skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Careful!

Crows (and probably other corvids) learn to recognize individual humans, and are smart enough to know that whether a human is friendly, indifferent, or hostile varies from human to human and is fairly consistent for a given human.

Oh, and there is evidence that they have some way of communicating their knowledge of individual humans, so a crow that has decided to dislike you can tell other crows you are bad, and they will start acting as if you had wronged them, too, and can pass on the message.

Corvids are fun to play with. I've got several Steller's jays [1] coming by every day to get peanuts, and recently a flock of about 20 crows. But with the crows I'm limiting my messing with them to things that they can't interpret as hostile or annoying, because I do not want 20 crows trying to annoy me back.

The crows would win.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steller%27s_jay
It's typically a tax on accommodation, rather than anything else.
Think I will wait at least 1-2 more years for all this to shake out before I buy a new computer.
It's naïve to think that guarantees honesty.
Of course it's a bad take, just another in a long line of people who think their own personal workflow is the only one anybody would ever need.

Even if the poster was kidding, it's symptomatic of the Linux ecosystem — never strive for better, what we've had for years is just fine, and be sure to mockingly put down any idea that dares to lift things up.
That most companies haven't learned these lessons but those that have will assimilate or destroy the ones that don't?

Precisely

What would that look like in the statistics?

Something like this: https://www.investopedia.com/news/5-companies-amazon-killing...

Are there particular companies that you think are doing this successfully?

FAANG are the examples here. Look at the top 10 most used apps[1].

5/10 are Google owned

3/10 are Facebook owned

1 is owned by Apple

Amazon in clearly leading here as it has 49% of the ecommerce market share.

Microsoft has the vast majority of the IT ecosystem.

Facebook the company is doing well in this area. Google is also doing well here.

Creating (rather than buying at great expense) successful new products

I'm not sure why "buying at great expense" is relevant here. At the end of the day it comes down to longevity. The longest lasting companies are ones which have bought themselves into relevancy. That's the whole point. They have the market capacity to buy out or crush their competition.

Facebook used Instagram to crush Snapchat in pretty much every dimension because Snap wouldn't sell to them.

All your other metrics are kind of random and I'm not sure if there is anything that says those things lead to longevity. The few companies who were good at this in the past (Standard Oil, Bell, Railroads) eventually got broken up by the government.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/most-used-smartphone-apps-20...
Part of it is also restricting location. Every large city has a tourist quarter that becomes devoid of everyday services for residents in favor of trinket shops and expensive, mediocre restaurants (e.g. Times Square in NYC). By introducing AirBnBs everywhere you run the risk of turning residential quarters into these dead zones. In contrast, hotels are very easy to restrict using zoning.
Amazon's been well known for relentless A/B testing of every last pixel in their checkout UI. This is simply an extension of that A/B testing mentality to individual products. Flood the user's search results with a litany of similar and confusingly-branded products and see what sticks.
edit: (I may have missed that Pavlov's Cat had covered this, sorry).

Corporation is different from a group of folks in so far as a corporation limits liability.

The group of folk can take money out of the corporation while the going is good. When the going goes bad the obligations of the corporation do not confer the right to go after the "group of folk" and their assets.

Limited liability. It's been a crucially important thing in the funding of risky investments. I'd say on balance it's been amazingly good for the world but you could make the opposite case. No reason you couldn't end limited liability while retaining right to assembly and so on. It's an extremely radical policy to pursue in my opinion and would have very dramatic consequences.
Very nice work by the astronomers doing the observation. It would better if the article calls it galaxy merger instead cannibalization.
From the perspective of a onbtestee, if you didn’t get the goods it failed. There is little more frustrating than getting a gooose egg in a pentest. Blue team, not so much
Sorry to say, but I really doubt that more than a small proportion of Amazon customers really think any further than what they want.

