skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TL;DR

> On the 14th of July 2020, a researcher participating in our bounty program made us aware of a potential data breach on the Ledger website. We immediately fixed this breach after receiving the researcher’s report and underwent an internal investigation. A week after patching the breach, we discovered It had been further exploited on the 25th of June 2020, by an unauthorized third party who accessed our e-commerce and marketing database – used to send order confirmations and promotional emails – consisting mostly of email addresses, but with a subset including also contact and order details such as first and last name, postal address, email address and phone number. Your payment information and crypto funds are safe.
I second this! Algorithmic discovery tools solve for sameness whereas StumbleUpon solved for variety. It was a wonderful tool for breaking out of thought bubbles.
>Ok, this photo has +.8 attractiveness, but -.6 smart. Ok, not sure what to do with that information

Use that photo for dating, but not for potential employers, unless you're searching for a modeling job - just my guess.
Indeed. Or when I'm particularly hungry, I need to work alone. That part actually might make sense; people (me) get hangry.
"Ça juste marche"
I've seen plenty of awe-inspiring photography across many genres, but I have literally never seen a corporate headshot or a dating photo that does anything like this.

The closest not-really-corporate shots are probably the official NASA pre-launch astronaut portraits, which do indeed do a great job of humanising the astronauts.

But as soon as you see someone in a suit, you can pretty much guarantee they're going to be smiling a little too hard while trying and failing to hide that they're stiff, stressed, and guarded. Or possibly slightly dazed. Or overcompensating by trying to look in-control and dominant.

Grey, white or black studio background, corner window shot, corridor shot, water cooler shot, in-focus background, out-of-focus background - none of it seems to help.
And Yahoo Pipes, to build your custom feed by taking multiple RSS feeds and building a graph with filters, split and merge.
Keys to Infinity – Live-Streaming Piano Music for Focus&Productivity
It’s predicted to be able to have a Q>1.

This lecture was enlightening: https://youtu.be/L0KuAx1COEk
The Firefox (and Chromium) bookmarks storage and sync systems still don't persist tags!

"Allow reading and writing bookmark tags" https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1225916

Notes re: how this could be standardized with JSON-LD:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1225916#c116

The existing Web Experiment for persisting bookmark tags:
https://github.com/azappella/webextension-experiment-tags/bl...
What antisemitism?

I’m just using the language of the libertarian techbro tweeter.

Are you telling me there is something antisemetic about libertarian techbro tweeters?

By flagging my comment are people trying to cancel me?

I thought libertarian techbros were anti-cancel culture. Are they all lying and just want free reign to be bigoted while cancelling those who they disagree with?

What about my freeze peach?
How's that obesity crisis coming along?
What's the reason behind companies adopting ARM instead of the open standard RISC-V? E.g. Apple designs its own chips, wouldn't it make more sense to use RISC-V instead of paying fees to ARM?
Not sure if I agree. In physics you typically have the analytical solution, but it's expensive to evaluate (integral over many dimensions) so you use machine learning as a cheap way to approximate it.

In most other cases of machine learning there is no "objective" solution and hence no "target function" to approximate.
I think it's fine. I'm not a webdev but I could follow your current instructions easily. I would definitely consider your instructions a good result if I was looking for the answer.

Although I prefer the second (wordier) example in OPs case anyway.
I am starting to think the interview is a waste of time. Sure, you want to make sure the person is more-or-less who they claim to be on the surface, but you will never really understand their capability for reasoning with your problems until they are working in your process.

One of my earlier jobs dealing with code involved a very brief interview (no whiteboard involved) followed by a 6 month contract offer. The deal was that I basically had 6 months to prove myself, and if everyone felt like it was working out (myself included) this would be bumped into full-time with benefits. The crazy thing is, I was actually the one who decided I did not want to continue after the 6 months was out while they wanted me to stay very badly. I think this can be a really useful checkpoint tool for both sides.

