skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote this tweet. Wasn't sure anyone would read it - glad it's got noticed, because I do think it's an important issue!

I'd love to know where that money at IEEE and ACM is going. The annual reports don't make it at all clear, unfortunately. Obviously, there are for-profit publishers where the money is simply going to huge profit margins. But that's not the case for professional societies.

One thing I noticed when I had to sign up to ACM for a conference a few years ago was that I got harangued by sales-people from ACM for months afterwards, trying to get me on a call to have me buy more expensive memberships. It wasn't an automated system - it was an actual person, trying to get me onto an actual phone call with them. It occurred to me at the time that that must be very expensive, yet it's still a profitable thing for them to do - so there's clearly a lot of money changing hands...

I don't think this is a good sign. Perhaps the professional societies can openly publish a full breakdown of what they're spending money on?
I have ASD and while I've never had any reason to visit "How to Be Random", I've had plenty of use for similar articles on wikiHow. This even extends beyond the social arena one might imagine I'd need help with. Other topics people with developmental disorders might face difficulties with are exactly the topics handled by wikiHow. Washing clothes, for instance. While saying the wikiHow has been formative of me would probably be over the top, it has guided me when I didn't have the mental capacity to seek help elsewhere.
In my experience, Wikipedia has been relegated lower and lower in search results.

So much so that I now specifically use their search tool rather than go through google just in case some interesting thing pops up.
Depends on the industry, but if you can profit at lower prices you can force your competition to spend less on advertising. That’s bad for Google.
China has the largest active military in the world, according to this list in Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of...
> there's no good and easy option to backup your phone other than iCloud

This is false. You can back it up with Finder (since Catalina) or iTunes on Windows or previous macOS versions. You can even do wireless syncing over your local network.

All of the infrastructure that Apple built out before iCloud still exists. You can sync your photos with the Photos app locally. It’ll one-click import everything and you can have it automatically clear out storage on your phone after the import has completed as well. You can then back up your computer however you want - locally, encrypted with Time Machine is an easy option.
This is why the development of new languages and constant iteration of “reinventing the wheel” (as some say) is worth it, I feel. Ideas from new languages make their way into old standard languages. If over time, every language starts to look the same, that seems to indicate we are honing in on a sort of global maximum. The power and expressivity of programming languages is immense but not infinite (practically speaking), and it is quite arguable that eventually we will find ourselves with no major improvements to make. At that point, it will make sense to settle. Until then, it makes sense to keep building new ones and using them as inspiration for the existing ones.
I agree that it would be unlikely to tank enough that it needs a bailout, but it could significantly hurt.

They have a large stock of undelivered 737 MAX airplanes (~400 brand-new planes sitting in parking lots), and wouldn't be paid for them. They also wouldn't be able to deliver on any existing 737 MAX contracts.
IMO, absolute pressure doesn't give much of a perspective.

Car tire pressure is about 1.8-2.5 Bar.

Your 2000 Pa atmospheric pressure change is about 20 mBar.

Pressure in an inflated balloon is about 2 mBar (0.002 Bar).

Noctua's static pressure is 0.8 mBar. Let's call it 0.5 mBar dynamic working pressure.

Not as low as I expected. Not sure if it will have a semi-reasonable speed, but that will definitely push some air.

Another comparison, 0.5 mBar is 50 Pa = 50 N/m². That gives about 50 * 0.3 * 0.3 / 10 ~ 0.5 kg force on a 30x30 cm² surface.

Finally, as the article video and data shows, it does actually work.

[1] http://scipp.ucsc.edu/outreach/balloon/labs/InflationExp.htm
Agressively tax large organisations. There'd be a cost to that, but as this comment chain is discussing, there's also a cost to leaving them with the money and allowing them to use it to stifle innovation.
If the comp and work are good and there is just too much of it I wouldn’t look for another job. It’s hard to find interesting work. It’s even harder to find interesting work that pays well.

