skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think I'm all that opposed to competition in this space. Yubico has a virtual monopoly on high-quality Fido U2F keys at the moment. Google is a giant admittedly, and could crush Yubico overtime though. Not sure if this is just a cheaply made Feitian Key though rebranded for Google Cloud, or if it is a new product in itself.

However, I've heard that Google is kind of going on a tangent with its own U2F implementations, emphasizing an old-school implementation instead of the Web Authentication Standard that's pushed by the W3C. Google's entry and dominance in the security key industry could be detrimental overtime by limiting the actual implementation of FIDO U2F, or it could push security keys into the mainstream too, and with that, open the floodgates for supply.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-death-of-obamas-slush-funds... seems pretty close. Different mechanism, sure, but similar result.
Fully half of the startups I've worked for have the primary (unstated) business model of transferring assets from investors to executives, with the nominal business activity only pursued to the minimum extent necessary to further the executives' real aim.

I wonder to what extent these numbers are caused by similar control frauds, or if I've just been particularly unlucky.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_fraud
Thanks! The UI is something I came up with, and that normally I use in my side projects. I'm separating it from my business logic code and maybe I will share the components sooner or later. I just don't know if the world needs another set of React components, and if I have time to maintain them :)

The blog is a WIP, I would like to blog about Audio DSP with maybe code examples hosted on the worklet editor. I just need to find the time.

My GitHub repo is cristiano.belloni, but I don't really use it - I normally use GitLab these days, and most of my repos are private for one reason or another. I'll probably open some of them, but only if I know there is interest and I can maintain them properly.
Yet they still don't support read receipt privacy when you enable loading images by default for unencrypted email.

Webmail providers can implement read receipt privacy by requesting images from every email automatically on-delivery instead of on-read. Doing this for non-existent mailboxes also prevents mailbox enumeration.
That's an amusing thought.

Scientist A: "So... where should we send the rover, this marvel of technology?"

Scientist B: "How about a random boring spot?"

Scientist A: "Sounds good!"

(repeat)
Why Explore Space? (instead of fighting world hunger)
The security industrial complex constructed after the wake of 9/11 certainly contributes to this, in addition to the preexisting military industrial complex.
Amazon has had a development office in Toronto since at least 2013.
> Building a rover that can drill more than a few inches deep is presently a huge technical challenge. You need a rover of 8x mass.

1- make a rover of standard weight and size an put it in the desired place, as before. Deploy a light but strong flat platform around.

2-Look around. What do you see? Probably a lot of heavy rocks.

3-Pick some rocks of the appropriate mass, or a bag of sand

4-Load stuff of your choice over rover or put it in the flatform or in a special area designed to be filled until reaching the desired weight. Yes, like a truck.

5- Now that your rover is 8x heavier, start drilling

6- Finished?. Now remove the bags of sand or the rocks one to one.
> Can you give recent examples of prior administrations doing this in the executive branch?

From https://www.economist.com/democracy-in-america/2017/08/03/un...

> Jeffrey R. Brown and Jiekun Huang, two researchers writing for the National Bureau of Economic Research, use data from White House visitor logs during the Obama administration to show that corporate executives’ meetings with White House staff were associated with a bump in their company stock price, more government contracts and positive regulatory decisions. Firms that had better access to the Obama White House also experienced a large drop in stock prices when the 2016 election result was announced.

0: that URL might be familiar: it's the article itself
Totally agree. There is a reason this sort of thing happens though.

Some people (like yourself) have more of a sense of agency than others. It's not my cup of tea but some people prefer to implement the goals of others ("be part of something bigger"). Sometimes they get sucked in by abusive leaders.
I refuse to argue against pedantry. You knew exactly what I meant by saying "all of humanity". 0 humans alive after mass extinction on Earth = humans are extinct, humanity has ended vs 100 humans living in a space colony after mass extinction on Earth = humans are not extinct, humanity has been saved.

>The question is could you save more people in space in a hypothetical end of world scenario than you could people on Earth dying in a very real scenario today.

There is no certainty of an end-of-world scenario but there's also no certainty that a cure for cancer actually exists or would be found. There is reason to believe and enough supporting evidence that a space colony would be theoretically possible - even if not self-sustaining for quite some time. So the question is a very real fix to a theoretical problem vs a theoretical fix to a very real problem.
I'm not sure if you'd count IBM, but they have their Toronto Software Lab here. It's technically in Markham now, but if it were on the south side of Steeles instead of the north side, it would be in Toronto proper. AMD also still has a large office in Markham in what used to be ATI headquarters.

I've seen a few articles about Apple hiring developers in Toronto, so there's that too.

