skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fox Hunt. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fbi-director-christo...

As long as you have on single employee in China, you are vulnerable. Hell, even if your employee has relatives in China, you are vulnerable.
But that's kind of the point. Azure also likely doesn't make up the big chunk of the pie for MSFT Cloud. Many more business need O365. That still counts as cloud. By far the largest pure cloud provider is and will continue being AWS. GOOG and MSFT need to keep pushing their strong enterprise offerings to grow their infrastructure play.
reminds of of the quote attributed to Karl Rove

“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
> Maybe the simplest law to make it less of a shit deal for society is forbid the forbidding of charging different prices for cash vs card.

Agreed.

> Or something halfway, like forcing card companies to allow price differences up to x% of their charge.

If I want to use cash, why should I subsidize any portion of the credit card company? I don't see the logic of a half-measure.

I firmly believe that corporations (and other collectives) do not have rights, individuals have rights. This is a prime example where refusal to regulate corporations harms individuals.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23839314.
Sure do and I love them. I have some literally 10 year old gym shirts that look almost brand new. I have a hoodie I wear in cool weather and I’ve had athletic pants. So comfortable and so high quality. Def recommend checking it out.
I said he was a communist appeaser. Curation is one thing. Let's not pretend like this motherfucker doesn't bend over backward and start singing about rules and civility when china is involved. That's fine, Its his website whatever, but let's not pretend he's not some sophist pussy like so much of the rest of america. He's like the dominant force of super sino simp on this site.
At my school our professors actually did this split very well. They had a chime sound when an online hand was raised, they always prioritized those students, and they had good tech to display their screens both in the classroom and online.

With the right tech and competent teachers, it’s completely doable in my experience.
One thing this Pandemic brought about is the importance of contactless payment. Exchanging cash is unhygenic. Signing credit card receipts is unhygienic. Doing away with pennies should just be a starter.
they would be helping the SEC sniff it out though.
I’ve found Verizon’s people to be useful/helpful in the past. If this puts them out of work, I’ll be somewhat sad. It won’t lower my bill any, that’s seems certain.

My Comcast experience probably wouldn’t be hurt by replacing them with even a slightly malevolent AI.
Completely OT but these announcements for acquisitions, new releases etc:

Why are they always excited?

We are really excited that Electric Imp is now part of the Twilio family.

:

Now that Twilio and Electric Imp have joined forces, we’re more excited than ever to see what you build.

I get professional pride; it just always seems a bit overdone and insincere when it's phrased like that - though I'm sure in some cases (and no doubt this one) the participants really do feel excited.
During the shutdown of Cambodia when direct information was not known Chomsky correctly pointed out refugees lie.

Which is the problem of just learning factoids and just stating them. In this case he was horrifically incorrect with his conclusion.

Perhaps due to his left wing bias, that's the part that's hard to know, but I guess what we really are asking.
The power of SQL is that you don't even have to make the decision "when would the predictive model be updated? " . This could be configurable and be dependent on the data that you can find in the tables.

Also, another solution that is sort of the opposite is Datasette. https://datasette.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
Just to clarify - don't allow retweets with a reply? I like this idea to get around the sort of "dunk tweet" culture (assuming I'm understanding your point correctly)
Zhang Yiming, ByteDance's owner, is a Chinese citizen who lives in Beijing. The real problem is the latter part, in that PRC can do whatever physical enforcement on him. While I don't doubt his intention to keep TikTok separate from international politics as far as possible, but I am 100% sure that if CCP doesn't like Zhang's "lack of patriotism", it will teach him a lesson even if it's a unlawful way. They did it to Jack Ma, so the same thing can happen to Zhang.
I lived on a houseboat in Sydney for a few years. It was by far the cheapest lifestyle I have ever lived in this city, but it is not really lawful as I was on a swing mooring.

My fees for the mooring was only a few hundred dollars a year,

Live aboard tenants are generally only permitted in serviced marinas, and these get very expensive.

I was able to live on my vessel as I was in a small bay off The Georges river which flows into Botany Bay, and not Sydney harbour, where the rules are strictly enforced by authorities.

The water police on the river did not care about live aboards, and the local councils are only responsible for land until the high tide mark, so they didn't care either.

I once got a letter from some sort of port authority stating that living aboard vessels is not permitted, but it was not an actual enforcement notice.

