skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue that we might be in a Research bubble(who knows.. I don't have a clue) but we are definitely not in "using the ML for practical problems bubble".

Amount of industries and businesses that can benefit not from the state of the art but from stuff that been known for years now and just works because it was developed for harder problems is huge. The big return/promise companies are vacuuming up all the talent while niches all over the place can benefit from someone spending few month cleaning up data and using some transfer learning to save them a ton of $$.

For these application you don't need PhD you need an engineer who knows how to ship stuff but on other hand also knows how to work with current DL frameworks.
Seems like a slightly simplified study but I think it does highlight a pervasive problem. There's too much money chasing increasingly limited strategies. Things like start-arb and momentum used to be pretty new and relatively obscure 10 years ago but now your every-day retail trader has probably heard about them and your friendly neighbourhood data-service provider includes all sorts of factor indices as a package.

I used to be a trader at a bank, the entire field/discipline of trading is a gross distortion in terms of the work they do and what they are compensated. The increasing competition sort of makes it even more twisted, the amount of effort and technology being used to squeeze out returns and enrichen these fund managers doesn't really make sense to me.

I think this post (not very objective or scientific to be citing quora but I think it gives good insight) sort of shows the kind of brain drain finance has on society.

https://www.quora.com/Do-hedge-funds-use-the-generalized-met...

These are really smart people staring at mostly random price data all day and applying increasingly obscure techniques to eek out a signal just so they can squeeze some money out of the guy at the other end. Why????
Founders apparently got 50%.

GitHub had 2 funding events.

https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/github-series-b--49...

$250M at pre-money valuation of $1.8B i.e. 13%.

https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/github-series-a--83...

$100M at valuation of $650 i.e. 15%

So ~28% to VC, 50% to founders, which leaves 22%

How much of that was actually allocated, I don't know.
Cyberfascism [video]
Camry Hybrid engine gets an oil change and other maintenance every 10k miles.

They have a 5k mile checkup between the 10k, but that's mostly to straighten your floor mats and make sure they're locked in place. (Toyota had an unintended acceleration lawsuit years ago, partly due to the floor mat blocking the brake pedal.)
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>It's not the founders' fault. They acted in their own self-interest, and did not volunteer information that would have negatively impacted their position.

This is a super capitalist thing to say. Anyone can understand _why_ the founder acted in their own self interest here, but to say it's not their fault is to just remove all agency from them.

Maybe it's in my best interest to have someone murdered so I can take over their business. Would you say it's not my fault if I did so?
As bad as smartphones might be, I hope you're not seriously trivializing actual implants by comparing them to smartphones.

You can leave your smartphone at home.
Tons of stuff get loaded during login, hard to go through each one and code the proper urls and POST params etc, quicker to write login code.
Never allow third-party cookies.
Challenge accepted. BMW 320i base is $34k. BMW 340i xDrive with all the trimmings is a hair over $60k.
> No, but it empowers thousands of hateful business owners...

I do not think deanCommie meant a legal empowering. Only that many will feel more justified in their hate and act on it to the detriment of society as a whole.
Coffee is pretty much all I drink. My coffee can (Folgers) claims it will make 380 cups. I go through a can about once every 2 months... so ~400*6 = 2400 cups per year.

There is a fine line to walk. I can't read my computer screen when I first wake up until the coffee kicks in. The upper limit is reached when my ears close up (like when you're under water). The game is to sip coffee to keep between these two extremes.

As for "alertness"? I find that coffee seems to have no effect. Eating, however, completely trashes alertness.

Your mileage may vary.
Bill Gates was born to a rich family with connections, so he basically did win the lottery
Whether this is true, rumor, or else: this. You could buy 20 cars like this for under the price of a model 3. Really, at the end of the day, everything is about just getting from point A to B!
Short answer is no. It's one broken measure against other broken measures. Taxes get raised because the budget goes up, but the budget goes up for more stupid reasons (greed and corruption) than good ones, and spending is woefully misallocated.
https://status.party/422/ is NXDOMAIN, not sure that was the error you intended. ;-)
> We wanted implementors of type systems for ruby to start collaborating, in particular on a repository of typed shims.

I see. Do you see this being a mono-repo of types that's under a Sorbet org or something Sorbet looks for in a gem if provided? Opening issues for a project's types with Typescript has been somewhat painful since many live in one repo [1].

1 - https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
You need to make it a business where you could allow 99% of your users to pay you $0 and still survive. Meaning a small segment of your users pay for 'enterprise' or advanced features to sustain your business.

Support/services is not a scalable business model.

