skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A Google employee commented above about the design reasoning behind this, and it's worth reading and understanding the linked GitHub discussion:

> It looks to me like the design for this was https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/3133

To be clear, I'm not defending Google here, but I just want to point out that it's possible to be "evil" (for whatever that means) without being malicious. That is, I don't think any Google engineer was thinking "Haha! We'll slow down all those non-AMP ads deliberately!" The thinking seems to have been "We want to be somewhat 'backwards compatible' to allow non-AMP ads, but we don't want those ads to kill AMP's performance benefits, so we'll still load them but only after the AMP content has loaded and rendered."

However, this is exactly the mindset that I hate about AMP, and it drives me a little nuts when I see Googlers defending it. I get that your intentions are good, but don't you realize that it's not an accident that the primary beneficiary of AMP is Google, e.g. by keeping users in the SERP instead of going off to sites where the content is hosted, and by making everything ideal for the ad network you own? Googlers have to come to realize that essentially all of their engineering decisions are constrained by what makes more money for Google, not what is best for users. Sure, faster page loads are great, but do you honestly think Google would have supported a tech that made page loads faster ig it didn't cause people to look at more Google ads? I mean, if Google really supported what was best for users, they'd support more privacy controls a la what is coming in iOS Safari, but of course they don't because that's bad for their business.

I hate AMP and hope it dies, but I don't hate it because I think there aren't some user benefits to it, I hate it because it is a further attempt by a single company to own even more of the Internet.
I went to work in tech from academia, but I wanted to publish a paper I had started working on during my last months as a researchers. I worked on it during weekends, sometimes snatching hours from work. I sent it out for peer-review and it was published. One year after publication, it collected the astounding number of exactly zero citations.
> There is a plausible explanation for all this: the VCs shed their stock-holdings on the same day SolarWinds' long-standing CEO resigned

Why is that even proposed as the end of the plausible explanation? Seems equally plausible that the CEO stepped down as a condition of not being blamed for gross incompetence (ie help whitewashing this taint on his record) while staying silent so that everyone (including him) gets a nice payday and can move on to some other area?

There’s lots of possible explanations. Why not urge a full public accounting so that everyone can review if any wrongdoing took place?
Because you'd get charged with insider trading if you do.
It sure seems like every time bad news breaks about a company, there's an accompanying well-timed stock sale from an insider with a convenient excuse.
Then setup your own private virtual network. I think what you are actually complaining about Is human nature to profit which will always exist no matter what government type there is. Since profit is a zero sum game it’s pretty dangerous in a society built around the commune. The people in charge of distribution always end up with a little bit more
I literally just described the fact that I own (currently) an RX-7.

How many other production rotaries are there?
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I think a big issue is that 'preview' is used as just a pre-view. The metaphor is that you haven't actually opened/viewed the file yet 'for real'. Yet, preview has morphed into a program that makes changes to files even without any kind of save dialogue.
> AOC is a good example in politics, suddenly everything is some truth bomb tweet espousing every cutting edge liberal perspective.

I suspect your exposure to AOC’s tweets is mediated by intermediary's whose interest in them favors selection to favor this impression.

As someone who follows quite a few political feeds including AOC’s, I see hers as a lot less focussed on ideological “truth-bombs” than many more centrist Dems.
Well, unfortunately for them, reality begs to differ.
As a new parent, I was surprised how much space a kid took up. I didn't know about Radian car seats - we did Graco. We also upgraded to an SUV (Honda Pilot), and then a minivan (Pacifica) to hold all of our kids.
The cars were expensive. As young adults, with small incomes, having to buy large vehicles was a punch to the gut.
These guys and the Pfizer CEO are champs at timing stock sales at the top.
What you find far fetched is in fact commonplace in America in 2020. It is important that we acknowledge this and fight it. The people need to be able to trust the government in situations like this. Today, rightfully, some people do not.
> Politicians cannot afford to be complicated

Agreed, but it's most exaggerated in winner-take-all systems. In proportional representation systems, politicians can afford to be more nuanced
Qemu provides both device emulation, and x86 emulation by binary translation. Use qemu-kvm to accelerate x86 emulation by hardware assist.
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It's not a coincidence

I've experienced EXACT same thing on a much larger scale

Step 1: You start paying for Ads

Step 2: You start making a certain amount of money from Ads

Ratio is very good. So it is a win win

Step 3: They drop the quality of ads/quality of traffic

Step 4: It's not worth it to you any more, so you turn off the Ads

Step 5: They kill your organic traffic

Step 6: They switch it to someone willing to pay a lot for ads

3 Problems

A) Organic Traffic is allocated based on who is willing to pay the highest extortion fee

not on quality

B) If you start growing/prospering without their ads and without their organic traffic, then they don't just let you go

