skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is kind of what I'm talking about. Only the established players are able to do this sort of thing, because of high barriers to entry. If you and I wanted to start a bank that didn't do slimy things, we'd have a really hard time.

That's not to say it's impossible, but I wouldn't try it again unless there was a team of people willing to work for equity that were already experts at compliance.
I agree;

It would be nice if at least, the only way to be able to downvote, would be to also post (require) a comment.
Just found this /r/cryto thread on Sarah2 from a little more than a week ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/ea00yb/sarah2_a_str...

and this one on Lobsters from a day or two ago:

https://lobste.rs/s/yuwgdd/sarah2_strong_pen_paper_cipher
That's why Ray Ozzie's comment on a previous submission is so significant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5847189
This advice is just so... airy. Like most of his advice. "Build something people love" Got it, now what? What do I build, exactly? Like the incredible Onion talk on startup: "Step 1: come with up an idea. Step 2: Build it. We're at step 2 - we're half way there"
Your opinion here is completely valid and probably pretty widespread, but I feel almost entirely the opposite. Every time I get one of those "what's new" pop-ups in an app I already enjoy, it feels like Christmas morning for me and I almost always immediately go try out the new feature(s). I don't think I would find most of them (or wouldn't find them as quickly) for most apps without a nudge saying what to look for.
I work on a free and open source project called Cortex that deploys PyTorch models (as well as other frameworks) as scalable APIs. It sounds perfect for what you're looking for: https://github.com/cortexlabs/cortex

Cortex automates all of the devops work—from containerizing your model, to orchestrating Kubernetes, to autoscaling instances to meet demands. We have a bunch of PyTorch examples in our repo, if you're interested: https://github.com/cortexlabs/cortex/tree/master/examples
I find this fascinating because in Spain we are in a quick restrict-access-to-cash spiral with banks shouting down offices every.month and getting an ATM nearby is increasingly hard unless you live or work in the center of a big city.

If you actually touch the money, you can feel easily how much is going out.

Plus, I guess having to go to an ATM to get money out makes it more valuable because you pay everything with both money and time. Good trick
Is it anything to do with the government per se, or is it driven entirely by civil servants?
I genuinely don't understand where these ideas about economics come from. Inequality is a hot topic, and it has been for years.
>From a machine-parsing perspective PDF files are a nightmare.

Can someone with experience care to explain why? Does it have to do with each letter having an absolute position on the document? I have no clue, to be honest.
Suggestions on solutions for static out going IP addresses on cloud computing?
Working on a service running in AWS that communicates to a service on heroku and I am using AWS, do you know of a reliable solution that can allow to use a static outgoing IP, or how do you go about this problem?
Joe Rogan Experience #1361 – Cmdr. David Fravor
Awesome were you inspired by Ace of Spades at all or have heard of it?

I remember that original voxel-based engine and web server list that launched the client using their custom URI.

It was awesome how small the game was and how fun it was the simple concept (Minecraft with guns and no floating blocks).
Right now 7.1% of our power generation is coming from biomass.

http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk

I'm not convinced it's all waste product.
Yeah you need to make the mental step that you're viewing a book with pages. It took me some time as well. I have a small screen though.
How about the dictionary?

> n. Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives.

> n. A political or social unit that has such a government.

> n. The common people, considered as the primary source of political power.

But better, where outside of some ancient history book did you ever see somebody use that word describing exclusively a government like the one in ancient Greece? (Not to say that republic comes from the exact same concepts, just in a different language.)
I still don’t get it either. Apple platforms are full of bizarre gestures and 4-keys shortcuts but it didn’t creep to the most basic features until now.
Chrome’s sandboxing is unparalleled in the browser space. No other browser comes close, unless you are running something in Qubes or suchlike. Then it doesn’t much matter.
Should we even care for a mathematical proof that P=NP? We know that in practice we haven't been able to come up with algorithms that solve NP problems in polynomial time. Suppose we'll be told that this is possible (i.e. P=NP): will this help up us to invent such algorithms? I don't see how, unless the proof will be by construction.
They made lot "invisible" improvements in 10.15 (apfs is finished, kern speedup, metal, ml, fonts on 4k etc..) but not sure about this iOS look on my MacBookPro, Now my os look like web page from '98. Way too flat. Icons are broken on toolbar, hated how it looks.

Suggestion:

1. One Pro OSX version for Pro users (cut all services that eat ram and can be security hole) and add more options for advanced users.

2. Cut price around $800 or if you can cut more without damage in "real" performance and quality. Because not all apps use all power anyway.

3. And most important, fix broken flat UI, find balance. We have lot talented designers without job.

4. Don't break old apps with new update, find way for LTS.

MacOS is still my favourite BSD distro and mac from 2013/15 is perfect HW.
So, if you do not know how to improve it, then keep what works and what users like or ask.
I don't want to give away too much detail - Company IP, self identifying, etc.

