skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I 100% want iTunes. I like to listen to live music and Streaming services are pretty shit at archiving concerts.

Also, on my work laptop, I used to be able to connect my iphone through USB and use iTunes to play my music without having to sync or have the physical WAV on my machine

Now with the new Music app, I can't browse my music. I just recently had to upgrade to Catalina so maybe i'm missing something but i'm pretty pissed at that change
"good signal is inbound" - mhm yep definitely english
They have zero pressure to ship.

No, that’s not a good thing.
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That all clients have to be configured on each server.
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I have worn a lot of hats, as such, I have experience with both backend and front end (full stack) and dev ops, as well as experience leading teams of direct reports and contractors.
Yes! In fact our first non-founder engineering hire is in Barcelona, while we have others in Brazil and around the US.
State of employee stock option exercise in 2020
Is it? If I understand correctly, it's 2% of the cases we know about. How many of the patients with mild symptoms do we know about? (But if we don't know about them, how do we know that 80% of the people only have mild symptoms? We guess... or so I suspect.)
Waymo brings in $2.25B from outside investors, Alphabet
That just describes how precise of a value between 0 and 100% for each Red, Green and Blue channel you can define, it doesn’t change what Red, Green and Blue a 100% actually represents.

The color profile defines what your definition actually represents and translates your 0-100% value to an actual color on the display.
It might be some of that, but folks on that subreddit tend to take super risky positions that can go south on them very fast. It’s possible a few made some really stupid bets during the crash and they couldn’t get out today.
Decisions about how to spend the monies contributed by those employees are made by the company, though.
Sounds like My Book of Bible Stories. https://www.jw.org/en/library/books/bible-stories/
Maybe the best way is to leave the official S-1 up and people can post links to analyses in the threads. i.e. maybe we shouldn't do what I just did.
Apples newer phones are actually thicker. They stopped the “make it thinner each year” thing.
It's an inner-platform effect, certainly, but not one FB asked for. If they were allowed by the app-stores to factor their app into separate "plugins" that were auto-installed when a friend used them in a chat, the way iMessage does, they'd probably do that. But they're not allowed to have their own seamless plugin ecosystem, so into the monolith everything goes.
Why do I have to swipe an access card and display a name badge in my building, when all the important data is outside the building?

So that angry customers can't walk in the front door, take the elevator up to the fifth floor, and hang out in the CEO's office.
AI Weekly Update (March 2nd, 2020)
> At first, the prices in the local market here were normal and people were buying hundreds of respirators and masks.

One point here, which I think I established previously, is that price movement provided no useful information to the manufactures. The most useful information came directly from institutional medical customers (who were the first to know), not retail profiteers working off of secondary reports in secondary markets.

> As prices have been driven up (almost exclusively this profiteering and parasitic markup, big retailers have not increased prices), people've been buying closer to what they feel they need rather than trying to stockpile -- when the mask is $2, it's easy to grab 50 or 100. When they're $25 people are only buying 1 or 2.

> Gross as it is, this is serving some good -- it's helping to distribute the available inventory over a wider population, instead of concentrating it with the few people that are stockpiling them or exporting them.

However, the profiteers are stockpilers, and they probably stockpile more extremely than even the most aggressive personal-use stockpiler.

For example, looking at it from a pure profiteering standpoint: it's good business if I can buy 1000 masks for $1 each and sell 100 for $20 each during the crisis, I just doubled my money. However, I just wasted 900 masks in the process, from POV of society. Profiteers are panic-driven speculators, and their economic interest is to make wasteful decisions (otherwise they're potentially leaving money on the table). When the crisis is over, they can just unload their (wasted) inventory at the normal price (for instance, by taking advantage of a retailer's return policy).

Also, like TeMPOraL noted, the profiteer's speculative buying could fuel the panic that caused those 100 sales of $20 masks. The signal of empty shelves may be false, or falsely magnified. It's kinda like cornering a market, in that regard.

