skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes I agree with you there. There are a whole host of blue collar crimes that have too high a penalty as well. I'm not saying don't change the sentences. Just noting the difference. I personally tried to convince multiple people that insider trading should be illegal and prosecuted (example of white collar crime that is hard to pinpoint someone who suffers directly). Between libertarian-minded people and very left-wing people, it's hard to convince some people I know that want to eliminate prisons (left) or regulations (libertarians), that we should be handing out penalties for certain things, let alone stiffer penalties. Prosecute fraud? I'm with you on that!
It might very well be a pain for the admins, but for low latency applications, ATM has clear advantages to the user.
Why is it assumed the order is unlawful?
What not to do is the better way to pose the question.
Lancet editor Richard Horton has harsh words for Trump, hope for science
I wonder how accurate it is to call the Falcon 9 the Model T of the rocket world.

I wonder how long we have to wait for the moral equivalent of the 65 Mustang, or even the '63 Stingray, complete with malfunctioning headlights.

Almost all scifi is SSTO craft, or craft that never enter atmosphere. Maybe if we start building skyhooks we can split the difference, and have craft you reuse with only minor maintenance between flights.
so the impurities/media are considered to be the drug as well as substance itself. Im not very confident with the idea that 1gram of pure crystaline LSD would bring a lesser sentence than a sheet of blotter with one drop on it.

it seems the war on drugs has caused more brain damage than any recreational drug. This is similar to stunts like draining the drizzle from beer cans into one empty can and declaring an open alcoholic beverage was concealed in a vehicle. LEOs can have thier respect back when they stop this sort of nonsense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_Hogg
This just looks like a few bug fixes and minor changes, I'm not sure what's noteworthy about this.
Just to add, PayPal is also most likely a credit card processor, serving as a Payment Facilitator (PayFac), which enables others to become CC Processors. It happens that PayPal and Stripe are money transmitters, which may come with being a PayFac.

Auth.net is a gateway/portal that facilitates CC transactions, and while you may be refunded on processing fees for the use of the gateway, someone, somewhere is likely eating the interchange and most likely occurring at the merchant level.
Recovered patients show damage in heart after Covid-19
Do Chinese people not use Chinese characters in their passwords?
I'm curious why you didn't shoot the surroundings and stitch it together into a panorama. Since you're in a studio you control the lighting. It shouldn't be hard to shoot the pictures for the panorama once and then spend most of your time shooting the baby. Any of the baby images should be able to be stitched into the rest to get a wider or taller image.
According to the previously cited case linked at https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/500/453/, the law is actually very specific about the weight being the whole mixture.
Björn Jonson – Developer of the modern servo ventilator
Perhaps you don't have any rural republican friends but as a centrist, I do. And I can assure you they wouldn't make it to the second paragraph. Diversity is important in more ways than one. Not including "white" voters is a recipe for failure.
Could be that this developer is confused, maybe the way Apple represent the data is confusing in the records or something... in which case my apologies for spreading false information, but he seemed pretty convinced!
i'm not entirely certain of the veracity of the source
It's kinda funny how the both the criticisms of the punishment as being too strict and too lenient are being constructed from the same left-leaning perspective.

1. It's inequitable that white collar criminals face lower sentences than blue collar criminals despite the nominal values involved being way higher

2. It's inequitable that people are being threatened with years in prison for non-violent property crimes against mega corporations.
Good thing there are so few of those. /sarcasm
I'm surprised you couldn't install the game itself from the disc. My physical copy of the orange box installed steam, but it also game with the game data on multiple discs.
Thanks for a different perspective.

The group think on here always reaches a fever pitch when it comes to Apple - HN is particularly susceptible to it
You proved the point (see my 4th paragraph).
Yeah that's a good callout. Some heavy cardstock vs. scritta paper would have dramatically different weights.
This just sounds like the traditional concept of nation.
FWIW, I don't recall ever seeing this in the UK - I've just tried an in-app purchase, and it just gives the "Double-Click to Pay" FaceID screen (which lists description, account, and price, but no information about refunds/exemptions).
Not familiar with the patent system, but this looks like HashCash https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash
I learned something checking that. A basketball (29½ inch circumference) indeed is only slightly larger (27 to 28 inch circumference) than a football.

I thought the difference was larger, possibly because of the volume (about 20% more) and weight difference (22-23 oz vs 14-16 oz)
For other readers: "Sorbet" refers to https://sorbet.org/, Stripe's Ruby type checker.
> and from the very very strong marketing push to NOT use the name "ARM" from Apple,

This is puzzling to me. I assume it's simple egotism. Apple marketing and also the user community at large tends to present their technologies as exclusive and product categories as invented by them, even when it's a stretch. This has a long history.
> What about when violent coercion happens under a capitalist system, like with Belgium and Congo, or blood diamonds? That makes it suddenly "not-capitalism"?

