more creative with age"

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/07/opinion/sunday/to-be-a-ge...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14058696
My dad, my brother and I react badly to any king of insect bites, we get large 1-2 inch marks that swell and weep.
I thought it was that we attract more bites but then wondered if that belief was because we react so badly.
If a person didn't get the reactions would they even recall the bite.
Anybody know if there is any research on this?
>For decades, Europe will be united by filthy air and a slowly unfolding public-health crisis caused by its embrace of diesel—something that was supposed to heal the environment.

More than a bit hyped, there is a lot of Europe outside London (and outside other European major cities).
What do you mean “no options”? It’s possible to buy American, Japanese or even Chinese cars in Europe. Regarding the norms, nothing prevents the manufacturers from building cars exceeding the minimum norms.

Edit: it’s also possible to buy a non-diesel car. New petrol cars are actually cheaper than diesel. There are plenty of EVs available on the market. Heck, even hydrogen, if one really wants to.
Here is a video I made a while back to better visualize the runs of timsort:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxLxf5xqqyE

Might be of interest...
Hi Dan. Is it okay for me to post? It's been about a year.

I've tried asking through official channels for a couple months, so I thought I'd ask casually here.

I don't care about my old accounts. This one is fine.
>You can handwave that away by calling it 'better networks' or 'democratized for the masses'

Yes, I can; I already have. Hell, half the things you list (GPS similar things already existed, as did speech recognition, "computer vision," space stations, ARPANET, etc etc) already existed in 1969. Nothing like antibiotics existed in 1919; an absolute biological cataclysm which effectively ended infectious disease as a public health problem. Nothing like space flight existed in 1919. Nothing like atom bombs existed in 1919. Nothing like the LSI chip, the mutha fookin' computer or even the transistor existed in 1919.

Antivirals compared to antibiotics? Not even close in its effects on humanity. Arguably the former don't really work.

The differences are huge. I realize whiggism is the ideology of the modern day ruling class, and on hacker news people consider themselves technologists, so we have to keep touting how ding dongs from harvard are going to bring about muh swingularity, but the pace of progress has obviously, egregiously stalled, and in some areas is actually reversing.
Well there is when you design signals that play on the physical properties of the silicon and the silicon design is known, think Rowhammer. The next level of this is making permanent modifications to the silicon, e.g. using focused RF signals to change the properties of individual transistors.

Relying on security through obscurity is bad, but you need some obscurity.

Passwords and keyfiles are ultimately a form of security through obscurity.
I am grossed out by proprietary protocols but proprietary encryption algorithms just make me laugh. Who even though that this would be a good idea? Are they seriously trusting their money with this?
Since this article didn’t do it (or if it did, I missed it), can someone explain why Susan Sontag is considered an important American intellectual figure? I’ve read a few articles about her over the years, and the general picture is of a charismatic, intelligent, intimidating person whose contribution seems to be just...being that kind of person, the famous Susan Sontag. Unfortunately, the accounts from people around her have a weird cult of personality vibe that make her seem like an academic con artist.

Of course, that’s pretty uncharitable. So can anyone explain some of what Sontag contributed, or how her work has helped you in some way, a specific work of hers to read, etc?
Here is a paper using diesel cheating to estimate health effects of diesel cars: http://ftp.iza.org/dp12427.pdf

One cheating diesel car in 1000 cars increases ozone, PM2.5 pollution by 1.33%, 1.99% respectively.

Each additional cheating diesel car in 1000 decreases child birth weight by 0.19%, causes low child birth weight 1.9% more often and causes 8% more visits per quarter per 1,000 children of age 0 to 4 to doctors because of asthma.

