skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you are talking about digitizing the world's assets, 100k doesn't even come close. I would recommend thinking more broadly and being open to what is really happening with Bitcoin, blockchains and alt coins.
When I worked at an internal Amazon team, we made heavy use of plenty of AWS services: MySQL on RDS, S3, and SQS for example. What we didn't use was EC2 et al. There was an internal equivalent for those.
Quite interesting.

Many of the topics that Curtis mentions has shown up in his previous documentaries. Like that about Ayn Rand individualism, the mechanistic view of the world, or the fear of grand ideas.
Amazon retail has always run on razor thin margins.
Thanks. Good to know.
I don't really buy that recessed into a hole argument. I bet that case manufacturers would have no trouble modifying their designs to accommodate it. Like a gradient of thickness leading to the area around the camera, for example.
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Disclaimer: I'm the Firefox engineer who wrote the patch and the post.

We did a user research study measuring website breakage under various privacy protections:

https://blog.mozilla.org/data/2018/01/26/improving-privacy-w...

tl;dr - strict-origin-when-cross-origin was one of the protections with the lowest amount of breakage. Entering Private Browsing is a clear, strong signal that the user wants more privacy, so we started by implementing this protection in Private Browsing.

However, note that some advertisers demand that AdTech vendors must not serve their ads on certain kinds of pages. (e.g., https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/1348688?hl=en&topi...) Many of those agreements require full referrers to be able to audit the ad inventory.

So there are some concerns and trade-offs to make in this space.
This is not saying much. Obviously short term positions in a volatile asset are bad. Are you implying that long term positions in BTC are good?
I don't think it had anything to do with you. If you notice they always say they're "hiring" on these threads. However they don't necessarily have any new "client" to subcontract out to someone. They don't seem to have any problem wasting people's time though.
Huh. I have to admit I'm curious about how that skit got planned internally - SNL certainly leans liberal / social-justicey enough that some of the cast members would have genuinely been on the "this was totally reasonable" side of things, right? So I kind of want to know how they handled the discussion / planning of the skit, and also, I am not quite sure the intended message is as simple as "this went too far, we all know that, but we can't say it".

If their message was "there's room for a genuine good-faith discussion about whether this was reasonable or went too far, both of which are reasonable positions to take, and we're all too on edge to have that discussion," I would agree with that. If anything, the fact that a lot of people feel a need to be excessively pious does a disservice to those people who genuinely hold the pious opinion - the excessively pious won't engage in good-faith arguments that they're wrong, because they already know they're wrong, which just ends up hurting the discourse.
I’ve noticed that their silicone cases peel as you’ve described, but I’ve had great luck with the leather case even after years of abuse, drops, and getting it damp.
No, Visa Checkout is a confusingly named product that only serves to send credit card data to a merchant’s servers. The card data isn’t even kept safe by a intermediate token; the merchant has to run a PCI compliant solution.

That’s very different from PayPal’s offering.
Nope, we're a wholly-owned subsidiary (several hundred people) of a vaguely similar company. I could go into the details (better benefits for example) but it gets complicated. People make wrong assumptions about the work environment. We were a start-up about 13 years ago, and still retain much of that culture. It's not a bunch of bureaucrats in cubes wearing ties, and we don't want to waste time interviewing people who seek that kind of thing. There really are lots of useless toxic people who see a famous company name and then picture a bureaucracy in which they can hide as a parasite. We work hard to keep them away.
Try working through the DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) handbook. It's designed to build skills to lessen the impact of anxiety, depression, and other chronic mental illnesses, and draws a lot from Stoicism.

Particularly, there are exercises meant to help you find your values, then figure out how to do more things you find valuable in your life.

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Why can’t computers get better at language translation?
thanks for this! We should hold companies to some degree of accountability in interviews.
Ad spending tends to revert to the mean. I recall a professor talking about how it’s a leading indicator for economic problems. Spending increases have diminishing returns, and and tend to pop with the rest of the economy.
> There is a serious, concerted effort by Google to put k8s at the forefront, and they are not playing games with it.

Well no, and why would they? Containerisation is one way to crowbar workloads out of VMs and AWS. Since they're coming from behind, their best strategy is to deny everyone else any oxygen by creating an opensource winner. And it worked: Amazon have added EKS to ECS, Azure added AKS to ACI.

Google does a lot of good, but they don't sink millions upon millions of dollars into things just for the hell of it.
Kind of an off-topic question; I've never read the bible and I thought this year would be a good time to do so. What version of the bible would you recommend? I've browsed online and notices that there many version but I don't which would be a good one to begin reading. Thanks :)
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I've been eyeing BioImplant for a few years now, wondering why they don't get more coverage. Any stories on that? A panacea would be something like this with an bio-engineered PDL.
Games like league rely on micro transactions and merchandising to make money, additionally a new patch roles out every 14 days keeping the game fresh. Riot has 0 incentive to make LoL2: electric bugaloo.
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Apple has already pissed off every telco there is by refusing to let them put their branding on the iPhone.

