skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't mean to play it down, but honestly classifying objects and identifying crowds don't seem like super valuable outcomes from such a huge investment. I guess I expected something like "persistently label and narrow down the definition of an object over the span of multiple occasions" or "identify the intent or demeanor of a crowd".
Actually it was much better experience than HP-UX, where aCC was stuck between K&R and ANSI C, during the time I happened to do heavy UNIX development.
> The more humanist quality of some serif fonts are playing directly to a generation looking to find personal value and worth, or a warm place to feel comfort.

In other words, a low-level oscillation from an old generation of companies to a new generation who want to look different and nicer.
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"Windows 1.0"
At all? American quality of life could (and should) be better, but it’s still pretty good.
So, as someone who has only dabbled in Pony, and Rust, I'll try to give an answer. With Rust, you have to fight the borrow checker, and either work out lifetimes manually, or just copy stuff around 'by hand' -- In reality, the whole set of traits to automagically copy stuff around doesn't work. In addition, the mental overhead of Cells, mutable cells, Rcs, and ARCs, is a lot.

Pony normally works out of the box, because quite a bit can just be passed by value. You can pass by reference using reference capabilities, but there's a lot less cognitive overhead there, and a lot less fighting the compiler. I think, in the future, Pony could even derive the capabilities required automagically in many cases.

I'd say the biggest issue is less around safety, but around the I/O, and FFI models.
That's not what he meant. Gold's value as a material is pennies on the dollar for gold as an investment. When people talk about 'value' of gold, they're referring to its use as a 'store of value'.
Someone linked an article elsewhere on this post and in that article it talks about how prices differ from mobile to PC for whatever shady reason.
It's been a long time since Google just had one product. I'm sure anyone here could name a dozen.

Why say things that everyone knows to be false?
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>“(Gold) gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.”

-Warren Buffet
While anecdotal, I only know one person that still uses Microsoft office, and that is just for Excel. Everyone else is libre office or Google docs. I grew up on office but once they introduced that stupid ribbon menu I ditched it. Apparently I was not the only one.
Tether promises that for every USDT they print, they have 1 USD in a bank account.

They have provided exactly zero evidence that they indeed have 2+ billion USD sitting in some bank account somewhere. I think they even stopped pretending that they will pass an audit.

I will eat my shoe if they are not breaking their own promise, about tether being backed by USD.
Joke always was if you can ski on the east coast, you can ski anywhere.
For Microsoft...there's Android

"Financially Microsoft is one of the biggest winners from the growth of Android as a platform, thanks to its wide range of patents."

https://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/?toURL=https://www.for...
> Literacy is a low threshold.

Truly! But not low enough for the USA to be failing.

> Is it "fair" to only provide them to certain populations, those deemed most in need? If these methods are successful, why should any student be deprived of them?

The fact is, in the upper half of the American class system, educational needs are fantastically well served by redundant layers of investment. I went to an extremely well resourced public high school that made my mid-tier undergrad education a breeze.

That's not saying my school was perfect. Even it did a poor job of addressing the needs of the students at the highest risk. But this is my point. We need an attitude and behavioral shift toward truly embracing the concept that no child should be left behind without a fight.

I don't mean to sidestep your question, but you're identifying a purely hypothetical problem when we're in an ongoing educational crisis. It's kind of like saying, "won't those firehouses cause water damage to the carpet?"
I live in Upstate NY. We get snowfall, but after the storm blows out, it gets warm. This January/February, I cleared my roof of snow wearing shorts, and the temp was around 65-70.
Who knows, maybe he has one of those large-scale click farm operations.
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You assume that we're not willing to kill innocent people once we've identified a target near them. This also depends on who's being targeted. I'm not comfortable with Trump being able to murder anyone on the globe with pinpoint accuracy.
But the revised version is limited to twos complement and is still undefined, so such a check is still incorrect.
I'll take a look, thanks.
There's an issue for that: https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/issues/2079

Also you can use the Visual C++ Build Tools, which is just the compiler without the IDE.

https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc#windows-using-zip-via-bint...
http://landinghub.visualstudio.com/visual-cpp-build-tools
I'm in the same boat, at least for actix-web. The static lifetimes on the handlers (and I think state) makes some things really painful, but is also part of the reason it gets the speed it does.

The actix library is fairly nice though, but still a few cases where the use of globals and/or statics introduces problems.
Logitech Solar K750[1] has served me well. 3+ years now and still going strong.

The model that I have can be easily updated to use regular batteries, once your solar interface goes bust. [2]

[1] https://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/wireless-solar-keyboa...
[2] https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Logitech+K750+Keyboard+Battery+...
I used to "reflexively" apologize when I heard people grew up in NJ.
PyCon 2018 recap from msft
So, my next smartphone will be iPhone, even if I prefer open source. AdBlockers are just too important. Not only they protect your privacy, but they also stop some malware programs that use ads for spreading. And don't Google & Amazon already make 30% from app sales?
I just googled the email of the CEO of my company.