You also assume people are willing to deal with the profiteers. I don't think that's necessarily the case, especially at a 500-2500% markup. For instance: I'd refuse to buy from a profiteer out of principle, and either live without or use alternatives.

This kind of profiteering is a pretty clear market failure, not an example of the market providing benefit. It's a failure just like government warehouse steering essential supplies away from first responders and the public and towards government elites.
There’s nothing unintentional about the hilarity. That community is totally self-aware and rife with in-jokes and satire.

The folks that post there see their gambling for what it is.
Still no. If an iOS app is using your microphone while backgrounded, your phone's taskbar at the top of the screen will be red. iOS does not allow apps to use the microphone while the screen is off. The microphone thing is a myth fueled by paranoia and confirmation bias. FB already has plenty of data on you and doesn't need to run NLP on everything you say in order to show you relevant ads.
I've tried FB lite, and found it to be slower than the real app. FB lite seems to act like a fancy web browser, so each interaction needs to download it's UI along with content.
I'm curious how this works as a wholly owned subsidiary of Alphabet.

Is it a new class of Alphabet stock? Was this a corporate bond?
> I've been using chat apps at least since ICQ (1996) and sometimes I feel the user experience has declined.

You never used ICQ over a spotty 3G connection, though, did you?
I'm surprised anyone would contact KPMG for M&A at all, in that they're primarily an accountant / auditor, not an M&A shop.
Robinhood outage appears to be caused by leap year bug
For those not in/near the automotive industry, this is very interesting for several reasons:

1) With this move, Alphabet is basically saying they a) don't want to continue funding the autonomous moonshot on their own, and b) want some partners to come on board for various reasons

2) $2.25B is a big round, and speaks to the level of confidence in Waymo as well as the massive cost to get to market

3) Magna is effectively an outsourced automotive production company. You can give them a vehicle design spec and they will spin up a production line to make it for you. This points to the possibility of Waymo stepping outside the "buy from an OEM and retrofit" plan, or of outsourcing the retrofit entirely to Magna for scale at some point

4) AutoNation is also an interesting investor here given that they are effectively an OEM-agnostic dealership network and they have a pretty strong fleet sales arm. This is another indicator that Waymo might be looking to sidestep the traditional OEM channels entirely.
Can We Get a Vaccine Early? How the Rich Are Preparing for Coronavirus
My favourite is salmon sushi which was introduced by norvegian marketing/business guy in 80s and now it's pretty much a symbol of japanese sushi.
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May I suggest you to have a look at Swiss Tables? There's a good talk from CppCon [0] that explains its design decisions, and implementations available as part of Abseil [1] and Rust stdlib [2].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncHmEUmJZf4
[1] https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp
[2] https://github.com/rust-lang/hashbrown
The goal of issuing a major version is to create a separate package namespace so it can be imported concurrently to other major versions. By treating major versions as different packages, it creates efficiencies in VCS history and common namespace.

However, the goal is to create a new package name that can be concurrently imported with previous versions. Everything else is just method. Don't confuse the goal with the method.
Maybe you meant to post in the other thread?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22465474
Does anything similar to Magnuson-Moss apply to insurance companies?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuson%E2%80%93Moss_Warranty...
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Hijacking all your network traffic is one of the reasons for corps to use a VPN in the first place. It allows any and all outgoing requests to be routed through corporate security policies while you have access to the VPN and cuts down on the possibly of cross site scripting attacks.
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I was mainly concerned with teaching Clojure in this project as everyone had little or no experience prior, so nobody was blocked by learners. Those who were fired all had one thing in common: They refused to adopt Clojure beyond its syntax in favor of patterns they learned to rely on in another language. This varied from porting Scala polymorphism to just banging out imperative while loops with atoms. I don't think they were incapable. They simply didn't want to learn it. Code reviews turned into arguments quickly, took endless time and lead nowhere.

