skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't it the opposite of a line-item hack? Instead of being able to hide the losses of their other bets in the profits of their ad division, the alphabet structure gives their investors visibility into exactly how much money the non-google parts of the company are losing.
Even if they overcome this the bigger question is whether the market opportunity is worth the R&D costs, and whether or not bulky self driving vehicles are the best and most lucrative solution to mass transit.
Not much, because I could not afford, but few dollars here & there to Wikipedia, Internet Archive, My Religious Organization online.
Yup.

Congress is already whispering about the Ascension deal and how it affects the Fitbit buyout with regards to them intervening.
An interesting - but not surprising - thing about this is that compression algorithms can be more efficient on wider representations of numerically-high code points (e.g, for some Korean corpus, using UTF-32 instead of UTF-8 improves LZMA compression by ~10%).
The reinforcement learning ones are SO common. When I worked on autonomous tech a while ago, I remember constantly trying to tweak my reward function because of the agent learning that avoiding obstacles was a high enough reward in itself, so it just learned to go in circles constantly
Customer Support having outdated/bad communication with Product is not surprising at all. For every person where
the person who makes the decisions is not the person to relay the decisions, this error can be introduced. It's like a big game of telephone.
I think burying a comment may lend it some validity. Critiquing it is a better method of understanding or correcting it. Here's a censored version:

Founders: Bring your whole selves to work.

Employees: great!

That one guy: what a relief, because I’m literally an unpopular-party member.

Everybody: no. Leave that part at home.

Guy: my rights are being trampled by a popular-party conspiracy!

Other person: my unique identity is the most important aspect of large-scale software development. Anyone who disagrees must be fired.

Everyone: that doesn’t seem all that relevant, actually.

Person: my rights are being trampled by a majority identity conspiracy!

Everyone: frustration
I enjoy TablePlus throughly! I would download the free version and try it out. It’s a game changer for people that do majority of the their transformation and modeling in SQL. (Along with DBT).
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I'm a very light editor, small dollar donor, and moderate user and I can say I'm pretty impressed with the platform improvements.

The pace of change appears to be very carefully managed to almost always be positive and minimize pointless disruption. The complaints in this thread are part of why you get those big, flashy redesigns that look great but hurt utility.

Of course as a donor I'd never turn down more good for less money, but I don't think maximizing thriftiness always yields the best value. I'd rather things be just a little plush (if that's how you'd describe the current state) and see Wikipedia continue to succeed as it (largely) has.
Thanks for pinging on this.

re: Kubeflow - imho it is quite coupled to Kubernetes. We don’t intend to be tied to a specific compute substrate even though the first launch is with AWS. We do follow a plugin architecture - so I’m hoping Kube happens sometime.

re: Flyte - I’m less informed on this but happy to educate myself and get back.
Not claiming to know more than you about this but your point assumes that the changing cost of maintaining the project at scale has some proportional relationship to the number of edits.

As it has attracted global attention and ever more significant influence on people worldwide, Wikipedia's threats are likely more varied and insidious than they were in 2004. The cost of offsetting these threats may not relate to the volume of edits.
Slack is nothing compared to JIRA in that regard. JIRA might be worst modern software I've ever been forced to use. I typically have no problems working with Slack -- everything just sort of works as I expect it to 95% of the time. The fewer questions I have to ask, the better the design.
We must agree to disagree.
I thought I was the only crazy person that hates anything that spins up a fan on my laptop. Why Java sets of fans when I spin up anything (even an empty spring project) in my IDE I just don’t understand. Even IntelliJ and eclipse with no project loaded seem to set off the fan.
They could help with their money, but if they could help with their visions, social capital and network that would set them apart.

I admire Brian Acton in this respect. He regretted the decision of selling WhatsApp and publicized it. Since then he has taken on the leadership of Signal while donating money into it.
Not sure I see much of a story here. Turning off location services globally works as expected, but turning off location services app-by-app lets the system itself still utilize location services (for unknown system things):

“We do not see any actual security implications,” an Apple engineer wrote in a response to KrebsOnSecurity. “It is expected behavior that the Location Services icon appears in the status bar when Location Services is enabled. The icon appears for system services that do not have a switch in Settings” [emphasis added].
What would happen if we randomly gave $1,000 to poor families? Now we know
Lol, I'm from Mississauga too - We were your competitors; www.blip.delivery and worked with lots of construction companies in Toronto who wanted to do same-day deliveries.

