skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you’re talking specifically about the FREE tier, not the Prontomail service itself. If you want to get an export of all the data they have on you, you can send them a request via their support, they are compliant with Swiss privacy shield which is basically a more strict version of GDPR. They have 30 days to comply once the request has been sent to them.

Nothing to do with a dark pattern.
Last time I checked, more than the majority of what I pay in taxes go to the federal government, not state or local, where it is re-distributed to other parts of the country most of whom have elected representatives from "the other party" and whose disproportionate representation changed a national election.
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The worst case I had to deal with was when reading War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. I can read Russian, that's not a problem. The problem is that about 20% is in French which I cannot read, and translation was given as footnotes. So annoying.
Google Builds ‘Grace Hopper’ Internet Cable from Cornwall to New York
Even after taking out cost of rent, cost of living and cost of healthcare? I highly doubt that.
Another case of a blog post without explanation, context or link to the product in question. I really wish this practice wasn't as common as it is.
Even for non-pillpopping writers, I imagine it's often more interesting to make a character take drugs/medicine than not.

Ultimately, a lot of the world's views of America are shaped by the versions we see in fiction - I've been to the US from Europe more than most people I know, and I have plenty of American friends/colleagues. But still, I spend more time watching fictional versions of America on my TV than I do experiencing America myself.
You were not incorrect to say they are a minority. Nobody factually disputed you on this detail. However, other folks added relevant details to show the prevalence of fun ownership and to give context to the political influence of gun owners.
Here’s an observation: employees, companies & countries that are winning tend to work harder. Those that are merely coasting or declining - eg in a situation where there is nothing to win with more effort - work less hard.

Elon Musk - “no one changes the world working 40 hr weeks” - is trying to win in a global competition. Your uncle Bob who is Director of QA at Oracle? Probably not playing to win.

Countries like Japan or SKorea or China are trying to win. US is trying to win. Denmark or Italy are no longer trying to win a world-wide competition.

No one has shown that individuals, companies or countries can wim while working less than the competition.
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While your circumstances are unfortunate, this is about the government maintaining stability during a widespread disaster. If a fire burned down half the country, nobody would be saying “well those people should get back to work.” We’d have politicians rushing to win votes and support those afflicted by the disaster until we could come up with a good way to get life back to normal.

The current course America has now is to pretend things are normal during an ongoing disaster. It hasn’t been working. People working low wage jobs during this just because they’re struggling to pay rent are quite miserable—more so than before.
Breaking trust: Shades of crisis across an insecure software supply chain
> .. what well-done cloud computing is like. The IT world likes it.

Yep, to the extent that its a deal breaker for new jobs. AWS API is awesome. 10yrs cloud engineer here.
> Equity is similar to a liability. Ít is owed to the owners of the entity.

You can kind of see the easy rationale there. I'm not sure it's very deep though. Revenue is in the same group (Credit). And the assets are like expenses (Debit). That is a bit more of a just-so-story in my mind.

> Making assets positive in code is conventional.

Are you sure? What code are you talking about?

Making everything positive in the UI is certainly common. And not showing whether a value is credit or debit. But I really hope my accountancy software isn't coded that way! It needs to track whether a number is a credit or a debit. It could do it with an unsigned value in a struct with a 'is_cr' Boolean and some custom operations to combine the money structs. But I've only ever seen code using signed values, because it is so much faster and less errorprone. Doing it manually is just reinventing the math of negative numbers. And then, the overwhelming convention is the former is positive, the latter negative, not the other way round.
>When is the last time Intel was behind in microarchitecture? Ice Lake beats Zen 2

I'm not sure whether you can make that conclusion just because the two products have similar performance. zen 2 has better IPC, which is a better indicator of microarchitecture than raw performance. In the case of Intel, the only reason they're still ahead is because of the high clocks from a very refined 14nm process.

>Zen 2 is basically a copy of Skylake

Source for this?
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That's not quite true, but it will lower rental rates, which will impact selling prices, which will impact capital reserves, which will impact...
Original source, from the Google Cloud blog: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/announ...
The issue with young people and the Spanish flu wasn’t “they have stronger immune systems so they cytokine storm harder and die in greater rates”, it was that there was an earlier endemic flu like 40 years before and basically everyone over like ~40 had been exposed to it and they had immunity, and anyone under that age had not been exposed so they lacked immunity.
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Falls within the purview of their job of being an information-search tool I’d say.

