skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see how radar can be considered 100% accurate. For all we know there could be a simple software bug in the system causing such anomalies.

We do all kinds of signal processing to get radar to work. [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant_false_alarm_rate
I fully admit I am a crusty old Mac user, who in fact started on the Mac back in those days.

I perhaps don’t see the Pro in iPad Pro because I am wanting it to basically be a Mac, but tablet. Maybe it is truly an orthogonal product that does pro work differently. But the software story just still feels incomplete. Just feels so limiting in terms of file system and such.
Bulk of discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26968725
"How can I use vehicles moving through a network of roads to build a working model of an internal combustion engine?"

http://tunes.org/wiki/abstraction_20inversion.html

The best practice here is to just let the database be built up of B-Trees (or whatever) at the low level and use it like a database.
A number of people have already pointed out that a corporate fiscal quarter doesn't necessarily align with the calendar year. There are assorted benefits to this, usually around the seasonality of income. Some companies with multiple sub-corporations may choose to have differing fiscal years for all the corporations which can somehow create a tax advantage (although beats me how that works). It's interesting to note also that there's a (smallish) tax disadvantage to not aligning with the calendar year in that typically tax brackets adjust upward from year to year and having a non-calendar fiscal year means that income might be taxed at a slightly higher rate since the tax rate is based on the year the fiscal calendar begins. At large corporation scale, this difference amounts to a rounding error.
Terrible, considering how text-centric social relationships have become. Reply delays on the order of hours are considered to send a strong signal. "Double texting" is a faux pas.

It pains me to think how many friendships and romantic relationships might have been crushed by this bug. Neither party will ever know why.
Yes, I've seen this same issue with AWS lambdas. Browser reports CORS errors but sending the same request with Postman returns HTTP500, which made me realise it was a malformed request.
Also, publishing the result will almost certainly win you an Egg Noble prize (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize)

The experiment might not be that simple, though. You would no want to boil away all the water.

That means using a closed system (might go BOOM), starting with lots of water (expensive), or finding a way to add water while keeping the water at boiling temperature (you don’t have to add cold water, so that is probably not that hard, but not trivial, either)
Also, sexual harassment accusations...
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I did not state that in a pejorative sense, though. For big enterprise customers the run costs is where the nicest profits are no matter how the delivery was done because they extend over many years.

It's only that the scale of ACN allows them to perform these tricks.
What about the descriptions of sexual acts with children that are extreme to the point of absurdity?
Yes you’re right. I should have said: “that’s easy for me” or something like that
Exactly this. FB ad targeting is revolutionary for companies to match with prospective users. I've managed 50m+ in FB spend, getting start-ups in front of some really niche audiences, and nothing compares to the FB algo.
Let’s assume for the moment that these are not erroneous sensors or secret domestic/foreign tech.

Two facts to build upon:

1) We have seen them on Earth

2) We have seen them nowhere else.

This means that although they have sufficiently advanced technology and desire to hide from us across the entire universe, they do not have sufficiently advanced technology and/or desire to hide from us on Earth. So there’s the contradiction: either they want to hide from us but can’t, or they don’t want to hide from us but have. In either case, the contradiction suggests these hypothetical not-erroneous-and-not-secret-tech sightings are also not extraterrestrial.

If not aliens, then what?

I see two options that fulfill the condition of either not desiring to hide from us, or not being able to, while avoiding the question of why we see no evidence for intelligent life in the rest of the universe. Both rely on locality being fixed to Earth:

- human time travelers

- simulation experimenters

In the first case, if time-travel is possible, then the only sightings of time-travelers would be those that do not cause grandfather paradoxes — i.e., they would only travel to the past with such a low-profile that they wouldn’t endanger their own future visits to us. Moreover, if time-travel is possible, it is plausible that future humans would be technologically advanced enough to develop time-travel without being sufficiently advanced to hide from us completely. As unlikely as this seems, it is still more likely than aliens having the power to hide from us everywhere except on earth.

The second possibility is even more fascinating. Why would simulators of our universe need to virtually plug-in and take a joy ride? They wouldn’t, of course. But if they went through the trouble of simulating us, it isn’t hard to imagine them fiddling with their experiment to whatever end it is they have. Laws of physics wouldn’t apply to their fiddling. In this wild scenario, the experiment wouldn’t be generic, but specific: manipulating the simulation so that a lot of people end up talking and thinking about aliens visiting Earth. Beyond those basic conclusions, we’d have to peer into the motivations and goals of the gods, which seems as fruitful as it seemed thousands of years ago.

