skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. Why would a billionaire support a candidate he "believes in" when he can outright own the candidate? There is that saying, "a big lie is easier to sell than a little lie" -- average middle class people comprehend cheating on taxes and spouses, but they simply don't have the exposure to understand there are psychopaths in the world who have zero morals and would kill for a glass of water if they knew they could get away with it. Look at the leaders throughout almost every civilization in history, it's the NORM for those in power to have their political rivals murdered-- very often their own family members. Anyone who thinks this is crazy or surprising is woefully ignore of history and the human condition.
Honestly, for my purposes (I'm technical director of a digital media agency), not really. I install updates automatically (apart from first-version releases of macOS), and appreciate the gatekeeping aspect of the App Store for everyday software.

When it comes to public-facing servers that we run it's a different matter of course, but then I'm performing (and delegating) the same task that I want Apple to perform for my MacBook Pro.
...if the DNA testing proves out. Which hasn't been done yet?
That is true, but there are ways to get it either with some footwork or money. The second concern is tracking people who you know. Imagine if I tracked every time my neighbors cars entered or left their garages, and every guest that came and saw them. This is perfectly legal, but also very creepy.
I'm not arguing your point but I am wondering, will we say the same thing in 10/20/50 years?
Without forgetting Mixers, Credit-Card sellers, Paypal-related schemes, CryptoWallets, Escrows ...
>The submarine was powered by two Germaniawerft F46 four-stroke, six-cylinder supercharged diesel engines

they have to come to surface to recharge the batteries and to take in oxygen.
Back than submarines were more like diveable torpedo boats, early in the war the still used their small deck mounted guns quite regularly. The first true subs came late during the war with the Types XXI and XXIII which looked a lot like modern Diesel-Electric subs.
the article clearly states. The reason to block is to improve competition. The lack of competition is the sole reason why google can stongarm amp instead of an open standard
> Pretty sure most everyone's got that was what he was trying for.

I really don't think that's true—we have comments "worried about the mental health of the author", we've got comments claiming he "struggles with the joys in life", we've got comments claiming the author "seems like a disgruntled fake-intellectual guy who hates everyone for having any sort of fun". These aren't comments from people who get that he's joking.

> It certainly didn't land for me though.

That's fair; there's no humor that works for everyone. But even if you don't find it funny, at least you understood what he was doing.
"Excuse me, are those Bugle Boy Jeans you're wearing?"
> Only slightly related, but as a lead developer I've had some business people get angry, because I refused to build features that violated customer privacy (and GDPR).

I wrote a feedback mechanism in an Android application that we made at work. There's a space for users to write their feedback, but of course we collect other information about their system and what they've done in our application. In the feedback dialog, I implemented an expandy thing that shows you all of the data that will be sent, and even has a checkbox next to each line item so the user can choose not to send that data. I showed my boss and he was like, "wow, that's transparent of you" and was blown away by the checkbox feature. Meanwhile I considered it really impolite to do otherwise.
My bad, I've read it incorrectly. It's Oath.
Amazon Commits $700M to Retrain Workers in New Skills
Fiat bets on electric '500' as it moves on from Renault
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>I wonder if there's a known exploit for the Zoom server specifically

There is, though it's not public yet.
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From Serbia. Reddit down anyone else?
Not sure how that applies, but I'm pretty sure that's not true. Where outside the USA is that still a commonly held belief?
Me as well (There needs to be a way to save comments)
German banks are moving away from SMS one-time passcodes
It's a bit of an arms race between bluejeans, zoom, webex, gotmeeting, teams for who can get people into a meeting with the least friction. The people requesting meetings are probably also the ones requesting "make it easier for people to get into my meetings."
Cross-Domain Generalization of Neural Constituency Parsers
Reddit down, global productivity up.
> Sorry, but you actually sounds like one those people who dosen't really know how FP work.

LOL, sure ok. Worked on banking systems for 2 years and been doing scientific computing for many more. Pretty comfortable with fixed and floating point.

> [error bounds] Likely irrelevant for most e-commerce.

Those bounds are theoretical, and there are plenty of occasions I have come across in the past when rounding errors were observed. It was forbidden in the bank to use floating point! We went to enormous lengths to ensure numerical accuracy and stability across systems.

I think this article has a pretty good explanation:

https://dzone.com/articles/never-use-float-and-double-for-mo...

> Nonsense. If you do any scientific computation you have likely have Boost, GMP, MPFR installed in your system. They support arbitrary precision arithmetic with integer (aka fixed point), rational and floating point.

