skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meh, as long as I have internet connectivity I don't need texts. Iliad includes 2gb free in roaming mode, as gp correctly pointed out (I forgot about that, but it was very handy when I was in Leipzig during last CCC).
Wow. Another reason I will never set my foot on US jurisdiction. It's just too dangerous. The law doesn't exist at all.
I agree that developers should try to make accessible software! I don't have those needs myself, but I have to imagine it sucks when you want to use a piece of software but can't because the developers didn't put in the extra time/effort to make is usable for everyone.

That said, what happened to the last couple of generations? When did freedom stop meaning "free" and start meaning "fair" or "the right thing"? How did our culture get things so tangled up that our urge to "not potentially offend anyone" started eroding the very principals we think we are upholding? You must be young. /rant

Suggesting accessible software is a human right? You have to know how silly that looks compared to the list of other things that qualify as human rights.
To me, “fight” implies that the knives and guns are out. I’d characterize this as a disagreement. As far as has been reported, the parties haven’t even directly talked to each other.

As I’ve said elsewhere, I think Apple’s in the wrong here. It seems very likely that Prepear will win their trademark applications. I just don’t think what they’ve done is as dramatic as the headlines make out. If I called you a jerk, I’d be in the wrong. If someone reports that as you and I are in a life and death struggle, they would also be wrong.
Which plan/network do you have?
In addition, for most people, if you miss work for 3 days without an explanation, you'll be fired. If you miss work for 3 days and tell your boss it was because you were arrested, you'll also likely be fired. You'll now also have to answer "YES" on job applications where they ask you whether you've been arrested for anything (even if eventually charges were dropped or you were found not guilty). As an innocent person, the mere brush with law enforcement can have long-standing negative effects on your life.
They're basically the most effective, quick defence to put up (a somewhat long but informative British army video on the effects of small arms on various walls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j31Crn-y6tM)

They'll withstand most SVBIED (Suicide Vehicle Born Improvised Explosive Devices) attacks. And incase one Hesco barrier is not enough, several are usually used to create sufficient thickness.

So for a counter-insurgency war such as this in Mali, yes you couldn't get better
It's been so long since I couldn't use an Amex. Even small rural gas stations take it.
People seem to think this is some sort of betrayal, but anyone could have done it. The whole point of trackers is to allow anyone to get a list of peers who have the same torrent. If anything, this gives me a startup idea: archive.org, but for torrent swarms. Scrape public torrent sites, grab all their torrents, for each torrent connect to their associated tracker and grab their peer list periodically. You can even try connecting to them and grab a few bytes to confirm they're actually uploading. Now you have a list of IPs known to have committed copyright infringement. Sell this list to copyright trolls years/months later for $$$.
Well, even in the Sahara there's sand and sandstorms piling it on solar panels...

There's no place that's 100% immune from all dirt/leaves/etc.

Still shouldn't be much of a problem in practice...
From my (limited) understanding of Genesis, I assumed nudity was thought to be fine, at least in the beginning. It was only after eating the forbidden fruit did Adam and Eve clothe themselves, presumably out of some sort of shame or "decency."

I wouldn't be surprised if there are later passages condemning it, but I personally prefer the interpretation that it's not religion which makes nudity uncomfortable, but mankind and their flaws.
People have direct experience of the impact of computers in their everyday lives; working on documents, playing videogames, using smartphones, etc. What the general public doesn't usually see is the behind the scenes infrastructure (it's nothing short of astonishing that I can ask Youtube for a video posted 15 years ago and have it come up with no perceptible delay) as well as scientific and engineering megaprojects that use, to laypeople, unimaginable amounts of computing power to improve their lives (e.g. supercomputing in weather forecasting) or push back the boundaries of human knowledge (e.g. data processing at the LHC, SETI@Home, Folding@Home). Capturing the public's imagination with the wondrousness of these human achievements is one of the things I would think that a computer museum should want to do.
One big draw is that they get around to rare movie requests in weeks to months for members. Their website is the most popular daily feed people sit on for the trickle of any thing good so they must be doing something right. Though I had to make a violentmonkey script [1] to auto hide all the b-grade dumps of late.

[1] https://pastebin.com/raw/AmAP0fjD
You should read up more on adversarial machine learning. If you could solve things so simply you'd get a lot of papers really quick (and lots of money).
No. The paramedics gave it. The article is (I think intentionally) misleading.
If you are in the U.S, you can get sued for anything (See patent trolls). Doesn't mean they will successfully win, but can you afford to fight?
It's interesting that you single out Switzerland as a jurisdiction that the US can't touch.

It used to be that Switzerland had iron-tight bank secrecy regulations that the US (and the rest of the world) really couldn't breach. Yet over the years the US has managed to force massive changes on Switzerland's financial institutions, and for decades now there's been much more transparency, and Switzerland's banks are not nearly as secret nor as effective at hiding assets as they used to be.

