skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i'd buy that argument for small businesses (<~$10MM in revenue), but for larger businesses (>$100MM) in most industries, a 6-month operational cushion isn't usually onerous, especially given the advantageous cost of capital generally afforded large businesses already.
Duolingo recently introduced a dark pattern where ads are shown after completing every exercise. Before, we were given the option to not see them (or see them for some "gems"). Evaluating Duolingo, I find it is not the most effective language learning app anyways, instead teaching pattern matching for some of the lesser popular languages like Chinese
And the only brand more trusted is a government agency!
They define "food desert" as 10 mile distance. I don't know how many of those 23 mil. don't have any means of transportation, but most probably do, in which cases 10 mile is just 10-20 minutes of driving away.
Cultural inertia.
Every article like this should have a simulated photo of a small object in the solar system compared to other telescopes.
> I could never see not having a licensing solution in software work for business

The most business-y of business-y tech businesses, Oracle, doesn't use license keys. Everyone can download pretty much any of their products. When they acquired the company I worked for, the first thing they did was to release master licenses to everyone for free. Saved us peons in the support trenches the aggro of dealing with a terrible license-server we embedded, the name of which I've mercifully forgotten.

How do they do it? Their audience are legitimate businesses who would rather stay on the right side of the law than save a few pennies here and there. And Oracle won't answer the phone unless you have a paid support contract.

Obviously this model won't work for everyone, but IMHO businesses who sell to businesses can live happily without license keys (and the stress/costs they generate on their support operations).
And PayPal got a nice fat class action suit against them for just this same crap . . .
I live in Australia. What was going on in NYC at the time never even crossed my mind. Will check it out.
It’s true that markers on the pavement are cheaper to implement than markers in the pavement, I agree.

I’m also not convinced it solves anything. In the scenario above the problem wasn’t the fact that the lines weren’t visible, the problem was other cars. This is particularly problematic when many of those other cars are human beings who will never have access to modified road information. In this scenario a smart car that knows where the lane should be is still forced to dynamically negotiate for space with other vehicles, sans communication protocols. That is a very hard problem, one I do not believe is currently solved.
My 9yo daughter just came up behind me and asked: "What are you watching? Is that lady 'driving' an airplane?"
This is close to home. Our approach to DevOps for ML Data is to use S3 as the git core and build immutable datasets and models on top of S3 object versioning. I wrote the piece below on "Versioning data and models for faster iteration in ML" earlier this year. The key idea is for every model iteration to be a pure function F(code, environment, data). Ideas welcome: https://medium.com/pytorch/how-to-iterate-faster-in-machine-...
Some people are motivated better by reward. Some people are motivates better by fear of punishment.
This would have been a worse allegation than whatever he did 30 years ago. We all change from the past, but should also be judged by present.
I demand to know enough information to be able to give proper informed consent to study volunteers.

I think your ideas are possible, but the likelihood of success is quite low and the effort required to do the proper studies is far greater than you estimate. Our resources are better spent on much more developed programs with better defined odds of success.

My helpful closing suggestion is to speak with some epidemiologists and clinical researchers to see if you can get some budgetary efforts for what you propose, or failing that, try to locate a review article or two. Good luck.
Times like this are when they wash out.
Alamut, Bosch, Gaddis: Introduction to Epochal Art
A bit more recent than the dot com boom but yeah good book.
Apple Airpod Pro includes active noise cancellation at a $250 price tag. The Apple Airpod with Wireless Case is the 'equivalent' Apple product at $200. The Google Pixel Buds include passive noise cancellation (silicon sleeves) which the Apple Airpods lack.
I'll happily take a hard line on coddling Nazis. With some exceptions, my posts are very informative and tend to be well received. I have strong opinions, but I avoid personal attacks except in cases like these. It's also normal to have strong negative opinions on genocide. Every decent person does.

It's also pretty obvious that you registered to argue in this thread about whether being nice to Nazis is good or bad. I imagine you wouldn't have wanted me to look at the comment history of your main account.
If "fighting the compiler" means less "debugging the app at runtime" then I'd take the former any day.

Rust (like Haskell) has a much richer language for accurately modelling and enforcing the value domain.
I'm left leaning so it might just be bias from where I'm sitting but I dislike Fox, CNN & MSNBC but I feel like Fox is the greatest evil of those since Fox has an immense number of syndicated stations that pipe their message over local markets and since the media alternatives on the right are so few - go past Fox and you're getting into Brietbart and Daily Stormer pretty quickly, while as there are several left leaning alternatives - my problem with that is that Fox seems to capture nearly all of the right wing folks while the left-wingers are more fractured and have a less unified bubble... MSNBC and CNN are both biased, but they're different biases and a lot of folks also tune into NPR, PBS[1] and independent local news sources.

