skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Might have to go to a dealer to get a firmware upgrade.
I have a different idea other than banning: make companies pay a tax on each bit of user information they hold.
In my industry (computational engineering) I fear leetcode etc. is becoming the bar one must pass before being questioned about anything germane (e.g. what kind of time integrator to use in this situation, different ways to handle that boundary condition, derive a numerical system for some physics with some spatial accuracy, etc)
This takes time away from me actually being the best numericist I can be, and puts me off doing leet-code challenges. It’s absolutely infuriating. When I arrived on the scene ~8 years ago we were isolated from that crap. No more. (It’s crap because there are better ways to test if we are competent (ie give me a multiresolution analysis problem on the proverbial white board, not a string puzzle, otherwise you throw the employee baby out with the bath water or make the baby memorize pointless (for this kind of baby) trivia.

I wonder if this is somehow a scheme to reduce employee turnover in general - to get salaries under control. I doubt it could so be planned. I have no doubt it has some effect in that direction as it adds friction and to the job hunters process.
I began writing software in the early 1980's in BASIC, Assembly, RPG II, eventually C, Bash, Perl, C++, and PHP along with SQL and more so now JavaScript/Node.js, C#, and Python. The truth is, these languages have continually become more complex, more memory bloated, slower, harder to learn, and less efficient to code in. Frameworks have enabled people who cannot write softare from scratch to write applications, too, but very restricted and poor performing.

COBOL is still easy to argue as the best overall language for business data processing -- easy to learn, easy to read/debug, and very fast executing.

Next up might be Python, except Python is very slow and, although it has nice data structures, it's restricted and clumsy with its data structures. For example, you are kept from manipulating a list while looping through it and are often forced to add excess logic to deal with None Types and such. It's also super annoying to have to type myvar['subvar']['subsubvar'], etc.

Third up I would say is Node.js. Performance and object/data structure flexibility is very good. The only problem--and it is a major problem--is that asychrony is forced upon you even while working with SQL databases. This very much complicates data processing to the point of not being practical at all for any kind of fluid business processes (where you have to read and make changes on a regular basis).

I have also spent a few years writing in Microsoft JScript.Net. While almost nobody else uses this language, I found it to be far superior to C#, Java, or really any other language for business data processing except for performance. It performs as well as C# or Java and is far more readable and efficiently writable but the Microsoft dotnet CLR (Common Language Runtime) that underlays all dotnot languages has no real support for variant data types. Instead it instantiates a generic object for each which is very expensive on memory and performance. This experience is what got my originally interested in Google's V8 JavaScript JIT-compiler and eventually its derivative, Node.js. However--and even though I use Node.js heavily, this also leaves me with a rather large feeling of tragedy that Node.js maintainers are so dead set against sychronous access to SQL databases... It is a huge loss.
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Why shorter food supply chains aren’t necessarily better
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Depends on the metric you use.

> Facebook’s revenue per user is roaring. For Q4 2018 vs. Q4 2017, it’s global ARPU increased by 19 percent to $7.37, and the US-Canada ARPU by 30 percent to $35. Between 2011 and 2018, the social network global ARPU rose nearly 6x, while the US-Canada grew 11x. With a domestic revenue per user of $112, Facebook is the equivalent of a publisher charging $9 a month. It does that with a free service.
Disabling JS for that site helps and most news websites don't make any good use of it anyway.
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There’s also people here who have a financial incentive to dismiss privacy concerns bc it conflicts with their RSUs.

For a forum named Hacker News were very accepting of Zuck and his shenanigans.
You get to feel warm and fuzzy that you won't be pulled over like one of those poors that actually have to touch the cell phone to answer a call.

Integrated nav is nice and convenient but it's only real benefit over a $20 phone mount of $15 GPS from 2006 is less clutter.
Proprietary Cloud APIs is the new mainframe.
It's not really integral, at most it's a node on the CANBUS and usually it's not even that, just a head unit wired to the steering wheel controls and a built-in USB port.

You can rip it out in an afternoon with a pair of DIN keys and a screwdriver.
Does Android have any analogue to this kind of tracking protection?
That's a common meme but there's not much evidence for it.

Java has the syntax it does because it's based on C++. It is verbose because (a) C++ is verbose and (b) it insists on everything being inside a class. The latter is a reasonable choice given that the underlying VM needs some unit of linkage and scope ... sort of like criticising C and C++ for requiring that everything be inside a function, but there are reasons for doing it that way.

It's true that Java's designers are very conservative, and this is partly because there are many users who appreciate that their skills don't get obsoleted all that fast (a lot of whom are in enterprise roles). But that's more of an accident of a commitment to backwards compatibility and historically long release cycles. It's not like they set out to make an 'enterprise language', they didn't. It was originally meant for the embedded TV set top box world.
The United Kingdom's very own version of the ICANN debacle.
It’s a fabulous movie. It perfectly balances the nuances of the 2008 crash with the human side of the story. I watch it once a few month and discover a new aspect.

