skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost any? Think of the time saved.
I can replicate this experience. Enemy Territiry with radron would give you maximum 30fps in 2014 or so, forget playing with rain or on a populated server. Now I get 90fps at 1080p comfortably.
For those of us who don't trade, but feel we have something to learn from the type of thinking that leads to these counter-consensus insights - do you have any examples of how this line of thinking has led you wrong, either in trading or other fields?
You are quite right. I'm not sure how I misread that (twice!).

But do people complain about best friends to spouses? I unfortunately know of many people who complain about spouses to friends.
I like the Chinese counterfeits. I got a bundle of knock off Ralph Lauren polos that let me experiment with the frat boy look in college with out spending thousands on real ones.

I personally like shanzai culture. Brands are cool but ultimately quality should be an internal thing that customers should seek out and test, not rely on status symbols and brands to define their tastes. Caveat emptor is a thing you know.
> Yeah, but wouldn’t have made the history books or affected an army.

I can't believe that nobody wouldn't at least jot down, "Dear diary, today a huge fucking chunk of the sun was missing for about an hour. I sure am glad I'm literate, and that the godkingpharaohboss decided that a chunk of the sun missing warranted a brief note on precious lambskin/temple wall/holy book margin."
W3C DRM happened because of Tim Berners-Lee himself. And I agree that, since W3C is a central point, it is the target for attacking. But it's possible to decentralize things in a way that stays decentralized, for LOCAL communications.

Email spam is only a problem across the global internet. Not within local networks. Same goes for other types of communications.

Human speech for example has remained peer to peer even as radio was invented :)

I really think the problem is a technical one. The social and political outcomes are almost inevitable, just like the two party system is a nearly inevitable outcome of the first-past-the-post ballot.

Lots of paradigms changed as technologies were introduced. The phone, radio, the printing press etc. Technology has a great impact on society.
Not offering you their services isn't restricting your freedom. Your freedoms don't include a right to other people's services against their will.
I did not get 11K upvotes on the first day. This is from 2,5 years. After my launch day I was the #2 most upvoted product, 1 week later it was the #1 most upvoted product. I think on the first day it got 1500 upvotes. Check https://medium.com/startup-grind/how-i-launched-the-2-most-u... to read how I launched it.
As far as I know, that isn't really true. Isn't coal well under 50% now? I suspect that it would be below 40% by this point and dropping. It isn't really reasonable to expect it to disappear too quickly, though.
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From the article -- "This is a world where just about anything can be made almost instantaneously; a world where a product can be iterated, produced, and then sold around the world within a couple of weeks."

And yet every Kickstarter that uses Shenzen to manufacture is months if not years late in delivering.

Presumably if you could make money by taking out counterfeiters it would inspire a some subset of people to do so. Most of what I've read on this problem though seems to hinge on the fact that even if you identify the business that is at fault they just vanish and a new business pops up to take their place. And their does not seem to be a lot of incentive on the Chinese government to regulate these guys.
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Freedom for 800-ton corporate gorillas shouldn't be privileged over the freedom of the average individual. And the word "freedom" is empty sloganeering if you pretend it's separate from power.
No, they do not not. I have access to many billions of credit card transactions. Aggregate amount, date/time, maybe merchant location, merchant name, and a merchant classification--plus some other things but not much that is interesting.
I think the author uses GOOG to distinguish GOOG the company from Google, the service they provide.
Not a good person. He essentially worked for Russian interests in Ukraine in ways that got Ukrainians killed, never mind being directly opposed to US interests. He has also worked against the Magnitsky sanctions, which takes some extraordinary moral flexibility. He took blood money. Then he evaded taxes on blood money. Manafort's client, Yaunukovich fled for his life from the people he betrayed. After Mueller is done with him, the Ukrainians probably want a piece of Manafort.

This isn't just acting on behalf of foreign commercial interests in the "we'd like you to buy our steel or grain or whatever" way. This is working for an adversary of the US, to subvert US interests with the highest stakes for the future of Europe.
Thank you. HN seems pretty unenlightened to (or in denial of) ubiquitous misogyny.
There's a practical/moral argument: having the moral high ground gives you soft power to wield. And that's probably worth more than any benefit torture would give. (As an example, in WWII the Brits managed to turn every single last spy the Germans sent. Torture was not necessary, and would have even had the opposite effect.)

(Of course, you could try to only torture in secret to protect your reputation. But that's a very fragile state of affairs, and even more damaging when uncovered.)
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Not long ago people got sent to jails and had their lives ruined (sure they broke law) for carrying counterfeit stuff. They were treated like drug dealers.

