skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I've read, I'm not convinced the company has done enough to earn Francis' loyalty.

Francis has already invested ~years of time in this company and they've allowed other toxic people to poopoo his career. Sure they've fired Lee (who clearly needs to go) but Ling has yet to see any consequence, and they've stalled on reevaluating Ling's veto.

In the meantime Francis apparently has to stomach this news and wait til the next promotion cycle in six months, one year? This is Francis' life - why should he waste that opportunity cost when he could be {saving for a house|supporting a family} (or some other life commitment).

This is what you get when everything in your business is a process and dehumanized: to the stakeholders other than Francis, this is a headache - a fire to fight in your business as usual.

To Francis this is trajectory altering, of course he has a right to be furious.
No, not like Amsterdam. I love Amsterdam, but I'm so tired of it being used as an example of how we should all be on bikes. It has a very temperate climate. The weather in most of the US isn't as mild and cool as Amsterdam.

There are cites in the US with great weather, for example San Diego, Santa Barbara, all of Marine and Sonoma Counties in CA have great weather (sadly it is having wild fire problems right now). I agree that we could be biking in those places more.

The US as a whole has climate all over the place, from polar (N. Alaska) to tropical (S. Florida) to a desert. The coldest it has ever been in the Netherlands is -27 °C, but the continental US has gotten down to -57 °C (Alaska has reached -62 °C). The hottest it has ever been in Amsterdam is +41 °C while the US has reached +57 °C.

It's true that these are crazy extremes and we can't decide on public policy based solely on rare events, but there are big cities all over the US where it is too cold to bike. Consider:

Average Weather: days at or below temperature:

City (population) -18 °C 0 °C
----------------- ------ -----
Amsterdam (821 K) none none

Minneapolis (422 K) 23 148
Chicago (2716 K) 7 122
Denver (620 K) 7 157
Milwaukee (595 K) 7 126
Detroit (673 K) 4 115
Indianapolis(872 K) 4 104
Rochester (208 K) 4 129
Buffalo (259 K) 3 124
Cleveland (386 K) 3 104
Hartford (123 K) 3 125

It also gets too hot to bike in the US:

Average Weather: days at or above 38 °C:

City (population) 38 °C
------------------- -----
Amsterdam (821 K) none

Phoenix (1626 K) 107
Las Vegas (642 K) 70
Riverside (328 K) 24
Dallas (1341 K) 17
Austin (951 K) 16
Sacramento (502 K) 11
Oklahoma City (644 K) 11
San Antonio (1493 K) 8
Salt Lake City (201 K) 5
Houston (2313 K) 4
Kansas City (489 K) 3

Some very hardy people do bike in the cold. See [1], the worlds longest winter ultra-marathon (running, biking or skiing 1000km, the last 500 miles without support!!!) It might be the hardest race in the world. (There are not very many other races where contestants have had to be evacuated by helicopter because they were being stalked by a pack of wolves.)

[1] https://www.iditarodtrailinvitational.com
Do you consider yourself a privileged elite since you're benefiting from the internet right now by being able to post this comment?
> It is unclear whether enabling airplane mode stops this tracking. The only way to make sure is to remove the SIM card and battery from the phone.

It is possible for a handset to attach to a network without a SIM card for the purposes of making an emergency call. Please don't think removing or swapping your SIM card stops tracking.

I've yet to see 2G or 3G phones try and talk to a local network in aeroplane mode (though you shouldn't believe me). I did see some oddness years ago when testing an early and proprietary LTE handset, but I'm not sure I'd believe that either.
. allowed to discriminate against users

What a cunt you are!
>It's also why PDF lives.

PDF lives because it's ubiquitous and stable, despite really rough tooling. If you don't have Acrobat it's a bit of a nightmare to work with, simply because it's so opaque. Yes, you can decompress a PDF to text and look through it by hand, but you need to learn the syntax and know how to use an extensible text editor with the write add-ons; this isn't something your average person in an office will know how to do.

