skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was working at a larger R&D firm (BBN Technologies, since acquired by Raytheon), and had some intriguing projects involving Semantic Web technologies (DAML: http://www.daml.org/). I got interested in how that technology might support my separate interests in the completely unrelated field of digital technologies for Bible study. So i started:

* blogging (http://semanticbible.com/blogos/, now rather moribund)

* creating hobby projects (like The Composite Gospel Index: http://semanticbible.com/cgi/cgi-overview.html and New Testament Names: http://semanticbible.com/ntn/ntn-overview.html)

* submitting talk proposals to biblical studies conferences, though I had virtually no formal education in that field.

It was a classic "FieldA + FieldB = Innovation" strategy: but at the time it wasn't a deliberate strategy, just what interested me. I met some folks at the conferences who made a software package I'd never heard of (Logos Bible Software), which led to discussions and a job offer. 13 years later, i'm the Director of Content Innovation there. My side projects were responsible for the original connection, as well as demonstrating my interests and competence, and the novel contributions I could make to the company.
The prison email company charging millions
Google AMP in 2020 – better, but still not good
had the same experience with Aileen.

Many VCs, founders, and DNI leaders have echoed that All Raise is primarily a way for VCs to improve their personal brand around women in tech. They don't make investments, don't run substantial programs, and spend much of their time/money on PR.

If these VCs were serious, they would commit X% of investments or X% of investment dollars to the groups they publicly support in panel after panel after tweet after TechCrunch interview.
How about the idea that there are implicit biases in all three of those variables and her experience proves how much they multiply?
It didn't just make it easier to trade, it systematically gamified trading through UX design including confetti graphics when someone makes a trade. It's basically using casino-like mechanisms to trick people into treating their money like monopoly currency.

It's plain unethical and ridiculous that 20 year olds with no steady income get access to highly leveraged financial instruments that can ruin them for life.
@areoform I wholeheartedly echo this! Thank you!
Modern trading of the kind RobinHood provides is gambling. So is buying insurance. There are sometimes good reason to trade or buy insurance.

And most people who buy insurance, have a good reason to make that gamble. But many people who trade, certainly through RobinHood, have no reason to trade beyond gambling.

Robinhood's crime is that they make it easier (and some claim addictive) to gamble.
Thanks, I have reported it internally and it is now fixed.
Most people are not trained to trade options with pressing a button. Many Robinhood users don't fully understand what the order they just placed mean, just look at r/wallstreetbets. Robinhood is pushing alcohol to minors in a sense.
Mostly right! Fly by wire doesn't inherently have to do with whether a pilot has the strength to move the controls or not - airliners in the pre fly-by-wire era still had hydraulic actuation of control surfaces, which allow pilots to multiply the force of their inputs. The main question/difference here is how much physical feedback the control system gives to the pilot - basically how much harder to move the stick it gets as the actual pressures on the control surface increase. Whether it's an electronic system or a hydraulic one in between the cockpit controls and the surfaces doesn't HAVE to mean that the physical feedback is all that different. It does make it easier to do non-linear ramping of the feedback though.

You also can do more complicated mappings of control inputs to control surface movements more easily with FBW (you can think of automatic traction control in a car as a somewhat analogous system - it uses differential braking per wheel, which the driver has no direct control over, to attempt to straighten out the path of the car and follow the driver's inputs from the steering wheel). As another comment mentioned, this has been happening in fighter jets for a long time, mostly due to how inherently aerodynamically unstable they are.
The article sounds more like a story on gambling.

You could replace "trading stocks" with "playing poker" and it's basically the same story. In other words, someone played way outside of their bankroll and got crushed.

For example if you have $200 and want to get better at poker, you don't sit down at a table and put $100 or $200 in chips. You'd likely want to sit down where the maximum buy-in is maybe $2 or $5 so you can actually get experience and ride a bunch of variance without losing everything immediately.

Sure, you won't be getting rich any time soon but if your goal is to improve, you will slowly be able to move up as you get better.

When in doubt, follow the Rounders quote of "you can't lose what you don't put in the middle".
A look at password security, Part I: history and background
She reached out to VCs that pledged to support the Black community of founders. Beside the fact that we have seen VCs pouring money into all possible kind of failing business (WeWork anyone? Wag?), you can't require the same profile parameters from an underrepresented community otherwise their pledges were empty. If they spotted some of the weak points that many found in this discussion (poor product reviews etc), they could have at least provided an honest feedback, some contacts or else. I guess that before money, these cases are showing no interests at all in supporting Black founders (sometimes intros or contacts are way more valuable than money).
Wouldn't it just be simpler to statically link apps then?
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About 40 years ago I was reading a business mathematics book and ran across a section that, as I recall, started out with a basic probabilities equation and derived the basic Bayesian equation in one step.

