skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dug up a relevant quote, just for kicks...

"Americans mythologize competition and credit it with saving us from socialist bread lines. Actually, capitalism and competition are opposites. Capitalism is premised on the accumulation of capital, but under perfect competition all profits get competed away. If you want to create and capture lasting value, don't build an undifferentiated commodity business."

- Peter Theil, Zero to One
I don’t understand this comment. Google Photos doesn’t support HEIF at all - the iOS app converts them to JPEG on the fly when you upload them.
Litigation aside, the founders of Smyte seem pretty culpable here. I would be wary of using another service that they created, given a demonstrated willingness to turn it off without any notice.
$6,000 today, $450 back then
> Maven believe that building software that enables one government to enact (more) drone strikes against civilians in other countries is contrary to the mission of making people's lives better.

I think that's a mischaracterization that's important to correct in the name of accuracy:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/30/technology/google-project...:

> The polarized debate about Google and the military may leave out some nuances. Better analysis of drone imagery could reduce civilian casualties by improving operators’ ability to find and recognize terrorists.

Also, a lack of "AI"-based image analysis hasn't stopped the US military from carrying out airstrikes with drones, and denying them better analysis tools is unlikely to cause them to reduce their frequency. The US military tries to avoid civilian casualties while still performing its mission, so giving it the tools to do so could arguably prevent civilian noncombatant deaths.
I‘m using Apple devices since 12+ years and never regret that I switched. The Apple support is the biggest plus. All the other 4 reasons are absolutely valid and keep me in the eco-system. It comes with a high price tag. But as I get the latest updates for iOS devices I have no need to change my iPhone every 2 years - I‘m fine with my iPhone 6. Perhaps until autumn this year...
https://www.stanfordlawreview.org/online/is-the-foreign-inte...

99.97% warrants were approved by FISC between 1979 and 2012.
UN Report on US poverty
It’s suprisigly complicated. The first link seems not to have had success (but it’s a surprisingly interesting read) and the second suggests that a specific, nearly extinct bee is needed.

http://www.aos.org/orchids/additional-resources/pollinating-...

https://seeds.ca/pollination/tales/vanilla-without-the-bee
> Her plan was for them to be a pro football player

The NBA has been trying to do a better job about educating people on the reality of professional sports.

A lot (the vast majority) of people overestimate children / youth skill, especially parents.

The NBA has been big on trying to encourage players even beginning to start college ball as taking college seriously, and by more than just empty words. Saying things like "There are 350+ NCAA basketball teams, each with a roster of up to 13 players. There are two draft rounds, 60 players. Even adjusting for four years of college players, there is less than a 3% chance you will be drafted to the NBA, even if you play college ball".

There is even at high levels, a huge disparity of quality and talent.

When I grew up in Australia, before refereeing basketball at a very high level, I was involved in cricket. I remember a promo event, where two international cricketers from India visited a local club.

They faced off against the kids, and just hit balls around the field gently for them to run and get.

Then they faced off against the state team.

Every single ball was hit out of the park, without a hint of exaggeration. Some with a bounce or two, but every single one hit the fence. Fast, slow, good, bad, it didn't matter. It was just effortless. I think that did a lot to dawn on people who thought "My kid/adult son is playing at the state level, he could be like these guys one day". Maybe. But most likely not.

So I do like that there is some (though not enough) effort at saying "Hey, you need a fallback, because you almost certainly will need it". Even earlier than college, if needed.
when people you consider senior come to you for advice
No need to get into it online. Simply put there are situations that can be successfully automated, like hailing taxis. There are also situations where we automate them to our detriment, like in this case.

Also, yes! I would ask a librarian to search for me! Librarians are AWESOME and can find things in places you didn't think to look. Everyone should ask a librarian in addition to doing their own Google search.
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FDA didn't claim the advertised medicine was counterfeit, only that some companies in the industry ship counterfeits.

Anyway, yeah, I'd assume that the individuals who don't want to build for the military don't want to build for counterfeit pharmacies. Other individuals would do both. Google has many employees.
> And it is only free for baseline ( Whatever that means )

To be fair, the same was true of the original JPEG when it was released. JPEG also has an optional arithmetic coder based on IBM's Q-coder, which was heavily patented at the time. To this day, no one implements that, even though it does improve the compression and even though IBM's patents have long expired.
The term API has evolved to mean "a RESTful web service", almost always run by a company or organization. This surprised me on multiple occasions.