I ended up selling the company to a customer, but it's really cool to see another company in the space, who's also in the same city as we were!
The fact that many of the web companies want to crowd everyone in a few hundred square kilometers of the Bay area demonstrates that they don't know what they are doing and are leaving money on the table. That doesn't disprove the fact that women are somewhat more uninterested in pursuing those jobs than men are.
I'm not a moderator, but IMO, it was absolutely a violation of community guidelines. It was incredibly snarky, flamebaity, and was obviously written to start a political battle.

The fact that it got flagged shows I'm definitely not alone in this thinking.
Better yet, setup something like the following:

- Answer queries for .org. By default, forward queries to the legacy (pillaged) registry.

- Allow administrators of domain in .org to "opt in" to being managed by Mozilla by placing special DNS records or the like.

- "Opting in" is no charge from Mozilla if the Mozilla-registry nameservers are setup to match the legacy registry

- At any time, a domain owner can stop renewing at the legacy registry. If the domain has been opted in to the Mozilla registry, its owner can pay Mozilla instead to continue their registration with Mozilla (and other onboard organizations/resolvers)

- If the user stops paying the Mozilla registry, it removes the opt-in and the ownership is up for grabs back at the legacy registry.

The idea being that .org sites, especially the ones we've all come to rely on as infrastructure, could register with Mozilla to claim ownership of their names outside of just the pillaged registry. Then if the looters raise fees too high they can individually make the decision to cast off the legacy registry after pointing their communities at the new resolvers, with no disruption to services.
Oh yeah. This is one of those mindblowers that you can tell even older young adults and we realize how out of touch we are getting with The Youth.

"Kids are getting bootleg THC vape liquid, where are they getting it?" "Oh, its gotta be their dumb older friends." "Well, not usually; would you believe The Internet?" "Oh sure, some dark web site." "Nope. Its a popular app." "Snapchat, with its self-destroying messages for sure?" "Nope." "I hear a lot about tik tok these days, its popular with the youth." "Ha, no, the Chinese are actually good at censorship and moderation, unlike us." "Ok, craigslist? that's always been a little seedy" "No one uses that anymore, least of all kids; Would you believe... Instagram." "What?!"
≥Quite arrogant attitude, dude

I find your lack of self awareness hilarious. You know the guy who designed dynamodb! Wow. Could I get you to send me his autograph?
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It is a shame that almost all of the low cost PCB and PCBA services are in mainland China. I do a lot of work with hardware and given recent events I have been treating it as a moral imperative to find somewhere to have my PCBs fabricated that is outside the rule of the CCP. Everywhere else has been significantly more expensive.

I wonder what it would take to have a robust electronics prototyping industry in the west or in a less authoritarian part of asia.
My company was at some point hosting boatload of large media files on Amazon S3 for our clients to download. It was financial disaster. As soon as bandwidth from regular hosting services became available I've switched and laughed all the way to the bank. Now switching to dedicated servers for even cheaper.
Not saying I know you are wrong, but there are alternative ways we end up in this world. Like that the world of computer engineering is currently full of Brogrammers that females know it is best to stay way clear of. Or that there are countless examples of horrible behavior of men towards woman in computer engineering and perhaps this is affecting the pipeline.

We don't know which one of these is true, and perhaps there are even other factors at work. Let's just not pretend that 18% will forever stay like that and that all woman just want to find someone to nurture.
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The one Googler I know personally and have talked to about this stuff seems to have a weird blind spot around privacy and data collection. They're super friendly and happy to discuss products and features, but any questions about keeping data on your own device, limiting data access etc. just gets a blank stare, as if the very concept of "data which Google doesn't track" is nonsensical to them.
I'll have to keep this in mind for my next campaign. I wasn't very happy with most the online tooling around DND either and spent a lot of time thinking about what would make for a better system but never spent the time to make it. Best of luck!
StrandHogg vulnerability allows hackers to steal sensitive info from Android
I saw a 4 to 5 year-old child watching the psychological equivalent of a snuff film on YouTube while his mother was working the kitchen at a warung in Ubud. "Don't be evil" means if you knew this sort of thing could happen you should've done absolutely everything you could to prevent it, or simply resigned your post at the company.

Evil to most people is obvious. But where money is concerned few "Googler" could do the right thing even if they wanted out of fear of biting the hand that feeds six-figure salaries in exchange for obstinate servitude.
some apps actually use neovim or vim in client server mode and dont just emulate vim behavior, but flat out run vim.

