skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(For the benefit of the doubt, I'm choosing my wording very carefully here): I'm not convinced that Google works in this way, which could be a signal that their systems are so vast even they aren't aware of how users' data moves through it and gets used.

Of course, you could just as easily conclude that they're lying, but I find that harder to believe.

Everyone has some stories about how Google drew a suspicious correlation between products not supposed to be connected. In my case, there was one day where I wanted to watch an MP4 copy of Harry Potter I had on my NAS while on a work trip. Obtained ages ago. I uploaded it to my G-Suite Business Google Drive (not shared, nothing was pirated here despite ripping blurays still being a legal ish-zone). Later that day, YouTube started suggesting clips from Harry Potter to me.

Suspicious. Not damning. Are they scanning my Google Drive for filenames to feed to the YouTube recommendation engine? I don't know. Maybe it was just chance, or maybe a few days ago I clicked on a random article about JK Rowling's latest drama and that was enough to trigger three layers of indirection through the Google Brain and suddenly I love Harry Potter (I don't. Its fine. I'm sure after writing this out, though, Google's opinion on My opinion of it will be reinforced.)

But lets say I never watched those videos recommended to me. Is the YouTube recommendation engine data fed to their ad engine? What if I never click on something, but the system knows it presented it, and maybe I like Harry Potter anyway? I don't know. But it seems feasible, doesn't it? And if that's the case, then the data traveled two steps, where each step on its own is weird, but reasonably ok, but the two steps together look less ok.

We're really talking about the absolute cutting edge here; Google is building a brain processing exabytes of data. If you're in engineering; have you ever worked in a job where you felt like you knew how every part of the system worked? I work at a company with 10 people and I still don't feel that. Why would Google be any different? Teams talk to other teams. A middle manager two jumps up approves it. They get access to a database. Data travels around. An engineering lead at the top thinks they have a grasp on everything, a grasp spuriously assembled from reports written by people who themselves understand some non-100 percent of whats going on in their silo. Things fall through the cracks, it happens all the time, and in this case we're talking about buses of data so big that no one could even look at it all to verify what's in there is what they think is in there (and if they did actually have humans look at it, that'd have concerns on its own).

This is my pet theory: That the desires and realities of Google are so different that even what they say is untrustworthy because no one there knows whats actually going on anymore.
sharedb + postgres?
I have seen a ton of happy and o see the economy crash for just this reason. For example, they want the housing and stock market to crash so that there is more parity between the haves and the have nots. If you are low income worker in California, every homeowner with a 401k is Richie rich.
Like most things I do it will end up on my github (https://github.com/ChuckM) eventually. :-) At one time I thought this might have some commercial appeal to city traffic engineers but talking with the folks in Sunnyvale was disappointing to say the least.
Age and gender are derived using the FaceApiJS project. In my own experience it's doesn't vary as wildly if you're a white male. With other ethnicities the predictability levels can drop, especially if you're Asian.
I had a few software jobs before, some of them were fun and some were ok, but I have never been so bored. I'm fearing that once you get to a certain level of experience, everything looks the same and fun adventure into the unknown world of technology os over. Was hoping to hear some counter arguments to that
I still have a fairly complete set of Byte Magazines from the early 80's to about 2000. I absolutely loved the ads then and love reviewing them when I get a chance. It was amazing how much I learned from the ads.

Explaining Computer Shopper to the web generation is always interesting.
Notably used (and developed) by the SQLite authors. They explain their rationale here: https://sqlite.org/whynotgit.html
AOC flagged ‘material risks’ to Palantir investors in letter to SEC
I'm having the exact opposite issue -- going from the Pixel 3 to 4, Face Unlock is absolute trash. With FP I already had my finger on the reader as I was pulling my phone out of my pocket / picking it up, and it'd be unlocked and ready by the time I had it held up. Face Unlock fails every other try, adding a few seconds to the unlock, it doesn't work with masks. It's super frustrating and no amount of re-learning is fixing it. Pattern/PIN unlock isn't an option (keep in mind this is also your encryption key for full device encryption), so having to type in a passphrase even occasionally is a PITA.

Otherwise I agree, my battery life feels fine, and the upgrade to the 5 doesn't seem all that worth it.
What? Your own link plainly contradicts your assertion.

Only the first category is single resident, and even just the next two categories put together are clearly larger.
I wish the pricing/business model supported niche wiki creation. I want to put together a broad public knowledge base about a niche product segment, that connects common data elements for companies and products with deep technical models of the products themselves. Golden's tooling looks super useful, but too expensive for this use case.
Diamond Princess has a raw IFR of 1.8%. The studies you were likely referring to were all done in March when the total number of fatalities was 7. That number is now 13.