Anyone can misrepresent themselves in an interview and dupe a room full of people for a day or 2. No one can keep up an act for 3-6 months continuously when working with complex code tasks. You will get found out before the term is up, assuming everyone is using this process as an evaluation tool and following up on it regularly.
SwiftTools: Find well maintained swift libraries
SwiftTools.dev helps you to find well maintained swift libraries for your next iOS/macOS/tvOS project.

Just like the https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/ but for swift.
It only goes to 31 bits, otherwise you are correct.

Although the term "character" is ambiguous so Unicode use more specific terms. An encoded integer represent a "code point" which usually corresponds to a character, but in some cases characters are represented by multiple code points. For example "â" might be represented by the code point for "^" following the code point for "a". This in turn opens a whole can of worms since the same character can be represented as code points in multiple ways.
I was wondering if anyone was going to point this out. I can remember digg being bigger than everything besides maybe stumbleupon for a short while when it came to bookmarking sites.I never would have imagined reddit being what it is now.
oh my god, gpt3 for investment pitches
The fuel was formulated to meet the engineering requirements of a very particular product that was rendered outmoded by developments in satellite and UAV technology.
SOMEONE CALL SOFTBANK
i would like to see someone rewrite wikipedia in another stack and compare.
No false negatives, woo!
Politics are heading in dangerous direction.

I take hydroxychloroquine to keep my autoimmune disease under control.

It’s not a perfect drug, but it works great.

It’s insane watching people being attacked over a 65 year old drug.

There is the doctor video going around talking it, and people are being banned or given warnings for sharing it.

Science is being tossed out the window in favor of hysteria. This is something that is cheap and could save hundreds of thousands of lives.

But because of hatred towards an early supporter, we can’t even have a discussion on its effectiveness anymore.

Related survey on people afraid to speak.
https://www.cato.org/publications/survey-reports/poll-62-ame...
My 82-year old relative is like this. She's so accustomed to working hard all her life that even when she could retire easily on alimony and pension, she's so wired to work hard in blue-collar work. She works at a natural foods store and is such a superstar she got some kind of regional (like multi-state US) employee year award. That's what makes her happy. She genuinely likes to serve other people, too. Definitely not my thing but I have infinite respect for it. All about that eudaimonia.

Edit: all the constant activity (always had hobbies on the side too) has kept her in good physical shape plus decent diet and she's Japanese. Definite oba-tank who will probably soldier on well past 100.
Great article.

Looking for some bright minds, agile minds opinions how one should structure and how should Security Team work in an agile organization (100 devs).

Where I agree with the article, for software dev, I am not sure if this will be applicable to Security Teams.

Security Team ideally should deliver "security" of the company, however team cannot do it alone, we rely on other teams (devs for code, devops for infra), employees (phishing) and also need to collaborate a lot.

How would you tackle Security and Security Team in agile organization?

Thanks,
I think the oversight in this article is the survivor bias regarding American designs. There were plenty of those fast, efficient designs from American developers but they too died in the avalanche of big-team giants.
At a fundamental level, my complaint isn't about money or access, it's about ownership.

Yes, money and access are important. Yes, ownership has money and access implications. But ownership in itself is fundamental, and the money and access problems usually don't immediately follow the ownership problems, because if they did, nobody would give up ownership in the first place.

I've said it before and I'll it say again: corporations don't have the right to "innocent until proven guilty". We don't have to wait for corporations to do something wrong to do something about it. A lot of people on Hacker News seem to have this idea that we should wait to regulate until businesses follow incentives to the point of doing great harm, and then once they're when they do great harm, we should just say, "Oh it's not their fault, they were just following incentives."

