skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technician Accidentally Fires Cannon, Destroys F-16 on the Ground in Belgium
Firebase does a lot more, including a slew of Auth options that make life much easier.

Add to that the ability to resolve connections dropping out (common on mobile) and that their libraries have been ported all over the place, and Firebase is a defacto answer for mobile developers. It can be up and running from in less than 30 minutes for someone who has 0 experience in cloud development.

It is hard to replicate that.
The whole point of the lawsuit was all about how Magic Leap's company culture and product plans and demos and self image all revolved around adolescent male egos and sexist fantasies, and excluded women.

Tannen Cambell, who filed the lawsuit, was actually hired for the express purpose of solving Magic Leap's recognized "pink/blue problem", but was rebuffed and ignored. They knew they had a problem, and even gave it a name, but they refused to solve it.

Read the lawsuit:

https://regmedia.co.uk/2017/02/14/magic-leap-sex-discriminat...

>Campbell, one of whose responsibilities was to help Magic Leap with the “pink/blue problem,” had to endure hostile environment sex discrimination while proposing ways, not only to make Magic Leap’s product more woman friendly, but also to make the workplace more diverse and inclusive. Campbell was terminated after (and because) she, like the child in “The Emperor’s New Clothes” who blurted out that the Emperor was naked, challenged Magic Leap’s CEO, Rony Abovitz, to acknowledge the depths of misogyny in Magic Leap’s culture and take steps to correct an gender imbalance that negatively affects the company’s core culture and renders it so dysfunctional it continues to delay the launch of a product that attracted billions of investment dollars. Campbell also raised concerns that what Magic Leap showed the public in marketing material was not what the product actually could do—admonitions ignored in favor of her male colleagues’ assertions that the images and videos presented on Magic Leap’s website and on YouTube were “aspirational,” and not Magic Leap’s version of “alternate facts.”

Did all of that suddenly change after the lawsuit was settled?

Because if it did suddenly tangibly change, then that might be evidence that settling a sex discrimination lawsuit by changing their behavior was a positive signal.

But if they only forked over a big pile of hush money, signed non-disparagement agreements and gag orders, and went their separate ways, and Magic Leap didn't actually change their culture, then I don't think you could consider it positive sign or a constructive settlement for anyone other than the woman who was paid to keep her mouth shut.
For example, one can find many media articles that are almost certainly paid hit pieces against Tesla and Musk. When you have this much short interest, and news organizations that have contributors with financial interests aligned with the shorts, it is inevitable: https://insideevs.com/tesla-short-sellers-media-crusade/*

Those articles are literally just describing things that SolarCity, Tesla, and Musk actually did* (or in the cases of stated goals/promises, failed to do). How does that count as a "paid hit piece"?

If Tesla wanted to remain a media darling it could have done so very easily: just hit the goals it set for itself. Instead, quarter after quarter, it failed to meet those self-stated goals. Quarter after quarter, they embarked on various stunts to distract investors from its failure to meet its self-stated goals, like selling "flame throwers" and other nonsense. And yet, despite the many quarters of lies, Tesla still has enough media goodwill that a single quarter of two of actually meeting its self-stated goals could result in it becoming a media darling again.

Elon though...Doubling down on the pedophilia remarks and attempting to go to war with multiple government agencies when he was clearly in the wrong is a fast track to becoming a laughing stock, and he deserves the self-inflicted negative media attention he's seen these past 3 months.
It's definitely the lack of a bundled controller. The Siri remote is completely unsuitable for the great majority of games. While third-party controllers exist, it's not a viable proposition for a studio to make a controller-required game when so few Apple TV owners have such a controller. (And in fact, while this may or may not be true today, I believe at least initially Apple required all games to be playable with just the Siri remote, so controller support could never be more than optional.)

If Apple had bundled in a controller and funded a few high quality games that don't have microtransactions, it probably could be a pretty serious game console.
Oh, my point there was not that it is not possible. It should even be possible with an XLST stylesheet, though last I looked that was buggy. I wanted to express that you can't make RSS accessible to users if users have to install extensions to get a proper representation (and feedreader selection) when opening a feed. This stuff has to be built in to make RSS usable for the general public.
Isn't some weakly interactive massive subatomic particle pretty much the consensus?
This isn’t going to be popular, but:

Should parents be allowed to try to give their children a boost in life? If the answer is yes, then it follows that parents with more resources will be more able to provide that boost.

