skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whether Google is a monopoly in search or not is a determination the anti-trust division of the justice department would have to make, which I don't believe is what the current administration is actually suggesting they are going to pursue since they are generally pretty unorganized and that sounds like a lot of work.

Anyway even if that were found to be the case (and arguably there's a good case) I don't know if the likely remedy would be to allow the government to control search results.

If the government wants to meddle with search results the better approach might be from the FCC which could claim Google needs to operate under some kind of common carrier status I guess.
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This doesn't say anything. They invested in a tokenization company. That's not a new or interesting technology. What am I missing?

There are interesting data security companies happening right now. For instance, Matthew Green is doing Zeutro, an ABE company. Think of ABE as Shamir's Secret Sharing on Steroids: you can encrypt data and delegate it out to different people based on boolean expressions. That at least addresses a fundamental problem in data center encryption (the fact that serverside data encryption is "all or none" with respect to applications).

This, though? I assume the announcement means VGS is doing great in the market. Congratulations, I guess?
I'm actually not sure if you are being serious. If the information on costs for emergency services were clear and available up front people could shop around ahead of time and basically write up a living will saying, if I have a heart attack, take me here.

Insurance companies are the reason the costs are not clear and up front.
I'd hope they turn them on an hour or so before they return home; otherwise, it's likely to be uncomfortable.
I'm surprised that there isn't some kind of huge multi-billion dollar prize to improve air conditioners.

Environmental groups have so much money, and they waste it lobbying for bans on plastic straws. How about some R&D, please.
if their UI would let me browse in peace I'd spent 10-20 minutes looking deep for interesting things to watch. Instead they autoplay everything which I find massively distracting like a used car salesman screaming "Watch This!" so after about 30 seconds I give up and cancel my subscription. Try again in 6 months when there's something I know I want to watch. Always cancel immediately after watching
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even for products you already decided you didn’t want

Or even more weird, for products you already bought and are unlikely to buy again.
Maps and channels are not part of the standard library. How you know that is, you can replace the entire standard library, using none of it, and still be programming in Go with maps and channels.
> North America, Asia (in asia it's insane how much AC is wasted), and I don't see it as much in Europe but probably some stores do it

+ Brasil. It's infuriating.
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Here here! My wife and I got to know each other doing dungeons and raids on WoW before meeting in person. You learn a lot about people seeing how they work with others to overcome challenges.
The judgement call of whether to act on an argument like that is not up to you and me, it is up to HR and the executive team. If it comes to court, the validity of the argument is up to a judge.

As for protesting choices that you don't like by quitting, that is your right. Speaking personally, deciding not to hire someone because you believe that they will be unproductive in that role seems to me to be a perfectly reasonable thing for a business to do. And I don't see a moral distinction between different reasons why someone is expected to be unproductive.
My account is rate limited. Responding here, then going away.

"arrow interpretations of definitions to support a point don’t actually provide much useful insight to the topic being discussed, and are seen as distracting. So these non-useful comments are being downvoted to make them less visible. It is not an issue of whether they are technically correct."

Except, I'm not arguing for or against a "point", only that the terminology was wrong. But it does matter, because it leads to confusion, and if you stop to think about it for longer than it takes to jab at the downvote button, the reason why it matters is interesting.

It's not that people here are thinking about the subject carefully, they're just disagreeing reflexively.
Why does the conclusion have to be "A/C Good" or "A/C Bad"?

In some cases A/C literally makes normal functioning possible, and is thus a boon to society and opens the argument to what level of environmental costs are worth it.

In other cases, A/C allows someone to not have to change to lighter clothes to be comfortable, or they have poor insulation and thus have to use A/C far more than they otherwise would. In these cases there is much less argument that A/C is worth the environmental impacts.

Exploring the difference is valuable - instead of arguing "Good/Bad", we can start arguing "How can we make things better?". Reducing unneeded A/C is just a good idea, and admitting that A/C has environmental impacts does not mean we have to instantly ban it.

We shouldn't compare A/C against heating because there's no value in knowing if one is "better" - we need both. We should instead act to reduce unneeded A/C use _and_ unneeded heating use (and to keep, if improve, needed uses).
I'm from a historically mistreated minority group. Identity politics is just another form of toxic tribalism. Politics should be about principles and policy, not identity.