Something I've noticed is that many of the Amazon deals in the UK are really just price matches to other retailers, they know they can still likely make a profit due to their favourable tax arrangements.
For my thesis project back in 2011, I wanted to create an interactive installation, the kind you see at museums. Since multitouch tables were insanely expensive to buy or rent, I decided to build one myself. Learned the basics of woodworking over a semester, and built a table after two failed attempts. Then I bought an LCD TV, took it apart, connected it to a playstation camera with a modified infrared lens and developed an Adobe Air application. The thing was so unresponsive to touches, I decided to ditch the whole multitouch table idea. Started from scratch again ... learned objective-c (iOS 5 or was it 6), and created an iPad app for my thesis. Don't think I've ever worked so hard in my life.
Programming Abstractions and Synthesis-Aided Compilation for Emerging Computing
It works with wine just fine
Advancing to 3D Deep Neural Networks in Medical Image Analysis
Multiplayer engine for an open-world RPG that doesn't require developer to run a dedicated server. Think Skyrim, GTA or Kingdom Come, but with a much smaller budget for content - aside from very fast movement and physics-based mechanics of GTA, this engine could've been used for any of these games. Previous developers did the single-player logic first, and then added very ad-hoc multiplayer sync, hoping that everything will be fine - but if you played long enough, you inadvertently ran into desyncs.

So, I had to write first the network engine itself (which was used both for networking and load/save), and then rewrite the whole game logic to take advantage of this mechanism. Now, if you want to write any game mechanic, you have to define it in proper MVC terms (although, due to amount of legacy code, I didn't separate the view and controller as well as I should have). Dozens and hundreds of small scripts for all the unique quest content and game mechanics working on top of a unified platform, relying on it to sync their data, one-off events (think "play sound" command that doesn't change any data but has to be replicated) and not even knowing on which one of connected clients is it run with authority, while all others run this particular object in "slave" mode.

I honestly tried to research if any other game developer have used a similar solution, but found nothing - it seems as if all open-world games that have multiplayer rely on dedicated authoritative servers, operated by developer, to run. Here's the project itself, although this update is not yet released: https://store.steampowered.com/app/526160/The_Wild_Eight/

Too bad that at the end of this project I got the worst case of burn out in my career, spiraled into the worst depression episode that I've ever experienced, and now quit the company while struggling to put my life back together. I have no idea if I'll be able to publish anything on this tech, but I still feel that it's been worth it.
A 30% performance drop is pretty shocking.
> At risk of being labeled a "neoliberal idealist," why isn't the answer here simply taxing tourists more?

Because that's really tricky to do without reducing the town to just tourism. Some people forget that in tourist towns there are also people who live, who have families and friends and some of their activities look very much like tourism.

Sure, you can try to do all kinds of things to work around this but ultimately the solution of taxing tourists does not work well in practice.
In oz, we have a nationwide metadata retention system managed by ISP's to help 22 police agencies to catch terrorists.

Here is a list of the hundred odd local councils, union watchdogs, agriculture depts etc. [0] who actually access the metadata.

But the thing that most worries me about surveillance is that almost no one is exempt. The oz government has in the past have the AFP raid the offices of journalists and opposition party members. What do you think they would do with meta data access. Politicians, more than anyone else should be afraid of surveillance.

[0]
https://www.computerworld.com.au/article/print/649514/data-r...
My first big project was working with a back-end developer on a custom implementation of a calendaring system.

It was one massive several-month nightmare. Totally relate...
Yes. Most scientists and engineers are quite conformists anyway.

It's social progress that you can't have, not innovative science and technology.
EOL for RHEL 8 will be in 10 years and python2 in RHEL8 will be a fully supported package even if not installed by default. And I suspect that it is not only Redhat that will need to support python2 past 2020. For example, I guess Ubuntu 20.4 with EOL in 2025 will still have a package. So there will be upgrade and fixes for python2 just not from python.org.
This seems like an acceptable outcome. I am not convinced this is going to do much to inhibit the actions of the bad actors out there who do and say harassing things, but it probably can't hurt.

Hopefully now the ML world can put this behind them and get back to focusing on, well, Machine Learning.
Do you expect Grandpa to do that analysis? The mitigations are probably behind KCONFIG flags anyway.
Remember what history? Of some older state that didn't have "innovative science and technology" because of surveillance?

The only history to remember would be USSRs, and even had quite a good track record in science and engineering (given their meagre resources).
Develop a tool to boost the productivity of a software engineering team and convince all members to adopt it. Software engineers (myself included) can be very resistant to changes (especially when it comes to their tooling) and an in-house tool with a single developer behind it didn't contribute to the ease of adoption, but it was adopted regardless. I guess that the tool was indeed very good, or maybe I'm a sweet talker :)

Note: the team was very specialized, so there really were no competing tools around for that specific task.
I believe there was a typo responsible for this confusion.
Hustle porn is now live and real time!
Were there firings at more than the Starlink office?
I built an olap cube for manipulating time series of financial models, and made an API to serve it through a query language that I created just for this.
The article doesn't talk about greenhouse gas emissions, so the power grid and fuel source isn't really relevant to the point, especially since oil is an extremely small part of the energy mixture in most places.[1]

