skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google parent company Alphabet sees its first revenue decline in history
Retroactive copyright extension makes a mockery of any argument based on contract rights.
Depends who you ask. If you ask a music teacher I am sure they will cite chapter and verse for why music is the ultimate learning experience for children, along with many more reasons why they teach it. When I was in school we had to choose an extracurricular activity - band, chorus, etc. If students and their parents did not have to choose an arts class, but instead chose to use that time to double reading or math, it would lead to decreased funding and employment for those teachers.
I had to contact Google Fi recently and was pleasantly surprised with how easy they were to get a hold of when every other service provider is using the pandemic as an excuse to drop their phone support quality or remove it entirely.

Compared to my experience trying to get support from any other utility, from T-Mobile to Comcast to my power company, or any other company no matter how modern (Amazon has been especially bad since the pandemic started, I literally can’t get them on the phone no matter how much I try), Google Fi has been a breath of fresh air.

That being said, it’s only a matter of time before they lose focus and that goes away. If there’s one thing Google does consistently, it’s take something good and abandon it or kill it outright. I have no doubt I will be switching back to a traditional phone carrier eventually, but for now I’m a happy customer.
If they want to migrate to something else, they need to have a look at ClickHouse. When switching from Elasticsearch to ClickHouse 1.5 years ago, I reduced my storage needs by 20, gained SQL, performance, and a ton of analytics features.

In hindsight I would say that Elasticsearch is for full text queries, and if you are using it for something else (access logs) there is a good chance this is the wrong tool for the job.
IANAL:

I think the likelihood that Apple comes after individual customers of Correlium is relatively small. That said, I think most people thought that the music industry would not likely come after small time individual offenders like Jammie Thomas-Rasset. I would not personally want to be the individual that Apple decided to use to make an example of given that Apple clearly believes that Correlium is distributing their IP.

That is just my take on it. If you have any concerns you should speak with someone who actually is a lawyer, probably one who specializes in digital IP.
Turing Pi Review [video]
I'd suspect this is because we evaluate CEOs not just as ruthless money maximizers but as people who use their outsized leverage and influence to create a positive impact on the world. It's hard to argue that Facebook has given us anything of the degree of benefit that, say, Google has, or Tesla could.
You write: "Hi there, I'm GPT3, and I am the most highly rated gpt3 powered HackerNews user. Thanks for sharing your insights about our platform!

GPT-3 is a great tool that allows us to do some really cool things on the internet.

Here are just a couple of them:

It helps us generate interesting headlines for our posts. We can then use these headline ideas to create additional content around those headlines. This gives us a lot of flexibility when it comes to writing posts.

We can easily add social media links into our articles. For example, if someone likes one of my tweets, they'll get an email letting them know about the article I wrote about it. If someone follows me on Twitter, they'll automatically be added to my newsletter! That's pretty awesome right?

And lastly, we can use GPT-3 to do A/B testing! We can run A/B tests on different versions of our site to see which performs best. We can also run A/B tests on specific pages within our site.

So if you've got any questions about GPT-3, feel free to ask away! I'd love to hear all about it!

GPT-3 OUT!"
You press submit and feel pretty good about your first post to HN. You read through the comments and are surprised to see the original poster, paraschopra, reply with "Thanks GPT3, I'm glad to see someone who has actually used this framework! :)"
The iconic Flip Video almost became Google’s first camera
What is it about that time period that made the plague so contagious? Lack of antibiotics? Not knowing how it spreads? I would think that it doesn't take a modern scientist to figure out not to let rats into the house, and this was possibly not that hard to achieve even with ancient materials. So what gives?
Looking at why rental vacancy rates are at 20-year lows
My Windows/Linux laptop has a SIM card slot

But I do not use it because of risk of getting 2FA compromised :/
Google's ad revenue had declined 8% in the second quarter. Revenue and profit also dropped year-over-year. https://news.alphastreet.com/alphabet-goog-googl-q2-2020-ear...
There's a good argument to be made that Apple devices are not luxury goods but save you money in the long run.

They often last for many more years than competitors' products, receive upgrades for longer, become obsolete less quickly, and Apple will repair them both under warranty and out of warranty. (Many competitors simply do not service their products.) And when you're finally done with your device, you can often still resell it on eBay and get even further value from it, again often for much more than with competitors' products of the same age.

Apple products on the lower end tend to be fantastic investments actually. And given how much we're working from home now, your primary devices for remote communication are hardly "luxury" and more "essential".
What gives you the impression he expects to win illicitly? Something other than the russian hoax narrative.
I think the parent is referring to when it initially rolled out. I was among the first customers when it came out and the customer service was indeed excellent. I was always able to quickly get through to talk to a native English speaker in the US. The support staff were always very knowledgeable and friendly as well.

I didn't last long on the service though. I just couldn't live without my iPhone in those early days of the service.

