skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't want to be harsh, I admire and want to recognize the creative designer.

I enjoy guiding people through unfamiliar things which I have experimented with, it's good to see the diverse ways to grasp the same fundamental concept. Some students are quicker than some degreed engineers.

You seem like a person that could make an outstanding collaborator, building systems unique to the direction of the project.

I'm glad you put your website here, I'll pick up the phone and give your company a call, there's not a more promising, businesslike way.

I like instruments also, and have more than one.

Testing pays the bills, see the message for the acetone user.

When retired it might be good to build some robotic type stuff, maybe in a capitalist venture to overcome financial limitations.

Or looks like things would be fine without any equipment, helping companies negotiate the byzantine ASTM process alone instead, just been invited to join the emerging cannabis committee as an independent voting member.

That's only about testing, but extraction operators might best benefit from more supercritical ability on their side, you could surely consider this yourself now since it's very uncommon to have experience safely handling this type equipment, especially as a researcher on an experimental basis. Haven't done EOR in years and this time it could be CBD oil.

Anyway, presenting some findings on heavy petroleum oils to my traditional ASTM committee shortly, they want to get it into the book as soon as possible because it could save operators millions across the board.

Started to meet with some AI people just over a month ago too, inviting them to the lab to see firsthand (& smell) the kinds of crude oil they have been modeling about, some engineers for the first time.
> Gödel was a child when the theory of relativity was formalized

Relativity does away with the concept of simultaneity. Your statement may be true but unprovable :)
There’s plenty of research on this topic. Perhaps you can find the Wikipedia entry a useful jumping off point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-level_radioactive_waste_m...
There was Songbird: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songbird_(software) But that's the only other thing outside of Mozilla's umbrella that I can think of.
Hiring people on the basis of arbitrary criteria opens you up to indirect discrimination claims. If some protected class X just so happens to perform below-average on that arbitrary criteria, then members of that group can claim indirect discrimination. If the criteria have some rational relationship to the actual job, that's a defence that may succeed. If the criteria are arbitrary and have no rational relationship to the actual job, then that defence isn't going to work. (The fact that there was no discriminatory intention behind the criteria, even if true, may be difficult to prove – arbitrary criteria that discriminate against people in practice, and which have no obvious justification, are likely to be presumed to have a discriminatory purpose, and how can you rebut that presumption?)
It's what we should aim for. We definitely shouldn't predicate moral arguments on deliberate plans for non-deterministic punishment.
It's meant to be talking trash online, so you're right to take it with a grain of salt.

But I'll stand behind the view that when ideas are being shot down with challenges like "would you stake your career on this" then a bull-headed approach is worth a try.

> I don't think offering to gamble away your job would be an effective way to convince others to accept your advice on risk management.

It won't persuade technically minded people, but it tells decision makers that you're confident, and offers them a measure of accountability.
"All of the studies of adolescent sleep patterns in the United States are showing that the time at which teens generally fall asleep is biologically determined -- but the time at which they wake up is socially determined"

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/12/181212140741.h...
The Struggle to Hire More Minority Engineers
Washing Machine for Your Data
Clean your data for data analysis and machine learning by using AI.

Hi, all!

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Instead of repeatedly writing the same lines of code, automate that process and let AI take care of that. From missing values to skewed variables to duplication and typos, we're taking care of it!

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Well something like that is core to the password manager, and already introduced into the product since the beginning. If the maintainer has been competent enough to use (say) a secure RNG until now, he's not going to suddenly mess it up when adding a new feature.

Which is not to say it's a bad idea to get expert vetting for something like this (it's obviously an ultra-safe approach), but it helps to try to put things in context yourself, so that you don't have to find an expert every time you need to make a security decision. In the context of a desktop password manager, there isn't a terrible lot that can go wrong by accident and suddenly result in password exposure once the core product is formed and secure. If it happens, it'd be almost certainly due to a new maintainer coming along and somehow checking in unsafe code, rather than the current maintainers (say) suddenly forgetting they shouldn't call rand() or accidentally saving plaintext passwords on a disk.
Just say you did the research in Estonia. Reverse engineering for the purpose of compatibility with other software is techically always allowed.
As someone who gets sold to a lot, don’t under estimate the power of non decision makers in the process. If you can get the person who admins the website or leads the support team to buy in, you’ll have way more of a chance of convincing a VP to buy something. Just remember when you talk to these people, they aren’t the ones who can sign off and that’s ok. Give them tools to help pitch internal and be patient
I agree completely. I'm certainly far more productive in the morning if there is not a standup or some recurring daily meeting scheduled...

