skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not disputing your practices, but I was in the same boat as you, then recently saw this article and have since relaxed a bit on some of the cleaning protocol we've been following: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/scourge-hy...
<3 this so much. I made my leap to self-employment the first time in 2006 on the back of a Mac del.icio.us client called Pukka. I've been an avid user of Pinboard (though, these days, not in the social way) but regardless I'm glad to see del.icio.us come back.
Lawsuits only really work if you know who to sue. And if they live in a country that will honor your country's court's decisions. And if they have money.
It's a good idea to never run hand-crafted data mutating queries against a production DB. Nervousness is fine but CTEs are extremely useful - at our company we insist on automated tests around SQL that will be run against the prod DB and that makes me quite happy. Just make sure the devs prove their CTE is correct before letting it touch the data.
What's special about this? They release a new Technology Preview every 2 weeks or so.
Interestingly, "last 0 versions" gets you 98% coverage.

"last 1 versions" is 76%.
"last 2 versions" is 86%.
"last 99 versions" is 98%.
I'm a big fan of Stadia but really can't argue against this thought process. It would be nice if Google had some way of marking products that were potentially going to be cancelled vs those that have passed the threshold and will not go away unless Google is in danger of going away completely.

Reader really looks like the breaking of a dam in hindsight.
From the article:

"A researcher says he has uncovered the precise location where the artist painted “Tree Roots,” thought to be the last piece he worked on the day he suffered a fatal gunshot wound."

I really dislike clickbait titles, though it's an interesting article.
Another vouch for Sanity here.
By 95 texting was pretty ubiquitous in Japan and Europe.
When you get to that level of money you end up associating with other people of the same status. They're all acquaintances or friends and share similar concerns.
Yes, hunger is currently a logistics problem, not a production problem.
Pinboard Will archive your links for you, costs a little extra but whatever.
What about providing some empirical evidence on how to choose a network? It's not enough to list a few alternative architectures - how are readers supposed to know which ones are worth trying first? This seems to be a problem in deep learning - too many seemingly important model parameter choices are more often than not just selected based on author preference.
Will they tell us how they share data with the CCP?
Interesting. I’m surprised they didn’t opt to do this inline with the rest of the ruby code, because now they can diverge from each other. It’s a bit like a separate header file in C/C++/Obj-C, except in those cases the compiler will yell at you if the implementation doesn’t match the header. Having it blow up at runtime instead doesn’t feel like such a big change from the way it is now, other than helping out IDEs.
That's Google Glass, an entirely different product.

The glasses that are being discontinued / refunded are from a startup "North" which Google recently purchased.
When you buy the glasses, what exactly are you buying? Are you saying that you're literally just buying the locked down hardware and any software services running in the cloud are not included in the purchase? These services are provided purely out of kindness of the company?
Why is it the right thing to do morally and ethically? Didn't they earn that money?
There are security dimensions on which TOTP is worse. It's plausible for the SMS code to contain enough information about the login attempt to make the user realize they're being phished.

"Are you trying to log in from Ukraine? If yes, the code is 123456."

"Bank tranfer of 10000 EUR to account XYZ: verification code 987654"

TOTP obviously can't do this.
AMD and TSMC have really excellent relationship. Nvidia on the other hand does not, since it's rumoured most of their next gen GPUs are going to be made on Samsung 8nm because TSMC bid high against Nvidia and wouldn't budge. Apple might be the only company with a better relationship with TSMC than AMD. Apple and AMD together should be able to keep Intel's pressure low.
Hmm, when I use PP to refund to my clients, PP returns the fees - it's a line item in the ledger.
I'm having a hard time reading the last part. You lost your laptop? What made you disappointed?
Ok, what about everything else I said? Like distribution? Millions of users?
> I doubt most people outside of the UK know the University of Edinburgh. Everybody knows the top US schools.

My point was, that for 99% of Europeans living in Europe, there is absolutely no difference between a degree from Yale and a degree from University of Edinburgh.

Therefore, given a chance, probably 60-70% would still go to the UK rather than the US, just because it's much closer from home.
That's also a 30-year mortgage, paid off at the lowest rate possible, with no refinancing.

And also leaves out that the rate of inflation over 30 years means your monthly cost decreases; hopefully you're getting inflation adjustments to your salary...
Where do you work if you don't mind my asking?
Try to focus your attention on more productive endeavors. This is a very common phenomenon, people are attracted and in general have a positive bias towards powerful people, irrespective of how they acquired that power. That generally clouds their judgment. Think of it as a law of nature.
It's a bit of a strange one - often times this sort of person is a back-end specialist and maybe part of the data architecting team depending on the size of the company.

