skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I encountered a few unmaintained apps -- again the long tail is long. Some failed in more and more ways with each new iOS version. Forcing developers to update their apps is exactly the issue, really.
But what about the people you won't be helping any more if it becomes commercial? That could vary wildly depending on the context.
I mean fair enough and I'm sure they are reasons, but from a very immature point of view it sounds like you could have just picked a winner from your current CRMs and consolidated, and had a system in place that arguably already works, lowering your risk.

Still, as an IT contractor, better you pay the big bucks for the projects. :p
Same here, this is my go-to for Hacker News content now. But of course it's only a curator, it doesn't offer anything like what this refined-hacker-news project does.

Side note if author/host is reading: can you redirect HTTP to HTTPS? :)
Then you must believe that about nearly every valuation..
"Also, you never got accidentally talked into installing ~malware~ "friendly user assistance and downloader tools" like Bonzi Buddy."

Ah, yes... clarification: I never encountered it in the wild on a webpage that wasn't specifically about the Microsoft Agent. I did have a couple of commercial programs that used it, though nothing huge.

It did require a machine with what at the time was a generous amount of RAM to handle everything that spun up to run that thing. Nowadays, of course, it would be nothing, lost in the noise of the fluctuation of your Slack window, but at the time, megabytes of RAM were still a pretty big deal.

It is true I never installed Bonzi Buddy, but I was aware it used the Microsoft Agent. ISTR someone thinking it must take a ton of programming to make that happen, and I actually showed them my animated school logo and how little code it took to prove the opposite.
> The negative attitude in this thread is misplaced. Not sure where it is coming from.

HN is not immune to anything, it's just a place for people to give their opinions. Sometime the opinionated person knows what they're talking about, other times the opinionated person is not a customer of the business and only derives the business based off "one-off" experience, passing knowledge through articles, or SEC-1 numbers (and at the same time the person might hate Wall-Street folks).

(just like my comment is just an opinion (^_^)).
Seeing the no camera symbol in the twitter picture, I think it not being on the internet was done on purpose.
> how well known he is in the industry.

That is also part of his compensation.
I was really surprised and excited to see this article cite one of Mark Brown's GMT videos! (In the example of using an enemy in Super Metroid to indicate a way to break through the floor)
I think you need to go have a lie down. Nobody is being ethnically cleansed.
Theft, IP? Cancer research?!

Oh! I can see the facepalms forming a recursively fractal Mandala...
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That would be plain false advertising. The FDA doesn't need to get involved in such trivia.

I have no problem with the FDA as a certification agency, whether they're certifying safety or efficacy or both. I do have a problem with their approval being mandatory in order for the product to be sold. If their stamp of approval means anything—if lack of FDA approval implies that a product is unsafe and/or ineffective—then doctors, insurers, and patients will all look for that approval and avoid products without it. The problem is that "safe and effective" is neither necessary nor sufficient to obtain FDA approval.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20166070
I'm fed up with those people who think they understand China simply because they have read a sci-fi novel written by an Englishman before modern China has been founded. China's system is so complicated and so far from a heavy-handed police state.
> In California trucks can only go 55 mph

lol :)
Not sure how we're thinking about this now internally. If there was such a technologically adept actor targeting us I'd be more worried personally about safety than the cargo itself.
Oil sinks 4 % to $51.14 on rising US crude stockpiles, fear of faltering demand
calling basic cancer research a pre-patent sounds like calling the laws of physics "pre-IP". What's next, arrest Chinese physicists for smuggling astronomical data out of the US? This American witch-hunt is becoming increasingly ridiculous.
Fiverr is almost reverse. While you find lots of unskilled people, with some effort you also find people who really don't know how to value their skills there.

Expect to take some time and try out several people to find them, but it's worth it.
I'm not Chinese, but thanks for assuming (I'm from Sinope, but I consider myself a cosmopolitan and reside in a barrel in the Athenian market).

As you correctly point out, there is a hysteria about Russians at the moment, as well. I think the US is primed for this because of the long history of anti-Russian propaganda during the Cold War.

When it comes to China, I see all sorts of extra negative characterizations of Chinese people coming into play. I've seen threads here on HN which people go on about how Chinese students are cheaters, and how Chinese culture promotes cheating. That's just an outrageous and ignorant characterization of Chinese culture, and I do think it represents a type of widespread prejudice.
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Probably region-specific support and dispute resolution, most likely. Two-sided markets require twice the support, now multiply by country and locale.
Even when the NIH funds the research, the resulting drugs/procedures/patents are rarely owned by the Federal Government anymore because of the Bayh-Dole Act.
I am impressed with your depth of knowledge of dried Russian fish :-)

Both of these words can refer to either specific species of fish, or to the method of preservation, depending on the region. Whichever word you use, the sales person in that store is sure to rudely point out your mistake. Like you said, the Soviet level of service is part of the experience.
> ill-formed specifications working to inadequate (but overrunning) budgets. Something gets nailed together to support the business, and once it's working you're never allowed to touch it again.

