skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Corporations are terrible for many reasons.

- They have a monopolostic unfair advantage over some market which means that they can be very innefficient and still survive. They hinder real innovation.

- As stated in the article, they often pay little to no tax because of their accounting practices; they get all the legal benefits of being treated as an independent entity under the law but none of the costs.

- They are constantly lobbying politicians to change the laws to benefit them at the expense of tax payers.

- As a consequence of being well promoted on various stock markets, corporations tend to get a lot of easy money from investors; these investors include large 401k and superanuation funds which invest money into stocks without the knowledge of the regular working people whose salaries are paying for it. A lot of the new money which the Fed creates goes straight to corporations because of this.

- Corporations are also bad because they hurt free speech and they have the power to manipulate the elections by coercing their employees. The people who control corporations think in black and white and simplistic terms. They think they have all the answers to our socioeconomic problems. They don't understand that they are the problem. They don't understand that fairness is very difficult to achieve and that huge centralized power concentrated in the hands of a tiny number of financially incentivised decision makers opens up massive cracks (blind spots) in the system for the majority of people to fall through.

IMO, you cannot tax them enough. This is a great bold move by the French government. It's great to see a country in which democracy still works for the people.
As for happy endings etc., this have always been a mainstay of Hollywood. In the Hollywood satire "The Player" from 1992 it is actually a plot point how a script without a happy ending cannot get produced. (And that movie itself have an improbable tacked-on happy-end to drive the point home.)

For fun I looked up the term "Hollywood Ending" ("a film ending of a conventional type, characterized as sentimental, simplistic, or melodramatic, and often featuring an improbably positive outcome; frequently in extended use."). The first example of this usage is from...1929.

So not exactly a recent development.

As for every movie being a "super-hero martial arts movie." - well this genre is certainly big at the moment, but by far isnt the only type of movie. If you look at the most recent Oscar awards, you will see movies like Roma, Vice, The Favourite, BlacKkKlansman, Bohemian Rhapsody, Green Book. These are mainstream Hollywood movies (almost by definition, this is what the Oscars awards) but there is still a span of genres and narrative styles. I don't see this as notably more homogenized than any other year.

And despite the hand-wringing over superheroes, I would like to point out that the "Marcel Cinematic Universe" is actually a pretty original concept in itself. Never before have such a complex shared universe and storyline unfolded over so many coordinated movies. I don't know if this is particularly worse than bygone Hollywood fads like westerns, sword-and-sandal epics, musicals etc.

But if you don't like superheroes there is still plenty of movies to choose from, since the overall number of movies released is steadily growing.
Fantastic, thanks for your efforts and also for taking the time to reply.
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The Agile Manifesto

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan

There are many variations built on top of these, but without these it's not Agile.

https://agilemanifesto.org/

None of these things makes management easier, you still need a good manager to make a project work.

Nothing in the manifesto says you should ignore technical debt, that is simply a choice your manager has decided to make. Its not the fault of Agile.
Not sure what happened lately, Microsoft is having a stint of bad news as well! They must always remember that the faith now is hard earned through lots of good decisions and generosity.
Google Sheet can run function and macro written in Javascript. That is what I use.
the course is very, very good. it is based upon the book how to design programs.

as a small correction though, it really doesn't teach racket in terms of #lang racket. it uses a succession of teaching languages that are implemented as #lang languages in racket. however, you do pickup pieces of racket (basically racket used as just a scheme), some of the libraries/frameworks like 2htdp, and DrRacket, the ide.
Spreadsheets are awesome, and I think that another thing people are dismissing is grep, awk and friends.

I get it that both spreadsheets and unix tools might not be trendy, but they fulfill the Taco Bell Programming idea [1]; they provide simple, scalable, and efficient solutions.

Summing data from column B for each unique value in column A would be as easy as

`awk -F ',' '{a[$1] += $2} END{for (i in a) print i, a[i]}' my-input-file.csv'`

Sure, it would take a few tries to get right, but could for example R do something this concise and dynamic that can run in parallel?

[1] http://widgetsandshit.com/teddziuba/2010/10/taco-bell-progra...
It’s the world’s most successful reactive programming platform.
Although I don't like the idea of paying half a dozen companies monthly/yearly fees (Myfitnesspal, Evernote, BearApp, 1Password and several others), I am convinced that selling a lifetime license is not a sustainable business model for software companies. So I do pay them. And I am fine with that.

