skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, you beat me to to it. I've been creating radio visualizers and fake OS libraries to make this kind of projects. Yours is well done and I love it. Congratulations.
It isn't that unusual. This is about what I'm paying USAA for similar coverage. The reality is my apartment will probably never burn down within my lifetime. In a decade, I will have paid $600. So they only need 167 out of 168 people to make it a decade without burning their apartment down to break even.
Now I just need to translate it to Portuguese and share it with my Dad. Thanks a lot. =)
Any in vehicle device that has the power to control whether the car starts or not should have a fail safe mode that ensures that it will never be less safe than the vehicle without the addition. Telling users to 'overnight in their car' could be very unsafe depending on the conditions. This company deserves to go out of business rapidly.
There's so much music these days, a lot of really interesting and innovative stuff. You just don't get to hear it because everything has to be written by someone like Max Martin to get on "popular" media. When you look at the catalog of pop songs him and his mentor are responsible for, it puts a lot of the music scene into perspective.
"If time travel is possible, then there is no such thing as time."—Kurt Gödel
Based on the actual rate of progress so far (not the misleading demos), we are a lot more than 10 years away from true level 5 autonomous vehicles.
Sure! Use minisign/signify, and see OpenBSD for an example of people who do this who care extremely deeply about non-repudiation.
I don't think so. I run a freenet across my town and it's really not a problem at all.
Some other ways Brokers make money: Market Making operations that leverage the same infrastructure and market position, Interest on Margin, Stock Loan/Borrow activity with other Brokers, and Market Data Access.

Still with these items, I agree that a move to 0 commission trading will cause a shift.
https://robinhood.com/us/en/support/articles/360001474726/tr...
Even Windows has resources, including icons, inside the exe file. Obviously a bit different (it's not in metadata, it's in the actual executable) but the idea that a single file named PerfectlyHarmlessPhoto.jpg.exe could have an icon of a jpeg file turns your computer in a botnet client is not a novel one.

Afaik in contemporary Mac OS, you have a directory with certain files in it. I'm not sure if anything prevents you from naming the directory PerfectlyHarmlessPhoto.jpg.app and giving it a jpeg icon. You would need to get the user to extract an archive first, which may be more or less difficult.

I think the Linux practice of having a separately identified file provide the icon is relatively rare. (I just checked Nautilus and ROX-Filer, and ROX-Filer shows .desktop icon files and allows you to execute them directly. Nautilus treats them like any other configuration file. I guess it would be relatively difficult to trick a Nautilus user into executing a script they thought was an image.)

The article claims that reading from the disk is extremely slow and so this results in a significant speed up. It is pretty quick to parse the images compared to reading the files off disk.

If the security considerations are relevant, you could presumably write the operating system not to render the icon of non-installed software tools.
On smaller projects I've done code reviews with reaction GIFs (although always with people who knew me and my humour well).
It's too bad we can't rip the band-aid off and just go straight to full autonomy for every car using Waymo (or similar). The problem you identified becomes a non-issue if 1) it's the norm and 2) the passengers inside aren't paying enough attention to the road to care about the quirks. It's probable in my estimation that roads filled with only automated drivers become safer, more efficient, and more predictable, which acts as a flywheel for the prediction in the cars to get better.

Would be really interesting if Waymo could prove this out somehow.
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The draft regulations propose to set new BBBEE ownership requirements over and above the targets that apply under the ICT Sector Code. These include:

Licence applicants and licensees applying for approval to transfer, amend or renew an individual licence must be 30% owned by persons from historically disadvantaged groups (HDPs), which category includes but is not limited to Black people.

Licence applicants must then also maintain 30% ownership by Black people and achieve level 4 BBBEE status.

Livia Dyer, partner in Bowmans’ Technology, Media and Telecommunications sector group, said it appears that these requirements may apply to applicants for individual licences as well as registrants for class licences.
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and before Capital One it was ShareBuilder
Same here, he is a huge nerd.
> Ordinary people don’t exchange email messages that any powerful adversary would bother to read, and for those people, encrypted email is LARP security.

Point of order: Can we go back to using adult words like "performative" or "artificial" or "mimicry" etc, instead of accusing everyone of being a LARPer? It really just smacks of an immature 4chan insult.
"Nobody really understands quantum mechanics."—Richard Feynman
UK's been ping-ponging between 5th and 7th due to the pound fluctuations.

In reality the EU is not a unified market for e-commerce because of the language barriers and very large discrepancies in laws. For example, France has some pretty crazy stuff to protect the French language, Germany is very strict about certain subjects and the denial of them like the holocaust. And while there are some top level EU laws or efforts to police the bigger internet players, enforcement is still mainly regional too.

I'm under no pretensions that the UK is far, far from the super-power status of the US or now China, or previously USSR.

