skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve had good success using decorators and infrequently also metaclasses to cleanly solve this type of thing in Python.

However I somewhat disagree with the article in the sense that instrumenting reporting logic is just table stakes bare minimum of software in a business. 90% of business software is about creating a report for somebody somewhere, often needing to be rapidly changed for ad hoc requests from product or management people. Reporting code is the code. It may even be the business logic in a truer sense than the application logic itself.

Another lesson along these lines applies to machine learning and modeling systems: the mathematical algorithm is always the easiest part. The hard part is situation-by-situation customized data ingestion (things that cannot be solved by standardizing on platform-specific data formatting, like Hadoop or Spark), and then also defining business metrics that capture the success of the model at a high level (as opposed to engineering metrics like accuracy, precision and recall, etc).

Model training and the 10% of the project spent tweaking an algorithm or optimizing things just pales in comparison to the type of systems you need to facilitate efficient custom data ingestion that can be arbitrarily different on a per project basis.
Ask HN: Is this behaviour anti-competitive?
I came across a software company that has a clear monopoly in a niche market. They give away their software to businesses in exchange for controlling the price at which clients pay for the service.

It's not like the company in question is selling a bad product, I believe they have a good offering. However it is the business practice that leaves me wondering.

My gut feeling is that this practice is unethical and I immediately thought about the MS antitrust lawsuit. I'm not trying to make false equivalences or legal judgements, but rather to understand this type of business practice.

Is this type of practice well studied? Does it have a name? How can a competitor break into the market without offering their software for free?
Another story to add to the long list of "don't like X? just create your own" fails thanks to the monoliths running the internet
Widevine is the DRM component used in chromium based browsers. You need a license from them to run DRM based content in your browser. Widevine was purchased by Google in 2010

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widevine
I'm not aware of Castlabs fork working without a production build [1]. I don't think there would be a way for open source users to be able to use a production signed release. Still waiting to hear back more from Widevine.

[1] https://github.com/castlabs/electron-releases/issues/33#issu...
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All of those labels can describe social media notifications. The chance you agree with someone else on what they are is under 50%. Promotions should probably just be 'spam' in any email client that works for you. This approach of positivist classification is simply boneheaded.
Everything in life is just groups of key/value tags, man.
Don't care. People with turn into angry mobs about anything these days.
The problem with the DMCA safe harbor is that it's just a safe harbor, so the incentive to follow either side of it is limited by the degree of liability one would have to the party against whom it protects you from liability. The takedown process protects you from the purported content owner, who has potentially significant copyright claims against you. The restoration process protects you from the end-user, who you probably have no liability to, because you've written your contract with them to allow you to take anything down for any reason anyway.

The only way a safe harbor would not favor media corps is:

(1) if liability that could not be removed by contract/user-agreement terms existed for a “bad” takedown, or

(2) if it were a non-takedown safe harbor (e.g., instead of the DMCA safe harbor, extend the Section 230 safe harbor to include copyright claims.)
This graph, from [1] shows that the L cone's responsivity doesn't go back up at all toward the left:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cones_SMJ2_E.svg It is lower at 425 than at 450, which makes sense.

Now what does this one from [2] mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1416_Color_Sensitivity.jp... (logarithmic scale or not)? The "Red cones" Long line says "absorbance" is higher at 425 than at 450.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cone_cell

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoreceptor_cell#Humans
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Please, do you mind sharing what exactly makes a BI solution difficult/struggling for 1,000+ users?

Is it something technically related or more business/feature related?
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People were saying this about Google+ for years. "It's a 'bet the company' level of commitment."

Yet here we are.
No. The owners of coal mines, and the owners of coal power plants, are to blame. That specific industry has come at a terrible cost of human life and the environment, which wasn't even news last century. The people with the money and power to get a coal plant built, are to blame. I don't have choice in where I get my power. Lobbyists pay politicians to decide where my electricity is generated.

If you started cooking meth tomorrow, and sold it on the market, do you blame the users who bought it? No, the origin of the problem is the industry built around pushing the product.
Completely scary, what a massive security breach just casually thought of as a digital challenge.
This is correct, I use chromium - netflix and amazon do not work... the rest of the web is perfectly fine though.

