skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eran left Walmart, and Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith, who were co-heading Walmart Labs engineering (under the CTO) left shortly after to go back to Google. A new crew came in from PayPal, and they stripped all support of Hapi. They later created a heavy sludgey framework on top of it called Electrode for internal use and in slides did not even acknowledge it was Hapi underneath.

I say this as someone who took over a good chunk of Eran's world when he left Walmart, and I was more or less forced to have my team, some of whom were spending most of their time working on Hapi.js, work on "real" stuff.
My country stopped issuing passports altogether due to Corona.

Mine expired a few years ago, because I didn't bother to renew it being a EU citizen with no interest in travelling outside the Schengen area.

I think the restriction has been lifted since, but for a time I was confined to the borders of the EU.
Yes there where but that was mainly from timber stock which matures faster than true hardwood stock, if you are very young say in your 20's you could plant hardwood stock for retirement but generally hardwood stock foresting is a generational investment.

Some of the limitations on everyone planting is that most of these species are protected, so you have to be able to plant them in a similar environment where they are not native or you run the risk of having to pay impacts for every tree harvested. Others are land availability and the other is many people don't want to encumber their land for a return they personally will never see. Most of the stuff you hear about from 30 years ago where faster growing trees in the pine and oak families which you could see harvestable maturity in 10 (pine) to 20 (oak) years and while it did cause a price crash, those people did make money. Just not FU money.

Contrast this with any African blackwood and you are looking at 50 years minimum till maturity and possible as long as 100 year. I don't need the money (not that I am rolling in it) but it is generational insurance for my children and their grandchildren. For a little back story I own a house that sits on 7 acres on the ocean, I plan to will the house to my descendants and keep it in the family as a place to come back to and congregate, for all generations to use. The trees are the hedge that their will be money to support that vision, as well as provide for the family if need be.

That being said the whole thing could flop, but at least I planted some trees that are in serious danger of going extinct in their native habitat and my descendants will be in possession of some really resilient hardwood.
I see, thanks. The uses for locality seem a little niche though no? Are the benefits that much greater that it would be noticeable to users?
I am in favor of masks, but it's not clear if they are effective. If they don't reduce R0 to less than one, then they are just prolonging the inevitable.
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I mean... they don't exactly have a vote unless they own shares of the company. They could unionize, etc. deride the culture of the company, or quit though,
Over 1 million dead people have gotten their stimulus checks, and my wife an I still haven't received ours.

If the IRS sends out checks pretty much every year relatively flawlessly, how did this get bungled so badly?
> Via instant messenger, Manning asked Assange whether Wikileaks could crack NTLM hashes. Assange said (paraphrasing), "Yeah, we can probably do that." Manning sent the hashes. Assange said he'd work on cracking them. A few days later, Manning asked if the hashes had been cracked. Assange replied that there hadn't been any progress.

> End of story. That's a federal crime. No hashes were cracked, let alone sent back to Manning. No additional access was gained. He simply agreed to accept the hashes from Manning, which were freely offered.

That actually sounds like the crime of criminal conspiracy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_(criminal)

> In criminal law, a conspiracy is an agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime at some time in the future....

> [US] Conspiracy law usually does not require proof of specific intent by the defendants to injure any specific person to establish an illegal agreement. Instead, usually the law requires only that the conspirators have agreed to engage in a certain illegal act.

> Under most U.S. laws, for a person to be convicted of conspiracy, not only must he or she agree to commit a crime, but at least one of the conspirators must commit an overt act (the actus reus) in furtherance of the crime.[24]

You'd crack the hash as part of a plan (i.e. a conspiracy) to get unauthorized access to a computer system (a crime), and exchanging the hash is the actus reus.

There are very good reasons why conspiracy is a crime, and it's very similar to other crimes like attempted murder. If someone plans to kill you, but they're caught before taking their shot, should they go free because no harm was actually done?
Doesn't jitsi predate them?
Some good points. I'll try to address a couple.