But if we're a blip, most countries in the world aren't even a notch.
> reselling cellphones

worked great for RadioShack!

> employees are required to collect contact information from 10 customers per day, info that is later used to pitch various services

"RadioShack was criticized for including customers' personally identifying information as part of its assets for sale during bankruptcy proceedings"
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Yep, see signify/minisign and OpenBSD as an example of it being used in practice.
People, bicycles, motorcycles, pets: all unpredictable on the road. What you suggest only works - barely - on motorways.
interesting and confusing language. if we really want to get new break throughs we will eventually have to tackle the root cause of issues and re-write the OS or we will be patching languages forever. For example; image every variable would be data + meta? It would take up twice the space but allow for stranger types.
I heard a girl once saying that her dad can prove anything using Excel (she was talking about how her Dad has raised her and her brother), everyday I'm more convinced she was right.
An elegant protocol for a more civilized age.

(I'm sorry, just had to do that.)
How do you separate true, equity based owners, from homeless people(who are black) who sign a form?
This is commonly done all over the world and when the shit hits the fan, the real directors and officers all resign retroactively - as supported by retro board meets and resolves etc., etc,, leaving the court officers the task of serving summonses on street people, who usually fail to appear and get a default judgement against them - good luck collecting on those judgement... in the mean time, in a Swiss bank, the money proclaims it's innocence...
> As long as the companies have the legal requirement to protect EU data in an equivalent way to an EU company, and there are legal routes to enforce it, I don't see anything particularly wrong about them in principle.

But if there is US law which overrides that promise then it's not legally enforceable. That's why jurisdiction is so important.

I'm not picking on the US particularly - I might have the same concern if I was an EU citizen and my data was in the UK post brexit. Or I was a US citizen with data aboard.

> And storing data in AWS UK doesn't exactly get around that, because the US government can just force their UK subsidiary to exfiltrate the data.

I'd agree even keeping it in the UK is now not a help from a US law perspective. The following case is very instructive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._United_Stat...

Essentially the CLOUD Act - tries to give US government the right to demand US companies move data to the US - as I said - any promise a company makes is worthless. A lot of countries might see this as a the US trying to extend it's legal reach beyond what is reasonable.

The EU say the CLOUD act is not compatible with GDPR without further international agreements.
https://www.insideprivacy.com/data-privacy/european-data-pro...

Currently the EU is playing nice, but it could decide to then charge the US companies officers with crimes ( stopping them ever visiting the EU ), or investigate the local offices etc.

If we don't sort this out internationally then it could easily escalate - with the companies stuck in the middle.

At the moment that has been a lot of LALALAL nothing to see approach to this, but the law is catching up with the technology - these issues can't be glossed over forever.
No, but it's possible to do. They need to be working only for some period after disturbing. Because beehive is stationary, it can use mechanical tilt switch, which enables device only when hive is moved. My beekeeping friend uses cheap rfid tags inlayed inside hive walls to easily identify that beehive is his, in case of needing to quickly check it. If he thinks someone stole the hive, it's quick to bring phone near known location on hive and confirm it. Gps trackers for each hive are still too expensive.
I actually prefer the Waymo approach over the Tesla and Uber approach. When there are lives on the line you simply do not cross certain lines and in the longer term Waymo will be the only player left whose reputation is still in one piece. That more than anything will decide whether self driving vehicles gain long term acceptance. Anything else will lead to a 'self driving winter'.
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Satellites don't work well when you're 3 stories down in a parking garage
I agree with the premise that GS is trying to break into more retail and boring banking. In my opinion they may have already missed the opportunity. JPM/Chase and Bank of America/Merril Lynch figured out this business model over a decade ago and have been building customer bases. Last earnings showed the Apple card to be a disappointment
> 'That's the high frequency traders. As far as I know, Robin Hood sells its customer orders to this kind of parties.

Is this front running (and hence illegal), or do they mean to say customer trades, or something else?
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“ Google said it had made the change because it was not possible to infer someone's gender solely from their appearance. It also cited its own ethical rules on AI, stating that gendering photos could exacerbate unfair bias.”
I hope there is no such thing because that would be insane. If you mean SFTP, that's actually a completely different protocol and is part of SSH.

If you mean FTPS (which I suspect you do as I actually had to set up something similar at one time), that's FTP over SSL and has nothing to do with SSH.

