skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No; you misunderstand. The unit fine scales with income and wealth. The man in question had a net worth of about $23M. So for this one speeding offense, the man was fined about 1.3% of that. Bear in mind, we are talking about a speeding ticket here.
This is the same author as who wrote the HILARIOUS series of "Things I won't work with". Highly entertaining reading: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/02/23/th...
Broad accusations aside, don't shift the goalposts.

No one can setup basic infrastructure beyond the datacenter in 24h.
Fauci's opinions are one of the most right-wing/authoritative in the field.

Also he's inconsistent because within a few months Fauci went from “there’s no reason to be walking around with a mask” to double masking “makes common sense“...
> We believe privacy is paramount and free speech essential, especially on social media.

this, from their "technical difficulties" notice, should have been enough for him to be fired on its own. requiring some users to provide government identification, building such weak security that anyone can read and archive private messages, and not stripping out damaging meta-data from media posts are three ways to not provide privacy.

if this was truly their mission, then their platform was already doomed, and a full housecleaning of most of the leadership should probably be done, not just the CEO.

I don't care what side of a political spectrum you come from, or whether you support the site's mission or what it became, these failures should be unacceptable in any company.
> Most 'reviewers' on YouTube especially are just hyping products for their own views.

That's not who I meant by the professional news media.
Well, guess its a good thing for you that ruby-saml is under a real open source license instead of your BS license.
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No idea what icon you are speaking of. I don't use Chrome much and don't log into it when I do. I certainly don't think anyone is going to pay for the privilege.
I wish the Codeless Code wasn’t in mothballs.
In the past, I have found it very difficult to get through books, but I’ve never had a problem with just putting it down when I’m not interested. I think that’s a big part of my situation: I have had trouble finding things that really hold my interest. And even for some books that I did find interesting, my low reading speed made the process drag on for too long for my interest to hold up. But no, I’m not tortured. I do appreciate your concern, however.
To everyone who dealt with faulty hardware, I think Apple should be quietly offering refunds (not just a store credit). But to everyone else, they received the service promised by Apple in full and should be stoked at this surprise $200 return incentive.

You can argue that the $500 price was too steep for a hardware loan, or that Apple should be offering a more generous incentive to return the device. I wouldn't disagree. But it's not like Apple was unclear about this.

https://photos5.appleinsider.com/gallery/36365-67564-DTK-own...

https://miro.medium.com/max/1400/1*V6If2OIL4W223oGLzT5OrQ.pn...
> Give me Parler's software and I will host it in Russia... that's where USA's free speech usually come from anyways (free as in somewhat controversial, popular and still allowed).

Doubt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Navalny
Parler didn’t even have an events section, it was also fairly difficult to discover content and from what I saw very corporate-like (ie moderated well, mundane posts, etc).

Twitter or Facebook on the other hand, ive seen people call out to riot and burn down cities. Literally, there was a Facebook event to riot in my town (person who planned it was arrested). It led to millions in damages, and I feared for my life.

I was surprised parler got de-platforms because it was the most mundane option TBH.
There was a really interesting episode of the mindscape podcast[0] recently which discusses a system in Planaria where the expression of the way the worm grows (with one head or two) is found to be encoded in an electronic structure within the tissue of the worm -- rather than within the worm's DNA.

In a very real and observable sense, the 'blueprint' for the target worm is stored in the tissue system rather than as a 'plan' stored in the DNA itself. I think it feels surprising to see something that seems a lot like 'memory' influencing the action that results in the expression of the complete organism via the cellular level processes in this way.

I find it easy to postulate from the example of planaria that analogous 'memory encoding' systems probably exist in all sorts of cellular systems ... though I think the information theoretic reasoning referenced by the participants in that podcast for how life creates and operates these systems makes it likely that 'the existence of information storage and retrieval' in a cellular system is not at all required to imply that 'this kind of system is therefore the storage model for long term cognition'.

[0] https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2021/02/01/132-...
Same reason it matters if they're cops.

Search for you will be more aggressive.

Your prosecution will be more aggressive.

Your punishment will be more harsh.
Examples of use would also be nice, like referencing demos
Not at all. It was just swapping out readcsv with readparquet in R and Python. It was painless. Granted my dataset was mostly categorical so that’s why it compressed down so much, but it was a real lifesaver.

It was also nice to be able to read while bundles of parquet a into a single dataframe easily. So is nice for “sharding” really big parquets over multiple files. Or fitting under file size limits on git repos.
Doesn't that risk massive fines if proven? Like a percentage of all revenue?
There are many errors and omissions in the post, but the overall idea seems accurate in that continuing changes in operating systems and environments made it hard for Borland to stay ahead or even keep up.

