skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This overlooks the longterm impact of a new type of company that has been greatly enabled by technology: predatory revenue omnivores. These are companies that have figured out how to identify large revenue flows outside their current business or sector and systematically capture that revenue successfully, over and over (Amazon is a good example). In the past, revenue growth was not sector-agnostic in this way because sector expertise created insurmountable advantages for incumbents such that revenue growth was more a function of sector growth and competition came from within that sector. Attempts to materially expand outside a company's native sector almost always ended in failure. Now it looks like a repeatable business model that a minority of companies have figured out.

More and more, you see alien companies successfully colonizing established sectors and stripping them of their revenue. Few value companies are prepared to handle the scenario when these alien companies show up because historically it has never been a realistic threat. I've seen this play out across several industrial sectors over the last decade and almost without exception, companies retreat to niches that the predator hasn't turned its eyes to yet. That's a strategy for being eaten last. The threat is so far outside their experience that they struggle to see a path forward.

If I was going to invest in "value" these days, I'd invest in the revenue predators. They are going to capture much of the best value revenue eventually but this will give them the appearance of "growth" companies in the short term due to the scale of organic revenue growth this business model creates for them.
That would make sense, the reason they have to pay so much is because the work is sketchy, if this was truly rewarding engineering work the market would see falling salaries. Doctors still want to be doctors even if they are paid less. You have to pay me 5x to do shitty work.
Toyota had an Unintended Acceleration problem that actually put peoples' lives at stake, and they denied everything / covered it up [1]. I don't recall people boycotting Toyota.

[1] Toyota to Pay $1.2B for Hiding Deadly ‘Unintended Acceleration’

https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/toyota-pay-12b-hiding-deadly-...
You seem to have confused googles consumer platform policy and Googles enterprise policy. They are very different.

That’s like saying AWS is low quality because you bought a fake widget off Amazon.com?
How would something like Waymo's daily simulation training work? Is it just feeding it a larger set of random obstacles every day?

Wouldn't it quickly have negligible returns once it optimizes for the current simulation capabilities? Or are they constantly tweaking both the car model and the simulation data set?
Yup, the local WISP does the same thing. Relay high up on the mountains and ptp link back to the main office.
Standard S/MIME for e-mail, minisign for signing software, standard ASICE for encrypted containers
That's not my experience. Relighting a cigar tastes awful, and half-smoking it can dry out the other half. Most folks smoke at least one full cigar in a single sitting.
This one is 20kv: https://www.amazon.com/20000V-10000PF-Voltage-Ceramic-Capaci...

So I only need 5000 of them in a series.
I would point out that their DVD and Blu-ray selection is still excellent.
“Our social identities can strongly affect things as important as our perform
Is there any practical way to review all the links to my shared Google Photos and maybe disable sharing of most of them quickly ?
Related: "VALUE INVESTING: BRUISED BY 1000 CUTS"

https://www.gmo.com/americas/research-library/value-investin...

Direct link to PDF: https://www.gmo.com/globalassets/articles/insights/asset-all...
Ah, thank you! That explains it.
Jeffrey Epstein liked palling around with scientists – what do they think now?
> they are too debt laden for a buyout at this point

Enterprise value is indifferent to capital structure. A leverage-sensitive buyer would buy out the high-yielding debt in addition to the equity. Purchasing out of bankruptcy is riskier, in many levels, compared with a negotiated sale.
Copyright is historically and pragmatically connected to several power struggles in society. The ones that come to mind are surveillance, free speech, personal control and freedoms (e.g. DRM), sharing and spread of information.

(For example, you can see the article about U. California vs Elsevier currently on the front page, or I can expand on why I say copyright has been connected to the above issues.)

I completely agree with one angle on your post, which is that people's personal ethics and desires are only pawns or incidental to the economic players in this game, but that's my explanation for why people follow the game closely and cheer for one side or the other.
I am an academic at a UC who publishes in Elsevier journals. I support this. I don't want copyright for anything I work on. I also work in a field where patent/IP stuff would not be relevant, so I view all of my work as public domain as far as I am concerned. With my code I either do CC0 or MIT licenses.

I have had to publish in journals that are not open access -- mostly I just make pre-prints available to anyone who wants them and encourage my students to use sci-hub if they need to find something we don't subscribe to.
I can't remember where I heard it originally, but it suffers from the "This racism is a metaphor for racism" problem that a lot of sci-fi tends to get close to. The issue ends up becoming that by making the discriminated party/group a literal different species, or a robot, or an alien, you dilute the core moral argument about treating all humans the same in the real world. What should be about racism becomes closer to an animal rights argument in-universe about how to treat things that aren't human, but aren't completely inert, which is a much more nuanced argument.

