skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"What’s the Deal with Huawei’s Ownership?"
https://sayari.com/resources/huaweis-ownership-opaque-unusua...

"Huawei claims to be owned entirely by its employees, but verifying this claim is a tricky proposition...However, comparing Huawei to other Chinese corporations reveals that Huawei’s ownership is highly unusual."
....
"Using Chinese corporate data, we determined that Huawei’s ownership structure is very uncommon, particularly for a company of its size. Fewer than three hundredths of one percent (0.0249%) of active Chinese corporations in our dataset are owned by trade union committees, like Huawei."

"...We set out to answer this question using Sayari’s database of 55 million Chinese corporate entities...
...Of these 55 million Chinese corporate entities, approximately 38 million are active."

"...But ownership by a “labor union committee” (工会委员会), like the Huawei case, is very rare. We identified just 4,547 active Chinese corporate entities that list a labor union committee as a shareholder. This represents just 0.0249% of the active non-household enterprise companies in our dataset. Among companies operating in the technology sector, ownership by a labor union committee is even more rare. Only 794 active technology companies in our database—or 0.0201%—are owned directly by a labor union committee..."

"...Of these 794 companies, Sayari was able to identify the registered capital in Chinese Renminbi for 526. Of these, just three had registered capital greater than 1 billion RMB (approx. USD $148 million); Huawei has registered capital of more than 16 billion RMB. Chinese companies of this size usually are major state-owned enterprises, publicly-traded, or both. In other words, it is practically unheard of in China for a labor union committee to own a company of Huawei’s size, scope, and global reach..."
> Can you explain this a bit?

Not very well but I'll try. The idea is I'm trying to describe cannot be restricted to syntax, the summary of FOL you give is strictly syntactical. What I'm trying to observe is how predicates, functions, and variables are all variable. I mean they're all substitute-able; in this sense they're all "variable".

Predicates get evaluated to booleans so I understand them in the same "level of variable" as logical connectives. Functions always end up being evaluated into things in the domain, same as the variables; so I understand both variables and functions in their own "second level of variable".

And so, understanding (trying to) FOL this way, syntactically defined functions aren't really functions, but indirect variables. Which makes me think that the quantifiers are the actual functions (the parenthesis) which I was referring to.

In this sense the real important thing about parenthesis is the binding variables, setting them into a scope. But by this point my intuition tells me I've assumed something wrong or maybe I just leaped over something(?).

All I know is there's a reason quantifiers only take in variables (as syntactically defined) and I am trying to pin down this reason, but as I said, I still *have questions about quantifiers. In any case I've already spent way too long writing this post which might be wrong or slightly wrong/imprecise and I cannot tell how wrong and somebody would need to tell me or ask me something poignant.
Isn't that what collective action is? Individuals all agreeing to take action?
> I believe part of the argument for moving to "flat design" (Material) was lower file sizes

If it was, that was a sucker-play. Just like with CPU, RAM, and traffic lanes, any resource optimization will simply make room for something else to occupy.

The steady-state of storage media is full.
In 2015 (latest year I have good data for), there were just shy of 54,000,000 police interactions in the US.

The same year, there were 1,104 recorded police uses of force.

That's 0.00002% of interactions if I did my math correctly. Even if you think the use of force data is a magnitude off, that's about the same risk factor as shark attacks and lightning strikes.
We've had substantially more success at this than teaching computers to think like developers, so, sounds fine.
Sorry. I'm fine accepting that some things are wrong. I specifically meant the examples in question here. So, I did not mean that we shouldn't accept that any things are wrong. I do think we should be very picky on the things we accept as wrong, in and of themselves.
But in this case webgpu is basically a waste of time… why would they bother creating it if it won’t end up being of any use? Couldn’t you assess performance with a dummy load anyway?
When I hacked your mom?
Yes, since I believe 2.1 you can make a self contained executable with sdk included using dotnet publish. You can read more about it here:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/#publ...
A replacement for Chime?
You may like Why Information Grows by Cesar Hidalgo. The principal behind it is called Economic Complexity. It is based on the applications of network and graph theory using export data of a country, region or city as a proxy to its productivity and innovation. I find it pretty interesting.
Not the author, but I would assume bflat cannot compile F# as this project uses the Roslyn compiler, which supports C# but not F#.
I had a completely different interpretation of the terms in the title until I started reading the article.
A Simple To-Do App with Gitlab Pages
So no native. It is terribly slow. 1-2 seconds to switch tabs. Why are people tolerating this? Not nitpicking, it really is a disaster.
understanding of exponents and mathematical literacy is great but it's not the same thing as creativity.
> Sorry, I’m confused. This seems like a change in your position?

There is a benefit to both employees and employers. Being on the leaderboard benefits the employee because it raises their profile. Having an employee on the leaderboard, as an employer, also raises the company's profile. It's like how companies send people to conferences to talk. It benefits the employee by raising their profile but also benefits the company.

