skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have a wife and kids and a job. You have s full, rich social life, and are not who this discussion is about. Congrats :)
I guess Oracle finally found someone they can't mess with.
Seems to me that DirectX is the last remaining barrier to finally getting the majority of the Windows user base to migrate to Linux. That and driver support.
Indeed, it's one of the peculiarities of the Polish language that it has Slavic phonetics but a Latin alphabet. Hence why typically Slavic phonemes, which in Cyrillic are represented by single letters (such as sh = ш), in Polish get represented with two (sz), and why you need a double-letter context to know how to pronounce a given sequence of characters.

Unfortunately, back in the 10th century, the choice of an alphabet was essentially a pure consequence of whom the first ruler of Poland would adopt Christianity from: the Western part of the Church (this was before the official Schism) or the Rus (Ruthenia). The Rus had a liturgy in Old Church Slavonic, and for the liturgical books they adopted an alphabet, the Glagolitic (a predecessor to the Cyrillic), which was more suitable for the phonetics of the language (and, indeed, of Slavic languages in general). Poland adopted the Latin liturgy and the alphabet was part of the “package”.
Fun fact -> They offered this because they were getting such good returns (greater than 8%) through Bernie Madoff, and figured they could just pay off the contract interest through that
I bet that's just the usual chinese quality in manufacturing in general, the actual backdoor is just the hardcoded ssh key.

And thats their enterprise infrastructure equipment stuff, can you even imagine how their android firmware must look like, holy shit.
Why a worse place? In this particular example, Palantir is used by the cops to run investigations; it is just a more convenient user interface and analytical engine to already existing data sources. I don’t see anything particularly unethical here.
Oh man, I think you hit on something there. You get all of the satisfaction of interaction, but don't have to worry about being challenged, learning from any mistakes, or really learning anything; you can block anything you don't like.

I think you're onto something with that.
Honest question: I want to download all papers I am an author of (I have joint copyright, and limited redistribution rights for all of these), but I don’t have logins for the publisher sites for all of them, and finding the long tail of papers in my backups is a PITA.

I haven’t used scihub, but it sounds like the best tool for this purpose. Any hints on how to proceed? Has someone written a script to do this or something?
An understanding of the inevitability of abuse of unchecked power.
Using Ansible with On-Premises S3 Object Storage
If they copied or used code that relied on using the safe memcpy_s, instead of having to change that code to use the unsafe versions, this could just be a proxy layer that lets that code run. This might be done so it's easier to keep the other code up to date if it's getting updated else where.
Suburbs can be soul-killing for some people.

Personally, I find cities to be excessively busy and annoying, full of folks I generally don't want to be around socially. But I'm an introvert, who enjoys being away from the crowds. I personally find suburbs to be a bit too crowded, if I'm honest.

I don't need a big house - I just need big personal space; I prefer my small 1000sq ft house, but I wish it was in the middle of a few acres.
Paying attention to world history, for one.

For another, I've personally seen my work get turned from a human safety product in one market into a direct instrument of human oppression in another market. Lots of tech is just a tool, which can be used for good or evil. The thing is, once good people see what is possible, it provides them an easy route to doing evil which they might not have had before.
You don't know what you're talking about, to be honest. If you're going to call me out on BS, then state your claim.
We don't care
Are you alleging that Palantir enables or encourages "horrific racist incidents"? Could you be more specific?

EDIT: I see what you mean. I had mistaken the meaning of OP. Please ignore this comment.
The article doesn't mention that team owner Fred Wilpon thought deferring Bonilla's contract was a great idea because he could use the savings at the time to invest in Bernie Madoff's fund.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/sports/baseball/mets-saw-...
> infrastructure

Hardly, they're building it themself since there isn't any
I'm not quite sure whether you're saying you wish you were less alone, or that you're fine with how things are. But what strikes me in your comment is that once you leave your ("basically alone") work situation, you're choosing to spend a lot of your discretionary time doing "alone" stuff in a gym. Might it be healthier overall (even if less focused on specific physical outcomes) to spend some of that time and energy engaging in a more social activity?
Windows programs in general, or games available on Steam? Because I'm talking about the latter. As far as I know there are no games on Steam that won't run under Windows any more.
Corporations can't match donations to political candidates.
My definition would be if it’s largely sitting around doing nothing until a request comes in, and its job is to answer and service those requests, then it’s a server.
Somewhat related is the best contract in sports history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozzie_and_Daniel_Silna#The_dea...
Since this comes up every year, might as well point out this isn't an isolated case.

