skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the end of the day, the only aspect of what we do that is really anything like Palantir is that we build a search index, using Lucene. That's it, an inverted text index. There really is no meaningful way to know that the data being put in is PII, or to regulate how the orgs that use it, do so. And even if we did put in any such safeguard, all our stuff is Open Source, meaning anybody could rebuild it without the safeguard, and we'd be none the wiser.

The differences between us and Palantir then:

1. We don't pitch our software to intelligence agencies, law enforcement, etc., or encourage it's use for these kinds of ends. But we can't specifically block those uses, or we'd be in violation of the OSD.

2. We've been very public with our unwillingness to embrace working with intelligence agencies and the like. See, for example: https://www.wraltechwire.com/2014/04/30/why-a-triangle-tech-...

3. Everything we do is Open Source, meaning that at least the public can take a look inside and see what's going on... modulo any changes a given end user organization makes and keeps private.

4. Our technology is positioned primarily for internal knowledge management / collaboration use inside organizations. But, again, we have no means, legal or technical, to stop somebody from using it for other purposes. And even if we did, they could just download Lucene, ManifoldCF, blah, blah, etc., and build up their own Nefarious Indexing System.

But I understand that it can be hard to see certain things when your income depends on you not seeing them.

There is nothing in this regard that we "don't see". Taking your argument to it's logical conclusion, even a worker mining sand somewhere, to use to fabricate silicon chips, which can be used to power computers, which can be used to run privacy violating software, is "guilty". I don't think I need to point out the absurdity of that position. Furthermore, if we really just cared about "get all the money at any cost" we would have immediately jumped at a chance to talk to In-Q-Tel and the possibility of juicy, rich contracts supplying the CIA and their brethren with technology.
Between Gimp, Inkscape and Krita, what are the things not covered in this domain?
Where Are All the Bob Ross Paintings? We Found Them
> They use apps on their Linux phones

Somehow I doubt Android is what Linux Desktop evangelists imagined. At best this is moving the goal posts significantly.

> or happily use any OS that runs a browser since everything is web based today.

Apparently that doesn't include Linux, despite it being free, not having invasive telemetry, and not having ads in the application launcher.

> Oh and for gaming there is consoles of course, which crushes the PC gaming market in pretty much any discipline.

And yet Steam is a ridiculously huge money maker and people are buying more PC games than ever.

> The only people remaining dependent on desktops (or laptops) will be office workers

Incorrect, but let's entertain your fantasies anyway.

> I'm pretty sure they don't care about DirectX so much, so replacing those with Linux seems very doable

Then why hasn't it happened? You think companies like paying licensing fees to Microsoft?

Consider that there are good reasons people do not use Linux Desktop instead of just assuming they're all idiots.
Reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDb_WsAt_Z0, which, to me, still feels exaggerated, but that’s probably because of the bombardment of examples.
The usual out of hand Excel file has a completely different size from the usual out of hand codebase.
TechShop had the sense to use only SawStop saws.
How long do you think a major OS should have 32 bit support? Everything cant be supported forever.
I'm a paying subscriber too, but I'm cancelling this after those responses...
1) I think if you re-read my comment you'll notice that the issue with the US policy isn't loose borders, it's unethical treatment of people who make it _past_ the border.

2) Mexico's deportations are just as unethical as the US ones.
> Is there anyone Oracle won't sue?

Sure. Anyone who is not interacting with Oracle, provided they have sufficiently few resources.
Forget Sinclair. This is NPR and they put a line like that in their piece which makes it sound as if the public is speaking with a majority or unanimous voice on this.

And this line is classic crime reporter editorializing.

