skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a member of the LGBT community, there are entire states I will not move to until they fix their legislation/legislators. I also will never move back to PA because of their filial responsibility laws.
Because the code is being executed on my machine, with my data, using my online identity.

Until now, the general understanding for the web platform was that code that runs on a user's machine is also inspectable by that user. A large number of browser functions are developed with that understanding in mind.

You can argue that this practice should be changed, but that would be a rather fundamental change to the way the web works and the advantages and disadvantages should be discussed.

As a practical point: I don't condone cheating in multiplayer games, but the exact same obfuscation techniques that a game might use for legitimate reasons are also available to malware. If you make a general rule that programs should be hands-off to everyone except the devs (and browsers should change their tools accordingly), the same benefits will be given to malware.
I don't think anyone has a sustainable business model right now for the root cause ( climate change).

Although Tesla seems to be the best option right now. I think the future will be a combination of electric bikes and greatly improved public transportation + reduced cost price.

An electric car is still too resource heavy too make.

I know a lot of people here who won't agree with me. But I'm pretty sure that they don't live in the Netherlands or Belgium ( where a lot of people cycle) or that this alternative is not viable there ( too cold or too wide).

I also didn't say it was a perfect solution for all ( ev. The edge cases I gave here) and that people will easily adjust when they don't have the habit of cycling ( eg. No adjusted roads)
My takeaway is that IG was always built to be performance based social media app. As in, the user puts up a performance for people to see.

Compare that to HN/Reddit/Blogs before and you can basically pinpoint when and how social media changed the way we connect.
Yes, but considering how it grew after it may as well have been.
"SolarCity" ...city... “People do not understand the magnitude of the business," Musk said. "Solar will be the single largest source of electricity generation".
This is an interface that wrap multiple document tools into a common API, allowing you for example to switch your OCR from Tesseract to Google Cloud Vision or Abby without changing much of your code. More cloud vendor / OCR will be supported in the near future.

More than just wrapping the OCR, there is also a document reconstruction / cleaning pipeline that take care of reading order, heading detection and classification, table detection and reconstruction, ... so that you have an as clean and usableas possible Text / JSON as an output.
On Aaron Swartz (2013)
I would argue that people are buying an expensive investment that doesn't pay off. It doesn't pay off because the product is defective -- college often doesn't lead to hire salaries.

Often times admissions has turned into an unregulated used car industry where lemons are legally bought and sold each day.
If it’s publishing authentic information, and this impacts voter choice, how is that a negative?

This criticism has never made any sense to me, and usually regresses to a non-sequitur comment like, “they didn’t publish any emails from the Republicans or the Russians”.

If people found out what Hillary’s campaign actually did and said, and decided that this didn’t align with their values in a President, that’s not Putin or Assange’s fault. That’s Hillary’s fault.
It is interesting that California, being an extremely "blue" state (along with Washington to a slightly lesser extent), chooses to retain this antiquated artifact of the days when it was a Spanish colony.

And why would Wisconsin choose this, when it never had any connection to Spain?
> There happens to only be a single way to write the method signatures of a compatible method.

That's not actually true. For example, all of the following method headers are compatible:

void foo(int a) throws Exception
void foo(int x) throws IOException
void foo(int index) throws RuntimeException

Sure, this is a technicality, but it is not completely irrelevant.

However, the whole discussion is moot, because Google had no intention of being compatible with anything, as shown by the fact that there is no real-world Java program that runs as-is on Android.

Also, copyright only applies to actual copies of the original work. Google could have done a clean-room redesign of the Java API starting from Java programs, they could have arrived at the same API that they have today, and could not have been successfully accused of copying.
Powershell shines here.

DSC or pure powershell has bunch of useful tools and a real programming language to use in between. Yaml like configuration can be achieved with nested HashTables that have almost equivalent readability without loosing any of the devlopment capabilities.
We're pretty sure that stuxnet was NSA and Mossad fwiw.
Cool, thanks for answering!
And that, gentleman, is why we leave weird artifacts like this one to the profesionals, namely the SCP foundation. ;-)
“ The spectral signatures of the best companies I’ve invested in are remarkably similar. They usually have most of the following characteristics: compelling founders, a mission that attracts talented people into the startup’s orbit, a product so good that people spontaneously tell their friends about it, a rapidly growing market, a network effect and low marginal costs, the ability to grow fast, and a product that is either fundamentally new or 10x better than existing options.

You should try to limit yourself to opportunities that could be $10 billion companies if they work (which means they have, at least, a fast-growing market and some sort of pricing power). The power law is that powerful. This is easy to say and hard to do, and I’ve been guilty of violating the principle many times. But the data are clear—the failures don’t matter much, the small successes don’t matter much, and the giant returns are where everything happens.”

