skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Glad I'm not the only one. I had to slink down in my chair to get below the cubicle wall so nobody could see. Touching story. I can't help but think though, that the parents seemed to be nearly oblivious. But they did repeatedly state how they are very 'traditional' and such.
People are just broken.
I would guess that it has to do with the usefulness of the project outside of Google. This project could be applied to so many other things (as OSS-Fuzz demonstrates), so open-sourcing it makes perfect sense. It isn’t some kind of classified algorithm, either.
It's weird to me to see a narrow "pricing approach" towards antitrust being attributed to the Chicago School. I thought the Chicago perspective on antitrust was that it should potentially be applied to markets that aren't "contestable" (i.e. have high barriers to entry) for either structural or regulatory reasons, and in particular, that well-designed regulation could be used in such cases to minimize and constrain the non-contestable portion of a complex, multi-lateral market structure (see e.g. the markets in energy, telcos and the like - IT does not seem all that different), while "carving out" new, more contestable markets that could then sustain a lesser regulatory burden. This seems quite close to the power-focused approach that the "critics" are pursuing, and it's weird that they're being characterized as anti-free-market.
Different corporate cultures would most destroy any value that IBM creates as part of Alphabet.

> The level of understanding and ability at speed to move and impact operations has delivered enormous value

What enormous value? What move? IBM has been dropping the ball year after year. Ability to manage decline is not speed.

> A Google Brain and Watson combination may be the straightest path to AI leadership in the market.

Watson is not produce value for the IBM. The platform is behind the new rivals and the gap grows constantly. At this point it's well marketed PR riding on AI hype. Their research for AI is lagging. I don't see Watson providing any value to Google. Watson would be first thing Google would drop.
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None has the broadcom chip. So if you want to make a custom hardware project based on the broadcom chip that's in Rpi you can't. So if that's on your radar as an eventuality, you can just as well ignore the whole rpi thing, and start with more easily available chinese SoCs. That's why there's much more hacker friendly innovation around Allwinner SoCs for example, than the SoCs that are used in rpi.
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Please don't break the site guidelines regardless of how stupid a comment is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The market model is a gross simplification of reality. The basic model doesn't incorporate irrational decision-makers, data asymmetries, externalities, etc.
If I recall correctly, the folks who made RPi have serious nostalgia for the BBC Micro. So even if the target demo is nerdy kids, they need to interface with less-than-nerdy parents and teachers who make buying decisions for those kids.

Element14 isn't exactly the most friendly website for a lay person...
Actually you are being viewed as arrogant not because you support the legislation.

I support one part of the legislation (limiting debits to user accounts).

I don't support another part of the legislation that would basically create a regulatory burden that would make payday lending more akin to credit cards.

As a thinking person, I research what I support and don't.

I look into whether what I support will actually help. This should apply doubly if I'm supporting congress to limit someone else's freedom to associate and engage in 'in state commerce'.

I'm supporting something based on my own personal experience.

Details matter. Let's not keep it at the level some people seem to not be able to get past: "pay day loan bad, people suffer, make illegal, people not suffer". This requires two assumptions: 1- all/the vast majority of pay day users are suffering because of they are stupid and NEED your smart help and 2: no one will offer pay day loans illegally and collect with a bat.
Not that you asked, but as a word of advice from a random person on the internet: if you do go the open-source it like Wordpress route, it would be good if you made an easy path back in to your product. Some people who start off self-hosting WP, Prestashop, or whatever, then decide after a few years they would rather have somebody else do it. Oddly, it is often not a marketing focus for the company that makes the software. If I had a self-hosted, open-source Gumroad setup, and a couple years later wanted to pay someone else to host/manage it, I would want a clear and easy article on your website about how I could turn it over to you and pay you to do that.
"What is zero rating?" you might ask. (I did). This is the process of ISPs offering free carriage of exclusively particular traffic. e.g. T-Mobile's "unlimited [downsampled] youtube" offering, Facebook's free internet (offered in India IIRC), Amazon's whispernet for Kindle.
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I was never able to get it work using folder exclusions or application exclusions.

Turning off REALTIME protection is the only thing I am to use to get relief from this problem.
It's worse than invalid, it's a cliché.
I saw the They Shall Not Grow Old screening here in Atlanta. What Peter Jackson has done with virtually unusable footage is absolutely spectacular. Both the film, coloring and sound work is amazing.

Despite the absolutely spectacular footage. I thought the documentary itself was OK. It uses audio from people in British WWI regiments to tell the story—all from BBC and Imperial War Museum recordings. It was a good execution given the constrains, but there's no real angle or conclusions to draw from the documentary.