Am I remembering this right? If so could someone post it?
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This is within the same ballpark of stuff I was thinking about!

Also, we're both Seattle-area engineers, leading very career-oriented lives. One reason for marrying would be to mitigate financial risk when one of us tries to do something crazy.

Funny enough, our simple desire to leave a professional legacy has helped our immediate family greatly (e.g. I'm the one my parents or straight siblings go to for big cash emergencies, etc.)
These days there is the mayor and then the city manager (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_manager). As an introvert and possibly engineering-minded person (broad generalization based on being on HN) maybe city manager is more your speed?
The links work. Thank you!
The "New Wave" authors of the 1960s and 1970s such as Zelazny, Delany (directly mentioned in the article), Aldiss and others already pushed the boundaries of the "hard line" between Sci-Fi and Fantasy to the point of irrelevancy. It's not entirely a new struggle for these "two" genres to play with their boundaries.
If you want to go beyond the "hello, world", I highly recommend this huge series: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSnyjB_8iVxi2ZAfn_1L6tA (it's up to episode 130-something now... but start at the beginning!)

After grokking the basics of WebGL I was stuck at where to go next. I could draw triangles, and I could give them perspective... but I didn't know how to combine them into something bigger. The Sketchpunk series was really good at showing how to build it into a library and make real projects.

I used that knowledge to make this minecraft-y thing: https://github.com/mrspeaker/webgl2-voxels (which I especially love as it doesn't use any compilation/build steps - just native modules and plain ol' javascript!).
You can add a `Cache-Control` response header with `s-maxage` in your Serverless Function to cache at the Edge.

https://vercel.com/docs/v2/serverless-functions/edge-caching

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Ca...
It doesn't, and it doesn't need to for it to be true.
Commission free. Every broker takes something for order flow, some more than others.
Technically it's not their individual money. VC money is typically a pool of money collected from wealthy individuals and funds.
Microsoft Introduces Virtual ‘Theater’ to Relieve Video Meeting Fatigue
"None of these companies has yet said how they will handle requests from Hong Kong to block or remove content, and the risk of being caught in political crossfire looms large."

Hmm. I have a feeling Facebook will stay and comply.
I was assigned to work on machine learning three years ago. Literally an overnight "the project changed, you're doing this now, here's the project update memo for your contract."

Your post exactly describes ML on the internet: first you find a billion "check out my intro to ML" Medium articles and git repos that spin up OpenCV on Tensorflow ("small bench"), then you move to the Tensorflow docs ("build a house"), then you move to Arxiv.org ("theories of city planning"). Once you step into that middle zone, you're basically stuck reading academic texts. As a 50-something engineer, it was a kick in the balls getting started with this stuff. Fortunately this contract is related to hardware optimization, which I've been doing for decades, but this particular variant of it was a curve-ball.

It is an interesting back-and-forth: I find myself exchanging information with lots of new-college-grads (permanent hires, not contractors) that all have sharply coiffed beards and heavy denim jeans. Two of them are pretentious and fight to be top dog (which is hilarious from my old, jaded POV), but the rest are genuinely good kids that want to learn, and vice versa, teach me what they know. It's fun. I'll miss 'em when my contract ends.
One time I was arguing with my female friend that women were overly-selective on dating apps. She disagreed and to prove her point handed me her phone with Tinder open. I began swiping on guys on the app, and I was amazed at how bad their profiles were. A lot of the guys might have actually been attractive in real life, but their pictures made them look like smelly weirdos. I can't say this experience changed my strategy much, but it was definitely eye-opening.
> distributing binaries on Linux is an enormous pain.

It doesn't have to. Packaging using FPM [0] allows many targets (deb, rpm, etc) and using ELF2deb [1] (shameless plug) allows packaging any files to a .deb with no effort.

[0] https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm

[1] https://github.com/NicolaiSoeborg/ELF2deb
Robinhood has terrible fills in my experience vs ToS or IB.
Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting
That's a tough one. On one hand it should be easy because who wants to perform more clicks to get the same end result. On the other hand it shouldn't because it attracts people without proper knowledge who could possibly end up making a life altering mistake. I'm not really sure what a good compromise is here.
https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2016/06/07/no-black-w...
And a bunch of companies in Canada, apparently.
Should Las Vegas do a financial background check on someone before they are allowed to enter a casino?
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I grew up in a wealthy white neighborhood in the 1990s. My neighbor was a Caltech/Stanford grad that needed help building some RF measurement equipment, which I did as a summer job during high school. That evolved into a job programming a driver for spectrum analyzers, which evolved into a job developing software for embedded systems. By the time I graduated college, I had a guaranteed engineering job and a bunch of connections in the field.

