skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple walling it off would actually be them completely disabling it. They are merely providing the user with the information and option to disable it. Very different from walking off. It’s not equivalent to what Facebook wants.
Yes, but what company was more responsible for that: Apple or Foxcon? I would say Foxcon, not Apple.
You might say this is "fragmentation." Up until two years ago Ubuntu had a different shell (Unity) with a different API for this, and up until last year XFCE was mostly still using GTK2 and its deprecated APIs. Things are getting better now (Ubuntu's tray is just an ordinary GNOME extension, XFCE supports the new API) but it's taken time to reconcile everything.
>That's a moral absolutist position.

It's the exact opposite, because I acknowledged those are simply my morals, they're not some universal truth that everybody else is obliged to follow.

I'm convinced moral absolutism is dangerous and a major driving force behind fanaticism and authoritarianism.
SvelteKit replaces Sapper https://svelte.dev/blog/whats-the-deal-with-sveltekit
Agreed. Apple is not blocking anything. They are simply giving full transparency to the user as to what is happening. If Facebook's tracking is indeed so great for the user, then users will overwhelmingly and enthusiastically opt-in, and Facebook has nothing to worry about.
This article absolutely nails it. Finally, recognition that microservices are a technical tool for solving a people and organizational problem. We need to understand that a lot of "new" technology paradigms (especially those coming down from FAANG or other large organizations) are often designed to solve the organizational problems of operating at scale, not to provide some kind of technical panacea we should all aspire to built towards.
You know, it's not that hard to skip over articles that you aren't interested in. If enough others are that it makes it to the front page, then by definition it is the kind of thing that people here are interested in. I myself am only interested in maybe 5% of the articles that make it to the front page; I suspect I'm not alone in that.
No, the Cray is not operational. Only a few things at the CHM are operational: the PDP-1, the IBM 1401 lab, and the RAMAC disk drive.
> It was also just a more straightforward example than the overall food market still functioning even though we're all just three weeks away from starvation.

Eh, the overall food market doesn't quite fit as an analogy here. I know I'm not alone when I say I have close to a year of food storage; it's not really the same for surprise healthcare bills.
> The three-step process on “how to fight” with Facebook’s built-in tools is simple and intuitive: For a targeted Facebook page, E47 users are asked to rate it with one star out of five, falsely flag the page’s posts as containing either a credible threat of violence or suicide, and then report the page itself as spam. Other E47 targeted operations ask the group’s over 3,400 members to falsely report other Community Standards violations like pornography — then spam the target page with actual rule-breaking violent or pornographic comments, essentially planting evidence of a bannable offense.

E47 can't be the the only group using those tactics, right? It's mind-boggling that Facebook's definition of "inauthentic behavior" is apparently limited to the use of fake accounts and doesn't consider false reports as equally "inauthentic".
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2020/05/07/nypds-racial-bias-in-...
I assume because of selective enforcement. The more that we make normal everyday events technically illegal, the more likely the police will have to pick and choose what they enforce and what they let slide. Then you have ample opportunity for that discretion to be applied in a discriminatory way.
Selective enforcement?
It’s a minor crime which people of color tend to be disproportionately cited for.
I feel embarassed because people vilified my comment about Boris using this piece of news with a political cover motive. I am sorry, saying this is different than being a negationist. I hope more people get it now that I honestly try to explain myself better. Thanks.
I strongly suspect you may be putting everything on auto and hoping the camera will focus on the right thing. It wont, because the camera has a very crappy auto-mode. It will, when you learn how to use manual mode and pick your own focus point. I fully accept that this is not something most people are interested in, but that camera can and does take wonderful images. Here are a few samples (randomly picked by flickr - I hope they're good :P ).

https://www.flickr.com/cameras/canon/eos_digital_rebel_xsi/
NextDNS "Threat Intelligence Feeds" blocks this domain.

It's also on a bunch of domain blocking lists (don't have a complete list). I've submitted pop.com as a false-positive on OISD.
I think they mean government regulations providing protection from competitors specifically. Not just all possible govt protection that everyone gets including competitors, for example from being robbed or invaded by Russia or whatever.
In Sweden we stayed at the hospital a few nights with both our sons. The parking was the biggest cost and food for me (my girlfriend got the food for free but I didn't).
Slightly related, Stripe now gives fixed $ amount of RSUs per year to new hires, which limits both upside and downside significantly. Not to act cynical, but to me it seems that this is another way of screwing employees by denying them stock appreciation on their initial grant. I understand that new hires would be signing off on this while joining so the rug isn't pulled beneath their feet, but this does seem like a start of a bad trend which if it catches on, will further the gap between employees and founders
Airbus reveals hydrogen ‘plane pods’ concept
There's a huge number of developers out there who have managed to do just fine innovating on macOS and iOS.
Actually, "learned it the hard way" refers to making the mistake yourself, rather than learning from someone else's mistake and avoiding making the mistake yourself at all.

