skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw an NYT piece about profits mattering again in Silicon Valley: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/technology/silicon-valley...

I don't quite agree that this is actually what the issue is lately. I think there have been two types of bubbles in the general startup ecosystem over the past few years that are not related to whether early stage startups are profitable:

1) One has been the under-estimating of unit economics in companies that interact with the real world (unlike pure software companies), which caused a lot of 'Uber-for-X' startups to go under, not to mention Uber itself struggling to maintain its hoped-for valuation.

2) The second aspect has been the influx of late-stage money into companies like Uber and WeWork, delaying IPOs, which has definitely caused some irrational exuberance in the sector.
>it is necessary to construct and reinforce so arbitrary an apparatus as copyright to substantially stymie the tremendous potential information exchange of computer networks.

It makes sense when you consider that information is generated in the first place for an incentive, and that incentive is only possible when copyright guards it. People are more than free to create public information if they choose to do so (and they do), but some people generate valuable information mostly for the purpose of profiting from it and the copyright framework tries to ensure that it will be worth their time when they attempt to create such information. Would you rather they didn't have the option which would result in the effort not being expended to generate such information? With copyright, you at least have the option to obtain it if you deem the price tag (set by the creator) fits the value you'll get from it.

There is no central authority that copyrights information that people generate. You make it sound like there is some evil force in the world that prevents people from creating freely accessible information. There isn't. You're free to create freely accessible information. There are creators that choose to limit access to the information that they generate and I don't understand how someone can argue that it is unfair that they have an option to do so if they choose.
What you mean "printing"?
From the article: There are 66 individual fabrication steps to make this chip and it takes approximately 12 hours for a full run.
Automate all 66 fabrication steps into a fully integrated device is not exactly trivial.
it is, but I know a fair amount of people on older distros - ubuntu 16.04, 18.04, etc... whom may have some flags available but not mitigations=off which is a more recent addition
Not sure about that... Business in China is controlled by the government. It's entirely plausibly to install an airhead frontman to appease YouTube and Western audiences.
this is not very simple. sound doesn't just "stop" at a certain point; it dissipates until a specific sound can't be heard over the noise floor. the only realistic approach is to set a dB level that can't be exceeded for a sustained duration. this is how the law already works in most localities; it just isn't enforced unless you really nag the police.
Plenty of companies selling medical and industrial control equipment with Windows 10 or Qt based UIs.

And a big bunch of Fortune 500 buying consulting for internal applications.

So if you want names just pick random companies from Fortune 500 list, whose main business is completely unrelated to selling software packages.

And again, .NET Framework and .NET Core, are as we say in Portugal, sand out of the same bag, .NET.

Finally, Azure runs on Hyper-V, not Linux.
A paradigm/framework analogy: Cars are great, but you probably don't need a car ferry just to cross the water. And sometimes a bike is better then a car in a car trailer.
Again, I know you know this stuff - you were involved in the discussion when it was posted here.

As mentioned, I spent the last 5 years doing Forms/WPF/UWP, and there is plenty of work there.

There were also jobs for Windows CE developers in 2015 after MS abandoned it in 2007, would that have been a good career move?

Microsoft said that they are only focusing on compatibility with Windows for .Net framework going forward and they will be adding features to .Net Core that won’t be ported to .Net Framework.

https://www.itwriting.com/blog/11291-state-of-microsoft-net-...

This is now changing. Microsoft has shifted its position so that .NET Framework is in near-maintenance mode and that new features come only to .NET Core. Last month, Microsoft’s Damian Edwards stated that ASP.NET Core will only run on .NET Core starting from 3.0, the next major version.

From the C# program manager.

Async streams, indexers and ranges all rely on new framework types that will be part of .NET Standard 2.1. As Immo describes in his post Announcing .NET Standard 2.1, .NET Core 3.0 as well as Xamarin, Unity and Mono will all implement .NET Standard 2.1, but .NET Framework 4.8 will not. This means that the types required to use these features won’t be available when you target C# 8.0 to .NET Framework 4.8.
That will take something like 20000 transistors.
The Good Shopping Guide – An Ethical Comparison Site for Consumers
16-bit applications?? Of course I don't expect Monkey Island 2 released 30 years ago to work on Windows 10, it would be nice but is easy to conclude it wouldn't work without even trying; what is being talked about here are game released few years ago and even just last year for mac.
I think some interesting takeaways from reading this article in 2019 are:

- One "black swan" doesn't happen twice. Though Taleb would disagree, i.e. he'd say that neither the dot-com bubble nor the 2008 crash were black swan events, but for most investors, entrepreneurs and traders they were. In any case, we are somehow immune to big random negative-impact events repeating themselves. We are not that stupid. The Bubble 2.0 didn't happen though something else, unrelated, did.

