skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So we are valuing the complete financial history, along with the (unfortunate) universal identifier of a person at about $5?

That's way, way too low.

Even $100 / person feels too low but possibly more appropriate.

Equifax and the other credit agencies hold incredibly valuable and sensitive data, they should be held to an extreme standard for that privilege.
Well, there's nothing to say that private corporations can't behave in the same way. I'm just saying that once you list these pressures are almost guaranteed to appear.

I also strongly suspect that they're less present, on average, in unlisted companies.
The title is just a play on words, being a Latin story about pigs!
That would be true if the ad/"suggestion" was just positively touting Edge without negatively mentioning Firefox. Is it even legal to use a competitor's trademark like that?
Is this the same WebOS that now runs on "not so smart TVs" specifically LG?
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You should add a resource on computational theory. Discussions of P-NP, finite automata, decision problems, etc.
Firefox does run just fine on OSX.
Any reason why screenwriters don't just use Windows laptops?
Google Search is more of a monopoly than Microsoft Windows is last I checked.
That makes sense. Swift is also way too complex and syntatically noisy imo. I like that Julia has a smaller set of very powerful abstractions.

Though isn't point (2) just a convention thing? Protocols can refine other protocols. So in S4TF there's a layer protocol and an RNN protocol which extends that, IIRC.
> laughably bad

While not Dream-bad, the first iPhone was really bad, but with a better interface than every other phone. It didn't have an app store, so the interesting things were maps and a web browser, but with only 2.5G internet, they were mostly unusable.
I don't have any direct experience of building a business on Android. Last I heard iOS users spend more money on the App Store than Android users. I think this implies it is harder. I would think they are both pretty difficult probably in the same order of magnitude to each other.
> Microsoft phone 7 that couldn't use an arbitrary mp3 as a ringtone?

And iOS which couldn't at the time either.

> Microsoft phone 7 that was pretty much ditched with an incompatible update in next to no time?

Due to no market-share. (Silverlight et al. was an abject failure)

I think it's fine to talk about it as if it's failed in the context of android existing; but the context here is iOS dominance in abstentia of Android itself, and I think there would have been other players (Windows Phone included) which would have contested it given the absence of android.

Windows phone was a contender and it just feels like it wasn't because Android not only won (and thus; you think of Android now vs Windows phone then) but won wildly.
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> A more traditional static compilation approach is being tried with StaticCompiler.jl by tshort, but it's in early development.

The moment this ships, there will no longer be any reason to use any other garbage-collected language.
This is an unfathomably uninformed comment that seems mostly driven by animus against military strength than anything else.
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It’s not true that CE could not support multitasking. Originally CE up to 5.0 had a limitation in the number of processes it supported (32), in order to support more performant task switching (no TLB flushes for one) - though it did not have such a tight limitation on number of threads.

However the version of CE (6, released way back in 2006) that was released on Windows Phone did not have this restriction and version 7 released in 2011 also supported SMP.

Windows CE was really not an entirely incapable OS (and I personally despised it). Its real annoyance was having a completely non-standard bastardized/limited Win32 API which made it both an odd ball embedded RTOS and only vaguely similar to the API of Windows NT. Despite this it had considerable adoption in industrial computing — never a huge market though.

It’s hard to say this was a real problem though as no one considered OS X to be a phone OS before 2007 either. The bigger issue is that clearly MS wanted out from under CE before the phone was even released.

The limitations in Phone 7 were higher level, not due to the underlying kernel.
Yes, the US sucks at winning wars. At the same time, I'm not sure what other nation is capable of waging war on the scale of the US. Perhaps the war on a large scale is just an intractable problem that cannot be solved, and the US is the only country that even tries. Not that I think that's a good thing. War in general sucks.
Should Hulu's business model be illegal? Paid+ads is a valid product strategy and Win10 consumer editions follow this strategy.
Does Chrome show ads by itself?
what is your point?
When I had a prepaid phone you had to buy minutes once a year at minimum otherwise you lost your existing minutes and your number was disabled.
In Norway (and rest of the world for all i know) banks offer ID auth which is linked to your SIM for online banking. Are there any similar service available without SIM?
The thing about software is that the "one true way" changes every 2 or 3 years.

A few decades ago inheritance was considered a key software design principle, then it was abused by many (especially Java programmers, I think), just like any other powerful feature, now it's considered evil. If multiple dispatch becomes as popular as classes/inheritance was, I suspect it will go through the same love/hate cycle.

All I know is that I have used implementation inheritance to good effect on multiple occasions and found it to be a very valuable feature.
I'm a security analyst.

I could possibly educate them about common use cases and misunderstandings.
> those incumbents would have come up with something.

