skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Android has its Play Store and could probably pick a few bucks out of each handset sold, although the long term implications of Android without its daddy around aren’t clear.

GSuite is incredibly ubiquitous and has no free tier anymore (other than customers grandfathered in), and GMail can still do ads. I have no doubt they’ll be printing money, relatively speaking.
Ouch, so much for the argument that self-driving is safer if the car was tail-gating another car and didn’t have the reaction speed to brake.
No, sadly there is no open source car avaiable (I think some designs exist, coming from univerisies, but nothing you could buy anywhere) I suppose consumers, tuners and repair shops would love it. But I do not see any big company ever going into that direction.

It would be interesting, how it could avoid the patent madness. I assume EVERYTHING with cars is patented.
To many people the high pay makes it more surprising, not less.
> voting all the time

I don't think he's arguing that voting for a presidential election should be done all the time, but you can use this mechanism for voting on things that would be unfeasible to vote on with paper ballots. Local issues that can be voted by the whole citizenry instead of just a city council. Instead of voting for people that can make decisions for you, you can make those decisions yourself alongside all others who are interested. It seems like a pretty democratic idea to me.
That is a pretty big simplification, both partly true and false. There is international cooperation but copyright has significant differences between countries and having a copyright claim in one country does not always mean you have it in another.
Fauci should be executed for these reasons:

1) Issuing 60-70 grants to WIV and grants to 26 other Chinese biolabs, all associated with the PLA, our enemy. (A PLA general took over WIV in late 2019 after the pandemic started.)

2) Refusing to acknowledge the Mar. 2020 Stanford paper was correct. Fauci's advice is the opposite of what 60,000 epidemiologists recommend.

US children in lockdown states have been set back educationally for life, and the current economic woes are only the beginning.

3) Lying to Congress about GoF at WIV

4) Lying to the US public daily for over 18 months

5) Using Daszak as a cutout when transferring money to China.

Fauci is at the center of perhaps the biggest conspiracy and scandal in world history. Nobody should believe a single word he says.
that is kind of the point - that they couldn't compel a private company doing business in their country and did the cracking instead.
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Honestly, it feels like there should be a law about drivers and source code being made available after the end of life/support for any product, much like there should be right of repair laws.

Anything else is essentially like renting hardware and letting the manufacturer forcefully make it into e-waste whenever they like.
And which of these treaties exactly has a problem with the reverse engineering work done here? Nobody is claiming that Tesla doesn't have copyright on their software, if that copyright allows them to restrict this work is an entirely different kettle of fish, and depending on local laws.
There is no safety in Corporate America.

Exploiting the weaknesses of the largest group possible has been the name of the game for such a long time, that for many well meaning corporate robots it has become automatic behaviour.

They defend, justify and most importantly have no roadmap to how corporate america can reduce exploitating knowledge gaps, info assymetry, biases, weaknesses at scale.
Nothing I said above was refuted or mistaken. You claim that her paper was internally reviewed twice and you chose to ignore evidence to the contrary.

And somehow you managed throughout to completely disregard Timnit’s own responsibility in the situation.
Another common use case is product configuration where you need to fit different parts into a compatible whole.

For example, "I already have Machines A and B with control system S, but now I want to add Machines C and D from another vendor and I need the control systems to work together, what are my options?"

It would query the configuration rules about products and compatibility with the 'knows' that you tell it and find options for the 'unknowns' and tell you something like, "then you can buy X, Y or Z, but if you chose Z you also need to buy an external temperature control from the Foobar 800 series with the D-bus adapter".

In practice, it is often even more complex.

Logic programming is great for this, and I find that using it in small subsystems of a larger application is a super powerful tool.

For interactive systems, a fast implementation is really important. The CLP aspects of Scryer Prolog would also be very helpful.
These businesses have a natural limit to their growth due to the estate tax. If the company grows too large, the taxes on death can be crippling for families that can not plan decades in advance. Public corporations do not have to pay this tax, and therefore have an unnatural advantage in holding valuable assets over long periods of time. The estate tax is well-intentioned, but because it hits only family firms it’s essentially regressive despite being applied only to wealthy families.
They are (deliberately?) juxtaposing calories (the scientific unit of energy) and kilo-calories (the nutritional unit of energy).