For me, the line is drawn at “legacy” admissions or jobs, where a clearly lesser candidate is given the nod over someone who is more qualified. But if the parent is able to provide e.g. volunteer opportunities or early business exposure, tutoring, and other extracurriculars, and their child grows as a result of that, I think that’s actually progressive at a societal level (spurring more growth at earlier ages).

The problem with summary statistics like in this article is that there’s no nuance — just a brute “unfair” reflex triggered in the reader.
Being ageist cost nothing and is hard to prove.
Any reason why Microsofts own extensions are not able use the global settings disabling telemetry?

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-docs-authoring/blob/mast...
If you're born to wealth but not particularly bright, you might have some any degree and live a lifetime of silenced frustration through easy habits; if you're gifted and poor, you'll struggle and it might take you decades longer but there's still a decent shot at finding deep fulfillment. Gifted talent, pursued, provides a deeper feeling of gratitude in the long run than any means.
An electric motorcycle probably emphasizes the need for a very well-designed helmet. At 60+mph, wind noise from the helmet could still drown out environmental noise.
The article actually makes the opposite assertion: that people over-emphasize the differences between the past and today, and assume that the present would be unrecognizable to people in the past.

That’s one reason I mention the Disney ride. When did we get electricity, refrigerated food, inter-continental communications? It was earlier than people assume.
Completing college and getting a well paid job is not the absolute measure of a person, nor the highest attainment of success.

Ghandi.

Joan of Arc.

Jesus of Nazareth.

Dr. Martin Luther King.

William Wallace.

Einstein.

Etc.

Freedom, human dignity, compassion, knowing how to live right. These all tend to fall outside the scope of corporate aspiration.

The article is talking about "success" by essentially a single metric. Humankind does not live by bread alone.
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I've seen this many times as an options market-maker: A short-seller fund can't get borrow (which is a requirement for short selling) on a name it's already short, so it can't add to the short position. Thus, they call a bank and buy put options. The bank makes a price that incorporates (charges for) the borrow risk, usually because (A) the bank has an easier time locating borrow and gets a better price, (B) the bank trader/desk has a larger tolerance for P&L swings and can thus take the other side of the trade and hedge the position slowly or not at all, or (C) the bank has better market access and can trade combos (synthetic shares) against a different institution that has stock or a better borrow rate.

As a general rule, there's options activity for names that are very volatile. This doesn't always show up on the open interest count, because many firms trade OTC contracts that don't have the same clearinghouse protections as exchange-listed option contracts.

Option bid/ask spread being wide don't necessarily mean that volatility itself is illiquid. There could be large size on both bid and offer, with every dealer under the sun making a market, but the carry rate spread is wide, and that widens the option price. For example, the put offer will be based on the short rate, and the put bid will be based on the long rate, so if these two rates are divergent (as is the case when a name is hard to borrow), then the spread will be wide even if both sides are priced with the same implied volatility.

BTW even if screens show little more than a 100-lot, a bank will make a price on a much larger block of options. You won't know where liquidity is without quoting dealers. An option market could show a bid/ask that's 2 dollars wide with 200 contracts on either side, but a market maker may make you a two-way price that's 30 cents wide for 10,000 contracts. Depends on a lot of factors (who's the client, what's the position, does the market maker know the name and have a view, what are the catalysts, why is the screen market so wide, etc)
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Another illustration that your face and/or your fingerprints are not passwords. You should disable all that and set a PIN of at least 6 digits.
I Have a Laptop with 4GB RAM – An Electron Rant
There's no such thing as timeless.
Just hold your thumb over the lens.
Much better for every decision to be a private one made by insurance executives on your behalf.
You can click into the links to see the full case-study length explanation.
Touch ID is no better.

There was recently a story of a married couple flying. The wife thought the husband was cheating, so after he fell asleep, she unlocked his phone right there and read everything. She didn't handle the news well.
It can be an interesting evolution of Unix "everything is a file". This potentially simplifies everything - threading, signals, pipes, asyncronous I/O.

I have the impression that Microsoft tried to do everything is a device in post-NT systems but I can't remember the details.
Local Minima, Saddle Points, and Plateaus
I'm in Silicon Valley and I work with plenty of well-compensated, valued engineers in their 40s and 50s. They are easier to find at large companies than at startups -- part of that is due to ageism, but another factor is that they are done putting up with the startup bs and want a stable job with good benefits and a high salary and work-life balance.

Some of them are senior individual contributors, some of them are in engineering management, and some have transitioned from engineering to project management. Many of them could afford to retire today but want to keep working. And very few of them are still in the building after 5:30pm, because they have lives to go home to and refuse to work crazy startup hours.

