skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Corbyn to position himself more as the reasonable candidate whose manifesto actually offered tangible promises.

This position is largely what the Blairite wing of the party were rebelling against. They wanted to run on a strongly anti-Brexit platform with slightly watered down tory policies. The Lib Dems conveniently demonstrated how deeply unpopular that platform was outside of the London remainer bubble.

Getting the largest increase in voting share since the 40s while the whole media savages you (even the independent and guardian were attacking him 6 weeks before the election) and your own MPs try to undermine you at every turn is an impressive achievement. The next election wont have either of those things and will likely feature a landslide.
In general I think separating brands is a good idea. And I think, at least from technical perspective (not legal perspective) you shouldn't blame Google in case something goes bad, and rather Waymo. After all, the set of people running Google search or Android are very different from those managing the self-driving car project.

In some sense, a single entity Google is an illusion so best to avoid it.
I wish there were a control group - it could very well be that reading an e-book about depression can cause a regression in depressive symptoms.
That might be the case if the throughput wasn’t so low and the error rate wasn’t so high.
I want the people at the top of the agencies that engage in these activities to be charged. I guarantee you when they set up these programs they consulted legal council and they were warned of the possible legal issues that could arise. They chose to ignore those warnings. If by some incredible chance they did not seek council, they were being grossly negligent in carrying out their duties, which resulted in violations of the law and harm to individuals through violation of their human rights. That (gross negligence) is also a crime, at least in the US where I am, so it doesn't matter how you look at it. Those at the top should be held to account for these monumentally bad decisions which have now been deemed illegal.
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I found https://mosh.org/ quite useful to get a working ssh session thru the GFW. The GFW can introduce latency and packet loss to encrypted connections which mosh seems to handle nicely.
You basically outline why that's an unsatisfying answer. It didn't prevent Trump from entering the political arena. The "Access Hollywood" tape surfaced a month before the election, why not during the primaries, when he was more vulnerable? Does anyone really believe that someone with purportedly the full power of the US intelligence community couldn't find more on-the-record dirt on him, or his senior staff? What about the stuff in the Russian dossier (the golden shower stuff)? Again, appeared days before the election, too late to do proper damage, and if that's the best the US intelligence community can do, they're mind-bogglingly inept.

Assuming the conspiracy theory that the US IC "effectively control the population" is true, the only rational explanation is that they wanted Trump as president, not the opposite.
From the article:

> Only fossils younger than 35,000 years show the same globular shape as present-day humans

and

> They used state-of-art statistics to analyze endocasts of various fossils and present-day humans.

There's nothing uncomfortable about this. They analyzed modern day humans and compared it to humans 35k years ago and found a statistical difference. "Uncomfortable" thoughts fall into the category of pseudoscience which has been long discredited - phrenology, essentially.
And it worked. I must have missed the news when Waymo was spun off, because I didn't realize they were former Google folks until like... last week. I kept wondering where the hell these guys came from and how they suddenly had the money to come up with this super-advanced tech by themselves.
'If you leave it up to the audience, they can kill you'
Sometimes I think that policy abdicates the trust we have in libraries. I used to check out a little-used book, published in 1881, which was a history of our local town going back to its founding. With source material from the people who slept on cloaks under a tree before the first sod was turned.

One day I looked for it, and it was gone. Probably victim to one of those book purges. And I was upset. Not that the book was valuable, and probably went for $1 at a jumble sale. But because it was irreplaceable.

If our own library will not preserve books about our own local history, then who will? How can this source material ever, ever be reconstituted again? How can anybody in charge have thought this was a good idea?
Off topic, but I spent a bunch of time on this domain recently as we used AF as an internal code for Africa and whoever set it up assumed we'd never have customers from Afghanistan. An assumption that was correct for 5 years :D
If no one takes the plunge how do languages af technologies ever get proven? A startup without bureaucracy, institutional legacy and technical debt seems like a good place to do it.
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Hearing the report on Bloomberg news earlier today. Isn't this just for the 900k employees and isn't it just focusing on wearable tech?

It sounded more like fitbit with cloud services than insurance.
What is wrong with that? If the cars fail, the search engine still works. Google is allowed to fail too, right?
> I don't have a horse in this race at all

Yeah right, you come only to bury caesar.
I'll admit my bias, I'm a fan. And I don't think you can write off Corbyn's coming from well behind, daily attacks from all the centre and rightwing press as if he were the antichrist or some antisemitic Stalinist, as well as attacks from the Blairite dead in his own party, to beat all the critics and deprive "strong and stable" May of her majority, leaving her weakly needing to bribe the Northern Irish in order to stay in government. That's no small achievement given the hatchetjobs he's had to overcome.

