skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I very much hope that, by the time someone can do this at home, the home in question is no closer than geostationary orbit.

Unlike a black hole falling in from deep space, one made on the surface of the Earth will definitely remain inside the planet, making one pass through the core every 42 minutes.
This is a small and positive win it seems, why do many disgruntled ?

People get very passionate about our food source being the cause for climate change but really, what about the real ultimate more severe causes?

Fracking, mining, burning coal and oil ? Nuclear and renewables makes these things obsolete, but we still need food.

Edit: Want to add I’m fully onboard with the east less meat crowd and minimising deforestation, but I can’t help feel we should focus on the bigger, more high value targets first? Worrying about food production feels more like a distraction ?
A somewhat more detailed description of the efficacy of dogs, in testing for Coronavirus if you're interested:
https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s128...

Some way off 'Near 100%', but also appears to be high enough to make this one of the better methods of testing currently known.

Which is amazing in itself.
Incredible, actually, because the more common swab tests are said to have closer to 70% accuracy.
It is definitely possible to sync with CouchDB. I've just found that the uncertainty around how to do authz/authn (CouchDB recommends, now, that you do this in your own proxy layer) and the difficulties to make sure the entire process works, makes debugging tricky. I've tried with a variety of NodeJS+CouchDB and PouchDB-server and nothing gives me a solution which I don't have to babysit quite a bit.
Most users won't watch the video, if they need to wait for too long before it begins.
this is awesome, but things like it have been reported before (much like "x kills cancer cells"... it's hard to take at face value).

is there an easy to understand way in which this report is different?

i really want to see real-world adoption/success on main street! Press releases (or even the articles they tout) are just so much fluff, and become meaningless.
Not a direct answer to your question, but there are two ways that I usually learn about new Postgres features.

1. Through blog posts like this

2. Needing something in the moment and googling.

To elaborate on #2, I learned about partial indices when I was at a situation at work when I needed to optimize indices for a heavily used table. Google eventually brought me to their excellent docs and SO posts that mentioned them.
Consul Service Mesh Across a Private Raspberry Pi and a Public Cloud
Would be nice to fit "NUMBER X WILL SURPRISE YOU" in there as a way to break out of the loop (`if (i == x) { break; }`), but I think that would require tracking the loop variable as context, which kinda sucks.
What about monetizing the recommendations themselves like some other commenters suggest. Would you pay for high quality recommendations?
Boring Old Menu Bar for macOS Big Sur
This guide does a good job of discussing Secure Boot, but what I've always been curious about is the feasibility of enrolling my LUKS key in the TPM in order to roll my own Bitlocker. I've seen a few guides on this but I'm hesitant to mess around with my encryption key on my everyday systems. Has anyone successfully done this along with Secure Boot and if so can they point me to the guide they used?
> I almost wonder if right wing organisations are behind them sometimes

There's extensive discussion of "provocateurs". Very little is ever proved, although at one point there was an attempt to build a crowdsourced facial recognition database of police to spot undercover agents.
> Why don't we just make a platform that crawls the internet for videos and build a recommendation algorithm.

You are just doing YouTube without the advantage of having to use YouTube's infrastructure. You'll still have a central authority deciding what to recommend and whatnot. The main issue with YouTube is not the fact that they host the content, it's that they also decide what gets shown and to whom.
This is akin to Germany going 100% green power with zero carbon emissions while China is building a new coal power station every other week.

It's good, but in terms of global impact it means very little
This sounds awfully lot like metacafe.com , or mamma.com from even before - the so-called metasearch engines. You perhaps should try and see if you can monetize it.
> they've been deforested because people are starving, and they need to put food on the table, and be lifted out of poverty.
And countries, such as Brazil, are only now doing what the western countries have been doing all throughout the 19th and the 20th century. I know this sounds terrible, but you have no right to demand that Brazil stops the deforestation, and in fact you have no sway either, because you are not buying the result of their agriculture anyway.

Brazil is a net exporter of food, so there goes that narrative. I am certain there are people starving in Brazil, but this is much more of a distribution problem than a "didn't cut down enough trees in the Amazon" problem.

> solar panels are super inefficient

No longer true, renewables are pretty cost competitive and nuclear is looking less and less good by comparison every day. I say that as a big believer in nuclear power.
Examining Execution Stability at IEX
That's the internet, it's just computers connected together and each computer belongs to someone. The more you have, the more traffic you have.
The only way I can see this working is if the internet or parts of the internet become a public asset, a national cloud (like roads etc) paid by income taxes. Your videos would be on this public storage, common services would work like AWS services etc.
It will be hard since this means additional taxes but at least the government will not be interested in competition (in theory).
Dropping Out of College: A Guide to Landing on Your Feet
You can generally see the worst the republican side has to offer directly from their own news media and the Presidential twitter account.
70% of Spotify's revenue goes to rights holders. That's not ripping off artists. Streaming royalties have been the largest segment of music rights holder revenue for several years.