I recommend “Margin Call”. Though I felt it overbalanced on the human drama it nicely complemented The Big Short.
How is what you will offer different / better / cheaper than Planet?
Yeah. And nobody can do anything other than wait until their period has passed. I had to mail Hetzner multiple times because of this.
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Could dependent types model capabilities? Would never be as ergonomic as Pony, but I'm wondering about expressive power of dependent types compared to indexed judgement rules or linear judgement rules.
I mean the app store is filled with garbage already because review, much like DRM, only solves a few surface problems while punishing good-actors more than clever bad-actors.

Geofencing seems easy enough to spoof if you're Apple and have internal tools down to the hardware. Not to mention, Apple is global business.

The issue of only working during review is solved by doing a two-pronged approach, testing pre-production and proactively testing the released applications after publication. They obviously have manual ways of revoking apps.
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Sorry to put you through that! I normally go back and edit my blog posts at least a little bit, but I wasn't very happy with this one, so I didn't bother. I didn't expect it to have a readership beyond whoever happened to look at planet.debian.org yesterday.
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> Why would anyone agree to this?

To help small businesses that thrive because of Facebook and to show the finger to greedy corporations like Apple. /s

That’s kinda how Facebook will paint this, without directly mentioning its disgust for Apple in the message prompt. Facebook will also paint a picture of it being the protector of privacy of the user and how it doesn’t “sell” information. There will be a lot of smoke and mirrors, for sure.
Exactly what I want in my tech… gov control of my data, combined with gov-paced innovation…
Once per minute when you're close to an expected release of product, once per 3-5 minutes when you don't have a great reason to believe that inventory will be added.

My goal is just to mimic me sitting at my laptop refreshing a page trying to buy something as soon as it becomes available, so that I can use my time for something better.
> 95 % of websites should just use system fonts.

Although I do wish there are a few standard font that is shipped across all browser. Sometimes I want the website to appear exactly the same on all System.
No one has any physical silver to sell, the spot price has stayed within 10%, there's more stories about "silver's the next big thing" than there were about a Trump tweet, ... like Lucy holding the football for Charlie Brown; "come back! we won't do the trick this time!"
In addition, any power not used to charge cars can go directly to power the business, that likely uses most of their energy during work hours anyway.
Interestingly, my preference is opposite. If I'm going to see ads anyway, ideally I want to see them in a language I don't speak.
Um, no. The "war chest" is in order to meet the capital requirements. It says so right in the article.

I mean, you think the owners are diluting their ownership just for fun? Nobody does that.

Also why do you think the capital requirements are untrue? There have been plenty of factual articles describing the precise increase that was required and how it was spread across different trading platforms.

It's not speculation, it's well-document fact.
Perhaps, but who is to say that they don't have plans to branch out into that business?

It's possible that they have no intent to do so, but a corporation's primary interest is making profit. And what would be a simple, yet significant, source of new revenue? Selling user data.
Youtube does an incredibly poor kids b at it and screws over content creators legitimately and legally using something under fair use
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That's exactly the opposite of not playing. Your money is still in and propping up the misbehavior in the system.

You must take responsibility for what and who gets empowered by your hard earned wealth. There is no other way around it.and a single datapoint leaving the system won't fix it. It needs to be a collective action.

Sadly, (and I hope I am proven wrong) we aren't so great at that.
Assuming that the only users who would be willing to pay are those who use one of FB's services at least once per month; then FB would need to charge $26/yr to match their current revenue. Given that they already have 2.7 billion MAUs it's unlikely that they could grow their way out of such a change, and serving ads is ultimately inexpensive.
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Makes sense. Too bad their CEO didn't make the same arguments when he was giving all those interviews :p
Read a Paper: In Defense of Soundiness
They've tried to make it really difficult, though -- for example, how there is only one type of request.

Extending text/gemini is more feasible indeed.
I'd assume any description of the "exciting" opportunity to build another Baidu is sarcasm.
https://www.xudongz.com/blog/2020/ergoblue/firmware/ has a lot more information about the controller (with photos). In summary:

- The dongle is reasonably small. If you're traveling with it, you can toss it in your bag with a battery pack and it acts as a Bluetooth keyboard (for your phone/tablet/laptop/etc). You can plug it into your desktop, in which case it acts as a USB keyboard in addition to Bluetooth for other devices (phone/etc)

- Modifiers work fine but layers don't because some software still needs to maintain state. For example you might have the layer switch key on the left but want the next key to be on the new layer on the right. Theoretically one can do this with custom software on the computer though an external controller/dongle is straightforward and doesn't need to account for OS/platform differences. It also lets you connect to multiple devices simultaneous via Bluetooth.

- There's an option for hot swap switch sockets, in which assembly is putting the case together, soldering some header pins, and popping in the switches. There will be an assembly service for people who just don't want to do it but the process itself has been thoroughly optimized that it shouldn't be difficult.
As I understand it, RH got themselves into trouble by covering people before their deposits cleared, allowing them to buy stocks effectively on credit. It's an obvious problem ahead, if there's a sudden influx of customers all chasing some expensive stock.

