skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ironic then that the Pentagon was designed to be temporary.

"It was supposed to be temporary.

The Pentagon was the brainchild of Army Brig. Gen. Brehon B. Sommervell, who, in the early 1940s, pitched it as a temporary solution to the then-War Department's critical shortage of space as the threat of joining World War II became imminent.

The plan was approved, and on Sept. 11, 1941, construction began. About 296 acres of land were designated for the building, which was supposed to be turned into a hospital, office or warehouse once World War II was over."

https://www.defense.gov/Explore/Features/story/Article/18674...
The Chinese masses are much better off today than they were in the 70s.

Globalization does increase inequality, particularly in countries with a lot of capital, but it also makes the very poor better off. What the US calls the middle classes do stagnate, though, and capitalists are the biggest winners - which, don't forget, also includes pension funds as a significant fraction.

Most of the top 1% are wage slaves like everyone else. The top 1% by income isn't what's interesting; it's the top 1% by assets. Wealth inequality is much bigger than income inequality.
Do they have any plans to go fully remote? I see job postings which still reference specific cities.
Sometimes you get a better deal when you have fewer options.

For example, iPhone/iPad users being unable to install Adobe Flash accelerated its demise hugely, by motivating websites to remove Flash, not just add 'please install' links.
I'm confused. Why doesn't Apple just use their "Termination for Convenience" clause that lets them terminate any contract with a 30 day notice?
Hacker News commentators aren't typical users. But tbh I'm skeptical of how many of those comments are organic.
Let's talk again in 20 years.

See e.g. https://www.storm.mg/article/2971332
You are right , none of the human experiments or eugenics were done by regimes that did not have ulterior motives .

however as thought experiment let us say if you can develop a safe vaccine by killing hundred people and save millions , should you do it ?

Should I develop a self driving AI to choose life of child over dozen people Adults ?

These are not easy questions to answer while the first may not happen , the second scenario is not far off
Ethical obligation? Sure. Ethics don't put bread on the table, though. Practical obligation? You get what you pay for.
This is simply a workaround to a deeper problem with DRMs, we're simply renting an unlimited access (that can be revoked at any time, sometime with a valid reason and sometime not) of purchases.

I'm still appreciative of all those folks working in the shadow to break those protections and provide a DRM-free version, even if it's illegitimate.
I don't think your percentage is correct. It depends on the PCRs target gene, the quality of the samples and the quality of the machine used. They are using reverse transcriptase quantitative PCR. What is your source for that FNR?
High Output Management by Andy Grove – A Summary and Review
I think its a common situation where you have to decide between crimes with long sentences, but hard to prove and smaller charges that are easier to prove.
Looking at Facebook I would be willing to say that has literally nothing to do with it.

Facebook insists even more on having "real people" using their real names, often forcing them to vet themselves, yet at times it easily steals the crown in terms of "really bad user interactions" from YouTube comments.

Very likely much more related to the topic under which people are commenting: Non-political feel good fluff does not allow for much friction to be inserted, thus the tone of comments will be much more civilized and friendly.

But anything that goes into controversial, and particularly political, territory is bound to quickly escalate into a complete shit show, on YouTube and Facebook alike.

Which fits neatly into common communication strategies like focusing on similarities rather than on differences.
Isn't this still an Epic issue? Basically if Epic delivered their engine to their customers as source code and NOT as a compiled binary couldn't the customers build the engine and include it in their App Store submission? But since Epic is trying to deliver the compiled engine to their customer (signed with their dev keys) thats where the problem comes in?
This looks to be a bit of a distillation of "revising prose" book https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1552699.Revising_Prose
I think there's a bit of a misunderstanding - you can turn off analytics on your e-reader without giving up the kindle platform. It's also separate from whispersync (which can also be disabled independently).
The flaw with this whole line of thinking is that it treats workers and jobs as interchangeable. A 40 year old, low intelligence factory worker is not going to become a software engineer.

And even if you take the rewards of comparative advantage and redistribute them to account for this, you are still destroying the social fabric of families and communities. Vitality, self-respect, and good values come from being engaged in productive work.
I think it's inarguable that globalisation has put downward pressure on wages in a lot of industries. It's also made cheap products widely available to people who could never have afforded them before, and raised hundreds of millions of people out of poverty.

On the other hand wages in China have shot up and the huge pool of cheap rural labour is mostly tapped out. Low end manufacturing is moving to other countries, Samsung now does most of their smartphone final assembly in Vietnam but those countries are smaller. That trend is playing out it's end game. Employment in the US and Europe was rising, and came close to 100% before the Pandemic.