Apart from getting other countries to change their financial regulations to be more in line with what the US wants, the US has also been very successful in doing the same in regards to issues like drug enforcement, human trafficking, child molestation, and many other issues.

So, depending on your threat model and what data you're trying to keep private, I wouldn't count on any jurisdiction ultimately being and remaining safe for your data.

Something else to consider is that once your data is out of your hands, it's easy for whoever has it to make a copy to archive and work on at their leisure. Even if they don't share, sell, compromise, or trade away that data today, that doesn't mean they won't do so at some time in the future when laws, technical capabilities, or incentives change.
My takeaway; they have to search for porn first because they can't be amassing a huge porn collection, so store your sensitive info in your porn folder!
Yup, you're right! We have very significant infrastructure to have stable and scalable scraping that ensures the best data quality. This is one of the things we spend the most time on.

Thanks! Yes, in order for shops to trust the A/B-test results we tend to use Google Optimize, which use Bayesian inference.
Cool idea. I've been working on an adjacent product (serendipityrecs.com), but mine is more targeted towards consumers as opposed to B2B. I think I gravitated towards B2C by default because as an engineer, I don't want to deal with sales, but your product makes sense. I'll be interested in following your progress over the next few years to see how your thesis plays out.

Couple questions

- How well do your recommendations hold up against Amazon's? Since you're scraping the metadata, you should be able to generate recs for Amazon items from their own catalogue. This might be an interesting product / demo for potential customers.

- Once you hook up your system to your customer's back end, how do you learn from the behavioral data you get from them? That's straightforward for cf/mf, but can be tricky to integrate into what you already have.
- You talk about Stripe pooling the data from their customers. I think the analogue for you would be pooling the behavioral data from your customers as opposed to the metadata. Have you thought about this?

- It sounds like you're doing nearest neighbors on the vector representation. You may already know this, but LSH is a fast way to do this when you have many items.

- Do you embed all items from your different customers into the same vector space? That would be ideal from the POV of creating a pooled dataset that would be helpful for all future customers, but sounds tricky given that everyone likely has their own idiosyncratic system.

Best of luck! Lmk if you'd like to talk shop sometime, I also have several years of experience with recommender systems (my email is in my profile).
there's also the Francs CFA, meaning that these countries non-shadow economy is - in effect - still managed by France...
Servos are mass produced but still expensive!

You're right, but also software is weird. The world is absolutely littered with good computers that other people have already paid for, just waiting to be put to use for your project to expand their capabilities. If every new web app required its own little pocket computer to run, that you had to convince your customers to buy and keep in their home, it would be much less profitable to develop web apps.

The world is not littered with idle, high-performance robots waiting around for your motion planning algorithm to kick them into action. That makes it a lot more expensive and a lot less profitable.
I'm not sure I understand what you expected. This reads to me like somebody came in with the job of identifying ways of being diverse that your company didn't have, they did their job, and then you thew them out for doing it. Maybe you didn't want them there in the first place - that's fair - but if so, that's something to take up with your accelerator, not with the consultant.

Was it just that they said you "weren't" diverse, rather than "you could be more" diverse?

If the whole message was just "hey, you should consider having more representation of women and LGBT people", I'm really struggling to understand what's offensive about that. It's a good idea to have representation of those groups. I don't think that means you need to go out and immediately hire a whole bunch of totally unqualified people to meet a diversity quota.

What was this person proposing as a solution - did you ask them?

And if you're comfortable with/confident in the diversity of your team, what did you have to lose by listening to him?
Source here for anyone that's interested: https://github.com/darajava/visualise-covid
Until widespread code-signing exists on the web this seems incredibly reckless to expose. Even if you require https and put it behind a modal, history has shown that both of those measures are not impenetrable barriers to attackers and raw sockets open up a whole new set of attacks.

HTTPS is basically useless for authenticating dangerous code: There are thousands of https domains out there that you can easily put your own code onto, and many of them have EV/DV certificates with reputable names like GitHub attached to them so there won't be any obvious red flags other than the text of the domain name. A prompt with a textbox in it is a barrier but it's not hard to get users to paste random stuff into text fields (just look at the big message that appears when you open devtools in Discord warning people not to paste stuff in there) and I agree with the concern that eventually the text box will be made friendlier.

Many existing Dangerous APIs have worst-case attacks that just do things like talk to a USB device from a small list of authorized devices or talk to a MIDI keyboard. Raw Sockets are an entire new world of attacks: Hit a router or PC on the local network with a zero day and get persistent root on it, then use that to spread through the network and perform a ransomware attack, etc. The blink team needs to accept reality and catch up with where native apps have been for over a decade: Require code signing with revocable certificates and pair that with a mechanism to ensure the code was signed by the owner of the domain.
> So the utility company has to have 100% control over he mains at all time for safety reasons

This is controlled independently by the solar inverters's software, not the utility via any sort of signal. That software is mandated by regulation as you say for the safety of line workers. Recent batteries allow for an "islanding" mode, which allows continued backup power delivery to the house during a grid outage but cuts off the grid connection.

