skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many hours a week would a person need to dedicate to starting a lawsuit about something like this?

Anyone have experience? Even if a law firm would do 100% of the work & charge on contingency, I bet it still takes 100+ hours for the average joe to research and find the firm to do that.
Don't worry, long before that day Bezos will have superpacked his way out of such concerns. What is money for, but buying politicians?

(Much less stress than acting politician, just look at the top public servant currently.)
I literally mentioned it one other time as a reply to a comment, that's hardly spam (the m stands for mass, fyi)
Why is this submission submitted a day ago showing up as new again? @dang
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Have an outsized impact on future Cesium products and potential of 3D geospatial technology by creating the first prototypes and concepts.
Collaborate with our Communications team to increase the impact of our demos in the community.

What we are looking for:
A skilled JavaScript developer with experience building interactive web apps (Node.js, LitElement, Redux, or other JavaScript frameworks and libraries)
A continuous learner who loves to explore emerging technologies, introduce innovations, and take opportunities to learn and improve their skill set.
A clear communicator who can easily explain problems and solutions in both technical and layman terms.
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and juggle multiple high-profile projects with competing deadlines.
It’s a bonus to have familiarity with command-line tools and experience with 3D graphics, game development, or WebGL libraries.
While not required, experience building or using geospatial software or GIS, like GDAL and QGIS is also a plus.

https://hire.withgoogle.com/public/jobs/cesiumcom/view/P_AAA...
Having read that section you linked now, ours is similar to his “not enough” example.

I’d say probably 99% of the error reports we see from it are a third party js script not loading (Sometimes a network issue, sometimes a plugin blocks them) we’ve pared third party loads down to just the payment gateways, but they’re still the vast majority of reports we see).

However it’s also not js heavy, so that type of error logging solution works well for us.
Not just orders of magnitude more money, but more importantly the large number of incredibly talented people working full time on JavaScript, in many different companies and research institutions, collaborating together. JavaScript benefits from an overwhelming network effect and critical mass of tools and developers, that Perl just can't touch, and never will.
If you want people to address your point, don't use ideolectic definitions of fairly well defined terms.
You can always use \\?\ namespace paths to get above the 260 character limit, just not all Win32 applications can work with those files.

Don't expect AUX, COM1, etc to be fixed any time soon, because that is a huge backwards compatibility issue.
it looks to me like HOP is mostly teaching traditional LISP concepts. I could write those same functions in Javascript, and they'd be more readable
My bad - I could swear Tim saying they'd adopt a small transaction fee for Apple Pay when it was released.
You may not know what it is but it's been well documented for years detailing what it is, what it's used for, and the built-in tamper-resistance features:

https://support.apple.com/guide/security/secure-enclave-over...

https://www.apple.com/lae/business/docs/site/iOS_Security_Gu...
I don't think there is such a thing as responsible use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement.

The technology is certainly not robust enough to be trusted to work correctly at that level yet. Even if it was improved I think there is a huge moral issue with the police having the power to use it indiscriminately on the street.
I currently work as a developer for a company that develops a "black box" (as we call them in the business) for the AG industry. We develop the systems the author was referring to that provide: auto-steer/guidance, and application control for tractors.

I am not sure if that makes my perspective unique or not, but as a general rule of thumb I would tell anyone looking to get into the "dirt work" (growing) of the AG business to change their minds. In fact, I would tell them to run for the hills. Most farmers in America (aside from the huge co-ops) operate at a loss each year, and only survive due to subsidies, at least here in America.

That being said, if you are interested I can say for sure there is a LOT of money to be made developing the systems I currently work on and/or contracting yourself out to companies like mine for existing work we can not handle in house.
Do you know how they might be dealing with the oxygen? I assume it comes out very hot and ready to oxidize stuff. I suppose there are stainless alloys that can cope with it?
>get rid of format.

You shut your mouth. I can't even count th number of my scripts that'd break. I like format for output.
Computer viruses.
Nah... seeing my own poor family having my grandparents watch us, I think poor people are as or more likely to use family as childcare than the rich. And I think it would be immoral to tax them on these 'wealth transfers'.

Anyway, according to https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/18/upshot/rich-children-and-..., my hunch is indeed correct -- poor people are more likely to depend on family.
Don Sadoway has a really interesting MIT open course wear course on solid state chemistry.

I think it is in there where he mentions an interesting trade off between the environmental cost of making aluminium vs the long term savings of making, for example, car parts out of aluminium rather than say cast iron which they would have been made from in the past.

Which is to say, it's not immediately clear that increasing the cost of aluminium to encompass the externalities of shipping it is actually a net benefit to the planet as a whole.
> Also, perl is incredibly inefficient: it's even slower than Python.