So I actually agree with your criticism, but not that there's nothing positive about it. Things change, overall I think things are changing for the better but that's never a painless process. That's why although I'm a believing market capitalist, I also support social programs and universal health care. If corporations deserve bailouts, so do ordinary citizens. We're all in it together.
It looks like it's using this hugo theme but I may be wrong.

https://themes.gohugo.io/hugonews/
Anyone else thinks slack web version is very slow ?
Both are expected to expose themselves to risk, both get paid. The many differences seem irrelevant to the topic at hand. What am I missing?
Four Stylized Facts About  Covid-19 [pdf]
Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?
Don't search on youtube. Ask on r/bodyweightfitness

https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/
React Hooks and Local Storage: Let's Build a To-Do App
On the last two points, aren't there rumors that Intel is going to build some of its Intel Xe graphics cards using TSMC?
If Apple wanted (and they probably are doing it) they could heavily delay the approval of any apps that make use of an engine they seem "risky"... Effectively increasing the costs of those developers using "rogue" engines.
I don't think it is. While I may agree with the goal of open platforms, I don't for one moment believe that Epic cares at all about that goal and I do not believe their method of intentionally violating TOS and using propaganda to direct a raging horde of children at Apple is the right way to go about it.
It would be a challenge to gain a foothold for sure. I suspect the way in would be to have a way to support Android apps (I believe windows phone was doing this for a while?)

As far as malware, I’m not sure why it would be more of an issue on an open platform than it would on Android. I use Linux as a daily driver, and as long as you’re getting software from trusted sources, it’s not much of a concern. I don’t see why it would be different on mobile.

And with regard to you comments about ease of use, I’m not saying an open phone OS should be the only option, or that it should even be the dominant platform. For most people it probably makes sense to go with a widely supported platform which is safe and easy to use. But it would be nice if there was an alternative available for power users, and people who want to experiment with radically different concepts of how to use a smartphone.

Smartphones are basically the main computers people use nowadays. It’s just kind of a shame you have to go through a corporation to use one.
It’s more like spend one hundred million to make the levy higher _and_ on flood mitigation, versus spend a billion (plus maybe lose tons of money due to economic damage) dealing with the effects of the disaster.

Prevention is usually cheaper (and TFA in this case says it is).
i believe ^^ is referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect

This concept could be applied to mean that because the forest survived this event, we should expect to last much longer than previously assumed. (something like that at least...)
Same here - I only take mine off airplane mode when I am sending a library book to it, leaving wifi on eats through the battery significantly faster.
Same thought occurred to me. I would have thought proving that was intention would be pretty hard considering the personal risk involved.
Would this be a US-centric view/"filter bubble", specific to American-specific business regulation/deregulation, tax codes, and outsourcing strategies?

In Asian countries, i.e. Taiwan, China, SK, Japan, Vietnam, as well as, say Mexico after NAFTA/NAFTA 2.0, what are the numbers regarding general purchasing power?
I entered the matrix through the red and blue fakesciencenews and became purple
Show HN: Shift-Ctrl-F: Search a webpage with natural language and TensorFlowJS
I'm not a German speaker, but verb-at-the-end sounds like reverse Polish notation (of happy memory, learned for my brand-new 1972 HP-35 calculator).
Isn't Nvidia using Samsung this upcoming gen?
> People should be allowed to run their own servers for abandonware.

Especially those multiplayer-only games, that ultimately will vanish and a piece of gaming history becomes lost to time.
>You need obviously to know your stuff inside out, especially the technical side of things.

>the split between tech knowledge and business knowledge will depend on the SE position/vertical and company, but do expect at least a 50% / 50%.

I agree with your post overall, but I'd say there is a much wider variance in this than indicated in your post. In smaller companies with a smaller sales force technical skills is very important. In bigger companies, it's entirely possible to be a "Solution Architect" where all you do is regurgitate talking points without actually having a good practical understanding of the product you are selling.

I only say this because it's important to evaluate the type of Sales Engineering role you want to be in and how much you want to use your technical skills. Some Sales Engineers primarily interact with technical people. Others spend most of their time with slides, flowcharts (e.g. Vizio), and managers. If you want to be in one type of role but end up in the other you'll be miserable.

>Some, and I say some Sales AM are only interested in their quarter numbers and will try to sell anything to the customer, even if the solution is not fit for purpose.

Here's a tough thing. If you are the Sales Engineer assigned to this type of sales rep, it's your job to peddle this crap to the customer and build demos and "solutions" that you don't even agree are good fit for the customer use case. It can really drain you if you are a generally honest person. But that's what you're paid to do.
This is true for all social media. Post in the evening.

For sites like instagram, post in the evening according to your local time.

For sites like Reddit, HN, post in the evening according to US time.
Shoring Up the 2020 Election: Secure Vote Tallies Aren’t the Problem
It's a little bit more complicated than "ask Taiwanese", depends on whether you ask the indigenous people or those coming from mainland ~1949 and their descendants, you may get different answers.