Now same is done but it's considered ok and even a brilliant business move, all because some MBAs and their bosses make it look ok.
This "breaks" some libraries with a legitimate use of reading the canvas data, like favico.js[0] (although arguably, the only reason favico.js has to read the canvas data is because the favicon API is stuck in the nineties)

[0] https://github.com/ejci/favico.js
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> If you take a step back, ignore formalism altogether and ask yourself -- or better yet, conduct research -- on what are the actual problems in programming, you may find solutions in completely different directions.

It's hard to know what I don't know. I try to look at what people are doing/liking. But I feel confident that programming is inherently going to be about expressing the essence of the problem you're solving - a program will necessarily be as complex as the problem it's solving - and I think that limit is within reach of the approach I'm advocating, which is a conservative extrapolation of things we mostly already value. So I don't see the need to do anything more radical.

> If Idris is a big step ahead of Java, by how much do you think costs at, say, Google or Amazon or Citibank would drop if they decided they would all switch to Idris tomorrow? I'm fairly certain that it wouldn't be anywhere near 30%, and I'm not even sure costs wouldn't actually rise.

A lot of the value of better programming would be new opportunities, not just cutting costs. I think the industry switching to Idris-level languages will bring a factor of 10 to 100 improvement in productivity - i.e. I expect we'll see companies of ~100 people putting the Google/Amazon/Citibanks out of business, and companies of less than 10 people competing heavily with the giants. That's the sort of thing technological improvements enable - compare the rate at which new videogames are being produced now, and how small the teams producing them are, or look at WhatsApp being treated as a serious competitive threat to Facebook with a staff of 10. I think there's been a lot of productivity gain recently that isn't fully captured in economic measures, because we've (rightly) become a lot more quality-of-life focused culturally, and so our productivity has gone into quality-of-life improvements that aren't so visible in GDP terms.

But I fully expect the transition to take decades, with good reason - I agree that a large company switching tomorrow wouldn't reap much benefit from Idris (though I do think we're at the stage where a technologically-aggressive startup should consider it).
"first responders" is the more common term. Honoring their risk/sacrifice became a cultural priority after so many died in the emergency response on 9/11.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_workers_killed_in_th...
Thanks ! Will do !
stratechery is a better source for this kind of analysis
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> Relocating offices or asking employees to move can sometimes be read as layoffs in disguise, since a certain percentage of workers won’t be able to relocate.

I think this is definitely true. I also expected this was the case for Yahoo. In general, perks and management philosophies only change when things aren't going well. From what I can observe, IBM has been on a decade long crash course of cutting and squeezing to show increasing profits.
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> Isn't hn about technology?

No. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This story nevertheless doesn't really qualify as on-topic, but I assume this story is getting picked up here because it's a follow up to the initial story, which people found interesting due to the involvement of a DIY sub, rocketry groups, ...
I'm happy to answer any follow-up questions.
i think this is only one possible outcome. sure it makes sense but imho this can not happen over night and that is where this theory breaks.

they cant force "their web" upon the rest of the world. there will _always_ be some form of web where one can be anonymous, where you can run your own server without any hardware from "them", using standard-protocols.

maybe the business-people and most poeple who dont care about their privacy will use everything they get thrown from "them". that does not mean the web is dead, it is only that the "mainstream" will live in a separate web. maybe this (their) web will be much bigger than our web. even then, the cool kids will switch to the cool punky web again :D

of course everything is just reading tea leaves..
Sitting in your armchair, you might make that tradeoff. When getting punched, your brain might work differently. Especially when you might fear more than a few punches---in the heat of the beating you might fear for your life.
Again TCL kind of has the opposite perspective: all evaluation is text substitution.
>due to the AMP carousel at the top, but that’s it

Are you for real? Read your sentence aloud to yourself and realize how ridiculous it sounds.

You're basically saying: "They're just at the top of the page because they're in a specific AMP section of the page at the top of the page, but that's it. They don't get bonus points in the search ranking, which affects how high up you are in the search results, which is not on top of the page"
People used to say the same thing about Wintel until the Web appeared.

Not to say his points are wrong just that it lacks some historical perspective.

IMHO, these companies are on the verge of becoming irrelevant actually.
From my perspective as a developer for the last 30 years, it's been two steps forward, and 1.5 steps back.

I think JavaScript does some amazing things, but it reminds me of Visual Basic in the 90s or Flash in the 2000s. Anyone could write code (some good, more horrible) with it and do cool stuff.

