skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But what makes you think html+js+css performance have improved enough over native in the subsequent years where this isn’t relevant?
Eavesdropping is illegal in a number of states.
Remember when Yahoo! bought Tumblr? I guess Yahoo! was already a fallout zone, but Tumblr?
I love Taibbi. He is fearless and pays the price for pointing out groupthink.
Thank you.

BTW, nice to see one of of my lecturers (Fekete) among the names!
>To quote the old Java saying, saying "write once, run everywhere" is a selling point of Java is like saying anal sex is great because it works on all genders. Like... maybe, but it's not really the point.

what does this mean exactly
Yes, if you advocate for political positions that hurt people then the people hurt by your ideology are unlikely to be happy with you.

> taken out of context

This seems orthogonal to the problem you've described. Just because you're getting ripped for your opinions doesn't automatically mean that your positions are taken "out of context".

Obligatory: It's impossible to argue with hypotheticals. Please point to a position you've taken and how it's backfired and we can take a look at who was in the wrong.
Because execs will only be seeing demos after they’re loaded, and there’s no way some 55 year old is going to spend more than 5 minutes playing some Star Wars game and therefore trigger no world loading, games that do something special with the SSD will not be financed by anyone other than Sony. The technology is basically DOA for third parties. The stuff that third parties are saying is basically moot.

Conversely when Nintendo makes new hardware, it’s the same deal - they’re the only ones financing games that use the balance board or gesture controls or labo or whatever. They just put up a lot more money and have internal studios with more autonomy. SSDs are a Sony problem not a game design/engineering problem.
Concentration and practice. If you are moving, concentrate on the moving. When you were younger, movement was natural and in the background. Older, you need to focus...
I wouldn't be surprised if they shuffle games between external drives and the SSD _almost_ on demand. The HDD might not give the random access and burst speeds new games need, but if they can maintain 100MBps they can transfer a 100GB game in about 15 minutes (and faster if the game can prioritise the assets it needs or boot before it's fully installed). That's not the end of the world - I've had longer patches on PS4.
I mean.... what did you expect... "I CRISPR'd myself and now i'm photosynthetic?"
Great point on the self censoring of nuance, also that quip is hilarious :)
> And here’s the brutal question: what good are estimates if they hardly ever align with reality? You could have spent that time on building software.

No one has ever been able to answer this question for me.

In my experience the accuracy of estimates is highly variable. Experienced developers who know each other and the system they're working on well tend to offer more realistic estimates, but even on the most smoothly run teams it's still fundamentally guesswork.

From my perspective it seems like the only real effect of estimating units of work is making developers resent people outside their team. Sure, it gives product people a number they can say when they get harassed about when something will be done, but it's no more accurate than one they could have just made up on their own.

I don't think I see any fundamental difference between estimating and what this author calls forecasting in this respect. It does seem like generating these metrics could consume less time than meeting to make up estimates, but it's not obvious to me that it always would be.

What real value does this add to any business? Any product or business people here? I'm genuinely curious what the purpose of estimating is. It feels like nobody is winning. Product and business people get annoyed by missed "estimates" because what they really want is to know the future, which is impossible. Developers resent being asked to predict the unpredictable. Not to mention I don't know any programmers who prefer talking about doing stuff over actually doing stuff -- all the meetings that come with management styles that include things like estimates feel like an enormous waste of money.

Who is winning here?
The only projects I can accurately forecast is the one I have already implemented elsewhere. Meaning 90% of it is a rehash of something done elsewhere. Companies do this because... well.. reasons. Anything else novel/unique/innovative by definition can’t be predicted well because if you knew everything from the start, there isn’t any innovation being made. Many of the good companies that exist today pivoted from a broken prior idea or discovered a market while experimenting. This applies to every part of software development.
>what really happened was that he was trying to steal intellectual property for China.

If these court documents can show that, why isn't he being charged for it?
This is another tragedy of the bifurcation of the F# and greater .NET community.

Most of the investment in refactoring has been for Roslyn analyzers, which are C#/VB specific. F# has a completely difference compiler framework.

I don't know if the F# compiler service or Roslyn came about first, but they are not compatible with each other.
you know, in the age of google it's quite easy check that your assumptions are completely wrong

https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a9763/did-the...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-144#Development

>uncanny resemblance

duh...
What's up with their Github? The link in the footer is broken: https://github.com/rhizome-conifer/conifer

And their Github organization has no public repositories. Is the code in the process of being moved from somewhere else?
There are a bunch of people; just look at users of Notion and Roam, or any note taking app submitted to hacker news in the last four years.
This is also very frustrating with branded searches on Google. It's basically extortion, where you have to buy the ads on your brand or someone else will. They excuse it by pointing to how cheap it is on a PPC basis, since the clickthrough rate and resulting quality score is so high. Great, you're only extorting a nominal amount. Thank you.
I'm sorry but you are mistaken. "Master" in git refers to "record master" which has nothing to do with a master-slave relationship. The master used in git is a homonym, not the same word.
Will you please share your insight? What are Type Providers? What is their advantage over, say, naively dumping type definitions from pre-processing a CSV file?
It was.