So yes, comparable American cities would be healthier. Having less taxes on diesel was a huge mistake in Europe. My guess is it was an attempt to burden transportation industry less with taxes. Plus lorries can do tax arbitration by filling up outside of countries with high diesel tax (so you wouldn't want too high of a diesel tax because of the "laffer curve"). This caused this whole innovation of having consumer diesel cars, even though they are more expensive, complicated and heavy. If you take into account weight and production cost it becomes difficult to justify a diesel engine via CO2/fuel savings outside of tax advantages (this doesn't apply to lorries).
Yeah, you can build apps with zero maintenance but you have to pay a couple of bucks per month for microservices.
I am talking about the peak range so 15 + 30 = 45. A 30-34 year old woman is 500x more likely to give birth than a 10-14 year old, and over 100x more vs a 45-55 year old woman. https://www.childtrends.org/indicators/fertility-and-birth-r... (scroll down). You do see even younger and older births, but at even lower rates.

So yes these births do add up, but are effectively ignorable when analyzing trends.
Another case of stan...why are these people so fanatic about someone?
If you don’t mind me asking, which country are you in?
And here is the actual author describing the link https://twitter.com/nicolalimodio/status/1181581317596745728...

You could also read the paper. The part linking silver prices to charitable giving is straightforward.
Fortunately for me I realized none of the 5~ terabytes on that machine mattered whatsoever as I never actually used any of it.

I would archive podcasts I liked, download YT videos I found worthy of it, I had 100gb or so of 9/11 news coverage from the day of the attacks and the next few days, insane amounts of exes for pretty much every revision of every scrap of software I used in case I ever wanted to go back to an old version, insane amounts of images from where I'd rip entire tumblr accounts based around different fandoms/topics, I had half a century of Lodge meeting minutes for one of my Lodges scanned as high-resolution OCRd pdfs, entire websites I'd wget for offline (why?!) viewing etc. It's all presumably still there but I haven't turned that box on in about a year now.

Man, switching to a Chromebox was so freeing.
I have been using it. No real improvement. Freezes all over. And I gave the GC something like 20gb.

It's even worse when adding in our internal repositories on top.

Also having a back and forth on a ticket about their support for compiler_commands.json; the one generated by ninja for Chromium simply doesn't work for me. Their person says it works for them, though. I don't know how. Right now I manually create a CMakeLists.txt with the directories I need.

But one thing that is discouraging about CLion is that even directories that you explicitly tell it not to index as source seem to still be looked at and indexed in some fashion, so a huge number of files just drags it down to a halt. My coworker was able to get decent performance by creating an empty directory and symlinking in only the directories he is working on. Simply having directories with large quantities of files is enough to drag it down.

It's very disappointing, as its my tool of choice. I feel handicapped without it.
The feature is part of the Twitter ads platform, just like Facebook's custom audiences. A third party partner on behalf of an advertiser or the advertiser themselves can upload the list of identifiers (here phone numbers) to match against (the audience). Note that an audience can only be used if it matched at least 500 users.
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Could this be applied to cut down on the drugs we need to give cattle?
How do you arbitrage?

I assume you can't hand Electra one of their shares and get back its constituents. And I assume because it's private equity, you can't do the obverse either, or do a long/short type trade.
Decades of diesel use in Europe have saved millions of lives would be a better headline.

For those of you who've downvoted and left no comment as to why. Did you get triggered or is there anything factually wrong with what I wrote?
World’s super-rich hit by private jet pilot shortage
PRC has threatened to invade ROC if they declare independence as the “Republic of Taiwan”
It's a lot slower than trains.

Having done a few Barge Holidays in the UK on a 72 foot narrow boat the slow speed is relaxing, though doing the Tardebigge Flight (30 locks) is hard work.

Also being able to park the barge in front of the RSC and get tickets to see Kenneth Branagh was a highlight of one holiday
Neutrality always favors the tyrant.