But even those cases I've had mixed results on "obeys vimrc keybindings" and "captures all keypresses and uses vim purely as a modal"

firenvim for example, puts nvim into textarea boxes in firefox, and it loads up all my vimrc theme and status bar and stuff (but only dumps the text into the textarea on :w). whereas VSCode vim plugin merely uses vim under the hood for the actual text editing, but doesnt pass every keybind back (nor does it do color formatting). Which puts it into uncanny valley for me, and unless someone is VSCode live sharing at me, I don't use it.
The Unicode functions of Glk use UTF-32 (and numbers outside of Unicode range are used for function keys), and Glulx supports strings of 32-bit characters (usually Unicode, although this is not required) (strings of 8-bit characters are also supported, but this doesn't support UTF-8 or any other multibyte encoding). (However, strings in Glulx are usually huffed anyways, so other than the temporary buffers you would ordinarily store a variable number of bits per character (or sometimes a string of several characters has its own code), and can be shorter than using UTF-8 or UTF-32 or other uncompressed encodings.)

The stuff you mention does make Unicode very messy though.
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C is a simple language and yet it constitutes the guts of most computers on this planet and Mars. Simple works.

Go is really close to C. In fact, Rob Pike's Go CLI programs on his Github looks pretty much like a standard C program using getopt. Interfaces are just a nicer virtual function table. interface{} is just void *. In that sense, it's already treading ground that is proven to work. Go didn't have to do anything revolutionary because C was already great.

I hope the Go team will continue to embody what made C great so the next generation can receive the lessons its taught us.
Is it possible to disable cookies per-site on Firefox Android? Specifically blocking cookies on medium.com to prevent its page-read-counter paywall from ever triggering.
That seems more complicated.
This is exactly what drove me to build Adventurekeep. Try it out and let me know what you think!
I'm just giving you the straight dope on a few aspects of the organizational disaster that is google. The fact that you think it's incredible etc just shows what a basket case this company is.
Maybe that’s why so many murders happen in Michigan? The lead in their Flint River contaminated their water supply and this type of poisoning gives people trouble with their brain.
Just because you can't actually pay it doesn't meant they won't bill you for it. That's just going to generate a debt to Amazon once the money runs out. It won't magically turn off your AWS charges...unfortunately.
The fact that metaflow works directly in Python piques my interest. I can lint it, I can test it, I can format it, I can easily extend it.

I've been hesitant to commit myself and my collaborators to yet another DSL -- and that's part of why I haven't seen much to offer in snakemake and nextflow.
Frankly, if a nonprofit can't justify to laypeople why they should have money, they shouldn't have money.

This is a joke, isn't it?

"Make Wikipedia better" is about as explanatory as "Cure Alzheimer's!" yet "Make Wikipedia better" is far more likely to be done and less likely to be funded than "Cure Alzheimer's!"

But here's an easy way to justify:

"Improve the moderation and content-editing tools to encourage more contributions," which has been the justification WMF has used for many recent projects.

It can easily be explained to you, but if that's your criteria, no foundation trying to cure any disease that isn't socially-caused should have your money.
What's the reason you need to abandon scikit-learn? You can run scikit-learn on Databricks, and many of our customers do.

Disclaimer: Databricks cofounder.
How well does that corpus compress with LZMA if using a Korean specific character code (such as EUC-KR)? And what about other combinations, with other character codings and other compression algorithms?
> I find it very difficult to care what privileged people from capitalist countries have to say about the problems of capitalism.

Imagine being this undemocratic and inhumane. You should listen to critique and not outright deny its existence.

If you’re going to defend oligarchies (US, France, UK) I don’t know what to tell you but ‘consensus’ and ‘majority view’ are definitely not the keywords here.
All you did was state that their previous actions aren't proof of the future, when we are talking about them having sold .org already.

Their abdicating stewardship to a group that doesn't have a duty to steward is evidence enough and saying "well they used to" is off topic and not interesting. No need for new arguments when you have none.
Whenever I pick from a beer menu that shows IBU for each beer, I pick one of the 3 with the lowest IBU number. I don't care at all for the competition where people yell "Oh your beer has 100 IBU? Well mine has 110!"
The fact that wikipedia, the world encyclopedia, is centrally hosted is itself a problem. Wikipedia should be censorship resistant, borderless, distributed and resilient to disasters, similar to Bitcoin. So far it's none of those things, so it doesn't deserve my money. If I could contribute by hosting articles on my computer I would be more than happy to offer up a few gigs of harddrive space in exchange for access to the world knowledge bank
Not sure what you mean, DDB provides both strong and eventual consistency, now in 2 fashions with transactions. 3 if you include cross region replication.

