skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish I could find this company again I saw online. It was a family owned "google photos" that was pay for, specifically and only sold photo storage for securing your family pictures. Dammit! Someone help!
Hmm.. that sounds like my password.

I should go change it.
> do you implement the feature that 10-100 users use

Try 10-500 million, perhaps a billion. Most medium-to-large corporations have an Enterprise PKI issuing internal-use certificates.

> do you spend time improving things for the other billion users?

Here's the thing: Google's users and Microsoft's users are much the same people, in roughly the same total numbers.

But Google would much rather have those people be only Google's users, and not Microsoft's users any longer.

Why implement a feature that helps "the competition"?

Why implement a client feature that your company's server products don't need or use?

Why bother with the private enterprise when your company only sells stuff via the public cloud?

Why bother with security at all if the attacks don't affect you directly?

These are very important question to think about, because the answers say something critical about the future of not just "The Web", but computing in general.

Google has decided they won't bother any longer. They now control a sufficient fraction of the HTML client market to force changes onto the market unilaterally, even if it that actively harms the security of their competitors.

As long as Google's needs are met, the job is done.

Microsoft customers' needs are no longer relevant...
Thank you. I agree. People are equating “UX first” with “do the user interface first”. Every interaction your user has with your system is an experience. It should be considered and DESIGNED. That doesn’t mean creating a bunch of screens in isolation. It does mean understanding what users are trying to do and what’s motivating them to do that thing.
Company giving you tons of free shit gives marginally less long lasting free shit. And its only if you're OVER the storage limit for an entire 2 years. And you can choose to pay for more storage if you'd rather keep the data. It's really not that bad...

I think sometimes people hold Google to insanely high standards. They gave us so much free stuff that people get mad when they try to charge for it. Others say to move to paid services where you're the "customer not the product", but people would absolutely lose their shit if Google started charging for Gmail, Maps etc.

I can't help but empathize with all the founders who warn about how difficult it is to raise prices.
I’m often the first to criticise Google but what they’re doing here isn’t exactly unprecedented. Free online mail providers have been removing inactive users since the 90s. Cloud storage providers remove inactive free users. A lot of companies even have a far more aggressive time line (pretty sure 90s Yahoo Mail was in the region of months rather than years) so 2 years seems pretty generous to me.

At the end of the day if you’re neither paying for nor even using the service, then why should they keep your account active? They have no obligation to store people’s data indefinitely at their own expense.
I think what's missing is the difficulty. The US did a purely economic side step led by the fracking boom with a coincidental effect being less emissions.

The next step following is where it becomes interesting, because now it's not easy, you can't just burn oil better and be done with it.

Germany took a lot of the cost of the early investment enabling large scale manufacturing of PV and wind power. Sure that is inefficient compared to doing nothing, but this investment is what we're riding on today when LCOE of renewables are lower than both nuclear and fossil energy.
S&P Global to merge with IHS Markit in $44B megadeal
Guix has packages, and packages have inputs (like dependencies), and you're right in that normally package definitions specify the exact dependencies it the code (they're hardcoded).

Guix package definitions are truely code though, so if you want to generate packages on the fly by using a dependency resolver, you can totally write some code to make that happen.

With respect to inefficiency, what do you mean? It's quite time efficient when building and installing to not have to attempt to resolve dependencies.
But you were comparing this theoretical production cost to the retail cost of other chips, that doesn't make sense.

Hardware companies don't charge cost + some reasonable markup, they charge whatever the market is willing to pay for it. I highly doubt Apple would release some hypothetical "threadripper killer" at a price any lower than they needed to to compete.
It'll still be faster than NuGet. I had to wait 12 minutes (!) to install a package the other day while it resolved dependencies on a single package.
To quote from Dean's email

"Timnit responded with an email requiring that a number of conditions be met in order for her to continue working at Google, including revealing the identities of every person who Megan and I had spoken to and consulted as part of the review of the paper and the exact feedback."

I can imagine wanting to know the feedback, but she didn't ask for that she asked for the identity of everyone person who they consulted.

It could also be that disclosing the feedback would've identified the individual.
But it still wouldn't change the scarcity of Bitcoin.
>It's old, its heritage is older and always offered a different approach to the batch style of Fortran, it's not going to change for you.

I'm not asking for Lisp to change. I'm explaining why Lisp is hard to learn.

>I hate this kind of wording because it makes it seem that Lisp is mysterious [...] or requires a ton of unlearning

In my experience these things are 110% true. Even ASDF uses strange terminology completely divorced from modern usage. What are systems and modules, and how do they map to what every other language calls a package or a library? I have no idea. The "Getting Started with ASDF" page that was the top hit on Google works through an example where they define a Cow System that has legs, tail, head, etc. That's the usual example when talking about class inheritance... So are systems classes? What about CLOS?