That defined interruption imposes a big cost in productivity beforehand. It squeezes everything.

Why standups couldn't just be a handful of bullet points from each person when they spin up for the day in a Slack channel is something I have never quite understood.
Find a partner.

Big companies or .gov are too expensive to for you to work with unless they are coming to you.
> It's apparently not my data and privacy and I have no say in it at all when someone uploads their goddamn contact list to these frickin' crooks.

Afaik that's actually the legal situation in the US due to the third-party doctrine [0]. It's one of the ways government mass surveillance has been "legalized" without having to comply with the Fourth Amendment.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine
Data Scientists and Analysts spend 70-80% of their time cleaning and preparing data. Hope this can help cut down the time by half.
Internet is inverted therapy, beware the negativity please!

When we have a internalized, skeptical view on something, we have a tendency to seek confirmation of it and ignore clues that can open our minds.

There are other, more accepted perspectives we can use to understand relationships. I hope this can be helpful to people!

Attachment Theory: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/1d36/ac75d7081fcd86d467f6d2..., http://www.psychology.sunysb.edu/attachment/online/inge_orig...

Schema Therapy: https://www.guilford.com/excerpts/young.pdf

Also I recently found some nice study notes relationships:

http://fiupsychology.com/ch.6.htm, http://fiupsychology.com/ch.7.htm, http://fiupsychology.com/ch.8.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgWnadSi91s
> ...was stolen from in 1990. Why hasn't at least this particular piece been returned to its owner?

Just because it was stolen in the 90s does not mean they have been holding on to it the whole time. It might have been recovered 6 months before this 60 Minutes episode was filmed and they are still holding it as evidence for a trial.
I have no idea what he is referring to but being able to "Run as Administrator" as any user is sketchy.
It's not that trivial. It's hard to find places that are geologically stable over very long timeframes.

However, anti-nuclear activists deliberately focus too much on the problem of storing it indefinitely in the near term.

If we plan storage for tens of thousands of years, waiting out a few hundred years for economic and technological development is in order. The waste of tomorrow might be the fuel of the future.
"Research to date has shown that the circadian rhythms of adolescents are simply fundamentally different from those of adults and children,"

"All of the studies of adolescent sleep patterns in the United States are showing that the time at which teens generally fall asleep is biologically determined -- but the time at which they wake up is socially determined,"

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/12/181212140741.h...
The German government has contributed the base layer to OpenStreetMaps, and uses it for their official parcel/lot line maps. It is much better than the janky pile of crap Esri dumps on most counties in the USA.
> I’ve spoken to countless developers (one in fact who has a PhD in GIS) who was not aware that the ONLY thing browsers understand are those three things

Er, most browsers have built in handling for things other than HTML, JS, and CSS. XML (generically), XSLT, SVG, GIF, PNG, JPEG, WOFF, PDF,...
I am sad to hear that much negativity here on HN. I mean, sure - it's about aesthetics and some people may have strong feelings about that (not, it's not "objective"!).
At the same time - it is a free font, which you can use if you like it. It is not a new standard you have to follow. It this case I would understand the outrage.

Personally, I feel like a traditionalist (full !==, no italics, etc). But... find these experiments with programming fonts refreshing.
Also, I remember times (not long ago!), when having a highlighted font in Sublime Text was considered inferior to the "traditional way" of monochrome in Vim or Emacs.

Times change (I wanted to put here a "Times New Roman" pun).
The advice I'll give is based on my experience as cofounder of an early online banking technology company back in the mid-90s. We started with three people in rented class-C space and over seven years did high six-figure deals with large and small banks including Fleet, Bank of America, Citi and others.

There's not really a "how it works" for this. If I had to tell you how it works I'd say: it works by you making friends inside a corporation and convincing them to buy your product. Did that help? :). Probably not, so here's a little more: you preferably start with a member of your founding team who is articulate, outgoing, amiable and enjoys meeting and talking with people. That person needs to know the product and competitive environment cold, and it helps if they are passionate believers in the value prop. They need to have an identified list of target companies. They need to start calling and emailing and working contacts to get meetings. Eventually, if you actually have a value prop, one of those meetings will result in a relationship with someone who is willing to champion the product internally.

