skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> in order for the company to be sold at a higher price than it was bought, it still has to be good/better at what it is supposed to be doing

As someone who has worked for PE owned companies I can confidently say that unless you consider the thing they’re “supposed to be doing” to be reflecting profit on the books, you’re wrong.

The PE owners of companies I worked for pushed EBITDA over anything else and as a result our product became a leaning Jenga tower of half finished functionality combined with unfulfilled promises to customers. Foundational systems were completely neglected in favor of whatever kept costs low and increased closed ARR focused deals. We sold for many times our previous valuation and not one person I spoke to in the company itself or our customer base felt the product was better, all agreed it was worse.
You're right. And that's why I can't imagine a solution without AGI. There are simply too many context-sensitive parameters and we humans are quite good at applying past knowledge to circumstances which are new to us. And we also have access to information, which a computer may not have.

But software in their current state? Is it possible to provide enough logic to handle all cases like humans? Can you do that with pattern matching, feature detection, decision trees, bayesian models and anomaly detection alone? And if we do, didn't we just replicate a human driver with all his flaws?
This looks great.

I also want to shamelessly plug something similar I am working on, Taiko, it uses javascript and comes with a REPL that generates scripts like.

await openBrowser();
await goto("http://todomvc.com/examples/react/#/");
await write("automate with taiko");
await press("Enter");
await click(checkBox(near("automate with taiko")));

The reason we use a javascript is familiarity, IDE support and use of existing node js libraries for testing.

For anyone who's interested

https://github.com/getgauge/taiko
The filesystem drivers in most linux distro's (and I'd argue Mac and Windows too) have never been under scrutiny for security bugs. I wouldn't trust an ext4 image I got from the internet unless it was signed and from a trusted source, that's worse than ZIP files.
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The problem with your statement is that some people view handling a situation better as getting more cars through a bottleneck in a certain amount of time, and other people view better as making sure that all humans in the area stay safe.
Yeah I think you have to stem the tide to avoiding the "unpaid" shills. I've even seen people who shill in one direction just to be accepted by a community so they can troll them.

I hypothesize you could detect this type of stuff using semantic analysis of text if you check word order and frequency (or go ML with fastText or w/e) you could get maybe 90% accuracy at determining whether someone isn't a shill. There needs to be an investigative process which humans undergo after this. Then some form of identification would be required before any sort of ban (ideally you tell them, this only stops the false positives from rejoining) can be lifted, just incase any local laws are broken.

The shills all have some source material, so they should be closer to it language-wise than those that they teach/brainwash.

But hey, I wish I was paid to shill against other shills and detect them, it would be an interesting job.
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Not crashing into fences. It's still an ongoing area of research in computer vision on how to detect repetitive objects made out of thin parts. Radar cannot reliably detect them due to being thin and optical methods are not yet advanced enough.
What delivery platform do you use?
you never really deal with irrationals ... do you mean floating point?
You can't get rid of it via adb pm uninstall?
The "rational actor" approach to reasoning about how corporations make decisions is as seductive as it is wrong.
My issue with Udemy is they stole my Python videos from YouTube and sold them to 12,000+ students at $199.99 listed price .
I wonder whether game theory would be helpful. If flocking rules could be found which were a Nash equilibrium, then the incentive for human drivers would be to play along. Maybe it would even be a decent predictor of what humans already do.
> a self driving vehicle should be a monotonous improvement on non-self driving. In other words, all situations that are currently handled by regular drivers should be handled just as well or better for self driving to be socially acceptable.

I agree with this but I think it implies that people also will not accept safe self-driving cars that take forever to get anywhere in traffic. Especially since a decline in average traffic throughput makes things worse for everyone in a car, self-driving or not.

I think this makes the problem much harder, since a lot of people do demonstrably take risks in their driving now, in the interest of saving time (even knowing intellectually that lives are on the line).
There's just a lot more API to learn for angular before you can be truly productive.

While the react API is comparatively simpler/smaller...
I've started strongly leaning towards the principle that if I have to choose between either an icon or text on a button, I will choose text. Icons are nice landmarks to guide the eye, but they are absolutely worthless to convey information or to find functions that you do not already have muscle memory for. Text is clearer, and the varying word shapes and lengths gives the eye a lot to work with already for locating things.

Try sitting someone who has never seen your UI before down in front of it, and try to explain to them how to do something without pointing at the screen, and see how much they struggle if your buttons only have icons.
A hash is any function that produces a fixed size output. It’s not required to be one-way, or to even change the input. You might be thinking of a “good cryptographic” hash. For that, it’s desirable to be one-way and to scramble the input, but that’s a specific subset of hash functions.