1. Yup - the News Hour is where like 90% of the MSM consumers I know get their news now.
The way I see it, the biggest achievement of Multics is if it wasn't for its (perceived or real) faults we'd never had UNIX.
I think we won't see a true adjustment until earnings reports come in from a "full covid" quarter. At that point, unless PE ratios skyrocket, prices simply have to come down.
That's just the pprinter working its magic :-).

Just read the standard, it's quite clear from the semantics that it's a stack machine:
https://webassembly.github.io/spec/core/exec/runtime.html#st...
https://webassembly.github.io/spec/core/exec/instructions.ht...
If youtube pays less for content creation but sells more of the now "free" to it content, it is making out like a gansta.
> Increasing optionality and maybe some access to Oracle marketing is likely a bigger reason.

Yup, Larry Ellison himself recently endorsed Zoom, most likely as means to close the deal:
https://youtu.be/u96GRtxBUUQ

Now they are in the news with this story ... that's valuable.
The original SE was more in demand than Apple expected.

https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/04/27/apple-inc-...

Do you think people who prefer an iPhone are going to buy an Android phone or buy a cheaper iPhone?

Also, Apple sells the iPhone XR and iPhone 11 for less than $1000.
I have six kids, eldest 10, so 3 in school, other 3 pre K and younger. I think I essentially gave up today on online learning. I decided to grab some math circle books and a whiteboard. I’m also going to get the Mathematica for schools setup and teach them myself. I essentially have to make a choice between doing my job full time at home, or letting them essentially whither into gaming/YouTube addicts. Not sure what will happen, but school for them has been a joke so far.
Thanks for sharing stdlib, I hadn't seen it before.

Netlify Functions are essentially AWS Lambda functions. They just abstract away all the tedious parts for you. Serverless functions with Next.js & Vercel have an abstraction with (req, res) to support multi-cloud.
Yeah, complacency and heavy machinery are a really bad combination.

Even a smaller CUT can do an incredible amount of damage in a short period of time.
Not exactly.

To be left unattended with the intention of flying them again, mothball/pickling is needed. (Tape the outside including sensor ports, plug the engine nacelles, use the right hydraulic or motor fluids, disconnect batteries, etc.)

If you literally just park a 737 somewhere for months, especially a sandy desert, and walk away, then you might have to do millions of dollars of maintenance on the plane to be sure it's airworthy. Like pulling the engines and dealing with corrosion throughout the airplane.

I have a small airplane example. The danger of parking an airplane for an extended period of time, even in a hangar, is that if mice create a nest in the fuselage and urinate there, the aluminum corrosion can cause structural damage. ie. that plane will never fly again.

All those King Airs, Cessna 310s, etc. you see hangared are prone to that. So clean your airplane regularly!
a library ? You literally just need a boolean variable in your datastore of choice.
What good is giving money to a company that can't contribute to the economy? That's feeding a parasite. 70% of this economy is driven by consumer spending at the bottom, not by companies like Boeing covering their poor financial decisions. Giving a company like boeing money is fundamentally unproductive compared to giving it to the people, who would reinvest it into the most productive and critical aspects of the economy, not just who commands favorable defense contracts or golfs at Mar a Lago.
the point isn't that good ideas are always crazy, more that most startups, even big successful ones, fall into a pattern of efficient innovation, which tends to create boring, uninspired products. point here is create a structure wherein you're encouraging people to generate unusual ideas. grab the ones that don't suck.
over-the-air-in-the-air update. What could go wrong?
Not sure if this is just snark, or really just that cynical, but it seems clearly false regardless. The senior in high school missing their last 3 months probably isn't going to experience any negative effects, but there are plenty of younger students at various parts of the learning curve that will definitely experience negative effects.

Reading, especially early on it life, has been found to correlate with academic and life achievement. Kindergarteners and 1st graders who have parents or caretakers able to keep them reading and learning at home will be better off than those who don't. Even if the absence just causes some delays in learning, it can easily lead to bullying and self esteem issues.

Is it going to destroy their lives irreparably forever? No, probably not; but suggesting it has no negative effect (the opposite extreme) is also wrong.
> How does one "end up" meeting with neo Nazis?

For one, if you happen to be in the same military unit, "meeting with them" is kind of an inevitability.

Also, this was still 30 years ago. If this is seriously the most recent example we have of him continuing to interact with neo-Nazis, then I feel like it's reasonably plausible that he's sincere barring further evidence to the contrary.
If anyone comes across this who has industry experience, I would be interested in knowing if the consumption of leaded glass from CRT tubes that cannot be recycled has been considered as feedstock as part of the waste vitrification process, on account of the lead contents reducing ionizing radiation emissions. This seems like an ideal mating of materials, with the end result being large aggregate of slag that might warm but are more stable and safer for humans than they otherwise might have been.
aws was used for storage and encoding initially.
source: worked at aws
I don't know if this is better or worse in that respect, but I have been following Banjo since 2017 and I'm pretty convinced that the product Banjo is hawking is basically vaporware[1], and that Banjo is actually in the business of defrauding state and local governments (and Softbank of course, but that goes without saying).