You then work outward from that contact, meeting with their colleagues, eventually identifying decision makers who control actual budget that can be used to pay you for something. If you do all this skillfully then you may get them to commit to a purchase. They will then have to shepherd you through a potentially long series of internal policy and legal hurdles. You may need to get on a qualified vendor list, or meet certain business stability criteria. You will likely need approvals of the deal from different departments, and their legal team will review and try to negotiate any agreements you request them to sign. You can see why developing internal champions is absolutely critical. In every single successful deal we did, by the time we got to the second or third round of meetings our internal champions were doing most of the selling.

The last thing I'll say is that it can be powerfully tempting to think you can purchase success at this by hiring the right magic person who can work their little black book and make sales happen. I tend to doubt it, and it definitely never worked for us. A founding sales person can make this happen. That's the person I'm talking about above. But just bringing in a hired gun is unlikely to result in success imo. I think you need to believe in your own thing enough, and be good enough at talking about it, that you can land your first few deals. Then when you do bring aboard professional sales people you'll have some actual idea of why people buy from you and how to systematize the approach. Good luck with it!
I am the CTO of a “unicorn” B2B tech company that focuses almost exclusively on the global 2000. Sales are 95% about relationships and 5% about Product. If you want to sell into Citibank, you go hire the one guy or girl who previously sold $20M of X to Citi, who golfs with the VP of Procurement and goes to Billy Joel concerts with the VP of infrastructure operations. Once you hire this person it feels like cheating, like playing super Mario brothers hitting warp zones, but alas I learned this is how business gets done. To get a PO you have to build a coalition: procurement, architecture, operations, finance. You almost certainly will also need a reseller who has an MSA (master services agreement) with the firm, so you don’t have to spend 6 months in due diligence with their lawyers. You have to give up ~15% to the VAR just for that facilitation, but it’s part of the cost of doing business.
On NextDoor people get really outraged whenever they see a drone flying around. I always see comments about shooting them down even though the city uses them.
Imagine putting SABRE on the first stage though - the engines would be heavier, but using air instead of carrying oxygen, for the full burn of the first stage. The payload mass fraction would be dramatically higher without carrying the oxidizer mass on board.
Well done ! If I may ask, what ratio of your revenue comes from adsense / subscription / and affiliate ?
DoD Told to ‘Screw Amazon’ in Its Bid for $10B Pentagon Contract
This is the usual 'us VS them'/'innovator vs business' narrative. But its an old narrative you find everywhere from the Wright Brothers to Heaviside to Marconi to Steve Jobs etc etc.

It's also an unhelpful/superficial narrative that creates automatic misunderstandings and mistrust as soon as speedbumps are hit, when science/tech and business interact. It gives me heartburn whenever I get pushed into a room where science/tech ppl and biz ppl are trying to dominate each other. Because they have been feed this self reinforcing narrative that one side has to win.

The real Tesla/Edison story, is the innovator was a bad businessman and the businessman was a bad innovator(Edison was barely educated). They both squandered a whole lot of time and resources because they couldn't work together. And progress happened in spite of all the drama between the two. That's the real story. And it plays out constantly even today.

The narrative needs to change. Because in today's fast changing world both sides cannot survive without each other.
The headline screams red flag to me. Calling something "machine learning-powered" isn't a guarantee of improved performance at all. Their baseline is already a fairly complex model, so there's no way to gauge how useful having a model at all is.

The partial dependency plots they show have gigantically wide error bars on them - they talk as if they offer a really nice confirmation of intuition, but the real relationship could be anywhere in those intervals, so it's probably weak evidence at best. The only one of the three where you could say with confidence that there's a relationship is the higher price -> lower score one. Add it all up, and you've discovered that people prefer cheaper stuff, with maybe a whisper of it being more complicated than that. In which case, their stage 1 model likely amounts to "show them the cheap stuff first", without the developers involved realising it. This is one of the problems we have with modelling - the model could be doing something simpler than we realise.

This gets more worrisome when you consider the fact that they're doing A/B testing to check for performance improvements. How are they able to claim that they improved bookings by 13% with their stage 1 model? Improved relative to what? More importantly, how do they know that this isn't a dataset-specific effect given that the data used for the stage 1 model is "small"?

I didn't continue reading after this, the whole article looks like confirmation bias to me.
Or the first person who has the money to file even if he or she only saw some kids invention on YouTube and got to the patent office first.
IMO they should whitelist a couple common resolutions. 1920x1080, for example, is extremely common and probably doesn't need to be letterboxed to avoid fingerprinting.
It seems unbelievable unless you’ve done sales. I used to do B2B sales for a VAR when I was in college in the 90s.

