skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, code is a liability. Having a dependence on on something outside your control is a liability. Those two have to be weighed against each other. I'm not against buying services on principle, I puy services from plenty of SaaS providers. I'm simply arguing that in this case the scales tip in the wrong direction for me, and likely a lot of other people like me.
I’m trying to get my company to do the same, and also start a recurring donation to the project. No traction so far, do you have any advice?
The title says everything you know is wrong, but there is little in the article I have not read many times before, and in mainstream publications.
Is that why this link was posted?
And your first paragraph shares a lot of additional information: the writer has nothing in particular to say, and is just pretentiously filling the air as a stalling tactic.

You could condense that down to something like ...

> [... incompetent bloviating elided ...]

... without losing any “meaning” (denotation), because there was none to begin with.

Knowing what a windbag sounds like and knowing how to replicate that impression is a fine writing skill. A fiction author might want to portray a windbag character. A public relations or marketing team might want to whitewash a corrupt company or puff up a useless product. A debater without an argument might want to dump an avalanche of nonsense to distract the audience.

If students write shitty papers which they pad out with pages of fluff not making an argument, the problem is (often) that the students didn’t want to put in the work, not that they didn’t understand the difference. The teacher should feel free to mercilessly put Xs through whole paragraphs, with marginal comments like “this says nothing”.
Functional Testing of PCBs with Google's OpenHTF
OK. So PeerTube doesn't actually host anything, right? You need a streaming server to publish. Maybe someone will let you have space and bandwidth on theirs. PeerTube is just the lookup system. Is that right?
iCloud in China has been hosted by a local licencee for a while. People who care about privacy are at least aware that the backend is no longer secure.

While we are on the topic, Windows 10 binary for Chinese government contracts are compiled by a third party company based in China so certain features could be added/removed at code level without directly giving away the source code. It may only be a matter of time before this practice permeates into retail and OEM markets.
"Functional Testing of PCBs is always used as a final manufacturing step. Functional testing provides making a decision to go or not to go on finished PCBs.
Manual functional testing of one Joker TV assembled PCB takes about 5 minutes. I have decided to automate this process with open-source hardware testing framework (OpenHTF). PCB functional testing time is shrunk to 1 minute. This is 5 times less than manual functional testing and less error prone (no human factor)."
https://github.com/erights/quasiParserGenerator
>It's "legitimate"... but anyone concerned about privacy should've already has this turned off

What about those that are ignorant? They may be ignorant about the implications of having personal data collected. They may be technically ignorant and thus unaware that they can turn off this feature. In the end it doesn't matter because the vast majority are, and arguably will remain, ignorant. Is there privacy no less important?

Features that collect personal information should always follow an explicit opt in policy to protect the ignorant. If companies are concerned that too many people will leave these features off then they need to take the steps required to educate the end user.
Yeah, I think a good example of this is thinking about something like license plate scanning.

Technically, this is not taking advantage of any public information. It is just capturing images of things happening in public. Anyone could set up a camera and capture license plates as they drive through an intersection.

So is it totally fine for a police force to scan license plates at every intersection?

The question is complicated, because the effect on people changes when you do something that is not worrisome on a small scale in an automated way at a large scale. When you add in that the people doing it have a large amount of power over people and it changes it even more.
Is there a list of the most popular music this will release?
> Really, does HN deserve that kind of idiotic post?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: specifically:

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
Interesting point.

I always thought was to maximize ticket sales and leave fewer empty seats. (Not all concerts sell out). You have people that can pay for the convenience of buying later paying more. But the true fans get their tickets early.

It was noted by me when shooting an aerosmith concert that the first 2 or 4 rows were reserved for fan club members.
Germany mulls fund to fend off Chinese tech takeovers
> Can you share that proof?

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/2017/09/equifax-data-breac...

> If you have a credit report, there’s a good chance that you’re one of the 143 million American consumers whose sensitive personal information was exposed in a data breach at Equifax, one of the nation’s three major credit reporting agencies.

> Here are the facts, according to Equifax. The breach lasted from mid-May through July. The hackers accessed people’s names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and, in some instances, driver’s license numbers. They also stole credit card numbers for about 209,000 people and dispute documents with personal identifying information for about 182,000 people. And they grabbed personal information of people in the UK and Canada too.

Sensitive personal and financial data of half of American adults, as well as UK and Canadian citizens. For 90 days. If that isn't proof, I don't know what is.
Thank you very much. Glad to hear it is working well for you.
A Music Industry Peace Treaty Passes Unanimously Through Congress
Learned an amazing meditation yesterday, can teach you if you need help.
Those are separate things. The VIP/Premium tickets are a way to do dynamic pricing without looking like you're proving too many price levels. The extra fees are a way to show lower prices and let the fallout for the end price fall on another group. I outlined a lot of this with real data in another comment here. Just search for "mccartney" in the comments here.
Tech companies are like glaciers, 20 people at the tip of this project will be leveraging all of FB’s internal tooling and might be able to get more done.

