skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From TFA:

> The 43-year-old’s remaining stake in the ride-hailing company now constitutes about a fifth of his $3 billion fortune, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, down from about 75% before the lockup.

To be fair, if I had 75% of my net worth in a single asset, I'd also try to diversify. My wife and I both have lots of stock in the companies we work for, due to RSUs and employee stock purchase programs; and although we both believe our companies are a good investment overall, we regularly sell shares just so that we don't have so many of our eggs in those two baskets. 20% is a perfectly reasonable target I think.
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Travis Kalanick and Adam Neumann should co-author a book entitled "Making Billions - No Profitability Required".
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Using the word “odd” to describe cultural phenomena is odd. Culture is inherently traditions that are not necessarily rooted in logic.
I've begun reading The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco, his first novel. It's left a very good impression so far. It's a fourteenth century murder mystery, set in a monastery, where the mystery is mostly an excuse for exploring the historical and cultural contexts, which are very interesting. Wikipedia has a nice summary: "an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies, and literary theory". Eco was a semiotician and a philosopher and he brings the best of that to the table in this book.
... if you have sudo.
Have a look at the projects by https://sharedstreets.io/ Some of it is open source, e.g. https://github.com/sharedstreets/speed-prediction
Current CEOs and other c-level buying/selling activities are major signals to the market; it's far beyond just management of their own portfolio, it's inherently political (in the financial sense).

Trav can sell without creating too much concern, but many eyes are on Dara.
Why would they release an audit that effectively provides them with zero-days into encrypted suspect disks.

They release now because no one is using TrueCrypt any longer..
man knows when to jump ship. not a big surprise indeed.
Safe is and was a relative term. Historically alcoholic drinks such as beer were often safer than just water in days gone by.

Also true: Water purification is still a challenge even today. Plenty of cities don't even have drinkable water in people's residences.
> similar cultural affection to hallucinogens, pot, or even pure methamphetamines would be less harmful.

Would love some data on your claim about meth, because I grew up near communities that were hit hard by meth, I just can’t believe that.
How to Detect Vulnerabilities in Software When No Source Code Is Available
I'm not sure if the implication of the following is that sections of the report were withheld or that it was incomplete to begin with.

> However the report hints that more such flaws exist. Another chapter in the documents mentions, that several such off-by-one-errors were found, but due to a lack of a complete code analysis only examples can be shown. However even those examples are missing in the document - the following chapter only consists of a headline and has no content.
Much safer to assume that a decent nation state can decrypt Truecrypt and a lot of other things. You can hide stuff from your wife, friends or banana Republic countries, but I wouldn't bet against NSA with 30 years in jail.
> Yeah, I could sense there is something wrong with the article as soon as I got to the part where the Japanese were portrayed as this unique society where you need to say "excuse me" before approaching a stranger on the street asking for directions.

What that part of the article was trying to convey was that if you approach a Japanese person a bit sheepishly and looking confused, you'll get a much more enthusiastic response than if you directly approach and say "excuse me".

It's not unique to Japan, but it is different than a lot of places.
That is one solution I thought of, but I don't know of any VPS/Cloud Server solutions that are free. It seems a bit overkill to be honest
Everything is easier if you're wealthy -- especially being a high-functioning alcoholic.

They may have a 6-figure job, where the boss doesn't care if they come in late or hung over, or even drink on the job. They may live in a nice condo nearby, and walk or bus to work. They can dress nicely and go out to nicer places, and not get asked to leave for being a little rambunctious.

I've known many people who fit this description.

A person with a minimum wage job who drinks the same amount is spending a much more significant fraction of their income on alcohol. They have an hourly blue-collar job where the boss isn't going to allow them to come in late or hung over. They live outside the city where they can afford it, and have to drive every day (potentially problematic). They can't afford to eat healthy, which adds to their health problems.

Health isn't only determined by biology and healthcare.
There are many, many more that belong on that list. Becoming a paper billionaire without profit isn't restricted to the companies we love to hate.
>Domain knowledge, while useful is not a necessity - I'm fine with contacting a specific domain expert for help and even pay for his or her services(with my own money at that),

Nah, it's the other way around. Specifically in this domain, innovation is definitely driven by domain experts (researchers, medical equipment manufacturers), and they contract out or hire technical expertise as they need it.

>To put it as question: do I really need to explain how open source works in theory and practice on a place like hackernews?

Your definition of open source is much too narrow and does not include what these researchers meant by it.