Maybe Waterloo is a bit too far away to count, but Google has a fairly big engineering office there.
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It's a great opportunity to plug all local land trusts.

Unlike national conservation organizations (which are great and have their place), local land trusts can really take on the priorities of the local area.

For example, the land trust I'm involved with here in the Inland Northwest does a lot of work to make sure that land used for agriculture and forestry is preserved for those uses, doesn't turn into housing developments and can even be passed down from generation-to-generation of family farmers without a prohibitive tax burden.

In Montana where there's been tons issues over access to public lands blocked by private landowners, they're playing a key role in preserving that access.

The Land Trust Alliance is a great place to find your local land trust: https://www.findalandtrust.org/

I expect you'll be surprised at the amount of "good for your community" work they're doing.
This particular ship's name (Just Read The Instructions) is deliciously punny, given that "read" might be present or past tense. So is the ship's AI saying that it just finished reading the instructions for the first time and what-could-possibly-go-wrong?
But you're the one using these inventions as justification for future space exploration - shouldn't the burden of proof fall on the one making the claim?
I really don't believe that useful products, products which mitigate more cost than alternatives, fail.
Watch Pirates of Silicon Valley. Wozniak says it's the only one that's an accurate depiction of all of their personalities and schemes. It was budget but good. Noah Wyle stood out from the rest in acting skill.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pirates+of+sili...

If you're fine with spoilers, look at Steve Jobs meets Bill Gates scene. Or a bunch of them. :)
Plenty!

Muse, Google, Facebook, Softchoice, IBM, ALL major banks have a tech arm now, like Scotia Banks Digital Factory, CIBC Live Labs ,etc., and other tech companies, Flip, Wave, Freshbooks, Wattpad (raised major vc money), Ritual (raised 75m this year), TribalScale, Worktango, just to name a few.
Nothing coming out of wccf is even marginally trustworthy, they're infamous for posting every single rumor they hear about.
pipenv will do automatic python installation if you have pyenv installed [1]. Pyenv isn't bundled in the base install, but I've been using them both and have been happy switching between environments with different Python versions.

[1]: https://docs.pipenv.org/advanced/#automatic-python-installat...
Every feature that gives any sort of flexibility to the user is an attack vector for the lazy developer.
I sometimes wonder why we don't plant trees or roses or the like over graves.
> (and know that it is a "superior" brand)

Does this mean that people who buy e.g. Samsungs do so mainly because they cannot afford iPhones?

(I know that I didn't, but that doesn't count.)
I keep a journal emacs org mode, it’s mostly a daily TODO list and a place to take notes on what I read that day. But I will sometimes reflect at the end of the day or week and put my thoughts in there as well.
Right there with you. I recently got a DJI spark as kindof a toy, but was blown away at the incredible videos and photos I was getting with it.

It made me a little sad to find out that some cities in my metro area have ordinances banning me from using them there. So for instance: I can't fly them at family gatherings to take videos of us.
I agree with you, it also seems plausible that as the cost of starting a business continues to decline, the number of ventures closing will continue to go up relative to the number of new ventures until it's practically even. People will have fewer qualms about shutting everything down and moving on when all they have invested is a few hundred dollars worth of business licenses and files on a computer, rather than office or retail space and some inventory.

I also think that even if an entrepreneurial activity isn't "productive" in an economic sense, it could still be useful from the perspective of a person getting out of an employment situation that makes them really unhappy. People starting and failing in a handful of businesses on their way to figuring it out probably doesn't measure out great in the stats, but it's good (hopefully) from a making people happy perspective.
Potential there for a DOS attack isn't there?

"hey look this server blindly downloads images".. Sends a million emails with a bunch of tiffs.
There could be some more fundamental differences due to the requirement that different objects require different pointers that prevent some optimizations.
> Native-Americans have a diverse background in the last hundred years, including military service, sports and film making..

Other than military service, the other two are not exactly employers of number.

> generally not big on the Academic side, if that is possible to say..

Well, if you don't see a oppurtunity in one area, then you are logically going to put the effort in another area. Frankly, the American Military at least plays it straight and is a know equation.

The tribes have spent quite a lot of effort in bringing their educational institutions along, and the main instution for all most of the tribes is the community college which follows the same accreditation as its state brethren.

> the programs you allude to are fraught with difficulties, for all kinds of reasons.. not simple,

No, they are not. Apple could have reached out to some of the tribal schools like they did with other community colleges. One out the initial 30 is not too much to ask. Google could have internally told the bean counters, No - we will not block a tribal community college. The PC company could have listened to reason and found we were are worthy as other accredited institutions. Heck, one friggin company clued in enough to tell the tribes, "Hey, we employ X number of your enrolled members".

