skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Decentralised where if I don't agree with any rule or ownership changes, I can easily jump ship and take my content elsewhere without impacting any existing people who are connected to me.
>The usual threshold for poverty (for good reasons) is 50 or 60% of the median income in a country.

If you think half to 40% of people in the Congo are not in poverty you are delusional
A similar article with more information about the squirrel migration of 1968: https://mentalfloss.com/article/94069/great-squirrel-migrati.... And since the official links seem to be broken, here's someone's copy of the short research paper "The 1968 Squirrel 'Migration' in the Eastern United States":
http://www.myoutbox.net/flyger.htm. And to be complete, an article about the author of that paper: https://umdarchives.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/the-great-squir....
Self-Driving Companies Are Coming
Clearly, that referred to 'doing well on essays' correlating to good analytical thinkers. Which is does.
Creating a Low Power IoT Device needs a lot of optimisation... STM32 microcontroller, Quectel NB-IoT module, Apache_Mynewt OS, Embedded Rust application... Find out how I did it
I'm comparing it to applications that may have somewhat more reasons for slow startup times, like mentioned below in the thread (think: Photoshop, Maya, Unreal Engine, etc). Not a chat application.

I'm not saying Slack is not full-featured, but it's definitely not on the same scale as some of these other applications.
> However, it wouldn't surprise me one bit to find out that some of these companies complaining about getting banned are legitimately doing something wrong

The issue is that they're not being told what they did wrong, which instantly puts Google in the wrong as far as in concerned.
Is that what it's called? Its referred in neural net training as overtraining.
I use Bria, and it's decent. It supports push notifications for calls, which is necessary on iOS. The app costs money, but comes with excellent support if you run into issues. There are free and open source apps, and the quality of these are hit and miss.

The push notification necessitates the app sharing SIP credentials with Counterpath (the company that makes Bria), so it's good to have some fraud protection for the extension in Asterisk in the event that Counterpath gets breached. They are a publicly traded company, so hopefully they have decent security.
Only the bright-eyed and bushy-tailed may enter the meeting room.
Why does it seem bad to you? To me it seems like the fairest possible method, as long as the tests are reasonably accurate measures of competence.

The US method on the other hand where colleges try to assess “leadership” and other qualities of that nature makes no sense to me. What in the world do “leadership”, extracurricular activities, sports ability, etc. have to do with academic ability?

I guess it’s because in the US, college is seen as a way of sorting people into social classes, just as much as a place to actually learn something (or more). But a sane system shouldn’t care about having “well-rounded” students — it should optimize for having the best 100 students in physics in the country studying together from the best physicists, the best in history from the best historians, etc.

> Are these exams usually/mostly multiple choice?

No.
Here in Zürich, you see both kinds of allotment owners. Some are really serious about growing food, others (presumably living in apartments) just enjoy having a bit of a yard to kick back.
Is the USA tenable going forward? Your cost of everything, value of nothing culture appears to be very destructive.
Questions everyone should ask about microservices
> The idea of free and independent media is too important to throw it out because it may make a recession hit a bit earlier.

Who's suggesting that?

It might also be that the media starts talking recession after picking up some real world data that is predictive of recessions.
No offence but is this correct?

> We recently hit a peak of 850 Million notifications per second

per second?

From your blog "OnePush is fast - We've observed sustained deliveries up to 125,000/second and spikes up to 175,000/second."

I think you may have a typo. The bandwidth would be incredible too, if it were an unlikely 10 bytes per delivery that would be 8.5 GB/Sec.
What about Europe?
>The relationship violated Google’s policies which ban relationships between managers and their subordinates

Good luck with that.

I know a few couples with long and happy marriages that initially came out of manager-subordinate relationship.
The company doesn’t decide anything about relationships. It’s just deciding who is employed or not.
Maybe the solution is to just leave that cesspool that is Twitter? Seems like the harassment has less to do with being a minority and more with angering the Shitter mob which can happen to anyone.
This was quite educational, thanks!
That's cherry-picking. Of course everybody in the poorest country in the world, is in poverty.