Allowing people to buy stocks on credit with a few clicks is a risky business model. Surely they knew that.
> but there's no denying that it puts a major crimp on your social life

In what way? Social lives existed before 2008 when FB went mainstream. I don't have a FB anymore, and I still text my friends for get-togethers.
> FB ads are effective and high value

Not really.

Digital advertising, frankly, sucks from the advertiser's point of view. It's just that people are online now and advertisers have no choice: the inventory providers are monopolistic and unregulated.
In one job I was a tech lead, and said no to my boss a lot to maintain my team's focus. We ended up delivering, the boss was pleased, my teammates were happy, and I got a raise.
Yes, but context is important. Most people separate personal likes from office likes to at least some extent. Part of being liked in the office is being seen as productive enough. You can like someone personally and hate them on the job. You can hate someone personally and still like them on the job.
Yes for NASDAQ.

https://www.nasdaqtrader.com/Trader.aspx?id=MarketMakerProce...
In my mind, things like fighting in war, working high-risk jobs, etc, all fall under protecting reproductive resources through history.

Things like suffocation, drowning, and fire are a bit harder to understand... but I believe they are derived from a high-risk mentality that men have gained as a result of this protector status.

Ignoring the radical changes that we've seen in the last 50 years, if we sent women to war, we wouldn't have any children. Any nation that did that was wiped off the face of the earth rather quickly.
Not the parent but in my ‘18 Audi I think I called the dealer and they did some kind of software update which resolved the issue.
How does it work for reproducing scientific experiments using legacy Python 2 code?

All of the major scientific libraries and core packages are dropping python 2 support. Are there legacy versions of these packages being maintained or at least preserved?

Is this even a valuable use case?
C'mon man!
Wait, Protonmail sends regular email as base64? Why would they do such a weird thing?

It seems that that mailing list is "Plain text, 72 characters per line" by policy.
Mongo and other nosql databases are still the absolute fastest way to get started particularly you don't know what your data is eventually going to look like.
Yes, it's an official designation by the SEC with accompanying regulations. To become a market maker you have to specifically register as such with the exchanges you'd like to service.
This is exactly what we want to enable! We're hoping to offer 1 sq. km. minimum order sizes (for tasking, archive will have no minimum) to help grow both the hobbyist and even commercial applications as best as we can.

Just curious: have you looked into third-party resellers? They typically have low minimum order sizes and are fairly reasonable, even with a smaller budget.
I'm a simple man -- if I see a button with a primary intent color standing between me and my content I've been conditioned to press it, often before I realize what I'm doing or reading the accompanying text. Probably tens of millions of people will do the same here.
I don't think that's true. Slack seems to have their core online services split across a number of VPCs, and for some reason decided to use Transit Gateway to connect them. Transit Gateway is a special-purpose solution that is geared toward cross-region and on-prem to VPC connections in corporate networks, not to global high-traffic consumer products. It's the wrong tool for the job. Its architecture is antithetical to the other horizontally scalable AWS solutions. It introduces a single (up to) 50 gbps network hub that all inter-service traffic must go through. Native AWS architectures avoid such central hubs and provide a virtual routing fabric instead.

Slack could have chosen one of many other AWS design patterns such as VPC peering, transit VPC, IGW routing, or colocating more services in fewer VPCs (with more granular IAM role policies to separate operator privileges), to provide an automatically scaled network fabric to connect their services.

(This isn't to criticize Slack's engineering team. They have successfully scaled their service in a short time, and I'm happy with their product overall, and with their transparency in this report. But I think AWS has the world's biggest and most scalable network fabric - it's just a matter of knowing how to harness it.)
> On my laptop, PostgreSQL takes about a minute to get denormalized data for 12,000 episodes, while retrieval of the equivalent document by ID in MongoDB takes a fraction of a second.

What? Her database can't possibly be indexed properly.
I had a mount like that, but in the winter time when I was blasting the heat, it would overheat my phone so much that it would stop charging and eventually have to turn off. I switched to the suction cup kind, and they would work for a few months and then the mount would stop sticking. Having something built in would be nice.
TIL. I thought these kinds of numbers weren't at all possible with an ad-supported business model.
This project is doomed in isolation. It needs to be coupled with at least one major popular/killer service, and preferably more than that. Plus make that as easy as uploading data to “the cloud,” and as transparent, plus “free” to meaningfully compete.

Right now it just looks like technology in search of a problem.
How is Facebook doing machine learning? I know they have their internal platform (FBLearner Flow, "equivalent" to Uber's Michelangelo), but I have talked with people who have worked there and they didn't use it.

I spoke with them to test our own machine learning platform (https://iko.ai). The workflow they described was really odd. SSHing into boxes to use a cluster, etc. Which is what we have been doing as a tiny, immature company a few years ago until it became so frustrating that we built our platform. I'm talking about a tiny team, so I'm wondering how they get away with it, or is it that the people I talked with did simply not adopt it.

Someone went as far as saying that "experiment tracking" was "I told my manager which hyperparameters worked best".