The fact that you are (of course) permitted to visit or use your vessel at any time makes it either difficult, or costly, to prosecute I guess.
I don't know what they do so I can't say. We certainly have lots of code dedicated to such things.
I really think this is just a company that went to get the best deal because the homegrown offering wasn't as competitive. I still think having TikTok isn't in the best interest of the democratic west, but you're right. There is not sinister play here.
I made this same tech-stack decision while working for a company in the manufacturing industry. React, GraphQL, Node.js. There was a reason behind it.

The head of the company was pushing to modernize our process flow via software meant to drive manufacturing. We had contractors on site from three different companies who were each using us as a test-bed for their software/manufacturing integration. Every week or two they'd plot out some new data they'd need to move from sales to engineering, manufacturing, QC, etc.

In our case, having GraphQL as a translation layer for the sales website saved everyone involved time. However, I can also see many scenarios where that wouldn't have been the case.

It definitely comes down to using the right tool for the job. Knowing how to identify which tools fit and which don't is one of the skills it's very important to help new devs develop.
The US government and corporations are basically one and the same. The USG will extend deals that favor corporations. China is an "enemy" to the extent that it will harm the profitability and flexibility of US corporations or the military empire that supports US market dominance.

To think that a country half a world away would factor into calculations in any other way is a misunderstanding of great power politics. There is no military threat to anything a normal person would consider domestic interests.
And when you don’t have an internet connection... which is why I might be calling in the first place. See the Comcast comment.
Second and third generation Indian kids will leave all of it behind. It is an anomoly there are so many first generation Indians in the United States at once. It will change. Getting to top level jobs ($500k +) in any workplace is always a struggle.
Just heard about it today, and just started using it today! Any other cool tricks I should know about?
Note that the SEC cannot press criminal charges, but they can send evidence to a federal prosecutor (e.g. the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York) who can initiate criminal cases. They also like to advertise their cases: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr?f%5B0%5D=field_pr_topic...
RocketUrBiz – Workflow automation software for real estate
I find Chrome infinitely more pleasant to develop in: those developer tools just rock.
As a user though, Safari just feels smoother, seems to render pages better, and feels more native. If it had webm support it would be close to perfect for me.
Replacing all money with copper-coated currency like pennies would probably be more hygienic, considering copper is one of the most effective anti-microbial things out there.
I think being executable is really key, because one way I check my understanding of code is to make modifications to the code and see if they do what I expect them to do.
Some questions I had - which might spurn ideas. Obviously some may have undesirable side effects, some are technically challenging etc.

Q: if emojis didnt count towards character count, would the discourse on twitter be any better?
Q: What if tweets has a minimum character count, instead of a maximum?
Q: What if you could just detect Ad Hominem - https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-2028.pdf
Q: What if Twitter had moderators?
Q: What if you had a reputation on Twitter - and your reputation determined your reach?
Q: What if you subscribed to topics and ideas - not to people?
Q: What if Twitter fact checked every post?
Q: What if there is no concept likes? OR what if there were downvotes as well as up?
Q: What if it were easier to mark something as harmful?
Q: What if the community was always kept small?
IMO, this is just some who cannot keep up, whining
Not an issue for your cable company.
I am not sure what you are arguing. Someone said that retirement works “on paper”, and you get 20% more. I pointed out that “on paper” you get more than double what you put in.

All of these other issues you raise have nothing to do with the financial illiteracy leading to the idea that you save for retirement just to get an incremental return rather than a multiple (or two, really, depending on timing) of what you put in. Perhaps if this were more well known, people would invest more at age 22.

tl;dr we’re talking about “on paper” here, investment works as advertised (In fact, much much better than the original poster believes it advertised). All of the things you bring up here are about scenarios that aren’t “on paper” any more.
It does not mean that. HN is a curated, moderated site; it always has been. Moderators do lots of things that aren't commented.

There isn't any class of things we do that is secret, though.
That's fair. I should have quoted the first two sentences of my parent explicitly:

> Most of the achievements people ascribe to him aren't even his. Musk bought the company then gave himself the title of 'founder
Money can buy you everything. The country is so poor that what is left is money. Done. No; when is infrastructure is just a hardware where you run your software. When is the software hack that push a button send info back to China or analysing in American soil using American expert but helping communist to slightly bias and ... Is an American firm can be trusted even. And a Chinese controlled one?
Here's the rest of the quote:

> A larger example of this sort arose in an atmospheric model (a component of large climate model). While such computations are by their fundamental nature “chaotic,” so that computations will eventually depart from any benchmark standard case, nonetheless it is essential to distinguish avoidable numerical error from fundamental chaos.

