skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't get at how much is spent on development for each product, but you do get some information: (below all 2018 figures)

They took in ~$430M from, primarily, the search deals, plus a couple million each from some other sources like subscriptions is in there as income too.

They spent ~$280M on software development, $52M on marketing, $86M on administration and "general." With 1,000 (okay, 750) employees you're going to have some administrative costs. So it's mostly going to software development writ large, though you don't have reported the breakout of what's being spent on what projects.

As for the charitable stuff: the foundation took in $13M in contributions, and also about $13M from the corporation paying the foundation for the use of the trademarks (the foundation owns them). The foundation spent $18M on its charitable programs. Presumably this $18M is part of the $33M total consolidated spending on "other program services."

There's truth in the statement that a portion of Firefox's revenue is paying for some of Mozilla's charitable programs, but it's a very small amount relative to the amounts spent on development.
Spewmorphic;)
One of the big excuses for the telecom/ISP monopolies in Canada is that they help serve rural areas (same deal with Canada Post).

I'm curious to see if this ends up having any effect on the current system.

Technically you could just directly subsidize access to the rural areas, for those who can't afford the much cheaper new satellite systems themselves, instead of giving these anti-consumer monsters free reign on the whole country in exchange for managing expensive infrastructure just to serve a small percentage of the population.
That would only be true if the US allowed only the same number of immigrants from each country. I don't think that's been the policy historically. I'm not familiar with the current policy.

People immigrate for different reasons at different times. The causes combine with changing US immigration policies and the dynamics of preferential attachment to diaspora clusters to create distinct cohorts that have similar socioeconomic outcomes.
Note that I don't have much experience working with Apple's approval process, and am just speaking as a layuser here.

In that sentence, "contact" can mean many different things. Will you contact me by text for non-urgent things like billing or promotions? As a user, I don't want to give up my phone number for promotions. And since the request is right after the sign-in flow, I think it's reasonable Apple thinks "contact" can also mean 2FA.

I would put more precise language, such as: "Our masters may need to contact you in order to arrange delivery of X service."

Also, the fact that Apple did approve your app already is further evidence that this is just a misunderstanding, likely because your copy is not 100% clear.

(Sidenote: This is not important, but personally, the term "master" makes me uncomfortable. I personally would not call people "masters," but I also don't know your target market, so the term may be more appropriate in that context.)
> Incidentally, this is why you'll sometimes hear a native Chinese speaker mistakenly use "he" or "him" instead of "she" or "her."

I know speakers of foreign languages with strong gendering (as in every person/object has a gender in their language) and they will still confuse she/he at times.
Let’s hope self driving turns the corner before human irrationality holds us back even more than it already does.
>Insider trading is more or less dead

Is there any evidence supporting this claim?

>The only people who do it are a very small overlap of the Venn diagram of people who have access to material nonpubluc information and don’t yet know it’s impossible to monetize it

Which side is it? That there are less people people who have insider information, or that it's harder to monetize insider information? Unless there's big shift in US corporate culture leading to better information controls across the board, I don't think it's the former. I can't think of anything that'd change the latter, unless HFT/hedge funds found some sort of crystal ball so they can front-run the insiders.
I found Ecosia.org better than DDG although is is powered by Bing somehow.
Ask HN: Most accurate ML speech-to-text API?
I'm building a project that relies on at least pretty-good transcription with timestamps for each word and ideally speaker diarization.

Right now I'm using Google Cloud's Speech-to-Text, but the accuracy is underwhelming when transcribing a Zoom call (50%ish).

Am I likely to fare much better with Azure/AWS? What about Symbl.ai?
That's actually a pretty good pro to stay in cities.

Mass hysteria + lots of guns = not a place I'd like to be.
Guess what. Mozilla corp is not a nonprofit.
I find myself having binary reactions to virtually all of Thiel's positions: I either strongly agree or strongly disagree. I guess that's what his methodological contrarianism generates.

I agree with this one. Not only are college costs out of control, but the fact that colleges have seen tuition increase much faster than inflation while simultaneously decreasing the number of real tenure track positions and other academic positions should be a national scandal. It's borderline fraud.

What the hell is all that money going toward? As near as I can tell it's unnecessary vanity buildings, executive salaries, and runaway bloat in administrative offices. It's going toward everything but real tenure track professorships, better teacher/student ratios, and everything else a university should be doing.
IMO, adding 2018 in the title would be better.
There is a physical infrastructure, owned by company A. You pay a fixed fee for access as part of your energy bill. You have no choice in that. Your actual subscription is with energy company B, Who you can choose freely. Of course company B doesn’t hook up directly to your home, instead they look at the total amount of power used by customers of company B and they are obligated to supply that amount of power to the national grid.
More like 1-2km. I don't know which "modern" VDSL you mean.
you must be one of those "sheeple"
The sibling replies mentioning Openstreetmap are correct. When displaying placemarkers, like this, you don't need Google Maps.