That's debatable for single-threaded workloads (they're typically pretty comparable in my observation), and highly unlikely for multi-threaded workloads (Python has a global interpreter lock whereas Perl does not AFAICT; you can work around that in Python, but it typically involves spawning entirely separate processes, thus introducing IPC overhead that wouldn't be present in a Perl equivalent).

Looking at some comparative benchmarks (https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...), Perl seems to be faster in a slight majority of cases, and in nearly all cases has a lower memory overhead. Not that benchmarks really matter anyway, given that they're usually a poor indicator of real-world performance, but still.
SQL is not planned yet but we would like to offer it at some point.
I mean, the apple pencil can be a nice touch which apparently isn't compatible with the 2.

But mostly it's just a more pronounced form-factor of what the iPad is all about, in particular in comparison to an iPhone.

The bezel to body ratio gets cut in half from about 30% of the body, to about 15%. It's kind of crazy when you think of it like that (instead of screen-to-body), as almost 1/3rd of the body is bezel on the Air models. On the original it was even 37%)

At around 15%, you're approaching the iPad's true form-factor: just one big screen. That's pretty wonderful for consuming content. All this screen real-estate is what sets it apart from say an iPhone for content-consumption, while retaining the notion of it being a lightweight mobile-device you can throw in your bag and whip out easier than a laptop e.g. on an airplane, in bed, in the bus, on a trip, on the couch.

But it's not like you can do all that much extra. For me personally though, reading a digital version to a paper newspaper or even a website always felt a little bit cramped on a regular iPad. It feels most websites and magazines are about 13 inches. For example, The Economist is about 13 inches diagonal. It's very natural to read on the 12.9 inch iPad Pro. Quite alright on the 11 inch, but just a tad too small on the 9.7 inch, requiring more frequent zooming in or alternative views.

The iPad air 3(rd gen) by the way is already a pretty decent middle-ground, at 10.5 inches, nearing a 20% bezel, and very fast for years to come.

But the Pros also have Promotion, which gets you 120 hertz refresh rates. Makes everything buttery smooth. Really not a big deal, but it's one of those things that made me feel like I was using some futuristic device you'd expect in a Star Trek universe. But again, really not a big deal, it's just a feeling. Usually there's some lag, some stutter, some delays. With 120 hertz it feels as if we're moving towards a world in which there is no UI lag and the tech is really futuristic. Combined with an insaaaanely fast device, the only time you get confronted with any latency is when the internet is involved. Not something that'd make me buy the Pro, but it's fun to know that this'll be coming to all normally-priced devices in a few years. You also get more colours, it gets brighter, and there's truetone display. The display is really something else, I'd check it out in stores and see if it matters.

The rest don't matter much to me. FaceID, four really great speakers, ultra fast, better camera, LIDAR, neural engine, I don't really care for. USB-C is a nice touch as I find it's always around for charging. And the magic keyboard is a nice touch together with the pencil, google docs should be a lot nicer with the keyboard and drawing diagrams with the pencil, but then it starts to get quite expensive.

https://phonesized.com/compare/#483,1422,1423
What’s your budget?

If you want a fancy easy to use UI you can consider getting the data into something like DataDog. But it’s expensive.

For lower budget, consider Prometheus and Grafana. You will need to write glue code to get the the data points wired to prometheus.

For a scalable backend consider Grafana cloud, or you can run Cortex or Thanos yourself.

What resolution do you want? That is how frequently do you want to save a datapoint?
Yes I did read your next statement and many people do have that rigor, this is not something you can mindread. If you don't check the news you read then it's on you.

It's certainly not so bad that we need to censor politicians because SO MANY people can't think for themselves.

We had 8 years of Obama, I didn't hear anything about anyone needing censoring, only when we have a Republican in office do we need to think about censoring...

When they start censoring the Democrats constant lies then I'll believe you want a legitimate debate. Don't worry the Dems will provide you with their very own fact checker!

I wouldn't assume, especially when it's assuming about 327 million people's ideology and thought process.
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And yet back in 1993, Visual Basic programmers were able to reuse software by literally snapping together controls like Lego blocks. There was a rich ecosystem of third-party controls. Competing tools such as Delphi had similar features. Since then the industry has gone backwards, or at best sideways, in many areas.
I still don't think you can even use G Suite domains with their voice assistant/home devices. It's beyond absurd.
Google to shutter CallJoy, virtual agent for SMBs, on July 22
WebAuthn is less phishing resistant than it should be. The original intent was that WebAuthn + token binding would ensure that, even if an attacker obtained a fraudulent certificate for a victim site and had an MITM position on the network, the attacker still couldn’t steal a WebAuthn protected session. Alas, Chrome removes its token binding implementation, and WebAuthn no longer has this property. If you authenticate with WebAuthn, and there is a MITM, the MITM gets your session.

