skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is so true. Back in the 90's my father was president of the local law society and the managing partner of a sizable law firm. He had a very sharp and enquiring mind.

He's now retired, in his late 70s and beginning to show signs of age related dementia.

Last year he fell for a phone scam from someone claiming to be his ISP, where he was persuaded to install remote desktop software onto his computer and login to internet banking. The scammers weaved a tale about fixing his computer and sending him an "authorisation code" which was actually the SMS code from his bank as they'd added themselves as a new payee. He simply read it out to them.

The scammers transferred just under $10,000 to their account.

Luckily, they'd set off enough red flags that he called me asking why his ISP wanted to know what bank he was with. Once we worked out what had happened we called the bank straight away and were able to get the transfer stopped by the bank just in time. It was a Saturday and he was literally saved by the weekend. Very lucky.

Turns out he was in the process of changing ISPs when the call arrived, so a garden variety phone scam was perfectly targetted.
Except for all the hardware they make.
Is, erm, is this satire?

If you are genuinely able to be genuinely self sufficient without interacting with currency while still bieng able to have power to go on a computer with an internet connection, I have to say, props to you.

I just hope you do not get hit with a serious medical issue. Or have a fire and then get hit with a fire Marshall tearing you a new one over your unpaid property bieng not up to code.
Is AA the airline that spent their incredible surpluses on stock buybacks which put them in a financially vulnerable position?
If “purely software tech” were the definition of tech today, that would leave out Apple - mostly a hardware company by revenue - and Amazon - half of which is a retail company shipping physical goods.
Right now ANN is a huge (and fascinating) area for active data structures/Algos research.

I do sort of wonder if we will reach a point where instead of pure recall per speed, we’ll have a family of algorithms with more trade offs for the use case. Where we begin to look at metrics for that domain for a given ANN approach instead of just its ability to recreate a nearest neighbors set retrieval.

Like one thing I see assumed is that while recall at N is good, does this also mean the “ranking” of that top N is ideal? I don’t want to have to manually compute NN on this top N if I can avoid it, for example.

And are there specific vector spaces where one ANN is preferred? Or will there be some universal approach that just works for everything?

I realize it’s too early to tell, but these questions always percolate in my mind when we hit a new benchmark in recall for speed. Especially since I still see people doing more naive things that seem to work perfectly fine for their use case (like KD trees, random projections, or LSH)
In the elixir community CRDTs are well known for various HA; AP distributed state strategies, Phoenix Presence uses CRDTs to track processes and broadcast them over pubsub channels. This makes it trivial to represent "user state" in chat rooms, Sophie DiBenedetto describes using it for writing a trivial chat app: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L5xuTbXtbI

For something a bit wilder, you can track your state machines across a distributed cluster and be able to pass and preserve state across the cluster using CRDTs, as is done in Dan Azuma's (live) demo of a tank game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLApFANtkHs (worth it for the demo at 29m)
If you read his comments, you can definitely see why he can make lousy comparisons like that. He's miserable, looks up to murdering thugs, thinks all women are money thirsty whores. Is it any surprise that he would think the past is best regardless of anything you might point out. Incel culture is strong here too, weird how that dang guy does nothing about that while being a near fascist about supposed policy violations.
This was long overdue. Palantir has always been a darling of the valley. I often wonder how much of Palantir is actually owned by DoD and if that information would be made public after they IPO.

Edit: Looks like In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the Central Intelligence Agency, already owns some stake in the company. [1] [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/technology/palantir-techn...]
This hits home too hard. My job search is going so poorly, that I have started to doubt my technical value at all.

Confusingly, personal one-on-one interactions with companies or hiring agencies almost invariably result in positive feedback and comments, "you are exetremely hirable," "you have a strong technical background," etc. However, none of these interactions has gone anywhere. Either they "move forward with someone else" or simply evaporate into thin air. A few have even evaporated after extensive interviews and claiming that they wish to hire.

Is positive-sounding feedback just a polite way of avoiding some "elephant in the room" problem? Am I inadvertantly projecting an image of ineptitude or hostility?

I have over 20 years of experience on Linux, tinker and program as a hobby, and also lightly contribute to open source projects. I believe I have what it takes, but geez, sometimes this job search is just soul crushing. I just want to offer my skills and talents---to be a valuable member on a good team.

</vulnerable-rant>
Living with and going to class with classmates from wealthy families is part of the value-add of going to Harvard for all the students.

> I should pay 65% of my annual gross to cover tuition

Harvard's financial aid is very clear cut and no one would be expected to pay 65% of their gross income.

