skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I wouldn't care normally, but the current administration and its supporters are tying up these challenges to major companies with gaslighting and red herrings and all sorts of confusion with attacks on net neutrality, preventing the ability to talk negatively about the administration, the free dissemination of information, etc.

Basically I don't trust the motives right now, so for now I defend Facebook and Google and Amazon until a government I trust to limit them for the right reasons steps in.
Not only that, but their chart makes it look like adopting older languages now will give you more bit rot resistance.

C2:	C89 or Python 2	a few decades	a developer week

C3:	C or Python	a decade	a developer month

When it should read:

C2:	C99 or Python 3	a few decades	a developer week

C3:	C89 or Python 2	a decade	a developer month

If you start a project today with python 2, the bit rot will be far worse[1] than python 3 which is now stable and doesn't seem to have any plans for future compatibility breaking changes.

[1]: https://lwn.net/Articles/750833/
Are you running an old version of FF? I used to have issues with YT about two years ago but they made fixes and it has been fine since then.

I watch a lot of YT content through FF and it has worked fine on both Windows and MacOS / OS X for a long time.
This, the "fishbowl", is still better than an open office plan.
> Root cause: Symantec was willfully disregarding industry regulations by issuing trusted certificates without proper authorization.

Source: https://sslmate.com/certspotter/failures

“Willfully” is the key word here. The business side of running a CA is fundamentally at odds with the security side. A few short-sighted decisions by business-minded managers with their eyes set on profits can completely eviscerate the security side of a company, and it’s possible that nobody remains at Symantec who has the combination of security knowledge + internal political power + will.

There’s also the Trustico fiasco. Trustico revoked 50,000 Symantec-issued certificates in a shockingly bad way. Because policies allowed for certificates with compromised public keys to be revoked, Trustico intentionally compromised the private keys in order to achieve the desired revocation.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.security...

> As one of Symantec's former largest partners - my personal opinion and personal experience is that Symantec is a company that thrives on recklessness and one that I wouldn't trust nor deal with.

You can see more bad behavior here—Symantec is seen as a reckless company, and Trustico (recklessly) cuts ties with Symantec for its business needs. Both actors are bad enough that their relationship reflects poorly on both of them.

I’m sure there are some people who could fix this problem in six months, but I bet they don’t work for Symantec or don’t have the power to do it.
Given how wide-spread the issues were, I'm not surprised that they couldn't turn it around within six months, even if they had the will from management to do so (which it isn't clear they did!).
Amazon is almost the opposite of a monopoly - they literally seek out highly competitive markets with the slimmest profit margins.

Uber has plenty of competition in Lyft and current taxis. You can't simultaneously complaint about Uber driving down prices and then call for anti-trust regulation of them.
I have the exact opposite issue. Firefox is zippy, and chrome slows my whole computer down. Switching between discord and chrome often incurs a 10-30 second lockup of my machine, where I basically just have to wait for the two to battle it out. No such issue with firefox.
A wiretap doesnt interfere with my ability to use the phone. Breaking security definitely interferes with my ability to use the internet.
I also remained loyal to Firefox but I think there's a mentality aspect to it: when a website loads slowly I'm quicker to blame the website than the browser. As such when I'm frustrated by my web experience I tend to think "man, I need to stop using this garbage website" rather than "well, time to use a faster browser". Because surely my octocore gaming PC with 16GB of RAM should manage to display text and images just fine without needing bleeding edge technology?
While I do tag my bookmarks I barely use that feature. Some tag cloud for my bookmkarks would be awesome though.
I'm pretty sure my cats are just keeping me around because I can open the food can.
Other posters have discussed the first part of your post.

But the second...

> That's what most programs actually do most of the time because files are essentially a stream abstraction. Programs that jump around a file would map it into memory, then the CPU and the kernel would do their best to cache the hot regions, even if the access to these regions is temporally or spatially distant.

Just an FYI: you should always use mmap (Linux / POSIX), or File-based Section Objects (Windows). I don't think streams have any performance benefit aside from backwards compatibility, and maybe clarity in some cases.

MMap and the Windows equivalent allows the kernel to share the virtual memory associated with that file across processes. So if the user opens a 2nd, or 3rd version of your program, more of it will be stored "hot" in the RAM.

Since mmap and section objects only use "virtual memory" (of which we have 48-bits worth on Intel / AMD x64 platforms), we are at virtually no risk of running out of ~256TB of virtual RAM available to our platforms.
I can clearly see how these corporations benefit me, I don't see how they harm me. Not only do I use almost every product they offer for free, the salaries they offer boost the wages of all tech workers across the US. If these companies didn't exist I suspect I would be getting paid EU market rate salaries rather than what I am currently being paid.
Oh please. It wasn't an attack. It's literally in the person's profile. For those just tuning in, I pasted a snippet of the person's public profile in my comment and said "Employees at big corps defending big corps. What a shocker.".
OP here, looking at the vote function, I learned something new today - this code:

new Image().src = el.href;

will make image request to server with any params from href so you can process the voting stuff. Nice one.
Neat. How does it benchmark against PIL and OpenCV for common image processing tasks?
> That one definitely sounds true to me, the complexity of modern software definitely makes it harder to be competitive with big shops.

