skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, that's the sort of bullshit that media has always pulled.

Give equal time to both sides, even when one side is blatantly full of shit. It's ridiculous.
Because Apple is notorious for using outdated libraries in macOS, like OpenGL. They included Python, but it was never a real focus to stay up to date since it was primarily to support legacy software.

With that said, Apple will not be including Python (or the other scripting languages like Ruby or Perl) at all starting with Catalina.
I wholeheartedly agree, but Bolsonaro has made it so that every step in that direction is extraordinarily difficult. There is a fund (Amazon Fund) that both provided material resources to IBAMA[1] and financed sustainable economic practices. Earlier this year, the government fired the board of directors of that fund and ended its transparency efforts. The money mostly came from the Norwegian and German governments, to the tune of about US$1.2 billion total[2]. Now both countries have stopped donating to the fund[3]. When Macron offered US$ 22m to help with the fires, Bolsonaro responded by first accusing him of being a “colonialist”[4]. He then proceeds to call Macron's wife ugly because WHY NOT?[5]. His finance minister, who was supposed to be one of the more moderate forces in this government, repeats the insult in a conference[6]

This was all “free money”, only strings attached was oversight of its usage

1: Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources, one of two federal agencies in charge of conservation

2: http://www.amazonfund.gov.br/en/donations/

3: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/16/norway-halts-a...

4: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/27/world/americas/brazil-ama...

5: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/26/macron-rebukes...

6: https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/business/2019...
Bloomberg mentioned that Neumann probably cost himself tens, if not hundreds, of millions of dollars because of the huge negative impact of that clause, given that most of his wealth is tied up in WeWork stock. And then he ended up cancelling the deal anyways.
You mean turn down free money be being less evil? Somehow I don't expect this to be the case.
Assuming the post AB 5 system essentially has rideshare workers agree to take 2-4 hour "shifts" (just a guess based on the easiest adaptation and how Amazon's delivery system works), the 45 minutes of idle time would be paid for by the company the driver agreed to work the shift for. Needless to say, such a system would heavily incentivize Uber and Lyft to avoid having drivers sitting in airport lots.
It is possible to make secure operating systems, doing so has been discouraged since the demise of multics.

A sense of futility is now endemic to the Information Technology community, because they think such a thing is impossible, they won't even try, and actively deride anyone who states otherwise.

The security research required to build multi-level secure operating systems was completed in response to information processing requirements during the Vietnam conflict... there are multiple models which work... none of which are implemented.

It doesn't have to be this way... look up capability based security.
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I don't think HN User "vfc1" read the article.

That happens with troubling frequency on HN.
Also, Universal Resume Template is better for print and pdf.
I definitely felt like Berlin was way behind Paris on bike lane quality, but I did appreciate the number of intersections that have been half blocked by pillars, to make streets less conducive to any other kind of through traffic.

I rented a Vespa while I was there, which was a great way to get around, but I was blown away by how many times cars sped by me in a hurry from behind. It’s rare to ever see a car get going >30mph (~50kph) in San Francisco, whereas some Berlin streets felt more like freeways. I wouldn’t have enjoyed being on a bicycle in some of those situations.
I should have specified "MFA with an authentication app" I suppose.
Trunked radio systems, as used by police, firefighters and EMS worldwide are not peer-to-peer. You transmit to the trunk, it relays to people in your selected group. All radios rely on a control signal from the trunk for determining where to send and when to listen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trunked_radio_system
What makes you think that's the case?
That's survivor bias though, isn't it?

There are a ton of bad ideas and companies that sink all the time. WeWork isn't new or unique in this regard, for reasons you described.

Just because you see a boat sink doesn't mean the other floating boats are going to start sinking as well.
Im pretty sure if you made an app that would pay people a dime for every piece of trash they picked up, Delhi would just have even more cobras.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect
while your statement is technically true, the sa is the most disgusting state in the world. IMHO ideologically even farther from western democracies then north korea is
Agreed. Grow at all costs is what incubates the "fail fast" approach, which I, personally, disagree with. There's a reason why you need to spend most of your time designing and architecting and jump to implementation only when the viability of the solution has been justified. And part of this justification has to be a solid business model that has a clear road to profits. And a path to profit that's not decades away. As things stand, it looks like most startups want to exit through an acquisition and not ever have to talk profits.
It's 11-12 years to try and slow things down enough. That's not exactly the same but it could end up effectively the same.

> It seems like anything even remotely threatening the climate change gospel is treated just as the Catholic Church treated heretics centuries ago.

Except one side is based on broad scientific consensus and the other is based on your precious GEOTUS and corporate cronies who would rather see the human race dead than any threat to profits.
I'd argue that hooks didn't really make anything better, they just replaced the pitfalls with different obtuse pitfalls and unergonomic solutions.