That sounds like a small startup, too.

(I won't speak to the "average developers" and "mediocre managers" bit, though I assure you they're not unique to big enterprises.)
> You don't really have a solution to: Persistent Storage, Pod Security Policies, Admission Controllers (such as checking your deps have been security checked), Resource Utilization or Creating environments (you mentioned it but never specified it).

Again, I'm not going to draft out a complete architecture for some hypothetical application. The point is that k8s leaves the fundamental questions unsolved, just like non-k8s. This is noteworthy because many people are apparently operating under the belief that k8s will "reduce complexity" by handling these core infrastructure problems transparently and intrinsically, and it doesn't.

> Most of the problems you're leveling at k8s still exist with your technology choices, or any really.

Right, that's exactly the point. Most people say k8s is worthwhile because they think it's a magic bullet that has self-contained and automatic remediations for core infrastructure concerns. That's because there's no way that the complexity is worthwhile if it doesn't. If you're left with the same basic set of problems regardless, what are you getting by putting k8s in there after all?

k8s is probably not the wrong choice 100% of the time. It's just that most people who are jumping on that bandwagon are simply jumping on a bandwagon, and flailing and screaming to everyone else that the bandwagon is a magical land of fairy tales and unicorns. If there is legitimate, real, well-vetted engineering rationale for selecting k8s for a particular use case, it should be selected, of course. Vague statements alluding to its mystic "literally bliss"-inducing powers do not comprise this, despite popular opinion to the contrary.

> You should really try the tool in anger before you dismiss it, because most of your points aren't legit pointing at what k8s gives you.

I have used it, repeatedly. Granted that the last cluster I ran in prod was a couple of years ago, and I'm sure things have improved in that time. But it doesn't change the fundamental equation of the cost/benefit tradeoff.

> having a sysadmin who can barely code trying to debug someone elses at 4am is also a broken model.

Agreed, obviously. What does that have to do with Kubernetes?
Well, legally...
I used to work for a consulting/contracting company, with 6-10 reports at any given time. I was responsible for reviewing and approving their time sheets.

Except that, due to the nature of the business, I didn't see or even communicate with most of my reports on a daily or even weekly basis. They were working on different projects under different contracts for different customers in different locations. My manager responsibilities were an add-on to my own near-full-time billable work.

I raised my personal concerns to my own manager(s) that I did not feel that I could confidently and truthfully review and approve my reports' timesheets. Their response was effectively "just go with it, it's the way it works". Basically I was told to rubber stamp them with my name as the approver.

I don't necessarily believe that anyone was maliciously abusing the system, but I definitely believe that casual and hard-to-prove overbilling was a regular occurrence.

I don't work there anymore.
Is Patreon his only source of income?

on edit: I should have probably asked one the child comments, but this is ok here as well.
Except the US is being the most overt and also the only one with such a comprehensive media campaign verging on demonization. Doesn't really help that the American mentality is exceptionally suited to receiving such propaganda as truth.
It was a joke.

The only thing it seemed to do was let you know what browser the developer/s were using.

If you happened to have multiple browsers it was possibly of some benefit if you could switch to that browser.

Enterprises still lock users to one browser if possible for security & maintenance reasons. I do see multiple browsers allowed for certain individuals to support older software.
China may deserve it, but what about individual ethnic Chinese in the US, who may even have left because of the oppressive political system in the PRC? Making them collateral damage is pretty shortsighted in my opinion.
I think he meant Alibaba owns Alipay, which is a competitor to WeChat's payment system.
Do ISO handle proofreading, editing and so on? My impression was that they mostly did publishing, which has become less and less of a cost center.
Huawei apparently decides it needs more bad press puts ads on phone lock screens
The article starts with:

>The NIH and the FBI are targeting ethnic Chinese scientists, including U.S. citizens, searching for a cancer cure.

So, uhm, ... what 2-way street are we discussing? and how do we deal with people with a single Chinese parent? or 4 Chinese grandparents? ... does it involve measuring skulls as well? this is going over the top...
Tons of build tools vs one build tool, I guess... People not always want to have to choose.
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Pika CDN seems to facilitate user tracking by the CDN better than the current JS CDNs can (with simple browser privacy features that browsers should be doing already).

Also, wasn't clear to me whether they support SRI or an equivalent supported by the browser. If they don't, it could also be a centralized vulnerability for user-targeted injection.