I don't think you mean Native Taiwanese (as in Native Americans) here, so I have to say people are not unanimous about whether "Taiwan" is a sovereign nation.
>my ability to seamlessly cancel that subscription has been collectively bargained by Apple

Bargained for Apple's benefit, not yours.

The end result is that if you ever for any reason want to manage the subscription without an Apple device, you can't. Which directly feeds into the premium they charge you for their devices. It also means that the vendor is forced to implement Apple Payments, and the surcharge is ultimately paid by you.

You may have lost money due to subscriptions* , but you are definitely losing money to Apple.

* It's easy where I live to call the credit company and block the charge, and the credit company doesn't take 30%.
Vanilla JavaScript initially renders the UI about 30x faster than React
Informative and intuitive.
True, though I suspect the impact in the case of a node list is negligible; in quick tests I couldn't detect any meaningful difference even while looping through 10k DOM elements.
Is there any software that helps to perform the second order thinking?
I don't mean to be criticizing your choices, but I'll note here that if you're willing to avoid enabling the latest and greatest ZFS features, bringing up a machine that can mount your disks can be as simple as booting from Ubuntu install media, and having internet available so you can run "apt install zfsutils-linux".

(And somebody's probably going to correct my ignorance and point out that beyond some release 'x', the ZFS stuff is already built-in.)
Enough with the Linux Security Fud
OP - it can be done.

Reach out to the CTOs and VPs of Engineering that list Kubernetes as one of their core technologies. They're most apt to choose K8s for their own team.

Ask them if they've had any issues with Kubernetes, specifically mis-configuration or slow turn around times for configuration changes.

Explain your framework in one or two lines. Pick out one or two _specific_, common problems with K8s and ask them "Are you experiencing X? How about Y?" Talk to them like you already know and feel their pain. Because you do (you wouldn't have created this framework otherwise).

You'll learn a lot. And maybe get adoption and mayb a consulting gig out of it. :)

Use the advanced search on Linkedin to find these people. Make sure your Linkedin title has something to do with being a Kubernetes expert.

If you're in a big city, find those clients that are local first, as you can visit them in person (that goes a long way).

e.g. Senior DevOps Consultant, Specializing in Kubernetes/HyScale.

Here's the people search you need. Use Hunter.io to find their emails.

https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?facetGeoUrn=...

Client outreach can be successful if it's specific and serving a genuine need.
> The lack of details make it tougher to side with the apparent victim here.

What do you mean? The victim provided every detail (and in fact, she later got her account restored, no apologies or explanations given -- again). All details missing are by Amazon, which is precisely the problem: the company can terminate your account and delete the items you bought while providing absolutely no information whatsoever.

It's as if a brick & mortar book store reserved the right to enter your house and take back a book you bought, without explaining everything besides "you broke a rule".

The glitch in their fraud detection system is not the biggest issue; glitches happen. Their total lack of transparency and explanations is the problem.
But china is pretty nationalistic. They allow other global companies to produce within their borders, sure. But if you try to export something from another country to china you are going to have a bad time.

So the reason why Chinese masses are so much better off today is this very "one-sided" version of globalism. You might as well call it nationalism.
Doesn't Intel use TSMC for Xe? And Nvidia uses Samsung for Ampere I think.
selective harvesting (thinning), controlled burns and other tasks are hard sells to tree hugging Californians. However, it could be someone's livelihood AND a partial solution to the issues that come up.

How much do we spend on forest firefighting? How much do we spend on "no logging" lobbying? How much do we spend on smoke inhalation property damage and all the public communications?

All that could be recouped AND an industry could be revived.
Thank you for this detailed breakdown.
Does Jane Street and similar firms hire Math or CS PhDs with backgrounds in theory?
Flipping a Coin with a Quantum Computer
There’s plenty to be worried about in the real world, but what’s changed is in March the market was down 30%, and now it’s back at all time highs. The Fed is the most important factor in the market these days, not the economy, and since we’re talking about ipos the market is what matters.
> Hacker News commentators are not typical users.

You're right, they're at least 10x as arrogant as the typical population. For instance, most people probably do not assume their customers are idiots who make purchasing decisions without understanding the consequences, even if that is often true.
TSMC would be third and then there would be a gap again...
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/theft-carnegie-l...

$8 million, three years’ house arrest and 12 years’ probation :-/
I thought it odd that the insurance paid out a set value. I always thought it was “insurance pays value of what you lost” and that was determined after the loss.

So the fraud is really misrepresenting what you lost, not insuring it for a set value when you buy the policy.
The Toll of Wildfires
Two points-
(1) Presumably Apple wanted to try to send a very quick message to others to not try to make similar moves (and to reassure other developers that Epic wasn't getting a special deal) instead of waiting 30 days.

