skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The absolute worst part is their random bans for ludicrous reasons. Resold pixel? Ban! Art nudity? Ban! Hollywood photos in app screenshots? Ban! YouTube reports? Ban!

And the ban hammer deletes everything from Gmail to Google docs to Google drive.

There is no other company that I despise as much as Google. Not even Facebook. FB had a customer support call me when my account was blocked due to invalid credit card in ads. Amazon has excellent customer support for buyers and sellers.

Google just deletes everything and doesn't even bother providing any support for it.

The day Google dies, I will be opening up a champagne and celebrating.
New in Clojure 1.10: Prepl
MIT invents method to shrink objects to nanoscale – CNN
Once upon a time I ordered a pizza at a pub in Glasgow. The barman plucked s pizza out of the freezer with tongs and dropped in in the Fryalator. It was less horrifying than it appeared to be.
It's briefly mentioned in the "What you learned does not apply to work" section. But I do agree it is much more of this type of issue - I didn't want to highlight here, I might do so in a future post.
>"All of the bad press FB is getting lately... literally years after events occurred"

Details of the targeting of African-Americans by Russian operatives is actually a fresh news story:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/report-russia-bought-anti-blac...

The fact is that the extent and the specifics of the tactics used are still forthcoming. There is nothing about that that make the news reporting on it "curious."

>"I know Facebook is the whipping-boy de jour, but it seems evident that Facebook is the biggest victim in all of this"

What an incredibly absurd statement. The biggest victims in this were the American electorate. What has FB suffered? How has their business had to change as a result? It hasn't changed one bit.

They had months to get out in front of this story. Instead of doing so their CEO at the time dismissed Russian election interference "a pretty crazy idea."

>"I'm not one for conspiracy theories, but ..."

Spoken like a true conspiracy theorist. Trying to sow doubt about the existence of a disinformation campaign - how very meta.
It'll be great as a continuation of XUL for applications that continue to use it, one example being Conkeror.
It may surprise you to hear that I don't disagree with any of your points. The software is probably not even worth downloading, much less using.

However, you seem to be conflating arguments about the quality of their software and whether or not they should/shouldn't enforce their license. It's entirely possible that they wanted that repo to stop distributing their software.
The point is, it's not because

> they could pose a potential social problem, even though they are not presently

It's because

> This region is exhibiting separatism over religious lines, and our country has an established pattern of religous separatist movements turning into catastrophic wars that claim tens of millions of lives.

In short, while Westerners might see mass incarceration of religous minorities and think, "holy cow, if we don't do something this will be another Holocaust" Chinese might look at Uhigyr separatism and think, "holy cow, if we don't do something this will be another Taiping rebellion". The former occurred more recently, but the latter was several times larger in magnitude. I'm not Chinese myself so I can't speak to the magnitude of the Taiping rebellion in their social memory. But the point is I can at least empathize with their point of view even if I find it's results abhorrent.

And as I have stated repeatedly, do not mistake justifications of Chinese opinions as justifying the actions themselves, and I have repeatedly stated that Chinese treatment of Uhigyrs appalls me. The fact that you accuse me of justifying their actions in spite of explicitly stating otherwise is indicating that you aren't reading my comments with the degree of attention that is necessary to have a productive conversation on a controversial topic like this.
Why do you think it's Google's responsibility to aid in the development of one city?

I think everyone could benefit a lot more if Google did what was most optimal for itself to make better products and compete with Apple/Netflix/Amazon/Uber/Comcast/etc.
Kubernetes for AI Hyperparameter Search Experiments
Some (maybe most or even all?) banks will charge a fee if you don't maintain a minimum balance in your savings or even checking accounts. Some banks will waive this fee (and related ones like inactivity fees) if you have direct deposit set up, which isn't always an option for people. Banks will also do things like reordering transactions to maximize overdraft fees.
If I die at age 72, the quality of any three particular months of my life represent less than a percent of my overall quality of life. An experience that I remember or that changes my life, or an invention that I use on a regular basis, changes my life continuously from that moment forward.
There is a moral difference between doing and not doing that you seem to be glossing over. Facebook didn't do enough to stop all sorts of things. But the question is what moral responsibility do they have for not recognizing issues soon enough, or not committing enough resources to responding, etc. It's not obvious that they have the backwards-looking responsibility that your argument requires.
My rent in NYC was $1500 with utilities included. I was renting one bedroom in a 2 bedrooms apartment in 75th street.

