skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have a source, or any evidence that they don't? Google doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt. This is literally their business model.
You could have said the same thing about Enron. Some people have Tesla stock and don't even know it, because of their mutual funds and pensions.
Maybe irrelevant but it's worth noting.

Sued and jailed for submitting vulnerability. Open through google search.
https://www.caixinglobal.com/2016-10-17/are-chinas-ethical-h...
They have been watching us for so long. I am a life long abductee. I have seen more than anyone can imagine. They are already here. Have been for millennia. During My last visit with ‘them’, I was told they are slowly showing themselves and the media is slowly introducing the idea of aliens to children. This done through the world governments. They are here to help. To also fight the group of very bad aliens who want to annihilate us and take over this planet. Which BTW. A war of sorts is happening in space. This earth is the only one if it’s kind anywhere. In any universe. It is considered very important. And has for many many billions of years. We are only one civilization of many that have come and gone. Our entire world leaders have known everything since ancient times - but control and dumb us down. To keep us subservient.
Gee, a state funded news outlet turns out to be the political mouthpiece of the ruling party? Who'd have thought this could happen?

As it stands, though, many news outlets in the USA demonstrate that they don't need to be state funded to be political mouthpieces. I see real journalism happening at the state and local level at this point. It seems mostly the big players that can afford to not do their jobs.
> If an employee couldn't get stock options in a startup, then there would be significantly fewer cases where they would choose to join a startup over a more stable, mature company

That's possible, of course. I haven't seen any data to support it.

In my own experience (which is not statistically meaningful), this is a weak effect. I strongly prefer working for startups and very small companies, and most of the engineers I've worked with have stated that things like stock options aren't important to them (that's part of why options are so widely referred to as "wallpaper").

The attraction to working for startups, for both myself and most of the people I've worked with, is that startups offer better working conditions and more interesting projects.

However, I do feel the need to underline that this is just my subjective experience and it may not representative overall.
Is "opportunity sinking" a thing? Remaining stagnant for years and years when there was growth to be had if only Microsoft would go after it was on Ballmer.
Again, appreciate the reply. Myself and others post a lot of criticisms towards Google on HN, and though I feel much of it is deserved, its the commentary from actual Google employees that turns it into a much more substantial and informed conversation.
biggest negative I would say is getting rid of the SDET role and moving them into Telemetry.

It moved the onus of testing on Devs who've never done it before as part of their job and thusly very lacking. The bungled W10 recent releases can be directly tied back to this model. As PMs and Devs don't account for testing like they used to before shipping to customers.

This may be fine and dandy short-term, but if you're biggest customers rely on stability for code bases over 25 years old--getting rid of focused testing and reliability is a big no-no.
I completely disagree, using .NET Core on non-windows machines has a lot of upsides. I use linux almost exclusively and .NET Core has just worked and is way more perform-ant out the box than java or node has been.
The glass is half full, not half empty. About 50% of users DON'T skip onboarding - and for those users, it really matters.
This is huge, and exactly what I want from these kinds of services -- a set "age out" policy where I can specify how long my data is retained before being deleted.

If FB let me clean out all my posts/comments/activity from everything older than a year I might actually start using it again.
> Private industry creates perverse incentives by allowing individuals with power and money more and better access to the law. This means that those who benefit most from a lack of proper taxation are those who already have the money.

> When a private company is behaving badly because of the power imbalance between you and a corporation that literally doesn't need to sleep your chances of getting any recourse are almost zero. You have no right to not have your water poisoned by a company and generally those companies will just declare bankruptcy if things get too expensive to avoid having to pay. No executives choosing to poison the water for profit will go to jail.

Non sequitor. We're talking about private charity vs. government redistribution. If you want to have a debate about moral legitimacy of for-profit corporations that's fine, but it's a different matter.

> Citation needed that somehow a single entity processing taxes versus literally hundreds of different charities is less efficient.

Having literally worked for a tax collecting government agency, I can assure that is the case. Many charities publish what percentage of their revenue goes to the intended recipient vs. administrative overhead.

> When there's a natural disaster it's not your local charity you're calling, it's FEMA.

That a government has more resources to bring to bear does not mean it is more efficient. Also, you don't need to call charities because they are usually already there.

> We've literally had numerous tax cuts go through federal government. The idea that it doesn't happen is just plain false.

Your not addressing my point. How often are redistribution schemes evaluated or rolled back? We can only cut taxes because the government borrows a lot of money to fund its programs.