How the fuck do I get packaging in lisp?

Again, here is where I usually give up.

>In contrast your own difficulties are puzzling.

Okay, well they're still the difficulties I'm hitting.

I see lots of puzzlement on HN and elsewhere as to why Lisp isn't more popular than it is, and I honestly believe this is partly why. I have a busy job and soon to be a second child; I could spend my time trawling through powerpoint slides from MIT courses that took place in 2008 trying to find the answers, or I could brave the extremely caustic world of stackoverflow (no thanks, I deal with enough condescension already), or I could just give up and pick a different language and get up to speed faster and with less frustration.

>I guess I don't know what to say other than if you really want to learn Lisp

I guess I did want to learn Lisp, until I actually started trying to use it. The language itself seems awesome but the ecosystem around it, including the onboarding experience for non-graybeards, is pretty bad.
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> Is accepting a resignation the same as firing someone?

No. No COBRA benefits and usually no severance. Also the employee is not eligible for unemployment benefits.
Yeah the "channeling" of jobs seems to be the big issue as well as blanket disregard for American applicants.
Germany was supposed to be running on natural gas imported from Russia, but then the Ukraine conveniently happened while the US was trying very hard to convince Germany to buy natural gas from them instead. Germany is still going to import natural gas from Russia though.
Blatant Georgia Fraud Caught on Camera
I don't wanna try and sell it here, but I like and use simple.com. If you haven't tried it I recommend it.
Go ahead - downvote all you want - forget Trump vs. Biden - people are going to jail over this.
In plenty of countries it would be illegal to fire someone for doing that. It’s clear that the results of Timnit’s actions were hardly unpredictable given the state of USA corporate<>labour relations, but one could still fault management.
Aren't wind and solar marginally the least expensive power and outpacing the growth of things like coal?

I think the technology to solve climate change exists, deployment is the issue and many companies are working on it actively (e.g. SunPower), installing GW of renewable power and/or storage. Even if scale isn't where it needs to be, that's all the more reason to work in the sector because marginal effort will return actual GHG emission reductions since it's not just research anymore.
You can have your cake and eat it, too:
- Start with a third-party KYC solution
- Slowly develop your own and compare the results with the one from the provider
- When your own solution provides something similar to the other one, you can abort the subscription
Snowflake Q3 losses almost double
https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2020/08/31/fednow-the-federa...
Windmaran is an online resource where you can learn programming for free. It is aimed at teenagers. As you progress, you will explore literally hundreds of examples. The presentation is divided into 3 levels of complexity.

Level 1 - Simple Problems First. How to calculate the circumference of the Moon? At what speed does the Earth move around the Sun?

Level 2 - Intermediate Problems are the next. Determine whether a given year is a leap year? An intriguing task: at what speed does the Halley comet move around the Sun?

Level 3 - Tackle more complex assignments. Calculate the Future Value of an Investment. Discover an ancient technique of how to compute square roots using the Babylonian method. Dive into Selection Sort, or, the Binary Search. What about playing with probability - make a stab at the Birthday Paradox problem.
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Yeah, I agree. That’s actually a really interesting discussion, too!
"The reason is very simple: FB doesn't want to hire someone else for this job. They're doing the PERM process because they want to keep me."

It may seem bizarre to you, but that is exactly what the law requires. You're confirming that the DoJ allegations are true.

Don't be shocked if Facebook lawyers don't make the argument that actually breaking this law "helps the USA".
There is no way to lower the platform safely. The cables are anchored to the saddle block you see in the drone footage.

The closest you can get to a safe lowering would be to sever all the anchor points simultaneously so that the platform falls vertically, rather than having a rotational component due to differing total tension forces. And even then, I don't see how that can be done particularly safely, given that any human in proximity to any of the towers at the time of premature collapse would be dead.

Just to reiterate: any person working on the support tower platform would have been dead. If not from the cable snapping (you can see how much damage it does to the remaining cables!), then from the support tower itself toppling over a few seconds later.
Thanks for sharing. At first glance that does make a lot of sense.
a. Yes, but you can post 'women and minorities encouraged' job ads. b. No.

People invested in identity politics are, by their own admission, interested in outcomes. In this world view, the legal system is a tool for achieving the desired outcomes. The same set of rules can be illegal if it rejects certain identities in a context, and at the same time legal if it promotes those identities in
a different context. 'Heads I win, tails you lose', but dead serious.

A thread discussing the pervasive 'women and minorities encouraged' mindset is in western academia:

https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/95011/is-it-con...
IIRC the premium processing still isn't a guarantee.