> The county attorney is no longer charging people for possession of small amounts of drugs — even heroin and meth

Which totally 'begs the question' that somehow carrying these drugs is uniquely bad. Why NPR? Why is heroin uniquely worth calling out in your reporting. Your Victorian values letting the gin drinkers get to you? Too bad they can't afford champagne.
What's with downvoting on HN? The guy just copied full text of the article for convenience of your reading but he gets a downvote? Stop being such assholes
Zhedong Zheng works at the University of Technology Sydney, Xiaodong Yang works at at NVIDIA Research, Santa Clara, CA. So you are in fact absolutely right, that they work in countries, Australia and the USA, that as members of the five eyes are involved in illegal mass surveillance. But I’m sure you don’t want to imply that anyone in these 2 countries working for any company is writing software solely with the intention of having it used for mass surveillance.
I know you need to log in, I meant to ask what necessitated such an overkill password for a mere Netflix account.
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>IBM's relationship with the Third Reich was not based on the mere supply of typewriters; such a suggestion reduces your credibility on this topic to zero.

"Punchcards can be turned to evil."

The specific type of dual-use technology is irrelevant to my point.
also in Java.
Out of curiosity, how would you have preferred to see a shard unable to accept writes? I think in both post-mortems, you would see comparable graphs - usage and then a drop in usage. I think it's easier to document a failed regex versus "here's our cluster architecture that we've been using for 3 months".

Also, does your company's engineering decisions change based on other companies' post-mortems?
> Oh and for gaming there is consoles of course, which crushes the PC gaming market in pretty much any discipline.

You're obviously not a PC gamer. The question of console vs PC is still widely debated, with no clear winner. At least to me, they both have their own uses. There are things that are much better on a console than a PC, and vice versa.
From my other comment:

I see people talking about ad farming - but this seems like for whatever reason IE was opened - and it's default home page is MSN, which has ads.

Where are you getting ad farming from?
You are discounting a very very large professional worker segment that relies of domain specific tools. We need more than a netbook with a browser. For e.g. In pharma, we wouldn't get any work done if we didn't use Windows. All of our software requires windows - analysis software, control software, automation software etc, etc. In our labs we're using software made for Windows XP on Windows 10, because it just works, and buying the newer version would cost thousands of dollars. If we were an architecture company we'd buy autocad or whatever, or if we were an accounting firm, we'd buy quickbooks or quicken, etc, etc.
Multilingual Universal Sentence Encoder for Semantic Retrieval
There is a difference between what was then and what is today. The key difference is that the "serverless" term is massively overloaded here and once you dissect it you will see that it's a mix of multiple serverlessly managed services that we are able to take advantage of: Kinesis, DynamoDB streams, Kinesis Firehose, SNS, Lambda, Cloudwatch, and GraphQL/AppSync. Serverless computing came a long way.
> Executives at other scooter firms caution that Bird likely has difficulty knowing the full extent of its potential insurance costs in the four-week sample it used because of larger claims that could come later. But Bird executives have told people that scooters see fewer at-fault collisions than in ride-hailing.

That seems like a highly misleading comparison. They're comparing Uber/Lyft contractors with Bird customers here.
It's a really good article that explains why the author doesn't support trickle-down economy and support "middle-out" economy, which relies on strong middle class.
An example I found enlightening is the diminish effect of wealth on purchasing power. "If you are 1000 times richer than the average American, and an average American buys 1 pant a year, you are not gonna buy 1000 pants."

I am sold to this idea.
Bird scooters is a completely unviable business. It lacks revenues during the rain and winter and when it's dark. One user using it for an hour completely drains the battery and it's unusable until someone picks it up and charges it. It needs to be redistributed every night to popular locations which causes even more cost. As well, damage to electric scooters is almost at a sport-like level now.

The only way they can make it more cost beneficial is if they charge less if the rider drops off their scooters at a charging station and higher costs if they just dump the scooter anywhere. But that is more costs for Bird.

Second is if they franchise out the business to "entrepreneurs" that handle things for them and they just concentrate on the app. But that's not a multi-billion dollar business.

There is no path where Bird becomes a viable business that grows into its absurd valuation.
”It's hard to do it correctly if your native tongue is not slavic.”