When the only plausible non-explainable explanations resort to time-travel and gods, you know the initial hypothesis is incorrect.

Beyond erroneous sensors, the real reason for these sightings is our existential angst as it becomes more and more obvious we are alone in this universe. We want to believe.
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"there is a proportional relationship between energy and mass" -> exactly. the mass of the system is strictly proportional to its total energy, and changes in the energy of a system will have a corresponding proportional effect on its mass.

If you split the system into two components and release X energy, then the two components will weigh X/c^2 less than the whole system did; if splitting the system consumed X energy, then the separate components will weigh X/c^2 more than the original thing.
If you know the answer, just say it. I don't want to pay $900/hour for someone to ask rhetorical questions.
A quick search shows a ton of choices, Are there any models or brands you like, or dislike?
I use a bunch of different CI at work and they are great but if they are offline you are stuffed as they are not portable and running local while possible is a nightmare.

Containers are a solution for this right? If I was open source I’d run CI in docker or similar so you can easily run it locally or on a server.

The assumption is people doing FOSS can’t afford maybe $20 a year to spend on some kind of elastic compute to run this or don’t have a computer powerful enough to run it. I doubt this is the case and if it is just do without CI - just run your tests from IDE before pushing to master.
We may need to re-think fundamental concepts of software design

For instance, code reuse. Should we really reuse that piece of code in a radically different context?

Or versioning. Is the next version really better for all users?

Or software size. Right now, we seem not to care whether software is kilobytes or gigabytes, as long as it seems to have the same behavior. Is that reasonable?
It's common for many if not most companies. The guiding principle of buy on the rumor, sell on the news often means that a lot of investors realize gains after a big positive news event driving the price down. There were drops like that, iirc, when Apple announced the change to Intel and I think also the iPhone announcement. The drop is generally short-lived as the long-term investors buy in.
Anything specifically?
They have been focusing on selling other products besides ads so curious how much of that revenue growth is from ads vs other products.
You're not off base. I have no economic credentials and my discussion of the subject was simplistic. I appreciate your analysis.

The point I was trying to make wasn't that dollars shouldn't be used to measure value, but that if you're going to do so, those dollars need to actually correspond to something that isn't just pieces of paper or bits in a bank computer. It's not particularly interesting for $450 dollars to change hands in a vacuum; the transaction is given meaning because it represents something about the painting that was created and sold.

Similarly, velocity of money is given meaning because of the premise that each transaction functions to optimize resource distribution (i.e. a typical trade is in the interest of both parties). If the farmer and the mechanic from the Wikipedia article were to game the system by continuing to sell the same $40 of corn to each other over and over, velocity of money would technically increase, but then it would no longer meaningfully represent the health of the economy. The validity of the measure depends on this sort of double counting being precluded or accounted for (at least, in principle it does; I have no idea how much this kind of confounding factor shows up in real life).

The biggest intended takeaway of my post wasn't even that the dollars being discussed don't correspond to anything, it's that they correspond to a bunch of different types of thing that don't sum together cleanly. That I had to make a bunch of finer economic points to get there was kind of an accident, and one that I might reframe the article to avoid if I were to rewrite it today.
Some people definitely believe stuff like that, and it's not even only uneducated people. My mother-in-law went to the doctor for an annual checkup, and the doctor told her that it's pointless to get the vaccine because covid is man-made, and whoever created it will just release a new variant that is immune to the vaccine. Luckily my wife convinced her otherwise.
It is better to be a consumer than a west leaning producer. One would never advance when the primary market is outside the country.
> Remember the apocryphal story that when Jobs came back to Apple, he split a whiteboard into four quadrants and listed just one product in each?

He showed that during keynotes (I remember he used that to unveil the first iBook).

The situation then was a bit different, though. Apple needed to be much more focused and had fewer resources to throw at new devices. They also needed a clean break from the past and could not start from scratch 10 different product lines. But Jobs himself did away with the 2x2 matrix, for example with the eMac and the Cube. The 12’’, 15’’, and 17’’ PowerBooks used the same name, but the differences were more significant than between the various iPhones 12.
> and many of them got sick and died because of it.

Source of people dying due to lack of PPE?

As I understand it, there was always a low supply, not no supply.

Other states managed to supply their nursing homes just fine.

Seems like rationalization. Cuomo never came out and said this was caused by lack of PPE.

Unless you have a source that they weren't able to equip their nursing homes due to supply issues you are assuming.
Using that same logic most statements out of the US corporate InfoSec establishment should be similarly scrutinized.

A whole lot of these outfits are started by former NSA employees, and they love having people that previously worked in US national security on their rooster for the marketing value.

