skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What you can't do is just stop updating the thing

That's the choice being argued. You should have that option. It's unreasonable to expect that old software will always be supported. There is a real cost to it. But as long as I still have the machine it should be my choice as to when it no longer does the things I need it to do (at least until the point of physical failure).
Profit is the net result of investing capital. Revenues don’t matter.

If your startup turns a profit but still wants or needs to reinvest those profits in hiring more or more equipment, they still have to pay taxes on those earnings and only can reinvest half of them (there are some provisions to shield some reinvested profits from being taxed, but they are limited).

I’m all for taxing dividends and capital gains when investors cash out, I’m just saying don’t do it on profits that are reinvested.
I have increasingly felt alienated in my relationship with my computing devices. I started in the mid 90s with Linux and Win95 and you owned and could understand the whole computer. iOS and the trend of walled computing gardens were ostensibly done for security and user experience, but users have lost control of their devices. Not everyone needs that of course, but I t is a big reason I migrated to Linux this year after having an off again on again relationship with Linux on my primary computing device. macOS is good, but it used to be great. Way too many technologists are eating up things like M1 / Apple silicon without asking if it’s a good thing. It performs great, but does it really matter? I’m pretty sure it doesn’t help me code or do things in emacs any more efficiently. After Apple hardware quality dropping a lot I just don’t feel the experience is good enough to justify it anymore. Maybe M1 will be a big evolutionary step that we simply can’t ignore, but I know I can do everything I need to for the next few years on my Linux laptop. I will evaluate again when it’s EOL. Mid-2015 Mac was the last great MacBook IMO. It’s been downhill from there. It’s been a slow incremental decline in quality of both the hardware and the OS. And I really loves my Mac and Apple ecosystem a lot, but the writing is on the wall for these walled gardens. iOS is still solid and my iPhone 12 is great... but it may be my last iPhone as well. Same with Windows, honestly. Win 7 was probably the last great windows operating system. Win10 has been very okay for me. All the forced reboots and telemetry in macOS and Windows... yuck.
I suspect that in many fields, funding acts as a fertility drug for researchers. The opportunities to fund research are, accordingly, pretty much always going to outstrip any amount of funding that could be provided.

If that's the case, you're inevitably going to need some way to decide which of the many worthy opportunities merit sufficient investment and which ones do not.
I definitely preferred browsers bundling it, because it was one less security dependency I had to worry about managing. And considering Flash plugins were part of the "older model" of browser add-ons, bringing it in-house allowed browsers to better sandbox and secure it, and prevent other applications from exploiting the same way in.

And every browser bundling it also provided a setting (and corresponding enterprise policy configuration) to disable it.
A historical good Sharpe is usually a prerequisite, but not a guarantee of having good live performance.

I'm sure you're aware of overfitting backtestes and it sounds like that's what you were doing.
Months later, the great Twitter hack still boggles my mind
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/eye-s...
The origin of the virus is worth knowing. I think the far-right in the US are trying to use "covid was made in a Chinese lab" as a way to build anti-China sentiment and also to dismiss the virus' impact in a way. Their power comes from garnering votes from people who are swayed by boogie men. Keep in mind, the US ruling class is trying to start a new Cold War with China.

Someone mentioned in another comment that some on the left were tying criticism of China with racism, and I'd like to point out that those identity politics only benefit the right. I think this link is mostly coming from some of the US liberal class (financially well off, lives aren't directly affected by election outcomes, centrists, etc.) and not from The Left (socialists, left of Bernie types).

Blame a government, not its people. There is plenty of criticism to throw at China without being racist. But if anyone is claiming that blaming China is racist then they are just as misdirected as the people that use criticism of a county to be racist against its people.
>I never said it was the only way.

You wrote: "police departments take a lot (in some cases a plurality) of total tax revenue that could be used to help victims in ways beyond deterrence. That is why we talk about defunding police."