I guess it’s also hard to hear whether somebody pronunciates it correctly if your native tongue isn’t Slavic.
At the same time, a lot of those safety features are enforced by the governments of the people they're manufactured for. Depending on the country you buy a vehicle in, it may have more or fewer security features.

Of course, for cars, safety is a marketable feature so it behooves them to make them somewhat safe. In this instance, it seems like these precautions are against the user's interests, which complicates things.
Blatant copyright infringement?

If you don't like the paywall, fine. Find another source to link to. Or go out and do some research yourself and write an article.
"less ads" for $99 [1] isn't a great value proposition to me.

[1] https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/upgrade-windows-10-pro/
Gaming streaming is going to muddy that further. It won't replace consoles or pcs for gaming, but it will definitely create a third market for people with decent internet connections.
I'm going through Epstein's book now and with basketball and other team sports, I feel that he is correct. The late bloomers stand a better chance than the early specalizers.

Epstein makes the point that the world need both types of people, but that early specalizers are a little too 'en vogue' right now. He points out that in games like golf and chess, where the objectives and next steps are very clear and where the information in the activity is minimally hidden, being an early specalizer is a good thing to bet on. In other games and sports like tennis and poker, where the objectives and next steps are not clear and where information is hidden and not accessible, then going through a sampling period and then deciding is a better method. Obviously the world is mix of those things among many others.

In basketball, I'd argue that the sport is not clear and the information is hidden. Practicing shots is essential, but the inter-person play and the mental gamesmenship is a feature of the sport. It's the bluffing, the flopping, the timming, the brinksmanship that make elite basketball a great sport to watch. Information about specific plays is hidden, the next move to make is about juking and fooling people, and the team aspect makes coordinating many high level players nearly impossible. As such, players that have a lot of other experience besides just shooting field goals really well, will do better. You still have to be very good at basketball, of course. But trying out a few sports, cross-training not just the body but also the mind, and developing other neural pathways is essential for elite players.
A canonical starting point is the Bredies-Holler work on TGV-based decompression (a significant improvement over the TV model, that cannot correctly address block artifacts).

Look at the two-part article from 2015 here:

https://imsc.uni-graz.at/bredies/publications_de.html
Why not? We live in a world where the latest processor from Intel still boots into 16 bit real mode, and we have emulators and virtual machines.
Should people also not downvote links to other copyrighted media such as movies and music that the publisher has not authorized?
For anyone curious like me, the standard editions are 139~199$ for the license, 501~6155$ for the server editions.

So the price to not get ads every update is 300$ I guess.
China is working to escape middle income trap, their goal is to shift into higher paying domestic consumption + services which means inevitably shifting manufacturing out of the country. They are already experiencing labor shortages due to high wage, and combined with efforts to reduce pollution the government and business owner interest are aligned. Keep in mind most of the factories Chinese owned, they have incentive to offshore their business to where labor is cheap, currently that's in adjacent ASEAN countries that's relatively close to Chinese logistics chain.

As for Africa, they're already paying for the infrastructure, if resources is near by, it makes sense to consolidate manufacturing. And geopolitical it's preferable to boosting the development of India, an immediate regional competitor. Also Africa is fragmented and easier to negotiate with, have similar demographics to India (lots of young), more willing to learn mandarin. Alternatively, we're not even sure if massive manufacturing nations are viable with automation. Regardless there's
As someone living in Los Angeles, I used to take a Bird all the time because there was always one nearby when I had to go somewhere. However in the last two months, this has dramatically changed. Now the closest scooter is on average a 10m walk, which really takes away the convenience.
I'm not the only person in my neighborhood that are not talking about buying either a scooter or an e-Bike.

It seems if they can't get their fleet numbers higher, that they risk customers going the buying route, especially when the costs of scooters has gone down over time.
Shopify as a platform isn't that slow. Much of what caused the performance issue on their site is due to scripts and apps that they install that slow down the storefront and don't adhere to best practices when it comes to page speed and loading assets/JS.