> I’m asking you in good faith. Why the contortions to defend such a product?

I'm not really making contortions. This product is aimed at large enterprises. It's not aimed at startups (so I would never suggest it for any company I invest in) and it's not aimed at companies that are already well known (FAANG). It's aimed at the 1000s of other large enterprises out there who want to incentivize their employees with some prizes to do a job they're hopefully already doing while also possibly raising the company profile a bit by having people show up on the leaderboard.

But it definitely solves a problem for it's target audience, which you don't seem to be a part of. I am not their target audience either. But I see the value to their target audience.
It's definitely average speed over a year.

High velocity refers to the magnitude of a vector beyond 2D, so there is no conflict here.
Consider a rolling yearly renewable contract, with no upfront estimations whatsoever. Just a continuous stream of work. The hourly billing allows "guilt-free" flexibility. I can work 2 hours one day, 0 another day, 6 yet another day, etc...
At Seamless circa 2010 we were asked to make the default sort order for restaurants appear by how close they were to the next tier of the contract. More orders = More Margin.

The tech team at the time was entirely located in Utah at the time, and all of us were repulsed at the idea. We countered with suggestions for improvement and made it clear the project would not be worked on:

- You can make a "promoted" restaurant section above the fold
- The UX concerns since users expect some reasonable ordering. Like distance from location or alphabetical.

We didn't get fired, and it was really scary. I appreciate standing up for ethics and principles. bravo.
Says modelled on this, which attracts another $15 for each $ invested.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel

Look, last year it didn’t exist. They haven’t capped all investment in the industry. If it does well it could attract a lot more.
My brother showed me this, a couple of years ago.

Cool stuff.
It borrows heavily from 1980s cyberpunk/hacker culture [1]. Tangentially, the CFAA was originally passed after Reagan saw the Wargames film [2] and told Congress to send him legislation to address what he thought was the issue [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_security_hacking_incid...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames

[3] https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1400839225918967808
It might not be the most significant, or even count as a "hack" in context, but the magician Neville Maskelyne breaking into Marconi's wireless system and trolling him has to be in the top ten[0].

[0]https://hackaday.com/2017/03/02/great-hacks-of-history-the-m...
Today my Windows 10 PC told me that the "Snipping Tool" had been deprecated and would I like to try the new W10 version? So I did. And when I took a screenshot, it said something like "please wait while we make your screenshot" for about 20 seconds! What could POSSIBLY take so long‽
Arkansas had a really nice governor's mansion years ago.

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/19/us/little-rock-journal-go...
> How are you employed if you won't fix bugs. These types of devs are so annoying to be around. Crank out weird esoteric hard to read code using every weird meta feature / reflections / introspections they can. Then "hard pass" on fixing bugs as a waste of time.

You misread pretty much everything I wrote. My original comment wasn't an explanation for why fixing bugs in general is a "waste of time". My opinion is that uploading your code to this service that uses ML to automatically generate bugs for your team to do a bug bash on is a waste of time.

Our bug backlog has hundreds, if not thousands, of bugs already. We don't need to rely on ML to tell us what to fix.

We have real issues that customers are facing that need immediate attention. This is just a total distraction and a waste of time.
The problem isn't the formula (good enough game, readily accessible, noticed by players.)

The problem is that last step, "be noticed", is extremely hard and mostly based on luck/money.

And this is 100% "long-term repeatable" if you can continually deliver "good enough" games after being noticed. The obvious example is Call of Duty.
> The reason for it is that you don't win elections by convincing the other side that they are wrong, and they should vote for you.

> You win elections by convincing your side to show up.

And the other side not to, either voluntarily or by targeted voter suppression and disenfranchisement. At least, that’s all true in the US, but its mostly artifacts of a strongly-structurally-reinforced two-party system.

In multiparty democracy, positive turnout tactics over persuasion is less effective because the activation energy to move to another party is smaller because you don’t just have polar opposites, and negative turnout tactics are less effective because you’ve got more targets to suppress. So persuasion is more important.
Oh for serious game devs FGL was absolutely the most important monetisation stream by some distance no doubt.

But for people just starting out and, say, knocking out a game in a weekend, unpolished, raw Mochi was incredible. With zero effort (beyond spending a couple of weekends making games) I had 3 figure annual revenue from games that would have never ever gotten sponsorship.

If you were a 16 year old hacking stuff together in Flash that would have been hugely motivating. That's would drove the sheer volume and variety of Flash games.

If I could apply the knowledge I have now back to past me I'd have easily been able to get 4 figure annual revenue swiftly and that would have let me focus on putting the polish on FGL level serious sponsorship games. ( I did make one full stand alone game and it flopped, I've made more money from people playing the demo than from full game purchases)
> but who actually clicks on the start menu using the mouse?

