skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i'm not sure i understand what you mean. how's rails 'completely owned by private companies' for example? i'm not sure you wish to imply that private companies hiring and paying people to work full-time on open source equates to 'owning' such software. there's open source software started by and owned by private companies (the go programming language, apple's swift, meta's react, among other). regardless, they have big adopters. even so, i won't put rails or python or postgresql or rust in the same category.
I am really torn. On one hand, I really dislike Apple's aggressive image management. I believe they are an inauthentic and often hypocritical company.

On the other hand, an employee who joins the company and within one year...

* Moves to a more expensive location (that does not have a corporate office) and expects a big pay raise.

* Becomes a "workplace activist" and expects to do it on her paid time on company networks.

...is not someone I would hire if they were free.
Can you elaborate on why the Minsk agreement had to be enacted in the first place, i.e. what conflict the ceasefire was meant to cease? And how that conflict started? And who fought in that conflict? I'd really like to know.
I think Google internally has a different perception as to the quality of their services vs. the general public and especially tech enthusiasts. Your comment about 'a certain mindset' reminds me that I still[1] have to do exactly that when using Google to try to find anything.

Also, whatever happened to just slapping 'beta' on the product and calling it good to roll out? I'm only half kidding as the issue wasn't that products were labeled 'beta', it's that they seemingly never came out of beta.

[1] Actually even more so today than pre-ML Google since the services now are constantly (incorrectly) deciding that what I'm asking for isn't actually what I want.
Just a guess but WASM?[1]

[1] https://www.infoworld.com/article/3665128/rust-is-most-popul...
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ublock won't help with SEO spam - it doesn't filter out native search results, just the ads. So it isn't really SEO spam, it's adword spam.
It's actually good to support marginalized people. While I don't identify as LGBTQ, I have experienced elitism and disrespect in IT jobs and communities and have certainly seen my share of racism and sexism.

A community that ensures kindness and compassion for marginalized members is built into their DNA will probably have that same kindness and compassion for everyone. Literally no downside to elevating LGBTQ members as far as I can tell.
I'm old enough to remember when the first 5-7 results were the ONLY ones you actually wanted to click on.
Their idea was to be a giant "start-up factory", create tons of interesting ideas and see what sticks: the shotgun approach. But so far not enough are sticking, and their reputation for pulling the plug early makes people not want to risk depending on their platforms and products because they fear being left high and dry. Microsoft has been generally reasonable in that area, and thus seen as a safer bet. (I know, MS is annoying in many ways, but so are their competitors.)

I'd like to see Google give MS a run for their money. For one, create a state-ful GUI markup standard that's business-oriented, not crap like Bootstrap. Second, open source key products so users don't fear getting the plug pulled. (The GUI browser/pluggin could be based on the Tk or Qt kits to avoid reinventing the GUI wheel.)
That reminds me of the Screamers movie about a war between the mining company (N.E.B.) and "The Alliance" (former mining and science personnel) on the planet Sirius 6B.

"Five years into the war, Alliance scientists created and deployed Autonomous Mobile Swords (AMS) — artificially intelligent self-replicating machines that hunt down and kill N.E.B. soldiers on their own. They are nicknamed "screamers" because of a high-pitched noise they emit as they attack. Screamers track targets by their heartbeats, so Alliance soldiers wear "tabs" which broadcast a signal canceling out the wearer's heartbeat and rendering them "invisible" to the machines.

A fragile stalemate is in effect between the two exhausted, poorly supplied, and undermanned armies. The Alliance recovers a message from a dead N.E.B. soldier, killed by screamers as he approached the Alliance compound, guaranteeing safe passage through N.E.B. territory to discuss a truce.
When Alliance commanding officer Joe Hendricksson reports this development to his Earth-based superiors, he is told that peace negotiations are already underway on Earth; but Private "Ace" Jefferson, newly arrived from Earth, says that is untrue. Hendricksson is not surprised; he has long suspected that both sides have simply written off Sirius 6B and abandoned their armies."
-- wikipedia

The script is loosely based on a story by Philip K. Dick:
"Set in a world where war between the Soviet Union and United Nations has reduced most of the world to a barren wasteland, the story concerns the discovery, by the few remaining soldiers left, that self-replicating robots originally built to assassinate Soviet agents have gained sentience and are now plotting against both sides."
-- wikipedia
With Apple, definitely Apple Watch, they also leaned into Apple specific services with lots of success. Apple TV+ started a little shaky but its growing at a good clip. The new Apple TV's have been pretty successful.

Apple also shipped the M series chips, revitalized the Mac line as a result, and been giving proper attention to the iPad, finally.

Amazon has been innovating in logistics and Alexa is (was?) a genuine innovation when it came out. I think, ironically, AWS lacks a lot of innovation to pivot to more user friendliness and understand-ability, but its its still growing strong.

