skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not too much new here except:

- focus is on Balwani, the COO who drove to work in cars with vanity plates on his sports cars that read DAZKPTL and VDIVICI

- Balwani and Holmes met in Beijing as part of a Stanford course in China, she was young and bullied by the other students and Balwani took her under his wing

- apparently Holmes and Balwani were dating, she fired him, they aren't together and because of the ongoing criminal probe have been instructed not to speak with each other

- Balwani had a small war against Glassdoor reviews including having HR post fake ones and pressuring Glassdoor into taking down overly negative ones

- Holmes' weirdly low voice was an act! She's been caught using her normal register.

- They invited VP Biden to tour a fake lab.

Man the onion layers of weirdness just never stop peeling away about this company.
Wow, I kind of feel bad for Holmes now. Seems like she really got taken advantage of and got romantic love interests confused with how to properly run a company.
I've always thought the same. Where "Evil" is the comical caricature of evil corp. Like what the 1984 Apple ad makes IBM/Xerox/Big Brother look like.
I find that highly dubious. CS degrees from where?
North Korea Cancels Talks with South Korea Due to Chinese Man Behead on EPEAK.in
Isn't hardware (server space, bandwidth and latency) the real problem, with streaming video?
I would have been more interested if the title had said Venus.
Actually, the HP Prime has exam mode.

And for high-schools, personally, I think something simpler and less expensive would be nicer.

And I also wish there would be a calculator more targeted at engineers.
I hear you.

The book I mentioned (Thinking in Promises) is the introductory-level public book.

https://www.amazon.com/Promise-Theory-Principles-Application... is the heavy-duty scientific stuff.

"In Search of Certainty" (https://www.amazon.com/Search-Certainty-Science-Information-...) is somewhere in-between.

I would say promise theory is its own kind of logic and notation. Thanks for the correction @dozzie.
I guess others downvote you because your insinuation about how Google will sneak ads into an open source project. They've never done that before, so it is rather odd accusation.
Youtube seems to offer a better user experience than facebook for users who don't have an account or aren't signed into an account. I have no data to back this up, but I suspect users with no accounts or users who aren't signed in account for a sizable portion of the youtube audience.
It would also signal to downstream investors: I don’t do my due diligence so don’t trust the companies I invest in. VC is a reputation market on both sides of the table so companies will want to take this into consideration.
When I worked in IT, I noticed a correlation between the absence of each. Those who get jobs as programmers without prior study and/or training tend to be more likely to slip up on quality delivered, deadlines met, and/or resources used. Of course, measuring those things is tricky. Some programmers ship software full of bugs so they can make more money fixing it up later, which is charged to some other account in the company.
> Their free services have no direct support channels, as expected

Why is this "as expected"? Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon all have direct support channels for free tier customers. They aren't as prompt, but it's only Google who doesn't have these things at all.
Okay, I'm familiar with that. I get it, everyone's got their own limits on what they can make light of. And sure, ditto.
Thanks! Corrected it now to remove the duplicate line.
What do you mean by scripting language?

I think that any advantage of being able to run python is moot considering that it has only 256KB of RAM.
So Amazon will just pass the cost on to the customer, like any business would.
"...the shows are weekly, focus on evergreen topics and run up to eight minutes per episode..."

That's __obviously__ not a good fit for FB. Nothing more. Nothing less. To say anything more means someone has an ax to grind.

Perhaps the title oft his article should be: "Full Disclosure; Google Paid Me to Write This"?
Andromeda-Milky Way collision
The Network Intuitive put to the test
Who owns a calculator outside of schools?

Everything can be done better and faster in a cas on a laptop.
Can someone explain what DAG stands for? Thanks.
I really hate these news sites that overload their sites with graphics like images and videos.

I long for simple websites that dont have auto playing videos that are always on some corner even when scrolled down.
Schism Tracker on the Wii
Most likely someone who feels raw about FBs stock price on its way to full recovery despite the recent scandal.
Whats the diff?
Not sure if you're intending to be snarky or not, but I mentioned the fact that I already had plenty of professional experience doing data science.
This is true.
I'm still in college.
I don't think I understand. Is it the 8 min part that isn't a good fit for FB?
If you get blocked from the Google doc proposal, strip off the /edit at the end.

i.e.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fj3yzmeU2eU8ZNBCUJG97dk_...
Thank you for the support.

I created this library only three weeks ago.
It started for my personal projects, to avoid rewriting the same logic again and again.

Right now, it has grown to a quite complete library. I am consistently adding new tools and refactoring every a few days.
> This comment's tone

I can see why you would find it odd.

> the commenter's new-ness

It's a throwaway account for personal reasons.

