skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understood the question as: "Is Microsoft trying to target female demographics with this device, and if yes why?"
Russia has an economy the size of New York state. In a country of over 140 million people, that is no one's definition of success. Soviets didn't leave them much beyond a decaying nuclear arsenal and bunch of ugly buildings.
I believe your guess for frequency is off by a lot, my guess would be more in the vicinity of a tenth of those assumption.

However, more importantly: going in with a "we need to support this" mindset alters incentives. Suddenly, useless error messages and lacking documentation aren't okay any more.

A different approach to solve the issue, if it even exists at that scale: make them pay for it. If you want service, pay $10. That's more than enough cover Google's cost and it's cheap for anyone that really requires service because e.g. their account has been locked, or Google's systems have disabled ads on their site. At the same time, it's expensive enough that you don't get flooded with "why do you show me those videos on the front page?" requests.
Intercom also does a lot of things on top of chat like email campaigns, FAQs ("articles"), chat bots, and is somewhat evolving into a bit of a CRM.

Chatwoot focuses on chat as far as I can tell (and so do we at the moment!), so it is certainly another viable alternative if that's what you need :)
Well then I guess there is not a problem with them suspending operations in california then, right?
The threshold is > 30, same as for flagging. 'vouch' links only show up when an item is [dead], though.
Homemade tamper-evident security seals for kids and adults alike (2017)
The author of this article (Aaron Amick) is Jive Turkey, the same as the host of that YouTube channel [0].

His other articles for The Drive [1] are all worth reading.

0: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/24638/retired-submarin...

1: https://www.thedrive.com/author/aaron-amick
Domestic forces have always proven to be much more of a threat than foreign ones. The end result will entirely depend on will of the Belarusian people, and whether or not foreign backers holds off for another day given the Belarusian response to these protests. In the case of a dramatic escalation of the situation, there will likely be foreign military support (for both sides), but no kind of foreign invasion. So how this turns out, if there will be a separation of the country like in Ukraine or not, is quite impossible to say right now, at least in my eyes.
That's what I said I'm doing?
To me, battery life isn't that big a deal for phones. You can pick up a 10,000-mAh portable battery pack on sale for under $20. If I'm going out, I put one in my bag.
Have you looked at PostHog? https://github.com/posthog/posthog

Seems very similar to what you're describing :)
That is one dysfunctional organization if it needs to invent a new language only to have a browser that is usable but still behind its competition in functionality and speed.
How is assembly less safe than C? C is full of undefined behavior which might be interpreted differently by different compilers, whereas (maybe with the exception of some unusual circumstances) the behavior of assembly language for major instruction sets is 100% documented.
It's less of an issue on the EU side of Amazon. The search engine being cluttered by Chinese shit is just as bad, though.
Wow! just signed up... is this going to help me revive my susbtack newsletter again?

on a more serious note, I think you guys are onto something. AI as a companion for creative work is going to be huge.
It's like being told you are heir to the throne, and many engineers carry that same princely arrogance obliviously. At least doctors and lawyers have gone through a second gauntlet after acing school to temper this somewhat. Those fields might not even start making good money until you are years above the entry level, even with a pricey professional degree.
I would guess most people at Mozilla are just trying to earn a living and weren’t in it for any deeper philosophical reason. They pay very well.
This comment really demonstrates the divide between those with a casual working understanding of Mozilla due to peripheral awareness vs those who are or were once heavily involved with the project. (Side note: it's hard to read discussions about Mozilla on HN for this reason.)

Mozillians at Facebook is not new or novel. There was a time when it seemed like everyone was leaving Mozilla for Facebook. If someone collected the data, tallying every subsequent company worked at for every employee departed, it would be would be pretty unsurprising if the results showed Facebook as the biggest employer of former Mozillians.
The Chrome team could stumble. They could for example be too hasty in their plan to remove extension manifest v2 with the result that many ordinary user switch to Firefox to continue to get good ad blocking.
Really sad about this lay off, Mozilla does so much good stuff, not just Firefox.

https://donate.mozilla.org/
Can't open the link in Firefox, ironically. SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER error on the cert.
“Facebook was founded on open source,” said Michael Cheng, Associate General Counsel

On first look, I didn’t expect a lawyer to be the one quoted.

On second look, yea makes sense!
It seems like you didn't read the full article.

The research that the article talks about was careful to separate the _mindset_ of victimhood from the actual experience of being a victim of someone else's antisocial or even violent behavior. The two are not the same. One can experience prejudice, social bias, and outright physical violence without developing a permanent self-image as a victim. But we all know that one crazy friend or family member who thinks (and says) the world is against them yet never had a truly traumatic experience in their whole life.
It's so weird to see proprietary vs. free software concern trolling on Hacker News, yet here we are.

