skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Careful. That sort of thing is endemic with leaders in general. A simple swap / "revert to mean" isn't going to help. It's like pressing the reset button on a smart TV where it just turns back on all the ads, lag, saturation, and edge detection filters that you spent hours figuring out how to disable when you first bought it.
> Workplace OS is IBM's ultimate operating system prototype of the 1990s. It is the product of an exploratory research program in 1991 which yielded a design called the Grand Unifying Theory of Systems (GUTS), proposing to unify the world's systems as generalized personalities cohabitating concurrently upon a universally sophisticated platform of object-oriented frameworks upon one microkernel.

> With protracted development spanning four years and $2 billion (or 0.6% of IBM's revenue for that period), the project suffered development hell characterized by empire building, feature creep, and the second-system effect.
> If the market has proven that someone will pay $10 for a thing, suddenly offering it for $7 seems like a bad business move.

The mobile app payment market hasn't been competitive for a decade, so Apple has never had to compete with companies that are more efficient than they are, and can offer the same or better service for less than a 30% cut.
- Offer amnesty / limited liability / zero liability for losses following breaches

- require full disclosure to national data registrars following breaches from now on.

- Make source of income as big a deal as KYC

- make KYC a "walk in the branch with some photo id". How many of us really need to borrow thousands without going into a store or bank.
Last I checked, the anonymous web was effectively dead. Or do these people not use the internet either?
Yeah, I suppose I mean "bad" in terms of "getting the thing off the ground."
I wouldn't be surprised to see a pop up warning when leaving the app to the browser that gives a warning like this on all external links.
Meta: I added the "SF Mayor" preface to the title because I'm sure a lot of people wouldn't automatically know who that is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Brown_(politician)
People/apps that use alternate payment SDKs aren't going to care how difficult it is to unsubscribe, and very few people (citation needed) care enough to look into an app's cancellation flow before buying in.
I cancelled mine by sending them an email stating that I would be disputing every charge.

The reply email I got was at 9:07am EST, 'dispute' probably automatically puts your email head of queue for them.
(Regardless of merit)

First, a lot of big companies do operate in Texas, for lots of reasons, including decent connectivity, an interesting energy market, and some amount of low cost workforce.

If that doesn't work, then you can always follow the money and sanction companies that do business with the company you want to sanction. No Texas advertising would make an impact.
No, it's not.

Just basic safety around capacitor, don't take a deep breath around the magnetron or shatter it / grind it into fine dust, and you'll be fine.
Counterintuitively, it's even worse out of London where salaries are lower. In Nottingham, a 15 minute bus ride to work costs me £3 (so I cycle).
This is very insightful. I tend to do this verbally as well, when I’m trying to explain something to people and I can see they don’t get it. In that context I’m trying to learn to stop and say “does that make sense” instead of rephrasing.
but then because the wristband is more expensive, they'll hide or break the wristband machine and the next thing you know, downtown disney is now the bowery with sketchy ad men in pinstripe suits chasing everyone around. the whole reason why people pay to go to downtown disney is because they don't want to deal with that shit.

the simple fact no one wants to admit is that the msrp for an iphone or an android does not even come close to the r&d costs for the software, hardware and backend platforms. android is open, but in exchange for that, users pay by broadcasting all their activity to creepy marketers. ios is closed, but rather than take money from creepazoids who are stalking and trying to sell to and complicate the lives of users, they charge a tax on all commercial activity on the platform... to pay for the platform.

now third parties are saying "we don't want to pay the platform tax" but this is couched in all this bullshit about app store freedom or choice in payment processor or whatever.

if you don't want to pay the platform tax, don't do business on the platform. don't try to wreck the platform's business model and value proposition for the users who choose it over the digital advertising dystopia that is the "open" internet in 2021.
I mean that's the problem of any protocol in general. Your opsec can be great, but if it relies on someone else's opsec...
> Who cares about covid spread? We have vaccines that protect you and anybody who takes them.

People who can't be vaccinated for medical reasons. People for which the vaccine doesn't work. People who care about people who won't vaccinate. People in hospitals who have to take care for infected/sickened people.

Some people care.
> Parsing XML is just grammar like JSON is ... that is not more or less difficult.

My understanding is that that's not the case. XML parsers are Pull or SAX based and it's weird as fuck.

You can abstract that out, but parser complexity isn't something to sneeze out. For one thing, parsing XML is notoriously dangerous - tons of vulns both at a design and memory management level.
This is borderline FUD, just like people arguing that kernel programming is dangerous, when it's just another programming environment.
Well, "most popular" is an objective category, whereas "interesting" is not, so it's really up to the individual to determine what is and isn't interesting.
Cubicles weren't just used as the inventor intended.[1]

[1] https://medium.com/robin-powered/the-accidental-arrival-of-t...
I'm going to agree with @dempedempe , and throw out examples of questions (not company-specific) that I've added in the last week:

> The git command that returns the .git directory that's controlling the directory you're in is git rev-parse --absolute-git-dir .