I'd not heard this title before and it is misleading to me since I strongly associate DBA with "has nothing to do with application code" so it's a bit of a contradiction to me personally.
The Developer’s Guide to SSO
The loss of confidence is the story. That is not reflected in the headline. The story is about sentiment. The headline implies a more serious undertone. It's not irrelevant. Clickbait and sensationalism is a big problem these days, if you haven't noticed. In fact, it may lead to the collapse of Western civilization. At least, that's my feelings on the matter anyways.
This depends on how you rob the bank.
No, it does not. It demonstrates that they were successful at getting a lot of people to install their dangerous software
The article is dated 1996. How does it have an IPhone reference?
Yeah, they should work. Mine does, at least! I'll have a live login page up soon.
> Once you're doing tricks like that, it's getting a bit unclear whether it's really a natural-language interface anymore.

It's not really a natural language interface. It tries to predict the word that comes next in a stream of text.

It knows how to answer questions because it has examples of journalist interviews, etc, in its training data corpus. It also happens to know lots of facts because they occur in the training data.

Adding a "prelude" before a question you want answered to provide context is a completely reasonable way to tell it what kind of task you want it to perform. If you wanted to make a "natural language" interface with GPT-3 for a given domain, you could choose a prompt string to put before every question to get the type of answer you would like.

Alternatively one could fine-tune GPT3 for the exact kind of task one would like to perform. But the surprising thing about GPT-3 is that this is often not necessary: simply adding some clever context is enough.
I'm pretty curious about this as well. I read an article a few weeks ago where some developer went into how TikTok is "worse" but nothing stuck with me about it but it was posted here. It's been mentioned a few times that the real problem is the data collected is sent back to China and Singapore but again I'm not entirely sure how that's "worse" than having it given/sold to companies and governments outside of Asia.
The apparently out of place reference to the iPhone in this article from 1996 is actually referring to the IPhone, one of the first internet appliances.
I was thinking I'd read that the head of the Uber self-driving car division at the time of the killing of Elaine Herzberg [1] is being pursued by prosecutors for her wrongful death.

Instead, it's about some IP stuff.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elaine_Herzberg
I don't think the OTFs "Information Controls Fellowship" https://www.opentech.fund/funds/icfp/ or "Rapid Response Fund" https://www.opentech.fund/funds/rapid-response-fund/ with their focus on technology and the internet are what people usually think of when they talk about "riots funded by the US".
What is Intel hindering from getting an ARM licence and outpace Apple? Is this unthinkable?
I can't say much about deployments I haven't seen, but I am using k8s at my current job and where we use it it works quite well and makes deployment easier. I can't tell much details but it's basically processing a bunch of data in real-time in a bunch of ways, organizing them in certain manner and serving certain set of queries from the result. Before anybody asks, no, it's not ads and not clickstreams or anything like that :) And deploying with k8s seems to work decently with that.

Moreover, I can see quite a few places where on my last job (which didn't use k8s) introducing k8s deployment could help in some places. That said, "one size fits all" is never a good strategy. But I think saying "people are using k8s because it looks good on their CV" is wrong. It has its uses, just don't put it where it doesn't belong.
For sure. I don't think "but they're popular!" is an all-purpose argument against regulation, but I do think it's a reason to be skeptical of these kinds of public shaming hearings we're seeing.
It’s an interesting comment history and the pro CCP angle is pushed hard.
However that doesn’t mean views are necessarily always wrong - though mine are in strong opposition.
@Dang has a horrible task dealing with this stuff.
That's not how the first sale doctrine works.

The first sale doctrine just means that you can re-sell a physical product embodying some IP without needing to get a license from the IP-owner to make the sale.

Technically, for refund/warranty/other ownership purposes, the second-hand buyer now stands in your shoes, and should be entitled to the refund. You could theoretically claim it yourself, but in many states would be committing fraud in doing so.
It’s almost as if making something ‘simple’ and ‘lightweight’ doesn’t let you escape the complexity of the real world in which you have to use it.
It's plain to see how Blender benefits the big companies that are supporting it. So how would a FLOSS alternative to Adobe CS benefit anyone except end users who can't/don't want to pay?
CMD+Z for Git
Apple keeps on abusing their dominant market position to make huge profits at the expense of small developers. They subject apps to huge fees, then release competing apps at the same price (such as Apple Music). They prevent companies from selling ebooks on from their apps without taking a huge cut, again, despite the fact that they have a competing app in iBooks. These are perhaps the most egregious examples, but the list is very long of other complaints.

How long will they get away with this before antitrust regulation kicks in? They are so focused on extracting rent that they keep on poking this sleeping bear, and it eventually will be a huge problem for them. If they don’t reverse course, expect to see large reductions in their profits and stock price when this happens.
Another comment suggested that he got this information from the "about my mac" popup, which only shows the dedicated GPU when connected to an external display or when using an application that uses the dedicated GPU.