This is just one type of company and limiting yourself to just that is limiting and a driver to some of the mind bubble issues in SV.
I have noticed them pushing the streaming features, and I think it's a brilliant play. Cut Twitch out of the equation entirely, stream and monetize your community directly in Discord. I think it's also interesting in that Discord servers can be private so you open up the possibility of allowing content that Twitch shuns due to its public broadcast nature (e.g. adult content).
That makes a lot of sense. I weakly believe I'm better at speaking off the cuff, but can "cheat" this by writing a stream of consciousness like how I'd talk.

A similar-ish technique for when I'm stuck trying to figure out how to phrase something: rubber duck saying it without the constraint of needing it to sound fancy/formal/academic/smart, and then remove all the "likes" and make it concise.
Maybe we should start printing ASCII in future in some of the error paths...

I work on image processing; when we get an image we don't recognize, we print out the first few bytes in hex & ascii. Often, it's an error message or HTML error page. The user's code takes the results of an HTTP fetch and sends it to us, forgetting to check for errors.
Embed any image into a prime number
Bonuses were always very political. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, despite being on the winning team (desk).
Indeed. What is "waste" now may be quite usable in the not-far future.

Analogy: every time I cook using aluminum foil, I cringe at throwing out a usable wad of the metal solely because there's some charred food waste on it, when I presume near-future tech will easily reclaim this useful element. Would be nice to have something between "trash" and "recycling" - pre-sorting junk so that future people have a not-unmanageable repository of materials they can work with even though we can't.

Likewise nuclear "waste" - it's still active material, generating energy, just needing a few more years/decades before we can use it. Even today we have (or soon will) reactors which "eat" waste from older designs. Put what we have in stable long-term containers, and making odds on when it can be used.
Coffee in Taiwan: Awakening a Sleeping Dragon
Yup! My daughter absolutely adores it
El Shafee Elsheikh was born in Sudan who's father was a sudan citizen at the time of his birth, Alexanda Kotey on the other hand was born in the UK but would have dual citizenship in Ghana if his father still held Ghana citizenship.

> A person born on or after 24 September 1979 and before 7 January 1993 is a citizen of Ghana by birth if—

>(a) He/She was born in Ghana and at the date of his/her birth either of his/her parents or one grandparent was a citizen of Ghana; or

>(b) He/She was born outside Ghana and at the date of his/her birth either of his/her parents was a citizen of Ghana.

Even if their British citizenship has been illegally withdrawn (Which Alexanda Kotey appears to be fighting), the law is about the extradition of people from the UK. They were captured outside of the UK (and even the EU were similar extradition laws apply).

My point being the UK Extradition laws arn't being loosened up by the backdoor.
I'm more thinking more from the perspective of your average tech person who might be considering angel or startup investing. There's a very real "myth" that the only way to strike it rich is to invest in private startups vs public investing.
It used to be that pre-DeepLearning tokenizers would extract ngrams (n-token sized chunks) but this doesn't seem to exist anymore in the word embedding tokenizers I've come by.

Is this possible using HuggingFace (or another word embedding based library)?

I know that there are some simple heuristics like merging noun token sequences together to extract ngrams but they are too simplistic and very error prone.
Identifying and Understanding Header File Hotspots in C/C++ Builds (2016)
Observation of hydrogen trapping at dislocations and grain boundaries
The key point is that Boeing was so keen on their narrative that there were no differences that even a 3 hour simulator training was considered unnecessary.

And if this simulator training would have been unhelpful, maybe we should let the FAA know that Boeing is once again trying to pull a fast one since one of the major changes they’ve made is to require simulator training.
The feature is probably targeted at absolute beginners who don't even know kana yet. The screenshot of the settings does show the option to select a different transliteration, but romaji seem to be the default.
The SolarCity acquisition.
You aren’t getting my position - results drive the field, whether those results come from a tenured professor and his team of PhD students, or some kid in his garage with no formal training.

Physicists are not “chosen”. They are built and trained.

There’s no conspiracy here.
> I'll argue that making the MAX behave the same as a non MAX 737 is a reachable and reasonable engineering goal

And I argue the opposite: it can‘t be made to behave exactly the same as soon as the failure scenarios are considered.

In computer speak, you just look from the point of view of a “most common” run, not all the special cases, exceptions etc.

There are other impossibilities too, directly related to the certification requirements, already documented in the news articles before.
And there are more incidents where those came from. Helping Contras smuggle cocaine into the US. And the Bay of Pigs Invasion which basically forced Castro into an alliance with Soviet and almost started World War 3 due to the missile crisis.

The CIA has done good things for the US too, but these events show that having a group of people doing bad things might not be good for the US in the short term either.
That's a great example! Thank you very much for sharing.

