skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article:

…“it agreed to sell Yahoo and AOL to the private equity firm Apollo Global Management for $5 billion.”

They apparently paid $4.4 billion for AOL, and Yahoo they got for $4.48 billion.

I have to say: only losing $5 billion while handling the decaying corpses of AOL and Yahoo is, weirdly, kind of a triumph. These are cursed properties, and bring only despair.

Though I’m surprised they didn’t try to keep ahold of the sports bits of Yahoo, which are seemingly popular. (Perhaps that’s why they even managed to get $5 billion for…what does AOL do?)
This was around when Google bought DoubleClick.

A good podcast episode on it: https://share.transistor.fm/s/66bcbec6
And we think they need to risk the lost of business of breaking into your data on AWS to get this information? They somehow have no other way to infer this? How much business is this thriving Amazon-made products line? It's a fraction of AWS's profits considering retail's overall profits.
The USPS has been legally blocked from adapting by anti-infrastructure ideologues (source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLyU1WCQQ8A ) in order to set them up to fail.

In addition to this, recent administrations have been actively dismantling their infrastructure.

Any discussion of adaptivity or resilience is incomplete without considering these facts.
Security patches are typically much smaller scoped than other library updates. Also, Dependabot does not support C or C++ packages so its stats are not that useful for shared libraries, which are most commonly written in C.
Gonna repost this reply wherever it seems fitting:

The USPS has been legally blocked from adapting by anti-infrastructure ideologues (source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLyU1WCQQ8A ) in order to set them up to fail.

In addition to this, recent administrations have been actively dismantling their infrastructure.

Any discussion of adaptivity or resilience is incomplete without considering these facts.
>>>nobody has any idea how to get Americans to change their minds on guns, cars, or red meat

Interesting that your list doesn't include alcohol.
import png:-|xclip -selection clipboard -t image/png -i

Copy a selected rectangle of the screen into clipboard
In addition is seems as if UPS has dropped the detail records they expose on the tracking. So now in their tracking UI there is just the origin and estimated date of delivery - nothing in between. I've been curious as to why they did that.
It did confuse me when I first saw it, but yes, it is not really a significant issue.
It's not the bare minimum, though. They designed an entire boot policy framework that allows you to multi-boot different OSes in different security contexts, so you can have your fully secure and DRM-enabled macOS next to your own Linux install (and even then their design maintains basic evil maid attack security, even for Linux or other custom kernels). That's more than pretty much any other general purpose platform.
"it works" is however simply not good enough; it's a service that should NEVER decline. To quote the USPS' own motto: "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of
their appointed rounds." They take donkeys down canyons to serve isolated communities.
I saw this mentioned a few weeks ago:

https://stedolan.github.io/jq

“Like sed for JSON data”
> I also have an alias for "osascript -e 'display notification "'"$1"'"'", which will display the text you choose in a MacOS notification

This one is great. Very, very useful.
The only reason to post an image instead of a pastebin is for engagement. I understand the engagement practices we are subject to on attention marketplaces like twitter, but is it that hard to provide a supplemental pastebin link?
If you shrink the website to half your screen width, the "Sign In" button goes away, and there is only "Sign Up".

You can get to "Sign In" by clicking the burger menu and scroll sufficiently far down, or by searching. You can't find it by simply searching on the front page, or by just clicking the burger menu. I guess that's what people mean by "having to go hunting for the sign in button".
Is there a process for off boarding AMP? We serve them now but want to stop. Can we just shut it off or will Google punish us?
To me, Musk's flaws are much smaller than some of the others you mention. Namely: overly optimistic (some would say fraudulent but eh) timelines, a puerile sense of humor, and calling that diver a pedo.
Any employer that promises its employees benefits in the future should have to set aside money to pay for them. Including the government, even though it has exempted itself from this common sense requirement that it imposes on non government entities. If anything, the rest of the government should have to do what USPS was legislated to do.

Note that the law you are referring to required the USPS to set aside money for accrued benefits, just like any private company has to. Otherwise you end up with the situation that IL/CT/NJ and many other governments are subjecting their taxpayers to, which is raising taxes now to pay for labor performed decades ago. It’s nice for the taxpayers of decades ago, not so nice for the taxpayers of today.
Not really, the basic Python install has a lot of things ready to use without any external libraries.
The comment about sharing a terminal using mkfifo reminds me:

Screen has a multi-display mode you can use with "screen -x" that lets multiple clients connect to the same session. Useful if you want to walk someone through a process.
It seems representative enough to warrant a follow-up investigation, instead of dismissing it as a statistical fluke entirely. All local media AND individuals can try and reproduce this, from anywhere, to anywhere.
AOL has adtech advertisers setup with some large customer base probably 3rd or 4th to Google/Facebook. It also owns publishers like HuffPost, TechCrunch etc.
Late 90's joke: Yahoo and Netscape are going to merge and move their headquarters to Israel: Net'n'Yahoo
I can’t find information on how Apollo Group runs it’s PE portfolio. I assume they will eliminate costs and merge businesses where it makes sense. The press release mentions brick and mortar opportunities but Apollo doesn’t own major brands outside of Sprouts and GNC. It sounds like another miss for Yahoo again.
The pre-NLL version would need some additional scopes. In some ways the current borrow-checker is a lot friendlier (there are also some things possible today that weren't before) but it was also a simpler time, where one could easily imagine the various lifetimes. Getting started with the language was harder, but I think internalizing the borrow-checker was easier, because the rules were simpler and you were forced to learn them for anything more complex than 'hello world'.

let mut x = 1;
{
let y = &mut x;
{
let z = &mut *y;
*z += 1;
}
*y += 1;
}
assert_eq!(x, 3);
Anamorphic
I don't think GP concludes that her performance is due to her gender, but that the retaliatory threat he perceived was distinctly so.

Are you sure your conclusions aren't because of his gender?
Oh yeah, it definitely was - my point wasn't that R is slower than Python. My point is the only time I've encountered "slow apps" in practice was when they were written in a much faster language, and rewriting them in a slower language resulted in really good performance.
it doesn't work quite like that, though; while nuclear is down to ~13%, a quarter of the german energy sector is still burning coal. in fact, the plan to shut down fossil fuels was hindered by (imo) the short-sighted view to curtail nuclear before it was necessary.
Bitcoin can be entirely powered by (renewably sourced) electricity.

Our current financial system cannot.
This is at the level of a conspiracy theory right now, and one that doesn't even make any sense.

If it were true that Amazon were taking sneaky peeks at data inside AWS related to retailers, and this became public, AWS as a business would be done.

The loud banging you'd be hearing would be the door closing as the last customer exited, followed by all the engineering staff who work on AWS as they see the writing on the wall.

Why would Amazon look to achieve some marginal advantage in its retail businesses at the risk of a total loss to one of its marquee businesses, AWS? It's an idiotic risk.
> exploitation by industrialized nations

We hear a lot about how China invests billions in Africa building highways and such in order to have influence. I have a conspiracy theory based on stories I heard. It would be nice to know if is true or not. What Americans don't realize is that the Gambino crime family didn't just dissolve, they went to Africa, and they bought rights to natural resources such as coal. They have since the early 2000s become the brokers between natural resources in Africa and 3rd party buyers around the world and their business is violence.
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Also, blocking right-click->paste is REALLY irritating.
Cathy Wood did for one.
I think Americans are less of an outlier on that subject compared to other countries in the world. In fact, Denmark drinks more per capita than the US. But in any case it wasn't my goal to exhaustively list all the things Americans are stubborn about, just some examples that are ready to hand. ;)
I think this approach applies even more so for GPU compute as it’s the only sensible way to code these devices.
I'm familiar with a few sites which used to be this way with the login form directly on the homepage, and removed those fields during the internet's transition period from HTTP to HTTPS for all pages. Browsers started flagging pages which included password fields as insecure, even if the form containing them submitted via HTTPS (which was arguably a fair assessment). The solution for many sites at the time was simply to move all login to a distinct page which was served over HTTPS, and leave all other pages as HTTP. Back in that day the opinion of many site operators was that HTTPS was going to tank advertising revenue, so they avoided it whenever possible until the browser vendors forced their hands.

In many cases the homepage login forms took years to come back, after we got to a point where virtually every site was all-HTTPS on all pages. In some cases they never did.
That's a really good idea. It's what I do manually in practice whenever I want to "BCC" someone.
Republicans changed the equation in their attempts to sabotage it.

From requiring pre-funding retirements years ago, to DeJoy dismantling sorting machines just a few months ago.

It's hard to know how adaptable a system is, when it's actively being torn down at every opportunity.
Yes, sometimes using the official mail is a legal requirement. So drop your letter in the box and say a prayer to Hermes that the mailman doesn’t throw it away.
Mind you, Switzerland is a bit more wealthy than the US, and what is the cost of "not first class but regular post" over there?
Can decoded neurofeedback erase our bad memories?
I wonder how it would handle a puzzle where letters are written out of order?

I remember a NYT puzzle sometime within the last 2 or 3 years with a 15 character vertical answer spanning the puzzle from top to bottom right down the center with a clue related to Alice in Wonderland. The answer was "the looking glass".

Everything entirely to the left of the looking glass was normal. Horizontal answers entirely to the right of the looking glass were reversed. Horizontal answers that crossed the looking glass were all palindromes centered on the looking glass.

BTW, for those interested in the NYT puzzle but not interested in the newspaper, here's a trick to save some money.