> How does a body of government made up of Representatives elected by it's constituents in any way relate to serfdom.

Serfdom has less to do with the structure of the ruling authority and more more do with whether that ruling authority is constrained by the rights of its citizens. If the government (even one elected by popular consent) can arbitrarily deprive ordinary citizens of their liberty or property, then the people are serfs. There are plenty of historical examples of this exact thing happening.

> The country literally had slaves at the founding. Your point is entirely invalidated. The idea that the government cannot compel someone to pay into a system that they use but that it was totally okay to literally own people falls flat on it's face.

That slavery existed somehow invalidates the Taxing and Spending Clause, due process, or the 14th amendment?

What exactly is your argument here? Is it "because slavery was once practiced in this country, the government can and should impose arbitrary taxes on the people regardless of their property rights or the restrictions laid out in the constitution?" It may not be your intended point, but it follows logically from what you said.
"For no particular reason" may not be quite right. One candidate for a particular reason is the same grouchiness about orthodox[] technology that shows up in many double standards. E.g., chemicals that fail the Ames Test are alarmingly sinister if they are synthetic pesticides, vs. so perfectly fine that only a pedant would ever consider the issue if they are pesticidal toxins present at elevated levels in pest-resistant breeds of crops. Any given number of people killed in a coal mine or nuclear accident is a very big deal compared to the same number killed by bacterial infection related to organic farming. Low-tech paintlike or gluelike goo and gunk is not generally subject to witch hunt standards for sinister toxicity when used to caulk or paint charming fishing boats, but is fair game when used in fracking a formation which contains oil. Microquakes are so irrelevant that only a pedant would ask about them when the facility in question is geothermal, but scary as hell for an oil fracking facility. Bird kills are absolutely intolerable ecological atrocities for oil spills, irrelevant pedantry for wind farms.

[] I don't know a word for the distinction I'm trying to get at here with "orthodox". I mean the way that various important technological niches seem to get a pass: e.g. optics (eyeglasses, cameras), and selective breeding of crop species. It's hard for me to imagine persistent enthusiasm for rumors that eyeglasses cause brain cancer in the way that rumors about low-intensity low-frequency EM radiation (from power lines to cell phones) persist. The distinction seems to be roughly "stuff descended from the early Industrial Revolution, the Scottish Enlightenment, and/or sufficiently hardcore scientific method that the Royal Society would be respectfully impressed."
If the CEO misses the guideline by such an enormous margin, there clearly is a problem.
Or you could ask yourself what happened that you needed a tent in the first place. Again, incumbents or any of their final assembly contractors know exactly how to launch and scale assembly lines for new plants and car models. Why Tesla choose to deviate from all industry best practices in that case still puzzles me.
It's on mobile. I haven't tested it much, but I'm really not interested in doing so. I only keep Google Maps because my wife and I like to share locations, which I am trying to do via some direct method between our phones eventually anyways.
I prefer guix documentation because it feel more like a guide than a reference.
I need to run CuDNN. I'd happily take a conceptually-pure operating system in every other respect, but without that package I can't use it for anything.

Perhaps locking me out is a feature, but it isn't a very welcoming one.
>even if its not a perspective or argument he himself supports

This assume all perspectives/arguments are valid. Should we listen to the arguments put forth by someone who believes the Earth is flat?
The developer was prosecuted in China. HN guidelines also indicate the title should be unchanged from the original most of the time.
Google retrains models all the time. They gave a presentation about ML and production last year:

https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon18asia/presentation/...

You can see there's a section on privacy and deleted data as well.

Each team has its own policies, because each product is different: at a bare minimum they might be using different storage systems, but it's very likely that their data pipelines are quite different, too. In any case, each team's targets are at least as strict as any published ones, of course.
I embrace remote as the next guy, but if all companies start doing that. how do you think that effects bay area and big hubs wages?
Why memorizing stuff can be good for you
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FYI a lot of the .NET Framework is also opensource
https://referencesource.microsoft.com/
Hydro is damaging to the local ecosystem and has a long history of fucking over small communities, in particular indigenous communities who somehow never factor into these decisions.

Show me a powerful river than can be dammed with minimal to no impact to the ecology or the communities up- or down-stream of it, and you will have my support.
It’s descriptive as you are a financial investor as you’re investing money not time etc.