Are those things happening “under a capitalist system?” It seems to me like a situation where companies have to leave a capitalist country (Belgium) to take advantage of people in a country that doesn’t have a capitalist system and didn’t protect property rights and the voluntariness if exchange (the Congo). Is the Belgian Congo a manifestation of capitalism? By the same token, could you say it’s a manifestation of “parliamentary democracy?” I don’t think either makes sense, because the whole point is that capitalism/parliamentary Democracy aren’t operative in the Congo.

> You might be technically correct but it's semantic handwashing. If those atrocities due to the incentives in a capitalist system, it's entirely fair to pin them on capitalism.

“People want to steal other people’s resources and labor” is an incentive that exists in every system. It’s not unique to capitalism. Non-capitalist nations have been invading places and taking their resources for millennia.

> Otherwise it's no different than communism apologists claiming true communism has never been tried and therefore, things like the Holodomor shouldn't count against it - which is equally bad.

The Holdomor was a famine that was the result of a failure of central planning, which is a logical part of communism. Similarly, you could fairly blame say income inequality on capitalism. Or sweatshop labor, or unsafe workplaces.

But Belgian Congo is more like the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. That’s not a failure of communism just because a communist state was involved.
yep I was. China will also take Taiwan when they feel like it, Crimea-style.
It's not, unless you have a trademark, and even then only within narrow domains in which you've registered the trademark.

You don't own domains any more than anything else you lease.

In fact, if you read your registration agreement, you'll find out just how _little_ you own it.
So nice that they’ve decided this is what they want to go after the self-driving division of Uber for, and not the gross negligence that led to a woman’s death when their car plowed into her walking a bike across the street.
The 70s and early 80s is the USSR were universally regarded as the period of stability. So much stability that the official name of the period is "stagnation": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Era_of_Stagnation

This era ended by the USSR assuming the most stable position possible, i.e. dead. So I wouldn't over-promote the value of "stability" as such. Being stable is good if you're in a good place, otherwise it's deadly.
> That's how science is: open discourse.

It really isn't. And hasn't been. You can get burned at the stake or put under house arrest if you go back far enough.

I don't think it's an accident at all that science uses its own thick jargon instead of a simple approachable vocabulary. It filters out some of the people who will willfully misinterpret the results. Only later when things are pretty set did someone come along and explain it in layspeak.

I fear that a lot of the policy failings of late are caused in part by our attempts to democratize science.
What a disingenuous comment. Google gets what you want often in a box even before the search results.
Yep. A good IDE to a first approximation doesn't allow compilation errors to occur because you are auto-completing everything, including symbol completion based on the type at cursor, etc.

Jetbrains is a wonderful company.
Mark Zuckerberg emails outline plan to neutralize competitors
>The hack reveals that fitness tracking companies are vulnerable troves of sensitive data and aren't taking your privacy seriously.

This is what revealed it? Not the 2018 FitBit/Military debacle[0], or even Vice's own article in 2016 about sleep data from fitness trackers[1]?

If every time a major data breach happens we pretend like it's a huge surprise that no one could have predicted, we're going to have a harder time moving forward, I think.

[0]https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/28/politics/strava-military-base...
[1]https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4xav4w/what-happens-to-th...
The only way to truly roll back surveillance is political action to dismantle it at the state level. Unfortunately Snowden always points away from this avenue to niche, technological pseudo-solutions like cryptography which have by now proven unable to disrupt the system's functioning as a whole.

Of course, that political action could take many forms. In a 1968 short story titled 2068 A.D. Frank Herbert wrote:

"Prominent in 2068 history books is the account of the violence at the turn of the century when people revolted against computer control. Computer stored data (growing out of the old National Data Center) had been used to harass and persecute those whose views didn't conform with those of the majority. In the bloody revolt, most computers were destroyed, their data erased."
As a space fan, what a great filmstrip! Thanks for posting it for us to see.
There is no help desk that can give away your TOTP secret. That’s the big weakness with SMS, someone buys a phone and asks the clerk to give them your phone number.
If you can choose the password, people will also use passwords they use for other things.
Here is the link of how robots actually look like: https://www.badger-technologies.com/overview.html
You don't need to apologize. Not every blog post needs to include every culture on earth in equal representation.
If you measure success by installs then they were successful.
Many such decisions are made statewide. Even in one as blue as California there are significant voters in red counties. Exclude them at your peril, as was proven in 2000 and 2016.

