skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let’s take your specific example, even though Nestle isn’t a “tech” company. Does Nestle do everything in its power to ensure it isn’t receiving products from slaves or from wholesalers dealing in slave-produced goods? Does it have as a part of its charter the ethical treatment of all people in its supply chain? Is Nestle doing its best not to do arbitrage on the difference in living standards and regulation that exist on either end of its supply chain? Are Nestles’ investors interested first and foremost in advancing and uplifting the people that ultimately create and consume Nestles products? Does Nestle lobby governments and international bodies to ensure human rights are being upheld?

Of course not!

The problem is that people fundamentally care more about chocolate Easter eggs than they do about each other. Slavery wouldn’t be a problem if demand for the product wasn’t there.

Tech companies exist at the forefront of profiteering by exploiting and reducing inefficiencies in the global market. Jeff Bezos said just as much in his congressional hearing. The problem is that these “inefficiencies” are the lived experiences of the people who actually interact with the tech. Peoples well-being and autonomy and culture are not always diametrically opposed you the interest of these companies, but at best they tend to be orthogonal.
The follow mode is secondary as others said. But aside from that it figures out what stuff you like by tracking things like time spent on videos and dozens of other micro creative analytics that I'm sure would piss off privacy advocates. The end result is a very fine tuned recommendations algorithm that's really adept on its task.
It makes it far more effort and appears at least to be discouraged. That alone will eliminate most employees considering it. It also leaves a trail when Bob has a great new product idea... if there's ever an independent investigator of course.
There was a great comment on Slashdot[0] of all places about today’s hearing which I thought put it into great perspective:

> [I]t's a bit of grandstanding and an attempt to take back control of open discourse on the Internet. While they're going after these tech companies they've done fuck all about the massive telecom mergers, the fact that 90% of local TV stations were bought up by Sinclair Media, the massive consolidation in the grocery store business or that fact that every single apartment complex in 50 miles of where I live is owned by one company.

I couldn’t agree more. Of all the industries to go after at this time, these tech companies will not have anywhere near the same negative impact on people’s lives as media and housing consolidation. The power grab is happening right under everyone’s noses, and these hearings are nothing but a distraction.

[0] https://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=16866313&cid=6034...
To add more data points to your comment - Scandinavian countries famously have great social safety nets, but their fertility rates are not better compared to the US (1.77) - Finland (1.49), Norway (1.71), Sweden (1.85), Denmark (1.79).
I feel we need public bug trackers that extend beyond software issues.

Where tech companies are creating economic issues, social issues, psychological issues, political issues, legal issues etc there needs to be public bug tracking on each.
I don’t accept this line of reasoning but appreciate you sticking up for your employer.

I’ve noticed this tactic more and more. Price a product as if it’s yours, but then disown it when inconvenient.

I can’t imagine Apple saying something like “that’s a Samsung issue, take it up with them” because of a component.

As a customer, I don’t want to have a decoder ring for how to get support for my product. If it says google and is sold by google then google should fix it. Maybe they sub it out to HTC or Huawei or whatever, but don’t make me know about it.

If google makes bad supply chain decisions then own up to it. Not doing so just makes Google seem incompetent at management as I don’t care or have any value in them directly for manufacturing.
AFAIK: Yes, yes
If the landlord can run the restaurant as profitably as a restaurant operator could, then either the landlord or the restaurant operator was in the wrong business before. Property management and restaurant management are very different businesses that require very different skills, and it's pretty rare to be able to do both very well, which is why landlords normally lease the space to professional restaurateurs.

"Amazon took my idea and did the same thing at lower cost" is basically another way of saying "I wasn't adding any value but was still capturing a bunch of money on all those sales". Maybe there's an argument there that Amazon is freeloading on market research, and we should have some kind of intellectual property protection for market research, but that seems like it'd be a policy disaster. And there are lots of businesses out there already that piggyback off their competitors' market research (for instance, Burger King supposedly just locates anywhere McDonald's can operate profitably).
You are right. Thinking with a cooler head I can see that it's just another risk to consider, not the only thing that matters.
Somewhat not by much. NXP has a couple of other QorIQ parts which might fit a laptop application a little better; for instance, the T1040 series (4 cores, 1.5 GHz, 7W TDP) seems like a better fit. IBM's POWER parts are aimed squarely at supercomputing and are completely unsuitable for this use case.

But, quite frankly, none of these parts are really intended for mobile use. There hasn't been any real interest in mobile Power hardware since Apple got out of the business nearly 15 years ago -- ARM cores have utterly dominated that market.
Hong Kong students arrested under national security law
If you want a good example then read the post. You’ll find many.