Anyone who claimed to know what the fatality rate was back then is full of it. Even in places that had gotten the spread of the virus under control, there were still significant numbers of unresolved cases. And it will likely be another year or two before we have a good idea what IFR is, as COVID has demonstrated differing levels of severity in different populations, and adequate health care capacity has show to have a large impact, which large portions of the world do not have access to.
Android TV already does that on versions 10 and 11.
I’ve never understood this type of “gotcha!” that always gets trotted out when a company uses another company’s product to develop their own.

If all of the debugging, testing and factory management tools are standardized on Windows - why rewrite them if you don’t need to? It seems like a waste of resources.

(This isn’t limited to Apple or even technology companies. It applies to tons of businesses.)
I can see why you would feel that way, but I don't think it's malicious usually.

the way I look at it is the "power + privilege" definition comes from "racism" as an academic term of art, a meaning that everyone engaged in a certain kind of study/research agrees on. a comparable example from CS would be "syntax" vs "semantics". when people scold someone for arguing over semantics, they mean something more similar to the CS definition of "syntax". if you, a CS person, interpret them using the CS definition of "semantics", it would sound quite ridiculous. I often see left-leaning people (esp college educated) using certain words with their academic meanings. they're not being deliberately misleading, but they don't always do a good job of handling the confusion that ensues when addressing a broader audience.
Probably didn't help that there wasn't an easy path to monetization for Reader.
I wonder what percent of Win10 matches this code...I am guessing about 90%.
Yeah, both options would be best.

But "age of facemasks" depends on country.
In mine I need to wear masks only in stores, public transport.

But in those places I also need to wear gloves, so both ways of unlocking phone are unavailable to me.

And still, Apple manages to keep their unlocking mechanism.
A chromecast is not in the same product category as a an AppleTV. You'd want an Android TV box/stick for that. Chromecast is more like a cloud connected miracast/DLNA target.
Are you looking for students to work on development over a summer or semester-long break?
Vernor Vinge's software archaeologists are already among us.

I wonder what percentage of the job market that niche will be in fifty years.
Yes, developers have ported the Google Camera app to many devices that use the Snapdragon SoC:

https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/google-camera/
Do you expect the 10x number to still be true 6 months from now?
I bet it is completely insignificant in the great scheme. The average American, for example, uses the equivalent of 4 kW of motor fuels continuously, not even counting electricity consumption. It doesn't amount to a hill of beans if the Dropbox sync client uses an extra joule here and there because it's written in Python instead of C++.
87% of the deaths in Sweden were over 70, and they are a net drain on the economy anyway.

-- Jonathan Swift
But not the original sauce.
this has historically due to the matrix.org (where those bridges live) being thoroughly overloaded. these days (since ~May) we have it under control and it should be pretty robust.
Why is someone being downvoted for saying factual information? Vietnam has also done so.
It looks like the first Google result is for the Capital Region (1.1 million people, 1418 per squqare km, 3670 per sq mile). The stat in the comment you're replying to is for Helsinki proper which only has 600,000 or so residents, and Greater Helsinki is less dense than any of these.

No matter how you slice the figures, Stockholm seems to be a bigger denser city than Helsinki or Oslo.
Pretty slick but I think calling it "The most comprehensive knowledge platform" is a slight exaggeration. I searched for a few random topics ("urban planning", "pianos" and "bitcoin") and bitcoin was the only one to have a (lengthy) article.

I also don't understand the incentive for users to contribute to a knowledge base that is then being sold: https://golden.com/pricing
cleancoins.io
> Linux users don't use Nvidia if they are interested in the modern desktop use case.

Which rules out anyone who wants to game or do CUDA stuff.

Everyone is welcome to their own opinions and preferences, but if you ask me, if the response to a request to use the most powerful/performant graphics cards is to switch to AMD (and AMD has some good cards but Nvidia’s are better and OpenCL can’t compete with CUDA when it comes to any machine learning work), well, that’s part of why Linux’s modern desktop adoption is still so small.

If the only option is to use an AMD GPU, you might as well just get a Mac and use actual UNIX.

And honestly, to each their own! But you asked why anyone would use WSL2 and you’ve got a good answer: they want to be able to take advantage of their chosen hardware and access the various Linux tools.
yes, we forked and customized sharedb under the hood, more databases and out-of-the-box functions for collaboration are in progress.
When I looked at the results seems Swift and C# are pretty good general purpose languages. Interesting to see how bad Typescript compares to JavaScript.
The calls come from businesses that want to be taken over in full, not public firms where berkshire takes a 10% stake.

The equity investment made with proceeds from yen denominated bonds, so it doesn't imply a bet on a weaker dollar (the debt would be more expensive to repay if the yen were to strengthen)
Tried searching for Bach, first result besides a bunch of companies (?) is a Canadian product designer. Johann Sebastian Bach isn’t even in the first page of search results somehow.
4K streaming while everyone is stuck at home has been kind of a mess.
Only of you let it take over everything in your life.