If you pay it, and you don't get it within the 14 day period, you just get the premium processing fee back.
I have 2 decades of experience in the hotel business, and pets cause much, much more damage than toddlers. The total of pet fees collected never made up for all the damage caused. And tons of people would lie about their animal being a service animal(s). With no shame, they would declare all 3 dogs they have service animals.
>> Fortunately, the message was sent to globular cluster M13, which is 22,000 light years away.

Unfortunately, the message was aimed at where M13 appears to us today. By the time the message gets there it will have moved. The message was, is, doomed to miss.
Restoring a rudimentary form of vision in the blind
Frank Vandenbroucke’s “electroshock” is felt even in the majority
This guy is a tech reporter? But he doesn't know how to take a screenshot.

Says a lot.
I wonder how many years it will take them to switch their HR department to PRE (People Reliability Engineers)
Wasn't that a Cardi B song?
Yes, but the comment you are responding to is about Tata middle-manning H1B holders who then get paid less.
I was just hit in a head on collision at 6 AM by a drunk driver. The driver was buying meth in our small town, and returning to their small town.

The dealer sold meth to somebody who was obviously far, far beyond the point of being able to drive, got their money, and sent them back on the road merrily. This dealer is also selling to somebody who obviously has almost no money (besides the bit scraped together to pay for the drugs), was just released from prison, and is addicted to both hard drugs and alcohol.

Ya, I'd say dealers are pretty much scum of the earth.
if that happens, I fully expect everyone here to about face on legalization just as fast as they about faced on the joys of urban living when corona hit. They probably would make the marketing they did with vapes look like a college project compared to this.
With Internet cut off, Netflix slowly moves the progress bar to 25%, waits a long time, and gives up.

We have a kettle at work that shows a two-digit temperature in celcius (100=boiling). When you ask it to bring 94+ degree water to 100, it slowly changes the number from 94 to 100 without turning the element on.

Clearly enough people prefer to be lied to.

Where will it end...
HN crowd feels like they are on a jihad against Google. Pretty much every other email provider does it. This is a free service that they are not paying. But yet they like to keep bashing on Google.
You can boost the local education all you want (definitely worth it), you will never to grow locally the large volumes of talent necessary to run a globalized economy. Researchers, highly trained SEs etc are in high demand and there is simply not enough local supply to match.
I have spent so long making fun of Google for doing that that I never even noticed Microsoft was doing it... I wonder why these large companies are so bad at realizing the network effects of unified chat with stable addressing?
Why are you comparing children with autism to animals? You could have simply said "children", as all children are likely to cause some damage to a home that an adult would not.
Tangentially (is that a word?), I remember when I was sold on buying a macbook, the plastic white one, back when I was young (2009?) and innocent. I had also purchased a one year 'me' email account. Then a burglar broke into my home and stole among other things the laptop, it was around one year after the initial purchase date. And when I reacted the subscription was expired. I never could recover my hardware or my data. Good old times.
This is internal legal review, not academic peer review.
Thank you for alerting me to this! I'm not sure why, but the impression I've had since those early days of gmail was that users would be unlikely to ever need to delete an email again
I guess there is some measure of uptime every day?
The current M1 has 4 firestorms. Geekbench gives a score of ~7400 for the M1s. Assuming the firestorms represent some 80% of the CPU power and multiplying by 6 (6x4=24), we would get a Geekbench score around 35000.

That would place it between a 32- and 64-core threadripper.

I know, that's a lot of handwaving!

I must admit, while I have a lot of doubts that Apple can simply scale up to 24+ core M1s while having acceptable yield, what they have going for them is low amount of heat with current core count and clock speed. So I think, they might also be able to increase the clock speed significantly from here.

But, I have been wondering if their plan is instead to create an m1x (4+8 core), and then combine up-to 3-4 m1xs in the Mac Pro and iMac Pro machines to get up-to 24-32 total cores. That way they might still have high yield and only a few lines of chips (keeping the supply chain tight, which seems like Apple / Tim Cook's MO).
> I look at the videogame market and see the future of ownership: you don't get to have any.

Everything you have will be only a service... and sometimes people will get locked out of their accounts. Sometimes it will mean losing your videogames, sometimes losing your e-mails (and contacts) and documents saved in cloud... and sometimes losing your home and money. That will be fun.
What's going on at Google? They have been cutting down on storage for the past couple of months.

Maybe they are bleeding storage costs?
Looks very interesting. I wanted to try it out on my laptop but it's clear that you can't run this program without majorly messing up your system configuration in some way or another.