Google has been more flatfooted by comparison, with more product closures than successful projects, period, let alone hits.
How about that Star Trek episode where they simulated all conflicts in a program and then killed the real soldiers which were lost in the simulation?

Sometimes I wonder if TV was ever worth watching.
Now we just need to let the models get big enough until they can make themselves smaller again ;)
Agreed. I see many programs use JS and Python for plugin APIs, while Lua might be a better choice in many cases. It's much simpler and easier to pick up even if you're new to the language.
What do you mean by "its own identity"?

If you're saying that Android and iPhone/iOS are very similar, that seems like a good thing?
As if Google has half the staying power of IBM. You have to eeek along for 50 years to be IBM. Google has 1 cash cow and if it does it will be more Nokia than IBM
From TFA:

> Well, EU law requires you to use cookie banners if your website contains cookies that are not required for it to work.

Ah, no.

EU law requires you obtain consent from users before setting tracking cookies into their browser. But it does not require "cookie banners".

Cookie banners are just the "lazy lawyer" way of trying to obtain the required consent.
A huge AI cold-war with China... what could go wrong? The only thing certain is Schmidt and other insiders will make massive personal profits.
I worked at a hole-in-the-wall-you've-never-heard-of software company that landed big contracts with large multinationals consistently that, from the customers' perspective, came down to one reason: it wasn't SAP.

The licensing model of large, enterprise software does have ramifications for users on the floor. In this case it's because the software had a per-seat license and required expensive consultants to modify your forms and workflows. It cost millions of dollars and years to roll out SAP at a factory.

The software we were making was faster, could be rolled out in weeks, and was user-extensible.

The IT folks at said multinationals hated our software. It was the end-users that demanded it, and ultimately, won us our contracts again and again.

Performance and reliability matters! It let folks on site get more work done, faster, and with better reporting and insights than they had ever gotten with their bloated, slow, expensive, and difficult-to-use software from more "traditional" vendors.

It was a neat experience.
And now ~ seems to be used for keyword generics.
Media decoders are often rather complicated and often involve parsing data directly into large and constantly changing memory buffers. A huge chunk of Android vulnerabilities have been from vulnerabilities in media libraries, even JPEG parsing has been known to lead to vulnerabilities in Linux.
I'm not sure I understand your concern about selling the software. It's perfectly common to sell software libraries and frameworks on a recurring license basis. The fact that you need to supply the source shouldn't be an issue; either practically or from a risk perspective.

What do you mean by complexity in licensing? Do you mean that you don't own all the IP for the software? In which case, yeah, you're likely to struggle. Similarly if some or all is GPL'd (or similar) and the usage model implies a derivative work, that's probably not going to fly either.

I can't see any benefit to you in open sourcing wrt selling to financial institutions. You absolutely can go that route but, if you're happy to sell directly, that's will require less work from the customer side.

Also, even if you're not finished yet, if you have contacts who are genuinely interested in the work, have you thought about asking them to fund the completion? We've done that in the past, and I worked for a startup that had their first client pay them to complete the offering. The nice thing about that approach is that they're often not proprietary about it. As in, they're happy for you to sell to their competitors as it spreads the risk around.
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I wrote a small service to synch the datetime based on a gps/imu module with an ethernet interface. It needed to be rock solid because it was going to fly in the field (scientific instrument, not avionics). It was faster and easier to write in Rust, despite having no one else with Rust know-how in the company, the rest of the system components in C++/Python, and several months of of c and c++ experience myself. I barely knew rust and yet felt way more confident the program didn't have weird unexpected edge cases, leaks, etc. Not to mention way more ergonomic.
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I don't need to spend too much money on a consultancy to tell me that, it was obvious the first time I encountered a consultancy.
It's easily the worse response. How does doing the minimum help you? How does having a bad attitude help the situation?

It doesn't make you happier. It doesn't improve your relationships. It doesn't improve your skills. It doesn't make you more money.
For those who are thinking "Yeah, duh, just use an image editor to crop it," as I did at first, this article is probably most useful for barely-tech-literate people, who can use Microsoft Word, Outlook, Edge, maybe Teams, and not much else. They wouldn't think that they'd need to open a whole separate image editor when Word has a cropping function built in that's always worked for them before.
Absolutely wrong. Minors can legally own their own property, including "IP". However, guardians can restrict a minor's access to that property. They cannot legally take it and assume ownership of it.
Something that's interesting is that most of our agricultural crops are bred for full sun (ie, a big flat field). I wonder if there's room for new partial-shade versions of crops, so they work better alongside solar panels. I doubt they'd be as productive in an absolute sense (less light = less total energy), but adding on solar panels value to the output of that land would likely be better than single-use of either.
That's just whatever antiwoke media you consume that made a big deal out of the one ethics thing.
Rust and Golang projects are generally more interesting as they generally are small static binaries and have the lowest friction to try out/deploy.

