skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The balloon was airborne and transmitting data for 40+minutes. I'll be impressed if this tiny helicopter lasts that long.
The members of Congress were constantly interrupting the CEO's within two or three sentences. I could not watch more than a few minutes of it.
It’s fine, after killbots kill enough people to fill up their fixed-sized arrays they segfault.
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I remember lots of posters aimed at parents around the music room, with pictures like a tray of surgical instruments as well as a wooden reed. With some caption like "Music improves life outcomes" or something like that.

So schools at least push this narrative.
They will not cut ads off. They will try to consolidate ads and use ad budget more efficiently. Most likely, google, facebook ads are more likely more effective than non-targeted ads like TV, so while total ads budget goes down, targeted ads budget don't.

Or there could be other effect...
Amazon agreed to do it in in exchange for a lower revenue share with Apple. This is in the article. All I did was summarize what was said in the emails.
In recent years there has been a lot of improvement in refinement types which is, from what I understood, what you are describing. See for example Liquid Haskell that uses Z3 solver for static verification.

https://ucsd-progsys.github.io/liquidhaskell-blog/

I'd say that when dependent + refinement types get more mature and get pass the basic prototype idea in research languages/environments, these ideas could easily transfer to mainstream static typed languages and be a new module of future compilers.
For comparison, both Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant allow you to specify different default music services from their own offerings.
Account Recovery: Lessons from the Use of Personal Knowledge Questions at Google [pdf]
In what dimension?
Awesome :) I've played around a bit interfacing Arduino to mine too, and found I had to use AVR assembly to get the timing right.

Yep, those are exactly the same as some of the fakes I have here. Adeleparts definitely rings a bell as the source of some of mine too.

Sadly it seems to be quite common to remark the "lesser" 030/040/060s to suggest they are the fully-capable ones :( Fingers crossed yours isn't like that!
Is this hackernews or wallstreetbets? ;)
Unemployed Americans have (temporarily) discovered the world of fare living-wage unemployment that expires tomorrow.

If you don't live in NY or CA, those extra $600 a week can go very far, and have probably helped stimulate the economy greatly
Not really. My point is that every time someone brings up a reason to break up any given company that the same reason applies to many other companies equally well. People seem to be basing these calls on feelings and not on any underlying principle.
I certainly don't care for DRM, but I recognize publishers' right to use it—so long as it isn't backed up by force of law. We can't force anyone to make content available in any particular format, after all. However, most of the effectiveness of DRM (such as it is, which isn't much) comes from the fact that you can't legally talk about how to circumvent it or distribute tools for doing so. Obviously that needs to go; it's an even more blatant violation of freedom of speech than copyright itself.

From a purely technical perspective DRM on books is particularly futile. If the page is visible to a human reader then it can be imaged (perhaps with an external camera) and OCR'd at least as easily as scanning a physical book. DRM for audio files is in a similar position—not quite lossless, but very close. With video there is a bit of quality loss from the capture and re-encoding process, but nothing too serious. It's a bit more effective with interactive content such as games but still far from unassailable.
You just had an entire planet told that they were going to stay at home, and that school-age children needed some type of device to learn through. That must have driven some percentage of new sales.
FPGA makes all things possible. But then you ask yourself why you did this when you could have done the whole CPU there, too...

As others have mentioned, there are plenty of chips that will take R, G, B + sync and spit out HDMI/DVI. But then you still have the issue of how to generate video in the first place. The Atari ST just had a simple 'shifter' type setup which stole RAM on the off cycle and spat (planar) video ram out to DACs, and if one is avoiding FPGA one can do that with just some 74series type counters and bus multiplexing... But it'd be a lot of chips... and an FPGA makes it sooo much simpler...
Not really. Ads done properly are heavily tracked from appearance on a page to purchase of an item. When campaigns are no longer bringing in more revenue than they are costing, those campaigns are suspended. It has nothing to do with anything else, just if money in > money out.
Thanks.

Fun fact: I've just typed a random problem into Duck and selected the first result from StackOverflow. The top answer is at 238 right now. Then I checked it in archive.org at random points at time and it seems that reputation growth was slow, but almost linear. Amazing. And I was wondering why SO posts I stumbled upon had so many upvotes, when the fresh questions and answers rarely have more than just couple of upvotes :)
Do people maybe see phones and related tech / services as sort of essential?
Regarding Facebook ads: We are in the throes of a general election cycle, I'm curious how much of the slack that has been picking up. Anecdotally I am seeing tons of political ads across the internet.

I am also curious if increased internet usage in general is compensating for lower PPC as people are stuck at home.
There are other examples as well. For me, it is RVs. Generally people only buy them when they're feeling good about the future, so you'd expect uncertainty to be devastating right now. Nope, dealers are moving them as fast as they can get them in stock, and they're not budging on price. Normally you only pay about 2/3 MSRP for an RV. Not right now.

