skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bray's piece is largely notable for the fact that he's calling attention to this trend -- it's something which you should be paying attention to, if you're in tech, or if you're one of its critics. (And quite possibly both.) But there isn't any analysis as such.

I'd like to suggest a possible thread tying numerous elements of this together:

1. Technology companies tend to become monopolies.

2. Tech companies tend to become power centers.

3. Monopolies are associated with economic rents -- returns above the ordinary economic costs of production. (Contrast commodities or wages, or even more so, public goods.)

I've been putting thought into just what technology is, or more specifically, what mechanisms technology operates through. Among those are network and control systems (I'm still trying to decide if that's one element or two). Networks are any set of differentiated nodes connected by some relationship and flows (energy, material, information, forces, some mix of the above).

Networks may be physical (transport, communications), logical (webs of knowledge, marketing networks), or a mix of the two. Various network and dendritic structures include cities, roads, rivers, shipping routes, and the like.

Because of scaling effects, absent other considerations (and these do exist), a larger network typically has the advantage over a smaller one, and very often tremendously much so. In particular, by both providing low price options and controlling access to critical resources (or paths or nodes), network structures can exert considerable power.

That is: networks (physical or logical) are monopolies, and provide economic rents, through the mechanism of power and manipulation.

And this seems to be fundamental and intrinsic.

(I'm still developing the model. I'm interested in constructive challenges. More discussion: https://redd.it/71i231)
Can you clarify? Turning off wi-fi does not and should not turn off location services. Turning off location services is a separate Settings page on all recent versions of iOS.
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I kind of see their point - under this defense, the only person you could really convict would be Hitler (everybody else was following orders). I'm guessing the logic here is that if you were for example a commander a Nazi death squad that was doing mass murders of Jews in Eastern Poland, then yeah, you were following orders, but you could have also asked to be transferred to something else.

I'm not sure this logic would hold for Soviet genocides though (not that they were tried at Nuremberg), as I suspect a hint of hestitation from say NKWD commander would probably result in him being promptly sent to Gulag to die. During Stalin's rule, pretty much everybody was operating with a gun to their heads at all times.
That is certainly not true. In the US, republicans control the presidency and congress. It means that somewhere around 50% of american people believe that the rich should be taxed much less. I believe a similar fraction of European countries believe that too.

The rich (whether they're on the left or on the right) have a massive impact on the media. Think Rupert Murdoch, think Oprah.

There are 27 billionaires in Sweden. For a population of 10 million people. Per capita, that's about twice as much as the US.

Stop feeling victimized for being on the right. The rich pay taxes, so that society seems fairer to those millions of people who make everything that the rich consume. Tough luck, but guess what, you can still become super rich, so what's the issue?

You can talk to anyone who's worth more than 100 million: being twice as rich won't change a damn thing to their way of life. At this stage, it's only a matter of power and counting points.
I'm really struggling to put into words how much this recent "moral" crusade against Facebook/Google/Amazon has begun to irritate me. My gut feeling is that unable to do anything about Trumps election victory all those enraged by his win are now turning their ire against companies that tangentially might have helped to get him elected.
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Agreed. Apple has been mostly good wrt to privacy in the past, but since they've started to make it a selling/differentiation point, I expect them to solidify their stance.

I think it's a genius move. People will begin to understand in the coming years just how much information these companies are tracking/extracting, and turn(or stay) to Apple.

I think users would care about privacy, if they truly knew just how much information is being gathered.
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That's still more steps from how it was.

Before: Swipe up for Control Center, tap to toggle WiFi radio, tap or swipe to return to current app.

Now: Switch from current app or close it, Force Touch Settings, tap WiFi, tap on the toggle in Settings.app, switch back to app you were on. The UX here is worse.
> people will think still frames

Video is still frames… you can't tell the difference between a 2-frame 24fps video and an animation of two photos taken 33ms apart. This holds as you add more images.

The things that record video for films and TV are called 'video cameras'. In computer graphics, the software concept representing the point of view for the rendered scene is called a camera. Calling these things cameras is standard and well-understood in this domain.

The obsession with the particular recording device seems like pointless minutia. If you called it 'a video capturing device', your message would not be weakened. Specifying exactly the model of 1960s triple-lens Bolex which the video has to emulate distracts from your message.

> That's poisonous to the goal of realism, since video is the area no one has yet achieved.