> Researchers working with this atmospheric model were perplexed by the difficulty of reproducing benchmark results. Even when their code was ported from one system to another, or when the number of processors used was changed, the computed data diverged from a benchmark run after just a few days of simulated time. As a result, they could never be sure that in the process of porting their code or changing the number of processors that they did not introduce a bug into their code.

> After an in-depth analysis of this code, He and Ding found that merely by employing double-double arithmetic in two critical global summations, almost all of this numerical variability was eliminated. This permitted benchmark results to be accurately reproduced for a significantly longer time, with virtually no change in total run time [3].

The keyword is "numerical variability." Here's the referenced article: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1008153532043 Choice quote from the article:

> In climate model simulations, for example, the initial conditions and boundary forcings can seldomly be measured more accurately than a few percent. Thus in most situations, we only require 2 decimal digits accuracy in final results. But this does not imply that 2 decimal digits accuracy arithmetic (or 6-7 bits mantissa plus exponents) can be employed during the internal intermediate calculations. In fact, double precision arithmetic is usually required.

The problem isn't lack of precision. The problem is numerical instability when adding up a bunch of numbers with high absolute values but since they were roughly evenly positive/negative, their sum was approximately 1. IEEE-754 floats, as useful as they are, are just bad at this, and adding more bits isn't a solution, it's a punt. They used Kahan summation or Bailey summation and the problem went away. No 128 bit hardware floats required. (Kahan summation is very well known, Bailey summation is new to me)

Here's my point: if double precision floating point doesn't satisfy your needs, you should dig into the problem and understand why. Understand first, write code second. 999/1000 the solution isn't "we need 128 bit floats", and for that .1%, we're waaaay better off telling those people "Sorry, do it in software and take the performance hit."
Do not accept the premise of assholes (2018) [video]
I think there's some nuance here. It's not illegal to know that someone is an informant, you just can't publish their information.
>> Each satellite only has 20gbit/sec per beam of capacity.

How many beams per sat? What's the minimum angle/distance between them?
Trump, like it or not, is an elected official and I doubt he understands very much about tech to make that decision on his own.
Does anyone else have codified principles and how useful are they?
At my small startup, we've been codifying our design and engineering principles to a much greater degree ever since COVID forced us remote.

You can find them here: https://www.shapedlikeat.com/articles/a-few-design-principles

My question is, is this something folks outside the large Ubers and Airbnbs are doing and, if so, how useful have you actually found it? Is it something that is referred to often? Or does it become a relic that's lost in the depths of Notion.

Curious to get a pulse on how much of our current documentation spree is warranted and how much is overkill.

Cheers!
The IRS has a Whistleblower Office that pays out rewards to those who blow the whistle on others who aren't paying taxes.

Back in 2017 during the last crypto bubble, people were posting on reddit about cashing out and not paying taxes. Some of the accounts practiced zero opsec while claiming (and posting screenshots) of $500k+ sums.

I imagine there will be more similar opportunities during the next crypto bubble if anyone is interested.
The whole reason I did this project was to get back to patch level 0 so I could create a github repo of all the 2.11BSD patches....
Parents shouldn’t talk to kids in a diminutive manner either for that matter!
I bought a fairly pricey, but sturdy pedestal fan to endure the hot Australian summer. I read a couple of reviews and they were fairly favourable, but in the end I missed the key flaw: it has a giant bright white LED indicator to show the fan speed. It does not have an option to hide the LED indicator and so I've had to cover it up with paper to avoid my room lighting up at night.

I know the message has been echoed by a few people in this thread, but how hard is it to allow these indicators to be disabled or simply not install them on the device?
If the policy needs to include the category, surely it can elaborate afterwards: we collect data in category X, but only data of Y sort for Z limited purpose
Why not? If you pick your model well incremental updates to the model can be made fairly cheap.

An open source example that's relatively usable can be found at http://probcomp.csail.mit.edu/software/bayesdb/
Grant Imahara with a fricken Iron Man laser gauntlet blowing stuff up [video]
First Covid-19 vaccine tested in US poised for final testing
Not related to technology
It's hard to reverse apply 'rm /usr/src/bin/ld.c' in the instructions to patch 160, for example. You have to reconstruct ld.c from 2.10.1BSD, and then add missing changes to get it to work...
It could be an interesting website, but I really don't feel like scrolling horizontally all the time to read the text.
It's my COVID-19 insomnia project...
Personally I see this as coming from K8s having effectively two parallel uses.