In short, metaphor is hard, especially when you're applying it to complex issues.
This is essentially a kind of continuous 3D holography - unlike conventional holography, which is a 2D transform that represents 3D light paths.

And that's very interesting. This is the first application of what could be a very very powerful new technology.

So far as I know addressable super-high resolution 2D holographic displays are still a lab curiosity. There are some obvious technical problems with adding depth, but as soon as you have a 3D addressable light matrix that can be reconfigured dynamically, you have a whole new base for physical computing.
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Who are these predators? Among FAANG I'd guess only the acquisition of YouTube has been a success, and only modest at best.
There is a distinction between the pressure that comes from growing up in a "tiger family" and the consequences of growing up with the "smart" label, and I feel like the author is conflating the two. Personally, growing up with the label (but not the parental pressure) was one of the best things that could have happened for me and my education - the fact that others believed (whether true or not) that I was lightyears ahead of the class afforded me numerous opportunities - special classes, programs, etc. And more importantly, the fact that I believed it meant that I was able to operate free of insecurities or imposter syndrome that so many of my peers faced. Did it inflate my ego a bit as a kid? Sure - but I had good role models to look up to who helped me tamp that down a bit, and I had plenty of time to figure out that I wasn't the smartest kid in the world once I got to MIT (which I might not have gotten into had I not so fervently believed I would!).

I can't comment on what it's like to grow up with the extreme parental pressure the author describes - I didn't experience that, and I'm sorry she had to go through that. But I think that's an entirely separate issue from growing up with the "gifted" label.
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Apparently everyone on HN wants the benefits of consumer products but with "geek" features included.
Jonathan Blow “Making Game Programming Less Terrible”
It never makes any sense that people have to pay to access public funded research results. And it's not even paying to the researchers but a mostly unnecessary middleman.

Great job UC!
We found better and/or more enjoyable things to do with our time.
If you live and work in the US, the substantial part of your taxes is spent on invading other countries, killing innocent people and propping up dictators.

> how do you approach that morally? I really want to know the opinion of someone actually working there.
I can't believe I've never heard of this expression.
Convenience and mobile devices happened. With Google photos and similar I can share photos from my phone within seconds from pretty much anywhere. For example while I'm still on vacation in a foreign country. It's much lower friction than uploading the photos to a server, likely creating some kind of album, generating looks work tokens in them, etc.
Won’t somebody please think of the children and ban flavored vodka, energy drinks, McNuggets, porno, offensive books, unconventional masturbation, weed gummy bears and regular gummy bears.
December 2015: Elon Musk drops his prediction of full autonomous driving from 3 years to just 2

https://electrek.co/2015/12/21/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-drops-pre...
> (I'm looking at you, MIT!)

You couldn't choose a worse example than that. MIT famously screwed Aaron Swartz legally over public domain (pre-1923) papers, by baselessly claiming that his access had been "unauthorized" when in fact it was entirely consistent with their own pre-existing policies! They are a bad actor in this whole issue and aren't going to do a thing.
Honest answer: it wasn’t meant to be an attack or some form of resentful comment but a comment about the business model. I worked for half my career in a worldwide top tier academic institution (non-US) before all of these political issues. Even the institutions themselves know the current model is failing.
I have a coworker who's son just got this diagnosis. This stuff is scary. They caught it fast and were able to treat it but he still lost most control of his left arm. Long road to recovery but it seems some kids aren't as lucky.
Same here. I don't see how adding some kind of XML layer on top of Dart would help with anything.
Is that $2000 figure for a single discharge or a yearly figure already multiplied by 100 (days)?
Maybe a bit off topic, but i've always wondered why most physicists dismiss the possibility of superdeterminism to escape Bell's theorem.
Are there any physicists here who would like to elaborate?
Agreed, I was looking for something more substantial than this, too. I was thinking it was some clever unpatched way to scrape semi public Google photos links. Turns out it's just the sharing feature working as expected.
Camel was libraries that codified the the Enterprise Integration Patterns (https://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com/ - channels, messages, service activators, etc...) that allowed you to code against the abstractions rather than the underlying implementations (JMS w/ topics & queues, AMQP w/ exchanges, etc..)

Spring offered a competing set of libs with Spring Integration.

Those we mostly just libraries, though, so you have something running under them for distribution (like a message broker or service bus or, these days, a cloud managed service).
Top university split in row over erasing ‘racist’ science pioneers from campus
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Is this the first time Elsevier has cut off a major group of universities? In all the similar past occasions I know about, Elsevier would threaten to cut off access but not flow through, out of the kindness of their hearts and for the good of academia (or rather for fear that the universities might discover they don’t get much value out of Elsevier)

One thing Elsevier builds their strategy on is bundling: that to get the journals a university really wants, they also have to subscribe to lots they don’t want. This would mean for Elsevier that they could keep charging high prices until all disciplines don’t care about them. A university can’t say “well all our mathematicians just use the arxiv and email so we don’t want any mathematics journals” and have this work.