I don't accept this. It's obvious that taking publicly owned data and making it privately owned will lead to Google placing that data behind a paywall, an ad-wall, or a simple loss of access if Google feels they can't monetize access. Even if Google maintains a relationship with the USGS such that we always have access, there's no reason for the USGS to spend our tax dollars to pay rent to Google as a middleman. We don't have to wait for Google to follow incentives to that point--we can see where this is going and we don't have to pretend we don't.
i.e. meditation
You can try out Microtica (https://microtica.com), a tool that abstracts the complex cloud setups and provides easy configurations from the UI, so you don't have to spend time on boring stuff and continue the engineering you love.
Try it out and let me know what you think.
Why would you not translate acronyms like OTAN and SIDA? They're just as legitimate as the English variant, especially when they cross international borders.

French people will say ONU, OTAN or URSS because they're not tied to any English-speaking country, but they'll still use FBI or CIA, for example.
>will only delay the transition to renewables for obvious economic reasons.

If you want more renewables then you need a more flexible grid. All that crappy coal baseload clogging the grid needs to disappear and make space for renewables. Gas plants are cheap to build but expensive to operate. They will be mostly used when there is a temporary shortfall of renewables. They are also necessary for power to gas if you actually want to reach 100% renewables.
It's not downvoted now. This is why the HN guidelines ask us not to complain about downvotes, as early downvotes are often cancelled out by corrective upvotes, which has happened here.
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Presumably because ARM’s ISA is more advanced and costs Apple basically nothing (I’ve heard it might be as low as six or seven figures for their architectural license).
To the author: Thanks for this. I grew up in Tallahassee (actually, Havana, but even fewer people know where Havana is than know where Tallahassee is). I spent way too many hours of my childhood in Tallahassee Mall, Governor's Square Mall (I remember when it opened), and the long-dead Northwood Mall.

Now I live in Singapore, another place with heat, humidity, rain, mosquitoes, and reptiles eager to ruin your day. What it has that Tallahassee doesn't: literally dozens of malls. :)
EdTech app MentalUP took off during Covid-19, but how?
The Big Guide of 150 One-on-One Meeting Questions
If you were working two jobs, you’d have more than $100.
You're talking about fission? I think we should push it as far as it will go. At the same time I think there is some legitimacy to the waste and disaster concerns (even if mostly overblown) and so fusion offers enough potential advantages to still be worth pursuing.
I'll take that manager over one that has 20 years of experience but hasn't touched a line of code for the last 10.
> A/B tests in progress until they reach statistical significance.

Seems to imply that there will be a difference (by rejecting the null hypothesis). But not rejecting the null should actually count as a win for GPT3.

I don't want to think at the implications if it turns out GPT3 is better.
How Do You Know a Human Wrote This?
https://youtu.be/oSd0keSj2W8 here is a McDonald's marketing video on how they improve the burger for the shot. Of course that's marketing and they have other tools in addition, like not using real ingelredients but mocks etc.
Basically the only advantage is simplified instruction decoding, which it has in common with other RISCs. It has some other nice properties too, I think it really shows that it has taken lessons learned from other RISC architectures and struck a good balance. But the reason for the switch isn't how nice ARM is, the reason is that Intel is struggling with its manufacturing process and Apple wants to be in control of its own destiny.
https://archive.md/7Xxfn
Capitalist economies can invade other countries and take their resources just like socialist economies can. That doesn’t say anything about those economic systems.
On 2), using the iPad Pro puts me in the opposite camp, where sheer performance is better from my perception. The limitations come more from what I can do that how good/fast/responsive it is done.

I get there is more to it that just an ARM vs x86 straight comparison, but even my 2019 MBP feels less smooth when it comes to simple and comparable tasks like browsing sites while watching videos.
Indeed, he seems to be illustrating the point. "I'm not listening, and a major newspaper will publish my failure to listen as news."
MIPS64 is no longer royalty-free.

Wave Computing Closes Its MIPS Open Initiative with Immediate Effect, Zero Warning

https://www.hackster.io/news/wave-computing-closes-its-mips-...
Blacks, Latinos feel unwelcome in STEM careers
Yes, agree. That's a good point.
I suppose it only scratches the surface, but Strogatz's "Nonlinear dynamics and Chaos" is a great read.
Or you find a 6 months to year old thread, for something like a movie discussion or timeless/semi-timeless topic, and it is locked. Back in the day threads could go for years, there is good (thoughtful discussion across time, changing opinions) and bad (spam, bots) to that but mostly good.
> And I think a big reason is that Europe was poorer, so product development was all about efficiency, cost-reduction, high performance and sparing use of resources. The result was very fast, efficient products.