The Seattle Times [1]: This is a rather long mega thread kind of post, but if you do a ‘Find’ for the headline, it’ll take you there:

Headline to search: Police walk back report that Capitol Hill protesters extorted businesses

For the too lazy to click, here are some quotes:

> That has not happened affirmatively,” Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best in a news conference Thursday afternoon, adding that the police department had based earlier claims on anecdotal reports, including in the news and on social media. “We haven’t had any formal reports of this occurring.”

> In a news conference Wednesday, Assistant Seattle
Police Chief Deanna Nollette said police have heard from Capitol Hill community members that some protesters have asked business owners to pay a fee to operate in a roughly six-block area around the precinct. Best repeated the claim in a video address to officers Thursday morning.”

> The police narrative rang false to many in the Capitol Hill business community. Restaurant owners said they hadn’t heard any reports of extortion in the Autonomous Zone. On the contrary: Sales are strong and the increase in walk-up business is cutting down on delivery costs.

> “This protest has not hurt us at all,” said Bok a Bok Chicken co-owner Brian O’Connor...

> ” Apart from those sources, Christina Arrington, who heads the Capitol Hill branch of the Greater Seattle Business Association, said she has had “no other indications that this is taking place.” The GSBA “found no evidence of this occurring,” the group tweeted, based on conversations with area business.”

The Greater Seattle Business Association tweeted [2]:

> ” GSBA and Capitol Hill Business Alliance have also reached out to businesses in the area, and we have found no evidence of this occurring.”

Relevant Seattle area Reddit threads [3][4][5], at least one of which points out how the sinclair owned stations are still running with proven untruths. (For those who don’t remember, Sinclair is company who owns TV and newspapers all over the country and were forcing newscasters to read the same scripted pro-trump news in stations across the country.)

[1] https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattle-area-prote...

[2] https://www.twitter.com/GSBA/status/1271132476329431040

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/SeattleWA/comments/h7ecp2/seattle_p...

[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/SeattleWA/comments/h7uf4l/komo_news...

[5] https://www.reddit.com/r/SeattleWA/comments/h78xn0/police_wa...
A File Format Led to a Crossword Scandal (2019) [video]
I'm always happy to see solid philosophy show up here. Really, it's an under-appreciated field that gets written off as useless. Looking back at when I was in college, one of the courses that I still make use of was a philosophical logic class. Infact, the prof I had for that course sent me a link to the Open Logic Project, which has come in handy ever since.

I also have a soft-spot for Russell and his student Wittgenstein. Tractatus is an incredible, though later redacted, work of pure axiomatic reasoning. While HN focuses mostly on tech, I think that the kind of reasoning found in Analytic philosophers can be a boon to anyone doing anything that requires the sort of logical design found in the technology field.
So VC solutions is a "separate but equal" funding path with a separate but unequal pool of money? Great job guys, awesome innovation to respond to this issue.
There are some games where you can't buy a physical cartridge and Nintendo actively encourages players to buy digital versions of games that are stored on the switch by offering a discount. Personally I refuse to buy digital versions whenever I can after what happened with the Wii, but some titles I can't actually get.
Thank you for explaining that you, who grew up 1,700 miles away, decades later, and not a police chief with the literal legal ability to kill black people with impunity, did not have the exact same thought process as this particular person. That was very helpful and your insight contributed enormously to clarifying the point.
Given my experience, it will be more of the same only different. Adaptability is a virtue...
This is some of the most insightful high-level thinking about AWS services that I've seen. No taxonomy is perfect, but this is invaluable for gaining a panoramic perspective on the vast sprawl of AWS.
Game theory. The instant someone doesn't agree not to destroy, they have a massive upper hand.
which must mean that he was a fan

I heard an interview with an Orwell biographer recently and he made a similar argument about Orwell and Twain - which is a little different than the impression one might get from a casual reading of The Licensed Jester
Yes. From that linked website, among cases that had an outcome (recovered/died), deaths in April were around 20%. Today, around 10%.
Has anyone looked for them in the recent mass protests in DC, Minneapolis, NYC, etc? There are frequently Stingray-type devices in DC anyway.
I encourage seeking clarity and being secure in one's own emotional intelligence to ask questions when things are ambiguous, so I appreciate your asking. Happy to have helped find a mutual understanding. Sorry your comments were so negatively reacted to here.
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ELI5: Why is Adobe Flash so insecure?
I love looking at old processes like this and seeing how they influence modern methodologies. The tape out in particular is really interesting, and reminds me of the old school photo and pasteup techniques[1] that graphic designers used to use.