It may have been a stupid decision for W£C to include DRM in the spec, but frankly the rest of the internet doesn't give a shit - As far as OSS is concerned it's another 3rd party blob like flash and not a true part of the web. As far as I can tell the author is trying to use this third party blob specifically - not the rest of the browser for which no one has any authority in the creation of...
Wow. I cannot believe people still think this isn't copyright infringement. Crediting the work of others saves you from plagiarism, it does NOT save you from copyright. Instagram does not have a "pingback" feature. It's literally a copy pasted image, with a link in the description.
The same way a diagnosis benefits anyone who requires medical treatment.
> WTF do you think they do all day?

Look for WMD's in middle eastern countries to justify policy?
Why discourage an alternative? We've already seen there is demand for libre analytics tools as an alternative to google analytics. I'd use this product in the lower range as well <100 person company. I say go for it, looker is doing fine they won't care or be phased by this at all.
Isn't that the point? They attempted to save time and money by not designing a new aircraft (as they originally planned) and found a way to mount the new larger engines that necessitated the MCAS system. In addition, the solution they sold did not, by design, utilize both AoA sensors and did not advise pilots if the sensor disagree unless an additional package was purchased. Furthermore, all of this was in effort to sell an aircraft that would not need significant pilot re-training, resulting in pilots not being familiar enough with the failure mode that resulted in many deaths.
Who exactly decided that reposting others' content, with citation, is unethical? The people getting credits are getting an opportunity to grow their follower count and to gain more exposure as well. If they aren't happy with what he's doing, they can certainly flag his account, and Instagram will eventually ban him if he gets flagged too many times.

A lot of the responses here are dripping with envy and sour grapes.
I don't know. I've it open all day, I'm editing plenty of notes because I'm preparing a seminar... it consumes 44.1 MB of memory right now, I just looked it up (running W10).

Slack, totally idle, oscilates between 225-250 MB for some reason - now this I agree is a resource hog.

What is your reference scale?
> Since when was autism a cornerstone in anybody's ideology?

Anti-vaxxers?
I've been following the field including Simon Baron-Cohen's studies for well over a decade. I have journal access.

There were 16 co-authors [1] to the original article, including Simon Baron-Cohen, Director of the Autism Research Centre (ARC) in Cambridge University [2].

It would seem extraordinary that all of these people including Baron-Cohen would co-sign an article without checking the work. This is especially true given that some people (Emily Willingham, Phd) have a political agenda about the issue.

It seems more likely that there was some political motivation for the withdrawal, despite the "methodology" errors which again 16 co-authors did not catch, including Baron-Cohen.

I wonder how we can believe any article in JAMA Psychiatry if they let a political agenda get in the way of true science. One must consider the real possibility that the primary author had their career threatened if their article was not withdrawn.

What is required is that all source material and analysis be put on-line for anyone to be able to replicate the study (or the study mistake). That is the only way for JAMA Psychiatry to clear itself of accusations of bending to politics.

[1]
Christine Ecker, PhD1,2; Derek S. Andrews, MSc2; Christina M. Gudbrandsen, MSc2; Andre F. Marquand, PhD3,4; Cedric E. Ginestet, PhD5; Eileen M. Daly, PhD2; Clodagh M. Murphy, PhD2,6; Meng-Chuan Lai, PhD7,8,9; Michael V. Lombardo, PhD7,10; Amber N. V. Ruigrok, PhD7; Edward T. Bullmore, PhD, FRCPsych11; John Suckling, PhD11; Steven C. R. Williams, PhD4; Simon Baron-Cohen, PhD7; Michael C. Craig, PhD2,12; Declan G. M. Murphy, FRCPsych2,6; for the Medical Research Council Autism Imaging Multicentre Study (MRC AIMS) Consortium

[2] https://www.autismresearchcentre.com/people_Baron-Cohen
The sample arguments for/against seem to have a lot to do with the cost/benefit instead of morals. Is one really guided by morals if one's morals are guided by relatively short-term cost/benefit and not by some elaboration of a universal truth?
> We need choice, but also connection.

The "distributed web/internet" is probably going to be part of the answer, but that ultimately hits up against the ISP and data transport layer.

Part of that can be (in theory) worked around via free "mesh networking" - but that too runs into the ISP (well, backbone) for long-haul traffic.

That could be (in theory) worked around at a country level; I could imagine very wealthy people supporting such open and free mesh networking, and providing free long haul transport networking in some manner. That's probably all a fantasy though - the reality is that there aren't any good solutions for mesh networking between distant points at the moment (hmm - with enough nodes, vehicle-to-vehicle mesh could be a possibility).

Not sure what the real solution is...
The GP is suggesting that you add "reader, writer, and editor" to your credentials. Not that I give one single care about any of them.

