skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the most expensive thing I've bought on Steam was Cities Skylines, and that was US$30. I originally got my Steam account to redeem Humble Bundle codes— originally that was the only way to get your games; it wasn't until later on that they started cutting Steam out of the loop and offering their own DRM-free downloads.

Anyway, I wonder how many people are in that position, where they have a giant Steam "library" that's mostly bundle titles and stuff bought on special, that they feel some sense of attachment to, but in reality wouldn't really miss when using a different launcher.
What city?

Also, does it have any form of rent control?

In terms of investment returns it should be pointed out that depending on country you can't get a lower rate of interest, better tax treatment and leverage than you can with your mortgage.

Lastly, we're in one off the longest bull runs on the stock market in history and the last 2 years in particular have been insane. This should not be treated as representative.
No, it was interesting. Results:

Cyren = W32/Trojan.CSLT-4203;
Ikarus = Trojan.Crypt;
McAfee = Artemis!CE570BABD051
From the "trivia" section of the article (not sure what their source is).

"Von Braun was heard to say that it would have been preferable to develop rocketry for space travel rather than war. But if it was necessary to develop a war rocket to reach space, he was willing to do so. Dornberger ordered von Braun not to mention space in Hitler's presence"

Terryfying, considering that the V2 led to space and eventually the moon exactly according to his plan.
This is super tone def given the housing situation in SF. Of all the people who need to live in a dorm style situation experts in AI/ML are probably pretty low on the list.

Who was displaced to build this tech paradise of dorm style living?

At least address this on your website or something.

TLDR: wtf?
Yeah, I remember the big art history boom times. It was crazy, it seemed that everyone was getting into the space, salaries seemed to be going up almost daily, the completion was cut throat.

The professor should stick to teaching computer science and not try to be market economist.
This is only a problem if you take the view that a nation needs to (and is able to) save for its future in terms of a currency it issues.

Increased taxation is not required to support a growing population of retirees, increased production is.

Taxation is neither here nor there: it is required as an inflation control and to give value to the currency but the limits on spending at the federal level (where social security/pensions SHOULD reside instead of in privately held pension funds) are total spending this year, not tax receipts last year.

Tax receipts extinguish a liability that was created when the federal government spent the money into existence in the first place.

It's not true that current consumption is created by current workers. Retirees spend. What's true is that we have an incredibly inefficient means of funding their retirement through property as an asset class which sucks money out of the current working population via private financial institutions and hands it to retirees, some of whom support their kids in purchasing exorbitantly priced property, placing them in a very precarious financial position which lowers birth rates and further exacerbates the problem down the line.

Property isn't required as an asset class, it's just a convenient thing most people understand and governments worldwide have been able to conveniently take their hands off the wheel.
"China’s Rear Adm. Luo Yuan [said] the key for Chinese domination in those hotly contested waters could lie in the sinking of two U.S. aircraft carriers. 'What the United States fears the most is taking casualties,' the admiral said, before adding that such an attack on two of the U.S. Navy’s steel behemoths would claim upwards of 10,000 lives."

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/01/04/well-see...
They’d quit and you’d kill morale. Something Yahoo would do.
Fair point. I enjoy rolling release model too. Some times I hope Pop!_OS and Elementary were not based on Ubuntu at the first place.
> who want to escalate the battle against white supremacists and far-right groups from tech platforms like Facebook, Google, Twitter, Patreon, and PayPal to one of the biggest companies in world finance, in an attempt to choke off donations.

Those totalitarian fanatics are fighting against something that is completely legal, because they don't like how the recipients use legally obtained money.

Separately, they are also trying to restrain various other human rights of their political opponents, and expect our sympathy and support?

These people sound more dangerous than what they are fighting against and I can't help it buy wish them to fail miserably in their attempts to violate freedom of speech and other rights of their political opponents.
Cool, MIT licenses this time.

* https://github.com/pytorch/botorch/blob/master/LICENSE

* https://github.com/facebook/Ax/blob/master/LICENSE

It's interesting seeing Facebook's evolving open sourcing strategy, and a bit heartening not to find they're not still pushing the BSD+Patents licenses on everything.
SF Googler here.

It may certainly be the case that people are experiencing "outrage fatigue" and that many have evaluated the claims of retaliation and found them unconvincing, but I don't think the evidence is sufficient to support these conclusions. The original walkout simply got way more publicity from the start, fuelled by a massive news story about Andy Rubin. But the biggest thing was it was officially sanctioned and promoted by the company, as far as I was concerned. Nearly everyone got an email from their manager and manager's manager in support of the walkout. Screensavers were changed en-masse to promote the walkout. Lots of people got up and tagged along. However, I didn't get the sense there was much awareness at that time of the specific demands, let alone the internal website that promoted it. Most people were just "along for the ride".

