skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A sign with "Kill All The Jews" is a violent protest, even if they're doing nothing but standing there. Advocating violence is not peaceful, even if the individual is only saying it.
You seem to know a lot about it. How do the fees / costs work in the console market?
People at work nit: my code all the time. I just straight up ignore them. If they ask me why, I tell them to add an autoformat to our ci or shut the hell up.

Fwiw, i use an auto formatter but its got problems with certain rules so i switch them off.

The reason we dont have it turned on in ci is because these rules break code.
It's simply this: our DAILY growing (not declining, not stable) demand for hydrocarbons is so profoundly huge, that the improvements in renewables (even if taken at generous face value) do not dent it today nor will they in the future even with the most generous assumptions about efficiency and storage improvements. This is just data you can look up to see the trends for daily barrel of oil demand, and the improvement rate of solar/wind and storage efficiencies. The numbers are the truth, not hope.

Developing societies such as Africa, India and China are increasing their consumption for the next few decades at least, radically accelerating the demand for hydrocarbons. India expects a quintupling of coal use in the next 4 decades. Airline miles will quintuple in much shorter period of time (like ten-twenty years). There is no shortage of hydrocarbons to naturally limit these demands. Politically there is no way to restrain newly developing nations. Technologically there is no net-positive energy generation source that competes on a density basis with fossil fuels. Again, the numbers tell the story.

I sincerely appreciate your frustration and hope for something different/better, but you need to come up with contrary data to argue these points. A hope in technical improvements year-over-year is all you've pointed to, and the trendline of capacity and efficiency improvements doesn't back that up. Further cost paid for a solar panel is not a benchmark. Energy intensity of its emplacement to bring it online is what its output needs to be balanced against. Its output, limited by useful life and useful operating hours really hamstrings its total lifecycle cost after the fossil fuel intense journey it takes.
Great X Journalist is an oxymoron.

Journalism has no art to it. It's a simple algorithm

> find a story you can contort into something interesting

> interview an "expert" for two hours so you can quote mine one sentence about how remarkable the story is

> Publish bullshit article, wait for ad revenue

Maybe this story isn't bullshit, but when your only quote is from a guy who -- by your own admission -- was uninvolved with the research, and all he has to say is "this could maybe be significant," you don't really have a story, do you?

It's not Wolchover that I object to, it's the incentives that are set up to make her subtly overstate the importance of anything she has to cover (disclaimer: I don't know any of her other work).

95% of journalism should be book-keeping. Dryly reporting the quantitative results of research. The fact that she has a quote like that suggests to me that she was digging to make it something more. I don't think that's her fault; it's just her job. But I have to call it out when I perceive it.
Californians Required to Wear Face Coverings in Most Settings Outside the Home
This makes it seem like they are apples customers to give, vs the entire population of the world who has a choice between apple or android phones, or not having a phone.
If 42 years ago Intel sold a processor that burned my house down, I might not be the biggest fan of Intel even 42 years later. This isn't about expectations, it's about reputation. Not everyone has a goldfish memory.
> One of the big reasons was also the fact that they failed to ban it

Of course. So now that it's not banned, its no longer a tech defined as against the system.

But It doesn't matter really. They don't need to have anything to send you away in Russia.
Indeed and I wasn't criticizing you, this was a legit question: Is there a way in that situation to continue improving while not creeping out users. I guess the answer is to do it for long enough without screwing your users like MS did in the past.
Exists: kill-the-newsletter.com
Good and Bad Parts of Ansible After 2 Years of Usage
> paying me below market value (and below my peers) for my experience and skill set was precisely what triggered my departure a month later for a nearly 90% raise.

I'm curious - how did you end up accepting that job in the first place that was underpaying by nearly 100% ?
I don't find reddit particularly navigable nor user friendly. It's a social media platform, not a discovery or search one.

Even the communities I care about have limited utility.
Add allll the energy? Big bang. One particle. ducks
Australia coronavirus update: major cyber attack under way, PM says
Are you saying the FDA is corrupt? If so are you going to hold the president accountable as the leader of executive branch? Just curious.
Apple's attorneys were the first parties queried before this strategy was attempted or implemented.

Apple implemented the strategy. QED They're not worried.
Depending on the developer / publisher but the standard deal is about the same.

Same goes for Steam.
I don't know about those points.

I remember a well publicized story that talked about a startup trying to poach a google engineer (they offered him $1M but he turned it down because Google was paying $3M). So I guess some startups want them depending on the skillset or reputation.
That’s really interesting. I only know Honeywell from a decade ago as a provider of commodity-class desktop computer parts.
Netflix has in app purchases, but you are right. Their billing faq says it is for grandfathered accounts only.
You mean like developers didn’t agree to give retailers 60% of their revenue when they were selling physical discs?

