skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are basically 2 ways to make money. You can provide value where people are willing to voluntarily trade their own labor for that perceived value, and taking it by force. Bill Gates is an example of both. His contribution and a lot of the money he earned was because the value of his product was worth far more to people than the asking price. He received a fraction of the value he created in the world. He also got the government to give him a monopoly on the ideas that were implemented, preventing others from implementing those ideas with violence. I'm in the camp that says the latter is inexcusable in a society. I suspect gates and most billionaires would not be billionaires if it weren't for the monopoly protections enforced by government. Where would the rest of that wealth have gone? To anyone who was able to compete against the ideas.
We have different views on this topic. Surely Outline is capable of taking a reasonable sample of what they are serving up, and seeing that the vast majority of it violates their terms. Throwing up a disclaimer page doesn't change that. Their policy is also contradicted by the "about" blurb on the bottom of the page "Outline is a free service for reading and annotating news articles." As far as I know, most news articles have a copyright.

Also, sites that want paywalls are technically capable of doing that in a way that archive.is, outline.com, etc, can't scrape them. They don't, though, because they want the best of both worlds. Want to charge for your content? Fine, do that, but you lose exposure from search engines, HN, Facebook, etc.

Curious how they are going to "block me" though. I don't have an account with Outline.
I like to use the plumber model to describe this. When you have a major problem in your house you hire a plumber. He or she will show up as necessary to fix the problem, probably every day, but what about when that part needs to come in. They are going to come to your house, pull out a laptop and sit at your table while they talk to other suppliers about other jobs and direct their workers at other sites? No, they are going to give you a summary and head off to make money somewhere else.

Now if you don’t have anything else to do, sure go in and network.. find leads. But if your contract is 6 months and you’re just extra hands on site... go try to make more money!
Of course they can be changed - how hard they are to change is another matter. The current system isn't set in stone, or handed down from above.
Related: https://www.reddit.com/r/redditsecurity/comments/e74nml/susp...

> Earlier this year Facebook discovered a Russian campaign on its platform, which was further analyzed by the Atlantic Council and dubbed “Secondary Infektion.” Suspect accounts on Reddit were recently reported to us, along with indicators from law enforcement, and we were able to confirm that they did indeed show a pattern of coordination. We were then able to use these accounts to identify additional suspect accounts that were part of the campaign on Reddit. This group provides us with important attribution for the recent posting of the leaked UK documents, as well as insights into how adversaries are adapting their tactics.

> In late October, an account u/gregoratior posted the leaked documents and later reposted by an additional account u/ostermaxnn. Additionally, we were able to find a pocket of accounts participating in vote manipulation on the original post. All of these accounts have the same shared pattern as the original Secondary Infektion group detected, causing us to believe that this was indeed tied to the original group.
Idk, but if we travel 13B light years one way, it moves 13B the other then were at 26, and space itself has to have expanded 20 billion light years within the time it takes light to travel 13... So yeah, sounds like something is moving faster than light.
It’s at S5 already, which is actually v6 since there’s an S0. So maybe v7.
The article itself consists of 20 kB of text. Going from 270x the payload size to 95x the payload size, while impressive, still misses the mark.
You may need to build it yourself if the computer that you use has an older CUDA version that you can't modify.

That what I like with Pytorch, they offer prebuilt packages for different versions of CUDA.
The whole point is no money is invoked for the browser user unless they want to go to the frog me of withdrawing the bat they earned. Instead they can just assign it to someone they support

That's what's superior. Real money services require someone to pay real money.

This system could be done without the coin but I bet it would be more difficult to arrange transfer to each browser user.
I like the thought that, since the Universe is expanding, so is my brain.
I imagine few people using DDG would use Bing instead, so there is little income loss from people moving Bing->DDG. If the choice is "provide DDG with a search API, get increased reach for your ad-program through an audience that otherwise wouldn't touch bing" vs "do not provide DDG with a search API, either a competitor does or DDG is way worse and everyone uses Google", why is the latter the better choice for MS?
No, that is how you think about high frequency trades. Lots of trades in a small amount of time, with a tiny positive expectancy.
If you’re trying to catch an atom try bending Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle
What if the entire universe with all of its history was just created 1ms ago?

The answer is, if you can't even conceivably test for it, it's mostly irrelevant to think too much about.
Hunter here. For big game like deer and moose, I actually prefer copper ammo. With lead shot, if I hit the shoulders or haunches and my family or I eat that meat, there's a very good chance we're eating bits of lead. Most Lead bullets disintegrate on impact, while copper bullets rarely fragment and penetrate deeper.