Your point still stands though: some of the background "FTP a CSV file with a cronjob" crap that goes on in the background would horrify anyone.
A spike in cremation rates is changing the funeral industry
To your first point, it's a new account that signed up and posted a comment straight away.. so it probably makes sense to "quarantine" it in a way.
Your problem is that your prediction was wrong, not that you shouldn't try to predict what other cars will do. Plenty of times that prediction ability will save your bacon. But you have to work hard at getting it right and making sure that you realize that all predictions should come with error bars that still include all possible futures at different levels of likelihood. Acting like your prediction is a certainty is a mistake in a class all by itself.
the Adwaita icon theme uses vectors for their icons[0], but they create multiple different SVGs at different sizes for the different sized icons (if that makes sense). For example, here’s one[1] icon.

[0]: https://github.com/GNOME/adwaita-icon-theme

[1]: https://github.com/GNOME/adwaita-icon-theme/blob/mainline/sr...
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I think prediction in this context means objects actions probability distribution, not fixed action. You need to take care of adversarial distribution (up to realistic threshold).
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Robinhood has terrible order execution. I switched to TDA after getting sick of limit orders executing nowhere near my limit price. Market orders were abysmal as well
Vector images optimize for file size and flexibility. This is good for non-standard displays and network.

The network advantage is hard to disprove. But which has lower total computation cost?

A bitmap is created once, and the idea is very basic - you have a grid of pixels. The good part is that it's simple to use it. A vector image is a recipe for making an image. More calculations have to be done client-side, times the number of clients. Clients have to do the work the server didn't want to. You could say a bitmap is a compiled vector.

I think an ideal solution might be treating vectors as a source code. A web server would receive a request, including display size. Then it would "compile" the vector image into a bitmap and send the bitmap of the right size. And cache the image, so if another user with the same display size asks for the image, it's ready. Few people resize the browser window often. For the same reason, I think code highlighters shouldn't use Javascript on client side, unless the code might change (like, an in-browser REPL or pastebin).

Am I being misinformed? Pedantic? I like vector images, but would like to learn if my affection is justified.
Wow. I didn't realize how influential the Bronx High School of Science was:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bronx_High_School_of_S...
Is there a Raspberry Pi 4 case somewhere for sale that can hold a 2.5 inch HDD?
Everyone judges everyone, and to judge who is a fool is also something everyone does, a personal judgement that might be shared with the rest. "Who are you to judge" is the wrong phrase. "Who are you for your judgement to be taken into consideration by me" is the real meaning.
I always try to connect devices that don't move to Ethernet. It saves WiFi bandwidth for "mobile"devices and is extremely stable and the full bandwidth is always available.

Things like SmartTV, RPi, Solar Panels, Amplifier, etc. I hate it that Chromecast only has a wireless option.

But more on-topic, it shouldn't drop off WiFi just like that.
At least 500 karma points are needed, but even with that, nobody can downvote a reply to their own comment, which is what your parent commenter was referring to (albeit rudely).
> I think the Linux practice of having a separately identified file provide the icon is relatively rare

Windows File Manager primarily uses the extension, e.g. all DOC files are shown with the MS Word logo.

More recently, they have generated thumbnails for a lot of media files too.
They sell the order flow. It's not front running.
this is a good explanation too, and from a local.

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/6/26/how-brokerages-make-mone...

The writing was on the wall for E-Trade. Banking is in an ebb of consolidation. E-Trade and TD Ameritrade had to sell once Interactive Brokers / Schwab started that game of dropping commission. They didnt add enough other value besides stock trading. They are a component to a larger banking suite.

I have to think Wealthfront and Betterment are targets now too. I have to think American Express is still a viable target as well.

The next thing empires SHOULD be looking at, is overall life management software. Personal Capital, YNAB.

I am somewhat surprised nobody offers an abstracted savings account, that handles 401k, IRA, HSA, paying rent and bills, and access to credit. Instead of showing you the balance of each account, it would show you how much you have, how much you need in the future, and how much you can spend today. And then automatically apply extra cash to the best spots, and automatically use credit and pay it off. Using credit AS part of the budget process. Not completely dissimilar from Singapore's Central Provident Fund.
Good time to revisit patio11's excellent article on discount brokerages:

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/6/26/how-brokerages-make-mone...
He translated the speech in the video!

(From the title I was expecting that he translated only the written version, and I was expecting that the translation has a funny embarrassing mistake, or something like that.)
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I've bought ~20 courses on Udemy; variety of software engineering; music lessons; language lessons; and random; not a single one had reasonable "information density" - i.e., I'm sure if I watched all 20 hours I'd pick up some useful information, but probably only an hour's worth.

I've since moved to mostly either using free Youtube videos and just picking specific knowledge I need, or paying much more for targeted professional courses.