Only downside is that it was a semi-basement (Those apartments with tiny windows that are the same height of the street level---Probably a huge fire hazard). The plus was that I lived three blocks away from Central Park.

Some people said that I was lucky to find that place, but in my search I saw similar places that ranged between 1400 without utilities to 2000 in Upper East, some areas of Midtown and East Village. I even saw one guy renting a room for 700 in Upper West.

So yes, I was probably lucky to find that place, but not extremely lucky.
Tech is (still) concentrating in the Bay Area
SPARC V9 (which is the 64 bit version) lies with SPARC International. That doesn't necessarily extend to OSA2011/OSA2017, whose specifications are available from Oracle, but I wouldn't bet on their royalty-freeness.
A few rounds of immigration from the romans and subsequent conquerers tends to change your culture. Doesn't dismiss the fact that ancient Egyptians had a culturural context that anchored to the past as opposed to the present/future.
I don't get this concept of returning money.

If you disagree with someone KEEP their money!

IF Satan himself gives you $1M just keep it and use it for something good.

If you give it back he's just going to use it for something evil. At least you're using it for something good.

I mean there's the argument that now satan can now claim that he supports your non-profit but I think you can do more good than the bad...
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Apparently some researchers from the GCHQ in the UK are proposing that "secure" messaging systems like iMessage and WhatsApp which manage group chats centrally in a manner that bypasses the end to end encryption should:

- Add "ghost" users/devices to existing chats

- Suppress notifications of these additions to users

This would perpetuate a currently known bug in secure communication protocols, effectively turning it into "feature" for law enforcement.

Fortunately, systems like Signal and Briar have already moved past this flaw.
1,800 will get you a nice 2BR if you're willing to accept a 45 min commute. Even in nicer neighborhoods, e.g. a 2BR in Riverdale is 2,000 - 2,400.
The 3% was definitely interesting, but to me at least, moving money quickly between my account and trading/investing account would be nice. Especially when its all in one application.

To me, the 3% is not that interesting. 3% is chump change, 3k on 100k.. who cares? Most Americans don't even have 400 bucks in any of their accounts. I don't think most people are going to sign up with a bank for 10 bucks extra per year. Usually much less than that.
we are palemoon of borg. resistance is futile.
Google in China won’t make the people more oppressed. It gives us a tool for searchinng. It’s better than being oppressed AND have nothing to search with.
Huh? Why does the empty HTML element do that? YouTube has a lot of not-empty HTML elements overlaid on the video too... I can't imagine a simple <div> alone is doing this, otherwise wouldn't the rest of the UI also do that?
"Don't be evil"

Makes you wonder if that was just a really good PR campaign all along.
Just for perspective Google also is planning to add ~50k employees in the Bay Area. They have been on a massive real estate buying spree here

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Google-s-Bay-Ar...
Photoshop as a Service is coming from Adobe
Sun opened the SPARC T2 a decade ago, and it certainly has not become popular

I'm not saying it would have become any more popular without this, but the fact that Oracle purchased Sun probably didn't help adoption here, at all.
I should have been clearer that I meant movies. TV is indeed more siloed.

And of course I meant now, and in the US.
Sounds similar to what Moxie experienced: https://moxie.org/blog/saudi-surveillance/
You're missing out on something: it wasn't considered overt to the Russian people at the time. We subverted Russian democracy. This is all completely documented and non controversial.