There have been a few companies that had a moderately successful open source project, but saw their business fold.
The alarm app on iOS can run into an issue where it will not play sound regardless of any other setting. It has existed in many versions of iOS. It has happened in iOS 10 and iOS 11, I don't know about the previous versions.

They fix is to reboot the phone.

I cannot trust it for critical alarms, so a simple device by the bed is required again.
The "preference" of whether you submit to a dictator because you have no choice or {nothing here because you have no choice}.

Free software is what gives you a choice. Then you can prefer it to proprietary software or not. But replying "it's a preference" to an article trying to explain what free software is and isn't and why it exists, makes no sense. "Why it exists" or "what it means" is not a preference.
Hey, without digging into any of the rest of your argument, which I'm not especially interested in, but just because this one part of the argument is bugging me:

Abbotabad is famously Pakistan's version of West Point, and we're meant to be shocked that UBL could be in a house just two miles from Pakistan's West Point.

Pull up a map of West Point, NY. Trace a circle 2 miles around it. Is this an especially difficult area to hide in? Is Philipstown, NY carefully patrolled by military intelligence? It doesn't look like it is, but I'm unfamiliar with the area.
Probably the last couple decades saw custom PC building decline in market share as prebuilt solutions became mainstream, but perhaps it's seeing a resurgence now that most consumers have moved from focusing on computers to focusing on smartphones as their personal tech hub.
The photographer stresses slightly raising one's lower eyelids (what he calls "squinching" -- a slight form of squinting), but if you notice, most of the examples he gives show people also slightly smiling more when they do this.
Enterprise purse strings are controlled by support and checkboxes, with developer experience a distant third.

After all, the people buying the software/service aren't the ones who are going to be using it every day.
In the article, they haven't said why they think FB is "back on the defensive". They just rehashed the whole controversy, no new events seem to have occurred.
> decades of experiments have shown that the alternatives are all, most likely, wrong

How?
Not a recent trend but online communities act as a catalyst.
I built something similar about a year ago experimenting with AWS's API Gateway. https://mock.codes/ The landing page is an S3 file, and everything is just API Gateway configs.

There used to be a similar service hosted on the same domain that eventually went dead. I bought the domain and brought up this service again. It barely gets used (haven't checked usage in a while) but I've already paid for the domain and it costs me pennies to keep it up and running.
I didn't use the word "cabal". I used "conspiracy". "They have little insignias, these coins they pass among each other, which are crusader coins." Those are his words. I don't think I'm reaching too far.

(The funny thing is, I think he's talking about challenge coins --- that is, I think he's another civilian confronted by the lunacy that is challenge coin culture and believing that it must be some crazy thing that just a few people in the government are doing because they're out of their skulls, and not a weird thing that everyone in the federal government does because they are all collectively out of their skulls. You saw the same thing with claims about Trump minting his own special currency --- and Obama before that.)
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I can’t wait for dark mode. Awesome
I'm not sure about that. Or maybe Adobe just doesn't care. My 2017 Macbook Pro has horseshit graphical bugs in both Illustrator and Photoshop. I'm exclusively doing all my graphics work on my Windows 10 machine now (even though windows and my Wacom tablet do not play nice together.)
I think it might have been .party originally but was later changed to .icu
JetBrains: user disapproval of monochrome icons
Reports of sterile neutrino’s resurrection may be greatly exaggerated
such figures wont last forever once smartphones are sufficiently mature and there is no performance difference from one model to the next.
Yeah, we went with three years (after close of the acquisition). If we didn't have a timeframe, I'd never get paid. :O I'd be inclined to pay my friend back if it happened sometime reasonably thereafter though.
I suspect that is exactly the kind of ritual he was talking about.
Probably not the full credit, unless you have a spot in line already. The phase out starts during the quarter when the company hits 200,000 total deliveries. If we assume this is going to be July 1st, then the $7,500 credit is good for Q3 and Q4. This takes us to December 31st.

At this point, the credit is reduced to $3,750 for 6 months and then to $1,875 for 6 months.

Using a lot of speculation and extrapolation, I would estimate that if someone placed an order now and wanted a standard model they would still probably be able to hit either the $3,750 or $1,875 credits.
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Ah, just noticed that. I'll let the current devs know! Thanks!
Yes I meant RSA key, sorry. My source is that 2^2048 is an enormous number and the time estimate for a desktop computer to crack it is in the quadrillions of years. Yes, I know the NSA has higher computing power than a desktop computer.
This sounds good on paper but I don't feel we see all that many real examples of this sort of model (engineer + niche problem) or at least haven't heard of them. But then again if we did I guess that opportunities already gone or saturated.
This is a followup to the first article where they confused the ability to use a device to access Facebook functionality (e.g. upload photos) without using the app or browser with giving a third party the ability to access Friend data.