One of the alternative business models is ads and paying with my user data, and I neither like ads, nor do I want to pay with my data.
+1 I am using Keepass windows & Android versions on my 3 phones & one laptop. The desktop database is synced to Dropbox two way any changes. FolderSync app is used to get one way sync only from Dropbox to Phone.
the `src` folder seems to contain the reverse-engineered C code. Most of the assembly-only files left look to me like they are just describing data.
I don't believe in photos from space as well. When you think about it, the reproducibility of the scientific method seems to have been lost in modern times in favor of "nerd/black/wheelchair science man said so" TV shows. I much prefer the algorithmic proof of scientific claims, so that I can use my own tools and my own brain to confirm the result such as the sailing ship phenomenon and the geometry of the horizon. Anyone agree?
I didn't know LN was a real thing I could use. What app or whatever do I get for a wallet?

And what places or sites accept LN? Or it works with any btc transaction?
the interesting thing is that racket has evolved far beyond lisp and scheme.
If you have some ticket system where programmers can just take work, your team is breaking the first rule of Agile.

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.

A ticket system is a process. Individuals and interactions come first. Programmers talking to one another and being happy is more important than your task database in agile.
> Some places let you reset a password if you have the MFA.

I wasn’t aware of that - that’s horrifying but not surprising. Well, in that case, disable/remove MFA!

On that note, if an account requires “security questions”, consider using 1Password’s password generator, but set to 4 random words separated by spaces. That can help reduce the increased attack surface from fraudulent account recovery - use words to avoid someone saying “oh it’s just a bunch of gibberish” over the phone.
I wouldn't hang on every word of the agile manifesto. For example you don't have to google too much before you find people having debates over unit testing vs acceptance testing in the name of being "Agile" not giving to much attention to the "over processes and tools" part of the manifesto.
Nintendo freak out in 3, 2, 1...
https://inivation.com/buy/ ($3000-$6600 usd)

Unfortunately not quite at "buy to play around with" prices, but for the right application within the realm of affordable.

I work on underwater computer vision and would love one of these. Limited lighting = long exposure times. Motion blur can be mitegated by moving slowly, but then you have all sorts of lighting phenomena which makes not over/under saturating the image a real problem.
I'm curious why the hell is his name anglicised. It should be Tadeusz Kościuszko. In reverse it would be like writing Albert Einstein as Albert Ajsztain in Polish, because that's how it's pronounced. No one ever does this.
Only 2/3 of first rounders make the majors, and there are political reasons to give them a chance, so it's not obvious that 40% means anything. You're the one who decided he'd be a "third/fourth" rounder anyway. He was a 37th rounder out of high school because he had already declared for college. You keep calling him a high school prospect, but if he had played four years in college that's not what he would have been. Also his father was in the majors for a decade. Numerous major league players thought he was talented enough for the majors. If you're telling me that MVP voting is set up to exclude pitchers, fine, he wouldn't have been an MVP. That seems rather far from the point, which was "athletic talent exists and dominates specialized practice". He did play baseball through his sophomore year of college, and he did wait to specialize on football until his junior year.
wolf in sheep's clothing, the "new" microsoft.
Ask HN: Is the Tor Browser Developers GPG Key Attacked or Compromised?
When trying to download the Tor Browser Developers key to verify the download (as per https://support.torproject.org/tbb/how-to-verify-signature/), two working public key servers I know of return a 24.8 Megabyte file with over 26 million characters:

> https://keys.gnupg.net/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x4E2C6E8793298290

> https://pool.sks-keyservers.net/pks/lookup?search=0x4E2C6E8793298290&fingerprint=on&op=index

Surely this can't be right. In fact, I'm worried about even trying to import them into GPG. Has someone vandalized or otherwise broken the signing keys?
OneDrive now supports versioning of documents, and the latest Office 365 uses this to offer “autosave” and version history.

I’ve not really dug into the feature but it’s very visible on the latest builds.
Cultural background probably has a lot of influence on this.

Where I grew up (a small city in Eastern Europe) it would be unthinkable not to intervene in many cases (although some things like gang or drunk fights would be excluded). The mentality in a capital would be completely different. As people move their habits can significantly influence prior "general findings".
Can anyone recommend a good OSX, iOS, browser extension alternative password app? That can import 1Password. And is not a subscription model.
Wow. They recreated the source from the IDA output instructions. Holy shit.
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बिहानैदेखि देशका अधिकांश स्थानमा वर्षा, मौसमविद् भन्छन्,– सतर्क रहनू
>It's not an ordinary decompilation generated by IDA. They actually rewrote all the functions from reading MIPS assembly and compiled it with the original compiler, adjusting the code until it produced identical output to a vanilla ROM.

Reverse engineering a reproducible build is quite a bit more than "just" output.
Yeah can't post on 4chan without a VPN, should've used 8ch.
Yes and no. That command is easy to understand/use only if you know what all these symbols do but most excel functions are written in a way most people will understand them without major difficulties.