The middle section could pretty much describe "anyone management doesn't like that doesn't completely give their life to the company". It equally applies to the sociopath as well as the talented person that isn't excited by your business plan of selling ever-more paperclips.
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> A clockless pipeline is always going to be slower than a clocked one

How come? In a clocked design, you have to have clocks slow enough so all possible logic paths would finish. In a clockless one the propagation only takes as much as needed, and in a case of shorter path can take less time, doesn't it?
> It’s that the source being open is a necessary, but not sufficient, component of being open source

I would really have preferred if some other term than "open source" would have been used to refer this wider concept of openess, in this paragraph and the ones that follow. The article itself establishes that open source is all about license, and thus argues it to be insufficient for todays environment.
It is anecdata, but in my reasonably large group of acquaintances and fellow professionals (hundreds), I haven't heard this complaint in ages!

In any case, if you are having spam delivered to your inbox in GMail, it is very easy to train it to detect spam. Mark as many such as you can, and report them as spam. GMail learns very quickly.
+1 it should not be the first feature listed, bump that down
I think you're overlooking the implication that modifying your genes the way CRISPR does is never going to be risk-free. The question probably isn't "Would you get rid of a pimple if there were no other consequences?" but more like "Would you accept a 2% risk of slow, painful death to get rid of a pimple?"
The CIA is spying on your phone so that the Russians and Chinese don't have to?? Really, you think CIA OpSec is that good... as in so hard to crack that it's worth spending $100 billions (in Rubles and Yuan) to do it some other way? Maybe some political doofus thinks that, but technically savvy folks should know better.

Nope, if you create a weapon you better be prepared for your enemy to use it against you.
The topic is so murky that I don't think anybody can tell with any certainty. The German Wikipedia has an article that discusses the issue a bit https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zul%C3%A4ssigkeit_von_und_Haft...
Facebook operates similarly. They created a culture of working on things that interest you as long as it can show meaningful impact. If you can show maintenance of something impactful, then you can work on it.

It's really no different in the startup world. If your startup can't show growth in users or profits, then you shutdown.
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> Can you safely and reliably reverse a find/replace on a program's source? Generally, unless you have a backup, the answer is no.

Bad analogy as source code is one of the things that is super easy to reliably reverse anything as it is always in version control.
"Proper" peer review could mean formal peer review which, indeed, has a lot of flaws. In the context of OP, however, just having any academic look at it and suggest improvements would probably already be a huge boon, regardless of potential funding or challenge: it achieves better knowledge discovery. Either form of peer review is pretty hard to obtain through arXiv.
I don't see the issue here, no video or audio content is being streamed. It's only state such as time and play/pause.
Strangely, I would say many if not most Googlers understand this situation, and that it is bad. The rank and file are mostly unhappy with it.

But the rank and file can't change it.
It's not an ad-blocker, for this to work there is no need to install any add-on or extensions, or do any CSS or JS trickery in the debugging console.

This requires just a simple action in a stock web browser, as far as I have experienced.

The cat I don't have could do it!
I want to love and use duckduckgo as my primary search engine....
But every time I try I am disappointed by the results.
Unfortunately I realize that is mostly because of the profile they have already built on me.
There is a really interesting podcast about this subject. It's called the Privacy and Security Podcast. They talk about how you can get actual privacy in the modern world. Hint, it's a PITA and is really not worth it for most people.

https://inteltechniques.com/podcast.html
Does anyone here know how updates like this are delivered? Sadly the article doesn't answer this question. I suppose it's not as simple as downloading it over 4G or something like that.
Somethings like spying on American phone calls (or just their "metadata") I agree with.

But somethings like breaking encryption, exploiting iPhones, etc. while they may be used against Americans can also be used against others.

Essentially there's an arms race, and we use our tax money to sponsor our government in this race, with the hopes that they'll side with us. There really isn't another option unless you want to give a private entity this power, or not participate in the race (which I don't advise).
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Now that people are using it to detect incognito mode they probably should...
There are a number of unstable planes in service that work just fine. I don't see why it matters if they are airliners as long as instability does not translate to a higher safety risk, and I don't know if any other airliners are unstable or how unstable they might be. In this case the instability appears to have been far less significant than the faulty corrective mechanisms. I agree completely that Boeing was not transparent about how to use their plane and did not make it safe enough.
Any thoughts on whether Google Photos will stick around? I find it's far better than any alternatives I've come across, and the recent Inbox shutdown made me realize how "dependent" I am on it.
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Well, if you go for the position that people are just machines made of atoms, then, yes, physical reality is all there is, even in economics. But no, I do not want to start with atomic physics, and from there try to derive human utility, and from that try to derive economics. That's... not a feasible research program. It's not going to provide any insight into economics, ever.