> But what is "personal data"?
This is where I think current legislation goes awry. By going with a whitelist (e.g. age, gender, zip code) as the only allowed data for targeting ads we an avoid the debate of what is personal data.

> Ad-tech companies don't want "ample" profit. They want _all_ the profit.
Agree that the online ad companies won't want this legislation. But they'll have a hard time arguing that this will put them out of business. I think the general population likes these companies and wants them to continue to operate and be successful (as do I) but within reasonable bounds.
Why doesn't ATC demand they come in to line, the copilot didn't appear to explain the very high approach (7000ft when they should be 3000ft) ... is there a benefit to it??

First thing I learnt on a flight sim: slow down or you can't extend gear.

Is the co-pilot allowed to smash the pilot in the face and take over when they realise they're ignoring basic instructions?
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One thing that is so often left out of this conversation is that Uber was making a profit in rides when they only had the black car service and Lyft hadn't entered the market yet with regular people driving their private cars. It's hard to tell how much of this is inherently unprofitable as opposed to different companies trying to price each other out of the market.

This makes me wonder what even would be a natural or desired state of any market like this. I don't want companies to have agreements on bottom prices they aren't gonna go under. At the same time this dynamic clearly is fueled by the desire and promise to turn a profit once the competitor is gone. We don't want to set a monopoly in any market. On the other hand why aren't we seeing this in older industries? Why aren't airlines trying to drive each other out of business on price?
In the US Government, for almost all of the last 5 years, there has been a concerted effort to move backwards, not to stand still or move forwards.
Another article posted yesterday noted that the primary complaints were related to the tech stuff in the cars (touch screens, Car Play, Android whatever, etc...). Given how different Tesla’s interface is compared to a traditional car it make sense that new users would gripe about those things during the first 90-days of ownership.

Edit, the article: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/06/teslas-are-the-most-unr...

and a quote: “Ars readers may not be surprised to discover that the most troublesome of these categories was infotainment, which accounted for almost a quarter of all problems.”
Put a big trash bag over the entire box, tie it up at the bottom, punch a small hole and put a hose from a cheap CO2 tank, ozone generator (also cheap), car exhaust, what have you?

If they were aggressive invasive bees wouldn't it make more sense to just kill all of them rather than replace the queen? Those aren't the sort of bees we want flying around our neighborhoods.

His method probably released hundreds of aggressive bees into the air everywhere , whereas if you bag it up they can't go anywhere.
It sure does, uploads are scene/torrent releases. On the other hand this is how you do business in Central/Eastern Europe.

For example www.cda.pl. Owners, father and son, build OdSiebie.com mega like pirate content sharing website in 2008 and got raided by Police/BSA in 2009. One year was enough to earn so much money to lawyer up and win unwinnable court case :o. With this experience and first class legal team they started another pirate streaming website www.cda.pl with small twist - DMCA submit form (triggering instant reupload of reported content from one of many bot accounts, so no loss for the portal). Progressively paid Premium option started sharing revenue with legit Movie distributors, instead of DMCA you could claim your content and join profit redistribution program. In 2012 they made $10K profit, 2013 $300K, 2014 >$1. Today CDA makes >$1mil legal profit per quarter and is listed on the stock exchange with $80mil capitalization. This is towering over other local options like Netflix and Amazon. They are ranked higher than twitch, netflix or pornhub in traffic and attention.

https://www.marketscreener.com/CDA-S-A-58002347/

Polish source https://technologia.dziennik.pl/internet/artykuly/504361,cda...
I understand that. And I understand that some people have a problem with that. I used similar analogies (alcoholism, gambling, etc.) as you did before.
The point of BLEU (and ROUGE and METEOR) is to correlate with human grading. It's unusual to find cases where a MT model change increases BLEU but hurts human ratings.
Thanks for the video. The sea of trash I was thinking of is still trash by this definition. Youtube is full of videos that are just some other clip copied with an automated intro and other such things. The algorithm does ok at filtering it out but it's only helping you navigate the sea, you still hit a few of those often enough to be noticeable.
What does that have to do with Assange being charged?

