skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Evaluating/comparing/benchmarking your competitors is something that everyone, including Apple, does daily.

Except that that isn't at all what's in that document. It was way more than just a benchmarking/evaluation and, when combined with evidence that Samsung knew of Apple's proposed full-front display as early as 2005, it makes it a little less likely that they just independently came to the exact same conclusions about so many things at the same time. Again, individually, I think there's a case to be made where the components are just natural evolutions of where certain technology can go but, as a whole, I think it's too coincidental to say that this was all innocent benchmarking and that the judge just had it out for Samsung. I think she ruled against Samsung's submission because she recognized that Samsung was being disingenuous.
I believe the thinking is that what's wrong with it is that over time it tends to attract flamewars and downvotes which are not useful to people searching for answers to their questions.
Exactly. The flip side of the constant churn is the majority of companies have code bases that are not the flavour of the month that they need to support. Given enough time, most companies will end up with multiple generations of flavours of the month that require attention.
This is why the Marine Corps operates their own air support and the Navy also controls their own aviation.
There is mysterious ‘undocumented technology’ hidden on Intel computer chips
This is extremely annoying. Second day in a row!

Wondering if such service degradation is related to the recent layoffs.
Great overview and intro to the process.
> The value here might be getting someone who's able to change the company culture and focus.

Are there many (or any?) cases of this having a long-term effect on a company's culture/focus? I know it's the most-advertised reason for hiring an outside CEO, but I couldn't find any examples of a company's culture changing, and staying changed for years/decades, as a result of doing so.
govt in the US does not have a monopoly on violence... they want you to think they do ;)
Even “M” is confusing, where financial millions are often (usually?) MM (thousand thousands, where M == Roman 1000).
This is the introduction and ToC.

The latest article is here:

https://dragan.rocks/articles/19/Deep-Learning-in-Clojure-Fr...
A few OS's and a micro-hypervisor done in Ada or SPARK including a high-assurance, secure kernel for Ada apps with strong isolation and leak resistance. Given its main domain, Ada is often used to write bare metal with no OS or for the app (not OS) in a runtime on top of a RTOS. They're usually C and/or assembly since those are dominant for OS work.

https://www.muen.sk/

https://marte.unican.es/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BiiN

https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a340370.pdf

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220713695_Specifica...

Note: This one is also downloadable on ACM or IEEE. I got it off of one of them. Has good example of Gypsy language for verifying systems.
My belief is any forum that allows drive-by downvoting without making the downvoter constructively explain it (including Reddit and even HN), will suffer from this tone deterioration. I myself am guilty of this. Just hit that down arrow and move on—it’s too easy. Even good ol’ Slashdot made you at least pick from a canned list of justifications when you wanted to vote.
I wonder if there's companies who sell ELD info similar to other examples listed in here about carriers and apps selling user info. Having ELD info from truckers around refineries and drill sites would give you a pretty good insight as to what's going on.
> knowing everything inferrable about all people, everywhere.

Which makes me wonder if the FAANGs and others will go this route - basically robo-ban people from their services who meet certain criteria (or maybe no criteria at all - maybe some kind of neural network or something decides who should be allowed to use the service and who shouldn't).

Make the ban based on various obvious and non-obvious metrics. Like credit score, comments or whatnot made using the service, how they treated other people or products in their comments - as well as things like how they typed, or moved their mouse around, or other info from their browser (or even side-channel info if that can be done from a browser - which it probably can).

So once banned - even if they tried to go back with a completely different computer, home address, IP, etc - they'd still eventually get flagged as being banned in the past.

Then have a service that all of them use to make a centralized "blacklist".

It wouldn't surprise me if they don't already have this in testing in some manner.
“I Feel Lonely” – How to Overcome Loneliness Permanently
Hence the "quotes."
I don't think either of your proposed options are legal/possible. afaik this geo data isn't sold to a single party, and is collected through so many various channels purchasing them all would be quite expensive.

As far as making your own cell tower, I would love to know if this is even something a non telco company can do. I doubt creating any blocks for specific content would be possible or legal as well. How would you block https traffic, and how would you determine who is an employee and who is not?

This tracking is a result of allowing visitors to bring personal devices on prem. As long as they are personal devices administered by their owner I don't know what could be done to mitigate this.

The problem still exists if all phones are put into a faraday cage when they arrive at the site. Instead of tracking users at the plant they just track users who 'go offline' at the drop off site.