The real gem was the interview with Peter Jackson after the movie. It covered the restoring process—much of which is covered in the article. They basically used computer software to move the frame-rates from 12 to 16 fps up to 24 fps. Then tweaked the highlights and shadows. There's a ton of work that went into color and sound as well.

I hope these techniques can be used to restore other old footage.
It is sad it seems to be dying - from a “wow that can fly” point of view - but at this point it looks like the a380 was the wrong bet :-/
THink about different sstable versions compatibility (older C* to newer Scylla and vise versa). THere are cases where just copying the sstables will not work.
I have my doubts whether or not this an apples-apples comparison. EU tends to have extreme regulation and also lofty subsidies. Nevertheless, I agree with the assertion that zero-rating is an anticompetitive practice. Actually rating in general just kind of stinks. Billing this way has lead to the current situation.
I first learned of the concept from Malcom Gladwell's podcast:

http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/01-the-lady-vanishes/
No worries at all. Keep building good products and you as a person (too many double down on their character flaws).
Open sourcing is usually pushed from the bottom. People decide they care about open sourcing their project at they push for it.
Not even close.

If you start at 1 million users, 20% monthly growth for 9 years means you would have 13,375,565,248,934 users, or a little over 13 trillion.
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I don't. I've first hand experience with groups which have "clandestine" agendas, both in the private sector and in government. And I don't mean UFO agendas, but money and financial oriented agendas. So it's not a big leap for me to accept that they exist for UFOs, or what "they" want us to believe are UFOs.
I don't think so.

But solidity was recently added to OSS-Fuzz: https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/tree/master/projects/soli...
A lot of cyberpunk and space opera is like that, I think, particularly in art. Cyberpunk art is still enamored of '80s neon, fashion, the then-looming fear of Japan Inc., etc.

But Fallout is something different, because it embraced '50s retro-futurism from the beginning. (Though it got more obvious in the later games.)
I totally understand why big aircraft (A380, 747, etc) are disappearing commercially but I will miss them. Flying in a larger aircraft makes one feel less like cargo, in particularly for airlines that offer places to stretch your legs (e.g. "bar" seating, showers, staircases, etc).

I was always kind of secretly hoping large blimps would return. And we'd get to choose between 7 hours in a tiny metal tube with the seat-back of the person in front resting on your knees, or 24 hours on a slow blimp with a bed, the ability to walk around, and social areas. Kind of like a cruise ship in the sky.

An A380 feels kind of like Concord in that it really touched the imagination. I still hope to have a shower at 40,000 feet before they're retired completely.
The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

Efficient market theory is mostly used to justify deregulation, to protect the profits of the big players who can throw the most weight around.

Some economists support this (perhaps because their paychecks depend on it, or they were brainwashed at the University of Chicago where the movement was strongest). But I doubt most do, especially these days, so soon after the reminder of the Great Recesssion, 80 years after the Great Depression taught the initial lessons. But Keynes got boring for some I guess, and the allure of the "totally rational human" was clearly too great for some, and attractive to lobbyists.

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/magazine/06Economic-t.htm...
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Pretty sure he is free to take that action himself. If it is against his religion, well there is a good chance that religion also states that it was his parents duty to bring him into this world. In which case, he can be mad at his Creator.
I didn't know freedom meant people doing stuff that sucks.

Quote by someone.
This, he says, would gradually phase out humanity from the Earth and that would also be so much better for the planet.

Perhaps he should lead by example, instead of setting up a Facebook page. Smells like he's more interested in attention than improving the planet.
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Signal introduces privacy-preserving link previews
It reminds me of when Steam tried introducing ways for game-modders to get paid.

There was a lot of backlash and, especially, no shortage of gamers willing to tell you that game modding should be a labor of love and a voluntary charity. It's a pretty easy claim when one is benefitting without any skin in the game.

I'm getting hints of that all over again in these comments, but you have a pretty reasonable explanation of the trade-offs.

Though since since so few people do it, I like to take the side that more content producers able to make more money at any size creates an explosion of content that everyone benefits from. For example, I'd mark the Golden Age of the internet on the period where Adsense reigned rather than what came before.
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Clickfunnels isn't particularly ground-breaking. I identified what I believe got them to their position.

In many cases, they're attracting customers who would never dream of using gumroad.
> That is a massive leap of faith to believe that a person that works for a large international non-profit is someone who automatically behaves justly and morally.