Taking a quick glance, it looks like Privy and Zendesk/Zopim are the main culprits. That can be easily fixed - just don't use those apps or find alternatives that don't slow down your site.
Interesting twist: those owners also lost a heap of money with Madoff!
@shipilev Dear God, @danluu posted this at HackerNews, and now I have
people blowing this out of proportion and/or implying I should feel
bad about "misconfiguration". Jeez, it is at-home build node, not
the enterprise build farm. Most of the time I'm surprised it works
without problems :D

Tweets don't make great HN content. They're not fully-formed articles, they don't provide context, they miss critical information, and people always over-react to them.
Behold, the Millennial Nuns
Between 16 and 18% of preadolescents have ideas of suicide, finds a new study
Correction: Hey everybody! Jay from The Information here. We are testing out unlocking articles for HN readers as we are big fans. Here's this article unlocked! https://www.theinformation.com/articles/hit-by-big-loss-bird...
Golang's regexp is derived from RE2, referenced in footnote four of the post.
Haven't heard of this until today.

Does anyone know what happens to the yearly payouts if Bobby dies between now and the last scheduled payment? Does it go to his beneficiaries until the 25 years runs its course or does the contract terminate on the year he dies?
From what I could tell, iPads are the only tablets still going strong and getting even better. It’s Google who threw in the towel on tablets.

See the recently revealed iPadOS: https://www.apple.com/ipados/ipados-preview/
>Lightweight virtualization is a natural fit for low power devices

No it's not. The pi is punchy enough for it sure, but the above doesn't follow in my mind. Low power = limited resources so ideally you want it run on bare metal to minimise overheads
Agree that serverless is a buzzword here, just as data science and machine learning have now become. It is about taming greater complexity at lower cost, and at increasingly more granular levels.
If I understand your question correctly, the answer is that there are a fixed number of native types supported by Python and NumPy, all of which correspond naturally to Julia types and are converted bidirectionally by PyCall. Julia and NumPy arrays are memory-compatible and Julia knows how to handle arrays with memory allocated by other systems, so conversion back and forth between Julia arrays and NumPy arrays is zero-copy. Other types like Python dicts are proxied in Julia as special types that Julia knows how to work with as dictionaries (user-defined data types are common in Julia), while general Python objects are just proxied transparently and `obj.method` calls are passed through to the embedded Python runtime. You can even define a function object `f` in Python and call it using `f()` syntax in Julia and vice versa. It's all highly transparent and smooth.
Lost revenue seems like a combination of bad weather seasons as well as cities outright banning the devices at times. We re-introduced them back to Portland just a couple months ago and Bird doesn't have nearly as big of a presence this time around. But ultimately, scooters seem like the ideal ride in the summer and not in the rainy, cold, dark winter. I'm not gonna ride one in those conditions at least.
My church has tons of social offerings with tons of attendance. Men's groups, women's groups, teen groups. I recently went hunting with some men from my church for an entire weekend. A couple of weekends later, my wife went with the women on their retreat.

The issue is that most churches today in America are more or less social clubs. Christianity takes a back seat to less important things. Hence the mega churches in my area bleeding members in favor of small churches that focus on the Gospel, but yet do offer things for families.
I keep all my .fit files uploaded to Google Drive. So I do use the cloud stuff but it seems unlikely (barring a disaster) that it'll go away anytime soon. If it does I can simply upload them to another cloud file storage service.