Unlike the conspiracy theory that $20k in allegedly Russian purchased FB ads (or whatever the insane idea is this week) is why a reality TV star won the presidency.
No, not for nausea. I’m talking about just having a good vr experience.
For ribs I follow a modified 321 method, 3:30 on, 1:30 in tinfoil on, 1 unwrapped. Sauce them 10-20 minutes before they are done just to carmelize it a bit.

They are still tender but with A bit of toothiness left.
Every Time Zone, visual aid
There were other, bigger, non-public reasons.
This works pretty well, thanks for sharing, this could be useful for thumbnails!
Interesting! I hadn't found anybody else doing this back when I "typeset" my thesis in a subpixel font. I even build my own tool in Processing for designing the font. A part of my graduation was making an installation of our thesis for the exhibition so people could "read" my thesis. I build an installation with a LCD screen, a USB microscope and a projector. You can find it over here: http://www.thomasjonas.nl/project/a-new-aesthetic-for-text (sorry mobile users)

The thesis was about how the aesthetics of tools/technology can influence the aesthetic of art, so I thought this installation was a pretty fitting idea.
So lets just stop innovating right here right now. Bad logic.
One of the main points of the boycott is that the Black community was targeted through misinformation campaigns with the goal of supporting voter suppression. That's how they were targeted.

That wouldn't be uncomfortable questions at all for the NAACP.
Perhaps I'm taking the moral high ground here, but you should contact the media or human rights organizations, spill the beans to help them investigate. Anonymously if necessary.
Progress Bars in Python
See related https://github.com/Unrepl/unrepl for some more context on how this would be useful.
Buybacks only return money to shareholders who choose to sell. Instead of distributing the company’s profits proportionally to its owners, it becomes a game of chicken as each investor has to decide when they should get out.
> Literally nobody I know actually pays 3.5k a month for rent

Thats because rent numbers are based on the 1.34% rental vacancy supply on the market at that point in time, self-reported by landlords.

People very frequently move in with people and other arrangements. So less than half or even 1/4th of new renters any given year actually pay the "market rent".
> How is classified information stolen from an unclassified network?

Hillary Clinton's emails?

> Either the article is poorly written (most likely), or there was a serious security infraction putting classified data on an unclassified machine.

Is it really that serious of an offence? Or just something republicans cling onto because it won them the election?
You have an interesting parser.

How do you feel about the interference of Israel, Saudi Arabia and China in US elections? Because they've certainly subverted US democracy a lot more than the integral of all Russian/Soviet interference with US elections over all time (China being a very junior partner, but still pretty obviously doing so in ways the Russians don't). Shucks, any one of them interfered more in the last election more than the Russians ever have.
That IP block is only used to talk to the PHY, in this case the high-speed transceiver hardware built into the 7-series FPGAs. You still have to license some (very) non-free IP from a vendor like Northwest Logic or Xillybus if you don't want to take on a major R&D project to get PCIe up and running.

Then there's the question of driver licensing on the OS side, if you want Windows support. Not sure if there are any prepackaged free-as-in-beer solutions for that. There were none when I looked into it a few years ago.
Google, Apple, Amazon had been hiring like crazy well before Trump came into office. Google and Amazon revenues have gone through the roof in the last decade and they have doubled quadrupled their workforce. This is largely a PR move to respond to Amazon's show. And Amazon itself got started to extract maximum tax incentives from cities. Their HQ2 RFP was announced before the tax bill was passed
The article is very light on product details. Reading between the lines, it sounds like the tool plugs into a bunch of existing tools (firewall, AV, etc) and then watches for certain heuristic patterns.

A clever approach, but I wonder how noisy it will be at the start.
I'd say no based on the fact that you see most user-driven forums experience this problem. I can't remember how many times I've seen a pinned post or set of rules to exclaiming "use the search function before posting". Even StackOverflow has many duplicate questions despite possibly having some of the best built-in workflow to prevent that from occurring.
Just because a headset has high resolution and therefore complete fov coverage and no screen door, does not mean that it has to be utilized. If someone has a weak computer they can render a lower resolution and smaller area and scale it. Every headset should be capable of high resolution because anything less than that is not compelling vr. Multiple gpus is fine.
Serverless is a tool with good use cases where your tradeoff-win will be great scalability. It's not that great for general use (yet) IMHO.
You can create a "session" in redis pretty easily if you're willing to add another database as a requirement. That way you can share state.
It's also very new so the ecosystem will keep maturing and enabling more use-cases.
But the article itself is a critique of modern capitalism in general. Yes it was using watches to make the point, but it wasn't about watches.

