skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That argument would be emotionally manipulative, but that isn't the major problem here.

Society's use of oil and gas is a totally political question of how much pain we experience in the near term vs the long term and who pays for any trade-offs that get made. It is not kosher for employees of a company to use their corporate position to push what are private political goals.

Particularly because Google's position in the world is to provide people with facts and evidence - if they are being pressured internally by political actors then that compromises their trustworthiness as a search provider. They aren't a traditional media organisation where a page full of propaganda and lies is par for the course and everyone knows it. People expect them to use a politically neutral algorithm.

Are there people who believe that we need "urgent and decisive action" on political topics who have influence over the search index? How are they using that influence? What would happen if the next generation of employees have a radically different political view? These aren't new questions; Google's rankings are always going to be an interesting subject - and there is every chance that someone is running a smear campaign with stories of these intercompany issues. However, they are the important questions when Google employees do something political.
My perspective comes from Hannah Arendt and her opinion that goodness demonstrated publicly necessarily becomes corrupted.

> Let's be clear here: humans banding together to accomplish goals greater than that which they are individually capable is a good thing. Now we just have to decide the governance model. Currently we have the unchallenged shareholder/executive system. Why not create a parallel power structure representing employees?

Why are you so sure that you are motivated by a desire to improve the world? I think the correct assumption is that you are deeply selfish and, mostly, what you want is to maintain and bolster your advantageous position. I think your perspective is adequately explained by that assumption.

Even if we assume that you want to improve the world, why are you so convinced that you know how?
The actual cost of processing payment is far less than 1.5-3% - especially with debit cards (which actually implement most of what you think "is not a thing") but even when dealing with credit cards and the necessity to include some overhead for countering card fraud and chargeback costs and whatnot, the total cost is far lower, below 1%.

How can I know this? Well, how do all these credit cards that offer cashback bonuses in the realm of typically 1-2% make this unbelievable feat of paying you for paying stuff happen? They pay for it out of the 2-3% that they get for the transaction. Let's take 2.5% as a middle ground and deduce 2% cashback, that leaves us with 0.5% from which the actual costs of doing the payment have to be covered - and the profits to be paid to shareholders, of course.

Also, Europe has this nice regulation in place limiting credit and debit card interchange fees to 0.3% for credit and 0.2% for debit cards. This regulation has been in effect for a few years already, and the only thing that disappeared were these 2%-cashback-on-every-payment cards (or similar offerings, like granting airplane miles of about the same value). Debit and credit card issuers seem to be entirely able to operate under these conditions, which means that their actual costs of doing business must be under these fractions of a percent.
>I bet A and C are going to be in the hundreds of millions, if not billions, while B is going to be in the tens of millions and D is going to be in the thousands of dollars.

Bitcoin is incredibly wasteful. If we're talking about digital transactions we already have credit cards and digital transfers. A block chain isn't required for those benefits.

Supply chain tracking is interesting but literally no one is talking about that. Its also an even harder problem. Its really not verifiable at all because you're now relying on data from outside the chain, ie how many widgets were created, whether the label on the real life widget is unique or forged, etc.
Because while the core innovation of blockchain is a trusted database a context without trust, the core benefit of blockchain is reduced transaction costs.

A blockchain is a singleton global computer of program code and data. It turns out this is sufficient to represent capital (money) on that computer.

In practice this results in dramatically reduced transaction costs. For example you can transfer money with an API call.

Another example is that an API can be "implemented with money". The https://uniswap.io/ API allows you to exchange currencies without any API keys or middlemen. But, the Uniswap API only works because there's a large amount of liquidity deposited by 3rd parties into its system, much like an inventory of food in a grocery store that shoppers can then access.

"What's the big deal?", you might say. "Uniswap sounds just like a bank. Who cares?". Well as I understand it Uniswap was built by a dude in a basement over a few months, not a multi-million dollar bank project. And you can integrate your app with Uniswap in an afternoon. If you don't think that's going to change the world then you might consider spending a few dozen hours reading https://weekinethereumnews.com/ and see if your opinion is stable :)
I'm far less worried about raw performance, as I am in the workflow and software availability in general. I need to see if I can take out a Linux machine where I would take a Windows machine, and not go "darn, I can't do what I need to because I'm not running Windows". (And if I hit "darn, I can't do what I need to because I have an ARM chip", that's not a knock on Linux as an option.)

I can always get a more powerful Linux machine at another time. ;)
> Most corporations have no mechanism for this leading to impromptu employee protests over the issue of the day.

Climate change is the issue of our generation.

I agree that companies don't have a mechanism for dealing with it. Isn't that the point?
Ok round 2.

> “inflation is theft”

I think you didn’t read anything I wrote because my core focus is that inflation is 100% avoidable through investment which is the behavior explicitly being incentivized via, to your point, a stick and not a carrot approach.