If you look at the press releases and publicity Banjo has released as well as the talks Damien Patton has given, their big success story stems from a trial run in 2013 where the Utah CPS ran a simulation of a child kidnapping and Banjo identified the probable location of the (simulated) kidnapper. Since then, there has been nothing.

Meanwhile Patton's message has continually evolved in perfect lockstep with the hype cycle, from mass shootings to the opioid crisis to, these days, some mysterious power to provide predictive security while still protecting individual privacy.

[1] He probably has a reasonable social media/text analytics product with some geographic aggregation. But it's hard to separate from the promises because no one has actually seen it.
There's plenty of GPL software being sold. Mostly things that are niche enough that nobody cares to repost the source code.

And of course with AI models you could post a AGPL version publicly and sell more permissive licenses.
I think that's a little bit of a strawman argument. Surveillance has its time and place, especially when used to deter crime or bring justice to really bad people out there. That's like saying Kevin Mitnick didn't turn his life around when he started consulting.
>secretly working together in a conspiracy to falsify court records

A simple & plausible scenario: a governmental agency requests Facebook conducts a broad surveillance sweep. Facebook resists for obvious reasons, goes to court. Somebody at the middle level of one talks to somebody at the middle level of the other, figure out what the agency really wants - a small, well specified chunk of data - which gets requested separately & promptly delivered. Having gotten enough data now, the agency lets the original, big case falter simply by limiting the efforts and expenditures.

That's not even conspiracy, that's just a bunch of people figuring out how to quickly get done with their mundane responsibilities. #BanalityOfEvil
Currently, it is relatively easy to mirror Facebook into an RSS feed + static website. I even had a pet project doing exactly that some time ago. If you really want, you can even mirror your friend's posts. Might be easier, than to convince people to move.
This has been my son's experience as well (Grade 4). We are on week 6 of home-school, and by far the thing that energizes him, lifts his mood, and gets him through his work is any interactions at all with his fellow students.

Most of his classmates are too young to have strong bonds outside of the structure of school, so (I think) school needs to accept the power of these bonds and facilitate social interaction between kids. De-prioritize the output, and prioritize the process of learning things together.
Open Source companies are like open source car manufacturers. When the company dies and stops making the car, will the customers start a new car manufacturing business just to support their cars? Or buy a new car?

As AWS shows, proprietary all-in-one [platform] is fine as long as it's a-la-carte.
> AMD's computing and graphics segment, which includes revenue for both consumer CPUs and GPUs, weighed in at $1.44 billion, a 73% year-over-year increase but 13% decline on the quarter

> AMD's computing and graphics segment, responsible for both the EPYC server and console chips, generated $1.44 billion, a 21% year-over-year decline

I'm struggling to understand how these two sentences fit together, maybe someone can help me out.

Is the revenue for the computing and graphics segment up 73% YoY or down 21% YoY?
I think you're right, but like politicians (or anyone entrusted with handling large amounts of power), the real test is how you fare over the long run.

Quoting Buffett, recessions like we're heading into now are where the tide goes out and you can see who's swimming naked.

Like you, I've also thought about this a lot, but if anything, it's changed my opinion toward "career politicians", a category people love to dish on. It takes real talent to deal with conflicting interests over years/decades and not self-destruct.
Acapulco beach waves light up with bioluminescent plankton
> Surely our world will be forever marked by this event.

Yes, it will leave a mark during our lifetime, but that doesn't mean forever.
People quickly forget about terrible events, which is a blessing and a curse. Nobody remembers that much about the Spanish flu, and yet it was one of the deadliest pandemics known to mankind. This pandemic is dramatic and unprecedented in our lifetime, yet nobody can tell how that will affect us in the long term.

There are vested interests to come back to normal as fast as possible. And there are also incentives to use this crisis to push all kinds of agendas. I'd be wary about predictions.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23010472.
In an actual interplanetary setup, we would definitely not be using a single DHT across the entire space. The main idea once we get to that scale is either a different content routing system altogether, or sharded coral style DHTs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_Content_Distribution_Net...)
I say JAMstack because saying "static sites" causes a lot of confusion. It's easy to hear static and think vanilla HTML with no backing data source. JAMstack, to me, is a better explanation for a static site generated by dynamic data.
I doubt you can do anything about it, but Oracle Cloud simply refuse to work with any of Russian credit cards. Registration simply fails at the end no matter what card is used and support send you to bank / payment provider and payment provider sent you back to Oracle.

