skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Neural nets are mostly dominant in perceptual domains such as image or speech recognition, where the raw inputs represent a uniform sampling of data values (pixels, audio samples) over space and/or time.

I mostly agree with that, however there have been advancement in scientific areas such as chemistry and biology (DNA/RNA) where the data are definitely meaningful and a lot times categorical. So the methodologies can be applied in wider areas, they just need a lot of domain knowledge and experience.
It sounds like you have a very specific history of insurance and way of thinking about it in your country, but insurance goes back to the Ancient world and was one of the first financial instruments if not the first. When you take out a policy, yes you are mitigating the risk of “something bad” happening, to you, and of it does happen, then the insurer makes you whole as far as the contract was concerned.

But that means you’re gambling, and so is the insurer. You’re making a bet on a certain outcome and so is the insurer. If you “win” that bet, e.g. the cargo on your ship was stolen by pirates and you insured against that, then your insurer “loses” and has to pay out. If nothing happened during the voyage though and you safely delivered your cargo, then the insurer “wins” and you “lose”, but what you’ve “lost” is a fraction of the value of the cargo which is better than the loss of the whole cargo. The insurer makes money by pooling these bets, betting that it will win more bets than it loses.
"Basic cashier knowledge they should be teaching you on day one."

About 10ish years ago I had an idea for a product that would essentially provide online training on this for cashiers. Back then I thought 'but everything is moving to cashless payments, plus more and more registers calculate change, no need for this". I wonder sometimes if this was The One That Got Away for me...
I don't see how being offline would be a problem, since the same problem exists when you want to type text using certain fonts which you'd need to download first.
How is a Haskell type class dict different from a vtable?

It's in fact the same.
I was not insulted. The links added further reading and more context.
Can you say more about how you plan work as a team? Interested to hear how you keep this fast and productive and avoid getting caught in the weeds of other's opinions.
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I had a boss not so long ago who kept selling our customers our "Conversational AI Bot". What we gave them was a fairly dumb keyword search of a library of questions the customer would type in along with answers - wrapped in some html widgets displaying cartoon robot heads.

It still astounds me that not only did none of those customers sue us for blatant misrepresentation, but most of them were delighted with what they'd bought.
A physics paper I was actually able to fully comprehend. I'm happy this paper exists for no other reason than to make an amateur like myself feel they understand something.
I don't understand why you're getting snagged up on in QFT, I've recently done a course on that and it wasn't that complicated, though that's if and only if you've studied or at least understood the algebra of creation and destruction operators found in the quantum harmonic oscillator, and classical field theory. I didn't have a course on classical field theory, but I did have a chapter of a course dedicated to it.

In terms of math, I've only encountered linear algebra, multivariable calculus with A LOT of Dirac deltas and a smidge of complex analysis, necessary to calculate the Feynman propagator.
Looks like the bug wasn't really in Talis but in other software they use, Firefox/Tor-Browser?
Does the "server experience" count? I have never been sold on the "desktop" abstraction. I prefer to administer the computer through the command line. I guess that is why I like NetBSD. I do not see "OS" and "desktop" as synonymous or mutually inclusive.
> entire company

> Facebook had tasked a dedicated employee to unmasking Hernandez
What happens if some hacker finds a remote exploit and starts blowing all the fuses on people's devices?
at the previous company i worked for, we were developing several products that either no one wanted or were so bad you wouldn't use even if you could for free (i didn't even install the app thing on my phone because of how morally corrupt our mobile team was).

we had bizdev guys running around making deals in third world countries, and pr dept. working overtime just to create the illusion something was moving. r&d dept went through like 3 org restructures within span of 6 months, for no reason other than to satisfy the ego of r&d vp. i mean, i've seen politics that would make machiavelli seem virtuous by comparison.

it was beyond bizarre.
> 1. They'd know who to launch it at

Not really. "If we detect such an attack, we'll launch against you both. Make sure nobody on your side develops such a weapon".

