skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah, in Switzerland I know 0 people who would use such crap. And why would you? Amazon doesn't give a nanofraction of a f__k about privacy, they would sell both of your kidneys for Prime delivery if they could. Why would I help some amoral companies like Google, Amazon or Apple (disputable) to know me better than I know myself? They would have to pay me ridiculous amounts to comply.

I can do search on my desktop 1000% more precisely, thank you.
I'd argue that the Constitution provided a much more rational basis for government than the hodge-podge of treaties and agreements that make up the EU right now. At the very least, the US had a well defined system of government that was relatively easy to understand, and at least the US was clearly a country, as opposed to whatever the EU is.

In contrast to what the other poster in this thread is saying, there is no clear end goal for the EU. There are people who want a federal state and people who want a loose set of agreements between sovereign states.

I'm not saying that the EU is entirely bad. I'm just saying that it's a mess. It's very useful in some ways (freedom of movement of people and goods), and damaging in other ways (monetary union without fiscal union is a big problem, and austerity policies imposed on Greece et al.).
> The difference is a dictator takes power. In a democratic and capitalist system, there is nothing stopping you from gaining that power for yourself.

lol.

The difference isn't as big as you think. It's just as accurate to say "there's nothing stopping you from toppling a dictator and gaining his power for yourself." You see that it's obviously complicated and difficult to do such a thing, and you're ignoring similar complexities in your statement.

Obviously many barriers prevent a common man from "gaining that power for [himself]." Things like not having the money (e.g. it helps to have money to make money), connections, or luck. These are things that a pull yourself up by the bootstraps capitalist fairy tale can't help with.

> So what is there other than envy?

A desire for democracy rather than aristocracy, for one.

Look, your question is the wrong one. It's clear you've internalized some false beliefs about how fair the current system is, and that prejudices you against those who want to change it. It would suggest you reflect and critically examine those beliefs. I did that, and got over similar beliefs as yours.

> But the finance sentence hints at the real purpose - to take from those who have.

No, that's not the real purpose, just your projection. The real purpose is to help remedy society's problems, and I think it would be beneficial to not to have an aristocracy.

> Inequality isn't the problem. It's proper isolation from power. Money should be removed from politics, not poured into it.

I think I said it before, but that kind of isolation is impossible. It's not the solution.
Plenty of the startup founders I've worked with want to address a problem and improve the world. They were also working to keep investors happy because otherwise they would not have the opportunity.
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Epic post, love it.
>Apple is not a parts manufacturer/inventor

Manufacturer maybe not, but inventor? They have all kinds of patents and inventions of their own, their own CPUs and processing units, etc...

>they assemble parts wonderfully with, on occasion, some customization

They order custom parts more often than not, with very heavy customization.

Does anybody think that the displays for a 2022 Apple VR device (assuming the rumor is true) would be seen anywhere outside of Apple labs, and be e.g. available as off-the-shelve parts with merely "some customization" required on top in 2019?
"it's harder to learn new things working by yourself."

I strongly disagree. I rarely learn anything of consequence when working with others. Pairing and mobbing strike me as fads.
Eventually, the Navy will be doing more than "dazzling" and "blinding" enemy optics. The Tactical High Energy Laser project[1] demonstrated that incoming mortars and Katyushas could be shot down. It seems unlikely that this technology was abandoned, albeit it's probably much bulkier and more expensive than the RHEL.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactical_High_Energy_Laser
It's society deciding who breeds and who doesn't. It's a belief that's existed since Francis Galton that we can quantify the traits of humans, and that, like Gregor Mendel controlled the color of flowers, we can quantify and control those human traits.
This restaurant appeals to me and I am not in the Instagram generation.

Restaurants are extremely competitive. I’m not surprised that they go to great lengths to differentiate.
You can also see them trading on non-public information they get trough other channels. I think that's more normal.

In real life you can't run a fund by finding insiders willing to commit crimes routinely. But you often can get the same information by other means by collecting intelligence. Observing traffic, the flow of materials, following people and finding who meets who.
wow, thnx.
> Terminations and Suspensions by YouTube for Cause

> YouTube may suspend or terminate your access, your Google account, or your Google account’s access to all or part of the Service if (a) you materially or repeatedly breach this Agreement; (b) we are required to do so to comply with a legal requirement or a court order; or (c) we believe there has been conduct that creates (or could create) liability or harm to any user, other third party, YouTube or our Affiliates

https://www.youtube.com/t/terms?preview=20191210

Edit: just to be cristal clear, yes, YouTube can terminate your Google account
You are just being silly. I didn't even say that computing power was enough for me, just that I didn't need more on my desk.
Every five - 10 years the up to date track record is provided to reputable third parties to curate publicity. For example, Bloomberg and WSJ. Generally speaking though, most firms with a track record like RenTech's prefer to keep it quiet because they don't solicit outside investment.