Another common theme is universities joining together into larger groups to negotiate a deal together. But this means individual universities can’t really choose to not subscribe to any Elsevier journals (because others in the group want to subscribe), so often they still get what many inside consider a bad deal.
"geek feature" == knowing that nobody on 4chan will be masturbating to your vacation photos.
How does merely possessing a photo help ML? Wouldn’t you have to have known-to-be-correct metadata on the image as well for it to be useful?
Ask HN: How to get back into the web development game?
How does someone who hasn't done web development in a few years get back into it quickly and efficiently? I'm worried that tons of shit has changed and that I have lots to catch up on.
Usually publishing fees are not the problem. The problem is reading papers is expensive if you're not using Scihub.

In fact, publishing in an open journal (e.g. Plos) cost about twice as much as an equivalent closed journal, but it's the model that everybody except Elsevier wants.

When you get a (public) grant, some of the money is reserved for publishing costs. It's outrageus that public money is used to research and publish but then the public and other researchers cannot access for free that content.

The Elsevier bussiness model is just perfect, they just sit on their desk routing papers from authors to other authors for peer review, and create a PDF. This "work" costs about $1.000. After that, downloading that PDF costs another $20-30, but the original author receives $0.

Just imagine that applied to regular books: the author pay to publish. The publisher charges $30 for the PDF. The author never sees a dime.
Regardless, but if we want SDCs sooner, we need to constrain the problem.
I'd agree with you, yeah
> in the words of Dennis J. Ventry, a law professor at UC Davis who is vice chair of the academic senate’s committee on library and scholarly communication. He says the publisher’s last offer would have increased UC costs by 80% over three years, “hardly cost neutrality.”

> Elsevier says its proposal would have allowed a fivefold increase in the number of UC articles it published under open access — from about 350 now to 1,750 — while increasing the overall bill to UC by no more than annual inflation

One of these two parties is clearly misrepresenting this cost increase.
Qless supports both delayed single jobs, and recurring jobs with an interval.

At it's core Qless is a bunch of Lua that's executed in Redis by the binding you choose.

If you can get past the futzing around to have HA and secure Redis, its a nice setup.
Interesting but is it another argocd?
No, you would put the assert inside the VOS_memcpy_s() implementation, and you would not make that a library function, but a static inline function, so the compiler can see the arguments every time it is called.

As for disabling asserts in the code you ship: That is such a quaint 1980'ies thing to do, and people should have stopped doing it long time ago.

First, asserts are usually free, in the sense that the values checked are already in registers.

Second, any assert the compiler can evaluate is free, because no code will be generated.

Third, asserts can often enable the compiler to produce better and faster code, because it knows more about the values it produces code for.

And this is not theory: Nobody has ever accused Varnish Cache of being slow, despite the fact that approx 10% of all source lines are asserts which cannot be compiled out.

My money is on Huaweis function doing the check with an assert which was compiled out for deliverable code.

Why else would the have the function in the first place ?

The fact that code is generated for the function as shown, indicates that it was not a static inline function, because the compiler would have reduced that to just the regular memcpy call, so it was probably in a library.

So yeah: Industry Best Practice Incompetence.
Assuming you are someone who thinks “number of downloads” is a proxy metric for “quality” or “developer experience” or “production ready”, maybe.
Or watch YouTube and play videogames :D

(preferably indie ones, the "AAA" game industry is about as bad as hollywood)
The glass is not transparent so can't particularly work like a window.

Maybe a zero power trigger for things like a touchless hand soap dispenser.
> If each charge $20
Who is the murderer in this analogy? To me it's the government misusing such a tool.
What do I have?

Netflix can get me 4K content from the internet, through my ethernet, to my device. Plex can get me 4K content from my internal server, through my ethernet, to several of my devices.

Certain Plex client apps choke on any quality coming from the same Plex server over the same ethernet.
It seems like you could instead make an argument that Amazon is just sticking with things they're good at. (Various forms of retail sales, along with cloud computing.) They are not a conglomerate combining unrelated businesses like GE or Berkshire Hathaway.

Lots of expansion within the realms they're in, though.
I suspect if you're logged into Google or Facebook, that's uniquely added to the exif data. So if there is later a question of who keeps anonymously uploading that banned photo, they can trace you as the person (at least being the first link in the chain).

Also, statistics how many images are downloaded and then later found online again by Facebook at other places.
The new iOS App Store is also pretty good with its homepage stream of curations and mini-articles that recommend games.
Good point. I've been excited by fuel synthesis technologies, though they've proved difficult to develop at scale.