The Zune Phone.
2009-2014 iirc.. the bad ones started in 2015.
It's an IT service provider.
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What makes you say ad-free? Not even paying customers get ad-free podcasts on Spotify.
I discovered this by reading about devices whose support has been mainlined in the up-coming Linux 5.6 kernel.

It doesn’t feature any in-built graphics but the producer recommends AMD’s RX series of discrete graphics cards. Unfortunately those will take up the only PCIe expansion slot so unfortunately extra devices (I was hoping to add an SDR) will have to be hosted over USB.
Can I just say I really enjoyed the format of this blog post?

Short and to the point. He could've dragged this out for pages like most do, but he got a lot economy in a 20 sec read.

I wish they were all like this.
> It's easy to write code that reads and writes it.

This is where you lose me. AFAICT, no two YAML parsers agree on what YAML is, so it's actually very hard to write code that reads and writes YAML because it has to be carefully tailored to work with whatever other YAML parsers are in your toolchain.
Rice cookers. Totally ingenious.
They publicly said in interviews when Android was initially bought, that they were doing mobile so that people could do Google searches literally everywhere, so they could have ad revenue when people were away from their computers. They were very open about it at the time. "Google search in your pocket".
IMO vehicles of a certain size should have to follow specific rules (in densely populated areas). I live where is snows; and when it does, there are lots of 2-way streets that are large enough for 2 reasonably sized vehicles, but not if one of them is a huge truck / suburban. Last night I had to back out of a road because some lady in an Escalade was driving down the center and refused to squeeze right to allow traffic to flow as intended. It also bothers me that you cannot see over these automobiles on the highway. Many times I've been traveling in the left lane on the highway with a big truck in front of me (that's going slow, but I assume it's because of the person in front of them). I move left even more to try and peek around them to discover that there is no one in front of them, they're just oblivious / refusing to yield. If you want to drive something huge, that's okay with me, but keep it in the right lane and off of small streets like all the shipping trucks.
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Wait, how did this work? Surely not every typed word was issued as a command.
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Another Gordon Kelly masterpiece. His articles are very sensationalist and they all fall in this same kind of "anger at computer company" template.

I agree however that local search should never be so coupled with non-local search that one can break the other.
Did they want to get find then?
How can you assert with such confidence that the elimination of mundane jobs would obviously be a negative force in the world?

In fact, plenty of humans do stop working by choice; we call this "retirement". It tends to be a highlight of life as long as a retiree can maintain their health. Yes, it is a challenge to find purpose outside of work for some, but many people rise to that challenge: many retirees pursue hobbies, arts, athletics, and social functions with at least the same vigor that they once applied to work. Other people work their whole lives at unfulfilling jobs due to real or imagined pressures around making money, despite other interests which they would prefer to pursue.

Your second paragraph is correct. In the short-term, technological elimination of jobs will cause great disruption and misfortune to certain workers (and we should implement policies that assuage the damage). We may have to adopt dramatically more progressive government services. The social vacuum once filled by professional relationships will need to be filled by new, different social institutions. But that's the nature of creative destruction; sometimes getting to a better global state causes local pain.
Which ads do Chrome/ChromeOS show, outside of those shown to everyone using other OS/Browser to access the same sites?
If true this is a giant failure of Chinese intelligence. It just shows how far ahead the US is that they're able to charge specific people. The PLA needs to upgrade its capabilities if they don't want to stay an embarassment.
That's a pretty silly idea. So anyone working for Walmart is a monster? Can't be a good person and just taking the best job you can find for yourself and your family?
> But Tesla's don't auto update.

Good to know -- so users can simply elect not to accept updates? What about when Tesla changes the operating characteristics of the car, is that always optional? Is accepting the change this article is talking about optional?

If so, then I have no objections, although I will still never buy a Tesla or any other vehicle that phones home.

> Updates push us forward. It comes with risks but so far the rewards outweight the risk.

Perhaps. But as long as it's the owners who get to decide whether or not the risk is worth it, that's fine. If the manufacturer gets to make that decision, that's not fine at all.
This is why a simplifying assumption was made with the 1:1 ratio of salary:RSUs. Obviously it matters when comparing two companies, but in this case the question was simply "who makes 600k" and the answer is 'probably nobody unless the stock did real gud'
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I remember a opinion piece claiming hackers might have piercings, tattoos, neon colored hair, which doesn’t jive well with (U.S.) government agencies where people wear suits.

I’m curious if there is concrete data breaking down whether recruiting for cyber security roles in the public sector is constrained by culture, compensation or something else.
I wish upgrades were easier on the iOS side, but in some instances users are demanding new features. Take for example split screen on the iPad. I takes time to figure out what your interface should look like in different dimensions. I am not sure what Apple could have done about that in advance.