The lack of discoverability is evidenced by the number of posts on Stackexchange etc. that answer "how do I losslessly recompress a PDF?" by giving a command that actually performs lossy downsampling. Or the accidental inclusion of secret layers underneath what were supposed to be blackout redactions. Personally, it took me ages to figure out how to losslessly recompress a monochrome image using JBIG2, which provided an enormous space savings and should have been much easier with some tree-based GUI explorer.

I'm hoping that one day we'll get a good, stable, powerful, reflowable PDF-like format. HTML+CSS+JavaScript works, but it's a huge standard, rendering is not exact, performance (in terms of memory usage in particular) isn't great, it's best created by hand (requiring programming and/or technical knowledge), and it's not really self-contained or sandboxed from network access.
What does it mean to “fully socialise it” in the context of being from the US?

Do you mean buying out all of the universities?

PS: I come from Europe, studied in the UK when the tuition was capped at £3K/year.
"With a court order, this data can be used to identify and track an individual...
... which means that it is stored de-anonymized in the carrier servers"

No, it does not mean that it's stored de-anonymized. It means that it can be de-anonymized if required by a court order.

EDIT because all the downvotes, this is not nitpicking. The deanonymizing data is ELSEWHERE, not on the servers. It takes a court order to obtain it, employees cannot use it. It's an important point.
iPhone Emulation Company Sued by Apple Says It's Making iPhones Safer
From a previous HN comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14022158 by
dasmoth

“If you pay a man a salary for doing research, he and you will want to have something to point to at the end of the year to show that the money has not been wasted. In promising work of the highest class, however, results do not come in this regular fashion, in fact years may pass without any tangible result being obtained, and the position of the paid worker would be very embarrassing and he would naturally take to work on a lower, or at any rate a different plane where he could be sure of getting year by year tangible results which would justify his salary. The position is this: You want one kind of research, but, if you pay a man to do it, it will drive him to research of a different kind. The only thing to do is to pay him for doing something else and give him enough leisure to do research for the love of it."

-- Attributed to J.J. Thomson (although I've not been able to turn up a definitive citation -- anyone know where it comes from?)
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Actually, i think some part this bad science and low innovation rate- is conciousness. Goverments everywhere realized, that unless they have total social control, people can not be trusted with exponential powerfull technology of all kinds. So, i predict, that unless we as humans are not totally surveilanced and controlled- we will not see great leaps of technology in the forseeable future.
I too have been in tech for well over 30 years. And I too have lost my enthusiasm. Why keep aiding and abetting corporations and creeping fascism? Working in tech now feels like I'm doing that.
There is a difference between "can be done" and "can be done well enough to be market ready".
Yeah, but then the cable companies will charge you anything over 1TB. And if you have more than 2 screens, because of kids, it will add up, so the cable company will relax that cap IF you also buy cable TV. Remember cable companies are assholes.
> Also, why would I prefer a driverless taxi if an electric car with a human driver costs no more?

I believe the number one cause of death for Americans under the age of 30 is traffic accidents.[0] It's around 40,000 deaths per year (in the US alone).

Cars are getting safer, but humans aren't getting better drivers. Individuals humans will get better with experience, but experienced drivers cycle out and new drivers cycle in.

A 16-year-old doesn't get to inherit the experience of the 70-year-old they're replacing. A new self-driving car does inherit the experience of older self-driving cars. They also learn from each other in a way humans can't.

Human drivers also improve at a rate of O(1). Self-driving cars can share their experience perfectly, so they improve at a rate of O(n). I get a day of driving experience per day. Each one of a million self-driving cars on the road will acquire a million days of driving experience. They won't drive traffic accidents down to zero in a week, but in a few years, if we were to deploy them en masse, they could.