Unfortunately, the latter are, confusingly, also called called 'calories', despite one nutritional 'calorie' being 1000x of a 'regular' calorie.
DDR5 RAM prices could be bad news for your wallet
Prolog at the syntactic level is just terms, with the facility to create your own DSLs using custom operators/precedences, or the option to use just functional syntax. Doesn't get any more minimal than that. Minimalist syntax is rather the strong point of Prolog, and also that it's ISO-standardized and you've got a wealth of Prolog systems to to run your code on. Though realistically, the many SWIism that crept into common packages prevent portability across Prolog code bases (excessive use of directives, non-standard core predicates, large base packages and the dreaded package system itself not helping portability, syntax extensions).
Netherlands is lucky to not be Indonesia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accusations_of_ExxonMobil_hu...
Microsoft has a pretty good reputation for investing in research too.
> Google doesn't use the go command or modules, and since there's no direct measurable benefit to Google, it's very difficult to make the case.

i'm curious. What exactly they don't use internally?
On the fun side, in the book :

"Every little kid knows that even the slightest variation in the placement of a firecracker or the most seemingly minor imperfection of a glue joint will lead to dramatically different model airplane explosions."

I've never made my model airplane explode (after the many hours needed to build them).

But I burnt ants :-)
Would it be possible to automate payments for something like that? Just a few linked accounts that have money in them, that couldn't/wouldn't be seized for one reason or another?

Or just pay someone to do it in your name, like a small foundation.
DayOne launches new call for Digital Health startups
Rest assured, I have some familiarity with pickpocketing[1], at least here (Italy) there is a hard limit on ATM's draws (it depends on the actual card of course) typically 500 Euro per day on ATM's of the same bank that issued the card or 250 on other banks.

So you go to the ATM and draw 500 Euro from it, I then can choose, after having setup the camera, the AI (or whatever), a powerful computer to run it, etc. between pickpocketing the card, and then be able to draw - on average - 40% of either 250 or 500 Euro or pickpocketing the 500 Euro directly. (of course I cannot wait "tomorrow" as in the meantime you will have realized that you card is missing and blocked it).

So, as I see it, this approach is only somehow an advantage if you draw less than or around 40% of 250 Euro, 100 Euro or so.

[1] not direct experience but it was more or less "invented" in Italy, the first (unofficial) official school for pickpocketing assertedly dating back to 1864:

https://www.fabriziosalce.it/la-scuola-per-borsaioli-del-bal...
Yes, they're determined to have their go at getting socialism to work, and as Mr Mencken wrote 'deserve to get it good and hard!'
Ah, when I read

Complete file system read access to the Core Duet database (contains a list of contacts from Mail, SMS, iMessage, 3rd-party messaging apps and metadata about all user's interaction with these contacts (including timestamps and statistics), also some attachments (like URLs and texts))

I thought it included SMS and iMessage contents, which does very much sound like what Zerodium is looking for. But reading it again it’s not actually all text messages.
everybody in adtech is in it for the money! Nobody loves ads.
All these people talking about "Google changed, man" seem like they need to consider two points:

1) So did you. E.g. the commenter who was at Google for 9 years. Do you not think you changed? You changed. It reminds me of right wing commentators who say "everything was so great in the 50s!". Sure it was, because you were a child!

2) Selection bias. You left. Of course if you take the people leaving, they'll be less happy with Google than the people who stay.

Oh, and the "Of course, when you leave Google you have to write some kind of letter or rant". Ugh. So childish. No, you do not need an exit rant. And joke or not, this was an exit rant.

> A 10% cut is pretty damn unfavorable, considering I was doing the same work on the same team

So were all your colleagues working in offices outside the bay area. That was literally your "bay area bonus". You're being super spoiled and disrespectful.
I think that a lot of people in this thread seem to not realize that blockchain is not just cryptocurrencies.

I grant you that the topic of how a voter is allowed to vote is not discussed properly in the article, but I don't see that the assumption is made off hand that you need to own BTC or ETH to do so.

My own interpretation of this is that such a voting ledger would be free to participate in and interacting with and, it would be regulated by some mechanism of enrollment based on electronic identification.
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The really interesting stuff is only accessible by a handful of employees. The rest is frankly pretty boring.
It seems like it's this guy[0][1]. He was caught in a To Catch A Predator style sting and then they also found CP on his devices. Having read this article I'm interested in his claims of innocence, I'm not seeing a defence here.

[0] edit: decided this was doxing

[1] edit: decided this was doxing
Another another argument would be that income inequality is not the fault of employees but rather the fault of management, whether politically, culturally, socially or all of the above.
This is feasible as long as your expertise is recognised in the organisation or you are in a position of power or your organisation is open to this kind of behaviour (quite often it isn’t the case). A junior asking this kind of questions in the wrong organisation may help fixing the problem at hand, assuming they are taken seriously, but they are likely to hinder their career progress if they repeat this behaviour too often. In many many many organisations looking smart is way more important than being smart.

(I’m not saying it’s a good thing)
They rejected bids with higher bid prices to prefer their own inventory. The auction was rigged.
Here, let me help you out with ways to find hard data that disprove these conjectures.

> Android

Take a look at recent court documents about the size of the Play Store revenues. It’s a multi-billion-dollar cash cow after paying off the carriers and device makers to keep their spyware loaded.

