skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem was stated in Felker's response: "...corporate development teams are uniquely qualified to utterly
botch a libc, yet still push it into widespread use..."

This can come innocently as well. For a simple non-code example: google has a code style guide. For C++ it says "don't use exceptions" and even (or used to?) explains that the writers consider exceptions to be a good thing but they have enough legacy / third party code base that doesn't use them that they can't switch. Lots of people use the google style guide because it exists, rather than write one themselves, or rather than spend time hashing one out. So they end up shackling themselves to a constraint entirely resulting from an environment they are not in.

I see this indirectly in your own comment, where you casually referred to gRPC or protobufs as "fundamental piece[s] of architecture". Well they aren't standards, they are technologies that google likes. Protobufs is a perfect example of a technology in, well not widespread use, but is used by a bunch of projects, and as discussed elsewhere contains a number of decisions that reflect the google environment, probably not resulting in a great fit for a number of places where it is used.

There's nothing malign in that; the whole point of writing code is to meet your needs. But when you're an 800 pound gorilla, don't presume your every step is what everyone else needs. They are what you need and without proactive effort may not help many others....but can crowd out what could.
I’d argue part of the cost of healthcare should be educating and training doctors. So there is control over number of doctors. Best way to reduce their salaries is increasing supply.
Not so sure. For HN moderation, dang will usually stop by with a reprimand.

A lot of HN users at Google. Wouldn't be surprised if this were a case of a few Google employees being posted on HN duty to flag the crap out of this topic.

I can be kind of a dick sometimes, and dang will get on to me for it, but the harshest HN takedown I've ever received was not from dang, but from Mozilla employees--for casting aspersions about their organization's independence when it receives the bulk of its funding from Google.
Or what must also be considered: Personal choice in doing something irresponsible. Alcohol is clearly a mental and physical destructive force when abused, and is probably worse for you than nicotine addiction. E-Cigarettes are bad, but not nearly so as cigarettes.

This is just truly absurd. For some reason I thought maybe it meant the use of vapes indoors or something similar, but the entire sale? Fucking overbearing politicians. This kind of hypocritical action makes progressives look bad.
You could have refused to pay and offered them the original price or threatened to sue which you can do without benefit of a lawyer. The act of litigating it would almost certainly be higher than any differential.
Your response to a list of evidence was to attack lists of evidence and then provide your own straw man list of evidence to then argue against?
He's Verizon's waterboy stooge from their legal department. The fox has no business guarding the henhouse while shafting We The People.
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I mean, you could look at Google, Yahoo, SnapChat, VMWare, Sun, and Cisco as "interesting software invented at Stanford".
Not to mention TAOCP and TeX. Only difference is that Stanford alums tend to get rich off their inventions because they don't bother to share the source code (usually; Knuth is an exception) while Berkeley & MIT have more of a history of public-domain contributions.
And then, of course, there's the time when Pepsi almost had an air force, albeit briefly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_v._Pepsico,_Inc.
I doubt I can find something to cite - it's an observation that I didn't think was particularly questionable. We have researchers like OpenAI trying to move towards AGI by advancing RL through specific applications. Others like OpenWorm are trying to mimic the building blocks of life. Of course biology inspires all AI, but given the nascent state of AGI, it seems like you have to choose between those two approaches.

And if we're being pedantic, can you cite your claim that there "is widespread consensus that embodiment is significant for AGI"? I find it hard to believe that there is widespread consensus about anything around AGI.
Living in New York, I see littered Juul cartridges constantly- on the sidewalks, in windowsills, crushed in the street- and I get sprayed with other people's second-hand vaping while walking to work at least as often as with cigarette smoke. As a bystander, I'm hard-pressed to find E-Cigs any less irritating than ordinary smoking.
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Just to clarify: the question regarding LFSRs is not in how to implement them (which I think was described adequately), but how to determine what their orbit is upon repeated application, and how to choose one that generates a complete permutation when this is done. And furthermore, how was the particular one used in Wolf3D found. Was 100% Psyched to hear how the screen could be efficiently cleared pixel-by-pixel seemingly at random, but ultimately was left in the dark on this specific question.
Is Waymo not driving fully autonomous in Phoenix still?

Edit: It looks like they aren't [1]

1: https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/7/18536003/waymo-lyft-self-d...
That and they market the hell out of the car, cutting out middle men where possible. The aren't burdened by the dealership model and have been very protective of their brand. It's not like electric cars weren't made by the large auto makers, they just weren't willing to spend as much as Tesla has to feet to profitability. When Toyota made the Prius they went all in, now the Prius tech is in many of they're other cars. American manufacturers doubled down on bigger, higher polluting trucks and SUVs that all look the same and haven't had innovation in years.
As someone who generally finds "couple million rows? Sqlite is fine" works as a philosophy, what generally should I know here?