This sounds like a process problem that your current manager has inherited from your previous manager. This problem also probably caused your previous manager to get so burnt out they quit.

It sounds like there is no process to intake new work and prioritize it. Talk to your manager about this. If you want brownie points propose how you can implement this process.
Not sure why this is being downvoted. I encourage people to visit the non-AMP version of smaller news providers.

Enjoy the popups, video ads, autoplay, bloated sizes, etc.
I think his idea is that some non planar wave within the ear would mean that the wavefronts would not be exactly matched for all reflection paths to and within the cochlea. This would mean the phase would not remain as they travel through the cochlea and could construct at some point around the hair cells.

But, considering the wavelength of 20kHz is 1cm and the ear canal is about 0.7, I can't imagine there's much room for anything but a nice planar wave heading down the canal, let alone within the cochlea.
In the end we're all responsible for our own actions - but there are a lot of outside factors that influence us. The leak appears to have been a significant factor. I'm less interested in the fact that infidelity would likely have eventually lead to the divorce (though if it was privately dealt with it may not have) - I'm more curious if the timing was advantageous for MBS. This is all pure speculation, though.
I perfectly understand how public/private key encryption works. Can you find any citations to support your specific claims that Apple is sending user’s private keys from their devices and giving those keys to China?
As a dev, but not really an OS power user: I've tried switching to Linux (ubuntu and mint) full time before and I really don't see any major shortcomings vs windows for regular desktop use - I know anecdotal evidence is pretty useless but it's all you really can get about this on here.

The only reason I'm not on Linux full time is video game compatibility.

I suspect no retail PCs coming with Linux preinstalled, and general lack of knowledge that it even exists or what it is is just as big (if not more) of a contributor to it's lack of users for non techies as UX is.
I also like Laravel, though nowadays Symfony wins it for me. But it's probably also a matter of taste.

Doctrine's DataMapper vs. Eloquent's ActiveRecord pattern and the use of configuration in Symfony vs. convention in Laravel (e.g. facades) are my 2 main pain points with Laravel.

But having 2 big frameworks is awesome, both are upping their game constantly and the whole ecosystem is benefitting. (E.g. I use Laravel's Homestead for Symfony development, but I might also use Blackfire.io to improve Laravel performance).
Why care about such traffic? Blocking it seems like a pointless exercise.
This is the same administration that calls a free press “the enemy of the people”, and has co-opted a Nazi slur (lügenpresse) to label them. The same administration that used its friends at the National Enquirer to attempt to blackmail Ronin Farrow, and the same administration that looked away as a us resident journalist was tortured, murdered, and dismembered. The idea that Trump disapproves of attempts to blackmail Bezos strains credulity.
Do you have any proof? Any citations from security experts?
> Windows file management and UI is far superior to anything out there

Ehm, no, you are just used to it. In my not-so-humble opinion, it is Finder > Nautilus > Explorer.

In Linux, the taskbar and start menus are not a part of the file manager, but part the desktop shell. The most used one is Gnome, which doesn't have taskbar and start menu.
I'm not sure what you mean with "didn't understand". It was their own code. They could just read it.

I meant exactly what I said.

The missing proprietary bits were not their own code. There was nothing to read and no documentation. They could see the call, and that something important happened, but what it did and how it should work was guesswork.

Furthermore key people were gone. How the code that they had was supposed to work is harder to dig out than you might think. Read http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf for an explanation of why.

Just to add to the fun, just getting the browser running wasn't enough. Netscape and IE were incompatible all over the place, on everything from how styling worked to what order event handlers ran. (In IE, the thing you clicked on gets the event first. In Netscape, the window did. That's a pretty fundamental difference!) They needed to not just have a running browser, but have a browser with enough IE compatibility that it could be usable on webpages designed for IE. It is easier to design something to be compatible from scratch than to find out what deep assumptions need to be changed in existing code to fix incompatibilities.

