skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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It was the other way around for me. I used to use hangouts for personal calls and zoom for work calls. Zoom was so much better I started using it for personal calls. My friends at some of the “popular” companies who use their in house tools bemoan how much they suck compared to Zoom now. So yes you’re right. But outside those popular companies zoom and webex has been the standard enterprise tools. Zoom especially has been popular among enterprises way before the pandemic.

Edit: their conference room support with the iPad app was especially good. Most people won’t use that in a personal capacity. But it’s one of the biggest selling points at enterprises. People just find it easy to use. I don’t remember us calling “AV support” in a long time.
I considered carefully refinancing my home mortgage recently because of low interest rates. Weighing the closing costs of refinancing I wasn't excited about losing the 4k in liquidity for a net savings of 20k over the next 15 years.

I would consider the impact of defaulting carefully before taking on a new debt today.
Yes, but I feel my job is safe.
Timeline of Humpback whaling...

1700 - Early humpback whaling begins.

1844 - Invention of the explosive harpoon.

1904 - Whaling expands to the Antarctic. (massive decline in populations)

1966 - IWC banned commercial humpback whaling.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90425011/coca-cola-nestle-and-pe...

Not to mention they're among the largest plastic polluters in the world next to Nestle and Coca-Cola.

https://content.sierraclub.org/evguide/blog/2014/07/how-much...
Same for me, but in my case it was JavaScript + until I've learned about Vue.js (v2+)
Why not work with those home soda machine makers and sell the syrup packages to end consumers so they have freshly made soda of whatever flavor they order?
As I said, that is not what anyone reading this article would take away. Anyone reading an article littered with misleading statements like "and some of the gains may not exist at all" (repeated twice!) or "Eye-catching advances in some AI fields are not real" or "phantom progress" is not going to conclude, "actually, systems do perform much better than years ago and are increasingly powerful and relevant to the real world, it's just the performance gains do not come from the claimed sources". A reader is going to take away the conclusion "NNs are just as dumb and useless as they were 5 or 10 years ago in many fields, lol AI hype" - which is the opposite of reality.
I can't argue with that. I suppose regardless of how ridiculous it is, Oracle has very deep pockets and is infamously litigious, and the US legal system doesn't help - given that, I doubt legality really matters...
I took it as implied that the change has to happen in the near future, before runaway climate change is a fate-sealing certainty. And we don’t need to change the current socio-economic system in any fundamental way; we just need to tax pollution so the cost isn’t externalized. This is a pretty simple, small change; just need the political will.
> Having done it once for "good reason" they will need to justify themselves to whoever is in power as to why they cannot do it for "other pressing reason".

They want to be in this position. Because then they can sell narrative control at a steep price. Compliments their advertising offerings nicely. They can't charge outright, that would be too bad of a look. But they can do favor for favor.
Honest question, what is that with former Oracle clients and SUSE LInux?

Did the Novell ownership make it similar/alternative to Oracle stuff? Or is it just that it was the first linux with a paid support option and those folks likely used it earlier because of this?

Asking for people that actually use openSUSE today, not other pundits with baseless hypothesis like myself :)
That reminds me of when I was a kid in Ontario and we had pop delivered in refillable glass bottles the way other people had milk delivered.
I wish! No straight-up soft drinks available: only “hydration products”... (must be higher margins)
Our API is a little different because of security, but our metric for evaluation is less than two minutes of down time per year.
From my experience with the full graph, it's closer to 80% bots (both tweets and users). My knowledge may be dated, though.
I have another zoom problem on Mojave. Even though I marked the zoom windows to use Desktop 2, they keep opening on Desktop 1 :-/ any tips on how to fix this?
Make backup of /etc and package list. Usually that's enough to quickly replicate a configuration. It's not like servers are crashing every day. I'm managing few servers for a last 5 years and I don't remember a single crash, they just work.
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I love these extensions, and completely agree. If I write a follow-up, I'll definitely add these levels. Especially because, right now, my article doesn't talk at all about where these systems come from in the first place. They are not invented by gods, but real people who have traveled this journey. By adding these levels to the model, the notion of making a "Claude Shannon-like" invention or discovery (something at its core that is simple yet powerful, and obvious-in-retrospect) becomes more approachable for a mere learner.
Humpback whaling was banned globally in 1966, so no.
Ok, what about ice cream and morning pastries? That said I’m for taxing sweeteners accordingly.
1985 - Captain Kirk and his crew arrive from 2286 in a captured Klingon Bird of Prey to retrieve a breeding pair of humpback whales to repopulate the species and save Earth from a random probe that wanted to talk to them
Flexgate is still a real, profound, and disgraceful defect.