Tweet thread covering various ones (as of last year):
https://twitter.com/mikemayerMMO/status/1013295573779312640
Law enforcement is not without bias, and just because they’re using discretion for you today doesn’t mean they won’t use it against you later.
I develop a proof of concept for flutter:https://github.com/friedger/flutterblockstackplugin

Again, this is just a wrapper for blockstack.js. I think the more apps it use the better the SDKs will become.

Most apps should work as PWAs anyway, I think.
> Oracle’s cloud infrastructure 2.0 provides significant performance and security capabilities over legacy cloud providers

"Legacy" cloud providers. Nice try...

On a more serious note: has anyone used Oracles cloud offerings? I've heard they are very sub-par.
100% spot on!
Amazon reportedly ramps development on Alexa-powered home robot on wheels
>into a wall.

I thought it was somewhat delayed, not paid, yet.
Obligatory reminder: alone does not equal lonely. Not all the time. Not for everyone.
The problem with 1-2-3 backup is 95% user education, policies, desktop administration, etc., and 5% making the copies of data. In my experience, at least. You need IT staff who are good at finding solutions that work for everyone. It would be nice if we could just stay “store it on the network drive” and then make backups, but users in the org don’t listen, and this is a fact of reality that you have to spend time & money to adapt to.

So backup is a fairly big management & IT challenge that goes way beyond guidelines like 1-2-3. That, and due to legal restrictions, local governments are rarely empowered to hire the right IT staff capable of making it happen.
It seems like you're the one trying to score 'cheap virtue points' by signaling your dislike of people you consider to be economic freeloaders to people of similar temperament.

One of the weaknesses of utilitarianism is that it's predicated on an assumption of reliable foresight that's not grounded in fact but is subject to all sorts of selection and confirmation biases.
This is genuinely the most amusing joke I've heard today. How do you think background checks for purchases work?
Just get to know your neighbors and make an effort to spend time with them, even if it's just a 15 minute chat after work. I've made the effort and am now on weekly hanging out terms with nearly 20 people in my neighborhood. And that's literally just the people within a short bike ride of my place.
A related observation: I have between 4-8 *nix, MacOS, iOS, machines running on my home network at any given time. I’m using piHole (with base config) to block ad traffic. My blocked percentage hovers around ~10%... until I boot up my one Windows 10 machine, which spikes the blocked ad traffic to ~25% and remains that high -with zero applications running mind you - until I shutdown the machine, after which it quickly drops back ~10%. It seems that Windows 10 is essentially an ad and surveillance OS built for mining user data at this point.
Ethics. The amount and scope of information collected by things like Palantir Gotham is beyond invasive. The fact that a police officer can type in your name and know where you were driving is disconcerting. It is about as Big Brother as you can get and not the kind of world I would like to live in. This question is a slippery slope, where people become more and more accustomed to less privacy. If you think this is justifiable, I would highly suggest reading up about the the Stasi in East Germany or read 1984.
I don't think you understand how a corporate PAC works. Employees pay in, and the money is allocated by a group of DC consultants chosen by company management.
Alone is the happy place because you're not getting enough of it. I think it's a balance between the two. I too need alone time and don't seem to get enough of it. I have a wife, a kid and a 9-5. About 10 years ago I was single, lived alone and at some point spent too much time alone which for a while was great but then I realized I became somewhat savage and the anxiety started to become an issue. Now that I don't get too much alone time I cherish every opportunity I get but I'll always steer away from long periods of isolation. It's not healthy.
Exactly. Cooking your family a meal, or helping your neighbor repair their house doesn't increase the GDP. However, ordering food with Uber and hiring someone to work on your house does. Being involved in your community, helping your neighbors and family, etc, isn't a "productive" activity.

Another good example is programming side projects. How many people are looking to make money on their side project? Rather then just help people? Or how many people only have side projects because they feel like they have to in order to stay competitive in the job market? Probably the vast majority.

We've developed a culture where we fetishize productivity and always making money. People now feel guilty if they're not busy or productive all the time.
> listing your interests in the app, allowing it to recommend a series of “hand-picked” local activities

Okay Google, no thanks.

Do we need someone at Google reading our interests and hand picking social events for us?
Capturing heat wasted in solar panels for use in distilling clean drinking water
It mirrors the new structure of the industry: developers are a totally separate market from users and generally get paid to work on software whose purpose is to exploit and "farm" users through surveillance capitalism and AI/ML powered soft mind control.

In other words developers (and their employers) are customers while users are a product or resource to be exploited.
Oooo, that is a platform just waiting to be exploited by conmen/women. The elderly are notoriously easy to scam and notoriously confused by technology; and you're collecting them in one spot to make it easier.

