skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was in Austin. I worked for IBM for my first, second, and third jobs. That didn't go well.
The performance angle is interesting. Right now JS has lots of mindshare and momentum for obvious reasons, so maybe the things that will take off at first are the ones that help web developers in specific areas where JS performance is not good enough, perhaps graphics for example.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/germany/germany-welco...

Apparently they reversed their decision again, which kind of underlines what I said :)
When companies find out their employees have automated their jobs but are at the end of their useful output they don't even blink before kicking them out on their ass but saving their sweet-ass automation. Honestly why is it the employees duty to give their employer information which would have been to wholly the employer's benefit and none of his own when the employee is the less powerful party here? Employer basically had no choice but to fire him even if he was worth keeping in isolation just because they can't normalize getting gamed by their employees.

There's often political downsides for the employee as well for automating their job. You become an existential threat to incompetent employees and/or employees doing automatable jobs. If you're TOO productive people may go hardball and attempt to crush you with their social connections. So you have political incentives to herd your productivity to something in proportion with other employees by reducing your actual hours working.
To be honest - I don't believe I've had to write a single Makefile since I started using CMake.

At most I've had to tinker with existing ones - in which case I wasn't motivated to make them more elegant, as opposed to replacing them with CMake generation.
I suggest you take a look at actually obfuscated JavaScript; it's barely any better than WebAssembly.
Because the bar is really high if they’re a news outlet. You have to prove that they knew what they were saying was false, and did it with the intent to harm.

Besides, I’m sure SuperMicro just wants it to blow over and be done with it. Being in the news for a lawsuit will bring it up again and possibly harm them financially as people (managers who order) who don’t understand things have knee jerk reactions.
Its kinda weird that the main reason that US grad schools are so good is that its full of international students who have to be there to get green cards. Its a symbiotic relationship. Take away the opportunity or desire to immigrate and no one needs a MS/PhD any more.
Yikes. I always thought that when I was forced to use the mouse to do something, it was simply laziness and incompetence on the part of the developers. It never occurred to me that it could be a deliberate design decision.
But the thing is you are just trading off computability. Aren't you?

> The theory Ordinals is algorithmically inexhaustible
>In fact, international students are responsible for basically all growth in AI-related grad programs at US universities in the past decades.

>Or, in other words: there were as many American citizens getting CS/EE grad degrees in 2016 as there were in 1990.

The push for STEM has been incessant for extremely real concerns. Our population is just. not. entering. the STEM graduate courses. Yes, this needs to change, but it's a cultural problem, not an availability problem.
I didn't fully understand the cognitive dissonance and Orwellian doublespeak going on in Mozilla until I began researching the jabs n-gate's author embeds into everything he writes concerning the company. Beacons, Google's Safe Browsing lists, etc.: None of those defaults line up the company's actions with its branding.

With Firefox 69, they broke 25% of the internet on Linux with a change to block what they call a MITM attack: Corporations and anti-virus software that add certificates to your computer to decrypt SSL traffic before passing it on to you. That's privacy-focused, I suppose?, but is a confusing change in comparison to more obvious victories such as blocking trackers and fingerprinters by default. Which they will certainly never do... until Google invents a technology that provides the same functionality with a different, less ominous name than "browser fingerprinting."
There's a better estimate right there in the second sentence.
Is there anything machine learning is bad for?
Semi-related: are there any good recommendations for Rust-based RTOSs. Bare metal is great, but for a lot of projects you'll want some sort of scheduler.
Most of those Google support stories aren't about GCP, though. It's things like app support, or Gmail support, etc.
10% of general population? You’d be blessed if 10% manage to take CS101 and successfully wrote Hello world.
Assuming we are talking about vehicles that still have manual controls as a last resort, is saving the driver not an obvious course of action? It’s the driver that needs to be given as much time and every possible opportunity to take over and react, to attempt to correct the situation or to move the vehicle (and its occupants) out of further harms way after an accident.
You presume bad faith. I have a different opinion. I trust people, even without government ID.