(Conventional phishing is still prevented. If you go to, say, g00gle.com, the owner of g00gle.com can’t reuse your authentication to authenticate to google.com. But this relies on your browser actually knowing what domain it’s looking at, which relies on the CA system.)
Do users have incentive to document and share the connections, other than helping the community's long term goal?

Absence of such incentive appears to be the reason that open-source software is not always perfectly connectable -- few people have a significant incentive to ensure this design goal.
> outside of the bay area bubble, android phones are used by the majority of people

It really depends on your market. If you're a parking garage in the US, about 60% of your customers are using iPhones (assuming your customer base is a perfect sample of the US at large, which is also not true). I can only think of a handful of instances in which a business type in the US would have a majority of Android users.
Are you sure? At my company, managers say they don't measure and compare people but if you have a friend in management they will tell you the opposite.
>You are in for a surprise.

Here's another Office 365 Web surprise. Last week we had 5 team members working in a shared Word document with track-changes; A) There is no "view final markup" option, and B) after a while the web-app crawled to a halt.
Thank you.
I did see it as positive, for your remarks were usefull.
I looked already for bigger buttons without spaces and it becomes better. I thought already to make one button too switch between buttongroups in that way you can use 3 or even more groups with buttons for several departmens so you get 3x40 or even 5X40 buttons. And by the way colors is very easy to realize to make it more clearer.
I certainly will use your remarks.
I disagree a lot here. I did study abroad and I'd argue that this might have been a one of the best things that has ever happened to me:

1. This is completely false. You have just as much time as you would have had back at home. Yes, you might have more things to worry about being on your own but you can certainly make up for it and learn to make compromises quickly. Expecting to come out fully prepared out of university is plain stupid. In most scenarios you end up with an average amount of theoretical and practical knowledge but you are nowhere before you end up crashing into your first job when you realize that the studying is just beginning.

2. That is highly personal. You either live with the mindset that you need a degree to get a job or take the most out of the situation. If the degree is your primary goal, then yes, you won't have the adequate will and determination to better yourself. I had professors that spent 5 or 6 hours after lectures talking to me and explaining some nitty-gritty details just because they saw I had genuine interest. I never asked them to dedicate any more than a few minutes but on multiple occasions we ended up staying in the hallways way past midnight discussing different topics.

3. I honestly don't get that point.

4. While the friends and family statement is correct and fitting in somewhere new is something that takes forever, regardless of the tons of effort and dedication, if you find peace in being alone, it's a huge advantage. Sooner rather than later I fell in love with digging deeper and deeper and following rabbit holes that most of my peers had no clue about. Eventually I became the second-best student by a fraction of a percent, given that I was studying in a foreign language.

5. Depending on what you are studying, this might be a good thing. My native language has very little in common with the two other languages I've had to learn, other than the fact that they are all European. Their structure is vastly different, two different alphabets, completely different way of constructing sentences and thoughts in general. For software engineering, I feel like this is a brilliant mental exercise.

6. In a vastly globalized world, this seems like a non-issue. If anything it teaches you to look at things from multiple perspectives and take the best out of both worlds. Certain solutions can be applied successfully in completely opposite social and political environments and solve multiple problems in the process.

7. Same as 3, I really don't understand the point the author is trying to make.
I like Haskell, I write Haskell at my day job (and did so at my previous day job), and I help maintain some of the community build infrastructure so I’m familiar with a large-ish graph of the Haskell ecosystem and how things fit together.[0]

I don’t really think Haskell is _meaningfully_ superior than other languages at the things that OP is talking about.

Refactoring Haskell _in the small_[1] is much nicer than many other languages, I don’t disagree on that point. Despite this, Haskell applications are _just as susceptible_ to the failures of software architecture that bind components of software together as other languages are.

In some cases I would even suggest that combining two Haskell applications can be _more_ fraught than in other languages, as the language community doesn’t have much in the way of agreed-upon design patterns that provide common idioms that can be used to enmesh them cleanly.

[0] I’m mostly belaboring these points to establish that I’m not talking out of my ass, and that I’ve at least got some practical experience to back up my points.

[1] This is to say when one refractors individual functions collections of interlocking abstraction
Written in 2008, though. Hu Jintao was in charge, China was hosting the Olympics, the posture was generally more open to the West.

Seems a lot more like a cranky guy than political-favor-currying.
> Owning things isn't a contribution to society. When the thing owned a limited resource like housing, owning more than you need creates artificial scarcity--this is a blight, not a contribution.