The puzzle and the paper are sold as separate products. The print editions are always bundled together, but the digital editions are separate. The puzzle is about $40/year. However, if you also subscribe to the digital newspaper, you get a 50% discount on a puzzle subscription.

Here's the trick: if you have the puzzle subscription set to automatically renew it continues to renew at the 50% discount rate even if you have cancelled the newspaper subscription.
Wow, talk about a dark pattern, all checks but the necessary ones are checked by default, which looks good, but then the big green button will check and accept them anyway! So the primary option negates the standard settings! I almost fell for it but I'm getting better and better at catching myself.

It's the new online advertisement. I remember my grandma being completely flustered by all the "you're the 10.000th visitor" flashy stuff and my brain ignored it completely. In this vain my brain now hunts for that button that does not really look like a button but just enough to identify it as a button. That is the one to hit.
I actually hadn't seen this before. What's the counter argument to the security problems that that website points out?
Well when your large customer base leads you to a $5 billion writedown and a public confession that Google and Facebook are eating your lunch…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/12/12/verizon...

…color me skeptical that there’s a bright future there.
To me the only difference is that AWS biggest client base has the money and expertise to go after Amazon in protracted legal battles while simultaneously scrubbing AWS from their companies.

Most retailers, even big ones, don’t have the money or expertise to do this like that. Of the few who do (Apple for instance) Amazon is keen in making sure that those companies are heard and has direct relationships with them, but that’s few and far between.

That’s my take on this
I think it‘s less about being truly better and more about who defines the standard.

If Chrom(ium) is going to win on Mobile, Google will basically dictate the W3C and that will end very badly. Id already ended very bad once, when IE was „The Standard“.
Why are you posting this same thing multiple times?
Is this the best money Microsoft did NOT spend?
Absolutely, but I don't feel the vast majority of corporations are doing that type of computation. I feel that even with hundreds of millions of rows Python can be a great solution (I have done multiple projects generating fairly complex projections from a few hundred million rows) for most projects.
Speaking of one liners... is there a way to get w3m or lynx to print a PRETTY formatted output to the console and exit? Seems all the dump commands are for plain text. Hoping someone here knows as this arcane knowledge doesn’t seem to exist elsewhere.
I suppose it is obvious that the previous writer just used wrong abbreviation, and meant the postal service.

Snail-mail is in trouble in most parts of the developed world, because online services have replaced so many processes that were running on paper.

Providing an example from my country and neighbours, i.e. the Nordics. Look at the graph that has numbers of delivered letters in different countries - it has roughly halved in 10 years, and the trend continues:

https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11236284

Parcel deliveries are growing, but there the postal services have competition.

As the volume of letters decreases - particularly in businesses and offices but also in private lives - it becomes increasingly difficult to run the service without financial loss.
I don't know if you heard, but under Trump's regime they removed sorting machines in an attempt to undermine the USPS and mail-in voting last year.
This was never in doubt. Everyone knew this was going to happen. Are non tech companies really that foolish to think they can salvage a brand that was relevant 10 years ago and revive it? I have a feeling this is some kind of tax avoidance scheme. Knowing nothing about taxes and accounting I will let knowledgeable people correct me.
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I was going to point this out too.

For those who may not know, you can put the I/O redirection anywhere in the command, not just at the end.

So you can write

< input_file.txt grep some_pattern | grep another

Which has the same effect as

grep some_pattern < input_file.txt | grep another

but puts the input redirection at the beginning so you can easily follow the data flow from left to right.

I use "redirection first" in other cases such as

1>&2 echo "Error: missing file"

To make it clear up-front that I'm writing to stderr.
> “If it’s your paycheck and you are waiting for it, it matters a lot,” he said.

Are people in America actually still paid by physical cheques? They're getting pretty close to the telegram in terms of obsolescence in the UK. The only times I get cheques are tax rebates & the similar. Probably one cheque per year, max. I haven't owned a cheque book for maybe 15 years and I've never been paid by cheque.
I remember someone showed this to me on a vintage Mac:

$ bill gates

Did you mean “kill gates”?
The years from 2006 to 2010 gave rise to today's BigTech.

Microsoft, Yahoo!, and Google were pioneers in the data-centers space. Amazon was only beginning to turn-up the heat. In retrospect, given the engineering talent and expertise at Y! at the time, it is a shame that in light of AWS' success they did not invest in Infrastructure-as-a-Service when their "web services" org was already churning out a range of tools and services on top of SOAP / REST. I mean, the Apache Hadoop ecosystem was mostly Yahoo!

As an outside observer, I think, with any luck, cloud computing could have saved Y!'s bacon, even as a late entrant (MSFT re-launched Azure in 2010). Y!'s focus on being a Media house now seems like a bad bet, which could have worked had they snapped Facebook for $1B.