I get that there are huge timeseries based data flows going round the world (transactions, metrics, weather, self driving telemetry) and sticking those into something is useful.

I understood the world has settled on "use hdfs to store the data, use apache spark to run over those files and reduce your query data set till it is small enough to fit into pandas and then process"

This looks like it is trying to cut out the first two step?
It may be a bad actor in the sense of an aggressive tech giant employing unconventional means to make profit and take market share. But there is zero evidence in the wiki that Huawei is a national security threat. The only evidence it's a national security threat is that it is a Chinese company.
Also, it is a joke that crypto will not have inflation.

The government will always require taxes and utilities to be paid in their currency. So, every one will need to sell cryptos to fulfill those electricity bills and taxes. This sell pressure will carry on a inflation into cryptos.
I don't disagree, but side-channel attacks have shown that hardware security isn't guaranteed and, maybe more importantly, there are unbelievably painful to patch.
What's your definition of pressure? I'm under the assumption you attach it to anything. Also I'm offended.
No, it's not. Conservative corporate policies desire restoration of a regressive, apartheid theocracy... think Clarence Thomas and Scalia.
Ask HN: Why Doesn't Google Block Backlink Services?
If you search "backlink services" in Google, there's many results of companies which simply create links to your website for SEO ranking purposes.

Why would Google recognise the backlinks that these services provide? They seem like an abuse of the ranking algorithm...
it's not 51% of the nodes, it's 51% of the hashing power together with following the agreed upon rules of the network
It isn't, really. That the entire point. Just repeating that it is without actually making a _science_ based argument is plain silly. If you inject yourself with non-sterile material, there is an extremely high chance you will now die from two things (or more), instead of just one. Depending on the organism, an untrained person attempting to grow bacteria outside of a lab might create an even bigger problem, for e.g. if they improperly dispose of it, the organism (or other metabolites/proteins/etc) could leech into the soil and cause further damage, or worse.. contaminate the water supply. Heck the city won't even let you install a sprinkler without making sure you're not sending the water back into the supply. And you guys are thinking about growing bacteria at home. I don't think I can make my case any clearer. This is a terrible idea. But OK, you do you...
I can think of at least one person.
Doesn't work with my Anker USB-C to USB-C Apparently because the GoPro is USB 3.0 not 3.1? I'm not sure. Can you link me to what cable you're using?
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Don't believe the hype. Lack of empathy is a huge handicap in life. People who are unable to imagine things from the perspective of others are often unable to correctly interpret or anticipate others' actions and responses. Managers with low EQ tend to not go very far.
New Apple products simply use the company's name followed by the generic name for the product. So, Apple Watch, Apple TV, Apple Pay, etc. Makes it almost impossible for another company to squat on a future product name
Depends. I have seen great gif tutorials and I have seen terrible. Definitely mostly bad ones but they can have their niche, it should probably just not be the default go to. One exception seems to be GitHub where you can't actually host a video.
Very good point. At least you can feel the pushback against that in the industry. It's a fraught time, but the AI community feels extremely proactive.

It is however an uphill battle when these 80% systems offer such immediate gains. We really need governments to be informed and active.
> I think it's just Facebook's way of ensuring consumer confidence that a Libra is actually worth something, and the most proven way to peg a stablecoin to a value.

Or even just to have people use it.

I can’t afford to hold crypto right now because I don’t have any savings, only debt.

But if there was a crypto that had a stable price and which was accepted by merchants, and I perceived it as trustworthy I’d use it for my purchases instead of using a credit card or debit card.

Libra is not going to be it for me because I don’t trust Facebook and I don’t want them to have any involvement over my money. But I will admit that it has potential for a lot of the Facebook userbase to start using it.
It is definitely a huge step forward for time series data collection at scale, great props to the authors.

With M3TSZ vs vanilla TSZ the major difference is that instead of XORing the value component of each datapoint it is determined if the precision of the float value is within a few significant digits and if so, it is turned into an int representation with delta-of-delta of the int value from value to value used to represent the different changes in value rather than just XORing the float bits. Also tracking how many significant digits and dampening the need to encode a change in that from value to value is also performed.

We should write up the specific algorithm differences for the value component encoding.