In particular: RenTech likes to keep a handle on this publicity for the purposes of courting extremely good talent from academia and industry. That's the only reason the Medallion returns are ever intentionally publicized. Anyone investing in RenTech's other funds knows full well they're not getting the alpha powering Medallion's returns.

Simons would probably have preferred to stay entirely under the radar, but the cat's out of the bag already and has been for decades. The most successful hedge funds (like the Princeton Alpha offshoots) don't court publicity because they don't need to pool risk with outside investors. They're not even hedge funds in the common sense of the term; they're proprietary trading firms run on employee and partner capital. Medallion can be thought of a prop shop within a hedge fund in that way.
I've spent quite a bit of time on a problem very similar to this. It's surprisingly challenging. Imagine this scenario:

Some service has three units of capacity available (e.g. VMs). This is the minimum amount allowed, on the theory that things won't break too badly if one of them happens to crash. You target 66% CPU utilization. Suddenly, one goes down, and the software sees 100% CPU utilization on the other two. What should the software do?

Well, the obvious thing is to add one more instance, assuming that one of them crashed and its load shifted to the other two. However, what if the thing that actually happened is that the demand doubled, and the load caused the crash? Then, you should probably add six more instances (assuming that the two remaining live ones are going to go down while those six are coming up).

If you look at only CPU utilization, it's impossible to tell the difference between these two situations.
I almost wish this were true, Amazon's recommendation algorithm is terrible.

I'm always reminded that Amazon started with books, when I buy a vacuum cleaner and the site concludes I must want to buy a whole bunch more vacuum cleaners.
Why do you say Google Glass failed? They are still developing and selling it. A new version was just release six months ago.
Don't Snoop on Your Data
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_World
First World is a term used for countries that are aligned with NATO. It has no basis in what you think it means.
While I cannot attest to the accuracy of anything posted on that subreddit, it is worth pointing out that a lot of "combat footage" is selectively presented or staged for effect rather than representing the typical situations that actually occur in combat.
No, that's not how it works.

People develop trust relationships with the online places they shop. They aren't trusting their credit card, they're trusting the merchant to not need to use the credit card security/safety features.

None of those stores you mentioned are anywhere near amazon or have amazon's customer service reputation.

The idea isn't "howd you come to trust amazon" but "how do you compete with amazon while they have more trust and better shipping than you."

I and everybody else dont shop at infinite places. You check the usual suspects when looking for something. You dont say "I'll take a bet I'll get this at the advertised price and shipping time because I have a credit card."

I want that thing. I dont want to fuck around with my credit card company and then order the thing from someone else.

You are mistaking the problem amazon had with the problem everyone else has - trying to compete with amazon.
Does the notarization licence covers the iOS store or do we need to buy both licences?
Citation fucking needed.
> but it still took decades of careful study to demonstrate that causation beyond a reasonable doubt

Not really. The correlation was immediately seen once they looked because the effect was so pronounced [1]. Then it took about seven years when virtually every study showed conclusive results for it to become consensus. This is not the case here.

> Nowhere near this level of study has been applied to the benefits of static typing

First, typing isn't one thing, which does complicate matters a bit. Second, various studies came up with either null result, inconclusive results, or small-effect results. This is not a smoking situation.

> If improved code organization, improved documentation, and improved tooling had literally no impact on functional correctness, then we'd be wasting considerable resources for no observable benefit.

Why? Maybe it benefits development speed? Why did you decide that developers do things for many reasons, but these things just for correctness? And anyway, it's not like types make documentation and organization redundant, they just make them somewhat easier for me, probably because I'm not used to working with untyped languages.

In any event, any claims of correlation between programming language choice and correctness are certainly unsubstantiated, and people should stop repeating what is, at least currently, a myth.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/jun/02/thisweeksscienc...
Ah what? Idiosyncratic? I've never read him before and it's the very definition of nationalism and patriotism I have. Patriotism is love of country; nationalism is love of nation-state.

Patrotism is a natural consequence of birth in a place - most of us live in a place with a culture. Many people migrate to another land and grow roots and become a patriot of that place. It is no crazier to be patriotic than it is to love your family.

Nationalism is more like being an Apple fanboi. Someone with slack branding convinced you that your survival depends on throwing your wealth and strength into their service. Normally we call them thugs.
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Thanks for adding the metrics.