Grep, awk and friends are powerful (only) in the right hands but they are not at all at the same ballpark as excel.
I'm sorry I forget to mention the component is designed for desktop app only, I think a table component could be in a completely different look and interactions
Besides, I'm the only one right now to create and maintain the component, and so does the website, so I don't have enough time to polish the experience of the website on mobile
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The thing about finance trader types removing the F1 keys from their keyboards so they don't accidentally press 'help' while using Excel at high speed says a lot about how handy Excel is (and how slow the Help loads)
This. Debunked is the wrong word (clickbait). It's a great thing if the bystander effect can be overcome or nullified.
Things like job performance usually have a subjective component, so the training data will already have human bias built in without any intentional manipulation.
I tried gaming on Linux awhile back, my biggest problem was how spotty the nVidia drivers are. I realise nVidia is mostly to blame here, but it's definitely still a problem that's preventing me from ever really being able to game on Linux (Ubuntu.)

With a goal of 1440p@144hz, and someone who appreciates visual fidelity, I own an RTX 2080 Ti, and there's just far too much of a performance penalty for linux gaming.
1. Software stack wise, I'm currently bound to C++14, however general advice on "Modern C++" is welcome, of course.

2. Haven't know about that SE, thanks!
And yet this study took place in a capital city, a major urban centre and a country tow, but found no significant difference in the results between them. That's despite big differences in the local crime and violence rates (I expect Cape Town being the outlier).
Debunked = Clickbait.

Nullified or reversed is different than debunked.

Flat-earth theory is debunked. This is not even close to that.
Probably related to this:

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/07/05/openpgp-experts-...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/openpgp-flooded-with-spam-by-u...

I'm sure I read in that last day or two about software updates to mitigate against this, but I can't find anything now.

There is a 2 day old release of GnuPG available - which isn't described on their release notes page (yet?):

https://gnupg.org/download/index.html
We should also consider that if there's a larger crowd of bystanders, an individual will feel more sure that others will help them as long as they act. "Safety in numbers" so to say.
Are the surveillance cameras clearly visible and the bystanders are aware of them? I wonder if the bystanders would react differently if they weren't aware that they are being recorded. Another thing I wonder is if they refuse to help then maybe they think there'll be repercussions like being ostracized when the footage goes public.
As the guy on the other end who has to read the responses; it's not fun here either. Though, there's movement in the SaaS space that looks to solve a lot of this. Proper text input fields, automated yearly requests for update, audit logging and notifications (x party has responded, y party asks for clarification on question z, etc).

Expensive though, but enterprise solutions always are...
> a company might just raise their prices to pay for those taxes

Amazon will rise prices? That will be just wealth redistribution from rich through Amazon and taxes to poor who are going to buy local potatoes.
Ironically org mode in Emacs would be better in that respect :-)
Good but expensive product from a shitty company.
> From there, you can calculate literally anything, and transmit not only the results of those calculations, but the actual environment itself, to anyone in the world, and expect that if they have a computer, they can replicate your results.

...unless they use Excel in a different language than you, in which case it can't interpret the commands or sometimes even the syntax. Like with the german version of Excel which requires ; instead of , as separator for arguments, among other things. This alone makes me prefer pretty much everything else.
To be fair, (part of) the reason that affiliated baseball has 5000 players is the same as reason that the MLB draft has 40 rounds: the gap between high school / college baseball and MLB is incredibly greater than the one between college basketball and the NBA.

Power law phenomena in known skills at the long tail of a normal distribution are a red herring in this case; the much much bigger factor is uncertainty about the probability of developing skills years later (can a pitcher add a breaking ball that complements his fastball? will a hitter be able to track MLB curveballs thrown faster than 95% of the fastballs he's seen?). Draft position and prospect status are based on imperfect guesses at the shape of the very very very wide distribution of potential outcomes for an individual player with very little data to go on.

The MLB draft is what what the NBA draft would be if they had to select 9th graders based on their performance at HORSE with a kickball on a 9 foot rim and a dunk contest on an 8 foot rim.
No field of science made accurate predictions when it started. It took centuries of hard work to arrive at the levels of precision and accuracy that we take for granted in, say, physics or chemistry.

And psychology is attempting to study phenomena that are far more complex than anything in physics or chemistry. Being wrong or incomplete, doesn’t mean it’s not science.
They mention in the thread that the binary seemed to have been compiled without optimisation, which means it's a lot easier to translate back to source than most games would be.
I have 5 of these sitting in my office.

The quality of image (depth and rgb ) is staggering compared to everything else I've used (zed, realsense, kinect v2, and a couple of others).

They can be chained together for near microsecond timing accuracy.

The mic array is awesome.
The IMU is awesome.

But right now I've set them all back in their boxes.