[0] Can't actually find CDC data about this anymore. "Accidents" is definitely still #1, but they no longer break out traffic accidents. I know in the past, that was #1. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/dvs/LCWK1_2015.pdf
I mean, if CMS just hadn't played up their 2.3 sigma excess we probably wouldn't have had the 750 bonanza* so don't pretend there is no blood on the experimental hands :p

OPERA is a bit of a special case, but BICEP just straight up declared discovery and wanted the Nobel, have you seen their video of when they tell Linde?

* Any time I can, I link to the conclusion: http://resonaances.blogspot.com/2016/06/game-of-thrones-750-...
In a range of domains, in particular higher level brain areas, DL models trained on imagine are already the best predictive models of brain function. If they are better than all other models at describing the data, why would we say they have nothing to do with neuroscience?
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This has been a very interesting change in Hacker News. Back in 2010 when I first learned about it, I was coming from Slashdot. And for me it was a (refreshing) surprise that people here were not anti-paid software, anti-business, etc. After all, it is a forum within a VC firm that looks to fund startups to make a profit. The discussion was more pragmatic.

Somehow nowadays the group think has kind of changed into what Slashdot was 10 years ago. Which is funny, since the objective of YC has not changed.
This does indeed look bad, but I'd like to give Hashicorp the benefit of the doubt and allow them to respond before grabbing any pitchforks/torches. Let's not forget they've added a ton of value to many of our lives and have never required a cent (for the free version).
Deadly EEE: Parts of nation see outbreak of brain-swelling mosquito virus
There are other ways in which the incentives are misaligned. Granting agencies that prefer to fund researchers who nearly always "succeed" in proving their hypothesis will find that research proposals are low-risk and low-information. At in at least one sense, the ideal experiment is one with a 50/50 chance of failing.

Disconfirmation is also important.
When using a source based distro or aiming for reproducible builds you'd need to pull in Java to produce Bazel.
Agreed. I'm not some sort of high powered investment banker who measures minutes wasted in thousands of dollars. I'm just a normal guy, trying to take it easy. I'm not in any huge rush to get anywhere if it's not a hospital, and I'd rather "waste" a few minutes getting driven around town by somebody else in somebody else's vehicle than assume the responsibility and risk of driving myself around.

Sometimes transit or walking simply isn't an option, and in those cases I drive. But given the choice, transit might take a bit longer but it's much lower stress. If a kid jumps out in front of the bus and gets run over, that would ruin my day but not my life. If the same happens when I'm driving a car, that's life altering.

There are lower-stake considerations too: the money I spend on bus fares would doubtlessly otherwise be spend on parking; or I would need to schedule enough time to hunt for free parking which just adds more uncertainty and risk to my day.
Americans like cars so much because they're incredibly useful. And public transit sucks, which is sort of a chicken-and-egg problem. We don't want to invest in something which is unpleasant to use, so it remains unpleasant to use. In my city, we have the additional problem that the local transit agency only wants to spend money on light rail, which is just a smaller version of the "nobody builds subways to subdivisions" problem. I'd be more likely to use mass transit if the bus was clean, comfortable, and came a lot more often than once an hour.
Interesting. I'll be honest I was just discussing based on the headline, so I didn't read the article. Thank you for pointing that out
Exactly.

They very clearly allow it to be changed in a config; and I'm willing to bet my socks that Azure is not giving Hashicorp 'deployment structure' information based on a partner id.
Yes, but the line of credit is the credit card, not the purchase. You wouldn't have to go to a bank every time you wanted to buy something on a credit card, but you would have to go there to get a card.
I wonder if the same tactics can be applied for apple developers...
> From what I read, Flash's test suite was subpar to non-existent and people were afraid to touch anything in the codebase.

If that's the case, Flash should be held up as a case study for the utility of robust tests. Because the amount of refactoring needed to make it fit the mobile world was significant, and if the codebase was fragile because of lack of tests, that refactoring may have proved expensive enough to kill the whole technology stack.
Incidentally, there's a great write-up by Digital Foundry on why Crysis still melts modern CPUs, and is still CPU-limited.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2018-why-c...

