skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand why you think this.

Pfizer's cash situation or ability to spend/pay a dividend has nothing to do with stock price. Pfizer does not have their cash balance invested in other stocks. Ability/willingness to pay a dividend has to do with excess cash.

To the extent there's any relation, it's a high stock price that discourages paying a dividend. If the dividend yield will be basically nothing, why bother spending down precious cash that could be reinvested (because obviously the market values future cash flows a lot more than current ones).

Deflation might encourage a little bit of holding of corporate cash rather than spending it on R&D, sure. But even then I think you're overstating the case.
Why not both?

Luddites always whine about the resources "wasted" on space exploration, science, and now the beginnings of industry, but they don't appreciate how in so many ways the fruits of our efforts in space end up benefiting all of us here on Earth.

And since those people claim to be concerned with finite resources and a fragile biosphere, why constrain ourselves to the resources of our mother planet (which resource extraction and utilization demonstrably damages) instead of moving our industry to the dead vacuum of space and tapping the near-infinite mass and energy of the rest of the Universe?
> I've seen you mention marketing several times. What expenditures would you include as a marketing expense?

I don't get to define that, companies do, but basically it includes everything that does not involve a lab, technician, doctor, nurse, statistician/programmer, etc. The US and the rest of the world are quite different here - if you've ever watched US broadcast in the evening, you'd see TONS of ads for prescription only medicine ("suffering from foo? Ask your doctor about bar"); that's marketing. Taking three hundred cardiologists on an all-expenses-paid 7-day cruise with one 30-minute "purely informative lecture about our new drug" and 7 days of fun? That's marketing too. Lobbying to congress? That's also marketing.

Outside of the US, the marketing budgets are smaller and less overt - but the cruise-style legal bribe-like events are prevalent everywhere.

> Would you consider each of the excluded candidates a failure?

Possibly. You've described one style, but it's not the only one. Many times, it's a weird result from some other research (how Viagra was discovered, how DCA tests were started).

But many things are essentially complete and utter failures - you have a line of research where no viable compound was found at all. BiondVax just failed a 15-year mission trying to develop a universal flu vaccine. Remdesivir is essentially failed even though it is FDA approved (It failed for Ebola; if you look at the data critically, it failed for SARS-COV-2 -- which the WHO's recent studies show even more clearly).

There is some benefit from this research - new techniques, often new devices - but the drug itself is a failure in the sense that it will not generate any income to the company.

Edit: just saw your earlier comment about marketing. It is those things (which you and I mentioned) and a lot more, but it is basically for the company to define in their books and a rule of the thumb would be “an expense a university department developing this to completion without expectation of profit would not have to spend”
College is the only level of education where they even attempt to teach critical thinking skills. It’s definitely not a high success rate, but it’s better than the rote memorization that comes from high school level.

What’s left is self taught which is a tiny slice of both populations.

> See: reproductability crisis.

That has no relationship to college education. The reproducibility crisis impacts the quality of research for PhD programs. It has nothing to do with spending time learning logic and philosophy that hasn’t changed for hundreds to thousands of years. The fact that you think the reproducibility crisis has anything to do with a college education sort of proves the point...
Resource Constrained Programming with Full Dependent Types
That sounds like a great experience. Did you still have a cat residing in the house at the same time as the jackdaw stayed with you? If so, I’m curious to know what kind of relationship they might have had.

I’ve tried to rescue small birds (sparrows, robins, finches) that my cat has caught – but hasn’t killed – despite having two bells on his collar. I found that they either recovered quickly and were able to fly away after a couple of hours or else they died – more often than not. :(
The same is done for decoding camera raw formats. Variable encoding of the number of bits in the stream means you never know when the decode will end. Reading all the file into a buffer longer than needed is fast, whereas the bit pump is performance critical and having to check for end of buffer every time you want to read would be painful.
I'm running several Pi's from SD card, some for years, and the only issue I had was with one that randomly crashed.