If I wasn't eating the meat, I could see the argument for lead, but it's a weak one at best. In my own experience copper bullets do not go all the way through large game. And I don't believe in hunting for purely for sport.
It's because he doesn't believe getting into YC is the achievement. Creating a company with users / profitability / growth is. You can get into YC and still fail with your company. And it's desirable for founders and YC to be more interested in building a successful company.

When he says, "Make a good product", I think he's trying to convey a core and fundamental principle of business that gets obfuscated by all the things you have to do be successful in a startup. That's necessary when teaching beginners.

But he's traditionally had a hard time conveying this seemingly simple concept, and he's always been puzzled by it. You can see it in the previous essays he referenced in this one--the high school one, and how founders over-complicate things.

Though he's talking about this topic as if creating the company is the goal, I'm not sure to what degree he realizes how YC contributes to the effect he's seeing.

Even after getting into YC, I was moderately surprised by how you're still being judged, sometimes explicitly, and other time implicitly. I had batchmates that didn't want to go into office hours, for fear of appearing weak and hence wouldn't get a follow-on recommendation to investors from a YC partner.

Of course, I think PG would say that's stupid. If you go into office hours and fix your problem, then by virtue of being a better startup, you'll be a more attractive investment. Trying to do it the other way is putting the cart before the horse.

That said, the effect is real. Like the Observer Effect in quantum mechanics, by virtue of being a conduit to further funding, founders will turn their attention to the tests. Because if you don't, it's easy to be written off and not be able to get the help that you need.
Is there a gap there? I mean, sure, I see it conceptually, but I don't see a market gap.

Look at movies as an example. When sound came along, it basically destroyed the market for silent film. Same deal for color film. But 3D has come and gone at least twice, bumping along as a novelty in between.

I think it's going to be even more true of VR, in that doing good VR content is a) difficult, and b) a pretty different process than most non-VR content. One of the VR fans in this thread was bemoaning the lack of AAA VR content in particular. But nobody's going to be making that content unless the market is large enough to support it.
Acoustic shark repellents based on orca sounds are at least somewhat effective but aren't completely reliable.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6502882/
A job digging a hole and refilling the whole and digging it again is rebt seeking.

Maybe you’re not understanding the concept of Rent Seeking and therefore don’t understand why it is detrimental to the economy as a whole.

There will never be a completely elimination if rent seeking as long ad humans are involved but it ahoulsnt be rewarded like it is
Note that this github project is only the PC host code for your FPGA. The actual .NET-to-FPGA translation code isn't open-sourced.
Absorbing Darkness
>> "Our model of a web page is based on queries only. ... This is a crucial differentiating factor – it is the reason we are able to build a search engine with dramatically less resources in comparison to our competitors."

>> "The total size of our index currently is around 50 TB."

Could you share your current index size (number of pages, size of raw text) to put those 50 TB into perspective in order to get an idea how much less resources in comparison to your competitors you need? This would help to compare your approach to Elasticsearch, Solr, Lucene
Ok, but you can’t use it to go to anywhere FTL. You can only use it to get further away from somewhere FTL.
The problem in my eyes is while you are fighting the fight your department is fighting another one entirely within a university of departments competing in yet another fight.

Who is fighting at the organizational level for the students?

The problem is systemic. All of the solutions I see, here and elsewhere, describe a small piece of the problem. At best — a few courses in a curriculum.
Do you have a source for that?

All I can find is that, as of 2019, nobody knows [1]. (Unfortunately I can't read the full paywalled content.)

Also, it might not be profitable but could still be break-even.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/ok-google-hows-youtube-doing-11...
Almost all the UK banks still use sort code and account for transfers, even though the accounts have IBANs.

It is often possible to perform foreign transfers using destination IBANs, but they seem to prefer (or require) the traditional approach for UK Sterling transfers.

I can understand why they retain the old system, but it would be useful if they in addition offered the ability to specify the target via IBAN for domestic transfers, since they already do for transfers to the rest of the EU.

Even when doing a SWIFT transfer, the IBAN (if one has it) is useful.
i like to say: our failures define us, not our successes.
Companies are this way too. The best companies are all run by OKRs and metrics. But if you peek under the hood, all of it is insanely hackable; you have to be naive to try and actually meet your explicitly stated objectives because that's not how you get promoted.

It reminds me of a quote from The Elephant in the Brain. I don't remember the wording exactly, but it's something like "if there is a behavior in a large group of people that doesn't make sense to you, not only is it by design, but it's also probably the whole point."

Incidentally, I was also struck by how much of YC was (in 2009) about hacking venture capital. But lots of people from that era now say this behavior is unethical disavow all knowledge that it was ever actively promoted. It's like we lived through different realities.

