skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very interesting discussion here. I'm founder of a cloud startup and would love to hear your view on our solution:

We're currently building an API for rendering with the major render engines like V-Ray, Corona etc. Therefore we automatically scale jobs and deliver the results to our customers favorite storage like a NAS / s3 bucket or a google drive.

Another factor is, that we can reduce the costs for the cloud rendering factor 2-3x compared to the public clouds by tapping into spare capacity of secure data centers around the world (connected to our platform).
email is supposed to be dependable - as a protocol - it should always arrive. This dependability comes at the price that in some edge cases it must arrive slowly. There should be no 'never' arrive, although I realize that many services now effectively keep email from actually being seen by the user in the name of combating the various problems a free, anonymous, dependable message delivery protocol inevitably give rise to.
I can run the builtin Firefox password manager on my phone, tablet, laptop and any browsers I want :p It would just be nice if it supported password generation where I need it most.
LLVM does support tbaa! and noalias! metadata.
It is pretty far reaching, but I wouldn't say that it is 'unlikely to be any possibility' that the UK government would want to influence a high profile case, which is highly likely to impact the UK-US relationship.
You can look screenshots on itchio[0] and steam[1].

[0] https://anuke.itch.io/mindustry

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1127400/Mindustry/
I mean this in the kindest possible way: have you consulted a psychiatrist? Feeling like you are being persecuted by shadowy, all-powerful enemies is a common symptom of schizophrenia.
My immediate response was also "No! Airpod Max shouldn't be compared to most popular ANC headphones, they need to be compared to wired Focal or Hifiman!".
Perhaps App store publishers can unionize too. For example, instead of having small companies publishing apps themselves, they can have an organization do it for them, so it's big organization versus BigCorp, instead of little guy versus BigCorp. Also, it could provide some more transparency of the App Store sales.
Until we get fully automated luxury communism, capital can only be productive with workers.

Cows can milk themselves these days, but the cow self-milking machines can’t make themselves yet.
FYI this isn't the first time a similar extradition to the US has been denied by the UK. Lauri Love (allegedly affiliated with Anonymous) successfully fought against extradition in 2016.

Court originally ruled that extradition can happen, but the appeals court ruled differently, citing that extradition would be "oppressive by reason of his physical and mental condition".

As far as I'm aware the case never made it to the Supreme Court.
No it doesn't. People not getting Chicken Pox leads to an increased prevalence of Shingles. It is not a side effect of the vaccine, it's a side effect of reducing the prevalence of certain viruses.
Where Is Alibaba Founder Jack Ma?
Did You Know Michigan Is Home to 60 Game Dev Studios?
If I'd be willing to work american hours, I would definitely move to SV and get me a million dollar house subsidized by a company. This is so absurd. At least with this salary normalization, the bloodsucking landlords won't get their cut anymore.
True it's not a easy question, but for example in Switzerland you cannot extradite someone if the punishment is harder then in Switzerland, that prevents that someone is send to a country with death-sentence, let's say for murder. But yeah it's not that easy and contracts exist.
Give AppPolice a try: https://github.com/AppPolice/AppPolice
Sure there are bad people everywhere. But they're people, just people.
I find the syntax both terrible to read and terrible to write.

Syntax is what I look at first with any unfamiliar programming language. The syntax is the UI of a language and if that's terrible, I won't enjoy using it.
If you don't know it yet, listen to '39 by Queen and pay attention to the lyrics -- the meaning of that song certainly caught me off guard the first time I realized it.
US unions are not typically per-company either.
> ...it takes a hacker to organize entire groups of people. These folks are hackers in every sense.

I think we may have a very different definition of the word "hacker". Yours is very likely incorrect.
I have an ugly truth for Google employees, unions don't mean anything, in NYC if you are in a union or married to a union employee you will eventually become a victim of targeted harassment campaigns by people with connections to government when they want you out of your job or spending money. Almost all unions or stable jobs have people who believe they "control" the jobs.

They will attempt to destroy you and your family any way possible.

I've personally been the victim of targeted harassment campaigns. I was punched in the face in broad daylight on the way to work. Someone vandalized my home, stole every valuable item I own and threatened my daughters life. My car was damaged and the mechanics wouldn't fix it properly because they were afraid of retaliation. My wife's car was repeatedly vandalized to get her spending money on a mechanic and then eventually force her to buy another car. Someone even hit me with an electronic weapon while I was sleeping and burned me, I still don't know how the fuck someone got hold of an electronic weapon.

The entire point of these harassment campaigns is to force you to spend money on luxury garbage, mechanics, car dealers, house cleaning services. etc.