Why do developers overwhelmingly give Google 30% of their revenue when Android users can sideload?

Should we also complain about the much larger margins that Amazon charges independent authors for Kindle? The amount Google charges for ads?
You may be interested in the OpenCV project, it has bindings for quite a few common languages
Complexity in web products is largely the result of developers who don’t care because they need to ship a product only if that product is written in an extremely familiar way. That’s a product of people who don’t know what they are doing opposed to inherent technological impediments.

I form this opinion as a professional web developer with 20 years experience.
With it being that extensively documented as fraudulent in almost every possible regard, I think there is call to ban the user who posted it.

HN should not be a source of blatantly false information.
A video game console isn't used for programming, video production, writing, homework, etc. You know what I mean. The fact that they are specially packaged PC parts is beside the point.

You keep bringing up video game distribution though, so let's roll with it. Pretend all of software was like video game distribution. How much worse would software be for users? Imagine FOSS on that.
I'm exactly the audience Microsoft is winning over. For the last 3-5 years, I've been an avid Mac user. The primary reason has always been the familiarity of the terminal.

Now, Apple is making a lot of hardware decisions that I don't like. Having used WSL daily for several months now, it's the game changer.

My next laptop will probably be a PC, and I can only say this because of WSL.
There may be no immunity against Covid-19, new Wuhan study suggests
Assuming it's supported, I also don't need to open sockets in my daemons anymore. Now I can run services on port 443 which are never root at any point.
Funny, this website broke my ipad safari browser's 'back' button. Double-tap required.
Ask HN: Validating donations to a charity as a third party
I want to build an app that helps raise funds for a cause I care about. Part of the app involved validating that a user donated a certain amount to a charity - kind of like implementing Stripe or PayPal into an ecommerce flow, only I don't want to handle money myself. Does anyone out there know if such a setup is possible? Has anyone tried this in the past?
Confirmed ;-)
Why are people downvoting? Isn't everyone dissatisfied with their govt leaders right now?
What does the marketplace do for a subscription app after it's installed? Even if you think Apple deserves some money for referrals / customer acquisition, 15% of lifetime revenue can't be a number you think is fair for that.
"Engage in a conflict" does not strictly mean a military conflict. The parent poster most likely means political and economic ones.
At FAANG you typically get RSU new hire grant and then annual RSU refreshers. And you are right that companies do not renew initial hire RSUs grant.
However you will only hit salary cliff if your initial grant was bigger than what would be your annual refresher at the end of year 4 at company (both initial RSUs and annual refreshers vest over 4 years). If your annual refresher is same as your initial grant your salary will not increase that year (which you might still consider not great, because until now your salary was increasing every year due to RSU refreshers).

> Even if they did, that would be less than what that employee is paid when the initial grant expired, or what they could make by moving jobs (since they’re now 4-5 years more senior).
If employee became more senior that would mean they got promotions (base salary increase in double digits, bonus increases) and their annual refreshers are much bigger now (they almost double between levels [1]).
If they did not get promotion over past 4-5 years (that's only possible for senior roles, grad and junior levels need to get promotion in certain time frame otherwise they are out) there's quite low probability they would get hired to more senior role at other FAANG (though they might be offered big initial RSU offer)

> More cynically, it might be political. If only a few cherry picked employees stay, and all the other organizational memory walks out the door every 4-5 years, then all the organizational power eventually accumulates in middle management.
Same salary rules apply to management, so they could also walk out if they hit salary cliff. However if you are manager/director/VP you will be higher level and your annual refresher might be high enough to keep you there.

[1] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-range-of-the-RSU-stock-ref...
How's it any more of a monopoly than Microsoft's store, Google's store, or even a digital content "store" like Netflix?

Let's not misuse words to make a point here. All companies have, in your definition, monopolies over their own proprietary stores. By the same token, Wal-Mart has a monopoly over the products it sells and Ford has a monopoly over the vehicles they produce and distribute.
Maybe there should be standard privacy policies.

Medicare did something like this. Insurance companies are limited to 10 standard supplement plans. Each covers exactly the same thing, regardless of insurer. So there are direct comparison charts, and policies are mostly sold on price. Insurance companies hated that. It's worked out well.

We should have standard privacy policies, graded A through F. Companies get to pick freely, and users get to see which one they picked before signing up.
It might make sense to try to tie this into the ideas of the current defund the police demand that's getting some traction. Who uses mass surveillance? The cops of one sort or another. Take away their money, take away their toys.
I work at WorkOS and we've done this with our product, so I can tell you with a lot of precision how much this costs. ;)

The time it takes depends on the Identity Provider:

• For a OAuth provider (like G Suite or GitHub) you'll need need to set up unique redirect URIs and token exchange code on your backend for each system.

