skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have a stream of random numbers it can be expanded it to a gigantic stream of random numbers. A good pseudo-random number generator can give you a ZiB of random data from a 128bit or 256bit number.
It's sad to see an American company stooping to basically tin-pot levels of disrespect for human rights.

Contact the FTC, because this is an example of Google leveraging a non-arms-length arrangement to interfere with and exclude competitors to their own products Google Podcasts and YouTube which directly violate the policy they are applying to Podcast Addict.

There is no legitimate business function served by this inconsistent conduct, and it looks like a textbook case of single-firm anticompetitive conduct.
I'm sorry for the lack of clarity. I should have been explicit in saying, I agree that treating society as a thing you can vacuum wealth out of is a bad thing; the people who run a VC firm (and who view unions as an indicator for industries to "disrupt") may view that as a good thing, or as the goal.

That should tell you something important about them.
It's an insurance model in Quebec, similar to employment insurance, where both employer and employee contribute. In theory that means that everything that is contributed by employers/employee gets into that pool and only get spent back on those programs. And if you contribute to it that means you can have access to it, just like insurance. Most tax payers are also workers so this is pretty much the same anyway.
> Not even a company like Slack wants to get into the headache of maintaining a couple of native desktop apps

Nope, it is because some bullshit MBA can't see beyond quarterly profits.
I was thinking that this article showed signs of distorted "optimistic" thinking.
Please refrain from using titles that are more alarmist than the original title. If linking to something with an alarmist title (not the case here!), use a more neutral headline for your submission.
what's the worst way to contact you?
WeWork is a great idea -- commercial real estate landlords are often septuagenerian golfers who couldn't give a shit about anything. Turn a 5 year lease into a monthly lease with Internet and basic services is a great idea. It just tried to do too much.
Edison Mail bug exposed emails to other users
We're in the middle of a rapidly-evolving epidemic that is killing thousands of people per day. Leaders need information, even imperfect information right now. There is no time to hire a team of production engineers so they can release a slightly more stable multi-core version 1.0 in 2023.

We knew this was coming for months. The code isn't that large, it's just horribly written. If the scientists had worked in collaboration with an expert team of technical programmers, they could have handed off their mathematical models and had a well implemented, extensively verified program to run those models within a useful timeframe.

That might sound extreme, but once again, I will reiterate that expert advice apparently based in part on the output from this program is being used to inform decisions that will affect whether thousands live or die and that are severely curtailing the normal lives of the entire population with other adverse consequences that nobody fully understands yet. Powerful responses require powerful justifications.
Change your perspective: this is not SoftBank losing money, this is the middle class gaining a free lunch. It's a massive redistribution of wealth from investors to consumers.
This is the biggest problem with the reality of predatory pricing compared to the theory of it: after years of undercutting your competitors, you're finally ready to jack up prices and take a profit....just as a new competitor comes in with a new infusion of cash and undercuts your artificially inflated price. (Remember, you can't just turn any old profit, you need a large enough profit to offset the years of purposefully selling at a loss.)
> I had to make this decision because our very future as an essential service for the cities of the world

Any company that facilitates or provides an in-person service that has seen a sharp decline from Covid-19 is pretty clearly not an essential service in the minds of their customers.
When I was building a workstation in late 2018, it was a close match for price to performance, even after getting a 50% discount on Intel HDET processors from a friend! I'm happy to see AMD killing it in the CPU space.
> Code that's meant to be pinned (and may behave incorrectly if not pinned) looks no different from any other code.

Same goes for async/await. The decision to keep you running on the same native thread is up to the scheduler.

> Java isn't positioned as a high-level, high-abstraction language and that's not, IME, the user community it has.

I beg to differ. It aims to be a good compromise between productivity, observability and performance. Every choice, from JIT to GC, is about improving performance for the common case while helping productivity, not improving performance by adding fine-grained control. There are a few cases where this is not possible. Primitives is one of them, and, indeed, 25 years later, we're "expanding" primitives rather than find some automatic way for optimal memory layout.

> It's always been advertised as a safer alternative to C++ - rather like Rust.

I think you're mistaken, and in any event, this is certainly not our position. Java is designed for a good blend of productivity, observability and performance, and unless the circumstances are unusual, it opts for improving common-case performance with high abstractions rather than worst-case performance with low abstractions like C++/Rust. Roughly speaking, the stance on performance is how do we get to 95% with the least amount of programmer effort.