Ageism is real in the industry. But the outlook for engineers over 40 is not a terrifying or bleak as you make it seem.
Opening the window a crack is instinctual for me now whenever I first hear a siren on the road, so I can better figure out where it's coming from -- it can give me several extra seconds to plan if and how I need to get out of the way of emergency services. I highly recommend it!
From another's mid-40 point of view, the only ways to avoid such management like positions is to either go consulting, e.g. Android + Spring Boot expert on your case, or accept a position at a company with lower pay but with those perks that you list.

In either case it is an hard fight, as most HR departments and head hunters try to offer management positions, so it is up to you to make your point about what you really want, and accept it takes a bit longer to find such positions.
It does have links to articles for more details (click on title)
Hi, interested in learning more about your security career. Your contact info is not on the profile. Would like to catch up. My email is in the profile :-)
For the most part, people use the internet to do things they were doing anyway. Netflix is better than cable, but not fundamentally different. (You can tell, because people don’t even use a lot of the advances enabled by the internet. Business people still use phone calls more than video conferencing for example.) Refrigerators or industrial farming had a bigger impact on fundamentally restructuring peoples’ lives than the internet.

You could still run most of the modern world without the internet, replacing it with fax and telephone (century old technology at this point). It would be painful but doable. Without refrigerators society as currently structured would collapse.
Not often a fat finger mistake blows something up
As an uneducated layman I have 2 questions I have failed to understand that continue to confuse me.
1. How can relatavistic time resolve to a instant for which the mass in the universe applies?
2. Why does spacetime not have wave like tensional disortions?
Idealized is much better than that. I knew a lady who slept through labor, waking up just a few minutes before birth. There are even women who have birth orgasms.
The parent didn’t say anything about it being addictive, just that there was a lot of money to be made distributing it, which there clearly is.
Years ago someone made a script where Asterisk would answer immediately with a short burst of number unavailable tone - too short for a human to hang up, but long enough for robo caller to detect and hopefully take off it's active numbers list, in the hope of reducing automated calls... not sure if it's still around, or if the robocallers got wise to it.
If there is indeed a causal relationship, then the only alternative was not to let those parents be born through c-section. We anyway already heavily depend on medicine for our survival.
Or convert to retirement homes ;)
If you are famous or for other reasons often in the center of attention, this may not work well too. See a recent event with a popular musician.
The situation isn't terribly different for private health insurance. You're still spending out of a shared pool of dollars, and you don't have complete freedom in how you choose to do so.
>staircase in the bathroom

Wow how does that happen?
Google is a private company, so Google is free to do whatever it wants.
WIMPs are just a whole class of placeholder particles, there is no consensus on anything currently everyone has their own pet theory or theories depending on their field.
Working on the same city?

Most people don't keep jumping between countries.

Even on a large city like Lisbon it is relatively easy to meet old time university friends or former colleges, because consulting companies have more or less the same costumers.
Apple should add a feature to lock out the phone if you close your eyes during Face ID.
I don't know what it is about us technically minded people that makes us so confident in our knowledge in so many fields like that (note that I'm including myself in that generalization). It seems to go beyond your garden variety Dunning–Kruger effect.

My personal supposition is that most people don't know very much if anything about most subjects, and tech people tend to know a bit more than that quite low average (though still not anywhere near expert level) in an above average number of subjects, and that "novice polymath" status amplifies the Dunning-Kruger effect. Of course it's entirely possible that demonstrating the Dunning-Kruger effect by even thinking we tend to have an above average exposure to an above average number of fields.
If there was class arbitration or arbitration provisions were void in the case of a class action then much of the criticism would go away.

The main problem today is companies can commit “small” torts under $1,000 and it’s not worth it for individuals to complain seperately.
IMHO, a party that owns or invents a patent that it does not use and never intends to use in any real products and they only litigate with said patent makes it a true patent troll.
Yes they exist. I'm Mid 40's; been working from home for ~5 years for a large international software company as a dev. If you're doing remote, make sure it's in a team where there's a fairly large chunk of remotees - being the only remotee is a bit weird (fortunately at this job most of the team are remote).
You really can't?
Europe’s history explains why it will never produce a Google
I use homebrew and will be happy if distributed that way.
That's kind of awesome. How good with names would you say you are now?

Also, is that the whole technique? Seems like you'd have to say it for quite a while to get it in to long term memory - if you're doing it straight after it doesn't seem like it would qualify for spaced repetition. Do you do it again later?
The issue with that is that it's not "your" data. Not because you owe it to the internet companies, or because you give it to the government, which then uses it both for commercial purposes and directly against you (pervasive in China).