• For a SAML provider, you need to collect the IdP URI and X509 certificate to do the SAML assertion. You also need to ensure the fields coming back in the SAML response (XML) map to your database. These fields are non-standard so you need a configuration UI for mapping. Many services have actually implemented SAML incorrectly so you need to deal with that too. e.g. VMware ONE has some non-standard stuff they do with certificates.

• For other non-SAML providers, you'll need to custom build for the protocol. "AD FS" is Microsoft's flavor of federated auth and it's a bit different. (Has a relying party trust cert.) Another is "OpenID" which is structurally similar to SAML but based on OAuth2/json instead of XML.

• Then you need to build the set-up UI for this (unless your support team is going to do it manually every time). With that you usually need to write docs with screenshots of every provider. You should also keep a database of test accounts for every identity system and integrate this with your CI tests so you can detect regressions in the identity systems.

In economic terms, this has been about a year of ongoing work with a decent sized team. (And we're still not finished yet.) SSO a fractal problem because there's such a long-tail of identity systems and configuration options.
Unfortunately it's invite-only, at least for now.
“It's Pythons All the Way Down: Python Types and Metaclasses Made Simple”
Of course they are. By design the flash cards are small atomic pieces of knowledge that can be answered simply. If the grand overarching concept is a web of interconnecting ideas, then the flashcards are supposed to help you maintain that by making sure you don't forget the small ideas the structure is made of.

It's also by design that some of the questions are, as you say, laughably simple. It's to catch people who aren't properly engaging with the text as early as possible.

Nielsen and Matuschak are sensible to these sorts of critiques. Quantum country is part experiment after all and they've been learning, adjusting, and experimenting with what works best. If you want a bit of context of where they've come from and where they want to go, I recommend this: https://numinous.productions/ttft/
Yes but a number of features are disabled or buggy on third party browsers that use WKWebView or UIWebView (i.e. basically all of them). A particularly nasty one I ran into once was navigator.sendBeacon being completely broken with HTTPS urls: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51844586/navigator-sendb...
The return of mens rea requirements and sharp curtailing of strict liability crimes would solve some of the effect of "surprise laws" at the cost of making enforcement and convictions more difficult - which some to many would call a feature and not a bug.
Apologies for the annoying popups, but this was the best source I could find that just stuck to the content of the order itself.

This is aimed at them, and other areas where compliance has been low. My girlfriend and I were in Tahoe recently for the weekend. While we were there, almost nobody was wearing masks, inside or outside. In contrast, back home in the Bay Area, people are mostly wearing masks.

The GF and I wear masks pretty much whenever we go out anywhere, unless it's out for a walk, so, this shouldn't change our behavior a bit. The only thing that is actually different from what we do now is that it says we're technically required to wear a mask if we're riding in a car together. I'm not sure if cops will be pulling people over for this, but, I can guarantee you whatever germs she has, I already got from her. :P
If it is complex but can be described simply, Ockham's Razor says it is simple.
I read this article twice. I still have no idea what's happening.

Is facebook trying to get access to namecheap's user info on the grounds that it might help them get trademark infringers?

Why does facebook think this will help them?

Are the trademark infringers really just phishers publishing fake "facebook" sites that look like facebook but aren't?
Except:

- Most subreddits are hostile to self-promotion of Web stuff. If you're unknown, you're going to have to be socially involved there enough that people know your name. (Though I agree that small subs like /r/esp8266 are begging for self-made content.)

- Related: people don't know your name because it's in small gray text. You're just another comment.

- You need upvotes. A personal directory requires only one upvote.

- You need to be on-topic. Your work may not fit Reddit's categories.

- Reddit mods are generally more like forum mods than librarians.

- Agreevotes do not equal quality. I don't want to overstate this, but I like that I'm not seeing vote counts on personal directories.

Reddit is cool - but it has its own rules and its own culture that goes with it. I personally wouldn't call it 'the modern web directory'. I do think it's less hostile to the Web than many other platforms - and certain subs like /r/InternetIsBeautiful and /r/SpartanWeb do good work.
Guinness Reinstates Billy Mitchell's Donkey Kong, Pac-Man Records
WSL 2 significantly increased I/O performance if you were wondering.
Yes, instead of using a virtual GPU driver that simulates the behavior of a real device, a paravirtualized driver is a shim that connects a device in the virtualized operating system to a real device on the host.

In summary:

* Full virtualization is a complete, in-software implementation of a device. Early virtualization technology was typically of this nature.

* Paravirtualization typically requires cooperation between the host and the guest, with a special communication layer (in WSL2's case, provided by Hyper-V) between a guest device driver and a host driver.

There are at least two more method of passing a host device through to a VM.