On the other hand, this sit-in wasn't planned as far in advance and details were not firmed up until the absolute last minute. Flyer designs were only sent out the day before for the retaliation event, so there wasn't much time to build awareness and momentum. And there wasn't a major news story about one of the company's execs to fuel conversation, just a few personal stories that trickled out in niche mailing lists. It had a very different feel, and I think it's hard to attribute that to one factor when there are so many in play.
I truly do not understand the shock and outrage.

Jokes about the wealthy/elite getting their offspring admitted to schools in exchange for "buying buildings" or making considerable donations to school endowments have been around far longer than me, and I'm 50.

At what rate do the offspring of apex elite attend top tier schools?

Does that all work on merit?

Did Chelsea Clinton truly deserve her acceptance to Stanford when her father was President? I assume so....

Or was it a much better executed version of Libyan dictator Qaddafi's son and the London School of Economics scandal?

To me it seems these things have always happened.

The only surprise, I think, is when people think they are amongst the elite to whom most rules don't apply, but they're really just part of the super affluent and risk being made examples of.
>housing can only increase an amount equivalent to inflation or wages

inflation or wages within the pool of people eligible and willing to buy said housing. So you get weird distortion when housing is bought up by folks not actually living in them (foreign ownership, and kind of speculative buying)
I would definitely pay $10 more to have it under the same launcher I've used for a decade. In fact, there's a couple games out recently I've skipped since they decided to release as Epic Store exclusives.

I don't like monopolies, but I like even less having a dozen game launchers/store/accounts.
There is no need for this stuff, of course. It's added because marketing want to improve the company's image in the eye of Joe/Jane Consumer, and probably someone in a support organization was honestly trying to make a customer's life easier. It was just implemented poorly.

The day that hardware vendors get over the idea that they need to "add value" to software that they resell will be a very good day for everyone.
Why was the battle set up outside Winterfell?
Is it still worth spending $40K+ on a CompSci degree in the age of self taught?
The Complete Guide to User Authentication with the Amplify Framework
I have uBlock Origin installed and it works fine with the default lists.
Yes. The 20% not on IE only left after we convinced their it department to switch.
This stuff looks super cool. I’m a fan of pytorch and can’t help but add a shameless plug for the ML experiment management tools I built - https://www.wandb.com/blog/monitor-your-pytorch-models-with-...
That hasn't been my experience in a decade in the industry. I've never worked at a company with a single person who has worked at any of the big silicon valley tech companies. But I've seen people choose technologies, tools, designs, and processes because that's what company X uses. None of the companies I've worked at have been even a tenth of the size of Google or Facebook. None of the companies has had one one hundredth of the amount of activity in their repositories that you'd find in the Linux kernel.
We at Ozonetel have been in the cloud business phone system business for sometime now. A couple of quick observations:

1. Surprisingly, the Calljoy website does not have a call in number or a demo number. This is supposed to be a disruptive technology, put a demo number that people can call in and test.

2. The Google brand is not there anywhere on the Calljoy website(except at the very bottom).

3. Rather than release a free beta product, which is the norm, Google has launched a paid commercial product.

4. Haven't tested the call quality yet. I think they maybe launching this on the Google voice platform.

5. Not sure why it should be a separate product, would have made more sense as a Gsuite add on.

6. Businesses need support. The success of this product will depend on the 24/7 support that Google can provide to business owners.
It's really hypocritical to call out Chinese companies for spying on people when most American tech companies spy on their users.
He wasted a tremendous number of innocent lives so no credit for him.
It’s most likely from waste water treatment plant effluent discharged into the rivers (or upstream) in question. Those plants are typically not capable of breaking down pharmaceutical and recreational drugs, nor artificially produced hormones (such as that found in birth control pills).
Will it benefit the folks on Steam? I was under the impression the update was not coming to Steam for a year, although the end of the blog post does seem to suggest it'll be coming out. Maybe unclear reporting when the patch was announced a few weeks ago?
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I try to be cognizant of the bigger picture when working on projects, and am driven by results. I want to write code and build tools that solve real world problems and improve the lives of those who use them. Let's make something awesome together!
I don't like it either (don't work for them) I was just trying to gain an understanding on what is going on.
> Do they have that narrative though? We already have affirmative action, which is the explicit inclusion of race/gender/class in admissions criteria. We are already a long ways from pure meritocracy.

I think affirmative action is a bad idea for exactly this reason. It has eroded the narrative.
It's trendy for left-wing types to argue things like "Harvard isn't a meritocracy" or to sneer at the idea of a meritocracy altogether (don't get me started on the right-wing types).

