skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Economics isn't a science.

> I call it organized religion with equations, superstition. The only way to become free of superstition is through overcoming. But you need to study. I’ve always pissed off my academic colleagues and other economists who actually believe that is real science what they are doing.

> Our mathematical models of the weather can be judged by objective reality. If I am a meteorologist and come up with a prediction that tomorrow there is going to be a heatwave in Leicester square, all we have to do is to wait until tomorrow to see if I’m right or wrong. The weather will either confirm or junk my theories about it.

> Let’s say that I have the same kind of computer model and actual machine and data mining that the meteorologist does, but instead of using it to predict the weather I use it to predict the stock exchange. And suppose that I was somebody very highly respected as a predictor of stock exchange changes and let’s say that today, I were to predict that tomorrow is going to be a major crash in the stock exchange. There might be because I predicted it! In society and in the economy, our beliefs about the phenomenon under study are part of the phenomenon under study.

> ~ Yanis Varoufakis

Anyone who says otherwise is trying to convince you why the poor should exist.
Warner Bros. Streaming Strategy
It it was not a good signal, then a competing auto insurance company would advertise that it does not penalize speeding drivers and win more business.
Hahaha.. Thank you. James May is a legend. Even though he is friends with two petrol heads, he owns a Tesla and a Toyota Mirai. He has an open mind towards futuristic technologies. I like watching anything by James May. Seems like a good bloke. For some reason he doesn't like the French! :D
Why are scanners so damn expensive? You’d think there would be Chinese copycats out there for $50
There are some smart home devices that use DECT Ultra Low Energy to communicate with their base station. It's a pretty cool tech because DECT uses its own frequency band and doesn't interfere with bluetooth or wifi in the often highly congested 2.4 and 5 GHz bands. Even firmware updates are possible because the bandwidth is large enough to push some megabytes through.
I see no reason to think those people believe it's necessary to wear them in an empty street, they are just wearing them because it's easy to put on and the are heading somewhere it's crowded.

I wouldnt necessarily wear a mask in an empty street but it doesn't bother me in the slightest just like wearing shirts and pants don't. So many of them are likely just putting it on like all other articles of clothes when going out.

Maybe you feel they are uncomfortable things to wear if you don't have to, but for many people they simply aren't.
I use IDE mainly for code editing and exploration (e.g. jump from usage to definition), for which I can't see how shell is easier.

Modern IDEs have shell built-in so when I finish coding, I can just open up a terminal inside IDE to run shell scripts. Effectively I'm getting the best of both worlds.

I never knew that I have to follow some sort of rails laid by IDE designers, which I think it's a very common misconception by people who dislike IDEs.
> We pay very very well, all my peers from NVIDIA are above 700k.

That's... an impressive number.

> Why would you presume anything about salary?

Because that's usually the reason, especially when speaking of what universities teach. "We can't find people who know $TECH" is, under those circumstances, almost always corp-speak for "We can't find new grads who already know $TECH to fill our entry level positions for what we're willing to pay in order to replace the employees that learned it on the job and then leave when we don't give them raises after a couple of years."

Have you posted the positions you're trying to fill here on the monthly "Who is Hiring?" thread?

As an out of the box suggestion, consider sponsoring the creation of an online course (like a Udacity nanodegree, perhaps) that covers the curriculum material you consider missing. A comprehensive set of 'build your own programming language and tooling' courses would probably be quite popular.
I’m not sure why you think CTFs/security has an extra focus on the command line? Most of the security people I know spend their days staring into IDA…
Like all things challenge absolutes. I agree you shouldn't always build, otherwise you'd build your own office suite!

But do you know how many times engineers started to build something and made a discovery that resulted in inventing something significant. Or created something that gave their company a significant advantage. A not small number of times.
Depends. Are you on macOS?
A large portion of SDRs have no FCC equipment authorization at all, and so don't necessarily comply with regulations---including the lack of an AMPS lockout. This makes them a little bit iffy for sale in the US, but there is generally a rule that allows "test equipment" to be sold without equipment authorization under certain conditions on its use. I (not being an expert on this, I am not a lawyer, etc) would describe most hobby SDR use as being a gray area, but one that is probably not of too great concern since most hobby SDRs on the market are receive-only and obviously these weird part 15 rules about scanning receivers don't really matter in the modern age.

SDR transceivers like the HackRF are probably still not being purchased by people who will cause any trouble, but I do worry a little bit more about unintentional disruption of important radio applications like aviation navaids or whatever. If I were to take a policy angle here, I think it might be a good idea to restrict such devices to people with amateur radio licenses since they are not especially hard to obtain (DE AE5JL). I'm sure there's a thousand people here who would vehemently disagree with me on that though.
Yes, this is definitely what I was expecting too
Compared to the other tool this is just "slow code, but now with threads."