There is no apolitical position in a situation like this.
Interesting that they also awarded a person (Yoshino) doing a very practical aspect of the work (making it commercially viable), which is typically out of the scope of fundamental discoveries these awards target. As I understand it, anyway.
Is Arduino firmware open? Are the PCB and chip designs open?
I think the sample size is too low. I am willing to bet that once you start doing this, the flies will start adapting and learning - eventually completely ignoring the stripes after a few generations.
The KeY Project
> 612 grams of silver is $342 today

Subtle, but this is spot price - typically the price negotiated by large institutions based on large transfers. Individuals in the $300 range of silver buying pay premiums on top of that which scales down with size; a single gram bar has a higher premium and costs a lot more than a single 10 ozt bar with a lower premium. This can be observed at any precious metals trading platform, whether it's corporate sited like APMEX or community sites like reddit or dedicated forums; it would be highly inefficient to buy gram bars to fund anything - but people with $300 in life savings probably can't afford more than 1 ozt at a time. Silver spot price is pretty volatile as well, the trade tariff war has driven it up $2 or more in the last year.
It's not as unintuitive as it sounds...

It seems like a tautology but you have to actually enjoy interacting with dogs to find dog ownership enjoyable and rewarding. Many people just don't find any sort of joy in a dog's company. Personally, I don't really care to be being around dogs, I'd strongly prefer to take walks myself (and I do). The more time I spend with friend's dogs the more I dislike them.

However I absolutely love being around cats and few things are more enjoyable than a cat in my lap.
Passing through a lock usually needs a fee (by the ship for passenger ships, by the ton for transport ships).

But other than that, ships (with speeds of up to 100 km/h for fast hydrofoils but rarely for the whole trip) are always going to be slower than trains (usually much faster than 100 km/h).

As an example, Vienna-Budapest used to be served by hydrofoil for a 6-hour trip, which takes 2 and a half hours by train. Calais-Dover is also a good example of how train is faster than ship (30 minutes vs 1h30), even in this instance of a very straight route for the ships.

I like taking a boat when I have the option, but it's rarely actually a more practical option than the train. It can be better than a bus though.
I don't think this is true. If you had 10 instances of yourself then they would diverge as each of them specializes on different things. The gains come from the fact that you can quickly share the knowledge between the AI instances.
There's so much talk about false-positives in this thread, but I have yet to experience that on my own car, even when people cut me off dangerously close. Not once has AEB mistakenly been activated by the car.
> Unfortunately governments around the world aren't often leaping to take effective action.

This is a widespread issue. We are heavily dependent on the Government on almost every issue, and people seem to want to be more dependent on them. But the question is, what can we do about it that would be effective when we are getting pressure from all fronts because of misplaced power, and financial incentives?
Aren’t you referring to the seatbelt effect? As far as I know, Volvo drivers are still considered more timid on average?
He also said:

> That's a lot of commits by a lot of amazing people.
SVT-AV1 ready for prime time: beats x265 and libvpx in quality, bitrate, speed
The venture capital economic model is very different from that of private equity. VC makes relatively small investments in many extremely risky firms, hoping for a few massive blowout hits which return the entire fund by themselves. PE buys firms with proven economic models, cuts costs and tries to improve management in some form, whether by bringing in real estate expertise for franchises (think Starbucks or McDonald’s) or doing bog standard MBA stuff like KPIs and improving staffing, hiring or internal IT.

At the high end of VC you get some overlap with PE, like SoftBank investing $X00 million in hot “startups” but PE does not chase 100x returns on investment. They’re in the business of taking a company worth $100 million and turning it into one worth $500 million.
You could get her a wall clock with hands as she learns to tell time in school. Get her away from the digital format until she gets it and then comes back.

Cute story.
Any non Chinese manufacturers you can recommend?
I wonder if bank staff are in on it sometimes. I once was at a bank branch and had the teller pick up the phone, call another teller and tell her my balance in a foreign language that I happen to speak fluently (but don’t look like I should).

I wanted to ask her why she would be doing that, but I was a bit more meek in my younger days.
I had that same issue with Amex, they phoned, said there was a concern with my card and then wanted me to go through identity checks before saying more. They also got quite stroppy when I refused and asked them to prove their own identity first!