This is the one where your MacBook Pro’s screen stops working because Apple ran a ribbon cable through a hinge or some such stupid shit. Been happening since 2016 and still rendering $4000 laptops useless after 18 months of light use.
It’s more about pepsiCO than Pepsi
And they are not happy about it many of the times. Protests are widespread when such facilities are to be built. It’s not happening overnight, they usually get compensated handsomely but people still don’t want it. On nuclear, it’s much more hardcore, you leave overnight to never come back and it’s very unlikely to get fair compensation.

What is hard to understand that people don’t want this to happen to them?

Death? Big deal, people face death through the entire history to preserve their way of life. There are professions where death is an occupational hazard. Nobody cares about death. What's scary is to lose your life in a sense of losing everything that you worked for, some people commit suicide when they lose something that they cared and build through the years.
SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit
+1. Bogleheads Wiki is a goldmine of sound investing principles and personal finance. Also highly recommend their books reading list: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Books:_recommendations_and_r...
India braces for worst locust invasion in decades
Don’t think I haven’t :)
those exist here, in both carbonated and non-carbonated versions.

(then again, we have milk-paste in toothpaste-like tubes that can be reconstituted with water; I suspect the main market for all of these are summer cabins that are both off-the-grid and not close to the road network)
Does this mean the marginal cost of journalism is 0? :-)
Yup! Deliberately fostering phytoplankton growth using "iron fertilization" even has its own Wikipedia article [1]. The idea is that iron, not nutrients, is a limiting factor to phytoplankton growth in some areas, so we could boost phytoplankton just by throwing (a suitable form of) iron in the ocean.

IIRC, it's a controversial topic because the lack of a unified regulatory body for oceans makes experimentation difficult, and there are poorly-understood side effects with various algae. Also, wholesale manipulation of an ecosystem for scientific purposes is usually frowned upon (pollution, though, seems to get along just fine...).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization
The phrasing for Jetbrains cancellation sounds a bit off. As far as I understand it, cancelling leaves you with a perpetual license for the last release where you had already paid a year's worth of subscription:

https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240845-What...

That means that it's likely that you would no longer own, say, version WebStorm 2020.01, but have to fall back to 2019.02 or something.

That said, yeah, the mixture of OSS-licensed / trial / commercial versions does work pretty well for Jetbrains.
It's kind of a personal marketing thing these days to have this maverick/hero aura of genius instead of the "unproductive" but real and hard grinding work to get something done and delivered. It worked for a few so thousands try the same and we are here now, I guess?
You mean both 80% of the users are bots and 80% of the tweets are from bots? I would find that fairly surprising that bots and users work out to be the same proportion in both of those.
Agreed, although according to a reply a fix is in the works.
> Sure, Oracle is bloated and pain to manage, but if it works faster, provides unique features and costs less in the end, people will use it.

_if_

Of course, those aren't the only reasons, and probably not the the main reasons, why big orgs use bloated proprietary crapware.
that's sort of my point though - namespacing is a great feature that allows for more independent & isolated testing and execution, there is no doubt. docker provides none of it.

i would argue that relying on docker hiding public visibilty of your internal components is akin to using a mobile phone as a door-stop - it'll probably work but there are more appropriate (and auditable) tools for the job.
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You are right, guess I meant to say at least 45-60% are bots.

It almost feels like playing a video game where most other characters are NPCs pretending to be real users.
At the risk of descending into a mud-slinging fight, I'll just point out that the United States has been fighting non-stop wars in Muslim countries for nearly two decades, killing hundreds of thousands of people. The US government cannot credibly claim to occupy the high ground here.
Mind you, a program with “hidden” windows open takes up more CPU/memory than a program without any windows open, because the view-controllers for those windows are still running, just bound to an invisible, non-updating view. (Though, admittedly, it’s less of a CPU cost than minimizing the window, since that requires the view to be kept active too, to facilitate updating the live thumbnail.)

The main place this comes up is in cases where the main window is doing something clever to gather the information to display itself. For example, Activity Monitor doesn’t suddenly stop using half your CPU when you hide it.

Mail.app probably keeps a big scrollable list-control for the selected view in-memory for as long as you have the window open. So it might be a bad idea to do this if you’re one of those people who never archive anything (i.e. practice “Inbox Infinity.”)
You mean, "Burn krill, not rainforests!" right?
Definitely PostgreSQL
Ehm...why all the past tense? We still ARE very much around...we just had our best year yet [1], and are on track to do even better. Don't count us out just yet! :)

[1] https://blog.balsamiq.com/looking-back-2019/
> And yet, we never seem to hear this fact on the News...