As fun as it was for Joel to beat up on them for their choice, their choice was arguably the best way forward given the actual situation.
I think this part is really key to their analysis:

"First off, there are a ton of enabled small businesses competing in this space and I'm not sure there needs to be a middle man. For example, I get 4 ads from businesses in Seattle offering lessons for guitar on Google. Thus, they know how to market and get customers, they are offering free first lessons, and have availability. So I am unsure/doubt there is any real consumer problem."

The realization that this is not a big enough problem consumers are having.

I would guess that the musicians who want to sell their time would gladdly sign up to this platform. But the customers looking for these services, would most likely be very costly to reach.
PHP nowadays has almost all the syntactical candy of Ruby, and Laravel has all the neat stuff of Rails. But PHP is so much faster and easier to deploy. All it has against it is its bad past and ditto reputation.
I looked at your other comments so I know you're one of the bad faith FUD peddlers.

But for anyone else that didn't click through to the thread I linked, you can hear it from the horse's mouth right here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD1cP8SK3Q0&feature=youtu.be...
I'd love to see a write up about the differences between all these. "Find one you like" makes it seem like a good search engine is more subjective than it is. It would be cool if these companies collaborate and shared their indexing strategies, algorithms, etc to make the whole alternate search engine space better in general.
> Asking ever day users to create a site (buy a DNS and all that) and create a FOAF file and host it is kind of ridiculous.

Plus it doesn’t do anything by itself. Someone still need to write software that will parse all those files, follow links, and present the information in a sensible manner. Somehow the SemWeb guys have this magical thoughts that once data are online in RDF the web will be revolutionized. Expected it doesn’t because writing software is the hard part, not converting data from a format to another.

Then there is triple stores. The other day I was in front of a Sparql endpoint, with no documentation so I couldn’t get any data from it. And if I got any I would still had to do heavy processing to make use of it.

SemWeb is just string programming with IRI to be fancy. Just let it die.
I was under that impression too! Maybe it’s because the Hajj has much more disparate travelers that I bin it under “migration”.
Mods: headline should read "paused" or "temporarily stopped" rather than the blunt "stopped". The original article's headline says it's temporary.
> What do you recommend they do?

1. The same thing that any of the millions of businesses that operate storefronts do. They've figured this out, somehow.

2. Alternatively: I don't know, and I don't care. They are a logistics company. It's their job to figure this out, not mine. If they want to pay me, though, I'll be happy to consult.
This notion of code being "done" is the root problem. This idea that you write something and ship it and that's over is wrong. Code is never done, it is almost biological in its emerging complexities. The current code is the running manifestation of everyone's understanding, of the architecture : it will and must change.

Viewed through that lens you can see;

* estimation is hard, as you are never really done.

* software has a very high maintenance cost, plan for it.

* architecture and design are important, longer term : spending more money on things with longer value life just makes sense.

* Interfaces are important and allow for rewrites on a smaller scale.

* you will always be releasing: focus on CI and devops to take the grind out of that.

Rewriting is a form of refactoring I guess: It's like chopping a leg off or something. One thing I like about microservices (or rather, strict boundaries) is that you can rewrite the worst part but keep the rest going.

Yeah and oh man I hate the "this code sucks" culture :(
Do you have any proof that Apple rearchitected their system to send private keys that were only stored on their device back to Apple?
Not Impossible, but have to explicitly makred as "unsafe"
> The Saudi Royal Family simply do not care and walk around with impunity. They thumb their nose at the law and the world order and think they deserve to do whatever they want.

You could be talking about the Trump and you'd still be correct. In fact Trump is worse, he didn't even try to cover up his assassination of Soleimani.
I think I agree with you if you change "dev only" to "prior Linux-user only" (I am a non-dev Linux-user and know plenty of others).

Flatpak sounds worth exploring, although many of the cheaper Chromebook have pretty limited storage space.
They may be say that but if it isn't emulating Windows API what is it doing?