If you contact the authorities for help, no one is going to help you out of fear of retaliation. They give you lip service even if you have video evidence (I have actual audio, video and image evidence all of this happened)

I had an actual conversation with someone last night who drove past my house asking why the police were at my home:

Me: "Someone left a threatening letter on my door." Person: "If you just purchase enough from us we can call up our friends and get you help otherwise there is always cancer."
The problem with your analogy is the extradition treaties extend far beyond the red herring of "surely you want a murder to get justice right"

This is not far removed from "Think of the children" style rhetoric that is used in the US to pass all kinds of oppressive laws and regulations

Everyone can generally agree that having a murderer stand trail is a good thing, but what about someone that illegal distributes a file to one nation thus committing a "crime" in that nation.

What about other less extreme crimes, which is more often what extradition treaties are used for, not murder as your strawman desires it to be
> in the UK ... packaging for things like TVs is now shaped cardboard.

Shaped cardboard packaging is not universal. I see as much styrofoam as those.

Styrofoam is terrible as 1) the council don't want it in the recycling bins. 2) inevitably it breaks, scattering little foamed plastic beads that disperse easily in wind. So it eventually contributes to the environmental microplastics
A system of "mass incarceration" should have no impact on any individual case. That's beyond stupid.
The European commissioners are suggested by the governments of the members states. Lobby your local state government if you are not happy about their choice of commisioner.
"suicide". FTFY
There are some services that can assist you with that. See: https://www.xolo.io

* I am not affiliated and have never used their services. Just found them some time while researching about Estonia's e-residency.
This could be the beginning of tech stock market crash. If that effort succeeds that is
If he hacked a celebrity's account and used it to uncover a killing spree by said celebrity it might be equivalent.

And, no doubt the celebrity's supporters would argue that he'd crossed the line from journalism to hacking as well.

If Assange were a Russian holed up in Belarus being extradited to Russia for uncovering Russian war crimes by cracking password hashes I really wonder how many people here would still be arguing that he "crossed the line".

My guess is precisely zero, and any Russians who did so would be mocked and accused of being shills.
Hope you find my Medium post thought provoking.

Incentives in the music industry are setup such that any company offering promotional services to artists (ad agency, PR firm, promoter, radio promo, marketing department, etc) can quietly go to fiverr.com, buy 100,000 bot streams for $20, then take credit for their client’s rise in popularity—-getting the artist to pay again.

Which, because of how streaming services pay, steals from artists who have real/organic streams.
I'm an avid tinyurl user. Anyone from that site want to explain their justification for this before I stop using your service?

What's a good alternative (with the ability to tailor the shortened url)? I wouldn't mind paying a couple bucks a year.
Or Google could display ads on the right, next to the results, like they used to, instead of putting them above the results.

Putting them above the results gets more clicks though, and the predatory advertising customers know this.
> People should be empowered to say something about things. But in the vast majority of situation where no actual law is being violated

That's exactly what's happening in this thread. People are discussing this website, sharing criticisms ("saying things" as you put it). Nobody is advocating for legal action, nobody is suppressing the author's speech.

> If you don't like it, don't view the site.

Sure! But someone posted it here for viewing and discussion. Should the comments only be for sympathetic discussion? What about freedom of speech!
>You are confounding publishing for hosting as convenient for your argument. A publisher need not host anything and likewise a content host need not publish anything.

Those are true statements, however Section 230 doesn't say anything even approaching that, nor are those statements relevant to what section 230 does or how it is applied.

I've already been downvoted in this discussion for this (although posting a link to actual facts seems an odd thing to downvote, but I don't judge), but I'll take the hit again to share some facts with you.

The title may be snarky, but the information is actually quite good and provides specific examples as to why section 230 helps you, me, HackerNews, maintainers of git repositories, mirror sites, forwarders of email and many, many others much more than it helps Twitter or Facebook:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...

Edit: Fixed typo.
F* primary aim is correctness - think something between Coq/LEAN/Isabelle and OCaml/F#. It uses a dependent type system to verify deep functional properties of programs (say that qsort actually sorts, or that a tree is balanced and implements a mathematical map).

Typically such languages are more academic than F*.
Is there precedent for a group of unrelated individuals who happen to be in the same industry ‘unionizing’ ?

Edit: answer of course is guilds, thanks commenters :) The word union threw me off. One could totally imagine an ‘app developers guild’ to help defend against the big guys. Go start one!
Or they could retrofit the existing AI with a state of the art one.

"Super Pursuit Mode, KITT!"

"Looking for Proper Fursuit Mods on www.cyberfurries4u.org, Michael"
Clipnosis
The assumption that they would have to be hallucinating to be recounting a standard tale of union intimidation is very funny. That's what a union is for: thugging on people. You have to have soft hands to believe anything else.
regarding point 3, I feel like familiarity bias is such a difficult thing to overcome sometimes with UX. However poor the experience of the standard signup/auth process is, users have already learned the complexity, and the risk is super high when you're showing people a totally new type of hurdle they have to jump to access your product. Even if it's less complex objectively, if they fail the first time there's a high chance that user is never coming back.