Then they start pollluting your search results

When people search for you they show every @#$#$ negative thing they can

They try to kill your traffic which was ALREADY coming to you

they also kill your reach on Youtube etc

They also start putting your email newsletters into wrong folders so your email list also gets hit. Only for gmail. Yahoo, outlook etc are fine. Only gmail starts dropping your emails

C) If you are still doing fine

then astroturfing starts

People make completely nonsense false claims about you

Then it becomes #1 search result when people are searching for you

If you start paying, all of it disappears and business as usual

If you stop paying, suddenly it all restarts

*

I am getting the popcorn out. Google especially and also Amazon and Facebook are going to get really @#$@#$ if there is a proper anti trust case

these companies instead of building newer businesses and better products (like Apple and Microsoft) focused all their energy on screwing over their competitors and even their partners
It's not hooked up. The valve it's supposed to control in the pipes is stuck.
He became the dumbest sentient being in the universe, basically.
What is the minimum amount of time that needs to pass between announcements and selling of stocks before it is not considered insider training anymore? 1s, 1 day?
The three small chambers are entirely sealed off from the main chamber during combustion, it is only crescent during intake/exhaust.

https://www.liquidpiston.com/how-it-works
You get a similar thing with translations. Franz Kafka’s The Trial, for example, will become public domain next year in the original German, but most well regarded English translations will remain under copyright for decades.
You can hear it in the video and it is pretty quiet. They've also developed a system where you can shut off the motor and cruise on battery power for short bursts for stealth type applications.
that would be something. If they were stupid enough to name their project Project Palpatine
81% of Americans use a smart phone. Likely almost every house in the country contains one and usually many smartphones.

Likely no consumer product will reach the success of the smartphone.
The Alphard V6 really isn’t that bad to drive. We’re not talking Porsche of course (and why would we? Topic is carrying kids safely), but it is a really pleasant drive.
With the current tests, that is the right answer. Unless the test results are quick, there really is no reason to test everyone. If there is a significant length of time between the test and the results then the people who have it will spread it while waiting for the results.
No, you don't really have the "right to disagree". This is clearly not a Wankel engine. In a Wankel engine, the rotor is approximately Reuleaux triangle-shaped. In this engine, the rotor is pill-shaped (obround). Yes, it is a rotary engine and it is an internal combustion engine, but it is not Wankel.
It weighs 1/5th of comparable engines. Some of that saved weight can be put into sound proofing and a muffler.
Is Heidegger Contaminated by Nazism? (2014)
In that case, perhaps "A Book about Creating Aircraft Scale Drawings with Inkscape and Gimp" would be more appropriate?
Finally, a pardon that makes sense. Ulbrecht certainly broke the law, but the sentence was far too severe.
"We could, for instance, begin with cleaning up our language by no longer calling a bug a bug but by calling it an error. It is much more honest because it squarely puts the blame where it belongs."

Hewlett-Packard, in their glory days, had an internal policy to apply the term "defect" to both hardware and software. If it has defects, it may not be shipped.
let me remind you, that this virus is transmisable before symptoms appear, this is the default case.

you seem to be hung up on the idea that some people go through the entire disease and recovery process with no reported symptoms. that is the uncommon occurance.
I am not talking about media anecdotes, i am talking about the reality that has been observed by numerous independent instance of professional observation and documentation.

to wit: 3 to 7 days incubation symptom free while being contagious during that time, and onward through the course of the disease. it dosnt matter how uncommon or common asyptomatic transmission is, the progression of transmission, is exponential when no mitigations are made.
Google ad practices under fire in new lawsuit
The moment the information is public.
How is it possible that the trojan was able to use MS file certificates for it's own files? Isn't it that certificate works only for the original file?
“A reasonable amount of time” https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-12-19/trader...
Time to sack Sundar Pichai https://pastebin.com/raw/Uk7Y2dnZ
I’ve got the belt drive one with the leather pad for resistance (SF-B1002) and haven’t had any issues. I’ve been impressed that it feels like an average spin bike you’d find at a gym (for $400!). Did you have the magnetic version?
1. There is a quantifiable difference between banning dissenting opinions and banning intentional weaponized misinformation. No ban will be perfect, but a failure to fight back against misinformation is the same as giving power to anyone with enough money and enough Twitter followers. The loudest voice controls the most minds.

2. We're not in the middle ages anymore. Back then, a malicious individual seeking to spread misinformation was limited in their options. The target audience wasn't literate, so the best you could do was stand shouting on the street corner. These days, unlike any previous time in history, we have fast, effective, cheap methods, that adapt to the user's preferences, to tell them exactly what they want to hear. We know from plenty of historical examples of both wartime and peace-time propaganda, that lies are effective. How can you be so ignorant of history?

