skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see the point but it is a narrow and modernist characterization of other minds on the matter. A lot of perfectly decent people do defense work and don't really need the paychecks (the famous Youtuber SmarterEveryDay comes to mind). Here are a few reasons why:

1) Many work on oft maligned technologies because they simply see no moral conundrum. It's common to see tools as amoral, and believe moral responsibility in the use of tools for good or evil lies solely with its wielder - not any inventor or refiner.

2) Or, they may see their work as their moral duty as a competent professional in a society fending off morally worse alternatives. This is the patriotic or "necessary evil" view.

3) A few utilitarian engineers see the refinement of technology in and of itself as always a subtle moral good, as they believe the elimination of inefficiency is the primary reason why humanity no longer suffers as much as it used to. There's also the assumption that the development of any kind of tech leads to unanticipated benefits to other areas of life (this is a common demonstrated pattern in defense R&D).

4) There's also the classical Greek justification of Eudaimonia. Simply doing what one does best is seen as the most moral thing one can do, as it eliminates any outward and internal dishonesty about ones self.

PS: Here is a great video by SmarterEveryDay explaining what he does and why https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOTYgcdNrXE
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Good question. My guess is that the only thing needed to be copyrightable is the one thing which is not.
Because the US isn't a feudal state where the phrase 'a king's ransom' is used literally.

And that's a good thing.
Earning 200k vs 75k won't give me any measurable increase in freedom to do what I want.
Earning 2M for a while might.
Earning 200M once would definitely.

Freedom to do what you want does not increase linearly with income.

For example, one step is "Not affording any car"
Now, affording any car allows way more freedom than not affording any car.
A used, but good condition car can be a major improvement from a less reliable car, but it's not as major an improvement than car vs no car, but it comes with only a slight increase in income.
A brand new car presents even less relative improvement from a good-condition used car, but requires a significant increase in income.
A brand new exotic sports car is at the other end of the spectrum from "any car at all", an order of magnitude higher price for no practical value at all, but some increase in some kind of personal fulfillment or measure of success.
Diminishing returns indeed.
This applies to homes, goods, leisure activities.

So, unless you can get to the point of being "fuck you" rich, salary does not really matter.

It's not like 200k would grant me significantly more leisure time, probably quite the opposite, I'd be expected to work more and harder, for what? being able to buy the luxury car instead of just a normal car? Nah.
It's funny how they put CA EV Rebate in the 'after savings' part. This rebate has income cap at $300k/household. If I made less than that, I would think really hard before purchasing a $90k car.
> But, regardless, when I checked the failure rate reported in gov stats in UK was far lower than the common wisdom held; which surprised me somewhat.

Does the UK government split into VC backed and not VC-backed? I always thought that number only holds for the "go big or go home" type of business (i.e. VC backed), not for normal ones.
I think you're massively under-estimating the difference in specialization. Tesla know the resolution of the data going into the Neural Nets, they know the depth of the data, they know the types of non-convolution stages (pooling, ReLU Sigmoid etc). They've probably got a fixed number of layers too. So they're basically completely getting rid of the control logic. That's an enormous chunk of the problem, and lets' remember these are peak performance numbers - the Tesla programming model may be a disaster. Hell, they could probably have bought the IP for the actual computation core.
Yet they decided to go with C for Azure Sphere, in spite of the whole security history they are trying to sell around it.

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/72ae0354-63eb...

The pearl is the typical set of recomendations of how good C developers are expected to write unsafe secure code.

When you read the marketing materials of Azure Sphere, it is all about security everywhere.

Another proof that while we need safer languages, we also need to improve C's security story, as this will keep on happening anyway.
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Just discussing. Why would it be trolling what I do and not what the other guy does?
"Apple CEO Tim Cook will host a fundraiser with House Speaker Paul Ryan next week as the iPhone maker tries to strengthen its relationships with key Republicans" (2016)

https://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/tim-cook-apple-paul-r...

So much for privacy/environmental sustainability I guess
In Germany we have pseudo-governmental news stations. They work to a degree but you will only get "safe" news with influence from political parties.*

The quality is mostly good, but it isn't sufficient to be really informed.

The services for rating accuracy of news isn't really a solution in my opinion, since they only shift the problem, even if they slow down the news cycle a little bit. They will also be wrong at some point, like any news outlet.

You cannot really have free independant journalism and put heaps of regulations upon them.

> There is the risk of it becoming a propaganda arm of the government

It is inevitable. If there are honest people everywhere, we can keep governmental involvement to a minimum. The real problem is monetization and education. Even renowned outlets use clickbait in this day and age.