Their code was never touched by those who stayed and were able to work together. Later it was rewritten, because in spite of tons of unit tests (which passed), it was full of bugs. The code was considered "write-only". The rewrites averaged at 5-10% LOC.
https://twitter.com/perry_huang/status/1223393351845548032
it seem you don't have experience on large scale apps... and the people that make these type of comments almost never have had to work on large applications.....

Spotify had about 500k, lines of code in 2015, (not including external libraries).

We did make it in a feature based architecture, where there was a main container app (and a major core playback library) and for every major feature they had their own sub-project.... and there were 10+ teams contributing into it.

There were about 13 features at the beginning, (think, playlists, radio, shared ui libraries, etc...).

Each feature was about 10-20k lines of code in total. So, about 2-3 features equal a small standalone iOS app.

When I left, there were more than 80 features in the app. Some were essential, many were a/b tests, and some were probably just legacy/waiting to be removed.

80 features * 15k lines of code = 1.2mil loc, easily, and they are the equivalent of shipping 20 small apps standalone....

What are these features and why is just a stupid music app so large? : video, podcasts/shows, genius, etc.. etc.. etc.... To users just looks like another tab but almost every one of these major features could be its own standalone app for size and complexity.
Is STM still idiomatic in Clojure? I had the impression that it is considered kinda legacy at this point.
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> Obviously, this isn't practical for everything

If you have the engineering resources to back it up, it definitely can be. Internal services at Google usually trust the office network the same as any other -- well documented in the BeyondCorp paper if you're interested.
Probably only if there is some type of class action law suit. If customers actually lost millions due to robinhood’s negligence then there is almost certainly going to be one.
OP talks about getting no response, so I don't think avoiding the 90% of hiring companies relates to their goals.
Why Is It Difficult for Developers to Learn Another Programming Language? [pdf]
Non-germy moisture. The only acceptable kind.
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So you wanna buy a used IP address block?
Maybe you meant to post in the other thread?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22465476
Google Docs does this, e.g. in a spreadsheet. I think it's reasonable in that context.

For what it's worth, if you really need to search e.g. "View" to figure out where the View menu is, the OS-native menu option still works.
Ubuntu had a really cool demo for Unity on their site a while back (announcement [0]). It's been retired but the code is on Github [1]

[0] https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-online-tour

[1] https://github.com/canonical-webteam-archive/tour.ubuntu.com
I think this line of logic risks a "no true scotsman" issue, but a bunch of languages supported them before Java.

I have no idea what the c++ committee were using as predicates, mind you, might have been java inspired.
Pardon my ignorance, so this updates a security group (or multiple) which presumably have access to several internal things? One wonders if you can take it a step further and for web-based services (i.e. doesn't apply to SSH access), at the conclusion of the authentication, it updates the security group for just that webapp. With how e.g. oauth2 SSO automatically auths via redirects, if the update to the security group is atomic/fast, access can be given one webapp a time.

Also, are there any concerns about IP timeout vs explicit VPN disconnect? Obviously the latter works better in shared environments (e.g. shared terminals, wifi's that reuse IPs frequently, large NATs that have many devices behind a single IP).
> Apparently, the way these M&A processes run is that as you really get down to the wire with the final bidders, eventually someone will ask for exclusivity. This grants them a window of time in which they can do extensive due diligence to the exclusion of all other bidders.

This is not always the case, and it's certainly not a requirement to get a deal across the finish line. More frequently, you'll select from the list of buyers who provided credible non-binding offers – presumably those with good strategic fit / rationale for the acquisition and that can provide certainty that they have the funds available to do the deal (e.g. they have the pile of cash and their board has already approved the acquisition.

Then you give that select list of final bidders more access to management, including below C-suite (i.e. the opportunity to ask technical questions to engineers and middle managers to really understand what makes the business what it is) and set a deadline for final, binding offers, of which you will choose that which creates the highest value to shareholders.

