skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many people still seem to believe that when they buy a phone (be it Apple or Android) they actually "own" the device.

You don't really:

. can't open it to access h/w, change battery, etc...
. can't choose what you run on it
. can't actually access all of the data that's stored on it
. most of the things you do with it are recorded by a remote entity.
. "for your own protection", here's a very long list of things we will not let you do with your device.

Gives a whole new meaning to the word "ownership".
Wow, TIL. That changes everything.
Not. It's an extremely fundamental area of mathematics, necessary for really understanding any mathematical subject (including statistics, machine learning, signal processing etc) but it's not at all necessary for the vast majority of programming / software engineering tasks, and indeed you'll find excellent software engineers who haven't got a clue about linear algebra. I think the reason you see it discussed on HN is because many people here are interested in mathematics and that sort of theoretical way of thinking.

I don't mean to sound negative about it though. For example, the notions of abstraction and interface are very important in both maths and software.
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I'm surprised it's taken this long. There is no peer review to arXiv. If you've ever reviewed for a conference or a journal (10-30% acceptance rates) you've seen the "raw feed" of submitted papers and you realize the average isn't very good. Many get rejected because they simply have a few flaws, but some are badly flawed (or just plain wrong) and shouldn't be published anywhere. ArXiv has no peer review so it's virtually the raw feed. I cringe whenever I see arXiv papers cited as if they were published work --- doing an end-run around peer review can't be good for science.
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It’s not just fast lanes as many networks care about the data their sending, but these things take a while to gain traction so it’s not yet that obvious.

For example Verizon has the lesser known FreeBee: For pay-per-click campaigns, the FreeBee Data icon (a “bee”) appears next to sponsored content to let Verizon Wireless subscribers know that, when they click on that content, they will not incur data charges. With FreeBee Data 360, businesses can sponsor some or all of their app or website.

That’s just one example, but it does demonstrate net neutrality is dead in the US.
Apparently Yubico knows the seeds written into their devices, else the OTP auth (against their servers) [0] woulndn't work OOTB, no?

[0]: https://demo.yubico.com/otp/verify
US pharmaceutical company R&D spending is ~80B per year [0]. Healthcare spending is ~3.6T, making pharma R&D about 2% of overall healthcare spending.

Based on the above back-of-the-napkin math, I'm inclined to think pharma R&D isn't really the main factor.

What is your support for believing it is the case?

[0] https://www.biopharmadive.com/news/phrma-research-developmen...
I wouldn't use keybase where I need reliability due to their vague TOS (that came into effect around the beginning of this year): They can ban you from their service if they deem your actions outside their platform unacceptable.
When Entrepreneurial Passion Backfires
If you want to go "budget", STM32 hardware (like the common "blue pill" STM32F103C8 board) is priced comparably to a knockoff Arduino, if not cheaper.
You can sign and deploy apps to your own device with Xcode. This is all explained immediately after the “no jailbreak required” dot point in the README.
Yeah I was scrolling back and forth as well asking myself the question for what? all the time until I looked at the files and saw background.js and manifest.json, then it clicked.
Make a Kickstarter for it?

Saying is easy. But for some reason, it still doesn't exist.
In my experience with these companies... "one-time" happens many times.
Fair enough, and to clarify that is what I meant by "fake". I guess just fake in the sense that the user clicked through to your page expecting there to be a real product.
Ask HN: What systems or processes do you use to be a manager/leader?
I work at a growing company, and have recently begun promoting individual contributors to managers underneath me. I'm looking for tips on how to be a more effective leader myself, and enable those underneath me to also be.

What are the systems, tools, or processes that you've either created or discovered to be an effective leader/manager?
One of our potential investors pressed this very hard: “if they don’t stick it out, why should they get paid?” and so on.

We rejected them and went with someone sane. but I was shocked. this was coming from an upper-tier VC firm.

One thing I am happy about is we never took bad money. Our series A firm was fantastic.
You can make options expire after 90 days but they lose their IRS protection and have to be treated as income and not capital gains. ISO 90 day limit is an IRS limit.

https://employeestockoptions.com/difference-iso-nso/
Former Communist Party membership and present-day entrepreneurship
Re-Learning Data Structures and Algorithms Series 🧑: Python 3 and Classes
Remember whenever you sign a contract that breach is always an option. There’s just potential litigation and reputation as downside along that road
Only at important times, such as tournaments and business talks, I couldn't debug ROS because my PC was out of order or the battery ran out. . . Isn't that so?
In such a case, if at least rviz can be started using someone's PC,
So, I made a script to create ROS LiveUSB using Docker and chroot.
Your last sentence demonstrates an ignorance of history that strips you of any credibility.
That’s interesting. A lot would have to change to make email addresses portable.
What I use as a basis for leadership skills is my Army training. I am not joking.
> ...a healthy skepticism...