Anyway, regardless of what I said above, the constraints on the design of usermode threads other than philosophy are also very different for Java than for C++/Rust for reasons I mentioned. Still, Zig does it more like Java (despite still using the words async and await, but they mean something more like Loom's submit and join than what they mean in C#): https://youtu.be/zeLToGnjIUM
I've had a 2600 for a year or two. I was looking to see what I'd gain from an upgrade to the 3600..Interesting to see the new 2600s still compete in the value department...now that their prices has been reduced by about $50.
No, the lesson is take a hard look at yourself before casting stones at "others". We can sit here and say that people who work at Google are so amoral, so are those at Twitter, at Apple, at Uber, at Microsoft, at Amazon, etc.

The truth is most for-profit organization will not have a flawless ethical image that satisfied everyone, and that probably includes your employer. I'm not saying we should all look the other way, but let's keep things grounded in reality. Censorship is a delicate subject, especially as it concerns expressions involvong multiple cultures. This doesn't make Google immediately evil for electing to / not electing to act one way or another.

Maybe your accusation is that Google is choosing profit over ethics in this case? Then the "Chinese hardware" argument has to come into play. Are you, yourself choosing price and convenience when you know it means your dollars are ending up in those poorly run Chinese factories? What are you going to do about it? Should Googlers quit their jobs before or after you source all your hardware from ethically run, blame-free factories?
"communist bandits" doesn't refer to communists in general.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_bandit
The fundamental problem is that there is collective action on both sides of the issue. There are plenty of people organizing for the removal of "hate speech", and there are plenty of people organizing for free speech. It's not exactly clear which side is economical since you're not going to make both sides happy.

Tech giants have picked the winners and I'm pretty convinced they've picked sides based on their personal convictions. They're removing hate speech because they think they're on the right side of history, not because they think it will make them the most money.
Yes it happens. But why punish 100% of potential beneficiaries for what maybe 1-5% of them might do. Just include the cost of abuse in the projections and deal with it. That's how every system works. Every system gets abused.

One example: credit cards - there's plenty of fraud there, but we somehow manage to deal with it and make the system work regardless.
I really appreciate this sentiment as a data person who learned R first, now works in python, and helps non-engineer scientists write R programs for research. I've had great luck teaching scientists to think in a function-driven way, where functions are pure-as-possible and inputs are never mutated (which doesn't need to be discussed as R makes the opposite quite unnatural). I can't imagine teaching these same folks about python, custom classes, and why you need pd.DataFrame.copy() all over the place.
The First Amendment of the US Constitution.
>Also, Twitter now is blocking an URL of a legitimate university promoting a trial with hydroxychloroquine.

What university? What sources do you have on that?
Why is the "real deal" not the 7nm+ AMD CPUs coming out this year, or the 5nm AMD CPUs likely coming out next year?
The US isn't testing enough for that conclusion to be drawn from cases per day. Looking at deaths per day, or per week, the US is number one. Perceptions are correct.
On the topic of on-demand streaming news, I used to listen to a couple of daily news podcasts. With my new mindset around news consumption, I'm listening to weekly or bi-weekly podcasts instead (and oftentimes not listening to them the day they were released). Even still it's amazing the amount of news content they cover that (if you listen to it the day after it was released) is already "out of date". Things like "Amazon is expected to announce plans to buy AMC theaters" on Thursday and when I listen to it on Friday it's already been announced.

Now if only I could just filter HN to only show me tech stories instead of "news".
Instead of claiming that I lack the history, why don't you explain what the connection is?

The definition of minority is just as subjective.
Yes, dudes are going to be creepy. The earth is round. Some will work outside the spirit of couchsurfing. Yourself included, to a degree. Ok.

But he also was arguing, IIUC, that the sex for stay is implied for women. I get that people will use it that way, but implying that it is any sort of norm is a very perverted view of couchsurfing. One that I never experienced, or found to be normal from many people i've talked to along the way.
How is this different than just allowing restaurants to sell curbside?
We’re using this to display data in a study for stroke patient recovery!
You’re right, they’re not the same. Communists have killed more people.
McGill University in Canada.

Source: https://twitter.com/DrToddLee/status/1261442201369939968
Stocks are always trying to predict the future, having these layoffs makes people think that they're getting leaner and organizing, I guess.
> So that's a long-winded way of saying that I don't sustain myself on open source. This is a pretty common story. Companies rarely make an effort to support individual developers. They will support language/project foundations, but that money isn't going to be directly divvied up among library developers for the language.

Thats interesting, is anyone aware of a language/software community where that does happen?
The generator/seeding design is gnarly, totally agreed.

I do want to disagree with the author on distributions. In most scenarios it is totally sufficient for distributions to be deterministic and reproducible on a given implementation/architecture instead of ossifying them to one implementation mandated by the standard.
I think that is a fair point which I wasn't really accounting for. Doordash should really get permission from restaurants before inserting themselves as a middle man, even on a trial basis.