Sucks because I want to upgrade to something a little bigger, and I don't want to pay an extra 10K just to have it right now. So I'll wait until January and see if the dealer is feeling more agreeable.
That's likely reduced entertainment expense of eating out and of traveling and vacations shifting at least partially to other areas. An iPhone costs a lot, but so does a week long vacation in another state, and eating out a couple times a week, and those are less likely for a lot of people now.
Hasn't consumer spending (at least at some level, not completely) been propped up by the unemployment assistance and CARES act checks? I wonder how much spending on these kinds of goods might drop if that assistance goes away.
Wow first chess and now this?!?!?
Can someone explain why the effective tax rate dropped so drastically for this Quarter? `16%` is a bargain! I wish I was paying 16% ...
Cook said this defensively in regards to a question during the anti trust hearings. The context makes it even worse, because his additional examples were the play station and Xbox platforms, which obviously aren't mobile app competitors.

It was a prepared canned response that barely addressed the question, but since each rep only gets 5 minutes to ask questions, Cook (and others) could basically answer however they wanted because there's no time for follow up.

The anti trust laws were designed to prevent exactly this type of action the article is talking about, but we've given big business so much political sway I don't have much faith the laws are enforceable at this point.
I think it is too much a reductionist thinking to think it’s the users, not the tools. Math and programming languages (and media like tv or videogames) can easily stand on the sidelines, outside of the range of criticism, by making the claim that it is not the medium, but the users.

But I would argue that knowledge about something is not necessarily within that thing, but around that thing as well. A handle is a handle because we have hands that can grasp the handle. No system in this world is closed (perhaps the universe itself but still doubtful), so any knowledge pertaining to a system (or a tool) must be dependent on its context. A handle acquires meaning because of humans. Same with mathematics, programming, or otherwise.

So I would argue that yes, mathematics can be developed for nefarious purposes. Anything can be. Just because something is more pure and seemingly neutral than others does not mean that thing will stay independent of its context. The outlier example is the statistical farcity and bias in scientific experiments. Take it a step further in the direction of objectivity, and you could also notice that bias plays a role in mathematical experiments.

Another interesting question might be: is uranium evil? Or are videogames evil? Are these seemingly neutral things, containers of things, evil? Or are common manifestations of them, or the way that the medium encourages its content (and the way that Haskell and its ecosystem encourage their application) relevant to the judgment of that particular “container”?

I believe a lot of this has to do with seemingly emotion-less quality of abstractions (i.e. containers). In the abstractions-land, the mathematics land, the “pure” land, only the relevant essence of the thing at hand is extracted, thus the compression seemingly occurs losslessly. However, in the compression from the real to the abstract, we have also lost the sensual, the tactile, the emotional. We go from a soul to a 4.5 million deaths. We go from the wet texture of water to H2O. By compressing, we gain, but also we lose.

A bit sidetracked, but I think any medium can appreciate being examined in such a way.
The crazy thing is that Apple not only gets a 30% cut of app revenue, but the development work comes at essentially no cost to them.

Would be interesting if a bunch of powerful app makers banded together and threatened to pull their apps. If there's a way to impact iPhone sales, which is typically the entry point to buying other Apple products and services), maybe Apple would lower fees.
Wouldn't surprise me if a lot of people are buying new phones while they're sure they can, to avoid the risk of being stuck with an old and potentially failing one when they can't.

Phones are luxury goods only up to a point. Especially once you're invested in an app store, it can cost a good deal to switch platforms. And it should be news to no one that having access to communications grows more, not less, important, the closer you get to stony broke.
We've worked with Cure53 and NCC Group and both of them were great to work with.
We'd have to see the product breakdown, but it's possible this could be explained by more people working from home and home schooling; people are likely spending more time on devices like tablets and laptops. If iPhone sales are up, that would indeed be remarkable.

Remarkable either way because Apple stores were closed for most of the quarter.
The lawsuit seeks to force the Internet Archive to delete all the copies of scanned books, including the copies of books they physically own. This is in addition to preventing them from lending out scanned copies. How is that not book burning?

I do not personally have the problem, but I believe the accommodations necessary for many people with low vision to read a book are easier with an electronic copy of the book; i.e. zooming in on a PDF rather than using a book magnification station---effectively a book scanner without memory. And yes, this has been one of the goals of IA's book scanning program for quite a while.
Yeah, some of the questioning was just stupid. Like the cookie question to Zuck. She reduced FB usage of cookie to remember the logged in user to FB using cookies against their promise.
As someone with a two year old, we were, and are worried about the society in which our little one will grow up in...
Not concentrating on profit seems to have served Amazon rather well.
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Interestingly, spending on luxury/positional goods does not decline when the economy is poor. This is a well-known effect. That is not where people tend to cut back.