In short, it's not Martin Luther I'm fighting against, but rather the Catholic Church.
When you look at the curve of chance of death vs speed, it very very rapidly rises. You have very little risk of serious injury at 40km/h and almost certain death at 60km/h
Oh yeah, there’s no excuse for that.
I'm curious how the switch works exactly and if there's a record of the switching state left anywhere on the device.

They're actually pretty amazing devices.
https://www.axon.com/products/axon-body-3
This reminded me of one argument I had about a legal contract one company wanted me to sign. Dropping all the legalese, the contract was roughly this: "You have no rights. We have all the rights. This contract is perpetual in eternity." After I had brought up my concerns, their representative used almost the same words that "it does not imply what you think in the context..." I figured that either they were fools or they thought I'm a fool, but in either case I'd better leave the table.
>Recently, they artificially limited the extensions available in Firefox mobile. I uninstalled Firefox immediately on all my machines.

They did not "artificially limit" the extensions available, you are misinformed.

They rewrote the engine of their mobile browser, and swapped the old engine for the new one before the new one had 100% support for all of the extension APIs. They have been working on this, and over the past few months I've seen several of my extensions which were previously disabled start re-enabling themselves as support for those APIs has been added. The eventual goal is to support all of the extensions that were supported before.

You can track that progress here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...

It sucks that, for the span of a couple months, I lost a couple of my addons, but as someone whose team has struggled for years supporting two very different versions of a piece of software simultaneously, I understand why they did it. And the new browser is so much faster and more responsive that my annoyance about the addons was tempered somewhat.

>Now they're firing the Rust team? Are these people stupid? Rust is pretty much the only thing Mozilla has going for it. I guess it's time for Thunderbird to go as well.

They did not fire the Rust team. They laid off a few of the people who had been working primarily on Rust, and retained several others. But significant components of Firefox are written in Rust, and the people who are working on those components are still employed. And significant amounts of new code is being written in Rust - but essentially they can't swapping out hundreds of thousands of lines of code at a time anymore.
Up until 2015, price talk was heavily discouraged in /r/Bitcoin.

It was all about adoption - new merchants accepting it, new people spending it, new use-cases enabled by its peer-to-peer electronic cash and immutable and permissionless record-keeping functionality, etc.

Everything changed after the 'purge', where the head moderator took a harsh stance against members trying to build consensus for a hard fork that would help realize Bitcoin's potential as a global peer-to-peer electronic cash, and started banning people left and right. The Bitcoin subreddit turned into a full time price pumping forum after that.

Ironically, Bitcoin saw more rapid price growth before 2015, when the primary topic of discussion was consciously steered away from price, than after.
It is harder to express meaning accurately and concisely than ordinary expression. Sometimes you need to give different names to similar functions, which is even more difficult.
I like keys.openpgp.org.

It keeps the identity out of the key. If the user requires inclusion of the identity, it must be verified by confirming an email.
Wow! I have just known this app. Thanks for sharing!
> Both my undergrad and grad education did not train me to program. I did learn computer science though.

Same here, but they did toss me into the deep end and force me to prove myself. I've always thought of higher education as more of a filter than a press.

> CS has always been applied math as much as physics is.

Completely agree... I spent my college days taking courses that counted towards both a CS and Math degree. I'm glad I did. My favorite anecdote is making basic paint programs to flood fill the area of a shape... using CPU algorithms, filling a circle is only a few lines of assembler code while filling a triangle is a nightmare. Using a GPU, triangles are native while converting a circle to a set of triangles is a nightmare. CS has always been as much about physical hardware and operating systems as it is about software.
Bet the 3 doesn't go the same way.

More modern hardware.
VR won’t take off until they solve the movement problem.

Every game I’ve played uses some hack to make up for the fact that I can’t just walk anywhere I want in the world they are presenting.

I don’t think this is a solvable problem, but I could be wrong. Occasionally a game will do a very good job disguising this problem, but I’ve never seen anything that hints at a solution.

We're getting the bottoms of our toes wet and calling it immersion.
Twice as much cargo as an SUV? We have both a minivan (Toyota sienna) and an SUV (Chevy Suburban) and the SUV easily has quadruple the cargo space as the minivan.
Computer science courses these days do in fact teach about memory coherency and MESI protocols with respect to CPU cache management and architecture. You'd learn about pipelining as well, and scalar architectures for that matter. I guess my point is that even if you didn't, if you wanted a head start, it's sufficient to know at least the basics of what microarchitectures are, and how to reason about a computational model of complexity, even if you need to adjust it later (for a particular console, or GPU, or architecture).

As for quaternions, I can derive them (no really, I've written a ton of code in this space, although I prefer the GA formulation), but I want to know, does the candidate understand why they're mathematically advantageous (blending properties, linearity, etc). Can they productively read a paper that uses it and apply the technique, etc.
> Yes, big-O notation hides constant factors like cache coherence but the solution isn't to analyse things less.