That said, it's been my experience that a modern docker application is only occasionally a single container. More often it's a heterogeneous mix of three or more containers, collectively comprising an application. Now we've got multiple unit files, each of which handles a different aspect of the application, and now this notion of a "service" conflates system-level services like docker and application-level things like redis. There's a resulting explosion of cognitive complexity as I have to keep track of what's part of the application and what's a system-level service.

Meanwhile, the Kubernetes YAML requires an extra handful of lines under the "containers" key.

Again, thank you for bringing forward this concrete example. It's a very kind gesture. It's just possible that use-cases and personal evaluations of complexity might differ and lead people to different conclusions.
Those timestamps are likely from the image metadata, there's no reason to believe that the images are out of order from their numeric/shortcode ids.

What the author refers to as the "real post #1" has a taken_at_timestamp less than the first picture. It's still id #6 in the database versus #2 (the dog picture). Numeric ids are easily visible in the source of the page or by using this not-so-secret query string: https://www.instagram.com/p/C/?__a=1
To me the randomized characters are a clever way of hiding "autoincrement" to users, so it would be non-trivial to calculate the number being produced daily.

Picking base 49 (a seemingly random number) seems to be perhaps a similar security-through-obscurity thing?

I've written code to produce random (non-sequential) ID's for storage in a database, but it's surprisingly non-trivial to produce a performant INSERT that will work without ever producing collisions.

Relying on the database's AUTOINCREMENT but obfuscating the value through a baseXX encoding seems actually much easier, when the only "security" you're trying to provide is against reporters and business analysts trying to estimate the site's usage/popularity, and they're quite unlikely to bother to reverse-engineer your encoding scheme.
> They are not particularly advanced in tech from what I've seen.

You may not have seen as far as Sandy Monro [1]

[1] https://cleantechnica.com/2018/07/16/munro-model-3-electroni...
Agreed, and how is string theory not being considered an attempt at: "resolving inconsistencies" by the author? In fact, imho, any attempt at finding a unified theory is an attempt at resolving inconsistencies.
Assange didn't kill anyone and then flee the country to escape justice, either.
If "downweighted on HN" means that prior to user voting, HN starts articles from Quillette with a lower score, this really disappoints me. It's a professionally curated and edited journalistic publication, and the pieces I read are generally calm, nuanced, and make some effort not to be mere outrage-bait. (more than I can say for our papers of record these days)

The idea that one of the country's best CS programs is (or is considering) lowering its degree standards matters for us here on HN. This article is worthy and worth our consideration.
Makao, re(verse)-engineering build systems (2014)
Should you run into such a system, you're still just writing code, and interacting with a daemon that takes care of the hardest parts of init scripts for you.

There are no pid files. There are no file locks. There is no "daemonization" to worry about. There is no tracking the process to ensure it's still alive.

Just think about how you would interact with the docker daemon to start, stop, restart, and probe the status of a container, and write code to do exactly that.

Frankly, Docker containers are the simplest thing you could ever have to write an init script for.
Market cap is the market value of a company's equity.

market_cap = total_shares_outstanding * share_price

I passed all three CFA exams a few years back and studied this extensively. I might be remembering incorrectly, but think you're making factually incorrect statements. Appreciate your comment and the motivation to think about this more.

I recommend reading up on these terms:
* market value of equity
* book value of equity
* intrinsic value of equity
This seems like a super useful way to package and deliver this kind of tool chain! I’ve been looking for PDF parsers on and off the last couple of years, and have found it challenging to get most tools set up for data extraction and analysis.

This one packages a off the shelf version into a Docker, and starts a GUI website locally. Looking forward to using this more!
Unrelated: I do a digital magazine too, people can download the PDF. I'd love to give the people to opportunity to buy a printed copy if they want to (and maybe do some profit on the side). I think that's a good SaaS idea: upload your magazine in PDF and let the startup do everything, from pritning to shipping, and get a cut on that.
What about CIA using "Enhanced Interrogation" techniques aka torturing people?
I disagree here - there's definitely some minimum amount of resources you want to use to make k8s worth it memory- and CPU-wise. You may be able to get by with 1 CPU and 1GB of RAM for your master (which is just coordinating, not running any workloads), and there's some overhead on the workers as well.

I've been looking at running k8s at some raspberry pis at home, but anything smaller than the recently released 4 is just not worth it IMO (though I've seen several people run clusters of 3B+s).
defeating planned obsolescence isn't 'that' vague to be fair. Mandating 4-5 year manufacturer warranties, right to repair, and replaceable batteries/screens/button components would pretty much get us there.

We're basically already able to do these things, it's just made more difficult and complex because you can't buy the original piece you need directly from apple. And, in the past, Apple has been known to intentionally break phones that have been user-repaired (the print scanner/button on an old iphone comes to mind.)
If you spend a dollar to buy a chocolate bar, you say the chocolate bar is worth $1 and that you spent $1.