So even if you accept the materialist position, for purposes of doing economics, you kind of have to regard humans as something different. (Or so it seems to me, a non-economist.)
That isn’t an effective OKR. Try this:

Objective: system downtime must be below .01% every quarter.

KR: implement new fast-response process (binary measurement.)

KR: reduce mean issue resolution time from 60 to 45 minutes (linear measurement of progress with .75 set to 15 minutes and 1.0 set to 20 minutes of reduction)

In this case, your objective is likely a key result of our boss, so it makes sense that it’s the same measurement. You’re being measured on something that matters. One of your key results is purely based on effort. The other might have a bit in it that’s out of your control, but also lets you benefit from other ways you and your team find to achieve the resolution time reduction.
And even more ridiculous, since they now have ads on the gmail app I get ads in my G suite account on android. They also constantly try to "unify" my email accounts so that they mix personal g suite email with my work exchange email and I have to click the top right to switch accounts.

I'm quite close to removing the whole damn app too and go for K9-mail or something again (does that still get updated?)

Also the web interface for gmail is absolute trash when you are using firefox, so is youtube creator studio beta. Even the "feedback" button is broken so I can't tell them it doesn't work.
Do we (as in, arbitrary member of the public, or American, or passenger) ever get to see the code that goes on an FAA-approved passenger aircraft?
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> Your graph is on a log scale.

Have you considered the possibility that human vision might have a more-or-less logarithmic response, and that this is why so many graphs related to it use a log scale?[1][2][3]

[1] "Brightness as perceived by the [human visual system] is a logarithmic function of the light intensity incident on the eye.", https://people.cs.umass.edu/~elm/Teaching/ppt/691a/CV%20UNIT...
[2] https://spectrum.ieee.org/podcast/biomedical/bionics/does-th...
[3] https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/light/visible-light
> Managing anxiety in ASD is different to neurotypical people, for example.

Speaking as somebody too 'high functioning' for a diagnosis... please elaborate

edit: the responses to this feel weird, does anybody have resources for ASD folks experiencing anxiety?
looks like instagram took down his account. So no more free food.
> "And modified Chromium browser, e.g. Firefox?"

(Firefox is not a chromium derivative.)
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Preview's more than just a PDF viewer. It's fast (opens almost instantly, low or no UI lag under almost all circumstances), light, renders PDFs excellently and without the artifacting and lag that's common in other readers. Adding signatures in it's a breeze. You can easily, visually, assemble new PDFs from pages of others. I'm not afraid of using features because they feel fragile or slow things down. It also has all the image & photo editing features I need 99% of the time.

Similar for Pages and Numbers vs. Libreoffice or Google Docs. They're faster, lighter, and (despite having spent more time using Libreoffice/Openoffice total in my life) easier to use effectively. Another case where I don't hesitate to open them because they're quick to open, don't hesitate to close them for the same reason, and can forget they're open in the background because they're so light and don't bloat or crash when left running. Notes versus Google Keep or whatever is similar—it's a real program that opens very fast and is respectful of resources when running, not some browserware junk.

KDE seems to be the most-integrated Linux UI but I've never managed to "click" with it despite trying since 2 (maybe something in the 1 series, actually? It's been a long time). I don't like the K-suite programs—they seem really heavy to me, and always have—and all the integration stuff goes out the window if you use others, plus then you're usually mixing GTK and QT which is rarely super pleasant. The "just works" integration of the K-suite has also never really "just worked" for me—bugs and inconsistency galore.
I also find the title to be rather sensational.. "I tried creating a web browser" ^ "Google blocked me" implies that Google blocked them from creating a web browser.. which is not the case.
Taking content from public accounts to repost without permission for your profit is definitely morally gray.
They plan to deprecate it
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> One would hope that they were trying to gain access to someone else's devices, as opposed to turning the guns towards their own citizens and economy.

Apple devices are sold all over the world, so there's no way of gaining access to the enemy's devices without that method also being applicable to everyone else. Actually using them on everyone else is a different matter.
It could also be other aliens contaminated Mars. Just saying... if we are talking about possibilities rather than probabilities. If it is us, we probably will find out later anyway, no need to get too emotional about an article.
I’m with you. I’m putting off switching away from Inbox until they kick me off.
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