"Not a trick, not an illusion. Yes, this 2007 game is running at under 40fps on the fastest CPUs money can buy."
Honestly I would agree with that. I'm rarely not in front of a screen as an adult. Even if I were to go tech free on the weekends, the majority of my time would still be spent on a screen.
Microsoft Earnings Likely to Prove Cloud Isn’t Slowing Down
I wonder how much the outraged individual has contributed financially to what is a fabulous tool that all DevOps engineers benefit directly from. I get that it should have been discussed, but even still - the code is there for all to see and read whenever they can be bothered too. They can even fork and build it without this. It's this level of open source snobbery that makes me think that eventually only the big companies will contribute and open source projects - and only because it brings developers onto their platforms.
Adobe claimed that it was Apple’s fault that Flash didn’t run on the original iPhone. But even if Apple has allowed it. Adobe still wouldn’t have been able to do it.

When Adobe finally did make it to Android, it required a gig of RAM and a 1Ghz processor. The original iPhone had 256MB of RAM and a 400Mhz processor. An iPhone with those specs didn’t come out until 2011.

One of the big selling points of the Motorola Xoom was that it would run Flash. Adobe was six months late leaving the Xoom in the embarrassing position that you couldn’t view its Flash enable home page from the device for at least the first six months.
Of course. It’s actually pretty awesome that every time the energy frontier was pushed, something new was discovered, so there was return on every round of investment.
Isn't that the same? If it was properly anonymized, it couldn't be de-anonymized. Which implies it's not anonymized, i.e., it's store de-anonymized.
Yeah - optometry issues are literally the only time such a metric makes sense and even then it may have issues from conflating differing screen types, brightnesses, and distances.
> I’m actually betting that kids who spend most of their time away from screens will have some weird, competitive advantage in a future economy.

That's certainly possible. I'm sure most people here were the odd balls growing up, doing the opposite of what other kids were doing.
> This is a tiny size, and it would never pose a problem.

Cribbed from some Unix programmer's epitaph.
Not sure what you mean by "be careful." That is an extremely cheap loan by any measure.
Curious what you think the conclusion should be from that? E.g., if 3D Touch should be removed because not enough people used it, does that mean right click should be removed for the same reason?

It seems really obvious to me that computers should scale from the most basic of users to the most skilled of users, and features that only benefit a small percentage of users are still important because they let skilled users be more effective.

This is the fatal flaw in modern Apple's design approach of allocating resources based on how popular features are (at least that's how it appears from the outside), rather than addressing areas where the device fails to scale to the needs to skilled users. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy to keep the device from reaching its full potential. This is directly why the iPad, while a great device for unskilled users, has failed to capture any market share in any of the skilled tasks that people use desktop computers for[1].

There's so much backwards thinking that come out of Apple because they can't seem to make anything for skilled users anymore, like Apple pitching the iPad as the future ("what's a computer"), while everything that Apple makes is made using Macs.

[1]: https://blog.robenkleene.com/2019/08/07/apples-app-stores-ha...
Would it be ethical/useful to overwhelm NATs with addr:port combinations to overflow the NAT's translation table? If NATs start breaking down, it might force upstream to start adopting IPv6. I could see a system of doing this as setting a different port for each outgoing connection. Thoughts?
Going along without complaint when you are being screwed isn't maturity or loyalty, it's boot-licking.

The manager should be fired. Regardless of whether the veto was correct or not, it was very unprofessional to leak the reason that the promotion was denied to other co-workers. That unprofessionalism put the company in a very bad position.
It's a lack of IDE. There's nothing stopping a game riding atop the browser's engine from being performant and fun, but the tooling to get there is nearly non-existant for a lot of people.
there is no functional difference from a security standpoint
In order to de-anonymize it, the data needed to do so would have to be stored somewhere, very little difference between something split and that.
The epistemological crisis is really the worst thing the internet has brought us. When you have large segments of the population who believe in a completely different "truth" the future doesn't look bright at all.
I think, instead of minimum wage hikes etc, that maybe putting a cap on the ratio of CEO pay to entry level employee would work more effectively.
The internet went wrong when Big Corp stepped in and Bribed the Government with the DMCA,

Killing off the community powered & hosted internet (Napster, BitTorrent).