Identity politics was exploited by Julius Caesar in his program of divide and conquer against the overarching Celtic cultural group. I think it is having a similar divisive affect on western society today.
Right, I wrote a 100 page document in LyX on a 2011 Mac Mini and it was fine. (Not sure what version of LyX.)
For one thing, monaco doesn't even try to work on mobile browsers.
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An argument can be made that China is violating the International Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention. By withholding the samples they are at least constructively stockpiling a lethal pathogen; with full knowledge this action can (and likely will) result in the loss of many lives. The appropriate response is to announce travel restrictions on all travelers originating from China, effective in 30 days. I expect that announcement will dislodge the samples quickly, assuming the present media coverage doesn't already do so.

UPDATE: The virus can (may not necessarily) have a 40% mortality rate says the article below. One would therefore expect the US will obtain samples by other means. At a minimum birds don't recognize borders.

https://www.livescience.com/63448-china-h7n9-flu-samples-pan...
CORS allows a site to bypass same origin policy according to a whitelist specified in the corresponding HTTP header. The setup on evil.com is irrelevant. CORS must be instantiated from the server sending the page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-origin_resource_sharing
According to the VFITX portfolio page (https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/profile/portfolio...), the average maturity of its holdings in 6 years, which probably explains why its performance is different than that of a 3 year treasury bond.
I don't think they're YC: http://www.ycombinator.com/companies/
Is There a 'Right' Way to Learn Math?
I haven't yet - I read about it. It would be great to have a small milling machine that sits on the desk and can do PCB for say $200. I would cry :)
The metaphysics of evolution (2017)
Senators Criticize Google CEO for Declining to Testify
Because it's been obsolete for half a century. The insistence of the US on using archaic systems of measurement, despite the substantial extra difficulty of calculation and attendant errors resulting in the occasional loss of space probes and the like, is a source of continuous amusement and frustration for the rest of the world.
> But they (Google, Facebook) get paid for the advertising linked to content that journalists produce.

News orgs are not forced to appear on search engines or aggregator apps and can choose not to at any time. News org profits are down because people aren't as interested in news anymore and clickbait and outrage are generally more popular. The non-Wikileaks people who brought you the big revelations when they worked at The Graun (Janine Gibson, James Ball) work at Buzzfeed now.
Here is how: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=17861667
Is the net gain better than the net loss from flooding? For example, Houston doesn’t have to salt roads, plow snow or mitigate against earthquakes. You don’t have a wildfire risk, nor mudslides. So even if you have periodic floods, it would seem that the positives outweighs the negatives. You also rarely have airport closures or delays due to weather. It’s simplistic to cite flood risk as a reason not to build somewhere. If the cost of a flood is offset by the savings in many other areas, it could be a net positive. There is, however a hurricane risk, but even New York City and most of the Atlantic and Gulf Coast faces those risks. In the Midwest, you have tornado risk plus blizzards and snow, in California, you have fires, droughts and earthquakes.

We could argue, under the same logic of not building in Houston, that the Netherlands ought not be developed given their elevation.
Turns out screenreaders do use title and desc tags from svg. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4697100/accessibility-re...
> The reason STL errors are so convoluted is largely due to the unintuitive and complicated way they use generics to support obscure features like changing the allocator used by containers

The main reasons template errors suck so much in C++ are 1) lack of a proper mechanism to constrain instantiations (hopefully addressed by Concepts) and 2) The general mess that is function overloading and automatic type conversions.

For example, the classic "template hell" error message people usually encounter when starting to use C++ is failing to properly overload operator<< (example here[1]). That error message could easily be as simple as "No `operator<<` for class C", but instead the compiler needs to inform the user of every possible overload match, every possible type conversions that could cause a match, and templates that could have matched but can't be instantiated along with a reason for the failure. Of course it doesn't help that std::ostream is absurdly abstract, but it's really just making a bad problem worse rather than the fundamental root of the problem

[1] https://godbolt.org/z/XveitP
I've been waiting for something like Apollo for Rest APIs. Looks interesting!
You can act as proxy like WheelMap does (upload the edits on behalf of the users), but you must then be reachable when some edit is wrong.
Overdoses kill more Americans than died in Vietnam
Exactly why it is better to work within the parties than outside. Much more opportunity to reach people who's voices matter.
The key feature I've missed is that "moving heat" does not imply moving the hot air itself.
The "difficult to value" part seems like a problem for artists and the art business rather than for art appreciation? I suppose Patreon might help to some extent? It can be used to fund the artist rather than buying (and therefore needing to value) specific items.

To some extent, "generated by computer science techniques" seems like an interesting story? Maybe understanding how computer programs are designed and used is a specialized taste.
I think this is correct.