Microsoft struggled with its initial "Red Dog" / "Windows Azure" release in 2008, too; so much so that parts of the company were EC2 customers back in the day.

I think this goes to show how stars had to align for AWS to stay a market leader as they started from a position of disadvantage (and needed a decade of exponential growth to consolidate only to contend with unrelenting competition from Azure), in face of companies that were are no slouches in terms of ability and product innovation, either. For Google though, around the same time Y! was floundering, their acquisitions and execution with Android, YouTube, and Chrome (I like to say Chrome was acquired because Google literally hired lead Firefox engineers to build it) ensured their relevance in the decade to come.

No wonder the folks who ran AWS, Azure, and Android/Chrome ended up as the eventual CEOs of their respective trillion-dollar mother-ships; whilst Y! has bitten the dust.
That's true as long as there are hoarders and spenders as well. As soon as there are too many hoarders, inflation comes back, and there's personal incentive for everyone to spend.

There is no equilibrium at either everyone being a spender or everyone being a hoarder, thus the self-balancing nature.
I haven't found any statements about it from either company, but here's a decent article: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/whatsapp-google-drive-back...
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Could mRNA injection temporary restore activity for loss-of-function mutations like p53 deletion in cancer?

The general, inherent hurdle in cancer treatment is discriminating individualist, misbehaving cells from cooperative, healthy ones.

From what I got, p53 isn't not expressed in healthy cells, but rather inactivated. Therefore it may be possible to systemically restore it in all cells, without inducing apoptosis in well-behaving cells.

This would be exciting, because it would enable cancer treatment avoiding selection based on cell signature, or "finding a target". Effectively restoring functionality of cell cycle guardians, which will then suicide the cancer cells seems like an attack vector very hard to evade for cancer cells. You wouldn't ask "who is misbehaving?", but rather shortly reign "everybody does as I say, now!".

Cancer cells can get rid of all the surface proteins (targeted by immunotherapy) and even gain root acce.. omnipotent stem cell characteristics (game over), they cannot shake the programmatic hallmarks of cancer, without stop being cancer. And the most important feature isn't rabid metabolism (targeted by chemo), but unchecked cell division. Chemo doesn't work well on indolent/non-aggressive cancers, as their metabolic signature is not discriminating. But who cares, if cells lost e.g. the p53 altogether, if we can force the machinery onto them regardless? No need to diff/patch the source, bring the bytecode to the compiler and fix the system until broken for good. All we want is them to "wake up" briefly and take responsibility for the mess they got at hand.

(Of course, it wouldn't be possible to flood the body with "activated p53", as that would probably suicide all cells (although it makes for a pretty scifi murder-agent), and the activation itself may offer an escape... until people figure out the whole shop.)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P53
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hallmarks_of_Cancer
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Remember: Canada is the state that didn't "unite". :)
The sale also includes AOL, and brands like TechCrunch and Engadget.

Still not sure it adds up to $5 billion, though.
I suggest that your reply would be much better without the last paragraph.
why would you want a raster version? the whole charm of the clock was the fact it was vector based and the clever shape generator he designed.
Because I originally wrote it on level 2 in a thread, then felt it was serviceable as a reply to the thread OP, as well as a top level reply.
Well before that period the federal funds rate didn't exist, so one can't compare it to the wild swings from inflation to deflation in the 19th century.

(There are a bunch of studies for stock and property returns, or for treasuries like you linked, but that's something quite different).
> Are you thinking of something else? That's an effect of call by value, but linked lists actually aren't good at that and you have to copy them to pass them around.

Are you thinking of something else? Haskell (and all other ML-family languages, and Lisps) lists are passed around by copying a single pointer to the head element. Different lists can share tail elements, i.e., elements can be members of more than one list.

All this is in contrast to Java-style linked lists, where there is a list object that controls its elements.
I'd rather have police than private militia, but I'm not living in the us so I understand if you rather have the former.

And if you did, i and a bunch of other would pool our money together to order hits on strike breakers. World would be fun again until ww3
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The USPS from time to time does do testing on delivery. I was part of a test program a few years ago where the USPS was testing the delivery of mail. They would send me addresses and postage and I was to send them from a drop box or at some times send them from the counter. The addresses were both US and domestic. I would also get letters from people around the world or in the US. Inside was just a code that I would have to go put into a website run for the USPS by IBM. As a reward I would get a booklet of stamps or a letter opener. In truth the coolest part was getting the stamps from around the world showing up in my mailbox.
I think what OP means is that amazon is using all the data they have from their storefront to beat everyone in the market, which does seem unfair to me.
Who's to say whether Apple falls into the "almost" part of "almost universally bad at making software"? Why is it reasonable to apply industry-wide averages to a company as exceptional as Apple?
Shareholders did great holding onto Yahoo! stock, as it’s Alibaba holdings would perform magnificently.
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