I used compilers and IDEs from lots of compiler vendors around the time from Borland, Watcom, Symantec, Microsoft, and supporting products like Phar Lap memory extender.

Somehow the Borland products were convenient but always seemed a bit more hobbyest than professional. Oh yeah, the Brief text editor was also really popular around that time.

My favorites were MS C 4.0 with CodeView (text mode GUI and remote debugging from another computer) and later Visual C++ 5 then 6. I don't remember using VisualAge C++ so probably also used MS C++ compilers for OS/2 as well--yes they came on many floppies (5.25" or 3.5"). Typically beta compilers came with the beta OS/SDKs that had some new memory or threading model that needed some compiler support.
I think you're wrong. Most companies would run out of effective work for better staff. Rather than drive innovation and develop new competative advantages with it, they just want the status quo. So mediocre employees and managers make sense. They don't rock the boad.
China (and Vietnam and SK) did this successfully with extremely strict lockdown rules. I'm not sure those would have been accepted in the West.

Arguably the West handled in the worst of both outcomes - arbitrary and incomplete lockdowns - that caused a huge financial toll and a huge human toll.
Parler was well outside the norm and was given amole opportunity to change.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/filing-amazon-wa...
What law do you think he broke? We don't have any evidence to suggest he played both sides of the trade.

Personally I don't think he's worried. He has tons of Youtube videos in which he goes through his own due diligence. You're allowed to publish your thesis and position.
Probably not, since they were complying the governments own clearing house deposit rules.
> AB5 has really soured me on some of the labor rights stuff.

You have an earlier comment on HN where you sharply criticized police unions, teachers unions, and even Google employees' early attempts at unionization/collective actions.

Did you previously have a more favorable view of those unions/actions which AB5 made you rethink?

Edit: typo
What’s next for Amazon under incoming CEO Andy Jassy
I had the same existential crisis from of all the time I waste on the internet.

My solution was to make the Productivity Owl. It’s not for everyone, but if you need an extremely strict browser extension to change your browsing habits I think it’s useful. (also free and open source)

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/productivity-owl/e...
Their CTO's linkedin page says this:

"A Linux system administrator with five years of system deployment and management work experience"

Previous job included hyperscale things like:

"Designed, managed, and maintained a commodity-based hardware platform with twelve supermicro servers"

That's, uh, interesting.
Have you been on twitter lately?
No colo is going to touch them, because if they did whatever other existing business they had would leave. Which of course, is the real reason AWS turfed them, and no other cloud provider will pick them up.

Not even Oracle, who are desperate for any cloud attention and were buddy buddy with Trump are taking Parler's calls.
Well, just like Fauci has gotten a lot of pushback and by no means represents any sort of consensus.
The difference here is both your examples have their own DCs ;)
Over here, the family which normally eats historical stuff up isn't watching, because we found the script and dialog so poor and the characters so superficial and obvious. Although I'll admit nobody got through the first episode. The Mills and Boon reference might just hit the mark, as we thought this show might be targeting the Downton Abbey audience but is instead aimed at something else. With so much wit to draw on in the related genres, its disappointing they couldn't bring everyone along for the ride.
I believe they already did lawyerising, as written above.

They grabbed onto the wording of PII as "personally identifiable information" that information is identifiable, but not personally identifiable, so it is ok to use for ads.
It's not much of a mystery. They give the answer in the article itself, although they don't appear to notice what they just wrote:

"Serological surveys — random testing for antibodies — show that a majority of people in certain areas of India may have already been exposed to the coronavirus, without developing symptoms...But many experts caution that herd immunity — a controversial term, they say — would only begin to be achieved if at least 60% to 80% of the population had antibodies."

So, you have multiple seroprevalence studies showing over 50% already exposed in crowded areas, and you have reason to think you need at least 60% to get herd immunity. Given that there have been multiple simulations that suggest it could be substantially less, it seems like covid-19 cases in India are probably going down for the classic reason that every pandemic ends, which is that it goes through a standard SIR curve (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compartmental_models_in_epidem...). I mean India's confirmed cases curve looks almost exactly like an SIR curve from a textbook. There's not a whole lot that needs explaining when something happens just about the exact way that, in 2019 and before, we would have said it would happen. We're just so freaked out in the middle of the pandemic that it is difficult for a reporter to just say that, apparently.
I could imagine a stronger and more politically astute leader would have realized this and stalled for time. He could have done literally anything and it would have been better than what he did. Which was basically nothing. When the criticism came in he just pushed back like he was the one holding all the cards. Then everyone cut him off because he had no leverage. Completely predictable and poorly handled.
This is basically an ad hominem argument. There is no room to discuss Sandbox on its merits with this stance. Yet we're debating this on an article whose every Sandbox criticism comes from other industry professionals who are just as worthy of being considered a malicious adversary.

