skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very cool! This is an awesome application. Notice that there is still a lot of human curation, but that is an awesome idea. Automate the interview and let the computer generate a design.
Thanks for the suggestion. I actually never considered this angle! I'll definitely take a look at ML.NET and see whether that will suit my current needs.
Perhaps a VM of an OS with an old copy of Flash, virtualbox.org might help. I wonder if any of the Microsoft legacy VMs for web testing come with Flash preinstalled: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/v...
The Venn diagram of "national secret police" and the foreign intelligence agencies the Navy was trying to avoid probably has quite a bit of overlap in many areas of the world. So, yeah, it was in fact originally designed for just that.
He could probably use BH to manipulate the market so his mini-portfolio would have crazy returns. This is one of the theories behind the infamous Medallion fund.

I doubt he could without using or BH insider info.
I require symmetric since I upload a lot, plus I am on videoconferences frequently. I'd personally rather go for 100/100 than gigabit/something less than 100.

DOCSIS 3.0 (I think that's the latest) allocates a particular ratio of download vs upload frequencies, so even when speeds increase the asymmetry is still the same. I heard the next version of DOCSIS might change that though. Ideally there'd be enough fiber to not require DOCSIS anyway, but I don't have my hopes up for that.

Hopefully with a lot more WFH arrangements people start demanding symmetric connections. But
I would strongly consider using this if I were able to self host the sync storage rather than store my (potentially sensitive) bash history on GitHub.
Move to 20. The GUI is way faster, and I've had zero odd quirks with anything. Everything just works.
Ouch. No backup?
Forgot to mention that disk performance on docker on the Mac is a big deal for building software.

This article shows overhead for a disk heavy workload: https://vivait.co.uk/labs/docker-for-mac-performance-using-n...

He gets 7 second load time natively, but a 56 second load on docker with inconsistent drive link.
See the post above yours; they do both. I'm in a building where Sonic is offered but it's through AT&T. I went with AT&T since the price was the same, would still need to rent AT&T's stupid PON device (which I bypass anyway), and Sonic mentioned that AT&T provided poor customer service for Sonic customers.

I'd love it if the fiber in the building was public so I could just pay 1/2 what I pay AT&T for Sonic instead.
That's the ideal described in quantopian tutorials, but I doubt it often works out that way.
I don't know enough to advocate a solution in the "defund the police" debate and I agree that I don't have enough personal experience from my aeron chair (which, as you know, I was actually born in.)

But, excluding the less police argument, how is the prevalence of violent crime in low income African American neighborhoods a justification for predictive policing? Given the risk of propagating bias and a history of racist policing messing up the data, wouldn't it just be better to keep humans in charge? They've been disappointing recently but I still think they have potential.

Maybe it would be helpful if I put better links here. I didn't expect this comment to get so many responses and my link was a bit flippant. This research probably does a better job of explaining the position than I do.

Here's a Stanford survey from 2016 in Oakland that showed that African Americans are ~4.5x as likely to be stopped as whites despite representing a smaller percentage of the population, that they are 4x as likely to be handcuffed in a stop, 4x as likely to be searched in a stop and 2.5x as likely to be arrested in a stop (which is, as mentioned, 4.5x as likely to happen.): https://news.stanford.edu/2016/06/15/stanford-big-data-study...

I got interested in racist inference due to this Harvard paper that showed that google search ads were much more likely to suggest arrest records for African American names than white names: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1301/1301.6822.pdf

I accepted that implicit bias is intrinsic and difficult to weed out when I heard about studies showing that resumes with African American names received much lower response rates than white names: https://cos.gatech.edu/facultyres/Diversity_Studies/Bertrand...

I remember reading somewhere that this effect even persisted with African American studies professors selecting grad students. I can't find that paper but this HBS article describes the phenomenon and discusses how the response rate effect is even present when the company claims to promote diversity within the application: https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/minorities-who-whiten-job-resumes...

I also advocate for learned epistemic helplessness (https://scienceforsustainability.org/wiki/Epistemic_Learned_...) even if I don't always practice it well. I'm only claiming to have knowledge in the small area of predicting bad behavior using machine learning. It's probably best to find a person of color with personal experience and a better knowledge of the literature for anything else. Of course, you already know that. I hope you're doing well!
Happy to chat ;)
After reading the article, I’m not sure he isn’t just moving the company to Texas so he can avoid paying taxes on the business income. That move would effectively transfer the tax burden to his employees through property tax. They won’t notice until they buy a house... but, his business will. He certainly launched in some of the highest taxed places on the West Coast. Seems like he’s regretting that.
Rosetta 2 is Apple’s key to making the ARM transition less painful
> The x86 processor was able to run the test successfully all 10,000 times, but the ARM processor failed on the 35th attempt.

