skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Companies that have a mission "to change the world" attract employees on the basis of activisism in the world. Heck this company is trying to overhaul the entire monetary system. If succeeded this will effect the lives of billions of people. Recruiting people with this premise, and then telling them actually, you don't have any say in what the company actually does, and the ways it changes the world, that actually it was all a joke, and so just shut up and do what the board says because they own all the power and rights is pretty disappointing.

I never believed the whole "change the world" SV nonsense, and always knew it was nothing more than cynical marketing. But at least in places like Google the employees who were brought on that premise, fight to achieve it, and make it real.

Coinbase is still hypocritical, and I wouldn't expect much more.

But this whole, "you are only a serf and the whole of power morally belongs to the board" reveals an unsettling feudal mentality.
Apple has so much cash that they can make it much worse disregarding any feedback really.
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Sure. I don't think it's particularly likely to have been a conspiracy. Just speculating. If I were to try to put an illicit backdoor in a compiler, I would try and make damned sure it's not traceable to me.

It's a very subtle thing. You have to submit a patch with an improvement (or, at least, an apparent one) to the compiler, which also contains your backdoor. You have to ensure said patch doesn't immediately cause test failures in gcc, or in projects using gcc. If you can manage that, though, it'd be very difficult to prove that you were responsible, which is why I think the targeted attack is entirely plausible.
yes, especially for the API because there's no cost relative to hosting the docs
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Also, because it badly models how the error occurred in the first place. It wasn't any one developer who made a mistake, as a comment in the thread makes clear, it was a series of mistakes, made by different people, coupled with poor documentation that ultimately led to this.
That completely changes the kind of software that is being built, and would be a radical departure to their cloud based solution. Where do you store your secrets? AWS? GCP?
> Hopefully Purism can build on their recognition to funnel resources toward FOSS-mobile applications because this will help us all.

What about FLOSS-mobile applications?[0]

- FOSS is "Free + Open-Source"

- FLOSS is "FOSS + Libre"

[0] https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/262/what-is-t...
> Gates is the richest person in the world.

not true for three years now
Waymo's raison d'etre within Alphabet is that they solved self driving. They need to show Alphabet that they can deploy self driving at scale. Unfortunately, they only solved the problem when the car is supervised by a remote driver. Which is more expensive than hiring a human to drive a stock car. So they keep saying they're expanding the service without actually deploying at scale in the hope of postponing the inevitable moment at which Alphabet's board will realize that it's been taken for a ride.
Yes, this is one of the areas where western democracies have gone completely off the rails.

But how can it stop? It doesn't seem to matter how moderate and liberal the head of government appears to be, they condone this awful behaviour with the magical incantation: "national security".

Governments and the media are adept at spreading FUD by controlling negative messaging around terrorism, organised crime, communinism, the Chinese, the Russians, or whoever the boogeyman de jour is. A huge segment of the populace is is so scared they convinced that they can trust the government and the security services.

I just don't see how this can end.
"JavaScript", "Frontend", "Angular", "React" have the similar effect.
I agree. But that's not a problem inherent in bringing political issues to the work place.
This is a whole different problem which exists regardless of the work place.
It's the zeitgeist, it's the result of attention economy, and massive social media.
Indeed, forgot to mention this is on Freebsd.

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/how-to-find-out-if-ecc-is...
Yes to that! Last semester I had to program in Java, and while having very little specific knowledge of the languague, the IDE (and some basic OOP understanding) basically enabled me to solve the tasks without any troubles.

Java is especially good for that, though. You just add a point to a variable and choose what you want (out of 1000 methods).
No, I'm not moving the goalposts! Sowell's point is exactly that - being the worst in your class, and sharing that with all your peers of the same race, is tantamount to constant demoralization and disenfranchisement. This dynamic leads to higher drop out rates.

Either way, it's really not my theory. It's something Thomas Sowell documented in one of his books. Here he is talking about it: "Thomas Sowell: affirmative action creates academic failure & resentment" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVvnTByzTmA.

Sowell is black, if it matters. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sowell.
Open Office supports only so much of Microsoft Word .doc, antiword [1] supports even less. Should we consider them disingenuous?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiword
So he just got lucky in that his stopover was in one of the few countries on Earth that wouldn't extradite him? What a coincidence.

Is that why he was at the Russian consulate in HK a few days before, and in constant contact with the lawyer from Wikileaks (a Russian Intel cutout)?