If I were to steelman The Lesson to Unlearn I think I'd say this. On an individual level there is enormous benefit to learning how to operate without hacking a test. That's how you do great work; that's what original thinking is. On a societal level this seems unshakable. But societies have made dramatic shifts in behavior and social organization before. From hunter gatherers to farmers to city dwellers, for example. So while this is hard to imagine it might just be that-- lack of imagination. The social return to abandoning this system might indeed be enormous.
The body of work, while still emergent, is fairly robust IMO if that's what you're asking. I've cherry picked just a few out of hundreds of papers in my personal archive related to this topic, but if you have an interest you can easily check Pubmed or Researchgate to both follow the citation chain and get a sense of which research teams are publishing and working on what aspects (sadly there's no tool to do that automatically, although it seems like that might be a cool thing to build).
Show HN: FaceMaze – the missing web interface for accurate face detection
This is not a universal truth. Discount incentives work much better.

The clients who pay late will pay their invoices without the late fees anyway, in my experience. Now you’re tracking down payment for your work and the fees.
Hello HN,

Yesterday I launched a simple, yet very effective tool for online face detection, cropping and filtering. The idea is very simple - upload as many images as you like and FaceMaze will give you back all the faces cropped from those input images. You can control padding, border radius and output image format.

FaceMaze rides on top of Pixaven's [1] infrastructure and, at its very core, uses Apple's Vison framework to do all the heavy lifting. The accuracy of this is not as flawless as for example Tencent's DSFD that will give you back even face reflections on flat surfaces but it's really good enough for everyday usage.

I am not aware of any other free and unlimited web interfaces for face detection hence the title of this Show HN post.

[1]: https://www.pixaven.com
[2]: https://github.com/TencentYoutuResearch/FaceDetection-DSFD
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Tesla’s biggest market in Europe becomes the Netherlands as Model 3 sales surge
No. I consult with B2B startups on marketing and have seen the internal data for 20+ B2B tech companies. If anything, the best products with the lowest churn have less referrals, since people don't want their competitors to have the competitive advantage the product provides.
Correct. It's not like when degaussing wipes the track information from a HDD.

This is also as opposed to relying on the self-encrypting feature on most modern flash. Whether you're dealing with high enough asset value to warrant this level of interest or are just beholden to the same standards, you should reach out to your flash vendor for clarification.
Nope no source. I’ve tried looking as well. I assume since it costs so much in infrastructure that Google lends for free to YouTube, and that they have never been able to announce nice numbers for YouTube, ever, that it likely doesn’t make a profit or break even. Especially after accounting for all the freebies Google provides YouTube.
Close equivalent can still be something you can't take. For example, if you're one of the unfortunate people with no activity on your CYP2D6 enzyme, there are essentially 4 pain medications that you can take at appropriate doses once you need something stronger than advil: Morphine, Dilaudid, Oxymorphone and Fentanyl, and there are reasons why doctors prefer other narcotics before prescribing any of those 4. Other pain medications will work, but you'll likely need inappropriately higher doses[0], which can lead to other problems (like overdosing). Likewise if you process faster than a normal person (i.e. you have more activity on that enzyme) you can overdose at normal prescribing doses. Close equivalents for some people can indeed be the difference between life and death, even if the condition itself isn't life threatening.

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK100662/
But owning capital comes about when you have a competitive advantage. Basically, if you make some profit but can't sell your company, you are just working your ass off: it's a job (say a typical software dev agency is). With maybe a modest premium for risks. Goal and only point of business is exactly rent-seeking, this is what capitalism is: profit you get on a capital is rent.

And yes, rent isn't value-creating. You created value when you well, created that capital which gives you rent. Value is the capital, not rent. Then yeah, you just sit on your ass and milk it, or just sell. Every capital is a monetary expression of the value of the unfair, rent-creating advantage you got. There's nothing wrong with that.
I would hardly say this structure looks "perfect". For a start:

- Use of Docker is a serious problem. I have no intention of ever running Docker on my machine to build some random project for which I have the toolchain already installed. Wrapping Docker with a Makefile is even more irritating.

- Use of "package pkg" to keep the version number in is bizarre - I've never seen that before. Some use `package version` _inside_ a `pkg` directory which contains other public packages also, and use of `package version` at the top level is also fairly common.

- Multiple modules in one git repository presents many challenges for people who want to reference them at different commits in other projects.

- `pkg app` under a `cmd` directory is sometimes fine, but if there is only one app and no library, keeping it in the root should be preferred so that `go get` works properly. Furthermore, other packages being nested under it is not often great, since they are highly likely to be reused by other `cmd`s in the same repository.

Personally for Go I've never needed a "starter" project, since not much needs configuring out the box as the toolchain is quite reasonable.