The biggest failing with the democratic party is thinking that centrists or conservatives are not worth addressing, and it continues to earn them defeat.
Masks May Reduce Viral Dose, Some Experts Say
Not standing up for Google here as they've done this many times. However that being said I feel like there must be a better way of providing these sort of devices that depend on an external service so they can keep running.

I think in these cases there should be some sort of software 'escrow' type deal where in the event of them shutting down the companies that purchased them can go for full refund or the option of a partial refund but with the source code of the external services required to keep them fully operational. So if someone has built their model around a particular piece of tech they can continue operating until they have a proper solution to replace them.

Edit: Just realised I may have mistook these devices for those that are used by companies that provide training for specialist equipment (eg. Hololens). So my response was sort of company centric, not sure what a good solution is for ordinary consumer devices as I guess you can't expect people to run their own server just for the 'smart' features.
Agreed. This is just cement to bind together the tragedy that is the offshore capitalist empire, less and less freedom and less and less rights. I'm so disapointed with what was done to the world, it's turning into a homogeneous panopticon with no end in sight
Is Nintendo Making as Many Games as It Used To?
This act seems like it's 1% about holding big tech accountable or whatever, and 99% about stoking anti-big-tech rhetoric that the authoritarians in congress will try to harness into support for EARN IT and other surveillance bills.

Tech giants aren't angels, and ideally should reduce some of their anti-competition practices, but I don't think that's what this is really about.
Brett Kavanaugh tried to sidestep abortion and Trump financial docs cases
My experience with PayPal was that they almost always gave me my fees back when I processed a refund (there were corner cases where that didn't happen); it is possible the rules changed or that I am misremembering the extent of the cases when they don't, though (I haven't processed payments in a year and a half).
Another thing to take in count - he didn't ruin anyone's life so his life shouldn't be ruined either.
> making audiobooks is very labor intensive

I don't think it's any way close to writing a book first. But books are priced way cheaper for some reason.
I agree that these exclusivity deals are bad news for most of us but to be completely frank this is largely on the authors. They are the ones agreeing, ultimately, to these deals to line their own pockets at the expense of readers and potential readers. Yeah Amazon is evil but no one forces the authors into this.
> Typed languages are suitable for larger projects but are often less flexible. Untyped languages allow for rapid development, but scaling teams and codebases with them can be difficult.

Well some of us disagree with the statement that untyped is not suitable for large teams. And that's why we use Ruby. There is a lot of very good typed languages out there if you do want typed. I feel Square and Stripe are pushing their own codebase issues onto general Ruby - as it's our problem to solve - which is not cool.
Well written and informative, thank you for sharing.
It was a patent acquisition. North had originally purchased patents from Intel when they abandoned their Vaunt project. [0]. From what I've been told the reason they are shutting down the existing glasses is because they won't be hiring from the company. The founders were also not hired as part of the deal.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/19/intel-abandons-vaunt-smart...
That cannot be true or maybe you have a grandfathered account, as paypal absolutely does not refund the percentage fee. Same with Stripe.
The opposite question is why would they? This is all obsolete stuff and hosting it gains them nothing.
Theoretically sure you can "just fork it". In practice, for complex software, it carries enormous cost. In that case "just fork it" means "organize dozens of engineers willing to volunteer their time (or pay them)". For software complex enough, forking just isn't a feasible option.
Only processing fees aren’t refunded which is like 25 basis points for a mid size business.
Case study of a man who cannot consciously see numerals (2020)
You're sampling a 10-year span according to your argument. That's not enough time to ascertain if this is a bubble. I'd hold off on making assertive comments about the trajectory of Silicon Valley for now.
North's performance didn't beat inflation. It's worth less today than the money it raised in the past.
Copyright infringement is generally a criminal act if the act of copying provides an expectation of any type of monetary gain, where monetary is broadly defined to be anything of value [1][2].

So removing the DRM on something that you already have a license to consume? Not a copyright infringement crime. Sending a copy of the DRM free product to a friend who hasn't bought a copyrighted version? Yes a copyright infringement crime. Removing the DRM that limits your ability to consume the product unless you buy a specially licensed version of the product, when you haven't paid for it, yes a copyright crime.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Electronic_Theft_Act
But as I mentioned the downside of this is that any mistakes don't become evident until at runtime. While the python way has the same problem (they're not compiled languages after all), by inlining to the existing source there's less changes for divergence to happen.
Netflix. Amazon Prime. HBO. Disney+. HULU. Epic. Microsoft. GOG. Apple App Store. Google Play.

In most cases the regular plan is the family plan because most people live in a family and the extra features don’t harm people with individual accounts at all.
Ask HN: What to offer startup emlpyees instead of options
Lots of discussions about startup options not being worth all that much. Since a startup often cannot compete with established players what else can incentivise people to join a startup.
I meant all in the same thread. It’s hard to go through it all when threads get longer. Say a dozen or two pages. The same question might be asked 5-10 times. Then answered that many times too, but with varying correctness.

