skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not what we're talking about, though. If you suddenly don't have the market you used to, then it makes sense to cut down your workforce to be the appropriate size for the market you do have.

But that doesn't mean it's ethical to then throw money at your executives just to keep them around. If the business is viable with the smaller market and smaller workforce, then the executives should either stick around based on the company's future prospects, or leave. If they want to leave, then perhaps executives of their caliber aren't required to run the company given its new reality. Getting them to stick around by showering them with more money just increases wage inequality.
Game AI has very little, if anything at all other than name, in common with Machine Learning AI.

The answer is dont touch ML, start with FSM.
I think the title should be ‘Brazilian soya and beer exports linked to deforestation’ because surly ALL amazon exports of soy and beef would be linked to deforestation.
But...vee häff ze mächinz which make ze chips! (ASML)
good point. thanks will fix that
How can you? One is taking about 80% of the work and the other is talking about half the work. You would need a distribution of the work impact across the employee population first.
If anything it seems to me that doing the most work under constraint of resources is precisely what intelligence is about. I've always wondered why the consumption of compute resources is itself not treated as a significant part of the 'reward' in ML tasks.

At least if you're taking inspiration from biological systems, it clearly is part of the equation, a really important one even.
> Disabling everything would have been quicker

How do you know?

While it affected a bunch of popular accounts it didn't really disrupt Twitter for the rest of the user base or put them at huge risk. Disabling all accounts is maybe not even that easy to do on a scale like that where maybe then you are getting overwhelmed by retries / errors from all kinds of apps and it's even harder to control the whole situation. Just disabling high profile accounts seemed like a pretty good workaround.
Doing something real actually takes effort.
Yes thats the plan, an all-in-one tool.
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(Ask HN:) At this point, if you want to create a cross-platform hardware accelerated application, is it better to use a game engine like Unity rather than an application framework like Qt?

At work we have an upcoming GUI project that has lots of classical dialogue boxes, but also has a main display area that really needs to be hardware accelerated, and can show 2d and 3d stuff. It needs to be cross platform including mobile. I'm at a bit of a loss where to start.
> allows people to seed torrents that can be fetched by browsers.

The ephemeral nature of tabs discourages reciprocity, so I don't think supporting browser use is good for preserving content availability.
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Krita started in 1999, but back then, there was no discussion at all; Krita was a KDE project so it would use Qt. The project was actually created because of a bit of ruckus over a patch that integrated Qt with GIMP.

These days our team is humongous: we have seven sponsored developers!
"If it were possible to pee on a stick as a self test, everyone would be ecstatic - but it's not, so far."

It is possible.

Listen to episode 640 of This Week in Virology[1] for details.

[1] - Starting at about 6'20" - https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-640/
Do you have a source on that? Anecdotally, I'm better at recognizing threats after my company instituted annual training as well as simulated attacks.
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I think it requires a certain mental state of almost complete lack of empathy to enjoy meat though. If you eat meat and never think about these issues, you simply don't care.
That seems to be the "common sense knowledge", but I see little evidence to back that up. Yes, certainly for a specific company, coming out of bankruptcy is more valuable than not, but I'm not convinced it's always a net positive for society as a whole, especially if doing so requires things like exacerbating our already messed up wage inequality situation.
I'd argue that you're probably holding yourself to a standard that is more/less unachievable in such an interdependent world. It's idealistic and idealism is a square peg in the funny shaped hole of reality.

Taking accountability and having backup plans are extremely important, but you simply can't remove every last shred of dependence. You eventually have to accept that there are things that are out of your control and may take you by surprise despite best efforts.
> tech teams certainly aren't going to voluntarily make their jobs harder without word coming down from above

SourceHut does this. It's not a categorical impossibility, but I agree devs are generally going to be inclined to continue with 'business as usual'.

Does it really make dev work that much harder though? I'm not really qualified to comment. Presumably it's going to simplify things in at least some ways.

> do your company a favor - educate those in charge about how much page load time matters.

There you have it - the people making the case for less JavaScript may be the devs themselves.
Might find more if you search for Birger Sørensen. He is kind of legit from previous work however he is viewed as a fringe character in Norway with this, and "no-one" supports this.
Compared to what? Not much is known how powerful that chimeric virus was compared to CoV-2. Could please elaborate where did you get that notion from&
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It’s one thing to have a different opinion and giving constructive feedback. Asking someone to delete their repo is way over the line. If you don’t like it, simply don’t use it and move on with your life.
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The author doesn't seem to reference it but the title looks to be a riff on the 2015 article "Come for the tool, stay for the network": https://cdixon.org/2015/01/31/come-for-the-tool-stay-for-the...
I said it makes me less likely to be charitable. I try and read every paper with a skeptical mind.
Shareholders should (and do) accept it because it’s what’s best for those shareholders at that moment in time.
Don't today's bloated, slow-loading pages already use these CDNs?
Really great thanks.
That’s $23 Billion over 6 years. Compare that to Apple in one quarter.