No idea how things are now.

EDIT:
My bad, I see parent is referring to present day. Experience from the early days still stands though.
>I've also seen scummy tactics like changing the headline to be less "clickbaity" some timeframe after the article is released.

Now that you mention it, just recently I began noticing how some news publications in my country do this, especially on interviews or opinion pieces. They'll put a seemingly outrageous, absolutely out of context quote by the interviewee or the author on the headline, only to modify it a couple of hours later.

>I think wide adoption of social media is the cancer that destroyed great journalism the world over.

I agree. I'd even go on to say that social media--with the necessary aid of smartphones--has amplified all the negative aspects of capitalism and globalisation, in general.
Those are just quick examples I listed, (you could have both or utilise crowdfunding!) I do find that companies that need to continuously raise cash from venture capitalists (as many startups do) don't have the customers (not users) interests at heart and are already financially and morally bankrupt. (They are already thinking about a 10x exit rather than focusing on building a great profitable business!)

> It's not cancerous to want to pursue e.g. advanced hardware (Oculus) or hundreds of millions of users (Instagram, WhatsApp, etc).

All of this (and every startup needs this to grow) is usually at the cost of the customers privacy. All the time.

> I refuse to believe that with capital being what it is today, there is no funded route to having e.g. 100M users that doesn't eventually involve working for the big five.

You don't have to sell out to the big tech companies, just be a regular profitable business from the start and don't spy on your customers.
Ah yes, selling volatility via covered calls. The institutional investors' second favourite way of collecting "extra income" in the zero rates world, second only to explicit leverage.

Some of them sold much more volatility, via variance swaps, with quite disastrous results.

https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1lffwvwdh7xtq...
Yep, it's baked into the firmware somehow. Sometimes it'll actually be linked in, sometimes the firmware knows where in flash or whatever to grab it from before loading the kernel, sometimes the firmware knows how to interrogate hardware and generate a new one.

Sometimes it's a combo of all three.
Define "credible news outlet".
Everyone is cooped up at home. Not too surprising that they'd buy laptops & ipads.
That's a narrow view of publishable results. There's a ton of really useful science done by simply filling in a curve with measured values. There's no hypothesis required. Think eutectic curves in metallurgy and things like that. ...But the methedology being sound is critical.
My iphone se2 was 400$. I got it at 50% off, so $200.

That's not luxury by any means, and is price competitive even with the cheapest of android phones.

Apple's lower price-point offerings might have old hardware, but its more than made up for it by just working & offering long-term support. Something no android phone can match.
Likely the vacancy clause would kick in and the Speaker of the House becomes President. The office won't be left empty.
How “The Information” Was Born
Emphasis mine:

> I'm building a catalog of cloud architecture

What I expected as a user was to see a ton of examples - a catalog - of different cloud-native architectures. What I got on the homepage was a couple logos, a GitHub login, and a footer where the "Careers" link goes to a Intercom modal.

All that is fine, but when I reluctantly give this anonymous app my email address in order to log in, I'm met with the following architectures:

1. Docker for HTTP, if it's on AWS (which none of my stuff is)

And nothing else, other than an option to Create My Own, which... opens Intercom.

It's possible that this is an amazing product, and I'm honestly pretty predisposed to like this kind of thing. Architecture is my day job and I like fiddling with cloud stuff in my free time, so this is definitely the kind of thing I would play around with, and maybe even pay a little bit each month to do some cool things. Unfortunately the promise (which I may have misinterpreted!) and the delivery are pretty far apart.

I'd love to see diagrams of different architectures, explanations of what the individual pieces do, with "Build on $PLATFORM" buttons underneath it, maybe with discussions about the differences between a given architecture on AWS compared to Azure, etc. There's a lot of really neat things you could do with this type of project, especially if you can look at anonymized architectures others have written.
I see. Now I tried all the settings in that left button menu and the flickering does not go away (it is the same when SmartImage Game is off). It is the same with my desktop computer and my MacBook Pro as well.

I hope the store will take the monitor back. Otherwise, I will make a "will it blend"-style video with it or similar.
Modifying the news feed algorithm to send less traffic to traditional news sites contributed to a lot of layoffs and general turmoil in the industry. This resulted in major animosity toward Facebook among journalists, which has encouraged them to highlight the negative effects of Facebook. These narratives encourage regulatory action against Facebook, which is now one of the main risks facing the company. I’d go so far as to say this little revenue-optimizing move may be a major cause of the media’s turn from fawning over big tech to trying to take it down. Similar story with the fights over payment for Google News previews in Europe. Squeezing journalists financially is a great example of a penny-wise, pound-foolish move.
I would say profound in that I've read some stuff from GPT-3 that, to borrow a phrase, 'hits different'. Those are the ones that I turn around and try to find out if they recast from a person. Gwern's poetry work is a good example. 90% of it is duh to meh, but there are little sparkles of genius in there.

