skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I asked the same questions on Twitter. One of the cofounders had a meltdown over the questions, and the other founder actually hopped on a phone call with me to discuss their plans.

As far as I can tell the open source version (which hasn't had any updates other than readme changes since earlier this year) is basically on life support. They have no plans to make the new hosted version open source, and only vague plans on hire a contractor in the future to keep the open source version alive. According to the cofounder I spoke with they went back and force about this half a dozen times, which is why their messaging has been so mixed- they had originally said in previous HN and twitter threads that they would open source the new version, but went back on that because they were worried it would take money from their hosted version.
Yes indeed, the cold hard world order came crashing down on this dude.

It's not much research to figure out how to buy a passport from somewhere else, the BBC has a nice write-up [1].

1. Malta wants $1.15M for a full EU passport, and Bulgaria is another popular choice.

2. Sant Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia and Antigua and Barbuda will give you a passport for a donation of around $100K to charity or if you buy some real-estate around the half million mark.

3. The cheapest possible if you don't mind limited travel options is the Comoro Islands, $45K all-in.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-27674135
I like Laracasts so much I created an account just to recommend it. They are half price right now.

https://laracasts.com/sales/2019
> VxWorks

For me, this is enough to cross it out on day one.

C style tooling on proprietary MCU platforms is bad beyond any redemption.

Vx ecosystem has given me sooo much bad blood over the past decade. I have a lot of reservations about if just slapping an opensouce facelift on their SDK can right all its wrongs.
After the 6+ murder-for-hire allegations and related publicly released chat logs, not so much. Only people who think the chat logs are doctored (which I personally find extremely unlikely) still support him.
A simple, pretty much unscrapable system: App on your phone that you use to take a picture of the license. The system returns the current status.
This list of rebuttals to common objections was posted recently:

https://grist.org/series/skeptics/

Not exactly what you asked for, but maybe it can help.

For what it's worth, I strongly agree with everyone who's saying facts and figures aren't the answer. The only honest way to change somebody's mind is (1) have a thorough understanding of the issue at multiple levels; (2) listen to and hear their reasons and make them feel heard; (3) understand what's behind their belief; and (4) use all that to nudge them in the "right" direction (yours) in ways that don't conflict with what you found in (3). "Proving" people wrong with evidence is often not effective, especially on issues like this.

People are more interested in feeling right than being right. (This isn't good or bad, just Goodhart's law.) Try to help him be right without feeling wrong, whether that's with evidence or not.

In any case, good luck.
Awesome. And yeah, we haven't made many updates to the codebase, sorry! Getting Fathom V2 out the door was priority number 1, as we are not currently full time on Fathom. The plan is to grow Fathom to support us near full time so we can spend more time on things. I'd also like to learn Go. We both have full time jobs outside of this.

There will ALWAYS be an OS version. We don't know how the future will look but we know we have to keep a free privacy-focused analytics option available. It's the right thing to do.
Please don't take HN threads further into political or national flamewar. We're not going to get anything better than a generic discussion out of this and probably a nasty one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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This presentation is exactly the sort of thing I'm interested in, thank you!
One thing I find deeply unintuitive about Pin: Pin means “this object will never ever be moved,” not “this object will not be moved while it is pinned.”

I can imagine an easier-to-understand world in which there is a reference type from which one cannot move during the lifetime of the reference, and in which one only ever gets this type of reference to immovable closures and such. I don’t know if the details would work out, but it would at least seem less weird to me.
Some other assets besides houses and stocks that you see inflation in are education and health...
I'm curious, what kind of motion sensors are you using? I looked into hooking more of them in my home, but I could not figure out an affordable way of doing that.

> Local voice control systems really suck compared to Google unfortunately.