What do your controls on 'grandkids' look like? Because if I put on my black hat, I could absolutely feed an addiction for pills, valuables to pawn, or just straight up money through that service.
Oh God, Threads. The article is right, that really is one of the bleakest movies ever made, right up there with Grave of the Fireflies and Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. I didn't even encounter it until long after the Cold War had ended, and it still made a huge impression on me; I can only imagine how people viewing it in Britain in 1984, at the height of Reagan-era confrontationalism, must have felt.
This is a marvelous article.

I first encountered a many-many pass compiler when working on the IBM 1800 (same architecture as the IBM 1130) where the Fortran II compiler had 29 passes. It was challenging, as the machines often had only 4k and the removable cartridge disks were 5 megs.
> The duality of modern Microsoft is absolutely astounding.

See: http://bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts

I don't work there, but I've heard Microsoft is more like a federation of organizations than one giant consistent, cohesive team.
Seems like it worked well for everyone. The Mets are paying out less than they would have if they'd paid the money at the time and because of the savings were able to acquire players that helped them go onto the WS. Bonilla keeps getting ~ a million dollars every year.
Would you rather tech companies not be trying to help law enforcement or our military, and just leave them to their own devices?

I have my answer, but I don't think it's nearly this black and white. Palantir probably does a lot of good, just like all the big tech companies, even though it's the bad stuff that mostly makes the news.
I had a friend who moved to Texas with his family to take a job. He didn't go to church, and said that alone made it pretty hard to make friends there. He moved back to CA for that reason. So I guess going to church is one way to make friends, if you're into that.
> "Palantir software is instrumental to the operations of ICE, which is planning one of the largest-ever targeted immigration enforcement raids this weekend on thousands of undocumented families. Activists argue raids of this scale would be impossible without software like Palantir."

Once and for all, it is the policy makers, not the tech industry, who are responsible for these operations. Tech enables people doing things easily, which can be good or evil. It is people, who should decide, be concern and push the lawmakers towards the right/justified path.
It'd be interesting if Blender had an interaction recorder for tutorials, which could be turned on and off as desired.

The user would make and record a tutorial entirely in blender, and an interaction text file would be saved.

When a new version comes out, the interactions could be replayed, with the new menu tree, effectively re-rendering the whole video.

Doing so could also allow a user to upload a file summarizing their key bindings, and have any customizations shown in the tutorial.

It wouldn't be perfect, but it'd be neat if it existed.
Social Media Death Clock
It was the worst negotiation in sports history, yes. But far worse contracts have been signed. A bad NBA contract (some that obviously bad at the moment of signing) can easily pay $30M in 2 years to a player who essentially doesn't play at all. Which the teams then pay to dump on other teams (the NBA salary cap creates a fascinating market).
I am not OP but I will answer as I have relevant experience. I grew up in Midwestern US suburbs and rural areas and find the problems he/she mentioned to be accurate. "Church" is always trotted out by people there as THE community but not everyone is a religious person or finds that arrangement suitable. Transportation is a huge problem regardless as there are no buses or trams or trains in large swaths of the country. Culture, politics, and lifestyles in the bulk of the Midwest, while possibly ideal for you or others, are NOT for equally as many people. My "neighbors" are not nearby, not sociable at all, and not people I would choose to be around anyway for a number of reasons. I have heard your opinion of cities my entire life growing up, and believed them until I lived in one. For me it was life changing and gave me access to people like me and culture I enjoyed and awareness that not everyone had the politics I was told were "correct", and being dragged back here was equally life changing in a negative way.
That's exactly my point :-) History is complicated and we oversimplify it looking back through our modern lenses.
Majority of Veterans Think the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq Were a Mistake
Yeah, I agree that the subject of those commits are far from helpful or descriptive. To be honest, they were written as cheeky subheaders for the generated example article, and don't even do a job there.
Huh. Maybe its paradox of choice then? In our past we were pretty much forced into a community, and this is still largely true of the impoverished, but once you have a certain amount of wealth you're able to choose your community, and so PoC kicks in and paralyzes you.
The public transit angle seems like a red herring to me. My wife and I lived in cities for several years after law school. (New York, Baltimore, Philly, DC.) We didn’t feel alone in school, but felt quite alone after we graduated and had a kid. By contrast, now we live in the ‘burbs near my parents, and we feel far less alone than we have for years. We’ve got neighbors with kids we see regularly. We see other parents at school, church, the park, birthday parties, etc. We see my parents multiple times per week. Sure, we have to drive everywhere, but that’s hardly a deal breaker. (I see people more now that I have to drive to see, than friends I had in DC who lived in the same apartment building.)
A common practice in organic chemistry is to start from the target molecule and work backwards trying to determine simpler precursor molecules that would produce the target. 'Retrosynthesis'
This is a fantastic postmortem. Thanks jgc!