First hit on Google was https://www.ceoemail.com. And the email address matched the one of our Outlook server.

So it's apparently very searchable.
It depends heavily on how the money is spent, Illinois spends half the education budget on funding pensions alone [1].

89% of all education budget increases went straight to pension funding, with only 11% to the classroom. They already spend far more than other midwest states, with outcomes that lag behind Montana, Minnesota, and other frugal states.

So while I agree that education spending is critical to our future, money alone is not the magic wand.

[1] https://www.illinoispolicy.org/reports/pensions-vs-schools/
GM's Self-Driving Fleet Gets $2.25B Capital Infusion from SoftBank
I've bought a few courses from there and they've been great about refunds if I get into it and it's not what was expected.

My first experience was very good with a deep Mastering Ansible course that was released in March of this year and is totally up to date. Others have been a bit hit or miss, but I've had good luck trusting the highly rated ones.
Fred Wilson wrote a blog post recently, which argues against Buffett and Gates:

https://avc.com/2018/05/is-buying-crypto-assets-investing/

"It is clear from those words that Buffett sees crypto assets like a baseball trading card or some other form of collectible. And if that were true of Bitcoin, Ethereum, EOS, Zcash, or many other popular crypto assets, I would agree with him.

But what these crypto tokens are is entirely something else. They are the fuel that powers a new form of technology infrastructure that is being built on top of the foundational internet protocols."
Not surprised. These type of regulations tend to help the big players a lot and just cause further concentration.
All these were great visionaries in their time, but now probably long-in-the-tooth. I feel like there are countless examples of new paradigms that the old guard felt would never work out.

Despite the hype and the early days, cryptocurrencies have a very similar usage pattern as credit cards. I would argue that credit cards and the way we use them are pretty much digital currency. That being said, there is a huge amount of improvements needed and the over-hype is just a turn-off for most.
Pretty simple - new users get a cheaper price.

Mobile apps also won't match up, the prices are controlled by their own tier structures. e.g. $10.99 on a website might translate to 13 euros for a dude on the app in France.
Yes, but to accomplish that you would have to use the MAP_FIXED flag, which is quite dangerous because it can replace previous mappings. That can lead to problems with dynamic memory allocation since almost all malloc() implementations use anonymous mmap.
Off the cuff:

CHapp, CHappy, Chat-Chat, Chattre or Chatte[French], Talk-Talk(TT), Talk-Back, Back-Talk, Bark, Bark-Back(BB) & BB King (its upgrade), Begorrah!(just an Irish word I like).

Best is something that sticks to memory instantly.
They were NSA employees and IBM engineers. There are no blanket prohibitions on travel for NSA folks, although I believe there are more or less 'don't go there' advisories about specific places. I also imagine there are folks there who know things that put them in special travel categories.

I don't think the IBMers had any special conditions imposed on them.
Gates & Buffet are right.

As an "Asset Class" - which this article makes principle - cryptocurrency is absolute insanity.

But having a trustless, semi-distributed, potentially anonymous, and global currency that we can send to anybody in the world via the internet in a few seconds - or even via an offline mesh network - is an incredible, exciting innovation.

And the sad thing is that point is of course not lost on Gates who - buried far under the lead - "touted its ability to push out third-party intermediaries, such as banks, while also keeping a secure and permanent record of transactions between two parties."
Here are two thoughts on tech interviews. One controversial and one (hopefully) not.

1. It's good that companies like Google are able to reassess their hiring policies and learn what works and what doesn't. It's easy to criticize companies for doing things that don't make sense or that we know to be bad, but often these things looked like good ideas at the outset and you need some amount of trying new things (many of which won't work out and may have negative consequences) in order to improve things.

2. The way hiring works in tech isn't really that bad. It doesn't really measure what matters for job performance but tech pays well and so many people want to do it that you need barriers to entry. The real losers of the hiring process are the companies that waste lots of money on inefficient hiring practices. If you compare the effort required to get a high paying tech job (really just doing practice problems for a few weeks/months) to any other high paying, professional field we have it much better.
I don't really know what about it conveys clickbait. Gates and Buffett have gone on the record numerous times saying that they bet Bitcoin will fail long term. That said, HN does love to hate on Bitcoin. I find there's something cathartic about these weekly Bitcoin bashing threads.
But instead of applying the tax rules they simply decided to not sell to Australia anymore. I believe OP is sad about the accelerating move to a more fragmented internet.
> AI winters are a result of a massive disparity between the expectations of the general public and the reality of where the technology currently sits.

A symptom of capitalism and marketing trying to push shit they don't understand
Really fun read.
>Plus I'm pretty sure you could develop "adversorial shoes" for this...