However, lets just say that if normal peak traffic is 1X, then bot traffic can come in at 100-10000X. And in most cases it's not a smooth rise, it'll be a case of suddenly all this new traffic came in, no warning, no rise.

How many non-trivially complex sites do you know that can suddenly take 100-10000X their normal peak in under a minute? Those that do - are their managers happy about spending on idle infrastructure?

How fast do you think even services like AWS can scale? (hint: it's not fast enough).

Normal traffic is, in aggregate, quite predictable in load. Outside of very unusual situations, you don't get hundreds of thousands of people suddenly hitting your site.

Plus, because that traffic is nice and predictable, you can have decent caching rules, reducing the cost of the traffic again.

Along comes Mr Botnet and they want to scrape everything: every hotel in every city, every checkin/out tuple for stays of 1-7 days for the next 12 months, and a bunch of room configurations.

Kiss your caching goodbye, because now not only is your cache hit ratio for their searches going to be effectively zero, but now it's being filled with other shit that nobody else wants.

And this is just our infrastructure. There's the third party OTAs that we hit, and they have the same issue, often with smaller and less experienced teams running on crappier infrastructure.
So, you get angry calls from them that their shared hosting provider is cutting them off and you're ruining their business. Because of course, this shared hosting is not only hosting their room availability search API, but their hotel check-in and sales applications - so nobody in 30 hotels can check-in/out.
I'll leave the legal stuff to others. In terms of how to find good contractors the key - before you start looking - is to be clear about:

- what you want

- what you actually need

- the priorities within those lists

- what level of service / availablity

- your budget (and how realistic it is in the context of the previous points).

Most ppl new to such efforts - and even many of the experienced - have unicorn ideals in mind, and a fast food budget.

p.s. Also be ready and willing to sharpen your communications. Assuming they'll know all their is to know about your effort isn't going to get you far. Unless you're able to hire a mind reader ;)
Interesting to see this here tonight. Just a few hours ago, my wife mentioned to me what she heard from some nurses: apparently, Christmas is one of the busiest times in hospitals, because a lot of people with elderly parents and grandparents would invent illnesses (or even cause them, by e.g. hiding or substituting medicine) to get them admitted to hospitals during Christmas, just to avoid having to have a Christmas dinner.

She also told me that some time ago, there was an ad aired about this problem in Poland; it featured an elderly man who tried, year after year, to invite his family for Christmas, to no effect. He eventually posted a notice about his own funeral, and as the family came and was surprised to see him alive, he brought in the dinner and said, "because that was the only way I could get you here".

Stories like this make me sick in my stomach. No matter the bad blood that can be present in a family, I just can't imagine how one can treat one's own parents this way.
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> Why isn’t functional programming the norm?

This talk is very good. It's one of the few talks that I've overheard classmates talk about. It not only asks a question a lot of people exposed to functional programming at university asks, but also answers it in a way where you learn more about the world of programming and programming languages than you expected.
Truth and Probability (1926) [pdf]
I doubt race car drivers (who are better drivers than the average car driver) would want a computer to yank their steering or do something unexpected in a race.

Autonomous cars aren't necessarily better than race car drivers.. would be interesting if human racers and autonomous compete
I have to wonder why you notice this and write it here? Can't you or don't you want to connect to her?
Behind the scenes of iOS and Mac Security: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3byNNUReyvE

Good talk behind the reason for the T2 chip and some other Apple security stuff
I must admit that even though I know it is bullshit, it still makes me nervous as hell and I'm getting all tight until I book something, especially if I'm booking for a very near future. It works on me.
Giving them the benefit of the doubt here - could they have been counting you blocking off dates for bookings made through other channels?
It was never really designed for that, only for display and printing. There are some features that let you mark up the text for easier searching and selection, not every producer will use them though.

It is a bit of a dogs dinner now, mostly because of backwards compatibility. XPS is better but obviously failed in the market.
Why This Tesla Was My Biggest Financial Mistake
When I worked at GDS the aim was to use PDF’s they were considered to have a long shelf life, where as HTML and the web in general can evolve and leave some people without a way to read it. I wonder whats changed?
You have to essentially render the document yourself in order to figure out what the order of chunks is. Then you might be able to extract content from the chunks you're interested in - or not. A given zipped chunk might be literally anything.