EDIT: It seems any effort to seek clarification is discouraged here. My apologies.
Well, if that is SO important, you can, on windows, create your own .lnk file adding the --no-splash startup option, on Linux add it to the .desktop file and on MacOS do whatever people do on MacOS.

But honestly... I cannot imagine any environment where Tyson's Kiki splash images are a real problem.
> Also – I don't think there is a principle of lowering information density at work here.

If there isn't you've done a tremendously bad execution job and no testing.
I linked to the wrong sub, there shouldn't be an s on the end

I would say that cyberdecks can be whatever you want. I've seen some single-purpose form factors like network testing or radio telemetry before
Remember it's always one standard for the spooks and one standard for the unwashed plebs. They keep you safe so you should be grateful.
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We need to just start with getting rid of being ruled by ridiculously old people.

Bill Pascrell almost certainly remembers where he was as a kid when he found out Hitler had been killed lol. Are you kidding me?
You could use Java, Flash, Python and Web Runtime as alternatives back then. Much richer than Android still.
Fintech startup that looks at social-media engagement rather than credit history
There are quite a few case studies / customer stories on the website: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/customers/
If you did it, I'd enjoy seeing it.
I was part of a group that had a policy of apolitical(ity)

Until a topic (think BLM kind) came along that people thought should be an exception; The usual arguments: this wasn't politics, this was basic human rights / existence; It was offensive not to allow, is was oppression to not discuss.

Basically, enough people cared more about <topic> than their continued membership, or even the continued existence/stability of the group, that may become fractured by <topic>, that they where willing to leave and make a big stink about doing so, enough to potentially give the group a bad reputation, and leveraged this threat against the policy.
I would love it if DoD/VA sites would stop using wonky certificate settings all the time.
https://www.republik.ch/2020/01/31/nils-melzer-about-wikilea...
"hate speech" == whatever you want it to be

Hitchens - Free Speech (2006): https://youtu.be/olefVguutfo
Never become a fan of companies, politicians, celebrities, religious leaders and pretty much anyone in a position to influence masses. They very much want you to, because the more you become a fan, the pinker your glasses become. Little by little you stop defending their decisions and start defending your decision of following them.
Yeah, definitely some parallel there, though Canada is more like Mongolia and Siberia combined.
I don't believe they are making encryption illegal. Rather, they would likely require any org doing TLS for them to provide lawful intercept, logging, audit and compliance. If a government org is managing their own network stack, then requiring TLS would be a non issue as they can provide their audit orgs with all the data they want, as they likely do today. From all the bills I have read, there is nothing that makes encryption illegal. They want the ability to access data from the servers after it has been decrypted. This includes a way to intercept what users perceive to be end-to-end encryption.

The only problem I have run into with various government orgs is the lack of knowledge around implementing intermediate certificates. They will often try to talk people into installing their certs rather than installing intermediate certs correctly. I always point them to testssl.sh [1]

[1] - https://github.com/drwetter/testssl.sh
Try to generate boilerplate code for calling permissions API from C++.

NDK is designed for Java => NDK libraries only.
You may be waiting for a long time. That doesn't really provide any support for the satanic child sex cult thing either though.
Another very important aspect is that humans interact with the world they are observing. It isn’t just passive processing of data. Training a model on video may help over text alone, but the interactivity is still missing.
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Oh, I dunno, maybe a company that doesn't exploit and abuse its workers.
Are these docs not indexed by google?

If yes, is curation the value?
I want to say thank you, from the bottom of my heart. I just assumed that the explanation for atrocious conversion number was bad layout. ( Note to myself: check your website forms every couple of days. )

Side topic, I remember a HN post about a checklist for launching a project. If someone remember it, I would love find retrieve the link.

