skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I've seen almost everyone who "specializes" in UFO's ends up going off the deep end in one way or another.

Some people who tend to try to stick to what's verifiable are:

John Greenwald - Specializes in FOIA, sometimes over-focuses on probably irrelevant details but is evolving.

Mick West - A skeptic, one of the few people who has attempted any serious public analysis of the Navy videos, seems reasonably open minded though biased toward the most ordinary possible explanations even of phenomena that clearly deviate substantially from the ordinary.

Luis Elizondo - Certainly worth listening to, though opinions vary greatly on his credibility.

Tim McMillan - The author of the original post. Looks promising, especially if most of his claims here turn out to be accurate.
This assumes that the CEO is effectively incompetent. Startup CEO is an exhausting task, but it's not never ending that's why you recruit and hire.

Top level (C suite, VP etc..) recruiting is one of the primary jobs of a CEO and being able to do that effectively is a core task.

I think this really underscores the fact that VC's don't fundamentally care about the leadership abilities of their companies. They are investing in a growth curve around a product or series of products primarily, not strong leaders.
2FA is just something you know and something you have. I have a Yubikey with a RSA authorisation key (+enc and signing keys too, but that's irrelevant) in it that I've hooked ssh-agent and GPG to. It is the only key accepted by my servers. Obviously, disable password login. The key has a password, which is the something I know.
Neither is: any complex manufacturing technique, chemical or pharmacology synthesis, drilling for oil, building a mile of interstate highway, assembly of automobiles etc but I don't think someone with 2 years of experience could either cause significant process damage or process improvement at these complex and expensive activities.

I am therefore regularly shocked by how much money is poured into or otherwise spent on tech and tech workers and how laughable the result is. I've really never seen a server infrastructure at any company where I haven't shuttered in horror within a few hours of looking at design, practices, or systems themselves. When I was much more junior I was perplexed by the sudden appeal of i.e. AWS EC2 but then I've seen from the inside multinational conglomerates try to acquire and deploy servers (i.e. just the logistics that a non-technical person could handle, no software) and understand. The irony to me is, if you fail at logistics, you have near zero chance of doing anything else right, so cloud doesn't reduce your liability much unless it is fully managed like GApps or Salesforce. This should be a huge warning sign for a variety of stakeholders, but money's cheap and the livin's easy right now.
Tracking €431M in Data Breach Fines
It seems unfair to the point that the entire model is unworkable. Well, perhaps they could ignore the "fraudulent" clicks when billing and never terminate anybody.

By "paying for clicks", I was thinking that they'd be paying some service to click on the ads, rather than writing their own scripts or doing it manually.
Hardware can be finished. If this faithfully implements the Sun 2, further changes defeat its purpose.
> Best example? Bitcoin.

Yeah but people here don't like to hear that :-)
So they wanna trade equity for a couple of bags of hot air? That hardly seems like a good trade-off.
Clever, yes.

Readable? Eh, Fizzbuzz is an opportunity to stot. I'll allow it ;)
Peter Shirely's Ray Tracing in One Weekend series (https://raytracing.github.io/) is a great way to learn enough about ray tracing to implement it yourself.
Had a VC send me this a while ago. My feedback: these guys are all finance, operations, and management. No actual builders. It would be great to outsource these roles to keep control and save equity, but this seems like the opposite. It’s still a great deal for founders because of the connections that VC brings, but it’s likely a bad deal for the company, which is now run by people abstracted from the vision.

For more info, see: “conjoined triangles of success”.
That video has been convincingly explained here, without resort to secret or alien technology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLyEO0jNt6M
Something like Ray Tracing Gems book they published last year? Or maybe CFP for Ray Tracing Gems II book they have right now?
Property rights are a moral concern, though of obvious financial import. But as far as I'm aware, the trade war is not premised on increased enforcement of property rights in China, but on the trade deficit.
> You should report to proper authorities about the severity of the issue. Reach out to their security or technical higher up department of the bank.

Switch your bank.

Do not reach out to the bank's security/technical! There's a non-zero chance that the response from the bank would be to reach out to the FBI and claim that you are the "hacker". It will create an enormous headache for you.

If you are going to reach out to anyone, reach out to the OCC.
I really like developments in this space.

I too have struggled and continue to struggle with wasting time on the internet. A couple of things that have helped me recently:

Removing the facebook news feed.[1] I can still use it for messaging, checking on specific people etc but the wall of information and addiction is gone.

Removing all but the single video you are watching on facebook [2]. Again, you can get to useful videos or search for something specific but now you don't fall into the 'youtube hole' when the first video finishes.