Where is the evidence that the police budget is what is preventing social programs to be funded? That is a fiction driven from the inane sloganeering around 'defund the police'. You can fund any program you democratically pass and that has nothing to do with police budget. That's the false choice you're putting out there .. that somehow you have to choose between 'funding the police' OR funding social programs.

Here's the reality, we're spending billions on social programs. There are no silver-bullet social programs that we know will lower crime rate.

>It's incredibly common.

Uh huh. Care to quantify that? Because I think you're basing this on nothing.
Human brains are also the culmination of billions of years of iterative development. Computers were only invented in the last century. I would not be surprised if computers could catch up given a few tens or hundred more years.
This is also how websites work.
Don’t use their name. It’s against the contract and even without the contract, it’s bad form without chatting with the client first (consider just the NDA...). Not to mention they’re big, your small, you can’t afford the legal trouble.

Instead you might say in a sales call the type of companies you’re working for. When I worked as a consultant we might not say “Careerbuilder” was a client, instead we’d say “one of the top 5 job search companies in the US”.

And future protip: don’t undervalue yourself in contract negotiations. If you truly offer something unique and valuable, don’t give it up without serious due consideration.
I did some contracting as tech lead for a contracting agency and was very involved in the recruiting process. I advised against some recruiters recommendations for "hiring fast" when candidates were hot in the market or they accepted some hourly rates when I knew they could get better. If you want them to stick for a while make sure you're paying as much as they can get!
Didn't pointing this out get that Google lady fired?
Thank you for this thoughtful reply!
Really interesting.

How long did it take to have a working emulator ?
Direct announcement from Amazon: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/wondery-to-joi...

I’m a apprehensive about the loss of (future) open podcasts to walled gardens but that looks to be the most popular route to improving the monetisation of the format.
> Making that into an embedded https server would be a big hassle.

Why? HTTPS is an open protocol anyone can implement.
Apple Wallet can store Covid-19 vaccination proof in LA
Created SAAS to automatically generate trading strategies from price/volume data. The strategies are optimized to achieve high Sharpe ratios. However, it turned out that Sharpe ratio had little value in predicting out-of-sample performance. Abandoned the project before trying to monetize it. The app is still up at http://turboquant.com
Staring at the Clock for 3 Hours Straight
Helm v2 Product Update
https://abc7chicago.com/5098508/

Could it be this one?

"Passengers were not allowed to leave the airplane because the Goose Bay Airport did not have a customs officer on duty during the overnight hours. Saturday bled into Sunday, and still the flight remained grounded."
> This month, Google forced out a prominent AI ethics researcher after she voiced frustration with the company for making her withdraw a research paper. The paper pointed out the risks of language-processing artificial intelligence, the type used in Google Search and other text analysis products.

That is... certainly one way of putting things.
They do already have other Amazon brands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Amazon_brands

For instance, Goodthreads is one step above Amazon Essentials for clothing.
3 teams of 8 clams (mussels)

If the water quality is normal, the clams open and close randomly.

If all 8 clams close, something is off with the water and prompts more investigation.

They get the clams from a nearby lake, and somewhat comfortingly, they retire them back to the lake when they've done a tour of duty. They're even marked so they don't reuse the same clams!

Nice to hear that they don't just euthanize them even if they are just clams. Guess I'm getting soft in my old age
I made a recursive version of Google Alerts. It was cool and it worked as intended, but it was difficult to explain to non-technical users and the payoff for using it is very slow, so it didn’t get any user traction.
Foursquare, but not with parking lot data, to my knowledge:

https://www.cbinsights.com/research/alternative-data-future-...

Satellite image companies sell this type of alternative data to buyers:

https://newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/how-hedge-funds-use-satel...

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/stock-v...

Some of the vendors are RS Metrics, Descartes Labs and Orbital Insight.
Hey that reminds me, I've always wondered: how did it come to be that delimited encoding "won" for sub-messages and group encoding was deprecated? A lot of these problems would go away if things had gone the other way.