It’s not the purpose of this post to enumerate differences to HotSpot, but it does show some cases where the two approaches are alike.
This is really cool!

I am working on a similar problem but been working in the complete opposite direction. Trying to figure out how to crack async video communication bit.

I am working on something called vlokit [0]. It lets you do video messaging with your team. Think of slack for your projects but with video threads.

It helps you being more authentic than writing an edited message. It helps communicate easily without taking up time in meetings. Have fewer distractions.

And above all, it feels like you're talking to real people. Because you are.

I would love to have a chat with you guys to discuss about the problem and maybe our different approaches as well.

[0] https://vlokit.com
Wrong. You are currently paying social security for your parents and your work is propping up the valuations of their portfolio companies.

Your babies will be paying, not for their grandparents, but for you and your generation.
That sounds ideal to me too, but you have the same data asymmetry in the supermarket example. Supermarkets are pioneering data aggregators, having the ability to observe foot traffic and having the final seller aggregations. They can and do have a bird's eye view that they actively use to choose what to do with Kirkland, Parent's Choice, etc.

I'd be very interested in what comprehensive reform in that area might look like and unintended consequences that might impact the consumer. I'm a big Trader Joe's fan, and they aggressively push out or white label third party brands. Only brands that are seemingly irreplacable, like Roquefort cheese or single malt Scotch-es, are spared the white label (and even then Trader Joe's constantly puts up 'Trader Joes blue', or 'Trader Joe's scotch' in an endless attempt to replicate). Should it be legal for Trader Joe's to do exactly that, but illegal for them to use sales data to optimize? I'm not sure I'd find that a happy outcome.
Aggregating the data doesn't make it one lick less anticompetitive. Carving a distinction based on aggregation is every bit as much of a dodge as hand-wringing over proving a negative.

> that's quite a can of potentially anti-consumer worms.

No kidding.

> an internal investigation is warranted

We agree.
But Facebook and Google are media. Not traditional media, but the power they wield in shaping public debate is similar.
The 83+/84+ line has been ACT/SAT certified for over 15 years while enabling this open educational vector. TI’s policy change is a recent one from this year.
Browser competition helped a lot, but if you have a large body of CPU bound code, you can bet people will work hard to optimize it.
Actually, in the context of astrophysics, that exact objection has been employed many times. For example, the most famous argument against heliocentrism was that it would require the stars to be ridiculously far away and ridiculously big to patch away the lack of parallax, which felt unparsimonious. Similarly, people believed that galaxies weren't galaxies, because it seems unparsimonious to expand the universe far beyond the Milky Way just to patch up some weird features of fuzzy nebula. And even in our galaxy, the mass in dust and interstellar gas exceed that in stars.

Literally all progress in fundamental physics is "just" "invented". Each time it must triumph against the objections of the same, thousand-year-old philosophical arguments.
Sure I can. Modem's firmware is split into two parts. Linux OS running on ARM CPU and modem's modem FW running on hexagon cores. It's possible to modify ARM CPU code without affecting modem's operation much at all. ARM CPU just takes care of some audio/USB and such interfacing tasks. It's laregely free to run your own tasks. The manufacturer even allows customers to build their own userspace code for the ARM CPU inside the modem and extend it this way as part of quectel open linux SDK.

Anyway, the original issue was about notifications, and ability to implement them without consuming too much power. And one of ways to do it is to extend the modem this way.
Yes. GrapheneOS is pursuing/accomplishing this.

AOSP is one of the most secure consumer OS around right now, surprisingly.
It used to be that breweries would own chains of bars in the United States. Similar to the way you can only buy Exxon gas at an Exxon station. That was made illegal.
The AFRL press release linked in another comment says that this technique relies on measurement of the crustal magnetic field, which is in the 10s of nanoteslas range.
It would seem to be a failing of the C language that ultimately prevents us from coming up with re-useable recipes for this. Macros or generics of sufficient power in a language with an advanced type system should be able to accomplish this.

I wonder, if language is the primary barrier here, if this is a way to integrate another language for specific small pieces like this.
How the Financial Times improved reader habit by 39%
And never will be unless her name is used.

She co-founded Amazon. She did good works, she deserves the credit
Or perhaps they do know, but they're deliberately being obtuse to score some easy political points.
Curious as to what the response is like on internal email lists like @seattle-chatter.

How are employees responding to Bezos remarks today?
I can only speak from personal experience, but if you add up all the taxes I pay right now in the US, I pay a larger percentage of my income in the US than I did in the UK, and I get none of the advantages from the UK (healthcare, pension, social care, mobility, etc. etc.)