Come on.
How this book is different from the "The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book" or "Hands-on Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems"?
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When I worked as a 'consultant' (glorified contractor) .Net developer, the company charged > 90 Euro / 105 USD per hour for my time. So that would make my going rate be > 800 USD / day. This is in a country where 50K / year is a decent developer salary.

I do not believe you can find pen testers worth their salt who would cost _less_ than a non-distinctive developer. At least not one who will do more than run some automated report over all your endpoints.
There is absolutely no evidence of foreign nationals doing anything in that article.
98% of what he stole and leaked had nothing to do with domestic surveillance on the American people.
> (at great personal sacrifice)

Yes all he had to gain was international celebrity.
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The Purism Website failed to convince me that this project has even a chance of becoming an enjoyable alternative.

Not only doesn't it show many features or screenshots of apps, the things it does show are better at demonstrating its weaknesses than strengths.

For example, theres a link to a Video about running Firefox [1] that reads like a parody. At one point, the narrator says enthusiastically: "With the settings unusable in portrait, it's time to switch to landscape mode"

Thankfully, they also offer an optimised browser, but the fact that they mention Firefox at all, demonstrates a lack of understanding about what users want from a phone.

[1]: https://puri.sm/posts/desktop-firefox-in-your-pocket-with-th...
Viewing activism as a binary—the only choices being "I am an activist" and "I am not an activist"—glosses over a wide spectrum of dispositional diversity that people inhabit.

Put differently: There is a difference between advocacy and activism, between holding political opinions and being comfortable with them as a central focus of your life, or as a central characteristic that you wish people to see in you.
"I got tinnitus in my right ear and pain when ejaculating."

Uh, thanks for warning, I guess? (nervously adjusting my FFP2 mask)
By Evergreen Browser I assume you mean that the browser will have latest support for language syntax? That does not get rid of the problem of bundling though. And modern SPAs are so complex that bundling your own JS would be a nightmare. This is why NextJS is so great, they split the JS into SPA "pages" and let you dynamically load it from the server. I don't know how you could build that into native JS comfortably, since modules are smaller slices by far.
> There's been some times where I needed python for systems that weren't so lax about what I was able to install, and python was already there.

FWIW if a system has Java and Maven installed (i.e. any machine set up for Java) then you can use Scala there (indeed I'd say that's a much nicer way to use it than installing it at the system level). Unfortunately Scala tooling isn't really set up for starting quickly if you're not familiar with it, even though it's actually a pretty decent language for one-off scripts.
We obviously need to start investing in matrix-like EMP tech
People who have mac.com and me.com email addresses (which are now part of iCloud email) are many and have the same variation in security posture as any other cloud email user.
Sweden coped fine with minimal intervention from the government.

The rest of your comment is pure speculation. It now seems to be the given narrative that there will be a second wave despite coronaviruses having different characteristics from flu. I would argue that the current second waves in Europe are really the first wave continuing after lockdown restricting were lifted (plus a lot more testing). The number of deaths isn't rising much.
Tortured analogies like this is why the whole software industry is going to be making a surprised pikachu face when Oracle wins (see my comment a day or two ago on the prior story for substantially similar sentiment).

Heat transfer to a pot is not an API, not even remotely close. It's a physical fact that has been observed since the stone age. The Java API is huge. It's not a mere physical fact, nor even a collection of method prototypes. It's everything covered in the JavaDocs: what happens in error scenarios, thread safety rules, how objects are combined to get different effects, what you can subclass and what's not, what security permissions things need. It's enormous and every decision in that was a 'creative' decision, in some sense.

From a plain reading of copyright law it's obvious APIs far smaller and simpler than Java should fall under copyright. The idea APIs don't is a convenient consensus-quo for the software industry that benefits competition and should probably be preserved, although there is the counterbalancing factor that the non-protectability of APIs probably has invisible side effects we can't see (e.g. under-investment in API design). But the Supreme Court won't or shouldn't care about any of that because it's a political debate. The question before them is about what the current law says, and on that, Oracle probably have a point. Also, it's going to be even more fashionable to hate on Oracle if they do win, but the current situation has always been legally fragile. Sooner or later someone would have observed the apparent skew between the software industry's approach to copyright and what the law really says. We may be at least somewhat grateful that it's a fight between two well resourced firms and not e.g. a patent troll firm type of situation, where the defenders are threatened and have to pay up because they're too small to fight it.
Facebook platform is evil and no one doubts it at this point.

Amazon is predatory for everyone - merchants, warehouse employees, IT employees, job candidates.

Google screwed the recruitment irrevocably and what's worse every minor shop attempts to copy their processes.

Microsoft temporarily plays the nice guy.