I suspect this will be something that everyone has to be conscious of all the time, much like being careful that you don't eat too unhealthily. I don't think any one tool will be a magic bullet.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/news-feed-eradicat...

[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/df-tube-distractio...
Is using Netlify easier than using GitHub pages?
How do you build trust in your own team when an investor installs or pushes people they have a long relationship with into your company? Where will loyalties lie?
How does one read "However a seemingly trivial but important difference with Apple Pay is that it doesn't use your physical card number" that as not suggesting it's something only Apple does?
The article is speculative, and in no way proves the claim in its title. Even their theoretical arithmetic is wrong:

> Meditation is so effective at repairing damage that it make your brain as much as 25 years younger than your chronological age. Since Steve Jobs was a regular meditator, when he died at 56 of pancreatic cancer, his brain was as healthy, active, and creative as when he was much younger.

56 minus 25 is 31, not 27.
http://Hf.cx hackers founders

They pioneered this model.
Dell Nears Deal to Sell RSA Security Business to Private-Equity Firm STG
Sweet. Didn’t see these come out. Thanks for the heads up.
I think I'm general inflation indexes are now completely impossible to generalize because (a) inflation has been enormous in some locales and some sectors but (b) the relative price of goods is now so dependent on location.

That is, like you say, in a major city I'd expect a Big Mac to be only slightly more expensive, but I'd expect housing to be astronomical. But outside of probably like 10-15 major metros I'd expect housing to be flat if not negative in huge swaths of the US.
Agree, Netlify is awesome.

We recently moved our static sites from S3+CloudFront to Netlify.

The S3+CF combination is clever, and very, very cheap. But it gets messy when you want to add things like custom headers and lots of redirect rules.
He is commenting on the depressingly short 1/2 life of recommendations from the medical fraternity, and he is spot on about breast feeding recommendations having changed recently. I'm guessing the abandoned recommendations got their start when Nestlé dressed up their sales women in WHO uniforms and instructed them to tell African woman "formula is best", and the medical fraternity understandably went basaltic, but they also went too far. Now that has come back to bite them.

Medicine is not unique in it's "accepted dogma" having a 1/2 life of course, all sciences do. But it's horribly short. From https://hms.harvard.edu/news/medicine-changing-world :

> Today, the half-life of medical knowledge is currently about 18-24 months, and it is projected that in about four years that half-life will be only 73 days.

That's from a mob trying to flog education so it's going to be an exaggeration, but it's still short no matter who measures it. By comparison Engineering knowledge 1/2 life is till measured in decades, although I expect they conveniently leave software engineering out of that.

Overall I agree with him, the doctors are far too eager to hard sell the latest advice in some paper. I guessing that's because selling advice is how they make their money. That behaviour has its downsides.
West does have a convincing explanation for "Go Fast" which certainly looks like it could be a weather balloon due to parallax (ignoring the pilot testimony at least) -- but if you look at his attempt to describe the Nimitz one, it's pretty weak. He claims it's a reflection of "a distant jet" that would have had to be in restricted airspace, and despite the pilots having a visual on the same object, and the Nimitz's passive radar detecting the object and sending the fighters to intercept it at the correct location in the first place. That would also be a tremendous design error or equipment failure on the targeting pod, which seems unlikely given that all the other data for that encounter supports the video.

There were three videos disclosed, and only one has a convincing explanation (not the most famous one the parent is describing). The one present in the parent's linked video referred to the Nimitz incident, where the pilot is the commanding officer for the first squadron that went in and observed the object, whereas a second group went in and filmed the tape that was eventually released hours later. You should watch the interview and see if Fravor seems legitimate to you -- it's a great listen.
Deploying a Simple Machine Learning Model into a WebApp Using Tensorflow.js
During early development it did run but a large number of changes to AppKit and other frameworks were required. Over time too many. SwiftUI as embedded in Xcode had more and more divergent behavior when running on Mojave. Serious breaking bugs in layout and behavior that could not be fixed without large changes to AppKit.

It's a catch-22: backport the changes and risk breaking working apps, or don't and require people to upgrade. Folks usually don't like major changes in dot releases that can destabilize things.
Thanks for clarification. Wasn't aware of OCC.
HCL2 feels like the farthest ahead right now, if you don't want to deal with straight up python or ruby.
Dynamic ETL from RDS to Redshift Using AWS Glue
You mean you can’t still just do:

PR#1

To print?
My instinct is that this is for legal attribution purposes, i.e. a legal moat.

It sounds ridiculous, but in my experience, there are 1000 things that lawyers will identify as possible sources for legal trolling and this looks like that. Apple has a zillion dollars in the bank and they are sued daily. All it takes is for a judge who may nor not be knowledgable or a sufficiently grey area ... and you have a major problem.