I don't know what to say: this has already been achieved, and you missed it. It doesn't seem important to expound on whether this has been achieved or not, since it's trivial to find an example which fulfills whatever your latest requirement is. cue "but realistic Hi

I still don't know what the message is you're trying to convey: real-time generation of convincingly near-photorealistic video will… something? Don't worry about correcting my definitions; that makes your message "I'm a specialised dictionary in human form*".
No bad, it's a pleasure to discuss these things with someone who is willing to research and to admit their mistakes.

Much better than the usual crowd I get in these kind of discussions, the 'sensitive vegan' type who pushes false statistics to try to hide being emotionally invested behind the authority of science (two of their favorite falsehoods are to push all people who consume meat into the same group for comparison vs vegans - bad science, because majority of omnivores have very bad diets incomparable to my efforts at keeping on keto, and arguing that 'cows emit methane, so we need to eat less meat', never 'cows emit methane, so let's eat other meat more'). And then when I display patience and deconstruct their arguments, the mask of reason falls off and they just start calling me Hitler, murderer etc. lol.
> Is Google evil? Maybe, but they've made mountains of information easily discoverable at no direct financial costs to the end user. Is Facebook evil? Maybe, but they've enabled broad communication with family and friends you might never have had the means to maintain on your own. Is Microsoft evil? Maybe, but they've done more to make the personal computer ubiquitous than any other company.

Or have they?

Just because a monopoly provides a useful service, doesn't mean that without that monopoly we wouldn't have that useful service, in which case their net contribution to society would not actually be that service, but just their monopoly power over the service, which is not exactly a net positive.
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Great product! What navigation are you using?
Class in the OO/taxonomy sense. I feel like you are projecting some of your existing issues onto this discussion.
This has not been my experience living in Amsterdam. Airbnb seems to be growing despite all the regulations that the municipality is trying to put in place [0]. And at least in my social group, Airbnb is vastly preferred to hotels, because of the more personal experience and getting to live in a real neighborhood.

[0] http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2017/08/amsterdam-airb...
Being on an iPhone will however reduce most of those bits to 0. For example any iPhone 8 with iOS11 will share the same screen resolution, fonts, user agent and so on. They talk about this in their methodology, however do not give the actual bits in their results, only that you have 'more than 19'
In Swedish we have the word "överträffa" and I was sure there must be a corresponding Norwegian word.

However, after looking at several different dictionaries, I really can't find a Norwegian word that translates to this. Two separate sources translates it with "stige" which doesn't sound right at all.
Colleagues of mine working on travel time functionality. Everybody that comes across their work makes the time travel transposition at least once while discussing it.

I wonder what makes this temptation so strong.
Those safety checks need to be run continously, actually, or the software will not get the certifications necessary to be released on the roads. There are passive means: practices and coding guidelines, static checks, but also active measures: defensive coding, redundancy, continously active safety check logics.

So my original point was: it doesn't matter if you use direct drive or a transmission, as both will be controlled by software, and ultimately the safety of that software will determine whether the System is safe overall. The same design principles and safeguards will need to be implemented in both cases to provide the needed integrity.

But I doubt there are any patents on this. I guess it would be illogical to demand vendors to use patents by someone. But there are lots safety regulations on the topic.
I would sincerely hope not! i.e. Tracking.
Really, the important question is: What realistic chance did they have to not contribute without killing themselves? I guess one can argue about whether people should also be required to kill themselves to prevent evil, but that certainly is a good minimum.
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DVB-T type devices such as the one referred to in this article are indeed remarkably flexible but keep in mind that they are only able to receive. In my case, that quite rapidly exhausted my curiosity.

I'm now eagerly awaiting delivery of a LimeSDR (https://www.crowdsupply.com/lime-micro/limesdr), one of several hacker-friendly radio peripherals that can both receive and send (in the LimeSDR's case, in full duplex mode) because of course having a transceiver is a whole different ball-game. GnuRadio can serve as the logic of both receivers and transmitters.

Of course depending on country, frequency and transmitted power you may require licences to operate.
You seem to be confused about that post. That only refers to turning off WiFi from Control Center. If you go into settings and turn off WiFi, it will actually turn the radio off. Separately, in Location and Privacy, you can disable location for your whole phone or on an App by App basis. Control Center WiFi is not tied to this.
In the era of modern travel outsiders are a part of your society.
> Booking.com already knows that they are fighting a losing battle against AirBnB

Maybe I am wrong, but I though Booking also lists apartments for rent? At least in Romania, I know people that rent to tourists usually publish their offers on both websites.
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Not a fan of how this was implemented either, but the cue is the descriptive text under the button. If you do toggle Bluetooth or WiFi off from the settings app, it even uses a different icon in the control center.
In our company the management changed the score counter for goals on the foosball-table from 10 possible points to a maximum of three.
this does it for me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qxa91EwFco

especially that charles manson sample..
China building 6 new aircraft carriers
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/china-eyes-build-6-aircraft-carriers-new-bases-every-continent-command-seas-1617990 --- Its time for China to colonize the world through technology.
It's common enough that BBC Radio had a programme called The Tingle Factor.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1mS2Q4lp0wNxj9Mdlpr...