Groups can be encoded in one pass, they are efficient to decode (unless you were trying to skip the sub-message, a la LazyField), and they don't have the string/message ambiguity in UnknownFieldSet that messages have.

Do you remember how that came to pass? Maybe some of this happened during the evolution of proto1, which was before my time.
Imagine if the President told the NSA to remove every copy of a file. the pathway you've described would be potentially viable to reach a large majority of files in storage someplace.

Terrifying thought.
I used "by the by" in a 6th grade English paper, and was marked off for it.
King was more protected because he had such a prominent national stature. Hoover was able to execute other promising activists like Fred Hampton outright.
If I'm releasing an indie video game in Haskell, I'm not going to GPL it..
> economy who's main advantage is people there will be desperate enough to work for low wages

That was Thacher's cunning plan. Break the unions and heavy industry. And then out compete Germany and France in the common market based on lower wages.

Did not work at all.
Amazon to acquire Wondery in podcast push
Visual Testing ain't what it used to be (podcast episode)
Verifiable Computation on Skynet Using a Merklized Virtual Machine
It's worth noting that in 2015 Mozilla negotiated a deal with Yahoo netting them an additional $100+ million a year. It makes sense that in 2016 the board would see a significant raise for however long their next contract is. I doubt this trend continues after 2018, when the sale of Yahoo saw a huge drop in revenue. They likely should have judged more on market share, but it's a fairly understandable move.

Also, that huge spike on the chart was roughly $4.5 million of the over $100 million in increased revenue.
You are making an appeal to your personal incredulity. Let me assure you, we’ve definitely considered the unintended consequences and it’s a bit of a misnomer because we already knew this would happen. Human psychology is not new. It’s sad and shitty. There is no alternative that isn’t shittier or we would be advocating for it. Do you have an alternative?
A lot of the stuff discussed on HN is specific to fairly small communities so if someone wants to keep their anonymity they may need to use a throwaway account when sharing information on a particular topic.
As explained in the linked page under "starting point", the priors for zoonosis are much higher than lab escape. So lab escape actually is a much stronger claim which requires more evidence. The source of the numbers is under the "more >" link.
One issue that is often overlooked is that humans are pretty robust to unforeseen situations vs AI. Take for example the recent fires in California and the smokey skies. Many of the cell phone pictures did a horrible job of capturing the photos, because their AI had been trained that the daytime sky is blue.

And with such a failure, all the cars with similar software would be affected at once.
The people who will have money to buy new cars which can drive by themselves are not young.
Crazy year :)

I hope you’re doing well, and the team is going great!
That's the same company that is in this article.
They already were using some sandboxing measures to control this. But Flash inherently involved native, proprietary code and it was difficult to secure completely, whereas modern WebExtensions are JS that is completely under the browser's security control.
Huh, we're using Jest with Vue and Typescript, and I've always assumed that Vue setup and Typescript transpilation were the heavy parts. We have far fewer tests than I'd like, and still the tests suite takes more than a minute to run.

First thing tomorrow I'm looking into other test runners. Thank you for sharing this!
Website says 14, report says 13, seems like an extraordinary situation in any case.
Could have? Sure, if some things broke the right way. Was gonna be? Not that I know of. Did? No.
What does "support" mean? Let the feature continue working has it has. Sure. Yeah.

You shipped the code. It exists forever. You don't get to take it away later because it's not in your business interests.

Fix bugs? I'll pay for that if I want that. Software is a service. They shouldn't be obligated to fix bugs for free (unless they agreed to that in a contract).