So it could be risk mitigation: they are including the attribution in the copy so as to not be perceived as partisan to some kind of IP dissolution paradigm.

On the other hand, this could just be one of those wayward culty Apple kinds of things they think is 'good UI' when it's not.
actually you should use Netlify or Firebase Hosting. Both have a CDN behind them.

Frameworks like Nextjs Static Site export and Gatsbyjs have a lot of tooling support for firebase hosting and netlify.
Eventually, money. You have to imagine that info about dangerous drivers would be tremendously valuable to insurance companies as well, if it could be shown to predict crashes.
I am using media queries—while they work, they’ll flash the “unadapted” version depending on what component is rendered first. The alternative is to add some kind of loading aspect to each component but I think it’s not very scalable
It’d be nice if the anti trust people in the US looked into this as a factor. Anti consumer behaviour, not even non-customers as the usual case, but their own customers are being exploited by their monopolistic hold on ad publishers.
MS Word will autocorrect two hyphens into either an en dash or an em dash based on what it believes you were trying to type.

So this: "em--dash" becomes this: "em—dash"
while this: "en -- dash" becomes this: "en – dash"
Lean Hire
I had to implement an in-house version of this way back on eHow before it was pretty easy. Cross browser issues made it pretty tricky - which is probably why a couple companies that just did this spawned from it.

It's all so silly and doesn't increase site visits in any meaningful way.

Sidenote: I'm glad javascript in browsers is a lot more standard so you don't have to get stupidly hacky.
As a long time dwm[1] user and the developer of a tiling script for KDE, Krohnkite[2], I'm purely curious what makes i3 so popular. It makes you spend extra brain cycles on managing windows, which isn't far from stacking WMs in my perspective. I mean, this extra cycle was the reason why I abandoned stacking WM.

Especially on small ("13 ~ "15) laptop screens, where people usually have <= 4 apps per virtual desktop, I think i3 doesn't have much benefit, because there are only a few possible layouts: half-and-half, master-and-stack(│├│ or │┤│) and quarter(田). All of these are well covered by Tile layout (or nv-stack, according to Arch wiki[3]).

On the other hand, I do admit manual layout can be really useful on large screens and ultra-wide ones. There's neither golden nor silver layout that always works well on large area. There are just too many possibilities, and imagination is the only limit in this case.

[1]: https://dwm.suckless.org/
[2]: https://github.com/esjeon/krohnkite
[3]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Comparison_of_tiling_wi...
The poster mentions euro, so I would guess the poster is using local prices.
How to back up your password manager
"AI companies simply don’t have the same economic construction as software businesses"

Last I checked, "AI" is software.

Nowhere in here did I read anything about the fundamental truth of modern AI in production:

[AI] is a feature inside a successful product.

There are no "AI" companies, or "AI" products. There are companies which provide services to do inference on data, or in some cases tools/platforms so you can do it on your own.

They also confuse me by using the term services to mean bespoke Non Recurring Engineering efforts, instead of including something like a REST based API service that reflects most "pure" AI companies. Amazon Rekognition or MS Cognitive Services API are perfect examples of SaaS like AI services, but they aren't products exactly because they are used inside some other product as a feature.

At the end of the day, if you look at successful uses of AI in products they are one tiny piece of a larger product, that helps the product scale where it couldn't have before. That's pretty much the only place where it is proving very successful.

Even then, more and more of that is being done in house with the rise of things like Sagemaker and other turnkey ML inference tools.
Why don't you try Usenet? Unlimited storage for $3.14/month[1].

There are a couple of Python libraries out there for posting and fetching, but it'll definitely be shabbier than a purpose-built service. However, for seriously large storage requirements, you can't beat that price.

I have a full PC backup I did 5 years ago drifting around on Usenet somewhere. It was still there when I checked a year ago.

[1]https://newsgroupdirect.com/member/billing/?planid=189&deal= but I've had problems with their service, and personally use FrugalUsenet for a little more.
This isn't just the web, there's a fundamental leakiness to the Mac's clipboard. I was horrified to realise that apps were being alerted to what was on the clipboard when I copied a a public key from some website and MacGPG (or whichever GPG app it was, they change) popped its head up and told me (something like) "Hi, you've copied a public key, would you like to save it in your keyring?"

Does this mean that any currently running app (or maybe not even currently running, perhaps there's an event system) can see my clipboard?

My feeling about this is unprintable.

I started planning a clipboard app that doesn't allow this but I'm busy and I'd prefer this wasn't something I need to fix in the first place.
Sherbet: An Ergonomic Gaming Keypad
There are previous GPU gems available for free as well:
https://developer.nvidia.com/gpugems/gpugems/contributors
> Wind/solar on the other hand are intermittent, and always need to be complemented with "dispatchable" energy sources to handle the base load.