While Europe is poorer, the issue is not a focus on fast/efficient products... rather that US companies have access to incredible amounts of "dumb money" via pension funds that they can use to simply flatten (or buy up) any European competition. Either via outright price dumping (Uber), via lobbying efforts (Microsoft), by marketing (Apple) or by having access to way more R&D resources than European companies (Apple again).
There's few things that are more mind boggling to me than a very rigid interpretation/implementation of agile.
>Turns out breathing is rather psychoactive, and without proper educational context one can indeed induce or activate latent issues, anxiety or otherwise.

You can also die from drinking too much water.
thanks. the memory dump prints are inspired by plotter twitter pics.
thanks for the hint
Hard to tell without context, but that first example could easily be a positive: not only is extending grace to employees ethically a good thing to do, but it can also lead to increased productivity in the long run.

Of course, if the employee was completely MIA for an extended period of time and no effort was made to contact them, that's neither ethical nor productive.
Warning: this specific post is not about how bread was made. It's about the economics of the average farm in ancient society.

Was on a road trip with my girlfriend and thought she might like to learn about how bread was made. 30 min of reading later, not much to say on that topic specifically. Very interesting nonetheless.
At $100 you can just work for wages until you have more money.
I noticed that some CDs/DVDs are already going bad after very few years in the early 2000s, so I put everything on harddisks, recovered broken stuff with ddrescue and was done with writable optical media.
Know how AI sees through the looking glass
Source? As far as I can see they only made a joint venture: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-11-28-fi-4993-s...
Why does it need revival? I've been using feedly for like a decade now with no issues.
I think people are finally starting to understand that public speech in the 21st century and public speech in the 20th century are not the same thing at all.

Tweeting your opinion in 2020 is analogous to going on national television and airing your opinion in 1990.

Would you feel comfortable airing a controversial opinion on national television? Would you feel comfortable that you still have your job and your reputation after going in front of the nation and saying "I think interracial marriages should be illegal"? No? Then don't tweet it because that's basically the same thing.
Maybe they also order garlic bread, slaw and tiramisu. I mean, you'd hope...
Seriously, why does this question keep coming up? What am I missing?
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Citation?

Edit - I'm getting downvoted but if you're going to suggest that Apple are departing from the ARMv8 instruction set - which is a really important point if true and which I've not seen any evidence for - then you really need to supply a citiation.
Yeah, there are so many times where I'm asked to solve some sudoku puzzle in an interview. It is really sign of a big interview question.
The first time I tried to order pizza delivery in Singapore, I asked my friends, "So, how big are the pizzas here?" The answer left me stumped: "Small is six slices and large is eight slices." I retorted that I could easily slice a 6cm pizza into 16 slices and that wouldn't feed us any more than their large pizza. They looked at me kind of funny.
IANA hardware/cpu guy but, instructions that get decoded get cached in a parallel-to-data-L1 cache, the L1-instruction cache.

> Maaaaybe the resultant bandwidth reduction in reading isntructions is worth the performance overhead of x64 instruction decoding.

Access to main mem is slow, much slower than decoding circuitry, so it is very well worth it. From what I've read, the decoding time mattered early on, hence (among other reasons) RISC, but as chips speeded up decoding time became less important, then an overhead as the instructions were large. IIRC, and I can't back this up so take with caution, the alpha chips suffered because of this (but of course you could always take large instructions then decode them smaller and cache those decoded instrs).

Just my view. Ask a chip expert for a better opinion.
The supreme court also decided in Dred Scott v. Sandford that people of African descent imported into the United States and held as slaves were not included under the constitution and could never be citizens.