> extraneous details unrelated to the original thread

Well, it's related neurological symptoms. Don't see how it's unrelated.

It needs to be a double blind controlled study someday, which I am a full supporter of.

> We're all generally pro- on this, so this comment just comes off a bit shilly for me :/

If I was a shill, why would I leave no contact information?
>Youtube seems to offer a better user experience than facebook for users who don't have an account or aren't signed into an account. I have no data to back this up, but I suspect users with no accounts or users who aren't signed in account for a sizable portion of the youtube audience.

That's true for me. I'm not on FB, and even publicly-accessible pages will throw up a "Please login" screen after a few seconds. So I see very little FB content. OTOH, I watch plenty of Youtube videos, and I can see, AFAICT, all of the non-paid content even when I'm not logged in.
They kind of glossed over it, but they were romantically involved? Apart from the age difference which is creepy enough, how was this kosher given she was his superior?
Safari on mobile supports defaulting to Reading Mode for domains.
At some point it begins to be obvious when marketing is full of it - I think they passed that point and had to accept what everyone already knew.
fully supported by data at the time.

Not so much; people who -could see- the phases of Venus were in possession of -conclusive- data that it was not moving in a circle between the Earth and Sun.

"Although the extreme crescent phase of Venus has been observed with the naked eyes, there are no indisputable historical pre-telescopic records of it being observed."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phases_of_Venus

There may be no records, but that might not have stopped ANYone with keen eyesight from knowing (including the Greeks back to Aristarchus, or even the Babylonians). For 2000 years, the 'authorities' (e.g. Aristotle) were wrong.
Wayyyyyyy safer, and yet still not.
We currently only list project that are or were primarily developed by Google. We decided to include projects that started at Google and were since donated to foundations, such as Kubernetes.

But we aren't yet including projects where we are just heavy contributors, but they're not "Google projects". That includes Linux, git, LLVM, and a host of others. We do want to recognize them in our project directory, but want to make sure that they are distinguished from Google projects so that we're not implying something that is accurate.
Animals might have monopoly over land that they are physically standing on and protecting right this very second. But they have no concept of property: land in some other place far away from them that somehow remains theirs even if they aren't there or never intend to go there. That sort of property is solely a creation of the modern state.
> Balwani had a small war against Glassdoor reviews including having HR post fake ones and pressuring Glassdoor into taking down overly negative ones

This now seems par for the course. Many many companies are posting fake Glassdoor reviews (and trying to get bad ones taken down) now.
The article mentions every other chip but fails to mention Intel name. It just skips with "based on an FPGA chip". Why?

They call out every other chip with excruciating detail. This bothers me.
Can this be done in Rust?
Sadly heralding the end to an incredible run of blue boxing..
> Given the experience of trying to do this the right way, I'm utterly unsurprised that people in intense pain end up trying to DIY it.

I live in Canada, and have a doctor I report to. That being said I'm not surprised either.

Do you live in a "legal" state?
Yep, thanks for the correction.
You're right that you can get into morally gray areas, but if the military is using applications that are available to ordinary consumers, businesses, and governments worldwide, it's not really giving them an edge now is it?

We should focus our criticism on people that are doing bad things and know it. We don't need to dive into the most murky territory in order to achieve worthy effects when there's so much low hanging fruit.

With regards to novel threats, it'd be nice if the military could justify these investments without resorting to propaganda, and outright lies. There should be a clear explanation that most people would understand the necessity of and how it works in their interest.
Publishing is part of the problem. We need to be able to go from Final Cut Pro to web. It has the capability to deliver HTTP Live Streaming, but that's not supported in all browsers.

Everything from between "Final Cut Pro" and "Web Browser" needs to be standardized with easy-to-use self-publishing capabilities.

(The CDN can take care of the bandwidth)
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Hmm I’m on the fence on what this means exactly. Wording change seems to be fairly innocuous but the visuals here are not good.
Requiring Git-LFS support would be rather problematic for anyone who self-hosts git repos over SSH.
A brand publisher is in a much better position to roll with that than an indie content maker. Having worn both hats, it's strange how much your perspective changes.
New England History: Nuclear Fatality at Wood River Junction
Show HN: Yams – Parse and Emit YAML from Swift
If I were you, I would expect to receive literally pennies on the dollar.

