skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CISA says 62,000 QNAP NAS devices have been infected with the QSnatch malware
Original title is "4 Reasons Big Companies Don’t Innovate…or Get Disrupted"

If the HN headline is being edited, it really should be "Four Reasons Why Big Companies Neither Innovate nor Get Disrupted"
Which is an excellent attitude for a short PoC, but unimaginable for a paid product.

In the end, the user doesn't care. They want the printed page to be usable. If the browser makes it usable, excellent! If it doesn't, than the product is bad and an alternative must be found.

Sure, Google, being in control of Chrome, could implement a browser-level page layout engine.

Unfortunately, there is obviously no way to make a good general purpose layout engine, so that will never fly. Any site that wants to offer printing as a paid feautre must implement their own printable version, no question.
frankly, It never helped on my resume but I enjoyed writing.

Frankly, if I saw this code on a resume, I'd keep looking.

scanf("%s",buffer);

// Debug :: printf("hash : %ld\n",hash("cdRoot"));
switch(hash(buffer))
{
//command : "ls"
case 5863588:
Delivery is based on routes, which are designed to take 8 hours to fulfill on average. If there's a heavy parcel day, bad weather, coverage for sick workers, etc, the 8 hours may be 11 hours.

Now, they stop working after 8 hours in most cases and leave whatever is left in a pile to be done later. Just like with computers, when you develop a backlog in a system optimized for throughput, things tend to get worse.
A disembodied AI with a really good model might be able to do good theoretical science, but it would still need a way of acting in the physical world to do experimental science.
Working in that industry, my eyes roll whenever I see someone talk about "baseline" power.

You are right in that there is no such thing as "baseline" generation really. And thermal plants also need to be over-provisioned.

There is dispatchable and non dispatchable power, the former being plants that can alter output on demand.

Base-load is the point which the 24 hour cycle of demand doesn't go below. It's pretty much just a number.

Who occupies the base of the generation stack and will stay running during low demand, is the one who is cheapest. If wind is cheaper than nuclear, it will displace nuclear. The people who say "IMO we need nuclear for baseline and renewable for peaking" completely miss these facts.

The way it is going is renewable at the base of the stack and dispatchable power filling in the gaps, be that during peak or periods of low renewable output.
This is similar to what I’ve seen. Most toxic boss relationships are where the boss has only one person to dump on, or the other extreme of too many folks to stay on top of.
A shame the resolution is so low. Zooming in, the numbers are illegible.

I found a higher-resolution version[1] on a Deadspin article[2].

[1] https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/19e2qerif7...

[2] https://deadspin.com/the-beautiful-infographics-of-ted-willi...
You can also send the sound via the laser directly to a MEMS microphone, if it's exposed: https://www.wired.com/story/lasers-hack-amazon-echo-google-h...
This is incredibly cool. Do you mind sharing how big the models are, and what kind of instances you're deploying them on?

I ask because I help maintain an open source ML infra project ( https://github.com/cortexlabs/cortex ) and we've recently done a lot of work around autoscaling multi-model endpoints. Always curious to see how others are approaching this.
Thanks, we've tried to re-think DevOps from a Slack first point of view and this was a major consideration so I'm glad to see you recognize it but we've still got a long way to go and we're very open to feedback too!
Do you really think a telescope can pick up the reflected vibrations from a lightbulb, using a telescope 25m away?
Do they still? I thought they drastically cut the amount of stuff publicly released after they shut down macosforge.
.. And does it hold true for ram disks?
DJI Drone App Riddled with Privacy Issues, Researchers Allege
And of course this is how e.g. the Premier League and other top soccer leagues are scored - so that the best team emerges over the long term rather than in a noisy single-elimination playoff system. Which makes underdog stories like the 2015-16 Leicter City season all the more unbelievable and magical [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%E2%80%9316_Leicester_City...
I picked up some bone conducting headphones. Not the best audio quality but I got them for bike riding. They also function perfectly on airplanes in conjunction with pressure equalizing ear plugs.
It seems like you're just choosing to ignore the parts of the article that specifically address the protective measures built in to the device in order to make sensationalist claims about US policy.
Funny I broke my arms a couple months ago and wish I had known this. I put two keyboard on my desk and was incredibly annoyed when I found out I could chord keystrokes together across keyboards.
As far as I know, that literally is the only way to validate an email address, universally speaking, beyond an internal whitespace check.

But I think if you take "local" out of the equation, as you would for customer emails, you can validate a bit more. You might be able to validate on a single @ being in there somewhere, with something before and after it, maybe look for a period after the @ for "addr@domain.tld" as I think every external address needs a dotted domain.