>Especially given that most of the world's infrastructure in practice runs thanks to the collaboration of millions who have built most of what we use in their "spare time" as you call it.

Certainly not in medicine.

>Same applies to DNN's(if not more so) - take any large DNN with the papers, data set and code to the author and ask them to give an explanation as to why it works as well as it does while it performs terribly on a different data set, even a similar one. "Well yeah, it's curve fitting which works here but doesn't work there". Why? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You've identified the precise reason why all this "machine learning" stuff has been such a dud when it comes to medicine. That is not good enough and never will be, particularly the "works so well on the dataset you overfitted on while performing so terribly on other datasets".

>My rant concerns a different problem - if you have such data and you want to share it, just go ahead and do. 1 of every 10000 might do something useful with it but we aren't talking about nuclear experiments where something can blow up, are we? Worst case scenario someone's cpu or gpu might overheat, big deal. Just ditch the entire bureaucracy crap, we have enough of that as it is in our daily lives.

They spell out the reasons for requiring a data sharing agreement in the data sharing agreement itself. They want you to cite it, they don't want you to sell it, they want you to confirm that you understand you're getting a dataset with no warranties, FDA approvals, etc.

And as I said before, the chances of you doing something useful with it may be 1/10000, but the chances of you doing something useful with it while not being motivated enough to sign a simple agreement and wait for the download link is essentially 0.
thanks very much :-)
I can highly recommend RestRserve [0] for bringing R models into production (it forks every request so scaling up is easier than with Plumber). I use it regularly for various projects and I have had minimal issues with it.

[0] https://restrserve.org/
Do brutalist buildings have their wiring exposed? I'm not so convinced that having everything open and exposed is all that essential to brutalist architecture (though I'm no expert on it).

> "The truck is consumerist, whereas brutalism’s monumentality is civic."

Does making transportation less polluting not serve a civic function?

> "[But] we don’t see any bolts or gaskets or other details of joinery. Brutalist architects would never allow this. They wanted the method of making and the assembly of parts to be legible — to be put on display as a way of being vividly honest."

They might be on the inside. Again, do all brutalist buildings have their wiring exposed? Function still matters. I'm no expert, but I would assume that brutalism does not require being an idiot about such things.
Because there weren't any real zero days in the report in the first place. The article mentions that it's mainly minor things like failing to clear memory, which is only helpful in rare circumstances.
That's to be expected. He was ousted from the company, has no control now so there's little reason why he should be bullish on a stock run by other people.

Plus, the future isn't so clear and the markets are at all time highs and he has other company that may require liquidity in the coming years. Better be in cash.
>But it's still way way ahead of the alternatives

Like Jenkins, Bamboo, TFS, VSTeam, TravisCI, CircleCI, GitLabCI, UrbanCode?

Maybe it's just me, but the CI/CD space is pretty crowded these days, and Jenkins is still #1 for a reason.
I don't find myself fighting TeamCity as much these days but there's alot if things I wish it could do better.
The beauty of piracy is that you can watch/listen to what you want to, how you want to, when you want to. People are more than happy to pay reasonable prices for content, so long as they can use it how they want; see: Spotify.

I'd pay $50/mo for a streaming service that had a significant number of movies and television shows that I want to watch. As it stands, I still need to pirate movies because they are not available on stream services, or they are only available for "purchase" at like $14-17 when I know for a fact that the same movies are sitting in the Walmart DVD bin for $5.
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Same. I struggle to imagine the "good" version of meth.
Polonius (Reimagining the Rust Borrow Checker)
Just yesterday I read something about the show "White Collar" and checked it out on Amazon Prime Germany. In German language it is available for free. I like to watch shows in their original language though. English costs 4€ per episode. Alright then, torrent it is.
Thanks, I'll keep an eye out for that. To be honest the BBC is probably the only British thing I read much. Am I right in assuming it's generally a bit less tabloidish than a lot of the other popular stuff?
I've also had the same feeling about all of the articles referring to this as a "software problem".

Regardless of how they're trying to address the issue, the whole idea of not installing redundant AoA sensors as the default base option was a manufacturing, engineering, and management problem in my book.
Although you make a good point about general portfolio diversification, the difference between a "normal" employee and a co-founder is fairly large in this instance. Co-founders are supposed to have confidence in the business they built - if they don't, why should other investors?
I just started Ulysses for the second time, see if I get further this time.
"What are your thoughts on the afterlife?"

Any question more likely than not to possibly cause some stir or anxiety usually gets listed in my head as not appropriate for shallow conversations. Religion, politics, questions in depth about personal history, metaphysics, philosophy, etc.