There are times when I want a specific piece of information as quickly as possible and with as few clicks as possible, and other times I’m doing more exploratory searches, it seems google lets me do both pretty well.
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But at least they turned one of those 5 Hubble telescopes around, and instead of reading Russian car plates they are now fotographing deep space.
This would happen in internal investigations (the worst kind, it means you can;t rely on the company's protection), and ones where there's already a warrant for the entire drive, meaning there's already strong evidence to justify this. You'll never see someone handing over the drive just for discovery.

But if they have to provide something, executives are safe almost by default. Companies explicitly use data retention policies as an official means of destroying evidence on centralized systems (on the servers), and they're not shy when discussing this openly (just not in writing). Executives will not be happy about losing their email history so they store a copy elsewhere, on another workstation whose existence is simply not a matter of common knowledge, many times it's associated with a management assistant. Or they will use aliases [0] and investigators will never know there's anything relevant there. When cooperating with the authorities only the official device used by that person is presented, the one in the asset management. You can't ask for something unless you know and can prove it exists.

These investigations could eventually cost a company billions so trust me, they invest billions worth in effort to make sure evidence stays buried.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tillerson-climatechan...
I specifically stated it was an unsophisticated example. GP wanted to know what happens with the "simplest transaction" when he buys a banana.
Could many of those C-sections be at the request of the mother? I know quite a few professional women who have scheduled C-sections (or just induced births) so they can "manage" the delivery better. Seems crazy to me, but not my body, child, or career.
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This reminds me of the recent news about Amazon, spying on partners products and then offering them. This is the end game for all platforms that control demand, slowly take more and more vertical integration to capture segments of larger value. This includes 'pure information' that they steal from publishers (and thus remove visits from the publisher) and normal verticals, like travel/shopping/tools/etc.

I'm not sure that these marketplaces / demand owners should be able to as they wield unfair power vs other vertical specific offerings.
Johnkpaul, you might want to check out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23490115 , it has a plethora of helpful ideas on topic.
I used to have a lot of free time (working in academia), and I switched to a software engineer role in the private sector. I miss the free time, but I'm also learning new things and I feel I have more space to grow and more opportunities overall.

As for the salary, I earn twice as much. Practically, my lifestyle hasn't changed but I save all my extra income. I could work part-time and still earn more than before but
I'm concerned about the future (retirement, medical expenses... all these things which are covered by the state now, but who knows where we'll be in 25 years). I'd rather earn money now when I have the chance. I'm not sure it will last.

That being said, I still have good work life balance (living in a "socialist" country).
Wow, that was quick.

The update isn't even available for me yet.
The reason why this case fits in with the cases as described in the article is because it also an ambiguous case but it's also a good example because those on both sides hold concrete views about it.

We must be cautious when we notice ourselves saying "the outgroup is bigoted"
That also seems horrifying & cyperpunk to me but I doubt a significant chunk of women choose it, let alone independently.
Wasm is amazing, but it's not intended to replace JavaScript. If you just want to add a form to a website, animate a drop-down menu, or the like, JS (or TS) will probably always be preferable to writing in another language and compiling to wasm. The web platform moves fast and maybe in a couple of years I'll eat these words. But nothing I've seen so far points towards the demise of JS.
> America's system of governance is so polarized and dysfunctional that no entity either can or will put forward a broad plan to escape the situation

There is a federal eviction moratorium in effect on federally-subsidized and federally-backed housing [1]. Many states and cities have more-comprehensive moratoria in place [2].

I'll also note that CARES Act was almost 3x the size of the EU's recent package (over 7x if one ignores its loans) and 4 months earlier. The Republican's follow-up bill, half the size of the Democrats', is still larger than the EU's single package.

American government has plenty of faults. But inability to act in a crisis is not one of them.

[1] https://www.consumerfinance.gov/coronavirus/mortgage-and-hou...

[2] https://ny.curbed.com/2020/3/26/21192343/coronavirus-new-yor...
Jail as a Service (Jaas) – How going to jail can make you successful?
Please don't propagate Unums.

They have all the failure modes of interval arithmetic on top of their own brand of failure modes.

There are loads of engineers with stiff numerical problems that would welcome a better representation than standard floating point if it worked. Somehow, Gustafson never manages to demonstrate unums on any of these problems.

Until Gustafson grabs some real numerical code, implements it with unums and demonstrates how much better they are, he is not worth paying attention to.
Hi Wes!

I'm a big fan of Pandas, and didn't know about Arrow. I've been considering do a talk advocating for a consistent data-frame api across languages since IMHO, it's the next fundamental data structure that should have baked in support everywhere. So it appears you've at least somewhat beaten me to the punch.

Since Arrow is more than an API to tabular data structures, what would you think about a Promises/A+-like specification for dataframes?

How much of the Arrow API do you think end users will wind up using, as opposed to being a lower-level framework that projects like pandas and dplyr wind up using behind the scenes?