Attorney fees will eat up a significant chunk of that $11MM.
You compare what many call AI to chat app. It's slightly different amount of work/resources needed.
The invisible hand is now the wizened old hand of a cantankerous idiot.
A Few Comments on the Latest Revelations of FBI Corruption
I think I figured out what the authors were claiming/drawing, and an actual definition: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17106193
> a 2-minute Twitter video

The moment you (meaning they) even combine these words you've missed the point of Twitter.
In all fairness, GitHub also has much to benefit from this too, playing host of the Mozilla git mirror, which also has a relatively large number of refs: https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev
Sniper Gun Assassin Shooting Game
If you aim to shoot the bad people with amazing snipers gun to check your shooting accuracy? If yes than what are you waiting for, the Sniper Gun Assassin Shooting Game contains the incredible scenario shooting missions where you are going to mess with criminals.
'Mechanical Turk' is a sweatship run by a notorious skinflint.
Maybe, but you shouldn't count on it. Perhaps a big bee is supposed to be counted as two small bees, you didn't specify when you trained it.
Yep no longer applies, 5 years late
Craig Breedlove holds 3 land speed records and at 81 he's going to try again
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17105411

(Note I work at Google, but that doesn't really matter here.)
Good thing it’s gone, they won’t have to pretend anymore.
Press F to pay respects.
Although it sounds less structured than this, I'm reminded of the Recurse Center: https://www.recurse.com/
Try HardMode (https://github.com/wikitopian/hardmode) for vim. While it also disables some other stuff, the idea is it will force you to use the more efficient movement options.
I contacted Instagram support within a few hours of the hack, but I have yet to hear back. I've bumped the thread a few times, but still silence.
I'll believe that when people begin identifying anti-Russian racism. Almost anything can be framed to look like a certain thing it wasn't.

I guess one could claim anti-Russian racism if we take all the "Russian trolls" comments as being not about the alleged actions and their contexts but rather about how that represents Russians in general to the American audience.
The PSIBER Space Deck (1989)
What I love about this is everyone designing this car is over eighty! Gerard Elverum one of the Apollo rocket designers is still working for SpaceX at ninety. These gentlemen are an inspiration for me that you never have to retire if you don't want to do so.
Sorry — that comment was meant in support of yours, with the "you" being generic :)
I just don't see smaller magazine publishers sustaining the production of video. It's extremely high cost relative to other content and they don't have the traffic or niche audience required to gather the ad revenue to support it.
Great question! My phone number isn't particularly private, but I'm not sure how exactly they found it. I have a guess, but it's pretty elaborate, so they may have found a simpler route.
I also think it was appropriate that in that thread they changed the inaccurate title to "Google de-emphasizes 'Don't Be Evil' motto in its code of conduct "
I disagree. Having been to China more than 30 times, I can tell you that the reality is worse.
>The fact that Amazon.com is starting to require Prime for discounts in physical grocery stores is absolutely news.

Let me know when the discounts are meaningful and apply to most products; then it might be news. For now, it's just a marketing gimmick or an experiment, or both, and as such, no more newsworthy than the average press release about any other marketing gimmick or experiment.
So many conspiracy theorist snowflakes in tech.
Things we’ve added in the recent weeks – The Helpmonks Experience
Technically the type should still be an Array with the backing implementation having a circular array behavior no?
Haha fair enough. If you do know someone at Instagram, please just tell them to search for me in their support inbox. I've included identity verification in my email. They could also just reach out to the email I had in my account before the hack occurred.
I definitely would not say it is a sizable portion. I'd say it is infact a minority of Youtube's audience. Their CEO revealed they have 1.8b logged in users [1] every month watching videos.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/3/17317274/youtube-1-8-billi...
Hacker News is awash with jingoist conspiracy theorists.
Clearly they're trying to guide internal ethics. "Don't be evil." suggests that it is forbidden to be evil in all circumstances. How to read the new guideline: "Do the right thing, even if sometimes it requires evil." Some big event inside must have triggered this change in stance. Like a letter requesting they capitulate on some requirement to protect or give up user data, reveal whereabouts, key escrow, or something like that.

I guess what is confusing is how subjective "the right thing" can be. If an employee were to cite this new slogan and try to address a problem with it, is the right thing to capitulate or to defend. Who is to say really.

It almost seems like it is reworded to be more vague so higher ups can just wave their hands and say these aren't the droids you're looking for. But, are they waving their hands at employees protesting the mistreatment of customer data and privacy? Or, are they waving their hands at the powers that be who want unfettered access? I guess time will tell.
> Timothy Draper, the well-known venture capitalist, had been a neighbor when the Holmeses lived in California. The children played together. “I gave her her first million bucks to get the business going,” Mr. Draper says. “She totally blows me away with her vision.” [0]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/20/business/theranos-founder...
That hasn't worked for going on a year now. The only way that I know of is to bounce through a social network link.
People master their phones pretty quickly.