> In Scala, you have an array, a. What's the best way to turn a into a String? a.mkString(" ")

> In HTML, how do you tell an li tag to start at 3? <li value="3">

> In Scala, how do you do exponentiation? Use scala.math.pow(). Do not use Math.pow().

> In Scala, you have a variable "val l: List[SNid]". How do you convert l to a ListBuffer[SNid]? "l.to[ListBuffer]". Note that it's not "l.to[ListBuffer[SNid]]" or "l.asInstanceOf[ListBuffer[SNid]]"

> In multiple linear regression, is it better to have a large or a small RSE? A small RSE is better. RSE is the Reducible Standard Error.

These questions came from things I got wrong in the last week.
I'm not sure what you mean by "while another is not yet even made"
Well MDMA and other psychedelics do have major effects.

I think the ultimate source of the article's claims is this study, but there might be others I am not aware of - the research of psychedelics has exploded lately.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30944474/
From https://juce.com/get-juce "JUCE is dual licenced under both the JUCE licence and the GPLv3."
Ask HN: What interesting things do you use spreadsheets for?
Right? My idea above is sort of -- let's assume NFTs more or less work for the "1000 true fans," could the idea be tweaked for the smaller or more divisible for the "100,000 casual" fans?
Why not just have common sense property rights enforced by law?
Unless something has changed in the past year since the last time I've made an Apple ID, they don't verify the phone number. For 2FA, you can also give it an email address. And I'm almost certain I've used a Google Voice number with an Apple ID before with no qualms.
> Civil law vs. criminal law: Punishment

> Another important distinction between civil and criminal law is the type of penalty paid for being found guilty. In a criminal case, if the individual charged with a crime loses the case, they’re likely facing incarceration or some type of probation. For civil cases, the resolution to a case doesn’t result in the “losing” party going to jail. Often the judgement results in a financial penalty or an order to change behavior.

https://www.rasmussen.edu/degrees/justice-studies/blog/civil...
Simpler and more effective solution: Do as JFK suggested and "splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds".
> Personally, I suspect it is not an accidental outlier, but given that it does not produce much distortion in the overall trend, I am less inclined to see the 0.05 threshold (actual or perceived) as a problem than I did before I saw this chart.

Don't be fooled by the line someone drew on the chart. There's no particular reason to view this as a smooth nonlinear relationship except that somebody clearly wanted you to do that when they prepared the chart.

I could describe the same data, with different graphical aids, as:

- uniform distribution ("75 papers") between an eyeballed p < .02 and p < .05

- large spike ("95 papers") at exactly p = 0.4999

- sharp decline between p < .05 and p < .06

- uniform distribution ("19 papers") from p < .06 to p < .10

- bizarre, elevated sawtooth distribution between p < .01 and p < .02

And if I describe it that way, the spike at .05 is having exactly the effect you'd expect, drawing papers away from their rightful place somewhere above .05. If the p-value chart were a histogram like all the others instead of a scatterplot with a misleading visual aid, it would look pretty similar to the other charts.
What if the "hassle" was solved though? If we get comfortable, light weight, easy-on/off HMDs with good enough resolution I think it will be a game changer.

I work from home with two monitors. If I could pop on a pair of goggles and get infinite screen space I think that could definitely improve my productivity.
> This has led to a growing colony of Oyster cards that haven't been used for at least a year - about 82m of them - and passengers' cash in the coffers of Transport for London (TfL) totalling more than £550m.

I would assume that TfL is investing that static £550m. Even at a 1% gain annually, that's a nice chunk of profit from sitting on Oyster cash
Windows + WSL2 is starting to catching up with Chrome OS + crostini. How exciting.
that's news to me, had to find a source: https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/2/22653747/whatsapp-fine-amo...

looks like WhatsApp is appealing, so not a case close.

> noting that WhatsApp did not properly inform EU citizens how it handles their personal data, including how it shares that information with its parent company.

I'm not sure I understand these kind of claims to begin with. WhatsApp is facebook, why would they have to warn users that the data is shared?
Converting office buildings into housing is incredibly expensive according to everything I've read. Plumbing is inadequate. HVAC is designed for central control of large uniform spaces.
The Guardian allows you to sign in from a browser with your AppleID - does that not give you access to your subscription? https://profile.theguardian.com/signin
What is the mechanism by which an entity that has the resources to spend on wrist-slaps is prevented from just continuing the behavior forever? I notice this a lot, and it feels like there are these opportunities everywhere that are exploited by corporations who know they'll skate every time with minimal financial impact.
Hopefully they're getting paid [1] for their efforts!