Didier Stevens is the best expert of PDFs that I know of: https://blog.didierstevens.com/programs/pdf-tools/
Ofc it is on purpose. This guy goes by name Frank Lucas.
It's SO nice hearing that I'm not the only one who thought this - it was actually around this release that I just gave up on iPhones and moved to Android phones. The amount of fiddling/setup/googling I've had to do since has been dramatically less.
Same! And I hate myself for it. I know it's bullshit, but reminds me I guess that there could be other people who are gonna take the room before I can. Sigh, we're suckers.
Ask HN: How do big software companies maintain high engineering standards
I can assume that when a company grows very fast (FAANG Fast) the number of ideas, good and bad, grows.
What are the known ways for huge software companies ( the ones that opens dozens of teams per year ) to maintain high engineering standards? How do they successfully teach their techniques for dealing with scale, maintain good architecture, etc.
I am aware that in reality there are a lot of badly written projects even in Google and that there is no silver bullet. But I do believe there are a few techniques I can learn from (Since many of these companies have super well engineered projects and they constantly recruit juniors).

Let me name a few: Design review committees (problems: covers a small amount of the code, requires constantly re-checking on design changes), multiple code reviews before merges, Managing PEs and assigning them to groups, ICs, architect-only teams (problems: many)
Plus this one has a terrible headline. Discovering an existing, impossible to avoid physical property is hardly "finding a new way" to do anything, unless you figure out how to exploit it.

Article itself is good tho.
That's not the issue, the problem is we don't know what a document wood look like with next years browser or if it will render at all. That isn't an issue with PDF.
>Splitting out GMV is important because Amazon isn’t setting the price or choosing the selection for the third party Marketplace

Well. In some cases, Amazon will drop a third party's price for them and reimburse the difference - in other cases Amazon will simply unpublish the buybox/add to cart buttons.

Anyway, IMO the relevant market definition is online orders with 2 day shipping. I believe Amazon has well over 50% market share there.

This is relevant because if you're ordering something to receive within two days, buying from another site that only promises to get it to you within 4 days may not be an option for you.
But that's only for messaging, not accessing the Internet.
It is true this forum is full of programmers. It is also true this forum is relatively "lightweight" and does not require Javascript to read and comment.
If these are alien craft, maybe they're not flying through space ... or even warping space (Alcubierre-ish) but just leaping through it. Like stepping through a curtain.

If our whole understanding of space is wrong, then they'd be asking themselves "why are they making it so hard?".
I disabled all cookies, all JavaScript and all 3rd-party content on that page using uMatrix, and it loads just fine.
Unless you live in Mogadishu you are not an anarchist. In any real sense.
I think Lotus Notes has a fascinating history, cryptographic shenanigans asides. As far as I'm aware it is still the most successful "offline first" / "local-first" application platform in widespread use today, complete with multi-master document replication, highly-configurable conflict resolution and rapid application development. These were revolutionary capabilities during the dialup era. The email client just happens to be the most popularly recognised groupware application outside of individual corporate firewalls.

The original vision was very lofty:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180225100127/http://www.kapor....

"Notes should take the first major crack at the area of idea processors, textual databases, and hypertext systems."

I would love to see where an open source equivalent built for the modern age could take us... (CouchDB gave it a good shot!)
> Maybe tackle this problem first, then fall back to exposition.

You assume it can be tackled. Here's a concrete example:

The tool automatically snaps new windows to where user wants them to be. Rarely the user wants to undo that. The core functionality (autosnap) does not require any visible interface whatsoever. If I want user to see the undo button, I have to place it somewhere over his app's window, which bloats the interface (the undo is uncommon), or outright impossible, since some windows have custom titlebars.

So there's a hotkey, configurable in settings. How can you make it more discoverable?
Is it possible to prove that a proof exists for either P=NP or P!=NP? Conversely, is it possible to prove that the conjecture is unprovable?
Uses of a Quadratic Equation
Well, we can see how that worked with the big tech companies; it mostly works for Uber and AirBnB but problems still get through, and is turning into a serious reputational problem for Amazon.
Git push is the Process – permissionless license development now
What’s crazy is that this offers remote code execution for around 5 million email servers. As far as bug hunting goes, it doesn’t get much juicer than this and the author could easily have sold the exploit for more than the awarded bounty.
EETimes: Boeing Flops Again
That seems too narrow a definition for me. I order things expecting two day Prime shipping all the time but almost none are so urgent that waiting isn’t an option. For me it is simply a competitive advantage against other slower delivery options but also physical stores, because that requires the inconvenience and time expenditure of driving and walking through the store. That is, I feel the market they’re in (ignoring AWS etc) is general retailing.
Fearing (correctly) that the laptop I had refurbished for my mother was soon to die, I bought her an iPad. She is not in any way computer literate and dislikes change. Surely, I thought, they would have some "cheat sheets" available to boil down the basics. I bought a few on Amazon and found them to be either insufficient or crowded with esoterica.

So I set about making a set of laminated cheat sheets of my own, with a consistent design, using screenshots of all of the applications I had installed, and so on. One points out all of the buttons on the iPad, another one shows the different screens, and a third was a diagram of common gestures.