- The predictions of the time assumed that Internet was there forever. Very soon a dramatic landscape shift happened with the release of the iPhone. We are not living in a purely Internet era anymore, and all the surviving Internet megacorps have managed to embrace the shift (Google, even Facebook with its Messenger), and those who haven't are dead (Yahoo, and probably more to come).

- What we think will happen next is probably wrong. We can't even say whether there will be another technological shift or both the Internet and the mobile are here virtually forever. Something that has already failed can make a come back. In 2007 Taleb mocked e-scooters, for example, now look at their impressive comeback. He also thought in 2007 that Google will be replaced with something else just as quickly and abruptly as Google replaced Alta Vista. Bottom line: don't try to make arbitrary unsubstantiated assumptions even if your name is Nassim Nicholas Taleb. We suck at predictions.

- I think one key difference between entrepreneurs and investors is that the former don't try to make predictions much, while the latter depend on predictions. One corollary being that entrepreneurs should probably ignore the buzz or what the most funded tech is at any given point in time (something-dot-com, IoT, blockchain, AR, AI, ...) and just do their thing: bring their dreams into life regardless of what everyone else is saying.
Makes one wonder what's the procedure and how long it takes to get the money back.

Either way, it can't be a good experience to be stranded with no card, no bank account, and the bit of money you had all frozen indefinitely.
Can't you avoid the fumes of ABS using ASA? I thought that ASA it's same to print without enclosure.
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if you care, you might talk to building management about this. I also live in a building with a garage and there is a very strict "no idling" rule. it's bad to have unnecessary CO emissions in a somewhat enclosed area in the first place, but it can also set off the detector and then everyone has to evacuate the building.
My flat in Stockholm, Sweden was built within the last year, the landlord cheaped out on things like stoves but the damn walls are THICK. Maybe it’s necessary for our winters, but it really gets it quiet. Also cellphone coverage is near zero away from the windows. I guess it’s quiet in multiple spectra.
I've sold my 6000$ digital camera after 2 weeks with iPhone 11
Just stop using Chrome. There are good (even better) alternatives.
The right answer is not to have such a tight house.

Instead of spending resources to tighten it, then spending more resources to install a compensating appliance.
Is your scanner supported by SANE on linux? Some people have put a surprising amount of work creating Linux drivers for scanners
given that the left visual field of both eyes is connected to the right hemisphere and the right visual field of both eyes is connected to the left hemisphere, I wonder about the claim that each eye scans a separate page. It doesn't make sense. Actually both eyes would see each page and so the left half of both pages would go to the right brain and the right half of both pages would go to the left brain.
I imagine the sound of a compressor would outweigh the noise :-)
>I can tell you that the higher management at Google does not dictate chromium changes as they are too technical for them.

Tell that to the webRequest API that ablockers use.

>As you said for the exceptions, Microsoft can maintain a fork, it's still order of magnitude more economic and smart than to constantly duplicate work in a redundant browser (firefox)

Chrome is the redundant browser. Firefox was here first.
That looks cool. Always wanted to know though, do you benefit something from such websites? Just interested, thanks!
Nobody claimed that it's impossible to have hardware implants in principle. You can find papers that predate the Bloomberg story and discuss much more advanced approaches than what was presented there.

The problem with that story was that it claimed that such an attack was in progress, while citing no sources and presenting no credible evidence. Using stock photos of unrelated components and basing part of the article on an interview where the expert explicitly speculated on the possibilities and not an actual attack didn't inspire confidence in Bloomberg reporting either.
For arch see here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Improving_performance
and the linked
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernel_parameters
Stock - in theory yes, but look at how massively overpriced they are now. For example, do you think 123B capitalization of Netflix is appropriate to value of company itself? If there was no expectation of stock value going up indefinitely, would it really sell for current stock price?

Currency - you said "state-backed" - backed by what? Forcing it's use by demanding taxes and paying salaries/bills is not "backed".

BTC:
"most coins are held by a very low number of people" - can you prove it? Consider that keys to many old account are probably lost.

"Not backed out exchangeable by/for anything" - neither are most/all currencies. Even commodities like gold sell by much higher price that is "backed" by usage of these in industry.

"value purely coming from someone else being there to buy it" - there is some value in being able to transmit/store value

"Great for dissidents, tax evaders and anything illegal" - I would actually say cryptocurrencies are awful for these applications: there are little places where you can pay with them and many will require verifications (and will report significant transfers). Bitcoin blockchain is public allowing tracking of transaction. On the other hand, cash? Accepted anywhere, non-trackable and people are already experienced in money laundering.