I disagree. If you want to make a competitive product to the products made by big shops, then that is true. However true innovation is often making something in a category that is new or not well served.

When Jobs/Wozniak made the Apple 1, they weren't competing with big shops mass producing other desktops, they were competing with the likes of MITS producing build-your-own computer kits.

Also the prevalence of on-demand services and APIs now mean you rarely have to make lots of complex software from the ground up. The secret is to find some value your software can deliver which competitors don't exist for, or don't do well.

If you look at the boom in solopreneurship and side projects it's self-evident to me it's never been easier.

Aside: the reason the 'cool hack' stories don't exist now is that they were often about using limited resources to do things that were seemingly difficult/impossible on the available platforms. So they were still examples of new software delivering value. But now as we are far less resource-constrained, and software as a whole is a lot more mature, these opportunities are a lot more scarce.
The deeper you get into the research industry, the crazier things get. We are taught growing up that scientists value truth above everything and scientists are sort of seen as these demigods of the universe.

Yet, sadly, we know that they are just people who want to be right more than they want the truth too often.

I mean, if you spent 3-5 years (sometimes much more) of your prime working on something only to come to the conclusion that your wrong would you just accept it? OR you "re-adjust" the data and somehow make your p-value significant, then BOOM, your research is valuable!

This is why so many studies are not reproducible.
An Essential Self-Regulation Strategy
Sorry if I misunderstood.
If it works it'll be worth it...

A lot of people thought Google buying YouTube for $1.6b was crazy, even though the space wasn't saturated.
I just wish for another cassetteboy video, and yearswipe.
Thank you for your work. I'm currently a tridactyl user. However I'd like to point out that none of these replacements can currently compete with the previous extensions in term of usability.

Simply put, you cannot count on the keyboard shortcuts to work consistently throughout Firefox. They do not work in built-in pages (such as errors). They do not work when inside an input field in GTK. There's no way to consistently override built-in FF shortcuts that simply get in the way.

It's pretty sad for users which expect the keyboard experience to be consistent. I now mostly use FF's own shortcuts for most of the tab-management actions, since those are the only ones that work most of the time when an error page is generated.
Oh, so Democrats more than Republicans prioritize spending on the military and security state, and particularly on a corporatist engagement between industry and the State both in general and particularly in those domains?

Seems to me that of you are viewing the world through a Fascism vs. Libertarianism lens and trying to apply that to US party political the current Republicans take the social side of Fascism and also the fiscal side of Fascism.
Maybe we should break up that monopoly? Is there a word for people who defend every action taken by the state? I know there's Stockholm syndrome but this appears to be more nuanced.
If I don't get enough sun I fall in to depression. It's why I moved to California -- every winter I'd get really down; I'd self diagnosed as having seasonal affective disorder. Since being in California for five winters this hasn't happened yet. I also spent a summer working in a windowless office while my company was preparing for a classified DoD project (we lost the bid, but one of the requirements was "no windows."). That was easily one of the worst summers of my life. Point being, at least for some people sunlight is a key component to mental health.
calling early investors "friends and family" does so much to keep out and alienate potential founders who don't come from wealth.
Chaincode Labs app dev residency for Bitcoin/Lightning, stipends available
I actually keep it installed because it's the easiest way of using Pentadactyl; I use it to compare behaviour with Tridactyl (e.g, looking for prior art for what a bind should be). As such I literally run it side by side with new Firefox. Honestly, it's just kind of slow. Mozilla have done a fantastic job in the last few years.
Also, if you cut off things like youtube and maps, I'm pretty sure they would collapse in bankruptcy as they are almost certainly not net profitable by themselves.
As a side note, KL divergence is actually symmetric to the second order: If you have a distribution "p" parameterized by x, the divergence between p|x_0 from a nearby value p|x_1 is approximately symmetric.

This is useful because the Hessian of the KL divergence (if it exists) with respect to the parameters of P defines a Riemannian metric called the Fisher information metric. This provides a good distance measure that takes into account how much the information content, or entropy, changes as you move around in parameter space.

This is really useful for fast online variational Bayesian methods. Gradient descent in the Euclidean space of the parameters can be pretty lousy, but using the "natural gradient" using the Fisher information metric gives a more natural definition of distance.