Actually now reports are that it’s up to $12 billion that Google pays Apple.

https://fortune.com/2018/09/29/google-apple-safari-search-en...

> What about Google cloud infrastructure and Sass that they deliver?

Around $10 billion in revenue and no telling how little in profit. GCP is a distance third.

> Of course, not photo books are likely not selling at the scale of other products. Also, I meant Google One for storage, which I pay for, and you can buy photo books via Google Photos.

If DropBox is number one by a large margin and can’t make a decent profit, how well do you think Google is doing? But that is also included in the $10 billion revenue for cloud.
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Simple Ops does these
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• website health
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Generally, national academies of sciences are very highly regarded.

In the case of CAS, Wikipedia says that they've been the number 1 institute on Nature Index for years.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01230-x
They’re not being compensated for their loss. They’re being compensated to stay and try to fix the company going forward.
I dont get it

The premise is stupid and incorrect.
Spotted a copy bug: "Monitor your website's health performance & performance".
> You mean like how America takes more than the rest of the world?

It is interesting how these discussions about "inequality" play out within America. I've traveled a small amount outside of the US/EU and have many close friends from poor countries and it strikes me that a real move towards equality would likely result in a step downward for nearly all Americans, even those who consider themselves poor and disadvantaged by American standards.

I'm not saying this isn't something to pursue within a country on its own merit, but some of the absolutist moralistic rhetoric used in these discussions definitely betrays living in a bubble.
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The same happened with HIV, these kind of conspiracy theories are inevitable. People always want to blame someone, even when there is overwhelming evidence that a natural catastrophe occurred. Remember the Italian seismologists who got sued because they didn't predict an earthquake?

Fact is that if the virus escaped a lab, the incident could have occurred in any other lab, too. It likely evolved naturally, though, and another fact is that it could have occurred naturally in many places in the world - e.g. in the Middle East or in Africa -, and a more dangerous virus could evolve in many regions of the world at any time.

Many people just don't want to accept this, especially those who reacted in the wrong way to the pandemic initially. It's always easier to blame someone else.
> as it's currently uncontested

What indication is there for it being true?
UK/Italy/France which will contract by 22-30%

Not sure where they got those numbers, France is projected to see a 10% decline, not 30%.

https://publications.banque-france.fr/en/macroeconomic-proje...
It’s probably easy to say this as an outside party, but anyone with the most basic understanding of Junos would have known that by deactivating all of the entries in the from section of a policy or policy term, the accompanying from section would apply to all routes.
Au contraire, you would expect random bat viruses to be incredibly virulent in humans.
The immediate action is only for people that matter.
If you are a shareholder in a failing company and looking to hire a turnaround CEO, do you want them to be bleeding the company dry in high salary every month or do you want them taking a modest cash salary each month and have their economic incentive be to drive the turnaround of the equity in the company, so they get paid for saving your investment not for putting in the months?
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OpenGL works badly on MacOS and even worse on Windows unless translated through Angle. On Windows, using OpenGL directly will give performance problems and crashes _all the time_. And weird bugs, like red and blue swap on some combinations of AMD GPU's and driver versions.
Here's my unorthodox take. If I do the morally right thing and decide to stop eating beef, why should I be punished by not getting to eat beef?

It sounds silly but I'm not kidding. If I could vote to reduce the global production of beef by one average person's consumption, I would do so immediately. I would probably continue to eat it though. I'm aware that many people would make the same choice, and this will result in raising prices and harder availability of beef, but that's fine with me.
If we hit a recession, you should see more and cheaper on the resale market. During the last recession there were a lot of these chairs available.
One of the problems with using a framework for a non-trivial project is that you get locked into the framework. If the framework decides to change something in an update that you depend on, it can mean non-trivial rewrites unless you could expect the development already. Most frameworks tries to be close to 100% backwards compatible and grow in complexity because of it. Others change a little at a time. And then some does big breaking changes or rewrites and calls it version 4.0. That makes it increasingly hard to find help online.
I'm open to suggestions for FadiChehade.org.
I find your lack of faith disturbing.