But the usual measure of relative local wealth, works pretty good.
I'm not aware of any documentation that's all in one place. It all uses basic Asterisk functionality with FAGI scripts to do anything with advanced logic.
The mainstream press coverage of FR skin color failures has caused the FR industry to significantly enhance their algorithms. Any press still harping on this is beating a dead horse - or in this case a revived horse.
It seems tricky to argue that affairs between bosses and subordinates are destructive to tech companies, in a world where Bill Gates married a subordinate and Larry Page had an affair with one. I think the fight against "inappropriate" behavior at work is in large part driven by busybodies.
I haven't heard of a link between Firebird and PostgreSQL with regards to MVCC before. I remember using PostgreSQL 6.5 with MVCC on a project back in 1999, but Borland didn't open-source InterBase (as Firebird) until after that project. Are you saying PostgreSQL "pretty much copied" the concept of MVCC, or some specific implementation? I thought MVCC was decades old by 1999.
The implementation is not the issue; it is the awkward and fussy syntax. It is not a show-stopper -- I coped with it for a while -- but there are better alternatives.
How would Google differentiate between a subdomain or folder that I use on my website for a different purpose, and a leased subdomain? Given that they're describing this as "penalisation", and not just "treating the subpart as its own entity"?
Bill Gates comes to mind...
I think the reason that SSB isn't super well documented yet is probably because the protocol is still subject to change and not yet set in stone. I think Manyverse tweeted something about how SSB might get mutability and a delete propagation message in the future even.

Regarding "degrees of separation". I think it makes sense to have the degrees be

1. "I have met this person in real life, known them for a long time, and can confirm that they are who they say they are".

2. "I only know this person through the app, but we both like and respect each other and are friends"

3. This is either a 1st or 2nd degree relationship of one of my 1st or 2nd degree relationships.

So theoretically 1 and 2 are the same, the difference being you like scanned a physical QR code verifying 1 and know them IRL for example.

That way the degrees can double as a "web of trust" that serves as identity verification.
Interesting that it was so volatile even after crashing, I would otherwise expect that things poised to go BOOM would do that in a crash rather than during recovery.

Apparently some independent russian media reported claims that the explosion happened during recovery some weeks ago, maybe that's that account is the basis for this intelligence assessment.

Original source for the posted article is CNBC: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/29/intel-says-russian-explosion...
Refuses to pay at times is different than never paided anything. The legal cost to recoupe one misse payment may not be worth it.
Looking forward to enough Rust adoption that people stop seeing it as a magic bullet. Once it's in large scale use and there are still errors that lead to security problems maybe people will get over themselves.
Something I've been looking for - the discovery of podcast episodes. Excited to see what this can grow into.
I used to think of gardening and allotments as a rather innocuous activity, something rather green that was good for all involved. But in the last year I've come to realize that it isn't environmentally sound.

(1) Plastics and pesticides. They are over-used by gardeners as opposed to commercial farmers. Even without chemicals, the plastics pots, bags and other devices all end up in landfills. Those innocuous black pots cannot be properly recycled due to their colour and gardeners seem unwilling to shift to more sustainable options, even more sustainable colours of pots that could be more easily recycled.

(2) Peat. Until yesterday I was unaware of the carnage being done to peat bogs. The BBC's Tonight program just showed me footage of the open-pit peat mines that are literally strip-mining peat bogs to feed Britain's gardening hobby. The environmental and climate damage done by destroying peat bogs, giant CO2 sinks, is immense.

Footage of an Estonian peat mine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXr0z3h1Cig

(3) Water. Home gardens and allotments get their water from municipal sources. Municipal water is far more expensive than the water used on farms, and municipal sources lack the capacity to provide the acer-feet necessary to grow substantial amounts of food. That means allotments, urban farming, is an unsustainable food source. The carrot bought at costco was grown using river/lake water. The carrot grown behind someone's house used municipal water, and probably far more of it. The costco carrot is the more sustainable option.