It's called "MAD" for a reason.
I hope they do more... The basic task is collecting the taxes. The hard task is making sure nobody is illegally paying less tax than they should.

That hard task is one where you can throw in more data and compute and get out more accurate lists of people to investigate. Whereas 50 years ago, people might be investigated nearly at random, I hope that today's investigation decisions are based on credit card statements, bank statements, lists of people who have purchased property, shares, details of company directorships, etc.

That's a lot more data from a lot more sources, which has to be fuzzy matched by name - I can imagine why these systems are still big, complex and slow.
“Main” key
So you can probably imagine what it was like when we had several dozens of client pc’s across several customer companies across several cities across the continent.
which is exactly why we should try and make sure that we don't have in-groups that have too much wealth or power.
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Everything you said is correct. I also find it remarkable that the web has always performed like total dogshit, no matter how fast my computer has gotten. 20+ years ago it was in large part due to bandwidth constraints. Then 10-15 years ago that was essentially solved, but they continued piling more and more crap into the browser, and now it's a fucking app platform, and instead of clean efficient native software, we're now shoehorning every goddamn thing into the browser through layers and layers of frameworks, abstrations and "transpiling" or whatever.

I detest the modern web, and I find myself using it less and less.
Nice suggestion, we do this for certain deployments. Amazing what magic you can do in Janus, etc, :)
> I always found it noteworthy in that the designers of Microsoft Windows did not consider co-existance with other OS on the same computer

More likely, given that the desktop OS monopoly was well in place when Windows (as an OS, rather than the graphical framework that rode on top of DOS as a separate product, so especially the NT lineage) was designed, and coexistence actively weakened that, coexistence was considered and considered incompatible with Microsoft’s strategic objectives. Forcing a choice between Windows or something else rather than Windows and something else was good for MS.
Bloomberg urges users to get set for negative US rates
I strongly disagree. Ordinary users I interact with either understand the basic concept of the URL or understand it after an initial explanation. It becomes empowering to them in ways I often do not anticipate.
> Because the odds on Hertz may actually be better than the odds in a Vegas casino and these people play that anyway?

The alternative I was thinking of was not a Vegas casino, but some other stock, or a derivative thereof.
It looks very relevant and has more features?
How to Move You Google Play Library to YouTube Music
Hurray while you can! Google Play Music is soon going to be removed from all android devices
I did feel that both those shows still painted the leaders a bit too positively, in that they often didn't directly concern themselves with what their 'security guy' did, or isolate themselves from it. I suspect in practice they're much more aware and hands-on.
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How the most popular Chrome extensions affect browser performance
That's a great question; I suspect that there are quite a few pretty big $ software firms doing vertical market software enterprise apps for specific types of enterprises/entities with unusual requirements who are happy that few know how successful they may be. Are there dominant software providers for any of the following (bigger than mom-and-pop businesses, with many organizations in the industry):
1. Large construction projects
2. Paper mills
3. Motion picture production
4. Oil and gas drilling
5. Cattle ranches
6. Local property tax assessment and collection
7. Traffic ticket and traffic court management
8. Water works and/or Sewer plant management
9. Prison management
10. Automobile junkyards
11. Parking lots and parking structures
12. Independent bookstores
13. Rental property management
14. Exercise clubs
15. School districts
16. Churches
???

Somebody spill the beans, please.
FCC Has Serious Doubts SpaceX Starlink Can Deliver Low Latency Internet Service
Surface area, yes. But it's 40 metres deep, so significantly larger volume.
Chrome's experimenting with URL display again. Truth is, humans can't read URLs
I think a big worry for any C-levels is "what if my employees are wrong". And there is good reason to hedge against this, because insiders have clear interests in defending past mistakes.

And if you hired your people yourself, you probably know you skipped over some qualified people who were to expensive, and weeded out some overconfident people who turned out not to be all that. In the end, you wonder what those expensive smart people would have said, and you wonder if your confident sounding employees are just overconfident incapables that you failed to weed out.