I make no statement that Project Sandbox should not be scrutinized -- merely that it's better than third party cookies -- and I don't believe increased antitrust scrutiny of Google will lead to better user privacy.
Because it was an attack against democracy itself. They weren’t attacking individuals, but the role those individuals hold.
Melania Trump — like all the first ladies — spent a great deal of time doing charity work for kids and so on. Most of the time, nobody paid any attention to her clothes. One time, she wears a jacket, and explains why she's wearing it: "to show the media I don't care what they think.". This day, just like the many other days, she is also doing some charity work (she didn't even wear it while with the kids, by the way). So use Occam's razor yourself: is she doing it to send a secret message that shat she doesn't care about the kids? What on Earth would be her motivation for doing that? To help win votes from people that hate children? If she hates kids, why would she bother getting on a plane in the first place? Or, is it more likely she's doing it for the reasons she literally said? Does she really hate kids? Or, does the media hate her? What's more likely? Use Occam's razor or Hanlon's razor.

Why on Earth are you quoting it being a $39 jacket? Why is that relevant? Your overly outraged, negative interpretation is just proving my point about how people are getting outraged over fashion for no good reason.
Yes, google is restricting the tech in a way that superficially helps consumers. But in the way that wall street is selectively deregulated to their advantage and everyone else's disadvantage, google is selectively closing data loopholes to their advantage. This may have positive short-term privacy effects, but long term will hurt it with a single giant company as the arbiter of all data.
Honestly they seem to have a captive audiance, who feel they are being censored. If anyone remotely mainstream could succesful transition to being hosted on tor, it could probably be them (not that tor is decentralized.)
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No, more like most big tech platforms are run by (or willing to cave to) far left progressives who like to censor/deplatform/suppress views that don’t align with their own.

Also stop calling it an insurrection. That is incorrect and this looked nothing like an actual coup (https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/01/06/why-this-wasnt-a-coup-c...). And making it seem like Parler was full of open calls for violence is just hyperbolic. Parler had 15 million users. In the hour following Trump’s speech the phrase civil war was mentioned a whopping 156 times, an increase of 0.117% (https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/2021/02/01/civil-war-...).

Lastly - where were you throughout 2020? Why haven’t you and those aligned to your views spoken up against BLM and Antifa rioters engaging in terrorism (crimes in pursuit of political goals)? Why didn’t you speak up when people casually talk about killing cops? Or when they fan the flames of rioting by claiming that police are discriminating against blacks without good evidence?
This can't be a serious argument. Even today there's no cloud provider with the breadth of services that Amazon offers. Amazon didn't just implement cloud technologies like block storage, networking models, and off-board hardware support for virtualization; they created an entirely new programming model on those services.

I've heard the "it's not inventive" arguments like this from companies that tried to compete with Amazon. The one where I worked got creamed.
This is the first HN thread about R where I don’t see a commenter shitposting about how “terrible” R is. Maybe that’s a testament to all the great work done by the great Yihui Xie and the RStudio folks.

Currently using RStudio to write my masters papers in markdown and convert them to PDF. Love it!
Indeed, for our use-case we want an insta-kill so we can free up our global lock on the container. But the docker daemon will still get notified of the container death and run any sort of cleanup. This just gives us an opportunity to free up the global lock before getting stuck waiting on the cleanup.

> Have you opened a bug report in Docker upstream to see if they can improve the situation (perhaps by putting networking cleanup jobs to a background goroutine)?

I have not yet, but I plan to! We figured we'd work around it ourselves instead of waiting for a potential fix upstream.
The comment you replied to presented an industry position as the alternative to what she was doing, speaking. So if you're going to reframe those as equivalent, you should have stated that originally.
Is this merely planned, or does pandas now use Arrow’s format? I was under the impression that pandas was mostly numpy under the hood with some tweaks to handle some of the newer functionality like nullable arrays. But you’re saying that arrow data can be used by pandas without conversion or copying into new memory?
So did Parler. And whether it was effective was another debate as you said. But upon my causal visits to Parler I did not encounter a single call for violence. It seemed like it was as exceedingly rare as anywhere else.
Gab is a fork of Mastodon and it’s still running
Hypothesis does what you’re talking about. It stores failing examples and chooses them during subsequent runs.
Which is more likely part of a pattern with Google than a pattern around note taking software
> I hope no one is saying Privacy Sandbox is worse than third party cookies

Sort of like saying: "I hope no one is saying having a tracker in your car is worse than having a guy following you around."

Sure, it's better. But it's not good either.
You say that like it would've been a bad thing.
If the API cannot stand on its own merits without trusting Google then it is subject to concerns about Google's trustworthiness.