Edit: to the downvoter, please have a look through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_function
But that's true no matter what methods you use. When you send a message, you don't enjoy any security at all from the recipient. If they decide to leak your messages, your messages will leak. If the way they decide to do it is by being incompetent, your messages will still leak.

Look at the HackerOne reward policy for Snapchat: https://hackerone.com/snapchat

Among many less notable findings that aren't considered security issues, you can see that "screenshot detection avoidance" is a non-qualifying "bug". It's not really a bug. It doesn't qualify for a reward because your messages cannot be secured against people who are supposed to read them. Security against the recipient is (or was; I don't know the current marketing) a major marketing point for Snapchat, but it's never been something they actually offer.

How is "your messages are only as secure as the least careful person you correspond with" more of an argument against PGP than it is against Signal?
Exactly, and therefore i think the whole 'stop using encrypted email' is a rant that could apply to anything. Basically comes down to, you don't want people to know something, do not write it down.... not in email, not in pgp encrypted email, not in whatsapp, not even native American smoke signals....
If we had addressed the coal problem 2 decades ago, our net zero goal would have been 2060 or 2070?

Ignoring the coal problem, and actually greatly increasing the coal usage in the past 20 years, has pushed us into a corner where we need miracles. Now "everything" must be addressed!
Multiple times? Why didn't you stop using Car2Go after the first time?
22kb

Edit: Nevermind, derp, https://blurha.sh/blurhash.01ae00eea611ada5e9c7.js contains all of the JS of the entire website.
I dont know what you guys expect. Its an opportunity to learn at $10-$20 a course. Yeah a course can be bad, but so can a book.

The sales part is definitely dishonest, but as far as people who make content, if they get more $$ on youtube, why dont they post on youtube?
I’ve been using FreeNAS for about a year. The community has the angry sysadmin mentality and they favor retired sever hardware but it’s not hostile or anything. The docs are decent and setup isn’t too hard. Make sure your rig can boot FreeBSD.

OpenMediaVault is another Debian based distro I might check out in the future.

Hardware wise I’d go with something that supports ECC and a sever grade mobo, likely intel based. Supermicro has some cool IPMI features I used to setup over LAN, no monitor or keyboard.

Just a reminder to not open up your NAS to the public. I VPN to my home network if I need remote access.
If people can't cope with the fact, that technology based on statistics correctly classifies males and females, maybe they should just stop using it (and/or create their own thing), rather changing the technology. AI is not biased, but clearly - people are.
Of course, they are a UI too. It's not antagoniste to the OP.
All the courses by this gy-uy are very good https://www.udemy.com/user/andrewmead/
“On the coaching part, being able to share screens is the most important part I think. From there, there is only a small handicap in doing it remotely. ”

It’s not that simple with somebody new. If you sit next to them you can see much better whether they are just working through a problem or are stuck and frustrated. With remote people it’s much harder to tell. If my boss doesn’t hear much from me for a week he knows and trusts from my track record that I am working on something difficult but with new people you don’t know their personality and how they they deal with difficulty.
Yes. And No. I don't think recruiters look at github. Hiring managers might though, once your resume lands on their desk. So a project like this may not make you more discoverable, but it may make you more hireable once you've been discovered. Given that you have 20 years of experience though, it likely won't add a whole lot. And any questions that they ask you would likely be better answered by talking about real work experience rather than a toy project.

But it won't hurt :)

A thing that might be more productive would be to see what some of the core tech some jobs you are looking at use, and then re-implement that from scratch. You learn a lot, you can post that kind of stuff here and elsewhere and maybe be discoverable, and you can talk about it during an interview in a way that promotes you as an expert on something.
I don't want to be rude, but after checking your code I can say that what you did is most definitely not the same thing as the compact Merkle multiproof idea..
Rarely are developers in charge of UX
Must be baremetal though. Can’t really see any good reason to why this would run linux. In fact I can see a few reasons not to run linux in this
I disagree.
The observation that working complex systems evolved from simpler ones is very useful, because from it follows a rule that, if you want to make a complex system, your best chance is to make a simpler system, then iteratively improve it. It practically solves the analysis-paralysis problem that otherwise is inevitable.

Even total redesigns will benefit from the experience and information, that you got from the simpler system(s). These are often hard to derive by other means.
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What do you mean by us AI?
Do you mean a Neural Network or something else, I find the use of the broad term AI a bit weird, there is lots of stuff that can fit under the AI category.
> People like reading nice dates

How is 2020-02-27not nice?