"but not really any other case for its existence except among those with a radical distrust in government" - distrust in government seems to be just healthy at the moment (for example, see civil forfeiture and Snowden).
I think he meant media as in the news media, not social media.
I love Eagle and use it regularly to collect images, videos, and many other things as my sources of inspiration. IMO, it's a better alternative to Inboard.

https://eagle.cool/
OK, so I guess I'm just not getting my point across, so I'll give up. If you're interested in knowing more then feel free to email me and I'll try to make it clearer, but I'd guess we're talking past each other, so I'm not sure there's any value in it.

Feel free to ignore me - no reply is necessary.
The professor didn't finish heating/reading the essay because he was saving it for the media, which someone in class reached it to.

What's the term for this concept, where the expectation of media coverage changes the event being covered, even though the event wasn't originally intended for the media?
Oh no. Well, as long as I have my WhatsApp I should be fine...
Your fingerprint is an additional factor (something you are) for the actual better-than-passwords thing here, the isolates processor/storage in your laptop that handles Touch ID (something you have). Without physical possession of the laptop, the fingerprint is useless.
The top of the article advises "4 min read." Think carefully to decide if this is an investment you are willing to make for this Medium (if not mediocre) post. It's for beginners apparently as these are 20 snippets that I didn't know I would ever need, let alone actually learn.
Maybe. Maybe? I doubt they're motivated by malice or laziness, but nobody in this thread can say one way or the other. What I can say with high confidence is that unless we're in the meeting room at Apple we can only speculate based on little to no hard information. It's entirely possible that there are sound engineering reasons behind what they've done.

AMD64 is going to be around for a very long time; any developer that is having difficulty migrating code from i386 has more fundamental problems than Catalina.
The only issue with this mindset is posting restrictions (e.g. on reddit) if your overall karma score drops too low.

Karma systems work great if everyone used them as intended, for quality of content or thought, but they're more often used for how much you agree with the sentiment of a comment and if it agrees with the philosophy of the person voting, regardless of the merit of the comment.

For that reason, I'm sure there must be a better way to do karma for a site that is made to be productive, and not just an echo chamber.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16232528

I think the top comment still holds, this organization is just acting as a hollow political mouthpiece at this point.
Then why do you have them installed? Surely you're not using those dependencies you don't trust as actual dependencies of your server application, are you?
Activerecord is indeed a major trade-off with rails. For heterogeneous projects, it can be frustrating that rails tends to favour validations, constraints and foreign key relationships in the ruby model files.

Eg. You have a dot.net service that needs to write some data to the database, and doing it via REST endpoints on your rails app is really slow compared to accessing the database directly. But now you don't have any constraints on your relationships, and it's easy to shoot yourself in the foot. Extra sad, since you do have some constraints (belongs_to etc) - they're just not communicated to your database.

I have some legacy rails projects I maintain, and my job would've been easier if previous developers followed the rails way more closely - and whenever I manage to refractor my way back, code becomes shorter, clearer, more efficient and less error prone.

Things like only half of a relationship being defined, and joins being hand-rolled in one direction is a "favorite"...
Warren Buffet, the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (big player in the insurance and re-insurance business) discussed some of these scary tail risks in his letter to shareholders in 2015

http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2015ltr.pdf

>There is, however, one clear, present and enduring danger to Berkshire against which Charlie and I are powerless. That threat to Berkshire is also the major threat our citizenry faces: a “successful” (as defined by the aggressor) cyber, biological, nuclear or chemical attack on the United States. That is a risk Berkshire shares with all of American business.

>The probability of such mass destruction in any given year is likely very small. It’s been more than 70 years since I delivered a Washington Post newspaper headlining the fact that the United States had dropped the first atomic bomb. Subsequently, we’ve had a few close calls but avoided catastrophic destruction. We can thank our government – and luck! – for this result.

>Nevertheless, what’s a small probability in a short period approaches certainty in the longer run. (If there is only one chance in thirty of an event occurring in a given year, the likelihood of it occurring at least once in a century is 96.6%.) The added bad news is that there will forever be people and organizations and perhaps even nations that would like to inflict maximum damage on our country. Their means of doing so have increased exponentially during my lifetime. “Innovation” has its dark side.

>There is no way for American corporations or their investors to shed this risk. If an event occurs in the U.S.that leads to mass devastation, the value of all equity investments will almost certainly be decimated.

>No one knows what “the day after” will look like. I think, however, that Einstein’s 1949 appraisal remain sapt: “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
1. That's usual for math tests run by non--corporate-robots.

