skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They will have walls, this is just a demo model to show the internals.
Yes, but only after they pirated it, admitted to doing so in a front page Hacker News article, and then suggested other people do so too.

Do you think tech startups really want an investor who advises people to pirate software?
There is a discussion being had. This guy was sharing his opinion about syncthing. That still doesn't obligate him to open a bug or do any work for the project.
For those who want to know more about Gitlab and its all remote approach (a lot of posts): https://about.gitlab.com/blog/tags.html#remote-work

And their handbook: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/
Also as the esbuild thread alluded, Phoenix (Elixir) and Rails alpha are switching to esbuild because of how many issues were raised in their projects related to things breaking in the Webpack tooling.
> This seems like a failed opportunity for Walgreens to pilot some kind of "deposit" like gas pumps do. Walk into the Walgreens and run your card with a $75 deposit, or sign in with an ID, etc.

Why is the failure Walgreens'? Forcing customers to show ID or provide a credit card would make for a horrible customer experience and inevitably lead to confrontations involving staff.

Maybe if communities where shoplifting has basically been sanctioned lose enough stores, residents will force change.
I remember Michelin talking about these before but seem to recall that the biggest impediment was cannibalization concerns from existing departments.
I think the grandparent is referring to Azure DevOps which is a Git / Issues product like Github and Gitlab, not Azure Cloud. Azure DevOps is "fine" though I feel like MS is pushing Github and will deprecate DevOps at some point in the coming years.
Microsoft paid $7.5 billion for GitHub in 2018.

GitLab being ~$10B 4 year later seems like similar ballbark. There is always the possibility of acquisition in the future.

(EDIT: had names reversed)
I didn't read the title that way. You can have a (heuristic) solver that finds solutions to some instances of an NP-hard problem in reasonable time. That's not the same as claiming to have an algorithm that, in the strict theoretical CS sense, would solve that problem (i.e. all instances of it) in polynomial time. The latter claim would be highly suspicious by default; the former need not be, as it doesn't imply anything extraordinary.

Quote from OP in another comment:

> I think a better way to phrase it is that we are writing a solver for a reasonable subset of inputs to an NP-hard problem.
Difficulty is entirely due to scarcity of housing.

Our last place only held 3 cars so the others were garaged at a friend's. New place has room. We beat lottery-like odds to get it (& offered 6 mos up front).
What is with this knee-jerk defense of Apple every time someone suggests holding them to a higher consumer standard?

You can sell good products while still embracing open technologies.
I hope your admonitions to the call center drone who picked up your call were emotionally satisfying to you, because that's as far as they went. If you want to influence company policy on something like that your best bet is a highly visible social media conversation. The poor call center drone who was the subject of your wrath literally just sighed and stared at the wall for a second after your call then opened up the line to the next person who was going to yell at them.
If they were paying more than an IPO value they probably would buy already ...
Interesting.

I didn't know you could add the search bar but when you do, the address bar still says "Search with <your default search> or enter address".
But to do business in China, LinkedIn censored the posts made by its millions of Chinese users in accordance with Chinese laws, something that other American companies were often reluctant or unable to do.

Not just Chinese users in China. Chinese and non-Chinese users outside of China, including journalists (https://www.axios.com/linkedin-unanswered-questions-china-ce...) and others.

LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft, which has its own questionable record when it comes to scrubbing content all over the world to appease the CCP. Remember tank man images missing from Bing, caused by "accidental human error"?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27395635

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57367100
I'll believe it when it happens. Aptera has gone out of business more times than they have released a production car.
i'm pretty sure you'd have about a hundred whistles if you left the voids exposed at highway speed.
I remember being excited about the Aptera twelve years ago. I’ll maybe get excited again once they actually start shipping a vehicle. They’ve already gone out of business once.
In another comment it was mentioned that there will doubtlessly be "sidewalls" on actual airless tires, and that the exposed ones shown on this page are just for show. I admit that makes a lot of sense given your point about dirt/rocks entering in and effecting the absorption effect of the honeycomb.
Calling it a compiler is not great IMO, but it is a js bundler/transpiler.

You set it up, and write your js code, and parcel spits out the final, ready to embed in your html file, js and css assets.

That's oversimplified, but the basics all the same.
For those without a sense of humor, this is sarcasm.
Yes, someone wins the lottery. I don't think we should use that as evidence that playing the lottery is a smart financial decision.
Those are also widely available now (ie Facebook Portal + similar), but nobody needs them. My grandparents had a similar model which they used until a few years ago.
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The path and the query parameters are obviously useful and informative. The problem is that those URL components have more-and-more been turned into opaque hashes, that provide zero information.