Then further, mobile (which is great) made the Server/Client relationship polarizing & prone to spying on your location.

To fix this, we need lite P2P protocols that can run embedded or directly on any webpage inside the browser.

Then maybe, we can finally dig ourselves out of this grave.

That's what we're building, and we already have 8M monthly active users running this network! Come join the fun!
Innovation in an Immutable Industry – Maarten Truyens
Space is full of radiation, and why I’m not worried
Included in the link text.

From Microsoft documentation:

This program will allow ISVs who deploy their software on an Azure customer’s infrastructure an opportunity to get credit for the impact of their software.

The data generated by the Azure ISV Customer Usage Attribution program will be used for ISV partners to qualify for partner programs by providing a automated method of linking a customers usage to the ISVs software.

ISV partners will receive reporting for deployments from the Azure ISV Customer Usage Attribution program. Data may be anonymized for deployments from outside of Azure Marketplace. Reporting will be made available in the Cloud Publisher Portal, the same platform where GUIDs will be registered and partners can configure and manage listings for Azure Marketplace.
Flash required a 1Ghz CPU and 1GB of RAM when it came to Android. An iPhone with those specs didn’t come out until 2011.
> The entire point of construction in space is to avoid launching from earth

This is true, but avoiding launching from earth could be done for one of two reasons:

(1) to increase the efficiency of what can be built

(2) to increase the possibility of what can be built

Your point is (1), and I agree with it. The point mentioned above is (2) — even if all the materials for the ISS were from earth, it still could not be constructed on earth and then launched as a whole, and so construction in space is viable.
I'd recommend taking a look at G2.com (where I work), the world's largest B2B Software and Services review platform....they've almost got 1 million reviews on the site and is a great way to get your product out there in front of buyers, alongside trusted reviews from users.
> ProPilot is terrible compared to AutoPilot

This is frightening. I strictly limit where I will let AutoPilot operate because it is not at all relaxing unless you're on the open road with light traffic. If this is the state of the art, FSD is decades away.
A Glass of Reality
Are you just being nitpicky or does that actually make a difference?
In Slovenia we have a joke:

A German and a Slovenian talk about life and work. The German says, "You know, life's pretty good. I make 5k a month, send my kids to school, put 2k in my mortgage, spend 1k on groceries, and there's plenty left over"

And the Slovenian says "Wow that's cool. What happens with the other 2k?"

"Oh we don't ask that in Germany. It's impolite"

So the SLovenian goes "Ah that's nice. We got it good in Slovenia too. I make 2k a month, send my kids to school, put 1.5k in my mortgage, 1k for groceries, and still got enough for a 500 payment on my Audi"

"Wait ... where's the extra 1k coming from?"

"We don't ask that in Slovenia. It's impolite"
This is victim blaming.

Do a little back of the napkin budget on $4,200/month (GENEROUS) take-home pay in say, Fremont, California.

You run out of money real, real quick.
You used if by the end of your comment, but it literally starts with "Yes, but cyclists try to act like pedestrians and move at speeds typical of vehicles."
Fedora 31 has been released (release notes)
Health is going to become a bigger problem once we reach a point in the development of our medicine when we could literally heal anyone.

Right now government-subsidised healtcare works because keeping yourself healthy simply can not be externalised to the government. But what if I could spend the beat of my years being a coke-snorting socialite hoping to meet someone at one of those parties who would make my life?

20-year alcoholic? Let us grow you a liver for the total of $2M of taxpayer’s money.
Did I just read "shitposting" in an article?
> a bit like relying on our road-builders to ensure our vehicles are safe

And yet there are lots of ways road-builders can design roads so that they're safer.
By adding their partner ID, they get revenue based on the usage in Azure.