skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We need" - Who are WE?

As far as I know, Google and Facebook helped and helping people in places where almost everything is nationalized - by providing alternative to local gov-controlled media by making the information and data available to anyone with internet connection.

As far as I know, users are sharing and storing their data and trusting those organizations, rather than their governments. The problem starts when governments try to enforce the providers to tap or provide records our of their data centers.

The internet is good as is, and improved every day, and will continue improving. We need no nationalization over here.

Not really, thanks, but no!
They can both be used by one or both parties to secure power - on that axis, they are objectively not orthogonal.
VW engineer sent to the clink for three years for emissions-busting code
You seem to forget that a fundamental number: while Google Search has between 68% and 80% market share in the US, it has between 90% and 95% in most of Europe. The difference between being a monopoly or not.
here is the thing:
This looks interesting but your page is missing basic information. Where are the 'about' 'contact' link ?
who are you ?
How do I know you are not going to spam or sell my emails
That's a very old looking HDD. It seems odd that his most recent work would be on that.
Where does the phosphate go after it's used? Surely it doesn't disappear from the environment?
This is why people like Elon Musk are completely mischaracterized as innovators and leaders of the tech scene.

Today's tech-bros go for the most obvious nerd-bait, like electric cars, rockets, and solar panels. This is stuff that, if you asked any tech-bro today, or 20 years ago, what would impress them, they would answer with that obvious stuff.

Meanwhile, the ACTUAL world-changing innovations are things like pinch-to-zoom and momentum scroll - stuff that you actually initially had to argue with the tech-bros about - "why do we need that?" - but becomes obvious only after-the-fact.

Innovation is what your grandmother recognizes as innovative, not what the technologists recognize as innovative.
If they are just doing this out of spite it is so silly. Do they think Amazon is going to go broke now and pull out of retail?

If they are paying more to another provider, they are making themselves less competitive in contrast to Amazon, although maybe Microsoft lured them with a discount on Azure.
I read the guardian frequently and long since learned to ignore the clickbait headlines you point out.

Remember that columnists don't write their own headlines. The content of an article is usually more nuanced and thought out that the headline might suggest. Emphasis on the usually.

I don't think comparing the Guardian to britebart is fair at all, but that's another debate.

I'm not saying newspaper columnists don't live in a bubble. Just a different one from the silicon valley / HN bubble. If they get an impression of the tech world that causes them to think nationalisation is the way forward, the tech world needs to respond to that. Undermining the publication or author (as opposed to considering their argument, and separating it into causes - surveillance capitalism - and proposed effects - nationalisation) does not change the fact people are rightly suspicious of Facebook/Google/Amazon etc and they will react accordingly.
I really like Ranger[1] as a TUI file manager. It's quite full featured (supporting previews of most things -- even images with libcaca) and has a vim-like interface. It also has `:bulkrename` to allow you to rename a set of files with whatever $EDITOR you want.

[1]: http://ranger.nongnu.org/
This is my first time being exposed to this but I wonder. Is the rational trigonometry useful? As in, are there applications in which it would make a tangible impact, for example accelerating algorithms or making learning easier?
OK, good points, but I can't see anywhere how many days out of the years 1991 and 1992 Hyatt spent in California vs Nevada. I'm sure it's been discussed by lawyers somewhere, but that information is just not in the articles.
I've noticed the same thing with LP's. While LP's are technically inferior to red book CD's, they're often mastered better.
Lua code: security overview and practical approaches to static analysis [pdf]
They have been trying to move away from longtime. Earlier Target.com was operated by Amazon.com.

https://www.geekwire.com/2011/target-finally-parts-ways-amaz...
By making the government services only accessible, discoverable, and provisioned by those companies, maybe?
Terry Pratchett had over 70 books published in his lifetime, and so his legacy is in his published works, while Kafka's masterpieces were largely unpublished at the time of his death and he was not widely known, so they are not really analogous situations.
Interesting that we consider products of billions of years of biological evolution in a cosmos that shows no evidence of life anywhere else in its vast coldness as perfectly alright to be destroyed willy-nilly in the pursuit of short-sighted expansion and greed, but we are nevertheless full of hubris that OUR OWN excretions of imagination and little buildings and artefacts of our infant civilisation, right down to every single bit, needs to be preserved at all costs!
I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand this was his wish, but on the other hand I am sure that future generations of pratchettologists will mourn the loss.
Inference of Security-Sensitive Entities in Libraries [pdf]
Out of curiosity, what apps did you build for your wife or kids? To solve what problems?
Hero – The Multi-Purpose HTML5 Template
After sending you 1.999999 lumens I now have... 6949.999999 lumens left. Ouch.
Play Any 4K Video on Apple TV 5
NSAID compromise muscle strength and hypertrophic adaptations to training
Telstra  Cyber  Security  Report 2017 [pdf]
What do you mean by "minefield"? To me, it sounds pretty easy to comply with - just don't offer (or accept) bribes.
Indeed but at least with a warrant all access is documented on public record. Which has got to be better than already having access to all that data in private. Plus private companies can (and sometimes do) challenge a warrant.
The topic is about nationalisation.
Research into these rafts:

http://antlab.gatech.edu/antlab/The_Ant_Raft.html
They clearly treated it as a base sixty floating point system, even though they wrote each “sexagesimal digit” using collections of two symbols one of which represented 10 times the other. The symbol for 10 was only ever used to represent 10*60^n. Tens were never themselves the unit.

(Though the abstract sexagesimal system evolved out of earlier concrete systems with less standardized mixtures of physical units.)
> Or Google can pass my flight status request right into flightstatus.com and return information... again, leaving that option open for any of their competitors.

From a consumer perspective, that is a one more extra step for me to take I would rather not take. Technology should be about making my life easier, not worse. What I want is reliable data about when the flight will be departing, arriving and if or if not it is delayed, cancelled or on time. I do not want to choose from a myriad of options of websites I do not know how current they keep their data.

From Google's perspective, now they have four thousand flight status websites, some more reliable than others, and each one will have a case to sue them that they do not get shown equally well.

The same can be said about your music example. If I enter an artist / song title, I do want to hear that song, I do not want to choose between different services, some of which require signup (and the one I already signed up for might appear on page three of that SERP). When I wonder if it is going to rain later today, I want a yes/likely/unlikely/no answer, not a choice between different websites who may or may not have the data for me/my location and today, filled with gigabytes worth of ads and self-playing videos.

Pruning worthless competitors (see: price-comparison websites which don't give you the cheapest option, but the option which gives them the most referal revenue) is not problematic, but the beauty in the eye of the customer.
The world would have been fine. We've probably lost uncountable number of beautiful works to destruction and geniuses to crib death that would have otherwise completely changed the (cultural) state of the world, but we don't miss them because we never knew about them. The path history took is as valid as all other paths it could have taken.
In mathematics education, I always disliked the way inifinity is shoehorned into the different sets of numbers and treated as "just another number", so that you can write shorthands like: 1/∞=0, instead of the more accurate ∀ε>0, ∃c>0: x>c ⇒ 1/x<ε

Infinity is not a number. It's a limit.

Treating it as a number only confuses real understanding of it.
Συμβουλές για να ξεπεράσεις έναν χωρισμό – ESCORTS
> What the article claims is that 192KHz is useless, of no benefit.

The article claims that 192KHz downloads are of no benefit. It's right there in the article's title. It's difficult to not accuse you of willfully misinterpreting his argument.
> "Ask Hadley: Why do older people hate millennials so much?"

Disclosure: Guardian reader here.
I remember reading the Hadley Freemen [1] article cited here, finding it amusing at the time, so googled it [2] to remind myself what it said. On re-reading, I still find it quite amusing. It includes observations such as “Older people have always found youngsters irritating, self-entitled and arrogant, because young people are irritating, self-entitled and arrogant. That’s part of the joy of being young, and part of the compensation of getting older is you can snuggle on down in your smug eiderdown of condescension about The Youth Today.” The concluding para says “So, in conclusion, don’t feel attacked, young people: older people were always grumpy with the younger generation. And to all the 55- to 64-year-olds out there? Maybe give all that boob Googling a rest, OK? Take a tip from your kids on this”.
To me, the article is a plea for tolerance of the young by the old, pointing out the quirks of both generations.

More widely, I’ll agree that The Guardian does have regular columns written by activists such as George Monbiot [3], and its writers may disagree with or explicitly criticise some of The Guardian’s peer rivals, such as the Daily Mail, The Telegraph, etc. But, personally, I can’t accept it as the Breitbart of the Left.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadley_Freeman

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2017/aug/21/ask-hadley-o...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Monbiot
I use Alexa to turn lights on and off (Philips Hue lights) using verbal commands. Works really well, actually.
Using 3D printing to make prosthetic limbs could help patients with amputations
I think we over-emphasize elements that seem more “technological,” overestimate their importance. The printing press example is great. We credit the press because it’s mechanical and complex, but not the paper (or ink or literacy or religion).

For peaches in winter, most people think of botany, refrigeration, airplanes… science. Fewer people would think of joint stock companies or shipping containers as important enablers.

For productivity, it seems impossible that a computer on every desk with modern digital communication, software of every kind and all our gadgets didn’t move the productivity needle. It’s all so technological. In practice, non-technologies like kanban or just-in-time did move the productivity needle. It’s counterintuitive.