Yet whenever one of these outfits accuses China/Russia/Iran of being responsible for the latest "cyber incident"/"misinformation campaign" these accusations are widely regurgitated without any doubt like some kind of definitive factual truth.
No idea - good q!
> I think all major browsers require certificates to be logged at this point

None of the browsers require by policy that certificates be logged. What this means is that the existence of a certificate which wasn't logged is not by itself a misissuance. Whereas for example the Apple 398 day rule is a policy rule, so a certificate which breaks the rule not only won't work in Safari, but it is also a misissuance and your whole CA might get distrusted by Apple.

However, all the major browsers except Firefox require that certificates they are shown which purport to have been issued after a mandate are presented with SCTs. We'll discuss what that means below. For Chrome that mandate begins after 30 April 2018, which means it doesn't catch certificates issued in a small window of time when certificate lifetimes up to 39 months were still allowed at the start of 2018, the last of these certificates would expire at the end of next month, May 2021.

In practice no public CA was selling unlogged certificates intended for web servers by the point the mandate triggers, it would have been a needless business risk to sail so close to the wind, so chances are no certificates in this category exist today.

Signed Certificate Timestamps are issued by the log, they are like "proof of posting" when you send a letter. The log warrants that any certificates for which it has issued SCTs will appear within the Maximum Merge Delay (for public CT logs this is 24 hours).

That might seem like a long time, but it's a do-or-die promise. Logs which experience a problem making them unable to show a consistent log with the corresponding certificate within 24 hours are disqualified and you need to start over, because without such a rule obviously you can smuggle anything into an outage.

Google and Safari's policy (I don't know the Edge policy) dictates two or more SCTs, at least one to be from a log controlled by Google. So this gives Google the handy property that they don't need to trust any combination of third parties, you must show all certificates to Google itself.
Balmer kind of blew it for microsoft though. Cook is doing well enough.
I misread the announcement. They don't support a couple specific services (Hulu Live TV) but everything else streams just great from reviews I've read (Netflix, YouTube, regular Hulu, etc).
Many Indian politicians learned the exact opposite lesson from the 90s to 2000s when China's economy far outgrew India's despite the supposed geographical, labor, and education similarities between the two (i.e. see the debate from a western perspective in [1][2][3]).

The idea that democracy and free markets help with economic growth simply didn't pan out for India w.r.t. its neighbor and biggest rival. As far as Modi is concerned, why keep trying something that doesn't work? Especially when the alternative is self serving.

[1] https://foreignpolicy.com/2003/07/01/can-india-overtake-chin...

[2] https://foreignpolicy.com/2009/10/06/india-plays-catch-up/

[3] https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/07/05/think-again-indias-rise...
Read Cal Newport's book Digital Minimalism. The only real long-term solution is to change your relationship with your phone.

It doesn't need to be within reach at all times. You probably barely need it at all, maybe 1% of the time. Just turn it off and leave it home unless you know you'll need it.
I feel like there just needs to be a good plugin that gives you proper stats as to how long things are taking and tips to improve things.

It’s usually slow css loaders, or too-inclusive patterns for loaders ending up processing node_modules, and not good enough disk caching.

There is a plugin called smc to monitor loader execution time.

Dll plugin was the best speed up to avoid recompiling things that don’t change, but now module federation is suppose to be a better solution. Disk caching in v5 will also do great things.

Thing is, it’s so complicated to setup, and debugging it involves so much config tweaking ans waiting.

I think we are a few years out from when we have nice speedy builds in webpack with good abstractions.

But then it’s a question of whether people move away from webpack because we don’t need all the plugins and transpiration and want native compile speeds.

One thing for certain though is the hype cycle will continue on...
I mean, yeah, you don't make a choice like that without making a lot of other terrible choices too. Like I said "horrendously misunderstood the actor model". And as you seem to be picking up on, they had a very C++98 view at best of how inheritance should work.

In case it's not clear to anyone reading along: if you find yourself doing anything like this, take a long, deep look in the mirror; you're almost certainly making the wrong choice. Best I can say is that the architect learned from some of their choices in the years since from the resulting consequences.

However, that code is still out there. The engineers have tried to rewrite since then, but it turns out that rewriting isn't adding new features. I don't agree with the company's calculus on the matter, but that's a tale as old as time.

And you'd be surprised how many games aren't written well. Writing a game engine is a bit of a rite of passage among young coders, and a surprising subset of those actually ship. In my experience, a lack of maturity in the field and (we'll be courteous and say) 'questionable' threading models (and as you point out inheritance models too) go hand in hand.