Owning and nothing else is of course a blight. Owning and maintaining is really not. Even a homeowner who simply owns and does no maintenance is a blight, even if they live there. It would be preferable to have the property managed by a landlord who can actually maintain it.
This is an exasperating bit of casual racism I see all the time. A Chinese person has said something you disagree with, they must have no personal agency, they must be trying to curry favor with the government!

the CPC is not Santa Claus, ffs
Yes + dev-friendly SDKs. That's what we believe.
Docs has revision history.

For several of the concerns listed, I'm surprised to see how people are using the app.

Similar for asking every employee of a company to track their time in same name documents?

Perhaps poor processes and poor tool-to-solution matches contribute?
I think you're misunderstanding me. I don't mean that FB sucks. I don't care either way.

I mean this: If toyota were to disappear tomorrow, $250bn worth of car-production capacity would disappear. Fewer cars could be made, at least until new investment in factories and such.

If FB disappeared, people would still have plenty of social media to access... or other forms of media, communication and entertainment.
haha easy there traveler. True for more people than you think.
About 6 years ago I ordered a $150 graphing calculator from Amazon, 'Shipped and sold by Amazon' or whatever the actual phrase was, and iirc there were no 3rd-party sellers for the item. The calculator came in two versions with software differences as well as a different accent color on the hardware to differentiate. I ordered the one with the extra software but instead got the one with the cheaper color and firmware. I returned it for a replacement from Amazon and got the right one that time.

It wasn't counterfeit (I don't think anyone is ripping off high-end TI calculators, and it also came with a license key for the computer software), but I believe it was intentionally incorrectly sold. It came in a blister pack and the paper insert inside plastic indicated it was the CAS model, but the calculator itself was the non-CAS model - in other words, aside from having the non-CAS calculator in the box, it was exactly identical to the CAS model as you would buy from a store.

Maybe TI mixed up their stuff but I doubt that; by that time I had already heard of Amazon selling counterfeit items and as you said there have apparently been lawsuits for this.

About a year later I had the exact same issue occur with another item - sold by Amazon, but fake, but got the right one after a return. Can't remember what it was though.
I'd also add that the cuts to ML teams seem to reflect more of a freeze on R&D in general--totally normal in a downturn--and that ML just happens to be a feature in a lot of R&D at this point.

Most of these companies have substantial investments in ML that aren't research-focused, they're powering their flagship products. At this point, ETA prediction isn't a speculative experiment for Uber or Google Maps, just like RankBrain, Smart Compose, spam filtering, etc.
> How long have Koch brother[s] been at it? They pretty much were life long political activists.

That's... an understatement. They were life long members of the donor class. It's not like they spent their 20s-40s knocking on doors and then hit it big.

> And most of that is out of personal conviction.

Well, yes... that's what I meant by "would they have the same policy preferences and demeanors?" -- I think there are striking policy differences between Bloomberg and Kochs/Trump that are probably in part explained by the differences in their life experiences.

> Doesn't seem to me like they have attained any concerning levels of power at all given their dedication.

I can tell you're not in Kansas anymore ;)

From David Koch's very level-headed obit in the Wichita Eagle: "David and Charles Koch unmistakably altered the political scene" https://www.kansas.com/news/business/article234301367.html#s...

Democrats in Kansas can get a bit over the top, but pretty much everyone on all sides of the political spectrum agree that the Kochs are synonymous with Kansas politics.

Anyways, yes, rich people both by inheritance and self-made will get involved in politics with varying levels of types of success. But I think it's corrupting for people to spend their entire lives in the donor class. Ascending to that position breeds a different type that inheriting that position. And, to be clear, this isn't even ideological; Trump and the Kochs aren't exactly the best of friends.
Not similar. It is absolutely the same.
Clock speed of the CPUs doesn't tell the tale here at all.

Geekbench does a far better job of capturing the massive improvement in Apple's CPUs in recent years. And the GPU improvements have been even larger.
They can't catch domestic terrorists who are in the USAF using their existing overreaching surveillance on non-encrypted traffic.

How does breaking encryption get them closer?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/17/boogaloo-st...
> ...a frequently-larger web app

Got any stats for that? I was quickly able to find [0] and [1] which state that web page sizes are 1.5mb (median), 2mb (mean) and the average is about 3mb.

[0] https://royal.pingdom.com/webpages-are-getting-larger-every-...

[1] https://speedcurve.com/blog/web-performance-page-bloat/
Does anyone know if iOS devices support multiple users/bio metrics per device and could log a specific user in when they are using a shared device? I'm wondering if this could be used for a shared iPad on a factory floor to log users into their own account on our web app.