IMO (this is just a guess, and might be completely wrong) but I have a feeling that originally WINE stood for WINdows Emulator.
Often though, many successful VC startups start from a niche and expand from there. For ex: uber started with luxury black car service only in SF (a niche) and then expanded into normal cars, carpools, food and the rest of the world. I think the real requirement is a foreseeable future that you could potentially expand into a bigger $billion market.

Small niches that have proved themselves are often more attractive from an investment standpoint.
>Jeff Bezos chatting with Mohammed bin Salman on WhatsApp

Not sure whether this is a yet another fake story sponsored by the Qataris, who infiltrated the liberal western media with their isalmist and ultra left minions all over in the name of diversity, since their rift with the Saudis in mid 2017 or the richest man on Earth is actually retarded enough to chat with a head of state like Saudi Arabia on fucking WhatsApp
I could learn a new DAW, but my library of Native Instruments plugins is a problem.
Raw data is available directly from the exchanges. You can also go through other market data companies, like Refinitiv, to source the data and some infrastructure.
Hi,

Awesome work. Something similar to what I did, though for semantic segmentation.

A small suggestion: From what I understand, you have hard-coded the Fast-RCNN predictor.

self._model.roi_heads.box_predictor = FastRCNNPredictor(in_features, len(classes) + 1)

Having the ability to plugin users' own models would be better, I believe. This would translate to making the model class more abstract.

Well done!
> it is also not necessarily the best way to reduce bugs

I think this needs to be more specific. Comparing Rust and C, for instance, it seems complexity can be used to improve correctness; the tradeoff is worth it at least some of the time.

It seems to me the best example of a simple correctness-oriented language isn't Zig, it's Ada SPARK, which has been used in various life-critical software systems. [0] SPARK's advantages are due to its simplicity:

* The whole language has been defined formally (zero ambiguity)

* The language is amenable to formal verification

A monstrously complex language like C++ brings many features, but is much harder to reason about formally, and will never have a formal definition.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARK_(programming_language)
As someone who noodles around in python, and knows nothing about bioinformatics, this looks very interesting for the 'nice' things it does to basic python like forcing single type of returns, array controls. Its almost like a 'safer-python' set of constructs that would be of great use to the general python programmer. And the pipe operator is very cool.....gotta try that out soon.
I read one of the conclusion: "Lastly, I can't imagine that tech won't win here with non-human based teaching. It's affordable, convenient, and scalable to any genre, language, right from home on many platforms."

I strongly disagree with that one. The pie is big enough for different type of teaching, including real-life classes.

If what he predicts turn out true, and we all get plugged behind screens to learn new things... what a sad world it would be...
> what makes people work for nefarius inc?

Very good pay; the ability to work remotely; pride/prestige; community; political reasons.

Being a good digital thief is still very lucrative, especially for people living in low income areas with relatively lax law enforcement. These people can run encrypted computer extortions, steal bitcoin wallets, run/sell botnets, fence digital goods, run underground ad networks, and consult.
Japanese keyboards have a tiny spacebar and a couple extra modifier keys for writing Japanese Characters. I have a Japanese ThinkPad external keyboard that I ordered for using the extra thumb keys, but I haven't started using it yet.
It's absolutely extortion, but it's cheaper for Expedia to buy than a competitor due to Google's auction rules.