It’s theft like taxation is theft: it’s not.

> a GSE creates money from nothing

Yes that’s the point. The economy gets bigger and more people are born and the money supply expands. To not do so would create deflationary pressure which, again, creates a risk free return for existing money holders for no justifiable reason. In fact you haven’t justified it either, you say it as though it’s self evident.

If you don’t believe the value of existing money should go up then you agree the money supply must expand to match economic growth and population growth. All were then arguing about is how much.

> money grubbing banks...

Banks are paid for the role they serve in the economy: liquidity and security. Look at how much they make, it’s all publicly disclosed. Banks make around a 1% return on deposits (you know, the collateral for this lending thing). Almost nothing. It’s a shit business. The remaining “free magic money” is cost of doing business and paid out to employees, landlords, suppliers and so on. You know, business expenses.
Building a Deep Learning Computer from Scratch
+1

It's the top 7th ranked CS program in the world too.
CEO Interview: What Is the Future of Consultancy?
I'm not very sure about Word, but Excel 97 onwards, Excel's story around forward and backward compatibility has been very good -- the Excel equivalent of the scenario you describe wouldn't happen, because of the introduction of Future Record Types[1].

These are still used in the newer XLSB format[2].

[1] https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/digformatsp... (Page 14)

[2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/office_file_forma...
Oh, I definitely haven't forgotten PineTime. I'm wearing a Fitbit Ionic right now, and I've basically committing to never intentionally giving Google my data, so a change of wristwear is now assured in the near future.
Yes. This is why ascetics are considered saintly.
For FAANG and other companies with large data: Yes. For solving actual scaling issues, it makes sense for any candidate to understand this stuff.

Bottlenecks matter. And the better you are at algorithms means the less rework that needs to happen.

If on the other hand you're doing day to day business logic, no, it does not make sense. 80% of all jobs are like this.
I highly doubt that Google employees, who earn in the top 10% of incomes in one of the highest-per-capita emissions countries in the world, have a low carbon lifestyle by any standards.
Twitter's decision is bold – but political ads are not its biggest problem
A subtle but important distinction is that this does not "force interoperability", it only removes legal (rather than technical) impediments to someone selling an interoperable product. It does not require a company to expend any effort enabling interoperability that does not already implicitly exist in the products they are producing.

At a technical level, there is no non-vague definition of "interoperable". A large part of practical interoperability is observed behaviors of implementation detail, which can only be explicitly exposed to third parties by unreasonable exposure of implementation. There are many examples where the ability to export data, even in a widely understood format, does not produce practical interoperability because you also need to reproduce observed system behavior to make that data equivalently functional.
"How to auto-delete your search history
Most of Google’s new privacy controls are in a web tool called My Activity. (Here’s the URL: https://myactivity.google.com.)

Once you get into the tool and click on Activity Controls, you will see an option called Web & App Activity. Click Manage Activity and then the button under the calendar icon. Here, you can set your activity history on several Google products to automatically erase itself after three months or after 18 months. This data includes searches made on Google.com, voice requests made with Google Assistant, destinations that you looked up on Maps and searches in Google’s Play app store."
Firefox and Safari solve that same issue (with reader view) without the need to destroy open web in the process.
Bitcoin Cash adoption is growing around the world for restaurants https://map.bitcoin.com/
You are correct they addressed many things in recent releases.

But for someone who was on MySQL 5.4-5.6 and "learned SQL" on that system - you become comfortable with things that just don't fly in SQL standard:

- Aggregate operations allowed without group by

- Group bys allowed regardless of selected columns / order by

- Case insensitive by default

... those are just a few we've had to deal with. It's on us of course. But when you build your entire legacy app on crap SQL that MySQL taught you - then MySQL 5.7 - 8 becomes irrelevant - you can't upgrade to it without disabling strict mode, or totally refactoring your code etc.
Brother I'm livid. I understand that a company has to protect a trademark, and I've been in the protecting position. But there are actions you have to take and actions you do not, and BC seems to be taking it to the extreme.

The thing that really pisses me off is that they are attacking people in business because they love the sport. These boutique makers are often just scraping by and don't have the margins to sustain much resistance at all.
Flexport is hiring engineers in Amsterdam: visa assistance offered
First Full Version of the Cyber Security Body of Knowledge Published [pdf]
Cloud-Native Stateful Storage for Kubernetes with Rancher Labs' Longhorn
It is a mis-feature - it is done intentionally, but it is a bad idea. Having to go through the legal system to reverse a fraudulent transaction is a huge hurdle compared to the current state of affairs, and it will significantly impact the use of Libra for internet payments.
If Pypy would have been commercial software it would have costed $3500 USD per year and server or more. Because that is at least how much Azul Zing costs and Pypy is very comparable to that. https://www.azul.com/products/pricing/ So I wouldn't have been able to afford that.
Can you elaborte? You sould like you may have a unique perspective.
It seems like such therapy is aimed at people whose capacity to affect their mood positively is diminished somehow.
Constantly late with work? Blame the planning fallacy
Without Free Speech, All Speech Becomes Government Speech
The article also incorrectly claims that curve25519-dalek has never had security audits. It's had at least two by reputable cryptography auditing firms (Quarkslab and NCC), the former of which is public (the NCC audit was done at the request of my former employer and is private, but like the Quarkslab audit only found minor issues):

https://blog.quarkslab.com/security-audit-of-dalek-libraries...
> iPhones, iPads, and Macs