With Windows 10 I'm not free to stop updating Windows if I want a computer connected to the Internet. Microsoft does dirty tricks to make if very difficult for me from completely stopping the update treadmill. They've shown that it's an arms race, too. I can't possibly keep up with that opponent.
Flash animations are easily converted into webm/mp4/mkv/put any video container here.
not only Poznan but there are multiple polish towns which have clams on duty - eg. Warsaw, Rzeszów
This over-assuming-of-shared-context is one of my pet peeves on this site. Based on the average post you see on Hackernews, it's a virtual certainty he means "snooping on users of a program". I can't explain why, but it just bothers me that this would be considered so obvious as to escape mention. "Telemetry" means something, and it meant something to aerospace engineers for a long time before somebody at google started using it to refer to something incredibly narrow.

Of course, I'm also annoyed that some computer science PhD apparently googled around for a cooler name for multi-dimensional arrays and ruined the term "Tensor" forevermore.
> The most convenient graphics now is probably JavaScript and a canvas in a browser

Really? I think most Logo derivatives, Microsoft Small Basic (Windows only), SdlBasic, QB64, and lots of others have more convenient graphics than JS with the Canvas API.
>> Black people protesting for equality wasn’t terrorism in the 60s and it isn’t today.

That's what all terrorists say. They are never bad guys, they always have some good reason to fight: freedom of their country, justice for their people, etc.

It's the chosen method of fighting that matters. In democratic society you can protest peacefully, which means not attacking the police, not looting the stores, not setting cars on fire. If you can't refrain from this, then you are terrorist and I don't give a fuck about the cause you're fighting for, it's not an excuse.
Why is it relevant that they're Israeli?
Not to mention the employees being able to pay rent and so on.
Child's play compared to add data to a specific file ...
http://archive.is/6vjqQ
They use it in android. They also use it in their firebase sdks for ios/android.

Nanopb doesnt solve wire issues. Thats for you to solve by designing your data better. Nanopb solves your applications binary size getting needlessly huge, due to less bloated code-gen and saner runtime (if you have to use protobuf, or are already married with it that is). It also gives more control over memory management, which is especially important for embedded.
Can someone summarize for us what this is used for? What features or functionality does it enable above and beyond what's in the common standard?
The part you didn't quote. The part about "re-educating" them. (This leaves two options. 1) She didn't know the history of the term. I find that condescendingly insulting; an educated person should know that. Or 2) she knew full well the use of the term in history, and used it anyway.)

So: First try to re-educate them, and if that doesn't work, then cancel them. Said to a relatively large group of supporters.

And if all that is fine, why did she apologize?
I've always been surprised at the growth and interest in podcasts, as they don't appeal to me - I prefer reading and feel it helps me better concentrate on a subject than listening to a recorded voice. Maybe "neuro linguistic programming" got that part right - some people prefer visual sensory input and some auditory.
New Media and News Professionals
The counterpart to your argument is that the police brutality hasn't really made much of an impact to crime in Baltimore, certainly not a positive impact. Indeed, the homicide clearance rates in Baltimore are pretty poor, which means the police aren't putting the criminals in prison, and your support for police brutality isn't real support for the innocent crime victims but only lip service.
Hah, a friend did the same thing a while ago for NES. [1]
I think this is the most amusing use of WebRTC I've found, and it's amazing. Kudos!

[1] https://rodri042.github.io/nestation
And they aren't even learning in a sense that would make them categorically comparable to human-like learning. You could just say "it takes a lot of energy for a computer to crunch a lot of numbers".
> Firefox itself could run a free Certificate Authority if it ever came to that

how would that be any better?
Okay this is drivel. Waste your own time but I have other things to do.
Out of curiosity, do you have a specific source for,

"There is lots of evidence that AI can be much _better_ than a human driver, although currently on things like well mapped highway driving with clear conditions."

The only thing I know about is claims from Tesla, comparing Autopilot (in "well mapped highway driving with clear conditions") versus general human drivers (and which, as I recall, had some further sketchiness).
I experienced this myself at a DUI trial where the sole prosecution witness, a cop, clearly lied about being run off the road by the defendant, and other aspects of the case. Defence counsel demonstrated that the stretch or road where the cop claimed to have been run off the road had no shoulders, had guard rails close to the road, and had trees hemming-in the road.