Measured the resistance of the "USB charging cable" I had used for it and found it was 1 Ohm! So when the Pi peaked at 1A current draw, the cable dropped 1V.

Swapped it out for something proper (<0.1 Ohm), and haven't had issues since.
> “They will allow someone to wander down the streets, and if someone else asks why they are not wearing a mask, they can show the card, letter, or an app,” a source close to the issue told The Telegraph.

Literal papers please because they assume everyone is a walking murder machine.
HA and scaling are not the same thing. High availability represents architectural decisions to maintain operation in the face of subsystem failures. With respect to high availability within a data center, this can be achieved with a passive secondary system and a mechanism to failover to this secondary in the face of a primary failure.

Such an HA strategy is valid, but provides no horizontal scalability.

Scalability is the ability to serve more traffic. Scaling horizontally implies adding hardware.

Though the HA example given above includes additional hardware compared to a single primary node, it does not support any additional traffic. Scaling would imply that the addition of the secondary server allows the system to serve more traffic.
You just literally stated what the end game was: monetize all uses of email, everywhere.

Remember what Google's overarching goal is supposed to be? "Organize the world's information," IIRC, with the subtext of "... and monetize it." This is literally what gmail is to email.
OK I get it, it's the Norton of MacOS. Thanks.
I think thay ability to discuss this topic is important part of free speech.
Another great use of inflation is to reduce the value of the national debt. It's like a flat tax that affects everyone equally.
My only comment is the pricing model limits how you work and marketers don't have that option easily. Your large plan says unlimited credits, and then under that you itemize the credits per month. That is totally confusing. Did the app write the pricing page?
Exactly, if their inputs are fairly well known and tested, adding 5 magic bytes is hackish but effective. It could take days or weeks to debug that properly, if at all.

Nice you were able to get constant memory. I was getting 40byte max memory usage difference between identical RPC calls on the esp32, but that seems due to Nim’s ARC garbage collector. Sometimes +20 bytes, sometimes -20 bytes but not leaking. Though maybe it’s an esp-idf thing. Took me a bit to just call it good and focus on more important things. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
$100/hour is for engine time, to which you can roughly estimate maintenance for other parts of the device.

You can expect to get 10,000 hours on a diesel engine before it needs at least a partial rebuild. The article talks about getting 40,000 hours out of a tractor, so that would probably be partial rebuilds at 10,000 and 30,000 hours, and a full rebuild at 20,000 hours.

Included in that $100/hr is fuel and insurance and replacement parts etc. for a device designed to haul around 20 tons of equipment offroad as part of it's daily tasks.

Compare that to the federal milage rate for passenger cars that are designed to move around 0.25 tons of equipment at $0.58/hr, you come up with ~$50/hr (@ 20 tons) for something designed to drive on paved interstate highways. It's not especially unreasonable.
Guix makes me feel good. Even in case there is package version conflict because I tried various version, I can stay calm and feel safe. Just run `guix upgrade` on the affected packages solves the problem well. An a rollback is also not far away if everything fails. Any package conflict on my old grown Debian system has made me sweat with fear after years of piled up apt packages intermixed with /usr/local installations.
Also in this case talking about the graphics stack it's not like OpenGL or DirectX are setup to be testable. You can't really "unit test" shader code, the best you can do is render it in some test scenes and screenshot the results. Which ends up flaky & noisy due to valid-per-spec differences in GPU & driver behaviors.
The last time I was in the market for a 'cheap' router, I settled on Mikrotik. Very cheap, and incredible features. Configuration should not be a mystery for the average HN poster. Mine is router only, no wifi, but I have heard good things about wifi versions too.

