skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to see this in-person. looks pretty cool to me!

Does anyone know how they display 45 different angles of an 3d object without using a ton of computing power? I'm imagining you'd need a beast of a computer to use this display at a reasonable refresh rate without some really clever optimization.
Ten rooms or a hundred attendees seems like the kind of event that shouldn't be any kind of problem if it were flagged; presumably that's some kind of company sanctioned event.

If it's not, what in the flipping hell are you doing using company property and resources to organize it? I understand that people mix their personal and corporate identities together shamelessly, but that just seems like shockingly poor opsec.
Yeah, these are standard conservative talking points. The best part is they would riot if we actually tried to implement Singapore's health system in the US. In Singapore the government forces you to put a certain percentage of your income into a health savings account, and then the government tells you what you're allowed to spend that money on. You can't use that money to buy a drug that isn't on a special government list, for example. The government also owns most of the hospitals, and most doctors are government employees. Hospital stays are mostly paid for with government subsidies. Drugs are also directly subsidized by the government, but only the drugs that government bureaucrats approve.

But none of that has stopped them from spending decades pretending that transparent pricing is the sole reason why health spending is lower in Singapore.
That's the secret sauce behind decentralization. Damage from any one actor, including yourself, is limited both temporally and in scope. Each service would get a unique hash relevant only to them and giving them access to only their scope, and you would keep your private keys safe just like you would SSH keys, crypto wallet keys, or any other sensitive data. If you can't be bothered to do that, then a minor hit to your reputation is deserved from a philosophical standpoint, even if we work to make the system robust and resilient.
I don't know if the Get Started section is supposed to have links, but I want to click on some of those subjects but don't have the patience to look elsewhere for the content.
I wouldn't suppose that the cooling will be any less. Heat dissipates very quickly in the atmosphere. CO2 can't store heat but for microseconds at a time. The oceans, well they can store heat for much longer periods and that's why the Multi-decadal oscillations occur. The massive heat content of the oceans shift climate systems in dramatic ways. But in the event of a Multi-decadal decline in solar energy and shift in oceanic oscillations, CO2 is powerless to stop that effect.
I wonder if IBM no longer having the in-house brand now that Lenovo was spun out makes it possible to even issue so many Macs. I'm also curious how much of a choice there was for the folks who got the Macs: was it a matter of "here's your IBM issued machine" or "Do you want a Lenovo, HP, Dell, or Mac?"

I'm also curious if a Linux-powered machine/laptop was an option.
Agreed on the bewildering number of disparate APIs that you need to bash together in a Jupyter notebook. Data wrangling, plotting, machine-learning, logging, writing to file/DB... It doesn't help that there are often multiple competing packages that solve basically the same problem in different ways, ensuring that whatever choice you make will be fraught with anxiety about not "doing it right."

That being said, I've found the only way I can get interactive programming to stick in my mind is to pick a sample dataset, wonder some open-ended questions about it, and then answer those questions in a Jupyter notebook with the help of Google, documenting your thought process as you go. A great starting point to find real-world sample data is the UCI dataset repository: https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets.php
All of this posturing, and I trust that it’s largely really China, just reeks of insecurity.

China is driving the world’s biggest lifted truck.
Secret Google Partnership
> I've been seeing this fallacy a lot lately in these times. If you're ever in this situation: the longer you're held without a lawyer, the higher the liability on your captor becomes. Period. This is where million dollar lawsuits by the ACLU and jail time for corruption begins.

This itself is actually the fallacy. Take a look at this:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/01/540903038...

> Watson was correct all along: He was a U.S. citizen. After he was released, he filed a complaint. Last year, a district judge in New York awarded him $82,500 in damages, citing "regrettable failures of the government."

> On Monday, an appeals court ruled that Watson, now 32, is not eligible for any of that money — because while his case is "disturbing," the statute of limitations actually expired while he was still in ICE custody without a lawyer.
Play Pong for Hong Kong (https://www.pong4hongkong.com)
Greetings,

So I've been learning web development for the past few months, and with the current situation in Hong Kong, I thought it might be worthwhile to hack together something that helped the democratic cause.

So I created Pong4hongkong.com. Play a game of 3 against the AI and for every game won, the website contributes 5 cents towards various organisations that we've been in touch with such as the Hong Kong Free Press and Spark Alliance. To raise this money the website does run advertisements. Sorry, couldn't find another way :(

I would greatly appreciate your guys try it out and give some feedback. Thank You.
Hmm, my understanding now is that I've got development certificates, and those certificates are valid, in conjunction with a provisioning profile for my specific machine. They are not valid distribution certificates, and I must buy into the developer program to be able to generate distribution certificates. So it is 100/yr after all, even if I want to distribute my free software outside of the Mac App Store. Am I missing something?
The idea is that it would take a long time and lots of effort to build a credible reputation.

