skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just going by GDP is misleading. Asia has far higher population densities and lower rates of personal car ownership. As those countries grow, there's a real chance for a substantial part of the new middle class to only have ever experienced ride sharing coupled with public transit as opposed to buying their own vehicle.
> I can easily see this being picked up by the AI hype journalists.

Surely you mean AI journalist bots that can generate articles about how AI review bots generate fake reviews?
The thing about the GOP is that even the promisingly normal among them get warped and mangled by the incentives of the primary process.

Bobby Jindal, Rudy Giuliani and Chris Christie all looked like somewhat reasonable choices at one point, until they had to go through the primaries and came out the other end as twisted, raving loonies. Nikki Haley looks fine now but there's no reason to think she'd fare any better.
I believe it's in the name of full disclosure.

Opinions for, by those against their topic, are usually valued higher than those for, by those in favor of their topic. It's more likely to be grounded in reality.
HN does not stand for unrestricted freedom of speech. It’s a private platform with moderation policies that include downmodding comments and posts to lower their visibility, flagging posts to push them off the front page, and banning users.

And that’s why it works. And HN’s denizens are implicitly and often explicitly in favour of this.

HN stands for speech that is generally more free than, say, I would tolerate on a message board. But it’s not an absolute by any means.

Free speech is a great global idea: Somewhere on the internet, somebody ought to be allowed to rave about how the Negro is using rape to effect the genocide of White America. But free speech is not a great local idea: That raving doesn’t belong everywhere on the Internet.

Most people understand the distinction.
Thank you!

I have not seen any problem with car example on my own laptop, but I will try it on some more different devices to find the issue.

Regarding performance, because Planck.js code is hand-made and readable it is not difficult to improve it if it is not fast enough with some cases.

asm.js looks promising, I'm going to have a closer look at it.
Firing the bottom 10% is still corrosive when you get to the implementation, just go read about how it worked at MSFT.

Firing people when they don't meet expectations is fine, but having enforced quotas is highly problematic.
Nobody seemed to mind when Shkreli plead the fifth all the way through a congressional hearing, not sure how this is different. Other than the obvious fact that it's not a congressional hearing.
>>Suppressing Nazi speech is the same as suppressing a social justice warrior right?

Nope, First Amendment does not protect hate speech.
The one where you focus on content?
IIRC Apple tried to discredit Maynor instead of fixing the problem.

Also, remember that this new vulnerability was found by Google not Apple...
He is making clever implications by omission. Break it down, by the words he uses... I won't spell it out, but the OP finds some facts in the story unusual to the point of 1 in 10000 coincidences happening with 1 in 10 frequency in the context. It is a valid observation, even if it does imply a different worldview.
gizmo686 - For you this may be true. I don't think you can speak for everyone that comes to this thread though. I've said as much as I feel comfortable and safe to say given how hostile the internet and 'discussion' about certain subjects have become in general.
Have you forgotten about this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks-related_Twitter_cour...
> Was the Roman economy only as developed as that of Europe circa 1300 or was it as advanced as that of western Europe on the eve of the Industrial Revolution in say 1700.

The question is ill posed. It assumes that economies move on a linear scale - with definite positive and negative directions. Was the economy of the Soviet Union in the 1930s more advanced than that of the Dutch Republic in the 1600s? Well, the USSR could produce tractors and icebreakers. But the Dutch had a stock market and a really good internal transportation network.
>Suppressing Nazi speech is the same as suppressing a social justice warrior right?

No, but only because "social justice warrior" is a blanket perjorative for leftists, feminists, liberals, and anyone else right-wing antisocial types find annoying, not an actual ideology that people identify with, like nazism or white supremacy.

You can't suppress "social justice warriors" any more than you can suppress "cucks" or "landwhales."
> But it is equally true that in a large organization (and the only places that would even consider stack ranking have hundreds or thousands or tens of thousands of employees, not 10), you just don't have nobody but high performers.

But even in those organizations, the "stack" doesn't consist of thousands of employees, as the unit on which stack ranking is done is lower-level units (often very low-level), not the whole organization.
Keeping politics out of work is just simple professionalism.

Sure, be an activist, but keep it out of work and do it on your own time.
Free speech doesn't exist in a vacuum, it's a cultural value. Once the cultural value disappears, so too will the first amendment, either by a new amendment or by judges raised in a society where wrongthink was censored on every platform they grew up with. Yes Twitter doesn't technically have to support free speech as a private corporation, but its censorship is nothing to celebrate.
I am slightly sad by the fact that rarely anyone mentioned about the battery life of ubuntu, but got excited with the "Nexus-of-Ubuntu" thing. I wish the best to ubuntu.
They're not billing you based on a route, they're billing you based on a destination you select and offering a flat rate for it.