Kind of like how "cookie" is not web specific but unless mentioned in an explicitly nonweb context, it means browser cookies.
JPEG2000 has a lossless mode. This isn’t crucial for snapshots, but it is important for things like medical imaging. We have a CT scanner that spits out JPEG2000 volumes (wrapped inside DICOM files).
In my company, Slack has replaced email and Skype, so that we have fewer tools to search rather than more.

The marginal gain is lightweight group discussion, and the ability to pull people into a conversation that's already in progress.

It actually lightens the cognitive load of which you speak by organizing information by topic.
Space stations are expensive to maintain, experience a day/night cycle in the sort of orbits you'd have to use, and can't have cables either...
The article you quoted says "there seems to be no apparent benefit to an extensive routing of the nerve supplying the larynx," but it doesn't mention or address the three reasons I cited above.
How is drone warfare keeping us safe?
Make that two coffees!
can't read through the paywall, but what's TSMC got to do with it?

Intel, Micron, GlobFo and Samsung all have fab capacity in the US.
Minimizing UI pageantry is critical when growing through the 1st to 1000th use of an interface.

I'm not here to work for my device, it's here to work for me.

Interface feedback on making a selection is possible in many ways.
Yeah, I've got to agree here. The problem with constructs like generics and co/contravariance is that they can (not will, but can) make code very hard to read, so you start to lose the ability to completely understand your code as you're scanning it with your eyes, whereas a situation where a class instance is simply being "re-cast" from an ancestor type to a descendant type to "help" the compiler is very easy to understand (although, I would definitely recommend a healthy dose of comments around such code). And, as you say, you can always use a run-time "is-a" check to make sure that you properly handle any violations at run-time that could bring the whole application down.

Of course, there are different metrics for different types of applications, and I'm sure that there are applications that need this level of type soundness as a matter of safety. However, I would surmise that most LOB applications are primarily interested in coding productivity and, as you say, these types of issues start to work against that productivity past a certain point.
> "whatever, they're all soft, tattooed millionaires anyway"

Despite my disdain for spectator sports "soft" is never a word I would use for their athletes. If anything, I would expect those who have had to work so hard and stay disciplined would be able to roll that discipline over into fiscal responsibility.
>China has so far invested over $40 billion in boosting their chip-making abilities, to acquire capital, IP, and knowledge-workers.

There is a rumour going that the ministry of commerce has been given a war chest of ~$140B+ to establish self sufficient semiconductor industry in China. I can guess that those $40B is just a part of it that was spent on direct funding of their chipmakers. Another big part probably goes to "one day funds" like Canyon Bridge Capital that appear out of nowhere with few billion bucks just to disappear a year later when they are done buying a target company.
Elon Musk is some kind of enlightened prophet to most techies despite mountains of evidence that he is a shitty person running shitty companies.
See my reply to a comment with the same great grand parent. It’s suprisingly complicated and seems tricky for even skilled humans.
This is only because higher purchasing power drives people to consume more instead of working less. I find today one could live off very few hours of work.
On that last point... an analogy When the microfinance exuberance started dying back about 5 years ago, I heard the following interpretation of micro-credit:

Poor rural people need credit because they can't save. They can't save because they owe their neighbours a moral debt.

Jennifer really needs $50 to pay her kid's dentist bill. She looked after your grandmother, when she was sick and you were away. You owe her (and love her, you're friends).

If you have $50 saved, you will get requests that cannot be refused. Everyone is broke and everyone owes eachother favours. Debt is the only way of getting a lump sum. The critic concluded that saving with a (big) negative interest rate is a bitter pill, but better than nothing.

Fast food franchises sound like a great idea, if they aren't too failure prone. You lock up illiquid assets. You can give family members jobs, if necessary/appropriate. The bad idea side effects of this is that businesses can potentially lose money as well as value.

The spanner in any such system will always be debt. You can lock up all your assets but if you have assets to your name, you can get credit and spend those assets regardless.
Green joined Google a few years ago. michaelochurch will explain how the foxes had long since taken over.
BTC was priced at ~$825 on 2/1/2014 when Mt Gox disabled transactions, and is around $6,150 now. Provided they're able to pay out ~13% of each claim, claimants will at least be able to "break even" on the freeze (ignoring, of course, BTC's astronomical gains in the last 4 years).
I'd say that was MongoDB.
Issues and Requirements for SNI Encryption in TLS (draft-03)
Michael O'Church, is that you?
I'm taking that into account actually. That's why I said "taking into account their more practical uses".
Athletic performance limits: How can we go faster, higher, farther?
It is quite surprising this hasn’t happened yet, what with all the other bad ecological decisions that get made in the furtherance of industrial farming. Not that I don’t like vanilla or food or anything. I’m just surprised, it seems kind of an obvious business move. Maybe the bees wouldn’t survive?
>My point is that the emphasis is on using Slack as something other than chat, but that's really its main use case.