Getting employees to stop bringing personal devices is the only way to actually quell this fear. Even the US military has an issue with Strava run logs leaking data about the movement patterns in their bases.
What's also interesting is the other consequences of her condition. She doesn't get fear or adrenaline response and might be able to heal faster than most people.
My god, the cow level. Though I never played my brother did extensively and we both had our computers in the same room. For weeks all I heard was non-stop mooing as he and his friends tackled the cow monsters over battle net. He even spent hours trying to figure out a way back into the cow world after he accidently led most of them to the portal and could not transport back as he was ganked and insta killed. I can still hear them...
I agree. Facebook is no doubt a great place to learn about building software at massive scale while earning a ton of money. But at some point you have to step back and look at the impact of what you are doing.
This is the biggest reason why people fault Stack Overflow. As Joel and Jeff have always said, it's about making a repository of knowledge to questions that are helpful for everyone. So you still see questions which are about "I was trying this but get this error" since they are useful when the error is something general and a lot of people might run into.

OTOH questions like I am trying to do this very specific thing that interacts with multitudes of other systems and cannot get it to work are therefore not considered StackOverflow worthy.
I'd really love to hear the explanation for the "pollock" part ;)
Is it me, or is traditional news always attacking tech?

Why don't I see the same fervor targeted at the likes of Walmart, who dominates traditional retail?
Or Comcast/AT&T owning our internet infrastructure, continuing to acquire other massive companies? They have massive media holdings now.
Or CVS acquiring Aetna?
The World’s Cheapest Hospital Has to Get Even Cheaper
I'm not reading snark in the parent's response. Consider giving people the benefit of the doubt.
Not completely unexpected, but i'd like to see the same evaluation performed on other vendors, my guess is that the result would not be substantially different.

The "process" for handling vulnerabilities once they are discovered would probably be better, but i doubt the same would be true for the coding practices. These vendors have too many products and seldom each one goes its own way in regard to software.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19507225
Anecdote: One of my most enjoyable SW jobs ever was working for a while as a staff project architect/programmer for a bioinformatics lab at the University of Washington. Great meaningful project, lots of freedom, smart colleagues.
BTW I have a physics and life science (medicine) background, but it was partly coincidental, and an interested non-scientist could have done it and learned a lot.
FWIW it did not pay exceptionally well, but it was reasonable salary at the time and the environment was really enjoyable and productive. This was a few years ago, but I would imagine given the current labor market there would still be significant need for academic staff SW positions.
Good luck and post back if you do make a switch! As this thread indicates, this is a topic of interest to many.

Edited: Re-reading batbomb's reply, I also remembered a friend who is currently a data scientist for a venture-incubator, but was previously at a national lab. Many of the projects he described were very cool, and challenging.
Oh, interesting. I suspected it might be from an older language, but i expected Algol, not FORTRAN :-P.

Personally i associate it with Pascal because i first saw it on an IRC channel's topic back in the mid-90s :-).
Making a Smarter Bot
> A young couple want their own family but have no energy for sex after work.

Well, I'd recommend against having kids until that situation changes somehow.

If you're too tired for sex, what are you going to do with an infant?
It's right above in this subthread.

"To make, print, or publish, or cause to be made, printed, or published"
Thanks so much for your answer! :)

How and what exactly should I search on YT or EdX? Just "music theory" will do? Also, it'd be amazing if you could point to me which book would be most appropriate to start with: https://www.amazon.com/Glory-St.-Germain/e/B00J4ZOF6W :D
> not to mention are under heavy stress from the ever-increasing levels of noise pollution from e.g. fracking, oil exploration, shipping

Wow, is this really a thing? Got any links on the subject? I wouldn't have thought that they could perceive sound/vibration in any capacity, if only due to their limited cognition.
I agree it's important, but if I had a dollar for every time a question whose answer I also needed was marked a repeat of a similar (but not identical) question with an answer that was invalidated by that discrepancy, I wouldn't need to use stackoverflow any more.
I thought stack overflow is driven by contributors ego, I didn’t know it had a CEO.
It rounds up :-P.
This thread is assuming biological evolution, but dynamic systems in general evolve. Maybe I'm stretching the word too much, but the question was a trick question to begin with.
So what? Someone earned money off of a snippet of code. What's the big deal?
This is such a good point. You see so many new questions where the way the question is posed shows a fundamental misunderstanding that prevents the poster from finding the "trivial" answer they seek.

Just look at the number of "I don't quite understand your question. Do you mean <topic x>" comments that end up assisting the person without providing an explicit answer to their original question. I think that's largely due to answerers feeling that the useful response they are providing is not fit for filing away in the library.
Do yourself a favor and get this thing https://unshaky.nestederror.com/

It's not perfect but allows me to work.
Your opinion that the quality of programming answers available was roughly as good before StackOverflow as after is very uncommon.
Oh I was about to watch Fight Club again, sad to hear that it didn't age well.
> However it is inappropriate for an outsider to use an unofficial name or deadname without permission, especially in official context.