You can take it or leave it.

If circumstances intervene, Uber can easily lose money on a ride but you don't pay more.

Uber is not a metered service.
I think you're running up against the ambiguity of language in the definition of "speech." Is verbally ordering a hit on somebody speech? Obviously. Is it the same thing that the ideal of "free speech" seeks to protect? Obviously not.

So you can't just say "This is speech, therefore it must be free speech." Advocating genocide and harassing people in minority groups are different in a very salient way from saying mean things about a politician.
Of course it doesn't, I was just talking about why the government may have taken interest in this person, and not on countless other accounts with similar views.
Why's this guy being downvoted? In an era of "but her emails" are we really surprised that an employee's phone could have hundreds of for example corporate emails leftover, if not other documents depending on what tech they use.
Thanks! It is easy to integrate Planck.js with other liraries and dev tools.
If you run a bar or cafe and someone is spouting racist crap, you can say "Free speech is great and all, but i'm not paying to host you and it's damaging my business" and kick them out.
Youtube videos? Phones. Tablets. Chromecast, Apple TV, game consoles if you want it on the TV.

Taxes? Possibilities: 1) someone else does it, 2) you do it but all on paper, 3) work device (maybe even at home if it's a laptop), 4) something something public library. I don't think tons of people would miss their personal PC bigly come tax time (some would, surely).
Sole proprietors still have business expenses that are separate from their income, which comes after. Additionally, anyone making Doctor money who runs their business as a sole proprietorship is a fool for not protecting their personal assets from their business dealings.
I'm in the GA Tech program. Chose AI since I've never touched it. Every course has been terrible in this track. The lectures are awful. The readings take hours upon hours. The TAs pathologically refuse to answer guestions without channeling Confucius. Then I found old GA Tech videos and MIT open courseware. It's starting to make sense. I say all of this because intro to ai is highly rated. It can only get such a rating if it's coming from people that already know the material.
Do you have a source? I'd be surprised to hear that's the case. My understanding was the first amendment covered all speech.
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You are right, but the arguments above and in Hayek are really relevant for all kinds of markets.

PS: it is nice to see an actual Marxist! :) Even though I disagree with them on most things (really just LTV, but you can't really take that one out, can you), they deserve my respect for having an actual theory, and for having genuinely progressive goals. Too much of the left wing is occupied these days by people with muddled, vaguely regressive ideas who have obviously never heard of historical materialism.
Well, two engineers vs teams of 5 engineers is a pretty distinct disadvantage. Furthermore, the PMs weren't doing their assigned tasks, like setting up the PPT and shit, so my friends had to do all that as well.

So really the problem is the 3 other people on their team were just straight up incompetent / unmotivated, not so much that they were of X_Y_Z career.
You are making stuff up. "hate speech" is not a thing in the first amendment. Hate speech is protected. There are countless court rulings on this.

Exhibit A: "in 1977 a federal court upheld the right of neo-Nazis to goose-step right through the town of Skokie, Illinois, which had a disproportionately large number of Holocaust survivors as residents."

WP article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...
It's not just tooling. The more complex the expression, the more likely it would aid in understanding if you gave it a name.
Bitcoin is the solution.. banking is broken for consumers because once you give a bank your money it's NOT YOURS.
> Side note: we need a fund that re-imburses private companies for challenging such orders.

Oh that's good.

Hmm. People have wondered how to make a programmer's union different from existing unions. I wonder if doing dual duty - also running this - would help that, or simply make more kinds of things vulnerable to the failure modes of unions...?

Edit: Basically, an organization to protect programmer's ability to positively impact the world...? Rather than one protecting just the people, or protecting the corporations, since due to startup culture that line is pretty blurry?
Good point! We'd have to dig into the user agreement itself to see what nuances exist there. Based on this complaint alone, I suspect Uber will argue "determined fare" may not mean "fare charged to rider" and that drivers are paid on the actual ("determined") miles and time.

Additionally, I find the allegation that Uber created upfront pricing for "the purposes of creating this discrepancy" to be very difficult to prove. Is this intended to highlight the difference between a breach of contract and "malicious fraud"?
I would think Twitter can censor how it sees fit about as much as a baker can make deals as they see fit. But apparently I'm wrong and it makes no sense to me.
It is a rather small, specific subgenere of both kink and scifi. With a specific reputation in both communities. Very diffrent from a generic bdsm/scifi situation where I just imagine slave leia.
I'm incredibly interested. I imagined your parent comment was motivated by frustration that we share.

Seems that networks of a social nature are inherently a feed of news. News from here or there, from one friend or another, etc...