And it's annoying that web-devs don't respect the principle that URLs shouldn't ever change.
Most companies put a lot of money and reputation on the line advertising and taking stances on current events in such a way to imply that they are "in the business of making the world a better place". Either they need to step up and practice what they preach, or a regulatory agency like the FTC should step in when they make false claims about corporate governance.
For engaging in anti-competitive behavior. Forcing a single App Store on an os is much less draconian than offering a broken interface to basic OS functionality in order to prop your own product above others. Imagine if Windows downclocked whenever you wanted to use an office alternative. This is not much different.
Most Linux distributions are much more similar to each other than BSDs are. At least that's my impression after spending the last month at work porting a bunch of scripts from Linux to several BSDs (Free, Open, and Net). The differences are too many to describe here, from where they install third party libraries, to configuration file locations and formats, to how basic tools work (essential things like grep/sed/awk have (sometimes very) different feature sets, flags, and runtime characteristics (for example, how exactly do they handle signals)). Default shells are also very different, though that's a pretty minor thing.

If you compare something like Debian, Alpine, and NixOS, then maybe..
No one owes Facebook the benefit of that doubt.
Fair point - I should have tried this with an actual camera. But I suspect my line of reasoning still stands, that the focal length doesn't affect the phenomena being discussed here
Weird that the surprisingly prevalent anti-vax, anti-safety measure crowd that's on HN hasn't shown up in this comments section yet.
Surprisingly straightforwardly - when you open the lid, focus is initially still on the desktop, not on the Lock Screen. You may have noticed if you’re too quick with your password the first few characters don’t appear. They don’t go nowhere - they go to the desktop.

If you get a certain key combination in before focus switches, it stays on the desktop, and you can continue to input - fire up a terminal, do whatever you fancy. It’s all blind, but still perfectly dangerous.

Certain full screen apps, if they have focus when you lock, retain focus indefinitely. Paradox interactive games, for instance - stellaris exhibits the behaviour nicely. This even includes mouse focus, and if you Apple-tab, then focus goes to whatever you Apple-tab to. You can only restore focus to the Lock Screen by clicking in the password field.

Both times I reported this I got a pedantic “locking the screen does not terminate applications, which may continue to run in the background” response.
Which hypervisor are you using for that? I used to run Xen for a similar purpose, but I ended up just running normal debian with a bunch of lxc containers instead after dealing with some Xen issues that were difficult to unravel.
"Every year, 20%* of tires are discarded as scrap "

Really? They cite a survey, but don't link to it.
The settings screen has the option "show search in address bar results". You can turn that off.
If any newsroom brass is reading this (or independent reporters, especially local) -- I'd love to talk. We're building a platform to help monetize journalism outside of the usual predatory social media/aggregator set up.

jared (at) nillium (dot) com
Does the focus on NVH imply that the increase of rolling friction over time is negligible compared to the tread lifetime ? Or is that partly of the reason to target lighter vehicles.

The above assumes the spokes(?) become stretched over time it would increase displacement of the center of rotation from the center of mass which if recall is what creates rolling friction.
There is still a catch, any firm using a Regulation D exception has to go public if their shareholder total goes over 500. The loophole is that they could require a minimum amount and for the smaller amounts to join together into their own fund.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28843122
One of my favorite tech pranks.

Although it should be noted that Facebook has long since changed their the way they handle targeting and it's no longer possible to use this method.
> Eliminating the URL means that everything is a keyword search to visit places.

I don't think you can jump to that conclusion.

For example I can come up with an idea that removes URLs without going through google. Imagine a new protocol where the user types in something like "john's pizza cafe; order a pizza". My local pizza joint is registered in a DNS-like system and handles the query directly with some commodity search-like system, never going through google; or the pizza joint offloads the query to some 3rd party which crawls their site and handles the resolution.

(This is just some dumb idea I came up with off the top of my head; please don't nit-pick it to pieces. Wait for Google's proposal to come out and nit-pick that.)

Every internet query going through google would be bad, sure. But google isn't proposing that... yet :)
For me it's becoming less about owning something and more about just finding it. Streaming services have fragmented and they each have some flagship show or series locked to their platform. At this point we're back to premium cable channels all over again. If I want to watch an old episode of something like South Park I don't know which services would have it, but I know of a torrenting site that will.
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>Both of those statements can't be true at the same time

Why? Both of those statements can be true but I don't think the only options are the 2 that you're describing.

To me, it's more like the value proposition that Costco offers than it is selling customers as assets. Costco members pay a fee every year to stay on as members. Businesses want to put their products in Costco stores because Costco members spend money more liberally than in normal stores. Whereas Walmart shoppers are always looking for the lowest cost, Costco shoppers tend to shop for higher quality items and are willing to pay for them. Costco is not necessarily selling its customers to these businesses but access to them is limited because Costco sets certain standards for the limited space they have in their warehouses. So, in that sense, when companies are vying for the "access to [their] userbase", doesn't Costco also "have it both ways"?