Upgrades on the web take time and resources too. So I don't think this is unique to iOS.
Thanks for visiting! nitter looks cool. Though not exactly for browsing your twitter timeline? More like a scraper?
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What methods do you use for documenting database schema and columns and communicating that documentation to non-technical stakeholders who may be performing analysis?
Nokia also decided to abandon CDMA production, which killed even the possibility of using a Nokia phone in vast swathes of the USA.
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This is unnecessarily dismissive. The USG routinely enforces regulations and tariffs on companies and imports that fail to comply with US regulations. If this was extended to company structure or labor standards, so what?

Under your standard, all regulation is "top down bureaucratic driven". In practice this has not proven to be incompatible with market driven economics. Not that libertarians don't scream about it anyway.
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> I read somewhere that the American accent is closer to what British was like in the 1700-1800s.

Wouldn't you then expect a small isolated town in England to still have an "American" accent?
The semantic question is whether an egg is named for the creature that laid it or the creature it contains.
It is, but we are in C++
Hey, at least you're not being told how you do think.
But, a war with China (direct conflict) would be the Naval set-piece battle the US has been dreaming of for decades. Much like how Iraq was the combined arms showcase dreamed of post Cold War. US has struggled at asymmetric combat against regional bad actors, as evidenced nearly everywhere, but your assertion that somehow China would be able to leverage that type of warfighting when their O&G infrastructure and major threat projection airbases are on islands or near shore does not compute. It would be ugly, not straightforward, not "Iraq on water" ... but it would be much different than wargames in geographically tight confines with limited rules of engagement. The US and allies still do hold the Pacific mostly as their own backyard, and that would need to change to tip the balance toward China.
> I paid for an operating system

Mind you, most Windows home users haven’t paid for an operating system. Either because they’re pirating Windows (e.g. most of the Asian market) or because they’re using an OEM license that Microsoft sold basically at cost (after CapEx:OpEx conversion of R&D expense, ala pharma companies.)

The only profit “Windows” as a product makes, at this point, is 1. Whatever tie-in channel partnerships they can sneak in (like the Candy Crush ad in the start menu), and 2. The cross-department budget Windows gets from Azure as lead-gen revenue (given that Windows is gradually becoming ever more tightly integrated with the Azure SDK, such that it’s only natural to use Azure to build a backend for a Windows app.)
Singapore is a role model country and to follow for every other nation.
switched over to KDE after writing that... will see if it's still an issue in a day or two.
Most of the complaints I've seen have to do with what he gets wrong about other languages, and often in the way that locals are offended when you misuse a localism. Or in the way a physicist complains about a grade schooler being wrong because their answer used the Bohr model.

As an introductory book to a eccentric topic though, it works.

It's biggest asset, imo, is that Bryson isn't a linguist, and manages to make some obtuse concepts relatable, without getting bogged down in technicalities. Similar to what Michael Crichton could do with cutting edge sciences. (Granted, he kept mostly to fiction.)

Whereas the most basic begginer's article written by a linguist is still indecipherable to me. And linguists seem to be ok, or even happy, about that.

Linguists writing about a linguistic Lockheed A-12 would be aghast that anyone could ever mistake it for an SR-71, let alone be willing to explain the differences to the casual observer, or even make the mental effort to see how someone might mistake the two.

So as an engineer that hates the casual misuse of technical terms, I get you. But like the model of the atom, sometimes teaching the simplified but wrong model has its benefits for a certain crowd, until they're ready to go deeper.
Education is probabbly the best route, don't tell them you're there to dissuade them, just show them what it can and what it can't do ;)

I've only been in a few situations where "Oh man this is a terrible idea." and education works.... sometimes even if to direct all that energy into something more benign. Sometimes "Ok now they're going to waste a bunch of energy on X ... but at least X isn't going to hurt Y." is a win ;)
> At the same time, I'm not sure what other nation is capable of waging war on the scale of the US.

My inclination is that China would be perfectly capable of doing so, but that they have more effective jobs programs than the States.
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80% of autistic adults are unemployed! In the next 10 years over 1M autistics will make the transition into adulthood (about 60% with NO intellectual disability), only in the US. US autism costs are over US$ 268 BN annually, a big portion of it due to loss of productivity.

Ever since my son was diagnosed (at age 3.5, he is now 4.5) I was researching what will his biggest challenges be, and employment is the one.

I had two solutions in mind. The first one is helping companies become autistic-friendly (some companies are doing it) and by doing so increasing the employment rates. After long research, I wrote the lean guide to hire your first autistic employee (https://hackernoon.com/how-to-hire-your-first-autistic-employees-z7r737of), it even includes a Trello board. I reached out to hundreds of diversity and inclusion directors but very quickly noticed they don’t prioritize this high enough (I’m sure they want to, but they have other factors). In addition, I talked to many autistic adults who told me they wish they could work remotely. It will save them the difficulties they experience with the traditional hiring process (especially the interviews) + the socializing associated with meeting other employees every day, attending company events, etc.