Your data is not yours because you aren't unique enough to have unique data. So there are tens of thousands of humans alive that are essentially direct copies of you, at least in terms of behavior. They might have a different address, but they can be influenced in exactly the same way.

So this is not a battle that can be won.
I never forget a face but often forget a name
born rich (his dad was a provincial minister)

poor

poor (middle-class, if you think a carpenter is that way, maybe)

middle-class

rich (born a landed knight)

rich (although his father's engineering firm went bust but restarted and did well in the second time and they had money worries at times)

about 0.5-5% of people are rich by most definitions

humankind does not live by bread alone, but put a human in a box and don't feed them and see what happens
I don't think performance is the achilles heel of OpenCL. There are other problems that I have when working with:
The implementations ended up becoming a "write once, debug everywhere" ecosystem. Making the compiler a part of the driver meant that OpenCL kernels that worked on platform A wouldn't even compile on platform B. SPIR-V should have been part of OpenCL from version 1.0.
Profiling OpenCL kernels is a stumbling block too - IMHO, you shouldn't ship a toolkit without a profiler and claim it's intended for HPC.
IEE 754 compliance should also have been part of 1.0 and not an afterthought. Without it, it's harder to verify that your kernel works correctly, since it's permitted to deliver different results than a C reference implementation.

With CUDA, at least you're guaranteed* that your code that runs on your CUDA equipped machine, also runs on any other machine that supports CUDA - regardless of OS, regardless of GPU. With OpenCL, not so much.
* Within the same restrictions as CPU code - instruction set, RAM and compiler bugs.
Chrome is not everywhere the leading browser yet
> the main technical concern of the investors is how (and if) your application does scale

How often is this borne of ignorance, though?

> in the past there were a lot of story's about companies that needed to rebuild there system

More specifically, are investors merely remembering the struggles of the dot-com boom, when transistor density was one thousandth that of today?

Internet usage (number of users and number of services each one uses) has grown, too, but I haven't seen statistics that suggest this would be more than 100x of 20 years ago.

> Although it makes sense to ignore scaling at the beginning you need to design your application in a way that you can easily transition to something that can scale.

This presents a false dichotomy. One doesn't have to ignore scaling at the beginning to make the decision to trade initial time-to-market for eventual "horizontal" scalability (usually what is meant by "can scale" [1]), but that may be what happens in practice.

[1] even though one can buy a remarkably large single server 3-6x price premiums over mid-range single servers, as well as use other, more traditional techniques, before "needing" to rebuild the entire system.
Except for blaming the Javascript language (all language have issues; and admittedly JS does have a lot of legacy cruft), I generally agree with this rant.

I have a fancy Ryzen 7 and I do use Atom, but even the small bits of lag here and there brings me back to, "this is using up a shit ton of resources ... for a code editor"

Electron apps tend to be at least 50 ~ 60MB in size. Who thought that packaging a web browser with your app was a good idea? At a minimum, all the old legacy stuff should be stripped out of the browser and it should only support the very latest standards in HTML/JS/CSS since you're not worrying about cross browser support, right? Oh no wait, Slack and Discord pretty much just pull their web app and cache a bunch of things locally.

Things like Java/Swing, Adobe Air/Flash and other cross-platform app systems seem to now be a thing of the past. We've settled on Electron, and it's honestly shit, but what are the alternatives?

Sure there's Python+QT and others, but they do require some packaging and customer installers for all platforms. That package on Mac/Windows is most likely going to have its own Python and QT runtime embedded ... but I bet that'd still take less space than Electron with all its dependencies.
Would you consider this discrimination or harassment?

https://regmedia.co.uk/2017/02/14/magic-leap-sex-discriminat...

>Euen Thompson, an IT Support Lead, on November 16, 2016,
gave a tutorial to a group of seven new hires, including two women, how to
use Magic Leap’s IT equipment and resources. One woman asked
Thompson a question in front of the group and Thompson responded, “Yeah,
women always have trouble with computers.” The women in the group, in
apparent disbelief, asked Thompson to repeat what he said and Thompson
replied, “In IT we have a saying; stay away from the Three Os: Orientals,
Old People and Ovaries.”
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>It can’t be. It’s already known that 5/6 ths of all the matter in the observable Universe can’t be baryonic.

No it's not known, it's highly unlikely that the "final" dark matter candidate will be completely made up of baryonic matter but it's not been exclusively proven.

Only Siths deal in absolutes.

>Only for completely useless definitions of the “concensus.”

Do you have a more useful definition of consensus for this matter? if so please share it.
Can only confirm that the service is not responding in Oslo, Norway.