If you looked solely at Apple's revenue during 2008/2009 you wouldn't even know there was a crash, never mind one that was severe by any measure.
I spent about 10 years of studying before I landed my first quality job. I went through literal poverty at that time - having $10 per week for myself and my schizophrenic mother to live off.

I was also lucky, because my sister left to work in Italy. That would make all of the difference...

If I didn't have:
- free education secondary and higher
- low cost local transport
- a suit given by my sister
- 4 tickets to another city to interview(paid by my sister)
- low cost internet
- rent paid by my sister

I would have been just another bum, because that 10y period included being kicked out onto the street... because some nice "rich people" used my schizophrenic mother in a tax avoidance scheme... and got away with it.

There's a lot of luck that is involved in getting out of poverty, that most arrogant middle class individuals completely ignore.
UBI is just Communism 1.0. "From each by his ability, to each by his needs". Anyone whi didn't sleep through his history lessons should know exactly where this road leads. Yes, GULAG.
I love this story.

At the same time I also thing its a little overly complicated.

Used to be an (amateur) sound tech & realised pretty fast that stage stuff is an industry where its incredibly easy to tell who is on the ball and who isn't.

I find it very hard to believe that an experienced band can't just stroll across the stage with a can of beer & know the answer 20 seconds later. No M&M contracts needed.

Still cool story with a good message though
But from that booth in the basement he dictated the testimony last week.

(To make this marginally relevant: apparently Amazon prime is producing a Foundation series)
I said this before here in HN and I'd said it again. Facebook is a freaking money making machine and will be that for many years to come.

Feel whatever you want about Zuckerberg, the company, their products and anything else, but what they created is simply the best digital distribution channel besides Google. Many business are built and scaled on Facebook Ads.

Putting opinions about privacy and politics aside (which are definitely topics that should be discussed), Facebook was the last Silicon Valley company to create something that literally has disrupted the way we live and interact. All the other ones that supposedly were on that road are barely alive (e.g: Uber).

In contrast many of the current public tech companies with promising trajectories of global disruption (for example Shopify) were created outside of Silicon Valley.

This is my personal opinion, but I think the golden Silicon Valley days are way in the past.
About the page itself rather than its content:

Users that prefer to disable JavaScript: just zap the .fx-preloader element, the content’s all there behind it.

I wish people wouldn’t use this sort of technique. Even if you have JavaScript running, it slows site loading down for no good reason (avoiding a flash of unstyled or misstyled page is the typical reason, but it’s a terrible replacement at best). Just let the browser do its thing, please. (And if it’s loading really badly, fix your HTML and CSS so that it’s not.)
Well, that's the safe way to vacation now, take your shelter with you. That seems obvious to me once you mention the trend.
My Dad is 80 and doesn't want to wear a mask. Wants to live his life and not require others to "protect" him. Maybe Cain was this way too.
And creators would either upload their videos to 100 different services, or users would only be able to find 1% as much content.
It's Q2 right? Or do they not use the calendar year for accounting?
If attacking my X account requires also attacking my SMS provider account, it doesn't make it impossible to attack my account.

However, telecom hacks are often more involved, and take more effort to pull off. If I'm a high value target, it's not a big hurdle. If I'm a low value target, I might not be worth it.
He taught Hari Seldon how!
> It's not rational to be excited to write off a discount; yes, it reduces your taxable income, but only because it reduced your actual income.

You seem to be approaching this from a purely accounting technicals perspective.

My complaints have more to do with the massive distortions that make medical goods/services a very opaque market and creates the ability for profitable businesses to write off fake losses for tax advantages.
Yep. Hearings aren't used to get information out of witnesses. They're to grandstand.

"... the smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes." -- Twain
The Lisa had an even worse kludge. The instruction continuation was broken for instructions which incremented registers in addition to doing a memory reference. The solution was to have the compiler not generate instructions with index register incrementation. Slower, of course.

When Motorola finally did come out with a MMU for the 68010, the 68541, it was terrible.[1] It was a segmented MMU. Sort of like the 80286, but worse. And on a 32-bit machine, which didn't need that approach just to address memory. The 68030, with an on-chip MMU, finally got it right. But that didn't come out until 1987. The Macintosh SE/30, which used it, came out in 1989. By then, the IBM PC was too far ahead.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_68451
Might have been in one of these 18 data sets https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hacker-leaks-...
The sweet smell of success: How Bulgaria took the lead in lavender
I’d guess that people buying luxury goods are also the ones least affected by unemployment.
Hey there, I am another team member at UpUp. Thanks for your comment and questions! Negatively affecting conversion was a major concern for us. Our experience thus far is that there has been no drop off for legitimate customers. We’ve found that customers understand that fraud is a genuine concern for all businesses, and that verification is also for consumer protection. Additionally, we are sending the verification after the customer has checked out (typically when the order is held due to a fraud flag).