Have you checked the latest updates on this? Home Assistant is getting its own voice assistant: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2019/11/20/privacy-focuse...
Yes, but HN isn't exactly a bastion of correct grammar. Also, it shouldn't be capitalized.
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I also really liked the open source version for side projects, maybe a community fork could exist to fill the gap?
Yes, ivan_ah is right, that's the book I meant. Free and evidence-based. I'd say active learning is baked into pretty much all the chapters of the book, because the evidence is very strong that this is the best way to go.
If you want a very Object Oriented Python web framework thats actively maintained and older than Django and Flask check out CherryPy. It was the only framework I saw that you just make a class and expose your routed methods and they become end-points. Every other Python framework looked odd to me with all the annotations.

Have used it fot 3+ years in production and its done me well.
Is the logical endpoint that any U.S. person with a "technical" blog might need to block IPs from NK, Iran, Venezuela, etc? At some point the rule swallows the exception in an open, democratic society.
in this case, the defendant got a visa detached from its passport.

from what I could gather from the complaint and his social media (https://twitter.com/virgilgr/status/1161217917427470337), he just never tried to hide it.
> It costs almost nothing to run a EC2 instance in the region of your choice

Sure, the instance doesn’t cost much, but bandwidth does in the case of AWS and GCS. Streaming 4K video chews through bandwidth.
I think the course described above might be a better fit for an intro survey course at the college level. Or as an upper level elective course for high schoolers.

You can select for people for are actually interested, and you’re really just introducing the students to concepts that are worth there own class to get to the level where you can actually apply them.
I'm that chap that spoke to them on twitter. I want to be very clear about what happened- one of the cofounders blocked me on twitter for asking these questions (even though I was polite about it), and then the other one reached out and we had a pretty decent call. Unfortunately that call made it very clear that they were not going to make the new version open source.
HN is okish at academic discussion, despite the constant risk of "middlebrow dismissal" (as the moderation guidelines call it). But people aren't widely read in certain areas outside STEM.

The legitimate objections to Marx are that he's old - Marxist analysis is like Freudian analysis, there's a big risk of pretending that nothing has happened in the field for a century. And therefore he's not great on the influences of technology; he pre-dates the microchip and the internal combustion engine.

Less seriously, Marxists have a tendency to be annoying jargon-spouters (see Orwell on the subject), and there's a big contingent of fanatical anti-communists who will kick of at the merest mention of his name.

In my long list of round-tuit projects is "see what of Marx can be rescued from the Marxists".
Ah yes, the imaginary ancap who's totally into helping out a totalitarian state. Kinda like freedom-loving tankies, really.
Without wanting to be pedantic, but the article title reads as if NGC 6240 is a new find, which it isn't. Title should perhaps be:

Astronomers Find Galaxy Contains 3 Supermassive Black Holes at the Center

or

Astronomers Find Galaxy NGC 6240 Contains 3 Supermassive Black Holes at the Center

Fascinating stuff nevertheless.
Project X – Like Tailwind for JavaScript
It totally could!

I would suggest listening to https://fathom.transistor.fm/episodes/the-open-source-dilemm... too (published 10 days ago) as that'll give insight into our plans.
Scientists have discovered a 'monster' black hole so big it shouldn't exist
> Just set up your own.

This entire thread is about using a VPN to watch Disney+ outside of geo restrictions. Many many people use VPNs for this purpose and no other. You can't trivially do this on your own at all. You're making it seems simple, getting an VPS with an IP that won't automatically be banned by all sorts of services looking to protect themselves against botnets and the exact sort of geofence hopping that people want to do is extremely difficult.
All cities are artificial
Probably yes (I'm guessing as I'm not the OP).

There's a level crossing a few miles from me that has automated barriers. The tricky bit is the crossing is right next to a station and there will be various rules in force:-

* barriers must be down at least X seconds before a train is due to go through

* barriers must be down even if the train is coming in to the station to stop (before it gets to the crossing) - the barriers must be down in case it overshoots

* etc

Whilst the barriers can go up as soon as a train has passed there may be another one along shortly enough that it's not worth opening the barriers only to close them a few seconds later.