Why? Because without being a vision specialist, there's nothing I can do with these devices.

The SDK and sample code is so incredibly bare bones, it is almost laughable.

There's no way to make use of those mics for anything. Its literally not in the SDK.

There's no way to make use of multiple devices in any practical manner. No point cloud merging, no calibration or shared space alignment.

Then there's the problem that buries deep in the SDK is a binary blob that is the depth engine. No source, no docs, just a black box.

Also, these cameras require a BIG gpu. Nothing is seemingly happening onboard. And you're at best limited to 2 kinects per usb3 controller.

All that said, I'm still a very happy early adopter and will continue checking in every month or two to see if they've filled in enough critical gaps for me to build on top of.

If any devs in Seattle want to collaborate (or know computer vision well enough to fill in some of these gaps for the OSS community) let me know :)
One possible solution is to block access to Microsoft IP ranges on your firewall:

$ whois -h whois.radb.net '!AS8075'

$ pfctl -t drophosts -T add <results>

Or on Linux:

$ for range in <results> ; do sudo iptables -A INPUT -s $range -j DROP ; done

Of course this will break a lot of Windows native system functionality, perhaps even Azure hosting, but this may not be an issue for someone just wishing to game in peace and privacy, unmolested by Microsoft telemetry.
I doubt that average Joe would know anything about bystander effect studies.
> Would that it were we all could avoid our financial obligations and paying our fair share long as we did so eventually while being called heroic.

Again, most countries - including most European countries - don't Levy taxes on foreign company earnings at all. If Google were not a US company, they wouldn't be taxed on any foreign earnings even without any kind of money parking abroad.
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The MLB draft has 40 rounds because there are over 5 thousand players in professional baseball...

This is more of that "wet streets cause rain" logic we hear about. Baseball has 57 different minor leagues with 1253 minor teams because baseball scouts don't know who is going to be the best player ahead of time. If they did know, they could save themselves a lot of hassle. Hockey has a similar phenomenon, but it's less pronounced. Football has plenty of money, but somehow they feel like all of the player development and testing they need can be accomplished at the collegiate level. They are actually sort of offended by the existence of "minor" football leagues like arena and whatever Vince McMahon has planned.

And, of course, this is all beside the point, as mentioned in a sibling thread.
I thought the article was mostly a shorter, cribbed version of his Wikipedia entry.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadeusz_Ko%C5%9Bciuszko
The scale is on a different level however. Your average node project will have 10/100x as many dependencies compared to other languages. Too many to conceivably check. Also due to how dynamic the language is, I think it is way easier to hide something.
Anyone know how much manual work was needed to do this? Did they just use a tool to generate the C code? The functions unhelpfully have names like func_802507AC.
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0163725894...

>Using a bacterial vaccine to treat primarily inoperable sarcoma, Coley accomplished a cure rate of better than 10%.

This was, of course, miraculous at the time, and doesn't look too bad compared to the best treatments today for advanced cancer. However, the efficacy would have to increase significantly for most people to get excited, I think.

Perhaps as an adjuvant to targeted therapies? The Wikipedia article doesn't mention side effects. However, considering the mechanism of action, they might not have been too bad.
Happens all the time with IPOs so it's totes fine, right?

Your greed is showing, Muneeb.

Plenty of posters in this thread talk about "following you" since the beginning and having lovely things to say about your product. Truth is: There is nothing your product does that other decentralized services didn't already do, for free. Your ID service is a less-secure Sovrin and your storage is a gated IPFS.

You just saw what Ethereum did and wanted a piece of the pie for yourself.
its cool and all, but i've seen this before with other games and what happens is the people that want to do game development and people that want muck around with old decompiled source code are two different camps of people so I wouldn't expect much
It's in the third post or so. Apparently Nintendo didn't turn on any compiler optimizations so porting the mips assembly back to c and fiddling around a bit until the original compiler produced identical instructions again was a feasible thing to do.
Are all the hands posted online somewhere for analysis. I would be very interested!
For those of you interested in getting a replica of NLS/Augment, there's a windows program that mimics it pretty well:
http://www.ndma.com/resources/ndm8543.htm

A one-handed "keyset" is also available here for those of you who want to experience NLS the "engelbartian-way":
https://www.infogrip.com/bat-keyboard.html

Unfortunately, the software was written in the early 90's and it's only 32-bit so you have to run it in an emulator to make it work on modern systems.

It's a real shame that NLS didn't catch on. The big issue with it is that it's like emacs in a sense - there's a learning curve involved in using it which makes it intimidating to use. This makes it hard to market to commercial markets (lotus notes took over in the '90s). It's too bad they didn't open source this back in the '70s, this is a "could have been" software project.