Labour under Corbyn look much more like a government than the Tories, frankly.
I build Linux servers, and the problem lies with the MacOS SMB client. It sucks so bad you gasp for air when in the same room, seriously. See my other comment: same hardware, running MacOS: SMB 150 MB/s, AFP 1GB/s (yeah, that's more than 6 times faster). Same hardware running Windows on SMB: 900 MB/s. All from the same server and same disk share, of course.
Please correct me, but it appears you're suggesting that the onus is on the kids to get better - not the adults or multi-billion dollar corporations.
Being Polish makes me very proud of the bravery of Witold Pilecki at the same time Russian army did some horrible things during the „saving” of eastern Europe. However if you look at the numbers they also paid the ultimate price in number of casualties: https://vimeo.com/128373915
i tried it. it clearly had a script, and my answers were all emoji or one word (they render for you as options to press). So... really was a "next...next...next.." kind of experience. And then it was done with me for the day, after it rambled about making mistakes.

There is a vibe of "i'm one of the cool kids", like when parents try to "level" with their teenagers. And the machine learning appears rudimentary or perhaps tastelessly implemented.

But it gets CBT in the hands of more people. Maybe people wouldn't pickup a book but are willing to checkout an app. So i think thats an important win, even if the app itself isn't all that.
MacOS had a Wiki service?!?
Have you ever made a decision to not use Pony (or whatever the new sexy tech)?

I've read a few blog posts now and the end result always seems to be Pony.

You even talk up how great the C and Java client libraries are. Well they can't be as great as you say or you would have used them.

The C library seems to perform better, be more featureful, and tested better. So once again, why? It certainly can't be because you library is going to top the C library in any way. The article even seems to imply you'd be happy being at parity with the C lib.
Amazon has 500K employees
JPM 250K
if they can save 20-30% by doing this that's a very healthy profit for them
An exam is useless if nobody hiring uses it. Good luck getting a job as an lawyer if you have not passed the bar exam because the bar exam and the ability to practice as a lawyer are linked by law.
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Right, but that's my point. Your article is about the USA spying on European citizens (with the complicity of the UK) and the governments of these countries complained (at least publicly):

>The German, French and Spanish governments have reacted angrily to reports based on National Security Agency (NSA) files leaked by Snowden since June, revealing the interception of communications by tens of millions of their citizens each month.

The parent was saying that European countries are complicit and actually want the USA to spy on their citizens so that they can recover the intelligence indirectly.

>Does anyone really think that Boeing doesn't get competitor info from US agencies?

Not me at least, which is exactly why I don't expect that the french and german governments for instance to be perfectly fine with the USA spying on Airbus's employees for instance.
I think it would be irresponsible at best for Amazon to tackle the medical supply/device market before they can get their counterfeiting problem under control.
Oh god, let define a few thing.

Generally Transparent = MP3 LAME @ ~ 128kbps. That is the good old standard.

There has been PR and marketing materials, much like Video Codec making claiming they are 50% better then H.264 or AVC or whatever. AAC or MP3Pro even claim to be MP3 128kbps quality at 64Kbps. Of course which never happened even after years of fine tuning.

Opus is the first and only codec in years, or decades that had better music quality then MP3 @ 96Kbps. Even AAC cant do that, at least not in majority of cases.

I have come to the conclusion that Audio compression has come to end of the S curve, with diminishing returns. It literally took us all the years till all MP3 patents has expired to get an Audio codec that is better at it with 20% less bit rate.

I very much doubt we could have 64Kbps VBR to sound better without many more breakthroughs.
Your comment caught my curiosity, and looking at the hugo command line I just found out it had a `benchmark` command. Cool!

For our main website (www.processout.com, ~100 pages) and blog, hugo takes about 39ms (on a Macbook Pro, late 2016)
I recently started tracking my dotfiles and I think you should too
I had a bit of Bitcoin back then-- maybe 10 BTC. Some I mined back when you could CPU mine. I set up a process to mine in a pool whenever my 2011-2012 era MacBook was plugged in and had Internet, keeping it alive even when the lid was closed with another hack.

I spent it on various things between then and the big Bitcoin pumps: coffee (there was a spot that would take BTC in SoCal), open source contributions, etc., and cashed a little out just to see Coinbase work.

I never thought it would go anywhere near this high for the rational reason that Satoshi's Bitcoin is really not a very good currency. It's a significant innovation in distributed systems and the Bitcoin code base is a good proof of concept, but I expected it to stay semi-niche or to eventually crash if/when major technical limits were found.

I saw three killer problems with it:

(1) Proof of work inherently promotes centralization due to industrial economies of scale. I expected some miner to eventually have 51% and behave badly, or a government that felt threatened by it to invest in >=51% hash power (or nationalize a few miners) and wreck it. The latter would be cheaper both politically and monetarily than a full frontal assault, especially if done semi-secretly.