—

On what you wrote about, a good point too, just not what I was thinking of, I am cool with topics repeating. It makes sense for then reasons you gave.

I don’t remember any forum I used to go to that was really tight and strict with not allowing duplicates. Stackoveflow is what I think of for a place that really hurts the community with its strictness.
How does your raw operator work with data that contains a closing bracket?
I believe Zoom's continued struggle represents the state of software development in 2020.

1. Are you a software engineer?

2. How many "security" tickets have you been assigned in your career?

3. Has your employer ever paid for security training for you? (and I'm not talking about annoying powerpoint websites that teach you how to identify phishing emails)

4. Has your organization ever run a blue team / red team exercise?

5. Who is in charge of APPLICATION SECURITY at your company? (Not network security, or database security, but actual APPLICATION level vulns)

6. Does your organization scan for outdated dependencies? (Do you uncover CVEs in your software on your own, or do you check how bad things are when the news tells you something big happened and might be in your stack?)

7. Are you running a web application, and have you implemented ANY security headers?

8. Did your business unit mandate that "we support all browsers", so they still have you running on TLS v1.1? (who tf knows, or cares, am I right?)

9. Do you use the software you built? (Is your personal information in the database, along with legitimate usage stats, and possibly sensitive information you'd like to protect, or do you just write the code and deploy into the void?)

10. Do you have access to the production systems or database? (Most likely the answer is NO, so you wouldn't know about brute-force attacks, invalid requests, corrupted data, or other anomalies the developers should have their eyes on).

My diagnosis; the profession of software development is a victim of a hostile takeover from product managers, while pushing engineers out of control of their domain.

My recommendation; use the least amount of software you can get by with, and assume it's compromised.
Can someone explain why the types cannot live in Ruby code itself (after an appropriate version bump)?

Python 3 incorporated types into the language itself, in a similar way (though non-reified) to PHP. This seems much easier to deal with than requiring two files (.rb and .rbs) to describe a single data structure.
They probably can't extinguish Blender any more than Oracle could extinguish MySQL (Larry must have been really mad for that), but I remember what happened when they acquired and ported Softimage to NT. It worked for a couple releases, then it was abandoned, after killing killing SGI by validating NT as a 3D animation OS. The Softimage acquisition, as a business, made little sense to Microsoft - it was a low volume high margin business, completely opposite to what MS does.

SGI made plenty of suicidal moves by itself, but I remember the Softimage thing was a big blow.
>essentially a classification problem, with extra steps.

I think it is a question answering problem, with the extra of being able to say "I don't know", rather than a classification problem. The current transformers models for question answering such as huggingface pipeline implementations do not handle the "I don't know" case and this is an attempt to see whether gpt-3 can be trained to have this extra functionality easily.

>results are not universally consistent.

I think the relative probabilities are what matters and those may be more consistent than the absolute probabilities.
This is no where near the message. The message is, the wealthy of the US have exploited China for low wage labor (also high quality production) and we need to stop allowing that to happen and bring that back to the US. Competition is the foundation of the US ethos and if that becomes obviously lopsided there needs to be a correction
People are powerfully invested in beliefs they have about the world. Those beliefs become part of who they are. Facts which contradict those beliefs may be interpreted as an attack on them as a person and so must be rejected even though facts don't give a shit what you believe.
The american government isn't using the data to openly oppress entire groups of people though.
How does this compare to the sorbet project? Is it two different implementations for the same goal or is it adding support in ruby so sorbet can also benefit?
> Typed versus untyped is a 30-year-old issue for programming languages.

I'm pretty sure the merits of typed vs untyped has been going on since the 1950s at least. 30 years is such a specific period of time that it makes me wonder what happened in the early 90s that the author is referring to.
Google breaks AI performance records in MLPerf using TPUv4
Could you please elaborate?

How would one link up two existing networks with different systems and infrastructure?

What I can think of is either installing a couple translating routers, which do speak TCP/IP as well as their network's internal protocol, or making them, by repurposing existing machines with software-only modifications. Is that what you had in mind as not really counting as installing something physical, or did I miss something?
The 3 you came up with are extremely low hanging fruit.
I wrote that in response to all the people here lamenting for those old style forums again. Specifically for that. Not as a general statement.

It’s possible many communities never have get the correct way of interacting ever. With positives and negatives to their choices and alternatives. Which is also what my statement was referring to.
I have long held the opinion that education should be part of national defense.

I think is a good example of what happens when you do that.
It has been so long since I last heard activities on Ruby. I had assume people moved on to Go or Rust for high traffic work by now.
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