I think this issue might prove a problem in the long tail of desktop and server software running on ARM.

A lot of desktop and server applications try to take advantage of all the cores. Many times, they are using libraries that were either implemented prior to C and C++ having defined memory models or else without that much care for memory model as long as it ran without issues on the developer computer (x86) and server (x86). Going to ARM is going to expose a lot of these bugs as developers recompile their code for ARM without making sure that their code actually adheres to the C/C++ memory models.
Oh cool - I read this as a kid and think of revisiting it from time to time, but couldn't remember what it was called, nor enough google-able details to find it. Thanks for mentioning it!
I checked before we moved to SF, and apparently FibreStream has 5Gbps service in select buildings in downtown Toronto. Pretty awesome!
Yes, I have had that discussion with someone that didn't like the use of the term. It has come up a few times when I have explained our infrastructure to her regarding master/slave architectures also the term 'master bedroom', because it sounds a bit too much like where the plantation master stays. That doesn't mean she is severely offended, she just doesn't like it and she isn't particularly sensitive to things like that normally, but it has come up several times before.

The more you learn about our American history of slavery and oppression, little things like that are just kind of a little dig and reminder of that terrible history and the fact that some of it still remains.

I definitely am aware of the armchair shaming that goes on. But I highly doubt that cases like the naming of the master branch would receive anything more than a few tweets. People are just trying to make any easy change they can to show they are -for- the movement. Because honestly, it's a difficult problem to address.
The best part of having the same language on both the server and the client is that you can have the same code running client side validations and do the same move on the server to avoid cheating. If validations are only done on the client, they will just send a winning board state.
Sudo 1.9: accessing terminal data from Python
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https://youtu.be/bBtqFo5nv_o
I'm not sure if it necessarily means Facebook is non-essential. This actually makes me think social media has entered a deep stage of maturity. Anyone else here remember how advertisers were primary regulators of content on TV? That unusually offensive content was avoided out of fear that companies would pull their commercials? I think we see the Facebook has now entered this stage.
I'm really curious how performant Rosetta translated x86 applications would be, especially considering Transmeta's non-succesful attempt of doing something similar. It sounds like the key difference is that Rosetta would do it ahead of time instead of real-time like Transmeta?
I feel so lucky that I live in an area with fiber internet and 1000mbps speeds. I remember when we were house hunting, this was one of my criteria. While leads to my point - if enough people want fast internet speeds, they should/could plan their house buying/renting strategies accordingly. Nothing like incenting local municipalities to take action based on a community of people motivated by money.
Might also want to run it in Firefox Developer Edition and profile the page load, and JavaScript. You should be able to tell pretty quickly what component is causing the UI bugginess.
The paid ransom, will unfortunately embolden the criminals to strike again in search of the next big payday. If it worked once, it could work again.
My father actually worked for a startup providing wireless access to rural and urban areas back in the late 90s. It was nice to have a 27 megabit connection to my house when the hottest thing was a 2 megabit DSL line.

What cost that company $200,000 in 1998 and took up an entire rack now can be bought for about $2,000 from Ubiquiti and mounted in a few U in a rack. They even have the software available to run your own ISP!
>Recognizing the fact isn't racist

Apparently it is, because all the other replies are gobsmacked that I even mentioned this. We're not discussing observations and observable facts anymore, we are creating a world where a certain side is right no matter what and straight statistics are false in they do not support that side. It doesn't even matter that I stated that treating individuals based on their race is immoral, there is no complexity or further discussion, even if that complexity and further discussion could actually be beneficial to solving problems the black community is facing.
>>my noodle soup and toast was already ready.

This is easy, just a matter of plating. They probably have a very limited menu (serves 95% just fine) and the rest if just perfecting the system little by little
I mentioned the idea of adjusting for risk in the GP post, though you are correct that I didn't call out any specific measure like the Sharpe ratio by name. If your risk-adjusted returns are worse than S&P 500 then obviously leverage isn't going to fix that problem. Simply put, I don't think OP's strategy really has any of these desirable features like a good sharpe, market neutrality, low exposure, etc. I think OP is just naively building a portfolio based on price predictions extrapolated from price data, and it happens to work in a bull market. Since OP probably doesn't have the resources to really evaluate risk (good simulation tools, good historical data sets, & even the industry know-how of how to look at risk) it seems rather meaningless to hear "I used to have very good returns."

