skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Upvoted:
People who take time from their day to give positive constructive feedback and encouragement to a total stranger about his/her project are what make this place a good community.
Unfortunately, I don't have a complete write up on the computer. I could take the time to write it (since I know how it works, and could write about it), although I do not want to do right now (but maybe later).
Next to the attachment button was a little money icon. You could click it and bundle money with an email. It was pretty nifty.
Are you talking about the same americans that required huge bailouts from the government the second the economy stopped because 4 out of 5 live paycheck to paycheck?
I worked at a company that did a reorg every 6 months. Everyone was always on edge and backstabbing each other.

Took me 3 cycles to wise up and look for another job.
Old pilot joke: "The airplanes of the future will have a pilot and a dog in the cockpit. The pilot's job is to feed the dog and the dog's job is to bite the pilot if he touches anything."
So you find it more convenient to switch to a totally different money sending service than to just download a separate app?
It's actually less wrong, but still wrong, to say the exact opposite (i.e., "Debits always increase and Credits always decrease").
So? $10M ransom plus trying again is cheaper than collapsing a $1B business.
One minor "error" - depreciation only happens on capital assets, that should be a Pizza Expense.
Somewhat OT, but in what world does "This has been a running problem with Google Drive and there is no workaround for now. What we can do is to send feedback to the team so all of these can be heard." qualify as "gaslighting"?

This term, at least until recently, meant dismissing abnormal behavior by making the questioner doubt their own sanity. I have a hard time getting that even from the least charitable interpretation of the above.
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In the long run? I’d expect so.
It looks Cloudflare Workers and AWS Lambda are just re-implementations of Google App Engine. It is a sad that Google half gave up App Engine, by switching to a bad pricing scheme and not putting enough energy in developing GAE and further innovating in this area.
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This is good fun. I went with "Meanwhile, the young males form groups and compete in trials of strength and courage in an attempt to catch the attention of herding females" and surprisingly Richard Nixon sounds just as good saying this as David Attenborough
Leave now and avoid the rush when they cancel it
Yeah, I guess eating pizza usually counts as opex.
I suppose HP were challenged externally and couldn't adapt, the money savers start moving in, which pumps it up temporarily and it becomes a vicious cycle.
I have emailed money through Gmail for two years now. Apparently no more...
5 years of running a 200 person company. There is such thing as a constructive reorganization.

The original comment read a bit like that of someone who was south of a reorg.
For something with a similar concept, but entirely different execution, see the classic website "Talk Obama To Me".

http://talkobamato.me
The hard sell here will be convincing passengers it's safe enough. Not sure if I'd be willing to fly on a pilot-less flight even if the airline passed the cost savings onto me.
Looks cool! Can you share some case studies / coolest use cases?
This is a great story, but most of the anecdotes are very familiar to someone who has studied (or was there for) the early era of home computing in the West. The Altair, the Heathkit, etc. Bill Gates' infamous Open Letter To Hobbyists was written in that era:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists

The article treats a lot of this stuff as more unique (and, it seems, ideologically inspired) than it was.
https://www.sanity.io/ is another good CMS
I guess this was US-only? I'm in Australia and never noticed that button (but Gmail is not my main email any more so maybe I just missed it)
Ironic?

There's plenty of words from several hundred years ago that are no longer considered part of current language(s). In any case, I don't believe Bob was uttering the word out of a charming fondness for etymological anachronisms, so much as pretentious ignorance.
Banks and non-banks don't treat assets/liabilities in different ways in accounting - banks just engage in transactions most other businesses don't, as a normal matter of business.

For example - if you're holding someone's money for them, that's a liability - you have to pay it back some time. If someone owes you money, that's an asset - it's worth something. Banks use the cash from liabilities (people's savings accounts) to pay for assets (mortgages) and make money on the spread.
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The post links to the authors technical write-up that's a little less of a simple ad for Google Vision:
https://daleonai.com/building-an-ai-powered-searchable-video...
Yes, but for every person I tell that they had a data breach causing them to phish their customers through calendar, I can poison 50 people in each organization, then they can poison 50 and so forth... let's call it exponential growth of the DELL-20 coronavirus.
I enjoy the challenges, however, I find it really frustrating when I lose my work every-time I accidentally navigate back to the previous page. This happens easily with a Macbook Pro's trackpad. This heavily detracts from usability and prevents me from 'wanting to complete' the rest of the challenges.

I recommend two modifications:

1) Disable Navigating Forwards/Backwards in the browser, like Jupyter Notebook

2) Make use of HTML5's localstorage / HTML Web Storage for each challenge.
Probably the same way people get away with rolling coal. Just don't do it when the cops are around.
The librsvg author doesn't list any such corner cases.