Finally, do you think that Arrow has the potential to be the logical successor to pandas? If not, what is your long term strategy to address the shortcomings that you see in pandas?
> No, we explicitly limit V8 memory usage independent of CPU time.

Ok! I hadn't just gotten that from one your talks on Workers: you had said v8 doesn't really offer a useful hook to limit memory usage as it aborted the process rather than just stopping the isolate, and that the CPU resource limit was thereby an important part of the memory limitation (as with the exception of typed arrays, using memory in JavaScript requires code to actively set memory). If you did change this, it makes me all the more interested in the changes you are making in v8 ;P (though it is also possible these changes were actually just part of upstream and I failed to notice).

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/cloudflare-v8/ (at 20m45s)
This is simple and genius at the same time. Great idea, will try it out.
The great British Brexit robbery: how our democracy was hijacked (2017)
Considering the number of segfaults I've witnessed that appear to originate in relatively recent versions of the Parquet library, I don't think your instincts are misplaced. I genuinely worry about data corruption.

I've been meaning to take a closer look at ORC. As a Spark user, I just sort of defaulted into Parquet. ORC is very similar, though, and seemingly gives every indication of being the more mature product.
I think the idea is with 2 incomes, both partners need to remain employed in order to keep up, since people's expenses usually closely match their income. So if 1 of the 2 loses their job, that 1 of the 2 needs to find new employment to maintain their lives.

In the scenario of 1 working partner, if that 1 person loses their job, you can have 2 people looking for jobs in order to get back to normal.
Why only a small margin?
How far away is this from the top speedruns? The readme mentions OpenAI beating Dota 2 pros with the same models, so who knows??

It seems like an AI would not "play by the rules" and can easily detect weird edge cases and shortcuts. But as far as I can tell from the small GIFs, it's not doing any particular glitches.
Trouble at Intel
Google doesn't bother showing the user results for his/her actual search terms anymore, and stuffs most of the page with AMP links and paid results... but it's not them, it's you.

But if Google AI were really as bad at replacing simple grep they wouldn't be popular, etc etc.
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As if these companies care about the brand reputation over decades, they just want to milk it and then sell it to idiots (public) that recognize the name.

To be fair it's not just corporate raiders who do this to companies. IBM and HP quite happily did it to themselves.
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That is great to hear! Would there be any particular tools or stacks to focus on? You mentioned tokenization -- is that related to blockchain?
For Wayland users DMA-BUF video textures are now used when the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) is enabled.

I personally saw a number of regressions[0] on Debian testing for video playback, on the beta releases for 79 bit it largely seems to have settled down now.

[0] particularly this one: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1643855
So, how much percent in pension payments for teachers would the German taxpayer save if the state required, say, one year less teacher education?
If you're familiar with double-entry bookkeeping, I found it very easy to get started. If you're not, it will take some time to familiarize yourself with that concept.
That's fairly short-sighted, a 200B company shouldn't be protecting their core business by handing over their manufacturing reins to effectively create a monopoly that most of the world relies upon for chip manufacturing to make up for a 6 month delay, whilst still incurring the massive fixed costs of their existing fabs.

How much more secure would their business be if they're at the mercy of Monopoly supplier with no competition?

At least Apple's business is protected as they're a value-added supplier with a near impenetrable network monopoly to prevent competition, but most of Intel's business is chips, conceding manufacturing of them to a single supplier who's now worth nearly 2x Intel, who are big enough to buy ARM or merge with AMD seems unwise for their long-term prospects.
Compare the privacy loss of website access to app access.

My credit union requires full location tracking for their app; its just another revenue stream.

In terms of bubbles I think we're in a loss of privacy economic bubble. The first megacorp to track my every move and try to exploit it makes a lot of money. The 25th app on my phone tracking my every move? Does the 25th market participant seriously think they're gonna make money off my private data when 24 competitors have already squeezed all the blood from that stone?
I agree with the goals, but I think a hot war between government and megacorps isn't the way there. It does seem to me that monopolies are successful because the underlying business environment requires them, without fixing that, breaking monopolies would become an expensive game of whack-a-mole.

When invasive species take over an environment, the most efficient way to rehabilitate it is often to tolerate and harvest them. Eventually the nutrients they were able to extract where nothing else could thrive become more available and more niches get created. It's unfortunate to be in a lean time historically, but I think tech monopolies need to make themselves obsolete, I don't think it can be done to them while preserving the environment that allowed them to thrive.
I know there's the sentiment of fear/hate/etc about Google taking over but...