> Chrome

Google single handedly kept Mozilla running for over a decade with their search deal. The deal for iOS is worth billions. Chrome will manage just fine.

> GCP

They don’t exactly run that thing as a charity. Anyone familiar with their pricing knows that this is a super-high-margin business. Plus, as a spin-off, it would immediately have a couple gigantic customers: Google spin-offs.

> GSuite/GMail

There’s only two main options for email and productivity SaaS (sorry Zoho). They’re printing money on this one too.

I should disclose that I would rather see Google stay intact, so whoever kneecaps their ad business can kneecap the whole empire in one go and make the whole company and all of its shareholders suffer at the same time. Companies don’t have a right to live if they are generating negative social impact.
Really I haven’t seen any crisis despite the newspapers printing “the end is nigh”

facebook is as full of bots and personality quizzes as it ever was, it doesn’t need whistleblowers to make it irrelevant

If I was any more cynical I’d bet that the whistleblowing is a ruse — if so, whomsoever leaks the data revealing the conspiracy could become the first meta-whistleblower, blowing the whistle on fake whistleblowing!
Any tech company would toss a limb for those "iterations". Aluminium unibody, stacked battery tech, MagSafe, ECG for watch, and much more.
Im on board with blanks and special safety measures for the sake of SFX. But, what reason would there be for having live rounds in firearms on a movie set?

Couldn't you ban this shit at the door and clean room it? Wouldn't this have been the initial reaction for prior incidents?
What’s the main reason for that?
Are there any publicly traded competitors to the ad exchanges Google and Facebook run?
> This boils down the difference between pigment and dye based inks. Dye based inks are more expensive but more resistant to UV light.

I think it might be the other way around: pigment-based inks are opaque particles bonded to the paper, and so even if their colour changes/fades they're likely to still be legible. Whereas dye-based inks, when they fade, can completely disappear. (One advantage of dye-based inks is that they have a larger gamut.)
That’s lonelygirl15 all over again! we’ve come full circle!

The successful vlogger started as a scripted actress, then was taken over by real people, who took it from vlogging to influencer, and now we are back to scripted actors!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonelygirl15
Sorry, I meant insignificant / petty; little/small groups fighting each other instead of working together.
Being a xoogler used to be something to put in your profile bio, and basically an instant hire if in your CV.

Now it almost carries a stigma.
Are you aware that Indonesia used to be a Dutch colony?
What if not all sensor data is accurate or reliable? For example their new cars have no radar and therefore the distance is just an assumption of the AI model and can be wrong. It would be pretty bad to rely on unreliable data for the justice system. If they want to use all data I assume some form of interpretation should be done by the Tesla to avoid false positives or false negatives. Especially in crashes where FSD was driving.
And consequently the ones where employees make a smaller salary.
Unfortunately Russia just decided that they wont export unprocessed woodstuffs to Finland anymore. This Bioeconomy Perpetuum Mobile was based very much on this excess. Michael Moore described in his movie what happened in Colorado, when they started to use logging left-overs in energy production. They had to use oil-based chemicals to restore soil nutrients.
It's my understanding that most insurance companies earn most of their money by investing their float, not by paying out less than they bring in from customers.
Who is this news org, why should we trust them? A cursory look at their content suggests we shouldn't.

It's easy, all you need to do is spot the term "Russiagate", in this case the "gate" is being used to suggest that Russian influence in American politics is a fake news story (which it definitely isn't, see Muller report)
I would also add that it is a powerful tool in your development toolbox even if you don't use it in you primary applications.

For example, it is very useful for e.g. generating test cases to hit every state transition in a complex business process state diagram.
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Last time I tried putting a lisp into jupyter as a playground for church, I realized that I was missing all the plotting features to really get anywhere and before I realized it, I had to stop my self from reimplementing church’s standard library.

I’ll have a look on google on the names you mentioned :)
Came to this thread to say the same. It’s just a design element that was coincidentally successful when it had real function. Window frames without decoration look like technological holes, and default coloring (cheap white frame contrasting with the wall material) doesn’t help either.
You have a wrong idea of what the first amendment is. Free speech in the first amendment is directed towards the legislative body, that it shall not create any legislation that forbid free speech.

Facebook is a private company, free speech argument doesn't apply. It's similar to your right to tell people to talk freely or shut up in your own house.
Great quote. Particularly the end. Thanks for sharing this.

