skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like he made contributions to a private repository on Oct 25.
One can have 1000x more money than a middle class person, but there are no "time billionaires"
Left unsaid is the "everyone gets a veto" crap that destroys hiring 10x contributors. I have personally been involved in numerous interviews (as the interviewer ), where my fellow interviewers have deliberately shitcanned candidates because they seemed extremely well qualified and highly motivated (as compared to my colleague). Everyone gets a veto is almost uniform in my field and it is a massive problem.
Porsche tries selling its cars online in the US
Renewable energy developer hit by first-of-its-kind 'denial of service' attacks
It's the year 2027. You get a notification from the H8Watch™ by the ADL app, default installed on every phone, and can't be deleted without jailbreaking. You open the notification, and it shows a video of you from 2 weeks ago, from a camera embedded in the table of the fast food restaurant from where you were eating lunch with your friend. Your voice has been reconstructed through lipreading software and played back to you. "You're such a feandra, I paid last time!" you said to your friend playfully, using the new insult people just started using to refer to someone thrifty.

After the video and reconstructed voice plays back to you twice, it changes to a message. "Minor class-based insult detected." The nonsense word "feandra" had been added to the H8Watch™ database 2 hours ago, and your offense had come up as part of their program to catch racists and classists retroactively. This prevents the use of new words or euphamisms that may otherwise be used to bypass H8Watch™ detection.

Moments later, you get more notifications. Twitter: account suspended for 1 day, your bank: $25 has been deducted from your account for terms of service violation, Facebook: 2 offenses so far this month, 1 more and all three videos will be posted to your Facebook feed.

You quickly swipe away the rest of the notifications, you'll deal with them later, and text the friend you were going to meet for dinner. "Hey John, I can't make it tonight. Cash is a little tight after another violation, and I can't risk a public conversation this week."
> What do you think the Blizzard employees are going to "have to deal with" if not harassment at BlizzCon?

They will have to deal with negative publicity and people not liking their events, and refusing to buy their games, therefore causes them to be less successful?

Why shouldn't they deserve to receive negative financial impact, as a company, for doing stuff that pisses off customers?
It's not stated anywhere, but this treats GDP as the only metric anyone should bother to examine. I wish the world was so simple that we could boil down economic progress to a single metric, but people have been pointing out problems with that since the first attempts to measure national economies.

Sure, more people typically means global GDP will go up, but no one cares. What we ultimately want is for per-capita measures, like income or poverty rates, to improve.
Microsoft Concludes the .NET Framework API Porting Project
Yeah always. Usually I go to the gym in the morning so I shower after getting back.
While roenxi explained it already, let me add to that. A forum is a voluntary association where you can easily exclude people. Its the equivalent of your living room. Keeping your livingroom or your peer group free of Nazis isnt difficult, you just tell them to leave. Children in kindergarden manage to do that, "you are stupid go away". A state is not a voluntary association. We are all stuck with each other and somehow need to get along. There is no real "ban" option. If you are talking about anything remotely comparable in real life you are talking about a military struggle. I dont think we really need to have the discussion why this is a bad idea?
Quite expensive but maybe worth it, thanks for the tip
Maybe some gamma-ray bursts are primordial black holes having their final death cry, with their emission spectrum moving into higher and higher frequencies?
https://youtu.be/d9aPde_MZQc : World Building by Ridley Scott in Blader Runner .. ‘Los Angeles. November 2019’.

Are we there yet?

https://youtu.be/ZPluJUQGHrg : production/the set/designing the future
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Yeah, black hole "radius" (not volume) grows linearly with it's mass. So very heavy black holes aren't that "dense".
Sorry but I think that not doing what you can to facilitate communication with your interlocutor is impolite. Including not responding. Of course there is no obligation, but I'd find it impolite.

I travel a lot, I have lived in different countries. If everybody tried to impose their local languages to foreign people, this would be impossible. Languages are tools for communication, using them as signs of identity is the arrogant part.

By the way, calling Catalan an indigenous language is ridiculous.
I guess the lesson to learn here is that you shouldn't rely on externally hosted assets. Just host it yourself, its not that hard. If you're concerned about the bandwidth cost, you should probably charge more for the service your providing.
Nothing has ever not happened more than this.

Since almost none of it can be corroborated, and CNN's investigative journalism does little to inspire confidence, we can only check for internal consistency. There is none. It appears that every stereotype is leveraged, activating that comforting confirmation bias in CNN's readership, while also promoting one that is new to me: 70% of the time the women financially support their shiftless man. She claims the number of women went from 50 to 1000, so how many members are there? Lets be generous and use the SPLC estimate from 2018: 1000 members. Hmmm, well lets pretend they said 2000 - even m/f split... this is the boogeyman - 2k racists?