But I think authentication in general is a problem which really needs to be solved, and in a standards-based way. For instance, with connecting to public wifi networks (i.e. at an airport), it's absurd to have to go through a web page every time to log in. Also with the proliferation of IoT devices, it's always painful to go through the process of connecting it to my bluetooth and/or wifi. There should be some kind way to handle trust systematically through my smartphone without having to manually type a bunch of passwords.
Why would there be no foreign policy downside? The mutual relationship does not "reset" after Trump leaves office. Most of the time, diplomats stay the same and even if they change, surely the new ones will remember such occurrences.
A French minister has called for him to be given asylum.
You're certainly right that there are other charges related to Assange's crimes.
Google, Alphabet employees seek to form a union
30 years since the Human Genome Project began – what's next?
I still feel it’s a conspiracy theory but Jack Ma is absolutely being targeted. He was beloved by the Chinese media as a motivational speaker as well as a business man, when he started not speaking highly of CCP (which is tantamount to criticizing) I told my wife that in a year he would be vilified by the media, and sure enough here we are at the first stages of that. This might be happening on a case by case basis with those who don’t want to “play ball”, but I don’t believe there is a concerted effort to bring down all billionaires. Reminds me of the rise of the middle class in Europe as they threatened the existing power structure. Sometimes it feels China is going through the same stages of history Europe went through over centuries but at breakneck speed.
The sarcasm model alone would be worth a fortune.
> when he attempted to assist with cracking a hash

Was it ever proved that he did? There was some non-committal talk quoted, but nothing beyond that?

You also say "for example" - are there any other credible allegations that Assange "crossed the line"?
"Mass incarceration" may not be the best phrasing, but the particularly inhumane (for a developed country) nature of the US criminal justice system does lose it a lot of extradition cases. In particular, punitive long-term solitary confinement is commonly used in the US but is not generally permitted in most European countries.
(Software) patents are protectionist bullshit and against the notion of a free market
I don't understand why this was downvoted. It is a GDPR violation. That's a fact.
Possibly a HN formatting issue (or the commenter typed wrong first time and later edited) but the backticks weren't showing up previously.

Sorry @Traubenfuchs for the misguided explanation.

As another commenter posted, this is a template tag. Technically equivalent to doing something like styled.button('') but the template tag syntax would be used for consistency with other calls in the code (where parameterised template strings would be passed to the button/element/component method)
Isn't that tale the reverse of that - i.e. a tale of intimidating union members?

I find it hard to believe stuff like this would fly in a major city of a western country in 21st century, even in the United States. Though I can't honestly discount it completely either...
And the commissioners have to be assessed and approved by the European Parliament.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/hearings-2014/en
No psychiatrist necessary (PROOF):

https://twitter.com/psaintlaurent0/status/132951417338719028...

https://twitter.com/psaintlaurent0/status/134244904875058380...

https://twitter.com/psaintlaurent0/status/132883496079975628...

https://twitter.com/psaintlaurent0/status/131211998307427942...

https://twitter.com/psaintlaurent0/status/125889480453833932...
It says it supports 100 languages, for dependencies look here: https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/blob/dygraph/requi...
Three things I always ask myself about any task:
What am I doing that should not be done at all?
What am I doing that someone else could do?
What can only be done by me?
Then do only things I can do.
The thinking behind the 32GB Windows Format limit on FAT32
You don't get to impose your own words, pronunciations, and meanings, but you do get to attempt to make up your own, as does everyone else. If you can actually get your words to gain traction, then so be it. Anyone who is credited with coining a new term very much did what you said they couldn't. They created a word, gave it a meaning, it took hold and became a thing.
https://www.coursehero.com/file/p5n6do7/The-ENIAC-was-decima...
Screen Actors Guild
It's not about what his level of English speaking skills is or the state of his grammar, but rather about what exactly he was trying to convey in the Musk interview, seemed very much like a simpleton.
Guilds?
God damn, they killed Jack Ma?
Since syntax of F* looks okay to me, I am curious what particular points of syntax of F* you find terrible to read and write.
I thought it was relevant because I can imagine a situation where you would never criticize an entity that can imprison you (99% approval for Beijing), but you then would vent your true frustration on local government.
In many developed countries, the problem seems to be that it's simply too much to expect of young people to start a family - it's simply a financial risk and you have to choose between a career that takes ever longer to establish, and forming a family.

What is the situation in South Korea when it comes to paid parental leave, employment security for parents that do take parental leave, cost of birth, cost of child care and so on?
At least in e-commerce it’s very much possible. The company that I work for does such experiments regularly (there’s a dedicated Data Science team for measurement) and I’ve personally been involved in lift studies for Google Ads. They work, you just have to be careful with the ‘how much’ combined with ‘for what’.