Eventually they did suggest I call the number on the back of my card, but I was annoyed by their lack of professionalism by this point (I mean, they are asking me to do stuff - giving out information to unknown callers - which they themselves always tell customers never to do!) I said I wasn't going to phone a general number and get stuck on hold for hours over an unknown issue - either give me some reference to get through quickly to the right person, tell me what the problem is now, or send me a letter. But they kept claiming that they couldn't send out letters in the post :-(

In the end, I finally received a letter by mail telling me that there were problems with my direct debit payments. So it was a genuine call but their inability to securely make these calls is frustrating.
Really I think micropayments are a fool's errand because it is inherently too "fraudable" not in the legal sense but that both sides can easily be left unhappy with no recourse in a many to many relationship. No gates and it is just another donate button. Add a gate and clickbait and bait and switch becomes ten times worse. A reputation system would be dystopian and doomed to failure.

Personal subscriptions for websites might work for those who are big enough but "big enough" is far larger than entities which probably should have been trustbusted several decades ago and it is still too fragmented for that purpose. Not helping is that they are always too greedy in price expected from ad viewer vs subscriptions - because of how few bother.
> probably a racist cyclist even emits PM2.5 though nothing like a diesel truck. So this isn't a problem we can entirely solve

Oh man i hate those racist cyclists :P
If anything I'd suspect friction brakes as the source of the particles.
Thanks, I do use FF, and have used reader mode occasionally (usually on mobile to avoid obnoxious pop-ups or footers when ublock is more of a pain to use) - but what I hadn't found until you commented was the font size, width, line height, and background colour settings. That's pretty great.
The other big cities outside London are definitely worse, Paris or Berlin are much more affected by the use of diesel because both France and Germany have a higher proportion of diesel cars compared to the UK
I have zero insight into how the 2FA phone number was stored or how it could have been accessed.

I can't admit to anything I don't know about :)

I agree that in a well designed system and process 2FA numbers should not be accessible (like passwords). However, I've seen this as a common practice in quite a few startups.
Surprised at first that there would be so many buses visible in Italy on the map, but then I also noticed "Vehicle position based on interpolated schedule data" so it means it's guessing the position based on the schedule.
That could be waaaay off what's showing on the map, to the point where it's almost useless.
> Remains the risk that some bad guys could get their hands on the golden keys. Yes, design to handle that?

after all, it worked so well for the TSA security key: https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/27/security-experts-have-clon...
Right the, checks notes... University of Chicago is known for its lack of rigor in economics.
Frying food seemed to be particularly bad, even with the extractor running. If it's not too cold, I open the kitchen door now when I'm frying. Burning the toast doesn't help either. And candles resulted in fairly high levels too (my wife is Danish, so candles are a big thing in our house).
Most companies don't need to hire data scientists.

They need to hire engineers who can take an algorithm implemented well by somebody else, and apply it to a business domain.

That's the future of deep learning, machine learning, and all other linear/logistic regression style technologies.

The mathematicians are going to have to wait for the age of quantum annealing to feel valuable again: reducing code into a function that works on a quantum setup actually needs those skills that developers struggle with.

Everything else though, outside of pure research and in the vast majority of companies, is already well on the road to commoditisation.
It is bad for staff. Working for a company that’s been bought by a PE firm sucks. Almost always layoffs are coming and you’ll have to do more with your resources or more Witt fewer resources.

Creditors are lending their own money. If they make a bad bet that’s on them, should have done better due diligence.

What PE is good for is increasing economic efficiency more generally which redounds to the benefits of consumers in the long run.
Why do these companies somehow deserve to exist? Why can't the creditors make their own decisions on who to lend to and pay the price if they are wrong?
The linked waterway map is completely fantastic. It explains a lot about European history and economic significance of certain cities as trade hubs.
I’ve never seen anyone “rely” on auto emergency breaking before to drive more recklessly. Such a concept reminds me of an old Aerosmith video where some kid runs a car into a wall Just because they know the airbags will save them.