skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's click-fraud, and Google at least attempts to identify it (so they're not charging for false ad views).

No idea if they share the "That click was fraud" signal with their clients for this kind of display ad.
No, that's not the case. We do have Launch HNs for YC startups that get special treatment (one of three formal things that HN gives back to YC, the other two being job ads and displaying alumni usernames in orange). This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. But those formal things aren't really the main value that HN has for YC. I've written about this lots of times: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so.... If you look at those explanations, you'll understand why we don't manipulate HN in the way you suggest. The good faith of the community is worth far more than anything we'd get by squeezing the lemon that way. Besides which, it would be wrong.

There are also lots of explanations about how we moderate threads involving YC or YC startups: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
City council has recently: Outlawed the use of chemical weapons, slashed the police budget, increased funding to community programs by tens of millions of dollars, created a rent relief program for tenants during Covid, increased minimum wage, increased taxes on high earning large corporations, and more.

All of these have a materially positive effect on the people of Seattle.
Unfortunately, physically obstructing the primary port would not completely prevent DFU from being accessed. With the aforementioned accessory device, the ACE Type-C controllers within Macs can automatically reroute the DFU, DCI, and PCH/T2 UARTs to any of the other ports, irrespective of the T2 and PCH. Apple uses this technique as part of their factory test harness.
I didn't intend to instill fear, sorry that there is a comprehensions.

I don't believe that apolitical workplaces actually exist. That you can view workplaces as apolitical is either ignorance or privilege
They are free to leave. No one is essential at any job, no matter how much mom and dad and the college admissions department told her she that she was.
I would be in the market for a powered/bluetooth speaker that doesn't sound like shit. For the price I'd expect (near) audiophile sound, however little in the marketing even seems to mention sound quality, it just seems very gimmicky.

Does anyone have any recommendations for a semi portable powered/bluetooth speaker that focuses on accurate sound reproduction (within the limits physics puts on a smaller enclosure)?
Way cool! Anecdotally, of course, but a sizeable number of Matrix rooms I was in were actually bridged Gitter rooms. Looking forward to tighter integration!
This topic crops up occasionally. With very few exceptions, all web content sent over the public Internet should be protected with HTTPS. The question isn't Why?, but Why haven't they bothered yet?

There are plenty of reasons to use HTTPS [0] relating to privacy, security, UI, and browser features, and there are virtually no good reasons not to. There are just 2 real exceptions I know of, neither of which apply here:

1. Using unprotected HTTP enables caching. In the context of something like an apt repo, or Steam, this could be a compelling advantage. (apt provides its own checksum-based security, and doesn't really aim for privacy.)

2. Very old smartphones might not support modern TLS. In some parts of the world this can be a real concern. Even here, HTTPS should be offered, just not required.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22147858
I am caught in two minds on this, I’m personally extremely political, but I want to clearly understand both sides of arguments as deeply as I possibly can. For example I often argue things in my own mind from a conservative, let’s keep everything stable, work hard, individual responsibility POV even though I firmly believe probably 80% of people’s success is down to luck and consequently think a strong welfare state and 99% inheritance tax is the correct way to run things.

Now bringing these ideas to work and using that as a vehicle for change is not something I’m comfortable with, but if you as a company have a mission, you can’t expect your staff to not also have missions that might be aligned or orthogonal to the company.

It might make your company work better getting rid of politics (that disagrees with yours anyway) from the workplace by paying people. I wonder if it leads to a filtering out of potentially difficult conversations that people should have.

Anyway I’m against corporate stuff like this and I think you can cut this down quite a lot without the fluff. I wonder what the specific internal conversations were to prompt this public plea for apolitical-ness outside of the company’s political mission.
Serious question: if there were competing companies involved in Cheerleading - Varsity vs. Nike or something - do you think sexual predators goes away? I have trouble believing that.
Is this a pain point when you’re using Deployment Programs, or what’s now called School Manager or Business Manager?
State of Serverless Report (2020)
The answer is to put them into situations where they have to think on their own. Also, lots of board games, word games, and role playing games. Always ask the child why something happened the way it did and then give them hints to think about. Read to them and ask them questions about what is happening in the book.
Russia, Venezuela and USA all had actual democratic elections at some point. But they elected dictators which took power and never let go. The results were horrifying: imprisoned people, children in concentration camps and death, countless deaths. Destroying a country's economy leads to famine and, yes, death.

The effects of free market "failures" are comparatively laughable and always corrected by the free market itself sooner or later.

There is no contest which one is graver. To pretend otherwise is to ignore the reality and evidence all around us.
gdb along with a debug server from OpenOCD or JLink or whatever. Assuming the MCU has the proper debugging support. This works well on the Cortex-M0 at least (the annoying thing is you often have to switch between the bootloader .elf and the application .elf).
Yes, which is why we shouldn't let companies take down websites just based on workers political views, since then the BLM sites would likely get taken down if the views of their workers were right wing.
Apple's obsession over small details and creating a delightful UX.
> takes children years of full immersion

Perhaps it depends on the language you start with and the one you learn but small children seem to pick things up very rapidly by immersion.