[1] https://www.sec.gov/whistleblower

"The Commission is authorized by Congress to provide monetary awards to eligible individuals who come forward with high-quality original information that leads to a Commission enforcement action in which over $1,000,000 in sanctions is ordered. The range for awards is between 10% and 30% of the money collected."

From this post:

"While international labor law is not under the purview of the SEC, the complaint alleges that Google’s failure to disclose the pay parity liabilities, which it estimates could amount to $100m, constitute material misstatements in its quarterly financial reports, a violation of US securities law."

“The disclosure makes it clear that Google hasn’t just broken labor laws around the world, but has misled investors about major legal and financial liabilities,” said John Tye, founder and chief disclosure officer of Whistleblower Aid. “The lawful, anonymous whistleblower disclosure is a critical step toward ensuring that Google is held to account. We urge the SEC to bring an enforcement action against Google, and protect the rights of investors to receive complete and accurate information.”
Right I guess that kind of in a warped way makes sense, but medusa was also a monstrous mess of a creature that would turn people to stone. I mean I get the headless reference but wouldn't it make sense to be called Perseus (the hero who killed Medusa)? Named after beheading a monstrous creature, instead of being named after the creature?
Yep, strange, could have sworn it said AR, and that there was a sibling comment discussing exactly this. Ah well.
Last I've heard of Tom Kyte: https://archive.is/20150928144011/http://www.oracle.com/tech...

His answers were sometimes prime examples of what is today known as seriously unwelcoming. But I remember I un-learned the "best practices" meme reading one of his answers. In fact it was just one sentence, some concise version of "if the 'best' setting existed, nobody would bother to make it a configurable option". But it clicked.

Burleson's more advanced answers were of limited usefulness, because they have never mentioned the exact oracle version. They often have been only valid for antiques like Oracle 7.
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Of course it does. I've recently purchase a new washer/dryer and a Bosch fridge. All three units have some kind of connectivity built in, but I just peeled off the stickers telling me how to connect and threw them in the trash. They work just like their old non-smart counterparts as far as I can tell.
Is anyone else watching this series of laws get passed and wonder how many companies are going to pull out or stop investing in Texas? Houston was starting to look like a tech hub, but it seems like the brakes are being slammed so Texas stays red.
What does sparsification mean here?
It would be nice if we lived in a world where the Protonmails could not be compelled by law to keep IP logs for when their service is accessed by specific users, but at least they can not reveal the content of those specific users' email.
OMG, comment right after would explain why we have a chip shortage....

"Sounds like ASML, except that Oracle has automated tests.

(ASML makes machines that make chips. They got something like 90% of the market. Intel, Samsung, TSMC etc are their customers)

ASML has 1 machine available for testing, maybe 2. These are machines that are about to be shipped, but not totally done being assembled yet, but done enough to run software tests on. This is where changes to their 20 million lines of C code can be tested on. Maybe tonight, you get 15 minutes for your team's work. Then again tomorrow, if you're lucky. Oh but not before the build is done, which takes 8 hours.

Otherwise pretty much the same story as Oracle.

Ah no wait. At ASML, when you want to fix a bug, you first describe the bugfix in a Word document. This goes to various risk assessment managers. They assess whether fixing the bug might generate a regression elsewhere. There's no tests, remember, so they do educated guesses whether the bugfix is too risky or not. If they think not, then you get a go to manually apply the fix in 6+ product families. Without automated tests.

(this is a market leader through sheer technological competence, not through good salespeople like oracle. nobody in the world can make machines that can do what ASML's machines can do. they're also among the hottest tech companies on the dutch stock market. and their software engineering situation is a 1980's horror story times 10. it's quite depressing, really)"
Extend Remmina so you can write plugins with Python:

https://gitlab.com/Remmina/Remmina/-/issues/2125#note_666735...
> Or I could just buy the T-shirt at a fraction of the cost, and not care that it's not carrying a cryptographic signature.

Sure, if you want to have that T-shirt, or support the artist, or something. But the goal of NFTs is to guarantee the uniqueness of what you bought, usually (probably 99% of the time) because people want to invest in them. So a T-shirt won't do.

I see NFTs as the "ultimate abstraction" of all speculation. It's not anymore about the value of the thing itself, it's just that you can buy it, prove that you have it and resell it.

> Most NFTs that I've seen are incredibly flimsy-looking digital 'pieces', if I can even call them that. Their value itself is just as questionable, considering the artsts are unknown, the art is not a limited edition, and the cost to reproduce it is zero.

I agree with that, but still, you can speculate on the NFT so some people will do that. Again, I don't think the cost to reproduce being zero is a problem for NFTs. If you could make a copy of any Picasso painting for free, people would still buy and sell the original for millions.

> Maybe the market for NFTs is purely the '1000 true fans' types, the followers who will always pay for what you put out. But the majority of people are unlikely to have that relationship with the artist, even if they like what they saw on a transient Twitter post one day.