I don’t see a single reason why it is inappropriate, other than it offending you. Nobody needs permission to use words from anybody else. If anything is offensive, it is this type of gatekeeping.

Keep carrying on like this with talk of how outsiders should behave, and Bangalore will lose the competitive advantage it enjoys as IT workers will find friendlier places to move to.
Data Analysis with the Pandas Library for Python
Some nobody English man (Beau Brummell) one day declared that dressing in richly colored fabrics with intricate designs was not appropriate for men and was too akin to women fashion, thus starting the dandy-ism movement.

Eventually it caught on and through trade and colonization the movement started taking form worldwide and bleak standard menswear started replacing traditional clothing.
Glacier's standard archive pricing has been competitive with Coldline all along, and S3 has had the ability via lifecycle to transition to Glacier since early in Glacier's existence, so it's been effectively possible to leverage the S3 API with Glacier, just with various provisos.

Glacier here seems to be dropping out an even cheaper option than they had before, provided you're happier with even longer retrieval times. Which for my purposes is perfectly fine.
I knew a girl who couldn't get drunk (bottle of vodka and no effect), she had to fake it sometimes not to look alcoholic. She said she wasn't the only one in the family.
Ya, weird. The breathing isn't really integrated with the speech. It sounds like someone on a breathing machine, like Christopher Reeve when he would pause as his machine took a breath for him.
I don't understand this comment:

> In all fairness though...

"In all fairness" to what? What is this referring to?
Whenever I see a community that demands positive and constructive attitude it's always a dysfunctional community. All the functional communities I've ever seen created positive and constructive attitude through example and cultivation of good people. And they invariably had bare minimum of moderation, usually aimed at avoiding conflicts between members, rather than to enforce some kind of mandatory universal "values".

StackOverflow is actually an example of this rule. Questions get downvoted and closed because they're supposedly not constructive. Yay, more constructiveness, right? But in the long run it creates the environment that feels like a clique hostile to all newcomers.

Making demands on users, writing multi-page lists of rules and banning/locking/deleting does nothing to attract good people. It can only preserve something you already have, and even that isn't guaranteed.

Way too many websites forget this, go all in on "corrective measures" and mandatory positivity, while not doing anything constructive on their own.

An example of constructive moderation is running contests where people get recognition for doing something good. (This is no the same as having karma, which also leads to cliques in the long run.)

Another related thing: a lot of larger websites pay moderators to ban stuff, but don't have anyone on staff whose primary job is to "lead by example" via answering questions and providing help.

"Seeding" a website with good people and content is absolutely essential, and yet this is a topic I've never, ever seen discussed when someone writes about community management.

And another thing. Beyond certain scale people stop perceiving website as a place with people and start looking at is as a service with users. This completely changes the tone for everyone. Larger websites need to put efforts in "federating", i.e. creating sub-spaces that still feel like a place where people can have a conversation and get to know the "regulars" to some extent. This might seem like it's not applicable to StackOverflow and YouTubes, but it is. A lot this is about visual design and ways information is structured.
Modern Sabbatical Ideas
bit.ly generates a random string by default but will let you override it with the wording of your choice (as long as it's available).
Because it's not just turning into shells. It's also getting rid of X and replacing them with Y. Replacing workers with workers in other geos or just replacing them with someone else, so the headcount stays steady or even grows but it's a different head.
That's getting awfully ahead of things. Showing that it's sometimes possible to detect aircraft like this is a long, long way from demonstrating that it's even theoretically possible to replace all existing air defense and targeting/interception radars with it under all circumstance, much less actually trying to do it.
Why CMOs Fail
Building time-sensitive test infrastructure for Ethereum smart contracts
More likely:

* You make the change.

* Your peer green lights the change because they have also been independently compelled by the government.

* You and your peer never talk about it again.
Doubly ridiculous considering that people who spend too long in the pens aisle are Staples's main customer base.
> But can anyone name a Microsoft joke off the top of your head?

Bob?
Except for one thing: Engaged employees increase shareholder value
The first shall be last with JavaScript arrays
What is blocking C -> JVM compilation?

There seems to be such a compiler here: https://github.com/bedatadriven/renjin/blob/master/tools/gcc...
I understand that can be frustrating, but as you mentioned part of that is by design. Stack Overflow gets its success by being laser-focused on questions and answers, to the extreme that comments like "thanks" are seen as noise for developers to wade through to find the answers they are looking for. That's why they have such a high bar to comment - the number of "thanks" and "this solved my problem" comments would be a staggering moderation issue. Either that or the site would turn into a long-winded discussion forum.

In short, only questions and answers add any real value to the site for the most part. If you really want to contribute to the community, consider diving in and writing questions and answers.