I also do think that a lot of "new media" will vanish again.

edit: They also tend to develop into expensive behemoths which quickly develop their own interests.

* which includes classical censorship.
Let's point out that drug trafficking is only lucrative because it is illegal. Also human trafficking isn't immoral if you don't think that government should be able to lay claim on a piece of the earth, and counterfeit products are also not immoral because you are providing the same products (or similar) at lower cost.
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No, PAC are direct campaign and committee funds. Apple does spend millions on lobbyists.
Every move they make there are inevitably a bunch of comments that Tesla sales are poor. Only offer high spec... Bad sales. Reintroduce lower spec... Bad sales.
I just found this website by googling and thus I'm not sure of its credibility, but if I'm reading it correctly, Apple contributed $1,677,466 and spent $6,620,000 on lobbying in 2018. Seems like that could qualify as a "political donation."

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000021754
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Do they have to follow the convention? Are consumers irked by their breaching of the convention?

I think existing owners would already understand that their cars are iteratively improved upon and that a Model S purchased in 2019 is going to be a lot better than one they purchased in 2013.
How are you going to make money? How are you going to fund offices in CA + developers + the operating costs of the registry?

I really don’t think a private entity should be running a registry. Ruby is just about the only example of a registry handled correctly - via the community and non-profits.
The educational Youtube channel SmarterEveryDay made a video about his day job as a military rocket engineer. It's an insightful how-and-why explanation for those wondering why there aren't more conscientious objectors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOTYgcdNrXE
Valgrind does add support for newer instruction set extensions (for instance the latest release two weeks ago added the RDRAND and F16C instruction set extensions). It would probably be less work to just directly add Valgrind support for anything that's still missing, rather than try to implement a converter from this formalism. That might make sense if this was an official Intel thing and you could reasonably expect updates for future instruction set extensions (so effort now could be amortized in future), but as a third party academic thing that seems less likely to happen. You'd also need to clarify the licensing -- I couldn't see any license notice in a quick pass over the github repo. Last but not least, Valgrind cares about performance, and an automatic translation of a formal spec is going to be a lot slower than a hand-written implementation, especially for SIMD instructions (where V tries to use SIMD insns in its output generated code for SIMD input code, AIUI).
Why is it good when it is effective but relatively cheap?

It says more on US politicians being cheap and essentially easy to indirectly bribe.
Each OEM, including Tesla, maintain a database where each ever produced vehicles with all the options, including changes are recorded. Except, when they screw it up. They screw this up with PR samples and show cars, which are sometimes prepared by hand and finished up by hand just for the press or just for show. Then things get forgotten to record. Tesla had so such problems. Volkswagen had such problems and had to recall a 5 figure number, just because of this. Because PR and show cars are normally discarded after the show, after the press had it, but sometimes they get into the second hand market.
> Cook is hosting the fundraiser on his own accord, as Apple does not have a corporate political action committee like Facebook, Google and other tech giants in Silicon Valley
Ask HN: Seriously, how the **** do my competitors do it?
So I just soft-launched my MVP/beta very very recently, and I've been sending out some cold emails, cold called, hoping to get my prospects on a call/demo or to sign up for a free trial.

Well... No one bit.

Since my product is public-facing (so are my competitors'), I can basically see which competitor has the greatest market share/adoption. Think live chat widgets -- you can see how widespread adoption is.

And my competitors have good adoption.

I signed up for a couple of my competitors' free trials just to snoop around, and I don't think my product is any way inferior. In some cases, I'd argue my product is better in certain respects.

Yet they're successfully selling to customers, and I'm not.

So what gives? And what's the next step?

PS My product is for the dental space. We offer dental membership software for dentists to cut out the insurance middleman and offer their own in-house dental plans, automating billing, renewal, and marketing for them to scale their in-house plan.
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If you want to support it, and dislike PayPal, you can pay for it on the Windows Store.
That's a common problem when trying to upgrade the iDrive head unit with one from a donor car. It can be done but requires special tools and knowledge.

In BMW's defence, they would validate the car as a system and wouldn't want to be seen to be giving implied consent for making these frankencars. Software configuration isn't like hardware; a bolt can be replaced with any bolt made by anyone as long as it is of comparable specification.
> I think Canada has had a professional, and pretty serious, association of engineers (in the traditional sense)

Looks at ring on the pinky of his working hand

Yep.
Turning your software into next startup company
I have developed an artificial intelligent software for verifying handwritten signature and tried pitching in silicon valley but no use as I am the only founder
I actually take the totally opposite tack - I avoid all unfolding news, and wait for a magazine like the Economist to analyze it a bit later after the corrections come out.