Or you can treat politics like a sewage plant; necessary for the functioning of modern society, but best left out of conscious daily thought.
That can only ever work in a small island country like NZ or a country with totalitarian control over the populace (China)
Interesting you had issues with bluetooth -- I use it as my car stereo (car is too old to have bluetooth), and often leave it running with the car shut and I can walk all the way from my garage to the house and still hear the music chugging along just fine.

As for the bass, I agree its a bit boomy, I use EQ at the source to compensate.
I thought Windows 7 was a significant rewrite.
I was shown a Autocad banner ad in a free-to-play game an hour after I got an email with a link to Youtube video about using autocad to design a working model-size airplane.

Note I hadn't clicked the link yet, simply read the small paragraph my friend wrote along with the YT link "hey check this guy out he is using autocad for blah blah".

That was the day I stopped using Gmail.
It likely only matters if you're computationally bound. Many (most?) of our uses of computers are IO bound, instead. So some degree of inefficiency in the use of CPUs is probably not as bad as things like the unnecessary round-tripping of data (or constant retrieval) over long distances.
And free money at a time when they're undoubtedly having cashflow problems.
all we need now is a neural network that generates code that does the same thing but looks different
It worked in China and Vietnam, neither of which are small or island countries.

As for your edit according to which this is only possible in large countries if they are totalitarian, the tactics China used are exactly the same that NZ has used, and are fully consititutional in the United States. Basically, telling people not to leave their homes for two weeks, using the Army to deliver food and supplies, and stopping travel between cities. These tactics have been implemented historically in the US in other epidemics and pandemics, so unless your claim is that the US is authoritarian, I don't follow.
True. But maybe during development it could.
all we need now is a neural network that can look at source and generate new code that does the same thing but differently
This is a highly technical but also fairly old paper of how ARM processors lay out their physical address space; is there something specific in this that I'm missing? In other words, in what ways are people getting value out of this document?
Well, then imagine how much CO2 emission it saves if all of us cancel our traveling plans, especially those nice twice-a-year overseas family vacations. Oh wait, that's one of the privileges that anyone dares to take away, right?
Thank you for the kind words.

It's incredible how many doors even basic language skills opened...
Why would I want the same dumb Google Assistant in my tv?!

It would help if they would put some actual effort into the services behind Google Home/ Mini let alone Google Assistant before expanding hardware options.
If you want more "fun" in your job, seek out the things that no one else wants to do. These might be menial tasks or old software no one wants to own or gnarly tech-debt ridden projects that no one wants to touch.

Take those on. Solve problems with them. Automate and replace them. Everyone will ponder your masochism but will also love you. And since no one else wants to be involved in them, you can actually enjoy charting your path in how to work on them and make them better.
Deaths per 100,000 for selected countries:

66.84 Spain
63.26 UK
62.50 US
59.27 Italy
57.74 Sweden
36.92 Ireland
11.30 Germany
8.81 Turkey
6.14 Finland
5.79 Egypt
3.23 Greece
1.05 Japan
0.45 New Zealand
0.04 Vietnam
0.03 Taiwan

The group of countries with better response than Sweden (or the US) comprise the majority of the world, and also diverse in terms of regions, government systems, economic development, culture, population, and area. It's hard to argue that Sweden actually did well in any subgroup.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_death_rates_...
In the US, most of rules have been propagated by fiat, not lawmaking.
Sorry, I didn't clarify well. I am sure it scales technically well but not on cost.

My experience of TD is > 10 yrs and then the multi-node version was substantially more expensive than the single-node version. Also, storage and compute was coupled which meant I had to pay for nodes even if 99% of my data was cold. That's a problem with RedShift too but not for Snowflake.

De-coupling storage and compute was a brilliant move by Snowflake. BigQuery can completely abstracted compute - you don't provision compute and only pay for data scanned. However, it gives you a sense of insecurity around cost - A single bad cron job running a query every sec can blow up your cost (real-life experience). Snowflake provides the best cost/performance tradeoff I have seen.
it’s more like a proprietary wikipedia than a google. at least that’s my impression playing around with it.
Agreed - on both fronts.
The idea that places where generous sick time and healthcare policies cover more of the population might have better COVID outcomes is not an unreasonable hypothesis--and there are at least anecdotal examples of urban immigrant/poor communities in some places, including both Sweden and the US, being especially hard hit.

But you'd need to study how much correlation on this dimension there is in general worldwide to conclude it's a major factor.
> Teradata's current product has native support for S3 and S3-compatible object stores too, and you can query them just like any other database table, join that data with data in high-performance native storage, etc.

Storage costs for S3 (or any cloud-provider object storage) are only one dimension of the price. The other is interaction costs which can get prohibitively expensive, for example if you accidentally forget to provide a partition key in your query predicate. Snowflake absorbs this cost if you use internal storage (or just copy into tables).
The difference is that there's no mechanism in banking that keeps ramping up the difficulty exponentially.

