skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This got me thinking about personal data storage. I think step 1 in owning our data is having a place to store it. That storage should be abstracted from the actual provider(s) so we can migrate and/or replicate our data. It should also be available from multiple devices. A personal data warehouse like this should be easy to create, a la 'deploy to heroku'.

It's shocking to me how few people I've met take their personal data storage seriously. Most folks I know treat Dropbox/Drive like a landfill.
The total amounts awarded to each company still differ by nearly $2 billion. I cannot imagine how much more Boeing would cost if they weren’t forced to compete with SpaceX.

I wonder how much further along SpaceX might be if they were able to ripoff NASA and the federal government the same way Boeing is able to.
>> widely disliked in some parts of the industry. Bloomberg has an incredible amount of power as the only high quality source for certain types of data

I agree the terminals are disdained, but I never understood this. The rest of your comment justifies the value. They provide great data (which they spend a boatload of money to get/clean) and they sell it. Customers don't have to buy it, they can try to get the data themselves.

I used a BB terminal extensively for over a decade. It saved me orders of magnitude in work, there is no way I could have obtained all this data myself on an ongoing basis and had it available easily via API. They make a lot of money, and they deserve it.

I had colleagues try to switch to Reuters terminals and they came ashamedly back to Bloomberg, hat in hand.
You seem to be, by choice or haste, missing the conditions in my post - profoundly autistic people at the ends of the spectrum are, by societal standards 'broken' and are indeed incapable of empathy or love.

It's not a nice thing to say or admit, but it is .. well, true.

I have an autistic uncle who is not profoundly so, but is hard to communicate with and has problems existing by himself, often getting into trouble that is hard for the rest of the family to understand the logic of.
Is that true? Would frequent vaccines help give the immune system something to do?
>I can't think of a single example of a heterogeneous society that has lasted a comparably long time.

Comparable to what?

I mean, just as one well known and google-able example, the Roman empire was obviously thoroughly heterogeneous. Maybe the key is that most people couldn't really travel? So no one from Lutetia ever really knew any woman from Alexandria for instance. Whereas today in Paris, obviously, a large number of people know people from Alexandria.

EDIT: I realize that if you were in the Roman Army, you were an exception to the general rule of people not knowing people from other parts of the empire. Obviously, Romans had to fight together against the barbarians. (Or rather, against the other future Romans.) But that would be an example of one of the few ways your average Joe in Marseille would get to know your average Joe in Leptis Magna.

But I digress. Most large, long lasting empires were not only enormous, but heterogeneous by necessity. Rome, China after warring states (even before actually), definitely Persia. In fact, I can't really think up any examples of contemporaneous homogeneous societies that could have even dreamed of competing with the historic behemoths.
Impeachment probably won't sink Trump, but Bloomberg just might. He's already instructed his reporters not to investigate Democrats. With the data available from rich Trump supporters' Bloomberg terminals and possibly those of Trump administration officials, Mike is in a better position than most to find something to ruin Trump's reputation.
It says scarce resources are pricier. Welcome to the real world!
You said the following, so I assume you agree with it:

> It requires O(C) memory where C is the size of your largest hash function.

For any given expected false-positive rate P, C must be chosen to be a size of O(N), so a bloom filter with expected false-positive rate P will be of size O(N).
Which Terminal V2? There have been quite a few attempts over the years...

Remember it's like a 30 yr old platform. The more times they try to kill it and fail the stronger it becomes.
You can look at this two ways:

1. It's a good reason to not join/support organizations like the ACM, IEEE, etc.

or

2. It's a good reason to join ACM, IEEE, etc., and try to reform those organizations to adopt more reasonable positions.
Syrian Army blocks US forces from using highway in northeast Syria: video
I'm curious about the performance tradeoffs of Javascript versus native code?

A few weeks ago, I tried writing something that was long-running, CPU intense, ect, in a webworker. It was so darn slow that I switched to a native language. (I hope I didn't do something silly that made my code run more slowly than it should.)

I see some mention about running in WASM. Does this do something like have ordinary Tesseract compiled for WebAssembly and then fallback to Javascript?
Oh god. Thanks Cisco for dropping this 11 days before the end of the year. Wooo, glad I saw it here at least...
Yeah, Java 9+ is on roadmap for next beta.

When the previous major beta was released there was one dependency that didn't support Java 9 and locked everything to 8.

If you'd like get notified when Java 11 support is ready, you can just send one line ping email (my email address is in the 'contact' page).