That's about as far as I think you can safely go. Anything else is legal.
Java Constraint Solver for Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP)
Harvard researchers create algorithm using quantum computers for NMR readings
I was going to mention the same. It would be a childhood dream come true to talk to my computer and have it talk back to me in the TNG computer voice.
Ebikers naturally start taking routes that optimize for safety and enjoyment over avoiding hills. It would be cool for Strava or Goog Maps to detect ebikers (easy to tell from speed vs road grade) and weight their routes more heavily in deciding the best route to recommend.
Thanks!

There are a lot of neat research threads ongoing in terms of generating vocals.

Nvidia published Mellotron (code + paper + models), and the results are promising:

https://github.com/NVIDIA/mellotron

https://nv-adlr.github.io/Mellotron

The best results I've seen are from researcher Ryuichi Yamamoto (r9y9 on Github). He continually publishes astonishing results and novel architectures:

https://github.com/r9y9

https://github.com/r9y9/nnsvs

https://soundcloud.com/r9y9/sets/dnn-based-singing-voice

These results lead me to believe he's going to have a replacement for Vocaloid soon.

There's lots more stuff out there, and I can come back and edit my post later.

Some folks are getting good results by simply combining Tacotron with autotune:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qR8I5zlMHs Mister Rogers sings Beautiful World (amazing, super charming, and shows the promise of this tech)

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1jrDgbRs9Q (Tupac, possibly NSFW lyrics)

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW16_W0K3qU (Tupac with various results, possibly NSFW)

There's a lot that gets posted to /r/VocalSynthesis and occasionally /r/MediaSynthesis
My dream is to add enough type parameters so in-memory collections can also work as (not horribly tuned!) on-disk datastructures.

It's a nice ambitious goal which can really drive language and library design.
I think to call it almost 100% peaceful is not meeting us in good faith.
That’s simply nowhere approaching the truth.
They do, slowly.
While the opium growers' perspective is an interesting one, the conclusion is misleading.

>The story of the revolution in Afghan heroin production shows us just how transformative solar power can be. Don't imagine this is some kind of benign "green" technology. Solar is getting so cheap that it is capable of changing the way we do things in fundamental ways and with consequences that can affect the entire world.

It's not exactly solar that is transformative here, but the access to any electricity at all. It's not like they can use a normal power grid for heroin production, even if they had one there.

Photovoltaic panels are more convenient for providing very small scale off-grid power than most other tech like thermal solar or diesel generators, thanks to being heavily subsidized by other people - that would be the more accurate conclusion.
> This is something I've struggled with in the past too, my job is basically to put people out of a job by replacing them with software, and those people might then suffer because of it.

I spent five years working for a small company that was a scrappy startup, especially in how they thought about technology--everything was duct taped together and barely worked--but was cheap!

At a high level, my job was to replace people with software. What I am proud of is that we didn't let anyone go, we just found something more valuable for them to do. When I started they had 4-5 people who's job was to spend 40 hours copy and pasting tracking numbers from one system to another. This was automated and they were able to move to roles that actually helped customers.

I think my (apologies for taking a while to get there) point is that you can look at digitization and automation as a cost cutting exercise to improve the bottom line or instead view it as a way to invest in and improve the customer experience. Information Technology as margin-defense is a short-term benefit, while IT as a value-driver is a long-term one.

"offensive operations, often times, is the surest, if not the only (in some cases) means of defence" --George Washington
"If a Structural/Civil Engineer builds a bridge and it goes down, he/she will go to jail"

How true is this?
I've never heard of such a thing happening. Of course catastrophic accidents of that sort are thankfully very rare (maybe because of the accountability)...

Does it apply in cases of negligence or clear-cut corner-cutting, with proven intent? Or just in any case of structural failure? In which countries?

I'm not calling you a liar, for the record, it just gets bandied about a lot, and I would like some context.
> All these contracts are "unchallenged in court", by definition, because they are entirely custom.

They do, however, very often use existing language, and custom language is minimized.

> Another type of custom and complex contract is employment.

Where contracts are often almost entirely standard per-company, and often standard between companies. And very rarely is the company in danger from the non-boilerplate clauses.

If you want an example of such a clause, consider Google's own IP clause in its contracts, which contend that Google owns basically all of your IP while you work at Google, unless you take steps to declare ownership of it in advance (and Google approves).

Will this clause entirely hold up in court? Probably not. Do you want to be the one to test it with your multi-billion dollar startup on the line?

The risk of using AGPL software is significantly higher than not, and the benefits are relatively small.
Yes. In the Netherlands, drivers pay closer to the true cost of driving. That's a good thing. It should be higher though, to help offset the externalities that drivers cost society.
The pension pre-payment period ended in 2016. It's been 4 years since that was relevant.
What you've written sounds like a criticism of the JVM data analytics ecosystem (the Java Parquet library in particular) and not Apache Arrow itself. Parquet for Java is an independent open source project and developer community. For example, you said

> It's barely useable and the dependencies are horrific - the whole thing is mingled with hadoop dependencies - even the API itself.