Someone said below: "If you're made aware of your mistake (failure to adhere to rules, spurious emissions, etc.) you're given the opportunity to stop transmitting until you fix the issue."

I believe most people do not want to willfully commit mistakes. Letting them know is sufficient. There may be a few bad apple like in everywhere, but that's why you have laws and law enforcement.
To be clear, Radioshack and Circuit City were two distinct companies in the US. From a cursory look at Wikipedia, Circuit City was liquidated in 2009 (and later revived), and Radioshack is still operating stores.
I think perhaps you're unfamiliar with the open source competition. Most of the open source VNC servers support something like H.264 which while a little dated, is still quite efficient, especially for the low-latency streaming needed for remote desktop applications.

The only novel-looking thing I see on RealVNC's website is adaptive bitrate, which I don't think I've seen in the open source servers.
Open AI Dota 2 Bots Get Leaner and Meaner
Well, it's not free (or gratis) is it? It just happens to be included in the azure ad/o365/exchange plans? So, if you're on gsuite, for example - ms teams isn't "free"?
I met Phil when I was a grad student around 1990. (Holy shit, that was thirty years ago!) His work on Pengi [1] was a strong influence on me in no small measure because it just seemed so obviously the Right Thing compared to everything else that was going on at the time. I was mystified that no one had proposed indexical representations sooner, and that the idea wasn't better received.

The thing I remember most about Phil was how he introduced himself when we met: "Hi, I'm Phil Agre. Who are you?" Direct, to the point, and to a fellow aspergery person like me, just obviously the Right Thing.

Since then I've learned a lot about the world, and at times had my own struggles with existential despair. It makes me very sad to think that Phil dropped out because wasn't able to figure out a better way to navigate reality.

[1] https://www.aaai.org/Papers/AAAI/1987/AAAI87-048.pdf
At the top level chess is too easy for either player to force into a draw-like position for this to be fair. If you added some additional advantage for white (e.g. only white can castle) it might work.

Having a game where one player always tries to win and the other player always tries to draw might not really be the effect you want though.
The incentive is in living in a country where you have 0 bills to pay when you get cancer. Where homeless people always have a place to sleep, where you generally will get help when you need it and where you can finish university debt free (and your children as well). Both the cashier and the CEO wouldn't be happy in each others jobs anyway. In such a country you don't need as much as in the US for the same standard of living as well. That said, CEOs of large companies also make millions here in the Netherlands (think dutch companies as Unilever, DSM, Philips).
> "... Save the one in the car,” von Hugo told Car and Driver in an interview. “If all you know for sure is that one death can be prevented, then that’s your first priority.”

How is this quote relevant? THe point of the trolley problem is that you face a clear choice between who dies. Is Mercedes willfully programming its cars to understand the mortality of the car's occupants and nobody else's?
I actually don't think that's what happened at all. Best I can tell, this was a multi-year, aggressive, OKR-like goal. You're not expected to 100% achieve your OKRs at Google. 100% on everything indicates your OKRs are not aggressive enough and you're sandbagging. You're merely saying: "I think this is worth doing and I'll commit serious effort to achieving this". I don't know why people are concluding that if world domination doesn't happen by 2023 Google will set its cloud datacenters on fire.

Or, to be perfectly honest, I do know: it's to drive outrage and clicks.

Google is not going shutter any business which brings in more than $1B in profit per year. It never has, and it never will.

Disclosure: ex-Googler, GCP user, hold no position in company stock.
Or any number of other companies, like writing a book and selling it on Amazon. Or starting a lawnmowing service. Or a maid service. Or a realtor. Etc.