Many thanks for the feedback!
It sounds like he didn't do enough research. Customizability is one of the largest downfalls of iOS compared to Android, and that fact should show up on nearly every comparison article written about the two.

iOS is definitely not for those who want to highly customize their mobile device. It's kind of like renting a home vs owning one -- you can do light decoration but you can't knock down any walls. There are pros and cons to that. You can't customize as much, but you also skirt some of the responsibilities that come with property ownership. Some people prefer one set of responsibilities and freedoms over the other. Neither one is right for everyone.
But that’s still after the fact and after the damage has been done. I’m not aware of any time that Apple has a removed an app from devices instead of removing it from the App Store v
Imaging internal structure of active volcano:3D hi-res airborne electromagnetism
All the issues you mention are fairly easy to fix.
I'm assuming you are speaking about BBDL (Bloomberg Data License). My assumption was the API client used SSL and certificate verification to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks. I'll admit I never verified this. I imagine this is easy to verify -- just do a connect w/ a 2-liner BBDL client script and examine the network.
And that’s political not imposing technical changes on their devices.
I consider low-functioning autism to be similarly debilitating; both mean that the afflicted individual will not have a "normal" life, the manifestation is of course completely different.

But this is a bizarre strawman because vaccines do not cause autism.
The average person does not use bloomberg. These things cost $20k+ per year per person. You don't randomly hand them out to everyone at your firm.
That’s one of the things. The other is some people are more litigious than others. When that happens, even though they don’t have a case, it can result in distractions —gags, evidence gathering, being called as witness, etc. On occasion companies will rather settle and get the distraction over with than go to court because it drains a small team who are now weary when hiring.
NASA never produced everything in house, they've been contracting with private companies and the air Force since the beginning.
The one with tabs and Chromium I'm guessing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> 1. How is this different to Glassdoor?

Glassdoor under-reports salaries because unhappy people are overrepresented there. Unhappy people are likely to be underpaid compared to their happy peers. Anything that helps us gather data relevant to negotiations and eliminate the salary-sharing stigma is a good step forward.

> people lie, even anonymously

People lie about taboos. If salary sharing becomes commonplace, they might feel compelled to tell the truth.
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To understand their echo-chamber one needs to read the mentioned Wikipedia article.
Me too lol
The complexity of adding a remote man it the loop creates way more room for error than running a timer. They just fucked up plain and simple.

This is like saying that because the airplane crashed because the wing was incorrectly designed and popped off, everyone should fly biplanes...
The road to a safe self-driving future begins with sharing data
I did think about clarifying that point of my post, and should have, I suppose. What I mean is that 'from the perspective of a parent' no signalling of empathy or love is essentially the exact-same outcome as there not being empathy or love.

I know I couldn't handle that lack of feedback.

Perhaps that's a severe failing, but there we are.
> NASA worked better when produced everything in-house.

I believe NASA has never produced everything in-house. They don't build (or even design, as far as I can tell) launch vehicles, spacecraft, EVA suits, computers etc. They come up with requirements and contract private companies to build hardware (and software, for that matter) meeting those requirements. For an example, see how the Apollo Lunar Module came to be [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Lunar_Module#Contract_l...
Thanks, actually I'd gladly accept your offer! Seems I really need help with my English :) My email is in the contact page :)
I'm sure it's a small deal, but the U.S. needs Saudi Arabia a lot more than it values the life of a single human being. I'd expect any of its leaders to rebuke the Saudis, but not to the point of losing then as an ally. That's logical, even if immoral. Putting the greater good above the good of individuals is the job of the state in a nutshell.

What is reprehensible here is Trump had not even gone so far as to offer a rebuke or a wrist slap here. That's unfortunate since it tells the Saudis they can continue to get away with this in the future.
Some of it is the price premium, but Apple also enjoys some efficiencies that the Android clone makers don't. The more efficient iOS and smaller variation in hardware over their more limited number of models means they can lower costs while still putting out a top shelf product.

Tight control of the supply chain from top to bottom pays dividends over the years.
If Apple imposes the same restrictions as any other app - that an app doesn’t get location data without the user’s consent - it’s not different than what any other app on the store can do.
I only went halfway down the page, but haven't yet stumbled upon the trend you're referring to?

The first few questions specifically asking about the topic show the opposite of what you claim.
I consider the boot process down when the system is responsive. I can normally open notepad in under a second so IMO that’s a good benchmark for done.

As to being the users fault, that’s rather subjective. Video card, printers, and other drivers taking forever to load is really a hardware/OS issue.
I recommend going to your local business public library, they usually have a terminal. Or your local university MBA library. Just play around with it. It is a beautiful and very different machine/software.

If you really want to use it, I enjoyed the book Paul Wilmott on Quantitative Finance which uses the Bloomberg Terminal quite a bit for interactive learning.
The key here is that the app automates the movement of the funds.