The laughable mistake in perspective leads to my favorite part of her narrative though: the alt-right's ironic vineyard rental! What expectation is being violated here, who has that expectation? "'Oh these big scary Nazis retreated to a vineyard.' I thought it would be profoundly ironic." Antifa's expectation would only be violated if they thought the alt-right was poor and underprivileged. They do not think that, and I'd be surprised if the alt-right felt that way about themselves either. I can think of one group of people who feel that way though: a writer for CNN.

The only way this story makes any sense is if you assume the perspective of a CNN writer who is so out of touch with reality that their caricature of the alt-right is unrecognizable to anybody who is not a CNN writer. This same warped perspective is what leads to hilarious works of fiction involving roving masked racists who, before slipping back into the shadows, declare Chicago to be "Maga country".
Here is a curious, but really debatable view on our population, that I've read somewhere.

There are 60 billions people total, floating around and waiting for their turn to "manifest" and live. Such a life is very tiring, so humans need a lot of time to recharge: usually, 700-1200 years. Humans aren't created out of thin air or of proteins: bodies can be replicated quickly, but "creating" an actual human takes longer than the lifespan of an average solar system. With an average lifetime of 70 years, we can't have more than 10 billion "participants" living at the same time. We also can't just fix aging because even with a perfect body, life is very tiring.
I'm the author of 12factor (although really it is an aggregation of the work and insights from many people at Heroku). It continues to surprise and please me that this piece continues to be relevant eight years later—a virtual eternity in software/internet time.

Fun fact: I debated whether to call it "the Heroku way" or somesuch. Glad I went with a standalone name, feel like that allowed it to take on a life beyond that product. For example I doubt Google would have wanted a page about "Heroku Way app development on GCP" in their documentation. :-)
This is the approach that all sub forums will apply.

When you have a single specific mechanism that can be applied to “real world polities”, then perhaps this discussion could work.

Otherwise you are talking about a federation of forums and the state of the art when it comes to effective moderation models.

I also recommend volunteering as a mod in one of these forums.

It’s a great place to see what’s going on at the point where the rubber meets the road- grounding your future ideas in tested experience.
JavaScript 101: Conditionals and Loops
Yeah!

1. The source code can be read in about 30 seconds.

2. It demonstrates that you can make some little productivity applications using aliases.

3. It installs using `cat`.

4. A user can understand all its features immediately.

5. A user doesn't need to write json to configure it.

6. It easily allows a user to see an entire months worth of notes with a very short command, which makes the author very happy because that's something they often have to do in order to complete timesheets.
NSO Pegasus [pdf]
Haha, I read it the exact opposite way. This is ML, not statistics - we’re not publishing, aren’t obsessed with rigor, we just want to scrape some sites and spit out a house price predictor in a few hours :)
You’re Dying on the Street. A Drone Might Be Your Only Hope
Share your results if you tested this! :)

(I have no relation to the library)
Revisiting Adorno’s “Jargon of Authenticity” (1964): Against Existentialism
RPI4: Now Overclocked, Net-Booted, and Power-Sipping
Ask HN: How Do You Survive?
I have a job that costs me upwards of 50 hours a week.
I have a partner I love dearly.
I have two kids who I cherish.
I technically have 119 hours a week where I am 'awake'.
I just want to know how you all make it fit. I know I have it pretty good because my job allows me to work two days at home 9am-3pm where I then pick up the kids from school but the rest of the work days I'm completely dedicated to work. I feel pretty roasted by the end of the week.
Not sure what HN is getting all excited about ... the Piper M600 is $3 million, and since Mexico is humid, they've had composite delamination problems ...

Or you can just pull the throttle to idle, and trim for Vx, which is the "descend through clouds" emergency procedure.
Uber to acquire food delivery service Cornershop
mission critical!
Keep in mind also that WhatsApp also demands full access to ALL your contacts in order to really work properly, as opposed to Signal where you just add the people you want to use Signal with
We already know how to get off of fossil fuels. We know how to make solar panels, nuclear reactors, electric cars, electric heat pumps, etc. The technology exists. It will likely continue to improve, but we could do it entirely with what already exists.

If we deploy it by the time today's unborn children become a significant fraction of the global carbon footprint, it isn't going to matter how many of them there are. And if we don't deploy it by the time today's unborn children become a significant fraction of the global carbon footprint, it isn't going to matter how many of them there are.
It's remarkable how someone living in 2019 still finds grounds to complain about stiffing political correctness.
As a non-programmer, I’d like also very much to see something like that applied to some kind of personal Wikipedia.
What's OR?
I remember Google had an extension that did something similar like 5-10 years ago... not sure what happened to that (obviously probably Killed By Google).

Otherwise, this is definitely cool! Could be used like airdop.
I deliberately didn't use the phrase security by obscurity, because that usage of obscurity is synonymous with secrecy. And that's not what the original comment was about.