This problem is perfect to exploit capabilities of modern CPUs, and neither of the projects does so. At least this one iterates over the y coordinates in the outer loop.

Nothing about what either tool does is noteworthy.
Where in the US?
There aren't any "literal" defintions of words. I can look at a brick in a wall and think it "red" while you think it "purple." Words mean what people think they mean, and conflating personal "violence" with property "violence" erases the essential difference between the two.

I can tell you that this kind of "violence," when unaddressed, can easily escalate to the other kind of violence:

https://www.hindustantimes.com/delhi/ceo-beaten-to-death-by-...
Close--it's those lines matching some pattern within the last 10 lines. Think of it as localize, then filter. I've written it the other way, too, but this seems more natural to me. (Also, a direct h2e invocation would take the arguments from the command line; h2ei will ask every time.)

In practice, I will do something, realize that the thing I just did over the last several minutes could be useful--or the core of something more general--and then strike F12 to start h2ei. At the prompts, I'll generally give it a nice round number like 10 or 20 or 50 lines, leave the default pattern, and set the filename to be something evocative in ~/bin. An editor will immediately open on my new shell script, and I can trim it down and continue hacking on it from there.

The key idea is that I get an easier path from doing something ad hoc to creating something more useful in the long run.
The most prominent examples of modern anti-science in the US, such as in climate change, abortion, and epidemiology, do not find their roots in well-justified scepticism of particular scientists. Climate deniers don't care what science says, or how reliable peer-reviewed journals, and have no interest in the scientific method: they base their opposition in ideological grounds: "I don't believe climate change to be true, therefore anyone who does is a liar." They've made their decision because they have financial (or religious, or other) interests that make the truth uncomfortable for them. Why bother trying to understand the truth when you can just deny it?

You can't argue rationally with someone like that. They aren't skeptics, they're devout believers.
Well robots to carry camera/sensors are clearly a good answer to my question. I would say a rumba is a weak answer.
At least one person -- strategist Frank Luntz -- verified the contents of one of the emails in the archive. Also, what about the photos? The Bidens also never denied that the laptop evidence was real.
I find it ironic that this blog post is made by stackoverflow. A company whose sole purpose is questions and answers, but whose website doesn't even have a print stylesheet.

The semantic web was much more than bots. It meant transformability and adaptiveness of information. Braille displays are just as important as print, web, screen and other targets.

Sadly modern day web browsers have such less support for it that they even dropped the media device targets from the CSS spec, which I think is morally wrong.

Did you know that screenreaders, palm PDAs and others all had support for it...and that publishing to a new platform was as easy as linking a new stylesheet? None of that HTML5 crap was necessary. No modernizr, no JS, no pixelperfect designs necessary. It just worked. XHTML 1.1 strict ran everywhere. And by everywhere, I mean even the mobile audiobook players that used the DAISY format. Fully automatically transformed, and voiced over content.

Imagine a web where you could train your personal assistant without any machine learning, and where information is automatically connected, researched, gathered and related.

That kind of internet is the necessary step for our species to reach a superintelligence level.

Without it, humans will stay as dumb as the internet is right now. Full of misinformation, deceit, and financial players "shaping" public opinion and manipulating the truth.
Nope, no laws like that here. This was a Twitter decision.
What's the value proposition, or: Why would someone use this and not another graph database?
I wonder how many scammy ads have run on the Buzzfeed family of sites? There is a pretty good chance that the people writing this article are themselves paid for by scammy ads.

The fix for scammy ads is easy. Just make the advertising network liable for all ads shown. Since they are making money from them, they should also shoulder the risk.
The government is alleging that he helped & encouraged the leakers.
Is linear regression programming?

A hammer, nail, saw and timber can also be used to solve problems but I wouldn't call those programming in and of themselves, but they could be used to built analog computers (where cogs, cams etc. Are like lines of code or procedures).

Building a neutral network to get a result is not at all like programming. There is usually not a "perfect" structure, rather there are hardware, energy and time constraints to training and inference, balanced by over and under training the network.
>not to commit crimes you can’t afford to defend yourself against.

I'm more worried about the cost of defending myself from crimes I didn't commit than the cost of defending myself from crimes I did commit...
It's dangerous to blur the line between smashing windows and smashing skulls because if the line between them is blurred the escalation from one to the other becomes much more likely.
> Readers enjoy the form because it feels a bit like ski jumping-- the writer provides the momentum and the reader's imagination leaps off the end with all the story's implications flying past.

Great metaphor. The story zips you down at full-speed, and then launches you upwards into the air. If you're comfortable feeling ungrounded, you'll be able to look across the horizon, in awe of the sights you couldn't see before. But if you're a lazy or cowardly person, your overriding urge will to return to the earth, to get back down to the safety of the soft slopes. Heck, later on, you might even petition the proprietor of the ski-resort to get rid of the ramp.
I solved this problem for my use case by using an approximate diff.