Also, for showing maps on a high-volume homepage like this, you can use caching, robots.txt and old-school HTML image maps.
I want to argue with this but I don’t think I can.
We have no idea how they - or any fresh grads would do as full time employees. I think they would do okay. But they are treated with kid gloves compared to FTE’s.
Real Time Dynamic Programming Applied to Frozenlake Environment
I worked as a partner to a tech giant who had some security requirements, where they'd only release code to us if all the people with the code met certain requirements. It was a day-long security audit and there were several pages of checklists.

What I commonly see is them monitoring all data going in and out, especially through USB drives. Rival services like Google Drive are often blocked. I wouldn't be surprised if some have a kind of analytics but it's unlikely. I doubt webcam and microphone are used to monitor activity unless you're working somewhere like Facebook.
Why this could not be different because of gender itself, not because of bias? For example, men prefer to talk about solutions and may be more focused on enterprise and women are more product oriented? Isn't you have to use pretty much the same keynotes to make any conclusions?
If I wanted spyware, I would just install Windows 10, really. Screw Canonical.
Maybe we're reading different comments, but I don't see his beliefs being defended as much as his right to have those beliefs. Can you tell the difference? If you can, don't play cancel culture and put words in other people's mouths. If you can't, slow down and think about it. You don't win White Knight points for demanding that positions be polarized and pretending that such childishness is a reasoned defense.
Can someone merge this with https://1940s.nyc/ :)
I'm convinced I nearly died during my first semester. Swine flu, pneumonia and a throat infection all in the course of a month. Anyone who thinks this won't spread through a college doesn't have a clue.
> "we designed X because X seemed the best option"... how informative

If that's the most they can say, I'd rather that be surfaced. Knowing the decision was made in haste, with shallow consideration, is better than wondering if it was. And actually, that's probably the right way to make some decisions, if they seem likely to have a small difference in value between the many options it doesn't make a lot of sense to burn too many cycles making sure of that.

Once decisions come around to bite you, you can start to look at whether the decisions that are actually proving costly were the ones that were made lightly.

At least, that's how I'm thinking about it before getting into the weeds of it.
This is very accurate, and two other types of people working in bike stores are endurance athletes and hipster fixed gear types both of which often give off airs of superiority. I try to spend money at my local shop but as a casual road cyclist I often can’t get the time of day from these types.
We are always 6 weeks away from practically ending the pandemic nationwide... If we were capable of a massive, coordinated collaborative effort.
> A small disruption in the intricate supply chain of essential food is all it takes.

During the start of COVID the supply chain of food got disrupted quite a bit. Large restaurant suppliers no longer had customers because the restaurants were closed and grocery stores didn't have enough supply to keep up with customers. However, I didn't even have to dig into my emergency rice stash at all, and I haven't heard of anyone else actually going hungry.

Do you think a larger disruption might cause a cascading effect, or how exactly would that play out? The COVID example appears to show the opposite: our food supply chain is rather robust.
Does Elon Musk promise too much with his autonomous driving tech?
Hiding the full URL will redirect a lot of traffics back to Google's search engine because people can't easily figure out the source from a screenshot anymore.
I'm still a bit puzzled why ground based stations didn't catch on. Seems it should be much simpler - there's tons of towers already, flights paths are predictable and much lesser distance between plane and sat.

That said my experience with internet was very positive - anywhere from free 4K streaming to $20 per 17hr flight enough to do remote SaaS development. I guess US airlines keeps American tradition of depriving people of good internet.
People tend to not like to think of others in shades of grey, especially of celebrities.

It's what leads to cult of personality or deep hatred.
If any of those products were truly better we would be using them today. I’m not saying apples 30% take isn’t BS, what I am saying is that if enough of us tell Apple to go F themselves, I.e. what FN is doing, they will be forced to change without the government stepping into our lives. It’s basic free-market economics...
With that attitude, you’re missing out on the cultural and historical significance of food and ingredients.

Food tells so many stories. Pepper usage could tell you things if you’re combining it with other data. There’s a lot there, with such a simple data point — class, race, ethnicity, technology, famine, publishing trends, economic output, agricultural history, climate, trends in taste — so much!