EDIT: It should work now !
>This looks really bad for BaFin, they basically treated the Financial Times as criminals for blowing the whistle over the last few years.

It's going on, with a variety of companies, every day. The entire system is beyond corrupt. Regulators are siding with frauds instead of investigating them.

A major red flag of corporate fraud is attacking journalists and blaming "short-sellers". Have these entities ever caused the demise of a legitimate company?
>What you're claiming is false.
Cloudflare has over 200 PoPs; in your own name servers, you can use the Cloudflare Resolver's IP (which will be a "close to the user" IP, not 1.1.1.1) to do geotargeting and serve from your closest IP address/server.

What if my server is closer than cloudflare? Why is cloudflare artificially limiting?
OTOH it was the Big 5 until Arthur Anderson gave up its license due to the Enron fraud.

So there's an incentive to audit correctly.
... more shooting the messenger... villains.
Yeah, until the program deletes itself from disk on launch.
I think VS was used before my time (2005), but then it used CodeWarrior and then after that Nokia's own IDE called Carbide.

It had MMP files which described the project and the files in it, a then a tool called 'abld' which was a perl script that did the compiling, which actually had two commands to clean... 'abld clean' and 'abld reallyclean' :)
This is not quite correct. The log probabilities are

log p(y=1 | x; beta) = beta * x - log Z(x; beta)

where

Z(x) = p(y=0 | x; beta) + p(y=1 | x; beta)

Thus, you can think of it as linear regression, but with an additional term log Z(x; beta) in the log likelihood.
So in 2003, before the iPhone came out, I was a mac developer doing Cocoa/Objective-C development.

I then tried to learn Symbian and I found the IDE hard to setup, the API was hard to learn, and I believe it only ran on windows.

At the time I thought to myself “the NeXT/Cocoa API and utilities are so awesome, so easy, so mature that if Apple ever makes it possible to write mobile apps with them, they are totally going to absolutely destroy everyone else in the mobile development marketplace. Especially Symbian.”
And if it exposes war crimes? Crimes against humanity?
It's true Hilary underestimated Trump. So did the other GOP candidates. They wanted Trump in the race to make their positions seem less extreme, their manner more presidential, and they hoped that his vast media attention would splash over onto them. Trump was expected to be a kind of "loss leader" for the GOP establishment, something wacky and attention-grabbing and low quality, but gets people in the store to buy something a little more sane. (It turns out the average member of a vastly wealthy sole super-power can become complacent, and grow profoundly ignorant of history, politics, philosophy and economics, so ignorant in fact that they cannot recognize a would-be autocrat. He says, "I can do whatever I want, like put my boot in your face," and they respond ecstatic, "At least he tells it like it is!" I think this flies in the face of every educated person's impression of who America is, which is why Trump blindsided everyone, left and right.
Just 5 years?
There's early evidence to suggest that masks do more to prevent the spread of the virus than physical distancing.

Of course, yes, it would be easy to say, "just never get in range and the mask doesn't matter," but we live in urban environments and need to do the best we can in light of that.
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He’s not an officer of a publicly traded corporation, and has no fiduciary responsibility to shareholders. It’s a completely different case from being doxxed.
In the video linked above the gear stays retracted (with overspeed alarm sounding!) until the speed reduces. The speed doesn't reduce until they go-around and the engines fail. The gear then extends which bleeds airspeed, they turn hard, lose altitude and crash 1km short; with a massive loss of lives.

It doesn't seem right that their approach could be so fast? So perhaps the pilots themselves lowered the gear.

A comment on YouTube suggests that the gear does behave that way, it holds the command to lower gear and enacts it when airspeed falls sufficiently?
Alignment at scale – Managing flows rather than perimeters
Okay, 50 years.
And sometimes they don't. In case of automation, Tesla really ignored decades of experience just because. And it wasn't even slightly related with anything tesla really inovated on. Not sure these "maybe we are lucky" initiatives are a wise thing to do.
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So they're using it wrong?