One is for making it easier to manage large, complex infrastructure. The other is as a quasi-OS for containerized software.

Instead of using a new technology to move infrastructure complexity away from developers we now run development environments on k8s, piling even more complexity and layers of abstraction on.
Valley of Mismatch
Hmm, who is more efficient: the programmer who writes 100 lines then deletes them after finding them all unnecessary, or the programmer who (as implied) doesn't need to write the lines in the first place?
Seems like Apple is trying to appease China in order to be able to keep selling to that huge market. Just China using their bullying tactics. Nothing new, but very sad to see, especially for Hong Kong :(
Given Alphabet/Google's record of shutting down moonshots--or really services more broadly--what are the odds that Waymo is going to be around in a few years, especially if there'a a serious ad-tech fallout?

ADDED: Google has been pretty clear that they're only interested in door-to-door self-driving and not in incremental driver assistance or freeway-only hands-off. If that goal turns out to be something for an indefinite future--as seems entirely possible--I'm not sure why Google (of all companies) would continue to invest for decades towards an uncertain eventual goal.
No. 2.11BSDpl195 is the earliest one available. It's what was on the old PUPS disk... PUPS became TUHS (http://www.tuhs.org) and this is the oldest one there and none of the old timers that ran 2BSD in PDP11 have the original tapes.
Sarcasm or not, your post is racially insensitive, hence the downvotes.
> Yes. The industry moves at a snail's pace, and is very different from what you'd read on HN. A huge % of dev jobs are still using old software/processes, with managers that haven't written software in 20 years, if at all.

Spot on. Talented engineers can usually be picky and change job if they don't like the environment, but not everyone has this option. There's plenty of developers who are stuck in shitty companies (lack of skills/experience, or struggle with interviews, or just live in places with limited opportunities). And the longer you stay in a bad place, the harder it gets to escape it. 2 years ago I was the hiring manager for a few open positions and I was honestly shocked by some candidates. So many "senior devs" that despite having 5-10 years in the industry wouldn't have passed the interview even if they applied for a junior role.

It's very easy to have a distorted view of the industry if you are privileged enough to have only worked in great tech companies. I'm guilty of this myself, making friends with other devs in my city was definitely eye-opening for me.
The ghost of Nortel haunts thee.
> The US government and corporations are basically one and the same.

Not really. Corporations and the government fight about all kinds of stuff, like encryption, and handing over private information about their users. Companies try to buy influence through lobbying, sure, but that's a far cry from 'basically one and the same'.
Imagine:

We're actually pretty ambivalent that we've acquired Electirc Imp. Is this important news? Not sure, but we'll find out together.
In practice no people do not generally self report that is why there has been several high profile law suits from states wanting online businesses to collect state sales taxes on all sales shipped into the state

Before 2018 or 2019 unless a business had a physical presence in the state it was outsize the reach of that states laws on taxation, as the Federal government has the exclusive domain of regulating interstate transactions under the US Constitution.

However in 2018 or 2019 the Supreme court has ruled that a business shipping into a state provides enough "nexus" for a business to fall under state regulations on sales tax collection. All but one state now require any business shipping a product into the state with a total sales volume of more than $600 for that state must collect sales tax, one state says any sales at all you must collect.

So the "loop hole" of buying from out of state to avoid state sales taxes no longer exist as almost all businesses now need to collect all taxes for all taxing jurisdictions in the US of which there are around 10,000 different tax jurisdictions as many area's have city and/or county level taxes in addition to the state taxes making this is very complex issue

Companies like Amazon and Walmart in the past have advocated for some kind of National Standardization of Sale Taxes but that largely has gone no where as many states make up the majority of their revenue from 2 places, Property Taxes and Sales Taxes where the majority of Income Taxes go to the Federal Government

>>I wonder if states report what percentage of sales tax comes from businesses vs individuals.

Most states do have detailed reports of where sales taxes come from, in my state over 70% of sales taxes come from the sale of Automobiles as an example
Are studies of this sort still being done, perhaps privately at Fb or other social networks?

This study was unethical, and revealed something very scary about the potential of social networking, but I haven't heard much since then. Did they stop all research into social behavior, find ethical ways to do it, or just stop publishing publicly?
The irony is that many will say the same about the US invasion of Iraq and removal of Saddam Hussain.

Often there are no easy answers. Did Dodd know the full extent of the Khmer Rouge's crimes?