Yet I run into good developers with good CS backgrounds all the time who were never exposed to cache hierarchies in their traditional CS education but had Big-O pounded into their head like it was the gospel on high. Sometimes it seems like revealing how cache misses or prefetchers work is some sort of magic trick that academia skips over.

I've also seen where software engineers will stop at the boundaries of "CS" when it comes to problem solving(ex: not consider the hardware because it's a "hardware" problem rather than rolling up their sleeves and digging in). With the pace of development in software you need to continue to learn outside of a school setting and cultivate that curiosity that helps you come at problems from new and interesting ways.
I use i3 on dual 27” and it works well. Mostly do 2-3 windows split vertically on each.
Except when the body cam footage inexplicably vanishes most inconveniently (say, during subpoena with a defending cop) and everyone just goes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, repeatedly.
$30 is ... a fair bit?

I may be off base here, but that seems like it's a bit too expensive for a lot of people. If you could price it at a subway ride or a slice of pizza ($3 ?) that would be better.

But I doubt they are trying to churn a profit here and that it costs as much because, well, it's expensive biochem.
Yes. The difference was, back then, the US government had a monopoly on propaganda in the US. I'm not saying that's great, but at least it's stable. Now we're in an age where propaganda literally goes to the highest bidder.

Propaganda is a weapon, and I'd rather my own government hold it, than unknown entities.
Kurt Vonnegut on 8 ‘shapes’ of stories
Maybe it's because they usually aren't reproducible, or maybe it's just because the way most programmers write code doesn't matter to me, because most programmers aren't aware of what is possible on the frontier.

I have to say that sounds remarkably arrogant.

I think a significant portion of programmers are very smart people who work hard at producing good, generalizable, understandable effective code. PL designer would do well to pay attention to them (not that I know whether or not other PL designers have the parent's attitude. I hope they don't).
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The problem here is that there allegedly an additional artificial second of delay on non-amp ads vs amp ads. This is seen as anti competitive.
Sienna 33.5 ft³, 101 ft³ seats down

Suburban 41.5 ft³, 144.7 ft³

Suburban is almost 2 feet longer.
Your previous post does not contain the number 7.
This is one thing Reddit has over HN. By this time, someone with actual insight into law enforcement practices would chime in with justifications for keeping a ban. I’m not seeing that, thus I take the entire discussion with several grains of salt. HN more of an echo chamber than Reddit...wow.

Don’t know what those justifications would be, but we sure won’t know if no one is bringing that information to the table.
They did however ditch a lot of resources they were putting into Rust, and in particular making Rust a great language for making a secure browser.
Americas biggest companies are thriving yet still using pandemic as excuse
Pinterest's Black women whistleblowers speak out on inequitable settlement
Have you driven a recent one? It's not hard to get a test drive. Try holding the Odyssey over 6000 rpm in sport-manual and see if it's a boring van.
I really wish that you could take an inside-out tracker virtual reality system like the oculus quest outside and then draw boundaries in your backyard. Can you imagine being able to use an entire soccer field or a basketball court?

Although even if this was technically possible, it would likely open up companies to massive potential safety issue related lawsuits.
Someone wrote a tool to control the blobs with MIDI. https://mobile.twitter.com/Overlapping/status/13389792569032...
Tensions in Google's ethical AI group increase as it sends demands to CEO
Funny how the human mind works.

1) Is $286m a lot?

2) How many insiders are there and what is normal behavior for them?

3) Are these well-timed sales abnormal or are we only looking because of the headlines?

A quick read of this story doesn't seem to answer these questions.
I would argue that he made his money at Microsoft. He made me money after that via intellectual ventures, but it was mainly his tenure at Microsoft that allowed home to spend his time on complex cooking books...
milliseconds, nanoseconds if you can
I find if I set the playback speed to 1.3-1.5x, I’m forced to listen much more closely.

Give it a shot! It’s maybe a bit like that Thinking Fast And Slow story about the kids who scored better on tests with blurry questions.
capitalism doesn't have much use for professions that don't make someone rich
> What was the failure? This isn't a retrospective that makes any sense.

No YouTube, no Snapchat etc.

With YouTube Google used their position to keep it that way.

It also wouldn't surprise me if someone told certain app developers that "that's a nice app you have there, it would be shame if there was a bug in the Play store that made it hard ro find".

When it comes to App Store I have heard it is pretty well established that you won't get featured, no matter how great your app is if it is available on other platforms.
yes pokemon is 1000% the consumer XR killer app so far. People who have a conception of 'what is VR for' that doesn't make space for niantic are probably looking at it wrong.

the cheap hardware is coming, though not at that price level for a while. I think tilt5's board game AR is dropping sometime this year.