> Sure, "1e6" is nice and short but typing out "a million" is much easier to understand

IMHO 1 000 000 is the easiest (sure the 1e6 from is better for bigger numbers). As for "a million" I don't understand anything bigger described this way (billions, trillions etc) - tell me 1 trillion and 2 billions and I have absolutely no idea how much is that. It wouldn't be a problem for me to memorize unless there were not the long and the short system as I rarely have a clue which one is being used.

> "next Thursday (2020-02-27)" is a lot clearer than just stating the date

Sure, but something like 02.27,2020 is no way better than 2020-02-27, it's just a matter of habit particularly easy to change.
How did this compare with progressive JPEG ?
Interesting, I was not aware about MacOS. If I run `touch :.:` it will run fine and create the file, but Finder disallows this for whatever reason:

The name “:.:” can’t be used.
Try using a name with fewer characters, or with no punctuation marks.
My thoughts as well. A few years ago I found myself single again after a 10-year relationship went sour. The current form of online dating hadn't existed the last time I was a potential user of said services, but my experiences line up pretty well with what you outlined.

I used Tinder, OKCupid, and Bumble for the most part and matched up with people with a variety of results. My general approach was to seek out potential long term relationships but didn't mind "having a little fun with Ms. Wrong while looking for Ms. Right" as the saying goes.

Many of these matches went nowhere as there wasn't mutual interest. A few ended up as short term things with maybe 1-3 dates and occasionally some intimate activity. One ended up as a longer term relationship that is ongoing a few years later.

None of these were specifically "hookup" apps. Two out of the three "short-term with physical intimacy" relationships were started via OKCupid (commonly seen as dating-focused) rather than Tinder (seen as hookup-focused). Yet I still had a mix of "hookups" and longer term dating.
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Devs just do whatever they're told. It's likely the PO's responsibility to think through how this should work.
Weather maps are expensive - IBM has acquired the cheap providers in the space in the last few years. Free data providers don't provide less than zip-code-level resolution, much less something good enough for a live overlay.
As a non-software person trying to learn to code, I'll say that Fred Baptiste's python courses are an excellent blend between practical and theoretical with very high information density.

There are a few other good courses out there, but it's hard to know whether the teachers are that good. The review system is as broken and manipulated as any.

Ultimately, I'd love it if someone could come up with a third-party tool (kind of like review meta) that gave customized ratings and recommendations based on how similar other reviewers reviews were to mine. Not sure how possible that would be, but a cross platform product would be amazing.
From the github repo it's very clearly running linux. I'm confused... talk about bloatware. And it must had so much latency as well.
This is a great point! I wonder if it could be made much smaller by instead "vectorizing" the blur. Right now it appears to draw individual pixels, but perhaps it could draw a few large blurred gradiented circles instead?

(I also appreciate that this is probably me getting overexcited about this, since odds are the JS is cached, and in the case of mobile apps it doesn't matter much.)
I have matrix - synapse with riot running at home for a year now, based on yunohost in a virtual machine. Private chat and (video)calling for my family andere friends.
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amateur photos. Does the author really consider the photos stunning? I have explored all the England, Netherlands, Tibet and Switzerland photos, and perhaps ONE came close to what a basic Windows 10 lock screen has to offer...
PR will never be about throughput but it will always be about safety. You'll never read 'due to Tesla's self driving abilities we can now push 3% more cars across the bridge'. What you will read (on page one, complete with 'shocking' picture) is 'Self driving Tesla crashes into bridge support'.
It seems probable that the more boring finance is, the more momentum mainstream equities have, and the more irrational it becomes.

If everybody pours their money into a us equity index every month, the value of us stocks will go up, absent of any perceived change in value.
i removed them from my shop the day i received a giant fee because one customer used a stolen card

how am i responsible of this?

fuck Stripe
The entity selling the order flow is not front-running, but the entity buying the order flow (market maker, HF trading firm) is basically front-running. It's just that the front running is done in a way to actually lower prices or increase liquidity for the underlying trades in the order flow being sold.
The race to spend excess liquidity injected by central banks: a bubble story.
Was hoping there _weren't_ any but didn't want to verify. Thanks!
The csv file has the URL to the original picture. Since most(all?) of them are from Wikipedia/Wikimedia commons each picture has its own page which includes metadata about the picture.

This does seem like a "tragedy of the commons" in the making if people start using Github as a photo sharing site, possibly in reaction to the demise of free photo sharing sites.
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I think you're going to be quite OK for a while at least, it looks like the current e-trade CEO would end up running the E-Trade unit inside of Morgan Stanley at least for a while. If they ever merged e-trade accounts into Morgan Stanley, I'm sure it'd be a no/low-touch thing, they'd be risking too much to make all those e-trade accounts liable to churn.