Not sure where you get your news but I’ve heard this mentioned regularly on NPR in coverage about the impacts of climate change, outbreaks, programs testing things like the genetically-engineered sterile mosquito releases, and local programs which are trying to reduce it even if it’s not a high cause of death in the United States. Remember when Zika got heavy coverage?
“Why does it get hot? Because when the electrons stream through it they bump and jostle their way along like rude boys on a crowded sidewalk. The atoms have to step a bit more lively to keep out of the way.”
That implies that you have to become an expert in all the tools to be able to meaningfully compare them. That's not possible. There are thousands of ways to write a web server. How do you choose a best one?
Oh dear, that was so beautifully put. Thanks.
I would doubt it! Macs aren't sold with NVIDIA cards, so I'd guess the support for them would be poor, if available at all. I don't think Swift has full releases to Windows or Linux yet?

Fast.ai and the likes have been investigating Swift too, so there's some momentum/ desire to switch to Swift.
This is the closest I could get to as an original source...

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/nearly-half-twitter-accounts-dis...

I imagine they're going to publish the research, but it doesn't look like they have yet.

...though some of their methods are described.
That makes zero sense. I'm not dropping comments that have already been upvoted into negatives in seconds and I don't have a user name of random letters a few months old with only 4 or 5 comments, all defending the chinese government in heavily commented threads about a story critical of the chinese government.
Oh, I was wondering why I don't have that issue.
I've set up Apple Mail long before they had specific support for "google" accounts so of course the gmail account is imap...

Btw 7 years of importing application configuration across OS installs without a hitch.
Not everyone here is on social media and not everyone here has a connection to someone who is Directly connected and is making a request for action. I agree with your assessment, things can turn toxic but if there’s some action on positivity where there was non before then it’s good.

Thoughts?
I don't understand the claim that they are helping fight climate change.

Is lack of oxygen in the atmosphere a concern at all? Is it a concern for climate change? I've certainly heard of methane and CO2 levels being too high causing problems, but not of Oxygen levels being too low causing problems.
They don’t. I’m simply reporting that they speak openly of their current research projects, like Zika and Dengue. I don’t see any reason they would keep quiet on a much more common disease.
The real surprising part of this benchmark to me is how quick it was to compile PgSQL from source.

Is it pure C? Of course, building a DB is not something you worry too much everyday (unless you're developing it), but it seems an interesting fact.
Though we see milder examples of this all the time, it's still wild to witness such an extreme case. The only way thaumasiotes's comments could be viewed as hostile is if you consider any correction to something you said to be hostile.
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We already get the feedback, in the utility bill. If people ignore it is because the prices are too low for water and power.
To be fair though, if you have class names like AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean, then terminal width is the LEAST of your problems.
I am trying to follow this supposed implication but I don't see the jump from "the valley" to "everyone who disagrees" and also from "dragging feet" and "making vapid appeals" to "idiotic and evil".
Isn't the general notion that restaurants aren't making any money but the apps are because the non-tech savy restuarant owners have to rely on these apps to get any visibilty? Wasn't there a HN article on this recently?
Curious, would microseconds suffice? Or are we talking about higher precision still?
You don't need Hawking radiation for mass-energy conversion; simply dropping matter into a Kerr black hole gives up to 42% efficiency, and is far more controllable.
See src/gui/Astree.pro
I'm an engineer and this is a boring paper. They didn't beat the conclusively beat SOTA the way BERT/T5 beat basically everything. Sure, this is "unsupervised", but from an engineering perspective that's entirely uninteresting, so we don't even get actual scaling numbers. This paper was written to pretend it is more than it is, which is basically the hallmark of everything OpenAI does.
Hm, a 1-serving bag of baked lays for $1.89, and no larger bag sizes available? No thanks. I’m sure there’s a shipping charge on top of that.
Circular markers could also be a lot easier to create repeatably and quickly (for example, using a pole and string) by staff responsible for creating distancing markers.
Yes, this is a favorite of mine. I had an old wooden plaque with this saying on my wall. Got lost when I moved homes.
I feel if you want that type of discussion you should go to a 'social media' site to get it. Not expect this forum to turn into a social media site.
Oracle consultant here -> The Oracle world is shrinking admittedly and its shrinking from the smaller end up. I almost never get called by a company with less then 500 users or $100k a year of licence obligations.

Oracle is a tried and tested safe bet when implementing corp wide, multi year projects. The HN crowd won't like it (and for good reason) but CTOs will always bet on name recognition when millions or billions are on the line.
Representative bias - You only know what you see!
Its starting to get depressing at my age. After nearly 20 years in the industry I think I have a knack for keeping things as "simple as necessary and no more" and managing complexity. Unfortunately interviews are full of bullshit looking at pedantic nitpicking, or stuff I learned 20 years ago in university and have never needed to use since.
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I don't think xTx is is a great example for the demonstration of matrix calculus techniques, because it is a scalar. So, by definition, its derivative with respect to a vector v is going to be the gradient -- a vector of that scalar differentiated by each component of v. This is such a simple case it's not really necessary to introduce matrix calculus at all.