And this article suggests "most people" feel it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zx6sfg8

Also, not quite the same but they have a long running series about music with a powerful emotional impact. I mention it because it's good and people might be interested. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008mj7p
Yet here we are, a product of the blind watchmaker. If we can develop embodiment and goals, why shouldnt it be possible for other systems?
They might even take it one step further and hire staff to work at the back counter and sell it already cooked for you. /s
> If I want to use the torch or flash then I’ll decide if there’s enough battery left

Lithium batteries are worn a lot by high amperage when they are already close to empty. They are protecting the battery from wearing out too fast.
which allow you to remove the partitions... otherwise you end up with the 30min reboot.
> Once it's their call, you're absolved of any responsibility. Both morally and in every meaningful sense.

WTF? There are still people who haven't grasped that that is basically the recipe for all man-made humanitarian catastophes in human history?
Here's one from a few years ago:

https://m.imgur.com/a/0PZFM
Bluetooth is an order of magnitude less power per KB than wifi
Simply turn off "Ask to Join Networks" and you will never see the WiFi popup you refer to.

I believe having this off is default behavior since at least iOS 9.

http://osxdaily.com/2012/04/07/stop-iphone-looking-for-wifi-...
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If you leave it to the market you'll get segregation, and whites only stores and buses on no Jews and dogs allowed signs.

Allowing this kinds of things in public space wouldn't advance humanity.
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Which of those ever had anything close to a 'dominant market position'?
Windows version soon? :)
Then other holdings of Bain sold "Toys R Us" goods and services and were perhaps sold after a good quarter?
I think I've seen this nested configuration on youtube a while back...

Still nice drive.
Cost of batteries is dropping and because of that the cost of electric vehicles will follow, attracting more customers which will render the market interesting to more manufacturers which again will bring costs down (rinse, repeat). It's just a matter of time; if I had enough resources I would have invested in electric cars long before Tesla was born; predicting their success is no different from saying in 2000 that one day all light bulbs will be replaced by LEDs and all film cameras by digital ones. Tesla is investing now to create their future success for being the first or among the first in that market.
Or not:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-07/tu-ssm072012...

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-008-9448-9
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>My preference is always to leave Wi-Fi off, turn it on when I want to use it, and then turn it off when I'm finished. This change makes doing that slower and clumsier.

It's exactly this micro-management that they try to obliterate, similar to this:

https://www.wired.com/2016/03/closing-apps-save-battery-make...
Looks really cool!

The only caveat is that I'm not sure I want to have another electron app chewing through 15% of my CPU...
what is the benefits over hyper https://github.com/zeit/hyper?
Not having to grow an entire penis just before puberty seems advantageous
I understand that it was more like everyday A/B testing of the calendar adjustment because booking seems to be very data-driven - developers work on teams that are assigned to the specific area of the web-site, or even the specific target groups(honey mooners, business traveller, etc.) and try new features/adjustments by using A/B testing.
How do you separate that from the ever-present plethora of angsts (existential for example) that come as default with humanity?
How's the performance? GNU yes can produce output at more than 10GB/s. Does it cope well with that? How about lots of output that contains lots of escape sequences?
If I am in the dark, and really need to use that torch, the batteries are the least of my worries.
>They've changed the meaning of the button.

It's also not the same button technically: they've redesigned the whole panel.
No. That wasn't implied either. Conversely, net profits do tend to be a positive indicator of share price.

It's also incorrect to say that AMZN "makes buttloads of money", with sub-1 EPS[1] at a nearly $1,000 share price.

[1] https://finance.google.co.uk/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AAMZN&fstype=...
Honestly, this is a bit click baity. It's two asteroids orbiting each other if anyone is wondering.
> And at the end of the day, your friends have their own moral codes, just like you do. If they feel that the work they do fits their code, then that's their decision.

That's either vacuous or bullshit.

If you mean that they do in fact decide what they do ... well, yeah? But that does not say anything about whether they should be doing it, nor whether I should agree with it, nor even whether I should try and do something to prevent it.

On the other hand, if you mean that it's acceptable because it is compatible with their own moral codes ... now, that's some dangerous bullshit. If your moral code says that you should kill witches, that does not justify anything at all.
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Quickly gone through your webpage. First impression it looks nice and slick.
And I get what you are about.
Heads you left some console.log around (could see them on the chrome dev console)

good luck
> False equivalence. Campaign contributions and personal income are separate categories.