If you give a teller $1 for 4 quarters, you don't say that you spent $1.
Take notes along the way.
You can see for yourself, the articles are free to read online: https://increment.com/
Note this is a pretty recent movement in banking security, several months or so. E.g. Wells Fargo did work previous autumn, not anymore. More can be googled.

Type field is interesting. Not sure this can pass the radars for too long though.
...yeah, that’s the whole point of the comment chain.

Point was that nobody has considered it perfect from day one.
True, but we have a lot of experience with designing legal frameworks and property rights that align individual and aggregate incentives.
Indeed, most of the regular nuclear was can still be used as fissile material, if someone bothered to reprocess it. It also contans a lot of various useful (even valuable) elements, created by permutation during fission.

The amount of realy useless & dangerous is very small. Separating it from the rest is the issue, both economical & political.

Still seems like a better option to solve than trying to find a mythical ideal permanent storage place.
Harvard MBA grad worked at a Starbucks after graduation – then founded a company
With IVF, do you plan to do pre implantation testing to ensure your kids don't have/carry it?

I read that many embryos are a genetic mosaic, so testing just one cell as they currently do isn't as deterministic as people think.
Tech's no different. Don't fool yourself. They wouldn't make the money they made if people didn't flock their and loose their family's savings. Tech's big accomplishment of "solving real needs" have put hundreds of millions out of work and inflated prices all with just debt.

The real money's not on Wall Street. They are frugal and hidden.

Business is business. A jobs a job. It's either this or kill each other, which unfortunately a lot of the world is so happy to do.

Just don't loose. 2% a year is about as best as you can do. When you see a hanging curve ball swing for the fences.
Yes, that 30-day lock up on stocks is killah. I still remember the days of DBL, before the insider trading scandals, where they had these private partnerships that were offered to everybody--from the ceo to the mail room guys--like getting a monthly bonus. Of course, mbs and junk bonds were big and making big $ during the mid-80s. What a time that was.
> IANAL

Indeed.
Yup, there's a pony buried in your assumptions.
Any programmer will tell you the copy is just a second instance of the first person's type. It exists separately in spacetime (analogous to memory space). :)
@thu2111 He's giving you an attack chain.
If you rebind the dns server of the modem with a snmp/tr069 exploit you could redirect/inject into the http traffic a page that contained the javascript payload to exploit the Cable Haunt vulnerabiliy against the Spectrum Analyser endpoint. Because websockets doesn't use CORS to restrict the requesting hosts domain to the modem, you could execute code on the gateway modem from the internet with the combination of a client on the remote network running a http request from a browser combined with an alternative dns rebinding attack against the gateway and a server hosting the malicious websockets payload on a http server.

Edit: or you could get them to click on a link
That's a war crime and the army not really CIA. Waterboarding CIA owns but some soliders still get a chance to take photos and point (if anyone remembers that reference)
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The only pattern is "resourceful" founders and plenty of money. Saying there is science behind investing in early stage startups is like saying there is science in finding out successful humans.
It's all hogwash. Market size, MRR, ARR TAM, PAM, CAM, WHAM are all absolutely irrelevant and just straws that investors like to clutch to when they have no idea what to do. (Microsoft started writing basic programs with just few thousand basic programmers, facebook was hotornot app, google was a search app etc etc)

What really matters is how obstinate the founders are. And equally important is how much money they have.

It's much more predictable to invest in stocks even if they are the sum of human emotions.
I borrow $10 from a friend.

I currently am worth $0 to that bondholder.

I spend one of those borrowed dollars on a chocolate bar.

Now I'm worth $1 to that bondholder??

The spending is done with a completely different person than the bondholder.
> Instagram uses basic base62 with a very standard alphabet

> ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789-_

This is base64. Base62 would be without the "-_" (26 upper case letters + 26 lower case letters + 10 digits = 62, if you include two more characters then it's base64, regardless if the characters are url-safe like -_ or /+ like in the standard base64 encoding).

EDIT:

Also worth noting that with things like base64/base62/etc. you can either encode a byte array into a string of known characters, or if you deal with integer values only then you can compress it much more by converting from a base10 number to a base62 (or similar) number.

For example, "1000" base64 encoded yields "MTAwMA==", but if you'd convert the base10 number 1000 into a base62 number then you'd get "G8". It's like converting between base2 and base10 (binary to dec) or base16 (hex) to base10 (dec).
There was an article linked here just a week or two ago. Its claim was that the distance measurements used in cosmology may be wrong on larger scales. With the correction there is no need for MOND or dark energy. This needs confirmation of course.

I have yet to see the "expected" galactic rotation curves that are contradicted by observation a lead to ideas about dark MATTER. I'm mean I've seen the curves but cant find the math behind them. You often see weak references to Keplers law which doesnt even apply, so that leaves me very skeptical.
I totally agree with you. While such unethical behavior may have seemed to solve an immediate problem, they created far more problems down the road than they were worth.