> 67% of students come from the highest-earning 20% of American households

A household income about about $130,000 is enough to be in the top 20%; how well off you are with that income depends on where you live.

Some high-income families (top 5% of households), with an expensive mortgage and other bills, may have difficulty with paying the full amount, or close to it. Good luck finding sympathy for how those rich people chose to spend their money instead of saving for their child's education.
None of those things are racist... It's part of Australian culture to have a laugh and poke fun at things. You need to view these things in an appropriate cultural context. Painting an entire group of people as racist makes you kind of a bigot tbh. Not a good look.
A thing I think is interesting is I can never remember having the actual flu. We got the stomach flu all the time as kids, and have gotten it yearly since having kids, and for most of that time I assumed that's what people meant by the flu. I can't remember ever actually catching influenza.
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We need one for excessive padding. STOP please. Have a completely separate style sheet for mobile devices where you can use padding for larger touch areas.

Use tables to organize information. Make it dense.

When you think you stick 24px padding and it “looks” right to you? Now cut that by 75% to just 6px.
Or maybe bitcoin was never worth $17,000. Speculation is speculation. Stocks like tesla have such a retail following that they are no longer grounded in any fiscal reality. To properly invest in these stocks, one needs to find a financial advisor specializing in reading tea leaves.
Ask HN: How Blog/side projects helped you land a job
I would love to hear from people who a got job through their side project or got recognized through there blog. What was the experience like and how much leetcoding did you do?
It would be ironic in the sense of unintended consequences perhaps, but assumes the US was "intending" to avoid an FI invasion in making its decisions about propping up the Junta. In reality, concerns about the FI were probably miniscule in the foreign policy calculus exercised by the US at the time. Those policy decisions started during the Ford administration. The invasion happened over two decades later, literally a few months after a new general took over the government (i.e. quite suddenly). When the invasion happened the US dropped all support of Argentina and threw their resources behind the UK.

The motivation of the US foreign policy decision in late 50's must be seen in the context of the Cold War. In Argentina at the time, the US saw the alternative government as a communist/marxist regime with Soviet support/presence. How many other communist regime changes in the second half of the 20th century do you recall that did NOT adopt expansionist policies under the banner of "reunification"? We can imagine the US thinking the risk of Argentinian expansion was higher with a communist regime than with the Junta, but likely the US was more concerned about who controlled Cape Horn, the vast territory in South America that Argentina already controlled, the proximity to the US, etc. Plus, there was already significant concern about existing marxist movements taking other SA countries (meaning expansionism probably wasn't a huge concern so much as the development of a bloc of discrete soviet satellite states). Argentina was considered a bulwark to those movements. So the FI, safely under UK's wing, probably wasn't a primary motivator of US policy towards Argentina at the time.

Maybe there's some other unseen connection between the US and the FI invasion that you or other commenter can point out (e.g. did the US actively consider the fate of the FI in the 50's when they decided to prop up the Junta? Did the Carter administration know there were plans to invade when it softened support for Argentina which Reagan then reversed and enabled such an invasion? Those kinds of may make a better case for a connection and irony in the context of the Falklands War but it would be news to me). Seems like a pretty irrelevant and tenuous comment otherwise.
He secretly funded a lawsuit against gawker which was pretty shady of him.
> I've also run into cases where when I'm trying to figure out how to reproduce the bug for real that I uncover a another bug that is blocking it.

During a JS project refactor, I ran into a couple of those "This should be broken, why is it working?" headscratchers. In my case, 4 out of 5 times was that there was an earlier "quick-fix" further up the call-chain that papered over the bug for certain use-cases, but did not generalize well; I feel that that sort of bug is harder to catch using (unit) tests.
Polished? Windows 3.1? It was a shell over DOS. Windows 95 introduced plug and play and a decent driver model.

Windows 2000 was peak MS. I could even make an argument for XP. It just didn’t hold up well in the Internet era because of all the security vulnerabilities.
That's actually a reasonable position. We solved some problems, and had ideas for others (for example, overloading "priority" to position the cursor after things like inserting whitespace for indentation), but had a list of other things we wanted to do, including "soft spans" (issue #244 in the repo) that we never quite figured out how to do.