Of course, having deep conversations is super rewarding and it can really help you learn a lot about other people and build relationships beyond just inane topics like tv or the weather.
Your company doesn't have to make a profit for it to be (legitimately) worth a lot of money...Amazon is a great example.
Hammerspoon is awesome, can't even imagine how difficult it would be without it.
I've built Spacemacs inspired config so I can do everything and still keep my fingers in the home row
https://github.com/agzam/spacehammer

- Tossing windows around?

- Controlling music?

- Jumping between apps?

- Adding more convenient shortcuts for your favorite apps?

- Editing any text anywhere with your favorite editor?

Why not modality then?
I appreciate your taking the time to respond to my inquiries. I'm genuinely curious how one is supposed to use the information your application provides.

I agree with your statement, "In the end, what we need is data to make decisions based on something palpable." But the part I'm not convinced about is that the data being provided is the right data to use in making a decision.

Does your response, "Not necessarily greater impact implies greater risk, but a better quality of the task in short." imply that there is a relationship between Impact and quality?

I read through a number of your other blog posts and still don't have a clear understanding of what it is that a project manager (or others) should be doing with all of this information.

Can you give me a use case example of how I (as a project manager) would use an Impact visualization in my decision making process?

Thank you again for taking the time to answer my questions.
> at least until we are working at even smaller scales.

We are. The current cutting edge for microchip fabs is 7 nanometers and TSMC is planning a 5 nm one for 2020 and a 3 nm one for 2022.

And according to wikipedia: "at separations of 10 nm the Casimir effect produces the equivalent of about 1 atmosphere of pressure" they say it is the dominant force on submicron scales between conductors.

I don't know where MEMS are nowadays, but understanding this force is probably something that will help them miniaturize even more.
> The thing is unreadable and the ideas it contains (I read some explanations of the books by other "lesser" philosophers) pretty basic.

Why are you taking the opinion of someone concerning what a book says if that book is unreadable? Clearly there must be something must be wrong either in your ability or in their confidence.

> Better read Manufacturing Content by Chomsky.

Society of the Spectacle and Manufacturing Consent don't cover the same material. It's a good book recommendation, but Society of the Spectacle is effectively a dissection of a heavily commoditized society, whereas Manufacturing Consent concerns dissecting the current state of media.
>We've been in this "post truth" world for a long time already for every form of media other than video

The film "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" came out in 1939. It should be mandatory viewing.
High-heels isn't actually that odd in a historical context, until recently men too wote high heels.
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I find it funny when satire from the past becomes the truth of the present. It's not hard to find examples such as the dystopian satire of "Network" (1976) becoming depressingly accurate.

In this case, Mitchell & Webb performed a sketch on the power of having just shy of two drinks. The Inebriati is "a group bound by the creed that humanity is better and more noble after very nearly two drinks than at any other time."

Video here: https://streamable.com/wtsn
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I find it completely odd-less, in a life filled with so much pain and meaningless-ness is the ones trying to bury their sorrows into alcohol and drugs and other ways to trick their brains (e.g adrenaline) that I find the most relatable.
I could imagine for many carriers the shorter landing gear is a feature of the design; I believe some using this airframe choose to disembark passengers direct to the tarmac using the system's ladders, rather than involve a flight of stairs or an articulated gangway, lessening airport fees.

Edit: not to lessen any of the other points you made - this absolutely should have gone through approval as a new model.
I'm not talking about potential applications of things that may or may not embed wasm and provide high level interfaces, libraries, compilers, tools. It's irrelevant whether high level stuff uses wasm underneath, application developers won't be touching it directly. I'm talking about actually doing all that work to enable application development. These are the people wasm targets and there are very few of such people on earth. It's very niche tech.

I was considering wasm for myself too, read the spec, articles, played with their ocaml implementation, parsed a bit of bytecode, but concluded that it's not a good tech, too browser specific to use elsewhere and waste time on it.
I guess what I wonder about there is how do you deal with various password "rules" when generating the passwords? I really have no idea what that thing is doing. How does it know which password goes to which website? How do you create multiple passwords from your fingerprint?
This only applies during December, but https://adventofcode.com/ is a fun experience! Most puzzles range from 30 minutes to 3 hours from start to finish.
This surprised me the most―never thought about this before. Aren't all permission-supporting filesystems vulnerable to this if mounting by a user is permitted? I presume filesystems don't go through the files and downgrade root ownership.
I guess we have different meanings for safety?

