skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft has dozens of game studios that enjoy using Blender, and no competitor in the space (not recognized as a profitable business). Finding negatives to this move is being too paranoid.
I once contacted the author to check out my open source package and benchmark it and he mentioned that he actually charges for the benchmarking exercise. So yeah.
I don't agree nor disagree with you, but I hate the idea that criticism means the critic is afraid.
The “cost” of refunding a $9.99 app is the same as the “cost” of refunding a $0.99 app. Sure, let them keep some amount for payment processing but it should be a constant.
Is IPv6 winning yet??
Napster
Or have a botnet do it
It has been a while since I worked at a big firm, but my experience has always been that open source tools are always far superior.
Actually, I don't think it's possible to configure a 16" MBP without a discrete GPU - they all come with AMDs. Only the 13" MBPs can be configured without one, but he says he's using a 16".
Every company's products are subject to external rules. All these huge companies constantly fight in court over trademarks, intellectual property, and so on. The products were not "rejected by Google", they were rejected by a court somewhere. And Google are at the receiving end of many such cases themselves, in many jurisdictions:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_vs._Google

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_v._Oracle_America
He's also wrong about the cuckoo clock. They're from the Schwarzwald.
This will only increase the fees and introduce compliance costs new entrants can't readily afford.
Judge orders New York to pay unemployment to Uber and Lyft drivers
Makes me feel like a chump for not taking advantage when I worked there.
There is no incentive to weigh news as proportionally more or less important. Indeed, it takes some time for some news to be shown to have had a disproportionate impact, so that is part of the problem. But news outlets are even more strongly incentivized to highlight the current as the biggest, most urgent problem, over and above curating and continuing to examine trends and events of the recent past.
What happens if I send somebody money with PayPal/cash app but then reverse/undo the transaction? Are the fees kept?
In a similar vein, apis.guru has a f*ton of OpenAPI definitions (550) https://apis.guru/openapi-directory/ (I am not affiliated, just a fan)
there's a huge proliferation of memory tools: notion, pinterest, and so on. so, yes, your question is bad: you're assuming what works for you is right for everybody.
The actual ruling [PDF]:
https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.448390...
Looking at a rock with our own eyes, and feeling it with our own senses can provide context and meaning that a robot might have trouble conveying.
Right and the fundamental issue is that the next step in agile is an iteration which occurs over 1-4 weeks. But most companies "iterations" are quarterly or yearly. So every quarter or year the business plans and discusses what money they want to spend and what they want to spend it on. And quite reasonably executives are going to want to know what they are purchasing with that budget allocation.
The thing is, once tiktok has captured enough of the userbase, there may be no necessity of protecting the secret sauce. If coke release their formula, coke would still remain dominant even if exact duplicates were pushed by startup cola factories.
I want to see it named "Nostromo". Or the "Ripley".
Majority of them wont travel the world all that much either - whether with or without partner. And I would be surprised if the girls would traveled more then boys. That part is a dream, but not really a reality of their decisions.

So it is study, get a job and then work while living.

Also, dating is something you do while doing school and work, it is not like people needed to take two years off to date.
The opposite of anti-Soviet isn't necessarily pro-Soviet.
this reads more like a hope than an actual argument. AFAIK, the protests in hong kong are more about sovereignty than government surveillance (though I would be happy to be corrected). I don't get the impression that the average american cares very much about surveillance, whether it's by corporations or the government. they might make some offhand remarks about how they don't like it, but you don't see anything like the BLM or occupy protests. it's too abstract. I don't really see any mainstream politicians even discussing mass surveillance by the government. at most, they might make some empty threats toward google/facebook/twitter.
CEOs Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos,Sundar Pichai Testify Before House
Just a couple more random examples of international sources of influential technology: the Ruby language comes from Japan, and has had a pretty wide influence. Lua is from Brazil.
Even more so because actual(old school) slavery still exists in a lot of places.
This probably isn't a game changer for you, but Apple mentioned at WWDC that Lights Out Management is coming to Mac Pros in the next release of macOS. You need a Mac Mini somewhere on the network to manage commands from the MDM to the turned off Mac Pro, so I don't know what happens if that Mac Mini is turned off, but it's a move in the right direction I guess. (I suppose it's because they don't want network to be up before the firmware on the target Macs is validated, but I'm not sure).

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicemanagement/l...
Down Them All. Even used in LAN for batch transfers ;)
What does 100% mean in CSS?
I would think the primary use case for this would be pose estimation and/or recovering 3d models from 2d images. The primary use cases I'd guess is for AR/VR and building other kinds of interfaces (gestures etc).