Hence, getting an outside perspective from someone you trust has a lot of attraction. However, getting that outsider person to be knowledgeable enough, and getting them the right information, is a tough task.
The trouble is you just can't trust anecdotes when it comes to driving at "freeway speeds". I had the displeasure of taking part in a two hour commute every day for a few months and the difference a few mph to your average speed makes is huge. If I travelled at 72mph average (above the national speed limit, which is the speed most seem to drive) I needed 2.5 tanks of fuel per week, but if I travelled at 68mph and made an effort to use high gears, low acceleration, engine braking over friction braking etc. I would need only two tanks.

To add to this, it's especially difficult to exercise the restraint necessary to drive economically in a fun and/or comfortable car. Before I got a comfortable car I didn't understand why BMW/Mercedes/Audi drivers drive so fast. Now I do. It doesn't really feel like you're moving very fast in those cars.
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CentOS/Redhat used to be a classic Unix server version (up to around CentOS 6) and most sysadmins using it didn't care about alsa/pulseaudio/X/Gnome/usb/hotplug. systemd changed that, and CentOS is pretty weird now.

Ubuntu was a notebook-focused end-user distro. Not sure what it is in 2020.

If you never used early Linux or Unix distros, then Ubuntu might seem normal and you wouldn't notice the differences that I'm referring to.

People pay for Redhat if they're using commercial software and want support, like ERP software. The reason for that is since Linux doesn't have an Application Binary Interface (ABI) standard, commercial vendors can only support specific versions.

Top500 cluster owners were pissed when Redhat started charging per server and wouldn't give them a break, despite operating clusters of thousands of cookie-cutter servers.

I forget if I wrote a post on how shitty Linux is compared to any other OS, but the missing ABI and horrific help/man/info situations would be top of the list.

(You know if you're a linux expert and not a fanboi when you can list 10 things that linux completely sucks at.)
MVP vs. MVVM – choosing the right Android architecture
In C++ we have things like Boost.PolyCollection to improve that specific case : https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/master/doc/html/poly_collecti...

With some metaclass / reflection magic maybe one could come up with an additional scheme that would save the per-object vtable pointer through creation of a "duplicate" structure - e.g. given

struct Event {
virtual ~Event();
virtual bool whateverAPI();
pair<double,double> globalPosition();
pair<double,double> localPosition();
private:
double x{}, y{};
Widget& widget;
};

struct MyEvent : Event {
// or whatever, just an example
bool whateverAPI() override;

private:
MouseButtons button{};
};

one would get a sub-array of things with a layout similar as

struct synthesized_MyEvent {
double x{}, y{};
Widget& widget;
MouseButtons button{};

pair<double,double> globalPosition() { /* potentially UB magic */ }
pair<double,double> localPosition() { /* potentially UB magic */ }
bool whateverAPI() { /* potentially UB magic */ }
};

("potentially UB" being something like copying all the non-vtable things into a stack-allocated concrete MyEvent and calling the virtual function on that which could be worth it for small objects in terms of cache usage if the vtable is 8 bytes and the custom data something like 16 bytes and there's 350000 objects)
That's very interesting. This is why we think (Luke from TerminusDB again) designing your own full featured graph DB is the best appraoch to the problem - you can work from the ground up and ensure performance is satisfactory for the operations you want to deliver. I don't agree that Git semantics are not well suited to data, but you do have to be very careful about how you advance.

I was reading through these source code branching patterns and you can easily imagine (if design and performance is right) how they would apply to data - but as the author says 'branching is easy, merging is harder.'

https://martinfowler.com/articles/branching-patterns.html
Tesla to buy cobalt from Glencore for new car plants
I've started showcasing previous failed projects from awesome entrepreneurs, so other founders are more aware that failure is just a step towards their goal.

The first interview is about the story of newCo by Ben Tossell. Ben is the founder of Makerpad, the leading community for no-coders.