I’d spend about 30% of my time doing cold outreach. I’d get a conversion 2-3 times a week. One day I sold about $250k of high margin training vouchers (it was MS Office user certification iirc) through a single phone call. It literally paid for that year of college.
Watch “Beverly Hillbillies S04 E24 the Old Folks Home” on YouTube
There's a reasonable expectation that the victim will die, but not anyone else. I guess you can argue that there might be a risk of collateral damage, but there's also a risk of collateral damage in hiring contractors for your house (eg. the plumber starting a gas leak resulting you and your neighbor's house getting blown up).
European governments will continue to back Ariane because strategically it makes sense. Russia will bankroll energyia likewise. Dominance is not static and private capital will not entirely replace state actions.
> But just bringing in a hired gun is unlikely to result in success imo.

A thousand times, this is right on. Hired gun sales folk are generally going to follow the path of least resistance--they will try to get other people at your startup to do the boring/hard work they themselves ought to be doing. Or try to push through deals with lousy margins to get their revenue commission, or a dozen other pathological things. Plus, if you (founder) can't sell the thing, it's going to be super, super tricky to identify someone else who is even capable.
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How is it with Privacy Pass? https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/11500199265...
I used the keepass format for years up until a few months ago. I switched over to bitwarden, mostly for the sharing.

Important accounts are sharedd between my wife and I, and I back everything up to my NAS regularly.

For work, we're looking in to vault by hashicorp.
Have fun :) https://staticdeploy.io/
Are you sure VAC doesn’t detect spin botters? Valve has implemented neural net based cheat detection trained from overwatch cases (players watching demos of reported players and judging if they were cheating). It’s a rather nice solution and doesn’t involve kernel mode drivers from a third party I don’t trust to make secure kernel mode drivers (a la battle eye or punk buster).

https://youtu.be/ObhK8lUfIlc
Nothing in your link covers the safety or dangers of waste disposal beyond the vague statement that, "There is general agreement that placing spent nuclear fuel in repositories hundreds of meters below the surface would be safer than indefinite storage of spent fuel on the surface." That article is a couple paragraphs on waste containers, and a list of different countries' waste management schemes. It doesn't dig into any long term risk assessment.
It's good that people can get these and reverse engineer them, do a security audit, and publish the results (which are that they are easily hackable and insecure).

> The fact that voter information is left on devices, unencrypted, that are then sold on the open market is malpractice

I disagree with him that what he describes is "voter information".

There's vote information and election information, both which are already public information and are not sensitive information at all. The machines do not have voter information on them nor does he give any evidence of it. What he describes finding was:

> The information I found on the drives including candidates, precincts, and the number of votes cast on the machine, were not encrypted.

All these things are public information already.

> Worse, the “Property Of” government labels were still attached, meaning someone had sold government property filled with voter information and location data online, at a low cost, with no consequences. It would be the equivalent of buying a surplus police car with the logos still on it.

When government agencies auction off surplus cars they seldom repaint them first. It's common to find them with the logos. Example:

https://www.copcarsonline.com/2018_Dodge_Charger_Largo_FL_35...

Even comes with the original light bar and the radar!
It is possible though cost&complexity seems high - we theoretically can even today bundle a bunch of SR-71 engines and probably stretch them beyond designed Mach 3.3 for the short time. Having low thrust-to-weight (SABRE promises up to 14, SR-71 had 6) we'd need either a lot of them for VTOL which leads to high cost, or we're limited by the size of maximum realistically possible hypersonic capable plane, plus the plane body being the additional weight. For example VTOL calculation - say engine weights 1 ton, we can lift off 13 ton of fuel and payload. It will use 40 ton of O2 from the air. For rocket engine - 1 ton engine can lift off 100+ ton, and if we just take the 13 ton fuel plus 40 ton O2 we'd have 45 ton budget for the rest (body plus payload). In reality you'd need higher fuel ratio, and this is why VTOL for atmospheric breathing engine pretty much isn't an option .

Going beyond pure rocket engine for the 1st stage i think air-augmented rocket (http://astronautix.com/g/gnom.html) being simpler (thus cheaper) would be the next step that would get us closer (specific impulse wise) to what SABRE is targeting.
It would be nice if FF would standardize on the Tor UA: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0
12 months from first contact to first dollar--nevermind first dollar above recouping costs--seems a deliriously optimistic goal in certain industries.