A Google X Project tried and failed.
Honestly? Good.

Architects and architectural styles are much more concerned with their particular artistic vision, and status signaling within their tribe, than with whether their buildings are pleasant to live within. (See: brutalism, for the worst case, but this applies widely.)

The more practical realities force architects to abandon their pet styles and build efficient places, the better. I have to live there; they don’t.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

I know. Within MLperf, to reach consensus, it was agreed that “dollars are great, but also game-able via price cuts, lets normalize to a reference system”. It’s not the largest box though, it’s one that everyone was able to provide, so that it lets you compare through one level of indirection.

I don’t agree with it, because it makes it so hard to compare to funky hardware (“Should I do inference on this chip from < startup >? I dunno, what’s it going to cost?”). Having to keep going back to some reference box is undesirable, but there’s nothing stopping someone from making a spreadsheet equivalent that translates these to dollars on the cloud providers (harder for on-prem submissions which reopens the “rent vs buy” debate).
If you use an end-to-end encrypted messaging app like Wire (app.wire.com), your photos will only be visible to the specific accounts and devices which were in the group at the time of sending the photo.
https://argoproj.github.io/argo-cd/
Ask HN: Apply your developper skills in completely different jobs
Hi,

I have been a developer for 5+ years and I am considering changing completly my career and stopping any IT related activities.
I feel like being able to script stuff and develop small apps would be really useful in most of the other jobs but do you have examples based on your experience which show how you re used your developer skill in something completely different.

I know that my switch cannot be based only on this but your examples might help me choosing my next path.
Thank you !
Whatever country I live in, I certainly didn't choose to be born there, and moving to another country is often more expensive than is possible for most people. I don't see how this compares to actively seeking a job at Facebook. I also don't think that the US doing bad things is an excuse for Facebook to do bad things.
When fuel nuclei split apart in a nuclear reactor, their split fragments form a variety of lighter elements. Some of these elements are so-called "noble" metals -- metals that tend toward remaining chemically stable as metals, rather than as chemical compounds with other elements. Silver, ruthenium, and palladium are some examples of noble metals. More typical metallic elements like potassium and iron, by contrast, tend to be found on Earth as oxidized chemical compounds rather than as metals.

In a molten salt reactor, most fission products either stay dissolved in the salt mix or are lost from the mix as stable gases. The noble metals are different. Their tendency is to reform as solid metal. They tend to accumulate as a metallic layer or plate of metal over other solid surfaces they come into contact with. That's what is meant by plating out.

Here is a document that specifically addresses noble metal plate-out in molten salt reactors:

http://www.skyscrubber.com/Molten-Salt-Reactor%20Technology%...

See section III.C.
Why? What's the threat vector that's specifically enabled by the key in the url?

And why is that vector defeated by submitting the "decryption key" (password) as part of a POST body (or some other method you can explain)?
The first N capacitors will fail catastrophically, leaving the circuit open. Blown caps are a very common cause of failure in power circuits.
Isn't that the premise of our society? Ownership, money, ... All of it highly artificial and it only exists as long as we allow it to.

Copyright is more than just a stick that many people see. Copyright is first and foremost an attribution. It's the only formal recognition of someone's unique work. Considering that we are trying to automate all manual labor in the not so distant future, copyright is more and not less important to our society.

I agree, that the tools and practices used today are crude and in many cases unfair, but once we remove the stigma associated with it, we will get more innovation in it.

I can't name many creators that would not like to be recognized for their work and even less that don't want to be paid for it.
I was in a top wow guild. Paid to move my character to a new server, even. Was in a number 1 guild, I remember getting thousands of messages when we got a server first. It was insane. It felt so amazing though in that moment. I imagine I’d feel the same if I’d won the Olympics as silly as that sounds. Ultimately it was a hollow victory. The hundreds of hours, the 185 days of real 24 hour days I put into that single character, I can never get back.

Those people were had a thin facade of friendship, but I don’t talk to them anymore. We were never really friends. We were just addicts engaging in the same quest for ever larger dopamine hits. I remember kicking out people from our guild because they “underperformed”, even if they were good guys and we liked hanging out with them. All that mattered was the raid. All that mattered was winning.

It’s weird too because I think back and at a deep level our server first was the most intense positive emotional experience of my life. Not my kid being born, not getting married. My mind was convinced we were in a war against an insurmountable foe and we won. It makes me sad, like my level of what’s exciting is permanently messed up and skewed from what reality can offer. I’ve heard similar stories about meth and other drugs, that colors don’t seem as bright after you stop.

I really wish I’d never played WoW, or EVE. It was escapism for some really terrible times in my life and rather than help it just retarded the healing and mental recuperation I needed for many years.

It definitely wasn’t about friendship, though.