The fact that your comment's grandparent, of all comments, is the top one makes me doubt that optimistic outlook.
This repeats a lot of what Stallman has already written is "bad about" Discord:

https://stallman.org/discord.html
A Quarter of Climate Tweets Come from Bots, More Likely to Peddle Denial
It was a direct quote from a source.
Nevada Democrats Dial Back the Tech to Avoid an Iowa-Style Debacle
WeWork: How the ultimate unicorn lost its billions
> Public RSUs for stock you can sell immediately on the open market are fantastic.

I mostly agree with this statement, but they are not entirely without risk. With the almost universal 6 month lockup these days, through an IPO employees could be left with a large tax burden, including having to make quarterly estimated payments, on a bunch of income that might be worth less than it was taxed at, or even worthless, if the company folded.

Sure, it's unlikely, but look at some of the 2019 IPO flops. If you are taxed on a something like a million dollars of income, but only actually pocket half that, then at the end of the day you effectively have a quarter of what you started with.
Google's Ryan Sleevi has also pushed for this previously. Back in 2017 when the CAs were reluctant to go below 39 months (the rule prior to 825 days) Sleevi's position was that if nothing less than 39 months could get agreed Chrome would just clamp certificate lifetimes to 90 days.

It's interesting that this came from Apple though, and seemingly (from memory and a brief review of the list archives) without much prior discussion. The CA/B Forum is an inherently asymmetrical body, its rules recognise this, and there is always the threat that the relationship it embodies could break down or cease to be relevant.
> Direct replications, testing the same prediction in new studies, are often not feasible with observational data. In experimental psychology it is common to instead run conceptual replications, examining new hypotheses based on the same underlying theory. We should do more of this in non-experimental work. One big advantage is that with rich data sets we can often run conceptual replications on the same data.

I think actually relying on "conceptual replications" in practice is impossible. If the theory is only coincidentally supported by the data, that makes the replication more likely to exceed p < .05 coincidentally in a very difficult to analyze way.

The author mentions that problem, but doesn't mention a bigger issue: If you think people are unlikely to publish replications using novel data sets, just imagine how impossibly unlikely it is for people to publish failed replications with the original data set! If you read a "replicated" finding of the same theory using the same data set, you can safely ignore it, because 19 other people probably tried other related "replications" and didn't get them to work.
Equity compensation is like your bonus. The chance you are getting it is low so shouldn't be taken into account. Maybe I have burned too many times by discretionary bonuses :)
Reckless drivers may not have insurance, or enough assets to pay off your hospital bills.
Caltrain is great as long as it shows up. But it is a single point of failure for many commutes and it does fail a lot.
Humans enjoy pretending to be bots. It's a meme.

This is a problem for the Turing test. Real humans sometimes want to appear non-human.

Also, I've known real humans who were banned as bots. They tended to be people with strongly conservative views. However this is-a-bot property gets determined, it has a political bias.
some context: https://twitter.com/VirenMohindra/status/1231021674482544640
Downvotes. Really? Damn some of you are naïve
I did miss that until I read your post, looking up behavior that your program relies in a language standard seems easy to me to because I _have_ to as a C programmer, a lot, for the reasons you and the post mentioned. I totally agree with you, and nearly all of the C footguns in the article.

That being said I'm still doubling down on my post:

"who knows" if argv is const? Me, because I program for a standard of C that guarantees that that it's not const and that it's pointers and the strings it pointers to are both modifiable.

And "who knows" if toupper returns an error because "It's a C API! Anything is possible!"

Also me, because I program for a standard of C where toupper returns what you gave it, or it gives you a single character back that _might_be_different_ based on the host computer's language.

Not defending toupper and towupper, but it is explicitly unreliable in the C standard I program to.

If I naively wrote a case-insensitive file manager in Rust, wchar_t C, or C with ICU, could operations on the following files be reliable on a German computer and on a English computer? If they are reliable, then is it correct to the point where either person wouldn't overwrite a file on accident? If the Rust one overwrites files, is it a smaller fuckywuky since Rust programers value "safety, correctness, and performance"?

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If you can batch things up and don’t need real-time returns using spot instances is a great way to lower costs.
For my specific use case the integration is awesome. I can edit text super fast with all vim keybindings. I also appreciate having the easy motion plug-in by default, which I also love. I understand that people who know the depths of vim may lack features they are used to. But for the majority of us it really improves our coding experience, and at the same time we don't spend time struggling to add ide features into vim, because vscode is already a great ide. So when I start using a new file type it just works or there is a plug-in for it. Same with debugger, compiling, and so on.
It is less about hyperscale. More about building agile applications that can have independent discrete ship’able components.