I never had such problems with any other hosting company. I'm live between different countries so I registered it anyway, but still...
A second chance doesn't mean a clean slate to do anything. You probably wouldn't put a convicted pedophile in a daycare, second chance or no.
How China Is Attempting to Prevent a Second Wave of Infections
> In general the idea <that a parent's ability to instill values on their kids is fairly correlated with wealth/privilege> doesn't feel like a stretch.

Wealth is one way to avoid a toxic culture - if your public high school is terrible you have the money to put them into a different school etc.

But you can have a great culture without wealth. In fact I’d argue a great culture is one of the building blocks of wealth.
Flywheels and how to build the next great content community
The non-shuttered runway is also still active, enabling flights back to pilot home bases. Could look at ADS-B traffic sites (FlightAware and the like) for details.
by comparison, I'm in greece and no matter where I go in this city, there's always little shops with fresh vegetable ad fruit withing a 5 minute walk tops
We've got something like Roam Research (except geared towards narrative rather than academics) that we want to explore adding a social network and feed capabilities to.
I would say the suffering, hyper-inflation and widespread poverty imposed on Germany by the allies after World War I was a stronger proximate cause for the rise of the Nazis and the war in Europe. A very depressing illustration of the proverb that you reap what you sow. WWI was a complex jostling for power of the kind that had always happened in Europe, but on a scale and devastation never before seen. If not sparked by the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, it would have likely been sparked by something else. WWII, on the other hand, was probably entirely avoidable, if not for the Treaty of Versailles. At least in Europe.
How the CIA Played Dirty Tricks with Culture
You can’t use AWS if you sell large amounts of stuff through Walmart either. One of my former clients demanded that we use Azure because of this.
> Who knows if this coronavirus will ever truly go away?

Wait, what?

I keep hearing this notion floated around and I'm honestly very confused.

Are people under the impression that our lockdowns are going to eradicate this? Or are you using "going away" as a metaphor for "will recede to the background level of death from flu/etc that we have learned to tune out?"

It should be stunningly obvious that a highly infectious respiratory disease that is present in every country, originally came from animals and has shown the ability to infect other animals will never be eradicated. There's too many reservoirs, even if the totalitarian dream that everyone seems to want were a full reality.

If you meant the other sense, then it should be equally obvious that this will eventually pass through the population and we will build immunity to it, at which point Covid-19 joins the friendly cast of characters such as the common cold coronaviruses, common cold rhinoviruses, adenoviruses, influenza, etc. In short, a disease that kills people but not in numbers that we freak out about. (And incidentally once the globe has been exposed to it it should be much less deadly than Influenza since new humans will be exposed to it as babies/young children and not as 80+ year old nursing home patients, and Covid simply does not kill young children in significant numbers)

What's that? Do I hear the "There's no evidence for immunity to covid-19" crowd in the distance? I'm getting a bit tired of that line, but if someone wants me to dismantle that argument (again) I am happy to.
Fair points – "reshaping the web" was a probably bit overzealous.
> Encryption is not changing content, in fact it's the only way to prove that the content was not changed from the version google indexed vs what your are seeing.

Yes it is changing the content. From the point of view of Google's web crawler, the content is decrypted automatically and it sees, and indexes, the true page. From the point of view of my client, which is not signed into the paywall, I see an encrypted blob that I can't do anything with unless I sign in.

This is, of course, the point that everyone is making. Saying "well the content of the blob is the same whether you can view it or not" isn't relevant - the question is whether you can view it.
Oh darn - will our elections be less of a circus? Will news channels be unable to milk election momentum coverage for nine straight months during the primaries?

How will we ever survive? /s

I moved up to Canada from ye olde US and their elections are so nice and simple. There are limits on the amount of time you can advertise as a campaign so no four year presidential campaigns up here. Additionally it's considered generally distasteful to excessively advertise during campaigns and, while you'll certainly get lots of phone calls from Liberals, Conservatives and the NDP - it's for a short window and then you're done.

The US runs it's elections like a game show because everything in America must be prime-time entertainment.
Here's what I don't understand: Apart from Heidelberg central station there is only one other place in Heidelberg – Bismarckplatz – that will be subject to intelligent video surveillance and that place already comes with a police station right in the middle of it. So how about increasing convential police presence instead?

What's more, in my experience police in Heidelberg is outstandingly slow to respond. I once reported a mass brawl of ~100 people not far away from Bismarckplatz and police didn't care to arrive until 20min later (with two officers…).
You're getting criticized here but I agree. My family is not wealthy but we believe that education is the responsibility of the parents, and if they choose to contract it out, fine. And even though I have still had to go into work during this lockdown I've dedicated my time at home during the week to the education of my kids.
I would imagine most of that AWS colo is for hybrid cloud products (Direct Connect/Outposts/etc.). It’s obviously possible but seems unlikely they would run an availability zone in a space unless they had complete and exclusive control over the physical plant.