Someone just beginning to use the internet would either need to slowly build reputation in the most open spaces, or get one or more people to vouch for them through an API.

I want to make it fiscally infeasible to run a mass persona farm.
As opposed to, say, the centuries of poisoning of US forests by legal mining and logging operations? 'Illegal pot grows' isn't the problem, the Earth's being doing 'pot grows' for millions of years. OTOH,'illegal pot grows' are now a primary worry for a new 'industry' of legal pot-growers.

Now that NPR's gotten so commercial (listened to Science Friday lately?) should we expect more of this kind of spin? Sad, NPR, sad.
The article directly addressed this point & why it is a wash, at best.

New demand every year is at parity or maybe outpacing the new production of wind & solar.

Not to mention the huge amounts of glass, plastic, concrete (which by the way, we are apporoaching a shortage of suitable sand for making it), and rare earth metals required to build wind & solar infrastructure.

Dont get me wrong, I'm with you. I want to beat climate change as much as the next guy, but this article is saying what we need to hear. The situation is dire & it might be too late to avoid the worst.

Man, I hope not. I'm very hopeful. But I often get worried, & pessimistic like the author. If you really look at it objectively, everything is still trending in the wrong direction. Even at the rate renewable energy is coming online.

Electricity is only part of the problem. Only 20% according to this guys numbers. And it's still predominantly created by coal. What about all the gasoline/ diesel for cars? Oil heating homes & buildings?

There's too many people. Crap it's hard to not be pessimistic :(
The link to the paper[1] is a 404. Did anyone manage to grab a copy of the paper? I haven't thought about lattices since gradschool crypto classes, and was excited to see if I could comprehend anything after 10 years. :(

[1]: http://tpm.fail/TPM-FAIL.pdf
Is "Do No Evil" still a Google trademark? Seems like they've not used it for a long time so perhaps the TM expired.
HFTs quote in a given symbol, often derivative e.g. “AMZN 2000 strike call option” based on market in another symbol, often outright e.g. “AMZN stock“. They are willing and happy to trade at prices quoted while market in AMZN remains what it is. Once it moves, they re-price their quotes in option(s). Their quote sizes are usually pretty small.

Spoofers put out orders without intention to trade. In fact, usually they would be horrified if their entire order trades. Their order price is not based on another market; their only intention is to impact prices in the book where they put the spoofing order. To achieve that, they often use disproportionately large order sizes, such as posting quantity 1000 where most other orders are between 1 and 20. Often they keep “applying the pressure” on the market by modifying the large spoofing order multiple times towards the market - moving the sell order lower and buy order higher - not as a response to changing market conditions in some other instrument but with the sole intention of impacting the price in the book in question.
Bizarre that this pretty inoffensive comment got flagged to dead. I vouched for you.
Dates are way high in sugars. Glad to see cow's milk go, have you ever seen the stealth videos of agents sneaking into dairy milking operations ? Bleeding teets and utters - - all going right into your milk, you milk drinkers.
Could farmers in cold climate pump CO2 into a greenhouse, raising it to ~1000ppm, to meaningfully reduce the need to heat during the winter? Is the heat trapping effect of CO2 measurable at building scale?

Would double paned windows containing pure CO2 between the panes function as measurably better insulators?
"We"
Human breast milk is also called milk but it’s definitely a different thing.
Microsoft embedded an ID in one of the animations on the xbox 360 dashboard which could identify the person who leaked video of a beta game.
I don't say this often, but I can't believe it. What an absolute farce.
This style of "gotcha" holier-than-thou bad-faith arguments frustrates me. One doesn't need to go from being a straight omnivore to a Level 5 vegan that doesn't eat anything with a shadow for changing a diet in large part being a good thing.

Perfect is the enemy of the good in our line of work, what makes diet any different? One should strive to do the best they can within their location, health, dietary framework and ethical choices. It's as simple as that.
IBM is not shy about spending lots of money. They are a very good customer to have.
The first possibility, that of inaccurate reporting, is always likely. If that turns out not to be the case, the next most likely possibility is probably not that these brilliant people who are paid extravagantly to create and maintain a wide array of popular products and services are "totally unreasonable". I would suggest that they might have a different cultural understanding of workplace privacy norms. Their different understanding might be "wrong" in a universal sense, but it isn't for that reason unreasonable.