Totally my opinion but I'd stay away from the upstarts like M1 & Robinhood (saying this as a current M1 customer). With free trades from e-trade / schwab / td / etc. it just doesn't make sense anymore, and things seem to move way slower (for instance, I think M1 just today has their tax data integrations going live, but large shops have been set up for longer). I know some people like Robinhood and the stripped down interfaces but if you're already comfortable with interacting with the large-shop software (which I assume you are, going through e-trade and capital one), you're gonna get a lot more from that side of the market than the upstarts.
i spent aprox 160hrs learning the newest version of godot (3.2) using c#.

It's pretty well featured for hobby projects and experimenting. You can translate any GDScript example into C# on nearly a 1:1 basis. So honestly "C# docs" are not needed.

The big turn off for me, which I only came to the realization after my 160hrs, is that there is no easy way to performance analyze/tune your code. You have to manually instrument with Timers and even that is of limited utility when you have unknown 15ms+ spikes every couple seconds (and that's not even GC related).

My desire getting into Godot was to build a job/ecs system similar to unity (because I did this 10yrs before with my own xna based engine) but sadly, until there is better perf tools this is a futile task.
Is this common? Or is this a bunch of folks "doing it wrong" and not really getting anything out of it anyway?
If I'm using GPG, I want to ensure:

1. The message I received is from person possessing private key (signing).

2. The message I received is not available to Google or any other 3-rd party.

GPG is good old dumb tool that deals with crypto. I can save e-mail into text file and use it with GPG. I can even copy that text file to an offline computer if I don't want to risk exposing key.

Signal is just yet another whatsapp competitor? I don't want to publish my phone number. I don't want to trust some random application from AppStore. I don't want my correspondence to go through some untrusted servers (and I trust Google servers much more than Signal servers). Especially servers controlled by the same person who wrote an application. I have no idea how to be sure that message I got corresponds to a public key that person gave me when we met last time. How do I extract message source from Signal? What's are console tools to deal with it? How do I deal with new key issuance if person reinstalled his application?

GPG have answers for those questions. Signal does not. Basically GPG is encryption for nerds, Signal is encryption for ordinary people. It's important, but not particularly interesting for me and it's not a replacement. Especially given the fact that Whatsapp and Telegram provide E2E and they are much more widely used.

Basically GPG is good enough and we don't need nothing more than that. And that GPG critique is just manipulation of facts. When my Debian distribution will use Signal to verify packages, I'll consider using it.
This is exactly how it works for a Polish minute car rental service Traficar.

You can even drive through the whole country to another Traficar service zone, leave the car there and get back by train.
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Hi, I'm having trouble finding any information on the 2.1M that you said the US gov paid Signal Foundation. Do you have a source? I'd love to know if this is true.
> If you like, I could write a 30+ page summary of all of the credible evidence in all of these documents, in addition to hints at what sort of classified evidence US intelligence may have (likely through compromised GRU and Russian government systems, and perhaps also moles, in combination with what the Dutch gave them).

If you're offering... yes please.

I've seen some good RAND Corp write ups, and others on security blogs, to include one of those you listed, but a reasonably concise omnibus would be nice.
> And, while I like Godot, the implication that it can replace Unity (much less Unreal) at this point is just ludicrous for anything but bare minimal toy projects.

That's going way too far in other direction. IMO Godot can support any kind of 2D project and deliver polished and performant product. In 3D medium the competition is too far ahead with ready-made assets and robust tooling, but complex projects still seem doable.

Currently Godot is used mostly by open-source gamedev enthusiasts and not professional teams with art talent and funding. The editor and engine was not really pushed to its limits.

I agree with your other points though.
It’s less about collecting data (not saying they don’t do it, but data collection failing shouldn’t prevent the car from starting) and more about not having the skill to make a offline authentication system and a way for the phone to talk to the car via Bluetooth without relying on the internet.

Who wants to bet all their engineering talent was instead spent on playing with big toys like Kubernetes and chasing the latest JS framework?
Want to send a truly secure message? Write it out by hand in a concrete enclosed room and then set it on fire. Boom. No interception. I mean, of course, that's not a very useful message - but it's extremely secure!

It's kind of like the ideal way of securing a computer - encase it in concrete and drop it in the marianas trench. A volcano would probably work too in a pinch.

The issue that some security folk, such as the author, don't comprehend is that people want to actually _use_ their tools and maybe, just possibly, have a decent experience in doing so.

Sure, encrypted email isn't perfect. It's probably a step better than letting Google scan _every_ email and instead only let them scan the ones that hit a gmail account. Likewise, two people are capable of having a reasonably secure conversation over encrypted email.

Calling people who move towards being more secure, even imperfectly, as LARPers is rather insulting. If anything, the author is LARPing as a security professional.