It's better to learn from others mistakes, than to "learn it the hard way".

"The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it." - Proverbs 22:3
Clapping is the origin of all rhythms
I love the shoutout. As a grad student at WPI somewhere around 2000 or so when AES was first, I took his "Cryptography and Data Security" course and my end of class project was a complete implementation (in C) of Rijndael. (I later found out that others in the class chose to implement portions of the cipher and not the whole thing.) It was definitely one of my favorite grad classes.
Thank you, I need to read more about that. Sounds promising.
Not being in the US, I have to wonder - Why aren't the personnel at a hospital not considered part of 'in-network' while performing their duties at that hospital?

If being "in-network" is an important thing, it seems like having "out-of-network" personnel is rather deceitful (I would almost say fraudulent).
Europe’s fastest-growing direct-to-consumer startups 2020
The bad features and bad side effects are the point, avoiding forcing people on limited incomes out of their homes was a convenient leverage point that could be much better served by more targeted policy.

Like, for one, if that was actually your policy goal, the policy would only apply to primary residences, not all real property.
You were younger. Every door you opened was a seemingly infinite road in to a wondrous future. Everything existed only in the realm of possibility and promise for you back then.

Now more of your life has passed and a larger proportion of who and what you are is already behind you, fixed and unchangeable. So now your view of the future is that it short, too short, and only getting shorter. Now every door that opens is a potential waste of time and energy, which are now finite and precious resources.

The cost-benefit equation changes over the span of your life. The relative value of things changes. Back then, you would spend any amount of time, just to pass the time on something, anything vaguely interesting really. But now, you would spend any resource just to have more time in which to idly do things. But how can you just idly do things? Soon you will be dust, and the things you have done are who you will have been. You can ignore that as an immortal teenager, but as each decade passes, the spectre of your own mortality looms larger.

Anyway, you probably wanted more concrete answers. But for me, I try to just tap in to that cosy nostalgic feeling where I don't feel like I have to achieve anything, and just find something I can lose myself in to, with no purpose but to pass the time as if time were an infinite resource, there to be wasted. I think, perhaps, you may be getting a glimmer of that feeling from the audiobook, but your sadness about how far away that time is, is taking you out of the moment? Or maybe you just have something else going on in your life, like a soul-crushing job or something like that, and that needs to be dealt with first... Some time and space for reflection might be called for.
That would only apply to the 10% of medical costs spent on emergency care. It makes little sense to operate the other 90% based on requirements that don't exist in those cases.

Emergency care is also inherently local. You could operate emergency rooms under the same framework as you do fire departments.

Which doesn't require a national fire department to manufacture the fire extinguishers you buy for your house or repair the damage to your car a week after a car accident.
I think the solution to this is a bunch of pluggable tools that integrate well. "AI Platforms" do everything, but they do each thing not very well and force you into a particular way of working. (There is a reason we don't use "software platforms" any longer.)

But unfortunately, as you say, most of the pluggable tools are not very good and/or not mature enough.

Here's our attempt at model storage, experiment tracking, and software heritage: https://replicate.ai/

For interactive dev environments, Colab, Deepnote, and Streamlit are all great.

For deploying to production, Cortex mentioned in the post is great.

All are a work in progress, but I think we'll soon have a really powerful ecosystem of tools.
He almost lost his eyesight a few years back when he got brilliant green thrown into his face, and still did his weekly youtube news stream looking like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rynww9LT8so
Making Bare Metal Fly with Tinkerbell Provisioning and Management
1990 is probably a little early for something flash-based, but battery-backed DRAM- and CCD-based devices existed before that.
Updated the article to include a shiny "try it here" link at the top based on your feedback, thank you.
Amazon Machine Learning University launches new, advanced course
I was part of a leadership team at a startup for 4.5 years (went from 10 to 200 employees, series A and B). During that time I accumulated a significant number of stock options which could potentially make me a millionaire.

I left the company because my salary was incredibly low relative other companies in the same area.

I have left and I have no possibility of exercising the options. I technically could but that would mean ~50% of my net worth in a single risky investiment.

So yeah, I now price stock options at zero.
Good to know, thanks! I’ll have to check out the links to the community when I get a chance too. Always good to know that a piece of tech you’d planned on using is healthy.
How on earth did you get the domain?
People are godamn hopeless.