For many years the narrative of this organization has been one of openness; more recent events have proved that narrative false. As in many large organizations that consume vast resources, secrets are vitally important, but of equally vital importance is that most people have little access to those secrets. Google was in a bit of an odd spot with respect to this topic, however. If googlers had realized that they were excluded from important organizational information, they might have felt empathy for the rest of humanity. If that had happened, they'd have been much less effective at building all those spy tools. Instead, upper management pretended that humanity wouldn't need secrets anymore, and Google would show them the way to the future. People in their twenties who hadn't read much history and were being paid vast sums could believe that. Hell, lots of people outside the organization, many of whom were neither ignorant of history nor paid vast sums, believed that. People who believed in that openness would just expect that everyone's work schedule, and lots of other information besides, would be online so that all their coworkers could effectively coordinate. If a problem arose in the midst of all that openness, well, it would just be solved with more openness.

Now we remember that knowledge is not a symmetric relation. Just because Bob might be stalking Alice in HR, that doesn't mean she has any idea who Bob is. Just because Google knows what I think and do all day long, doesn't mean I know what Google is thinking and doing. Having built the microscope, the engineers have realized they're also on the slide. Eventually they'll either resign themselves to the arrangement, or they'll quit. Either way, Google will soon be the sort of organization in which traditional norms of workplace privacy dominate. (Hint: they'll stop Bob the programmer from stalking you. Larry, though? He's exempt from that.)
Surely they mean "equality", not "equity"; equity is mostly valued by older homeowners.

The author is either unwilling or ignorant of the real reason why mandating women on boards is silly: Because about 2% of the population are intersex.

Bland restatements of the Economic Problem, like:

> If selection criteria are designed to promote equity, some individuals must benefit at the expense of others, on the basis of their immutable characteristics. Given a finite number of positions, this is a mathematically necessary and indefensible consequence.

Sure, some resources are limited. However, quite a few resources are not limited. Moreover, access to limited resources should not be withheld in discriminatory ways.

What's the argument here? Colleges are mean to conservatives?
Frederick Douglass’s Vision for a Reborn America
This article is light on details but this doesn't seem to be the same thing as leasing as others here have said. This is more akin to offerings from HPE and IBM where you get a whole bunch of infrastructure, but then only pay for what you consume. It's Infrastructure as a Service, but in your own data centre.

Not sure how this translates to personal computing though - typically you're either using the whole computer or none of it. I guess you could get a whole bunch of desktops and then only pay for the 8 hours a day that you're using them? Doesn't quite have the same scalability benefits as you can get from the compute infrastructure.
If you do a search with several more general terms and one specialized term: for several of the search results they will drop the specialized term.
Should I be happy that someone researching weapons systems that might be pointed at me found my work useful? That's a strange definition of progress.

It is far from proven that a world without nuclear weapons is necessarily a world with more war.

We should not strive to get better at everything. Improving our ability to cause one another pain for its own end, for example, is cruel and inhuman. To me, the point of scientific research is a deeper understanding of Nature.

Agreed that the United States is actively engaged in armed conflict, but the integrity of our nation is arguably facing greater threats from within; a difficulty we must find our way through together.

Agreed that not all defense projects are classified -- that was a simplification. Many of the projects for which my skills are suited are classified. I'm perfectly happy accepting DARPA or similar funds for peaceful research.
completely agree, that thing is sick!

while you're browsing: this is equally great :)

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013...
Sounds like a recipe for an aggressively mediocre company.

Relevant EconTalk podcast episode[1] about companies with "loose cultures" and others with "tight cultures". Some people and some industries tend to lean towards a "loose" or "tight" culture and it's interesting to hear about M&As where one type swallows the other and the inevitable indigestion happens.

I'm not sure why you are being downvoted. I read your comment simply as a statement of fact, not a preference for/against that policy.

[1] https://www.econtalk.org/michele-gelfand-on-rule-makers-rule...
If only someone had created a viable alternative to both Google and Apple's phones. Maybe they could base it on the browser? Web technologies are getting pretty good these days. One of the popular browsers that are an alternative to safari and google chrome... Like some sort of browser-OS.
In practice the gov't has to pretend like the money is real in order to prevent chaos. In fact both gov't and citizens have to pretend "properly" for it to work. It's a mutual agreement about how to represent the value of commerce.

Laws are the same way: members of civilization have to mutually agree on how to create and follow the laws for them to "work".

Civilization is the Mother of All Handshakes. If a large enough percentage of the population disagrees with the "agreements", anarchy happens.

Modern technology and civilization are both inherently driven by standards: both written and de-facto.
FWIW the OpenCensus website says: OpenCensus and OpenTracing have merged to form OpenTelemetry, which serves as the next major version of OpenCensus and OpenTracing. You'd never know it if you just looked at the other two websites, though...

And Jaeger has always been on top of OpenTracing. So I guess there's more unity than it seems.
> this is really just stringing a bunch of existing tools together

This is essentially what all developers do to varying degrees. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts!
What's the main difference between this and the Java Virtual Machine?
Is this a selection bias?