Can you share any more details about the protection to prevent excessive cpu usage by a regular expression that was accidentally removed?
Honestly, I can't add much more than what has already been said here... If your data/biz/org/etc is crippled because of these types of attacks, then you really need to have a frank discussion around IT/resource allocations/goals. These are 100% manageable (worst case).
I think the added cost will not change the affordability of cars. Sure, it'll add a few thousand to the cost, especially at first. But in general people who can afford cars now will still be able to afford cars in the future. It might mean giving up on leather seats, or taking a longer term on the loan, but the cost delta won't be big enough to significantly affect behavior.

What may affect behavior is tech that significantly lowers the cost of sharing, like Uber et al.
In working with city governments, we occasionally run into their "cloud SOAP apis"...
I like both mithril and hyperdom (probably prefer hyperdom really) but why on earth would I want to use either of those when react is so popular?
OP here, this is not my startup. I simply met a co-founder while he was educating me about some issues the world has other than global warming (see all the issues we discussed here [1]). If you have questions about reforestation, I can relay it to him.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20419288
In general, yes, defense contractors are better. But they also have a old school thinking about compensation and equity, so it’s a trade off. Not sure about Palantir specifically though.
Contradicted by success of Entrepreneur First
I agree.

My first thought upon reading those was... my god, if that’s how I’d first learned it in 7th grade, it would have made so much more immediate, intuitive sense to me and the rest of the students!

We’re taught so many formulas where we don’t have the slightest intuitive idea of what the variables mean or the effect they have (unless we’re naturally really intuitively good at math, which only a very small proportion of students are).

But if they said it right in their name... that seriously would have been a game-changer for a lot of students, I think. A gigantic help for understanding how to connect formulas to practical word problems.
Most deferred payments don't take a previously agreed upon amount and apply interest to them though. They're usually agreed upon at the beginning of the contract and allow the team to get a discount on the total dollar figure via the time value of money.
So it started compounding in 2011 + the next 25yrs? Not when he signed the contract? Which means he’d need to not touch the money to get the full $29M amount

8% over 25yrs is a crazy good deal for anyone, not to mention on top of millions.
I dunno, given https://github.com/lexi-lambda/hackett/issues/98#issuecommen... (saw this when it was sent initially because watching the repo). Knowing one's limits is not necessarily imposter syndrome. If I were to acquire the knowledge (say by reading my recently acquired copy of TAPL), I'll revisit this.

Hackett pushes the boundaries of the Racket macro system, and IIRC through its development has found a number of deficiencies/bugs (I may be misremembering this, however, so don't take it as absolutely true). Besides that, Haskell is a rather complex language, so undertaking the creation of such a thing is no small task. And then we have the issue of
what my own personal knowledge is.

I really hope development once again takes off! Its such a cool project. But I know I wouldn't have the first clue of the right way to do certain things that I know are outstanding.

I thank you for your kind sentiments though!
Cooling the cells helps with efficiency too. A win-win-win all around if the salt doesn't corrode or clog.
>but all my friends are married with kids and have zero free time.

Then put yourself where they are. As a married friend with kids, I have made it clear to my friends without kids that if you want to hang out, we're headed to the pool or to a park with the kids for the most part. Occasionally we'll have time for adult nights, but because of our geography, childcare is hard to find. Some were okay with that and we're even closer friends now, and my kids call them 'Auntie' or 'Uncle'. Some were not, and we grew apart. Which has to be okay.

The moral of the story is, it's not their fault 100% that they're busy, and if their friendship is important, you should actively work on it. Like an adult. That's not meant to be as preachy as it maybe sounds.
spinlock seems mutex
I don't believe it is particularly pristine. At least in my corner of academia, everyone generally knows that it is black market as hell but they need to get their work done...

I would be somewhat unsurprised if they (probably not directly) (or people contributing logins to them) were buying hacked or compromised credentials for university VPNs, and culturally this seems to be kind of a norm in a few CIS countries - there are giant craigslist/ebay-like markets where people sell credentials like this, hacked game/google ads/twitch/google accounts "with warranty" for a dollar (the warranty is that they just give you another user/pass pair if the original owner resets it), etc., that are just considered normal to use -- they aren't on Tor or anything, just a regular site with regular payment processing, cards, PayPal, somehow for 99% stolen goods (crypto not required)
You're right that it uses itself as a prototype for decisions but the fact that it also maintains a probability distribution over possible hole cards and that it updates according to observed actions is already richer than the local decision only approach taking most all other bots. This is sort of forced by the simplicity of poker's action space combined with the large search space and imperfect information. Here, the simplicity ends up making things more difficult! They also use multiple play styles as "continuation strategies" so it's a bit more robust. And to be fair, I suspect much of human play does use themselves and experience as a substitute too.