When I joined Strava (8 years ago... wow time moves fast) I immediately realized it's not the best place to use as main storage of your fitness activities. Not just because it might just "go away" at any time (and back then they didn't have any clear monetization plan, not that it's much better now) but because it didn't seem to provide a mechanism to bulk upload/download the original .fit files. You uploaded a .fit file but then downloaded some other format (.gpx I believe?). That made it clear it's not a good place for archiving/storage. Since .fit files are really small, even using something like Google Drive's 5GB free tier should be plenty for many years of fitness activity storage.
There is a real cost to supporting old architectures and associated risk in telling users they can run production workloads on them.
Libssh2 integer overflows and an out-of-bounds read (CVE-2019-13115)
I have a hard time understanding why investors like these types of companies? Is there even a profitable example? Maybe they can still make lots of money from an IPO... how are they difficult from scammers?
to boot they are facilitating the hostile usability of urban areas for pedestrians now terrorised by idiots on these.
You may want to add to your HN profile that you're a writer for The Information; when I saw that link yesterday I thought it was spam.
Please don't post in the flamewar style to Hacker News. We're trying for something a bit better than internet-usual here, and I'm sure you can make your substantive points without it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Plots.jl seems to be the most popular plotting package these days: https://github.com/JuliaPlots/Plots.jl
Is this legal? Ethical? I think neither. The author and publisher want people to pay to read it. In fact the article wouldn't even exist without those payments. I'd rather not infringe on their copyright and intent. Maybe that means the link shouldn't be listed here on HN.
> Students did just generally sit there until they were told to move.

In my dorm, the fire alarm reliably went off every week or so. Always a false alarm, so we ended up just ignoring it most of the time.

There was even one day where we were eventually told the wiring got messed up from the cold, and it went off several times in a few hours.
Reddit user wrote a custom point-of-sale system for small restaurant
I've been doing Excel and VBA work for my internship this summer, and I have to say, I have an immense amount of respect for the engineers behind Excel. Excel is incredibly extensible, it has very nice built-in error handling for mangled data (but horrible exception handling in VBA), and overall it is simply a joy working with it.

Sure, it has some pain points, but for my use case (financial analysis), it complements Bloomberg very well. Bloomberg's Excel add-in is very well-engineered, and there is even a way to hook into Bloomberg through VBA. Cheers to the MSFT devs who crafted this stuff.
I have a lot of the same dramas... but then my Windows computer and ecosystem has so many equivalents (in terms of frustration and lost time, more than specifics) that frankly I’m exhausted with computing in general at this point.

Question: what enclosure did you get? I’m thinking of getting the Razer Core X myself, for an AMD card for bootcamp and macOS
Seems like that is a link to a Tesla article?
I'm not being sarcastic at all. In particular, during the Age of Mass Migration, it was very common for the oldest son who was to inherit the land because of primogeniture to stay home and for his landless young brothers to go try their luck in the New World.
In the start menu. It could be that there are different definitions of ads. But on my windows system I get ads for games and other applications that they want me to install. I think they even install some of them like candy crush without asking me first (I disabled this in registry). Figured companies pay microsoft to promote their apps.
You can still use emulators on macOS Catalina (the version that drops 32-bit support.)
> because hollywood would never tell a tale that shows the founding fathers as being pro-slavery.

Sounds like a good subject for Tarantino. He could probably secure funding as well.
I was under the impression "Gotham" is the name of their NYC office, not a product.
I think you are missing the point of the comparison. Nobody says that JPEG images like this are common.

The point is rather that you could make a passable image of this bitrate using the better codec. It opens up a new level of compression not possible with JPEG.

If you downsampled the JPEG enough to get the same bitrate without blocking artifacts, it would look like a blurry smear, which is better than a bunch of 8x8 flat blocks but not that much better.

Maybe it would be worth including an additional JPEG downsampled-compressed-decompressed-upsampled view. You’d be able to see that jumping through those hoops doesn’t really give satisfactory results.
I believe the results are for augmenting training data, not for humans to look at.
Did you start experiencing the random auto double click bug on your logitech yet?
No need to tarnish this discussion with disgusting racial paranoia
That seemed obvious to everyone though so how did they ever get valued so highly? Is the whole point of companies like this to fool investors into giving them money and then keep the sham up for as long as possible?