I agree about the low profile being necessary (even if not sufficient).
here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13087904
I couldn’t help but smile at the number of times I saw ATARI on the Blade Runner streets..
Show HN: Wunderfind – Find your lost Bluetooth devices in seconds
Hey Hackers,

I am Hendrik, a student from Berlin and also an iOS developer since 8 years.

I want to tell you about my newest app called Wunderfind. Wunderfind helps people to find their lost bluetooth devices. You can see the signal strength of the device, play a sound through headphones like AirPods and also see a location on a map where your device was connected the last time.

This may sound very similar to Apple's Find My app, right? The big difference here is that Wunderfind supports ALL bluetooth devices and not just Apple devices. That means that you can track your Fitbit tracker, Powerbeats Pro or other devices with this app.

I know it is probably not the best idea to compete with an app from Apple, but I'll try it anyway : )

Greetings from Berlin,
Hendrik

P.S. Wunderfind Pro is free for the next 7 days
Your enemy can often learn those secrets not by being shared, but by other means. Eg reverse engineering.

But in any case, the original comment was using 'obscure' in the sense of uncommon not in the sense of 'secret'. As far as I can tell.
Yes I've done this both as an interviewer and interviewee, it's a pretty valuable exercise I've found. Not a silver bullet, not the only thing you can do, not appropriate for every situation, but generally good.

Regarding your other point I agree with you, but if the main point is to evaluate understanding then the difference doesn't really matter. If you're testing for ability to invent concepts etc, then this might be more important to you.
On Moving from Statistics to Machine Learning
I kind of wish there was a "direct to VHS" for video games. You hear about all these scrapped failures, but never get to take a peek.

An MMO might not work, but with regards to Blizzard, there is the example of Starcraft Ghost where they got to the point of releasing trailers and sending empty boxes to stores as advertisements for the upcoming release. I'm sure they'd have sold it if there was a way to do so without damaging the brand.
Hmm, non of the 12 factors is really be specific to the cloud. I mean ok, the implementation of some of the thinks might slightly differ. E.g. you should still abstract over storage, but it's not necessary a external service as this additional external dependency is just not no always necessary.

It's kinda funny how cloud forces people to finally use patterns recommended since years.
You are right, I missed that. One can clearly see it in the punch card chart.
well what if we managed to keep a stable population of a few billion? we've already demonstrated that it's a sufficient number for all the processes you named
It's amazing that we think it's a good idea to pack powerful hardware into laptops that are too thin to actually make use of that hardware.
Undergrad here. This is kind of disappointing.

I really want to work in this field, but it seems I must have a PhD at minimum and not sure if I want to take that step yet.
What point is Graeber trying to make in Debt? It seems to be “capitalism bad” but that may be too kind to the book’s coherence.

On Bullshit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit

https://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/book-review-debt...

> Now, this may sound a little silly - if someone wrote a book called "Metal: The First 5,000 Years," and then filled that book with stories of war and bloodshed, never failing to remind us after each anecdote that metal was involved in some way, we might be left scratching our heads as to why the author was so fixated on metal instead of on war itself. And in fact, that is indeed how I felt for much of the time I was reading Graeber's book. The problem was exacerbated by the fact that Graeber continually talks around the idea of debt in other ways, mentioning debt crises (without reflecting deeply on why these happen), the periodic use and disuse of coinage (which apparently is just as bad as debt in terms of enabling the capitalism monster), and any other phenomenon related to debt, without weaving these observations into a coherent whole.

> In other words, I am now angry at myself for paraphrasing the book, and trying to put theses into Graeber's mouth, because this is such a rambling, confused, scattershot book that I am doing you a disservice by making it seem more coherent than it really is.

> The problem of extreme disorganization is dramatically worsened by the way that Graeber skips merrily back and forth from things he appears to know quite a lot about to things he obviously knows nothing about. One sentence he'll be talking about blood debts and "human economies" in African tribes (cool!), and the next he'll be telling us that Apple Computer was started by dropouts from IBM (false!). There are a number of glaring instances of this. The worst is not when Graeber delivers incorrect facts (who cares where Apple's founders had worked?), it's when he uncritically and blithely makes assertions that one could only accept if one has extremely strong leftist mood affiliation
For many of these people, the legal route isn't available, or in the case of people fleeing Syria, Guatemala or Honduras, they are seeking asylum, which is legally a different route.
get a sleep study and find out if you have sleep apnea.
Ther is a wakeup call already but it needs to come from us (tech workers). We do understand what is going on, we do use use adblockers, application firewalls, obfuscate our online fingerprints, use multiple accounts etc.

On the other side we also produce tools for mass survailance, ads networks, tracking, implement telemetry, adding ads providers frameworks to our applications.

In same breath we are protesting against selling technology to military, ICE, disallow their children playing online games where gambling is the revenue (opening boxes and similar), gitlab enforced telemetry,...