Now my salary is higher in the US than it was in the UK (despite the fact I owned the company in the UK, and I work as a software engineer over here) but that just makes things comparatively worse for the US. I used to get a larger percentage of my wages tax-free than I do here.

The lower cost of living in the UK helps out here - just comparing the dollar:pound ratio using currency exchange metrics doesn't make sense when I sold my (owned) house in the UK and used that to get a 15% down-payment on a house out here in the valley. Fifteen years later and I've finally (this week actually :) paid off the mortgage on my home here. That's 15 years of mortgage payments that I wouldn't have had to make, and my house in the UK was (almost) twice the size of the one I now own here.
What are your thoughts on pinboard and other delicious replacements?
Can entropy be reversed?
Did you edit out where you had said "JSC > Java" in your initial reply?

That really colors the conversation in a different way retroactively that I don't really appreciate.

It now looks like I'm berating you out of nowhere, when really you originally made an assertion and I'm just trying to get you to back it up.
Hygiene Theater Is a Waste of Time
> the type of content that is rewarded on TikTok makes it less exploitable by people who build followings by posting low-effort content that looks good aesthetically

Forgive me for not being completely in the know, but everything I've seen about TikTok leads me to believe that it's primarily low effort content.

In five years, everyone will be complaining about how TikTok is boring and worthless, but The Next Over"valued" App is going to shake things up and award good content.
Are App Store subscriptions better than one-off in-app purchases?
That's definitely fair, and probably a large reason why they're so paranoid about repeating that.
Lawsuit Alleges NGINX Conspiracy
Complete whataboutism. Other industries may have consolidated, but considering their market caps are orders of magnitude less than the tech giants, it's not unreasonable to question the extreme power these giants have.
This seems like a conflation of Enlightenment values and fundamental humanistic values with Christian values, even if they may overlap in some cases; they may be mutually exclusive in other cases, depending on the sect. I see no throughline between the growth of any kind of atheism and intellectual cowardice, apathy, or rejection of relevant social norms. The rise of atheism, if anything, required considerable moral fortitude and conviction in the face of ostracization and worse, and this is still the case for many in America, even if attitudes are shifting.

The cause is the same force that drove McCarthyism and other forms of tribalistic insanity. Blame humans, not individual human groups or ideologies. I have no problem with religion, but I strongly disagree with the notion that society is, as you suggest, necessarily held together by the social norms of a particular instantiation of organized religion. It's perpetration of the same ostensibly righteous style of judgment that this article seeks to criticize.
Liam was referring to Acorn.
Read it again. It's not a stereotype. It's his personal observation.
This article is rather vacuous. At least he should link to the testimony. However, check out this one by the same author:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ep4mx4/yale-antitrust-sch...
Imagus for zooming into pictures

Buster to bypass Google captchas

They both work fine on Chrome also
It depends on what you're doing. For real-time applications you simply cannot use locks in a real-time thread, because there is no guarantee that you will unlock within your deadline. This is common in audio programming, where missing your deadline causes glitches in the audio stream.

It's definitely niche, but when you need them, you really need them.
> and 9 years ago when the kid was born

Thanks for clarifying. I interpreted your original comment as the current state of affairs. From my first-hand experience, Apple's parental leave policies are far more generous now than just 2 weeks of paid leave.
Not saying you're wrong (I don't know), but it's not a straightforward implication is it? I'd assume private investors would want high profit, whereas the government just wants drugs in response to the pandemic to get made ASAP. If they might be able to do it with minimal profit then maybe it wouldn't interest private investors much.
You can do this asynchronously with tools like vlokit.com
>As a consumer, would you really trust a merchant that opted out of Amazon’s return policy?

On some purchases I would, I mean this is basically like an ebay purchase with no return policy.

Point being, is there a technical argument against giving the vendor/consumer control over this, as long as the nature of the sale is transparent? I don't think so.

And even if you're saying that's too free-wheeling there's point two. Keeping only a track record of the data for the return period and only making it accessible if a customer demands a refund is technically possible.

The anti-competitive /privacy breaching data-processing that is the topic of the thread can be completely avoided.
With the rise of highly effective black box models, there's been a rise in interest towards interpretability for machine learning. This is an area I'm excited about, so I did a dive into the existing research.

I found a few surprising things (lack of user studies and some explanations even "working" on randomly initialized models), and I wanted to share a glimpse into the field for others who might be interested.