Food history is not just for academic researchers.
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If you're interested in a healthy dose of climate change skepticism, there's also Richard Lindzen, but he's also derided by the climatologist community. I've found the most intelligent of the entire community is skeptical, but the rest of them are convinced of their mission for ethical means, and are willing to forecast doomsday scenarios based on essentially what boils down to linear regression or maybe some very simplified model that has no chance of being reality. The more complex models are still extremely rudimentary, with fluid sims in movies and games being more robust than GCM in terms of simulation size which has a massive effect on the prediction quality. And there are gaping holes--the ocean's fluid flow effects and clouds. (edit: apparently there are some simulations with these now, but they are very rudimentary, see below)

Listen to him if you're interested though, his videos are all around YouTube.

> Typical AGCM resolutions are between 1 and 5 degrees in latitude or longitude: HadCM3, for example, uses 3.75 in longitude and 2.5 degrees in latitude, giving a grid of 96 by 73 points (96 x 72 for some variables); and has 19 vertical levels.

From Wikipedia. I don't think clouds fit into such a coarse grid. Climate is exceptionally chaotic and there are definitely processes that can't be approximated with such a low-parameter model. I dunno if the latest models are more refined, but six months ago they were still dealing with water vapor.
Okay! Does that mean that the employees can still negotiate their wages, or should they go on the GS schedule?

And who determines if it’s junk mail or not?
That 20 bucks turns into about 100 added to retail with normal manufacturing price models. Source: Have consulted with several factories, and in several as well.
Posts like these really belong on reddit and not HN.
Years ago when he acquired a cult of personality and could do no wrong, I knew it was going to swing the other way.

I never subscribed to either view. He's a brilliant engineer and a talented businessman with some apparently significant personality flaws or emotional regulation issues. In other words he's human.
Yeah - I'm not arguing against its technical merits. Dumping it was mostly a business reason - it made zero sense for MS to continue making their own browser engine.
I mean, if it were as clear to all bystanders and people outside of the store and across the country that there were someone bludgeoning a cashier, unprovoked, and stealing the money, then I'd agree that with that much consensus, what's the point of talking about it.

I have many friends and family who I'm quite certain see actions by the administration as either innocuous or exciting—to privatize—or righteous and brave—to take on the "fraud that will be perpetuated through mail-in voting." The people who believe the latter won't be convinced through much debate, but the people in the former may, because they may believe strongly that it should be privatized and yet disagree that it should happen now.

I can't speak for others, but I learned a lot in this short, 1-2 day dialogue. I want to learn how to have conversations with people who disagree with me to try to bring us closer to resolution.

Oddly enough, I took a hostage negotiation training last year and want to strive to get better at resolving conflict as they do. That being said, asking a question like you posed at the beginning could confuse the guy and disarm him a bit, setting him up for further conversation and maybe resolving the conflict.

In conclusion, I deeply appreciated this thread and what you contributed to it as well, because I feel more prepared for the conversations I'll inevitably have around this.

And I think HN seems to have been handling it well, but I still kinda feel like an outsider here, so I don't know if I'm playing by the rules lol.
AOSP supports sideloading, if a given device supports it depends pretty much on the OEM, besides that is a feature that requires technical expertise and ignoring a couple of warnings about possible malware.
Finally, a reply that is correct. Thank you; too many people leave seasoning up to being some mystery when it's really just that straightforward.

FWIW, I wrote this up a few years back after I went down the rabbit hole of seasoning pans, only to find that it's actually really simple and just as you describe: https://nuxx.net/blog/2014/01/24/well-seasoned-cast-iron-pan...
I’ve read the Tweet and the comments here from the author. I still don’t know what the app does.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they couldn’t explain to Apple why they needed the phone number.
At this point I think Thiel lives in his own wealth bubble so distinct from the experience of most people that his reckons just should be ignored by default.

I suspect that the main reason we see what he has to say so much is that he can pay a publicist to get people to listen to him .... he's essentially trying to buy\ his way into the 'marketplace of ideas' using money rather than actual ideas, essentially trying to skew the marketplace in his favor
The consequences of climate change might not be as bad as the consequences of preventing it. That's a pretty important thing to figure out because what if you end up creating a bigger calamity than you prevent?

What does "heavy losses" mean? If you don't quantify it, it means the same as "light losses". Is it worse than WWII? Worse than WWI? Worse than Communism? Worse than the Spanish Flu? Worse than AIDS? Worse than malaria? Worse than smoking? These things each killed many millions in the past century and somehow civilization has never been better!

So before worrying about preaching, first figure it out yourself. Otherwise you're nothing more than an amplifier for some other activist's arbitrary emotions.
Like I said, you'll just have to wait for the next financial report. It's odd you ignored the rest of my comment.
As an engineer, I see him as an incredibly talented engineer that is also quite good at sales and marketing, but mostly because he talks about stuff like an engineer.