Yes, absolutely right; I have used several of those 3rd party libs myself, as well as hand-rolling fixed point code (esp for embedded systems). I didn't write what I intended. I meant to say that very few languages have first-class fixed point in their standard library. So long as the simple `float` is available as a POD, people will (mis-)use it.

I think in a general purpose HLL, a fixed decimal type should be the default, and you should have to opt in to IEEE-754 floating point.
Great illustration of disparity between transaction values. Massive majority of transactions are below 0.1 BTC. And then almost every block includes a transaction of a few thousand BTC. I'd love to see something like this for Visa network.
Reads way more humble then what the podcast name would suggest.
In WWII refrigeration was still somewhat new, even if you were young enough to not remember life without them, you had neighbors and grandparents who did. In 1875 you had to live with the same growing months and store food for the rest - those ways were still personally remembered by many. In fact some people didn't get electricity until the 1950s and so they still were using the old ways because there was no other option. (My grandpa remembered his dad paying $600 to connect the farm in 1936 - about $12000 today so you can understand why most neighbors didn't)
Monaco is not part of France.
There are different categories of speed runs on most games. It's not about "beating" the game (however you choose to define that); it's about satisfying the parameters of the given category.

For example, here are the categories for SMW: https://www.speedrun.com/smw#0_Exit
Also used to work in adtech (not military tech, yet). Now I work in finance, for a hedge fund. For all the bad things you can say about finance, at least people are voluntarily chosing to participate in it (in contrast with ads, which are pushed onto users involuntarily - maybe not online ads, but most certainly real-life ads).
Imagine if they sent you each game on a separate CD and told you "but don't sell the ones you don't want", you'd think that was ridiculous, right?

That's exactly how stupid this idea is. I own the products I purchased, just because it's not a physical copy doesn't mean I have any less rights to it. I highly doubt their ToS would hold up, I consider it highly immoral to attempt to deny people the rights to sell or trade their own purchases.
Yeah, you don't have to setup openvpn and configure haproxy
Hype article? Where is the paper and methods?
You’ll find it valuable to dig a bit more deeply. Look for the 100% or glitchless category runs. Some of them are indeed breaking the game, but so many more categories involve skill to do crazy things.

A great example of the latter are the super monkey ball speedruns.
On-Call Nightmares Podcast Episode 30 – Tim Yocum – InfluxData
Not just that though. Also the existence of a somewhat toxic work environment which functioned sufficiently where all they needed was cheaper, less skilled, easy to hire employees doing more rote kinds of work but which hampered both creativity and getting shit done and meant employees with other options simply left.
Great points. I agree - the performance hit is simply the cost of being accurate and having predictable behaviour.

I'm not suggesting we replace all our current HW with chips that implement posits (let's fix branch prediction first!!). More that FP should be opt-in for most HLLs.
Because the prior division means that allocation becomes increasingly disalligned with actual values.

If "once accepted a pizza for bitcoin and forgot to convert it" quanities becomes worth a luxury car later no matter how much you sub divide it people are discouraged from actually using it as a currency and instead exchanging directly to avoid the future losses. Except that when everyone does that it becomes worthless because nobody is using it to exchange anything - the source of its value.
3M adhesive remover will not remove paint. I used gallons on cars to remove plastidip. It says right on the container, safe for car paint and clear coat. Advertised to remove bumper stickers.
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remember this idea how weird it is that everybody runs around with spying equipment, you have a always-online device with multiple cameras and microphones. I think people would be uncomfortable knowing that someone was listening or recording video without their knowledge, that's why people put stickers on their laptop cameras.
I think its obvious by now that manufacturers aren't capable of developing software that keeps the cameras/microphones secured. In the future we can just assume that any camera/mic in any phone is recording at any given moment and sending it to some malicious entity. Since there is no practical way of disabling the cameras/mics on phones, we just have to learn to live with it.
So basically, bundle economics work if you ignore the existence of the market for those games.

Yeah, that sounds about right.

You would never cut a software developer slack for putting "no reverse engineering, no exploitation" in the ToS and then being surprised when vulnerabilities are discovered, business people need to consider basic stuff like this too. Markets for things exist outside of yours.

Additionally, I never even agreed to a ToS buying the early Humble Bundles at least and a hidden ToS is unenforceable at best.
> I just don't want to bother with MAS, so it's much easier to automate all stuff.

That might sound good to you, but not to your users. Please put it in a sandbox and on the MAS. There is no reason for a calculator to _not_ run in a sandbox. Discoverability and sales will probably improve as well on the App Store. I for one, would purchase in an instance, whereas now the only purchase option is a paddle (sic) preorder button.

> Btw all recent updates are notarized.