The app is the UX that:
- Solves a pointed customer problem (ex: getting best yield, moving money at right time of month, etc...)
- Removes the friction of moving accounts

which turns an insured valid account into a commodity that is evaluated purely on the yield offered at that time.
It works well over remote desktop... unless you have a screen tinter like f.lux. I didn't expect changing the light color to break the flash detection, but it does.
The same could be said for any use of docker images. Seems a little unfair to single out Github.
In my experience, the reason to “follow the math” is that it is the best and perhaps only way to truly understand a physical theory, especially one as strange as quantum mechanics. One can understand the math first, and then develop an understanding of the context and meaning. But this abstract understanding is anchored in math. This is important because when the meaning gets too obscure, one can return to the math to resolve any confusion. The other way around does not work.
If by chance someone is looking for a VM management software around hyperkit, I've been working on https://github.com/bensallen/hkmgr in my spare time.
Edit: first and foremost -- sorry, I went on a trip down the memory lane because you mentioned NFS and I forgot to mention the most important point.

That message, and this approach, is 100% inconsequential, and it doesn't make anything safer. IIRC, last time I checked, virtually none of the distributions enable the systemd debug shell. If you see that message, you can't stop the application manually. Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work, either, and if systemd can't recover from that state -- which, depending on what's actually happening and on the configuration, it sometimes can't -- all you get to do is press the reset button anyway.

If an application is hung for a legitimate reason, like, there's unsaved work, you can't go back and save it anyway. All you can do is wait for 30 seconds for the system to reboot and lose the data anyway (just 30 seconds later).

That aside, I've debugged my fair share of corruption, back when journaling filesystems were new and NFS was way worse than it is today. I don't want to go back to those days, either, and I'm glad to have a safety switch for sensitive setups, or for misbehaving/legacy applications.

But no one has a problem with that. People have a problem when they don't have anything mounted over NFS (that, by the way, is also something that occasionally caused systemd to hang at one point) and still can't reboot their machine.

It's not like we had to wait until 2010 to figure out that init systems need to handle these things carefully. Nobody compares this behaviour with the golden age of Ultrix and says oh, right, thank God for this, it's a minor inconvenience but at least my files are safe. Everybody compares this with what's available on every other platform that's popular today, not in 1996 -- namely a "Force reboot" button that reboots your machine and virtually never results in data loss.
You have that much disdain for... butter on toast? Where are you from exactly? Mars?
Neither actually. But if there's interest for the technical side, I could perhaps write a blog post?
Your marginal costs don't go up in both cases.

If you have futures to buy diesel at $2.50/gal and the diesel price skyrockets to $4.00/gal, you can keep your prices the same.

If you didn't have futures you couldn't without taking a loss.
> NASA worked better when produced everything in-house.

NASA doesn't run a rocket factory. It used to be that NASA specified and ordered hardware from contractors then integrated and operated it in house. The space shuttle orbiter was built by Rockwell (now ~Boeing), the external tank by Martin Marietta (now Lockheed Martin), the SRBs by Morton Thiokol (now ATK).

Commercial cargo and commercial crew change this model to NASA specifying and ordering missions or mission capabilities. This affords the vendor more autonomy in how they choose to solve problems, and NASA's still in the loop to sign off on their solutions. In principle, this approach contains cost overruns, since NASA pays only for the deliverable. What it doesn't contain are schedule overruns…
However, this has been true for as long as news reporting has existed, but the level of paranoia and isolation in society has not always been as high as it is now (although there have been similar periods in the past).

I don't think that the nature of media reporting, while likely a factor, is a sufficient explanation.
Just for fun, I’ll assert that they don’t.

Can you prove me wrong? If not, then it’s debatable.
It's not a meal anywhere, not sure where you got that idea.
Search engines aggregate the intent, the app can actually move the funds. Big difference.
For those unfamiliar with the terminal (to be fair to BB), there is a whole lot of functionality other than the chat.
Show me the study that looked at autism rates among vaccinated kids and also among unvaccinated kids. Where is that study?
I thought I'd share a snippet from Robert Putnam's research, since you mention it, and I wasn't previously familiar:

> In the short run, immigration and ethnic diversity tend to reduce social solidarity and social capital. In ethnically diverse neighborhoods residents of all races tend to ‘hunker down.’ Trust (even of one’s own race) is lower, altruism and community cooperation rarer, friends fewer.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-9477....
> widespread fear of crime, immigration (aka the actual sociological results of Robert Putnam, rather than the yammerings of some Buzzfeed wanker), poisonous oligarch funded divisive politics, and the general disintegration of anything resembling a family life or social fabric

This is just a collection of sky-is-falling narratives promoted in the media. Stop letting the endless cycle of negative political and media fads drag you around mentally and emotionally, and instead focus on improving your personal health and the lives of those around you in actual reality.
How is the Cyanogen/LineageOS coverage on Huawei?

It seems like if you want updates after a couple of years you'd best make sure your phone isn't locked out from aftermarket ROMs.
"Neighborhood socialization? Not in any apartment complex I've ever seen. Walk down the floor, eyes straight, avoid even basic salutations."