I am happy to listen to the "all kinds of reasons", but when the institution does the full accrediation, vocational learning, NGO grants, state grants, and federal grants: its really hard to argue a lack of ability to execute on programs from a company.

> and certainly not solved by urgent, well-meaning people..

This is the fun copout that we often here. Its poor reasoning when all we want is a chance to be on the field. I'll take well-meaning over being ignored.

I took the first paragraph charitably, but I get the feeling others might not
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Only the 72xxF processors are being discontinued, not the PCIE cards.

These are compatible with normal x86 code.

See https://www.servethehome.com/intel-xeon-phi-x200-knights-lan...
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Something doesn't seem right about these stats. From the article:

The report by CBRE Group says Toronto added 82,100 technology-related jobs between 2012 and 2017 to beat out the San Francisco Bay Area for the spot by about 4,270 jobs.

82,000 jobs over 5 years, ok. Let's look at some other accounts of Bay Area tech jobs, for example https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/02/10/tech-job-growth-slow... :

Tech’s annual job growth throttled back to 3.5 percent, or 26,700 new jobs, in 2016. That’s much slower than the 6 percent annual gain of 42,300 jobs in 2015, or the 6.4 percent gain in 2014.

That describes around 110,000 jobs growth in just three years.

These numbers just don't match. The first one is based on a survey by a real estate group, the second one is based on official statistics from the California government. What's the reality here? I can't say, but I do know that you can't trust hypey news articles that don't bother to dig around for the most accurate data sources. My guess is that this survey operated by a real estate group is just bad data.
Wow, CDN$2k for a nice 1-bedroom shoebox? That's great! Take a look at San Francisco's equivalents, where you'll pay USD$3k or more for rough equivalence; that's about 2x the price. Things get more extreme when you start talking about home ownership.

Toronto COL might feel expensive now but it can definitely get a lot more expensive.
There are many variables in this calculation. All of which are based upon your assumptions.

Questions:

1) Do you want to leave money behind, or exit as close to zero as possible. If you are aiming for zero, then the amount is significantly less. But has the risk of being off by a few years.

2) How much do you need each year?

3) What do you think inflation will do? Most calculations assume inflation is a fixed amount. Everyone knows it is wrong but you have to use something.

4) How much will your investments pull in each year? Like #2 you have to choose a number. The higher you choose the more likely you are going for a risky investment and will lose everything.

5) Do you expect to need long term care or some other retirement home facilities? My dad is looking at this, and the retirement home is like 50% more than his normal living expenses. Assisted living is like triple his normal living expenses. But a lot depends upon size of the retirement home.

6) What is your tax rate? Those investments will be taxed, as will, most likely, up to half of your Social Security. Your country might be different.

Simple method:
answer 2 / (answer 4 – answer 3)

example: assume 75000 a year (before taxes), investments 7%, inflation 3%

75,000 / (0.07 – 0.03) = 75,000 / 0.04 = 1,875,000

This will leave 1,875,000 for your children.

Oh you expect to draw Social Security and a pension?

How much? Assume 2K a month SS, and 500 a month on your pension. That’s 2500 * 12 = 30000

Then it is now:

(75,000 – 30,000) / (0.07 – 0.03) = 40,000 / 0.04 = 1,000,000
Right— I now remember some conversation surrounding a similar problem on Titan(?).

I think a drilling drone was proposed, but communications posed complicated. That is, communicating to a base rover to route to Earth. I could picture some kind of high-tensile wire on a spool connected to the digging drone. It might not be the highest speed communication, but if it at least proved reliable, that could work, no?
I doubt we'll see it in many other planets. Mars is by far the most likely planet in our solar system to harbor life, outside of Earth obviously. If you talk of moons, however, then we get into many, many more candidates that could potentially harbor some kind of microbe or multi-cellular water creature.
This looks super useful! Is it also able to grab media queries and other styles that may not be applied at the current time (like style based on a parent class that gets added later to trigger an animation)?
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Also if Rust is not cutting it yet in your specific niche.
Amazon has an office, scaling up quickly. UberATG (self driving) has an office. Shopify has a huge presence. People say google, but it's really a marketing office with <20 engineers.
> hyperthreading does not really work so well on sustained, homogenuous workloads

what would distinguish this description from, say, compression and compiling? based on the experience on my machine (which of course is limited), HT does give a boost in those two cases, which could be classified as homogeneous and sustained.
Point is, this is one of but many causes of diseases jointly classified as "cancer". Cancers share similarities in their (visible) method of action, but they have very different causes. There isn't going to be a single cure for "cancer".
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What are the pros and cons? More interested to know about the multi-instance approach. Given a chance to decide, what all criteria you will use to evaluate them for a Saas product.
I worked with a graphic designer with aphantasia! If you will excuse the wordplay, I could never imagine what it was like inside her head, as her process would surely be very different to mine. But she was very skilled and had been doing it for years. She also didn't realise until she was in her 30s that it was something she had.