That is nice.
> e.g. Majority of world* still believes Iraq had WMD

I honestly can't believe that for a moment. At least in my country its widely known they didn't and we mainly went to war to secure Uncle Sam some cheap oil reserves.
> The American version of the book was misprinted by the publishers, who left out half the introduction.

Well, that's just perfection.
Pressure issues can happen on any plane, not limited to airbus. Pilots are aware of the pressure inside the plane and they make judgement whether to continue or not. Your beef is with the pilots.
They also had wind catchers that can cool water almost to freezing I believe.
AlphaStar might have played 200 years of StarCraft, but we have been playing the general intelligence game for 50,000+ years.
Ssh tunnels work well
Always do cursory research first! There are people that unknowingly work for adware trojan companies.
The issue is that the web-driven model of free content is unsustainable to the point these junk ads leading to junk sites are attractive to finance. The big issue is that the economics of journalistic and creative content aren't sustainable ethically any more.

I don't think anyone LIKES renting a storefront to a pawnshop, for example, but if they are the only ones who want to rent your location, you're screwed.

Essentially ethical business would wind up needing the journalism market to implode, ending up with a few state-subsidized outlets that could more or less survive with no advertising at all.
How would you prefer it be handled?
I finally started to use Firefox more when the news came about about Google probably dropping support for real adblock. I had always run NoScript on my Firefox, and tended to be reluctant to use Firefox more because of it, due to how much time I needed to spend guessing which scripts to enable to get a site to work well enough. Now that I'm trying to use it more, I'm actually not finding it too bad - it seems to block websites from doing annoying things before I even knew they did it more than needing to fiddle with which scripts to enable.

Oh yeah, also using it in hopes of having real adblock on mobile.
It's based around WISP [0], an SRFI that grew out of a couple previous attempts to build alternative syntax.

[0] https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-119/srfi-119.html
Is this a direct competitor to Zoom?
> America needs more transit everywhere, and maybe more importantly, we need to dissolve the notion that mass transit is not just how low-income people solve transportation.

Transit is completely impractical in almost all the places where most Americans live and work. We’re talking about a commute that starts in a suburban cul-de-sac and ends in a suburban office park. Where would you put the transit lines? There is also the issue of speed. If you have enough lines and stop to actually cover most people (it would have to be bus service, anything else would be completely unfeasible economically), the commutes would be dog slow. America has among the shortest commutes in the OECD, because our whole country is built around point-to-point car trips.

There is a saying: you won’t excel if you constantly beat your head against your weaknesses. Our country is structurally not set up for transit, and our political systems are incapable of the coordinated effort necessary to make transit work. Atlanta is never going to be walkable like Paris, any more than Paris is ever going to get an orderly street grid like Chicago. And even if you tore down Atlanta and rebuilt it as a walkable city you’ll never convince Americans to walk or bike long distances in 90 degree weather/90 percent humidity. Trying to make it so is a fool’s errand. Focus on the things America can do: electric vehicles, etc.
I have not thought this through, but it seems to me that if all observables commuted there would be no randomness and if there was no randomness all observables would commute. Does anyone see an obvious flaw on this?
I don't think there is anything unusual about that number - the time when there were any easy targets was long gone. And with defeat being inevitable and imminent, I can't blame anyone for being cautious. Over 70% of all U-boat sailors were killed in action over the course of the war.
Fortress offers to pay Mt. Gox creditors $900 per Bitcoin claim
I was a little disappointed at the write up too. They're cutting the cream with milk (typical in modern recipes) without explanation beyond what sounds like "I tossed the recipe and adopted a modern one".

There is no discussion of why the old version doesn't turn into a solid block of ice. (Fat content from using straight cream? Short chilling time?)

The interesting thing here would be the texture if you'd actually followed the recipe (after researching fat content of cream at the time).
My working theory is that async/await syntax causes more problems than it solves. I've read through the RFC and many of the comments, but I don't see anywhere a cogent argument why the syntax is needed -- that seems to be taken on faith.

I've written and reviewed boatloads of promise-using JS code, a fair amount of promise-using C++ and task-using C#, and some future-using Rust. I've never seen a case where the value added by async/await exceeds the potential for issues.

The goal seems to be make asynchronous code look like synchronous code. In my experience, developers do in fact act like it's synchronous, forgetting the critical fact that it's not. The supposed feature is a massive bug in everyday usage.

EDIT: reading through the RFC and comments, I now realize that async fn is NOT actually being implemented as sugar on top of future-returning functions, but in fact is more like a Python or ES6 generator. There seems to be a disagreement as to whether an async fn is really just a future-returning function: I see the claim made both ways, and haven't found an authoritative source yet. Confusing!