Don't pretend these people are playing nice. Telcos hate Apple, and Apple doesn't care. You either get to sell the iPhone or you don't.

And the DOJ doesn't give a rat's ass about any company with ~20% of the market.

Unless it's e-books and Apple involved. In which case they do.
Never mind having a candidate run on gender issues while being backed by the monied interest that ran the world economy aground...
While I agree we should control for distance when comparing humans to machines I think we should also compare the type of driving. Are machines safer at driving on ice? How many human-driven fatalities happen on ice or in inclement weather?
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Assume I'm saying that when you take one week of vacation somewhere, the view of local culture that you end up with is not even weakly informative as to the view of local culture held by locals.

I think that's a fairly relevant counterpoint to an observation beginning "I just spent a week in Hawaii".

You think it's hitting below the belt to observe that ryankshaw's opinion is based on one week in a culture he's not familiar with, just because "tourist making conclusions after spending one week in an unfamiliar culture" is such a well-known example of terrible reasoning that it's become a stereotype?

I didn't even make that point. I limited myself to observing that a longer-term experience would probably give a more reliable impression.
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AMZN P/E ratio is 350:

https://www.google.com/search?q=NASDAQ:+AMZN

That's set to go up even further tomorrow. Their valuation is so far out of the stratosphere it's no longer tied to any financials. They have a great business with nice artificial barriers to entry to protect them but I can't see how they can grow into their current evaluation. I consider it a speculative stock at this point.
But there needs to be some normalization because machines drive many fewer miles. How do you suggest we normalize the number of fatalities for the sake of comparison?
Alternatively, people realize what it is and understand why it doesn't solve any meaningful problems with Bitcoin.
More than one out of 50 million, you can bet.
That's the secret, nothing has any long term value or meaning. Just enjoy the ride.
I mean a lot of people on the right know Trump is lying and are happy to talk about it, e.g. Scott Adams. Whereas I get the impression that more people on the left seem to genuinely believe that HRC pretending like she suddenly supports gay marriage is somehow different than Trump saying he had the largest inauguration or whatever.
> It will also expand the definition of breaches to include ransomware attacks.

Not sure I follow that. Ransomware is anything from a PITA to a catastrophe for the business affected, but it normally does not include a breach of sensitive data.
Similar tech, I expect:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/04/start...

https://www.thenational.ae/uae/compressed-air-the-battery-of...

https://www.engadget.com/2013/09/16/sustainx-turns-on-first-...
It is also a good way to get yourself into jail since it is illegal.
I'm replying to you since you have the longest reply (and it's thought out too). The regressive left is the SJW that tells the Norwegians they can't use their own letters because Nazi decided to co-op their culture back in the day [1]. You have individuals like Gazi [2] running around saying that white people need to pay reparations even though most white people in the country descend from immigrants that arrived after the civil war therefore they never owned slaves. We've gotten to the point that some on the regressive left don't think that it's even possible for a white man to empathize or even understand the language used to describe their situations. If enough feel like communication has broken down to this level, they have and will call for war.

My problem is that people that say, "check your privilege" use it to shut down dialogue. We're getting into identity politics. This never, ever ends well for anyone.

I'm all for compassion. I'm not for the hypocrisy of using race and guilt as cudgels against supposed political enemies. I'm not for college campuses insulating themselves with their own group think to the point that it's an arrest-able offense to hand out the Constitution, the very document that defines that we are all equal in the sight of the law, to students on Constitution Day by a student of the college [3]. I absolutely abhor the continued press for ignorance about the very historical facts at hand in which the white man, and only the white man, was to blame or profited from slavery [4].

1 - https://sputniknews.com/europe/201801311061237928-norway-naz...
2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tanz1IxVpVA
3 - http://reason.com/blog/2017/01/21/students-arrested-constitu...
4 - https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ppzevg/hey-v12n5
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Two corrections: (1) I think you meant trillion, (2) you don't get 4 holiday quarters.
>But I also suspect that many students with little philosophy experience came away with the impression that this class represented what philosophy is, and that’s what disheartens me most.

Haven’t we all experienced a professor who was good in their field but couldn’t teach well, or was too much of a hardass?

Faculty ratings and ratemyprofessor are there for a reason.
Perl is basically lisp for Pirates who got banished using Lisp in production environments.

No other language has done more to carry the Lisp legacy forward than Perl.
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I find this really difficult to grok, not sure if it's the writing style or the incorrect formatting or if I just have a hard time understanding PID. Maybe a definition in line would be helpful, instead of a joke.
Perhaps, but isn't the time taken by the line fill ultimately what's leaking the information? Sure, it's probed by monitoring L1 eviction, but I'd still be nervous about the timing.