I think they promote the term backers which is also used for people who donate to charity. Unlike with charity you can get meaningful payout rather than a token item. Still, the highest rewards are often symbolic in nature just like charity’s “gold donor” lists etc.
Blue Origin launches and lands record mission
I know blackhats and grayhats must have been doing it for years. But I'm not aware there's any bot that acts in a whitehat manner to disclose it to affected parties and conduct public researches, is there? I mean, something like those RSA keys crawling projects by cryptographers that have discovered several types of non-random keys with zero security.
Habermas and the Fate of Democracy
> But DRM only requires a secret key in the hardware. None of the implementing code needs to be secret, and indeed DRM that relies on opaque binary blobs or convoluted setup is useless.

DRM for a general purpose device needs way more than that. You need a full 'Trusted Execution Environment' to run the code that uses those keys.
To be fair there are features in Excel that you can't use in Excel online - password protected workbooks, watches etc.
We will do something approaching the right thing... soon!
I use uMatrix, but the amount of sites where you need to allow Google domains and cookies for reCaptcha to work is depressing.
Definitely sounds like Wisconsin. I was reading the whole time thinking, man, things must be exactly the same everywhere?
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What kind of reoccurring microsoft expenses would an organization be able to shed? Can't really cut back on costs for word and excel/office suite. If your data is in Azure already, it would cost even more probably to move it all off and administer it yourself. Seems like they're pretty well locked in.
You think extremist Islamist ideology is mainly coming from the west? It predominantly comes from Saudi Arabia, and is paid for by oil money. You can't blame that on the west alone either--China is the single biggest purchaser of Saudi oil.

Also I wonder why extremist ideology appeals to a minority people living under a repressive regime that bans their religious expression.

Furthermore this goes much further than Islamic ideology. Uyghurs have been rebelling against the Chinese government off and on for at least a century. What they are doing is attempting wipe out Uyghur identity to tighten their grip on Xinjiang.
> According to statistics, 30% of new immigrants have no high school diploma, so while the average wage is low, it's probably much higher than they would be getting in their native country (otherwise, presumably, many woudn't have left in the first place.)

You forget about cost of living here.
> They demoed true autonomy, and I believe it's actually getting quite close.

No. No no no.

Elon Musk has done some amazing things, but I am adamant his stance on Autopilot has led to unnecessary deaths and when anyone takes his side that they are actually close to true autonomy, you are undermining how dangerous it is to rely on Autopilot as anything other than advanced cruise control. As more time goes on, we find out more evidence about how Autopilot has been misrepresented, and while the NHTSA study being flawed cannot currently be directly tied to Tesla I cannot imagine that a governing body could be so incompetent without a corrupting influence from Tesla [1]. Elon Musk himself talks about how Autopilot requires driver attention when asked by critics, however when demonstrating the technology himself on national television he has his hands off the wheel and regularly is not watching the road [2]. He goes to great lengths to hide any negative data against Autopilot, as already referenced in [1] where it took 2 years to overcome the legal blockade just to get the data provided in a publicly released study, as well as getting Twitter to suspend someone's account for providing this spreadsheet of problems (including deaths) with Autopilot [3]. I absolutely believe an investigation, at the bare minimum for false advertising and personally I believe negligent homicide, should be brought against him because of it (I am not saying he is guilty, but there is certainly a need to find out).

How many people may have died because Elizabeth Holmes misrepresented (and in that case, quite obviously committed fraud) the capability of their product? I am not saying Musk and Holmes are the same, but people would not stop talking about how amazing she was until they found out she was just lying about everything.

Elon Musk is absolutely wrong about Autopilot. When lives are at risk, it is not okay to suspend disbelief just because of the hype.

[1] https://www.thedrive.com/tech/26455/nhtsas-flawed-autopilot-...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimmcpherson/2018/12/11/in-his-...

[3] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ESnyJ4b7m96OCjs3GSQ6...
Yawn. "AI" has always, and probably always will be, a marketing term to sell other algorithms.
Why exactly did you need those credentialed designers that churned out non-working "lovely" designs?
Butler Lampson talks about the general concept of an overlay in operating system design. It's a slightly different case, on the surface, but the possible application in this case is that if mmap fails, you probably should have a fallback code path that tries to access the file normally.

That's obviously not going to work for all applications. But it's something you consciously have to do anyway if mmap may not be available (e.g. when working across the network). The OS design should make it easy to move up and down in this hierarchy of access methods, but the application programmer still needs to know which "level" of access they have to the file.