So I've changed my mind about gardening. It is not an environmental net positive. It might be great for the health of the people doing it, but it isn't helping the climate. It isn't as bad as drag racing but is far worse than hiking. It is an environmentally costly hobby that should be approached with caution.
Sounds like the usual crybully story again. Nazis, sexists everywhere, etc. pp.

The usual assertions without evidence are presented. Bad journalism in my opinion and people I basically view as crazy persons were proved to be correct again. Nice work.
Yes, but the decoupling of living space and yard is vastly more space efficient. It keeps the city walkable, and nobody is forced to pay for more yard than they want.
Top Strangest Beaches in the World
The CEOs from HP, Lockheed, Intel, Boeing and a bunch of other not as well know companies have been fired for an affair.

If I worked for an executive that was having an affair I’d want them fired.

It tells a lot about a company that allowed Manangers to date employees. According to the article they allowed it and then outright banned it later.
Not responsive enough when changing pages. Too much tech crammed in to ramp up the price of something essentially worth $15. Navigation is unintuitive, it's hard to get stuff on the device. Not all formats are supported by all readers and PDF support isn't what it should be. I can't turn pages with either my left or my right hand, no easy switching beween books and if you've got more books on there than the average person, like maybe 70, you're already screwed to find what you want to switch to reading at the moment quickly.
Tweet for defenders on how to spot the sites: https://twitter.com/craiu/status/1167358457344925696
The Netscape rewrite was a complete tossing of the codebase, starting from scratch on virtually every component of the web browser and internal implementation details. It wasn't the start of the troubles, but it did make things worse.

Mozilla isn't doing that today. The current code is being "slowly but surely improved," and the use of Rust is largely happening only in new components (and not all new components are being written in Rust!). There's very little gratuitous conversion of C++ code to Rust.
Yeah, Uber blocked my GV number.
> Unintended consequences are rampant.

Breaking up AT&T into regional bell operating companies[1] (the ILEC thing) was a very stupid decision in hindsight. I don't know what actually happened. Did AT&T simply have smarter people than the US Government did?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System
https://xkcd.com/592/
I think relationships between people who report to each other are problematic. Affairs, marriages , relationships doesn’t matter. The rest don’t cause as many problems.
Would making a new db with the new structure and essentially importing the old data be a reasonably speedy activity?
>That seems like a sensible corporate policy

What the heck? Hell no, it's not a 'sensible corporate policy'. It completely counteracts human nature. People will get into relationships. People who spend most of their time at work, will meet other people at work. A big faceless corp shouldn't dictate personal relationships.

A sensible policy would ask that the couple disclose their relationship to HR so provisions can be made so that others under the manager don't feel like the subordinate in the relationship is getting preferential treatment. You can do that and have policies for that. You can also move the manager or the subordinate to another team.

Why are we OK with these corporations meddling in the private lives of their ADULT employees? Why are there calls for more meddling by certain segments of activists?
No ARM-like revenue based royalties, and broadly supported, including mainline Linux kernel support. So, companies like Western Digital are all in. And, if someone makes an "open source" CPU with it, to match the open source ISA, it's a win for trusted computing.

Also popular here because some folks imagine a new ecosystem of cheap Rpi type boards with no magical binary blobs. See, for example, lowrisc.org (though they seem far from shipping)
Ask HN: Will I be able to talk to a human if I move from Google to Apple?
I've been a "Google" guy since I started using the Internet. Gmail, Android, Drive and Google Photos. I even have a G Suite account (the legacy, free one).

However, I'm frustrated with some problems that I have had and specifically the fact that it was absolutely impossible to reach anyone. Also, I have read some horror stories about losing data and other problems.