Add/remove some weight from your non-wheeled luggage.
Hurry not, Apple did the very same thing last year: https://9to5mac.com/2017/07/15/apple-reportedly-shifts-app-s...
Many positive comments - am I the only one who doesn't like these declarative yaml, markdown, dsl things? No offence to the author(s), it's probably well implemented, I just can't stand these things primarily because of the lack of types, I never know what I'm looking at. I would much rather read comments and code.
While I agree with most of your points, this one seems arguable:

> Microsoft Excel remains the default lingua franca of business. Google Docs and Spreadsheets has not replaced Office.

Google Docs, Sheets and Slides have taken over the education market from elementary school through college, and for many businesses Google's offerings have become interchangeable with Microsoft's. Outlook and Excel still have a strong hold on larger companies because Google hasn't matched features, but Google Docs are much easier to share and collaborate with coworkers.
No, you have "Click Here to manage your settings" with 10 different pop ups and laundry lists of people you can opt out of having your data shared with. Some of those require you to disable cookies to opt out of their collection too, rather than allowing you to opt out via them.
I wonder if there should be a similar law to the “right to repair” automotive laws, but for general software installation or removal for other devices?

If a company both controls the production of the device and the sole means by which a user can install software on the device, then maybe the company should be legally obligated to host some app, or jump through hoops to get approval to ban an app, or the app can go through an appeal process to argue if the ban is anti-consumer.

I’m not saying this applies to Google or Amazon right now, under the current mechanisms for installing software on devices. I’m sure it’s a complicated issue.

But I think it’s a fair and important question.
really? have a friend who interviewed there pre GM acquisition. said it was a colossal joke of a place, engineering wise. and hes worked at some sh*thole startups, so i take his word for it.

honestly, it was 100% luck GM took notice of them. weren't many other alternatives around at that time. GM buying them spurred the explosion of self-proclaimed software/full stack self driving startups we see today.

So Im not as impressed with the achievements so far as I am with the absolute dumb luck these guys have had. Kudos, i guess.
Am trying this out as soon as I get a chance. Part of Stdlib serverless API intergrations. Target is a workflow for interns and junior devs to get up to speed and build quickly :0
A sample size of 200 is a 93% confidence level. The company is international, and so is the diversity. I guarantee we don't all have the same experiences and backgrounds.
I'd be very interested to hear you up unpack your prediction of "decades away." It seems possible to predict technology developments for the next few years, but I struggle to see how predicting decades away can have any evidence or meaning. I think what people mean is "this isn't theoretically impossible but no-one has any idea how to build it and it may in fact be impossible or impractical." Tech that's decades away probablly shouldn't receive any corporate r&d dollars at all.

Given how many billions are being currently spent on self driving, there's going to be a lot of dissapointed investors if they've just been sold snake oil, and anything decades out absolutely is snake oil in the corporate world.
While I benefited from that deduction, it never seemed fair that that the rest of the country had to kick in a tiny bit extra to give upper middle and above taxpayers a break.
Remote workers are the golden goose for local governments. Working from home means they aren't commuting, so no increased peak demands on roads or transit. And they are all 20-somethings who don't need healthcare nor have school-age children. Like crypto-mining, remote workers sit quietly in their rooms. Feed them electricity and internet and they generate tax dollars. It's all a myth. Such people do not exist.
Maybe they should focus on the quality of ads, because currently they are complete garbage. And privacy invading.
I'm not surprised; in SLRs at least, Canon was never the dominant film camera company with the biggest customer base. Their SLR business did not catch up to and pass Nikon until the digital era.

Canon's decision to put the AF motor in the lens helped them in verticals that use huge telephotos (sports, mostly). But their film cameras lagged Nikon in the sophistication of their AF, their automated exposure control, and especially their flash exposure control. These were all big deals in the era when every frame was precious and mistakes were hidden until it's too late (after the film was developed).

In digital cameras their AF system is now on par, and auto exposure is just less important in general because of the ease of reviewing and post-processing for exposure. They started moving past Nikon about 15 years ago by creating sensors that were cheaper, larger, and had lower noise. Since then they have filled in gaps in their lens lines, and used their expertise in video, to maintain their lead.
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The article implies he was dong just that. It's right there in the quote. Am I misunderstanding what you're saying?
> He had never visited the site before searching for this course, and I had never heard of it.
Wow, given this and the AI system it sounds way too much like Psycho-Pass. Pretty horrific indeed.
As a former mediocre teacher, I strongly don't believe that mediocre teachers are our problem. It shouldn't take superheroes to teach. But that's what's required given the way our educational system is set up. That strategy has no hope of scaling.
Nice try, NSA!
Ask HN: How to Monetize Google Drive Apps?
Hi,

I wanted to see if anybody was able to monetize apps through Google Drive.