If I were evaluating a project structured like this as a potential dependency, I'd knock off major marks for the structure and investigate alternatives. I guess if things came down to the wire, the structure wouldn't be a deal breaker, but I'd certainly aim to avoid it.
Is that that different from human fears? We’ve presumably also evolved to be instinctually afraid of categories of things capable of harming or killing us, like snakes and spiders. Our intelligence lets us more carefully sub-categorize these into things that actually can kill us (Black Widows and Cobras) from things that can’t (Orb Weavers and Rat Snakes). Even then though, running across a big shiny Orb Weaver or Rat Snake in the wild shakes loose something deep in your brain telling you to stay away.
By default, there's no attempt to connect a particular semantic meaning with a particular dimension - it's worth noting that all the popular methods of calculating word vectors can/will give results that can differ by an arbitrary linear transformation, so in the event that they contain a very particular "semantic bit", it's still likely to be "smeared" across all 200 dimensions - you could have a linear (unambigious, reversible) transformation to a different 200-dimension space where that particular factor is isolated in a separate dimension, but you would have to explicitly try and do that.

So the default situation is that each individual dimension means "nothing and everything"; if you had some specific factors which you know beforehand and that you want to determine, then you could calculate a transformation to project all the vectors to a different vector-space where #1 means thing A, #2 means thing B, etc - for example, there some nice experiments with 'face' vectors that can separate out age/masculinity/hair length/happiness/etc out of the initial vectors coming out of some image analysis neural network with an unclear meaning of each separate dimension.
“Uptime 15,364 Days – The Computers of Voyager” by Aaron Cummings
Mass-murderers should be treated the same as a nice man who helps old ladies cross the street?

I suspect you don't believe that, so when you say "the government treating someone differently (in anyway) due to who they are is wrong" what do you mean?
Except the galaxies do not travel. Galaxies are more or less stationary, it's the space inbetween that expands. Think in terms of raisins in a dough or points on expanding baloon. Neither of them could be said to travel, yet they can be seen to become more and more far away.
A lot of the banks have contract terms which allow them to correct erroneous transfers (i.e. incorrect deposits to ones account without ones approval), so waiting for a court order would not be necessary.

Maybe Barclays do not include such a term?
Keto is a low carb high fat diet. With keto you can have as much fibre as you like as long as it's not paired with carbs.
ML quants who know what they're doing have done exceptionally well.
The badly named grocery crud for php is pretty decent. I would target something similar on another stack for devs who won’t touch php.
Even if that were true, why would not MS just re-skin Bing as a tracker-free search engine? Or acquire DDG?
You forgot Apple Pay. That's a whole new market for Apple — and seems to be doing well?
I have the same problem with Automator on OS X. Once you understand control flow, it's pretty hard to dial back to a flat list of steps that do something useful.
Product market fit does not lie. There is a reason they have user base and activate users who keeps coming back.
I think the hidden variable here is the affinity of academics for Python. I've never seen so much Python as in universities. It mostly draws converts from MATLAB, and the feel of the language fits nicely onto what they're used to. It's probably the most popular language in education (having replaced Smalltalk and Scheme) and it'll probably stick around for a while.

Other traditional use cases for Python haven't been affected by the popularity of ML so much as the shift towards static typing in corporate settings and competition from new convenience-oriented languages like Go and Elixir, as well as the growth of the Javascript ecosystem. My first real job involved porting an app from Python to Go.
Even supposing that were true, it's arbitrary to place fallible biological systems of motivation and reward into the "personal problem" category, as if they were not part of the same overall biological system.
1.9MB in 12 seconds says about my internet connection but 3X improvement says about AMP.

Fight AMP as hard as you like, start a Kickstarter for anti-AMP explaining to the public the evils of AMP but when my search results return an AMP site and non-AMP site I am clicking the AMP.

Web tech people can revolt all they want or they can actually find a way to display a few kb of text and image quickly. You can be the music industry trying to protect their CD business or you can own the Napster/iTunes/Spotify and make your money from there.

Web publishing becomes garbage, AMP is fast loading garbage. The fast-loading garbage wins.
Learning about many simple features has a cost, but I much prefer that to inherently complex things that I'll always be confused by.

Ruby excels at this. There are 5 ways to do everything, but they're all simple and readable.
Most of the marks are pretty clearly giant squid, but last I heard scientists were still unsure about others. Probably something very similar. It's not too surprising, really. What we know about giant squid is mostly from a very few dead ones that have washed up. The vast majority (assuming we can even judge prevalence from things like scars on sperm whales) are likely to settle on the bottom. There are a great many creatures both big and small that live and die down there with none ever reaching the surface intact enough to be recognized as a species we haven't seen before. Every single time they send a probe down there, they find new ones. Some day maybe they'll find one of the big ones that could explain those extra sperm-whale scars.