You can see the relative code here in "writeIntVal":
https://github.com/m3db/m3/blob/b25e111aab06fb7cde9f7e1be8b6...
Can you show that it is an outlier for a law to not require warnings to be given?

No, my initial comment on this issue was in reply to someone that said "I expect there would have been a warning given in that case before assessing a fine." [1]. This is an oft-repeated and entirely baseless sentiment that HN's resident GDPR defenders love to cite - it shows up in every one of these threads. That is why I was making it clear that in fact no warnings are required, and indeed as time goes on, few warnings are likely to be given.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20279385
I have fairly pronounced trypophobia too. I was under the impression that the leading theory is an evolutionary one; that certain burrowing insects will lay eggs in the skin causing a pattern of holes and that our brains have been trained to read this and other parasites. Yours is certainly interesting, though anecdotally I can look at a very regular pattern of holes and not feel the effect. It only really "bugs" me with more irregular, organic patterns.
If you have time to share the differences, I'm curious
The USB-C thing is a nightmare because you can’t extend Thunderbolt and every Thunderbolt accessory comes with some arbitrary length someone decided (usually about 20cm) that barely allows you to reorient the device next to the laptop where your hand is supposed to be.

There literally exists no male to female thunderbolt extenders in the usb-c form factor. I tried buying a non Intel approved one and hesitantly, after weighing the risks of even plugging it in, found it would power the Thunderbolt device but couldn’t move data.

(For the information of the reader, Thunderbolt exists above USB-C and USB-C connectors lack Thunderbolt data pins and hence downgrade Thunderbolt back to just regular USB-C)
You don't get it maybe because you don't have kids. e-cigarettes have a different appeal than smoking. Cigarettes are what your parents did and its not cool at all. Vaping with all the different flavors and drugs you can inhale, is all the rage. Its very hard to for schools to control because there is no real smoke and can be hidden easily. I have kids in high school and middle school and they both report lots of vaping on the bus and campus. They don't see anyone smoking cigarettes. SF cracks down on a problem. Makes perfect sense.
> the smoke is far less offensive

Because of this belief by vapers, in my experience they tend to be more indiscriminate about where they puff and exhale...the end result is far more exposure to second-hand vape than second hand cigarette smoke.
I can find a few non-bottom dollars on this page; P.A. Semi and Anobit as examples.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisit...
There is so much truth in what Justin Kan said. A CEO at an early stage startup has to worry about so many things and each worry feels arising from a different unconnected problem. But this article boils down the most common causes of it. I would bookmark it and read it often as a reminder.
Six Flags' and Disney gets away with charging absurd ticket prices since parents will pony up because their kids will manipulate them into it. Especially if "all the other kids" are going or there is a school field trip. Most parents these days are too busy and too soft to disappoint.

And then there's concessions (IKEA and Costco do it).

Shopping as entertainment adventure rather than pushing a shopping cart down aisles of loud marketing boxes floor-to-ceiling.

And, they need to work with apps and games publishers to have the next Cabbage Patch or Transformers not just in iPhone-like limited supply, but as a whole launch event.
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You attempted to make the same point twice. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20281985 for my response to the first iteration of it.
The employees are all machine learning engineers with a focus on autonomous vehicles (aka, the current hot shit in machine learning), which means they're probably all making $300k+ per year at the low end. They'll be fine.
I’m not sure about this. This kind of integration test would almost certainly be performed in a closed course (parking lot / garage).
What part of the Constitution covers medical billing? Doctors can get tort protection but patients can't get billing protection? Wages have been set by the U.S. government before so I'm not sure you could argue that, and there's no personal expression protection with accepting insurance. I'm really unsure of where this could possibly become Constitutional other than the right to life.
Not being British I don't really have a skin in the game, but thinking about how well things have been going lately over there with the "serious" people, I wonder maybe it's time to question the value of their seriousness. If you're very serious total failure, then the seriousness helps no one.
a, b, and c are generic types. You need to supply an implementation of f that doesn't know anything about a, b, or c. How many such implementations are there? Can you supply at least two, both of which finish running in a finite amount of time and neither of which produces any error?
I disagree with your comparison of fruity e-cigs to candy versions of tobacco products.

One is a 18+ only product (or 21+ in California) the other is in candy stores kids frequent and purchase. One is heavily restricted on advertising ESPECIALLY to youth, the other isn't (or wasn't, I don't know the current rules of big league chew).