All the energy in bitcoin is not wasted on keeping and organizing that tiny ledger (barely 300 GB of data!), it's wasted on brute forcing hashes, with the energy required ramping up exponentially with interest in bitcoin.

As ingenious as bitcoin is, that is a fatal flaw. Using bitcoin is like rolling coal, only worse for the environment.
Thanks. Interesting approach!
> Streaming video is being decoded by Javascript even though every browser supports H.264

Maybe in some experimental project, but I've never seen this in any video site.

> input elements such as calendar controls are rewritten

Yes, because the native browser widgets are totally insufficient and can't be styled.

> animations are done in JS instead of smooth CSS transitions

JS animation can be super fast (see GSAP) and it seems you're talking about jQuery.animate() which I agree was terrible. But these days most people use CSS animations.

> drag and drop support is manually rewritten in JS

Again, because the browser does not have a proper drag and drop API to do it. I know because I've had to implement drag and drop many times. From vanilla, to jQuery, to React... for mouse and touch UIs.

Here's another huge thing lacking in the browser world: touch gestures.
I live in the UK. We had politicians who tried to appeal to reason, and they got shouted down in the media. The most popular politicians today are the ones who wanted to lockdown fastest. Everyone in care homes still died. We had to spend hundreds of billions to pay people through lockdown. People have still ended up getting infected. And (most) people are still avoiding out anyway, irregardless of lockdown. It is just chaos.

The politicisation of this issue was totally catastrophic. There was right-wing and left-wing science, no-one could accept that some things are unclear, and anyone who opposed the "correct science" was a conspiracy theorist nutjob.

I am glad that some places took another path though. I thought masks would be effective, where I am you are legally obliged to wear masks inside, and our rate of infection is higher than it was a few months ago...I was wrong. The UK won't learn from this (we would have locked down irregardless, I have had people tell me earnestly that they won't stop socialising, irregardless of other people's health...btw, these are not right-wing/freedom people...this was a lefty software developer who likes going to the pub...as a society, we deserve to suffer), other places hopefully will.

My perception is that it wasn't a gamble for Sweden either, the guy in charge seems to have had experience with infectious diseases at the WTO..tbf, a lot of our people had experience in this area too (and specifically with coronaviruses/influenza)...maybe in terms of public/international opinion but...the UK took that path, it didn't work.
Yes, and our current socio-political state has this CEO bringing more precision to the flowery mission statement.

> without inflicting it excessively on their colleagues

This is the tricky part. In a transition from the old normal to the new normal, I believe it's important to recognize who may have always been excessively afflicted but didn't have the platform. Or conversely, who may have never felt excessively afflicted and had full discretion over their professional platform.

It's the eternal theme of monoculture vs. multiculturalism. The Coinbase CEO is acknowledging both sides of the coin, and maintaining focus on one side (pun intended). I don't think that's right or wrong. It is what it is.

There is more than enough willing talent to keep the line he has drawn in the sand, but will people look back years from now and question the veracity of the original mission despite evident success (e.g. Facebook making the world more open and connected)?
My smart tv constantly gets in the way. If I boot up a game device it starts with a footer bar with apps and such that won't disappear for up to a minute. I have to press back on the remote if I want it to go away faster. If I accidentally press or long press a button on the remote the whole TV will be hijacked for a voice command or something. A year or so ago the TV decided that if it wasn't getting any inputs it should switch to a video app I never installed and automatically play. The days of getting a giant monitor must be over as the profits from bundling crapware with TVs must have driven down the costs so much that they no longer cannot contain them.
> I think you misunderstand what polyfills are. [..] They get stripped out when possible. In no way are they "their own version" of the standard.

That's the idea, but many projects never actually remove the polyfills once browsers catch up to a given standard. In theory they solve the problem, but in practice I'm still ending up downloading polyfills on Firefox and Chrome because Safari doesn't support a particular API. Sure, the code barely executes, but the bandwidth is wasted regardless.

> It definitely wouldn't. All major browsers get silent auto-updates now [..]

Tell that to mobile Safari. Updates are packed into OS updates and features regularly take ages to be implemented. One day we'll get WebP and notification support. One day...

> Templates without databinding are hardly better than an HTML string.

Templates without databinding provide everything you need to render a component; structured elements that can be filled out with code. With class names and query selectors they can be filled and rendered very quickly with little code and no need for a framework.

Using the API properly can ensure that inserted text is never seen as code, making it free of the injection attacks that HTML string replacing often exposes. Content and structure are clearly separated and provide no challenges for the browser to parse. Generated components are always well-formed, which string replacement also doesn't guarantee, modification of contents is no different from regular DOM updates.
Is ReactOS allowed to read documentation written by people who read the source code?