Then we have this whole dating thing entirely owned by one media hegemon.

All together pay minuscle taxes.

...and here we are.
It is hinted at right at the bottom of the post but most of the issues outlined in here are no longer a factor as of just a couple of weeks ago I think. I’m basing that information almost entirely from this video from one of their product managers titled “what’s new in cloud run” here https://youtu.be/os2FPR9WjY0

But all of a sudden Cloud Run just went from not a realistic option for me for many of the reasons outlined in this post to an extremely attractive offering for a lot of workloads.

I know view it as something more akin to having all the benefits of a “best practices” k8s setup but with almost none of the maintenance and operational knowledge or work required.

This isn’t my personal area of expertise but it sure feels like you could build your startup on top of this infrastructure and not need to change it for a very very long time in a way that just isn’t true for other options that startups might reach for i.e Heroku for example.
What’s the deal with the Git repo not including any source code? Is this a common way to use GitHub these days, as a download server for closed source projects?
> Assange suddenly became a Russian asset after 2016

Assange had a TV show on Russian State television in 2012.
To my taste Google's Noto project is the better choice for most purposes, since they're vector, and cover more than just the BMP. I also happen to think they look better.

https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-fonts

Neither of our posts have much to do with the article, though, which is a collection of marks to display what script family a missing character belongs to, when a font for that script is missing. This has the advantage of being much smaller, while still at least telling the user what sort of font to look for to decode the content.
> I like how Microsoft isn't bad anymore.

Just wait. People love to be within top 10 richest on the planet and will do a lot to achieve it.
Subsaharan Africans are believed not to have any Neanderthal admixture, and the logistics of the spread out of Africa would be a good reason why.
It is really useful to include ARM cores in a FPGA, but Xilinx has remain stuck with completely obsolete cores (Cortex-A53 and Cortex-A72) since forever.

The modern ARM cores, starting with Cortex-A55 (2017), use the corrected ISA ARMv8.2-A.

On the ancient cores used by Xilinx, when writing multithreaded applications, it is annoying to lack atomic instructions.

Yes, sure atomic instructions can be simulated with only the base ARMv8.0-A ISA, but it is not possible to guarantee worst case timings for the simulated atomics (because of retries).
>The obvious way to use system fonts in CSS is to… just list all of the ones you can imagine by name:
font-family: "San Francisco", "Roboto", "Segoe UI";

Why? Isn't the obvious way to just use "sans-serif" and let the system fallback to whatever the system font is? What if some Windows users install "Roboto" on their OS, in this case?

(I have this question with any of these"system font stacks" for a long time.)
>I suggest reading Sutton's book on RL

I've read part of the book, and followed David Silvers UCL lectures on my own, and have been focused on reading all the recent algorithm/approaches in the field last few weeks.

>RL is extensively used in robotics ;)

Is it? From Andrej Karpathy:s HN comment[1] and Alex Ipran's[2] comment in 2017 & 2018 I feel like it is just recently (around mid 2019) actual trial on robotics have started to show promise (SAC, E2E) in academia, and only a handful of start ups have approached this (Covariant, founded by one of the professor in the two papers above) But then again, I might be missing some insight here.

Thank you for the extremely valuable feedback! :) The formulation of important research question is also something I'm trying to figure out by, getting myself updated in the field to the point of understanding what is missing (or under-studied)!

As I mentioned in another comment I'm in the process of applying at a public research institute (as an research assistant) with potential for an industrial PhD position, so those feedback is just on-point valuable for me right now :)

(Although the research is not RL focused but is trying to tackle the identical problem formulation in robotics using ML/AI algorithms)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13519044
[2] https://www.alexirpan.com/2018/02/14/rl-hard.html
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> I would argue that the most significant way in which Tesla have the lead is simple but a bit unintuitive. It's that their customers pay for the cars.

Yes, they definitely have the lead in outsourcing costs.

> Think about how much capital will be required to put a million Waymo vehicles on the road.

Actual deployment, not counting developing the technology, maybe, what, $100 billion or so at the outside, given a generous guess at the unit cost of the cars and a generous multiplier to cover other deployment capital costs.

> How many zeros are there on that number?

8

> Who is going to be paying that bill?