It makes me a bit sad that it's getting harder to find places to get hands-on with these old manual processes, because it's a great way to wrap your head around the fundamental concepts of the thing you're learning. I'm younger than the author, but well into the internet age we were still taught manual pasteup and letterpress on old Heidelberg platen presses in our high school graphic design courses and I draw on some of that process knowledge even today.

It also feels like those experiences were really helpful for learning to think systematically and predicting how the consequence of the design decision I make now will affect me down the line. Today if I screwed up a plate it would take me a few minutes to fix; back then it would've taken literally hours and, if we were running business, cost a ton of money in lost production time.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paste_up
Surely I did reach out to them via emails and phone calls, several times in the past few weeks. It was not helpful at all as they just tell me to wait and "we'll update you when there is more info".

Haven't thought of Twitter DM tho, I'm gonna try it. Thanks for the tip.
99% of teams that need estimations are not in a phase where they are designing something that is hard to estimate. And those that are usually are prudent enough to not bother R&D with project planning(yet).

99% of engineers are working on things that CAN actually be estimated fairly accurately. New CRUD APIs? New ETLs? New React component? New integration with a product that has a published API? New service? New message format? New protocol? Whatever. Just break it down enough until it’s very clear what it takes to get it done. There will be a few unknowns but you can call them out as risks. Try to eliminate risks first and raise a flag so your manager/PM can adjust his forecast.

The thing is, everyone wants to be “working on the next big thing” so much that they actually believe they are working on something groundbreaking that cannot be estimated. Either that or they are not qualified for the job yet(hence they need to learn something new, which can be unpredictable). They just need to be grounded and it’s a fairly easy journey. They are all probably emulating the symptoms of those in 1% by believing they cannot estimate their work.
Essential Skills for Data Scientists
Premium experience comes at a cost because it is expensive to produce. You need good materials, you need to hire the best people, you need to take your time, etc. And you need to be free from cheap "feature factory" thinking.

The above has nothing to do with Apple's cut on other people's work. That is just exploitation and is unrelated to increasing the quality of the experience for users. On the contrary, it makes life harder for developers wanting to bet on quality and instead encourages shovleware and deception. And this is exactly the outcome one sees.

The app store experience is what is antithetical to Apple. There is nothing premium about it.
No, no, I’m sure you have a valid point here. In addition, the people that talk about the (((globalists))) could really be talking about absolutely ANY ethnic group at all and making inferences based on the speaker’s past language and behavior and overt, documented, racism would be entirely silly.
The standards are not "basic", they are very high. All men can't be in top 20%. No matter how hard they try, 80% of men will never achieve that standard. So something should be done with them, maybe castration, or culling.
Estimating how much YouTube paid content creators in 2019
This is interesting to consider in combination with the xkcd "showing you the door" free speech comic.

If staying silent is unacceptable and saying something "wrong" is unacceptable, then it's in your own self interest to learn the "acceptable views" (whether you agree or not) and mouth them whenever the Powers that Be demand it.

That's quite twisted.
No one can tell the future. Some people try to do it by looking at the past. Investing has a mantra for that, "Past performance is no guarantee of future results."

The sad part is this never changes and never will.
Sure, my analogy is not perfect.
But similar accidents have happened in the past (accidental leak of anthrax from a Russian lab, and voluntary leak of anthrax from a US lab).

I don't know if it actually comes from that lab. I'm just saying it's not a wild conspiracy theory to think that it might well come from there.
Parallels to McCarthyism anyone?
I think this might seem more interesting for programmers who are mostly used to working with human readable textual serialization formats.
You forgot: those bastards don't even try to become taller.
William Sessions, former FBI director, dead at 90
Estimate are useful in software businesses for a wide variety of important reasons:

- so you can tell the customer when they can reasonable expect to get something they need

- so you know when you will need to be ready with the next project on the agenda

- do that you will know when you might consider adding resources to a project to make it go faster (yes, this is not always possible, but it sometimes is)

- so that you will know if your funding runway is sufficient for your R&D needs

- so that you can compare two or more different projects when deciding what to work on; time to completion can be an important consideration in these decisions
Do civilians in the military get ranks? I'm having a time squaring what you're saying with what's in the article.

>Wang provided information that he was, in fact, still currently a “Level 9” technician in the PLA, employed by a military university lab. CBP officers also obtained information that this roughly corresponded with the level of Major
I'll meet you on your terms. Let's look at Huxley.