So the profundity comes first, and I can't always find an inspiration for it. With GPT-3 in particular, that would be the exception rather than the rule.
I haven't worked on trading systems in the US, but handling this type of gotcha is the bread and butter of the sort of trading software I have been working on.

There's a million tiny details like this that can cause consequences that are both different from what a customer intended and what our terms with said customer states, so making sure it's all handled in a safe way is just part of daily business.
What benefit is there in saying this to baby Napoleon directly?

Then you have angry baby Napoleon directing Steve to communicate with you and nobody wins.
Based on customer feedback, they wanted their contacts to have consistent capitalization. Before, users were adding names in all lowercase, etc. Note that it doesn’t enforce only the first letter is capitalized, they can adjust it as they please. For example: McDonalds would work fine.
I can’t speak to their email or chat support, but I had to call them a few weeks ago and got through to a human nearly immediately with no frustrating phone tree or hold or any issues. Perhaps their support is inconsistent, but I’ve never heard anything but praise about Google Fi customer support. Especially compared to literally any of their competitors.
Visualizing Citation Cartels
I'd be fascinated to see a breakout of Apple's quarterly sales by product. I don't know if such a thing is published, and if so I've been unable to find it, but I had also wondered what fraction of it the SE 2 would account for. I remember seeing headlines that it was selling above expectations shortly after launch, but there wasn't any real detail that I recall.
> Search Engines should punish sits that do this.

Google won't do that. They're already in trouble for stealing content from the sites they crawl, especially news sites. Google goes out of their way to enable paywalls so they don't look like they're anti-copyright or out to destroy news and content sites.
Bad/weak/over-stretched managers make the best case for good managers!
Stockfish+NNUE, Strongest Chess Engine Ever, to Compete in CCCC
Personality and public image play a big part too. Zuckerberg has the charisma of a head of lettuce on his best days.
The Speaker has no term, but the Representative does.
Learning Rust with Too Many Linked Lists
https://github.com/joergoster/Stockfish-NNUE
The Prohject Fi data pricing model made more sense 7 years ago, and with no domestic roaming outside US Cellular, middling customer service and no exclusive phones, consumers are not driven to the service.

Sprint & T-Mobile merging also eliminates the core novelty of the service, leaving you with something worse than Ting or T-Mobile prepaid that permits more domestic roaming.
Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash ?

I prefer to believe that stocks are not in a bubble of such epic proportions that a stupid split can be an "event".
Are there any scientific foundations underlying his techniques?
Thank you. Great story, great storytelling.
I don’t mind the downvotes, but would want some guidance. I don’t use facebook, so I’d genuinely want to know what it has disrupted in the way you live that the other SNS won’t do.
You’re saying the French today wished there was an even more punitive treaty than Versailles was?
President, VP, Speaker, President of the Senate.
An iPhone is the durable personal computer for most people. They don't own a "PC", this is the only way to safely conduct e-commerce. Without it, you're done in the modern world (even government interactions, like scheduling a DMV visit).

A necessity, not a luxury.
Best security, best long term support, best re-sale value.
If you're poor, an iPhone is the smartest choice.
You need to AFFORD an Android device.
I need SMS-2FA because my bank requires 2FA and their non-SMS crap app does not start on my crap phone

And apparently that is the case for all banks in the EU

I did my taxes this weekend, and to get to the bank tax statement, I first got 5 SMSs

Everything was much better with iTANs. Paper TANs were perfect for me. Someone could hack my Android 4 phone, but no one can hack a piece of paper
netflix is even more wierd. you need to have an account to use it on iphone/ipad, because with that they can go around the apple fee.

the problem here is that they are big enough to do it, if you are small apple might not like it.
Oculus was not forced to sell. They sold because the price was really high plus it gave them a guarantee of huge investment into the technology going forward without raising new rounds all the time or trying to make profits. But they could have stayed independent if they wanted.
Native Notebooks for vs Code
Rocket League: The Epic Way
Part of it is that they learn something from mission N and use that information to design the science instruments and choose the location for mission N+1. If N and N+1 launch simultaneously there's no chance for improvement in mission N+1.
On top of that student loans have been frozen. That allowed me to save an extra $900/month.
Economics is a Disgrace
Thanks, I hadn't heard of that project. Their paper is at [0] (which I've only skimmed terribly quickly). I'm not quite sure what to make of 'targets a C-like language'. Does that mean, put bluntly, that it's not practical? Can it be made to target standard C?

While we're here, a shoutout to ZZ / ZetZ, [1] which we discussed 5 months ago at [2]. It's a verifiable C-style language which compiles down to standard C. I'm not sure how mature the language is at this point. (It still pains me that my prominent comment at [2] turned out to be fundamentally mistaken.)