I just saw a guy trying to argue that writing functional-style Java is the "new" way to write Java, and that not using functional interfaces means you're writing "old" style code.
Definitely. SRAM is pure joy to use, but less and less common in FPGA devboards by the day.
It was at the NSCEE (National Supercomputing Center for Energy and the Environment) installation at UNLV for Yucca mountain. There were two vector processors and an amazing 5GB SSD. The OS was UNICOS, a successor of System V and COS (Cray OS), and a user was actually fully swapped out on context switches.

The SSD wasn't new by any means. A decade earlier the Cray-1M optionally could have had an SSD.
I have no great job and I am paying more than 50% in taxes, including health care (not an insurance, but a payroll tax) that I get almost nothing from. That great change described in the article is bringing poor services to everyone, that is the end of it - I saw it in Eastern Europe, I saw it in Western Europe, but people don't want to talk about it. I live in Eastern Europe, decades in a socialist country and decades in a capitalist one, but all with socialized healthcare and that dream of free healthcare for all is an impossible utopia, you just need to think about it to realize.
Unfortunately in this case they do. All pleas mean the same, and the Vietnamese government controls more pleas.

The government basically has its supporters spam Facebook with requests to please take down problematic posts because they break Facebook's rules.

Apparently if enough people complain about a Facebook post, Facebook removes it automatically without checking that it actually violates Facebook's rules.
yeah there surely must be a fairly large floor before an IPO makes any sense. I'm pretty convinced the one I cashed out of is going to get diluted a bit more than acqui-hired by one of the big investors (who is in the same field as the startup) as the growth just doesn't look to have happened there.

I think given the overall situation I came out of it well, but it does go to show that even when you do hit the startup share lottery as we both have the actual cash outcome can vary by a significant factor, though we are both lucky to have made cash given the 99.9% of startups whose shares end up worthless.
It's good to keep in mind that not all medical services are price inelastic in the sense that ambulance costs or emergency hospital visits are.

GP visits/non-emergency general surgeries/general medicines - just like food, are all necessities for survival, and are all locally price elastic, with the exception of medicines that have regulatory capture - not a free market, such as insulin which is many X the cost in the US because of a government-enforced oligopoly.

This means that no single supplier (whether of food or non-emergency medicine) can raise their prices because consumers have time to find a cheaper alternative. Unless they collude, which is illegal, and impractical for many markets such as GP visits.

For these particular goods, does your view differ, when compared to emergency services which we agree are price inelastic? And if not, how do such services differ to the foods market - holding aside regulatory capture of things such as insulin which we both probably agree is not a good thing?
A lot of the job of effective large organizational software/management consultants is understanding where there are mismatches between org structure and software architecture and helping to drive changes to get those in alignment. A big part of this is finding better places to put the interfaces (whether they are human or API), because they're usually holdovers from the past and no longer related to the business structure or architecture.
I agree.

I've had some insight on the other side. I understand why it's the way it is, but as a patient/consumer it's impossible to understand what my healthcare costs are going to be.
Not stupid, just uncritical.

I could share with you many stories from FAANG privacy compliance groups about how little engineers think about the impacts of their releases.
Agreed, it's a strange bit to focus on. But it is true, even technically, bc of the way they go hand-in-hand: you don't need to send a "bundle", when you've done the rendering server-side. NextJS does a better job of making the case.
They probably do, even just by factoring in how popular segments are. I agree there would be a shit storm if they labeled certain paths as safer though.
I think I've been using it since version 9 when I switched to it from whatever version of ownCloud I had been running some years prior (I'm not sure if their versions were still in sync or not) and I have the exact opposite experience. I have never used anything more stable. Database upgrades are always seamless (I've never had to even touch the db since install) and all I have to do is occasionally add some indices through the CLI when it asks me to. The automatic updater seems to also make some sort of backups and even if it doesn't, a standard mysqldump backup should be enough to restore pretty much everything. It even survived two migrations to new servers.
Cool! I think this kind of avatar embodiment is the future. I'm working on one that doesn't use the camera, but audio lip syncing to provide a good experience. https://jel.app

Also if you want an OSS alternative to any of these commercial tools, check out https://hubs.mozilla.com
Yes, I’m also wildly jealous of that domain name...
Yeah most people when they say "free market" they want a fair market.

Capitalism works but the top and bottom and excessive cases need to be contained, usually those happen when there is monopoly, oligopoly, duopolies, collusion or massive wealth advantages resulting in a fixed leveraged market that is almost mafia state like.