It is true that the higher the value of the transaction the more important it is. We tried to be thoughtful about balancing security vs friction.
I read every Halo novel and became the Master Chief of loneliness
They don’t use the calendar numbering, but I don’t really know why
There's a classic example of this with the way the National Weather Service provides forecasts of the likelihood of severe storms.

Put the following into increasing order of likelihood: High, Slight, Moderate, Enhanced, Marginal

When surveyed, members of the general public most commonly sorted them: Slight, Marginal, Moderate, Enhanced, High.

Whereas the NWS intends: Marginal, Slight, Enhanced, Moderate, High.

The WaPo has an article about it from a few weeks ago.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/06/10/storm-pred...
Why would these highly technically advanced space aliens travel here in their space ships, only to buzz secret US air bases?

If the US airforce now has access to such technology then why are they still using ignited distillate of petroleum to power their aircraft.
I sometimes find myself hacking together a quick console-based or vanilla JS prototype for an idea and then just stop there because messing with different cloud providers, containers, react, webpack and etc is just soul draining. I remember when I was 14 I'd throw up a quick PHP script for my project, upload it to my host and get it up and running in just a few minutes. A month ago I spent week trying to get Cognito working with a Serverless API and by the time I figured it out I was mentally done with the project. I cannot ever seem to get over this hump. I love working on side projects but getting things up and running properly is just a huge drag these days.
They do not – their fiscal year ends 9/30.
As a society we are increasingly illiterate. Mathematical or statistical knowledge isn't achievable without reading comprehension that is above the average person.

The real problem is we aren't teaching kids to read well enough to have a chance of them establishing a foundation in anything else. Statistics needs a base understanding of arithmetic and algebra (calculus would help a ton but lets be realistic in expectations), it's just even more math the average student won't understand. We need to get the basics actually taught to the point of mastery for most students before adding stretch goals.
It's probably just laziness. It is hard to draw good diagrams.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sums_of_three_cubes

I was wrong and confused things for a different problem.

a^3 + b^3 + c^3 == X, where X is some "hard" number, like 42.

They discovered the a, b, and c values for X == 42 recently, by simplifying the problem over 2 variables and then brute forcing for weeks.

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Anyway, I was trying to reference the sum of 3-cubes issue.
Either that, or a large number of people are unable to meet expenses and forced to break bad. /jk
Why the Dutch Wait Less at Traffic Lights [video]
Amazon promised to spend all of their profits on reinvestment into the company, but they didn't.
Both instant payment / transfer and direct debit work only with IBAN(+BIC) in SEPA.
I'm not sure why you brought up reviewing the videos. I couldn't find it as I glanced through this thread. If YT was 100 different companies competing against each other, then there would be positive effects as each on tried to out-innovate each other. They wouldn't just be 100 static mini YT's..and if some of them did that they wouldn't make it.

The scale of the company prevents meaningful competition, that's the issue, not necessarily that they can't affordably review the 49 years worth of video.
Stainless [0] does this well for Scala. You augment function definitions and return statements with `require()` and `assert()` respectivley.

[0] https://stainless.epfl.ch/
Ask HN: Did we learn anything revelatory from yesterday's tech CEO testimony?
I'm wondering if anyone watched/read all the testimony and if there was anything interesting or groundbreaking that we didn't already know? Or was it all just grandstanding from the politicians?
Alphabet rises as Cloud, other revenues soften Q2 ad decline
Clones would immediately take their place. If done publicly, Apple would not capitulate. iOS users are still the premium ARPUs
Aside from being the symbol I'm familiar with is also the one used most than any other, check any screenshots of people correcting each other online and tell me what is the most used one: https://www.google.com/search?q=grammar+nazi+screenshot&tbm=...
Amazing job. I think your portuguese cover/book title needs work if you plan to publish/sell in the brazilian market.

It has a typo and doesn't sound natural.
I've liked Komoot quite a bit for planning longer road bike loops in or near the city — surprised it hasn't taken off more but I suppose it's a pretty niche market. Integrates wirelessly with Wahoo bike computers (suck it Garmin haha) and is free for your local region too.
The first two were rickrolls, but around the 48h mark both an identifier scan and a DOS exploit were pushed to GH.
There are physics people on HN. I'll stick by my claim that the crowd here is not a physics crowd. I'm confident that among web sites HN scores well above average on physics ... but discussions of physics on an average web site aren't something I really want to even think about.
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