Does anyone here know an easy way to maybe run this in a limited context, such as in Docker or LXC? I don't feel like having a script modify my systemd services+dhcp config+network adapters but I'm also very curious to try it out.
The flight was from Hong Kong, the cargo company is Jardine Airport Services, operating for IAG Cargo which handles pet cargo for British Airways.
Like I mentioned, everything went fine, but this isn’t how it should be. We should be able to fly with our pets in the cabin. Our dog is our family member!
I just launched my first free app and was struggling with an approach to monetize it. I just didn't want to pay Apple 30% for displaying in app purchases, when I don't even want in app purchases. I really just want to direct users to my website and handle the payments that way, but that's not allowed. Paying 15% rather than 30% is much more palatable.
Power plants bid for supplying energy at specific time and dates and for specific amount. With renewables you have cheap wind and solar that can outbid everything else in good weather conditions, but in bad conditions you have fossil fuels that will outbid renewables. With nuclear the bids are always the same regardless of weather, and thus if the price is lower than fossil fuels at one date it will most likely be lower at other dates (with exceptions for maintenance windows).

Since natural gas has the currently lowest operational cost of all other fossil fuels on the average, they are usually able to outbid other fossil fuels. However as with any other market, the one that can produce a product cheapest is not always the one that gives the lowest bid and thus different fossil fueled plants get used at different times. Some plants can also produce heat as well as energy and thus artificially lower their bid. Over time however the one who can more cheaply produce a good of the same quality and reliability tend to make more costly production extinct.
At least for me, the terminal is the only place where latency is tolerable on underpowered, crappy machines. This is because my keyboard input stream will always trigger behavior deterministically in the terminal.
Lacking the discipline to develop and follow a routine is a personal problem. This injection is great news for those who have established the ability to stick to a routine.
Tell HN: Digital media has destroyed gift giving of popular media
I tried to buy a gift for someone who lives in England recently. The gift was the new Microsoft Age of Empires 3 definitive edition game. I'm in Australia. It was simply impossible to buy this as a gift.

In the 1990's the go-to gift was the compact disc. Everyone loved getting music as a present and everyone gave music. Now how often is music given as a gift? I'd guess a very very small amount - it's not easy to do, esepcially given cross platform issues between Android and iOS.

Same with books - books used to be the other go-to gift. Again I tried to give a friend an audiobook that I liked - I couldn't work out how to do it - he is on Android and I am on iOS. Books as gifts used to be absolutely gigantic.

Giving digital stuff doesn't seem to provide the giver and givee with the same sense of tangible exchange.

PC Games, books, music all used to be huge gift categories. The digital transformation seems to have left gift giving behind.
> decent salaries won't ever be filled because salaries of people qualified to do those jobs start above profitability threshold.

Wait, so will this move lower engineers salaries or raise it because they won't have to compete "with an underclass."

The reasoning isn't self-consistent because obviously it will mean lower wages for engineers.
Google encouraged opening a Gmail account for your kid and emailing it memories as they grow up.

So now once they turn 13 and you hand over the password, it'll be deleted?
That just doesn't jive with my experience and what I anecdotally have heard about FB in SV at least. I'm a US worker for example (GC), no any public visibility/reputation in the industry, just a regular cog at a regular BigCo, and FB recruiters are going out of their way to reach. The JD should instead go after real offenders like Accenture, Tata, IBM, etc. As a former H1 myself I do know what H1 system abuse looks and smells like.
I agree with you. I don’t mean to suggest economic machinations are trivial, but some of the comments in this subthread raise counterpoints that I think casually dismiss the original points.
Thanks, I didn't know.

I always thought Android/x86 exists
for "special purpose" reasons, including to make it easy to prototype Java Android Apps and similar. (I mean for pure Java Android Apps the difference in code you write between x86 and ARM Android should be very very small. Through it doesn't work out that well once JNI is involved, I guess)
Thanks for the tip! Will definitely look into how that works.
The best piece of advice I ever heard was "all you need is less".

For me, simply doing less stuff, but being more "intentional" or "mindful" or whatever you want to call it, is the key. For example, I used to have magazine subscriptions, RSS feeds, piles of books, hobbies and side projects, and tons of stuff I wanted to do or places I wanted to travel. Those things, which were entirely elective, added to the overall burden of feeling like I couldn't keep up.

As I've aged I've also switched from "this is what I want to accomplish" to "this is how I want to spend my time". I do a lot more reading, staring into the distance, joking around, etc.
Reminds me of the drama with Coraline Ada Ehmke and the Contributor Covenant a few years back that forced Linus Torvalds to take a break. These people are drama seeking instigators that demand that people do as they say, and companies keep giving in to them. It's a kind of rent seeking and power grabbing.
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But I would guess that if you added up all the contributions of the people most passionate for making the world a better place, the bad far outweighs the good.
I think your #1 problem is market. It seems hard to try and make money directly from the "Frugal community" - a community defined by a desire to not spend money.
You don't need Sales. You need a different market (spenders) or a different revenue source (ad-driven).
Or just make it an avocation. Not all things must create revenue to be valuable.