Basically diffing took too long ( I was diffing to remove duplicate frames from a virtualized browser to browser screencast ), so after trying to various options (hashing, diffs, etc) I just went with a simple check of a basically random but fixed set of pixels, which worked really well. I don't have data on the actual false positives/ negatives but for the thing important in my case, perceptual difference and not sending the same frame twice (to save bandwidth and speed) it worked great, and was "constant time".

The "code" is here: https://github.com/c9fe/ViewFinder/blob/84620bd87abb32b2f2c3...

And a demo of the project is: https://demo.browsergap.dosyago.com (if you check it on Safari mobile you need to plant your clicks about half a finger under where you think they should go, some bug!)

I'd like to know some idea of how this posted fast diff works. I checked around the repo and couldn't figure it out, but it seems to be splitting across multiple cores, but still looping over each pixel (but divided by the number of cores). I thought it might be doing something like checking 64-bit blocks somehow, but seems not.
The people on the other side argue passionately that yours is the fatter slice.
If you work with mechanical or electrical engineers, then you're going to run into Windows machines pretty quick, and then you need to convince them to install minGW to run your shell scripts. Sure, shell scripts are portable between Mac and *nix, but you're leaving out a large elephant.
Very impressive. I just made a function 'cheat' that takes a command name as input and curls this website. Thanks.
So if someone is arrested for spray painting graffiti on a building you'd call them a "violent criminal"?
IMO if a person isn't satisfied with a business they take their money elsewhere. The market will decide if the business is right or wrong.
Super cool. Very happy you got some great heads on it. I think time-based ads with an estimate for how many queries went through and saw it, and then an after-ad-session count of how many people likely saw it based on whatever stat tracking you do will be great.
Ah, but if it is core to your business flywheel that is precisely where you should be spending the most time.
Roughly in this genre, the 9/11/2001 pager text data ( https://911.wikileaks.org/files/index.html ) are an interesting peek inside people's putatively private conversations.
It's because people in the US don't do shit like this that they slave away for $7.25 an hour begging for a half day off. It would not take too many CEO cerebellums on pavements for corporate behaviors to change considerably.
I did that lab and I recall the professor saying “this will be the hardest code some of you have ever written.” I supposed thats true if its an intro course at CMU? Debugging was certainly mind numbing reading pages of hex to figure out where the bug is. I don’t think I ever did get realloc to pass all tests.
What happens to rows that fail the constraint check after load?
PHP 5.6 VS PHP 7. What’s new in PHP 7 and what to consider when updating
This is a false dichotomy. It can be noisy and weak without being a competitive disadvantage for the insurance business.
You didn't answer my question, which I assume means you had no reason to say "pg made an /apply2 endpoint specifically for them".

The rest here is also false. The round was not closed. Application deadlines have never been enforced at YC. By accepting their late application he was treating them the same as anybody else.

Even the point about the intro email is overstated; I did that too upthread, but now that I think of it, it's obvious that pg would have replied the same way to any email he got at that moment: tell them to apply fast, be concise, etc. No good startup investor would say "sorry, you missed the deadline" because they all know that missing outliers for dumb reasons is the biggest mistake they can make, the one that matters more than all the others put together.

So really what this all boils down to is that Justin had pg's email address, and I don't think that's what the people arguing "special treatment" in this thread were talking about.
I wish I had reasonable evidence to point to, but I'm not really an insider. Mainly, I think of the numerous applications Google invested lots of engineer time into to create an experience, say Hangouts, only to realize that it hampered sales in another corner of Google, say cell plans, and so one project must be discarded for profits in the other. The functionality is often difficult to replace for the end-user, and weakens the overall allure of the Google network/ecosystem of applications in favor of a bottom-line.
The UCLA press release on the report: https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-anderson-forecast-be...

Seeking alpha disagrees: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4393503-roaring-20s-fundame...
That's very cool. When I was a kid, a nearby department store (Fred Meyers on 39th and Hawthorne) used a large-scale DECT system for employee-to-employee and paging. Each staff member carried what was essentially a ruggedized cordless phone with an earpiece and they heavily used DECT's "intercom" handset-to-handset feature to talk to each other, and it was all on a PBX with their outside phone lines. I believe it was a Panasonic system. Panasonic seems to still offer such a setup that uses IP for coordination between the multiple DECT "cells," but I'm not sure what was in use at the time. I remember it giving me an overwhelming feeling that my home's DECT cordless phone was a disappointment to the technology's capabilities.