In some circles its trendy to work for non profits and sometimes even benefits are much better than working for a regular organization where $$ return of investments are monitored closely. It's basically do good porn for some.
I ran with this idea last year and wrote a proof of concept library that wraps libev using using this concept to allow you to write async C code inline. It's about 250 lines of macro abuse and the resulting code looks pretty funky but it ultimately works. I have a simple echo server example here: https://github.com/jeremycw/zasync/blob/master/echo_server.c
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>Is that reasonable when heath-care costs, at 20% of the economy, are increasing at 10+% a year?

Yes.

One, because cash flow one way doesn't justify cash flow another way. Regardless of other costs. So I'm not sure how one relates to the other. Purchasing power and real wages don't necessarily mean you have more money to spend freely. It's a way of looking at how average workers are getting their slice of the pie, so to speak.

Two, because the fundamental reason these costs are increasing are also because of the economic system that is hoarding wealth -- the product of productivity -- into one class tier. This class tier has almost no real input or contribution to productivity and technological advancements, yet are quite literally the only ones benefiting from it.

Continuing, there is absolutely no reason for healthcare costs to have increased as much as they have. Not at current spending levels. I wish people would understand this. There is no fundamental, principle reason why healthcare costs go up except greed and the system we have chosen to implement. Price increases happen because you have private companies that have continually increased prices -- and in some cases taken drugs that used to be free and now charge thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars, for products and services. A lot of which are funded directly by federal grants, and none of which the public receives returns on. Our ineffectual government (when it comes to regulatory matters) has done nothing to curtail this.

https://www-tc.pbs.org/prod-media/newshour/photos/2012/10/02...

and

https://www-tc.pbs.org/prod-media/newshour/photos/2012/10/02...

We have every ounce of data telling us "this system is wrong, it is not functioning by any metric" Yet a large portion of the populace doesn't care or continues to adhere to the mantra. It's not religious, it's an economic cult sprinkled with political astrology. Capitalism has its place. But it needs to be put back in its place, so to speak.
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Market determines your growth almost always. I have enough data points now to basically say this with enough certainty. Friendster is the countercase where the technology couldn't scale, and their execution was poor, and they focused on revenue at the expense of growth, but generally like... now-a-days with modern web stack market is basically all that matters.
So what should be done?
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clinical trials are for medical experiments.

social psychology experiments use whoever they can get, often for class credit only
Makes you think about choosing to write software in C / C++ / other non-memory-safe languages when you need 25000 cores churning away to ensure you don’t make mistakes that could cause serious security issues.

It makes me wonder why Google wouldn’t put their efforts into using Rust, for example.

Of course, server power is cheap, but not for our planet.
NVidia's Turing cores are clearly more dynamic than AMD's.

There are also driver issues for sure. ROCm and RadeonGPU-Pro (two different OpenCL implementations) have numerous differences in performance. ROCm 2.1 is still absolutely awful at Blender for example (definitely use RadeonGPU-PRO drivers for that instead).

In some cases, I bet on Ahmdal's law. NVidia has fewer shaders at a higher clock than AMD. AMD's architecture is implicitly more parallel than NVidia's, so Ahmdal's law will hurt it (AMD's 4096 shaders on Vega64 will use more RAM than NVidia's 2304 CUDA shaders on the 2070).

In others, it seems like AMD's drivers are still unoptimized. Something weird is going on with Blender's code and ROCm for example.

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EDIT: I've seen some profiler data, and it seems like AMD's GPUs are rarely compute-ALU bound. They are often memory-bound. So AMD has far too strong compute for the graphics problems at hand. Alternatively, AMD's algorithms may be poorly tuned: they probably should be more compute heavy and try to use less RAM Bandwidth.
I thought this was going to be an article about setjmp() and longjmp(), which can be used to implement this kind of mechanism.
In Belgium we have a "career break". 6 months, only condition is to be employed in the company for one year if I recall correctly. Employer can not refuse.

You also get paid basic allocations similar to unemployment, unlike this system.

You only get it once though.
This is great! And it makes me feel bad for not finishing my FPGA PDP-6 and -10 projects.
That's right, the Soraa Healthy was very green! So, even without the flicker, the fact that it makes everybody look like undead zombies would be reason enough to disqualify it as a bedroom night light.
Is there a fuzzing tool oriented towards web applications? Something that could generate loads of Selenium cases automatically and verify whether the application crashes, logs an exception or continues to work smoothly??
Or just have their case dismissed because they have obviously ratified their circumstance by their voluntary action to continue sustaining their supposedly-unwanted life.
It's called being "living dead" or "zombie", and it's considered worse than failure. smh
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You reply on a post arguing that control can increase safety by saying illegal drugs are unsafe because they are uncontrolled. Putting your circular reasoning aside, there are so many illegal drugs that are safer for the user and the population than alcohol. It shows you have no idea what you are talking about.
Indie.vc is built to make this not admirable, but the norm. I think KPCB is amazing and should be totally shouted out for this, but indie.vc is building an entire model so that founders don't have to choose.
python has this:

def function():
for i in range(10):
yield i
I really like that trick. It's very powerful. But I wonder what the difference is between this and protothreads?
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The technical part is, at several companies (including the one I work for).