Which is just two variants

meanwhile Windows 7 support will end in 2020 and is still being sold

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4057281/windows-7-s...
Thanks. Not sure how I missed that. Regardless, the point still stands. Non-profit just means profit isn't its primary goal, but rather generally some mission. A non-profit can make oodles of money, but if it closes up shop, it can't be distributed to the "owners." It has to go to another non-profit.
My point was that it wasn't just governments using paid trolls.

It's unfortunate that I mentioned "nuclear" without adding other industries to buffer that one. No one takes issue with me listing the "medical industry" as paying for trolls, not sure why so many care about nuclear over the medical industry here...
North Korea has been trying that approach, but it has its drawbacks, as attractive as it seems in theory.
I can't see such a vehicle being any cheaper or requiring fewer licences to operate than a helicopter. And helicopters are already available if travelling 20-30 miles in a straight line is a problem you need to fix.
That makes your bubble interesting, although not unique. Your comment looks like an absolutist statement about importance hierarchy, and you don't feel equally for malvosenior, so it's not necessary empathy, could be association. "From point of view" - that makes sense, but when that point is so global one ignores own backyard for years, there are questions avout sincerety like malvosenior raised.
This is downvoted, but hits the nail on the head. Will downvoters post to explian where op is mistaken?
Seems like these scripts are triggered by malvertising -- if your ad blocker is properly configured this should never happen.
>"The possibility that a Libra node run by Mastercard or Andressen Horrowitz would suddenly start running malicious code is such a bizarre scenario to plan for and is better solved by simply enforcing protocol integrity and through non-technical (i.e. legal) means."

In regards to that, I don't think it's any more bizarre than a SCADA system in an Iranian nuclear enrichment plant suddenly running malicious code. Cyberattacks against financial systems are a very real worry.

In the history of computing, there have been countless times when people casually dismissed a security concern only for it to bite them years later. And oftentimes, trying to add security after the fact is much less successful that designing it to be secure from the get-go. I'm not a fan of Facebook Libra, but I do think that it's misguided to criticize it for having a robust security model with properties that can be reasoned about mathematically.
Works well so far. Computers are still laughably overpriced overall.
Valid but too nonspecific and broad to be of any use.
UA services deployed from the command line with UA client
I'm trying to say that all these "advantages" are just in specific situations.

And the card decline wasn't done with a card that already was active on Uber. And their "fraud" system got triggered months later, repeatedly, after a drive or two.

Also yes there are upfront costs in my area, in US maybe it isn't but here you have them.

I'm not saying Uber is worse than cabs. I'm saying that a lot of "advantages" Uber has aren't really all that. They are in a race to not burn their money before their AV investment can can come in, and in the end, it's just cabs with an app, not much better or worse than cabs.

3-4 years ago, the play was different, but now, it's becoming "just another cab company" in that area.
The article talks about Illinois as an example, but their main agricultural focus is corn and soybean production, which mostly becomes animal feed. It doesn’t surprise me that it would be hard to buy actual food in a place like that.
I loved his NN course. He explained everything very clearly, with occasional dry humor.
This doc doesn't explain what the enrollment process will look like, there are opportunities here to make this better or worse. Enrollment is crucial to the user experience for WebAuthn/ U2F.

There's also a weird intermediary introduced that I think users may struggle to get their heads around. The FIDO cookie (this doc calls it a "handle" and the WebAuthn spec calls it the "Credential ID") is needed before a client can authenticate, and naturally you'd want to store this on a server, but in SSH the client chooses the authentication method to try not the server, so this cookie has to be stored on the client machine.

Say you enroll on your laptop. The laptop knows a cookie, the FIDO can take that cookie and prove it knows the private key, and that's enough to sign into the server. But without the FIDO key the laptop can't do anything, and without the laptop the FIDO key doesn't know which cookie is needed.