Also fear of missing out is another factor.
Not really perjury... no lying... just an argument that the burden of proof isn’t on you just because you’re the last known holder of the keys and some $ moved around.
How is access denied if the private keys remain unchanged?
Anyone know if there's an NPM library that does this? If not I may have to abstract this out into one for a project (thanks for making it!!).
Can't wait for the NYT to collapse.
The GPD Win 2 looks interesting. Can you tell us more about it.
Google Removes 600 Android Apps for Displaying Disruptive Ads
China has the most 2nd-most millionaires per capita of any country in the world (and by far the most by total). The idea that "all monies are stolen high up" and "filter down as bribes" is just laughable.

Perhaps you're just referring to the rampant (and real) corruption among public officials, but if you're claiming that poor and middle-class Chinese are ripping off the wealthy, there's very scant evidence for it.
Telegram, Facebook, and the Future of Cryptocurrency
I agree. This is our duty to push for normalizing reduced work hours and remote work
People frequently recommend Strang's teaching as an amazing pedagogical approach for engineers and applied mathematicians, but I find I'm frustrated every time I read his books or listen to his lectures. They don't work well for me and I've found much better alternatives
Why do they have a "violate policy and eventually lose dispute" button then?
Fair point, but I (and many others) see stutter in theatre as well.

Most of the reason you don’t is because filmmakers know very well what their “maximum pan speed” is and they stay as far away from it as possible.
South Africa has one of the highest Gini coefficients of the entire planet. So if they're taking money from 4 million and redistributing it to the rest, they're not going a very good job of it.

That said, S. Africa clearly is dealing with a lot of political corruption. I agree that the answer is transparency. But it's also to reduce income inequality, since income inequality has a very high correlation with political corruption and civil unrest (which we see in SA in the form of high rates of violent crime).
Yes, true.

But it was unnecessary for the story-- it added nothing. I'm sure the author had many more quotes from many of the subjects, yet not all were chosen to print.
Sweden is now testing its digital version of cash, the e-krona
Yeah, that alone should be a huge red flag unless it's something the add-on explicitly advertises, like it's doing translation or something.
I prefer mid week days off (Wednesday, but I'd settle for Tue/Thu). I love to have work weeks of two days.

I can imagine there are plenty of other people that prefer the same thing.
Systems, tools or processes? I talk to people. Figure out what motivates them, what makes them tick. What they like, what they don't like, what they value. How they work. Their strengths and their flaws. Then adjust based on that.

Few people really know how to do leadership or management anyway (including myself), but by doing the above I think I'm doing better than most, without having read a book or attended a MBA.
Creating traditional competition in local infrastructure is difficult if not impossible for several reasons

- Last mile sections of the city will always have winner takes most (customers) situation, making the lines built by the other providers redundant and wasteful

- There are only so many communication lines you can put on poles, and underground, before the people start complaining about ugliness, and never ending construction.

I think a good approach for local communication infrastructure is ownership by community/local-goverment and private contract bidding on construction, maintanance and support

- Companies bid on building new infrastructure,

- Companies bid on running & maintaining existing infrastructure (usually a 2-3 year bid contract that sets fixed rate for all customers for 2-3 years). At the end of each contract a new bid goes out, but the same company can "win" the bid

- People in the community vote on the bids. The POLITICIANS don't get to pick the winning bid
He writes "goodbye, ownership, hello usership" like that's a good thing. That's the business experience of outsourcing a service. You don't own that part of the business any more. You're just a user of some service that doesn't want to be bothered with your problems.
It was essentially all fear-mongering, evidenced by the bulk of advocacy for the movent not being from economists and market theorists, but it was well intentioned. I wasn't a NN advocate so I won't waste time pretending to be good at defending the position, that said I do think that their camp had some very legitimate concerns about what /could/ happen. The dialogue was important if nothing else and shouldn't be discarded as wasteful.
This definitely differs but many companies give out annual bonuses to pretty much everyone.
It seems like there is potential for making bash faster.

1. JIT compilation, caching and invalidating on updated source files

3. Rearchitecting similar a-la busybox all of coreutils, sharutils, grep, awk and sed as internal components to avoid forking as much as possible. Tool symlinks back to itself for compatibility.

4. Rearchitecting to simulate sub-shells with threads and local contexts, rather than globals/singular locals. With formally-proven safety methodologies, there only needs to be one "shell" process running, a server. All other invocations become thread children if called directly or interact as a client if exec()ed. Subshells become just lightweight threads with Copy-On-Write contexts. No more shell fork-bombs, scripts get crazy fast and reduce first PID.
I was reading Agner and he lumped them all together. But you might be right. DWIW, tick tock didn’t start until 2007.
> For some people it’s hard to accept that relaxed people are productive.