Right from the outset this is made clear. The watch being talked about hasn't been donated to a museum of watches, it has been donated to a museum of capitalism. Even the title was chosen to make it entirely explicit where they were going with the article.

To then say that people shouldn't comment generically about capitalism regarding an article that is explicitly about capitalism, would seem a stretch too far in trying to keep this place neat and tidy.

I felt it was a bit like if everyone were to be restricted to discussing pencil manufacture, should Leonard Read's 'I, Pencil' be the topic of discussion. Yes, the text describes making pencils, but it isn't about pencils.
patent stuff seems to be deal with....SGI and Sun are just footnotes

Eh... In Sun's case they were acquired by Oracle. I don't think that will have improved the situation.

You'll see lots of bad anecdotes about Oracle here & there. You might wonder "huh, is all that really true?" Well, I've dealt with Oracle. I have yet to see something bad about them that didn't jibe with my own experience: I won't give info that might dox me, but there was a fairly visible lawsuit involved.
The language of PDEs is Turing complete so is the language of neural networks (with a non-linearity and arbitrarily many layers) so this is trivially true in general (they have equal computational expressiveness). But "compiling" neural networks to PDEs might be a hard problem that we can never solve, in general.
I have no idea about it, but Kx Systems have a YouTube playlist updated this year, "Introduction to kdb+ and q" -

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLypX5sYuDqvrwBD2EMWad...
The executive branch doesn't make changes to laws, including tax laws.
"Open Source"? As if it really matters for the dozens of computer science courses out there which used MIPS as a base (and some are now switching to RISC-V)... and a lot of unlicensed MIPS-ish/clone cores are also present in various cheap Chinese gadgets. I mean, if the average second-year CS student can make a working MIPS core, what does that say about how much it's worth? It's such a mundane ISA that you can't really squeeze much out of it (and I'm not talking about adding SIMD and such, which you could do for x86 and ARM too) unlike x86 and to a lesser extent ARM.

x86 or ARM going open-source, now that would be interesting...
It's like a lumberjack so used to cutting down trees with a chainsaw that they'd have trouble to put down a decent tree with an axe.

Bad analogy. It's more like a "lumberjack" who thinks all it takes is pressing the controls on a chainsaw. There's some more, very important things to know, and not knowing them can cost time and money or even get someone badly hurt. The chainsaw has to be maintained, with possibly severe consequences if it isn't. You need to know how to get the tree to fall where it's supposed to. You have to know how to cut so the weight of the tree doesn't clamp the chain.

It's a bad analogy, because the important issue is whether someone is letting the tool substitute for understanding. I guess some rube might think their chainsaw is so powerful, they don't have to worry about how they cut down the tree. It's more like sailors who think they can just lean on GPS instead of having skills. Those are the guys who collide their ships and get people killed. It's more like pilots who weren't great student pilots, and they make critical mistakes and program the autopilot into the side of a mountain or do the wrong thing when the plane is stalling or always depend on the auto-landing system and don't really know how to do a manual landing and wreck the plane. (Those are all things that really happened.)

Just because some big fraction of time being a "professional" is just being an end user doesn't mean there isn't something more beyond that which is very important. I guess it just has to do with what level of "professional" you aspire to be.

It's like manual memory allocation and proper deallocation - been there, done that, but after 10+ years of working with GC languages, I would definitely have some memory leak bugs if I suddenly had to do that again. It is a basic skill, but just as many other basic skills, it's one that you can ignore in most domains.