The garage door spring on my house broke one day. I googled for garage spring repair, called the local company that did it. Turned out it was just a guy with a bunch of springs in his trunk. He had it fixed quickly, charged me, and drove off. Evidently that was a nice business he had. A car, some springs, and an advertisement.
Migrating a codebase to React 16: some takeaways
Swiss Lamborghini Spyder 8956 Automatic Men's Watches for Sale – FR
You can’t utilize anything in their tech stack without spending days going back and forth with the licensing department.
Tuesday: Ezra Reacts
Someone has to write that application though. Just think about the amount of work that's gone into GraphViz, and this seems a harder task still, with probably-complex aesthetic constraints.
Doesn’t your example of an axiom that “ZFC is consistent” show of how little use proofs within stronger systems are? I at least feel tempted to say that proofs of ZFCs consistency within stronger systems tell you nothing about ZFCs consistency.
That's not convincing at all. If HTML/HTTP hadn't been invented then and there, something similar - perhaps better - would've caught on instead.

After all, there was a plethora of internet services early on, the web just happened to eat most of them.
Try harder to do, among other things, the stuff he listed in his previous (linked) article:

> Keeping an interesting problem squarely in front of them.

> Let them experiment.

> They can only ‘take one for the team’ for so long.

> Protect their time. Embrace the ambiguity of their experiment.

> Aggressively remove noise. I

> Tell them what the hell is going on.

etc. He makes it quite clear over the two articles that this is not an all-encompassing list. He is not asking for blind loyalty, but instead trying to create environments where people will not be eager to consider other opportunities.
This same exact scenario has been playing out for me over and over again. I'm now using Amazon as a showroom - how quaint.
> more like a feature-limited demo.

demoware
Fifth Google worker-activist fired says company is targeting the vulnerable
More likely liability and labor with those skills moving to better paying jobs.

Doing BGA rework with the right tools is pretty trivial. You can teach the average high school kid to do this stuff but it's not worth it when they could just go to college and learn circuit design or programming to create a design for a less educated technician to build. If they'd rather learn the rework, there are plenty of places that will hire them for more than what someone would pay to have their phone potentially destroyed.
FBI warns smart TV spying you
They're both beliefs that are unsupported by evidence:

https://psmag.com/news/keeping-a-gun-at-home-can-mean-a-high...

https://slate.com/technology/2015/01/good-guy-with-a-gun-myt...
I don't think revenue matters as much as profits?

I assume the thinking is that if the ROI is not high enough, then you might as well just invest that money into the more profitable portions of your business.
Bad example. All of the allegations in the Bloomberg article were true. Leif Olson actually did all of the things alleged, however the Bloomberg article missed that he supposedly did these things as satire...because Olson didn't actually bother to clarify that his posts were satirical until several days after they were made (and importantly, several days after the article itself was originally written).

Both Olson and Bloomberg had bad judgment here. A political appointee should not have made sarcastically anti-anti-Semitic statements, because he should have had the brainpower to know that in the Trump administration such statements would be taken at face value. And Bloomberg probably should have revised the article to add a paragraph about how a Trump appointee's anti-Semitic statements were actually anti-anti-Semitic in light of additional context that wasn't in the posts at the time they were made.
Yeah, I expected it to say WASM somehow makes browsers intrinsically more vulnerable to exploits despite the sandboxing. But this is definitely reaching.
I can send someone to follow you around to see where you go. Therefore, you do not mind if your GPS data is public?

Now compare the cost of hacking into a database to the cost of obtaining millions of genomes by physically taking genetic material and then sequencing it. Then consider that your DNA is yours for the rest of your life.

Simply because data can be obtained by some means does not make protecting that data useless.
I could see something like (B) happening because Google used to have a lot of April Fools jokes. But it would go through code review, so the team would know about it. Doing it through hacking would be something else.
Here is a list of systems thinking readings I posted before.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19835208
I've got it with Wells Fargo, but I think all the bigger banks these days support it.
What I'm saying is that all of our historic CO2 data comes from cores, which are a proxy for paleo-CO2 levels. The theory is that bubbles of atmospheric gas are trapped in ice as it forms over thousands of years. What I'm saying is that there's the possibility that this trapping is imperfect, and ratios of atmospheric gassed may change after being sequestered, such that past ppm values are underestimated, and the currently measured values are not unusual in history, and are rather consistent with the peak that historic core data shows us to be at.