The supreme court was wrong on racism, and it's wrong on corporate personhood.
I’m guessing you never promoted ypn ads or chitika. Yahoo wanted to compete, but had poor execution. To give them credit though, there was a time when they had great tech. I remember when they shutdown yahoo pipes, at the time there wasn’t anything else like it. Yahoo mail was much bigger than gmail for a time as well.
You are probably right.

Neural doohickeys find real uses in computational chemistry. Accurate ab initio solvers (many-body Schrödinger equation) are very slow and everything else is just heuristic-, quasi- approximation mixed with semi-empirical tricks.

When someone makes even marginally better heuristic improvement, it's more likely that they sell it or start a company than post paper in arxiv. There is serious money to be made.
The law is wrong.
I've read many years ago that in low temperatures, the SR-71 was prone to leaking fuel while in its hangar. But that was not dangerous because JP-7 won't catch flame without TEB.

EDIT: oh yes https://theaviationgeekclub.com/the-story-of-the-sr-71-black...
This is probably one of my favorite developments coming from the quarantine. Maciej Ceglowski is a keeper of the torch reminding us of what the web used to be: a weird place filled with weird people who were guided by curious intellects and a belief that the internet can and would liberate us in some strange and amazing way.

Before social media amplified celebrity worship and extreme positions, everyone's voice on the web was only given weight by the merit or personality of what was said. No matter how popular you were on the old internet your voice was never loud enough to silence another. People were mostly anonymous (in practice because governments were caught off guard) and anyone could start a quirky website that was suddenly the talk of the town.

I miss the old internet that inspired a lot of brilliant and all too idealistic people to code into the night and bring us these amazing innovations. In some ways Mark Zuckerberg was cut from the old cloth. The original Facebook was in many ways amazing, quickly evolving, and so open. Everything took a turn for the worse with advertising.

Thank you Maciej for the trip down memory lane. Some of us may cling to the past but I hope there's another version of you and the old guard of the internet waiting for us or our future generations when we are gone.
HN has always seemed to me to be a great place to get a cold shower against all AI/NN hype, generally where I go to for a sober evaluation.

I dont think the comments will reflect "gobbling up"
So they look like ads, which erode trust from users, and they don't even get paid for them. That just makes it more stupid.
Virtual Card product launched in South Africa
The only reason it's not called a cult at that point is because there's normally no element of religion involved.
This seems to be a list of things that Europe used to have. Here's some counterpoints that you might be thinking of:

The most popular form of UNIX (Linux) got started in Finland.

The best selling CPUs (ARM) are ultimately of British origin.

The Web was created by a Brit at CERN (Switzerland).

Raspberry Pis are quite popular, and British. (Also has an ARM CPU, and often runs Linux, sometimes with a web server. Nifty!)
I don't doubt you, I just don't know of many, so some examples please?
Not every country way of doing things is that rewarding for solo entrepreneurs and if one doesn't want to be dragged into management they need to be willing to fight against it at every opportunity, because on most companies it is not natural not wanting to be promoted.
I think first you need a showstopper need. the alloy required for the oxy side pre-burner in the SpaceX's Raptor engine was a true breakthrough. they did it in months because Raptor wouldn't work without it.
Looking at earnings growth as a steady process can be misleading when profit margins vary. Intel has a 26% net margin, and AMD is just over 8%, so if AMD gets Intel's pricing power their earnings could be 3X as high before any change in revenue. For a look at the pathological case, realize that a company that breaks even one year and makes a trivially small profit the next has experienced infinite earnings growth.

That being said, I agree it looks like AMD stock is priced for something spectacular to happen, which makes me more excited about their chips than their stock.
Yes. This time a machine is doing it, therefore it doesn't count as intelligence.
Whao, that's pretty cool ! I'm so curious of the results now ^^
Do the problem spaces of Clutch and Terraform overlap ?

I'm not entirely sure what problem does Clutch solve that is not solvable using Terraform