It's 2020, I think people understand how to build a business model around FOSS these days.
shutting down your business is a great way to drive operating costs down to zero...
hey

I get what advice you are giving.

I mean like, where can I find and follow sales people who create content?
I always remember Richard having a science lab as a child and would pay his younger sister to take electric shocks
Hmm, based on the last picture the pen seem to be an additional device on the side, I don't see a way to attach it to the Duo itself via magnet or another mechanism. Maybe a missed opportunity here, it's always annoying to have the pen somewhere else when you need to use it.
Thanks for the feedback. I'm curious - what kind of pricing would you expect? Also, is this for an R&D workload, or for something that's already in production?
Wow, this is awful. I live in Portland, and have symmetric gigabit fiber from CenturyLink for $65/mo. Honestly baffling to me that people tolerate the politics of Silicon Valley.
Ethics is great and all until the money stops flowing
Our (non-native) fennel plants seem to be a significant attractor of bees and other pollinators. They also serves as a host plant for Anise Swallowtail butterflies. The bees also really like the citrus (oranges, lemons, citron, grapefruit), cuphea, milkweed, buddleia, lavender, and lantana.
Does/can it integrate with CI? This is what I need now. While I want full integration testing I'd like to have stories/unit tests for UI components too.
I'm having difficulty finding the article, but there was a news story that the single most data request from the London Crime cameras being.. flat managers requesting footage of people who didn't clean up after their dogs.

Cameras don't prevent crime. They may shift crime (if you have cameras and your neighbor doesn't, guess whose house is going to get burgled first?) and they may make crime easier to prosecute after, but they do not stop crime in any meaningful way.

And more than likely, the people who are spending a lot of money to buy and monitor those cameras don't really care about the shoplifters and graffiti artists - those crimes don't cost very much of society and stopping them is a low priority. Serious crimes like murders and home invasions are.. actually pretty rare and cameras generally don't catch them.

If you're spending millions to install cameras, record them constantly, and store all that footage in a way that's searchable.. it has nothing to do with crime. It has everything to do with monitoring your population.

Edit:

Found it: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7469369.stm
In fact it's not science at all. I didn't claim it was science, I claimed it was so obvious and intuitive that science was unnecessary.

> without any memory safety bug at all.

Most QEMU escapes I have seen are memory safety issues in emulated devices.
i imagine a lot of unfortunate artefacts come out of stitching together the camera views that form a 360 or "spherical" image.
I've been using mine more frequently during the lockdown but I notice that sometimes a lot of water is left in the base. Happens maybe a third of the time even though I follow your routine to the tee. Any ideas what might be causing that?
Byteboard Interviews Expand to Data Science, Data Engineering, and SRE
Uber CEO Says Its Service Will Probably Shut Down Temporarily in California
You don't even know the very basic facts about the Ukrainian situation.
Since so many of the screenshots show them running a separate Android app on each screen, I wonder if the apps themselves actually run simultaneously.

Or if it's like Android apps on my Chromebook where only a single active app actually runs, while all other apps get suspended in the background, even if they're visible.

The latter would make this concept pretty useless so I hope they actually solved this and are planning on upstreaming the changes so all future devices can benefit.
I misunderstood you, sorry. And yes, I agree with your clarified point too - that definitely happens for me, and I'd guess for a lot of us here. I'm not ashamed to admit that HN discussions satisfy the same needs as meatspace socializing, even if they're doing it the way McDonald's satisfies hunger.

HN is really the worst. With other sites I visit, I can at least honestly say it's a pure waste of time. But here, every couple weeks I'll find something that solves a tough problem I have; every year or two I find something career-altering. If I were to integrate ((value I get from HN) - (opportunity cost of time spent here)), I'm not sure whether it's even negative. My monkey brain definitely feels it's positive (magic of temporal discounting). If I spent this time on other things, maybe I'd be running a space company now. Or maybe I'd be depressed and stuck doing PHP for ridiculously low salaries.
I hope the formerly Mozilla employees all find roles quickly, but I suspect that well more than 250 employees have been laid off since the beginning of the pandemic. Is there a particular reason why these layoffs need exceptional response?
I have to agree. People will have to pry PDF's out of my cold, dead fingers. No way in hell am I going to ever switch to a web-based format. A PDF means that I know what I'm getting. A static document that can't do any fuckery around preventing me from copying text or doing their own weird implementation of scrolling or breaking back/forwards navigation or anything else that modern websites love to do. If I get a PDF, I know what it is and the tools that I use to consume that PDF don't change just because the author of that PDF happened to find a new PDF framework and was so blinded by the shinyness that he just had to implement as much of it as he could. No, a PDF is a PDF. My PDF readers all behave in a consistent way and give me the exact same functionality and the same interface and show consistent performance behavior, whether it's a PDF from the year 2000 or a PDF from today, regardless of what eccentric tastes the author might have, and the author has zero say in how I interact with the PDF.