Ultimately, I'm not very smart, and someone who is could probably figure out how to map all these other code editing problems to CRDT data structures. Once that's done, the result should be compelling, because CRDT lets you take advantage of low-latency local connections rather than requiring everything to get serialized on a central server. It's research I would love to see being carried forward.
Love the transparency and boldness. My personal opinion is that your service sounds too good to be true so it makes me hesitate trying it out as there is a time and emotional cost to trying it out.
https://www.engadget.com/2019-06-19-upscaled-uhd-4k-digital-... is one easily found example but it wasn't where I had read it. I'm pretty sure I've seen it on HN itself.

edit: here's another https://old.reddit.com/r/cordcutters/comments/9x3v4e/just_le...
I feel for the resort owner mentioned at the top of the article, but what I feel most is disappointment over his selfishness in wanting to take tourism dollars in exchange for risking his community and the province-at-large to outbreaks of coronavirus.

Already in Ontario we're seeing worrying signs of quarantine fatigue, but I sincerely hope we can beat this thing without falling victim to selfish indulgences.

It's an interesting thought experiment to consider whether our willingness to accept a temporary loss of our personal freedoms is tied to the success (or lack thereof) of the coronavirus response in the United States.
Canada also has low salaries.
I love the font used in this article. It’s an easy to read slab serif without too much slab and with lovely bits of serifs.
This doesn't help. Not everyone has access to the same infrastructure in their home town/country. Let alone the fact that a class at $X AM/PM in the US may be in the late evenings, late nights in their home country.
If you pay out 100k in salary for the year, I meant pay out 100k in salary(to your employees) over the 8 week period.
You certainly don't learn anything by running `sh run.sh`.
AWS Noncompete.
Upgrade Chip Connects PCIe Cards to Raspberry Pi 4
The assumption that most diseases are hardware is that, an assumption.

Some may be, sure.

But could it be that a blanket claim like that comes from us already knowing how to access the hardware, and being uncomfortable to wander out of that comfort zone?

Of course you can’t “tell” the disease to go away any more you can tell a bug to take a hike, but saying we can manipulate the hardware to trigger whatever immune, etc. responses just as well comes from that being the thing we can sort of do reliably at this point.

And even then, can we really?

Read about the phenomenon of cascading medical involvement during childbearing and birth: turns out “hardware manipulation”, which is very compelling to do, tends to have compounding hidden consequences, while the adjustments in the elusive “software” (inducing relaxed state etc.) somehow appear to yield straightforward results. Again, immediately life-threatening conditions aside.

Manipulating transistors and condensers (triggering an immune response, in your example) might just be a suboptimal, incomplete approach when compared to updating the firmware logic (making it so that the response is triggered when and how needed), or of course better yet both.

Our discomfort with the associated uncertainty, however, makes this an unfashionable direction of scientific exploration.
I don't know anything about jazz or how to create any kind of music, but it's so relaxing to type while listening to these notes. I would love this as an application integrated with the OS, so I can listen it with every keystroke.
And don't forget hamburger menus, even for desktop sizes.
He thinks women shouldn't vote.
If you feed a bunch of vegetarians beef stew and they don't realize it, are you allowed to call them unethical hypocrites?
Cameras. There's a split within (the dwindling pool of) camera manufacturers about what they'll build in Japan/Germany and what they'll outsource, and where they'll outsource it to.

So you have, say, Olympus designing some lenses, software, and bodies, outsourcing some lens design (probably to Sigma - it's something of a closely guarded secret, although it seems all the major camera companies outsource at least some of their lens designs), outsource some of their manufacturing to other countries, while some remains in Japan.

As to why, check out Yongnou's EF-mount 50/1.8 and 35/2 lenses and you'll see why Japanese manufacturers want to keep their designs as far away from China as they can.
Right, that is what i meant too. You are more likely to find today people not using C++98 in their new C++ codebases than you are to find people not using Free Pascal 0.99-era code in their new Free Pascal codebases - largely because there haven't been any dramatic changes in the language over the years that require changing how you work with it. When you get new stuff they enable new features, but rarely things change in how they work - at most you get more conveniences (e.g. you can use a for-each loop in iterators instead of a manual for I:=0 to iterator.count - 1 do..., but that is just a convenience, it doesn't change anything).
You can walk while listening to audiobook or TTS though.
Hi, if you’re interested I just registered chiefmccloud at mail.com (not as concerned about anonymity as spam). I’d love to chat more to you or anybody. Thanks
Luxonis wants to use computer vision to protect cyclists
From July 2014 to December 2019 AA spent $12.4 billion in stock buybacks. Over that period, they had $235 billion in revenue and $200+ billion in expenses. Is it unreasonable to return $12 billion to investors over that period, amounting to 5.1% of revenue really so unreasonable? By comparison Google bought back $18 billion of shares last year, amounting to 11.1% of revenue.
To be clear even before Trump students have not been eligible for a visa for online study.