Mostly though, I've gone back to my preferred method of learning - books - where I can control the speed and repetition as it suits the moment :-/
At risk of sounding like the guy who throws the machine learning hammer at everything, I actually wonder if a tiny CNN would not be a great solution to this. If you have a bunch of example icons tuned for low resolutions, as well as the vector art, you could potentially train a network to do a better downscaling job specifically tailored for icons. The point would be that the CNN weights could be common to all icons and not necessary to store in each file. Since the "domain" of icon design is quite restricted in terms of dimensionality and colour space, I bet a pretty small CNN would do a great job.
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I would think that https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... would be a better choice. That said, I expect localization to just always be broken.
Hard to add additional NIC (or two) to a laptop.
This is orders of magnitude more difficult than just telling someone to install Signal. Even people who are somewhat tech savvy are going to have trouble with these instructions. I freely admit that I have no idea how to do what you're proposing I do.
SpaceX would have to run tens of thousands of what you're doing all over the world, where regulations and laws are different. It's not comparable at all.
If you're considering using E-Trade you may want to consider that E-Trade does not take responsibility if they are hacked. They group cybersecurity events and software malfunction under "Force Majeure" events ("acts of God"). That means if your retirement savings vanish because they are hacked you're out of luck. See https://content.etrade.com/etrade/estation/pdf/10118customer...

Fidelity and Vanguard don't have such clauses. Hope Morgan Stanley fixes this.
With 0% interest rates in Europe, do you think this will encourage large savers to get their money invested? I think the idea of negative interest rates is absurd however it might encourage Europeans to invest more money versus stashing in savings accounts
This is a core difference between Signal and eg WhatsApp. The Signal UX clearly shows who’s verified, and the UX clearly earns you when the safety number changes. Additionally, the secondary device model (eg Signal Desktop) goes to great lengths not to break that. With WhatsApp, you’re trusting WhatsApp.
How does vector graphic compare to bitmap when it comes to cpu usage? It wouldn't make sense to save few bytes in memory only to spend more cpu resources later.
Is your current desktop at 133Mhz Pentium? It runs perfectly well on my 2015 Macbook Pro!
Debian running on Android (without rooting your phone)
You are right in that Chase, BofA, Citi and the like have a pretty large head start, but this is just the first innings. I can't even imagine the coming disruptions and ideas in the space. Partnering with Apple -- or Google, which I am sure people have and will -- seems like the right way to get into the space since the mobile phone is the key platform at the moment.
You had the wrong prediction. That doesn't mean prediction is wrong. In fact the 2 second rule is predicated on the prediction of reaction time in the case of something unexpected, which is itself predictable with a probability distribution. Things which can be reasonably expected to occur should be taken account of. That includes e.g. suddenly swerving for an exit, an unusually slow car doing a u-turn on a street, vehicles performing emergency braking when the road ahead has limited visibility, etc. And these predictions take some time to develop.

On my motorbikes, making good progress depends on good predictions, and that means predicting that people don't see me, that they make rash and impatient decisions, that tourists on rental bicycles will do stupid things without looking, etc.
There are some use cases where this really won't work. For example, if you're doing something like server-side rendering with React, and then try to "rehydrate" on the client-side, the server-side node version may format slightly differently and cause sudden updates to your UI.

Also, I don't believe you can rely on a browser having a particular locale available. I'm not sure how reliable time zone data will be either, if you need to show something in a different time zone.

I think for some general use-cases this will work well. But there's still a lot of weird issues around this stuff in the browser.
Almost all consumer motherboards have a chipset with embedded hardware watchdog that's well supported by respective drivers in FreeBSD / Linux / etc. Some vendors like Intel may lock down that functionality, but most (Asus, Gigabyte, etc) don't.
This is very nice. Thanks
As another example, if you're on a roundabout, if there's a car already on the roundabout (to your right in LHS driving countries like the UK, to your left otherwise) then you shouldn't enter it. But an exception is if you can clearly see that the car is going to exit the roundabout before it reaches you: this requires prediction, but not in the sense of guessing what the car might do, or even trusting their indication (ha!) but observing from their current trajectory and whether their wheels have straightened.
I was asked to write a fuzzy word matching algorithm that would allow for a certain number of typos/misspellings. Turns out there’s a well-known algorithm for that[0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance
I am not sure as the Udemy account is managed by a friend.
I'm pretty sure we have no saying on the price.
With 100 students we cashed $329.
So, there it is: 3,29 $ per course.

Basically a tip.

I sell the Italian version of this course directly for 200 €.
I am one of those guilty people that still use jQuery since I am used to its syntax compared to web-api. I also think it has a better syntax. While it is true that I can format dates, I would be unsure about compatibility. Moment is nice to use and has a good date arithmetic.

That would all be possible without third party libraries, but often you want to subtract 2 weeks from a date and that is just a pain in the arse with timestamps. You also might want to import/export dates to databases, which can be picky about the format.

I am no web developer, so others might have better opinions. And I think the author is correct that people not used to certain libraries should try the standard ones first.