Perhaps you can list some and why they were casualties of the Rust language rather than reasonable cleanup that would have happened in any rewrite?
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Most goods are DIY under socialism.
And corruption is different to good personal relationships.
Yes on both fronts. Thanks for continuing until we've got on the same page.

The only slight curve ball in your part one is that transactions are not always between two accounts. The joke is that 'double entry' sometimes has more than two.

The classic example is sales tax. E.g. a transaction:

Revenue>Product $100CR

Liability>Sales tax $5CR

Asset>Bank $105DB

(Although the specific form/standard categories will massively depend on how sales tax works in your jurisdiction.)

There are plenty of other examples (in my consulting: the customer paid some their bill in advance, or I pay a bill in a different currency and have to pay a fee).

So I like the idea of making it a topology question, but it would be nice if it were only two.
Total drive train failures are far more common on Tesla cars than on Toyota plug-in hybrids. You have a badly skewed misunderstanding of the actual risks.
I'd been wondering about this phenomenon for years. However, it happened infrequently and was never enough of a bother to dig into.
All the more reason to take train drivers out of the picture.
You can change almost anything about your personality.
What mods did you make to your Casio?
Gaslighting is just a vogue term. Nobody who uses it nowadays knows or cares what it actually means.
Wonderful article. I've often wondered if it was possible to have computer culture without a massive industry to support it.
Might be controversial to say, but why manufacturing cost is so high in US they making outsourcing so profitable?

A Taiwanese silicon engineer salary, even the top band is probably only higher than the entry level of a web developer in SF.

Something is definitely wrong
How about trying to visit Xijiang yourself and see it yourself?
Yeah I almost mentioned multiparty transactions too, but thought I'd keep it simple since I got the crux of it :) thanks!
I think that RMS was fairly clear that he thought that linked code was a derived work as far as the GPL was concerned, and that’s why the LGPL was created.
Google pulls in more functionality into core services. Hn crowd: monopoly! Google pulls out rarely used features. Hn crowd: am I supposed use different app now?!?

Not defending google here - there have been some highly questionable product decisions over the years, but this is just silly.

Also how is outlook any better? Another public megacorp with even deeper government ties. As someone who grew up in the 90s i still remember Microsoft as more successful and meaner oracle.
It will give an answer, whatever is formed by extending the input you give it. The answer will be based on the text you provide, so in that sense it "cares" about it. Whether the answer is any good is another matter. But maybe it will find something based on its training data that relates.
You're equating duplicity with extraversion. That's not the same thing.
I did not realize that. I read the one link. That's all I know about Daniel. He sounded reasonable there and what he wrote made sense.

There are quite a few logical leaps between:

1) Daniel writing a reasonable post on HN
2) Daniel being correct in everything he does
3) Daniel making all decisions for Google
4) Daniel being the one who handles all communications about those decisions

All I know is #1.

The logic chain can break at any of those points. Perhaps Google made the decision with good rationale which was simplified or changed for communications. Perhaps someone else at Google decided. Etc. I don't know.

Some of Google's policies, viewed from the outside, look crazy ("Do not install AGPL-licensed programs on your workstation, Google-issued laptop, or Google-issued phone without explicit authorization from the Open Source Programs Office."), but may have valid justifications too. For example, Google could have automated systems which do audits which would choke on this sort of thing.

What I do know is that many companies have an irrational, unjustified fear of the AGPL, and that it often makes good business sense.

I also trust Eben for his legal judgement. He's brilliant, and usually right.
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This is why "assets = liabilities + equity" works much better.

You would increase assets by $200, since you got that much cash (cash is an asset). You would increase equity by $200 as well (often accountants will call that "Owner's Equity") since your personal stake in this business (yourself, here) has gone up. That's the double entry.
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I'd recommend you avoid this article. It is more confusing than necessary, and the accounting entries (at least in the first example) are wrong/unconventional.

The articles mentioned by dragonsh (Beancount documentation) and mtlynch (Martin Kleppmann's site) are great. But I feel unsatisfied by the way they discourage understanding of debits and credits, by just giving you something to memorize, e.g.

"Now, by convention, accountants flip the sign on all of the blue and pink nodes’ balances, which means that the two sums end up being equal. And that’s why it’s called a balance sheet."

You don't need to memorize which accounts are negative and which are positive. Just relate them to the English words 'debtor' (someone who owes money) and 'creditor' (some who is owed money), and you can work out the right entries for any transaction.

You credit (CR) an account when you're recording:

- an increase in the amount your company owes, or
- (equivalent) a decrease in the amount some other entity owes your company

The other entity could be a supplier, a customer, or one of your own shareholders.

