skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Whatever comes next will take us back to those two pillars of the company, growth and monetisation. Growth can only come from connecting new areas of the planet.

This is a questionable assertion. Giant tech companies like Oracle and IBM don't tend to expand in this way, they make acquisitions of smaller companies, and use them to enhance the platform capabilities of the larger product.

I'm sure Zuck will be delighted if the "bottom billion" do all sign up and use Facebook, but they're never going to be massively profitable accounts.

Imo the acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp show the way that Facebook will go - Instagram adds a new and lucrative ad format, a profitable user segment and a base for adding in ideas from other platforms, such as Snapchat. WhatsApp builds out Facebook's graph and can be mined for intel.
We don't know. Just because some guy posts a picture of a knife wound and claims to have been jumped, that doesn't mean anything. You may recall: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Todd_mugging_hoax
> look for hardware that has been built with Linux in mind

This boils down to a simple thing to check: Are drives for this piece of hardware included in vanilla kernel?

If the answer is yes, it's a good sign, even more when the driver comes from the company building the hw.
So it should rhyme with Hung and Sung?
Quite possibly "not"?

https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS753US753&q=sam...

I find it ... odd that not one mainstream media source is in the results there.

For a stabbing...

Not even a local paper.

Not even Fox News.

Just Infowars, Breitbart, AboveTopSecret, all right wing and/or conspiracy sites.
How many people have been killed by far right terrorism? Exactly.
I have no problem with this since they're a private company and they can do that with their own services. Dropping an easy target like some racist idiots is one thing... yet Cloudflare apparently has no problem hosting Ripoff Report, a company whose business model is entirely about defaming people online and then extorting them to remove the content. This shittiest of shitty companies that has real-world devastating consequences for people does a lot more damage than some clowns on a racist forum.
At first glance this looks very much like Firebase, minus the real-time datastore. What's different/better about Netlify, and how are you supposed to use it for sites that need to persist data (i.e., pretty much anything non-trivial)?
I would disagree on this point, humans unlike current AI systems can learn from one or two data points, especially at easier tasks like identifying cats. Current AI algorithms need huge labeled data sets for solving narrow problems so one needs to build more generalization ability to our current AI systems.
The Stanford cs classes on ML and deep learning were honestly surprisingly easy for a Stanford DL class. Or maybe that was because they were good teachers, who knows :)
You're used to pushing information to them with a firehose. Use a bucket instead. Send letters out infrequently, one per household.
What to do with the Confederate monuments
We (I work at Uber) dealt with insane growth in a toxic fashion and are now paying down the debt of letting toxicity rule us for the last three years. I'm still of the opinion that we are doing that, even if it's only to enable the shareholders to make their money. And we're doing that through efforts that, anywhere else, would be noteworthy and exciting. Everyone I work with has various classes of stories like these, but by and large the non-minority men have not been so negatively affected as those who don't have that going for them. I've been through the ringer myself, but I've been in a spot where I can come out ahead despite having been in the same reporting structure as Susan Rigetti.

A lot of us are still here in hope that the folks like Saad, Gandahar and Kalanick who have left are replaced with people with an ounce of emotional intelligence like Frances Frey. Folks who are in a position and mindset to force the structure of the company to grow. Seeing Kalanick apologists like Saad leave is one of the best signs we might finally be ready to do that. It's going to be a long slow slog of 'losing' people like them until we're in a place where we're not actively villains, but I still think the company could do it or I'd be gone.
We're looking at about 60MB on macOS for a small diagram. Another thread reports Win asking for 175MB.

But as you say, it was electron or nothing for us, no way we can justify native apps.
And which cipher modes are used by SSDs?
If you look at the full range of such 'discrepancies' people report perceiving on this site, it's unmistakeable that they are in the eye of the beholder. Each side says HN is dominated by the opposite site. It's a cognitive bias: the comments you dislike stand out more and seem more prominent than the ones you like, leading to the impression that the community is against you. Both sides feel this way (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15027667, in the same thread!) and the irony is that the impression gets stronger, not weaker, the closer the community is to evenly divided.
Get them to actually version their protocol first, maybe?

As someone with a bunch of tooling around the dev-tools API, it's a huge pain in the ass to not be able to tell what functions the remote browser supports. There's a version number in the protocol description, but it's literally never been incremented as far as I've seen.

https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/devtools-protocol/issues/6
How many hours per week do you spend on Facebook instead of making "happy memories"?
No. He wasn't. He was /a/ product manager. There are various other leads in the area, all of which had higher rank than this dude.
At what point is Netflix no longer considered a technology company? Streaming the amount of video that they do is definitely a monumental technical challenge, but if content is the key to their future, it seems like they are an entertainment company.
I'm surprised that this comment isn't at the top of this thread.
Former Uber employee here.