Combine those with a timetable that puts 10+ trains an hour each direction and the barriers will probably be down for longer than they are up in peak times. I've seen them down for 10+ minutes at a time.

Here's the google streetview that just happens to have a train that has already passed and stopped at the station: https://goo.gl/maps/jhzApjZHUAJ4FcSt6

As a pedestrian (or a cyclist without lots of luggage) it's often faster to use the footbridge to cross rather than waiting for the train(s) to pass and the barriers to rise.
Sadly, few people are likely to pay more for a TV that doesn’t track them. There’s research on this.

https://www.datainnovation.org/2019/01/national-survey-finds...
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> news articles and blog posts, consists of 10% actual facts and 90% narrative framing

Agreed! That's part of my motivation. A federated knowledge graph would allow people to distill the kernels of insight from the fluff and share the good stuff.

> we already have popularity ratings and they don’t work for truth.

I envision no algorithm to rate truth. I'm skeptical it's possible (but interested in suggestions). I just want people to be operationalize their definition of truth. I'd like you to be able to search for economic forecasts by people with PhDs from Harvard made prior to the last interest rate hike. Or statements regarding the West Bank agreed upon by a majority of Israelis and a majority of Palestinians.

Or incoherent rates by an orange man-child with his head up his ass. I can't guarantee a good index and search engine would be used the right way. I just think it would be better if we could get our hands dirty, rather than hoping Google does the right thing.
This submission title is a train wreck. Paging @dang!
I just ran LambdaLabs' ResNet50 training benchmark (I could do more models, but this is it for now) on a few machines I have access to:

TensorFlow 1.14.4

git clone https://github.com/lambdal/lambda-tensorflow-benchmark.git --recursive
python lambda-tensorflow-benchmark/benchmarks/scripts/tf_cnn_benchmarks/tf_cnn_benchmarks.py --optimizer=sgd --model=resnet50 --num_gpus=1 --batch_size=64 --variable_update=replicated --distortions=false --num_batches=10000 --data_name=imagenet

FP32
- NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti: ~215 images/sec
- NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti: ~300 images/sec
- NVIDIA TITAN RTX: ~320 images/sec
- NVIDIA Tesla V100: ~383 images/sec
- AMD Radeon VII: ~275 images/sec

FP16
- NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti: ~277 images/sec
- NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti: ~495 images/sec
- NVIDIA TITAN RTX: ~518 images/sec
- NVIDIA Tesla V100: ~725 images/sec
- AMD Radeon VII: ~373 images/sec

So in FP32 for this ResNet50 benchmark the Radeon VII is about 9-10% slower than the 2080 Ti and about 25-30% faster than the 1080 Ti.

In FP16 it is 25% slower than the 2080 Ti and 35% faster than the 1080 Ti.

Sure, it's just one benchmark, but ResNet is quite representative of deep learning architectures in vision.
The same is true in the medical profession. Sleep deprivation is absolutely the norm for young doctors and surgeons in residence, which should be a scary thing given how often people's lives are quite literally in their hands.
It supports the esp32, but not the esp8266 :(
The fact that headline points out that it's not bullshit makes it sound like bullshit.

When a pitch answers a question that no one asked, it's a pretty good indication that something's wrong. Like when an employer says they're looking for "team players", it means they have an aggressive workplace with a lot of backstabbing. If a restaurant specifically advertised that it was clean, and had a sign saying "clean food and kitchen" in the window, would you eat there?
Fixed now. The submitted title was "US Citizen, a Ethereum Staff, Arrested for Assisting N Korea in Evading Sanction".
If you like that you should read "About Face" by David Hackworth. I have not read it but I've hear about it via the Jocko Podcast.
The biggest problem with the open source version is that it's written in Go and there aren't that many people with both the skills and the time to maintain it, let alone expand it. It might be easier for a group of people to get together and build out a privacy centric open source project from scratch (something I'd be interested in).
See also: brain as hydraulics, brain as a system of cogs, brain as a computer.[1]