For me: safety means not causing permanent damage.
I wonder what the tax rate on his windfall, 50%?
The central technique used in DeepFakes is fascinating. Initially I assumed they were using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). But — and someone can correct if I’m wrong — Deep Fakes use two Autoencoders.

So essentially you’re training a network how to compress an image down to a very tiny representation, and then uncompress it as accurately to the original as possible.

You train two of these: one for the original face, and one for the target face. Then, you compress with the “source” autoencoder, and then uncompress with the “target” autoencoder. And, voila, ‘source‘ face becomes ‘target’ face.
Who cares about the TFA. The comments is the content. Especially here! braces for downvotes
Being polite and nice is the lubricant in the gears of society. You're correct in that it's not the same thing as being good (and, as you said, sometimes to be good we have to be impolite or even harsh) but being nice is an important part of getting along with other humans, especially the ones you don't know.
Travis should have confidence in the business he built while he’s running it.

He’s not in charge any more so why should he have unwavering confidence?
Thank you for sharing your business journey. I am curious about whether you think the Amy Hoy course you reference would be useful for a fiction author in building their fanbase?
> Co-founders are supposed to have confidence in the business they built

The business they built and still either run or largely preside over, however Travis was ousted— I'm not sure he'd agree with their current direction as a result.
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Is the generator always assumed to be able to keep up when the discriminator is improved algorithmically? I've always wondered that when I hear this counter-argument.
I wouldn't bother with Ready Player One, which is an unrewarding story mostly written as an effort by the author to collect every bit of his 80s nostalgia in one place.

Instead I would suggest Speaker For The Dead, the sequel to Ender's Game and a remarkable novel.
Plus Uber is leveraged on the idea of having self driving cars, which won't materialize before they run out of money.
I can't speak for APL, but J does have a standardized sparse-array format, and a verb for converting normal arrays to sparse and back. Most operations work on both kinds of arrays transparently, although (in my limited experience) many ops are quite a bit slower on sparse arrays. Perhaps the performance difference is less significant for huge arrays, but for me it was measurably slower when working with a 1000x1000 table.

Having said that, the sparse format gives you direct access to its internal index (coordinate) array, as well as the value array. So algorithms that can take advantage of these data structures might benefit significantly.
>The idea that animals are not conscious comes from religion, not science.

and even then: opinions, as they say, vary wildly.
My guess is that these stories are based on different interpretations of what "alcoholic" is, or absolute count vs. per capita.
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Considering all the studies about the bad effects of too much TV, I don't know that you are providing a counter-example.

EDIT: staring at a computer screen all day is also associated with quite a few negative effects -- whether working or playing.
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he's no longer involved in uber as CEO, why would he want to tie his wealth to something he's no longer steering? there's not even an argument for Optics here.
Generally true but when you're no longer running the show, these rules are less true; it's no longer about your own confidence in your ability to navigate to better outcomes.
A book to read immediately after Guns Germs and Steel is Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu.

It's also useful to know that Diamond does not have a degree in Geography and many geographers aren't particularly on board with his ideas.

I think of him the same way I do Malcom Gladwell, a good story teller but he does this by cherrypicking anecdotes more than by a robust assessment of reality.
> Now that EGS is trying to bleed customers, video game piracy is going up again because nobody likes exclusives except those that get money for them.

Big fat citation needed on the piracy numbers there...

I honestly don't mind timed exclusives because they provide stability and income to the studios that make the games I like. While there's a lot to criticize Epic for, the fact that they essentially guarantee a certain number of sales means devs like Coffee Stain studios can make a risky bet like Satisfactory (basically a 3D Factorio).

As a consumer, it's really not material to me whether I'm launching one or two stores, whereas these studios can be freed from the worry of boom/bust cycles, layoffs, etc.
True, but those two are actual billionaires while their companies are floundering (Uber much less so than WeWork, but still - 37% down since IPO isn't great).

I can't think of many other examples where the company is doing so poorly and the co-founders made off with $1B+, given that this was not an acquisition.

Maybe a better title would be "Getting to a Billion without Long-Term Viability or Acquisition".
I thought I recognized Hammerspoon! thanks
Thanks for posting it! Definitely going to add a couple of those to my list.
Where does sudo come in with suid executables? Especially since afaik sudo depends on suid in the first place.
I would also add the state of the market right now is favorable for sellers. Might as well strike when the market is hot and people will gobble his stocks up without any issues.

Considering an impending recession, it just makes sense he would dump these now.