There are a lot of examples of counterintuitive bland results. Genetic engineering has not improved crop yields nearly as much as green revolution technology, not even close. Nuclear energy changed very little besides war.

That’s not to say these aren’t impactful technologies. Computers have changed our lives and our work. Modern Agg-tech has changed farming. It just didn’t change total output all that much.

I suppose that in the theme of this article, big technologies work in complexes, and that makes them hard to bang into a narrative and hard to predict.
What Are Kubernetes Pods Anyway?
I think what you mean is "The miracle weed killer is saving the chemical pesticide executive's pensions, while often devastating neighboring farms". That's the real honest headline.
There are many multi-winner electoral systems worth considering and a significant body of work studying them (STV and List PR are two examples).

But I'd be very careful with off-the-cuff systems like the one you've proposed. Voting algorithms can behave in surprisingly unintuitive ways when people start voting strategically.
SPA stands for Singe Page APPLICATION therefore

Good:

- Excel Online

- Word Online

- Email

- Document processing application

- Complex administrator dashboard

Bad:

- Blog

- E-Commerce website

- Marketing website

- Something that requires heavy SEO
Very expensive
Right. The actual statement actually said "court order".
> It has nothing to do with the 24/192 values themselves, but rather the treatment given to the recording during the mastering

I noticed a similar thing with TV a few years ago. Despite watching a standard def. channel on a SD TV some programmes had a very noticeably better image quality. I think these had been shot and edited in HD and although the 'last mile' was still in SD there had been less degradation in the processing so the final picture was much better.
> It is kinda surreal that a company obeying the law is headline news.

"That's a nice company improving lives everywhere on the world you have there. It would be so regrettable if something ... happened to it."
> we should treat them like utilities.

As these are large organizations involved in a variety of activities, it might be possible to separate the infrastructure parts into a strictly regulated utility. Google Search becoming a utility doesn't have to involve stuff like their hosting services or their hardware products.

It will be hard to get buy-in for an all-or-nothing plan like "Nationalize/Utilitize ${BUSINESS}", because it groups together too much into a single proposition. We "just" need to figure whatever minimum change is needed to protect the infrastructure. I realize this, like most important political problems, doesn't have a trivial solution. It will end up with imperfect compromises that everybody is annoyed with. I'm just suggesting there must be a better, more nuanced way to fix this problem than a Boolean "Convert to utility? (Y/N)".
Not making 6 figures, but I could if I took fewer holidays. London based, doing full stack javascript - mostly focus on the front end.
Clojure core.async in use
I generally hate reading aloud. I find that most writing is really NOT meant to be "heard" in reality, only in the mind. However, recently I decided to show my daughter (who has taken an interest in popular RPG video games like Undertale) some older games that I liked when I was younger. As you might guess, these games lack a voice track and while we can both read fine, we read at different speeds. So there is always an awkward wait before continuing to the next dialog screen.

So we solved it by just reading the dialog and that actually turned out to be pretty fun. We'd split up the characters and sometimes make some funny voices and just go for it. As a bonus, it helps you realize just how awful the writing is in some of the most beloved old video games (Square, I'm looking your way, you spoony bard.)
if the U.S. know how to manage a debt, budget, there's no need for donation. Only poor donate, rich still be rich.
See calabar pastor who kill a baby for ritual [See photo]
Startup story
Maybe good enough is just good enough for some business owners?

If you are making good profit already, which more than covers your needs, why bother looking into improved efficiency, automation, getting better gigs, etc? It's not that you can just flip 'efficiency' switch and things are more efficient.

In some cases, sticking to doing things in a familiar way and which works well enough is a rather reasonable decision in the grand scheme of things.
Yeah you can. Atom has hydrogen, there's one in vscode too.
Bad performance is a misfeature. Performance as a product would have to either put you below the limits of perception -or- 10x faster than the closest competition.
Or, you can implement STV (Single Transferrable Vote) to fix a lot of these issues. Problem is that the state governments get to choose what constitutes a democratic election.

As a EU citizen, I think it's embarrassing that the UK has a completely bonkers system with constituencies when their neighbor, Ireland, has a more reasonable STV system working right next door. Sometimes I feel like Brussels should step in and standardize STV to get rid of such madness, but I guess it's stuff like that which, had the UK not started the Brexit process, certainly would've made them do it anyway.
Receipt or order confirmation is not (or at least should not be)
a marketing e-mail. It's a technicality necessary for transaction.
Not to be a negative nelly, more just curiosity, but why would you use a different file manager in windows?
When it comes to economics one can find a plausable theory from a Nobel Prize winner to fit numerous competing platforms.