Neither of these use cases seem very useful for surveillance. I'm not convinced that facial recognition algorithms would benefit that much from synthetic faces, but I very well may be wrong about that.
You have 13 posts in your blog, you could have shipped all the contents and do the search in client side, and that would be an actual serverless search implementation.
I would say, functional programming for sure.
> Instead, the FDA publicly retracted it's authorization for the use of HCQ and said it did more harm than good,

Why? Are the data that the FDA relied upon for this determination public?

There is a great deal of internal politics at play within the federal government. I see this as the grain of truth behind the "deep state" allegations. Without knowing more about the FDA's justification, it seems completely reasonable to suspect that they may have acted out of their own personal and institutional biases.

I was interested in hydroxychloroquine long before Trump started talking about it. It was being administered both as a treatment and prophylaxis in Italy, and was showing promising results - it didn't look like it was going to be a panacea, but it seemed likely that it would be a good first-line treatment until something better came along. It also had the added benefit of an existing production capability that was already in place and easily scaled further.

Then Trump started talking about it, and it became effectively impossible to sort out reliable information about its use. Papers started coming out either strongly in favor or strongly opposed to its use, where before there was cautious optimism.

> If the FDA hadn't done that and the treatment continued to prove effective, I think we would all generally be on board with it.

That's an interesting statement. I read that as "because the FDA retracted their authorization, the effectiveness of the treatment is not relevant". The only other way I can wrap my head around it is a more charitable reading of "it's unlikely/impossible to be proven effective because the FDA retracted their authorization" - that reasoning is so at odds with my worldview that I'm not confident that others would consider it reasonable.
>> but we can't live in balance with nature?

With greater prosperity comes reduced birth rates. This has been seen across the globe in a variety of cultures. The thinking goes that if fusion, cheap energy, can lift people out of poverty it will contribute to decreasing population growth.
In all fairness, JSON itself continues to be as simple a format as it ever was. Having schemas is an important adjuct because it frees devs up from constantly translating specs into ad-hoc validation routines that all too often miss something or make mistakes. Validation up front saves a tremendous amount of pain dealing with a key error deep in a call stack when the moment a config file was read its omissions or mistakes could have been identified.

Moreover, and on a related note, in many ways, JSON is great as an exchange format, but stifling as a config language. There is a lot if room between JSON and XML to work with.
That “niceness” is a textbook example of “ruinous empathy.”

https://www.radicalcandor.com/radical-candor-not-brutal-hone...
I've met Kevin Mayer and have two friends (one a roommate) who worked closely with him. There are some people who operate in life like an automaton or an NPC. They're completely ambivalent to principles so everything is relative. It's easy to justify leaving Disney as their COO to go work for a Chinese controlled company -- all you have to do is -want- to rationalize it.
> privacy wasn't that big a thing in the early 2000s.

I mean, it was. But encryption was a joke (and still is, to great degree) and we all just lived with plaintext over TCP everywhere. IRC, email, web, etc. In fact, during '93-97 the thing I remember most about the internet was just how paranoid everyone really was at the time. It was still a mostly technical user base and there was this general intuition that the potential for this to all go sideways is right there. But we were all on local BBSes and local ISPs and looking at personal web pages and logging on our friend's IRC server. It was sharing bootlegs with Grateful Dead fans, with a cautious eye towards the Feds and the AT&T and IBMs of the world. After 2003 or so, this world ceased to exist. Tracking, spam, privacy invasion became normalized.

> Google was a simple "search" box, Yahoo was cluttered with tons of stuff

I remember people on Slashdot begging Google to not clutter their front page. There were a few times that I believe Google introduced new features and there was a serious backlash. I want to say Google was paying attention (Slashdot was huge at the time), but who knows.

> while you may want 1999 Google back

What strikes me nowadays is just how much Google has always sucked. I don't mean the company (they suck too). I mean PageRank. The thing we always held in unquestioned high regard. This thing we used to think is really clever turns out to just be a thing people could game to improve their visibility. Then Google realized this and now it's a tool Google uses to control the internet. I've spent a good portion of my career on this cargo cult nonsense we call "Search Engine Optimization." The rules change all the time, and only Google knows what those changes are. The biases are ever-shifting, in order to keep people on their toes and to reinforce Google's control.