"False equivalence"? I wasn't "equating" anything. The fact that they are separate categories was the entire point. Namely, that campaign contributions have to (at least in theory) be spent on the campaign, while "speaking fees" are pure slush that can be used for anything the politician desires.

> Those private speeches don't buy any more influence than campaign contributions... which is to say rather little for the presidency.

Are you seriously arguing that politicians aren't influenced when people give them $400,000 of free money (allegedly for standing in front of a crowd and spouting nonsense for 20 minutes)? Dude, these are politicians, not saints.
"Catholic vs. Protestant: the roots of Christianity's civil war"

I guess every article about Islam has to be framed in terms of violence.
Yes. Persistent memory: http://pmem.io. This a storage medium accessible like memory and much faster than traditional disks. It blurs the line between memory and disk and will fundamentally alter the way we build systems.

For example you may no longer need a leveldb or sqlite disk store, you could just use plain data structures in persistent memory.

An early version is currently available with i3 instances on Amazon. Expect to hear more about this in the next few years.
>it will decide what is better for you?

Regardless of this particular implementation, isn't that the whole point of computing? To get the software to be smarter and decide what's better -- all the way to AI assistants.
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Which justifies doing evil or letting people do evil how exactly?
How does this compare to CuPy (https://cupy.chainer.org/) ?
It is now independent from Chainer, is highly compatible with numpy and supports both CUDA and CuDNN.
One that easily uses Bash on Ubuntu on Windows??
Please fix the title.
Yes, the program is written in terms of callbacks, just like monadic programs are written in terms of "return" and "bind" callbacks. This style isn't any more imperative than monadic programming. You could port this code to Haskell (using typeclasses instead of modules) and it'd work just as well.
> Evidently not? I'd really be curious how you come to that conclusion

Uhm... what sort of a response are you expecting that could convince you here?

> when they apparently don't have the first clue as to how to recognize evil, nor do they seem to care?

How are you so certain that I'm recognizing the evil correctly in the first place? Wouldn't it make a lot more sense to first question that before questioning my assessment of my friends' character?

> Are you sure that that's not just the image they promote of themselves, rather than an actual assessment of their behaviour?

How high of a bar is "sure" for you? I'm not even "sure" I understand all of my own parents' motivations in life well, let alone my friends'. The way you phrase your question I don't get the impression I could meet that bar realistically about anyone. I can say I'm "sure" enough that I'm considering the possibility of them getting brainwashed as significantly more likely than them having poor moral character. Not sure what other metric I can use really.
Anecdotally, we ended up with a Nissan Altima with CVT, the first automatic I had driven for years. I loved the CVT with its smooth transitions between gears and no loss of power. When we got rid of our other vehicle with a standard transmission and picked up a non-CVT automatic, I was stunned by how sloppy it felt. I hadn't realized or remembered how "normal" automatic transmissions behaved and it was very jarring.
>So, no big deal. Until you get hacked over wifi when you thought it was off all the time

If you can get hacked "over wifi" then you have bigger problems than whether the toggle makes it on or off. Assuming that you turn it on, ever, that is.

Besides, you can tell if it's on and off. Off has a strikethrough over the icon.
I guess that's what "Embarrassing searches" would stand for.
Really time to take a look at Thalos II (https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII/)
Very nice vis, though the reported times are way off actual travel times because interchange time is not taken into account, which can be significant in shorter journeys with multiple hops. Calculating this is non-trivial, as it is dependent on entrance/egress platforms for every station, as many have different flows in different directions.

Great tool though!
It's almost as if the people running Google are not idiots.
Electron... no thanks! I will wait for Alacritty, in the meantime iTerm2 and Terminal.app are there...
You want Mathematica then..
I'm afraid it's not going to happen any time soon, if at all. But even if it does happen, it won't be cmd.exe or PowerShell support, but rather some kind of POSIX shell for Windows.
At the same time, what was the alternative? If you wanted Motorola type patents... you can't just buy them off a shelf.

There's a limited supply, and only some of them are ever for sale.
I've read there's inertia when changing ratio in automated CVT though. Maybe it's an old issue.
>what ever happened to the principle of least astonishment?

I dunno, they actually measured real world usage patterns from millions of real users and did usability tests on their own premises, and found that this is the least astonishing for the majority, who doesn't need to wonder why AirDrop doesn't work or why their Apple Watch is not connecting?
I am glad we found the guy!
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