(Solution: the best sites will pay to serve their own JS.)
Do you save the emails so it doesn't get deleted by the 3 month retention policy later on?
a link from the other thread (20166070) to reddit links to this image:
https://i.imgur.com/ey47BlL.png
The thread is about cache hit ratio which is not that simple. A file is either cached at an endpoint or not, regardless of whether it's downloaded once or a billion times. CDNJS only supports ~3k libraries and gets most of its usage from jQuery and FontAwesome.

jsDelivr has an automated backend proxy to support any NPM package, Github repo, or Wordpress.org plugin. It also uses Cloudflare as one of its backends, so at worst it's at parity with CDNJS in cache hits or far better due to more network partners, more global regions, and more packages from more origins.

Anything on CDNJS is also likely cached by jsDelivr, but most of everything cached on jsDelivr is not even available on CDNJS.
Assange isn't in a UK prison because of leaking documents, but because he jumped bail.
That is exactly why I use Delphi when doing GUI apps on Windows. Single GUI framework that works like a charm for more then 20 years. It is very unfashionable to say mildly but it is the fastest tool to get things done for Windows GUI apps.
Downward head tilt can make people seem more dominant
One is legal, the other isn't.
The discoverer of insulin, Frederick Banting, 'sold' his patent for one dollar, to make that life-saving substance available to all.

And yet, somehow, US pharma companies are overcharging diabetics to the tune of thousands of dollars a year for access to a 96-year-old drug.

I'm sure those same pharma companies can figure out how to fleece the public in the distribution of any cancer cures that come out of China.
I've looked into it a bit. With some exceptions for very rare pieces, it's almost certainly not worth the effort of cataloging all your random LEGO pieces, unless you enjoy the process itself.
Lego has more value than you think. You can at least sell it by the pound for pretty good price.

https://www.vocativ.com/underworld/crime/lego-heists/index.h...
"a technology they called ActiveX, basically a brushed up and simplified COM. (The "X" here was from DirectX, which they were trying to market all together; IIRC technically the Agent had nothing to do with DirectX.)"

This reminds me, one of the small enduring legacies of the 90s X-TREME! craze is that Microsoft still does a lot of marketing around the letter X, even today, like the XBox. And that goes back to ActiveX and DirectX being named in an era where that was intended to make Microsoft sound Hip and Cool and With It. I suppose at this point the XBox has transcended this, and is now just a name.
Java on iOS, for Real
Of all the time I've lived in China, I probably have only seen counterfeit money once in my life. Do you have any evidence to back up your claim?
I'm pretty sure people that say they like lutefisk just like the side dishes (keyword: bacon!) :p
What is the failure mode when connectivity with the truck is lost or jammed?
Battery technology has been, and to a certain degree still is the limiting factor for electric cars...and the fact is that gasoline is still a denser form of energy storage than batteries by volume, weight etc..

I'm saying this as a someone who prefers electrics over ICE...
UWP is getting better but last time I looked it still had some weird restrictions. For many things WPF is still your best bet because you can be pretty confident that you will be able to do what you need to do.
Why are the taxpayers funding confidential research? If that is going on, then we’ve found the real problem. I’m ok paying for health research that will benefit me and everyone else. I’m not ok funding secret research that some mid level beaurocrat will turn into an IP money grab as soon as they step through the revolving door to the private sector.
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I think Bayes counts as a famous historical personality.
It's proprietary software (adobe, apple/microsoft, autocad, etc) and they file it as a no fix. Or it's open source and it will take $30k+ in engineering time to change it and $100k+ in time wasted waiting.

Now what.

There is also an inversion of responsibility here. It really should be IT's job to 'adapt the tool to the process' instead of externalizing it to their staff. Until they can do it, the staff needs outweigh the lazy 'default no' of IT.
It's even worse than that; the way you end up getting a license to these patented codecs (that are now part of the standard), you end up buying access to codec pools from groups like MPEG-LA. This isn't inherently bad, but the price of buying a license to these pools doesn't typically decrease, even when some (or most) of the patents in that pool expire.
Only a hospital in San Juan received a solar panel deployment. The quote you cited is more promises.
He is not claiming it's happening, he simply states he's no longer certain it won't happen again within our lifetimes...
You have a warped view of world politics if you think countries are incapable of making their own decisions and need to be told what is best for them.

That aside, it's more or less common knowledge these days that the planes have not been delivered for all these years due to the production problems they are still having.

Esquire just did a piece just month mentioning that the plane starts to fall apart if it's flown too fast and the computer fails to detect if the plane is flying to fast about half the time.

This aircraft program still has a ways to go.
Maybe exactly because FOSS is about terms which allow such use, and enable companies to build business models on that?