There's usually not much value in knowing about what's going on right now outside of your locality, and breaking news is too bent on emotional manipulation and being first, even if it means being inaccurate. Junk food for your brain.
Which while not ideal, are guaranteed to be present, contrary to third party libs.
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Which is precisely how they were presented to me at college.
Those are from employees of Apple. And I have no problem with Apple lobbying if they're going to lobby for federal privacy legislation that is as strong as GDPR. The ad-tech giants are certainly lobbying to defang it.

https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-cal-p...
Apple spent years keeping over a hundred billion offshore in order to avoid paying taxes.
The edge will likely take more abuse than the surface of the phone. Plus it will be impossible not to have fingerprints on it.
Most of the complexity arises from using feedback loops in the engines similar to other control systems in industry. There are also similarities to techniques used in electronics.
It's highly unlikely. This is a public event and they will be held even more accountable than when Elon tweets something. Lying at such a stage would risk their reputation. So I say it's unlikely, not impossible though.
A lot of terrorist organizations have state sponsors. Al Qaida began through sponsorship of the US and Saudi Arabia in an effort to bog down the pro-Soviet Regime then in power in Afghanistan.

Edit: Of course, illegal activities help to both supplement state funds and hide their source.
To be fair, the article mentions Romansh and links to another article only about our fourth language[0]

I agree the sample is not difficult to understand as a nativ Swiss-German speaker. Only thing that comes to mind is that it's a Bernese (?) Swiss-German dialect which is not always easy to understand for 'proper' German speakers.

But in my opinion almost every single dialect in Switzerland has it's own specific words and almost every canton has it's own dialect so I wouldn't call them a language.

[0] http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180627-switzerlands-myster...
Mostly because they're more akin to a remix. These also do not infringe trademarks.
But will Africa and other low wage, low infrastructure economies be caught in an automation trap?

Where low cost/low value and consistent/repetitive products and services are automated and the high end is protected by advanced infrastructure economies,

Would they be better off focused on education and trialling a licensed Lambda-like School with a nationalised income share agreement?
Listening a big chunk of my free time to various podcasts, I reluctantly come to the conclusion that the biggest enemy of podcasts is thinking and introspection. Where before I had moments in my day where I let my mind freely wander and think to the issues I'm currently working on or others, now I rarely have these moments anymore as I listen to podcasts more. I wish I reverted a bit, but it's difficult, listening podcasts has become a kind of addiction I guess.
We deal with fairly large volumes of data on a frequent basis so it would not make sense for each data scientist to create a copy within their own environment. Everyone works off a centralized data source and we provide them with Jupyter/Spark in an internal cloud environment.
Paying politicians (through their campaign funds) because they hold certain views is quite different from trying to persuade politicians of a certain view without giving them a financial incentive.

Furthermore with lobbying the activity is largely in public, while it can be unclear on what basis or understandings direct campaign donations are made.
Only if you ignore the most widely used Wayland compositors on the desktop, Mutter and Kwin. I doubt all compositors built upon wlroots come even close to the user bases of those two.
Does that work seamlessly even with applications that take over the screen?
In theory the oils and engines have improved to the point where 10k miles is a sound number based on evidence. However given that the only downside to more frequent oil changes is the cost of the oil change, if you plan to keep a car for a very long time, changing it more frequently than the recommendation is a reasonable plan.

Longer oil change intervals are undoubtedly fine for an engine that is expected to last at least to the end of the warranty period. Which is all the manufacturer cares about.
ALB clips this at 128: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/appl...
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tangentially, MFW I realized hours later who I sarcasmed at.
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Right, that's the challenge. But I don't think any papers except the NYT and maybe a couple others are justified in thinking that, and I think even they would probably end up net positive, since the vast majority of their readers are currently just ad-supported. I'm guessing the reality has sunk in for most papers.
Largely the same with the BBC in the UK.

Lots of people scream they are pro-left/pro-right (often without evidence) but I think if you look at their history what they are is pro-whoever is in power.

They know who writes the cheques.
Rust cannot displace Ada until it fulfills the business and security requirements that keep Ada alive.
> A sleeve would nullify this

'nullify' here is subjective. Others might say 'reduce' instead. For some, especially current sleeve or folio users, this could be acceptable.
The Ethical and Privacy Issues of Recommendation Engines on Media Platforms
In the FT's case, it is. The FT doesn't 'know a lot', it largely reflects the mainstream consensus of the economics literature and think tanks - which are broadly pro market with regulation, in line with much of the economics profession.