Fruity e-cigs are made for adults, purchased by adults, advertised to adults, and are illegally obtained by teens. Candy cigerettes, and big league chew is made for kids, purchasable by kids, advertised to kids, all hoping to later get them addicted to the products they actually represent.
Somewhat tangential, but I hope someday we can move more towards having stocks trade regularly but not on microsecond timescales. All of the fragmented liquidity being exploited by HFT is not a net economic gain. The exchanges already have an auction process to set opening and closing prices. Just run the same auction process every 10 minutes allowing liquidity to pool.
In case anyone isn't familiar with these cookies...they are ridiculously good cookies.

They are useful for impressing people but they are dangerous. If you give them to people they will expect more. You will forever be the chocolate chip cookie person.
Show HN: Write rust in off-side syntax (indent instead of braces like in Python)
Price controls force efficiency gains. If wages go up you don't stop paying your employee wages, you either train cheaper employees, find a way to get more work out of them, or find a better way to do it. The same applies to price controls.
All but maybe one of those looks like it was illegal prior to GDPR, so I'm not sure GDPR is what you're praising.
Yeah .. only real downsides are above:
* You have a certain number of Custom Objects you can use which cost $X
* There's a maximum total you can have (not to be exceeded)
* It's another thing to watch / maintain / document
* The land of custom objects and fields can get polluted so .. hopefully you have decent governance in place.
This does not sound like an optimistic move. It's long been established that the brick and mortar concept is becoming antiquated. People love to buy as many products in one place as possible. The more people rely on retailers like Amazon and Walmart, the more our ever increasing fast paced, automated society will adjust to this new way of shopping. Do you know how many Sunday's I've wasted hopping store to store only to find out they don't even have what I was looking for? Either it was only online or it was cheaper there anyway. Dying businesses like Toys r us can't keep up with the growing demand for every specific kind of niche item. I dont believe we live in the 90s where every kid wants legos. Culture is more decentralized now, interests are diverging. Some kids want anime figures, others want some crazy my little pony costume (I dont know what kids want). I obviously dont have kids but I think there will be an increasing awareness for online shopping to buy niche toys as opposed to mass marketed barbie dolls. Maybe I come off as crazy, but this at least seems to be happening with the adult age group. Having to buy yoga stretch equipment that isn't at Dick's Sporting Goods, or parts for a 2008 Camry.
Apple is a pretty incredible engineering organization. They regularly deploy software updates to a fleet of billions of devices, largely without issue. A few years ago they deployed a brand new file system to almost a billion devices, also largely without issues. They're probably one of the few non-automotive, non-aeropsace organizations that you'd want engineering cars.
From a google search, this is the first hit.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/17/18264283/huawei-security-...

Some quotes

"This may help to explain why Western governments broadly agree that Huawei poses security risks,..." Note the word "risks". A risk is something that may or may not happen.

Quote of CEO of OpenVPN

"The US is right to treat Huawei as a security threat, but I don’t believe any ban on any equipment is the right solution. No matter what equipment we use for 5G, there will be security risks." Again the word is "risks".
> Google has a pretty good corpus of code to test their libc on...

That is a good point, but I'm in no way disputing that Google could do a great job of creating their own libc. I would never be foolish enough to challenge the merit of Google's engineers, the proof of this is clear in the tasting of the pudding that is Google's software. My concerns lie in the open-source community becoming further beholden to Google, or even worse with Google dictating the direction of development on what could become a cornerstone of the architecture of many critical pieces of software.
Do internalized orders show up on "the tape"? I would think not.
You are a machine. Except you don't have 360 degree sensors or lidar.
Shazam is another, Apple removed Admob, Bolts, Doubleclick, FB Ads, FB Analytics, FB login, Inmobi, IAS, Moat, and Mopub from the app and continued to update it.
> humans wind up resenting the computer...

basis for this assertion?
In this scenario "userspace" refers to Google's code, and "breaking" it would be necessary to fix it for everyone else.
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That's the point, though: if a system is so fragile that anyone with knowledge of its inner workings can game it or otherwise exploit it, then it is not and was never secure (nor can it ever be while it continues to be opaque).

I say this enough to be a broken record, but transparency is a dependency of trust.
The vast majority of pure research has funding generated directly from government funds. Medical funding is roughly half from public funds. This wouldn't change with price controls. More profits don't lead to more research.
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This is the 2nd hit from a google search

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/us-huawei-ban-op-ed,news-30132....

"There seems to be something different about Huawei that makes the U.S. government regard the company as a global threat, but government officials need to explain why. Otherwise, without proof, the American government will be able to just ban any company it wants."