(2) It doesn't scale and won't scale. It's far too heavy. Some of the issues are merely Bitcoin's choice of parameters and some are deeper problems with the implementation.

(3) Hyper-deflationary behavior is not a desirable characteristic for a currency. (Hyper-inflationary isn't either, but Bitcoin will never have that problem.) A currency needs to have at least a somewhat stable price and the ability to grow in quantitative base if needed to act as a good medium of exchange. Bitcoin is far more deflationary than gold. Not only does it have a strict known global limit, but it's subject to breakage (loss of coins) to a much greater degree than gold.

So I didn't "hodl" because I thought it would probably top out at around $100/coin. I underestimated the irrationality of the rest of the market.

Moral of the story? Markets are not rational and are therefore pretty tough to predict using purely rational models that don't delve into emotionally driven human behavior, herd dynamics, and game theory.

Second moral of the story: I agree with point #3 here that sometimes extreme upside arguments do work. I should have held because I didn't need to cash out and there was the remote chance that... this... would happen.

The latter works with startup investing too. I've talked to some angels and several said they made their biggest exits on companies they'd mentally written off. In one case when it came time to cash out he forgot where he put his certificate info or how many shares he had.
But then you don't consider the IP address personally identifiable information? The GDPR does.
Another enduring mystery, why doesn't the Bible mention the Pyramids?
Looks at the source, in this instance, the emoji is not accessible. It's text in the paragraph, just like the actually words. The author is relying on tools like Jaws/NVDA correctly translating a graphic into spoken word.

There are ways to add emojis in an accessible fashion. You'd have to treat them like images and add alt text or some aria attributes to ensure the screen-reader interprets it correctly. Or, use predefined Unicode verisons.

Neither was done here and Wired should be ashamed of themselves for not even making an effort.
I have the impression most predictions on modern companies or technologies are completely random.

Some people tell you X will change the world.

Some people tell you X won't change anything.

We wait some time and look how X did and then say one of the two groups were totally right and saw it coming, while the rest was completely elusive to how the world works.

To me it seems like there will always be some people who get it right if the questions are simply answered by enough people...

I mean, just look at companies like Kodak or Nokia, who were filled with really smart people that simply failed to acknowledge the fact that their industry, which they knew deeper than anyone, were chaning.
This looks like a great tool for research. Any plans on adding support for images like you do for videos?
There should be an "alt" attribute that specifies to the transcriber what the face means.

Nevertheless, I'm very satisfied that they're using emoticons and not emoji.
I'm at a cooperative nonprofit insurance company - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univ%C3%A9 - basically, it's cheaper and nicer.
Sorry, that was my question-- was there a way to avoid using librdkafka's threadpool and essentially use it as a 'dumb' client, moving all the async stuff to your Pony actor layer?
With the difference that Amazon queries are a subset of Google's queries. When using the same keywords, you should add "buy online" / "shop" on Google.

And some people on HN just don't want to buy on Amazon because of counterfeit products. Ads on Amazon will probably make it worse.
No, something is horrifically broken in Apple SMB client implementation. That's probably why they never actually phased out AFP, because it's the only way to move data fast on MacOS.
Back in my days of writing Perl one liners were also kind of encouraged, because usually it would likely be more performant. At least thats what some instructors told us.
What would this look like compared to something like Kaiser Permanente?
Yes, that's correct on both counts.

Pony Kafka is almost completely untuned as of right now. We expect there is a lot of low hanging fruit on that front that will give us significant gains.

And yes, we're concerned about the potential thread pool contention between Pony and librdkafka.
In the case of Python, for certain built-in types, __hash__() combines information about the object with a salt value. The salt can be manually forced by an environment variable, but if not supplied that way will be randomly chosen on interpreter startup.

The result is consistent hashing within a given interpreter process, but unpredictability across multiple processes/invocations, which is what's needed to avoid a denial-of-service vector created by predictable hash values for built-in types.
Perhaps Vanguard is an example of a mass mutual company that owes part of its success through its formation due to its ability to pass cost savings back to its customers in the form of lower fund fees?
You can always place low risk, high reward bets on the stock market using options.
Apple is one of very few companies that has an ISA license. This allows them to implement the ARM ISAs using their own microarchitecture and physical implementation.

Digital was afaik the first ISA licensee, which allowed them to design the StrongARM.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StrongARM

StrongARM ended up at Intel when they bought Digital. The design team for StrongARM split up into two companies: SiByte and Alchemy. The design work i in SV on StrongARM was lead by Daniel W. Dobberpuhl. Daniel was cofounder of SiByte and (more relevant) founder of PA-Semi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_W._Dobberpuhl
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.A._Semi

PA-Semi was a fabless company that designed really powerful and power efficient CPU cores based on the Power (PA) architecture. PA-Semi was really good at both architecture, but also physical design for low power. PA-Semi was acquired by Apple in 2008 (as mentioned in the article. Boutique chip maker is an interesting phrase btw). PA-Semi basically became the processor design team at Apple.