The FT has come out and said that if most of the economics literature was in favour of Brexit, they would have been too, but it wasn't, so they weren't.

There was a lot of concern with Nikkei's investment in the FT that that would no longer be the case and that it would kowtow to it's corporate owners - if proved not to be the case.
You've just done a stellar job of making "gaming" sound like a tedious day job. I'm impressed.
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/04/the-trouble-with-greta...
Apple paid taxes on all of those funds, in the jurisdictions in which the money was earned just like any other company. The US is the only country I'm aware of that charges tax on income earned abroad.

The US system is ludicrous. A few years ago a British politician, who has never resided long term in the US but who's mother was a US citizen, renounced his dual US nationality because the US tried to tax him on his sale of his house here in the UK.
You could link to the hearsay, assuming it was online.

FWIW, the report you link in your other comment has a screenshot of a conversation where someone claims that the code was leaked by an intern from Nankai University who didn't know how to use git. [1] That they're identified by their university makes me suspect that it's a rumor (edit: making fun of the university), though.

[1] https://www.heibai.org/zb_users/upload/2019/04/2019042306214...
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Part of this is packager fetish for breaking things into the smallest possible components. I used to see the appeal. But I don't see the point in separating libqt5test5 - Qt's unit testing framework - from the rest of Qt, if installing a paint program just yanks it in anyways.
I conscientiously object here on HN with shitposts, because I think HN is slightly too pretentious, and something important is lost in the dry demeanor.

At some point, @jcs of lobste.rs complained of, quote: "capricious modding" and I think that much rings true.

Perhaps most crucial, is the undeniable reality, that once you place a comment on HN, you are no longer the owner. You lose the ability to delete or edit very quickly, and the statements posted here become locked and permanent. With this, it is ill-advised that an authentic persona should ever become attached to any user name on HN. If your opinions run contrary to political winds in this climate, real problems could come your way, and in an emergency, there is no way to disentangle yourself for data that exists on this site.

That's okay, since HN is decidedly low-fi in many ways. But based on this, you'de hope for a lighter, more permissive hand on the moderation. Not so. Not at all.

So, with an iron fist in play, why pull ones own punches. Let the harshest opinions fly, if they'll assuredly be stamped out by such stifling interference. No need to feel guilty for resisting the iron fist. After all, opinions on the internet aren't really what's wrong with the world right now. It's just an oh so popular scape goat.

How do you like my objections to HN's subculture? Conscientious enough?
Kind of true, AFAIK Rust binary libraries don't expose safety information, like it happens in ClearPath or .NET Assemblies.

Still too many libraries make use of unsafe when they could be fully written in safe Rust.
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How does Google and company use their lobbying budget to bribe a politician? Vacation to the Maldives?
What's up with the title? The article talks about medieval art and geopolitics but not the numerous innovations. Some imports and cursorily at that.
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Forget about artificial intelligence, extended intelligence is the future
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Yes, and those same great engineers went ahead and figured it out. You see, some are hiring parrots, and others are hiring problem solvers.
Most countries even.
Where is it a thing outside the US?
True, I do think they make a real effort to stay neutral, but they are always very tame and if in doubt, they side with the government. Merkel just plainly removed certain reports, not sure about the topic. That was what I meant with classical censorship.
The Economist was never neutral. It was set up in response to the Corn Laws in the 19th Century Britain and has been very upfront about its ideological standpoint ever since. It's one of the things I like about it.

I do believe it's solid and factual though. If you treat every article is an opinion and analysis piece rather than neutral news reporting (because that's what they are), then it's quite a pleasant and informative read.
ALB allows for 128 simultaneous requests over one connection and de-multiplexes them by creating individual http/1.1 requests to servers in a round robin fashion:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/appl...
I think/hope the "endgame" for 3D APIs is that they disappear completely into compilers. Vulkan still has too many compromises and design warts to support different GPU architectures from high- to low-end and is already more complex than GL ever was after 25 years of development (just look at the huge extension list that already exists for Vulkan).

I don't need an "CPU API" to run code on the CPU in my machine, so why do I need to go through an API to run code on the GPU (hint: it's mostly about GPU makers protecting their IP).
That applies to regular theft as well, it's illegal and still it happens.

I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure that using a guessed key to transfer funds is as illegal as using a guessed password would be to transfer funds from one bank account to another or using a "guessed" house key to enter a house and walk away with the TV.

That's not to say that you have a lot of options to get your ether back, but that's not fundamentally different from regular theft either.
> In the autonomy presentation yesterday they said they could create more robotaxis if they ship smaller batteries.

More? The challenge is not to ship more of them, the challenge is to ship one.