Not an opinion on if students who were going to study in person the fall should get to come/stay just a clarification.

Online school some students will mean having to sleep in day and do school at night, though for some it will mean vastly cheaper living costs.
Painful for some, maybe sorta of beneficial for others.

In the US, in college areas, bad for those renting out apartments, good for renters who will now see a reduction in rent.
Not sure if you're directing that at me or the parent comment - my position is definitely that Verisign should not be trusted with certificate signing authority over .com. The comment I'm replying to seems to advocate Verisign (and nobody else) being able to issue microsoft.com certs, which I think is a bad idea.
Try:

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Also try smileys:

:) and :(

(for major minor)
Hm, i guess this depends on the compiler, but if that was the case then first use should be enough to figure out this. I guess classic Delphi had a very simple compiler so perhaps it needs this, but AFAIK modern Delphi has an LLVM backend whose optimizations shouldn't be affected by variable placement.

In any case, i think Free Pascal does have variable lifetime analysis so its optimizations shouldn't need that either.
In sign of the times, Ayn Rand Institute approved for PPP loan
Yup! Just 10 days new.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23652373
I guess one question I have re the first study you posted is: just because you get a certified LCA for level 1 or 2, does that mean the employer is going to actually pay what corresponds to a level 1 or level 2 wage? Isn't that the floor? LCA happens before I-129, so the employer is just certifying they need someone, anyone, to take the role.

For instance, a promotion or regular pay raise doesn't trigger a new LCA. That only happens when you change employers. As an employer, if it didn't affect the likelihood of an approved LCA (and the article does itself state that they're largely pro forma, and won't get denied unless there's an obvious error) why would the employer not pick the lowest class to maximize flexibility?
Could you expand the acronyms: HA, and AP? I'm not familiar with them
Seriously? Windows 95 and 98 were extremely prone to crashes and it took many years for Microsoft to get past a reputation for low quality.

It took until Windows XP to get a reasonably stable desktop OS.
Why Security Is Hard
Right. But the data tool is designed to be integrated across municipalities via a shared schema -- this fundamentally changes the efficacy of the data -- it makes the data more valuable.

Palantir Gotham is used by the LA police department and the data integration creates new capabilities -- even if they keep the data. At the end of the day there will always be a trade-off between crime and surveillance. Palantir explicitly sides with surveillance.

It really doesn't matter who owns the data etc. The moral position of Palantir is very clear: that it supports surveillance.
None of that. It's the tedious and predictable aspects.

These arguments are an endless carousel. They turn nasty and convince no one. If that's the game you want to play on the internet, there are other carnivals.
Like other generalizations, this is not absolute. Carousels have their place. I used one recently on a simple site which has three nouns in the name. Three small SVG icons scrolling in a carousel fit the theme.

However, I agree that they are terrible where a gallery of thumbnails would be more suitable. The controls and auto scroll always seem to be cross-purpose.
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Well, before this year there wasn't a global pandemic. That's really meaningless. This wouldnt be an issue if it had happened last year, or the year before, or the year before...1918.

The point is that any functional government would have accounted for the fact that there is a global pandemic, which if nothing else, might actually make it impossible for some students to even leave the US, before publishing this guidance.

Edit: Also, this is a deliberate undoing of a temporary allowance they had already made. From the first sentence of the linked document:

> Temporary procedural adaptations related to online courses permitted by the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) during the height of the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)crisis will be modified for the fall 2020 semester.
There is a similar argument for FB and Twitter on other countries. If this happens the side-effect might be every country creating their own local social apps and banning US-based social networks.
Aren’t we at the stage where you cannot even trust these numbers anymore - whether local or state data?
IBM was also a software giant. People railed against IBM as they later did against Microsoft: the big player in town, which monopolized everything and whose evil hands seemed everywhere. Likewise, managers felt safe with IBM (like they later did with Microsoft): "nobody was ever fired for buying from IBM" was a well known saying.

IBM was the omnipresent giant before Microsoft became one. It's really hard to overstate this.
Cal Tech must be #1, yes? Thanks for explaining the disjunction between their reputation and rank.
Yeah I enjoy having the sense of accomplishment and the knowledge gained but like you have trouble getting excited about repeating things. I think people who do their hobbies in a serious exploratory way are probably the minority though. I ride motorcycles struggle to understand guys who just want to go ride the same route 10 hours every weekend. I guess its a kind of emotional release rather than intellectual thrill.