Not sure what to recommend for non tech-savvy users though. The overwhelming majority of routers in the market that are targeted to consumers are hot garbage. Some TP-Link models? Maybe... Google(if are ok with your most important device being from them)? Are Linksys still good? My last one was a WRT54G. It was ok out of the box, pretty good with custom firmware (that takes it outside the end-user territory once again).
I was surprised that Astra Taylor didn't propose any solutions to the issue of preventing debt from simply piling up again. While I'm opposed to "canceling student debt," at least if we're going to do it, the Government needs to get out of the business of underwriting student loans. (And I certainly wouldn't mind more free and low-cost public Colleges.)
This is an implementation of the "ports & adapters" or "hexagonal architecture" pattern. Seems like you may have independently discovered it. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagonal_architecture_(softwa...
Apple’s security chief should be fired over this.

But, this is common practice where there are ‘may issue’ CCW permits. Either have shall issue, or no issue. Having the sheriff decide just creates a valuable commodity.
Dragonfly AI Raises $1M Funding to Continue Predictive Analytics Innovation
Rebooting with the current knowledge base, possibly. Booting from scratch with no fossil fuels, doubtful. I have long suspected that one of the Great Filters is the propensity of a planet to generate fossil energy. You will really only find large quantities of oil in a narrow range of circumstances, depending on specific levels of tectonic activity, duration and abundance of life, sedimentation patterns due to rainfall and ocean distributions, and low to moderate levels of atmospheric oxidizer.
Probably just an oversight, but I find it odd their (ZeroSSL) site does not use a certificate issued by their own CA, it is instead one of CloudFlare's SNI certificates.
Going back to just pig iron would be pretty terrible. The Old World cleared nearly all of its forests getting to that point.
Traditionally the media decided what content people should see. It kept most people on the same page.
Saddest thing is we're reading these values from a database, and the database SDK does not have a mechanism for reading values into user-controlled buffers without copying. That is a conceptually neat solution to the problem, but since it's a somewhat strange thing to want to do, we can't do it in our case. Storing the extended values is something I also considered, but there are tens or hundreds of billions of them in production. Couldn't really ask for an extra PB of space for the relatively small performance and elegance benefit you get from not copying these things.
Learning from Language Explanations
1Password 7.7 for Mac can be unlocked with Apple Watch
you could try duckduckgo or other search engines
Even when it’s legalized, that won’t be enough unless it’s so cheap that the cartel literally can’t compete. With how heavily legal weed is taxed, a ton of people will be tempted to continue buying from their dealers.
Wingo: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2019-10/msg00...

Jean Louis: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2019-10/msg00...
In China, without a digital identity, you barely have an identity at all
Their was also the greater shift to non-wage benefits. If you look at total compensation vs productivity the chart tracks much closer.

https://imgur.com/Juc8FMn
What are the needs for concealed carry at Apple? For some reason this reminds me of Apple’s security team attempting to recover (by force) the lost iPhone 4.
Nvidia Jetson TX2

https://www.siliconhighwaydirect.co.uk/product-p/945-82771-0...
He doesn't demonstrate an attack over the internet in this article, but this makes me think he did investigate it from a remote attacker perspective vs. local network:

>So what does that get us from the perspective of a remote attacker? We have the ability to get the current admin credentials, and we can get a shell if the telnet binary is started. However, most remote attackers wont be able to solder on any wires, so I wasn’t going to stop there.

>Going through the rest of the pages in the www directory, there is another web page that provides this interface:

So you don't need telnet, but the creds being on the page + knowledge of the system command page would be enough to do whatever you wanted.

Also see this follow-up research page on the same devices:

https://james-clee.com/2020/04/23/more-information-disclosur...

>Just a reminder – every screenshot below is of a web page that is externally accessible without requiring authentication and contains sensitive data.
let me put it this way...

I'm working on some arbitrary science project. I have ongoing serious, well informed, disagreements with my colleague about how to proceed. Sometimes we later find out he's right, sometimes I'm right, sometimes we're both wrong.