For example, I have this idea of connecting to user's GDrive account and giving him some additional value on top of that. Let's say user see some benefits from my app. How can I earn money? Is it possible with Google?

Any examples and comments will be very much appreciated.
Accept and process payments using online business forms
If people don't like it, they are free to direct their governments to enact and enforce anti-trust laws that address these platforms.
Maybe it's the communist ideals, or maybe it's the reality of governing over one hundred cities with populations over one million, but personal liberty is valued less than social order and economic advancement in the Chinese goverment.

I think it's more dystopian for all governments to have the same ideals and policies than for different governments to have different ideals and policies. It's okay that China is different.
Give Google a little more credit. They have 7 separate products with over 1 billion users each [0]. Search, Gmail, Android, Chrome, Maps, Youtube and the Google Play Store.

[0]: https://www.popsci.com/google-has-7-products-with-1-billion-...
The ribbon menu is quite excellent and makes office usable again. I know so many people that use office, it's also the standard suite in my workplace and probably most others that aren't startups. I much prefer latex and git for doing editing but word is quite functional.
VMs/Containers are just the loss leader to a whole set of differentiated services.
Do you realize if you did this at scale how much faster you could look through recordings ? And that this is a manual process currently? Also, they are just starting out .
I find them incredibly tiresome, and they've lowered my opinion of HN as a whole.
Having grown up in the Northwest and lived on the West Coast my whole life, I think my expectations of how beautiful the Northeast would be was a bit skewed by media/popular culture.

I really enjoyed my first trip to to Boston/Portland/Acadia, but TBH, the more rural areas felt a lot more like a Disneyland version of nature curated for tourists from the "big city". It didn't live up to the hype, which I think is targeted at people who have lived in the hyper-dense-and-flat Boston/DC/NYC area and nowhere else.

I'm really not trying to dump on the area, it was quite nice, I'm just saying no more so than most rural places I'm used to. Of the whole trip, frankly, Portland was my favorite. It felt "just right" in terms of size and culture.
Thats great about refunds and since I read the comments before the article on this I thought the article might about refunds.

Coursera had very poor service when I asked for a refund on a ~$500 course before the course actually began. Used to do heaps of free and paid courses online and that experience actually turned me off them completely...
Let's face it: our brains could probably qualify as weapons of mass destruction if we were so inclined.
Learning to negotiate
i am in the industry and it absolutely is still a pipe dream. 20+ years away, easily.
Decisions Made Easy with Group Choices in Online Business Forms
Apple also blocks VPN-based adblockers from their appstore, and unlike Android you cannot easily sideload apps on iOS.

There's technically a way to do it, but you need to plug your phone into your computer and re-push them every 7 days, unless you pay $99/year for a developer license. Or jailbreak, of course, which has its own problems.
Well, they should quit pissing off hard-working gun owners who reside there! Those feel-good laws they just passed have angered a lot of people, all to play up to the usual loud voices who are wrong/misguided about public policy.
The point is that binfmt_misc could allow you to run unstrusted code in a context where you were not expecting to run any code.

For instance, if I do "./budget.pdf", I expect it to run the code from my pdf reader. In this case, an attack would require exploiting a vulnerability in the pdf reader. That is to say, budget.pdf is not untrusted code, but rather untrusted data.

However, in this case the unstrusted data can claim that it is code; in which case it would be executed as such.

In contrast, when I do `evince budget.pdf`, the only way for budget.pdf to become code is to trick the pdf reader into thinking it is code.

Granted, this is largely a moot point as most people would be using a GUI file manager; which already has a common interface for running programs and opening data files; and already automatically determines which action to take.
Not sure "Births below replacement rate" is dystopian, "uncontrolled and unsustainable population growth" definitely is. Sadly, what we have is the latter
This is a five-year old article about something Google stopped doing in about 2010.

But on the off chance you're 8 years behind the times, it turns out that those infamous brainteasers were completely useless for hiring at Google.
There was a good blog post and discussion about your point here on HN 9 months ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15007942
Last time I looked at a “system-wide” adblocker, it was just a vpn service with proxied your traffic (not just DNS) through a who-knows-what server. That seemed really sketchy to me, and I doubt most users knew the implications of it.
They only make money on ads, though. Unless I'm missing something...
> They're under no obligation...

Except the obligation created by their customers doing business elsewhere, of course.
The problem is that on an iPhone you are locked into those
applications in the Apple App store (unless you jailbreak).
On an Android device, you can install 3rd party applications
directly. AdGuard, for example, has a stand alone method
for direct downloads.
Fetanyl is a prescription opioid, why did you separate the two?

And what does it have to with China "dumping" it? FDA approved Fetanyl and American doctors are prescribing it. It's on us to reign it in.
Quartz's logo seems pretty sans to me
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