I ended up hanging the jury. My fellow jurors were frighteningly willing to unquestioningly accept a patent liar's testimony because he is a cop.
Their track record seems neither compelling nor skepticism-worthy, I think, often because a lot of their conclusions lined up with already widely accepted hypotheses (e.g. that MMR vaccines don't cause autism and that MH17 was shot down by DNR), and a lot of the controversial things naturally remain unknown.

The most interesting - where public opinion was against and Rootclaim was for, and it was later shown Rootclaim was far more likely to be right - seem to be the deaths of Barry and Honey Sherman [0] and that MH370 vanished due to pilot suicide [1].

I think where the rubber would meet the road is if they're ever shown to be correct about the Syrian chemical attacks [2], where they draw the opposite conclusion Bellingcat did, and of course about the COVID-19 origin.

If they do turn out to be right about those, that would grant them major credibility points, I think; though the conclusions there may never be known one way or another. If they are right about COVID-19, it would also make me view Bret Weinstein with a lot more credibility, since he's been advocating the likelihood of the lab leak hypothesis for a while.

[0] https://www.rootclaim.com/rootclaim_track_record#barry_and_h...

[1] https://www.rootclaim.com/rootclaim_track_record#MH_370

[2] https://www.rootclaim.com/rootclaim_track_record#syrian_chem...
Dominion servers there for forensic data audit, voting fraud. Biden's bro-in-law part owner of building. Evidence of directed energy weapons attack. Dig deeper yourself to verify...massmedia NEVER helps only misleads.
It would seem if you have a deep understanding and look at the actual structure of COVID-19 - then there are multiple markers that it was manipulated, if you believe Yuri Deigin knows what he's talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5SRrsr-Iug
You should look up the pictures of it - there must still be some out there...
I think night schools and courses are quite popular there compared to other countries.
Why not? I mean out of all the commercial projects that could be open sourced, games are actually great to have under GPL, because the assets (art, animations, etc) are are still under copyright but the code and logic isn't, which isn't as important to a game as to, say, enterprise CRUD software. Plus with open source game code, modders could make much out of your game.
? I just tried it and it works fine. Firefox 84.1.1 on Android, connect to 192.168.x.y:8080 and it comes up and shows me a directory listing that I can navigate and open files from. (you missed the -m, BTW; it's `python3 -m http.server 8080`)
"Like a third to a half of the country thinks the election was illegitimate depending on how you phrase the question.
I'd call that "a mess""

1/3 of the USA will believe anything the President says, whoever the are.

This is because the position of the President comes with a huge amount of legitimate authority.

When that authority is transgressed, it causes a 'mess'.

(Like if your doctor told you that 'Opium was good for you' - you might be inclined to believe them even if you thought you knew otherwise, after all, it's their job to know better).

The 'real integrity' of the election, meaning election officials, governors, tabulators, Dept. of Justice - i.e. everyone involved in the system validates it as 'being ok' - then 'it's ok'.

Don't confuse 'public perception' - which is manipulated and hugely influenced when legit authority is transgressed - with 'reality'.

The 'cause' of the 'perceived mess' is someone transgressing their leadership responsibility.

The 'perceived mess' has basically nothing to do with the election.

'Voter ID' would not materially change the quality of electoral outcomes, but would help tamp down concerns about voter fraud.
How much time did they have to update?

How much they have to wait just because kids have math to do?

Teachers can work around it
And unicode. There are many bütt plugs for sale on Amazon too.

Oh, you can also buy suppressors and silencers for guns there too. Except they're usually branded as "lawn mower mufflers". Reviews are ... amusing ... "Makes my 9mm mower sound just like a pop gun".
Uber will charge significantly more per trip as new Seattle law goes into effect
Another example of big tech “solving” an obvious problem of how to store vaccination proof. I hope this saves lives Or at least makes it easier for people who have been vaccinated to get back to work.