For that matter I once had a job where I had a WiFi IP phone that I carried around, but I think cellphones have gotten cheap enough for corporate users that the wind is out of those sails. I keep thinking about buying one of those on eBay...
> If anything, problems are more likely to derive from the lipid bubbles used (at least by Moderna) to package and transport the mRNA.

Noob here, could you expand on that?
>GE was burning the furniture to heat the house

This is what happens when highly credentialed operators are brought in as decision makers, but they were not there from the beginning and have no idea how irreplaceable the specific furniture and its arrangement over the years actually is.

They didn't go through the building process. They might not even be builders at all, even if given more than enough resources.

And it doesn't matter to them fundamentally since their personal best oportunities will be with a different future organization anyway. Even if they stay, the organization will be different before they are done. More like the average company you could read about in business school, and more understandable for students, with much less focus on the unique things that brought that particular company as far as it had beforehand.

If a company has reached a lofty place and the decision making changes that significantly for some reason, it is most likely that there will be some sinking to a significantly less lofty position. And in some unfamiliar direction downward.

The best possible person to run a particular company will be using company-specific approaches and drawing on talents that very few MBAs possess.

For those MBAs who do have such rare natural talent, it has been a characteristic since before university anyway so the degree is definitely not necessary.
It's kinda cool that because this webapp is evidently so little used in public, if you just do a Web search for "facebook tapprd" you're pretty much just gonna find bug bounty writeups ( e.g. https://medium.com/@amineaboud/story-of-a-weird-vulnerabilit... ).
Why don't state actors that are explicitly aligned against the USA have public bug buying programs? Like a Russian website where you can go and submit your bug and get $250K.
I've put some thought into this question, and there's some flexibility - it's possible to take the basic ideas and put more work into compatibility to work on even more hardware, but that's a cost/tradeoff curve, and affects overall system complexity and especially the difficulty of extending the imaging model.

My current target is a GPU that can do compute shaders, and also has descriptor indexing. That includes DX12, Metal 2.0, and most desktop Vulkan. It leaves out DX11 and OpenGL. Mobile is complicated; I don't expect it to work on most legacy Android devices.

The need for descriptor indexing can be worked around, which I think in practice brings Android with Vulkan back in the fold, and it's possible DX11.

It's more a function of API and driver than actual hardware, except for very old and low-spec stuff. I suspect that Raspberry Pi up to 3 is off the table without massive work, but that Vulkan drivers on the 4 will catch up. (I have a Raspberri Pi 4 and intend to use it as a compatibility target, along with a Pine64)

I hope that clarifies the situation. GPU compute was not mainstream at all (aside from CUDA, which has been around a while) and until quite recently, targeting it would seriously limit an app. I do think that's changing, even on inexpensive hardware.
Washington, for example. RCW 46.61.425:

> a person following a vehicle driving at less than the legal maximum speed and desiring to pass such vehicle may exceed the speed limit

https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=46.61.425

This random internet webpage claims that Idaho, Wyoming, and Minnesota have something similar: https://blog.directauto.com/driving-laws/going-over-speed-li... .
Thank you for the term for that! I do it in most emails. First I write it the standard way, because that flows the most easily for me. Then I find the sentence with the request I'm making or key point I want to get across, move it to the top (or subject!), and edit as needed so the rest still makes sense.
RIP Henri, le Chat Noir, angst-ridden feline YouTube star for the ages
Well they had pretty much phased out steel cans by that time
Me too, pays the bills =)

My point is, if 20k/month motivates you, Silicon Valley has hundreds of thousands of people in that category. And by many perspectives, they are underpaid. Really, I'm just saddened by how out of touch the rest of the world is on the subject.
Microsoft Edge is not "Google's browser". It uses the Chromium rendering engine but it's still developed and distributed by Microsoft, which means they own the telemetry, the features, the defaults, and the user experience (which are the parts that matter, no one cares about the renderer from a business POV).

Google has Chrome, we've covered that already.

Apple has Safari.

Firefox exists, and is only funded by Google - in my opinion - to fend off anti-trust at this point.

Just because Google has more or less won the browser wars doesn't mean all those other companies wouldn't _love_ to regain market share in the future.

And perhaps they will. Owning that window is hugely valuable and lucrative, so why wouldn't they?
"Weaponized information" can mean everything from partisan hyperbole to observations that don't mesh with one's biases.

Addicts everywhere repeat the phrase, "this time is different". What makes it special pleading is the lack of evidence or even a reasoned argument supporting this assertion.
> here, we are going to consider a second perspective: that building software is all about managing risk, and that these methodologies are acknowledgements of this fact, and they differ because they have different ideas about which are the most important risks to manage.

can't say I understand it clearly either, but maybe the biggest mysteries you have in whatever application you want to make are the things to attack first? Kinda like "save the easiest for last?"