If he ran his benchmarks and then checked his hardware while writing this article then the author might've gotten confused by that.
Now can we trust what the diagrams say?
That's exactly what's happening. The developer actually loses 30% of the purchase price due to the refund (they are now 30% in the hole instead of break even).

Frankly from my point of view this is criminal. We kept payments for our product outside the app for years, and now Apple closes that ability too, by forcing any app that accepts payments of any kind to also accept Apple Pay. We've had to basically hide the ability to find it in the app so that people will go to the website first.

Apple seriously needs to be regulated.
There's several flavors of democrats. Wanting authoritarian government seems to be common to a subset of both parties.
> Do you think that today's internet giants should be subject to federal anti-trust review

But now you're asking something completely different, because "antitrust review" is done by the DoJ under existing law whereas Congress would be creating new restrictions that aren't already on the books ("increased regulation").

On top of that, the question is worded as if you're asking whether they should be investigated rather than penalized, which is also a different question -- basically asking if the government should enforce existing law rather than ignore it.
Of all the chatter around anti-trust, has anyone broached the app store and apple’s monopoly on iOS software?

I am using the term in a colloiquial, non-legalistic sense.

My fear is that politicians are invested in tech stocks, like the rest of us and pretty much anyone with a mutual fund, so they are unlikely to act in a pro-consumer manner.
To clarify, you are assuming (a big if since the poster made no mention of this) that 12g includes the weight of the paper and if you were to discount that weight then you would get a lesser amount of LSD? i.e. If the paper weighs 11 g then the actual LSD amount would be 1g.
No, not inconceivable. But still not relevant to me.
Let’s say an employee working for Bank A developed software there. Left Bank A to work for Bank B. Brought his software with him. Bank B has had to spend less money to develop that software and is more profitable had their employee not stolen the code. Bank A and Bank B are competitors. How much would this be considered theft?
Pinboard.in offers a pro account that will archive pages when you bookmark them. Won't help for the old lost stuff but will help for everything else going forwards. Also, it's a lot easier than manually exporting everything as pdf.
I guess in Europe iStuff isn't as overwhelmingly popular as in USA, so when I hear things like that I am always amazed at how could anyone (a developer) in their mind ever cooperate with Apple. Even writing and getting a new app to their store is a huge feat, they take a huge cuts when you make money, and when you don't they can charge you "30% of what you could make" anyway. This is just absolute nonsense.
I experienced that as well, but the reason we used Google at that time was the speed that was sorely lacking is all other offeri we used.
I'm raising a venture fund and working on some new projects in the meantime. I also do a bunch of plotter art stuff at http://instagram.com/jodhus
This was submitted just a couple days ago and didn't get noticed. Good to see it made the front page today.

I think the article drifts a bit far from "Local-First Software" but I learned a lot about the issues dealing with real time collaboration.

I'm just about ready to release a new version of a web app I first released in 2002 that offers a Local-First option. That's been a goal of mine since I first released it. indexedDB works, but that's a pretty awful option for the app I'm speaking of.

I'm using CouchDB to do this, and it requires the user install CouchDB on their desktop PC. That's a pretty big hurdle, but it's actually very easy to do. I think the hard part will be convincing users it's worth their effort.
To paint a government in a bad light is one thing. To rob its citizens of their humanity is another. A bad writer thinks they're equivalent.
The mechanism is that the software is developed and released under GPLv2+ terms and that Microsoft doesn't completely control ownership over the software. Ergo, there's no "extinguish" step. They can't make their changes a proprietary fork nobody else can use, they can't force you to use changes you don't want to get access to changes you do, and any other person making changes to Blender can use theirs.
Show HN: What does 100% mean in CSS?
You can convert your membership into the "Silver Plan", which charges you every other month. This way you're paying a bit less.

However, their silver plan is very hidden away and is only presented as an option when you go to cancel your account. And even then it might not work and you'll have to write to Customer Care to switch.
Real Photo of Zucc during the hearings
A Field Guide to ZkSNARKs II: Arithmetization and Quadratic Arihmetic Programs
I mean, do you ever doubt that Search, Gmail, or YouTube will ever get shelved? Seems like only the niche things get binned.
Cool. And glad to see this called out:

Better IDE integration: Parsing RBS files gives IDEs better understanding of the Ruby code. Method name completions run faster. On-the-fly error reporting detects more problems. Refactoring can be more reliable!

IDE support (autocomplete, refactoring and quick documentation) is the most important reason to annotate argument and return types.
To me, drawing a diagram saying how it works isn’t really gonna do it. How can anyone know you are telling the truth?
Pre-Pandemic Facial Recognition Algorithms Falter in the Presence of Masks
It could happen here [audio]
Good luck proving that intention in court!
Yes, because your friends have access to information which may benefit them in ways that are deprived to me without the same information.

I’m not saying this should be legal / illegal / “right” / “wrong” - just that at a fundamental philosophical level if you create something and restrict its distribution, you are changing the world (the pool of total content / information) in a way that by definition harms some people.