I've seen people claim here that battery storage already represents a good solution to that problem. Elon Musk's battery storage project in Australia seems to be successful and powering a supercomputer would probably require a much smaller installation.
Exactly. Who's really the boss?
I agree strongly about the "not magic" part, and think that there's no better way to show that than to have the goal of the course be to create a self-compiling compiler.

As a matter of fact, a whole course could be devoted to the study of this masterpiece: https://github.com/rswier/c4
The more specific the use case, the more that human-engineered tools/rules will dominate. E.g. Regex beats BERT 99% of the time for any specific use case of value to a real customer, but BERT does a decent job in open domains without much effort.
I believe that the clipboard on windows and in x-server work the same way. Programs can also read most files including files that contain private keys.
You only need the first ENTER to separate the numbers; the rest were optional:

"20 ENTER 8 - 7 +"
Memory barriers (also cache control mechanisms) are documented by the architecture, and are exposed as instructions or similar hardware interfaces. Obviously OO execution exists, but it's not a magical insurmountable fence (see what I did there?) that blocks all optimization. It has well-specified rules on every architecture. If it didn't, concurrent code couldn't be written correctly at all.

And on x86, the rules amount to "the processor will expend herculean effort to make sure that all memory orderings look identical to all readers in the system" (with a few oddball exceptions, read the SDM, yada yada). Really, on x86 you pretty much don't have to worry about this. If two memory operations happen in a given sequence in the disassembly, literally everyone who reads those locations will agree they happened in the order presented, no matter what optimizations the hardware might have done internally.
This is more like "Compilers for functional languages I", to be followed by about two more courses.

Non-optimizing compilers for simple imperative languages are straightforward. There's a front end, which turns

a = b + c;

into

b c + a =

which can be represented as a tree. Then, for each operator,
you generate code. So you generate something like

load a0,b
add a0,c
store a0,a

Then you show how that can be generalized to cover functions, arrays, loops, etc. That's Compilers 101, Wirth's classic book on Pascal.

This article takes a completely different approach. All functional, all the time. Not sure whether this is good or bad, but it's definitely different. Is what this guy is promoting mainstream in advanced compiler work today, or is he off in his own world?

One issue with functional everything is that naive functional compilation is very inefficient. If you write

f(g(a))

where a is some kind of big collection, and g produces a similar collection as output, then you have an intermediate variable which is itself a big collection. Much of functional programming optimization is about trying not to generate big intermediate values, but converting the problem to a pipeline instead.
Did he calculate the value in decimal? The record would probably be a lot easier to achieve if he'd gone with, say, base 14. Everybody does decimal, even though there's no theoretical advantage, and no practical advantage since nobody actually needs trillions of digits of pi.
In case you haven't seen AWS' answer: https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk
Because the entire point of this exercise is not funding the company? It's not "fund the company AND build a team", it's offer this instead of funding the company, as a separate thing.
Sure, but there's a question of who you need when.

For example, f you're a non-technical founder doing a startup that's more a business model innovation than a tech innovation, you need a solid early team, but you don't really need the full-time services of a strong CTO to do the hiring and set the initial technical direction. If you end up with product-market fit and need to grow beyond one developer team, only then do you really need somebody with more tech experience to be around full time.

Honestly, a lot of pre-fit startups would be better off filling some roles like this. At one point I talked with some friends about setting up a venture labor firm. Startups are risky as hell, and from the labor side it would be great to get some of the de-risking that comes with a portfolio approach. It would also let you share great don't-need-them-all-the-time people without a lot of shenanigans. E.g., visual designers, ops consulting, user research, security expertise, and other technical specialties.

So yeah, the CEO should still be able to get the right permanent people in right seats once there's a real seat for them. But this way you don't have to do without the skills until you have a seat.
> coating them with a common substance

Covering stamps in clear glue so that your correspondent could remove the cancelling stamp when steaming them off the envelope for eventual re-use was something that was commonly discussed during the heyday of the zine scene in the 1990s. Now postage has become so obscenely expensive again for anything beyond a letter that maybe I should get back into the glueing trade... :P
Link to the actual image: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D0sh3EKWkAE1t-n?format=jpg

but actually this one is better: https://twirpz.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/qwant-grabs-ip-ad...
This can be circumvented through the use of transfer learning and super convergence.

You can now train a State of the art image classifier with nothing more than a google colab notebook (free to use).

That’s for deep learning. For classical ML (I.e. XGboost) it really doesn’t take much time or compute to create a model that has business value