Both of your statements are true in the case of Costco so why is it somehow impossible for them to be true in Apple's case as well? If the customer's appreciate Apple and Costco serving as gatekeepers (because they trust them to perform that task) then neither Costco or Apple are violating the trust of their users while still keeping that moral leg up.
These stories fascinate me; I remember how giddy I was when the famous "Mel" programmer's identity was discovered, even though I have zero need to know, nor even any relationship with any of the story. Other than said fascination.
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>Do you really believe that Facebook is actively tailoring posts to create a false narrative

They have done something similar before[0]. So any denials on their part now will necessarily be taken with a truckload of salt.

In a study with academics from Cornell and the University of California, Facebook filtered users' news feeds – the flow of comments, videos, pictures and web links posted by other people in their social network. One test reduced users' exposure to their friends' "positive emotional content", resulting in fewer positive posts of their own. Another test reduced exposure to "negative emotional content" and the opposite happened.

[0]https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/29/facebook-...
Something like Asimov's "Profession" story, I imagine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profession_(novella)
I can confirm that the F-Droid version has fixed this issue a while ago.
Totally agree. I don’t think they actually invalidated product market fit. The way to do that is by pitching to companies/managers/teams in person and seeing if 0% or some other unacceptable percentage of them actually sign up
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It would indeed seem odd to me to not assign at least some blame to the people doing the actual shooting.
I clicked on the link thinking I was going to be reading about Forth and other "simple" programming languages.
Arch was the most BSD-ish when I tried it a few years back
Absolutely, my point was that if you can remove them for this sort of demo, then if they get damaged by a pothole then it's probably easy to replace them.
Yes. The housing shortage here is unprecedented. It's also unprecedented in the other markets where it's happening.

note: One major reason for employee shortages is that people can no longer afford to live in many job markets.
Perhaps, but there is some [1] history to suggest that the case could be made that the UK does have a long history of commitment to freedom.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28866094
Terms like common decency and backbone are words used to describe how we should all be. People branding anything promoting social and personal responsibility for the public good - as negative, are typically part of the problem rather than the solution. Why didn't you go a tiny bit further and say "dog whistle"?
I think a good analogy is an automatic vs manual car. Most people prefer to have one pedal for the accelerator. But you still have many car enthusiasts (web enthusiasts) that know how cars (the web) work and want to control the mechanics behind the scenes. I wish it was still an option provided to users.

Google has a financial incentive for the Omnibar though. After searching for "facebook" users would click the first link, which might also happen to be an ad for Facebook. Effectively, turning a profit from the laziness of people not typing .com.
> Apple has switched from bash to zsh. I don't know the motivations for this

GPLv3 vs BSD or MIT license. I lived zsh anyway, switched some of my BSD shells to it afterwards.
I thought this was going to be about the stack smashing guy.
I'm aware of this article. She says "they're taking something called Ivermectin, which is an anti-parasite drug for horses", which isn't the whole story, but is also a reasonable sentence, since they were in fact taking a horse medicine called ivermectin and the same article explicitly states that there are human formulations and you can take those if your doctor prescribes them. So, I think it's unfair to use this as evidence of your assertion, or as rationale for the broader, usually politically-motivated bitterness about the media. I'm sure you could find some example of an article I haven't seen that committed the sin you claim, especially from somewhere as biased as CNN, but I would only have to take back the "maybe never?" part of my statement, and it may reasonably still stand.
I'm pretty sure a lot of people wouldn't understand the word "shod". It's not really a word in common usage.

I just hope nobody would mishear it as "shot". That could be unpleasant.
> The paper’s authors point out a number of cases where nanotargeting was used in a deceptive manner, including the time in 2017 that UK Labour politician Jeremy Corbyn, then leader of the government’s opposition party, decreed that Labour should run a Facebook ad campaign to encourage voter registration.

> Labour party chiefs disapproved the idea, but rather than entering into conflict, simply implemented a £5000 ad campaign designed to only target Corbyn and his associates, as well as a select number of sympathetic journalists. No-one else saw those ads.

I'm not going to lie, that's a pretty impressive way to get someone off of your back.
>Think like a user, not an engineer.

So your technology, too, can become a melange of idiotic decisions where you leak things into a search engine!

While you're at it, only feed your kids ice cream and pizza because that's what they want to eat. Think like a kid, not an adult.
Most cities basically need to setup a second police force with isolated culture. It's a decade-long project, but it's really the only way.