There's work to be done here in improving the design of the OS interface. That would lift part of the the burden of maintaining multiple paths in the application code.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRLJ6XdmgnA&t=11m35s

slides: https://bwlampson.site/Slides/Hints%20and%20principles%20(HL...

see also: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...
I found the Swedish accusations credible at the time, at least enough that he should have stood trial. Maybe they were false, and he would have been acquitted after some time in court and jail, but he dodged the trial instead.

Even if you weren't convinced by the accusations, there are plenty of other reasons to find Assange despicable, some of which I listed.
Leaving aside he question of where the boundary of the class “journalist” should be drawn, I'm unsympathetic to the general idea that journalists are entitled to special treatment, and can see no argument that special treatment of the form “are entitled to jump bail in extradition cases related to rape charges” is appropriate for journalists.

I agree, though, to the extent that it is sad that Assange engaged in the behavior for which he is being sent to jail, but that is no one's fault but his own.
Don't take me the wrong way: I hate ads too. I usually find out about things from other people, or ads in non-online media, or when I am physically at a store or on Amazon searching for something.

I tend to by generic/commodity items over brands, but there are some notable exceptions.

I pick my groceries by checking the grocery ads and seeing what's on sale.

I don't think I've ever clicked on a search ad or a mobile ad except accidentally.

Concerts and stuff I learn about through ads.

It's kind of an eclectic list, I guess, but ads do seem to serve some purpose. I'm just hard to reach via them unless I'm going looking for something.
>And really, you still need a bunch of batteries to handle short-term fluctuations in renewables output.

Not really the case. Renewable output does not fluctuate fast enough to require the fast response of batteries.

Fast responding storage, in the case of the UK pumped hydro, is usually needed due to thermal plants tripping and causing the grid frequency to suddenly nosedive.
For white people, at least.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/10/golden-s...

> Then the researchers built a model that predicted that a database needs to include only 2 percent of a population for 90 percent of the people to have a third-cousin match or closer in it. In other words, a database of just a few million people could be sufficient to track down nearly everyone in the United States....Another pattern jumped out in the MyHeritage data: People of primarily northern European ancestry were more likely to have matches than people of primarily sub-Saharan ancestry. This reflects the predominantly white customer base for MyHeritage and most other direct-to-consumer DNA tests. It also means that genetic-genealogy searches by law enforcement are, for now, more likely to succeed with people of European descent.

These sorts of identifications actually require a lot of manual work by genetic genealogists tracing ancestry after a potential relative is found in a DNA database. For example, Barbara Rae-Venter lead a team of five people to identify the Golden State Killer.

BTW, there's a handy Wikipedia page for a list of suspects identified using the GEDMatch database

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suspected_perpetrators...
> How about some charity and informed, insightful analysis?

I agree, that would be great. Let's analyze stuff instead of just screaming out our opinions.

> we can ditch the hate and have more informed negativity when it's warranted

How does negativity (even informed negativity) help us?

How does it increase our knowledge, or ability to do new exciting things, or our ability to "push the envelope"?

It doesn't. It's a waste of time and effort. Worst case, just say nothing at all rather than being negative about a certain topic.

When working on an extremely complicated problem the last thing in the world anyone needs is a bunch of people reminding them it's really hard and that nobody has done it before and that it's going to fail for reasons x,y,z.

Remember, every breakthrough that has ever happened had a long list of reasons why it was "impossible".
> but it is not clear whether or how the theater would get that new lease at a rate it can afford

Can any theater afford a ground level space at current San Francisco prices?

If a theater can only afford to be in San Francisco because of Prop 13 then we should recognize that as a form of taxpayer subsidy for the theater.

If there is the political will for taxpayers to subsidize theaters (why not, art is nice), then why not subsidize a theater's lease on the 5th floor of some building, instead of preventing building up by subsidizing a one storey theater on the ground floor?

But I think there's a good argument to be made that the taxpayer subsidy process should be more transparent and less arbitrary than "whichever theater bought its land longer ago gets a bigger subsidy".
Yes I figured :) Just pointing out that reality is always a bit more nuanced. To put it more simply, the petal position could be seen as an error accumulator.
Yes, this is going to get messy. The old and young fighting over resources.

I remember years ago reading a short Sci Fi story posted somewhere. I wish I had saved it. It was in the form of a letter from a father, who had transferred his consciousness to the cloud, to a son who was toiling to pay taxes so the people living in the machine could continue to relax in the afterlife.
UK gears up for new laws on IoT security
God I hate user onboarding... seeing stats like that make me so sad, and feel ever further away from the current internet zeitgeist.