The Fisher information can be derived more generally if the Hessian doesn't exist: it is also the variance of the gradient of the log-likelihood.
Some of you might want to know that many of the standard Arduino libraries do not work on ESP32 (ex: controlling a servo motor using servo.h).

Basically you'll start fiddling with an Arduino Uno and would want to move to a smaller piece of hardware and will find out that your code doesn't work on the ESP32. The ESP8266 is your best bet at the moment. Unless someone here knows something i don't?
You read an awful lot into your parents comment that wasn’t said.

They never suggested not to care about both, for example. They also said nothing about the market taking care of it.
Yes and no for Amazon. If Walmart/Jet would offer some competition.

Facebook, not sure they can be broken up reasonably (what parts?) but perhaps they should be regulated as a utility, to some degree.
The future of usershot[p short videos are the new 360 camera videos. Youtube can have a place but there is room for other players.
No, it is far from being positive, yet compare it to Saudi Arabia.

On resource exports:

The logic that resource economies must have positive trade balances as a rule did not stand reality check.

One may think that the amount of imports a resource economy can afford is not elastic in relation to their main export because they don't have any industry to produce basic living necessities.

In reality, what happens is the opposite: once few rich run away with what little hard currency the country had, the remaining people can't even buy those basic living necessities with debt, as their debt is worthless. Example: Venizuela

And reverse, when rich in those countries bathe in cash from resource exports, they spare no money for dumb excesses like gold plated Rolls Royces, and vaporize their trade surpluses very fast. You had to see Moscow in the time when oil was hitting $130...

And... quite a few African countries without any resource exports do have neutral trade balances with China, despite China being their biggest trade partner
Calling a popular term "dead" is certainly a good way to attract clicks. And sure, when money is cheap and you have $2B to spend, you can afford to throw much bigger Spaghetti at the wall. But Lean defines a startup as a project under extreme uncertainty. Commercial video streaming sites exist, the only thing that seems to be new about the example in the article is the video length. I would not consider this an environment of extreme uncertainty. So imho, while cheap money does change the equation, 99% of the article's punch lies in its clickbaity headline.
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The right thing to do would have been to spend some of that $400k for a lawyer, to set up a trust with Bobbitt as the beneficiary and the lawyer as the trustee, put the principal into a no-fee index fund, and distribute $1000 per month, $200 (0.6% of principal annually) to the law firm for trust administration, and the rest to pay for Bobbitt's housing, utilities, food, and fuel, in that order. $12000 a year ain't much, but even if it doesn't keep the wolf from the door, it ensures the door continues to exist.

Then you step away from the funding campaign and pat yourself on the back for a job well done. If you're still self-interested, you hold out a secret hope that someone else sets up a campaign for you to reward your virtue and pay it forward.

And that's the same thing to do if you win the lottery. Pay a lawyer to handle the taxes and set up a trust, give yourself a (nearly) guaranteed inflation-adjusted income for life, and protect the principal from you and your temptations. Salesmen, scammers, and crooks can only milk you for a month at a time, instead of for everything you have all at once.
Code Pilot is changing the technical hiring game
Please Add Regulatory, Security and Privacy Concerns to Web Docs
Dick move, Bernie.
If said companies are broken up how would that change what you've stated? There are plenty of small companies that pay a lot and offer free products that are not monopolies (if you believe they are, anyway).
Symantec should have contacted everyone they issued a certificate to.
"C) And then there is just competition, especially for things like talent."

I feel startups did this to themselves. It used to be that you'd work for a startup and the equity was supposed to pay off if the startup was acquired or took off. Now, even though a startup may sell for several billion or go public, most employee's equity has been diluted to hell and back, barely making up for the lower salary.
Still, it’s better to comment on their stance alone rather than their association.
Sell more certificates, make more money. Anything which gets in the way of making more money (like security) should be reduced or eliminated, with the right touch you can get bonuses / promotions for meeting fiscal goals and leave your successor to deal with the aftermath.

They might understand how certificates work but that doesn’t mean they know how to set up an organization with the right incentives to do it correctly.
Have you investigated avenues for using it with python as a library ?
Bernie Sanders Intros ‘Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies (BEZOS)’ Bill
I don't know why we would assume mostly good intentions. URLs are a way to link directly to online data. Without such a direct pointer you would have to .. I don't know ... 'search'.
This one has actually exploded in usage on the left ever since an activist in Seattle said "What's up, bootlickers" at a city council meeting about the corporate head tax. It quickly became a leftist meme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IDyLk_EYdE
Thanks for the chuckle
Is that just a commercial for this progsbase thing? I certainly like the assertion that that code won't rot for "centuries". Maybe a fizzbuzz implementation will survive this but even there I have my doubts.
Netflix hires Christie Fleischer to help it sell merchandise
I know the usage of other nations spy agencies has long been used to bypass US laws protecting it's citizenry from our own agencies.