There's definitely still a DHT sitting under there.
I’ve observed along this line. console.aws.amazon.com redirects to your default region, in my case, us-west-2.(iirc)console.aws.amazon.com and THAT dns lookup fails. It is intermittent in nature, typically resolving within 5 minutes. And though I usually use 1.1.1.1 inevitably I have to switch to 9.9.9.9 to access archive.is, and I’ve experienced this same intermittent failure on 9.9.9.9. I suspect there’s a hiccup in Route 53 delegation causing this.
It's not warehouse work like traditional warehouse work. It's mostly sorting and putting items on shelves and in boxes. Lots of people that ave work in stores doing that all the time.

It's unreasonable workload/productivity requirements that are the problem.
< The platform has barely changed

That's a feature not everything needs to be tricked out with the JavaScript equivalent of spinners.
I don’t see the issue. There are hidden system services in the iPhone that can’t have their location settings individually turned off. But you can still turn off location services for all apps and this will stop location services from being granted.
The Internet Archive is also a profoundly worthwhile charity. But those of us with a little understanding of the space would be remiss to not point out that this article is dishonest and you're falling for it. It isn't uncommon for nonprofits (and Wikipedia is not only a nonprofit but is functionally infrastructure at this point; its survival is important beyond its own self-perpetuation) to try to build up an endowment in order to survive lean times. This is normal. You're falling for an okeydoke. Please don't.
Just use something like Blokada (https://blokada.org), and you'll get the benefit of ads being blocked device-wide as well.
I suppose it did push some readers' buttons, thus ipso facto is flamebait whether or not that was the intent. I did not find it snarky (hyperbole is not snark), and it seemed to me its intent was to explain the situation as the author saw it. Of course, now that it's flagged I can't even re read it to check if my initial impression was off.
Wikipedia, to a first approximation, is basically a collection of static webpages, especially in comparison to other top websites. Relatively few pageviews need to actually hit the central database (compare this to Google, where essentially every pageview needs to be customized specifically for the request), which means that the actual cost to service the traffic is going to be much less than other websites of comparative pageviews.
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More readable perhaps as https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1201956309941116928.html
In a financial crunch, they would not sell the organization, but the assets to pay debt?

Wouldn’t that be legal?
I don't know much about beer, but this reminds me so much of whisky peat and record-breaking Octomore releases.
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I find craigslist's fast loading pages to be problematic.

I think their website would be improved by rewriting it entirely in JavaScript, transpiling the JavaScript to JavaScript, requiring the JavaScript to render, re-implementing the entire UI in JavaScript including hyperlinks, then running JavaScript on the server to generate HTML, sending the HTML to the browser, also sending the JavaScript bundle with megabytes of hipster fonts and random people's github repos to insert spaces in a string and stuff, then finally re-rendering the client's page after the multi-megabyte JavaScript bundle finishes downloading.

Now that is the nice modern user experience I have come to demand as a user in 2019.
I’m curious to Google it and at the same time afraid...
There is some speculation that this is related to E911, but I'd like to hear from some smart (non-speculating) person from the HN crowd with more information.
Lambda’s success was never about bursty workloads, it’s the elastic event driven compute model it enables.

Yes only paying for the compute you actually use is great, but so is having basically limitless compute power (your wallet willing) without the ops overhead and system maintenance.

Cold starts have been a problem fire a while, and while there many be a better way than this long term, ultimately to some degree the solution will always be keeping a function warm. And that’s ultimately compute, and aws is not likely to give that away.
I just changed to the ripcord desktop client, and couldn't be happier. While not as superficially polished, it is super responsive and does what you would expect of a chat app very well. Overall, I think the UI is less ugly, because I judge latency as one of the ugliest warts in UI.
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I am all for transparency in spending, but I don't support the author's suggested guidelines for spending. Sticking to inflation-and page-view adjusted growth in spending is a terrible requirement. It ties the hands of the company to do any sort of innovation. I donate pretty regularly, and I am happy that wikipedia is doing more with my money than to just keep the site running.
I don't think it's a major issue, but I think it's a reasonable expectation that turning off all services one-by-one will result in no services using your location.

> turning off location services app-by-app lets the system itself still utilize location services

I think this is a mischaracterisation. The menu allows you to turn off access to system services individually as well, it's not just a menu for disabling app access case-by-case. That there are some system services which don't have a toggle, while others do, is unexpected.
I've noticed this too.

I have an older version of adblock (adblockios) that allows blocking of even apple traffic using an on-device vpn at 127.0.0.1

Even if I turn off location services completely on the phone, it will continually contact the apple location services website *.ls.apple.com

(I see all kinds of other "interesting" stuff, like sentitlement2.mobile.att.net and cs9.wac.phicdn.net that seems to be baked into the os)

I wonder if they do the same with bluetooth iBeacons, which are limited in range and would therefore precisely pinpoint your location just by resolving the beacon.