Everybody except hn readers who live in their own bubble.
ARP is a broadcast protocol, so that's pretty bad news, whereas IPv6 Neighbour Discovery gets to use (link local) multicast.

On the cheapest budget cobbled together network, either one turns into a network broadcast. But even a bargain basement 1990s Ethernet chipset does onboard multicast filtering, so irrelevant neighbour discovery packets needn't wake up your OS whereas every ARP query must be drawn to the attention of every host's OS to confirm it's not for them.

However, spend a little more money and the network switch understands multicast, so now the data isn't even sent across links which don't have anybody listening to that address, whereas of course nothing can be done about broadcasts.

You couldn't have easily done this trick in IPv4 because the address space is too small, but in IPv6 choosing the Ethernet multicast addresses to make this work falls out very easily.
Fast Text-Only Domain Adaptation of RNN-Transducer Prediction Network
Scooters, bikes and hoverboards are all micromobility.
Note that the article calls them:

"one of a growing number of companies that straddle the divide between consumer services and government surveillance and rely on the proliferation of mobile phones as a way to turn billions of devices into sensors that gather open-source information useful to government security services around the world."

Who else does this? Also, for those who want a sense of the scope of this app:

"In one pitch on its technology, prepared in 2019 for Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force-Afghanistan, Premise proposed three potential uses that could be carried out in a way that is "responsive to commander's information requirements": gauge the effectiveness of U.S. information operations; scout and map out key social structures such as mosques, banks and internet cafes; and covertly monitor cell-tower and Wi-Fi signals in a 100-square-kilometer area. The presentation said tasks needed to be designed to “safeguard true intent”—meaning contributors wouldn’t necessarily be aware they were participating in a government operation."

and

"submitted a document last July to the British government describing its capabilities, saying it can capture more than 100 types of metadata from its contributors' phones … including the phone's location, type, battery level and installed apps"

They also do work for businesses.
Finflux has a visioned roadmap in building financial products targeting from small MFI's to big banks at affordable pricing. They have got all the potential to reach their goal.
We should be able to just tell the credit card company to cancel recurring payments. They'll try to charge the card and get denied.
The nice thing they also added was the ability to trim the self-contained app, so it doesn't include a lot of unnecessary assemblies.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/trim-...
>I've seen videos on Star Citizen talking about new systems they're adding like being put in prison and escaping and all I can think of is that this sounds cool but why are you spending any effort on this before you have a core game?

This has been my impression too of Star Citizen for years now.

I won't be surprised if they soon jump on the crypto bandwagon and start auctioning off ships as blockchain NFTs. Still can't use them in a working game, but you can trade them on crypto markets.

It could be interesting to see markets apply sophisticated valuation tools to the net present value of future Star Citizen cash flows. I bet clever financial engineers could figure out ways continuing the funding and delaying Star Citizen's launch indefinitely.
If it's React Native they could eventually move to RN for Windows which is close to native windows.
I took the Coursera's Machine Learning course in 2017 just because I had some time then. But I didn't work on any related project, back to square one now. A few weeks back I started to revise the course but it's appears to be boring because I know that I've done it already and I feel that I'll forget it once again.

Can you please share how you started and the projects you worked on?
> What do you think the entire medical, pharmaceutical, bioinformatic, etc. industries have been doing for decades?

Well, let's remember that the AlphaFold team at Google solved the protein folding problem with a relatively small team in a relatively small number of years after extremely large, well funded companies whose primary business was drug development failed to do so for decades.

So yeah, it's been demonstrated to be possible that the current leaders in a field might be significantly less capable than a different team.
DARPA Grand Challenge kickstarted a lot of careers and companies and it was a pitiful amount of money as well.

In WWII there was no time for serendipity and black swans. Only guarantees, before the other side got it, within a few years.
Have you heard of anyone who voted for Trump (or, I guess, stayed home instead of voting for Hillary) because she learned from the DNC emails that Clinton and the DNC had conspired against Sanders? Or for any other reason connected to those emails?

I haven't.
And this is the myth of "The Man is keeping me down".

It allows people to ignore that their choices are by far the biggest factor in what happens in their lives, and instead allows them blame society and take no responsibility.
I definitely will if one magazine costs less than 10 bucks and I can afford bi weekly subscription. However I do understand it's just my own opinion and also it's difficult for the magazine to shine in the sea of free material on the Internet.
Perhaps the guidelines need to be questioned, if these are narratives supporting them.
In my experience, outsourced code is almost always harder to maintain and I haven't seen example of successful outsourcing of ongoing code maintenance.

I'm sure there's a lot of variance, but I don't think "outsourced everything" will be practical for most software businesses that place importance on quality of service.