I recently moved into an apartment in manhattan, and I know my neighbours, and smile to them and they smile to me. One even let me borrow their toolbox.
Possibly I’m wrong somewhere here, but that is a “bullshit” I honestly believe in.
I am increasingly seeing "software" used as a discrete noun, rather than as a continuous noun or an adjective, as in this line from the article:

"The terminal — a software officially named Bloomberg Professional — is still a major part of Bloomberg’s overall business [...]"

I know languages grow and change, but this really grinds on my ears. Not so long ago, the author would have written "a program", or "a software program", or "an application". I see no value in the change.
A pretty good consolation for the alienation and rage Buzzfeed is telling me about is being able to go to Buzzfeed and find out which Friends character I'm most like.
US and especially some states, provides right of employers to fire employees at almost no notice and no cause.

However, lawyers and leader roles exist in Europe to provide all the necessary red tape, should this be necessary there too. All they have to do it explain/document it is for the economic health of company and that they've researched alternative solutions.

Asia, Russia, Latin America: Expectations of significant protections aren't even reasonable. Everywhere you may sue or win something if due process not followed, but that's about it and could be costly.

And then they wonder why nobody has time and energy to win their engineered climate crisis.
From representation to reality: ancient Egyptian wax head cones from Amarna
You trust government transparency more than I do. But wasn’t there just a case where Google gave our location data of anyone who was in a certain area.

I would much rather that Apple designer a system where it couldn’t give out the information because it didn’t have an unencrypted version of the data in the first place.
He's my neighbor. I went over to his house and received this exact experience. It's very practiced and pretty amazing.
Look at the authors' page and all five of her articles are about people moving from the northeast to the south. Clearly an agenda.
The aggregated of demand, ability to move funds effectively turn the underlying accounts into commodities that can compete based on that one feature (yield).

The other difference is that this money is fluid unlike a CD. With enough data the app should be able to predict how much of the aggregate funds would remain static in the account over what periods of time though. So banks could offer rates based on that aggregate guidance.
> They have a direction.

Sure, the question is whether that direction significantly better than a randomly selected direction
Complete asinine logic.

It does not matter one bit if they technically stalled for 20 milliseconds between making initial ground contact and disintegrating into 10000+ pieces.

The root cause is kinetic energy -- slamming into the ground at 600mph nearly vertical.

Everything else is just logical-masturbation.
Someone posted a link to Apple's bounty site last night and it's not clear what's changed so I think a different link is justifiable.
The good things in Chinese smartphones are their price and that they sometimes have clean Android version without bloatware. Why do vendors like Samsung make their ugly buggy shells and pre-install software I don't need? Do they think they have better designers and developers that Google has? They are horribly wrong. Stop pretending that you are making something unique and maybe I will consider buying a non-chinese phone next time.
> and the general disintegration of anything resembling a family life or social fabric in US society

What exactly do you mean by that?
> This means people are now working as slaves for banks, making life pointless. This is why people are angry.

Many people, perhaps, but not all. Many, maybe most, of my friends and family are nothing like slaves for banks, and aren't carrying anything like a burdensome load of debt.
Here’s an NYT article on the same (beware the puns!):

Head Cones in Ancient Egyptian Graves Cap Archaeological Debate

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/11/science/head-cones-ancien...
But that's how I've been dealing with video games consoles for decades... Though usually after the flaw is found
I have Maimang 5. I replaced the battery 2 times already, and did one screen replacement along with the usb connector. I think, I am about to replace the loudspeaker soon too.

The thing just keeps breaking.

Huawei does very well in a niche of quite pricey mid-range phones without anything special.

The quality is as you see, quite average. The screen and loudspeaker died from improper sealing, batteries died to safety triggering both times.

At least they come with sound mechanical engineering. Why I bought it? It's still the best option if you want to buy a moderately well built phone, but don't want to go for a "superphone."
Agreed, but on rye with a side of red pepper hummus?
I think many people are unaware of the difference between high functioning autism and low functioning autism. Severely autistic children often react violently to any deviation from their expected norm. Violent children turn into violent teenagers. A 160 pound human prone to violence is a huge issue for any teacher or care giver. Imagine if being bitten to the point of bleeding, being punched, and having broken bones was a common part of you job.
For the record, I agree with the "let them be themselves" answer in most cases. Sometime who they are is a real problem.
"At regular intervals, the team reflects on how
to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts
its behavior accordingly." - The Agile Manifesto
https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/10/20689644/apple-zoom-web-s...

https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/16/20696529/apple-mac-silent...
Correct, this isn't surprising considering the US president right now.
So is ice cream, but I wouldn't want chunks of steak on top.
Yes, that's a good point. Their scale, vertical integration, and low number of distinct models do likely give them a margin advantage.