The record labels negotiated these deals and had all of the power. Also, all music streaming services have effectively the same deals. Spotify does not have preferential treatment.

Artists can distribute their music without Spotify. Spotify cannot distribute its app to iOS users without Apple.
"Crimes don't matter"
"Democracy doesn't matter"
"Nothing matters"
"You should just accept it"

Does that sum it up pretty well? You seem to have a pretty vested interest in this being ignored if judged by the volume of similar comments you've left in this thread.
Depends on your work contract and under what license the project is published.
I work at a bank, and we get training on this regularly.

One of the main reasons FinCEN requires strict confidentiality on SARs is to not tip off the account owners that they're being watched/investigated.

Investigators will often monitor the accounts to gather enough evidence to prosecute them or to gain intel into broader criminal networks. Regulators also rightfully don't want money launderers to know the playbook and tactics they use to track down these networks.

The secrecy also protects bank employees. If you're a compliance department worker that's reporting on potential criminal activities of terrorists or a criminal network to the authorities, and you think there's a risk you'll be outed, you might be less willing to submit the SAR.
With that logic the whole point of interview is invalid. Because you can take anyone and teach them what to do :) Imho the idea of simple question is to check basic understanding of data structures. It is not about checking if someone can apply to some problem red-black tree... Queue and Stack are basic things every programmer imho will know no matter what time of the day or night it is.
Many good things in history happened because bad people had interest of them happening. At hominem attacks does not invalidate a claim.

P.S. I'm not downvoting but still trying to bring everyone down is a low-quality argument.
> wondered if there was a way to strip all unused/unlikely paths out of a network to reduce size and increase performance.

Sure there is, it is called "pruning". You can easily find works on this with your favorite search engine. "Distillation" is another interesting technique to make models smaller.

These techniques are applied after training, to reduce the size of a big network. I don't know any method that can be applied _before_ training, just by inspecting the network.
It might help if anyone paid attention to what a SAR IS:

https://www.occ.treas.gov/topics/supervision-and-examination...

Keep records of cash purchases of negotiable instruments,
File reports of cash transactions exceeding $10,000 (daily aggregate amount), and
Report suspicious activity that might signal criminal activity (e.g., money laundering, tax evasion)

If you do more than $10,000 in cash business/transactions, the bank will (must) file a report -- if you're deposit $8000 one day and $4000 the next day, the bank might be forced to consider it a single transaction for $12,000 -- and file a SAR.

There's fantastic reasons to keep this confidential -- Given that requirements to file are so broad, almost all of these are going to be normal business activity.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-assange/assange-l...
Since we're pitching ideas, I'll pitch comments be any line that starts with "OFF THE RECORD..."
I've had that happen too many times. I've had basically good luck with Capital One provided I tell them in advance which country I'll be in. I think at this point they let me set that online.
> The leak focuses on more than 2,000 suspicious activity reports (SARs) filed with the US government’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).

I think it's important to get the right mindset on what these are before we cry foul.

All banks will report 'large' transactions to their country's Financial Intelligence bureau. In the US, that's FINCEN. In Canada, that's FINTRAC, where I interned way back in 2006. Here, that means for all transactions over $10,000 CAD (or if the sum of transactions from an account within 24 hours exceeds $10,000), a report is filed, and FINTRAC keeps the report for 5 years while they look for signs of money laundering or terrorist financing. They data mine this to find patterns that indicate criminal activity. In 2006, while I was an intern, the Montreal mafia was brought down this way.

Suspicious Activity Reports, SARs are just what they sound like- the banker says 'something smells funny about this'. They want to let someone know about it. For example, let's say there's a particular person who moves $9,999 every day from his account to another one. That's under the $10,000 reporting limit but the bank can say "That's a bit weird, let's report it with an SAR". They can provide more details of why they're concerned.

The banks aren't the police. They don't know a crime has taken place. That person moving $9,999 every day could be doing something not criminal at all. And it's not the banks place to stop them- because that is just ripe for abuse. "Hey, I think all people of <race> are suspicious, so anytime they move $1000 or more, I file an SAR and close their accounts". Or "Hey, that guy is part of <political organization which I don't agree with>, so I flag all his transactions with SARs".

In this case, there are SARs leaked related to some large transactions involving suspicious circumstances. That doesn't mean there's a crime! But it does mean that someone raised an eyebrow and flagged something so that it could be followed up on by the right government authorities.

It's up to the US FINCEN to decide if a crime took place and to handle it accordingly. You decide if you trust them or not, but that is their role in this.

(Do I think Paul Manafort is innocent? That is a whole different question.)
Damn that link made me happy. Was wondering if anyone has done to hearing aids what they did for glasses.