I see a huge discrepancy between what we want for ourself (privacy), what we preach and on the other side, what we do and we fuel the survailance society.

The solution is to stop on our side and dont do to the others what we dont want to be done to us. (... and even if there is always going to be someone "selling drugs to kids", most of people dont do it).
I have a job that costs me upwards of 50 hours a week.

I know I have it pretty good because my job allows me to work two days at home 9am-3pm where I then pick up the kids from school but the rest of the work days I'm completely dedicated to work. I feel pretty roasted by the end of the week.

These statements are in conflict with one another.

If you're working a 50 hour work week, you should strongly consider looking for a different job. There's plenty of research (and company testimonies) showing that human happiness, health and productivity increases when work weeks are smaller (lazy link that I've submitted to Hacker News before on roughly this topic: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/19/work-less-get-... ), and 50 hours isn't healthy at all.

Look out for yourself, talk it out with your employer (and) or, if they're uncooperative, immediately go job hunting.
Kinda hard. It was a (paper)newspaper abandoned on a train.

But there are plenty comparable situations. Here an article from a family living in a situation allowed by law: at most 30h per year in the shadow which turns out to be 30 minutes per day while they are eating. They made a youtube movie.

https://m.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20120601_00170047

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OMO4Mf2mJyM
I've been using the Oura ring for that and it works pretty well for me. Unlike the other fitness trackers, its primary focus is sleep. I don't know how well it would handle reading in bed, however.
The reason why I put in more work is what's keeping me sane. Most times the stress that comes with the job can drive me to the edge of breaking down,but I just keep reminding myself why I even started.
I'm confused at the animosity towards ML SWEs and data scientists within this thread. Yes, there's a lot of hype/BS surrounding the field, but there's also some very highly technical people making very novel discoveries.

My question is: why the hate? Isn't a machine learning engineer just as valid as any other engineer?
If you think this story is limited to, or even about, political correctness, you are mistaken. It could be your insurance rates going up for jaywalking, even with no cars around. It could be your credit score dropping if you have too many drinks at a bar. It's about your personal activities all being tracked, measured, and in the end, controlled by corporations.
Are you talking about the spark SQL catalyst optimiser ?

That's apples to oranges - because dask does not expose a SQL syntax that needs a query optimiser.

Also pyspark has the additional issue of serialisation between python and jvm. Turns out that just getting rid of that is a huge performance boost.
The author: Privacy does not mean stopping the flow of data; it means channeling it wisely and justly to serve societal ends and values and the individuals who are its subjects, particularly the vulnerable and the disadvantaged.

You are wrong, privacy mean stopping the flow of the data completely. No one should spy on your life.
TLDR: scikit-learn's 'LogisticRegression' function violates the principle of least astonishment by automagically using L2 regularization.
If you acknowledge that there was a big increase in money supply, then there is nothing more needed to conclude that there IS inflation. Whether acknowledged by official narratives or hidden, does not matter: it is still there and cannot remain hidden forever.

But can you explain why practically all Central Banks are recently worried about high asset prices? Are high asset prices the sign of a stubbornly low inflation, in your opinion?
Note that the original title was "Things Rob Pike attributes to Go's success".
Tested sending text via ultrasonic from Chrome on a Mac to Chrome on an Android phone and it works as advertised (didn't test image tranmission).
Its interesting to see this 12-factor popping up today. We used this 12-factor app development methodology at one of my client and they had good documentation about it. This was in 2015-2016 and I believe this is still relevant.
Could do with a dog frightener sample. Some people in our wework are allergic to dogs, so this would help them.
>Maybe you'll be able to figure out from Early Access numbers how popular your game is and whether you need to invest in super-awesome AI. But it seems like for most games it would be a waste of effort.

Maybe the reason people quit your game is because of the AI. What made me stop playing Heroes of Might and Magic 6, Civilization 6, and Total War Three Kingdoms is the poor AI. It takes the fun out of the game, because at lower difficulties the AI puts up no challenge and at higher difficulties you're just exploiting the AI the same way over and over again to keep up.

You might think that that's fine, because you already got the money, but then you'd be looking at it from the perspective of singular games. But studios usually don't just release one game and then disappear. After my experience with HoMM 6, I had zero interest in HoMM 7. 2K Games could release Civilization 7 tomorrow, but without them showing that the game's AI is much better than in civ6, I probably wouldn't pick it up. Yes, the Civilization series will still have players, but it could easily just fizzle out like many other franchises and even genres.

You also can't add this in as a DLC, because people make up their mind about a game near the start. This only works if the game already has longevity, but at that point the game is already popular, so does a better AI at that point make a difference?
Ruby is still one of the most popular languages (especially for beginners, whom readability is extremely important for), and it was intended as a simple Lisp.

Metaprogramming doesn't make code less readable.