Also, it would be difficult and maybe a waste of effort to try to scale a team faster than that, with midterms so close. For sure they can increase headcount if it’s successful.
> Nowhere in public school is anything like the latter message ever taught.

This depends entirely on teachers. I had several excellent middle school and high school English teachers who could judge how well prepared the students were, and didn’t hesitate to absolutely wreck student papers that were obviously just lazy fluff from students who should know better. I had a friend whose paper was returned to him with 3 whole pages in the middle just crossed out, and “what is this nonsense?” written on the side.
Always bet against your priciples. If you win, you get a better society! If you lose, at least you're richer.
> this is yet another instance where companies automate processes that previously involved humans, then compensate for the newly introduced errors by blaming the customer

In either the digital or analog cases of your example, the end result is that the customer ends up paying the intended price. The only difference is that with the digital case, they might find out about it slightly later. How is this a "newly found error" in that case and how is it "blaming the customer"? It sounds to me like the potential for error has always been there and nothing about the assignment of blame has changed whatsoever between the two examples.
Tons of problems with costs...

1) Copper cables only go to 7m because attenuation is too high after 7m to recover signals at 10G/25G lanes, get ready for lower length with 50G PAM4
2) Transceivers are free... no they are not fiber is one aspect of the cost but transceiver dominate
3) Missing Active Optical Cable (they are made of transceivers that do not quite meet the spec and made into a 'cable' with a fiber. These are now very important in saving costs
Wow, from 140 years to 110 years.

For comparison, patents only last 20 years.
PWC is supposed to be the definition of non-sketchy accountants, and like 50% their fee goes to maintain that appearance. Not saying they didn't sabotage that prestige here, but it's not like she deliberately selected for sketchy accountants.
Your second state is only pure if no information has leaked into the environment. The chance of a human-sized object measuring a state without any stray photons or air molecules interacting is basically zero.

As for why 50%, why not the Born rule? Or are you asking how we derive the Born rule?
Thanks, I recognize what you mean, blog post content that is not in the docs. I'll bring this up with the docs team and we'll try to get better at this by coping the blog post to the docs and linking the blog to the docs for the most up to date content.
Thanks for making something simple and elegant.

Main question: How are you handling Safari Intelligent Tracking Protection 2.0?
Be careful with CTEs in PostgreSQL
Blizzard Entertainment has a conference every year and the height of their popularity demand for tickets far outstripped the capacity of any venue they could reasonably get.

I recall in the first years hearing of friends or acquaintances who sat up in a group and spammed the server right after tickets were posted. In later years I heard they went with a lottery system. You had a window to sign up that gave their servers a break and at the end you either got a ticket or you didn't.

Where a convention differs from a concert is that you can show up at a convention without a ticket and still participate in some fashion. You can hang out at off-site events that are affiliated, and it's common (if not entirely legal) for people to timeshare a pass, going for a few hours and then letting a friend or coworker go for the rest of the day.

The scalpers could still of course flood a lottery system, but if you make sure that only 4 tickets go to the same human (via ID or some other means) then the scalpers are limited to how many people they can get to agree to pretend to be the purchaser, and they open themselves up to identity fraud and/or theft charges if they get caught faking it.
What do these Zig functions do in systems with overcommit ? (that is, Linux, MacOS, *BSDs, Android, iOS, ...).
It's an MVP right? Nothing stopping him from changing the model in the future
It's troubling because when I worked there as a developer their journalists seemed to be really on their game. I loved the UX of their site, and the articles seemed thorough, well written, and always relevant.
Exactly how much do you think they're spending on internal version control that they could ever justify spending over a billion dollars on gitlab???
I often see this used informally as shorthand for "on the order of", which is another way people say "approximately".
> I know for a fact that they also had Splunk ES bought, built, and running, then the CISO had them turn off the alerts because they were "too noisy" and sure enough, they could see all this happening when it was retroactively inspected.

Splunk (ES or not) is not a magic bullet. It generates a lot of bullshit to justify its expense.

Finding the signal in the noise is easy when you know what the signature of the largest data breach in history was supposed to look like. What exactly does this prove?

> Why on earth was she even receiving the alerts? That's so far below her level.