If they were talking about greenhouse gases, then the answer seems to be that it depends on where you live and how/what you drive, but an electric vehicle almost always produces less emissions than an equivalent gas powered one. [2] does a decent job explaining though I feel he leaves a few parts out for the sake of clarity. For example, driving a P100D isn't the equivalent of driving the average car. It's more like driving a sports sedan (like a BMW M5), so those sorts of vehicles would probably be a more fair comparison. In the same vane, the whole US car fleet includes lots of SUVs and other trucks, which if there were equivalent electric models, would obviously not go as far as a Leaf. It would be great if there was a US calculator that worked like [3] does for the UK so that we could do the same sort of comparison based on the mix where we live.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_generation#Product...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RhtiPefVzM
[3]https://www.nextgreencar.com/tools/emissions-calculator/
I should have followed more closely.

I get most news here now.
Newer material. But big issue with shuttle was that each panel was unique and had to always be placed in a specific spot
Good thing Fahrenheit's got pragmatic points of reference, like. . . the freezing point of brine water and almost the body temperature of human [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit#History
Naming Conventions That Need to Die
> [asymptotic graph trending towards doom]

> How many programs are you running right now? :-D

I don't even know, there are probably thousands of processes running right now, totaling hundreds of millions of lines of code.

And it all works perfectly fine, especially as long as I don't update anything. I just don't do the things that don't work. The things that don't work, they generally don't work 100% of the time. The things that do work, they generally work 100% of the time. Some software might fail randomly and frequently, in which case I might not use it either, unless failure is easily recovered from (which is often the case).

I don't need a system that is really simple and (as a consequence) super-reliable. I need a system that runs my software and that is fault-tolerant. After all, even entirely correct software cannot prevent hardware faults (which do occur).
Less automation, more sloppiness. I don’t think anyone particularly needs all the endpoints, either. Just enough of a foothold to go after networked applications.
The shuttle didn't do any re-entry engine burns. It fully relied on the friction.
Android One is not stock (and the underlying consumer choice problem)
The hardest part was definitely creating a sturdy wooden frame. Glad I'm a designer/developer.
Proving there was a bug in a vendor's device driver on an ARM touchscreen by stripping down X-Win to intercept system calls around glitches.

Using a mock libc to intercept everything since there was no strace.

Porting Ruby to the IBM Blue Gene/L.

Updating a DAG stored in a SQL table.
It’s 2018 and I’m reading this with the top 20% of the screen taken by a banner nagging me to download the native Medium app.
A system running a browser probably has other problems, but just take every supercomputer ever or the vast majority of embedded systems.

Running other peoples code (on other peoples machines) is a cloud thing, but they have an iron grip on the kernel and other software.
Sure but many are reasonably well identified already. In a small town with a tourist event everyone knows which streets get full on which days already. And hotel managers will advise their customers what to do. Adding a network of sensors isnt going to change much in most of these scenarios.
Here are some better names for S3 that aren't misleading:

- Binary Storage

- Blob Storge

- File Storage

- Reliable Storage

FTP is a specific protocol. Hard drives (as a sibling comment mentions) are a specific technology. Our discipline is confusing enough that names should be precise, not analogical.
What is an NWGF?
The parent makes a sarcastic comment, based on:

> In the months and years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, many of us censored what we spoke about on social media or what we searched on the internet.

from the TFA.

i.e. Which those "many of us" were, and what "social media" were they censoring themselves in around 9/11?

Since

(a) the only successful website that one would classify as "social media" back then was MySpace, and

(b) it was mostly for teens,

(the parent asks) if people on social media back then censored themselves, does that mean that teens of MySpace censored themselves? Either the article is BS on that part, or teens at the time quite politically aware....
Yes, Facebook made mistakes in 2016. But we weren’t the only ones
Mine was more a general question, not specifically regarding Windows itself.

Some people do need to use Windows for various reasons. Consider yourself lucky if you don’t.
It doesn't matter if it bypasses pcie. The fastest available ethernet interface today is 100Gbps. Pcie gen3 x16 will get you to about 115Gbps, so the limiter is the interface speed. Pcie4 should be common when 200G interfaces come out. This is why an external nvswitch can make network switches vulnerable in this market.