I see what you mean. I think of 2 styles of "chat" ... (1) a vacuous AOL AIM or Facebook Messenger style chat or (2) a business-related channel chat.

The (1) is replicated in Slack by abuse of DMs. However, the author didn't seem to be discouraging (2). (Author wrote at the top, "but ultimately, we decided we want to keep using Slack.")

What happens is many workers bring a casual "Facebook chat" etiquette to Slack which negates how meaningful business chat can work. That's why I didn't think the author wrote contradictory advice. (Similar to how the advice to turn off the phone ringer is not contradictory to the power of voice calls -- because sometimes one needs uninterrupted time.)
Is there a popular provider for doing this? It sounds like a lot of work to find a solution in which both parties trust (both technically versed and reliability wise). A common notary probably wouldn't cut it, right?
Are you really wondering their intent, or did you just phrase your question to point out the implication of their comment?
That sentence is quite confusing, to my knowledge a better explanation would be:

"The Android compatibility layer of Chrome OS implements a Wayland client to run on a hardware overlay plane."

based on information from https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=XDC2016-...
One way to give a user feedback that they’ve tapped something without wasting their time is a to start an effect onTouch, but don’t necessarily wait for it to finish all the way if the you get a touchComplete. That way the user knows what they’re tapping on, and if they’re making a mistake they’ll move their finger to a safer zone before lifting. And no extra time is wasted.
So they're better off if you destroy a local industry?

Instead you should figure out what part of the supply chain is causing the local farmers to not get paid (or maybe theyre the problem and need to pay their laborers more money.). And then campaign against that or make technology to effectively destroy the middle-men. There's plenty more high value products than Vanilla I assure you where the end-workers are living in poverty.
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>Good to see Google embarrassing Single Activity

You probably meant "embracing", but a funny autocorrect nevertheless.
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But here you have two legal persons (or more) - driver and pedestrian; it's not like inanimate subjects (environment) or legal non-persons (deer). If pedestrian does what the poster implied, resulting in killing the driver (+ perhaps the whole family, including small kids), why would you place the guilt/blame on driver? Where is justice in that?

I am sure you can find videos on Internet where pedestrians by their actions caused fatalities when drivers tried to avoid & save them.
I have pretty strong opinions that never get to the top, such as "Apple tech is mostly gimmicky, trendy garbage whereas Microsoft tech is mostly the best mix of freedom, flexibility and quality". Probably even just using that as my example here will harm me!

There are definite, identifiable leanings from the denizens here on HN.
Windows should detect a new network and should ask you about the network's security level (public, private, domain), thus applying different firewall rule-sets.

Not sure if other macOS or some Linux distro has anything similar.
Name 1 Major thing NATO or the UN has done without US support. The idea that they have any power outside what the US sanctions is to be pretty ignorant of the reality of power in world affairs.
The USA employees are also there just to support the main business. So?

Some offices only exist because an influential individual wanted to live in that location.

Do you think Google is largely in Mountain View because they have a deep allegiance to Mountain View, or because that's where they can get lots of employees and (historically) cheap real estate?
The result of the conservativism and libertarian things you mention are not properly considered. It results in what is known as the Tragedy of the Commons.

As personal profit and selfishness takes a greater precedence than the wellbeing of the public, the commons must suffer tragedy.
Interesting claim:

Q15) How was the Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash sold?

A15) As in sales from December 2017 to February 2018, upon consultation with cryptocurrency transaction experts, Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash were sold in a manner that had no effect on
market price and not by ordinary sale on an exchange

Wasn't there a paper that showed a strong correlation between a the time of the bitcoin transfers from MtGox and subsequent strong decreases in BTC prices?
In addition surgery, another place where this has chances of happening is in execution by lethal injection. One key ingredient, Pancuronium bromide, is a potent muscle relaxant. It paralyzes all voluntary muscles. You would have quite a bit of agony in store, if the pentothal dose was not adequate.
Caging human beings has a long, rich tradition in America.