Hooks have their share of weird issues; they explode if they're called in a different order/number from how they were called the first time the component rendered (making them not at all pure functions), and it's super easy to screw up the dependency array to useMemo/useCallback (so either your hook is useless and re-installs the event handler on every render, or you get stupid "the callback had a stale copy of the state" bugs not possible with class-components).

I've also seen my fair share of situations where what would have been a this.setState with a callback becomes a tangled mess of useStates and useEffects, or someone bends over backwards to try and avoid re-installing an event handler every time one of the props or state variables it uses changes.
Some business models don't work unless they're a decent size, like marketplaces and social networks. Beyond that I generally agree. E.g. MoviePass, huge growth but no revenue. There are probably some good companies mixed in with the lemons but with the inverted yield curve etc. it's clear the tide is going to to go out sometime.
Learning to drive in your 70s should't be that hard. From what I understood by reading the blog post, older people want features not feature phones. Do you want to be able to learn and have access to whatever is the latest tech when you're in your 70s?
There are valid reasons to invest in a company that doesn't make profit now, but will in the future. Almost every business has this phase - it could be short (a lawnmower company that goes 5k in the hole for equipment) or big (a company with an idea to revolutionize the DVD to consumer marketplace, that starts operating at a loss until they build up the required customerbase).

Now, the big issue is that everyone thinks they're the company that's just operating at a loss right now, until they get the big break and start pulling in gigantic profit. That's simply not true for every startup, and right now I think we see VC is far too optimistic. But we don't want all the VC money to dry up, as then those companies that truly do have an amazing idea, that really will revolutionize their industry, will not not be able to get the necessary VC money to get past the unprofitable phase.
Is what IBM thinks really relevant these days?
I just read the Wikipedia article on the Canadian Shield but it’s not immediately obvious to me why it would be bad to develop on. Is it the thin topsoil basically?
Employees will move to the UK/US/AU out of EU if Google moves out. There's no need to be second sort at a local low-paying EU firm if you can work at a company in a country that actually values your talent.
How much are those subsidies? Would it really be enough to raise the price sufficiently to drive change?
I agree, WSGI has always seemed fine to me.

About the only nitpick I can think of is that dealing with large streams of data (say a user-agent uploading a big file) without either the web server / or the WSGI side of things reading the whole thing into memory or buffering it on disk can be a pain.
You cherry picked a part of OPs post. The rest of it is a reasonable argument. You can refute it or otherwise you’re clinging to an emotional argument and not rational one.
> If LinkedIn doesn't want automated access to their data because it is too much of a load on their servers, then they should be required to ban ALL automated access, including Google's bots. Of course they want Google's bots because that sends them traffic.

By that logic, I should have access to linked premium features for free. Why should linkedin give more data to people who pay?
Maybe you should tell Alice to work for her billion instead of running scams and treating the company like a piggy bank.

Maybe we should just not have anyone worth a billion dollars.
It actually reminds me of $scope.$watch from Angular 1.
That seems really odd. The employees who have these cards are often expected to spend multiple times their yearly salary on company business. Personal guarantees simply wouldn’t work.
As a non-EU'er, the anti-trust stuff is sure hard to separate from the promoting EU companies stuff and EU politicians certainly treat it that way.

Let's see Vestager take action against Airbus after the WTO finds against them this fall and I'll be more convinced. Maybe they'll even take on VW Group.
> Finance serves an important purpose.

Does it?
America is about as predictable in this sense as it comes, you can speculate all you want about what would have happened if they had left the Middle East but that universe is not the one we live in.
I disagree that it's irrelevant to the context. They're drawing a comparison between threats the reader might know about and one the reader might not know about.
That's a confusion born of not spending enough time hanging out with sneaky folks doing shady shit.

I remember that in the 90s, the local PD had learned that some folks would listen to scanner traffic to figure out when their rowdy parties were going to be broken up, so everyone could hide and make the scene look calm by the time officers arrived. So they stopped using voice radios for this sort of call, and instead switched to their Mobile Data Terminals.

Which was even better, because MDTMON had an alert feature where it'd sound the PC speaker when your keywords (say, your street name) showed up in the decoded traffic. That freed up one partygoer from scanner duty!

POCSAG/FLEX were even more of a treasure trove, but that's a story for another day.
I'm pretty sure Uber are still losing money, and have never shown evidence of positive unit-margin, so I'm not sure they can afford this.
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the nazi salute one is pretty cut and dry... its not really funny and it is offensive according to law.

the interesting case is the rap lyrics, because those are published across the internet, media, TV, cd sleeves with lyrics in etc.