Knowing the C-levels there, they likely wanted earlier warning of emerging incidents-- EFX and their subsidiaries had been dealing with a steady stream of incidents (some public, some not) for a while before the big one. Krebs covered some of them.
You mean, in Python2, which uses integer division by default, it's 1 (as expected), and in Python3, which uses float division by default, it's 1.5.

If R is giving you 0.5, you should find another language (I assume you meant 1.5?)
That’s FB using the official election-influencing methods. The controversy here is about the government being upset that people are influencing the elections outside the approved channels.
> how complicit you are if you build software systems that you know are going to be used for immoral things

There's another path to not building and not participating it. It might be possible to be subversive and design these systems to best fit your values:

"My bias was always to build decentralization into the net. That way it would be hard for one group to gain control. I didn’t trust large central organizations. It was just in my nature to distrust them." -- Robert Taylor

https://theymadethat.com/people/l8tu24/bob-taylor
Stackpoint.io Joins the NetApp Family
> That's like saying an author gets royalties from a used book store.

It's like saying an author gets royalties from a "used" book store that is able to sell a pristine version for no extra cost for every resale it makes, but it requires opt-in from the author.

TM+ doesn't just resell tickets, It's opt-in only and artist and venue opt in, it actually reissues new tickets, with new barcodes, to the purchaser with a guarantee.

It would not surprise me at all if the resale system gave a percentage of the profit back to those who opt in, to incentivize them to do so.
Right, you should never expect to receive something of value as compensation in a way that doesn't trigger a tax liability.

I mean, besides free workplace cafeterias, work shuttles, and employer health coverage.
They're often proportional to salary, so this isn't exactly a surprise...
Because this isn't "a single Safari bug." It's a bug in JavaScriptCore, which is a public system framework. Safari uses it, but so does any other app which links against it.

Fixing this bug requires shipping new versions of system frameworks, which is pretty much the definition of an OS update.

Or, they could bundle a separate version of the WebKit frameworks just for Safari (like the Safari Technical Preview does) – but then loading a website in your app would use a different stack of frameworks than loading that site in Safari, and no one wants that either.
> On Linux, you can turn it off.

The system administrator can turn it off, kind of. But a zig or rust program running in user space without privileges cannot turn it off, not even for the program itself.
The insurance company never claimed it was open, I don't see how that's relevant.

If they can prove you were cheating the fitness tracker they can deny the insurance claim when you die. Not great for any family members who were counting on that.
For web pages, you could imagine a sort of universal "like" button which pins the page locally and bookmarks it. I think it's less about incentives and more about convenience -- people are happy to help out if it's not too much trouble for them.
Yea i feel you, I've always read a lot of Bloomberg but, the last few years I keep seeing articles like this that are speculative but scaremongering. It's not a great look for them, in my opinion.
Not sure what the plans are for the pricing plans and packages - Stackpoint's entry level of $50/month is quite different from than Netapp's "Only pay for what you use:Just add 20% to the hourly cost of your compute instance per month" (from here: https://cloud.netapp.com/kubernetes-service)
If something will be saved and used as a reference, it absolutely should not be a slide deck.

Write a 1-page brief. Make a tabloid-sized poster. Write a blog post. Save your bullet list in a plain text file somewhere. Scribble the main ideas on a chalkboard. Slide decks are the worst possible medium for use outside the context of a presentation (heck, they are a pretty terrible medium even for that context).
Yes TimescaleDB handles event data. I'd need more information about the exact nature of your queries to really give a good answer but there are multiple possible designs here:

- keep the event as a json object and use a GIN index (this would then be combined with constraint-exclusion on the time field for faster queries if using timescaledb)

- convert each JSON key to a column and use multi-column indexes or bitmap scans

- Normalize out the unique object json into a separate table with the columns id, object (json) and have your time-series table as time, event, object_id.

Happy to talk more on our slack support channel https://slack.timescale.com/
peertube worked fine the few times I tried it, it's not in my mind when I want to see videos but I have to say it never felt a disappointment.. pretty neat for such an effort
Before Ticketmaster, you could go to or call the box office and reliably get tickets to shows in your own city. Now I have to buy them from scalpers in Canada. Ticketmaster artificially expanded the market and used its leverage to force venues into exclusive deals. It's got nothing to do with "market price".