There were no black people in my neighborhood. I don’t recall any in my elementary school classes. Thanks to housing segregation—the legacy of redlining—they were elsewhere, in neighborhoods where there were few if any people with Caltech and Stanford degrees. You don’t think that makes a difference?
I'm reminded of how the Inca had wheels on their toys but never put them into practical use.

I kind of believe that similar things are happening now with video game tech, GPU mostly happened due to gaming and now benefits a lot of other fields, game engines are now being used in architectural, automotive and video production pipelines. I think there is a lot more to come.
I used to work for an Independent System Operator (ISO)[0] and we used to have a sometimes painful process for rolling out any changes to production. It's been a while and I don't remember it all, but it went something like this:

1. Fill out out a change request (CR) form and print it.

2. Have it signed by your manager and the managers of every system it touched, including business owners.

3. Attend the 2x a week meeting and explain your CR. In this meeting, explain what was happening, why, who authorized it, what to do if it failed, what to do if it initially worked but failed later (e.g, on a weekend).

4. Hope your CR passes the vote.

5. Implement your roll-out plan.

This is a robust process. Where it breaks down--I felt--is when you need to fix a typo on the public-facing website that's managed by a CMS.

0 - https://www.eesi.org/files/070913_Jay_Caspary.pdf
Agreed, some degree of personal responsibility is needed in the case of addictive behavior. Robinhood in that aspect (gamification) falls into the same category as gambling, and the only difference is that is that it comes from the Bay Area as opposed to Vegas or AC.
No! It's all the knowledge we've amassed that we hardly put to any use beyond milking it for entitlements.

Who ever speaks about our duty to our fellow man and the giants whose shoulders we stand on?

I blame a lack of classical education on this performance based meritocracy that's become a runaway train with no ethical brakes.
> I don't see any reason to keep the worlds of online and offline plotting so completely disjoint

I would guess it's less about "online and offline" than "in a web browser and out of one". The web offers several powerful standards for rendering 2D visuals - SVG, canvas, WebGL - all of which are much easier to bootstrap and to use directly than anything that's ever made it to the native desktop, and all of which come with first-class support for interactivity.

Even today, just creating a desktop window that you can draw to using OpenGL is a significant hurdle for someone who isn't used to that sort of thing. Now, do want that GUI code to also work on multiple systems? What about your graphics code? macOS has deprecated OpenGL. Do you want to interact with it using your mouse? What about rendering text, which is a whole other hurdle? Heaven forbid you want a higher-level vocabulary or dev tools with live inspection. I suppose writing to a PNG is easy enough- but then you lose any chance at interactivity.

The web is simply the most straightforward option if a plot is to be embedded in any kind of interactive app.
Her point is that her husband got more responses. My guess - her husband would get more responses than you as well.

As someone who also took time off (and built apps) from college, the fact that I'd built some apps (that got write-ups) was a big positive for my early career, even if just prototypes. But I was at a top education org before taking time off so I'd already proven I could get into a reasonable place.

No need to disclose, but your and my story tends to work if you (and or others on team) got into a place like an Ivy or a UC or top liberal arts, majoring in CS or engineering, then dropped out (aka were into the entrepreneurial space)

I think it works a lot less well with an undisclosed and possibly non-tech background.

If you had a path like hers then I am very impressed, your deck or prototype must have been compelling. But very often there are some other proof points (top school acceptance / cs majors etc). That is almost silicon valley cliche at this point.

An awesome scenario would be if someone focused on black led businesses in terms of VC and made a killing.
I think being used with Fuschia is a good sign
It's normal practice for publications to publish papers from authors who explicitly say that they don't even retain the data used to produce the paper? If that's the case what's even the point of peer review?

At this point it seems like you're saying that peer review doesn't actually involve any sort of review. Fortunately, though, other academics don't share your experience that peer review is incapable of identifying faulty research. Because if it did, then there'd be little to no reason to put trust in academia.
I've oddly never thought of it that way, but I guess I already knew that this method of trading isn't really a serious way to trade.
Facebook takes down accounts and pages of Roger Stone
In that period, computers made a significant leap forward, and it took developers some time to catch up and fully utilize surplus performance.
I spent some time looking into this business model a while ago and most of the top podcasts on Patreon simply have loyal subscriber bases and then offer a bonus show each week/month for $3-5 a month and thousands sign up because of FOMO/being fans. It seems to work really well.

A similar scheme has worked in the screencast space as well, I recall Railscasts followed a similar approach of free "shows" and then you got more of the same if you paid. It seems to work really well as a format.
> Why would you need to rotate the lanes?