It took each of my children roughly six months to learn Norwegian from the age of three when they went to kindergarten. We kept them at home until then to make sure that they would be fluent in English, then sent them to kindergarten where they learned Norwegian without any formal lessons at all, and within a year they were indistinguishable from the natives.
Every single Windows PC calling home to see what ad to play next or report on its user's metrics. Multiplied by whatever frequency that occurs.
Weeks? Months! Six months is not rare at all. But taking your money is instant. They just seem to use this as some weird form of financing.
Why can't you blame both? Both are "technically" breaking the law?
On the pervasive presence of military language elements in computer security
Funny that with all the circles, Discord isn't there.

Or Gitter.
I was kind of forced into using Dokku in production. I inherited a 4-year old Rails codebase previously running on AWS EC2 and that was how the infra was set up.

But given the timeline, I think it was probably the best available option at the time. Flynn, CapRover, etc weren't really a thing, so Dokku was innovative in this space.

I would say that there's absolutely nothing wrong with Dokku, but experience-wise CapRover is miles ahead.

> Is there any reason why you wouldn't use Caprover in production? (other than you haven't needed to)

If you use the Docker Swarm setup multi-node, I feel like it's a solid choice for a small company. If you get big/complex enough, you'll probably eventually wind up needing k8s/Nomad but as far as tradeoffs for development velocity vs stability, I feel good with CapRover.

Going to try Apollo out soon though. It appears to address things like multiple environments better than CapRover. And as mentioned, the docker-compose.yaml integration is a huge one for me.
It’s not about being apolitical. The question is whether they can draw a line between mission-related politics (related to cryptocurrency, employment, or just how to do business) and all other politics. There is no clear line to be drawn, so it’s a judgement call, and it will be debated.
I'll try again soon. I definitely remember running it on:

- Intel Core 2 Quad and Xeon E5472, DDR2. Old-ish (the xeon came out in 2010), but I used that system as my main until 2018 -- though with Linux.

- Samsung N220 (or quite similar) netbook. That thing originally came out with Win7 starter, and was a slog with it.

A cursory search ("Ryzen XP") gives plenty of results: https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/installing-windows-xp-on-a... https://community.hwbot.org/topic/189776-xp-works-on-ryzen/

Though by now ReactOS might be better supported, especially on modern HW.
I guess it is a tendency of humans to want to be perceived in the best light as possible, rather than the truest.

Don't believe I had this experience with the Scots I have had the pleasure of interacted with in the past, though I guess now I wouldn't have been able to know.

Lovely people though :)
The example on the webpage sounds like a radio station passed through a granulator with a lot of reverb, something like Clouds from Mutable Instruments. It's an open-source granular effect eurorack module, there is a software port in VCV-Rack. This is another famous granulator: https://www.ableton.com/en/packs/granulator-ii/
> Convincing as many people as possible that statistical intuition is not something we are born with should be the key priority of any probability and statistics class.

Again, strong disagree. Probability has been understood at a quantitative level since Laplace (1812). Modern measure-theoretic probability dates from Kolmogorov's foundational work (1933). All these years later, we really know this stuff.

Specifically: A lot of general-purpose, powerful tools have been developed. Distribution theory, the strong law of large numbers, the CLT, maximum likelihood, L2 theory for estimation.

Depending on your goals, these or related tools are capable of addressing a wide range of problems. The priority of the first few courses should be to impart mastery of a selection of these general-purpose tools, so that students know how to analyze problems probabilistically. This is where intuition comes from.

Gotcha problems like Monte Hall are not getting you to this goal!

One could argue that MHP can motivate the notion of conditioning, but I think fundamentally the MHP is verbal legerdemain. That is, you state the problem such that the conditioning is implicit in the actions, and people don't notice it. Recall that the questioner obtains "victory" when, after presenting the problem, the answerer is confused and gives the wrong answer. I don't like that approach as a teaching tool.

I'm also skeptical of the Birthday Problem and the Kahneman-Tversky surprises. I see value in these surprising conundrums (the Birthday Problem is in volume 1 of Feller, so it has a pedigree) only to the extent that they motivate the utility of general-purpose analytic tools. They are an appetizer, not the main dish.
Ah yes good point - it’s of concern to every FAIR MINDED member of the group.

Lest we forget, there are many people who support the structural inequality.
I'm an App Store developer, and every time that App Store downloads fail, users email me instead of contacting Apple, even though Apple controls the entire installation process, and there's nothing developers can do. It's so frustrating.