> More importantly, this policy wouldn't destroy those narratives. You can make the scale very steep such that you have to pay quite a bit to get your average student in, and the steepness of that curve will be determined by the eliteness of the institution. You have the same meritocratic rules, they're just tempered by money.

I think doing this in the open would be a disaster. What won't destroy the narratives is implementing your idea in the background. This has already happened to some degree. Most students at Harvard don't pay very much. Their education is subsidized by rich families one way or another.

But I don't think that's a good thing. Somewhere along the line our institutional narratives have become cliched in people's minds. Maybe this will lead us to a wonderful new world where we can be perfectly rational and implement ideas like yours. But I doubt it. I think if we lose the institutional narratives we're going to lose the institutions. Maybe the new institutions will be better, who knows? (I'm not optimistic).
A commercial airliner autopilot (the kind people think of when you say autopilot) can perform evasive maneuvers and land the plane.
He also said "We'll be able to do a demonstration guide of full autonomy all the way from LA to New York. So basically from home in LA to Times Square in New York. And then have the car go and park itself by the end of next year"
The web was also a bit of a different place back then. I think there were people who were "power users" who used Firefox and Chrome and others who used IE because it was bundled with their browser.
I was stuck suppporting our biggest customer who ran IE6 until like...2013? Bleh.
You're contradicting yourself. Since everyone is paying that extra 3%, by not getting the rewards / points you're at a disadvantage.
These are all true, and as a society should we not support (1) and (2) more than the others?

Personally, I invest in REITs, the money I would invest in real estate. These investments cover my rent and more.
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There's systems that are doing roughly that (but I think not a vat of solvent, some other process to crack the plastic):

https://renewlogy.com/renew-energy/
Look at this page: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...

Programming jobs are expected to fall. But I bet people seeking and training for jobs will continue to increase.

Also, you emphasize my point. Joe programmers don't need a full CS degree. From experience, I know a 2-year associate degree is enough.
>Stuff that's affordable is usually not scarce. Hence you can't have both something that's scarce and affordable.

A gram of dirt from my backyard is completely unique from any other gram (at a molecular level) and is therefore incredibly scarce - if you want exactly THAT gram and no other. I’d also sell it for almost nothing, so it’s affordable.
I do think this is hyperbole.

Sinking a US aircraft carrier would be a direct attack on the sovereignty of the United States.

It would e like sinking Rhode Island(slightly bigger).

Retribution would be overwhelming.
Just to clarify, I am talking about natural exercise and natural non-stress :) In their small communities you get stress and excrete it, while in the average larger community you accumulate it. It is the background "stress radiation", low intensity nagging stress, that does all kinds of nasty things to us - more accurately, we do it to ourselves and each other. Similarly, I would not equate time in the gym or jogging in Manhattan to their exercise.

I don't know if by some fluke they have the perfect 3-6 ratio in their diets, but if you get your fresh food and exercise (and those beneficial worms ;) ), it does not matter.
Do you feel licenses should address that distinction? So say, only APIs under certain licenses would allow alternate implementations of them?
I think you're referring to the SupportAssist Client being an HTTP server - while it is weird that they exposed all those other routes, the driver install route allows for drivers to be installed from a website (which a named pipe would not).

I wouldn't characterize it as "pure laziness" - more a questionable feature
The products are going to be more expensive for everyone. Would you rather have a card that offers 2% rewards points or one that doesn't offer any? You are obviously better getting the points.
I love canteens. In Ukraine they have proper canteen chains with good local food. Very cheap and delicious. Just love it. I’ll take that over a proper restaurant any day.
That’s probably where it’s going. Companies want to have the “best”
Agreed.

Over time, China will be looking to guarantee its SLOC(Se Linea of Communication(Control) for all of it’s global trade.

China is very vulnerable to economic harm from sea trade disruption.
I grew up in norcal and live in the bay area. Plenty of my high school classmates chose UCLA over Berkeley because they wanted to get farther away from home. Some of them are now med school professors.

The difference between these two UCs is not as great as you might think. Neither has the elite status of ivy league schools, but most people I've run across on hiring committees viewed the two ad fairly comparable.

Note: I went to UCLA for grad school and have many family members that have gone to Cal.
Large retailer transformation project migration of applications (100's) from traditional data center to AWS. Seeking experienced engineer with architecture, DevSecOps, AWS deployments, Google Cloud. App projects are lift and shift, rewrites, replatforms. Linux, Windows, custom apps, vendor apps, SaaS apps. Strong leadership, take charge attitude, strong project management skills. Contract position, Chicagoland area or remote.
We had a program that drew a map + path along the map... one customer complained about it taking 3 minutes to draw the path. Customer had an AMD 1400+ or something that was like 8 years old at the time. Threw my hands up in the air when they showed the system properties over a remote session.