The Silicon Valley people who are playing in the art world are perfectly described as “soft predators.” A lot of the men in the art world could be described that way... I like it. I’m stealing that one!
It’s actually exactly the other way around: countries don’t comply with other countries’ copyrights, but they must offer the same level of protection to authors of works created abroad as they give to authors of works created locally (I.e. non-discrimination of foreign works/authors). And they must also offer a minimum level of copyright protection as specified in the convention. The egregious content removal remedies offered by the DMCA in the US are luckily not part of those minimum protections, so most sane countries have a more balanced procedure for content removal remedies.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." Upton Sinclair
You're right, I don't think there was ever a DMCA claim actually made, and probably would not be valid. Just replying to the misleading statement as if copyright from other countries have no standing.
Don't worry about it, you'll be long dead by then.
Criminal business is the most profitable business and "unethical" just means "white collar crime". If the law allowed drug trafficking and kidnappings, the biggest corp in the US would be a drug cartel and the only reason they are outlawed is because even people at the top agree that such cartels are bad. Things are different for white collar crime: most people believe that its OK to do shady things if nobody's obviously hurt. This is why senators brazengly trade stocks influenced by the laws they pass. They don't believe its a crime. So unsurprisingly, the biggest corps in the US exploit this weakness at scale. It may take centuries before the collective agreement will equate such business practices with drug cartels.
This computer had 48-bit words, composed of 8 6-bit bytes.
The US is running out of cardboard and packaging materials
The US is running out of cardboard and packaging materials as the supply chain crisis drags on, making it harder for retailers to ship online orders
Yep...in a very short amount of time they went from "dont be evil" to "hide your evil".
I guess this page is supposed to show some phones? I'm in Norway, there's two pages of Nest, WiFi, Chromecast and Stadia.
ReasonML is OCaml for JavaScript devs, I never had any issues with the syntax that actually happens to be 20 years younger than C, and about the same age as Java/JavaScript.
Man, I don't know, if you need some binary trees inverted on a whiteboard, they are still the go-to folks.
All that changed is a breakdown in perception management. Google definitely had positive and idealistic beginnings, but through growth eventually innate properties of the species will express and become difficult to centrally control. This is a feature Google has in common with any other large organization, be it IBM, Amazon or the Catholic church.

Your solution is finding a good employer who you know and vet personally, and avoiding working entirely for large companies. Managing human rot at scale is an unsolved problem, and few seem to survive exposure to extraordinary cash flows without some aspect or other of their humanity being impacted.
How exactly Google killed header bidding (routing of inventory to multiple exchanges)? Is it because publishers don't interact with exchange directly, but engage via sell side brokers, which google bought and changed they way the route orders?
I got a Google Home a couple of years ago, cuz all my friends had one, but never got around to set it up. When it came out it was a magical box by a cool company that was like star trek had turned real.

The other day I unpacked the thing cuz I needed a Bluetooth speaker, and was swearing at the thing the whole time cuz I couldn't set it up as a speaker without downloading the app, hooking the device to WiFi and seemingly giving Google access to more of my data (you can turn off the mic, but it keeps complaining about it at full volume and u can't turn that off).

It's funny how the personal feelings associated with Google has changed. The device is the same, but the perspective, the emotion towards the company has changed so much.
They didn't claim that copyright from other countries has no standing, but correctly pointed out that claims under other countries copyright laws are irrelevant.
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I don't see an issue with source code, nor intellectual property or similar, it is all about recorded data, the whole point is that Tesla, requested according to the Law to provide the recorded data (decrypted) provided only a (small) subset of such data and the guys from the NFI managed to decrypt the whole stuff, finding out that Tesla omitted data useful to establish the reasons of the crash.

It also seems that - casually - the omitted data lead to believe that the root cause was Tesla's autoipilot making the car tailgating the one in front of it.

Imagine that an airplane crashes and the decoding of the flight recorder is carried by the airplane manufacturer that omits the part where (say) the tail rudder didn't work as it should have.
I've actually had the intention of building a company focused on manufacturing and selling open-source household appliances, like washing machines, fridges etc. Cars would be the endgame for a company like this.

Still in the early planning stages, just creating a good toaster that's repairable, open etc. is an interesting undertaking if you want everything above board.
DMCA also makes lot's of reverse engineering illegal. And that is the relevant issue here.
> BTC are like casino chips. When you goto Vegas and at the Bellagio you give them $100 and you get back $100 worth of Bellagio chips (...)

This comparison is not valid at all because, unlike any crypto like BTC, the value of Bellagio chips is specified by a central authority (Bellagio itself) which guarantees the exchange between chips and cash with a fixed and very stable exchange rate.

With crypto like BTC, not only their value fluctuates wildly and thus fail as a store of value but also the only option you have to exchange them for fiat currency is to sell them to other customers in an open market.

The best comparison with BTC is indeed tulips during the Dutch tulip craze: they have no intrinsic market value, their market was highly speculative, and demand was driven by mass hysteria.
Ok noted.
You are confused about what a URI is. Or about what a web browser is.

You need dedicated clients for plenty of protocols that can be in an href.

ftp is not a part of the World Wide Web. The World Wide Web is in HTTP. That is the “web” part of “web browser”. That they support other protocols is incidental.