We just brought my father progressive glasses for 100usd (would be 400+usd here at a 'normal' store). Now he needs a hearing aid and we're dreading the multi-hundred payment on top of what is covered with insurance for a basic device.

So.. What's the catch with these cheap hearing aids? Why would we not buy these?
The header and footer remind me of the limitless budgets government agencies have. Nobody in the private sector would put that much color on a print-ready security document for wide distribution.
Democratic regression began beneath the surface long before it became obvious through overt anti-democratic movements.

Democratic regression started when the majority of people in countries like the USA started to feel as if they had no viable choice that actually represented their own interests or ideas. This is why most people don't vote. They see it as a choice between "the puppet on the left" and "the puppet on the right."

I mean take 2012. Obama had clearly demonstrated himself to be Bush's third term, at least when it comes to quite a few issues such as banking reform and remaining entangled in Iraq. For all his "change" rhetoric Obama didn't change much. His opposition was Mitt Romney, a literal member of the financial elite who signaled nothing beyond an intention to represent that elite.

Nobody signaled an intent to represent the actual interests of the middle or working class in the US. Nobody talked about pushing back on unfair trade policies or taking any other steps to return good jobs (a.k.a. not service jobs) to the US. Nobody even really acknowledged that there was a problem.

Then in 2016 you had Hillary Clinton who clearly would continue Obama's policies and seemed to be working on trade pacts to further accelerate outsourcing to China, and you had a wildcard self-styled populist upstart. I can't stand Trump, consider him dangerous, and did not vote for him, but I can totally understand people who did. He was the first candidate in at least a generation to even acknowledge the economic collapse of the American center.

The Democratic Party and the left continue to think Trump's victory was about race, and I still think they are wrong. Yes there are racists and yes they like Trump, but those people were never going to vote for Hillary Clinton anyway. Maybe a few of them voted when they otherwise would have stayed home, but I don't buy the idea that some tide of closet neo-Nazis and 4chan incels swept him into office. Do they ever ask people in these polls if they actually voted or intend to vote?

Trump won because historically blue "rust belt" states tipped, and that was because of his economic rhetoric... which was ironically liberal in some ways. He ran as a social conservative but as an economic liberal, and that overlaps quite well with working class America. He may be lying and just saying what he needs to say to get elected, but that's what he said and that's what people voted for.

Another major ingredient was the collapse of trust. The Bush administration lied us into a war, and then in 2008 we bailed out the banking interests that created the crisis while leaving the actual economy to rot. Those two events did more to undermine American democracy than a thousand Russian troll farms could ever achieve. People no longer believe in our system.

We've been a very dysfunctional democracy for decades. What we are seeing is the final collapse of the facade revealing the rotten structure underneath.
As much as I vastly prefer PostgreSQL, I will tell you that MySQL is much more preferred in enterprise settings, probably 8 to 1 in the environments I've seen.
All three allow games, music, and dating to happen outside of their platforms. The Apple equivalent would be Microsoft not allowing any program being installed from outside their store or Tinder closing down all bars in a city to lower competition.
They can. It won't change how things should be.
It's a monopoly, and it's illegal.
> The waste ... might possible to be dealt with.

So after 40 years it "might be possible" to deal with. When exactly? I mean, give me an exact date when that will be solved before the next plant is built.

Besides the waste, there's dismantling costs which somehow are never accounted for either, aside from the operator bankrupting a shell company.

Add externalizing the costs of evacuation and cleanup. Fukushima will end up costing a trillion dollars, involves the military, and polluted both the ground, groundwater and ocean.

https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and...

Uranium is poison, and nuclear reactors concentrate tons of it. Nature doesn't follow any rules that mankind can mandate.

Nuclear ... what a bargain!
Spotify?

"The Coalition for", um, "App Fairness"?

Yeah. I guess maybe sometimes you have to make a deal with the devil. But as a musician, I can't bring myself to do this one.
Exactly this. You don't have to be 180 IQ to solve it. There is no trick in this question. Much better than asking for FizzBuzz implementation.
Correct yes, I thought that was fairly obvious.

Generally if A or B are true, then C and D don't matter but if A or B can't be proven then there is very little formality in this kind of hearing.
No, gravity is different to all other forces.
First it's not really a force, then it's attracting and distant. We don't even have a proper theory for it yet.
Believe me, I've used absolutely EVERY LANGUAGE THERE IS. Imagine 4th Gen, dbs, procedural, OOP, blah blah blah. What REALLY MATTERS in the _Real World_ is TABLOID!