I think the artist doesn't even matter. NFTs today are a bit like shitcoins, some people just want to speculate/gamble.

I'm really crypto-skeptic in general, mostly because I can't see a use for any of those things. But I can see why the concept of NFTs is useful.
The inflation calculator of the BoE says that the average inflation between 2003 and 2020 was 2.9% per year, which means that £1 in 2003 was £1.62 in 2020. So the price you mention is not bad.
In what way are these vaccines not vaccines? Because they are based on mRNA rather than inactive viruses or virus fragments?
How to Synchronize Elasticsearch with MySQL
Except we don't know most of the hacks going on, so we definitely don't know how they happened. Eg we'll never know how many hacks were due to Debian's SSH fiasco but I bet you it's far from zero.
"Tooling for compliance" sounds a hell of a lot more complicated than "you sell my app and send me a check", which is the deal on the App Store, Steam, etc.
We just got an email notice that $locl_newspaper was doubling its monthly subscription rate effective immediately. When we called to cancel they permanently us in at the old subscription rate.

Pretty clearly a cash grab against those subscribers who aren't watching the notices + auto-billing closely...
Despite the local critisicms, the tech implementation at TFL is really good. Oystercard was early, it's the same tech as all of public transport in the Netherlands (which started later but covers the whole country), but TFL quickly implemented support for all contactless bank cards while the Netherlands still in 2021 doesn't have that.

When I was living in the UK I only had an oystercard to lend it to friends and family visiting. Used Apple pay or my creditcard for all of my own travel.
Sounds like what notty was trying to do, though it seems unmaintained for 5yrs.

https://github.com/withoutboats/notty/
Another option is for Apple to offer their digital store as a service to larger players for a lower % fee. Akin to MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operators) and equally on some levels comparable in a way that building that type of network in the first place is costly and in Apples case, it is battle proven software back-end as well as front.
The "wrist slaps" will make up for the entire amount that the offending party short-changed the workers and penalties on top of that not to mention the cost associated with litigation.

So it's not economical for the offending parties to continue such behavior.
If a smooth cancelation is so important to users that it justifies a 30% upcharge, other payment processors will compete. They can even advertise the easy cancelation during checkout next to the payment method (“install the stripe subscriptions app or go to stripe.com for one-click, prorated cancellations!”). I think once one of them does it, they all will. If the injunction goes into effect in 90 days, it will be a gold rush for everyone who gets to finally compete with Apple Pay. This will induce a bunch of rapid innovation in the iOS payment space.
> take seriously the needs of a developer community outside of Fortune 500 orgs

Yeah no kidding. Last year I tried to download the trial of their paid C++ IDE. The licensing tool wouldn't work, and support never returned my emails. People complained in the official forum, no company response their either. I took that to mean "We see you as such a low-value potential customer, we won't lift a finger to get our own demo to work for you".
So these are due to staff shortages. I don't live there now but I use to live in that region and this occurred from time to time...because the hospitals are small and the staff are few...it was normal procedure to fly patients out of state for care. These headlines are misleading because it does not put the issue into context. This is why the National Guard is being considered...because of staff. One reason why there are fewer staff these days is because people are tired of this crap and also may get paid more to sit at home.
What happened to the Bitcoin paper? [pdf]
Do your analysts help with causality? Top companies have some people that talk a lot and others listen to. So if we have our employees talk more and get people to listen to them, we'll be a top company. Brilliant! Could there be a confound? No way!
> Section 2 makes it an offence to commit fraud by false representation in any form. For a representation to be false, the representation being made must be wrong or misleading, and the person making it must know that it is, or might be, wrong or misleading.[0]

I think it is reasonable to presume that by paying it's contractors, Google and by virtue it's executive team was representing to said contractor that they were being paid according to the labor laws. Google executives knew that this was not the case, and withheld that information, likely in order to increase their own personal bonuses. That would seem to me to be theft by deception, illegal in every nation on earth as far as I can tell.

That's not even to mention the shareholders, who were defrauded as the company financials do not accurately reflect their labor liabilities. This in turn may have increased the value of Google stock, that then the people committing fraud around wages receive as a considerable portion of their compensation.

If knowingly lying for personal gain and costing potentially tens of thousands of people life changing amounts of money isn't fraud, what is?

[0]https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-fraud-act-200...
GCP lists a T4 which is suitable for inference for between $0.11/hour and $0.35/hour (depending on commitment duration and preemptibility).

https://cloud.google.com/compute/gpus-pricing
Epic licensing fee $100,000,000?
You can already run GUI apps in containers using pure wayland, just bind the socket into the container.
For a minute I thought it was PC DOS 1.1 rewritten in the Scratch language, and I was ready to be impressed. Still a good article. I actually used DOS 1.1, when it came out. I'm old.