Everyday, hundreds of thousands of American children are separated from their parents who are rotting in jail because they can't pay bail or because they're locked up for a low-level drug crime or manufactured probation violation.

Until we quit being okay with caging humans as a default cultural practice, we're going to see stuff like this. I hope this current atrocity wakes more American moderates up to the fact that we're not just doing this to immigrants, but to our own citizens as well.
Vscode invested in a lot of lazy loading both for modules at startup time and opening large files.

Their text buffers and internal datastructures are optimized for perf and save space on RAM.

It amazes me sometimes that all this is built on standard web technology and it’s mostly blink (chromium) and v8 under the hood.
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No problem. BTW, I didn't want to discourage you: it's great that you've got a successful service and it's often a smart move to start on a well known platform. (many of today's successful companies started that way... see Microsoft and IBM ;-) Just be sure to diversify away from the platform lock-in ASAP (i.e. build a bot business rather than a Slack-bot business) so when/if the rules change you're not doing a followup post titled 'Slack destroyed our bot business' down the road.
Why do you think the tech in question is for classifying militants vs civilians, vs just classifying humans vs trees?

AI wishful thinking is not helpful.
Red Shell analytics software causes privacy uproar
Also, even if 90% of the requested warrants are rubber-stamped, you still get two very beneficial things as a citizen:

1) law enforcement at least does the minimum necessary to be compliant with that warrant and the constitution

2) without the warrant required, there may be (and there is) an additional 10,000% of citizen tracking.

When a warrant is not required, law enforcement can target orders of magnitude more citizens than just "crime suspects" that need to be presented before a court in a warrant.
Pro tip: if you’re near the border or a Mexican grocery store, Mexican Vanilla is absurdly cheaper!
Yes. For UniFi, in the properties of the switch, go to Ports and click on the edit button for the port that should become the mirror. Then click "+" next to Profile Overrides. Under Operation, select Mirroring. Type the port number that should be mirrored and Save. I did this with a UniFi Switch 8 POE-150W.
Why do I care what color are the jackboots?

Why do you say China is wearing jackboots?
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Right, watch this genius horse learn to walk and navigate a 3d environments just hours after birth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXKdYThau7c

No, we don't "learn" how to balance, how to identify objects and navigate 3d environments. All of that is highly codified in our DNA from hundreds of millions of years of evolution. Human babies, similar to kangaroos, are just born too early for those systems to have developed.
Excellent article. Sounds like the devs of OpenVPN have not implemented a proper interface and have instead opted to include a catch all command to be as flexible as possible. The longer this is in place the harder it will be to remove - perhaps it's too late. Nuget made the same blunder with their ability to execute scripts on package install. Now disabled by default. VideoLAN (VLC) allowed subtitles to become so complex that there were security problems there too.

A text file used for configuration should not be an executable.
Honestly, not much. The most we can legally do is sit on our asses until the next round of elections and try to remove those who allowed this to happen on their watch. Oh, you could also write your representatives and hope that their interns pass along your message to them. Sometimes that works, sometimes that doesn't work, YMMV.
I feel the same way - especially with Google Drive. It takes a good 2 or 3 seconds to get a response from the UI when right-clicking. Also, it takes 4-5 seconds for Drive to realize when I'm dropping files or folders. Not sure if these issues are new or specific to Material per say, though.
There is no "humanitarian crisis" happening, let alone a "significant" one.
There was a French movie about that. Some thug killed a surgeons family, so he uses that paralysis drug to perform a colostomy, amongst other tortures.
Well, the good thing about unions, is they're democratically organized. So, tech workers should look at what works in SAG (performance based pay w/reasonable floors, great benefits), emulate that, and set aside the problems/barriers you describe.
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One Bitcoin is currently worth about $6000. The spike that killed MtGox topped out around $1200 before falling back down below $400 a month later and then as low as $150 over the following year. On the day that they officially filed for bankruptcy in Japan, it was somewhere around $600.
You get the same entertainment value from Venice (or less) than these folks get from Disney, but you think it's more valuable to inhale the putrid smells of Venice's canals than attending a fireworks event, riding a rollercoaster or watching some dancing show.

I also prefer visiting different places in the world, but I totally understand people have different hobbies and like different things. It's not difficult really.
Lobby for legalized drugs. End the cartels. Reduce violence in Central America.