So, my question is: if I migrate from Google to Apple (phone, photos...), which I don't know exactly what's the best way to do it and it will be painful, will I be able to talk to a human from Apple support? Assuming I would buy an iPhone and even pay for an iCloud subscription.

"Apple guys" from HN, if you have a problem with iCloud, for instance, can you easily talk to a human? What's your experience?
Maybe it would be easier to test the teachers than the students then?
Huh? Robocallers fake the caller ids, I can fake any European number that I want. Even without faking I can claim an European number without any verification.

For an example what prevents me as an American to get a British or polish number?
People will inevitably have relationships. There's power in relationships. Power corrupts. So its a problem.

But banning them is nonsense. It's meaningless. How about a proactive rule that defines the outcome: e.g. if you have a relationship with a superior in your department, then you are switched to a different department.

Now everybody understand the playing field, and can choose, and some of the undesirable outcomes are minimized.
Emerald Tablet
Then as now, it seems...

There's a typo in the book name, it should be "Men" (mostly)
That depends, does marketing anti-depressants on TV count as slimy? I would say it does.
It's the new thing.

I don't think it is significantly better than existing ones (including the now fully open source mips). And it is already significantly fragmented.

But it's the new thing and where the mindshare currently is. Many new ideas are tested on risc-v, and there exist multiple open source implementations.
The huge pressure would only be needed during manufacturing no?
Flagged. This would be a great article for Valleywag, but it's not what I come to HN for.
Combination of simplicity (at least before you start adding extensions), and good software support. It's easy to understand like the old 8-bit ISAs, but you can still use modern compilers.
What particularly bugs me are the false claims that say using RISC-V will make you more secure.
#GatersGonnaGate

On a more serious tone: this level of "I'm offended by []" is actually becoming counter productive. It's pushing talented, good people, with controversial lifestyle/opinion out of open source, out of the very thing that, in theory, should welcome contributions from anyone as long as it's technically sound and clear. (Related read I found this morning: https://mikkel.hoegh.org/2017/04/18/why-i-care-about-drupal-... )

Can we please go back to the nobody knows you're a dog times with pseudonyms and everything?

EDIT: "nobody knows you're a dog" requires the one behind the pseudonym to stay faceless and the community accept that anyone can be behind a pseudonym and approach the contribution/work/etc without assumptions. It's hard. It's never been properly done, but maybe it's time for this.
> Will the rise of virtual beings be the next step in the human quest for immortality?

To the subject, a digital copy others can speak to is about as useful as a statue, i.e. not at all. What’s the point in “questing” for immortality you can’t experience?
The Human Predicament
This guy was attacked for having a picture where he used the OK sign a year ago? Everyone knows what the OK sign means and it isn’t “white power” except in a 4chan meme. And only people who are heavily plugged into politics know about that meme, normal people keep using the symbol for what it’s always meant. Context is key with any hand symbol.

I read the whole article and there didn’t seem to be any evidence of white supremacy either? Just an assertion that “move fast and break things” is somehow connected and similar other vague statements.
You can always walk into the Apple Store where they have the Genius bar.
Multiple releases a day? How is that reasonable?
I had a problem with buying an iOS app after switching to a new computer, the credit card was put on hold, and I called Apple support. Super friendly, they waited patiently until I reentered all information to make sure it worked before ending the call.
Here in Hamburg in my region 150-300qm is possible.
> Can you substantiate "bigotry" or are you satisfied with just dropping the insult?

The title of this article on Prospect Magazine is a crystal clear example of that. I agree that brexit will probably have bad economic consequences. Yet, openly calling the brexiters "nazis" is an insult to intelligence and an example of bigotry, besides being really counter-productive. Imagine that you are a "moderate" brexiter, not fanatically sure about it. Then you see an army of journalists that call you a nazi because of that. Will this steer you away from wanting the brexit?
The solution is to leave the cesspool that is JavaScript. For some reason these sorts of "scandals" only happen with Node.js, React and other JS libraries.
While we should generally just be nice to each other and we should discourage harassment, this article doesn't seem to present much in the form of evidence of harassment and is mostly tweets of people apologizing for things, and as someone who is not a member of the React community, I'm not sure what for.
Arm license cost is nothing compared to what they have invested in testing and QA. One round of asic that fails is significantly more expensive.