She was capable of fluently talking about changes and the effects they would have on the design and so the fact that this could all happen without ever picturing the changes was super interesting.
This is really unnecessarily dismissive. I'm not a Steve Jobs expert, but have read his biographies (both the sanctioned one and the other one Becoming Steve Jobs), and the comment seemed right in line with what I had read and understood of Jobs.
Probably closer to 19th century rates right after aseptic techniques are introduced. But I completely agree it would be disastrous nonetheless.

The actual major problem would be hospital acquired infections not directly related to surgery. We have some really good asepsis nowadays but it cannot be maintained too long, is expensive and hard to scale.
I guess so. But then again, there's a bunch of people who are taking care of the draft and browser vendors will probably implement it soon. In the ever changing world of web development, that's as close to a standard as you get, if you don't want to wait years. But yep, technically it's a W3C draft, which might change and which I'm actively monitoring.
I don't disagree - I just very much hate the phrase "over engineered" as I think it never adds anything to a discussion.
You lost me at "commute via car". Toronto has a reputation for some of the worst traffic in North America.

It might be cheaper to live that far away, but the cost in quality of life + hours commuting isn't worth the trade. Instead you can just go to a smaller town like Waterloo or a cheaper city like Montreal or Ottawa.
Unit market share is useful for some things, revenue market share is useful for others. If you wanted to talk about how solid iMessage is as a platform, maybe for the relative value of selling sticker packs and other iMessage tie-ins designed for the Indian market versus doing something cross platform or on Android, you might be interested in knowing how many users there are in each camp.

On the other hand, the people buying $20 phones might be less likely to spend $1 on your app than the people buying $300 phones, so unit market share doesn't tell the whole story either.

Any attempt to boil the whole thing down to one number is going to have shortcomings, but it's still useful to look at the numbers as long as you keep them in mind.
I generally agree (and I'd add: magnetic field, more sunlight - not just for temperature, but also power generation), but come on, Mars does have gravity :).
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That's a very good point, thanks.

But just in this thread, I see many other arguments to invalidate the vote:

* Arguments that economics make Remain "right" (assuming economic considerations overrule votes; if economists proved the economic thing was to kill one half the population, does that mean that's the "right" choice?)

* Arguments that since the vote, Leavers have died while Remainers have come of age. This kind of reasoning blatantly disenfranchises an entire section of demographics, and no-one sees a problem with that??

* That the margins were too close and this somehow invalidates the vote. This is "complaining about the rules of Monopoly after you've lost the game".

* That the public is not qualified to vote on this question. This is insulting and highlights what I said about democracy dying.

* That the result is invalidated by outside meddling. Others have already pointed out how ridiculous this is.
I remember being blown away that I couldn't just copy mp3/flac files over and play them

This is a thing? Not being able to move media files around? Holy crap it's worse than I ever thought. How on earth can a phone maker think that's a good thing?
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Yeah, downvote until the truth goes away. You built a socially isolating society, and replaced the missing company with a animal, that has to be it all- your spouse, your decedent.

And instead of fixing the issue, you gather in groups and declare this sad state of affairs the new normal. To go to the dogs redefined.
Absolutely - see my answer here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17610784
Same happens in the metro stations at Athens.
> Yet they still don't support read receipt privacy when you enable loading images by default for unencrypted email.

I think those two things put together create a very, very niche use case. If I'm concerned about privacy, I don't turn on loading images by default. I'd be really curious to see the overlap in users who do.
Ah, good call. I did slightly misinterpret what was being said. I think my overall point still stands, though.
Not sure why your comment is dead, but I vouched for it since it appears you are the author of the original article everyone is commenting on.
> The US spends a disproportionate amount on healthcare because its system is privatized. Healthcare is cheaper relative to the degree of nationalization, as your own data shows. Switzerland and Germany are closed to the American model (although not as bad) and cost more. You specifically said “tax and spend,” not just spend, because you reduce costs with societal-level economies of scale. Of course you spend more in a privatized system - you have a bunch of vultures trying to profit off people at their weakest and most vulnerable... All your data points show is that privatizing what should be public goods makes them more costly, less efficient, and produce worse outcomes in aggregate.

Wrong. I specifically linked to data showing government healthcare spending, not private healthcare spending (https://imgur.com/a/BzaVX6w). Read again.

> Education in the US suffers from a similar problem because of its patchwork and variable system of state and federal funding, much of which was specifically designed to disadvantage the poor and minorities.

I don't disagree with this. There are other important factors, of course.