Would most companies even hire him for a salesperson role? Probably not if they've watched his presentations.
That is so perverted on so many levels. Tech is the last real free-market, we need to keep regulation away as much as we can. We are the last bastion of Adam Smiths economy...
Hedge funds aren't run like they were in the early 2000s. It's not about individual traders posting PnL, it's about entire teams working together. In the past, individual traders would try and get inside information in order to post good returns. It's not like everyone at the hedge fund worked together to insider trade, that'd be too risky.

As a result of the individual book model dying, inside information isn't worth much. You can't trade on your own, and you can't share it with others.

Moreover, with outflows from discretionary to quantitative strategies, there's not that many hedge funds (by capital at least) that could even do anything with inside information. It's not like if some guy at Bridgewater got a hot merger tip he would even be able to do anything with it.

tl:dr: lots of things have changed, and the industry is no longer conducive to exploiting insider information.

I'm sure it still happens, but at an individual or informal kind of level. It's not an institutionalized accpeted thing like at SAC or Gallion, for example.
Brain Oriented Programming
I did a few years ago. I didn't like how tasks were miniaturized and visually de-emphasized relative to the rest of the calendar. I will give it another try though and see how it changed.
After-Birth Abortion (2012)
Seems like an odd model. I guess it makes sense though.
"I find it somewhat puzzling that in such a climate you're expecting a higher burden of proof for people urging caution than the reverse, especially given that the medical community and researchers are generally urging caution."

I have the same standard that I apply everywhere: the burden of proof is on the person making the extraordinary claims. I don't care if that person is a hypochondriac telling me about secret herbal cures for cancer, or medical doctors who haven't done their statistics correctly. When I can look at the data myself and see that they haven't done their math right, I disregard their opinions.

Having spent my fair share of time "in the medical community", I'm here to tell you that there are plenty of doctors and nurses and professors out there who are more than willing to give a reporter a salacious quote just to get their name in the press or their paper in a better journal. Doctors are humans too: they rush to judgment, fall victim to bias, and get dazzled by the idea of seeing their name in print.

So far we have a few (mostly bad) papers describing a small number of the most serious cases, a few (really bad) papers that have gone on statistical fishing expeditions, and an absolutely credulous news media, willing to amplify any speculative claim for clicks. So no, I don't cede my critical thinking skills to an authority figure, just because that figure is in a lab coat.
Do you block Apple marketing emails?

It seems like you can sign up with a fake email or simply block the emails you don't like. This is such a non-issue. Yet what Apple has done poses an existential threat to many small operations.

Apple has a kill switch on small companies' customer lists. They're inserting themselves into every transaction as a middle man.

Do something Apple doesn't like? You just lost all of your customers. You no longer own that relationship anymore. Apple turned you into a sharecropper.

Congress and the DOJ need to do the following to counteract this obscene anticompetitive behavior:

1. Pass legislation describing "generic purpose computers" and require that they allow installation of any software by the user.

2. Break up Apple into hardware and software+services divisions and prevent them from dealing exclusively with one another.
I believe in as little government regulation as we need to keep this country from imploding, but just enough to make us the #1 country in the world (w/e that means)
Thanks for the advice. Yes, our target market isn't english speaking, so some things might be a result of a bad translation.
Location: New York, NY
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So on the basis of "earning" $1.6 billion(!) Mozilla is "refocusing" on a bookmarking service, a VPN and a weird sorta "social VR" (whatever the fuck that is).

What the hell are they doing with the rest of the money? It should be "paid back" to the shareholder (the foundation) as tax free dividends that are kept in a fund for the purposes of that foundation.
The coastline is constantly shifting. Growing in some parts, eroding in others.

Interestingly, Sandwich, UK used to be a major port with a navigable waterway to the North Sea. It's now 3km inland.[1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandwich,_Kent
Looking at the chart in the article, CLEARLY one of those factors made a massive shift right when Trump got elected! Suddenly everyone realized it was bad and they shouldn't do it.
Sad. I want to like Google but the author is right.
What are you using to synchronize state across users? Operational transformation, conflict free replicated data types?
When you put it that way it sounds really sad.
The GIL gets released whenever it gets released. C extensions like zlib release the GIL while (de)compressing requests/responses.

https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/init.html#releasing-the-gil-...
If google can get enough people to stop using url's then they can start building a walled garden.
Seems to me that you failed to address his claims.
Yes, Chernow. It is quite good and I think would give you a better sense for the extent of the factionalism in that time.
Many have tried, with mixed to poor results. I am curious to understand why one hasn't emerged as a clear winner like Rails/Django/Laravel.