Examples of credits that can be identified by the above rule:

- A customer pays you some money they owed you: CR 'Assets - Accounts Receivable'

- A supplier sends you an invoice: CR 'Assets - Accounts Payable'

- You send an invoice to a customer: CR 'Revenue'

The last example might be confusing at first. Why is revenue like something you 'owe' someone? Because any profit the company you make does not really belong to the company, but to the shareholders.

If you can work out whether one side of a transaction is a debit or a credit, you know the other side is the opposite. So, for the above transactions:

CR 'Assets - Accounts Receivable' / DR 'Cash'

CR 'Assets - Accounts Payable' / DR 'Expenses'

CR 'Revenue' / DR 'Assets - Accounts Receivable'
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It might not have ever launched in your locale, perhaps. I used it a few times to send money to another person in the USA. For what it did, it was exceedingly simple and easy to use.
Calculated monopolistic move.
I don’t see Intel going fabless. There would be perceived national security implications for the US if Intel lost the ability to manufacture their own chips.

I could see an Intel bail out if things keep going south, but that’s about it.
This article notes that Tang is a digital minister and has experience with information technology. My impression is that Taiwan has a very healthy and balanced demographic of politicians. I have seen Taiwanese mathematicians, doctors, engineers, and chemists fill important government roles involving the spotlight and advocacy. It seems that people of technical expertise in Taiwan have an equally viable chance at entering politics and policy-making.

This is not to say that scientists, engineers, or doctors make for better policymakers. Perhaps there is a case to be made that career politicians have skillsets that validate the need to specialize in politics. However, the stereotype of career politicians is that of ignorance with no understanding of subject matter for the things that they make policies for. This impression was cemented further after the hearing between Zuckerberg and Congress about Facebook. This video even plays it for laughs: "Zuckerberg explains the internet to Congress", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncbb5B85sd0. For the government to help its people, it needs to incentivize diversity within its ranks so that it can understand the variety of issues that it faces. It also needs to be able to adapt to changing realities.

Regarding what Tang talks about: I frequently think that what is happening over there are the emulations of unethical experiments (I hear the TV show Black Mirror is similar) that the Western world would never be able to pull off. Regardless of where one stands on this issue, I do not think it can be denied that a lot can be learned about how these systems operate at scale or how the machine runs. From the reports and stories that we get to hear about, it seems like the Chinese government is implementing technology at scales that most countries could ever dream of doing.

Or rather, most countries could only dream of creating technological systems of control with the degree of acceptance by the populace, with degree of penetration and overall dissemination. Western governments have implemented comparable systems, like the ones that Edward Snowden pointed out. However, if governments did not worry about hiding questionable activity, maybe it could double down on the level of sophistication and expand on its capabilities.
AFAIK, the only thing new about GPT-3 is its massive size, the architecture is completely conventional, so the same as those you've seen from a few years ago.
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I think they just don’t pick winners themselves
Do you use a service for online singing lessons? Or just Youtube videos?
Samsung's bread and butter, components (eg, dram and displays) business are still made in South Korea. The company also recently announced that they are investing $100B over next 10 years in their foundry business, which is likely to be all in South Korea.
Presumably that means the Finance/Accounting was a waste of time. That's too bad. From an opportunity perspective the combination of accounting and CS has never been stronger. The tech in debt and banking is going through total wholesale rebuilding over the next 10 years. Asset tokenization changing the definition of ownership. On and on. Hope you get to leverage that special expertise. Good luck.
A demoparty should take upon itself to setup a Galaksija demo competition...
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I want to see how many browsers it can run before it becomes unresponsive. It's an 80 core 400 GB Skylake GCP instance running in Oregon. Logically it should be able to run 80 to 160, but at peak usage of around 60 I only saw about 5% utilization.

Stress test rules are you can't use a bot or script to do it, it has to be legitimate use to get an idea of what real peak looks like with websocket, browsing websites, bandwidth etc.

also running CPU workloads in JS won't work because the monitoring scripts will kill those users.

demo at

https://start.cloudbrowser.xyz/?stresstest
> downside risk is monumentally huge for a company like Google if the ruling goes against them

The downside risk is damages. Those usually aren't monumentally huge. There's a calculation, but they're based on how much damage was done:

1) How much did Google profit from the code?

2) How much did the other party lose?

3) Are statutory damages greater?

Pick the highest of the three. If it's intentional -- and in this case it isn't -- you triple it. You might toss in legal fees.

#1 is the relative cost to going with an alternative solution (build in-house, license, etc.). #2 is usually zero for AGPL code. #3 is pocket change for Google. So you're likely to go with the cost of not having gone with AGPL in the first place, twice (once in damages, and once for the migration).
What were the previous limits you were allowed to send?
> It's recommended (and much easier) to share access to a folder instead of individual files.