What else could it be?
The performance problems were because of the way that specific VM was designed, not because it was a VM. You can easily have sub-millisecond initialization time on a VM if you make it a design goal.
The note's not going to be "as good as gold" unless it comes from a seriously reliable lender. You have to be confident that the lender exists, and that he'll pay out in good coin when you present the note; you also have to take into account the trouble of getting to the bank from where you are (which means, in practice, trading the note for a note from abroad drawn on a local bank), so paper from Venice is going to circulate below par in Hamburg and vice-versa. (It probably won't even be accepted in the countryside, where access to clearinghouses is almost nonexistent.) Paper from remote areas is basically worthless even in centers of civilization, likelier than not to be a scam; compare the later American "wildcat banks" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat_banking).

Fernand Braudel has some wonderful books on this subject -- the second and third volumes of Civilization and Capitalism (the storied Structures of Everyday Life is the first), plus his book on the Mediterranean in the age of Philip II.
"similar but different feelings" - it can only be one or the other...
I use bitwage and most of my paycheck is automatically converted to Bitcoin.
Then file one.

Look, I care about limiting the power of the Federal government to the parameters outlined in the law and the Constitution. I do not care how hard that makes their lives. I do not care that it crimps their ability to go get any information that they want. They have rules that their supposed to follow. If they want the information, they should go follow them.
Massive respect to twitter for standing up for privacy like this.
Has he treaded carefully on twitter avoiding breaking the TOS? I imagine that, a- with the Milo ban, they wait for you to do something arguably in TOS violation if they want to get rid of you.
> The debate on social media is not whether to censor, but what to censor, and that's a huge step to concede just for a little communication convenience.

You could make the same argument about media in general. A newspaper runs the stories that make money and ignores the stories that don't. A TV station runs the programmes that make money and ignores the ones that don't.

Should a programme or journalist cause more trouble than they're worth, they will get axed. And/or their stories no longer accepted by the newspaper/TV network.
> How about the systemd-hostnamed service? Why on earth would we need a service to change the hostname?

If you want the hostname to be preserved across reboots, you need to save it on disk - canonically, in the /etc/hostname config file.

Since /etc/hostname is an important per-machine config file, you probably want it owned by root.

Since you may want to edit this config file from a GUI control panel of some sort that you launch from a desktop environment running under a non-root user, you need a mechanism for the control panel process to be able to change the config file.

There are several ways to accomplish this:

* run the control panel process under root (for example, using sudo). This is not a good idea, especially under X11, since GUI toolkit libraries are not security hardened, have a large attack surface thanks to various GUI IPC mechanisms, and your control panel process could be subverted by hostile processes that have been waiting in the background for just such an occasion to arise.

* put your non-root user in a group which has write access to /etc/hostname. This is the traditional Unix solution, but it's not very flexible. If your user was not in the hostname-writer group, you will have to log out and back in for the change to take effect. And you can't create policies like requiring entering a password before performing administrative-type actions (unless the password is for sudo - and that is dangerous, see above).

* run a daemon under root that allows making edits to /etc/hostname. Provide an IPC interface to request a change to /etc/hostname; have the daemon check, via a call to a flexible, configurable authorization service, that the caller process has the right to perform a "change /etc/hostname" action (the authorization service might reply yes if, for example, the caller's user belongs to a specific group and verified his password within the last N minutes); and only then make the change on behalf of the unprivileged caller.

The latter seems like a better solution. Maybe over-engineered for managing a one-line config file, but definitely the solution to go with for more complex situations; so we might as well use the general solution in this case too.

The daemon is hostnamed; the flexible authorization service is polkit. See https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/hostnamed/ for more details.
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Yes - the big killer is the "bell curve".

Once people realize that making other people look bad is in their interests the organization is doomed.

You need to get rid of poor performers but that should be based, as far as you can possibly manage it, on an objective standard.
Is Glimmer VM actually a virtual machine?

The term suggests some kind of Turing complete language with sandboxing and memory management.

Without these features "domain-specific language" would be more precise description.
Please don't fall into the trap of calling the things that are banned just "unpopular". We're not talking about disagreements over tax policy. These things are harassment, they are threats of violence, and they are white nationalist/white supremacist garbage.
URL should be changed to remove "/amp" at the end.
Shutting down an account != revealing personal information, either.
How often would you think Uber undershoots the estimate?
> Google makes a ton of money off the fact that people dispose cell phones ever two years...