Why aren't they in the prosecutions line of sight?

I may complain about a rappers use of offensive language to my local police station to see if i can get kanye in court
hence GPT-2 or its near successors are not dangerous

FWIW, my post that's linked here doesn't claim that GPT-2 won't have dangerous successors, just that GPT-2 itself is not very dangerous, and that this doesn't vary much with the model size. The point is not about the five-to-ten-year trajectory of natural language generation research, which could go all sorts of unexpected places -- indeed, GPT-2 itself was such an "unexpected place" from the perspective of a few years ago. The point is a narrower one about OpenAI's staged release plan, which assumed different levels of risk, or at least different prior distributions over risk, for different sizes of the same model.

I agree that

Architectures that tune text creation to create clickbait titles with underlying goals are going to get worked on and thought about and tested

but that is a distinct discussion, one about future research milestones enabled by the relative success of generation by sampling from transformer LMs. My claim is that significant further milestones will be necessary (not that they won't happen); there are big and relevant limitations on sampling from currently existing transformer LMs, and simply making the transformer LMs bigger does not remove these. In particular, these limitations make it unlikely to be cost-effective to make clickbait or propaganda by curating and cleaning samples from such a model.

If you doubt this, I'd encourage you to actually go through the exercise: imagine you want to generate a lot of text of some sort for a specific real-world purpose that would otherwise require human writers, and try out some strategy of sampling, curation, and (optionally) fine-tuning with one or more of the available GPT-2 sizes. If your experience is like mine, you'll draw the same conclusion I've drawn. If not, the results would be fascinating and I would honestly love to see them written up (and OpenAI might as well).
This is hilarious, and I love it. It makes me really, really nostalgic.
Hence the US strategy of developing local oil extraction (fracking etc.). Reduce dependence on the middle east and thus the power of totalitarian regimes. Too bad EU isn't following suit (to the extent they can).
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> I’ve been offered as much as $50,000 for it.

What was he doing with it that it wasn't worth taking the money?
If that page has a single example with a diagram in it, I have yet to find it.
Wireguard is an excellent choice. Much simpler and faster (lower CPU, according to my bench-marks). It's also much better on windows, as it doesn't have to use the crufty old tun/tap driver. It's smooth and easy cross-platform, and so much simpler than openvpn.
Thanks for writing this. I'm sorry for your loss.
Good stuff! Lots of jobs get posted on Twitter, and so it seems worthwhile to dig them out.

Twitter could probably make a tidy sum providing such a service themselves. In a way, it's a bit weird that they haven't. Or, it's a sound strategy to stay focused on the main service, who knows.
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Ask HN: Good Idea to Build Web Apps with Polymer Today?
I've inherited a Polymer application that is a little out of date and I've been coming up to speed on it and also looking at upgrade paths to the latest version.

The application isn't too big so migrating to something else would be possible and I'm trying to weigh my options here.

I'm hoping to hear from people who have built or currently developing Polymer applications and others who've investigated using it but decided against.

I have some concerns about continuing to use Polymer however because the documentation feels pretty bad, compared to other web frameworks. The testing suite they implemented I'm not sure really if it's stagnated or not (web-component-tester) and overall there doesn't seem to be a lot of development on Polymer in general.

I've heard a lot about web components and how "they're the future" talk on here, but I also only ever here Polymer mentioned when there's a web assembly or web components topic posted on here so the usage feels rather small (I've spent most of my time developing React applications for context).

I do really like how portable web components are. It's much easier to write up a web component than it is a react or vue component and the ability to port those around the application is very convenient.

Thanks for any feedback!
What's the problem with that? He's talking about the future, where hypersonic missiles will be a reality. Anti-missile defences like the Phalanx CIWS have a range of only a couple of miles. A theoretical missile flying at Mach 20 will cover that range in less than half a second, making it extremely difficult to shoot down. A Phalanx only fires at 50 rounds per second. We're talking about a few dozen bullets on target which have got to shred or detonate the warhead or else it's going to head.

Granted we are not at mach 20 missiles or even mach 5 missiles yet, but this is an article about the future, after all.
Fish, yes, but it doesn't help with global warming. The problem is that while you sequester a lot of carbon you end up converting some of the carbon from CO2 to CH4--and that's a much stronger greenhouse gas.
Isn't that why Zuck invented Facebook in the first place?
> Making a transaction this large is a security risk. It effectively establishes a billion dollar bounty for any party who can rewrite enough blocks to erase it.

This is incorrect. It creates a billion dollar bounty only for the sender if they want to commit fraud by effectively reversing the transaction and trying to double-spend the coins by sending them elsewhere.