As much as I think they are doing a great job and deserve to be there, I've also never seen a car in the $40k range (more 50-60k euros on this side of the ocean) not being "a pleasure to drive" or not having a good customer service.

For the same price I can buy this

https://www.audi.it/it/web/it/modelli/a6/a6.html
I wrote a 2012 reflection on this post, "Why Startups Die", that I think still holds up:

https://amontalenti.com/2012/10/03/why-startups-die
Good work David! It's great to see all the ads in one place, alongside which users see them and the amount spent.
HVAC is certainly not infotainment, there are safety implications if the defrosters don't work. The HVAC controls should never be at the mercy of whatever phoned-in UI the radio and satnav have in your car.
Are all restaurants doing this? I'm pretty sure the Italian cafe down my street is still doing their own thing (serving good food at good prices).

If its not your cup of tea to visit a place like this, the solution is simple. Visit somewhere else for food. Otherwise, there are all sorts of inventive restaraunts through the ages, from Benihana's (at least in the 70s when it was fresh-and-cool), to "Blind Restaurants" to sports-bars, and now apparently this 2D-cafe drawing style.

No, these restaurants don't necessarily serve the best food (in my experience anyway). But that's also not the point... the point of Benihana's / Blind Cafes / Cat Cafes / Sports Bars / 2D Cafes / etc. etc. is to provide a new experience beyond just food and drink.
Everyone knows you will accept at least half a lie as mid ground, then. Nuanced and full of lies.
Super interesting, because I was drawn to Ableton years ago because I thought the aesthetic made it feel more professional and serious. I love how there’s no one absolute in design, or anything with humans for that matter
Those nationalisations are like things that Labour governments in the UK actually did in the '40s through '70s. At the leftmost edge of the mainstream, sure, but hardly far left.
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Would you choose GAE or GKE for a new project?
It’s not surprising, given a number of groups with similar intent were openly planning to intimidate or kill border patrol agents (govt employees) and have attacked govt buildings (shots fired at a building in San Antonio, woman with a firebomb in an ICE facility, man who shot at agents and tried to firebomb an ICE facility...)
Below the video at https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/07/opinion/nike-running-mary...
Two Twitter employees charged with leaking information to the Saudi government
This app was initially my mother's idea.
Clothing and fashion are her passion, and she passed it down to me.
It's an app that makes cool outfits with your clothes for you.

P.S: she really likes it, and I can finally call myself a mama's boy.
Alibaba’s Singles’ Day sales top $38B
Even if that’s true, it says something horrific about our society that it’s socially acceptable to wear that label: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/11/20/nicolae-one-hu.... It’s like self-identifying as a Nazi because you’re “super extra not Democrat.”

And I question whether your premise is true. About 22% of millennials surveyed stated that “it would be better if all private property was abolished.” https://www.victimsofcommunism.org/2019-annual-poll
> harder to learn new things working by yourself

Depends on the things. Another person might be able to share a few tricks with you: you may not know that you can drag the lower corner of an excel spreadsheet cell to copy formulas, for example, or that you can use "cw" to change a word in vi. On the other hand, learning something like relational database modeling or functional programming requires dedicated focus that another person is probably going to get in the way of.
Erm, working at night has some serious health disadvantages. even if you get enough sleep during the day. One of the worst things you can do is switch those schedules regularly.

Some people may be able to do this, especially for a few months or years. Many however, will break down sooner or later!
Are you under the impression that the people creating the web content of the 90s and 00s were being paid for it?
Lazy initialisation in C++ and Multi-threading
> A great book about RenTec and Jim Simons came out recently:

A podcast interview with the author:

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2019/11/talk-your-book-greg...

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2019/11/non-intuitive-lesso...
Researchers use CRISPR to eliminate HIV in mice, DNA and all
> why do we find ourselves localized and perceiving this coordinate in the 4D spacetime block and not any other?

Well we started out perceiving a 0-dimensional universe and 4 dimensions is as far as we’ve gotten!

We’re certainly at work on the next one.
> Oh, I just learned I have a money problem

Sorry, not trying to be disrespectful, I was referring to where I live: Italy.

They usually don't even sell fresh food here and when they do, they are not much cheaper than the better alternatives.
>But how long can engineers throw more and more and exponentially more hardware at the phone that fits in my pocket?