The point at the end of the day is that Wine users (like Windows users) expect the runtime to do the best it can even against terribly written applications. The users want to run that code, it isn't going to be fixed, so anything Wine can do better to paper over the (incredibly obvious to someone skilled in the art) deficiencies of that code is in their users' benefit.
I believe we need to stop, as developers, to contribute our expertise to enabling such blatant surveillance that hurts much more than it helps. We're ruining our own and our children's future by writing the code that enables this, by teaching people how to write such code, how to test such code, how to deliver such code. It's on us.
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>I don’t understand what Modi is doing.

I assure you, neither does he.

Not a particularly intellectual or introspective man. He is a living example of the Peter Principle.

Too bad a billion people have to suffer for his incompetence.
Not directly or natively, but WineVDM is a thing and will usualky let you run old 16bit programs while looking like it's nearly native
Nobody will ever be prosecuted for this, and that's less people taking what politicians see as limited funds.
I have a similar situation.
I am using the budget to:

- get Duolingo subscription

- get Audible subscription

- Buy books. I keep a list of books I should own or read someday, and I buy from it once in a while. When I need to learn a new topic fast, I buy 2-3 books on that topic

- Coursera has a business subscription that gives you "unlimited" certifications. But I plan to get it only if at the end of the year I have enough certifications to claim

- I have seen some smart things claimed under L&D, like subscriptions to tools you want to learn or use to support learning (Figma, Notion)

I hope these ideas help you!
I was thinking of nuTonomy when i wrote my comment.
It's extremely easy to disable the telemetry. Much more importantly, every time you start nextjs, half of the output is a big warning telling you exactly how to disable the telemetry.
It's not helpful to point to revenue when a scenario in business like this plays out and says, "Look, clearly they know better than you."

If you notice people complaining about something in numbers, there's a reason for it.

There were people who held out for years because MacBook Pro designs were anti-consumer and people held out for compromise. I know I did. Everyone I know did. It wasn't some niche. There's an entire professional class that relies on good tooling.
Why would I be sweating that Facebook is adding users? Disappointed, more like, because the science shows that Facebook actively damages people’s mental health and I hope we all want people to feel good. Your numbers show that a almost 2 billion people feel worse each day from Facebook.
When Zawi Hawass retires virtually every existing Egyptology book will worth less than the paper it is printed on.
> Say what you want about Comcast... But my internet never goes down, is always fast, is a reasonable price, and support is readily available within a couple minutes if needed.

I’ve dealt with Comcast in 3 states on both coasts, and I can’t share any of those sentiments. The upload is always garbage.

> Can you say the same for any government run program or infrastructure project?

Yes, I’ve never had to call anyone about my electric, gas, sewage, water, roads, parks, or air. Also, FYI, a government org came up with the internet in the first place.

This trope of “all things government bad” is so lazy. We are lucky in the US to live in a relatively trustworthy society, where the FAA/FDA/CDC/etc have done quite a few things to make our lives pleasant. Obviously they’re not perfect, but by and large the civilian agencies have undoubtedly pushed our quality of life up.
> I am concerned [that] iMessage on Android would simply serve to remove an obstacle to iPhone families giving their kids Android phones.

We're an iPhone family, but damn is that lame. How about: make the best product. Don't coerce people into buying an iPhone.

It drives me crazy how fractured messaging has become. Here's a recent example. My non-technical aunt tried to send a group iMessage to my wife and me. For me, she used an email address tied to my iMessage account. But for my wife, she used her Google Voice #. Now what you need to understand is that iMessage allows you to associate one or more email addresses with your account, but only a single phone #, which has to be your carrier-assigned #.

So now she's trying to send an iMessage to my email address (which would have shown up in blue) and my wife's Google Voice # (which would have shown up in green).

Well, here's what apparently happened. iMessage handed this off as an MMS to Verizon. Verizon's MMS gateway sent me the message via email, as a text attachment. My wife got the message in the Google Voice app on her phone.

What an f'ing mess.

I've turned off "Send as SMS" and "MMS Messaging" on my iPhone so I don't make this same stupid mistake.

I'd use WhatsApp for everything, but, Facebook. (I tried Signal. I found it to be pretty sub-par for everyday messaging.)
Increased signal (e.g. more or different data) is one of the many levers to increase ad value.

Without changing signals you can still make meaningful long term progress through ranking, delivery, and format improvements.
Not sure if the breakdown is exact but financials say $25B in ads, and $700M in "other"
Yeah, that would get flagged in human code review, too. Way too many magic numbers