1) Doesn't it make sense for them to do that? After offering the search engine for free for ages (not that paid search engines are a thing) and playing an important role in building the internet? For most, all the internet they know is thanks to Google

2) Wouldn't you do the same? Keep in mind they're a public company and we know how incentives are aligned when you're a public company
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I feel that if a career teaching ethics doesn't make someone more ethical, then a class is unlikely to do so.

Personally - I haven't taken any classes. I once wrote a template mailer that financial institutions used to mass mail customers, which I felt icky about, but I still did it to the best of my ability.

1/2 way through my career, I took a pay cut to leave finance and work in cancer research, mostly for the interesting work, but I do feel better about it as it's more positive sum for the world.

I would not begrudge someone doing something dodgy but legal to feed their families. Maybe they should feel a bit bad and look for other jobs, but I can understand.
It could be a ward that specializes in handling risky pregnancies, so a desired result.
Paper on ArXiv here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.12988
10 second blast with an oxy-acetylene torch and it'll be illuminated for the rest of its useful life.
Because dang will ban anyone espousing anti-Chinese sentiments, under the guise of 'provoking nationalistic flame wars'. I truly believe there is a conflict of interest somewhere between YC and the CCP because the knee jerk sensorship is quite disturbing.
Search is essential infrastructure for the internet and should not be monopolized.

It should be free, uncluttered, distributed and transparent.

The problem is not Google, its the lack of good alternatives, only DDG really.
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Not really though. My top search result on most topics is usually Wikipedia. Maybe if you're searching for Google you find Google.
I don’t try to fight it. Get up, make a cup of coffee, start my day essentially. About 30 mins in I will feel like I need a nap. So I nap and then wake up at a reasonable hour.
Beancount+Fava is awesome if you're a developer who understands double-entry accounting.
I'm not sure what you're asking, the tools are there for you to replicate their experiment.
It was a couple year fad where all social apps had to support sending money or they were not "real" social apps anymore.

Fads do not have to make sense.
This is not about ageism.

Old academics are valuable but having people in high positions who have not contributed meaningfully for decades is not acceptable.

People should step down when they can't keep up.
Repeating arguments from 20-30 years ago without anything new is disgrace.
Sounds eerily similar to the Harley situation. I had the displeasure of renting a Harley something - street 500 or something along those lines - just to see what all the fuss was about. Seems much ado about nothing, why would I drop 8,000$ on a slab of iron, not even made in the USA anymore, when I could get twice the bike at half the weight for the same price from Suzuki?

Even the Hell's Angels regret choosing Harley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Barger#2000s
Well, not quite. All foundry players, eg, TSMC, Intel, and Samsung invested heavily in ASML in effort to jumpstart EUV development. They significantly reduced their financial stakes to a low single digit since as the tech matured.

https://www.eetimes.com/intel-again-cuts-stake-in-asml/#
> not that paid search engines are a thing

They are in enterprise, but I digress
What makes you think dang will allow you to do that even on your main account?
I'm glad you guys understand it in South Africa, and if I ever wanna open an accounting start-up, I'll be sure to source talent from there, but you lost me:

> Then debit Food Expenses (decrease equity) and credit Cash (decrease assets)

Why are you decreasing the number in two columns?

I don't really need to know personally, but I hope this gives you an idea of what kind of things confuses people.

I don't think the basis of double accounting in the sense that "every thing in and out must end up equalling zero" is super sophisticated concept to grasp, at least superficially.

But once it is applied to situations where things intuitively are just going out of your budget (like buying and eating something: you're left with no money and no banana) and on top of that use counter-intuitive words, I hope you can appreciate that people get confused.
> To an extent isn’t this because these types of benefits aren’t affordable? The pension, extra vacation, etc wouldn’t be possible without the tax revenue raised from your friends who are working more hours.

Not really. My terms are actually widely available in a lot of private sector jobs, just not in software development. If I was a HR consultant in a private company, I would have basically the same rights as I do now.

It’s because the rights come from unions, and being in the public sector as a software development puts you on the same category of unionisation that any other white collar public worker. So my rights are the same as anyone else in the administration.

Software development in the private sector never really unionised in Denmark. Partly. Because there was never really a need as there were always more jobs than developers.

There are a few private companies that try to attract developers with benefits, but the vast majority of them do it with money.
Have you been in a daycare? They're basically staffed by generic retail/service workers. I thought they were highly trained folks like teachers, but upon touring them, I realized they're not and also learned they're paid very little, so it kind of makes sense.
Hedge. Save a larger percentage of your income & invest it across companies that are most likely to profit off your job being automated.
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They have previously chosen mercurial which didn't won the DVCS battle, so I assume they now bet on a winning horse.