This could be true in many ways. If you only produce printed copies, you’re harming blind people. If you only produce English copies, you’re harming speakers of other languages. If you only produce DRM’d copies through an exclusive distributor, you’re harming all parties that can’t access that channel of distribution.

Whether it’s ok to perpetrate this harm, as well as when and how and who should foot the bill for wider distribution, are very hard problems of the philosophy of population ethics.
True, I was pleasantly surprised at those questions.
Except that we actually have steered away from this course, though not through any conscious decision. More economically developed nations tend to have lower birth rates, with the most affluent somewhat below the rate of replacement. In my opinion, the best method to curb population growth is to get more of the world up to that standard - and energy production is evidently a huge factor. See for instance the work of Hans Rosling.

And either way, energy-intensive practices wouldn't accelerate environmental destruction, they would enable us have a smaller footprint in the natural world through, for instance, vertical farming (currently infeasible because electricity is more expensive than sunlight), carbon capture, switching from aquifers to desalinated seawater, etc.
The prescriptions in "If you’re a security conscious user..." make sense to me. If you use a unique password, sms/totp adds very little benefit.

However the section for "If you’re a security conscious vendor..." doesn't make sense. Credential stuffing is so common, and sms/totp is a great tool against it. You could prevent users from setting their own passwords, but that seems a little "too different" from existing sites that it could harm usability.
The real question facing us now, I believe, is how is AMD going to compete with ARM-based silicon?

I believe that ARM is on the path to dominance due to performance per watt. Does AMD have a path to continue to win at that game?
https://qz.com/1683460/what-happens-to-your-itunes-account-w...

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208856

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250384392
nano 5.0 Released as a Big Feature Update to This Easy-to-Use Terminal Editor
According to Karl Marx, who had a reason to believe that; it backed up his ideology.

Hobbes thought that man in the state of nature had a life that was "continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short".

Watching nature documentaries about the lives of lions (and other critters) have me leaning towards the latter.
> > Unfortunately, it doesn’t work like that. When a service enables SMS-2FA, an attacker can simply move to a different service.

Furthermore, the suggested alternatives of U2F, WebAuthn, and FIDO would behave exactly the same! (Excluding perhaps passwordless authentication utilized by the hacked website.)
What "small island" ? I think you are confusing Hong Kong with Taiwan.
At some point it makes more sense to switch to Crystal.
But there is nothing to be set out. Either you play and win or you have already lost by not playing.

The only chance to sit it out would be a giant technological leap as in quantum computing, I just don't see that leap.
Ever since Google told me to buzz off when I contacted them about the bootloop of death that bricked my Nexus 6P immediately after an automatic software update, I haven't bought a single hardware product marketed by them or supported by them. I won't even let myself use Google Fi. They earned my distrust.
You have no legal cause of action if the company is refunding your purchase of the device in full, or if you already sold the device to someone else.

Moreover, there is a difference between disabling the functionality of the device and disabling the remote (i.e., cloud) software the device may depend on to function. The first might be legally actionable, but the second is not.
My biggest complaint about Steam is Valve’s retail sales. They sell a DVD with the installer for Steam and then you have to download from Steam even though you’re holding a physical DVD in your hands.

Me as a kid on Christmas morning 2004 unwrapping the Half Life 2 disc only to realize it’s a 6.5GB download over my 14.4k dial-up connection. My parents bought the physical disc for a reason, because we had a shitty Internet connection.

They definitely did not get everything else right.
> Then the author doesn't get paid.
Types help communicate information to the next developer. They're important, use them!
So are you angry at the platform restrictions or the App Store?

They are two different things.
Private companies are interested in getting real statistics, it was not like that in USSR.
Even on largest auto-factory (AvtoVAZ) programmers were creating software with intentional bugs, so they can fix it later, during pre-programmed outages and get some bonuses.
No one was interested in sending real statistics to Moscow, from head of local shop to head of large factory.
And if they are today, who knows what code changes are going in the pull request for the next day
I am totally blown away by this - I just had WebGL pegged as 'draw shapes on canvas, sometimes with colour'.

Thank you :-)
> For that low low price they'll also reject your app for random reasons and make it impossible to find in their store.

So much the same as the other stores then.

But the store feature I want to see from Apple is that if you provide the customer referral to your app yourself, Microsoft only takes 5%.
Returns are limited. At some point I returned 3 or 4 things pretty quickly, because I had an old iPad and some apps didn't advertise compatibility well enough and then you get put in a "special" category of "you can't get a refund unless you are very, very obnoxious or there is a very real reason".
Does this make any sense?

I mean, things we don't know are basically nonsense until proven otherwise.
A statement from the IRS - "For the vast majority of Americans, taxpayers keep 100% of their after-tax income"