> your meter must never run backwards

... during a grid outage. During normal operation it's fine for it to run backwards. That's what net metering quantifies.

> said battery can either feed into the grid, or be connected to separate outlets in your house, but never both at the same time.

I think this is a technical limitation, since it would require a current divider and 2 inverters, which is a level of complexity not worth it for the application.
Alt-right or the tea party would lose an election against a center-line party, big time.

Motivating people with ‘extreme’ opinions from one side of the spectrum to vote moves the center, so it can make both parties move in that direction.

Let’s (in a very simplistic model) say we have 100 voters on a 1 to 100 scale, so centered around 50.5.

If, normally, the extremes of 1 to 10 and 91 to 100 don’t vote, the center stays at 50.5. Convince the 1 to 10 people to vote, and the center moves to 45.5, so the two major parties move in that direction, too.

There’s an assumption here that most politicians are willing to, somewhat, go against their beliefs in order to get elected. I think that’s true, and unavoidable in a two-party system (which, in turn, is hard to avoid in a system with “winner takes all” elections), but if it weren’t, parties can easily replace candidates that object to a course change with others that either have different ideals or are willing to sacrifice some of that a bit in exchange for their career.
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Planes sometimes fall on people's roofs. Let's not optimize for edge cases here?
They can put a knee on your neck for seven minutes and 43 seconds until you are dead and be home watching TV The next day.
From personal experience, what has made me rarely go to second-hand bookshops (or bookshops of any kind) is they typically have a really bad selection. The amount of trash printed is insane, and not only do people tend to keep the gems, but they also tend to suck them out of second hand bookshops, so only really useless books are left.
It's a serious offence to present a fake identity to US Border Patrol.
Meme Ever
https://youtu.be/P0hQmKoA0oY
I don't think many people spend much time on performance anymore in creation stages. Optimizing performance nowadays is purely reactive, I find.
Usage of the Heap Data Structure in Go (Golang), with Examples
This was my first thought, but PV panels that capture 25% (I'm guessing) the energy of standard panels are only viable if the cost of land is the limiting factor.

The other complicating factor is that large-scale farming requires a decent amount of horizontal and vertical clearance, so the structure for the panels would be substantial, especially if you want to track the sun.
What area is that? Can you link to some stats.
We do have to keep context in mind. If you ask a question in general about data collection, will you get different answers than if you asked specifically about collecting data at the border?
If it's working code (assume it is) then requiring it to be turd-polished for the purposes of code review is absurd. Whoever is asking for that is either disingenuous or has no real experience as a software developer.
At the risk of stating the obvious, this is an exceptionally short-sighted approach. Committing poorly understood code is not that different from using binary blobs.
Yes our patrol base in Afghanistan was made partly of these and partly of the adobe mud walls of the compound we were in. This shape would've been really useful, as on more than one occasion people were able to sneak up by utilising the visibility dead-zones
I responded to the point you tried to make; let's not pretend otherwise.

I have a lot of problems with your analysis. Your original comment argued that conservative policies towards the poor are out of some concern for the future unintended consequences. I replied because we have mountains of evidence that is not the case. You then go on to straw man me with a false dichotomy that the Right's policies are either done out of some genuine altruism or that "they're monsters". We can acknowledge the reality of the situation without resorting to such ridiculous reductionism.

And finally, I'm not looking for a fight about my political convictions. I'm correcting one more instance or a narrative that has plagued modern political discussions for decades. Both sides are not the same. And it's either ignorant or disingenuous to claim otherwise.
Thanks for your answer, and no, I certainly couldn't afford to fight :)
lobbing explosive shells into that need's at least a mortar, which at least needs rudimentary setup, which means you are dead a short time after firing your shell.
In recordings, Trump's sister calls him 'cruel', 'liar'
> Every civilized nation behaves differently, at least towards citizens of allied nations.

You're definitely free to think that...

Five Eyes and the customer lists for companies like Cellebrite definitely tell a different story.

Americans seem to make more noise about it for sure, there are more people willing to loudly oppose these kinds of things

UK: https://www.theverge.com/2013/7/15/4524208/uk-border-police-...

Australia: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/25/sydney-airport...

Canada: http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/6/8162337/iphone-unlock-borde...

And there's others, Israel, German's BND literally handing over most of Europe's internet traffic to the NSA...