If the setup feature on the iPhone 11 started by teaching you how to use a radial or pie menu system, people would swear it was the best thing Apple ever invented, that it's completely intuitive and toddlers can learn it.

(Part of this is because they say that about every Apple feature except fragile keyboards.)
Open instant messaging interconnectivity with third parties was canned.

Play Services won't install on unapproved devices anymore.

Sideloading apps doesn't work the same way on Daydream as it does for the main Android system (can't launch non-Google Play store apps inside Daydream).

BS software patents on applying arithmetic coding to video compression.

Many webpages that only work on their webbrowser.

Long-con bait and switch as they morph into Microsoft of the 90s?
Consider how much time and effort they can save not pretending. They can censor political opinions all day long.
I thought they did this years ago. I distinctly remember a big kerfuffle over it.
> The important things in life are the ones you remember with emotion and fun smiles.

Woz is really special guy.

> I opened up the little box with a screwdriver, and there were some dip switches, and I switched them to another position, and didn’t get billed for the movie.

But that was still kind of a dick move, Woz.
Also, from yesterday: Google’s Selfish Ledger is an unsettling vision of Silicon Valley social engineering

>The video was made in late 2016 by Nick Foster, the head of design at X (formerly Google X) and a co-founder of the Near Future Laboratory. The video, shared internally within Google, imagines a future of total data collection, where Google helps nudge users into alignment with their goals, custom-prints personalized devices to collect more data, and even guides the behavior of entire populations to solve global problems like poverty and disease.

>When reached for comment on the video, an X spokesperson provided the following statement to The Verge:

>“We understand if this is disturbing -- it is designed to be.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/17/17344250/google-x-selfish...
I liked the old google of the 2000s, focused on search and being scrappy and quirky. Now it’s super corporate without any real identity as far as I can see.
Shout out to Cindy and her book. She is a former colleague and I’m a big fan of her work.
My new freezer says that in the event of a power outage, if we don't open the door food will remain frozen for 48 hours. All the walls are unusually thick, which I presume indicates a lot of insulation.

Mr. Hess might want to consider adding additional insulation to the outside of his unit, especially as temperatures rise in summertime.
> I don't know how rich Haskell's support for Value vs Reference types and memory layout are but this is something you can't just wave a compiler at since it's highly dependent on your dataset and use cases.

Haskell has both value types (unboxed types) and reference types. By default, lazy reference types are the default. If you add a '!' before the types of fields in a record, you get direct pointers. If you add a '! {-# UNPACK -#}' or enable the '-funbox-strict-fields' option, you get directly embedded value types.

That being said, C has more first-class support for low-level manipulation, but if you wanted to, you could just add this kind of manipulation onto Haskell as a library. In my last company, we developed a library that used higher-kinded polymorphism and phantom types to basically make low-level memory manipulation a 'first class' value that could be reasoned about using Haskell's type system.

However, this required that you annotate your types appropriately. Nevertheless, code would end up compiling into highly efficient direct memory and register manipulation, while still having all of Haskell's typical type safety.
As with laws, rules are made up by people and followed by some.
Well if the new setting pointed at an empty room instead of an occupied room... No way to know now, I guess. I like to think he pointed it at an empty or non-existent room.
Then the correct thing to do would be to stop making the things that they don't care about.
The goal is to be much better than Algolia and Typesense's design is in some ways already so:

1. Sorting order is dynamic, unlike Algolia where you are forced to define a sort order during index creation and you are forced to duplicate your entire index when you want another sort order, e.g. sort by timestamp vs sort by ratings.

2. Run fast on commodity hardware (e.g. a decent EC2 instance) instead of requiring special dedicated hardware that costs a bomb. This is achieved by using highly optimized in-memory data structures instead of relying on fast SSDs and memory mapped I/O approach that Algolia has taken.

3. Disprove the notion that one cannot host their search themselves and need to rely on a cloud service provider. We want to make it really easy to run Typesense and manage it. We have some things to do on this front, but this is definitely the goal.
> Some big event inside must have triggered this change in stance

I don't know what triggered the change in stance but this may have triggered the removal.

Citing 'Don't Be Evil' Motto, 3,000+ Google Employees Demand Company End Work on Pentagon Drone Project [0]

[0]https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/04/04/citing-dont-be-...
There is a summer of code project this year to make GHC output SIMD code from standard Haskell code. The llvm backend does this now, but it comes at the cost of being less efficient on normal Haskell code, and also unable to access all the rich type information that GHC theoretically could.

Nevertheless, GHC has all SIMD intrinsics available for use, and they're all type checked, as you'd expect: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/ghc-prim-0.5.2.0/docs/GH...
Massive incompetence is rampant in my experience. I would expect Cisco to be no exception.