Why would they need to? They can sell improved cameras and other additions instead of improved CPUs...
I think it looks better in windy weather - it doesn't have a large flat wall which will catch wind and potentially collapse.
Sweep a physical occluder across the lens, measure abatement?
To Be Befriended: A Meditation on Friendship and the Disabled
GSAP 3 has arrived – 50 new features
You think about this if you ever watched band of brothers. The autobiography of one of the main people, "The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters" gets into this. The leaders would send them into pointless investigations that would get nothing and lead to them being killed, maybe it was near the end of the war, he wouldn't send his out.
Apple redesigns its privacy pages, thumbing its nose at Facebook and Google
Did your lab ever publish anything on the subject?

If so, I’d love to read it.
Language processing can compare inputs to stored voice samples.

It is simpler than self driving cars which have to navigate a completely dynamic environment with many autonomous actors and make good decisions very quickly.
Some of them probably, yeah, but it will make them more expensive by at least an order of magnitude so that demand will certainly fell. Measures like these are in effect additional taxes.
LOCA collaboration facility to develop open computer architectures
Unpaired Image translation Using CycleGAN: From day to night image
Isn't the Unicode codepoint repertoire pretty much identical to ISO 10646? AIUI Unicode only differs by standardizing additional character properties and rulesets, but the encodings are supposed to be identical.
I’m not a bot but I am always posting relevant and recent (2017) New Yorker articles that are worth reading:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/18/jim-simons-the...

And this interesting theme:

> Foundations are not taxed, so much of the money that supports them is money that otherwise would have gone to the government. Scientific mega-donors answer to no one but themselves. Private institutes tend to have boards chosen by their founders, and are designed to further the founders’ wishes, even beyond their deaths. Rob Reich, a professor of political science at Stanford University and an expert on philanthropy, told me, “Private foundations are a plutocratic exercise of power that’s unaccountable, nontransparent, donor-directed, and generously tax-subsidized. This seems like a very peculiar institutional and organizational form to champion in a democratic society.”
SpaceX launches another 60 Starlink satellites while setting two reuse records
Taming Dynamic Data in TypeScript
Civil aviation: A single headset could replace/augment all displays on GA planes, and add information not generally available of fixed displays, like terrain and weather. Pilots currently fly with iPads for terrain/maps and ask ATC for weather. The reason I believe in this is, cockpits are 50 years old in average, no room for more instruments, there is a lot of money to save and a lot of money available for devices, it’s a “mass market” enough and it is a wealthy/high education population.
It's often less the "manager schedule" that is the problem, but getting screwed into complying totally with the "customer schedule."

The one that has been the bane of my existence for years now is the 9AM daily call with the customer that is on Europe or Delhi time. It just destroys the day when you start things off with that kind of thing, and get immediately tossed into placating and containment mode. Then whatever you thought you might be able to do for the day gets tossed out the window in order to react to the latest fire drill before the next call. It's entirely reactive, rather than proactive, and it is soul crushing.

It's almost lunch time now, and I haven't done anything worthwhile yet today, other than try to bring some kind of order to this chaos and triage.
There are different kinds of skills. Postgres vs spark is one kind. C++ vs python is another. Statistics vs networking is a third. The top of the skill pyramid changes quickly, but the fundamentals change slowly. A tool might be outdated while the solution it implements is not. (But “ooh shiny new thing!” can still be a problem)
Sometimes, but Vets also often comment and explain the context.

That said, there is no such thing as true objectivity. The best you can do is try to get more evidence and personal accounts
https://eclipse.aas.org/eye-safety/iso-certification says "The only ones that are safe for direct viewing of the Sun with your eyes are those of Shade 12 or higher."

(which are rare because they're too dark for most welding)

Other sources said 13 was the minimum. You're probably best off with a 13 or 14. I found 13 too bright.
This is my experience too, and also in other areas. I have to include "stack overflow" or "forum" keywords to actually find something useful on the first or second page. Example: drone racing discussions.
When talking about "A Farewell to Arms” why did the author called WW 1 an "earlier war in Italy"? I don't really see the point
Even in modern warfare, with its surgical accuracy to pinpoint and take out specific targets, hundreds if not thousands of troops will still die in the course of a major engagement, counting tactical errors, accidents, and friendly fire incidents.

It's a sobering thought and one that makes me glad we're disengaging from foreign conflicts. War is hell.
That doesn't mean we won't do it wrong for the next 30 years, or that we are doing it right right now.

We have to account for accelerating progress, but I'm not sure that's enough to bring us much closer than 50 years away
Do you think PWAs are the way to go?
Do you think Apple will ever support push notifications on iOS to comply with W3C Spec?
Abuse signals, as determined by a machine learning system that is a complete mystery to even its creators.

But that's beside the point. Losing the ability to receive email is not something that should ever happen under any circumstances.
It's like staring at the sun.