Outsourcing can be great for developing a green-field new initiative, but at some point the in house folks are going to need to learn the new codebase so they can fix bugs, scale, and keep the lights on.
> trying out their new CodeGuru analysis tools for free

I for sure did not get that impression; where did you see they're offering free analysis?
Like all of his videos, Jon Gjengset's live coding session on lifetimes is excellent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAl-9HwD858
Imagine being that right, that often, on things that important - and being ignored / smeared / mocked for your trouble.
About the only thing I dislike about Fastmail is there's no equivalent to gmail's "unread-first" view. IE show unread messages first, in reverse-chronological order, then all read messages, in reverse-chronological order.
self contained executables simply bundles the libraries, but still requires a JIT compilation to execute.

The description of bflat is what you are looking for, and it's the second section of the readme.

bflat implements a form of ahead-of-time compilation.

This is closer to .net native conceptually, but that was only a UWP abomination.

edit: replies have pointed out this is actually closer to ReadyToRun, a neat feature I was not aware of.
It's a violation of privacy - it makes it that much easier for people to see how much electricity or water you consume. It isn't necessarily a secret, but it is not so easy to find out when you have to go to a meter directly.
Those self-contained exes need a .NET runtime to be just-in-time (JIT) compiled to code your CPU can actually run. This JIT compilation happens as your app runs, so your startup performance suffers as a result. On the other hand, bflat compiles your project ahead of time into native code your CPU understands.

Also, to build that exe you have to use the .NET SDK which pulls in lots of tooling: MSBuild, NuGet, etc... It looks like bflat ditches all of that.
Oh pretty cool. We've been doing that with my fiance for a few years. Her English isn't quite as good as mine but I proof-read it once.

https://hypertele.fi/fbd0998dd2834f08
Don't sell yourself short. Your ability to grok the summary (or abstract) of a research paper is probably not much worse--and possibly better--than a typical journalist, even a journalist at the NYT. Especially relative to younger journalists, who seem to rely on Twitter and other social media to contextualize things.
I think California has something like that.
> but what about everyone else?

Vote.
Querying Parquet with Precision Using DuckDB
The part where he invested in a company he directly controlled (Paypal) through his Roth IRA.
I know it's pretty subjective, but I'd personally rate Fastmail's UI as one of the best I've used. The only real issue I have with it is that uncached searches could be faster.
Thanks - we agree! :) (I'm one of the Aserto co-founders).

It's indeed a hard problem, because you want the solution to have the operational characteristics of a library (millisecond latency / 100% available to the calling application), but at the same time, give you the convenience of a service / control-plane (allow you to centrally manage the lifecycle of authorization policies, sync properties about the users to the edge, drain all the decision logs back to the control plane, etc).

It's one of the most frustrating wheels that developers still have to re-invent, and it's great to see more companies trying to innovate in this space.

As @tristanz mentioned we're in private beta, and happy to engage with folks that want to solve AuthZ :)
To be fair, if you were interested in hardening your system and evaluating attack surfaces, that is also what you would do.
>> Tickets that can be scalped were priced at below what you might naively consider "market" prices.

Maybe. The scalpers are taking a risk buying tickets they may not sell, so it might serve as a mechanism to find the market price for the tickets. OTOH it also creates artificial scarcity which artificially raises the price.

In the end, the scalper is inserting themself into a transaction between two parties that didn't ask for them to do so and were mutually satisfied with the situation prior to that (nothing changed for the seller, and I think most buyers would appreciate the lower price).
> When was he found guilty for the dead neighbor?

> Anyways---you don't poison a guy's dogs.

When was the neighbor found guilty for that?
How do I block this?
I use Fastmail as well. I'm totally fine with the web version but the app really needs some more love and improvements.
Ah, completely agreed on my word choice being wrong there.

Agreed on doing things to try to move the needle in a better direction. I will disagree the minute things land in a "zero tolerance" bucket. Yes, there are easy straw men that can and should be burned down. Nuance and discretion abound, though.

So, I probably do not disagree with the method for making policies you are describing. I'm also probably more comfortable with the idea that many policies are ultimately to be questioned, as well.
Ads are part of it, certainly.

It allows the page to initially load more quickly because the browser doesn't have to grind through all the ad and site effluvia before rendering. Lots of work can be deferred asynchronously while the user is reading the first part of the page.

It provides a signal that the visitor actually stayed and read more than the first paragraph. Handy for tracking "engagement".

It can reduce total load on the site and its services, by only making requests for all the artifacts if the user clicks the "read more". That can reduce bandwidth and serving costs.

tl;dr optimization
Naturally, all diseases evolve with time.
The OG late-2019 Wuhan covid strain, which all current vaccines are based on, was almost 2 years ago and no longer exists in the wild
What about with ReadyToRun and single file?
Yeah. I've been 100% remote for several years - and while I personally love it overall I know it's not for everyone - but I really can't emphasize enough that pandemic remote work is not normal remote work.