These are comments about http://github.com/apache/parquet-mr which is a different open source project.

For C++ / Python / R many of the developers for both Apache Arrow and Apache Parquet are the same and we currently develop the Parquet codebase out of the Arrow source tree.

So, I'm not sure what to tell you, we Arrow developers cannot take it upon ourselves to fix up the whole JVM data ecosystem.
It's available for terminals, but it's a work in progress for editors.
I think OP was making the case that at age 35, non-tech workers don't have ten years experience; rather, they are just starting their professional careers due to school.
I wish Excel / Google Sheets supported Parquet export. I've worked with CSV files and Parquet files and found the latter a vast improvement. Chunking data is trivial, you have fixed-size data types, and existing types are well-supported across a multitude of frameworks.

In comparison, CSVs are pretty much unstructured text files with added suggestions.

More pipelines should natively support Parquet files, or something like it, and have a thin CSV to Parquet conversion layer on top.

P.S. I'd love to create a Parquet file visualization tool (something like https://github.com/in3rsha/sha256-animation) in the near future.
Drone Inspired by Fastest Bird Is a Mix of a Paraglider, Airplane and Helicopter
Maybe a root factor in societal structures too. 2 people is an unstable system, a third party helps.
And why should some skepticism of an article relating to the purported tools of spycraft be downvoted? Its ok to expect more than a simple schematic, surely?
Transit should always be in it own lane (as it is in most of the Netherlands) so there's no downside to this.
> Is that really a safe assumption?

Not at all. The government can throw billions of dollars at a problem that, if solved, will never turn a profit or immediately benefit a business.
Confessions of a Functional Internet Addict
That’s literally made up.
Countless studies are there for the googling.
Yes you are right. There are a few really good frameworks like Gatsby and NEXT for building static websites since last few years. JS/NodeJS/TS development cost is also quite moderate and good.

JS ecosystem still lacks good reliable vendors and that holds some companies away from it. Surprisingly it's holding up really well even though must of the packages are maintained by individual contributors.
StarGAN v2: Diverse Image Synthesis for Multiple Domains [video]
The demonstration of this technique is stunning.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01865
Code: https://github.com/clovaai/stargan-v2
It’s like pulling teeth through the anus. Theoretically possible, but very, very difficult.
Show HN: Acquisition Blog Post Generator
Once I gave up on Scroll Revserser, I found Mos[1] as another option for this need. It just got a new v3 release and allows for toggleable smooth scrolling, as well as very granular scrolling options on top of the scroll reversing. I'm a big fan.

[1]https://mos.caldis.me/
Right. That's really the issue -- it's not that the risk isn't there, it's that the risk is always there, so it's an isolated demand for rigor.

For example, here's the Windows 10 license:

> c. Restrictions. The device manufacturer or installer and Microsoft reserve all rights (such as rights under intellectual property laws) not expressly granted in this agreement. For example, this license does not give you any right to, and you may not:

...

> (v) use the software as server software, for commercial hosting, make the software available for simultaneous use by multiple users over a network, install the software on a server and allow users to access it remotely, or install the software on a device for use only by remote users;

With people staying home because of COVID-19, a lot of companies with Windows desktops (with all their line of business software on them) have been having their employees access them from home, exclusively remotely with no local users. Are they now in violation of the license? Do you want to have to find out in court?

It's an excuse which is present anywhere for any non-trivial terms and used as FUD in contexts where someone wants to scare others away from something.
Super safe. But I’m also the kind of guy who looks both ways crossing a one-way street and checks blind spots when walking.

Maybe it comes from years of boosted boards and motorcycles. Got very used to looking around.

And it’s always possible that my ears/brain are just weird. I find that noise bothers me more than most people. I can hear someone crinkling candy wrappers from across the office through my QC-35 with music on. And it will drive me bonkers.
Huh, I often find the opposite. If there's a nice bike path from A to B in an arc, Google often prefers a shorter path straight through a residential area. Which means multiple turns one has to memorize and also slow down for.
Everyone starts somewhere, and everyone has written far worse at some point.

Saying terribly unconstructive and disheartening things like that makes everyone, yourself included, feel bad. Do better.
Will childless employees receive raises or be rewarded in some other way?
Then you will be happy to know that they are working on exactly those problems right now (see the article part and look for summer of code).

> As you can see, work is advancing very well and we expect to publish new code later this summer, probably for digiKam 7.2.0 when all implementations will be tested and ready for production.
The article:

> Ask yourself: why is documentation of internal-facing decisions like what software licenses to use being published in a public place? The answer is straightforward: to influence the public.
See

http://arrow.apache.org/faq/index.html#what-about-arrow-file...

You can store them long-term if you want (and you'll still be able to read them 5 years from now) but we aren't optimizing the Arrow IPC format for the _needs_ of long-term storage.
same question here - why Feather and why is it named differently ?