* "GPU passthrough", "PCIe passthrough", or "VFIO passthrough" depending on the source, Microsoft bucks these all and calls this direct device assignment, or DDA. In this mode, the guest OS is given exclusive access to a device or a device hierarchy (defined by the layout of the motherboard itself). This uses the MMU and IOMMU of the host to allow a VM to run a native driver, e.g.: nvidia's CUDA driver, and it will see a real physical device. (Nvidia's driver has historically blocked this by detecting that other parts of the guest OS are virtualized, because from the driver's perspective the device is a real, authentic Nvidia device, but the rest of the OS devices are virtualized and there are ways to detect that.)

* SR-IOV (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-root_input/output_virtu...) is a PCI-express native method of splitting a device into virtual functions which can be mapped into a guest. I think the first real use for this was network adapters, which allowed VMs to get 10-40GBps network adapters working at native speeds by passing through virtual functions so that hardware offloading worked. Nvidia supports this on some of their server platforms, with GPUs offering up to 7 or 8 "virtual functions" which allows a single GPU to be partitioned and assigned to separate VMs. Once split up in this fashion though, I think it can be tricky to present the full device as a unified GPU.
gotta name the release candidate "Joe"....
Taking a Deep Dive into “Cooper Lake” Xeon SP Processors
I think what you're saying about reduced barriers to entry has lowered the standard of all popular media.

You're more right than you know.

When there were only a handful of television channels, the content was higher quality than what we have now.

When there were only a couple of dozen cable channels, the content was higher quality than the endless reruns we have now.

When publishing a book went through the big publishing houses, the quality of what was available was higher than it is now where anyone can self-publish and pretend to be an expert.

See also: radio.

Content can only be created so fast. There are only so many talented content creators out there. While the number of media channels has exploded, the number of good content creators has not kept pace. Keep adding paint thinner, and eventually you can see through the paint.

The internet was supposed to give everyone an equal voice. All it ended up doing is elevating the drek and nutjobs to have equal footing with people who know what they're doing and what they're talking about. The quality is drowned out by the tidal wave of low-grade content.
Cars? seems like that is the only real way to get around in this town anyway.
China's rise to dominance is unquestionable now. The current US administration has failed miserably.

Breathe into a bag, dude. You and everyone else fear-mongering in here. China has a lot of talent, but they also consist of a government that controls its people and stifles their freedoms on every possible level. And because of that their innovation will always be constrained. An un-free people is an un-innovative people.

The US has one great thing that no other country has, and it's why we're still the only country to put a man on the moon, to land rockets backwards onto a floating platform, to continue to shift the landscape in transportation, and why Google and Facebook and Microsoft still dominate the net landscape, while the best China can do is make their garbage rip-offs and steal the hard-won intellectual property that we continue to churn out. It's also why Beijing often has a thick fog of pollution, and why you can protest, speak, and worship in this country without being thrown into a re-education camp.

Any guesses on what that thing is? That thing that keeps people in the US innovating and churning out fresh material that China can only steal? It's because the US is a country unified by a set of ideas, not borders drawn around a people group. The key governing concept that man is free to pursue their own happiness and shape their destiny.

Man irresistibly is drawn to freedom, and until the CCP releases its grasp on its citizens' freedom, their dominance is only an illusion. Stop pushing a narrative based on fear.
Houdini Engine Indie Edition
Does anyone know how this compares to blender for beginners?
> turned the table back to the US

"back" is incorrect - not a native English speaker. Who says Chinese disinformation doesn't need to reach as far as ycombinator news?

I agree with little to none of your strategic assessment. China has come a long ways - it's no longer a paper tiger. Let's say it's now a reinforced cardboard tiger. China's demographic profile now skews _older_ than the US.
Intel Unleashes New 3rd Gen Xeons, Optane Memory, and FPGAs
It looks like this is not an actual exploit, but a hole in the sandbox that first requires injecting custom code into the process?
Yeah, I guess the idea that "the market" is still a more desirable investment than "a portfolio" but that it might be hard to assess or hard to keep up with who is doing well or poorly on certain criteria. But those criteria might also not be as widely shared as something like leftism, environmentalism, or Catholicism (and people might also broadly support leftism, environmentalism, or Catholicism, while dissenting from some particular parts of their mainstreams).
if low quality media is everywhere, doesn't high quality media stand out?

Because there is so much low-quality content, it's become nearly impossible to find the high-quality content. Needles in haystacks.
Wow, this is huge for data scientists!
Now Apple is even more behind with ML after NVIDIA decided to drop macOS driver support.
Thanks for sharing this. Allfed is doing important work.
I'm in Toronto, remotely working for a startup in US. I don't know much about the startup scene in Toronto. If you need info on startup related stuff, do get in touch with Mars - https://www.marsdd.com/.
The problem is the revenue source. Currently Mozilla gets most of their income from their biggest competitor, Google, which is pretty fragile and all-eggs-in-one-basket. Diversifying their revenue stream by slightly diversifying their product would make them more likely to survive.