Huh? I am pretty sure Google subsidizes their Nexus phones (not that they actually sell many) and I thought they didn't charge volume fees for their licensing program... they pretty much run Android to make sure that Apple doesn't take control of all mobile by having a unified API (which for everyone else had to be cobbled together from a diverse and often competing set of manufacturers: no small task) and then use that power to lock Google out of the thing which actually makes them money, which is advertising revenue from tracking capabilities. Other than "it is great for our software if phones were faster", I can't imagine Google would care, financially, if everyone were using older Android hardware and never sold a new device again as long as they could update their software; do you have any financial mechanism for your assertion? When I have last bothered to really pull apart all of the statements, essentially all of the actual profit in the world of Android goes to Samsung.
They already have.
Wait, define overtaking. I would define it as: My team moved into 15 place, from 16th, thereby increasing my chances of winning the race and the season title. Are you saying that overtaking can or cannot occur due to pit stops and the like? Because if I am reading you the way I think I am, you are saying that there can be competition even though no-one changes place in the race. If you are saying that, we just have fundamentally different ways of defining entertainment/fun. For me, overtaking and changes in position with the goal of taking 1st place are the point of racing no matter the venue (foot-races, boats, etc). For me, if you aren't trying to take 1st, you might as well hold the competition in your backyard.
Only one of the showcased customers sells physical products, and even then they appear to be a retailer of third party products.

I wonder whether they'd accept a startup trying to manufacture and sell a physical (botanical) product from the other side of the world.
Yes, for me at least privacy is privacy no matter your political stance.
Are you sure they weren't actually named after the language? I have been using it for gmail for many years (just because I am a fan, not connected to the language other than that).
Nice demos! I like how in the soccer example you can play as a self-driving ball :D
Could you elaborate on why they are better for VC-backed companies? In what material way?
Why not just add it to every post?

> Disclosure: I usually hold the opposite viewpoint
> of the one that I just expressed.

Does it make all of your opinions hold more weight? Or is it, in fact, meaningless?
Anyone else bothered by front of the car? I know it because of aerodynamics, but it just looks weird ...
Guaranteed way to generate more upvotes for their comments on HN and Reddit. It's even more effective on HN.

I mean, haven't you noticed people do it IRL? "Look none of us like ____, but we gotta admit, ___! Amirite? Amirite?"

EDIT: Basically, what stagbeetle said, but you just say it all the time whether or not it's true.
What the responder was getting at is that despite being able to access only 9GB per frame, it may still be useful to keep more than 9GB of data in there for other purposes, say if you have data that isn't being read/written every frame but is still used for rendering. So it doesn't necessarily follow that memory beyond that which can be addressed per frame is useless.
No, it wouldn't surprise me that they broke the law. I'm still going to request some actual evidence though.
Shame on anyone who discriminates against consenting adults. I thought we were moving past this.
It's a standard in the sense that Service Control Manager is a standard. But it's a monoculture in the sense that writing your application for Service Control Manager means it will only ever work on Windows NT-derived operating systems.

That's not a good standard for an operating system supposedly about flexibility, compatibility, and choice. And it's even more annoying for software which isn't intended to be run in a monoculture, like most of the open source/free software world.
Let's also remind everyone that his banning was not censorship. He sent harassment trolls after another user, and impersonated another user in tweets, both of which are direct violations of the Twitter ToS, and for that, he was banned.
I think it's because the political environment is so polarized that one must a) simply comment what an echo chamber expects to earn a cookie or b) nuance your answer or statements to make sure you are not blindly classified as "left-winger" or "right-winger" etc.

I mean, it's not like people want to risk being fired from their job just because they posted something in some random forum, but that is exactly what could happen in some quarters.

While HN tends to have really smart people voicing opinions, there are also people with knee-jerk reactions for whom anything that does not fit their view of the world require an immediate inquisition.

(Note how I started my last paragraph. I did not have to do that because it's obvious, but I have to because some people would then flame over the second sentence alone).
what happens "in real life" when two people go by the same name?

Scuttlebutt works the same way: anyone can name themselves anything and anyone can name other people anything, it's up to the client how to interpret those messages. more on how SSB embraces subjectivity: https://youtu.be/P5K18XssVBg.
What cultural value does calling Leslie Jones an ape have?
Exactly. Let the people arbitrate free speech (and they will). But we all make mistakes in what we say. We insult people, and say mean things about acquaintances and political figures. Later, we may realize were bad to say, or just plain false.

Bad speech is bad, and so are insults. But it is worse if the government steps in and decides what is bad speech, because they are people with biases against people calling out their faults, just like the rest of us. So I prefer to let people say what they want, even if wrong, and I can say that I think they are wrong.
> the idea is that you hire to replace the people you fired

And if you can't hire because of budget constraints? Or you had a 5 person team that was gelling well, but now you've tossed one to the curb and replaced them with someone new (and burdened the remaining team with the interview process in the interim).

Any "fire x percentage" mandate is going to suck when you're looking at a team of high performers. Or, the manager is just going to hire a dud for the express purpose of having someone to fire the next go around. I've seen that happen more times than I want to think about.