There's definitely a lot more room to explore, be it from the usability standpoint or from the more technical standpoint. Hopefully this can be an accessible jumping off point for others trying to enter the conversation.
I'm just wondering if it wouldn't be easier to do without the ROM and map the 16MB to RAM, and then carve out the last 64KB at the 16th megabyte for IO space for devices, using an AVR as a bootloader to download code into the RAM? That would make it easier to manage the memory and interrupt vectors, yes?
Herd Immunity Seems to Be Developing in Mumbai’s Poorest Areas
I had correctly predicted that India would reach the highest number of growing cases someday because of the slums and density of Mumbai and Delhi. However, I did not see this coming where they would be the ones reaching herd immunity the quickest.
So many variables.

How powerful is the engine today? How good is the fuel today? How humid is the air today? What's the temperature and air-pressure today? How turbulent is the air? How smooth are the lifting surfaces? Are they free from lumps and bumps? Are they polished smooth? How accurately has this wing been manufactured to correct aerofoil shape? How heavy is the total weight? How good is the pilot?

And those variables are ones just off the top of my head.
Who has been disappeared? Is there a known name of someone reported missing?

Being arrested and released within hours is not "disappeared", at least not more than has always been happening.
Is it abuse for Amazon to compete with their sellers? I don't think so, it's just like Best Buy selling their own brand of TV mounts & HDMI cables and prioritizing them over other brands they carry.

There should be rules in place to stop them from effectively defrauding sellers (e.g. terminating accounts / promotions / offers without contract-backed cause, canceling wholesale orders outside of contract).

Even outside of the ethics of it, anyone else that wants to can offer a competing product on Amazon even if Amazon doesn't (and this happens like a dozen times a day).
For reference for folks who aren't familiar - in the US,even 3% would be an above market rate for credit card processing. The big companies like square and stripe are usually 2.9% for $0/year accounts, and rates go down from there. Smaller processors can do lower rates, and if you do over a few $100k/year, you can do lower with the bigger players as well.
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/tiktok-seems-to-b...
For what it's worth SQL server supports incremental updates for materialized views. I think they're called indexed views, though
I think it's more of a question of what the economy functions on. We don't need people tied up in waiting for customers' orders and sending away for them over several weeks. It isn't productive. A local economy that's based around a similar scheme is only accessible to those with disposable income, and will tend towards items that are superfluous to begin with (if I need something, I find it as quickly as possible; I'll only wait if I don't care that much). This strikes me as a situation lacking in sustainability.

If part of the value proposition includes not being stalked, that becomes more compelling. However, it's often the small guys that explicitly try to build their phone number database. The confusion when I ask if I can just "skip it" tell the story. Either way I truly hope the situation improves.
> Existing open source funding models don't work for small projects.

Is this true? It seems to me that open source small projects flourish and continue to grow [0]. Although, oddly, I can’t find a simple chart of python or npm packages added over time, I expect it is.

Since the article is based on a seemingly false premise, it’s hard to consider the rest of the article.

[0] https://octoverse.github.com/
Agreed. Currently at Square so watching some of this.

The best path forward will be a lot of discussion, especially around learnings with production codebases where possible.

Personally I prefer inline annotations, but want to explore the possibilities of both and see what comes of it. I've written on Sorbet in the past and have used it on a few toy projects.

Also working on some analysis documentation comparing the two if you'd be interested in chatting later. Feel free to DM @keystonelemur on Twitter.
How to answer account security questions
Thanks for the explanation Nikita. Any branching, hashing etc will increase execution time. The execution example is on laptop, which has 2 memory channels. 0.13s is absolute max that this laptop is able to muster as far as memory throughput goes. Usually 4 threads is enough to saturate memory.

I have written this piece of code:
https://github.com/questdb/questdb/blob/master/core/src/main...

This sums 64bit values and using AVX2 it will sum 1Bn in 0.26s. Incrementing conditionally will not be as fast and will throw vectorization out of the window too.
Miniature globe in JavaScript like the one on Stripe Homepage
https://archive.is/5zdJw
I used to get all my Mac software from an archive hosted at MIT. I can't remember the name now. Is there a mirror of it anywhere?
ITER: Make your own tokamak with 3D printing
If you're familiar with the AMS environment from the TI-89, you might be interested in a project I put together a while ago to emulate the TI Voyage-200 (a variant of the TI-92):

https://github.com/duskwuff/v200/

Which runs great under Emscripten:

https://woofle.net/v200/
Have you found a way to deal with this? Swear I have refind on the non-Windows disk, but Windows updates sometimes replaces either the partition, or the default boot device. Mega frustrating!
That's absolutely not true, lockdowns have been proven to help protect people and reduce the spread of the virus.
Did you play with gpt-3?

It is seriously that good. Has it’s worse moments and limitations, but I have no problem believing this was done like this on a first try.