Also, it occurs to me that if the artificially low prices resulted in doordash recieving more orders than would be usual, I doubt they would have disclosed that in their dealings with the restaurant. Though that is hypothetical and still suffers from the two wrongs don't make a right issue.
Unbelievable :( it's like deleting all comments that include: "fascist bandits"
Communism has killed more people than any other ideology.

> The European Parliament has condemned communism as equivalent to Nazism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Declaration_on_European...
Not necessarily, since there’s not much overlap between processors for commercial clients like restaurants and consumer clients like grocery stores. The market for commercial food products has apparently cratered while demand for consumer food products remains high.
Ah, that makes much more sense! Thanks!
Rich kids such as you describe get every opportunity except one: having parents that actually care about them. Don't minimize how much it hurts to not have that. (I don't just mean psychological hurt, either. I mean things like broken relationships, drug use, and suicide - things that can destroy the ability of talent to manifest itself in any productive way.)
Exactly, Uber's business model only applies to (highly) fungible labour markets. As past experience shows, you (usually) can't swap out 10 devs here with 10 devs there and expect similar results (although who knows in the future)
News is an addictive substance and needs to be treated that way, whether it's good news or bad, local or world, political or not. It's alcohol, or smoking, or in some cases, methamphetamine administered through your eyeballs. It's somewhat necessary, but it's also bad for you.

You want to maintain some awareness of world and local events, shifting political themes, and technological developments as an actualized adult. Too much of it though is unhealthy and it's weird that we all seem to readily agree that it's unhealthy but still keep doing it.

I grew up before the 24-hour news cycle. Back then, "the news" was 15 pages of newspaper that you flipped through during breakfast. There was a real, defined end to the news stream: the last page. Or, maybe a few pages before the last, since it devolved into "the funnies" (which weren't, even then), Anne Landers, and ads for things nobody much cared about.

But before you were done with breakfast you were caught up on everything and you got on with your day.

That's a pattern I try to enforce now. It's hard. I have to unwire 20 years of infotainment addiction and modern life isn't super supportive of that. But on the better-disciplined days I'm consistently happier, more productive, better.
I can't understand why ANY cell phones would be allowed in a military Area of Operations. Even a 1998 flip phone will dial home and give off all sorts of signals. And you can absolutely download and allow similar apps with an iPhone.
Last but not least

Great Chinese Famine - exporting food to finance rapid militarization. 15 milions dead - conservative estimate.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao%27s_Great_Famine
Taiwan is a region and a very important one, no one was denying that, even the Chinese government. The dispute was on what a country means and it has complicated historical reasons on both sides. Same thing goes for why Guam and California are not the same political entities among the US, or why Spain doesn't recognize Catalonia.

Don't be ignorant and try to judge on things you don't fully understand.
From the first paragraph of the article:

These disturbing images have stirred outrage around the world. But here’s the surprising part: the world may not actually be wasting more than normal, when a third of global food production ends up in landfills.
I don't understand what point I've missed.

If "I wouldn't be surprised that such threads are actively heated up and/or gaslighted by nation state sponsored censors" is possibly true, can it not also be possibly true that ideologues do the same thing (consciously or not), knowing that so-called flamewars can (and often does) lead to censorship?
It's more similar to working for a local government. Like should you be a school bus driver in Arizona, given their record?
Most scientific software isn't of subtly poor quality. Most scientific software is a stinking, flaming dumpster fire that looks like it was written by packs of drunk kindergartners.
How do you measure "meaningful business impact".

Because everyone optimized for "meaningful business impact" I have no space on my SSD to install your app.

(and even if I install it, it would cause my laptop fans go wild and I go for an alternative / use your app less.)
U.S. mulls paying companies, tax breaks to pull supply chains from China
> sex, race, and sexual orientation

You're going to have a hard time convicing me that any of these are mutable. While the presentation of sex and sexual orientation may be mutable (someone can be female passing or straight passing) their orientation or sex itself is not. Similarly while someone can be white passing or codeswitch, their race itself cannot be changed.

Mutability of presentation doesn't make the underlying thing mutable. Nor does something being a social construct make it mutable.

To put it concretely, if I'm bisexual, just because I can date only opposite-gendered people doesn't mean that I'm straight. Similarly, just because race is in many ways socially constructed doesn't mean that I can stop being black or white or whatever, at least not without convincing society to change its definitions.
Africa can satisfy lots of its energy needs with essentially free solar, plus Africa has lots of local oil, they don't need the Saudis.