A lot of companies now rely on tools such as Codility / Leetcode / HackerRank for technical screening, or their own in-house tests.
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So Signal is MITM the TLS connection, or just running HAProxy on their servers? The post doesn't clarify this.
I agree, even as a young kid with no idea how make the speaker even go beep (I was young, ok?) hearing the music/speech coming from Mean Streets was amazing. Everything else up to that point was just beeping and blipping... IIRC the volume was very low though.
>Running your own resolver will give the authoritative servers the ip address of the request, but does this leak any assets to any potential attacker? The owner behind the authoritative servers already get the web logs so what additional information is being leaked.

This is addressed in the panel. The argument is that there is some "privacy mixing" because owner of the authoritative server only sees a highly-trafficked resolver as the source, and not your home network resolver.
The A350 has staircases IIRC ?
> The Gernsbeck Continuum is the best example I know of the second sort: it's the 1980 we imagined in the 1930s, experienced from the viewpoint of the real 1980.

The Gernsback Continuum is available online:

http://writing2.richmond.edu/jessid/eng216/gernsback.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20070217183337/http://www.americ...
Donkey.bas was most likely written as an educational exercise, although IBM ordered it. Microseft needed to show people how to code with their interpreters and compulers too, so Donkey.bas is not that sophisticated.

Gates was responsible for writing the first Altair Microsoft BASIC interpreter, except the bootloader, the software for the Kyotronic clones (designed in collaboration with Kay Nishi and licenced to Kyocera, Tandy and others).

Gates also had ample experience in programming minicomputers such as DEC PDP series together with Paul Allen.

You can read all about it in all the Bill Gates biographies out there.
>Consider Facebook, do all the uses who generate the content and activity that gives Facebook its value count towards "labor"

It is labour, so yes. What do you think the concept of labour in socialism is? Only then can we judge if it is inaccurate. For instance, Marx never excluded mental/information-work/management labour, and in fact he mentioned them specifically at many points.
> On top of that, our product ideas, like our credit card form and inline-checkout experience, have proliferated the web, ...

I've used Gumroad several years ago (as a customer), and the simplicity of the transaction and this interface was something refreshing.

You also say that you'd make Gumroad open source soon. May we know what the tech stack behind it is?
Not very many of them apparently.
"The Finances of the Grand Duke" (1924) has been restored to that level of quality. Sprocket jitter and frame to frame exposure inconsistency was removed, along with dust and scratches.
This was probably the first really high quality restoration of a major film. It's an milestone in film history, by Thea von Harbou ("Metropolis"), but really, only historians and film students watch it.

Annoyingly, when that was restored, it was on line as a free film. Now it's on Amazon, etc. as a product.
Does anyone know who regulates Comcast/Xfinity in California? I'm a cord cutter and with 4K video becoming more popular, I've almost hit my 1TB data cap twice in the last year. Comcast/Xfinity is illegally promoting their video services by delivering it over the same network, but zero rating their content, while charging customers overage fees for using 3rd party video services like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Video.

I filed a complaint with the California PUC and they told me they don't regulate Comcast/Xfinity because they are not a landline telephone service.

It seems horrible that there might not be any regulator that is keeping Comcast/Xfinity from harming consumers like myself.
My experience with Kongregate was different, but I did feel some of the same things. We became a vehicle for many indie game creators to make a living, which I'm very proud of. In our case we also had a sale that was very profitable for the founders and early employees, and also profitable for our investors.

But the weird thing is that if our VC investors had known at the outset that they would have a 3x return on their money in three years, they probably wouldn't have made the investment. A 50% annual rate of return is not worth their time. That's not what their LPs are looking for.

The angels made more like 6.5x and put in less time - most of them would take that deal all day long. I'm an angel now, and I definitely would. So perhaps startups that need capital but aren't looking to be billion dollar companies should consider just raising a seed round from angels... The difficulty there is that angels do want an exit, not dividends from a profitable company that stays private forever.
If gumroad became a billion dollar company you'd be retiring on that 9 months of work with even a tiny bit of equity. I bet there are plenty of people that bailed out of google, facebook or other similarly positioned startups at that stage and regret it.