If you're doing something hard enough, you still have to think about stuff like that in a GC environment. I know, because I worked for a Smalltalk vendor. You can even have memory leaks in a GC environment. There's a lot of stuff you can ignore -- most of the time -- but can come and bite you real hard if you're not prepared for it.
Pretty sure that's generally the case at Google too:

> Under normal company protocol, analysis of people’s search queries is subject to tight constraints and should be reviewed by the company’s privacy staff, whose job is to safeguard user rights. But the privacy team only found out about the 265.com data access after The Intercept revealed it, and were “really pissed,” according to one Google source.
LEGO duplo. Or similar stuff. 10848 and 10572 are great since they allow creativity. 10847 for the numbers.

Book with many short stories their parents can read (5 minute stories series from Tiger Tales).

A book about pooping (if they are still on diapers).

Things with numbers/shapes/colors (colored and numbered shapes exist).

Something to spend energy on, like a small set of pins with a mini bowling ball.

A 35 dollar slide.

Play doh.

Characters from their favorite show.

A small real musical instrument.
There's no need to be a dick to someone who's trying to educate themselves.
Does anyone know of terminal style spreadsheet program (thinking vim for spreadsheets)? I’d love an all text ui like VisiCalc and lotus where.
Pittsburgh and Madison are both low COL cities with great engineering schools where only a small handful of companies are soaking up all the talent. Definitely underrated.
VR ‘cured’ my motion sickness. I worked on a VR project in 2017. Before that I'd get carsick unless I was driving. At the start any artificial motion in VR made me queasy, but I got used to it. Now I'm fine.
Nope. Once you get past jupiter it is pretty much twilight. Out between stars it is exactly as dark as any clear night here on earth.
Cultural relevancy.

Companies are building in NYC because the people that make decisions in those companies want to be in NYC.

And not Boulder.

The whole point of Jeff Bezos' fake contest was to make it abundantly clear to the whole country and end this tired trope that Silicon Rockies - or whatever nearby geographical feature sounds catchy - ever had a chance.
He'd already rejected the plea bargain. He was going to stand trial at that point.

> According to his attorneys, the prosecutors believed that the most they could achieve at trial would have been 7 years. A very different number from 50 years.

And a lot more than 6 months.

You still haven't answered my question. If he didn't kill himself because he feared prison, then what happened?
As always, there is an emacs mode for that. https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SpreadSheet
How many sites put invisible DOM elements over the videos?

Remember, if you put visible DOM elements on top of the videos, then you lose scanout compositing no matter what.
I also think part of the bias is a human bias that it needs to be settled by humans.

It might be settled by artificial general intelligence either by a giant neural net occupying the resources or smaller AGIs ....

These wouldn't have the limits of humans and the issues of gravity and light and reproduction won't be an issue.

Or we just send replicants...
I don't suppose you could give us a detailed example of some particular company's/country's debt situation? (Just, since it's rare to find people who can explain that depth)
> It’s the reason you don’t notice the shirt on your back right now...

It never ceases to amuse and sometimes amaze me how statements like this immediately arrest my attention to the thing I’ve not noticed at all. Now I’m only thinking about the shirt on my back, trying to notice it, and thinking of how I haven’t felt it since I first pulled it on this morning.
Why is congress trying to pass an obviously unconstitutional law?
There is nothing that Microsoft can do. Personal computers are big, bulky and not as a convenient for what most people do with their computers most of the time.

Even from a corporate standpoint, enterprise deployments of desktop apps are cumbersome. That’s the reason that even corporate LOB apps have moved to the web. Besides a web site is the ultimate cross platform app.
Which organizations other than Wikileaks have a history of successfully pursuing this stuff?
This is fantastic! It would be great if he mass produced these, possibly without the 4 presumably expensive phones.
Pretty sure this doesn’t work when you are cutting 5kg of onions
Ask HN: What are the best resources for new execs at tech companies?
In addition to the wealth of books out there on general management and business leadership, are there any other resources for technical team members who have become executives or executives moving into tech companies?
Saturation Arithmetic