That's how I want it. I'm tired of new formats and new frameworks and new tools releasing every single year that pretend they're better. The best thing about PDF is that it doesn't change. Yes, whatever, Adobe adds new features, but any PDF ebook I download has nothing to do with that, nor that PDF scientific paper I downloaded this morning. I don't want random authors to be able to dictate how I interact with a medium, because the vast majority of them are, frankly, idiots when it comes to this domain and they have no sense of good user interface design.
Congratulations on the launch, Papercups.

I want to pick your minds on a tangential need gap - 'Customer Messaging on a website without website owner's action'[1] i.e. Enabling anyone to chat with other visitors of any website, unlike customer messaging this will be consumer focussed and there seems to be some products addressing it but naturally affected by Chicken and Egg problem.

What's your take on that need gap?

[1]https://needgap.com/problems/141-youtube-like-public-chat-fo... (Disclaimer: This need gap was posted on my problem validation platform).
The entire fricking world except Intel gets their cutting-edge (read: profitable) chips made by TSMC. There is quite frankly a lot of latitude for them to raise prices.
It's 'just' a julia package.
It's just about the perception of injustice. A privileged person facing minor injustices could completely have this mindset. In fact I've met many many people like this.

A journalist came up with this concept at the World Economic Forum, I think it was fractal poverty??, and it was this observation that from the poorest people in the world to the absolute richest there was this sense that they were excluded from and oppressed by someone more powerful. Absolutely anyone can feel this way.
We had some abuse on our site that Google blocked us for - people were trying to run a scam through it. Except the scam was being propagated on youtube and Google did nothing about the videos despite multiple reports from us.

So my attitude is pretty simple: Google can fuck off. They can't even fix their own properties and will ban you for their inability to do so.
Just asking out of curiosity, why no cut policy?
> Aaaaand where's you evidence?

The evidence is that he was pushed out of the CEO position, and received a monetary settlement lol.

A person would have to be extremely stupid to think that if someone got pushed out of a CEO position, that it is somehow impossible that the company/ceo would be incentivized to not talk about.

There is quite obviously a financial incentive here. I am not sure how someone could deny the existence of this financial incentive.

This is standard stuff. It is completely reasonable that either of them would not want the bad publicity from that, and that there are financial incentives to not admit that he was pushed out of the CEO position.

Executives get pushed out of positions, without companies or the executives admitting to it, or lying and saying that they left voluntarily.
It's all just CSS animations.
I guess MS is still feeling the sting of their previous foray into the phone market, so they're trying to market it as a Surface?

As a phone, it stands out. The giant screen that fits in your pocket is a neat gimmick. It stakes out some potentially influential space on the ground between "phone" and "computer", where market expectations haven't been fully established yet. It costs around as much as other elite phones. "Surface Phone" could have been a great shot into the cutting edge phone market.

As a Surface, it's on a different OS and won't run the same software. It gives up peripherals, ports, and screen real estate. Adding a keyboard would make the Duo less practical as a mobile computer than a Surface with the tidy keyboard option. It costs as much as far more powerful Surfaces, but at least it fits in your pocket?
In this space, it doesn't matter how many times you get it right, just how many times you got it wrong.

Also, it was probably a bad idea for Google and Facebook to be so cavalier while they destroyed print advertising (i.e. the press).

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel, as they say.
This sounds like it is bad for the customer experience of the rider, but is essential for the driver to be considered a contractor. It makes sense to me as a tradeoff: Uber can decide that the drivers are employees and dictate what routes and fares they must take, or they can decide that drivers are contractors who have the ability to review and decline those fares
Florida sheriff bans deputies, visitors from wearing masks
if government has a monopoly then the people who know what they are doing will be working for it
The problem with facebook isn't that they use humans, it's that they treat them very poorly. Treat people with dignity and respect, and the good press will follow.
Errol Morris Doc First Person Season 1
Keeping it Physical in the age of Digital
so do you think Uber should be forced to keep its operations running in California?
1) True. But until about 1 month ago, Uber drivers didn't get to set their own rates, and they were punished for not accepting rides. Moreover, a key issue for this test is that Uber matches drivers to riders, so the normal independence that would be expected from a "platform" does not exist.

2) I laughed so hard I scared my neighbor's dog. Uber is a transportation service that happens to use technology (in the form of software) to provide it's service. Have you read their SEC filings or any of their other legal documents? In their own legally binding filings, they describe their primary business as providing transportation and food delivery services, not as a "platform" for whatever.