To half the count of RAM access instructions. Even L1D cache hit is still slower than these two instructions for shuffle and insert, both are quite fast, they deliver the result on the next cycle.

> GCC simply does the unaligned load

Right, that’s twice as many loads as necessary.

> Clang does the shuffle successfully

I wouldn’t call that code “successfully”. Clang uses shufps instructions to shuffle integer vectors. On many CPUs, especially older than a couple of years, there’s a non-trivial latency, a few cycles, to pass data between integer and floating-point execution units. The approach is correct with these shuffles, but not the implementation. For integers it should have used at least _mm_shuffle_epi32 = pshufd or _mm_slli_si128 = pslldq, but ideally _mm_alignr_epi8 = palignr from SSSE3.
The very point of the article, I guess, is pointing out those VCs that rode the wave around BLM topics just for the sake of their own public image without even delivering anything close to their pledge.
I've heard podcasting called the slowest-growing new medium of all time... The exponent for number of podcasts seems to be much higher than the exponent for number of podcast listeners, for example.

https://www.journalism.org/fact-sheet/audio-and-podcasting/
I think the comment you replied to was probably framed from different perspectives:

Parent assumes "we should do what is best for the common good"

Your reply assumes "we should do whatever best protects individual liberties"
Agreed.

What is frustrating about these investors (and YC) is that it all is very surface level. I'm sure they believe they are doing the right thing but all of their assumptions, ideas, pipelines, and teams, all are informed by those biases. And there isn't enough being done to deconstruct that. For example, what does it mean to say 'too early' to an under-represented founder? who is the comparison to? How many of your last X investments or team members came from Stanford or ex-FAANG?

Let's put in place processes, time allocations, smaller programs. And let's put all of this in place first for those raising their first rounds - the angel or the mythical pre-seed.
AppImage seems like the best replacement then. I've loathed Snap since it first appeared on my horizon and I installed LibreOffice with it and that snap image showed up in my mounted drives forever. I was a big fan of Canonical/Ubuntu for years and switching to Debian has not been without pain points but at least I have more control of my computer. Pop! OS and Linux Mint seem like good Linux desktop alternatives to Ubuntu at this point if you don't want to use Debian.
I made a graphical map of this PPP data. Here https://www.dannysalzman.com/2020/07/07/map-of-ppp-funding

Full screen - https://www.dannysalzman.com/files/ppp_map_v1

Warning - large file download (128mb) doesn't work well on mobile
You mean without the search engine knowing what you are blacklisting?

Perhaps there is no good way, but in the case of Google, it seems like it wouldn’t change the privacy equation to have this not be private from them.
And VCs who stated in public that they were open to changing their criteria and actually helping that less experienced founder flat out didn't live up to the words they said in public.

That's what she called out very specifically.
It's not like a paycheck loan product where you may get a desperate person buying it as a "last resort". People have to make an effort to find out about it, select a stock to buy, do some "research" even if it's reading bad advice on subreddits.

So it's hard for me to have too much sympathy for people who have lost money on this.

(I don't trade stocks very often. Every few months I rebalance things. This has worked well for 35+ years. I'm 57 now.)
Companies pay for retail order flow because retail is dumb; and, on average, is not going to have trades better than random noise. This is ideal for market makers so market makers pay for it and even offer better spreads to retail. Market makers don't want to be on the other side of "smart money" trades.

tl;dr you're not getting screwed by Robinhood selling your order flow, you're getting a benefit.
Side note: “balefully” means “menacingly”, not “wistfully”.
A natural consequence of bikeshedding[0]
[0]https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bikeshedding
There is when you've got a microwave link.
you cannot store the history in memory and survive a reboot, unless you write the memory to disk, then read into memory from disk on boot, but even then the history is being stored on disk and so is recoverable. surviving a reboot is necessary since the point of storing history is to make it accessible later, otherwise you would use incog/private mode, or stronger. I don't know what it is you think I don't think is possible
It is possible to SIMD parallelize multiple linear problems when you can guarantee convergence of each subproblem and compute iterative bounds.

But sure, SIMD is no panacea. Especially when the latency between the vector instruction shares transistors with the previous instruction.
No, you're right, that logic definitely isn't helpful. Here on Earth, murder is illegal while CV research isn't.
The thing you have to keep in mind about corporations is that, unlike human beings, they lack consciences, at least most of them. They may say they have them, but for various reasons this is usually not at all true.

As a consequence, corporations do whatever will maximize their size and profitability, and are entirely indifferent as to whether what they do is good or bad for the society as a whole.

Now in the case of Facebook that means following policies that at least in some very important ways are quite bad for the world. That is the very nature of its business model. Furthermore I can't think of any way external pressure or governmental laws could seriously change that, so we need to be looking for alternatives.