EDIT2: > do notation in a language without a GC is an open research question. Some believe it’s impossible.

I don't understand how GC comes into play. Isn't the do notation simply syntactic sugar for bind sequencing?
I'm guessing that was a courtesy move on Adobe's part. I can't imagine those people retain any rights to their work on Photoshop.
I would start with the original Bitcoin white paper[0] followed by the blockchain guide on Bitcoin.org[1].

[0] https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

[1] https://bitcoin.org/en/blockchain-guide#introduction
You make it sound as if the Chinese are more imaginative than Americans. That's not the case. They just have more people. If I am sitting in NYC and need 10 programmers overnight for a boring IT project... no problem. But if I am sitting anywhere else in the US it's going to take more time. Not the case in China. Or India. The quantum of activity is directly proportional to how much labor you have access too especially in "unsexy" IT work.

And kids in the US rightly focus on the sexy stuff because when you compare just Apple to the entire Indian IT sector revenues are 3x more. Why would you want to go work on laundromat or construction company APIs when you have a shot at getting into Apple or Google.
A few years ago I got really into the (ad-supported) solitaire game included with Windows 10. I wasn't really surprised that almost all the ads were Outbrain/Taboola type chum, targeted at senior citizens. I was surprised that almost all of the ads were scams, promising 0% interest mortgage refinancing or threatening that you could lose your Medicare benefits, etc. I wonder why we haven't seen backlash towards companies hosting obviously malicious ads.
That's pretty awesome. And great that your boss thought this was a good idea too.
An apple has around 9,3g of sugar, a mars bar around 30g. I wouldn't call that 'more or less the same'
Can someone link to a kind of summary of the current best understanding of human evolution and dispersal? It's really fascinating to me.

Until recently, I had naively understood "Out of Africa" to mean that homo sapiens evolved in Africa from some sort of ape like thing and then went out and conquered the world. But the idea that homo sapiens is just one of many kinds of human species, and that other ones like Neanderthals and Denosivans left Africa earlier (or evolved from homo erectus who left earlier still...?) is really mind blowing. It's weird to me to think of multiple human species living at the same time.
Zero downtime deployments is not the same as zero downtime generally ever.

We deploy to production several times a day. We have an in-house product that our own emplyees use and they absolutely love that they can ask a feature in the morning and get it in a few hours (in best case scenario). That wouldn't be at all feasible if all those deployments caused errors to users. Luckily that's not a problem, because these days it's really easy to get zero downtime deployments with all this containers and "serverless" functions and whatnot.
Only 17% of Apple AirPods owners have sex while wearing them
Reddit statuspage with relevant stats:
https://reddit.statuspage.io/
All his effort and the site is completely unusable on mobile Safari and barely/confusingly usable on mobile Firefox - I gave up about 20 seconds into it.

what’s the point of all the nerdiness if it’s unusable.
My point is that IBM didn't invest in open source to improve it, they invested to take advantage of it. Open source software was still frowned on since "free" was a dirty word in that culture. We never sold it in our deals. The explosion of innovation and creativity created by the open source community never reached IBM. We just kept selling Websphere and Domino. I think it was 2008 before CENTOS started creeping into our solutions. IBM did not buy Redhat because they believe in Linux. They did it to buy market share.
It's tough because the law can't compel people to be good.

It's a fundamental problem with liberalism and is part of the crisis that liberalism faces all around the world; people see our institutions failing and they start to wonder if maybe China has a better idea.

If you are in a position of authority (parent, teacher, manager, ...) one thing you should learn right away is that you need to model good behavior if you want to control bad behavior. That's because your subordinates will certainly model any bad behavior you do.

It's always shocked me how bipartisan the moral rot is. For instance, Epstein was close to both Trump and Clinton. Both Trump and Clinton had daughters who married the sons of convicted felons. Given that Chelsea Clinton might be interested in public life some day I can't for the life of me imagine why she married the son of this guy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Mezvinsky#Criminal_acti...
Why do you include Apple, Amazon & Netflix in your list?
They don’t insist on preserving the option, they simply can’t predict the choice.

Companies lack unified decision making. The founders can’t predict every moral choice any employee will make. And for any large organization the CEO has no idea what most of the day to day decisions involve.

Consider something as simple as an old brick company setting up an email server for the first time. That opens up a host of choices management likely had zero idea even exist.
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For the RDP solution, can't you just log in from a home computer?

To be clear, I'm not just talking about logging into a VPN. I'm talking about streaming the display output from a work machine. No programs or data from your work machine would be running at home.