That's how defund should work. Start funding a properly functioning department, and starve the other one.
We also have a paid Youtube subscription and the Youtube kids Ipad application. And these options that you mentioned does not exist, in any other country than US I guess, are you in US?

Plus other things that I mentioned like that "you can not filter or sort or limit based on your subscriptions" is still the same I guess.
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A similar grounding exercise[1] I like is saying out loud: 5 things I can see, 4 things I can touch, 3 things I can hear, 2 things I can smell, and 1 thing I can taste. It takes just a minute to complete and consistently works.

[1] https://copingskillsforkids.com/blog/2016/4/27/coping-skill-...
This is a big reason I think influencer marketing is picking up steam. Everyone knows that reviews and SEO can be gamed, with little to no consequence. If an influencer tells you something is good, at least their reputation is on the line. If they continually sell out, they kill the golden goose.

So, as dumb as it sounds, influencer reviews are higher signal to me than typical online reviews.
Apple is getting more serious about 3D and the gaming market, which isn’t surprising considering the market size.
The source code does limit issuance to 21m coins.

But could Jamie Dimon still be right?

Well, if the network proves not to work without a sizable block subsidy, it could be hard forked, with the forked version of the source code not capping issuance at 21m coins. It's certainly one possible outcome...
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I set up Audible accounts, because my favourite podcasts had ads for it. Their pricing model is basically "get as much money out of you as possible". Monthly subscription payment, and when you stop, you'll lose all your audiobooks. Before I stopped supporting this usury I downloaded all the books via some scripts I found on Internets. The books are still DRM protected and I will have to use some other scripts to decrypt them. Fuck Amazon.
Source? Most of them are out on bond.
Yes, I think Ghidra is "good enough" for most use cases. For some (architectures other than x86/ARM), it is vastly superior. For others (Windows and especially C++) it's not quite as good, but still useable.

For C++ projects targeting Windows, IDA is still a lot better in terms of decompilation quality. The demangler and function signature system is particularly tailored to MSVC++.

For other architectures, Ghidra kills IDA by virtue of abstraction - all disassembly turns into the same IR (P-code) and is decompiled from there. So, the decompiler works across all architectures with a processor spec, rather than being specialized to x86/ARM.

And, the exposure of this P-code system is very powerful as well - with some clever plugin scripting for Ghidra, you can actually single-step through the P-code as though you had a full emulator/debugger, without needing to set up an entire virtual environment. https://wrongbaud.github.io/posts/kong-vs-ghidra/
> Microsoft paid $7.5 billion for GitLab in 2018.

That's a bit of an alternate timeline.
I encourage you to Google "CVS San Francisco theft" and see how many results you find
>For example, by auto-completing a search term to a URL instead

Press space? Not every use case has to be addressed by UI elements, especially when we're talking about edge cases
> The solution, then, is to change the grading system so that good grades may be "redistributed" to lower performers

That's interesting, because this idea is so completely counter to what is proposed in the linked article. The article, if anything, is advocating for grades to be more focused on actual learning outcomes (performance) than is the current default. Many of the solutions proposed (such as getting rid of averaging over the entire course) have the goal of making it based more on merit, not less.

I think this gets to the difficulty, in terms of the overall discussion about race, equity, etc. There are some people who really abuse these terms, and others who simply don't know what they mean, or simply have very different ideas of what terms like this mean. (I see this from people with a variety of ideologies and backgrounds.)

My general conception of equity is about adjusting the system in order to remove unfair (and un-necessary) burdens on certain groups of people.

For example, equitable access to real food requires actual groceries available to people. I used to live in Park Slope, Brooklyn. There were literally five high quality grocery stores within a ten minute walk. Contrast that to other parts of the country where there is no easy access (at all) for people to buy fresh produce. That's not equitable.

Similar for grading: If you go into an algebra 101 class, and you do very badly in your first few weeks, simply because you have a lot to learn, you should still be able to get an 'A' in the class if you fully master the material. Otherwise, it's not equitable.

Equity specifically isn't (and shouldn't) refer to equality, IMO. It should be about removing the often arbitrary burdens that disadvantage some people, and the unfair advantages that only serve to put people in an advantaged position (such as providing better grades to people who already know the material in a class, when final learning outcomes are no better.)
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I would game the system - I would pay my friends and colleagues to refer me, and when I get the job, I would collect the payout (after two months) from the referrers and keep it as a signing bonus and treat all my friends / colleagues to a big party. (And yes, this is very much doable when Indians are involved ;).
Not hard to imagine with advances in machine learning. I'd guess you will almost certainly have at least the equivalent cognitive power of one person monitoring your purchasing needs within the next 20 years.