But the part of PageRank that sucks is that if you do any sort of search that isn't a Wikipedia page, a Stackoverflow or Quora question, or a Pinterest image, you will quickly land into the mire of shady Russian Twitter/Instagram rehosting sites and scam pages. And this is all within the first page or at best the 2nd page of results. That is godawful results if you really stop to think about it. Google can't tell you anything that Wikipedia doesn't already know.
Two Centuries of Debt in One Month
The intricate mechanisms inside seemingly-frivolous curiosities such as the cuckoo clock, or more precisely the techniques used to manufacture them, led more-or-less directly to the industrial revolution. But then again, the cuckoo clock was probably developed in Germany, not Switzerland.
I think the Streets go for that?
* surveillery
* digital captivity
* chains of surveillance
The answer is patience. Everything is easier once you've been working in the field for a few years, steeped in that world. Have you ever read legal texts? Or dug through a graphics rendering library? Or seen a grandmaster play chess? Or etc, etc, etc. Experts in a field can show you how complex things can be when you're working on hard problems and innovating, but that doesn't mean you're not capable of getting there if you're patient.
Well considering Google, Twitter, Facebook, et. al, are actively working to shape public opinion to the benefit of the Democrats in the lead up to the election, I wouldn't expect a Democratic-controlled legislative body to do anything that might displease them. These tech CEOs, after all, are really the ones in charge here. They participate in this bit of political theater for the benefit of the proles. They probably find the whole thing amusing.
Yeah, it's one of the ones that's doing well and don't seem to suffer much from people getting bored and leaving for fresher networks.
I think the average American cares some, they just aren't aware of what they can do and aren't aware of the extent surveillance is happening.
I haven't seen or heard about anyone using snapchat in the last year. It used to be the location for all my family's chat. They definitely aren't experiencing explosive growth anymore.
haha so great to hear! For a while google search kept trying to auto correct it to 'human poop'
Name one US unicorn that is not "not that technically advanced and slightly derivative". Basically all the work developers are doing nowadays is in one or another building on the shoulders of giants ("slightly derivative")
The value is similar to that of internships - the amortized cost of a 6 month 'trial period' should be similar if not cheaper than false positives that are a lot tougher to fire so you avoid dumpster fires like Amazon's mandatory attrition rate. I also wouldn't call it giving up there lives, when they know what they're signing up for and are presumably getting paid a similar amount to the the full time role they're applying for. Now if FAANG companies try to use their reputation to get cheap labor with no intention of hiring I don't have answers to that, but I can't imagine it would be worth the cost.
PostgreSQL Connection Pooling: Part 4 – PgBouncer vs. Pgpool-II
Incidentally, any amount of both plans and bullshit jobs in USSR hadn't produced enough goods to supply the food deficit. There could be no efficiency in a system developed by parties with personal interest.
Mobile consoles such as the DS, very close to being the best selling console of all time? 154 million to the PS2's 155 million. The Gameboy is number 3 at 118 million.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_co...
CEOs of Facebook, Amazon, Google and Apple Face Congress in Antitrust Hearing
Unless you can strip the DRM, you're not buying.
How is this any different from Intel Core i7? Intel Core i7 are a line of architectures from 2008. The i7-950 is a Quad-core Nehalem. The i7-2600k was a quad core Sandy Bridge.

Then Ivy Bridge, then Haswell. Crystalwell (laptop-only L4 cache version). Broadwell. Skylake. Ice-lake. Skylake-X. Sapphire Rapids. Etc. etc.

All under the "Core i7" name, despite being a ton of different computers.

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The "innovation" was realizing that customers want a long-running name based on price. The Intel i7 is the $300 processor, be it from 2008 or from 2020. Customers otherwise don't really care about the specific hardware details (AVX, BMI instructions, 256-bit or 128-bit Load/store mechanisms. AVX512, etc. etc.)

For the technical people who DO care about those details, Intel (and AMD) release manuals on the details. We know its more important to read the number that comes after the name. "Ryzen 9 3950k", the "3950" is way more important from an architectural perspective than the "Ryzen 9" part.

The "Ryzen 9" or "Core i7" part is just simplified marketing, for the people who are more concerned with price points than technical details.
From what I hear the compatibility is insane. Apparently unmodified OS/360 binaries run the same on a recent z/OS mainframe.
Your argument here is basically that Apple charges a lot so they must be a monopoly. Wanting something to be true doesn't make it true. Apple's share of the smartphone market is shrinking, not growing. The basic premise of your argument is factually invalid.

The fact that Apple can charge a premium despite being a minority player, and despite their marketshare shrinking, is evidence of their excellent marketing, not a monopoly.

To be a monopoly you must either have a dominant position in the market or your behavior must be such that you are attempting to gain a dominant position in the market. Or you can just make shit up because you don't like Apple.
Questioning someone's reproductive choices is incredibly rude.
Is the page not loading properly for me, or is this "article" just a single paragraph?
It's also interesting if you look at the history of CHAZ/CHOP.

The first thing they did was enable a security force, and well, I'll leave the rest out but the decisions and fate are interesting and the correlation you make is similar enough.

Seattle resident here, Capitol Hill, heh.
> When a customer refunds your paid app...