Looking at the timeline, the first A-series CPU (A4) was released in 2010 which would be possible for the PA-Semi team to have developed.

(If my understanding of the history is correct.)
Maybe I'm just more used to corporate speak, but "we can't share details yet but this product will be important to us in the future" couldn't be more clear in indicating that a redesign is in progress and they're not dropping the line.
Their article format is Markdown, and if you enter the full shrug as Markdown then the back slash escapes the underscore to prevent it becoming markup, but it is removed in the process.

Markdown is not friendly to the shrug.
I think you missed my point... your lack of existence is on par with anything else, to some objective observer. You are not an objective observer. You can choose to care about yourself. You just have to accept the trade off that caring about something means there will inevitably be some pain to go along with it too when things don't work out the way you want.
Something worthy of being labeled a Dark Pattern, https://darkpatterns.org
The guy is not an ex-Google employee. This event was named in the Damore lawsuit as evidence of discrimination against political views because all he was guilty of was blogging things someone at Google had a problem with.

It doesn’t make you uncomfortable to know that even if you’ve had no previous interactions with Google, you may be tracked and added to a list of undesirables? Who controls the list, who has power to add people to it, and what else are they doing with this list? What if they’re looking at his search history too? Would that be okay?
It's probably for the best, same with the decision to change Google the megacorporation into Alphabet, with the Google brand focusing on search and internet.
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> The Red Army was indeed a savior. It is thanks to those masses of poor soldiers, of which eight millions died, that the horror of WWII last only five years or so. All Europe and all world indeed should be grateful to them.

That is under a big assumption that Stalin's USSR was actually better than Hitler's Germany. Since there were lots of people who fled Soviet-occupied parts of Poland into German-occupied ones (hoping that life under Hitler will be less of a horror), this is not really clear whether the cure was not worse than the disease.
The characterisation of JVM GC behavior seems slightly unfair.

Saying that JVMs are 'stop the world' and Pony is 'concurrent' feels like it's ignoring modern JVM GC strategies.

It might be true that you can avoid stop the world collection for an actor-system, but by logical extension would that not be possible on the JVM as well for that particular workload, given a suitably designed actor-system?
Scoop: Apple delays iOS features to focus on reliability, performance – Axios
I'd call Enchantment hardware hacking / Arduino. If anything the advertising industry is Psionics. I'd slot game programming under Conjuration and all of front-end, including UI, as Illusion.
My adviser went on sabbatical, and it changed the way I look for mentorship
No, the dispatch is still decided during compilation.
Which articles about Waymo did you read that didn't mention its relationship with Google? I've yet to find one.
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Unicode language prescriptivism... that’s a new one.
NAND prices per GB are actually starting to come back down, now. Most of the 3D NAND tooling change-overs are completing at the various NAND fabs, so NAND prices should only continue to fall in the coming months/years in $/GB pricing metrics.

You can get consumer grade 500GB-class SATA 2.5" SSDs for $130 (or less!) now from multiple vendors. This time last year these were up around $200 (EDIT: this may not be accurate!). Consumer SATA SSDs were some of the first to transition to 3D NAND.

For example: https://camelcamelcamel.com/SanDisk-Ultra-2-5-Inch-Height-SD...
Ask HN: Where would you rather live and work?
What is that perfect place for a software engineer?

It naturally boils down to a lot of personal preferences, but it would be great to hear about your favorite country, state or city - mainly hoping to learn about some places (or reasons) I haven't considered before.
Hi! Could you specify exactly what you mean with 'freelancer model of working'?

We have a lot of freelancers using Timely today, but we'd love to make it even better for them!
Did you perhaps mean to ask this in the other Amazon thread right now?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16264662
I'd like this too, but can we enhance to have a standard monitor mount where you can clip in a Small box to the monitor which supplies power and cable-less HDMI port? Kinda like a componentized all in one.
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Good point. I don’t mean baseless as worthless, just that it was largely out of the author’s wheelhouse and was more of his projection of ideas without much in the way of evidence. This differed from Sapiens as it was really rich in historical and anthropological sources.

It’s not bad, just not very valuable as an entire book to read. It’s mostly already covered in the final segment of Sapiens.

Homo Deus is certainly based on the author’s general wisdom and draws upon his study of history. It’s always hard to vet “futurists” to see who is worthwhile.
I really like why we wrote x in y sort of blog posts. It is almost always like this: because we could or because for our use case it works.
This doesn't really seem to be enough. The combination of home / work location and friends is likely enough to allow for the determination of identity, even if you use a fake name on the site.
Hey! Thanks for trying it out! You can add images to the rich text areas. Example: https://www.mapsofmind.com/blog/richtextbox