And social science isn't as solid as that.

I would say there are more equivocal problems than unequivocal and society looks for a leader to make gut feeling decisions. The only discriminator is the success of previous gut feeling decisions or even "it went wrong but it sounded good".
Sure the world is fine. But that's a really low bar of argument. If someone was going to go back in time and destroy great works, would you not strongly prefer them be stopped? (All else equal and no secondary consequences from time travel or whatever.) Do they have literally no utility to the world in your mind?
Unless they use the cloud merely as storage, the key will have to reside in the cloud for their servers to do anything useful. So the data is never really encrypted to the cloud provider.

I am not saying that the Amazon board will authorize a change in strategy to dig into every customer data. But if I believed that companies internal audit were enough to prevent fraud, there would be no need for a banking regulator for instance.
> don't need to install Mastodon yourself

My point is that if I don't want Mastodon, I still want to be able to talk to Mastodon with something else.

If this is already sorted, that's good, and in that case, sorry for lagging a bit behind.
> multi-page sites seem superior if you're more concerned with things like search engine traffic, maximum compatibility, smallest size, lowest maintenance, interacting with standard browser functionality (i.e. letting users bookmark pages in your app, browser extensions, etc).

Building single-page applications is my bread and butter, and I totally agree with this sentiment. If you're building something that's purely content and doesn't require too much interactivity (which is true for most websites on the web today), SPAs are not worth the hassle.

However, it's worth noting that most SPA frameworks support server-side rendering. For one of my clients, I built a server rendered React website that behaved less like a SPA and more like a regular server rendered website, i.e, navigating to a link within the website caused a full page reload. The performance numbers weren't too different from your average Django/Rails/PHP website, and making sure everything worked on Node as well as the browser wasn't as hard as we imagined.

The advantage was that we could write the whole thing with React, as opposed to using some kind of templating language to generate HTML and then using JS to inject the interactive bits. It's an interesting strategy that I wouldn't mind exploring again.

Why did we do it? Because we had to integrate with a bunch of legacy code and this was the only way we could do it sanely.
True, but I'd rather that process happen publically rather than in secret (as would be the default if the Facebook and Google were nationalised). Not that I'm implying there isn't already secret requests for data (if PRISM is to be believed) but at least with the aforementioned being privately owned there is some chance that unlawful / unjust requests for information can be challenged.
Are you sure you're not eating your own seed corn?

If Google eats all those sites and services up, what stops them from doing all sorts of nasty stuff once they're in the dominant position later on?

How are the little guys supposed to compete with premium-space on Google's search pages? Nothing on this planet is a stronger marketing engine than that.
Cummins beats Tesla to the punch by revealing electric semi truck
figuring out the data model as you build can be beneficial, you realize what you need as you work with the thing and can add it on the fly, at a certain point of course you need to do a cleanup. Getting people to accept the cleanup requirement is the difficult part.
Please, show me the person who wants the world to be destroyed but not these specific books.
Google and VMware are teaming up to get an edge in the cloud wars with Amazon
Thank you! This is just what I was looking for. I filed a bug report:

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17794

and we'll get it fixed.

I'm a little unsure what you mean by arrowing through the edit field. The cursor moves around as I press the arrow keys, as they would in a text editor.
> you'll need approval of the municipal government

* not in all cases (e.g. Spontandemonstration, where there is no time to file an application)

* the municipal government needs a really good reason to not give approval

* the courts are very sympathetic to virtually any cause should a municipal government decide to forbid a gathering.

> (and the police can dissolve your assembly,

* if there is true danger to the general public. Again, courts are going to slap the police around if they do this just because.

I know how easy it is to use a blanket statement as a base for another blanket statement which is equally one-sided, but please try to build arguments in a less ... attackable way.
I find this article very interesting and fun to read. It doesn't tackle everything in details but it could be a good starting point for ML enthusiasts like myself.
Man United Would Have Signed Griezmann – La Liga News UK
Why is this? I only have 16 bit 44.1kHz "normal" CDs and I notice some terrible mastering jobs, eg. RHCP Stadium Arcadium loses the snare for the first track and is like listening to minutes of distortion yet apparently the vinyl was really well mastered.

Is there a technical reason why the mastering is so different for the two mediums, CD versus vinyl?
A lot of people invested in the Google ecosystem don't like to hear that their chosen tribe might be acting unlawfully.

Either that or it's the idea the laws of their own country where Google has not fallen foul must clearly be superior to the law in another country where it has.
Why is Quebec always doing things differently?

- Airbnb and Uber hostility

- Dairy cartel

- Language police

- World Nomads (travel insurance) exclusion

- Contests exclusion

- Worst ER wait times

- ...