Sure, but if such a business takes off and is awash in money then the owners should help to water the tree. Maybe that means writing a check once a year (boo hoo, goodbye money uwu) or contributing some business skill/innovation so that developers or artists can concentrate on their professional discipline rather than having to gain a load of business skills that they may not be temperamentally or intellectually suited for. Why isn't it as easy to monetize as to share a repo?
It was, But the lack of knowledge of said system is probably indication it’s not being used :)
I do as well. It's become one of my default landing spots.
> unless you're a cryptographer, you ABSOLUTELY SHOULD NOT roll your own encryption

I feel like this should be qualified a bit:

* If you are not a cryptographer, then you absolutely should not roll your own encryption scheme

* If you are not a programmer, then you absolutely should not roll your own encryption implementation

That is: cryptographer(s) should be working closely with programmer(s) to both design and implement an encryption scheme. Anything else is how we get things like Heartbleed.
I'm not sure this counts as "hopping onto the bandwagon", I see this more as "Come use GCP" and just another way to promote GCP.
> Once again I seem to be the only adult in the room

You've been continuing to post quite a lot of flamebait and unsubstantive comments, ignoring our requests to stop. Continuing to do that will get you banned here. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stop doing that.
Professional improvement plan. Basically when a large company wants to fire you they often put you on a PIP first which specifies areas where you are underperforming and metrics for improvement and a timeframe where you have to demonstrate improvement. In practice it’s often just the first step in the firing process to cover HR and document everything.

So if the friend took issue with the claims being made in the PIP about underperformance, it makes sense that he wouldn’t want to sign it as-is.
A lot of people seem to have misjudged the clean energy transition. Here are the
International Energy Agency 'World Energy Outlook' projections and reality https://twitter.com/AukeHoekstra/status/866313289306963969/p...

It kind of fits with what Kurzweil bangs on about, about people thinking linearly and misjudging exponential growth. I hope this exponential continues as it would be a major plus for combating climate change. Here he is in 2011 saying solar will power the world around 2027. Which sounds a little optimistic. We shall see. https://bigthink.com/think-tank/ray-kurzweil-solar-will-powe...
Do you pay all the prices, then I don't know that it would be cheap. Do you not pay the ones you don't choose, then I'm not sure it's ethical.
The signature is used for follow up when a transaction is reported as fraudulent. It's never checked proactively.
Even Judges of the Court of Appeals don't read it: https://abovethelaw.com/2010/06/do-lawyers-actaully-read-boi...
I would presume it's people who were born in the PRC.
The transition to PowerPC only worked, as I recall, because Metrowerks wrote a compiler to handle the heavy lifting.
Well, maybe it's click baiting. But here goes the tag line of the article: "The NIH and the FBI are targeting ethnic Chinese scientists, including U.S. citizens, searching for a cancer cure."
D can be binary, in which case the model predicts two alternative outcomes for the log-odds. The linear part is shifted by beta, whenever D=1.

As for your second point, there is no prior reason in this case why a linear function of D would be a good approximation. Indeed in the current case, we would probably prefer to at least write
beta1D+beta2D^2+beta0
which is still linear in a transformation of D.

That being said, however, there is a notion on why a linear function may be a good approach.
If you are interested in the direction of change around the averages values of the variables involved, then a linear function gives you such a "linear approximation" of the slope. This of course quickly breaks down if the function is not really linear, and in particular, it breaks down if you are interested in predicting an observation that is not "average".
But often, one may be interested in such very qualitative statements as: on average, the coffee is improved by fresher beans - yes or no?
In that case, such a linear model may give an answer.

Note that the above is absolutely not formally correct.

Finally, logistic regression can also be motivated differently.

- It arises from minimizing certain entropy losses in Machine Learning

- One may assume that the binary variable we observe is really just based on a "latent" variable (here something like coffee quality), which is determined by such a linear model

- finally, in economics and reinforcement learning, we assume agents make one decision (here whether the coffee is good or bad) by judging the inputs plus some random "error" or "taste" parameter which is has extrem value distribution. Since only the differences between these utilities matter (cf. odd ratios), and the actual values are meaningless, the logistic regression also arises.
In Iceland they also eat the heads, it's a local delicacy, I would caution against it.
It looks a bit like BASIC. Interesting choice to have goto statements.
Single-use plastics are a much larger problem. Compare how many food wrappers you might see in the park vs Lego bricks.
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Deepfakes.
We used Z a lot when dealing with modular arithmetic and complex roots of unity, mostly just to quantify our variables. I can't recall ever using N or Q in high school, though.

Also, you don't need to mention Dedekind cuts at all when dealing with R - it can be defined by the fact that it's the smallest extension of Q that's closed under limit-taking (and I think most high school math students do understand that).
Please don't be personally rude on HN. Your comment would be fine with just the second sentence.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You realize Americans joke about 9/11 on the internet all the time, right? You can go to YouTube right now and find 9/11 meme compilations. Point aside, "we should come let them do it again" is a radically different statement than "I'm going to do what they did". The former is a complaint; the latter is a threat.
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