If you Google search "African American Scientists" and "African American inventors", you get almost the exact same photo list as "American Scientists" and "American inventors".
Didn't Microsoft introduce some kind of collaborative OneNote-like program that also does recognition of common symbols (arrows, boxes, etc?). Similar to Google's Jamboard software? I thought I remembered seeing this in one of their Surface presentations but can't seem to find it now.
generics are immune to much of the mess that templates cause. It is a somewhat different thing. They are also less powerful, but that is fitting with Go's desire to avoid language constructs which let people make really confusing code, I think.

If you want cool meta programming abilities, there is Rust, Nim, Lisp, Julia, F# and others to choose from. No need for Go.
What about sum types? During 4 years I've been programming Go professionally I missed sum types more times than I missed generics. Writing yet another

interface SumType {
isSumType()
}

won't kill me, but it does get annoying.
So, as a sysadmin who is on the verge of deploying jupyter massively (and support it), what should I say to my management ?
The most worrying part is probably that they gave you a full pill; it seems that something so likely to fail should be given as a microdose to check if its well tolerated by the patient.
You're talking strictly US index funds. Have you taken a look at Japan? What if the characteristics of the US markets turn into something more like Japan? Your entire thesis would be wrong, and you could lose a lot of money.
Chapter 1 explains the usage of the protocols. Quoting from the book, on page 33:

"The authentication mechanism is such that the receiver not only authenticates the message, but also demonstrates a property of the attributes encoded into its certified key pair. The receiver has full control over which property is demonstrated: it can be any satisfiable proposition from proposition logic, where the atomic propositions are relations that are linear in the encoded attributes. Any other information about the attributes remains unconditionally hidden." (Emphasis mine.)

I will admit that the math was not something I studied in depth (and I definitely didn't check the proofs!), since crypto is at best a hobby for me and not my main job.
I agree. I think all data can tell us is what people _are_ watching, not what people would get the most enjoyment out of watching.

It's like if a chef based a restaurant menu on the average diet of the average person. You may find neat patterns and be able to hyperstimulate some drive in people, but that's a very different thing than carefully designing a new or engaging thing people didn't know they wanted.

It's sort of a guaranteed averaging feedback loop.
I'd like to make but one appeal to everyone reading this thread:

Ask your cryptographer if the algorithm they're proposing you to use is IND-CCA2 secure (especially if it meets the criteria for IND-CCA3).

Litmus test: If they don't know what that means, you shouldn't be trusting them for cryptography advice.

If it isn't IND-CCA2 secure, you shouldn't be using it. Full stop.

For the curious: https://tonyarcieri.com/all-the-crypto-code-youve-ever-writt...

The IND in IND-CCA2 means "INDistinguishable"; i.e. from randomly generated line noise. For symmetric cryptography, your ciphertext shouldn't have any structure to it. (Lattices and such are a different story. If structure is permissible for your security goals, you're probably doing asymmetric cryptography anyway.)

To be clear: Format-preserving, order-preserving, order-revealing, and homomorphic encryption technology-- while an exciting research area-- fails to meet this requirement and should not be used for non-experimental purposes until their techniques have had time to mature. And even then, until they meet this requirement, only when the threat model doesn't realistically include the possibility of adaptive chosen-ciphertext attacks. (Spoiler: A real world threat model will almost certainly always include that.)

> We use FF1 and are actively engaging with the world's leading cryptographers

I've seen this "we engage with the world's leading cryptographers" genre of claim before, albeit from a much more arrogant source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6916860
Lyx is great. Although I’ve moved on to just typing straight latex, I probably would never have gotten started if it weren’t for Lyx. I still use it to set tables and such, because coding latex tables can be a huge pain. A great project.
You should put this on Glassdoor.
Their list of investors: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/very-good-security/i...
The Chinese government has proven time and again that it's supremely untrustworthy. That alone gives the article some credence.
I have nothing more substantial than a gut feeling to back this up, but it all feels half baked and too conservative to me. Like they cranked out some special syntax and new concepts that sort of solve their problems and called it a day. It may look like the path of least resistance initially, but sooner or later the features will start stepping on each others toes.
None of those really replaced Perl...
In Hong Kong in particular I noticed that every commercial building seems to have the AC perpetually on 18°C (65°F) even when it's 30°+ outside. I don't get it because it just makes you have to take a jacket with you. Why not put the AC on 23°C (73°F) in summer?
I think the answer to your question is that we're not modeling the universe itself, but the laws governing the dynamics of the universe. Hence we don't need to know all information about the universe.
Prices, more and more, are negotiated between very few providers and customers. It's like there are 3 fruit stands and 3 buyers of fruit, and those three buyers of fruit are willing to buy huge quantities of fruit (provide a hospital business with lots of patients) as long as the fruit stand meets their price demands. The fruit stand can take it our leave it. If they leave it, they lose out on 1/3 of their potential sales. They go through this kind of negotiation with each of the three fruit sellers every so often.