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The same reason you as a non-American had that flag on your wall, is why you hear so much about the US. I'm an immigrant to this country and have lived in plenty of other places

Over the years people's opinions of the US in other countries have gone from overly positive compared to reality, to overly negative compared to reality, mostly because of the amount of scrutiny the country gets (and how much the media here thrives on turmoil, no one is quicker to insult America than Americans)
> I have never in my life heard "there are too many PoC, you need more white people".

You've been fortunate to never experience that kind of direct racism - but people rarely say it directly like that. It's more in who is chosen to be hired, and what kinds of "culture" and "fit" criteria are applied to candidates.

> I can't stand the notion that a group consisting of white men is automatically not diverse.

Like the consultant in the parent's post pointed out, there are lots of different kinds of diversity, and race is one of them. It's not wrong to say "this group of all white men is not diverse in terms of racial or gender identity" - and it sounds like that's what was being said?

> Also for some reason the "importance" of diversity seems to only go one way.

It only goes one way because white men are already represented proportionately or disproportinately. If the goal is representation of different groups and people's voices, hiring more white men won't do it. Unless your company is majority-POC?
Really cool!

Maybe add a link to save it on archive.org to your ...-menu?
Like so: https://web.archive.org/save/https://songwhip.com/drexciya/y...
This would be a serious offence which would get you banned from the US for life, after serving a jail sentence.
Interns Enliven Nvidia's First-Ever Virtual Internship Program
As I understand it, sugar feeds the main bacterial catalyst for cavities (s. Mutans), but food stuck between the teeth provides them protection from the mechanical forces of brushing.
Statistically, more startup ventures fail than succeed.

> Instead of selling a fake MVP product it is probably more healthy to be upfront to customers and let them pay for your development time like a consultant

Careful, no one is advocating selling "fake" products. The key is to develop a minimal product that can be sold. It has to work, though. Fraud will sink a startup very quickly.

From there, you can contract with additional customers to expand the product to meet their needs. This is more difficult than it sounds, though, as you'll quickly be torn between working on what's best for the product as a whole, and what's best for an individual customer's unique needs.

I've seen many startups go down this path with best intentions, but ultimately become contracting shops with a single customer. That's fine if that's your goal, but it's painful when the contracts dry up and you don't have a product that appeals to the mass market.
Attentiveness and preparation increase safety dramatically. These guys are not driving full out in the middle of traffic.

What's more interesting is that the owner of the Audi previously had an S63 and while helping others on another run, his car was rear-ended by a semi-truck while parked on the shoulder. The driver of the truck was falling asleep due to truck driving regulations being lifted because of covid.

Safe to say that safety isn't that simple. Those trucking rule changes created more damage than the entire Cannonball history.
That wouldn't give you the email address used for login on the site.
4-6% is a very impressive number. If you're a small-mid sized business with 1-100mm ARR, getting 4-6% for no work (it sounds like these guys will do the heavy-lifting in terms of AB testing for you) is a no-brainer.
‘It’s Hard to See Your Memories Burn’: Loss from Wildfires Grows in California
It's unquestionably a lynching. But this is what this perverted culture tolerates. Rather than the public participating in the lynching directly, it has hired professional lynchers.
Dude,

I get the joke, but an Internet trained bit of code, like GPT-3, isn't what you want writing text files all over your drive.

You'd probably end up on 43 watch lists, and thrown in jail for having time travel child porn, featuring Katie Sagel and Trump in the 60s.
What happened to the paramedics in these cases? The overdoses described seem like serious malpractice.
A Review on Night Enhancement Eyedrops Using Chlorin E6 [pdf]
The neat thing about the DIY solution is that you can move around the camera so that it is placed over the eyes of the other person.
B2B sales is an area I'm going to need help with quite soon. Solo-bootstrapping a startup means that money can be tight though.

Do you think it would be possible to get part-time help using the approach you describe? Alternatively, do some sales professionals work on a commission-only basis?

Also, do you have any idea what typical commission is expected?
> if the government were to take over the Sahara Desert, there would be a shortage of sand in five year" -- Milton Friedman (exaggerating, somewhat)

I know that this is meant to be a humorous comment, however, desert sand is not really usable for most things that we want sand for, for example, it is not suitable for concrete, since it is too fine. (https://petroleumservicecompany.com/blog/could-desert-sand-b...)

This is why, desire being in a desert, Dubai imports its sand! (https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20160502-even-desert-ci...)
Violent crime has been on a decades-long decline.
They also had this obsession with low-bandwidth series elastic actuators, which make robots safer but slow and unproductive.

ABB's YuMi is perhaps a better example.
> Instead you should ask if your users [...] would be sufficiently put off to look for alternatives.

This is probably sound business advice, but it's also a bit sad to shift the goal from trying to create "great software" to "not horrible enough to make all potential users run away".
Human brain boiled in its skull lasted 4000 years