Hope you can learn something relevant for your next project!
i assume it's using OX. OX is not really gsuite clone, most of the apps are nowhere near the same quality.
Local exploits are popular anyway, trick people into downloading the latest game which just wipes out the operating system https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/07/fake_nintendo_swit...
Ask HN: Is Stripe's support broken for anybody else?
I've been implementing a new SaaS with Stripe in recent weeks.

Unlike previously, the live chat support no longer has any idea what an API is.

When I tell them what errors I'm getting when creating a subscription using the code in Stripe's (very clear/amazing) docs, and explain that the error is referring to a previously required field that is now optional/deprecated, they ask me for a screenshot, thinking I'm referring to a dialog box I see on Stripe's dashboard.

So I ask for someone who knows what an API is and how theirs works.

They say they'll email me back, and 72 hours later I get a vague email apologizing for the inconvenience and completely misunderstanding the clear error description I provided.

It's frustrating. This used to be a company that supported developers. But now it's impossible, as a developer, to find support from a Stripe developer.

I've spent weeks on the multi-day back-and-forth with L1 support whose job is to shuffle chat requests into a queue.

Are my live chats happening during the time of day (11am Moscow time) when the least experienced people are working?

Sometimes I get people whose English level is upper-intermediate at best, so they can't understand what I am asking on a language level, not even on a technical level.

Is there another channel I could be using for support with Stripe? Phone support (I've waited 2 hours so far and they haven't called me)? Premium support that I pay for?
> The comments highlight how Tesla is increasingly securing its own raw materials as it expands production in China and Europe. Other carmakers, including Volkswagen, have relied on external battery producers to secure supplies of cobalt.

------

Also at Bloomberg:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-16/glencore-...
Tyler Perry Offered to Pay for Funeral Expenses of Rayshard Brooks
It is very important for every company to give proper leave, if the companies get strict over leaves, the productivity of the employees reaches the lowest and they also get less creative at their work. It is important for the CEO to be little lenient and the company should be more of employee friendly to get better results.
Makes me wonder if they've reduced the overall weight at all or just compensated for bigger batteries by reducing the weight of other components.
We created super fast Cypress tests on GitHub actions
But... what is it? That page, and your homepage at https://fastocloud.com/ lists all kinds of technical features, but nowhere does it tell me what this is and why might I want it?
Announce bad news without lying to your team
If you use Linux:

cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid
> unacceptably slow at fairly basic things like web browsing

Are you sure? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH3RbrwhNd8
> I can also provide my own anecdata that at freeway speeds Tesla routinely underperforms their EPA range rating, and by quite a large margin. Meanwhile at freeway speeds my non-Tesla EV routinely exceeds its EPA rating.

But EPA rating is a mix, not a freeway rating. Though fueleconomy.gov has specific numbers for freeway speeds as well.

My venerable 2017 S90D is listed with 294 miles range, that's 473 Km, or 19.8 KWh/100Km. My last trips to Italy used pretty much exactly 20KWh/100Km (2500-3000 Km each time, more than 90% highway at 120-150Km/h [sorry Italy]). In the city I'm usually below that on average.
> thousand to hundreds of thousands of individual tax codes, jurisdictions.

That's a good indicator that the system is being actively maintained.
I'm sure it's very nice, but what I said is that I would do that in addition to my training instead of replacement! If my abs can stabilise my trunk for a 500lbs squat or a 600lbs deadlift, they're strong enough for me :)
Yeah, I'm just really confused. If you're at a CLI, you probably have uuidgen. And I'd assume there's something similar on Windows.

If you're writing some kind of application, pretty much every language/framework can generate UUIDs, and even if yours doesn't, just generate a 128-bit number, stamp the v4 UUID bits into it, reformat it, and you're done. Calling out to a 3rd-party service is insane for that use case anyway.
"Forcing a choice between Windows or something else rather than Windows and something else was good for MS."