Edit: Also artists get a cut of the bar and to sell their merch. Also also, there is a massive range of costs of tickets already. It's really not a market price issue for tickets.
I understand that, I’m just shocked anyone fell for it.
From February? That is quite old as far as web apps go
not convincing examples. I have much better subcommands, cifixup for example which fixups each given file to its last change, when it was after origin/master. no need to rebase -i, just like the magit c F.
I use it daily.
my .gitconfig is 200 lines long with lots of aliases and functions. git is a fantastic piece of sw to work with and extend, just locking is a mess and alpha quality. only writes need to be locked, not reads. even writes can be serialized and locking can go away at all.
This is a good point... but I'd be ok with feeling less rewarded but living a life of leisure :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18027323
I mean I take your point but there were specific rules around at-the-money vs. in-the-money options issuance, and for, like, pretty obvious reasons.
Also read this: https://simpleanalytics.io/no-tracking, they state something about it in their policy.
This study is meaningless without more data to make it an apples to apples comparison.

There is no pay gap if you control for occupation and experience. Similarly, my guess is this supposed equity gap would disappear if you control for these factors.

The section on founders is interesting, but by making the comparison about the calculated monetary value rather than the equity percentage and without looking at possible differences in the types of companies and associated valuations, it’s also not very meaningful.
I'm not so sure. By putting this service's code on your website, you transmit personal data (IP addresses) to this third party. That appears to make the GDPR applicable here? Transmission is considered "data processing" under the GDPR.

Really, the central point that should be clear is that this is a question for lawyers. The GDPR is incredibly far-reaching.
I personally only know one team in our building here that uses Coq (written in OCaml) and all the rest use (depending on their field) C/C++ (robotics/ROS), Matlab, python (tensorflow/pytorch/sklearn,...)

Then again, it's not like I know the whole building, let alone the other parts of Inria ...
Show HN: Extensible Voice-Controlled Web Browsing
The Trinity of Errors in Financial Models
How to Design a Trendy Layout, When You Have a Small Balcony
The observable difference is that a particle's properties have been observed.

An uncollapsed state is a placeholder - constrained by statistics, but with no definite value. A collapsed state has a definite value along some measurement basis.

Entanglement is a different phenomenon.

Uncollapsed entangled pairs remain unmeasured by anyone. Either Alice or Bob can collapse the state of an entangled pair by measuring one item in the pair. This constrains the possible results the other person can find when they measure the other object (if that's a word that even applies in QM...) in the pair.

The correlation isn't obvious unless the results are compared, so neither experimenter can see it on their own.

But there has to be collapse - or decoherence, or a measurement, or some kind of interaction - for the correlations to become observable at all.
Sure. That'd probably work. That's why the article is so explosive... it shows that TM will never implement anything to make its service fair to the actual fans.
It's because the notation is pronounced "order of", which is also the vocabulary used when you do Fermi estimation: you don't care about exact numbers, but you want to guess the order of magnitude / power of ten correctly. It's linguistic overloading if you want.
I'll just leave this here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_network
I'm being cheeky; I agree that the options thing isn't some hard-to-understand esoteric case.
The study doesn't compare equity held by men and women in same position, but total equity. There is a huge imbalance in equity held by founders/execs most of which are men.
If you throw the entire event yourself, you get to sell tickets however you want. Some bands that use TM have enough leverage to do presales or lotteries for their fans before the main sale on TM.

Most acts, at most venues, are forced to use Ticketmaster/Livenation/StubHub, because That's Just How It Works.
I strongly disagree. You’re telling me Microsoft could not take any further steps beyond storing this in plain text? Come on. Someone steals your laptop and has a history of everything you’ve ever written, without it being clear that’s even a concern.
We've updated the link from https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/09/19/women-d....
Not Mark Twain, http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/
Interesting. FWIW, the pertinent law in Texas is recited at https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/consumer-protection/dis...

[Illegal to sell] fuel, food, medicine or another necessity
at an exorbitant or excessive price

The only thing that might be worse than leaving the standard so open-ended is actually specifying hard numbers.[1]

I wonder what the caselaw looks like, and what are some actual price multipliers involved in successful and failed prosecutions.

[1] Sometimes vague standards like that are deliberately designed to incentive conservative behavior while permitting equitable treatment (give defendant benefit of a doubt) in actual disputes. Being scared you could easily run afoul of the law is partly the point. That works better when designed for enforcement by private plaintiffs where quantifiable harm must plausibly have occurred. It's prone to abuse when enforced by regulators preemptively as there's no limiting factor of manifest harm. If everybody was happy to pay $50, no harm no foul. If somebody's grandmother passed out from dehydration because she couldn't afford a bottle even though the shelves were full, then not only do we have harm but we have a concrete context to gauge "excessive". Preemptive enforcement lacks these contextualizing facts.
To be fair, this idea has come from credible sources too.
From a few years back (2013?)
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/downloads/academic/The_Fut...

“According to our estimates, about 47 percent of total US employment is at risk.“

Even with replacement jobs that could be a painful transition.

I’m a more worried about the jobs that are _created_ by ai at the moment though. https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-in...