Apple charges 30%, offers crap service, and developers shoulder the entire support burden.
Velodyne Lidar Goes Public
To me this is about a group of laws being passed in Seattle that raise wages for labor and tax corporations. Seattle has a very long history of such laws. Corporations keep expanding in Seattle and people keep moving to Seattle because it’s such a great place to do business. These laws are about ensuring that the great amount of wealth being generated in the area is shared among the entire community.
> A functional definition of privilege is that politics doesn't matter that much to you

You're even more privileged if you're so confident in your job security and the popularity of your political views that you can spend your working hours advocating them without worrying that it'll affect your ability to feed your family.
Most people aren't mindful enough or free enough to do those things. By the latter, I mean they're multitasking. And then some people have ADHD and other things.
Because one of those candidates' "history of sexually predatory behavior" is based on extremely tenuous evidence, contradicted by other witnesses, and we know of other attempts to fake such evidence against him and other high-profile Democrats, and the other candidate is supported by 50 to 60 million Americans who support rape. So maybe I'm making your point for you.
New Big Data Sentiment Analysis Show Potential Biden Election Landslide
Wow. Kudos to Adrian for finding this pearl [0]. Source code (non-commercial use license): [1].

[0] http://pdinda.org/Papers/hpdc20.pdf

[1] http://presciencelab.org/FPSpy/fpspy-1.0.tgz
Watching Your iPhone Work to Protect You from Covid-19
I’m not sure I follow you? Are you saying that poorer people can’t or maybe shouldn’t think about complex issues?
Man I remember reading about web components some years ago after reading up on Poylmer Dart. It seemed like they were destined to become a common standard for building web apps soon(tm) but I guess frameworks like React blew up a lot quicker.
Show HN: Filter Python programs by algorithmic features
I've been teaching programming with Python at various levels for the last 15 years. Over time, the exercises, examples, algorithmic patterns I accumulated for these courses became so numerous that I started to have trouble finding my way around: which ones to present in which course, in which order, at which time, and with which expected benefits? I developed a tool to help me answer these questions, and more generally to rethink the structure and content of my curriculum. After a few years of tinkering with a rough implementation of these ideas, I decided to rewrite it from scratch with the hope of making it useful to my colleagues, and anyone facing the same issues: this is how Paroxython was born. How can you use it? In a preliminary step, you make it tag your collection of educational Python programs. Then, whenever you want, based on the things your students already know, the concepts you intend to make them discover or practice, and those you wish to introduce later (or never), it recommends you a list of programs roughly ordered by increasing learning costs.
Neither the Britannica article on Platonism https://www.britannica.com/topic/Platonism or the Wikipedia one seem to mention rejection of evidence. I think maybe you have an unusual take on Platonism?
The T495 is my daily driver. I love this machine and I plan on using it for many years to come.
And what is wrong with that. Those people are an invasion force. Regardless they want a better life or whatever else, they need to do this in their own countries, not in the US.

Deportation of illegal aliens (let's not mince the words with euphemisms like "undocumented immigrants") is the right thing to do and any organization which can help ICE/USCIS/DHS/Whatever else organization, is doing a big service to the US.

I, as an US citizen taxpayer, am not required to hold the pot for those illegal aliens to get better healthcare, better education for their children and better earnings than what they can do in their home countries. At the end of the day, they are not paying taxes (don't start with the sales tax or ITIN rhetoric, I know those and those arguments don't hold water) but using the resources more than the taxpayers do. At the end of the day, my taxes are going to support their lifestyles, instead of coming back to me in the name of services needed.

And don;t even get me started with the states like my home state California. They use public tax money to defend illegal alien cockroaches against deportation, which is what they should face, in the legal boundaries.
Here's a list of other DNNs on the site.

http://lab-ml.com/labml_nn/index.html
My takeaway from the success of these things is that influencers need to happen upon them organically rather than being paid to advertise them.
Do you remember / Firetable launched in September / insert some database joke/rhyme I'm too lazy to come up with right now about Airtable/Firetable/Earthtable/Windtable
I think the path Coinbase is taking will only be possible for organizations that have a clear mission, not the tech giants that do lots of things.
Swell: API-First Infrastructure for Ecommerce
And yet we don't discuss opinions in the workplace. I don't see why that is so difficult to understand.

I caution against making this personal because it's a poor argument and unproductive. But since you asked: I was born in India, legally immigrated to the USA, and am now a naturalized US citizen. I have never feared ICE or any part of the US Government, and fully support legal immigration, strong borders, and proper law enforcement. Corporations do not affect my citizenship or residence, that's a matter of state and law. If I didn't like what a company was doing, I would simply not work for them. None of this requires discussing my political opinions at work.