Finding the gesture list itself was ... well, quite a bit harder than I thought it ought to be. Everything seems opaque. I am reminded of one of those escape room puzzles where one must painstakingly iterate through an array of taps, drags, swipes against each and every corner, edge and pixel. It seems that one must flail about against all of the idols, oh, I'm sorry, icons, hoping that one of the motions I have just performed will propitiate the gods. Watch for signs.

It seems, from my vantage, that learning the Apple Way was done with the very first Apple products and that now there is an expectation that everyone has been following along all this time. Certainly, that was my experience with my first smartphone, the iPhone SE. I was constantly having to look up how to do the smallest things and hoping that the information I found was not outdated. I also had to pester other Apple users for tips. My high school computer science teacher would be appalled at the lack of forthrightness.

While I think I did an alright job with the cheat sheets, she never did use that iPad much.
Francis Maude was the MP responsible for a lot of that. He was the only politician I ever heard talk about lean practices in software.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Maude#Return_to_Govern...
I would imagine introducing cars to a road itself causes a braess paradox.
Well the consensus from the article is that middle aged white men had the best rate of success with facial recognition which sounds like a data mismatch problem to me.
This is an over simplification, but since the np hard problems are reducible to each other, finding polynomial time solution for one problem will give us polynomial time solutions for all np hard problems.
The inability to use even password manager's keyboard has forced me (and probably more people) to use much weaker passwords then usual. Also, the 32 chars limit...

Thanks for the game.
This is useful! Thank you for sharing!!!!
Yes, and yes. P != NP could be independent from Peano Arithmetic (PA) or the Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory with Axiom of Choice (ZFC) models. That is a separate conjecture which is also presently open.
Thanks for pointing that out, I will refrain from comments like these in the future.

It just becomes frustrating to see this pattern of behavior and how pronounced it has become. I frequently disagree with comments but they often generate good discussion. This is how we all get smarter. Instead, the potential is deterred by downvotes.
- these definitions are not the same as the one you stated previously.

- All these 3 definitions of democracy may apply to a democracy that uses allotment instead of elections.

- You are correct that modern usage of democracy is restricted to "election based majority government".

- Republic is a wholly separate, orthogonal concept. Pre-empire Rome was a republic, not a democracy.
::sigh:: downvoted. I know, humour is generally discouraged on HN, but I thought the subtle hints of the metaphysics of imaginary creatures might attract some appreciation. Oh well, I regret nothing!
> I don’t remember the last time I was sold something I didn’t want from it

That’s kind of the point of this type of misdirection: they use less than honest tactics to make you feel good about your choice. You’ll never know what alternatives you may have otherwise chosen and how happy you would have been.
The FDIC isn’t public money and there is no congressional appropriation for it. FDIC is funded by bank premiums. Sure if the FDIC goes bust in a massive financial implosion the feds will backstop it, but in such a disaster almost no private orgs have the resources to backstop it.

This sounds like an uninformed libertarian rant.
June 2013 discussion's top post is by the person involved in making Lotus Notes (Ray Ozzie). His comment - which tangents into issue of privacy and data control - is also prescient, and could have just as well been written today, which is a sad testament to how things didn't get any better in the past 6 years.
I think most people recognize and understand that amazon neither has a relevant market share nor a monopoly in the traditional sense of the word. The author makes a good point that it is very much political as much economic.

The latter is important because the traditional understanding of a monopoly is somewhat antiquated with tech and has led to many people arguing to change its definition.

The most prominent example is Lina Kahn's wildy successful/read paper in the Yale Law Journal about amazon's antitrust paradox and how a company can operate in monopolistic ways without having a significant market share.

https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-parado...

A similar case is Apple and Spotify competing to grow their music streaming service.

It will be interesting to see how the current political framework is adjusted for this new economy dominated by big tech.
I don't like gardening, but I'd love to donate to people, who would enjoy doing it in my city.
Almost wish there would be a per-patch donation box.
Next top story on HackerNews:

"Predicting when a new article will be published about how P=NP is not solved yet."

My prediction: Pretty soon :-(
The people working on this car are designing a vehicle control system, not an actual new vehicle.
There's a substantial portion of their customer base that would not consider other sites that took longer to ship. I'm not claiming everyone is like that but it's a relevant market.
The web standards are wrong. This shouldn't be surprising, since they also allow a website to use javascript and cookies.
If they had two lasers of similar frequencies they would get interference beats/aliases in the data. If they use the exact same frequency (eg by splitting the source) it shouldn’t show up. Should allow for less stable/expensive laser sources too.
I'm sure it exists in states other than california but california does require cannabis to be tested for pesticides and other toxins before it goes on sale.
How we went from 0 to 10k users in 4 months with $0 spent on marketing
NAT gateway with EIP. All outbound requests from your vpc will come from the NAT IP.