That leads me to my second solution, a freelancing platform for autistic people.

I’m currently at startup school and just launching the MVP version, which is an autistic-friendly job/project posting process: https://www.spectroomz.com/submit-a-project

And a place to apply as a freelancer: https://www.spectroomz.com/work-from-home

I will post jobs on a closed Facebook group for autistic freelancers.

If your company is open to take 1 or 2 freelancing projects (mainly writing, design or admin support, but any category works), it will be great if you’ll be early adopters of this important platform.

I’m here for questions.

Arik
Macs are magic
> I just don't understand why people run windows

I've seen so many good answers but to me, the main one is that people don't know there are alternatives.

I know virtually no one in "real" life that knows what Linux is. Windows is pre-installed and people just roll with it. Some are aware there's this thing called "Mac" that it is more expensive and that's it.
I thought primary Norman French speaking died out with the Plantagenets. I'm sure almost all the royals after the first few Plantagentes were at least bilingual in English/French. George I could not speak English IIRC. His first language was German. Do you have a reference for the Tudors and later houses speaking primarily French? James I (of England, VI of Scotland), yep, I'll believe that without reference.
> I'm not saying static types don't have benefits as well,

It's funny; formerly I was a die-hard fan of static typing, but, lately, my opinions have become more nuanced. Something more along the lines of, "Yeah, I'd never want to just remove the type annotations from my Java code and then try to maintain the result, but some dynamic languages allow me to have a fraction as much code to maintain in the first place."

I'm also beginning to wonder if my feelings about dynamic languages have been unduly influenced by some particularly popular, and also particularly undisciplined, dynamic languages. JavaScript and PHP, for example.
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I don't think the implication here is 34 hops, but 34 different VPN exits that showed up in log data.
If the standard told you to jump off a bridge, would you do it?

The standard is idiotic. Which part of "user agent" don't they understand?
> don't study international relations and geopolitics

Know quite a few people with these qualifications, they are highly polarized human beings who seem to have trouble discussing politics.
Except in this case the decisions were probably made by an underqualified codeling at the bottom who possibly could not even been expected to know better and not take the assignment, that's the immediate stupidity part - the malice is what led to this situation in the first place and saw the result rolled to production.
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I really hope Apple goes back to the previous or updates the cheaper laptops. I have an XPS13 running OSX and it's much better to type on. Then I bust out my thinkpad and the display is garbage but man, it's like getting massaged while typing. Please update the Air or cheapest MBP to the old keyboard please.
> But for numerical work 1-based indexing is usually easier to work with.

That's not really true in my experience, since all the nice properties of zero-based indexing transfer perfectly over to mathematics.

But you're right, this isn't anything to abandon an otherwise wonderful language over.
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> Just auto-update edge and put it in a pinned taskbar position with a new icon and a notification bubble...

Ah, but some users don’t even use the taskbar. They want this ad to be visible to their tablet market, too. And for screen-reader users, presumably. Microsoft seems like the kind of company to be concerned about the accessibility of their ads.
Agree. Revealing China as an untrustworthy world partner would serve US interests much more than sending in the Marines.
Yeah, I always hear "Mac is great for writers/artists/video editors/etc" but I never have been able to find out exactly why.
I want to answer, but people will come out of the woodwork to bash me.

The answer boils down to not only personal preference but for some cases it's easier and more orthogonal to use. Even if that _wasn't true_ and many people are going to shit on me for saying it _is_ true, but even if it wasn't: the perception is that it's easier to use, more orthogonal and made with premium materials.

Aside from the pro-sumer market, (which is still hit and miss) the build quality of laptops and battery life is sub-par in Windows-land. Add to the fact that unless you have a Dell support contract you're going to be fighting your laptop vendor over random things potentially and suddenly you're not looking at an appealing platform.

This is _especially_ true if money is literally no object as is the case for screen writers who are probably the most well compensated people on the planet (as roughly 30% of a movie budget goes to the screen writer(s)).
Like the ship of theseus though, at what point does it stop being a chicken, i.e. its parent. The progenitor is 'obviously' whatever preceded the chicken, but that's just it - is that itself the egg or the chicken-maker? There you are started down the tautological root back to what first first conceived both whatwouldbe-egg and whatwouldbe-chicken to come.
Firefox accounts for about 5% of browsers used. It's not dead, but far from thriving, and many web sites ignore Firefox to the point they are not compatible with it. Yet I have not seen a major impact of this quasi-disappearance.