Speech and action are not the same, and nobody is forcing you to work anywhere you don't want to. If you don't like the rules of limited discussion or anything else the company does, then leave. This Coinbase policy is specifically designed to give you a very comfortable exit. What's the problem?
Same here. When young I knew the spoken and written forms of several words without realizing they were the same. Chaos and Hyperbole come to mind (think last night's debate). You find out when you use the words-as-written (cha-ose, hyper-bowl) in conversation.

I probably still do this.
I feel like if there was an island in the Caribbean filled with pirates, it would be simultaneously a good idea to tell the merchant ships to stay away and to send the Royal Navy.
If one of the competitors cared to address the issue, yeah, it would have gone down. When there's a choice, there's (more) incentive to address things that will give you bad press.
Microsoft Edge’s multi-process architecture
Diamond, maybe! At least 8 times the thermal conductivity of copper. Although they might already be using it.
Yep, it involves the same techniques used for iDevices but with less steps. I won't go into details here for obvious reasons.
I believe this stance is dangerous for the company. The founder has exhibited and is overtly displaying here traits that are known predictors of fraud.

https://www.icpas.org/information/copy-desk/insight/article/...

Encouraging explicitly amoral stances from companies and retaliatory actions such as this may be appealing to some but is ultimately harmful to the company and society in general. That's a debatable assertion of course but the more we learn about white collar crime and companies which disregard the harms they do the more we find that individuals lacking empathy are core players.
I'm a fan of Privacy Badger, but if you use both on the same site Blacklight appears to cover more types of scripts and does a much better job of explaining potential issues with each.

Privacy Badger deems scripts either "Potential tracker", or "Your Badger hasn't decided yet if these domains should get blocked", while Blacklight has 7 categories each with a short headline and a long description.

Putting all that aside, maybe it's one of a kind in that it can be run on their infrastructure first, without risk to you.
> Just ask what you want and they will pay for it?

Consider that, for many, spending $28 on a meal is something they do without a second thought.

If they are willing to spend that on food, which is a need they have much more often, why wouldn't they spend it on frivolous one time purchases?

That's consumer culture in a nutshell.
It does have metaprogramming, only at compile time. Crystal metaprogramming is very advanced as well, you could even create methods dynamically from a JSON file if you wanted to.
> Well, at least you learn that before paying for the book, not after

Not always, and not just with books either. I've had this happen more times than I care for. "X items in stock". Then you order. "The delivery will be in 3 weeks". This has happened to me at book sellers (Amazon!), Bol.com, Hornbach and even at Centralpoint. Drop shippers suffer more from this than companies that really do carry their own stock.
The core assertion that there is an epidemic of police killings of Black men is contradicted by a study from a Black Harvard professor who claims that white and black men are killed at the same frequency by police, and that the real problems are 1) a disproportionate number of police engagements with black men and 2) an epidemic of police killings in general.
I always find it odd when people ask this. If someone is selling something and you ask them what it is and they refuse to tell you... what does that even mean?
The key, IMO, is to write software in the engineering industry not the tech industry. Plenty of interesting problems, large breadth and depth of knowledge across many disciplines, real business models, real product, really helping drive technology forward. It took me too long to realize that the 'tech' industry is mostly cult garbage looking for an exit.
edit: Btw. taken from the german wikipedia, and put into DeepL because I'm lazy:

After several test runs with trains with a mass of about 250 t and speeds of up to 195.7 km/h, the 05 002 reached a world speed record for steam locomotives on May 11, 1936, in front of a train made up of four cars (train mass about 200 t) on a level stretch between Hamburg and Berlin. The fact that only four cars were used in this test run instead of the five cars normally attached to the train happened by chance due to a hot-box on a car the day before. The record run thus took place without any special preparation and almost by chance.

(Diz iz verry good tränntzläyshn! Äm DeepL(y)impressed with DeepL!)
> Your tips are counted as part of your wages

No, they aren't.

> In some cases companies can pay wages below minimum wage as long as the sum of wages and tips adds up to minimum wage

Both federally and in many states wage and hour laws, there is a lower tipped minimum wage that can be paid so long as the sum of tips and actual wages is at least the the level that would be the minimum wage for a nontipped position, but the fact that there is still a minimum for the actual wage and that the wage is summed with tips to compare against a separate target makes very clear that “wages” and “tips” are separate buckets, the former does not include the latter.

Now, there are other things (like income taxes) that operate on the sum not one of the individual buckets, but that's a different issue.
The charitable interpretation is that Epic misunderstood the consequence of being kicked off the App Store and assumed that SIWA would stop working as well. The uncharitable one is that Epic spread FUD so SIWA users would convert to email/password logins and Epic would have a more direct line to them.

Epic's outright lie in their help document makes me lean towards the uncharitable interpretation:

> Apple previously stated they would terminate “Sign In With Apple” support for Epic Games accounts after September 11, 2020, but today provided an indefinite extension.