If you are jumping on risc-v to save money you have your priorities very wrong. On the other hand if you are Huawei and can't do business with arm...
The Flatiron building is literally one block away from Madison Square Park...
I wonder if other industries ever experience the same thing - like a carpenter convention that veers off into an argument about whether the screwdriver community is a white supremacist capitalist patriarchy?
Someone would need to make the case for them.

AFAIK neither Ada nor BetterC prevent memory safety bugs like Rust does... for example it appears neither of them prevent use-after-free of dynamic heap allocations, a pretty common sort of exploitable memory safety bug.
I like to point that Mario Draghi, the head of the European Central Bank, with the notable task to deal with Greece's debt problem, used to be at the head of Goldman Sach's division responsible of the loans toward countries exactly at the time when Greece was cooking its books.
I think we're both saying the same things.

I said in my response to abiro that "easily accommodated minority preferences are often accommodated". Which is obviously true.

But that is a very inane and obvious claim, and not at all what NNT is saying. He claims the minority will "win" and that is not a claim he's able to support in any meaningful way. Unless we're redefining the the word "win" to mean something totally new and different, I think he's overstating his case.
Maybe, but I would actually argue with the assumption that an image editor is somehow inherently (allowed to be) “more complicated and/or slow” than a productivity app.

Or, more simply: Slack (and other similar products) are not just “chat applications”.
I can't understand why vaccinations aren't mandatory for non-allergic, non-immunocompromised children at this point. You shouldn't have the option to kill your kid, and especially others' kids.
> It's easy to understand like the old 8-bit ISAs

Oh that's kinda cool. Playing with 8-bit processors is what first got me interested in low level computing and helped a lot of things "click" for me
In 2007 I had a summer job as a gopher/assistant for a residential real estate appraiser. I remember thinking being an appraiser was an amazing gig when I started the summer and was entertaining the idea of staying on during the school year as a practicum rather than going back immediately. We were doing two houses a day, every day. Turning away work. Some appraisers were grinding, doing three a day even (figure about four hours each if you're working fast but actually doing the work). Baseline fee for a residential appraisal then was $300 for houses worth less than $1 million. The opportunity to earn $900/day is a heady notion for a broke college student, especially given you just had to measure people's houses, take pictures, look up comps, and file some paperwork. By the time I went back to school, we couldn't rely on even one house on a given day. I didn't have any insight about the overall situation (i.e. there were plenty of reasonable explanations, maybe the lender found someone willing to give them more favorable appraisals, etc), but the effect was pronounced.
What's the actual instance of prejudice, harassment that is being reported? I saw a lot of very serious accusations in the article (the kind that is capable of ruining a carreer), but no links or screencaps of the actual wrongdoing.
JOOQ 3.12 Released with a New Procedural Language API
Uber didn’t lose $5B in cash. They lost $1.3B in cash at most. Stock based compensation is a cost, but different than straight up losing money.
Linus' opinion on Ada (vs Rust):

> We've had the system people who used Modula-2 or Ada, and I have to say Rust looks a lot better than either of those two disasters.

From: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3109150/linux-at-25-linus-...
> You can also move the manager or the subordinate to another team

This is the common solution, at which point there is no longer a relationship between a manager and a subordinate (so no need to change the policy).
That assumption lacks justification when the scoring does not actually measure analytical thinking. Any statistical evidence for it is suspect as a predictor of future outcomes when a high score can more easily be gamed than 'honestly' achieved.
Honestly, no. It's not.

Granted I already have a very fatalistic view on my future already so take my opinion with a grain of salt.