> Did Kalanick really set up and encourage a bro Culture?

No, not at all. He's a grown man and unbelievably serious about Uber.

> Did he respect fellow employees as humans

Yes. Always.

> or was just running behind business success?

I don't know what this means, but Travis Kalanick is absolutely the main reason that Uber has grown faster than almost any other company in history.
Original title is 'Netlify\n
Building the next generation web', please do include the company's name here as well so people can notice the advertisement before gratifying it with a visit.
You shouldn't be using 'int' anyway. Use int32_t or int64_t and etc.
> much as the moniker "alt-right" legitimizes white
> supremacists.

Actually, alt-right was coined as a term to differentiate people who adhere to the traditional republican/libertarian views about personal liberty and small government from the neo-conservatives such as Romney, McCain, Graham, and others who push so strongly for nation-building and big government.

The collection of people that are drawn to the ideal of small-government and liberty is larger than the subset you describe.
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> And that, in fact, _does_ makes it hard to avoid using facebook without being left out.

I think you might mean _fear_ of being left out...friends will find other ways to contact you.
> Speech itself isn't protected if it is directed to incite or produce imminent lawless action. See Brandenburg v. Ohio

Correct, but for that argument to hold within the context of this case (EDIT: warrant) we would need the government to show that most people who visited this site did so with the intent to incite imminent lawless action. (Note, too, that Brandenburg v. Ohio specifically struck down a law banning the mere advocacy of violence.)

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice.
Damn, that's really cool. Wish it wasn't mac only :(
It's fine to leave some things as an exercise to the reader. We readers can use the exercise.
Was this a big deal in the past?

In MySQL, yes. It lacked the concept of foreign keys.
>No matter what I do, several activities and groups I want to be a part of are only advertised and organized on facebook. It's not within my power to change that.

It is. You have the power to choose what you want to be a part of. And these groups have more members than yourself - people who you can ask to help you stay up to date on meetings and such.
No one is advocating for users to have a bad experience and large downloads.
It's not in the Constitution, but it is in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. At least it is for discrimination against race and religion. Sexual orientation has some coverage, but the refusing to serve gays scenario is not currently accepted to be covered by the Civil Rights Act.
I can't tell if your failure to distinguish between actual questions and rhetorical questions is deliberate or not.

But - at the risk of taking a troll's bait - perhaps we can just assume that the author of the linked blog isn't actually expecting anyone to respond to his questions literally. Instead, he's obliquely asserting that the questions he poses haven't been, and can't be, answered reasonably by people who subscribe to a "social justice" worldview. He's saying that people with that worldview are illogical or hypocritical or unreasonable, because questions like those he's raising deserve (and aren't getting) satisfactory answers.

Ultimately, the point that he's belaboring is that the "social justice" movement as he understands it doesn't rest on any fixed values, but that what's just depends on the perspective of individuals, e.g., is essentially applied moral relativism. And he's doesn't believe moral relativism is an appropriate foundation for organizing human life.

So the challenge is to either disagree, and identify fixed moral positions/values that support "social justice"; or to agree that social justice is moral relativism, but that's OK because moral relativism is OK.

Or one can say "I reject that characterization/argument" - but the danger is that others may perceive the rejection as motivated by fear or an admission of failure, especially if you don't present an alternative characterization that seems at least as reasonable.

Often, the purpose of an argument isn't to influence the other participant, but to influence others who may observe the exchange. Even if the author is "sea lioning" (aka concern trolling), if he does it effectively enough, third parties who can't tell the difference may find it convincing, and claims that "the answer is obvious" or "you should already know the answer" are unpersuasive.
This... doesn't answer the question?
> I see nazism (short for national socialism) as just an criminally evil form of normal socialism (strong national state, very little individial freedom).

The political spectrum isn't a line, it's a circle. Go far enough either direction and you wrap around somewhat to the other side, but generally by taking ideals past the point of common sense, much less usefulness.
> And I believe all the major 64-bit instruction sets actually use 48-bit addresses at present, so software/compilers can use the top 16 as tag bits.

Not at all a safe assumption in general; architectures evolve over time, and in addition, that address space is split such that kernel addresses have those bits set, not cleared.
My schroot tool used for building Debian packages could panic a kernel in under five minutes reliably, when it was rapidly creating and destroying LVM snapshots in parallel (24 parallel jobs, with lifetimes ranging from seconds to hours, median a minute or so).

This was due to udev races in part (it likes to open and poke around with LVs in response to a trigger on creation, which races with deletion if it's very quick). I've seen undeletable LVs and snapshots, oopses and full lockups of the kernel with no panic. This stuff appears not to have been stress tested.