Anyone with 94k BTC would probably be harming themselves by simply driving the value of BTC to almost 0 by performing such an attack. It would be extremely obvious to everyone once this transaction was reversed due to a chain reorg.
Ask HN: What Is Salesforce Developer Future?
Hi there,

While being an active SFDC developer for the past several years I have been struggling with one question: What future do SFDC devs have?
I know that Salesforce tries to improve their system from each release, but at some point, you understand that everything is similar - making forms and fighting with limits. How to improve yourself to be better and more valuable on this market?
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11 years or we miss the stated target. A target the IPCC has assessed as important for preserving a manageable and comfortable way of life as we know it. Not 11 years and game over scrolls up the screen.

Al Gore didn't say we would be underwater by now either.
Michael Bloomberg launches $160M initiative to ban flavored e-cigarettes
That's great to hear people have donated over PayPal, and I suppose it is cool that you think of it less like a way to make a living and more like a hobby. Great job!
I could read things like that when I had no kids.
She's literally EU's Donald Trump except she follows through with protectionist threats. You can only bite the hand that's feeding you for so long.
> The last time we had such a shift, in 2000

Nah. This happened again in 2008.
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I wonder what would it take for the user (company) to choose the materials of the card (like wood etc)?
Hey Patrick, could you elaborate more on hiring in nascent product areas? What does making it easier actually entail compared to hiring in more established areas of Stripe?
I'm pretty sure a lot of people would lose trust in the whole ecosystem from such a thing happening and/or not want to use it anymore.
Congratulations, you are part of the problem :)
This type of answer is on par with "The earth won't die, only humans, the earth will be fine!". That's great, but we're kinda focusing on humans, and being pedantic will not help the situation.

1/ Temperatures raising by 5 degrees in europe, or midwest US will mean droughts, because many of the plants we cultivate will not have the time to adapt and will plain die.

2/ The "alarmist" rethoric has been held back every time, because people like you would say that scientists are exaggerating. Exxon predictions from the 70s are being confirmed. Every single study that you read in journals for the past ten years about climate change only shows the lowest bound, because people cannot handle urgency. And every single time, without fail, it reaches the higher bound or worse.

3/ People won't adapt because people will _die_. We're not talking small deaths. We're talking tens of thousands because of heat waves, millions due to famine. When half of Africa is going to be knocking at Europe's doorstep because their countries are becoming inhabitable, do you think everything will be smooth?

4/ Bringing more people out of poverty has been the main reason why we're in such a crazy state of things. Yes, China has lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, and I'm glad. But at what cost?

5/ So, your solution is to say fuck it, it's gonna change, keep driving SUVs and make Earth a living hell, we're gonna adapt anyways.

People will _die_ from such ways of thinking. Hope your conscience won't be too bothered.
Makes sense! For the eventual blog post, I'd be particularly interested in hearing how you decide which small bets to make (e.g. did Corporate Cards start from an employee saying "I want to go work on this"? An internal new-products strategy team? An executive?), and what structures you have in place for deciding when to invest more heavily in a bet.

We are trying to figure out how to do this at Clever, and I know others like Segment (https://segment.com/blog/finding-product-market-fit-again/) are thinking about this as well, so hopefully we can start putting together some advice on how to create an "engine" for layering new products onto an established platform.
Some of your statements are false: https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/fl-reg-imran-awan...

Though the earlier reporting on the matter makes it clear why some people may have had the impression you have:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/08/08/th...
I commute with an app called Scoop between Bellevue and Seattle. Many people who drive using that app, especially between Seattle and the east side, do it so they can recoup the cost of the 520 toll while also being able to drive in the HOV lane.

I don’t think it’s a stretch at all that I might drive for Uber in the morning and take a passenger or two that’s on my way across 520.

It’s comical how confidently you speak on this matter.
> not all hooks break pureness

Sure, if you define a function called useWhatever that doesn't actually call any hooks, that might be a pure function. But the restrictions described in https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-rules.html are not restrictions that pure functions have.
Independently of what they may or may not have done, Cloudflare is one company. Tunneling everyone’s data through one company creates an enormous concentration of power, i.e. putting all the world’s privacy eggs in one basket, so to speak.
WeWork is a successful company worth a lot of money. Is it worth $47b? Likely not. But all except the last investors are likely to do well, and deservedly so.
Nice story, as 20 something, i'm currently just graduated college at developing country. I 'm read most of stuff, learn the thing online, my english is not good to write. And i'm struggling too. I don't know what i've should do, i'm reading too much of book. Now i'm seeking a relationship, that will force me to find the job to nurturing. So what a mess, i'll be fine in the future, will I!
The article does not explain why losing the Amazon would have an large effect on global climate, it just makes this assertion. Why would it?
But all of these are in python 3 too?