In fact, here [1] is a well sourced article which highlights at least one indication that this is the case - historic CO2 estimates derived from plant stomata are much higher and closer to contemporary measured levels than ice core data. Then there is the idea of time averaging smoothing out peaks, and we can only speculate/model the loss of resolution.

It's very easy for a well intentioned group of researchers to reason themselves into a corner, particularly when things like institutional momentum, political biases, and understandable doomsday concerns influence the kinds of questions scientists ask and the paths they are willing to take to find answers. Because this research has broad effects on economic, social, and corporate policy, it is dangerous to close off one side of questioning behind an apparent consensus, not to mention it's simply bad science.

>the time resolution of the ancient ice core data is quite low, while all the anthropogenic action happened in the last 150 y or so

All the more reason to be open to questioning.

1. https://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/12/26/co2-ice-cores-vs-plan...
> Existing customers can continue to use the current cloud services available today, which we’ll maintain with necessary security updates.

No one said MS developed new services for years and years and years; they said they supported existing offerings for a long time, which they do.
> are ideographic languages as effective at compression as general (or special) compression algorithms?

That one we know; the compression algorithms are more compressive. For example, compressed Chinese text takes up less space than the same text uncompressed. Ideographic languages are still languages that real humans have to use, and they feature redundancy because that helps everyone. Compression algorithms have the luxury of stripping that redundancy out.

> how do ideographic languages compare with each other?

Of modern languages, only Chinese and Japanese could really be described as ideographic. (Japanese much more so than Chinese, in fact.) Chinese will have more meaning per character, because Japanese makes heavy use of the comparatively less meaningful kana. (Interestingly... it has to do this precisely because of its more ideographic nature.)

> do people using ideographic languages write more?

No idea.
I started with a $25 RTL-SDR v3 kit that includes two antennas (for VHF and UHF, approximately). That allowed me to listen in on 2m and 70cm band repeaters, and familiarize myself with the language, etiquette, modes, etc. I recommend that to anyone that is interested in amateur radio, and you can still make good use of that stick once you get a transceiver, by using it as a spectrum scope / waterfall. From there, a $40 Baofeng will allow you to get used to the feel and operation of the radio, just don't transmit until you get your Technician license. You can sometimes get the Technician study book for free from ARRL by signing up for their welcome packet, or check it out from your library. The exam costs $15 or less, and you can cram study for it at hamstudy.org. (The few-dollar HamStudy mobile app is also worth the cost.)

That gets you a SDR with spectrum scope and waterfall, a portable HT UHF/VHF transceiver, and your Technician license, for ~$80. From there, you can look into getting your General license to transmit on HF, and a cheap HF radio and antenna, for less than $500 total. A higher quality HT like an Icom or Yaesu would be money well spent for VHF/UHF, as the Baofeng is notoriously hard to program and allows you to transmit outside the legal band limits.

(Note: the RTL-SDR works best for VHF and UHF. For an HF SDR, you'll want to check out something like the Airspy HF+ Discovery and perhaps a cheap $30 magnetic loop antenna from eBay, which is what I use.)

Edit: My apologies for the acronyms. SDR is software defined radio, allowing you to receive radio signals on your computer. HT is "handy-talkie" or handheld transceiver. HF/VHF/UHF are defined in the parent post.
Insanity.

(Though when end-user automation does work it is epic AF.)
Kubernetes still runs on top of Borg on GCP.
As others have pointed out, this article is not very convincing. I don't agree with the point that WASM is somehow more suitable for nefarious purposes than obfuscated JavaScript. I suppose that if anything, the execution model of WASM is much simpler than that of JS and it should thus be much easier to analyse.