The market is a garden, the large overgrown plants taking all resources need to be trimmed back and the seedlings need more support, this allows the garden to flourish for all when the edge cases and extremes are tuned.

Right now the mafia state oligarchy markets, disaster capitalists and state backed whole industries are fixed markets to the chagrin of fair market capitalists.

The game design needs to be tweaked, some overpowered ones nerfed, underpowered ones helped.

We like a game that is easy to approach and difficult to master, not difficult to approach and easy to master buying out competition with all that wealth leverage.

We would do better to say we want fair markets not free markets, because a fair market is more free to all participants, players want to play and can.
> I thought oil shell was the hot new thing.

I'd say oilshell is the next thing, and fish is the hot new thing.

I check in on oil from time to time, and I think it's headed in the right direction. Zsh is way too crazy for me - I'm quite happy with bash. But I sometimes spin up fish, and might be tempted over at some point.
> "The ________ theory/hypothesis is fringe, the consensus is ________" is argument by authority.

That is not an argument, so it can't be "argument by authority." It is a framing.
DMCA? Let's see...

Does this example of a bad government regulation come from the government? Or the people voting and demanding it from the government?

No, it comes from business. DMCA is an example of the badness of private business if allowed to do what it wants.

That was a purchased law. The failure on the governments part was in allowing itself to be for sale.

So you are right, even though I bet this is just about the opposite of the conclusion you thought citing the DMCA resolves out to, we should definitely stop allowing the government to be influenced by the private sector.
I find the quoted comment pretty mild. It is the small ISVs "he [Erik Sink] writes about". Around that time there was a market for tons of boring applications that solved a specific small problem.

Of course there were interesting ISVs, too: For example, chess programs were driven and improved by small ISVs for a long time. By definition, those ISVs would attract hackers. But it wasn't the majority.
Creating laws that almost everyone breaks and then enforcing them selectively is a great way to hide bias and racism.

Edit: See also - loitering.
I guess a RAM drive, where you aren't using mechanical methods for mass storage, can be considered a solid state drive
Sure, but why make a specific point about that with jaywalking? Can't that argument be made for just about any crime? Just seems like a useless red herring to make it about race when it doesn't need to be; it's a related but separate issue to whether jaywalking should be a crime in the first place.
> Given that China has provided 200 billion masks,

They also provided the pandemic to start with. Great way to do business !
Can someone explain what an application of this might be?
I wish all my math classes had started with beautiful music like that.

Also, the way Prof. Milnor started off his class ("In order to start talking about differential topology, I have to first give a few definitions…") really made me chuckle. As a former math student who had to sit through many painful and sloppy math lectures I very much appreciate this no-nonsense (albeit maybe a bit dry & stereotypical) approach to math.
+1 for the correct use of the phrase "begging the question."
> Personally I've never been told to pay up before receiving treatment at a hospital.

Of course you have. The first thing you did when you walked in was hand them your ID and coverage info. You think hospitals operate on the honor system?

As a Canadian I've never been asked to pay up before or after receiving treatment [edit: at the point of care].

And before you jump into taxation, Canadians pay less per capita in taxes than Americans ($13K vs $14K), and that's before you factor in the $600 per month in private tax you directly (or indirectly via employer) have to pay your insurers.

> Especially when I arrive there unconscious.

You either have insurance or you're driven into Chapter 11. Further I suspect this is not due to good will but rather government intervention.

> And Herb Cohen would say once you've received the service, you're actually in a great negotiating position.

The debt was incurred once the service was rendered, and you are now liable. 66.5% of all bankruptcies in the US are medical -- are they just bad negotiators? I'm not sure what point you're trying to make but it's not in good faith.

> People actually negotiate hospital bills all the time. Especially in those crazy stories you hear about.

That sounds the worst.

> And you need a citation for your claim about when free markets do and don't work.

Voluntary contractual exchange is one of the undisputed key pillars to a free market economy. If you're being told you will die without the service it is a coercive exchange and therefore violates one of the key tenets. [1]

If I hold a gun to your head and tell you to buy my oranges for $1000 or I kill you, is the free market price of oranges $1000? If I tell you that you have cancer and you'll die unless you get $48,000 worth of chemotherapy, is that a free market? [2]

A free market requires both the voluntary production and voluntary consumption of services.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market

[2] https://www.asbestos.com/featured-stories/high-cost-of-cance...
How come it covers air ambulances but not ground ambulances?

I know the answer is probably that the ambulance companies lobbied (bribed) the hell out of these laws, but with the ambulance costs this is comical.
As alway text and an intro video will help people understand how your product is different from Zoom etc.