Also is Parquet and Arrow the same ? df.to_parquet('df.parquet.gzip', compression='gzip') will not use arrow i presume ? i have to use a separate library to save to parquet using arrow. a bit confused.
I’m an admirer of Our Incredible Journey [1], which collects blog posts from startups announcing their acquisition by a massive tech company. The posts are sufficiently lacking in creativity and originality that it made for a fun project to try out some NLP basics.

I've also been challenging myself to write more than dry coding tutorials. The project and accompanying blog post [2] are part of that challenge, and I'm enjoying blogging a lot more because of it.

[1] https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
[2] https://www.ajnisbet.com/blog/this-startup-acquisition-annou...
I would love to move to New Zealand, but I don't want to renounce my US citizenship and I don't want to pay double income tax.
Interesting observation. I've never taken the time to try to retrain myself to use a mouse in natural mode. This is in part due to the fact that I am a Linux system administrator and I am often working on systems that aren't mine. I think it would be very confusing if the mouse on my Linux workstation worked one way and everyone else's worked differently.
How Much Do Echo Statements Slow Down a Bash Script?
Who says that one isn’t intended to do that?
Baseball is probably the most intellectual of the sports. There's a lot of strategy in it. The fielders are reading the signs the catcher gives the pitcher too so they have some idea of what to expect. The game is ultimately about pitching more than anything else as opposed to softball, which is a superficially similar game but the game is much more about batting and fielding.
"Which of the other highest priority projects should I deprioritize to work on this"

or

"If you had to rank these 5 highest priority projects from 1-5, what would that list look like"?

Managers like this need to have it shown to them in black in white that you are at capacity. Once you push back, I suspect you will have better luck.
I wonder about which primary branch naming convention they’ll arrive at. “primary” is my personal favorite ;)
Analogue Pocket taking Pre-orders August 3rd
How about gas powered lawnmowers? Far more prevalent, awful for both sound and emissions.
Amazon Scout robot will roll through neighborhood to deliver packages
That behavior still makes sense if one factors in that Amazon is a customer with the option to ship via another carrier if they find the USPS can't meet (Amazon's) delivery targets.

USPS is, unfortunately, operated like a private company, and their bottom line gets hit harder if Amazon switches most of its business to FedEx than if other, much smaller firms decide 1st class isn't a reliable enough guarantee and stop paying for it.
It's like buying a car. Sure once in a while you're stuck dealing with the dealership waiting on a part (and criticism is warranted) but that's hardly a reason all on its own to stick to walking everywhere.
Well first of all, as a public company Slack is held to extremely well regulated security protocols to ensure this never happens, so we get the benefit of that out of the box.

Additionally, we require the user to associate their Slack user to their CTO.ai account using a secure authentication layer that has dependencies outside of Slack.

Theoretically, if a Slack employee were to try to execute a workflow, we would be able to see that they don't have this privilege and flag / reject that request because they wouldn't have the CTO.ai associated membership.

At this point, it's just as secure as any web application or even CLI, which have better understood virtual and physical attack vectors. We take it a step further by ensuring that tokens MUST be vaulted, avoiding the chance that you leak them through a lost laptop or public commit.

We're also looking at 2fa for some of our enterprise use cases and have been working on a deeper integration with Slack enterprise grid which makes this even more secure.

Are there additional approaches you'd recommend we take here?
So your legal interpretation as a lawyer (I assume) is an ad hominem on Google for unrelated reasons?
But that sensory information includes very few written words. GPT(n) isn't being trained on "worldly audio data", or "worldly tactile data", or in fact any sensory data at all.

So the two training sets are completely orthogonal, and the well educated renaissance man is somehow able to take a very small exposure to written words and do at least as well as GPT(n) in processing them and responding.
Thanks, dang! :)
This type of discourse, completely biased with no good faith, makes me wish I had a downvote. Instead, you get an upvote!
#plottwist
Verizon Math
This is the only recent thread I found that has any comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21272013

The device looks interesting, basically FPGA Game Boy with some adapters for other 16 bit consoles, but with generally modern hardware.
Never confuse Sales with Implementation. :P
They also can't set their own postage rates. They're operating in the free market with both hands tied behind their backs.
I saw somebody on Twitter call theirs "canon", which I've really taken a liking to. It fits nicely in regular speech too :D
Aging Companies
Doesn't your mail in ballot just need to be postmarked by election day to count? Its not the day its received, its the day its sent that counts.
Listen to this recording. These people are outrageous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MShv_74FNWU&feature=youtu.be
Both license violations can involve a fee. The point is that on a going-forward basis it is sufficient to appropriately disclose use of MIT licensed software. On a going-forward basis, an AGPL violation will require either a release of the entire source tree or a replacement of the AGPL software with an alternative