Should I instead hire my neighbors two year old because my colleague and I disagree?
FWIW the Guix community is, too. The person you replied to doesn't like that the Guix project has used their platform to distance themselves from RMS when he did something that reflected poorly on all of the GNU project.
Norton would be several steps up.
Russian Mars Colonization [video]
Maybe iHeartCorporate?
> If she is in a serious committed relationship, her partner's opinions will be really important to her decision-making process.

6 years since my wife's double mastectomy and honestly I'm only posting for potential benefit of anyone that reads this. Do/suggest/live-with/support what ever is least invasive for your wife/partner. I nearly steered my wife into a very invasive surgery due to it having more "real" outcome (she knew I wasn't really into implants in general and preferred natural). Honestly, I think she wanted that too - it's a hard time that leads you to this type of surgery and something that sounds "normal" is what you will gravitate towards. However, then I came to my senses/digested some research and realized how invasive the surgery was and how I didn't want her to have to go through it (+risks) and I had to kind of talk her out of it. It was the difference between, quickly adding some implants (couple hour surgery) and a procedure that required re-routing an artery, relocating some stomach muscles, and some other grueling things I don't recall (18 hour surgery).

After that ordeal, and a C section birth of my son, yah she has some scars. But they become invisible and life moves on and that's the best part.
The unexpected victims of America's green card backlog: Children
Because the rules that apply inside a family are different from the ones that apply at society level.
The same reason there are needs for concealed carry every single place on Earth.

You don't want bad actors to know who is - and who isn't - armed.
Apple is made up of hundreds of thousands of employees. Their goal is to make money, not be "good" or "bad". Their individual decisions might be better or worse for certain groups of people, but Apple as a whole isn't really an entity that you can make a value judgement about.
Let me state up front that I'm an RMS fanboy. I love the guy and think he's dead-on prophetic about 95% of the time.

That said, RMS seems to demonstrate a poor understanding of how his messages will be received. Time after time, he's said things that are perfectly reasonable and defensible when you actually think them through, but on the surface sound awful and turn people away. A big component of communication is tailoring your message so that it will be heard, and I just don't think he's very good at that. In political terms, he's great at speaking to his base but not so hot at converting non-believers.

Let me invent a purely fictional example of something he did not say. Suppose you open an article with "Hitler wasn't completely bad." That's defensible! By all accounts he loved his pets, and it seems like he was nice to his officers' kids. But really, that doesn't matter: that opening sentence has lost an enormous part of the audience, even if the rest of the article built a case that would make sense to people who read the whole thing. Most ordinary people would see that and say "that's crap and I have no desire to hear what else this person has to say", and that's perfectly understandable because most authors who open that way are going to end up saying something absolutely despicable.

Well, when RMS wants to say things implying that maybe pedophilia isn't always bad and perhaps it gets a bad rap because some parents aren't OK with their kids growing up, he needs to be exceedingly careful how he phrases every word of it because he's commenting on an extremely charged subject. And yet, he doesn't. It doesn't matter whether you have a good point to raise if your wording makes most people shut down and reject your idea immediately.

Again, I dig RMS. He's an incredibly smart guy who has some brilliant ideas. But wow, I sure wouldn't want him defending me in front of a jury. I don't think he's a pedophile, but I absolutely see how easy he made it for some people to claim that.
There was backlash about Riot's Vanguard but I feel it was mostly driven by the gaming media as the vast majority of consumers don't understand the nuance of userspace vs kernelspace.

I'd expect more developers begin to deploy kernel-level anticheat in the future.
I don't think you understand, "password123!" was the password the researcher set.

In the CVE, it details the call it executes to retrieve the password from nvram.
This right here, talk about a career boost. I don't think they will have to white-board to get a job ever again. Nintendo cares about code so that means they write good code and think about being able to walk around and seeing so many people smiling playing a device that unbeknown to you, you were a part of making possible. That would make my day if I ever contributed to something like that, making people smile.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/27/health/russia-coronavirus...