Just look at how U.S. culture treats service workers. We best be seated on time for our dinner reservation. No one should wait 15 minutes for their hotel check-in because housekeeping isn't done yet. Oh, and that coffee was ordered nearly 5 minutes ago. And the plumber was supposed to be here at 8.

Your concerns about greed extend well beyond worker productivity. It appears to be the logical extension of believing the individual is sacrosanct.
Interesting, that's probably further than I was even considering.

Part of me is thinking "how upset would I really be if I went to pay for something and got an 'under construction' message at the last minute", probably not that upset. However if I thought I had paid for something and later found out the order was cancelled it would be a different story.
The CEO of deepmind is an author on the paper, his PhD is in biology (but a totally different field, cog neuroscience). The rest of the authors include all the ingredients you'd expect from a modern successful quantitative scientific collaboration: a university professor of Bioinformatics who has a huge prior knowledge of computer-aided protein folding (http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Jones/), several postdoc or post-postdoc level bio/protein experts with knowledge in physical simulation (the method they used ultimately works as distance and angle constraints on the protein structure), as well as a bunch of world-class machine learning/computer science folks.

They're not gaming things. DeepMind is good at games, and CASP is a competition, but everybody who does well at CASP is already doing the same sorts of things that DeepMind did to score well. And they really did come up with a good system that was demonstrably better (I want to give them credit, I just don't think 'breakthrough' is really correct). But one thing I know about CASP (I competed one year) is that after 2 years, whatever the previous winning team did is duplicated by the other top teams, and 2 years after that, everybody can do it.

I think ML is moving protein folding competitions like CASP to be faster now, because you can put your code, training data generator (much of the hard work in protein folding is coming up with good training data), a materialized copy of the training data the generator generates, and a trained model checkpoint on github, so after 2 years, everybody will be able to do what DM did at the previous competition. I think this has been one of the really important improvements in the last few years in protein folding- the computational infrastructure, both the training data, the systems to train on, and the tools to do training, have all gotten much better, and lots of people have gotten good at using them. That's a really promising sign and I hope it takes over more quantitative science.
tl;dr: no reputable sources to back this up, elections, gross quantity in USD$ is greater than the GDP of the state it was discovered in ~$224b. will theoretically not affect gold prices
Well, Discord specifically works in a regular web browser too, which will sandbox it from the rest of your system. There's a couple minor features that will be missing, like the ability to show your friends what game you're playing, but those features tend to be the ones any other sandboxing solution will block too.
Any resources you can share that worked better for you?
I wonder how our ancestors made it through the early Holocene, where it was 2-3C warmer, with just stone age technology?
Bcrypt (Vs) Multi One Password (Just a Matter of Iterations)
Most users of this would never actually click on ad (they are probably already using an ad-block, or are completely ad blind), so that omission doesn't seem that bad.
Sharing those alternatives would be a more valuable comment.
This is good advice no matter what the situation is.
Selecting quotes for a nonpolitical story based on political considerations would be terribly agenda-driven journalism.
If you move from a 2 day weekend to a 3 day weekend it’s a 50% increase in free time.
The article calls this a "bug", but I don't see how this can be anything other than working as intended?

I generate a link X to do Y on application Z. I post link X on a public website. Crawlers index the public site. When I search Y application Z, the page containing link X is returned in the results.

What action is the author expecting? For all search engines to recognize and ignore these URLs? What about malicious actors? Ask them nicely to ignore?
I've gotten quotes through a few of these sites in the past, and I was getting at best 50-70% of the value I would have gotten by selling in person through CL. I imagine it's in part because you ship it over to them, they have to inspect the items etc.

I think those services can be useful for buyers, but sellers who want to get the most for their gear will avoid them. Like you said, something like Reverb could compete on taking a smaller cut.
You are dramatically overestimating the rate at which SPs can change anything. Even simple billing changes can take 6 to 24 months; operational changes of the sort required to profit from net neutrality take longer.
> S-2.2 Cancellations, Returns, and Refunds. The Amazon Refund Policies for the applicable Amazon Site will apply to Your Products. Subject to Section F-6, for any of Your Products fulfilled using Fulfillment by Amazon, you will promptly accept, calculate, and process cancellations, returns, refunds, and adjustments in accordance with this Agreement and the Amazon Refund Policies for the applicable Amazon Site

https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/G1791

> What should I do if a buyer wants to return an item?

> All Amazon sellers are required to accept returns.

https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/G200495860
It’s an interesting question. I’m not sure if the spec stuff existed at that time. Like you say I think it makes a big difference if it’s built into the language. Typescript is a lot more useful now that it’s become so mainstream, for example.
> But the default answer to the question "how do I have seamless transition between my desktop and my phone"

The "modern" answer is "don't do that". There is a time to play social games, there is a time to do what you are doing, and you should spend some time talking to yourself too.
Ummm, what about say quantum mechanics as the first huge example off the top of my head..