IMHO the only safe way to do a fetch from prohibited memory is to not do it at all.
> If their message was "there's room for a genuine good-faith discussion about whether this was reasonable or went too far, both of which are reasonable positions to take, and we're all too on edge to have that discussion," I would agree with that

Not to be snarky: I thought it was clear that this was/is the intended message. I certainly didn't get the impression that the skit was taking a stance one way or another and indeed it seems like the characters have differing opinions on it (compare Aidy Bryant's comment with Beck Bennett's).

It's incredibly difficult to talk about these things without thinking extremely carefully about how you word your thoughts - hence all the "careful..." comments by the characters in the skit.

> If anything, the fact that a lot of people feel a need to be excessively pious does a disservice to those people who genuinely hold the pious opinion - the excessively pious won't engage in good-faith arguments that they're wrong, because they already know they're wrong, which just ends up hurting the discourse.

This is indeed a fairly common critique of modern-day "SJWs" (or whatever you want to call that group of people) - that the excessively pious ("virtue signaling" is the usual term) are indeed alienating the more rational and causing the discourse to disappear.

(This is also obviously true in the other direction with the "alt-right", though not necessarily relevant to this discussion).
Disclaimer: I'm the Firefox engineer who wrote the patch and the blog post.

I'm very interested in this thread. Other replies here are correct - there are many ways that sites try to detect private browsing, and many ways they can get it right or wrong.

How do people feel about the "stealth" design goal of private browsing? Should it be a goal? What about a hide-in-a-big-crowd tactic? (E.g., how Tor tries to make all its users look identical.)
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Imagine if the NFL changed rules every two weeks to keep things fresh. People get pissed off at good (or bad) tweaks to CS:GO and those tweaks can make for very different games. Riot still has an incentive to make money short term over building something that will be around in twenty years. Unsolvable? Maybe. But whatever Riot is working on now won't be what they are in five years.

I guess what drove that statement was the StarCraft -> StarCraft 2 transition, both of which are shadows of their former selves because the business model of a game publisher is not that of a sports league. They have conflicting needs.
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Pumping money into esports is a core part of their business model. Its their advertising budget and more importantly seeing really good players makes perhaps burnt out players play the game some more because it makes then excited about the game again, and eventually buy their in game items.
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If they design a thin phone that requires a case, anyone can choose any case they wish to make the phone look any way they wish, and to make it as resistant to falls as they wish.

If they make the phone thicker (a "built in" case, if you will) a consumer's choice is actually restricted. Then there is of course that 10% of people who won't actually use a case served also.
That's a good point, I'm not quite sure.
I'm still waiting for working suspend-resume on my Linux laptops.
I agree with your greater point, but your auto collision example is flawed.

If you say half of drivers are not at fault, it's only because we assume only one person can be at fault. Most collisions involve more than one mistake, and it's certainly possible for a sufficiently good driver to improve their odds by much better than half (there is more to defensive driving than just not making obvious mistakes.) This is not to claim, of course, that perfection is possible. Sometimes the chips are all stacked against you and there is nothing reasonable you can do.
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Yep, I'm looking for a new role just now, and these sorts of euphemisms are a complete turn off.
As someone who intuitively feels that static typing must be helpful, I have to agree that the empirical evidence is not there - and I should not be surprised by that, as my own experience is fairly equally divided between the two paradigms, and I can't say that it makes a big difference.

On the other hand, in his analysis of E. Farrer's 'Unit testing isn’t enough. You need static typing too', the author says "The author does some analysis on how hard it would have been to find the bugs through testing, but only considers line coverage directed unit testing; the author comments that bugs might have have been caught by unit testing if they could be missed with 100% line coverage. This seems artificially weak – it’s generally well accepted that line coverage is a very weak notion of coverage and that testing merely to get high line coverage isn’t sufficient. In fact, it is generally considered insufficient to even test merely to get high path coverage, which is a much stronger notion of coverage than line coverage." OK, but is there empirical evidence that testing is actually practiced with anything approaching the rigor that he is setting as the standard of comparison here?
The tax bill changed many things.

It reduced many tax rates and it sort of eliminated corporate taxes on income earned outside the country. It added a corporate alternative minimum tax on global income that will mostly apply when income is taxed below 10% in the country where it is earned. It also added a one time tax on any earnings held overseas from prior tax years.

The one time tax is hitting companies that were holding earnings overseas. The corporate AMT will hit companies with very low global taxes.
Yeah, I agree with you. There is no relationship, and definitely not a vendor relationship, between an open source developer and someone who downloads their work and uses it in exchange for nothing.

A more sensible position seems like "lets get the bugs out fast rather than having one per architecture for the next 100 years" and making it open. But I can see that being unwise depending on how long they think it will take and how much of a hit to their reputation.
I think we agree. For living that way to not be massively depressing, as you say, it would have to be a different world. Social media would need to be different. Sociological lessons would have to be learned that prevent the internet and social media from being what they are in reality.

Thankfully at least my imagination can step out of this reality. I can see a scenario where people are spread thin and just use remote conversation instead of in-person.

I can see a world where politics and profiteering don't end up in the way of quality communications tools.