Happy to chat with anyone who is interested in the topic (pfalke at pfalke dot com).

Haven’t had a chance to listen to the podcast, apologies if that made me miss the point of the parent post!
I interviewed 54 people with 375 years of combined remote work experience
M1 Macbooks reportedly support also 4k/120hz, and 4k/144hz/hdr with DSC, so it's quite possible that Mini would too
dupe : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25630011
As long as it doesn't turn out to be Animal Farm.
That was, in fact, the judgement of the court in this case; that he allegedly participated in the alleged crime and did not just receive the data resulting from it.

edit: added 'allegedly' as his guilt or innocence is not evaluated
As an Aussie, sadly our politicians are a bunch of cowards.
Tried this recently on a small SaaS app; users complained nonstop about the inconvenience of having to switch to their email client. One key thing I overlooked is that the service is often used in academic presentation situations, where you're trying to log into the service on a 10-year-old lectern computer where you aren't logged into your email account. I reverted to the generic UN/PW approach and the complaints disappeared; passwords aren't perfect, but at least they're compatible with sticky notes. Plus, users prefer the familiar.

I won't try the one-time-link approach again unless the app's specific use case makes passwords extra painful.
It's the ML family of languages syntax, very familiar if you've studied programming languages. Not sure what you can find terrible about it, it's a clean and minimal syntax.
I haven't watched the documentary yet, but exiled billionaire Guo Wengui is a divisive figure and on some topics it's unclear how reliable he is.

Not to say any of his claims are false. In fact, I expect much of his claims against the government of China are true.

But it's just something to watch out for, especially when he talks about things further from his direct experiences.

For what it's worth, he's also close friends conservative media proprietors like former Trump-advisor Steve Bannon (who is articulate, has some interesting and mostly reasonable, well-thought through things to say, but is sometimes divisive).
Could the Google workers help build a Union for all of tech?
Thanks it was causing me headaches when I was reading the thread. I thought it was some marketing terms and calculation I had no idea about.

What how much did they actually saved? Apology in advance because I really couldn't grasp what she was saying.
This is more than a little naive I think.

The UK needs more bargaining chips. Trade negotiations are heavily weighted against them right now.
The phone book was always opt-in in Germany, and reverse lookup was declared illegal after some time too. They suggested in when you signed the contract, but it was a clause you could easily not accept, at no extra cost.
I suspect this will be bought by Waymo or another autonomous driving company, for PR.
Bartender app is great for that (and should have been sherlocked like 4 releases ago :))
In Germany, there are "Genossenschaften"[1], which are cooperatives organized by small members to further a common commercial interest. For example, winemakers, which are often family businesses (at least in the area I'm from), often form them to sell wine, to have better leverage against the buyers, which are usually big companies like Aldi.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eingetragene_Genossenschaft
Six Space Missions to Look Forward to in 2021
Take a look at https://t.ly/ as an alternative to tinyurl. You can update the url ending on the $5 a month plan. It’s a shorter domain with more options available.
And don't forget scientists have continued to gather and evaluate data since. We now have a much clearer (albeit still imperfect) picture of the disease and its behaviour.

For example, COVID's current "death rate" estimate is ~3x worse than flu. Versus Trump's "~5x" in your quote from Feb 2020¹.

People love to argue about such overall rates but for practical purposes, they're too crude a hammer – too aggregate, too high-level to be actionable. More importantly, we now have a better understanding of the groups at risk.

> [Infection fatality rate] measuring 0.002% at age 10 and 0.01% at 25. However, the rate progressively increased with age, growing from 0.4% at 55 to around 15% at 85.

Age and certain comorbidities seem critical. This knowledge shapes the global COVID response, allowing help to be significantly more targeted and effective. For instance, when rolling out national vaccination plans.

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¹ Whichever rate Trump was talking about – there's case fatality rate, crude fatality rate, infection fatality rate…
Maybe those people are being prioritised for valid reasons? If so, maybe it's important that the prioritisation happens.
Which just emphasises my point that you need a better password manager which does support password generation on every device. LastPass being one such example.
Changing the nutritional profile of the feed changes the nutritional profile of the animal. Some things are going to pass through. Chicken eggs in the supermarket are an excellent example of this.

This is basically running a large-scale, long-term, science experiment on the public. Last science-wizardry in animal feed was using antibiotic regimens to feed offal to ruminants. Look how that one turned out -- prions in the food chain! How much time elapsed between introduction, diagnosis, and public awareness?
Yes. Cooperatives. Farmer cooperatives are quite common for example. Basically, freelancers who have to negotiate with the same small number of other entities can form a cooperative to both handle the admin and also allow them to negotiate as one.
And this organization and big corp then take a combined 30% of all revenue.
In general I like ML based syntax, but Haskell using type signatures really helps read code easier. Wish other languages would adopt them