I know it's CNN (what I could find with 5 mins of Googlefu) and they don't explicitly mention the falsified data part. But the Gamaleya Institute is well known in Russia for falsifying data both as a propaganda machine, as well as to obtain further funding from the federal government. I can't find another source I read earlier concerning a past instance of fraud perpetrated by the institute (it was in German).
It's about participating in the spirit of generosity that makes open source possible.

Yes of course they are under no obligation outside the license, but I'd like to see them send the author a toy anyway.

A company like Nintendo sends out tons of swag to people who have collaborated with the company in some way, just add the author to the list.
look your objection is valid but:

privacy as a legal right is complex and ill-defined -- if you look just at CCPA or GDPR, these are big laws with large compliance costs with the risk of benefiting incumbents like FB/G

if your goal is to develop a robust case law for privacy in the united states, pay for privacy accomplishes that because if I pay a dollar for 'private mode', and the vendor breaks our contract, I can absolutely sue.

we also don't know which privacy features users want. hard to write laws without market research, and you can't do market research if there's no market for a good.

another issue is that if privacy laws 'demonetize free tiers', you're effectively paying for privacy anyway. 'pay for privacy' vs 'privacy as right' may be a false choice.

I'm not saying market privacy is fair on the face of it, but it may be more effective than the alternatives.
it's for rust protection and while you're there scanning every inch of the surface you get to see defects and rust spots early on
What haters?
Convolution Is Fancy Multiplication
Show HN: Human-readable, user-styleable markup
I think it's reasonable to remember that Half-Life 2 or Source goes back to days when Valve was still just a gamestudio. So they didn't have the resources they have now. Yes original Half-Life, expansions and Counter-Strike were popular, but Steam for one wasn't a thing. But they weren't printing money yet. So spending time on engine with a ambitious game wasn't something they had money or time for.

And then Global Offensive is title originally developed by third-party. So I don't think those guys either were going to put huge effort in engine. And once it got going, there is little push to replace it again. Specially when it's raking massive amounts of money in even in the state it is...
If Walmart sold products that were contaminated with lead, and people got sick, they would still be held liable even if they didn't manufacture the products themselves.
Imagine if Earth is entirely water. The poor fish can develop mega brains but they would still be more or less stuck under water with no real viable technologies.
After having witnessed dramatic declines in union membership in new European Union members, and continuing downward trend in Scandinavian countries, I feel like the drop in membership is the consequence of unions becoming powerless, not a cause. If even the large unions cannot mount any effective pressure for increasing compensation, shrug at layoffs, and are fatalistic about outsourcing, what's the point of being a member?

Anecdote from Finland: in a personal conversation, one long-term union representative bemoaned that, until mid 2000s, companies considered unions as partners, consulted difficult staffing decisions with them, or at the very least felt obliged to justify the reasoning behind companies' decisions. After the crisis, the mood all changed - spending cuts, layoffs or any changes to salaries or benefits are now presented as a done deal from higher up, any union negotiations are treated as a mere formality.
> I work on the Nomad team @ HashiCorp

I've been setting up Nomad on my pi cluster. I really like it. But the documentation really isn't up to speed, and there isn't really many avenues to get support. Sometimes I regret not doing K8s instead.
I really don't think colleges were using 10X as much energy to operate since the 70s.
For normal consumers, at least in Germany, AVM's FritzBox is the standard. They are such a solid product that about half of the big ISPs provide branded versions of them to their customers.
Booting a PC from Vinyl
This happened at my previous work place. They added 1 free byte every time they saved some data to disk. When I asked my manager about it, he said - ' There was a crash a while ago and this fixed it. No one knows why, but this is what we all do after that'
The Future of Kitchen Design Is Hands-Free and Smartphone-Activated
Performance characteristics of a rapid SARS-CoV-2 antigen detection assay
That’s a really good analogy. Hmm I’m torn.