As for oil demand: many Western countries have by now recognized their toxic dependency on oil. Plastics are being fought against worldwide, electric mobility is more or less mainstream with Tesla and ICE phase-outs across Europe, business air travel will be mostly replaced with teleconferences...
> But I'm sure it serves a purpose in giving his employees an aggressive target to aim at. Even if they miss it, at least they probably got there sooner.

That only works until the employees quickly realize the estimates are impossible bullshit, and stop taking them seriously.
Google employee reporting?
It's a high cost investment to build any such lines. There's only so much space in most area's utility corridors (poles, trenches, what have you).

This has always been called a "natural monopoly": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly

Most regions are aware that cable and/or phone lines form a natural monopoly, and thus intentionally granted that monopoly, placing regulatory bodies just as they did power, water, etc.

Just look at how badly Google Fiber is failing some cities to see how hard it is for "another provider could come in and build lines and provide service". It may be "slightly" easier to have competing cable providers than competing power companies (though keep in mind early America did have more competing power companies in some regions), but it's not that much easier, it's still a natural monopoly.
Obviously. I think the CCP has been given a pass the past 15 years. It's high time they conform to the western liberal democratic model of government.

I really hope it doesn't get ugly, but it could. We are so different than them, I just don't see how we go back to business as usual after this mess.
Amen! (sorry is that hateful to non-Christians?)
> The distinction is irrelevant; were I speaking as a Google employee I would still be speaking from personal opinion, not in behalf of my employer.

Seems like word splitting and I disagree. If you're working at Google, then your opinion is an answer to OP's question. If you're not, then your opinion doesn't count as a Google employee's justification for continuing to work at Google.
I've found I much prefer my downtime be filled with silly nonsense like cats/dogs or videos of people who are incredibly good at something rather than "news" that's actually just outrage in a can.
Why does the govt need to subsidize this at all?

My local restaurant: Norms in southern California has been offering bundles of mostly uncooked food to purchase since the lockdown began in plastic covered trays.

They have been making money off this to stay in business and employ people.
If the russians could get the mother's phone numbers, why not the sons? If you're able to identify the location of call activity, why aren't you able to identify the cell while not on a call, when as far as I am aware there is still communication?
You can do this: most rss feed readers allow you to add a website and it will find the feed for you. You can do this with youtube channels too, because youtube publishes an RSS feed for each channel.

There are also RSS feeds for HN, which I know because I arrived here via one of them.

Edit: This should have been in reply to a comment that I now can't find.
This is mainly algo-driven through the report functionality, right?

Does Google even have any sort of significant oversight?
This is always brought up as the game plan but are there any examples where this worked out?
I believe the difference is the government would subsidize the cost. So for example, instead of heading to the food bank, you'd get food from a restaurant.
That dude was right on. The concept that's helped me the most in my personal growth has been that of the Jungian shadow.
Here you go — findings for LiveSafe:

Branch, Crashlytics, DoubleClick, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager

Our understanding is that it's an enterprise app not available to consumers, which is why we did not list its findings in the report
GraphQL Saved Us from the gRPC Dumpster Fire We Created
They are also deleting comments containing 五毛 which refers to China's army of censors.
But, on each of this metrics (minus climate change), the US is better off today than it was 50 years ago.

The world conflicts that you cite involve fewer civilian casualties, today, than before. There are obviously horrible things going on in the world, but the mindset that people are generally worse off today is largely shaped by the media and false.

Don't take my word for it. Go plot violent crime rates worldwide. Or poverty rates, or quality of life, or starvation rates. Or access to medical care (you think it's expensive today, those treatments weren't even available 50 years ago!). None of those things are trending in the wrong direction. Except maybe the US cost of medical care, that stuff is mind boggling.
Constructive vs. Predicative Data
More opportunity for grifter bureaucrats to worm their tendrils in.
There are some countries where mothers get their paycheck from their health insurance company while they are on maternity leave. It's heavily regulated and if they don't have private insurance, they can always opt for the state-run one.
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The police only kills about 1000 people per year in the USA, and some of those kills are justified. Including it in the same list as global warming is IMO an example of 'Availability bias means that after we see negativity, we overestimate its significance' mentioned in the article.
I believe Google made it clear they will only allow a very small subset of apps related to COVID-19 so they can make sure that

- The information on their app store regarding the virus is 100% medically and scientifically accurate.

- Nobody takes advantage of the pandemics to profit.
Apple created the app store because they wanted to avoid having people install malware.

Google copied them because they wanted a piece of the app store tax.
Wikipedia is very easy to game unfortunately.
I hate to use the word "privileged" because it is so loaded but I do think that this shows privileged thinking. "The world is great!" yeah because you have enough money/power to go about your life comfortably, and you're ignoring the plight of those that don't. "You only think the world is bad because of these cognitive biases".... lord take me now