I switched to Btrfs snapshots which were more reliable but the rapid snapshot churn would unbalance it to read only state in just 18 hours or so. Overlays worked but with caveats. We ended up going back to unpacking tarballs for reliability. Currently writing ZFS snapshot support; should have done it years ago instead of bothering with Btrfs.
Again, it's completely fair criticism to call Trump out for not explicitly naming white supremacists or alt-right or whatever in his initial remarks. What I take issue with is that when it's left leaning groups committing similar acts of violence no one on the left and hardly anyone in the national media explicitly calls out Antifa or BLM as having murderers or violent acts carried out amongst its ranks.

Are we going to associate everyone with their political identity or not? It's unethical to do it only when it's a political identity you disagree with.
what's even a technology company anymore?
Replaced it with whatsapp for communication with friends (not fb friends but Friends). I just have a facebook account cuz everybody else has one but it is filled with notifications and messages that I don't reply to. All the people around me know that I don't respond to.

Viola, I am free of facebook and don't use it though I still have an account and have never deactivated it. Maybe it will not work for you.

P.S HN seems to be a bigger problem than FB for me atleast. Can't stop reading all posts and comments everyday.
Not sure, we've removed the quotation marks. (Apologies to Chesteron.)
It's not really possible if the majority (or even portions) of your social life use facebook to organize events.

If you're interested in being a diligent contributor to your social group, you're either stuck trying to evangelize some other tool (usually less convenient for everyone else who doesn't mind facebook) or you're stuck asking for someone to check the FB event for you.

You can't really disconnect and easily maintain a social life in this circumstance.
I think this is more "selenium is actively antagonistic to it's major use-case", then trying to throw everything away. There have been multiple attempts to convince the selenium people to revisit their decision W.R.T. headers, and they're completely unwilling.

Given that the selenium leadership is apparently uninterested in improvements, and it's many limitations, trying to improve there is more effort then it's worth.
You mean lack of computer connectivity for every eligible citizen? or...?
The underlying expectation here seems to be that HN readers shouldn't have to work a little. But HN thrives when readers do occasionally have to work a little. So we welcome that. Sorry!
> Glorifying nationalsocialism isn't "wrongthink" - it is conspiracy to genocide.

No. Actively planning genocide is conspiracy to genocide. Glorifying national socialism is wrong-headed, stupid, morally bankrupt, and flat-out evil, but it's not yet conspiracy to genocide.
Ng famously taught CS229 too, which also looks punishing. Those 2008 videos are available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A89DCFA6ADACE599
Feasible? Very. Detrimental to performance on average, though. I remember sitting through many LP64 versus ILP64 meetings almost 20 years ago when the transition to 64-bit was upon us. (At least upon us CPU designers...) Turns out 64 bit ints cause memory usage and cache pressure that outweigh the benefits.

A lot of people don't think about the effect of design decisions on cache performance. Die area devoted to cache can't be used for other things, and the process of filling the cache with larger entities impacts memory bandwidth utilization. So 64 bit ints when mostly you only need 32 bits can turn out to be a loser. This is also why the pendulum has swung back to CISC -- more functionality crammed into smaller cache footprint, and the compilers are much better at targeting CISC instruction sets than they were at the height of RISC.
Fear has nothing to do with it. When I was not on facebook, I was getting left out of activities and events that weren't exactly with friends, but more with common interests.
Except that there's no indication Breitbart had any involvement in Charlottesville (and anyway the rioting was mostly Antifa). Here we have tweets from people plugging their organizations and promising disorder.
There are a number of alternatives, some of which are outlined here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/126630/creating-dia...
No, it's because one could spend a hundred lifetimes showing incorrect P vs NP proofs. Either he is right, or if the author is convinced of the disrespect they can $200,000.

Most people who publish proofs don't seem to make any attempt to get their work reviewed before putting it out onto the open internet. That's of course their choice, but then you have to expect people to tell you where you have wrong, bluntly. It's a huge waste of everyone's time who then reads the proof.
It is resilient to tampering as far as you trust gpg.

It achieves this because cryptographic signatures exist fine without blockchains
I have been convinced that P==NP since my first exposure to the topic in university. There are NP complete problems where I can really not imagine how they could be solved quickly, but vertex three coloring just looks so doable to me by some informal intuitive arguments. In another life I would devote my life to fleshing out the argument and proving P==NP. Or at least learn where my intuitive argument fails.
Cars should be made safer WRT to the people outside the car who might have to deal with the consequences. For example, a car with spikes on the outside should probably be illegal. But as long as the danger is knowingly and exclusively contained to the occupant of a vehicle I see no reason to make it illegal. Motorcycles, for example, lack standard safety features like seatbelts and airbags, and yet we haven't made them illegal.
How many handwritten letters do you send?
Is there a parallel here to what Putin has done to Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Khodorkovsky) ?