[1] https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-informati...
Until I spoke to you, I thought you were a troll and so did Paul :P That call with you was very useful and gave us a lot to think about. We recorded a podcast about OS and I mentioned our call: https://fathom.transistor.fm/episodes/the-open-source-dilemm...
I fixed the installation and ran a benchmark again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21666411

The benchmark is not CPU bound, as evidenced by looking at rocm-smi, nvidia-smi (GPU usage at 100%) and htop (low CPU usage).
https://github.com/trailofbits/algo

It’s an Ansible playbook for easily setting up a VPN with good security defaults. It’s so easy and really the only knowledge you need to know is how to get api keys for the provider of choice.
Please don't post flamebait. It leads to noticeably shallower discussions, which get nastier as they go.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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> "Let’s be clear on this point: ancient and medieval warfare was mostly about sieges." I also learned years ago that when medieval battles actually happened, the goal was to rout the enemy, not actually fight them and kill each other.

"Total War: Warhammer II" underlines both these statements.
While the leaders of North Korea have, without question, done a lot of horrible things, the anti-aircraft-gun story has appeared repeatedly in conjunction with numerous people, many of whom have reappeared alive afterwards, or who have been confirmed executed by other, more ordinary, methods. It's not clear if these anti-aircraft gun executions have ever been carried out, or if it's simply a recurrent rumor.

https://www.38north.org/2016/09/aabrahamian090216/
Its a small place so it can adapt fast. In fact, many such miracle places are small, thus government is not some distant entity. If anything it is the big countries that are struggling to adapt to globalisation
There's an adrenaline rush from going to somewhere where travel is explicitly prohibited, and it's not that expensive to boot. I've seriously considered going on my non-American passport but have decided not to for two reasons:

* Even though my birth country is on allied terms with NK, I'm unsure how my dual citizenship with the US would pan out. I do not want to be considered a spy and imprisoned.

* I do not feel comfortable contributing to a totalitarian economy, even if the individual citizens (guides, translators, etc) benefit a lot from payment.

And there are probably many other valid reasons not to go, but those are the most immediately obvious to me.
Not to say that it doesn’t suck out there for some laborers, but suffering more than ever? Pinkerton agents used to shoot up union rallies, and people (often children) used to not uncommonly get their limbs yanked off by machinery.
I read that as someone not native in English trying to say "staffer" or "employee" but I don't know anything about the structure of organizations behind ethereum, whether it has a lot of employees or whether they really mean "contributor".

Edit: I see the title has been edited to match the DOJ website rather than this seemingly ungrammatical summary.
Yes, I understand this, and that's something that sometimes happens with words. But the use of "Big Lie" in this context (i.e. capitalized, a concept about lying) is like the use of "Final Solution": sure, it could be used in another context different to what the Nazis meant by it, but how probable is that? All the examples in Wikipedia are Nazi-related.

I'll be happy to stand corrected if you can point me to a single use of this concept of "Big Lie" -- referred to unequivocally as the concept we're debating here, of telling a lie so big people won't accept it's not true -- that does not refer to the alleged "betrayal of Germany" meant by Hitler, or its related Nazi myths and propaganda.

At this point I'm only asking you for an example. To be honest I don't think there is, just as there is no other use of Final Solution, but of course I can be proven wrong.
AFAIK intent matters. There was a story from a while back where a seller of "secure" android phones got busted because he was knowingly selling to criminals. "knowingly" as in, his customers told him that they were going to use it for illegal activities, but he sold it to them anyways. It's the same principle why sellers of cannabis paraphernalia explicitly label their products "for tobacco use only".
Thats not what show the article. Please read the abstract better.
The fact that we have progressed in tech doesn’t mean the equality (that is defined as a relative measure on some date) hasn’t become lower.
So, it's illegal for me to explicitly talk about things that could be illegal?

That seems to fly in the face of the 1st amendment. He was teaching about a skill that could be used to break law, but also be used in legal transactions.