3 and 4) This is false, but it's a tricky point. Under AB5, it's not enough to just drive for multiple companies; a driver must satisfy certain legal formalities related to being in business for themselves, like setting up a legal entity, getting their own insurance, etc., to prove they are "customarily engaged" in the business. (Note that points 3 and 4 were distinct in the case law but were combined in AB5.) Most drivers haven't done this.
> you've parroted

Parroting implies blind repeating. I honestly believe my statement though. It's not parroting.

> That's abusive, because it allows the employer to send you work when you're off the clock.

No, it's abusive when doing work functions requires the use of my personal phone. Accessing an employer's VPN should not be done using devices or services that are wholly owned and paid for by me.

Allowing my employer to notify me, while I'm off the clock, of any work that's available or scheduling changes or emergencies definitely falls under personal devices can be used.

But when the employer requires you to use your personal devices and personal internet service to actually do any function of that work then that's where you and I clearly disagree.

> Using your smartphone to log into your payroll site

Payroll sites necessarily must be accessible from outside of the work VPN: payroll sites' reporting ability must be accessible after my employment has been terminated.

> or as the internet bridge to the company VPN

Using someone's personal internet service or phone service is unethical. Employers should pay for the internet bridge to the company VPN and all devices and services necessary to connect to it.

> is not any different from using a broadband line and a laptop to do the same thing

Nope, it isn't. Who owns it though?

> Those systems shouldn't be able to interrupt you when you're not working

Indeed.

> but they might still be accessed through a smartphone in lieu of a desktop or laptop.

Sure, but who owns it?
Eh they laid off a bunch of their lawyers so I should be good.
If revenue from Firefox isn't enough to pay the bills anymore, then not funding R&D is cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Without much optimization, it can run at ~14fps on a NVidia TiTan RTX
I was thinking the same thing. In addition, there have been a ton of tech/startup related layoffs, its odd that this one is getting so much attention and support from the community.

Edit: Perhaps I'm a bit bitter, as I was laid off because of the pandemic after 4+ years at my previous employer, and left on my own to figure things out. I imagine the experience was the same for others in a similar situation.
I come from Western New York, where (at the time) 20mbps was the best available option and it was over $100. I hear things are a little better now (though 100mbps may still be the best available), but the options here are way better.

I think 2gbps is rare to find anywhere?
It's surprisingly simple! I designed an SVG quick in Sketch, and did it in a way where I can shift things left to right. Then a few CSS animations just move things left to right. When rotated, it looks like it's rocking!

Here's the initial SVG: https://p195.p4.n0.cdn.getcloudapp.com/items/OAuqBqvx/boat.s...

Everything else was just CSS
As someone who has been using split screen on Android frequently as of late this device is intriguing. The one thing I'm not sold on yet is the keyboard but maybe I need to literally have it in my hands before I pass on it.

Price is definitely steep. They clearly know their market.
I have not raised recently, but when we tried to raise in 2013, the silliest thing was the "requirement" to move from NYC to SF/SV. Operating in NYC (as opposed to SF/SV) alone would allow us to raise less. I'd raise less, but i'd love to also base myself in a lower C-o-L location than SF/SV.

I hear this isnt as common now, but i'd love to hear fresh stories.
"""It’s important to point out that the researchers do not equate experiencing trauma and victimization with possessing the victimhood mindset. They point out that a victimhood mindset can develop without experiencing severe trauma or victimization. Vice versa, experiencing severe trauma or victimization doesn’t necessarily mean that someone is going to develop a victimhood mindset.
"""
Or there were two models, the output of one which is an input to another.

Normally this would be a bad idea, but lots of people do it.
MMS Exploit Part 5: Defeating Android ASLR, Getting RCE
'Everybody’s entitled to their opinion – but not their own facts'
Redux works through a first-class React feature -- the context api. You can utilize the context api yourself to create modular state wrappers that can exist side-by-side rather than being restricted to a single global store.

https://reactjs.org/docs/context.html
> 8 of those instances is equivalent to an 8 core (16 thread) chip with 64GB of memory. Using, e.g., Supermicro AMD EPYC 3251 + parts, you could build an entire server for less than 1/2 that price.

Your choice of comparisons suggest you completely missed the whole point. If the author wanted a desktop I'm sure he would buy one for 600$ instead of spending that money to put together an underperforming cluster that's entirely unusable as a desktop.

If instead you are interested in gaining experience managing a cluster that runs distributed systems then yes you would do something like putting together a raspberry pi cluster.

Yet, if you seek to have the same experience (or arguably far better) without spendig a hefty sum as capex and having access to more computational resources for a negligible opex then cloud providers such as Hetzner are clearly a far better option.
I think it comes down to what feature length you are measuring. Transistor density seems like a better measure.
Agree it should be optional. Web based would be better than an app.