/s
> skirting any regulations any way they can.

Here in india we don't skirt regulations because no one knows what regulations are supposed be followed. :)
Well, as he says in his video, it's typically the queen that dictates how aggressive the colony is.

Watching the video, he taped the hive up and then poured the soapy water in. I doubt that many were able to get away at all.

Those that were out foraging, would probably die pretty quickly without a hive to go back to.
I'm going to guess that the vast majority of people who bought Teslas knew little to nothing about Elon Musk.

With all the bad publicity he's generating for himself in the midst of a huge crisis, where the media exposure of his actions is greater than it's ever been, that is going to change. And it probably won't be good for Tesla.
What percentage of Mac users do you suppose have ever used the Terminal app? I'm guessing double digits but low double digits.
I used to work in a very process-heavy industry: control software for Medical Devices. People would ask about the benefits of following a rigorous process and my answer was always the same: Process sets a minimum standard, but unless people believe in producing a quality product, that minimum is all you'll ever get.
There is Alexander Trufanov's free book (in Russian) on programming for Symbian 9.x with many code samples.[0]

Also, as example of complex apps, there is code of Lonely Cat Games' X-plore[1] & ProfiMail[2] apps, released to Public Domain by LCG devs in 2015-2016.

Another one Symbian open-source app that I like: `fshell` — Symbian equivalent of bash + telnet + a posix-like set of command-line tools.[3]

And the latest app in development: S60Maps — OpenStreetMap & GPS tracker.[4]

FTR, Actually there is an experimental Symbian OS emulator for Linux & Windows.[5]

P.S.: And off course there are tons of useful stuff collected by "Symbian Archive" wiki.[6,7]

[0] https://github.com/trufanov-nok/SymbianBook_ru

[1] https://github.com/Symbian9/X-plore_free

[2] https://github.com/Symbian9/ProfiMail_free

[3] https://sourceforge.net/p/fshell/code/

[4] https://github.com/artem78/s60-maps

[5] https://github.com/EKA2L1/EKA2L1

[6] https://mrrosset.github.io/Symbian-Archive/

[7] https://github.com/mrRosset/Symbian-Archive
Yeah, that’s just a crummy image that looks like it’s been projected onto terrain. You see the same wavy effect on stuff all over google earth, which that appears to be from.
I just got a new 16" mbpro a few months ago and now am very glad since I'm not interested in being a beta tester for Apple or dealing with shit not working because of the new arch, which is absolutely inevitable as a developer, even as a web developer. That said, I only got this because Lenovo didn't ship me a Thinkpad 6 weeks after I had ordered it and at that point, 6 weeks in, they still didn't know when it would ship (their customer service is absolute shit). Dell has a refurbishing fee for returns and since I wanted to run Linux, those are the only major vendors of durable laptops that I see will be durable and run Linux smoothly (system 76 etc don't count as the hardware is shit). Linux does everything I need and is slightly cheaper (a few hundred dollars on a $4k machine). I did not pay for the laptop or Apple would not be a consideration at all. The only advantage it offers is stability at the expense of everything else (though for work that is a big deal).

ARM macs will not be a consideration at all unless there is heavy adoption of ARM in the industry and all the tools currently available get ported. That will take quite some time, I imagine, if it's even doable at all. I wouldn't be surprised if Apple starts locking down their OS and only allowing apps they approve. They've been doing it for years, tightening the restrictions every year. I'm just waiting for the 'allow apps to run from anywhere option' to be completely removed. It gets reset to 'allow apps from app store and certified developers' now as far as I can see on a constant basis, not even just upon OS upgrades.

Frankly, what it boils down to, is that the future of Apple laptops as general purpose computing devices is questionable (and has been for years) given the iOSization of the OS. And I'll be damned if I pay thousands of dollars to only run what Apple approves. But if others are paying, why not?