The common understanding seems to be that Facebook is allowing device manufacturers to download user data the same way that Cambridge Analytica and other third party services did.

So far, they haven't shown that device manufacturers are siphoning that data to their own databases short of the statement "Facebook acknowledged that some partners did store users’ data — including friends’ data — on their own servers" (in the original article, no explanation of context). What they have shown is that Facebook gave device manufacturers the ability to let users use the device to interact with their Facebook accounts without using the web browser.
“These apps might have the same overall feel as their mobile counterparts but key user interactions will have to be updated for the desktop environment”

Hm seems like this mitigates some of the advantage of porting over to macOS this way. If you have to make nontrivial changes to your code anyway to have it work right.

This just feels like something no one was asking for, but I guess there must be a community waiting for this or some reason for Apple to put the time in.
The idea of constitutional limits on government sounds "silly and dangerous" to you?
Can't take credit for the 3D visualizations! That's all 3Dmol.js (https://github.com/3dmol/3Dmol.js). Fantastic work overall out of the University of Pittsburgh!
5 of 7 Mac models marked “Don't buy”
so much so that someone created a "Legacy Icon Pack for IntelliJ 2018.2+"

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/10777-legacy-icon-pack-...
Those aren't the expensive parts on a BMW, look up what a headlight assembly runs for instance.
Some would say that paywalls, subscriptions, and in-app purchases ("freemium") models are also cancerous.

Generally, all business models favor growth, not steady state. No matter what Apple is saying now, they face the same pressure that everyone else is to show quaterly growth, continuously. Sooner or later, saturation will hit smartphone sales, performance will plateau, and they will need to seek out ways to either monetize their platform, or nickel-and-dime the users and developers even more.

It is the constant need for growth that is the basis for cancer, and sooner or later, a company either accepts it is no longer a growth company, or it starts to involve itself in little evils that accumulate over time.

Don't believe me? Look at Apple kowtowing in China. Moving iCloud users to unsecure platforms, banning VPNs, and who knows whatever backdoor deals they made with the CCCP to stay on good terms with Beijing. They have sold a little part of their soul in exchange for a huge market in China, and continued ability to manufacture their phones with cheap labor, all to preserve margins and growth. And now they're stuck, Beijing threatens, they'll bend over. In the US, they'll strenuously and publicly fight back against similar measures, but in China, Tim Cook will go to an internet conference and praise how they've managed the internet in China.

Once you're beholden to shareholders, you don't have much choice.
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The time has come
I can imagine him trying to explain his excitement about finding this to his wife, then her patting him on the head and her saying "that's nice honey". Underscoring the amount of effort involved in such a seemingly trivial things that nerds enjoy digging into.
Yuuuuup.

Cocoa developers tend to think it's all very apparent though. Was actually counting down until a comment like that appeared. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> This bubble is worsening unemployment.

By what measure?
> The only thing that is broken is firewalls. Specifically, nobody wants to force network administrators to fix them, so instead they're trying to work around them. Not only is this unnecessary, it's stupid, and just a cheap workaround for something which should have been solved by the industry 18 years ago, but is now left to be wrangled by 3 companies with leverage over users.

Solving this is known as "the robustness principle," aka "internet engineering." Expecting every device in between every two points on the internet to a) work reliably and b) not make questionable decisions about packets that it can parse has never worked. Successful internet protocols, e.g. TCP and HTTPS, are those which put the least reliance on the network to behave reasonably. Unsuccessful ones, e.g. IPv6, are the ones that put the most reliance on the network to behave reasonably.

It's true that the successful ones are nowhere as pretty as the unsuccessful ones. But for most people, success is more important.
There's a big difference between the "Christian fundamentalism" of Bush and Boykin and Hersh's Knights of Malta line: Bush and Boykin are Protestants, and the Knights of Malta is a Catholic order. (So is Opus Dei.)
I'm guessing it will still reach the front page of HN and reddit.
Also, just to follow up on my original comment... from what I saw over on Twitter, 10.14 finally implicitly layer-backs apps by default, so the first point becomes much less of a nuisance than it used to be. Apps have to be linked against 10.4, mind you, but yeah.

Props to Apple for finally fixing it.
Ha. You are in for some rough lessons my friend.
>Having previously owned a used BMW: I wouldn't touch a BMW without a warranty with a 20ft pole.