In effect it's two of the same factor. Something you have: The laptop and Something Else that you also have: The FIDO token.
Are we still doing this? https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha
Ask HN: Any predictions on the impact of the 'Y38' bug (32bit EPOCH time issue)?
We're around half way point between Y2K and the Jan. 19 2038 Unix EPOCH 32bit issue. Any predictions on whether it will have any impact at all?
I was thinking the same thing. The regulation makes sense when purely looking at consumer/patient protection, but it really hurts competition and innovation. I would not be surprised if rule 11 gets revised. If you don't know: rule 11 states that all software that guides decision making on health issues is classified as higher risk. Basically any health related website or app is in scope and will need a certified quality management system. Very expensive to implement.
One of the most famous incidents of campus outrage was totally misrepresented
I'm going to push away the dubiousness due to the LDS issue and I'm going to assume that the SLT is a good newspaper in the following comment. To be forthright in my bias, my general views on Utah are not that great though... stemming from their stupid fucking criss-crossing streets and over usage of concrete barriers in the middle of the road all the fucking time.

Cough, excuse me.

I'm really curious about the repercussions of this. If this works out decently for them, I'm pretty sure other news outlets of all shapes and sizes will follow in the next few years. Maybe this is good. There's a potential here to revitalize the news system in general. They won't be so dependent on pandering to a select few corporations and bullshit advertising methods. Maybe this will bring some more unbiased... wait, no probably not. Not being funny, that just made me realize the folly. If donations are going to be a big play, the only way to really get good donations is to appease a certain viewpoint. I don't know... maybe there's a way to mitigate that? It does say no more political endorsements... eh... I doubt that'll happen. I was hoping to have a good, happy train of thought on this one. Then I remembered that all humans are assholes.

Fucking hate driving in Godless wasteland of a state.
Chocolate ashtray mate.
assert_eq!(legal, moral || ethical || proper)
> thread 0 panicked
Germans still don’t agree on what reunification meant, 30 after Berlin Wall fell
False dilemma. I automatically change the radio station away from NPR when impeachment stuff is on because there is no point in listening to details of the inevitable (and I get mad)
That's what I meant. Apparently it changed. But so what? The league itself made enough money to pay Roger Goodell $44M in 2013. As a non-profit.
A bit off topic but weren’t .cat domains restricted to the Catalan language? Not sure if it’s enforced though.
> The German government and car industry have agreed to increase joint subsidies for the purchase of electric cars on the same day automobile giant Volkswagen began production of a new all-electric vehicle.

The way that company fucks Germany over and over is truly remarkable. Paid no penalties for the whole Dieselgate in Germany, now after all that they let the taxpayer fund their infrastructure. I bet their solution won't be compatible with Tesla.

Edit: Okay, charging system seems to be compatible, I got angry over the first part.
In other words, you have no idea how much or how little global warming emigration from the Thirld World causes, yet you assume the amount to be substantial?
Yeah, and AFAIK they actually maintain an alternative version of Windows (LTSB they call it) for enterprise.

I would like a modernized Windows without all the cruft; one of the reasons Windows apps have such poor quality is that apps don’t need to update their internals, so they just can’t get advantage of the newer features. I’m not sure, but last time I saw the Windows land, win32-based apps HiDPI support is opt-in, not opt-out.

Apple has a great record on deprecating things in a fairly understandable speed, so apps in macOS generally have up-to-date internals with all of the features working consistently.

Most apps use the control-center (compared to Windows where every app reinvents notifications, even with the existence of the notification center added in Windows 10), use macOS tabs, users can define keybindings that work in every Cocoa TextField, etc...
You can probably solve this using a tool like switchresx to create a custom scaled hidpi resolution that’s more to your liking.

For example, I created a custom resolution for my 5k2k display to appear as 3440x1440. It’s beautiful.
I definitely didn't intend to argue that Backcountry.com had created the word, only that my recollection was that the common usage of the term in the context of ski touring was roughly correlated.

I just checked the earliest (2001) Internet Archive record for Turns-All-Year.com, and it also includes the word 'backcountry', so I'll stand corrected.
Regarding mission-critical software in dangerous-prone contexts, there is good information from experts from the Apollo program on http://www.htius.com/
I'm on a 42" 4K at work (software developement).

In my experience 42" is too big to be ergonomic. Width is not the issue but height is: it takes too much strain on your eyes to look up to the top of the screen.

If I were to buy a new work monitor I would probably go for ultiwide.
What a nice trick! Interesting that dust guards doesn't block it, wonder if it is direct momentum transfer or heat expansion in the target material that drives the signal...

They have a pretty nice website for this trick too: https://lightcommands.com/
Entertaining your supposition, how would one even filter out such candidates?
This reminds me how small programs written in Red/Rebol/Lisp are in general: https://www.red-lang.org/
They post on Blind now.
It was only a few years ago that all the major thought leaders were promoting Venezuela as the epitome of modern socialism. Now, like every other example of socialism, we're being told it isn't "real" socialism.

The data is in, when the state (in the name of the people) controls the means of production, lots of people die, votes don't count, and Cuban mercenaries will be brought in to quell the dissent.