Apologies if I misinterpreted your comment, just my thoughts when reading it.
They have linked it to the 5G Covid-19 conspiracy.
Wow, phpstan and psalm are both brilliant, and this is the first time I've been introduced to them. Thank you.
They ain’t doing it for the love of the game!
RV life is growing & they're using this app to park at wineries across the U.S.
Do you know how return is calculated?
How did they not have backups of important data?
I read this in Jotaro Kujo’s voice
Basically our society rewards douchebaggery...
Don’t they have insurance for these things? A small college near me had an attack like this but paid via insurance.
That's great. Really awesome. Thanks for sharing
> On average, dynamically linked executables use only 4.6% of the symbols on offer from their dependencies.

For more on this, I highly recommend these two posts, which show how modern symbol tables optimize for symbols NOT being found within a given shared object via the use of bloom filters.

1. https://flapenguin.me/elf-dt-hash

2. https://flapenguin.me/elf-dt-gnu-hash
> Brave is sort of mis-named

I think the name is appropriate. Because of the different privacy concerns you allude to, I am not Brave enough to use it
I had one of these with NeXTSTEP but a while after a RAM upgrade it let its smoke out. I wasn't ever able to get it all back in so I threw the whole thing away.

That was like 20+ years ago.
Wikipedia

Ok, well apart from Facebook and Wikipedia, what have the PHP team ever done for us?

Wordpress

Ok, well apart from Facebook, Wikipedia and Wordpress...

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After M. Python
Optimistic counterpoint: a high-profile, (relatively) high-value ransom payout like USC's may incentivise other orgs vulnerable to this kind of attack to take steps to prevent this kind of issue.

Anything from restricting program capabilities/permissions for external executables, to keeping "colder" backups of business-critical data, to monitoring and responding to software that looks like it's traversing the whole filesystem, could reduce the harm ransomware causes.
Sounds like what ARDI's Executor did on the PC and Next systems:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executor_(software)

It translated Mac 68K code to native code. Like WINE does.

It was released as open source under the MIT license and this is the most active fork:
https://github.com/autc04/executor

It needs no ROM or Mac System files.
This doesn't work with Enhanced Tracking Protection and/or uBlock Origin enabled in Firefox. I wonder if there's a way around that server-side.
Wow, I should know better. That’s pretty awful support.
It's pretty obvious that the answer is 'no backup'...
New Medicines #7
What kind of data is worth at least a million dollars and isn't properly backed up? Unbelievable. Some heads should roll .
Yes, I suppose, but I meant more in terms of how they have established themselves as brands rather than the obvious ongoing development.

Like a well known hospital, or casino: big static frontage, always remodeling.

(In addition to being like a building, Facebook is also like a chair.)
Low... I wouldn't be super surprised to discover they already have capable hardware onboard. Although ground receivers would need to use different frequency ranges and therefore it would probably be a non-starter.
Yes, but we only have evidence to believe that black people do on average commit more crime because they are convicted of more crime. The theory is that blacks commit the same or less crime but only convicted of it because of some type of predatory policing, but that is only a theory and there is no widespread studies or statistics to support this theory. It may well be true, but until there is proof we cannot assume that it is not the case.

I do appreciate the correction and it is an important distinction.
If the data is worth paying a million dollar ransom to unlock, it is worth setting up proper backups. I for one am grateful to people who commit these crimes in which they "lock" data in place rather than sell it to the highest bidder.

Proper data hygiene isn't brain surgery. There is zero excuse for this event. I don't blame the criminals. I blame the university system. Shame!
I lived in the same apartment complex as some coworkers for a few years and we had a similar setup - one of our neighbors (a devops guy from work) had a high spec business comcast line and we quietly ran ethernet cables through the walls and ceilings so everyone had good internet for cheap. Great experience.
Agree to an extent, but not all money in quant finance is generated through HFT. Notably, I don't think funds like Rentec are really doing much to get low-latency [1]. Latency obviously does matter for any kind of quant trading, but to my understanding a good enough strategy + slippage models & the likes can overcome this.

[1] You can find a list of NYSE broker/dealers here: https://www.nyse.com/publicdocs/nyse/markets/nyse/members/NY... -- any firm where latency matters will need to be on this list to colo on the exchange.
Both is a better option; sending polyfills for every browser feature you'd want to use is easily hundreds of kilobytes. We use user agents to identify a feature set, but we send feature detection down alongside the polyfills. Detecting features in the client side and sending a second network request to load polyfills for that features adds pretty significant round-trip time.
Wonder if the cost of backups for the affected servers would have been less than the US$1.1M they paid? ;)

At a guess, they could probably have put in a some fairly high quality storage + backups for that price, and still had money left over for all expenses paid staff vacations. :)
Mind providing a source for what a 'literal market' means? Thanks.
Yahoo moved from an internal C-style template tool to PHP for a lot of front-end pages back in the day.