It’s not. folders don’t actually exist in google drive. files are shared individually. there’s a very complex interaction between imaginary folder ACLs and file ACLs. if you depend on the folders as being hierarchical (which they aren’t), this will bite you through unexpected leftover sharing.

The exceptionally stupidly names Shared drives (used to be called Team Drives) fix this.

Otherwise, ‘gam’ is the best tool out there for managing this.

Some of the paid tools are like VPNs. you end up giving full access to the tool developer. be very careful if you go with a paid tool vs ‘gam’.
He's been doing it since the late 90s too... I still remember getting an answer from him regarding a dusty corner of the Mac OS 8 internet config API when I was trying to bulk provision Macs for campus internet access in 1998. It was all mailing lists then.
fifteen.ai is doing cartoon voices, some examples here:

https://fifteen.ai/examples
I understand the counterargument to using NZ. I'm saying you can't have it both ways. That is just a side effect, anyway.

My main counter claim to the top-level comment is that the messaging is not uniform.

As an example, I've pointed out that policy differs between neighboring areas, and, indeed, policy differs from science.

There is an entire section of the attached material under the heading "Risks and pitfalls." I didn't write it, so forgive me if I'm not too upset that people don't like it.
That is wrong; the equity and liability accounts run negative in this view, because they represent external interests in the business. When equity increases, the equity account representation of it decreases; i.e. decrements toward negative infinity.

> Equity will either remain the same or increase when a business obtains $1000 out of thin air.

By "out of thin air" I meant that the business doesn't owe the money other than to its owners as equity. Like say the business won that in a lottery or something.

> Obtaining a loan will increase cash/increase liability accounts

You don't get the system obviously; you're thinking in the broken credit/debit system.
> Also how is outlook any better?

Google: our business is ads, and you’re the product. Put more of your data into Gmail so that we can show you more ads and do a million other things that benefit us.

Microsoft: our business is software and services and hardware and a bunch of other stuff you can pay us money for. E-mail service is the product, and you’re the customer.
There would surely be a huge amount. Another space where you'd need a whisperer would be anywhere near regulatory data. E.g. government mandating data is reported in a certain way. These are domain specific and typically cruel and unusual.
Doesn't solve the problem of people using trains to commit suicide, which isn't certainly going to be solved by any amount of automation.
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Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23967911
I feel like this could backfire from a marketing perspective.

Imagine an airline integrating pilot-less flights, then a competitor starts using the slogan "We use real pilots, because we care more about your safety than increasing profits".
The mention of Audrey Tang made me misparse the title as "Xinjiang.js prototype" a few more times than I would otherwise.
Definitely agree. I just haven’t seen them (insurers) kick off an audit pro-actively without there being a breach.

I’m sure insurers understand that if they are proactive in auditing then a company will stay vigilant and probably patch all those old systems.
Thanks for a try.
It sounds like a great idea. I will take it into account.
Are you on iOS or Android?
This is made more clear by the graph theoretic viewpoint in kleppmann's excellent guide: https://martin.kleppmann.com/2011/03/07/accounting-for-compu...
>Apple was having Intel attempt to build modem chips for iPhones so that Apple could have an option other than Qualcomm. That didn't pan out.

It didn't pan out? Well Apple buying Intel's modem chip business seems like the opposite of it not panning out, at least for Apple.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/25/8909671/apple-intel-5g-sm...
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This is how we lost a lot of redundancy in the rail system too. Why maintain three routes or two tracks per route when you can boost your gains for a small chance of going out of business?
>How true is this? I've never heard of such a thing happening.

May be its more common in India, could be very well be the norm because every time a bridge goes down a related Engineer gets arrested the very same day or soon under 'Causing death by negligence'; perhaps a practice from colonial era still being practiced to pacify public.

Read:

Another BMC engineer arrested in Mumbai bridge collapse(2019)[1]

Bhubaneswar flyover collapse: Engineer, director of construction firm arrested(2017)[2]

4 Engineers Arrested In Kolkata Flyover Collapse Case(2016)[3]

IIT Roorkee: Two professors arrested in bridge collapse case(2015)[4]

SMC engineer held in bridge collapse case suspended(2014)[5]

Gammon, Hyundai officials arrested, probe ordered(2009)[6]

I'm sure you can pull up such cases going back at least 200 years.

[1]https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/02041...

[2]https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/bhubaneswar-flyove...

[3]https://www.ndtv.com/kolkata-news/4-engineers-arrested-in-ko...

[4]https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/iit-roorkee-two-profes...

[5]http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/38044181.cms

[6]https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/kota-bridge-collapse-30-dead...
I loved the idea that you could attach money to an email just like you could attach a file. The Gmail interface was perfect, but unfortunately as usual Google messed up the implementation.