(nitpick) The use of the verb "refund" seems confusingly wrong in this sentence. Neither the customer nor the paid app is paying back any money. I know it's Twitter, but it'd make a lot more sense to say "When Apple refunds a customer of your paid app..."
The only one I know is-

https://www.irbsearch.com/vehicle-sightings.html
This comment should be removed, doesn't add anything to the conversation and is speculative at best.
> The family plan settings on an account are certainly not an example of getting it right.

What other stores have a family plan at all?
Something i've seen a couple of times is giving a take-home exercise, then working on it further in the on-site interview. The first stage filters out people who can't get things done even given as much time and help as they want, the second stage filters out people who can't get things done at a reasonable pace without a helping hand.

I think it's common for an on-site interview to include a reasonable chunk of programming, and using a continuation of the take-home to do that is good because it means the candidate isn't starting from scratch. Coming in warmed up should minimise noise from nerves, unfamiliarity with tools or context, etc.
ASK HN: Are you receiving unsolicited seeds "from China”?
I would want to know if this piece of news is real or just an hoax:

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/27/us/unsolicited-seed-packages-china-trnd/index.html

The seeds shown seem to be clearly from Citrus (in my opinion). So this would be either an hoax to spread fear, or could be malicious and contain Citrus viruses. Have somebody received this or other seeds? Can you show the seeds?
According to wikipedia Zoom was founded in 2011, has 2000+ employees and had revenue of 600M last year. I somehow doubt that if they cared, it would be a problem for them to hire a security consultant (internal or external) and perform some pentests and I believe any professional pentester would find stuff like this AND their previous security mishaps (their definition of "end-to-end encryption", mac app backdoors, etc...)
Many of the software technologies that we have today is more than 20 years old: Java, C++, functional programming, automatic memory management etc are not going anywhere.
Sergeant Colon looked wretched. "Weeell, what if it's not a million-to-one chance?" he said.

Nobby stared at him.

"What d'you mean?" he said.

"Well, all right, last desperate million-to-one chances always work, right, no problem, but...well, it's pretty wossname, specific. I mean, isn't it?"

"You tell me," said Nobby.

"What if it's just a thousand-to-one chance?" said Colon agonizedly.

"What?"

"Anyone ever heard of a thousand-to-one shot coming up?"

Carrot looked up. "Don't be daft, Sergeant," he said. "No one ever saw a thousand-to-one chance come up. The odds against it are—" his lips moved—"millions to one."

"Yeah. Millions," agreed Nobby.

"So it'd only work if it's your actual million-to-one chance," said the sergeant.

"I suppose that's right," said Nobby.

"So 999,943-to-one, for example—" Colon began.

Carrot shook his head. "Wouldn't have a hope. No one ever said, 'It's a 999,943-to-one chance but it just might work.'"

- Guards! Guards!
That's definitely true.

Chinese corps generally have a much lower standards on privacy. Because they were subject to lower standards when they started in domestic China.
The HN discussion from when the sale was announced [0] might be of interest. It definitely didn't sound like a company being bought for the product, and might not even have been an acquihire.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23690967
The Patriot Act has been a big deal politically multiple times. Net Neutrality was discussed by mainstream politicians.

I think the takeaway is that we need to find a better way to speak to the average American about surveillance. Speak in plain terms that matter to them. Or maybe they will just never care?
They're all on different hardware. Are they really that comparable?
I don't think most audiobook listeners care about this distinction enough to overcome the price difference.
> Now that facemasks are normalized in the American public, surely this tech is pretty inert now?

Only if you're wearing sunglasses and a hat. Even then there are ways to get at people, such as gait analysis, or your cellphone tattling on you via bluetooth or wifi.
So are those the only 2 options? Why the fondness for a dichotomy? Sign of the times I guess.

To expand my comment, the problem is not that it criticizes the soviet regime, that is OK and even needed.The big problem is the total lack of nuance which robs the work of any artistic value. When you read non-fiction and fiction soviet authors (Chekhov, Dostoevski, Grossmann, Zhukov, Bulgakov) there is always criticism of the government in general and the individual in particular, to different degrees, but there is also a human side present, this human warmness. Yes, the bureaucrats suck and the party establishment are bastards, but summer in the dacha is fantastic, getting drunk with friends is a brotherly experience and there is Masha waiting for me hopefully to form a nice family. All of this is mostly absent or totally disfigured in western authors treating soviet themes, this work one of the worst exponents. The soviet union portrayed in Rocky IV and Ivan Drago are more credible and three-dimensional than any character in this work. The people are only corrupt, incompetent and bad to the core (meany meany commies) or helpless victims of the system with 0 agency whatsoever. It's painfully obvious the author has not clue about the actual psyche of a soviet citizen or functionary.