That was always the feel I got from Microsoft. They do what is good for Microsoft. I do not get that sort of feel using NetBSD.

What is good for Microsoft is not necessarily good for me.
That's one way to prove output
Nope, everything we are working on someone wants.

Very often, that someone isn’t the customer, but someone in the team’s management heirarchy, and usually those tasks are both prioritized and poorly specified and subject to worse requirements flux than customer requirements (unsurprising, since customer requirements are based on actual business needs, while management requirements are based on whims, flights of fancy, that-comment-a-higher-level-manager-just-made-that-gave-me-an-idea-of-how-to-impress-them, etc.)

Agile methodologies at the team level don’t really protect against that, though.
Oranges and lemons–the FX scandal in perspective (2014)
Religion isn't a person either. That's a social construct. And I keep reading people claiming gender is a social construct too, so I guess discriminating against people on those grounds is fine then.

Denying service to ICE the organization isn't even remotely comparable to denying service to actual human beings.

Is ICE staffed entirely by robots? How is it not denying service to actual human beings?
>We're long past that

its the other way around, we are currently somewhere between 150 and 1000 write cycle endurance and going down with every new node upgrade/cell density bump.

https://searchstorage.techtarget.com/definition/write-cycle
And they are still discriminated against at elite American universities where despite awesome grades, test scores, and extra curricular activities, the universities somehow find them lacking in “personality”.
Indian army says one officer, two soldiers killed on border with China
OK, gave it a try.

1. Sign-up process has too many pointless hurdles.

If you have restrictions on the password format, mention them upfront rather than revealing them one at a time after each failed attempt. Better yet, just don't enforce any password restriction at all, until they decide to become a paying customer or there's something else on a record worthy of protection.

Error reporting on the sign-up form is badly positioned. As others already pointed out, it's just not visible because it ends up being above the page edge.

Once signed up, the page shows the "log in" link. Click on that, enter email, password, enter - it asks for confirmation, BUT again asks for email address. Ok, retyped that, copied the confirmation code, enter - Yay, confirmed - now log in afresh. This is as brain-dead flow as it gets. Instead, when trying to log into an unconfirmed account it should just verify the password and ask for a confirmation code. Enter that - get in.

This is however peanuts compared to...

2. The quality of the results.

Here are first 10 items for a "file backups" query, the News section:

Kanbox Looks To Become The Internet File System And Storage ...
Another 74,000 file first-time unemployment claims in Illinois
Forever 21 officially files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Another 108K Marylanders file for unemployment as virus spreads
Intelsat files for bankruptcy protection
Model Out of Work? Here's How to File for Unemployment
Basketball referees, Section V file grievance over work conditions
* Western Digital Proposes Zonefs File-System For Linux 5.6
How to delete your Dropbox account in 5 simple steps
Apple Card Now Supports Exporting Transactions in OFX File Format

7 are completely unrelated, 2 are just keyword match and 1 is roughly in the right area, but still not useful.

The Blog/Web section is similarly way off:

Coppermine: File Move Tutorial
How to generate EBCIDC file include header and ...
It looks like we don't support this file format. How to repair your photo?
How to Make a File Upload Form in WordPress?
How To Copy a File to the User's Current Profile using Powershell
File Folder technique cards Video tutorial
How to Import the SWMM 5 Report File as a Layer in infoSWMM
How to Merge Mails to PDF File
Best Free Online File Storage for Sharing Files on Blogs and Websites
Monitoring Folders Files With SCOM OpsMgr How To Manage Devices

Not to point out the obvious, but this is not very good at all :-(

On the plus side, the JournoRequests part looks interesting, but I can't readily judge if the results are relevant and actionable. That said, I don't think Pitchbox had this back when we (fairly unsuccessfully) used it few years ago.
Agreed and upvoted, I feel this sort of caveat should always be made. Also I don't like some of their other language here, but on balance it doesn't look like english is their strong point, so give them some slack.