1. Users prefer Macs

2. Users also have Macs at home

3. Users choose to switch at work.

This leaves number out employees on each platform. One place mentions 200,000, another 277,000 "Apple devices" the article starts with 290,000

It's not really clear to me what how the two compare at the conclusions are shown but done if the data is missing

Approximating from their total employee count (350,000) these do appear to be ~50/50.

If this is accurate, 80% of IBM is using a Mac or 50% (depending on your which number you use)

Is there another company using Macs at this rate (not Apple)?

Given this: I'm curious why users are more productive and how to replicate that success beyond "buy a Mac"
There’s also the difference between privacy and anonymity.

Apple has tools in place for privacy, but none for anonymity. For example, requiring a full name and physical address to sign up for the App Store (Microsoft, despite all it’s telemetry, let’s you install apps from their store without an account).

I’ve heard suggestions to give Apple a fake name/address, but what if they start verifying like Facebook by requiring government issued ID?

Worst is new iCloud accounts now require a phone number for verification.
This is a US District Court ruling; I think it's safe to say it's going to be appealed and find its way to the USMC. It's hard to imagine the executive branch of the federal government giving up all that power.
> I'm also curious if a Linux-powered machine/laptop was an option.

Great question. In my experience of IT departments in companies whose business is not software, default issue is a windows laptop from a vendor which offered cheapest contract.
- antifragile, Nassim Nicholas Taleb (the guy is smart, but insufferable)

- a short history of nearly everything, Bill Bryson

- working: researching, interviewing, writing by Robert Caro (I love just about everything he puts out)
Trying in my limited spare time to learn Scala and use it here and there on the job for script like stuff of our Java sim and simple analysis. I found almond a bit slow in compiling cells and then found BeakerX. Seemed much faster. Have any thoughts between the two (if you've used BeakerX)
> Do large corporations really suck less than the DMV?

As I said, I think it depends on your locality, and of course on the large corporations. Also see below.

> there's a lot more to the public sector than the DMV and the IRS, and the sector as a whole doesn't do too badly

I think you are giving far too much credit to the public sector. As I said, government services which everybody uses, like DMV, have much less room for suckitude than services which only a small fraction of people, most of whom are indigent and hence have little or no ability to push back at suckitude, use. I think most people would be shocked if they knew how badly many of these services suck. (I only happen to know because I happen to have married someone who was helping several friends to try to navigate these services, and so I have had first-hand experience with them.) The suckitude of the large corporations that you describe simply pales in comparison. And, unlike in the case of those corporations, people have no alternative if the government is providing the services.
IIRC it was Thinkpad or Mac; I would expect each department to standardize on one platform instead of leaving it up to the employee though. Linux is fully supported in IBM.
- Pragmatic Programmer 2nd edition

- Permanent Record
Insurance is regulated by state. You can have insurance in say Texas and visit your doctor in Oklahoma but as a Texas resident you cannot buy Oklahoma insurance. This is why for example there is not one national Obama care market but fifty. And this is also why for example we don’t have uniform compliance with Obama care across all states and why it may cost many billions more in federal aid to help states set up exchanges. If I go any further in the explaination I’m risking being downvoted for making this a political posting (quite honestly I’m pretty happy I haven’t already been downvoted).
For Y they are just going to stamp the whole frame out in one fell swoop.

> Another new innovation revealed in the patents is a “Multi-Directional Unibody Casting Machine for a Vehicle Frame and Associated Methods.” Musk himself let this cat out of the bag earlier on by revealing the new casting machine will be capable of casting almost the entire body of a Tesla EV in one piece.

> This startling innovation will virtually eliminate the need for a tremendous number of welds across an EV body.

They also reduced the total length of wiring from 1.5km to 100m in the Y.
Thank you for sharing this very helpful / valuable information. I’m always looking to go deeper down the rabbit hole of security.
I wonder if there is any of the kind of phenomenon I used to observe in my blue-collar days - smokers could take 10-15 minutes off every hour to go to the smoking area and light up, so non-smokers got irritated and started going along too for their "second-hand smoke" breaks...
Efficiency is the last thing any subject wants from the Law.
It appears to be here now: http://tpm.fail/tpmfail.pdf
> Do those services suck because of operational problems or were they designed to suck?

For the worst ones (the ones that only a small fraction of people, most of whom are indigent, use), neither. They suck because of misaligned incentives, but the systems were not "designed" to suck; they were designed in response to political pressure from voters, who are mostly ignorant of the misaligned incentives and believe that, if they vote for a system that will "help the poor", for example, that the system that results will actually do that. And since most of them never have to interact with the system directly, they don't realize that in fact it is not doing what they voted for.