But WAIT, THERE's MORE! Before you delete all the other code and languages, first throw your computers and tablets away. TABLOID doesn't need any of that! TABLOID is Turing-Super-Complete!
You may be looking for "Optimal Brain Damage": http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/publis/pdf/lecun-90b.pdf
Extraordinary claims need extraordinary proofs.
> When you put it before the voters as America's relevance to the international order versus their houses, jobs, and communities, they're gonna choose the latter.

It’s sad because they’re not getting those things through nationalism either. In fact they’ll lose international relevance and their homes, jobs, and communities because of the folks selling them nationalism.
The biggest story here for me is I look forward to grepping my name and seeing how many of my bank bonus chasing activities/etc have generated SARs. I guess everyone else will get to see that too. For more interesting/famous people than myself it’s a terrible breach of privacy. There could be lots of interesting stuff in this leak but like you, I very much doubt it will expose much corrupt activity.
I still think he should have turned himself in and cleared his name in court in Sweden (or accepted the penalty for his actions if he was found guilty). And after that, I don't think he should have fled bail in the UK.

However, I do not think he should be extradited to the US over helping someone who had already decided to leak to do so.

I admit I hadn't realised just how badly the USA wanted to make his life miserable, and the fact that he was clearly right about that has made some of his actions more understandable.
Figure 2b shows trends over decades, not a single year. The highest minimal ice extent recorded since 2007 is 10^6km lower than the lowest minimal extent before 1992. Further, these are all minimal annual measurements, so the fact that ice "waxes and wanes" is a red herring.
You bring some interesting points, but you are off the mark on what's the true challenge.

We [0] actually indexed "all" content on YouTube and dozens of other platforms. Not just metadata, but the videos.

We could easily run search engine like this. In fact, we have explored it in the past. We also came up with page rank-like algorithm that allows us to bootstrap the experience and eventually move to usage based sorting.

The true challenge is in customer acquisition. Google has such a strong hold on the browser market [1], that there is just no way to convince people to "go to pex" and search for videos. You can see it with DDG which after more a decade its penetration [2] is a fraction of Google's. Even Microsoft, that plunged billions of dollars into Bing is not able to acquire more than just few % of the market [3].

Finally, there are literally no investors to back this. After the fall of Blekko [4], nobody will touch this market. We spoke to dozens of investors. Most have a default position to "never compete with Google".

Up until this doesn't change, there is no way to bring it to the market.

[0] https://pex.com

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/1/21310591/apple-google-sear...

[2] https://duckduckgo.com/traffic

[3] https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blekko
Apple clearly has competitors that have a much larger share of the market.
All these "ask a lawyer" replies are pretty annoying.

Lawyers are expensive, this question obviously doesn't warrant the trouble of finding a lawyer and paying them hundreds of dollars to read op's contract with their employer or exegete the MIT license.

If the only value you can provide is to suggest talking to a lawyer, maybe don't reply :-P
I'll followup now that I'm out of bed and see that my comment seems controversial and counter to the thread.

2000+ reports from between 1999 to 2017 amounting to a total of $2tn. Of those reports they only name-check Manafort, a Russian oligarch, and HSBC. How many people are feeling outrage because of the perceived connection between the current administration and corruption when these reports also cover years from the previous 3 administrations? How many characters connected to powerful Democrats could be found among these 2000 reports?

What if someone at the IRS leaked their flagged accounts as "possible tax fraud" or if Google leaked suspicious traffic logs as "possible cyber terrorism"? How much information could the general public be expected to glean about actual bad actors based on similar reporting? How many people here actually understand what an SAR contains and why it is created? Can anyone cite me what % of SARs turn out to be indicators of actual crimes?

I don't doubt that many of the people in these reports are guilty of crimes, but corruption investigations also take a long time and the more recent reports may very well be relevant to ongoing investigations and having them made public could spook suspects before authorities have gathered enough evidence to bring a charge.

That is all, carry on.
As I point out in my other comment, that comment doesn't seem especially well reasoned or sourced, but I for one wouldn't have downvoted if not for the language. I could have agreed 100% with what they were saying and I would still have downvoted, because there's no reason to let disparaging and ableist language stay visible, regardless of the point being made. Make your own version if you feel strongly about it.

In any case, I don't think anyone is saying other video platforms wouldn't have copyright claims, they're saying that in a more competitive space, the mechanisms for handling those claims would be better. E.g., they might actually tell the creator in the linked video what the violation actually is.
Apple does not have a monopoly on phones. Not even smartphones.
Here is one example,

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/63818

Alternative ideas, here are four, combining the productivity of automatic memory management with ownership,

https://swift.org/blog/swift-5-exclusivity/

https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/OwnershipMan...

https://dlang.org/blog/2019/07/15/ownership-and-borrowing-in...

"Linear Haskell", https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.09756

In the context of Rust, maybe showing lifetimes graphically in an IDE would help productivity versus languages that offer automatic memory management alongside ownership.
My insurance covers hearing aids, but it definitely varies.