It's almost the opposite effect of all the comments that appear on Electron projects regarding bloat.
The energy cap was already in place in the UK. It contributed to the problems as the price of gas spiked.

It's a bad policy, but it's from the same government that paid people to eat out at restaurants during a viral pandemic, rather than a specific response to the war.
oh duh makes sense. yep, agree.
This reminds me of Federal Public Service Finance of Belgium.

When they take possession of items for various reasons they want to sell them off to reclaim lost tax revenue.

Cars for example, now you must know that in Europe for some reason people are very weary of their VIN. It's not shown on websites as it is in the USA.

So the tax office posts a PDF with all the cars they possessed with their VINs, but with 80% blacked out.

With black boxes.

And they didn't flatten the PDF.

Sending around data is a minefield. Metadata everywhere. It's so easy to lose track of it.
No it isn’t. Most established companies don’t spin up and then down products at this rate otherwise Google wouldn’t be singled out for it. You’re doing damage control.
It's not the fighters you have to worry about, since those just take out whatever military may or may not be defending your country from the US. The ubiquitous surveillance cameras connected to private and governmental servers, monitoring and recording your activity, and running AI to profile you, is more worrying, since that's going to be most of your future life, not the air-battles.

And if I were to write this 20 years you might have still dismissed me as a kook or doomsday prophet, but now one could argue that's already half-implemented anyway rather than a description of a future dystopia.
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And/or they've seen the word "weary" and assume it's pronounced like "wary", so they spell the word "wary" as "weary".
What definition?

If you look at any one trait, you might be able to pick the "normal" variation of that trait by its frequency and yeah, in that case it would not be rare.

But when you combine traits, the probabilities multiply and that quickly reduces your probability of being "normal" with regard to all traits. For example, if two independent variable "normal" traits have a 2/3 probability, for example, the probability of being normal with regards to both traits is 4/9--already below 50%.
When I buy crypto I am buying a signed chain of custody of some quantity of imaginary unit of account on a distributed ledger. That's it. If you think it is something more you're only scamming yourself.
You mean like the killings of BinLaden right hands, when a lot of civilians were killed as collateral victims ?
I can confirm this! We had no problem getting a very decent number of applications for Haskell position, both from very experienced Haskell devs, and from junior Haskell devs, all very motivated.

As for getting somebody on-board -> we hired a couple senior / intermediate devs that had no or introductory knowledge of Haskell, and all of them so far got up to speed in a month or so, while not learning exclusively Haskell but also the rest of the codebase at the same time, so normal learning process in the new company. So I wouldn't say at all that learning Haskell for them was an issue, but I am certain that big factor here was that they are generally experienced in other languages. That said, we do keep our codebase pretty tidy and simple (no super crazy Haskell features).
While I actually believe capitalism is a huge contributor to the climate crisis I don't think it is solely responsible. I don't rule out that in an alternative communist universe governments would have acted equally recklessly and created a similar mess. I think that the only real idealism which could have prevented this is actual democracy where power isn't unevenly distributed among the wealthy class, and working class people would have an actual say in theyr governments climate policy (which could happen under communism but not guaranteed to). You actually hint at the democratic fault by accurately observing the role of politicians among the carbon elite and the carbon hogs.

As for revolutions. I don't think what I'm calling for is anywhere near to a revolution. We only have to reduce our meat consumption and our private car travels. We consumed less meat and drove less just a couple of decades ago—at the start of this mess. And today we have technology and—more imortantly—infrastructure to mitigate some of the pain of this reduction. Ideally we need to go far further but like you correctly said, we don't have time for that.
Heh, I don't watch tv any more. Haven't in ages. ;)

And I took that intro sentence to mean "the following is complete bullshit", which isn't something I value. :)
> * Moves to a more expensive location (that does not have a corporate office) and expects a big pay raise.

Apple has an office in Seattle. Kirkland is in the Seattle metro.

> * Becomes a "workplace activist" and expects to do it on her paid time on company networks.

She wanted to know why she seemed to have lower pay than colleagues. Apple actively tried to shut down her legally-protected inquiries into this. Becoming an activist at this point seems reasonable.
Christianity states that the only ensouled and conscious creatures are the descendants of Adam and Eve.
Automated counter attack systems exist already, at least to a degree [0]. Hypersonic weapons may make a first strike more feasible, but not that much. SLBMs with a depressed trajectory already have very short flight times [1]. The defenses against this apply to hypersonic weapons as well. The defenses being maintaining a survivable second strike capability in the form of a very stealthy SSBN fleet and a launch on warning posture.