That doesn't make it right.
Is it really outsider art though? Didn't he have a background in programming?
While that is true, all service providers, VPS providers, cert resellers, hosting companies have known about this for over a year and should have replaced all of these certs by now as well as contacting cert holders.
By posting literally the most obvious point about a famous book as a snarky one-liner, this comment breaks the site guidelines. They ask: "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> If said companies are broken up how would that change what you've stated?

Google is only able to offer services like gmail and google maps for free because of their massive ads business.

> There are plenty of small companies that pay a lot and offer free products that are not monopolies (if you believe they are, anyway).

Name one, I can't think of any.
You are confusing empirical science with science as a whole and missing formal science;

The term 'science' generically should also be viewed within the philosophical context of 'art' e.g. an art vs a science.
From https://firefoxgraphics.github.io/telemetry/:

Linux users are about 2.7% of Firefox users

Windows users are 93.2% of Firefox users

27.7% of Windows users don't have Direct2D

That means 25.8% of users "run windows on hardware without decent graphics hardware". So it's entirely reasonable to prioritize these 25.8% of users over the 2.7% on Linux.
The article you are citing indicates that the administrative overhead is less than 10% which isn't really all that bad. As you pointed out about another third (in more sane states) goes to other aid programs which yes is hard to quantify but arguably likely done with good intentions and far away from corruption or inefficiency.
Microsoft rarely comment publicly prior to making changes to trust levels, but I've heard from several people that they will similarly distrust them.

Apple are yet to state when they will perform the final, total distrust, but it is planned: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT208860
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> [federation] seems to map more cleanly onto the real world, putting the ownership and costs and responsibilities on those who control the hardware.

This is both the biggest strength of federation and its biggest weakness. How do those who control the hardware profit from federating open and free services? Federation will be a contender when (if?) somebody figures that out.
Don't forget fiber splices for accidental cuts. Engineers have to try their best to match the existing refraction when splicing in the new patch. Tools help, but there's a lot of skill and craftsmanship there.
If they do their job after being broken up, they'll make sure integrations with other services are tight enough this won't be a problem.

They won't.
Yes, but there is a maximum sustainable pace of extinction, above which causes chain extinction.
while we're at it why stop at employee subsidies. Why do giant corps get any tax breaks or subsidies?
FFF = Friends, Family, and Fsomething?
From the day of your birth, your behaviour and understanding of the world are influenced by the surrounding society and the environment. Your mind is a product of the whole environment around you. Being a true rebel is an intellectual challenge in thoroughly analysing the dynamics of that surrounding environment and questioning its norms and values. That wouldn't enable you to get fully "disconnected" from the environment, but gives you a more introspective look which leads you towards decisions and actions which can influence the environment.
It is not hypocrisy to believe that something is appropriate as a free individual choice and reprehensible as compulsorily-imposed State policy.

Saying that that makes us hypocrites about eugenics is like saying supporting adults freely engaging in consensual sex but opposing government-mandated compulsory intercourse as soon as one reaches the age of majority makes us hypocrites about sex.
Tax-payer?
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I'm a 20 something, managing to graduate college with no debt will be more impressive
And Apple doesn't make the list? The millennial rag says it is because the firm is "too much of a conventional retailer".

BS. It didn't make the list because the guy writing the column probably has an iPhone and iPad. Amazon is far more of a conventional retailer than Apple.
Ha, I like it.
I also encountered this at a company I worked for long ago. Found it so bizarre—they’d turn off as many lights as they could and hang black curtains around their PCs to maintain as dark a space as they could. I chalked it up as “weird dudes at weird company” but have encountered this behavior a few times since, and am now reading about it here in the comments! Different strokes for different folks I guess.
Is this summarily, or per worker, or per unit of money spent?

Please note that, unlike corporations, governments usually can print money ("quantitative easing" anyone?) and normally finance their expenses by taxing everyone, that is, their services can't be opted out of.
I think the saying is Friends, Family, Fools.
What is unnatural is that the rate of extinction associated with human growth is comparable to other mass die-offs, like an asteroid hitting the earth. Given how little we understand these systems, we could easily end up among the casualties if there is large-scale ecological collapse.
We do hire some freelancers / contractors / advisors. So far they are in Croatia, Serbia, UK, Malta, France, Cyprus, Israel.

Not sure on taxation for the US citizens, sorry.
When I can’t decide I tell myself I will leave it to a coin flip and commit to that outcome. As soon as I see what side the coin landed on I know exactly what I wanted. This usually works anyway.
I think that's just a defense strategy.

A pretty bad one I'd say, but I doubt they really thought they deserved the money because of his conditions. Sounds more like an excuse rather than a reason.
PayPal's site is affected by this