We installed Firefox 4 and it ran at a perfectly fine speed...
No, it's you who, by supporting their toxic industry, are making things worse for everyone. c.f. Tragedy of the Commons. What you're advocating is a slave mentality.
Yeah agreed, although you could almost say the same thing about devs who started in the early Firefox era and how they have no frame of reference for the awful Netscape 4.x pain that IE 4-6 made go away...
Screed is a word

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/screed
They can and should video record the entire questioning process. If the suspect is abused in any way, the video can be used to punish the culprits. If the police use any illegal tactics to coerce a confession, it can simply be ruled inadmissible. I have yet to hear an explanation on why the lawyer needs to physically be in the room during the questioning.
Google branded hardware has a notorious reputation for problems about 1-1.5 year down the road. This has happened with every single Google device anyone in my family has ever owned and so we've basically stopped buying Google. Very few manufacturers apart from Samsung come close to Apple in terms of sheer hardware quality and service support and Apple OS's lack of customisability, pathetic camera and lack of 3.5mm jack completely rules it out for me. That's basically why I have paid a premium for Samsung over the years. I may look at Huawei too now that they appear to have significantly upped the hardware quality game.

Being virtually stock Android, pre-installed software is easily disabled (even FB) - the only major complaint is inability to assign Bixby button to something else without rooting.
Retribution with what? If the carriers are taken out the US has no way to project any kind of meaningful force in that region.

Any scenario (unlikely as it may be) that involves china successfully destroying 2 US carriers would also involve their confidence in being able to destroy the rest in their coastal region.
It might if you wait. It shows a gray screen for a good while before you see something that indicates that the video is actually working.
I do not buy the reasoning in the article. But maybe it applies to industries where people are lower performers than what I am used to.
If you run a SaaS business this applies to you too especially when you start to reach any sort of scale. The wayfair case has only emboldened the states.
Ponzi schemes also hold value- for a while. Right now, we’re in the while. The peg has worked. It seems unlikely to me that it will continue to work. I suppose that’s the last I’ll say on the matter.
Yeah nukes would fly I imagine.
So I pay a few thousand a month; it's cheaper than the few thousand the owner paid back when that was the price (it's only a notional "million" in capital because they bought it decades ago for a few low thousands.)

In exchange for my illusory benefit of paying "only" a few thousand every month, I get:

- To keep the remaining 30% of my salary (as ever rising rents creep past 70% of take-home).

- Enjoy the 10% yearly rent raise.

- No security, can be kicked out any time (it happens every few years, sometimes a week before Christmas).

- No permission to paint anything.

- Forbidden to have pets of any kind. Could move, but can't find anywhere within commuting distance that allows pets and is in the same price bracket.

- Can't change anything structural, like a window for a nicer one.

- Can't change the locks to something I'd like.

- Can't try out the fancy new home control tech (Nest etc)

- Can't fit solar panels, even if subsidised by a power company, as the offer is only to homeowners.

- Forbidden to "run a business" from home (it says in the contract), and forbidden to register a company at my home address.

- No guests allowed to stay over longer than X days.

- When I hit retirement age and soon after that run out of money, I'll be evicted and homeless, because pension isn't enough to pay the rent, and rent is rising faster than inflation anyway. State benefits exist for pensioners, but the housing component intended to cover rent is widely known to be less than real rents.

So fair enough, I avoid buying somewhere with a million in capital.

Instead I spend more than a million in rent over a working lifetime. Sure would have been nice to live in a stable home during it, to enjoy the freedom to do what I want in the home, and to stay there at the end.
Being questioned by the police without a lawyer being present, is a "human rights abuse"? I have yet to hear an explanation on why being questioned 1:1 by the police is so bad.
I understand how it works. I'm taking a bigger picture view and saying that if nobody had points, everything would be cheaper than if you had gotten the points in the first place.

Obviously in the current climate, a card that offers points is going to be more competitive than a card that doesn't, but that doesn't mean that points aren't a mind-bogglingly stupid proposition to begin with.
The only reason admission to elite schools is so coveted is because, in theory, you can't buy your way into a degree. Once you can buy your way in then no one will want to.

Your idea would work for a bit but eventually, it would fall apart.
Amend prop 13 to have it not exist
> Yeah, the fast bootup times are nice.

Every machine I've put SystemD on takes an extra 20 seconds to boot. This includes thinkpads, and other machines. I've tried a mix of distributions, all of the ones with SystemD take longer. I've even tried altering things to take less time. So I don't see how 'faster boot' can be considered part of systemd's bag of tricks.
https://sci-hub.se/downloads/2019-04-14/2a/10.1016@j.jas.201...