Well, I mean, if they couldn't convince outside investors, Alphabet could do it with cash on hand and still have money left over, but if they can demonstrate the technology, investors will be falling all over themselves to jump on board.
> NOTE: The sources and build scripts may be added after Unicode Version 14.0.0 has been released (2021), and as time and resources permit.
just thinking out loud.. isn't it a better solution if you implement e2e encryption with dashboard and cli like how password managers do? i mean it's secrets and as a company you also wouldn't want to get into any trouble. if user losses the password he can always disable old keys of respective services and generate new ones.
this “just do your job” talk only comes out when we’re talking about activism. the rest of the time y’all are saying “we’re a family of co-owners trying to change the world”
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There is already a concept of Oculus account that works well, created mine in 2013. Linking this Oculus account to a Facebook account should be an option for people that are interested in using social aspects of VR, access to that link should be a permission grantable on a per-application basis.

Since there is already an account system that works it's impossible and bad faith for them to pretend it's mandatory to use a different product accounts.

Why can't they keep their hands away like for Instagram and Whatsapp?
Is there a specific reason a land ferry system not as popular?
In simple terms , simply loading trucks and/or other vehicles on seamlessly designed train cars for longer distance transportation.

The logic is increased speed, lower carbon footprint (if electric) and the increased extra weight compensated by much lower rolling resistance of train. Also lower labor costs and more rest for drivers + less wear and tear on highways. In my opinion highways should only be used where no rails exist or for final 200-300 miles, this will make electric semis much more feasible.

Anything i am missing. I guess all that is needed to make something like this work on a busy corridor exists today.
Depends on how much work you did in that area, and even if the proportion of mistakes is high, it doesn’t necessarily imply incompetence. Could be a bad day.

Also, I would guess gcc does code reviews. If so, gcc seems to be full of incompetent programmers, making it a miracle that this thing can even compile hello world. I don’t think that’s the case.
There is a ton of inefficiencies in big businesses and governments and IBM and other service companies are preying on that. It's a viable business model, if a little scummy.
Those were the days. A C compiler, ResEdit, and MacsBug (Apple's low-level full-system debugger) were a power pack that let you explore, customize and manipulate a Mac to a degree and with an ease that would be unimaginable on today's computers. Today's computers may be more luxurious in many ways but we did lose a splendid source of exploration, adventure and explosions (if you weren't careful).
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I was to introduced to F# through the excellent fsharpforfunandprofit blog[1]. I wonder if there is a similar thing for other ML-like languages

[1] https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com
As to scapegoating: I'm reminded of Solzhenitsyn, who said that it's tempting to try to excise evil and separate it from society, but the attempt is doomed, as the line between good and evil runs not between ideologies or countries or factions or people but through all our hearts...

Sili to deng fo decho da nagut, deng to mebi mowsh shetexa kori milowda, kowmang.

Edit: also, conspiracy theorists may enjoy the double-scapegoating in the Passion, as told in Master and Margarita.
Is there any webpage or book that explain how to set up a monorepo and what not to do? I haven't really though about it until now, but certain things sound kind of complicated, though I could see it simplifying other things.
And everything determines the policies and actions of an organization or government?

That's like saying every conversation is about syntax and semantics.
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Security:
- https://tldrsec.com/
- https://cloudseclist.com/

Linux:
- https://ma.ttias.be/cronweekly/

Data:
- https://nakeddata.org/

CS:
- https://blog.acolyer.org/
Just because it isn’t always enough doesn’t mean it’s useless. Cutting the search space in half by choosing a different word is pretty convenient.
>And in the areas where they do compete, they pour in top dollar to make actually competitive products.

Apple TV+, Apple Music, Apple Arcade, Apple News+. Every single one of them were done to mask the profits of their Services Revenue. ( You could argue they provide decent value if you think they are competitive. )

I think that is where it all start to feel like Apple wasn't actually going in because they want to do better. They are doing it for numbers and finance.

And it irritates the heck out of me those money aren't being put or spend on better product and services ( on the actual product ).
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But driving around with a bumper sticker and flashing one's view is not "bringing things up"?
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I think this is often used when the person could save minutes of work if you're around to give some knowledge, but if you're not they'll go ahead and research it. No point in them or you spending more time typing if the connection can't be made in the moment.
> The beauty of the Tesla model is that they've already made tonnes of the cars that should eventually be able to do this.

The problem with Tesla is that while they've sold cars with that as marketing claim, there is very little reason to believe that its true.

And cars don't have an infinite shelf life; sure, they've sold lots of vehicles with that claim, but even if it were true, a whole bunch of those are already 1/4 of the way through an average US vehicle lifespan, and Tesla may end up with lower lifespan given its rock-bottom initial quality.
The font is mentioned in Marcin Wichary's “When fonts fall”, discussed here a few days ago.

https://www.figma.com/blog/when-fonts-fall/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24631681