Seems more like thoughtcrime, than actual crime. And if talking about implementation of technology is a crime, it shouldn't be.
If you have an @mozilla.com or @chromium.org email address, you can create a Slack account. If not it seems like you might be out of luck.
Can hundreds of unrelated satellites create a GPS backup?
Dijkstra’s Crisis: The End of Algol and Beginning of Software Engineering (1968) [pdf]
Ask HN: Resume Writing Tips?
Hi. I am redoing my Resume. I feel that while it has a lot of technical details, and I'm doing my best to explain everything I worked on so it's simple enough to be picked up by recruiters and hiring managers, I still think I lack the crispness I should provide. I know that I'm better off tailoring my resume to the profiles I apply for, but I'm honestly struggling with what companies actually watch for, and how to get past the initial screening. I have a substantial background, and yet it doesn't seem that my resume is successful at conveying it.

Any advice / schema suggestions?
Well, somehow I missed this and it's really disappointing. I liked Sonos' products until they had to add in smart speaker functionality. I won't buy their speakers that have a microphone and hopefully more people continually let them know that as well. At a minimum Sonos should offer a physical on/off switch to electrically disconnect any microphone. I don't trust any product in this space not to eventually do the wrong thing and collect more data than they've claimed to limit themselves to. The Sonos products seem to be changing for the worse. I think it's inevitable they're getting to the point where you won't be able to use their products unless they have a valid logged in account. It's truly frustrating all of these products that can operate without Internet phone home check-ins, yet people complacently buy them and agree to ridiculous ToS. Another one down, I guess.
Fantastic idea! Don't wait for someone to start it, start it yourself!

We're still going to be updating the OS version of Fathom but I 100% support anybody creating another privacy-focused analytics platform. Additional alternatives to Google Analytics are great!

Good luck :)
Ideally we d be able to switch citizenships, and let the best government win us. Unfortunately its not possible, though i would like the idea of an airbnb for citizenships
There host country could just admit you and not stamp your passport. I've been on several cruises and had to go out of my way to get my passport stamps. Honestly they seemed annoyed I even wanted the stamp.
I mean... If you have a history of multiple DUIs you're going to have an extremely difficult time getting a job that requires driving anyways.
Not even close! (Sweden) Do you have the same perks in Bangladesh? :)
The Life Lessons of “Little Lulu”
I get your point, but then again, classified information is protected and different from the technical information shared in this case, and how to poison a water supply is on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_terrorism
Or, considering this guy is said to be pretty eccentric, just for the sake of it. Working against the system. Being rebellious. Just the faint idea of having a global impact on the distribution of power. Similar reasons, aside from money, drove people like Karl Koch to do what they did.
Are they being forcefully held in the country?
> Did you do burn in testing as well?

Not sure what that means. I did this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21666411

I run the fan at 100% and even after several thousand iterations it keeps its speed at 274-275 im/sec and 68 C temperature with the stock fan and a standard desktop chassis kept open.
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I agree. In fact static rendering has become refreshing given the saturation of SPAs everywhere. Even content websites are SPAs these days. Pointless.

Anyway my next venture will be as JS free as possible. I don't have JS, I love it. But that tribe is going thru an over-engineering cycle. Just like Java in the early 2000s.

It will all settle down, eventually.
Annotate movies. The introduction of the protagonist, the end of act I, document great lighting or an exceptional score.
Remember them more honestly
Also seems like a pretty quick/painless -- if dramatic -- way to go. They'd have a lot of cleaning up to do afterwards of course, but that's obviously not my problem lol.
I've people on previous teams that thought this, and their comments were consistently the ones that were the most out-of-date because they never valued fixing them. If you value comment accuracy during PR reviews then you're less likely to end up in that situation in the first place.
Sanctions are nonsense and so is the US hegemony. It is without doubt the most abusive country on the world stage.

Every US citizen should be ashamed of their horrible country and its foreign interventions, wars and murders.

Having said that, as an outsider to the US, it's enjoyable to watch its slow demise now that the incompetents are in power.