Wordpress is PHP, which is over 20% of the web.

I'd say most web sites (millions) in the period between Web 1.0 and early 2.0 were PHP.

The historical reason for the transition from Perl to PHP was that PHP had a standard library with 3,000 functions and was fast enough, while Perl users needed to install CPAN modules, a problem in shared hosting, and mod_perl is very fast but is not intended for shared hosting.
As a practicer of high frequency breathing to ensure I get enough oxygen for my bulbous muscles, I'm offended.
You can't really protect against this sort of thing. A lot of our IT security runs on trust. The only way to really prevent this is to make sure that ransom attacks don't pay out.

EDIT: I should mention that I've managed IT services for a major private university earlier in my career, and I am now a software security consultant. When I say it is not possible, I mean that pragmatically. A FAANG company can control their IT well enough to make sure this doesn't happen to them, but a hospital or university relies on computer systems running software way outside of their control. That MRI machine? Its controller is probably running some ancient version of Windows Server 2003 with proprietary drivers. That university registration app? Custom coded by generations of CS student interns running on a shared system whose operating constraints are set by the Novell GroupWise instance that is co-hosted on it.

As a practical matter, one of these organizations simply cannot reduce their risk to zero or near zero. There's too many attack vectors they don't have control over. The IT departments can't mandate proper security because they don't have the budget to enforce.
They're freezing everything but the significant browser version[0], which would still allow feature detection. Additionally, why do you say it wasn't intended to be used that way? As I recall, it's been used to identify supported features since it's inception; user agent strings for non-dominant browsers often contained the user agent strings of dominant browsers to spoof servers into sending features that they thought only specific browsers could support.

[0]:https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/467

Edit: added citation.
So-called Chinese gooseberries have nothing to do with gooseberries. The Chinese name is something like “monkey peaches”. “Kiwifruit” is certainly no more misleading than either of those names.
As a reminder, in 2017 UCSF offshored all of its IT staff to HCL Technologies and forced their then-employees to train their replacements before laying them off.

They brought the replacements into the Bay Area on H1B temporarily while they were trained by their soon-to-be-laid-off counterparts and then sent back overseas to continue their roles once training was complete.

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/02/28/ucsf-tech-worke...
Who's internet? I'm not from Russia.
I have to assume things were backed up, and the attackers were deep enough in the system to find or delete the backups.

Anyway, I wonder how this payment was made...
This was a bug bounty - another way to look at it.
there was mentioned a threat of publishing of some secret data, and that i think may be a reason why UCSF was willing to pay

https://www.trialsitenews.com/hacking-group-launches-success...
Like I said, most people do not own weapons illegally or use illegal drugs, even weed. Most people don't smoke weed, even in legal states.
You can buy a perfectly workable fusion splicer for (relatively) cheap from fs.com and similar sites these days. I wouldn’t go throwing one at a novice with no experience or supervision and saying “go for it” - but the hardest part of deploying fiber today is definitely permits.
static linking != LTO

LTO requires source, or at least IR.

Static linking involves object files; there's been a loss of fidelity at that point that prevents inlining.
I've played around with this, and it doesn't make a _huge_ amount of difference - I currently charge on the RHS just to be sure, but I have my external monitor dongle on the left.

I'm sure the Apple product to Apple product compatibility is great, but I don't really want to have to buy an entire new monitor just so that my work laptop doesn't suck.
You can't fully protect, sure, but you can have a person or team alerted on suspicious behaviour. You could also try to configure your infrastructure so that any code imported via vectors that ransomware usually uses is compartmentalized in a VM, container, or other chroot-like env.

And honestly, having even week-old cold backups makes this kind of attack _considerably_ less scary and cheaper, and it enables you to skip the payout (and I'm on the same page as you on that — if there's no money to be made, ransomware attacks will drop off).
Well, didn't we just see what happens with UBI basically in the last two months?
> Just because you have a good forecast doesn't translate into cash. It has to be paired with a trading strategy. This is probably why the author thinks the answer is RL, because coincidentally if you approach this problem with RL, it does the forecasting + strategy.

Exactly, this is one of the nice things about RL. You don't to do a bunch of handwaving to turn your predictions into a strategy.
What I find crazy about this -- no guarantee that the ransom payment would unlock the machines -- did they send 1.14M in one go or was it a smaller amount for the first machine, then an additional fee for each additional machine?

Also would be interested to know -- was it Bitcoin or some other cryptocurrency that was used?
FYI: there's a "YC House" townhouse in SF that several startups use for a while, then move on.

Source: been there.