Yeah, i'd agree if we were talking about traditional cars, and this comes from someone who has wrenched on every bolt of their BMW.

As far as the DIY repair-ability of BMW's electric cars? About the same as every other electric car -- which is to say 'near-zero', unless we're talking about wiper blade replacement level stuff.
One of my friends moved from New York to West Virginia, and got a lot of funny looks from her New York friends. She ended up meeting more interesting people there than she'd met in New York. I went to visit, and also ran across more interesting people there than I have in New York.

Urbanites can be pretty provincial in their own ways.
Forgot to mention previously but GitLab is already on the same fate, waiting for an acquisition or IPO: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17234167
Although USD's native binary format compresses integer topology data, mesh (and curve) point, normal, and uv data is laid out in arrays that can be directly uploaded to a gpu from the file system with zero copies or processing.

It is true that there are several more software layers in USD between file-open and mesh-data-extraction, but to the earlier "forward looking" comment, what you get for that are built on features for allowing clients to select variations with smart/sparse updating, and serious scalability features, for larger scenes. These are all features that have been added since USD's release, and there is still quite a lot of development underway.

No knocks on glTf, which does a great job at what it's designed for. But maybe Apple is looking at a different future?
GPU and MPI support in Stan coming hopefully this summer!
What I think is really interesting is that there is public appetite for outrage against the tech giants. Hence why this article was published even though there is not a whole lot more information.

Public outrage often results in low hanging fruit for political movements to pick and use for their own gain.

If this snowballs some more I expect reactionary politicians and reactionary policies to rear their ugly head.
Do you think the using 'facebook.com' in Apple's demonstration of their social media blocking feature at WWDC was deliberate?
The only AR app that makes sense on a phone is navigation. Games don't. Without glasses, pretty much everything else is too tedious: super small viewport, muscle fatigue from holding the viewpoint.
OpenGL is very much a second class citizen on Windows. Mass-market OpenGL apps like browsers currently use ANGLE to emulate OpenGL on top of D3D. Native OpenGL is used in professional apps that can make demands on GPU and driver setups.

(Many toolkits, like Qt and Cocos2d, also use ANGLE on Windows for OpenGL functionality)
I always thought the term 'provincial' was backward - urbanites have been embedded in their support infrastructure - their city - all their lives. They are inordinately proud of how they are integrated into it seamlessly. I call it 'dependent'. I've been to the city; I've also lived significant amounts of time (decades) outside it. Without all that infrastructure. Who is more 'provincial'? Who less capable of moving confidently through challenging environments?
Should add 204, useful for frame-busting busting: https://blog.codinghorror.com/we-done-been-framed/
I'll second that it's the least stable. It broke a whole load of stuff I needed for work. I eventually fixed it up (or found kludgy workarounds...) but I definitely resent encountering that immediately after updating.
That's a really cool idea. However the search (or maybe the transcript?) is truly terrible. I can't find anything at all, or it's grossly inaccurate.
Apple can get away with that on iOS, but they're a lot more conservative with macOS.

To expand on your example, I maintain a legacy app that is stuck in 32-bit land because it relies on the QuickTime framework. QuickTime has been deprecated for seven years, and the transition to 64-bit has been in progress for over a decade, and yet my legacy app runs just fine even under the Mojave beta. There are multiple time bombs lurking in that app, and one of these days I'm going to have to rewrite it from the ground up, but I've been astonished at how long it has lasted.

Apple knows it would be bad karma to make a large number of legacy apps and games suddenly break on the Mac. They're not idiots; they have a perfectly good idea of the scale of mutiny that would ensue. So I'll eat my hat if OpenGL doesn't continue to work for at least the better part of the next decade.
Interestingly, it's available in Swift only, not Objective C: https://twitter.com/jckarter/status/1003768142407987200
GM may not be the only one. Other commenters have made a similar claim about the i3 in this thread - that BMW don't want to sell many.

Ford abandoned the sedan market, as they couldn't make money on small, efficient cars. (This is something that Henry Ford Jr told Lee Iacoca in the 1970s, according to Iacoca's autobiography - they'll never make money on small cars.)

Toyota is converting their fleet to hybrids to meet these standards. Nissan has been pushing the Leaf for several years, alongside a temporary Altima hybrid. Chrysler has the Pacifica, a plug-in hybrid van.
This is not a concern that many real people have, just people on HN.

In the real world, people trust companies and context contracts with companyies to protect them. Eg all the people using clouds like azure.
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/08/17/the-premium-mediocre-l...

Anybody click through to read this? Awesome.
facebook.com is the largest social media site out there.
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