It's when you take derivatives of vectors & matrices by other vectors & matrices that things get "interesting".
FYI, the MELBO bound in that paper is invalid. Their perplexity numbers using the MELBO bound are also invalid.
It's pretty crazy that Twitter obviously knows this, and hasn't said anything.
You seem to think that violence is the only option. You obviously think it's justified, but you still haven't stated a reason why being naked in public justifies bodily harm, maybe because you think the need to physically subdue this person was self-evident, by whatever means necessary? I disagree with that premise. This is why one of the central demands of the movement for black lives is "counselors not cops."

I'm 100% serious. Your mistake is in thinking it's a few bad apples. Certainly there are varying degrees of prejudice operating on the police force, but that's not the same thing as racism. The more you learn about the police force as it exists in America, the more you come to find that its roots are embedded in systemic racism. Cops may not realize it, but that doesn't mean it's not on them to decide to what degree they support the system. "Common sense" isn't enough because the system doesn't reward common sense, it rewards blind loyalty to the force. This is America's banality of evil.
I sympathize with the reflex, really.

I never used frameworks because they seemed like a lot of overhead for some small problems, and then you had to keep migrating, updating, etc.; that is, instead of solving a problem I had to keep solving it, over and over. Dismissing the maintenance of your solution, whatever it is, is unwise.

And certainly the churn of the framework faddishness was not appealing to me. Why learn something and then simply discard all of it for the next cool new thing?

Still, I got roped into a toy project. Got set to use Flask, because it seemed simple. Bought the book, got my environment set up, felt nervous but a little excited ... only to find that my partner decided that we were suddenly switching to Django. When I mentioned that I had invested the time in this (and my own money for the book) to start, I got a little "Agile up" speech, which is apparently the equivalent of "git gud."

So I can see how someone might want to reject frameworks entirely: quite a lot of their in the field use seems to be churn.

However, I still think a stable, mature framework would be valuable so long as upgrades are painless and infrequent, as part of a shared lingo for describing a possible solution to a problem. As a "hustle," no, that sort of thing is a huge turnoff to me, but I do not want to discard the concept entirely.
The cloud provider would very much like to have the premium part of the model without the subsidy. Theres a reason a lot of b2b enterprise products dont list prices on their websites and ask that you contact sales instead. Value based pricing and all.
As the sibling mentions, you cannot re-license code you do not hold copyright to.

That said, you're very close to the mark. GPL applies to distributions of the copyrighted work and executables based on it. So, the concern is around an OpenBSD release - they are shipping a full OS with source code and compiled work product. The GPL is "viral" in that you cannot make this release without licensing your whole distribution as GPL. OpenBSD does not want to be GPL, and so does not include GPL-ed code in base.

The inverse is not true. A Linux distribution can include GPL and BSD-licensed code easily, because the BSD license imposes no constraints on redistribution.
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Why have you thought that? The actual security of the system has been dissected already.

They took RTP and just encrypted the data with ECB mode, using the same keys on every node. It's what a child would do, or somebody who either didn't know or didn't care to do better.

Well over a decade ago the standard way to do that (named SRTP following the usual convention) uses a counter mode instead of ECB, with separate keys on each node. That's still pretty poor, but it's like SRTP is a Yale lock and what Zoom chose to do is use one of those "handcuff key" locks that's just a single lever. Can a specialist open that Yale lock? Yeah, probably in a minute or two, with the right tools - but any idiot can open the handcuff key lock with a bent twig, it's not security it's the barest effort to not just emit plaintext.
Can someone explain to me how this got on the front page with 3 votes?

What are the rules of getting to the front page?
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> Company saves money by not having to hire Linux sysadmins

Citation? In my experience companies hire more sysadmins when adopting k8s. It's trivial to point at the job reqs for it.

> Company saves money by not having to pay for managed cloud products if they don't want to

Save money?! Again citation. What are you replacing in the cloud with k8s? In my experience most companies using k8s (as you already admitted) don't have a ton of ops experience and thus use more cloud resources.

> Treating cloud providers like cattle not pets

Again. Citation? Companies go multi-cloud not because they want to but because they have different teams (sometimes from acquisition) that have pre-existing products that are hard to move. No one is using k8s to get multi-cloud as a strategy.

> It's going to eat the world (already has?).

Not it won't. It's actually on the downtrend now. Do you work for the CNCF? Can you put in a disclaimer if so?

> just deploying a single statically linked, optimized C++ server that can serve 10k requests per second from a toaster

completely un-necessary; most of the HN audience is not creating a c++ webserver from scratch; most of the HN audience can trivially serve way more than 10k reqs/sec from a single vm (node, rust, go, etc. are all easily capable of doing this from 1 vcpu)
I'm curious about the economics of this. It appears that both of the new websites offer free shipping with fairly low minimum purchases ($15 and ~$30).

The products being offered almost universally cost a lot to ship (by either being high weight for liquids or high volume for chip bags) while being very low value.