As for upvoting, I understand that it's frustrating not to be able to vote in a community that you spend so much time in. But on the flip side, realize that 90% of the value of Stack Overflow comes from its questions and answers. If you want to contribute to the site, it only takes 3 upvotes across all your questions (or 2 across all your answers) to gain the upvote privilege permanently.
firefox has a sane user agent. mine is:

>Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:65.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/65.0
“ZIP codes can also be (and often are) used as proxies for race. ”

It is called ‘redlining’.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining
Compute Market – Green Compute Hosting
Photo books using AR to play recorded audio stories
For exploratory purposes, just imagining we can make an agreement. Don't worry, I don't like the concept of collective decisions either.
>I didn't expect big corporations would get their "privacy" violated by tacking apps.

Why? Corporate espionage (either collecting metadata for speculation or exfiltrating corporate secrets) has the highest incentives around it.

Order of espionage I'd expect State>Corporation>Individual

The only thing that's changed in the past 30 years is surveillance/espionage has gotten cheap enough that it can be performed on individuals
>English cognate to "atreve" is "attribute".

I didn't know that, but you'll grant me that it's not a very useful cognate (either in spelling or in meaning).

>~ов is an iterative suffix - like ~le or ~er in gamble and chatter. It's useful to know, because you can rationalise why it is always dropped in the present tense - you can't be iterative at the moment, unless you're an Englishman)

Very interesting, thanks.
Maybe this is a controversial opinion but the world is too competitive but in all the wrong ways.
Have you been engaging in actions that potentially earn you reputation points, e.g., editing or answering questions? If not, that's why. If you have, but your contributions have gone unrewarded, that's an SO problem.
> That responsibility might come in the form of "big bad management" chasing the cheapest possible "fix" against the advice of the the hero engineers

This is the narrative that always shows up in HN. Big bad management vs the hero engineer. It makes us feel good about ourselves while also absolving us of all responsibility. Its a bullshit narrative.
Big tech is going to have to learn how to balance automation with social history. Race based housing discrimination has a long history in America, it's hard to believe that no one in a position of power to question these methods brought up how these ads could be used to discriminate.

The biggest benefit that diversity will have on big tech is alternative views that prevent these embarrassments from occuring. Seems every few months another company comes to the realization that it's models simply don't have the social context to be effective.
i got question banned for 10 downvotes spread across 3 questions-2 of which are still unanswered but have been "edited for grammar". not one comment as to why the downvotes. stack is little more than a toy for answering straightforward questions now
On Humans Interpreting AI and Robot Behavior
The rest of the article is behind a paywall. Presumably they have justified their earlier statement.

Your reasoning sounds reasonable, but it falls for the lump of labor fallacy. Having more smart and talented people makes our society better off, not worse.
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/07/opinion/lumps-of-labor.ht...
Also someone from the outside will be missing a lot of specialized knowledge about the company.

-May push for doing experiments and iterations that have been done and rejected before.

-May lead discussions towards and rehash things that have been settled before.

-May not be able to reason about how different pieces of the company fit together because, he or she will not be familiar enough with the details of these pieces.

It's about not having finely tuned error bars over facts and hypotheses about the company, about the missing non-commodity knowledge. I hate the words "tribal knowledge". However, I'm sure they thought about this. Joel Spolsky of all people, would understand these concepts.
> there'll need to some proof that ... a city [is] racist

Not anymore. An accusation these days is the proof that a person/place/thing is racist. But if that's not enough, just look at how many people in Houston politically disagree with me. That's enough proof that they are racist because anyone who disagrees with me can't possibly have a different, valid perspective. The only possibility is that they are racist and evil and just want to hurt people. Therefore, Houston is racist. If that's still not enough, as a person of some color, I feel like Houston is racist, and that is definitely enough proof.
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> Then ask yourself what category of users they belong to.

Computer users I guess?
IDK. Probably? Best I can do is give up an article about why CEOs turn over (and more frequently now than previously). Changing culture can be hard, but is possible.

https://www.strategy-business.com/article/20306?gko=bfb5b
Massachusetts passed Right to Repair as a ballot measure (which Tesla basically flaunts by making manuals extremely expensive to rent). But note that right to repair does not automatically equate with "easy to repair without special tools and knowledge."
Bet you wished you could get that time back now...

/I know I do.
Measure concentration and the weak Pinsker property (2018)
Really excellent point here. I can't even count the number of times I've found answers for Android, that turn out to be already outdated. Limiting answers by a date range via Google search sorta works. But, old answers still sneak in.

That creates another problem where I automatically distrust answers more than 2-3 years old. Even if they turn out to be correct.
splains is hard job