[0] https://taskandpurpose.com/news/navy-aircraft-carriers-south...
> First, most executives have little impact on the specific event that put the firm under. (I was a senior marketing person; the building burned down. Fire safety was most assuredly NOT within my purview or even something I could ask about)

That's perhaps reasonable for you, but business succession planning and disaster contingency planning is the job of the board and executive team. They made a choice to discount the possibility of a building fire taking out the business, and that's a failure they should be accountable for. Or, worse, they didn't make a choice, and didn't even think of that risk. And yet now they're being "rewarded" with a bonus so they'll stick around to fix their mistake after it's too late?

At the end of the day you have a company full of people, and you're going to lay most of them off. Given the financial distress the company is in, they're not going to get much of a severance package, especially since you "need" to throw much of the remaining money at the executive team to keep them around. And for what, really? So a bunch of high-paid executives can pat themselves on the back that they "heroically" brought a company back from the brink? That's little comfort to the people who got laid off and struggled to find a new job before their severance ran out.
> If not, and you own the physical capacity yourself, wouldn't you do away with CloudFlare entirely?

Cost could be an issue. We had something similar (not in the same context) in a company I worked for before. We could shift traffic, but that would cost 2-3x more, so it was not the preferred path unless we had problems.

It surprises me that many (big) companies did not learn the lesson already. We had a similar thing happening already years ago with dyn in 2016 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Dyn_cyberattack), and it was surprising how many companies relied on a single DNS provider.
Is there an open access version of this?
Good catch. Thanks mate, will fix it.
> Why would a gain analysis try to find ways in which a virus could be made weaker?

You're presuming it was for gain analysis. What if the intention was different? What if you were ultimately considering the virus for bio-warfare and wanted to hide that intention?

If we're going to explore theories this fits the evidence, or is at least possible.
Shareholders don’t pay these packages out of a sense of justice. They do it because it’s the best business option they see as available.
In case of WebComponents it could have a small sane layer on top that wouldn't be too large. See WebComponents vs Polymer: [1]

As it stands now, it's nigh unusable by developers. Almost no frameworks even use it as their foundation. And those that do compile to them go out of their way to never ever use it anywhere except in base classes, maybe: [2]

As a result, today, 9 years (!!!) after they were first proposed, the very person who proposed them relegates them to "webcomponents will be used incidentally not totally" [3]

[1] https://twitter.com/dmitriid/status/865518972380237825?s=20

[2] Stencil compilation: https://twitter.com/dmitriid/status/1283445578853158917

[3] https://twitter.com/slightlylate/status/1283053719563563008
twitter does not really care that much. They care enough to possibly do something is it gets enough media coverage or enough high profile people people complain about it, but otherwise it is not their problem . They have let giveaway bitcoin scammers make presumably millions since 2018 by impersonating Elon Musk and others. Social networks are not in the business of protecting their users from scams or protecting user data from hackers. The main priority is growing the platform and generating more clicks and views to sell more ads.
> I don't understand why we're not seeing for-real effective contact tracing from our governments yet.

The trump administration does the worst thing possible in any situation.
Here are some demos, I believe this is the same algorithm: https://jmvalin.ca/demo/rnnoise/
When doing research on QoE and QoS for page and video loading i remember the upper threshold of QoE being ~100ms, and every 100ms delay would have significant impact on sales. 3-4 seconds would be considered as a joke back then.
Over 70 percent of the soybeans grown in the United States are used for animal feed... ️

https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/coexisten...
Edit: I'm very wrong about the terminology here.

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CoV-2 is way more virulent than SARS, as evidenced by the fact it's spread across the entire world. SARS might spread more easily from contact, and it does more damage once it's inside you, but that's only one component of virulence. MERS is also not really comparable - it's very difficult to transmit between humans.

I get what you're saying but practical effects just matter more than isolated metrics. Viruses that transmit asymptomatically are more likely to be virulent, because you can't isolate patients. If you're trying to engineer a virus, you want to make it transmit faster than it kills people and you want to make it hard to quarantine.
Hey, looks cool. What's (in your opinion) the real difference between "indie hacking" and a proper startup? (Apart from the legal entity)
they can do the classic fake error page or fake server overloaded page . few would suspect anything
That goes for any activity that is harmful on any scale at any time frame. Smoking is obvious. Skiing? Your accident rate is higher than average, taking away health care resources from people who also need them, also nature is being negatively impacted. Watching Netflix? Have you ever thought about the power your TV needs, and the resources used to manufacture it?