> This prevents the user from escaping the scam by pressing keys like ESC or the CTRL+ALT+DELETE combination, or others as shown in the table.

The part about CTRL+ALT+DELETE is just nonsense. This key combination is directly handled by the Windows kernel and cannot be captured by a user space application. Hence the "Press CTRL+ALT+DELETE to login" prompt. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control-Alt-Delete#Windows
Good. This is exactly why I signed up.
The sad part (speaking as a non-American who has lived in the US) is that the negative PR campaign doesn’t even come from America’s enemies, it comes from within. And it’s not driven by ill will, as far as I can figure out, but petty tribalism.

At some point in the past few decades it became de rigeur among a certain fraction (eg those in this thread) of the US population to shit on their own country at every opportunity, to distinguish themselves from those flag-waving yahoos in the other tribe. Patriotism became heavily tribalised, and saying good things about America in certain parts of the country gets you ostracised as one of those uneducated Republican types who is too stupid to see that absolutely everything is so much better in every other country and if it isn’t then it doesn’t count.

Combine this with the US saturation of global media, and you can turn on the TV in every country and see Americans shitting on America. Eventually the message starts to sink in.

People in America need to get more perspective, and quit letting every single thing that comes out of their mouth be determined by some boring red vs blue conflict.
That's possibly as much a problem with the merchant as it is the bank, sometimes they don't fully commit the transactions until the end of the day. Though usually I see a message at first that there was an authorization for purchase at least in those case.
How Loss Weigth Easily?
> Lying to an investigator actually isn't obstruction of justice, according to the statute.

Great. It should not be.
People, me included, just remember Google doesn't support their products. I won't be arsed to consult a list of Google products and properties to see if this particular one is going to get support or not.

If I buy something from Microsoft, I can contact Microsoft support. I don't have to roll the dice on it being actually supported by Microsoft, or only supported by other desperate users on an abandoned phpBB somewhere.
Phil Agre was a prolific writer with many high-quality contributions on a variety of topics. Here are some samples:

How to help someone use a computer:
https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/agre/how-to-help.html

Rationalizations for bad design, a posting to RISKS digest:
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/7.09.html#subj1

Layering, from a course on Information Systems and Design:
https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/agre/240/week5.html

Toward a Critical Technical Practice:
Lessons Learned in Trying to Reform AI:
https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/agre/critical.html

Notes and Recommendations (from RRE Digest):
https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/agre/notes.html

Red Rock Eater Digest, 1994 -- 2004:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040602193512/commons.somewhere....

The Network Observer, 1994 -- 1996:
https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/agre/tno.html

He wrote a book, Computation and Human Experience, here are some extracts and a chapter summary:

https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/agre/che-intro.html

I miss him.
Top AI talent is already in the United States. Nobody else is ready to pay a cool $1M a year for things that may or may not work.
Well it's a democracy, so surely the people aren't blameless.
I think it's a combination of factors. Vocational education has never been valued (people want college degrees), and also electronics have become cheap (and harder to fix). The country has also been slowly deindustrializing in the last decades.
Reminds me of Ikiru.
Well, yeah.

Sort by price, low to high, and observe two things:

1. For all it's technical acumen, Amazon apparently can't figure out how to order things by price

2. Amazon sells a lot of tack, junk, trash, and tat.
What bands are allowed for encrypted communication?
In Chicago, there are many many very talented Chinese engineering students. Having two hard copies of this guide in the office has helped me recover from some miscommunications very quickly.
The tooltip on top of the Image is just genius.
"[After setting your car on fire] Listen, your car's temperature has changed before."
Assuming you have some sort of control over the root index.html file, write the appropriate `meta` tags in the header there. This article is old, but has a good, illustrated view of what tags do what. https://medium.com/slack-developer-blog/everything-you-ever-...
Learn Ramda.js the Interactive Way
Latest chromium does support svg favicons