Essentially, the bid to be #1 is discounted by the click-through rate. If 90% of people who search "expedia.com" will click an ad for Expedia, and only 10% of people who search "expedia.com" will click an ad for travelsite.com, travelsite.com has to pay 10x what Expedia does to make up for the lost revenue.
Probably some point after a trillion dollar company spent years peddling counterfeits.
This isn't just about electronics though, or about big ticket items being sold at ridiculously low prices that seem too good to be true. It happens all the time with products a normal person would never assume to be the target of counterfeiters. As I stated in another post, I've personally had it happen with cotton pillow cases and light bulbs. If the fake costs $0.10 to make in China and the real version costs $5 to make in Ohio then there's still a lot of money to be made substituting cheap Chinese junk for a name brand product that should only cost $10 to begin with. Because of how Amazon bundles listings for "the same product" this is extremely easy to get away with.
I would be able to get around to writing that screenplay I've been thinking about--if only I could find the right editor /s
My mother opens every webpage by typing the URL into google
It's curious how little cultural impact it has compared to the world wars or Black Plague despite the death-toll. I've never seen a TV series or film about it or any art, songs or phrases. There is no iconic photograph that comes to mind. It's just a minor footnote to WW1. I don't know if it's wartime censorship or just overshadowed but it's really quite odd.
Brokers ("grey market") usually pay out over time, for this reason. If a seller double-dipped by also selling the vuln to the vendor via a bounty program, it could get fixed before they actually got most of their grey-market money.
The marketing department of the beer company must be livid.
Regulation of commerce is one of the powers we explicitly set out as belonging to the government. In the American system free trade is a reflection of some of our values but not some inherent unalienable right.
ALDI Nord owns Trader Joe’s.

There are two independent conglomerates called ALDI. Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd (North and South). (History: Two Brothers who fought)

They devide Germany and the rest of the world between each other. Have a look at the world map: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aldi_world_map.png...
I'm not an expert, but I believe that's not how holographic displays would work with optical phased arrays. I believe a phased array can make it seem that light is being emitted from any point above the display (within the display angle of the opposite side of the display). There's no need to track observers, because it would be an honest reconstruction of the light emitted from a real 3d dimensional object.
What brand was the phone and OS?
Haters gonna hate I guess, it's your opinion. The world around any stack evolves and you apparently want to keep your old opinion about PHP. You failed to show us why this reputation is still valid today.
I wish we could switch. I had the same maker drive but something changed in me as I've gotten older and now I struggle with tasks. I could easily spend the rest of my life writing/reporting/reviewing/etc and never get any actual work done ever again. I know, it's crazy.
I mean, it’s not like I’ll be happy if the CDC and the federal government is unprepared and this becomes concerning and people die. If they’re prepared, then that’s good for everybody, and I am wishing the CDC success in its efforts to keep us safe. Thank you for posting links!
I'm surprised that 2FA wasn't activated.
A comparison to TSA is flawed. Captcha is not a pass fail system, it is a score that is passed on to the web host and they decide what to do with it. Really any similar product to block malicious users would have the same problems, and the solution is to educate the website operators so they can avoid blocking legitimate users.
Whatsapp allows desktop clients. I use it too. It is technically possible for someone to hijack this desktop client and do this without MBS's involvement, as long as MBS authorized that desktop. I think you need proximity, but you can have a computer near the prince, and that computer being remotely controlled by someone sitting far away.

Not saying this happened ... but there are many ways to blame it on prince and many ways to defend him (and blame a subordinate).
I would take what this author says with a grain of salt; on a different blog post she has a heterodox theory of gravitation based on electricity ("magnetic monopoles").
How does supply side defection work for airbnb except in very edge cases, such as a long term rental. Even then it turns into something like apartments.com
How do you explain Angie’s List then?
The page you've linked to has a table filled entirely with the word Yes, apart from iCloud.com which has a note and Mail which has a note.

The first entry in the table is:

Backup Yes Yes

At a glance this looks, to me, as though iCloud backups are encrypted.

What am I missing?
Unfortunately CE is self-certified. In theory the vendor is liable if their product doesn't comply with the requirements, but good luck sueing some Alibaba reseller from Shezhen.

Certifications from UL or similar labs are much better, but many producers don't hesitate to also fake the UL logo on their fake products.
Google’s biggest opportunity is Cloud. They’re playing catch up but with the culture and staff they have, that’s where I’d be focussing my efforts. I think the 2020s will be the biggest decade for cloud adoption.