That goes on and on. You may draw a line somewhere and declare "no, from here on it's nonsense", but there's no objectivity, there's no reason why the line should be exactly there, and not, say, on the other side of eating meat.
I'll check it out... Does it use QML and the scenegraph, or does it have a custom C++ canvas widget implementation?
Meth is produced locally no? Wasn't that one of the main reason meth became much used.
The only thing that might save us is proper taxing of every industry with negative externalities.
>I think it requires a certain mental state of almost complete lack of empathy to enjoy meat though.

Empathy for who/what exactly? Eating a steak is not going to cause anybody any measurable pain. Empathy means feeling what somebody else is feeling.
There have been multiple corruption cases surrounding BER which also explains the level of incompetence at display here.
One way of discovering what increases property X is testing that some change decreases property X.

Another way of discovering what increases property X is testing that some change indeed increases property X, while also discovering it decreases property Y.

While attempting to increase both X and Y, they made an intermediate with increased X and decreased Y. Perhaps it seemed a promising starting point to also increase Y.

I don't get the surprise. This is all par for the course in research.
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Whenever people start speculating that some dumb crime is a small part of some mastermind plot, you can rest assured that it's probably not.
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> The state of graphics and compute APIs is utter insanity.

It looks like Vulkan is going to be the best-supported common platform for compute, at least for modern hardware. They need compute in the standard to support the core graphics use case anyway, so we might as well use that same support for general-purpose tasks. On Apple platforms, MoltenVk can implement Vulkan support on top of Metal
John Carmack has some ideas on how to use immutable copies of the game state and functional programming concepts to create something that's easily parallelized. I saw it in an old QuakeCon keynote: https://youtu.be/Uooh0Y9fC_M
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I see no reason to support OSX 10.11 anymore, just like I don't see any reason to support Windows 7 anymore. We have stay on Qt 5.12 because we haven't got the time/are too lazy to fix the bugs in later versions of Qt that break Krita, especially on Windows.
Exactly. It's Twitter; nothing of value was lost. The recreationally outraged cancel mob had a minor setback.
If's funny. Exec compensation is often equity-heavy under the belief that, since their comp is tied to company performance, they'll be incentivized to do things that make the company perform.

But then when the company fails to perform and the equity is wiped out, we've decided that the exec should get a bunch of money to compensate for the equity loss, even when that equity loss happens completely as a part of the design of the compensation structure in the first place!
Discussed a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23857433
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If posting memes is dangerous, it's not because of Twitter, it's because the media's only occupation nowadays is blowing things completely out of proportion with their Trump Derangement Syndrome.

I assure you that World War III will not start because of a (real or faked) Tweet by President Trump, as much as CNN et al. are praying for it.
I never saw a personalized ad to an actual good offer or thing that I didn't really knew about and was interested in. Personalized ads usually show me stuff that I've already purchased. Also, it's like someone pressuring to keep buying somethig and telling your brain "remember, you wanted this, you need this".
You're confusing virulence and infectivity. Virulence is specifically how severe a virus is. For example, one might say that Hepatitis is more virulent than the common cold.
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From the article:

> For the properties to be eligible for forced purchase, they must have no tenant contract for two years and no record of recent power or utilities use, meaning that occasionally-used second homes do not appear on the list.
Why do you want to? If you're wanting to make a game, then just pick one you want and scale it down. I was curious about Unity some time ago and did a Lynda.com course (I had free access at the time through work) - it was pretty quick and easy and gave me a feel for unity.

Edit: unity has free courses to https://learn.unity.com/courses
Why are you afraid of phytoestrogens? they are lowering estrogen levels and don't affect testosterone.
> To put this idea in perspective, there are ~56 million students in the US. To do this daily for an entire school year at $1/test would cost ~1% of the trillion dollars allocated spent in the first relief bill.

Which $1 test currently in production would this be? And as a point of context, there’s been nowhere near the ~10B tests (I assume you’re talking about a 180 day school year) you’re proposing administered _worldwide_. Furthermore, what factory produces and ships 56 million of anything on a daily basis? I’ve said this before but I think HN readers suffer from thinking that everything in the world works like AWS in that you can just spin up unlimited “anything” on a moment’s notice.
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For anyone interested in trying this, you need to set the ENV var `CONTRIBUTORS_TOKEN` with your github API token, then create a README.md with the following sections:

### [{project}](https://github.com/{owner}/{project}/)

<!-- contributors-{project} starts -->
contirbutors will be auto-populated here
<!-- contributors-{project} ends -->

with the {owner} and {project} replaced, then after running authors.py the README will get auto-populated.

Very very cool.
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I don’t think the first one (anacrolix/torrent) supports WebTorrent, where did you read it?
This is widely practiced in politics (globally) in my country former presidents build non-profits (or "institutes") to receive these bribes in the form of donations.