2. IMO, copying numbers correctly is a critical skill for pilots, and you should have lost substantial marks and retaken later with a proper checklist for validating your work.
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One would think Facebook's Libra was a country sanctioned by the US.
I always thought it was setjmp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setjmp.h
Or you could be incredibly wrong. And it can be hard to differentiate between the whether you're ahead of your time, or just wrong.

> I think there should be rewards for getting highly downvoted comments that aren't mean (but are constructive but express an unpopular opinion).

It's just as easy to express a viewpoint that sounds smart but is absolutely ridiculous. Some unpopular opinions are actually nonsensical, others have merit but people just don't want to accept the ideas. That's the issue with the karma system: people decide the merit, and people can't differentiate between the two unless they're incredibly open minded - most people aren't.
> nuclear and climate security

There's the problem. They've destroyed the credibility of one of the most powerful symbols of several generations. Running with scissors.
Structured Pruning of Large Language Models
Essay margins don't kill people, people with bad word processing software kill people.

Details can be attended to without being nonsense specifications.
Far from obsolete.. more is coming :)

'Add type generic interfaces for string functions to the C library, see N2068' has been mentioned as a possible C2x addition https://gustedt.wordpress.com/2018/11/12/c2x/
> I found it odd he turned books upside down to remember he read them.

Unless you have another source, I think you've misread the article.

From the article:

> ...Kim was able to memorize things from the age of 16–20 months. He read books, memorized them, and then placed them upside down on the shelf to show that he had finished reading them, a practice he maintained all his life.

It sounds like he turned them upside down from an early age to signal that he'd read the book (perhaps to his parents?), not to remember that he'd read it. And then, for some reason, he maintained the practice for the rest of his life.

But either way, the article doesn't say he turned books upside down to remember he'd read them.
> come in kit form to let you assemble it yourself so you know where everything is if something breaks and you need to repair it

In the release they say that it will come in 3 pieces that you put together, not a full from-scratch kit
Curious what is the incentive for an author to retract a study?

Shoulnd't they just leave it out? Continuing to accrue more publications and quotes, or whatever the metrics are in research.
Is that accurate though? So I live in recent new construction, and run the house fan for long periods of time/overnight, and the power bills are still the lowest I’ve experienced. Fans take very little power to run, compared to burning gas/running ac to achieve desired temperature...
I think most should be actually checking the "OWASP Application Security Verification Standard Project" [1] instead of just the Top 10 list.

The application security verification standard has quite clear requirements that you can just feed into your software development process. The requirements are split to three different levels, L1, L2 and L3. L1 requirements are more or less straightforward, standard application development stuff. L2 and L3 go more into processes. The idea is also that the L1 requirements can be verified by external penetration testing, without access to source code.

I would say the L1 requirements are something everybody involved in creating web apps professionally should check. Maybe some the requirements don't make sense for your particular application, but for those cases it is a good exercise to write down why not.

[1] https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Application_S... (the document can be downloaded from the links on the right side)
> If you create a binary file format, document what every byte means.

If possible, look into using a pre-existing notation like ASN.1 for this. No need to re-invent the wheel.
Using Artificial Intelligence to Generate Blog Posts – An Experiment
I can kinda see the argument, but the fact that the Butlerian Jihad was so rarely referenced in any detail makes me skeptical that the long-overthrown machines could arrive spontaneously and be the big-bad.

It seemed to me that the two figures in Duncans visions were going to become important, but they'd be rogue/evolved/advanced face-dancers rather than representatives of the machine intelligence.

I guess we'll never know for sure unless the notes are published.
Technically correct is the best kind of correct.

Your example is valid, but there are plenty of other examples pushing in the opposite direction—for example PS4 and XB1 games delivered on physical media. Yes they'll play out of the box "forever" ... but in order to download important (occasionally critical) software patches you need the explicit blessing of Sony or Microsoft servers. And you could lose these for reasons that are wholly unrelated to your legitimate ownership of physical game media.
Well other than academic integrity and general honesty if people can't reproduce your research you might not keep your job.
That's just C++ wishing that it could have a type system closer to Haskell's.
But on the universes timescale, a slight variance could still be thousands of years or more. So maybe there is life in some distant reaches of the universe, who are +/- a thousand years from our level of development. Their signals simply haven't reached us yet, or ours them.
How we define death changes with technology, research suggests
The descendants are involved. The deaths of ancestors has an effect on the descendants.

Also, gauge theory suggests that someone who thinks assassination was cool in 1600 would also think that assassination is cool in 2000.
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I've had the pleasure of driving them through DriveNow (BMW's car sharing program). Fun little cars!
Deep Learning with PyTorch: A 60 Minute Blitz [video]