Having lethal automated weapons systems is a scary idea, but hopefully we've already learned how to avoid using them for strategic deterrence.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand

[1] https://www.scienceandglobalsecurity.org/archive/sgs03gronlu...
I don’t know or care what Chinese internal media is reporting — this is a significant story in the U.S. that is getting less play than it should. It’s an ecological disaster with potentially significant health concerns, and likely involves corporate negligence as well as a failure of governance by both political parties who recently forced rail workers back to work despite complaints related to possible causes of this derailment (and others).

The spy/balloon thing is way less significant and has been ongoing by both sides for years or even decades if my understanding is correct.
Rust is definitely more friendly to noobs than is typical because they are obsessive over inclusivity. The compiler warnings are the most visible example of this, because it shows you exactly where the problem is, offers a deeper explanation, and will often suggest a fix. That's a significant undertaking, and the only other language I know of with anything similar is the latest Python.
So how do you explain the dead fish, chickens, and people with rashes etc.?
There was an accumulation of trust in the fact that most rust rewrites would yield interesting results. So the gates are wide open now.
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Isn’t “grow weary” a common phrase, though?
It is beyond parody to try to blame Trump for this after Biden's recent rail worker action and the fact that he hasn't been president for two years now. Biden has had plenty of time to correct any alleged awful thing Trump did in regards to this industry.
Google gets data from the Chrome UX Report (CrUX, everyone can access aggregated data on Big Query), so they'll even get information on performance from pages they themselves never see, and "the origin" (aka the domain) is the most relevant group for most websites, because they won't have enough traffic on each individual page.

If Google only relied on measuring itself, it would just be a cat and mouse game to identify Google's testers and serve them a stripped down version. But they already have the actual real user data.
The only time where there is any possibility of removing the human from the loop is at the advent of AGI.

There are many factors on and off the battlefield, such as the domestic and geopolitical spheres, that go in to targeting. Only at the minimum level of an AGI that’s capable of understanding human intentions and situational nuances can potentially remove a human from the loop.
> All of that stuff should be handled through standard APIs.

"Standard APIs" isn't some silver bullet to never have any security vulnerabilities. There can absolutely be vulnerabilities in "standard APIs".

ffmpeg is a pretty standard media utility, and it gets lots of CVEs. Decoding complicated media is complicated and often done in unsafe languages in attempts to squeeze more performance.

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-3611...
The idea that software wasn't bloated and slow 20,30+ years ago is just myth. Everything was bloated and slow. MS Word in the 90s and 00s would regularly crash and take your file with you, and it often took minutes to start up. Yes, there were some brilliant counterexamples, just as there are today. But most software today is far more enjoyable and rapid to use than that from previous eras. While the software isn't as snappy as it theoretically could be, that is mostly because the market finds the tradeoff between features and speed. I'd rather have a search take a second or two longer if it is able to handle synonyms and different word forms. VS Code is so much better than Visual Studio from around 2000.

Usually, the truly bloated software (like a lot of edutech) is just because of regulatory capture. Most of edutech isn't judged by the market, but by committees of corrupt idiots, who always exist and for which the open market is the solution for.
What I like about Nadella is that he is very responsive to threats, and I think he fundamentally gets the business. Much of MS' product line is improving across the board and ramping up vs AWS.

Cook really understands the customer perspective around privacy, and I view him as part of the A bomb that will destroy the glacier of Surveillance Capitalism. FB is limping, and Google is bleeding. He'll likely be ramming it at Mach5 with the subscription icebreaker which feeds right into the Apple ecosystem. Now, I do think he needs to drop %s and bring them down to reality as part of a long play to make it the best platform and defeat monopoly arguments.
The title is complete click-bait. What they are actually doing:

> Ishtari uses machine learning to virtually assemble and test war machines from computer models of individual components, such as the chassis and engines, that are usually marooned on separate digital drawing boards
The Chuck Norris of tech.
This website is not the only place discussing this matter, and it is a strawman to continue requiring any evidence of public outcry be limited to specifically this website. Moreover, reddit is not the only other place discussing this. There are hundreds of videos on TikTok from people in Ohio that are saying this is a horrible disaster on par with Chernobyl.
Seriously, this example perfectly illustrates Google at its worst.
If they start using AI to enhance all the old games, we won't need new games because the old ones were better.
Can’t say much about other search engines, but Google has definitely let it slip really bad. For example, organic results being pushed below the fold, with organic-looking paid results taking top spots instead. Another big issue they’ve had for about a year now is in my native language search, the organic results are completely been taken over by Google-translate generated content that actually redirects to random aliexpress items. Their language models seem to prefer Google-translated sites over human generated language for some reason.
It signals incompetence at the highest levels of Google, and that's bad for the company.
Amazon plans to eventually 'go big' on physical grocery stores