Exclusivity means betting all your money on one horse, and it can make sense in some instances, but preferably conditional on someone making a huge offer that you believe is bona fide and hopefully before you launch the broad process (140+ buyers, in this case) i.e. they are trying to preempt the process and are willing to pay up, and in return for sparing you the publicity / distraction / exhaustion from running the sale process, you grant them exclusivity.
Interesting to see Mubadala on the list.

Mubadala owns Globalfoundries and around 7% of AMD. It is the technology investment arm of the UAE government (more specifically, Abu Dhabi).
My Decklink Mini 4k was under $200 and does the job.

I don't know about your Apple adapter. Were it not working, then I would look at getting a HDCP splitter midway in the chain.
I’m surprised more people on here aren’t using something like https://alpaca.markets. It’s primarily for algo trading, but there’s nothing stopping you from using it generally, as it is an API, after all.
You can paste something like this into your javascript console:

setInterval(function() { window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollHeight); },
2000);

That will scroll continuously, so you can let it run for a while and then do ctrl-F. It might take a while but you can do something else. I've used it successfully many times (usually when I wanted to scrape the DOM for some reason or another, rather than just do a search).
No.

Too easily co-opted by commercial entities who would use it to market products and services.

Just because you can do a thing does not mean you should.
> I'm surprised anyone would contact KPMG for M&A at all, in that they're primarily an accountant

They have other business lines. But they aren’t notable. If you’re a top M&A banker, or even the best in a small niche, you’re at a bulge bracket or a boutique. Not KPMG.
Where did all the water go? There aren't enough clouds to cover all the continents with water. I'm guessing a lot of it must be trapped in the mantle.
Basically a very successful management crank.

The tragedy wasn't Jack Welch, the tragedy was a financial and economic system that actively rewarded his bizarre beliefs and actions.
Ingenious Low-Cost Tilt Detection System (2018)
Uhm, sorry but no. Pizza has never been looked down in Italy. Because most Italians have most often been poor and miserable wretches that couldn’t afford to look down onto any kind of food in the first place.

Perhaps just during post-WW2 we had some form of cultural colonization and shame of the past that - peaking in the ‘80s - made us love and ape anything Made in USA.

Food, music, movies... just look here https://youtu.be/fJ8o26ovKjM

But no, even thinking that the “origin culture” is just claiming as own American-made derivations is frankly shameless hubris
The headline is answered in the middle of the article: "hasn’t stopped [the rich] from asking if they can get their hands on a coronavirus vaccine. “The answer is no. They just want to know.”"
I believe Pizza/Pita like flat-bread type foods have existed in the Mediterranean since ancient Greek times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_pizza

if one is to trust the historical information quoted on wikipedia, pizza was popular in Italy (Naples in particular) already in the 19th century, well before immigrants made it popular in the US.

So I think "Pizza effect" is a bit of a misnomer
>there is a disproportionate amount of disinformation emanating from the conservative end of the media spectrum

There is no evidence of this though. Have you considered that whatever you have read to suggest that a "disproportionate" amount of disinformation is from the right is itself a disinformation campaign by the left?

Maybe another way to look at it would be: Nobody would give a shit if "micro-targeting" had been used against Trump. The hand wringing over all of this is solely the result of a humiliated establishment trying to save face by pretending some Facebook ads cost them the election rather than their own hubris.

I'll ask again, what evidence is there that these micro-targeted ads swayed a single vote, much less the entire election? At what granularity is it "okay" to target an advertisement?
Please keep linking both official and in-depth analysis. two different consumers of the data.
The solution is to stop re-writing basic browser functions. Just let me scroll.
Not only do they cheat, they're trying to gaslight us into accepting it as "fair game."
Austria has good beer, but here in Oregon there is a far larger variety. 40 years ago, Austrian beer was probably as good as it is now, but American beer was probably worse (I wasn't exactly of drinking age then), and there was far less variety.
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