For Trump, Bezos represents a powerful potential rich adversary and owner of Washington Post.
In reality, they get scared of losing traffic by not adapting AMP, decide to implement it, and then flip out over how restrictive it is without understanding how they caused this situation.

It's all driven by money, and unfortunately AMP and bloated pages make money - fast, sexy pages without AMP do not.
Successful trial of probiotics at scale
Or Primer.
Must be nice to get to pick. My whole career I've only managed to have two choices on the hook once.
I think the last point about a comedian using it fill an audience is very interesting. Even though they are paid to be there, comedy and humor is a very natural response and not all that easy to fake or disguise. It's like focus group testing for standup comedy.
> It might be time for people to realize that the lived experience of the vast majority of Uber employees...

That's just awfully close to that "9 out of 10 people enjoy..." joke.
Instead of writing letters, I guess I prefer to have hobbies.
I can only assume C was used on purpose in tribute to how complex and complicated the original movie was.
this is really cool!

FWIW - mbasic.fb.com does not work. But mbasic.facebook.com does.
Thanks, that looks pretty good – I'm gonna give it a try. The only thing missing seems to be the "vector" part.
With more and more content providers pulling content, I'd say Netflix is the middle of the pivot from technology focused distributor to content creator already.
I think the direction is clear. They are going to be a fully content based company in the near future. I think they should spin out their streaming technology arm into a separate company or license/sell services so other companies can benefit from it.
I'm curious, what does the difference mean to you? I classify them as a technology company because they continue to innovate. With your argument, you could classify Facebook or any other social media site an entertainment company.
Remember when they tried to classify Google as a mutual fund because they had so much cash?
Yeah, for the moment we only support chrome. I know it's not ideal, but it sure is nice not having to worry about cross browser issues :-)

What's the slow bit in IE? Is it the svgs?
Sometimes the customer is either flat wrong or at least an asshole. ProtonMail sends yearly surveys to paying customers asking for help prioritizing development efforts, so suggesting they don't listen to their customers is asinine. IMAP support is in beta as a result of customers prioritizing it in those surveys. As they are likely limited primarily by funding and developer bandwidth, I see nothing wrong with their response above and will continue paying for their service.
I don't think it's impossible to prove, I think we just aren't yet good at proving it.

One reason I believe P!=NP is I can imagine what a proof of P=NP would look like -- just write a C program that solves SAT or Sudoku or something, in polynomial time, and prove it's correctness and execution time. There are tens of thousands of papers which do that, for various problems.

I can't really imagine what a proof of P!=NP would look like, proving something doesn't exist is extremely hard, particularly because for any particular instance of an NP problem, there is a problem which solves it "by luck".
Exactly. I don't share their beliefs but I think we are all capable of looking at what they say and making up our own minds. I trust the good judgement of the general public a hell of a lot more than I trust censorship, and censoring them just plays into their narrative of persecution. The ends do not justify the means.
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Decades ago I read an article that pointed out that a corollary to Moore's law is that address bits will be consumed at the rate of 1.5 address bits per year, so it is easy to predict when an architecture will run out of address bits.
Or not. Maybe they just decide it's not worth the hassle of tracking down the outliers. I guess we can argue that anybody who's a real friend will message you using your preferred comm, though that cuts both ways. If you are a real friend, you'd message them back with their preferred system.
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Except the April showers haven't stopped. It's been raining most of the week for East coast, all summer.
+1 - San Franciscans love to wait in line.
EDIT: getting downvotes, not saying all of SF, but its definitely a "thing" - if you live here you've seen it
Can someone convince me that this article isn’t hype? What’s so good about ethereum that it can be compared to the internet? Is the shift from centralized to decentralized going to bring me tangible benefits?
(replying at this level, because HN seems to have a depth limit for nested messages)

Drew, I think I understand where you're coming from. But as stated earlier on, I don't even connect to Facebook daily, let alone spending hours on it.
Nobody does. And this is the problem with having no inflation. Every economy needs a slight inflation, otherwise people stop consuming, instead save all their money and it gets worse => deflation.

Bitcoin equals gold, nobody uses Bitcoin to consume anything. I don't know which human behavior you refer to.
Curious you consider your bandsaw more dangerous. There's a lot less momentum, only one vector for injury and you generally have a lot more control over your stock. My table saw can fire a 2×4 across a room. So I don't agree with your assessment but your kit is obviously different to mine.

I don't disagree with your wider point about respect, but even seasoned pros make genuine mistakes. A lapse in concentration or material behaving abnormally. That's all it takes and you've lost a finger.

It would be great to see similar things implemented in other tools but for the moment, what's wrong with making sure new models are safer by default? I mentioned airbags in another comment and I think it's a good comparison. Why would you NOT want this?

And yes, why isn't somebody doing the exact same thing in bandsaws and routers? The same premise would work with little adaptation.