Power 9 has pcie4, so you could theoretically already double your pcie bandwidth with a mellanox card that supports it, but from my previous point, it doesn't matter. Those nvlink numbers are disingenuous. That's the total links to/from a GPU. All available power 9 machines split those links between the other GPUs and CPUs, so you really only have up to 3 of those in the best case, or 75GBps. That's only a bit more than double pcie 4 at that point. And also, by using those nvlinks back to the processor, you are making a decision that you don't need as much bandwidth between GPUs. With the nvswitch architecture, you get the best of both worlds with a full, non-blocking switch.
I have a suspicion that something like APL is only a problem as far as the learning curve is concerned. For example, the syntax of advanced mathematics is nearly illegible to me but, for a physicist or mathematician who does this every day, it's the most efficient way of communicating information.
Some history [of init systems] seems in order
also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18476562
You should know almost everywhere around the world, oil is almost never used for electricity generation. That said, oil producing countries tend to also have large natgas reserves, which are used for power gen.
Can’t wait to have some of these memristors in my phone, powered by graphene batteries, running on clean electricity from the regional fusion plant.
The broader question is: why are people never fully satisfied for long?

The answer is simple: that's just how humans are. You can do this and that, in all areas of life to be less dissatisfied. Just don't believe for one second that it'll lead to some ultimate state of lasting satisfaction.
Nation-state actors conducted information warfare on Facebook's platform. Solely blaming Facebook for that is a little like blaming United & American Airlines for 9/11. They are just the most obvious attack vector, but it's a failure of government to allow rogue actors to act freely. Unfortunately after we've created the internet equivalent of the TSA we may find the cure worse than the disease.
Theoretically what you say makes sense, but I think in practice, it doesn't work as nicely.

Corporate M&A can do many of those things already. They have cash. They don't need 'a fund' to do that ... and yet most corporate M&A is a disaster.

I wouldn't believe it until I saw it at a large company and then it all clicked and it actually makes sense.

M&A & VC teams are considerably more removed from the strategic impetus of companies than you might imagine - these are human organizations with a lot of individual self interest. M&A teams like making deals. They are opportunistic I find more than strategic ... which can be ok, but they find something cool and want to make a big thing out of it - but the product people in the company may not want them on board.

So company A acquires company B. Now what? Aside from new branding and T-shirts ... it takes a lot of effort to integrate these things. A new product that fits well into a product line, that does not need to be integrated technically, this might work.

Sometimes companies get bought because the CEO saw the website or met the CEO and 'liked him' and the product kind of makes sense. The head of M&A wants to please the CEO and goes gangbusters to make it work.

Legal, IP and financial due diligence are all the least important kinds of due diligence! Product and cultural due diligence are what matters, and they are weirdly not on the checklist - or not as intensely as they should be.

I think instead of VC, these companies should be focused in rigorous, objective oriented, well-managed M&A activity.

I don't even know who a good example would be - it used to be Cisco, I'm not sure anymore.
I thought this was the preferred option? https://nativescript-vue.org/
Starting prices for a Volvo V60, in euros:

The Netherlands: 36,500
Belgium: 35,000
Germany: 37,500
Sweden: 31,000

These may not be exactly comparable feature-wise, but those extra taxes don't seem to have a big impact.
Math has lots of applications. Computer science is basically just applied discrete maths.
that is why i always use a pencil, more durable than pens.
I call this effect cultural mathematics. After college I avoided maths, went into programming, especially Functional Programming, which has a big math envy. With years I finally clicked on how mathematicians think and write. It's hyper cryptic when not explained or if you're just below the math level brainiac who does grok high level abstraction rapidly and thus will play that formula game with ease.
Echo chamber?
"That's a dangerous assumption, and doesn't seem to jibe with what we see in practice."

I see exactly this in practice.

Big companies are usually totally lacking in self awareness on so many things.

'Good companies' have a strong sense of where they are, and can manage direct threats - I think FB is a good example.

But more distant threats, I don't think so.

And most companies are not 'good companies'.

Nortel, Nokia, BlackBerry, Alcatel. Just to name a few.
well it is all fun and games until you put actual people in it.
Hi, I'm a Redux maintainer. FWIW, we're looking at revamping the Redux docs in the near future (see https://github.com/reduxjs/redux/issues/2590 for plans ).

If you've got any specific suggestions for improvements, please let us know! I'm always looking for ways we can make the docs better.

As a side note, React is separate from Redux, and Redux is definitely not tied to React. Here's a recent post about a team that opted to use Redux with Vue: https://snipcart.com/blog/redux-vue .
What did the tool do?