(2) I've said this before and it's important to understand this: just because a contract says Apple can do something (terminate the contract with Unreal Engine), that does not mean they can do it. If that were the case, the entire field of Contract Law need not exist.
I was always curious why Amazon's Dynamo was co-developed for Kindle. Kindle didn't seem like the sort of product that required its own scale-free key-value store. An object store, certainly (for the books themselves); and maybe a relatively-mundane sharded key-value store, for read positions.

But this kind of explains it, to me.
Two Strains of Polio Down, One to Go
That doesn't seem like a large amount of data.

The character analytics stuff is probably contractual obligations they have to publishers. The publishers probably want to double check the way people read as well and ensure that they are paid out correctly.

The other logging, as someone else mentioned is probably analytics for their own product development.
Wow, is that the auditorium in the CMU Gates building? I remember pulling all-nighter "homework parties" in there!
I have to wonder - how much of the fabs going to Taiwan, Shanghai, SK are due to

1) government support - i.e. the national government saying "we want this sector to succeed" and providing funding via grants/loans/subsidies, (or by fiat w/r to PRC)

2) actual labor costs?

3) talent, i.e. American-trained Chinese/Taiwan/Korean talent coming home, then generation 2.0 starting up research at Chineses/Taiwan/korean universities?

Assuming a long-term visionary US government wanted to compete; would we have to fund fab research, development, and capital i.e. similar to the pentagon funding Newport News shipyard to keep strategic know-how alive in the US market?
They are apps that use Shopify APIs to add features. They don't run on Shopify servers, but talk to them through the API, can embed UI in Shopify backend dashboards, ...
> Ok, but do we agree that Epic getting what they want would result in a more open platform than what we currently have?

I think Epic getting what they want will slowly hollow out the available market for smaller indie developers who can't compete with with the scale of the big boys. Insofar as Apple's app store falls short, it's often in the various ways it fails at providing a truly even playing field between Joe Random and the Amazons and Epics of the world. Take the Apple intermediation out of it and the big stores can bring the strength of their reputations and the scale of their logistical capabilities to bear in ways that will make it much more difficult for small, independent developers to thrive.

You can see it in comparing the iOS app economy to the Android one. Even though the vast majority of app installs in Android come through the Play store, the more lax standards and availability of sideloading seems to make people much less trustful of anything they get and, consequently, much less likely to spend any money.
Why White Kids Need 'Hamilton' More Than Ever
Works very well, but the massive lack of transparency will make it difficult to justify and ultimately creating paranoia and scissors in the heads of people.

I would not want to participate on such a platform forcing me to double check if my contributions were actually published or simply hidden away for some secret reason.

It's these pieces of accountability that go a long way to have users compliant with moderation.
I know very little about air-to-air combat, but I had the impression that the effective range of missiles is such that you'd have a hard time reaching your enemy before they had ample time to fire at you.
Today, there's more low hanging fruit in the world of fire prevention than fire fighting. It's mostly low-tech work that just needs adequate funding and the political will: manually clearing out brush, using grazing animals like goats, controlled burns. Ultimately, the overgrowth has to go, one way or another.

Controlled burns especially have become politically unpopular in recent decades, but they're tremendously effective. With controlled burns, we can burn small amounts of brush when the wind is blowing gently away from major population centers. If we want to fund technical solutions, I'd invest in software that models the best times and places to conduct these controlled burn operations FAR before we start discussing firefighting drones.
How to Train Your Remote Employee
Not sure about Kindle, but iPhone and Apple watch collect your location history even in airplane mode (by saving the list of wi-fi access points):

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207056, see "Significant locations"
It need to be pointed out because there may be like grand total of dozen companies which uses OCaml so it is something remarkable.

It is like paintings from famous painters in billionaire's homes. Now for me and may be for lot of people stuff from Bed Bath and Beyond is just fine on our walls. So for ultra-rich / successful/profitable company might see beauty in Ocaml but most of the world runs fine on run of the mill services in PHP/Java/.net etc.
Enjoyed reading it, and also your writing style in general. Am saving the article in order to refer to when I start developing my new product idea. I have a genuine question, and maybe two further "optional" comments to offer since you're explicitly soliciting feedback.

The question: is there a distinction to be made between "startup" and "product"? How, if at all, would you change your process for a simple product idea, like, say, a new kind of umbrella?

As for the optional comments, I did find the "Read a book" a bit jarring in the bulleted steps of the process -- it is unlike the other steps in that you don't do it again and again for every single startup idea you might be evaluating, and so not really part of a process associated with each project.
I think the parent's example is pretty clear. If there were two medical treatments available, both had similar help/harm trade offs, but one caused harm that was "more useful for science", this should not be a factor in the recommendation given by the health care professional.
Remembering the hysteria over Windows 95 launch (1995)
Unpopular Opinion – Data Scientists Should Be More End-to-End