This is far from an ideal free market.
That said, it looks like Rails interest is as stagnant as Python web framework interest, tracking almost exactly with interest in them, just more popular: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=%2Fm%2F06y...
It sounds like what you’re really asking is why another editor besides VS Code should exist. And I’m hoping everyone else finds the answer to that question as obvious as I do.
Answering your question straight: Rogue law enforcement would be cops who are using illegal methods and lying to courts.

(In the process, letting criminals go free, because the evidence will eventually be invalidated.)
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It's roughly what the two of us need (in addition to regular donations and support contracts) to be able to work on this for one year. We expect a year to be enough time for stabilizing the core and porting some essential plugins.
I think the OP's point is that a lot of "legacy" users on Yahoo -- or on Hotmail[1], or on the free email they got from their ISP when they signed up fifteen years ago -- aren't inclined to move to Gmail unless they're tech-savvy enough to understand the case as to why they should. On the surface, free webmail services seem to be pretty interchangeable.

[1]: While Hotmail doesn't technically exist anymore -- it redirects to Outlook.com now -- I know more than one person who got their email account there back when it was Hotmail, still use it, and still refer to it that way. And at least one of those people is someone younger than I am and who's tech-savvy enough to be putting together his own PCs. Anecdata, of course, but I think a good illustration of why services like Yahoo Mail are likely to exist way, way longer than we might think.
A16Z should look into these alleged practices, given that they are the lead investor in VGS.

Edit: I've sent an e-mail about it.
> Why a concrete house? How will you insulate it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulating_concrete_form

> Do you have enough funds to do it this way?

For basements they are cheaper than traditional ways, for above ground they cost more initially, but are cheaper longterm.
You're right!

With that said, it might be worth considering that it will often be easier to pitch "add air conditioning" to people than "tear down, reorganize, and rebuild the whole metroplex at once". Greatly disrupting the lives of millions of people at once is not something to be taken on lightly, easily, or quickly.

The dream is amazing, beautiful, and without question what's best for the planet and for us. There might be something to be learned from nuance in terms of how to get there is all.
>In the process, letting criminals go free

Or, more probably, locking up innocent people.
hell i'm an antifascist activist and im not a big fan of "idpol"

I observe that a number of antifascists have been documented to be into a form of "idpol" based on tribalism of subcultural affiliation of choice -- to the point where they are willing to do physical violence against people because they merely "seem" a certain way.

There are many affiliations which are not immutable, but which are very hard to change and closely held or prized. I don't think that people should be coerced to give those up. Perhaps the tearing of such identities of choice is only 70% as toxic as identity based on immutable characteristics, but 70% of awful is still pretty awful.

It's better to convince than to coerce.
> Is it really more profitable, or is personalized advertising google’s long con?

Yes, it helps. Contextual ads help me find new customers to market to, hopefully through relevant content that overlaps with my product, but what do I do with all those visitors that stop by and don't convert? Retargeting lets me capture that interest and incrementally improve my media spend - and on tens of millions a year in media spend, this can be significant.

I wish I had better alternative but unfortunately these are the tools we have to work with, and creepy ads that follow you around the internet are going to last until we figure out better ways of spending investor money without feeling like we're burning cash to the Advertising Gods.
Huge fan on EnvKey. A perfect example of security + usability done right -- they make more convenient to do the right thing in terms of managing sensitive environment variables.

Different niche than VGS, which again, is taking a novel approach to securing sensitive information. You can tell that their founders have had real-world experience from their novel solution; using a proxy to mask and reveal sensitive information.
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Cool to see tech like this moving forward. Still think we're 5-10 years off from folks really adopting this stuff heavily (especially with a higher price point like this), but man, it's going to get wild. $50 says one day Alexa will just be sitting on your couch, taking on whatever form you'd like (e.g., Bill Murray, snacking on Fig Newtons waiting for commands).

Does anyone know what would be a good way to start dabbling in developing environments/experiences for these and other AR devices?
Which is the current practice of ignoring errors from `fmt.Println()`.
When I had to answer a question like that, I'd give a bit of detail about each stage and then ask if the interviewer if they wanted me to talk in more depth or go on to the next stage.
Ideally in this case, legislators would introduce a change encouraging deprioritization of information that is provably not factual.
Trump loves anecdotes. Probably a lot of people prefer anecdotes to anything scientific :-(
Modes implemented against the current interface will be supported by a plugin. We are definitely planning on providing a better interface for highlighting eventually, but that will take some time.