3rd party cookies should be replaced with _nothing_, not this "privacy" API.
Given that we have seen that the poorest are the most at risk of dying from the disease, I'm not sure that argument even holds any more.
Sadly, it's this obsession with straw man arguments about ethics and equity that's cost the West a million lives in the last year.
If like me you don't know what therbligs meant, it's a list of 18 motions: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therblig#:~:text=Therbligs%2....
Sigh. I find articles like this, which are written in a style so the average person can (mis)understand them, but the content requires a lot of technical knowledge.

> You do not have a probability of being struck by lightning. Nobody does.

I would say the average person does in fact intuitively understand that "the probability of being struck by lightning" refers to the chance of a random person being struck in a given time period (if given) or a lifetime, not themselves specifically (and definitely not if they walk around flying kites in open fields during thunderstorms).

If I told someone the chance of them lifting a rock and finding a gold coin is 1*10^(-x)%, they would not lift the rock and proclaim that the coin failed to materialize, they would understand that the actual chance was zero.

The patient at the start of the article not asking what are the chances this will work for me, they are asking "for men aged 18-25" what percentage of them are successfully treated with this product.
> so Google's competitors have to create increasingly unethical and invasive fingerprinting techniques to remain competitive.

Why would Google let their competitors to take advantages from fingerprinting if they can control the browser? In fact, Chrome explicitly mentioned anti-fingerprinting measures in their plan for 3rd party cookie deprecation, which is now called privacy budget.

https://blog.chromium.org/2020/01/building-more-private-web-...
https://github.com/bslassey/privacy-budget
I have created portable (for Windows) versions of R and R-Studio that work fine for the most part. However I was unable to make Bookdown work on them.

An official portable version of R-Studio: one that lives off a folder in the computer, and can be moved to a new PC in a pinch with all settings and plugins intact, and works with all official packages... would be very sweet. (Reason: upgrading from one PC to a newer one is a pain if one has to install application software from scratch. Copying over the "portableApps" folder is so much easier.

Portable R available via PortableApps here: https://portableapps.com/node/32898

Portable RStudio via instructions here: https://rpubs.com/jsmccid/rportable
Are the permissionless decentralized tools really not prepared for any level of throughput yet?

Nope. Since Web browsers don't speak any fancy decentralized protocols you either need a centralized/censored gateway like ipfs.io or everyone has to install client software which kills adoption.
"This project is a labor of love (or more accurately, a labor of like). Del.icio.us was founded by my friends in 2003, sold a whole bunch of times, and when it was about to get sold again to spammers in 2017, I took the opportunity to buy it back.

My current goal is to keep the site up and accessible as a museum of links past."

Maybe that's something that could complement Archive.org's mission: have a non-profit identify, monitor and eventually aquire decrepit user data rich websites/companies. Keeping the data from falling into bad actors hands isn't much of a help, because it can always happen regardless of ownership. But with benevolent owners like Maciej, users may have a way to access their own data/content.
How to Build Your Own AI To Play Any Board Game
Power empowers, what name one chooses to name their regime is largely irrelevant.
Okay but "noise from social media" is very different from leading politicians and entire news organizations playing along with dangerous stuff like Trump's COVID denialism for months on end.

Trump is almost certainly among the bottom 3-4 worst US presidents in history [1]. Was each individual action the "worst ever"? No, of course not. But the sum of the pieces was indeed ghastly, and it's ridiculous to claim that these are just gaffs like any public figure has, and once everyone calms down and stops blowing things out of proportion he will be regarded as just another normal, middle-of-the-road president.

[1]: https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/15/politics/trump-best-worst-pre...
Graphics programming in C by Roger T Stevens chapters 9-12.
I don't really consider a boardship an industry position.

Like, you have executives at some companies serving on boardships in unrelated industries. They aren't working two jobs.
Reading this via Feeder from my phone.
I have to say this looks really cool.

Maybe this is a really dumb question, but as someone who really knows nothing about computer graphics, how can you actually run these examples?

I realize that I could Google and research and find a list of "canvas drawing tools" in a variety of languages that I could then evaluate (despite, again, knowing nothing about graphics), but it'd be SUPER-SUPER-awesome to have a quick note "there are lots of ways to go about making these things happen in the real world, but here's one I recommend if you have no other priors." :-)

Really cool book idea, keen to have a go at it!
4chan, Stormfront, Gab, and plenty of other sites are alive and well, so I don't even buy the "what if datacenters and ISPs ban us?" argument.
I am genuinely curious if do you see someone with a sign saying "Kill X" and someone just talking on the internet about undemocratic power change differently? If you see them differently, then why? The acts they are talking about are both crimes. My assumption is that: 1. Not everyone on Parler committed crimes in the physical world - eg. storm the Capitol, so that means that talking about something is not enough to make you break the law, 2. people that did commit crimes will be prosecuted and convicted on already existing laws.