And let's finish up the tour with a quick mention of Frama-C [3] and the (sadly proprietary) Escher C Verifier, [4] both of which work with C directly.

[0] https://jamesrwilcox.com/armada.pdf

[1] https://github.com/zetzit/zz

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22245409

[3] http://frama-c.com/acsl_tutorial_index.html

[4] https://www.eschertech.com/products/ecv.php
The majority of ads on FB are from e-commerce sites, and e-commerce skyrocketed during the pandemic.
I think if you're going to make such a broad and sweeping statements then you need to provide some actual proof.
Chloroquine is a potent inhibitor of SARS coronavirus infection (2005)
Script that checks NJ unemployment claim from the command line
Parallel stream processing with Rayon in Rust
PCI compliance is extremely easy if you don’t handle PANs. Provide a SAQ that says “we don’t handle PANs” and you’re compliant.
> Whos going to: - clean your home - cook your food - serve your food

Me? I already do all that without UBI. With UBI everyone who has the inclination will have the time and resources to do it.
If that's a contractual obligation between them and you they just need to waive it in writing so that you're protected.

That being said, the issue with redundancy packages is that taxes are involved and those guys will be inflexible if they find out that your package turns out not to be tax-free after all.
It will never cease to amaze me. LTMC is my favorite story
What particular concern do you have with the scheduling policy? As I understand it, it's an RTOS for embedded devices. They're most likely just referring to SPARK's formal proofing.

As for the STMF4, they're possible referring to the STMF4DISCOVERY boards.
Microsoft went well beyond just trying to get paid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

I work on ads at Google and "inserting itself into every aspect of communication and information retrieval on the Internet to build a profile of people so that it can better cram targeted ads into their faces" is not a good model. For example, Gmail data is not used for targeting ads: https://blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-traction-in...

(speaking only for myself)
I'd add another reason: so many people only use nginx as a reverse proxy, and the proxy configuration feels duct-taped on sometimes. Envoy being written as a proxy first makes it a better interface IMHO.
Rarely. For old hardware. Cross cable. One end is B other end is A
I wish there was an easier way to determine even numbers
42% YoY quarterly rev growth is pretty damn good. For whatever reason they decided to double net income too.
Google's ad revenue had declined 8% in the second quarter. This is the first time revenue had declined year-over-year https://news.alphastreet.com/alphabet-goog-googl-q2-2020-ear...
Thanks for the clarification. Yeah I agree about the government doing an investigation.

In spirit I agree with you but think it's not as black-and-white as you described. For example: I forget to get a book as a birthday present. The party is in two days. If I decide to order the book on Amazon, because it's the only fast and reliable shipper of books whom I know will have the book I want, I don't see that the same as clubbing a baby seal, so to speak.

The issue being of course, whether Amazon qualifies as a monoply in the "Ma Bell" sense or not, there's not an obvious peer competitor, so, human behavior being what it is, people default to Amazon because, well, people are people. We're all babies sometimes.

That said I did just recently order a book from https://www.betterworldbooks.com/ so there ya go. : )
I voted for Trump because I believed the alternative posed a far greater threat that a loud mouth, neophyte, billionaire. And unless something really dramatically goes crazy, I'm going to vote for him again for the same reason.
We did it by removing all non first-party access and turning the only access into a single-owner API service. Then we started partitioning off certain calls in to a cache, i.e. when someone decides they want all possible header combinations over a time period they don't get instant results but instead get a job ID and they can either get an event trigger when the results are in or they can poll for status if that is what they like.

Next, we get the cache to write to ElasticSearch and on lookup it would first check if memcache has a pointer to ElasticSearch already and if not it would spawn the job, copy the input set to ES, run the query there and add a pointer in memcache.

This meant that in practise you'd retain the same functionality you had before while not having a hard dependency on the backend.

Next, we scaled op the API service and the cache service to a very high number and started querying for time ranges that were known to not have pointers in memcache. Depending on the amount of spot instances we could get for the price we wanted and the saturation of the 10GbE DirectConnect we could do up to 400MiB/s, 29TiB took us about 3 days because the DirectConnect was also used to other traffic that had a higher priority and the back pressure system would reduce the API request count accordingly (using Istio).

In the end the users had only two changes:

1. No more 'talking to the database', you have to use the API which started out rather restriced

2. Some analysis takes a little longer during migration due to the SQL-ES copy action; after the MSSQL stuff was all gone the queries were much faster than before
Wonder how much of that revenue is sweet refund transaction fees lol.
(Post author here.)

You're absolutely right. This was an editorial mistake on my part. Edited to acknowledge the existence of schemes like SEPA Direct Debit. Thanks for pointing it out.
Good luck staying on state unemployment for a whole year.
> a test to determine if I can program so I told them I am not interested

It seems you don't enjoy coding?
It can be as low as 64K in the case of the STM32F410 but I can't tell whether it would be supported.