According to his research and the works he chose to survey, what is it that one might conclude he sees as being "the single, metaphysical truth or origin from which all esoteric and exoteric knowledge and doctrine has grown?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Perennial_Philosophy
> That sounds like the "Hitler liked dogs" argument. Just because that police chief sounds like a bad person from the quote doesn't mean that everything he said was bad

This sounds like the “straw man” argument. Just because I made a specific point about a specific utterance does not mean that I was claiming that literally every single thing he said was intrinsically racist. In fact, I think many Americans would be fine with the idea that this was a massive stretch of what I just said.

But you knew that and decided to post anyway.
Namesake of the "Winners Don't Use Drugs" message in many classic arcade games:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winners_Don%27t_Use_Drugs
Not only that, but the Soviets realized that the STS (Space Transportation System) wasn't going to live up to its promises for flight rate and cost, and thought something else must be afoot.
I find the proposition of lionizing someone because they fight the “groupthink”, however you define that, quite an odd thing to do. Thinking like that will occasionally result in you supporting absolute cranks, because the heuristic you’re using is unrelated to actual correctness or other useful characteristics.

Seek out people who seek to be right and back up their arguments consistently with logic and data, not people who are disliked by people you dislike.
>What did everyone see in the PS1?

storage space for CD quality audio, storage space for full-motion video, on-board full motion video decoders, cheaper media costs, easier media to deal with on development side, and most importantly a game library that catered more towards 'adultish' fans.

I remember reading back when these consoles were current that the biggest draw for most consumers was the fact that full-motion-video was a first class citizen on the PS1, and it was a huge technical wow for people. FMV was difficult on the N64 due to size and codec constraints, so it was rarely done -- and when it was if was usually subpar compared to the PS1 version of the same game. Resident Evil franchise was notorious for this phenomenon.
Bleh! I was really hoping they would have smoothed that out by now. I just want a damn UDP socket to my server!

I guess it's easier to piggyback on the security model of the P2P handshake than work out a separate model for client-server communication.

I built a pair of libraries for a nodejs<->browser DataChannel, it was a nightmare at the time though, and I'm sure totally obsolete by now.

Given how long it took for us to get %*@!$ data channels, I guess we'll get a simpler way to connect to a regular server in... 2030? (I watched WebRTC very closely from the Ericsson prototype was released... for awhile I was contemplating trying to pass data in the audio or video streams -_-)
There's a flip side to that though which is that the other side of the aisle is also a howling mob. The discourse across the board has become so radically polarized that it's impossible to reconcile the competing world views. In the mean time, there's apparently a belief in the news room that centrists are rare enough that they need not be catered to.
Oh my so many warts. In haskell, ocaml but also F#.

> Specifically, method
constraints were added, introduced by a deliberately baroque syntax:

let inline (+) (x: ^T) (y: ^U) : ^V = ((^T or ^U):
(static member op_Addition : ^T * ^U -> ^V) (x, y))

> This definition says that any use of + is implemented via inlining a call to an appropriately-typed op_Addition method, defined on the type ˆT or ^U, i.e. the type of either the left-hand or right-hand argument. The ˆT notation for type variables indicates statically resolved type parameters (SRTP), i.e. type parameters which are resolved to a nominal type at compile-time.

Why ^ and not using the existing : for seperating types from values? :T * :U -> :V
would have looked like types, not pascal ptrs.

Equally interesting are ocaml warts like let x2 = 1.0 +. 2.0
(+ not overloaded or defined for floats), or haskell's decision to torpedo the "class" keyword.

Or ocaml hijacking ::

let xs = 1 :: xs, with :: being cons, which was initially the lisp dot notation '(1 . xs)

In retrospect perl's syntax is sane compared to this.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/tutorials/typ...

It’s not perfect though. When I tried to use them I ended up with problem so I parsed the data in more traditional way.
Personally, I walk and pace. I spent many years as a bartender so that activity feels natural to me and actually is relaxing. As for strength, if I can open a jar, I feel pumped enough...
The Jeeves and Wooster stories are all (or almost all) in the first person, but most of the his other novels are not. Look for some of the Blandings Castle books.
And...you didn't explain the most important part of your ramble:

> they have to be kept secret or else an attacker gains a significant advantage.

Can you please explain? Why is this the case? Sorry to be snarky, but after reading your elaborate response, I was left thirsty.
How do you know it's not competitors putting the product in their descriptions enough times that it will count as generic so they can rank above? I mean you can solve that too I'm sure, but it starts becoming more complicated than sixothree originally suggested.
> The company said it would no longer block accounts outside of mainland China at Beijing's request, but did not say outright how it would handle such requests that affect users within mainland China. Instead, Zoom said, it would develop technology to block users based on geography.

Funny how these kind of statements are thrown around wherever something is blown up about Zoom. I'm one of those who had goodwill on Zoom but looking at the amount of issues popped up recently and their "Yeah this was intentional but I'm sorry next it it won't happen' response Pattern indicates that the company is aimed at only one thing - Growth at any cost