But the maintainability is horrible. I hope TypeScript comes to the rescue!
Turns out such a thing really did happen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Eclipse

... in this case, the eclipse led to the battle being canceled in favor of a peace treaty, out of fear of divine rage.

Dan Carlin covers it in King of Kings (his history of ancient Persia), which is a great listen.
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It's Denmark, so perhaps all of the aggravated factors will get him a 10 year sentence.
if Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos killed someone, you don't think it'll be news on here?
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The easiest time I had writing GUIs was when I used PyQT. I designed the UI in Qt Designer, loaded it in the python code, set the bindings and voila, it was working.

Btw Visual Basic continues to exist under Visual Basic.NET and if you stick to the basics you could learn to write C# GUI programs pretty quickly.

I agree writing GUIs by hand is very counter-productive.
To be fair, the IoT device wasn't sold by Niantic, it was sold by Nintendo. Nintendo dropped the ball on selling the only thing that was really profitable for them around the Pokemon Go fad since they only receive license fees for the characters I believe.
Except they try to keep users out of these networks and inside their platforms while having an absolute market share.

Every monopoly should be regulated and, preferably, broke up.
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You can't tell any part of the sun isn't visible by looking at it directly without some sort of shielding from the glare.
Content is tagged per region, but we only support uk and us at the moment. We will add Canada as soon as possible
I mean, maybe you're not optimizing for not driving off a cliff :)
The U.S. has 1.3 million active-duty personnel for 323 million people, or about 0.4% of the population. France, by comparison, has 208 thousand active-duty personnel for 67 million people, or about 0.3% of the population. So not really a huge difference.

The U.S. military has an advertising budget of about $670 million. That's a lot, but the U.S. is a big country, and that amount doesn't even make the military a top 20 advertiser (it spends 1/3 of what #10 Samsung does).
Do you mean terraforming Earth or Mars? Handling global warming will probably be easier than terraforming Mars.
Perhaps you could open source a lite version while keeping the premium version paid for?
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You'd think they'd have a way of describing the sun being slightly dimmer, like it being a sunset, that's different from 'it completely stopped', since the sun regularly sets.
It's the first result not only on Google but DuckDuckGo as well. Do you not search for unfamiliar terms?
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It is as bad as you report (I run both a 6 and a 7 as daily drivers). I'm running the latest iOS 11.1 beta on my 6 for it to be usable, highly recommend doing so; its superior to the non-beta 11.0.*

https://beta.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/redemption (Apple ID login required)
To add to what others have said, local extrema are actually quite rare for "random" high-dimensional functions. This is suggested by a simple heuristic based on the Hessian matrix. As the dimension increases, it becomes exponentially harder for every eigenvalue to have the same sign (coin flipping experiment). So it stands to reason that saddle points should be far more common, and SGD is actually quite good at overcoming saddle points.
Much like Hans Reiser telling increasingly implausible stories to explain all the really obvious evidence that he murdered his ex-wife, and then (against his lawyer's advice) testifying to those things in court.
And why do you think that? I could understand why you'd want to be thinking that, if you own lots of Google stocks, but either way this does not provide any resolution to anything.

Whether you call it a search engine or a curated content platform, users aren't going to suddenly stop using it now.
>The rights for the movie have already been secured.

From whom? This kind of thing really irks me. I hope no one is paying this ... person for the "rights" to tell his story.
As someone from Europe attending an NFL game in London it was really strange.

We'll we've got the anthems before a game in Europen sports too. But all this "support our troops" and the "be part of a big flag" thing left a bad taste in my mouth.

Even stranger if you are neither from the US or England and should partake in a show of patriotism for countries you don't really care about.
Thank you, we will add Hulu in the us data
Not sure it's necessary? The trend towards index funds will do it.

There's an argument that a lot of money is made by correcting other investor's mistakes. As below-average investors switch to index funds, competition gets tougher among the remainder who are smarter on average.
Technically GOOG doesn't even stand for Google Inc. anymore. It's Alphabet Inc.'s official ticker symbol. Subtle difference.
>My impression is that premeditated murders rarely occur in Denmark

I'm not sure this was premeditated. He might just have been having these fantasies for a while, and then just decided to do it when he had this lady in his submarine.
I moved back to the US after about half a decade in Europe.

It's not as clear cut I think.

The first thing you'll see getting off the plane in Brussels is the military in full get-up, with guns that look like they'll blow your limbs clean off. You will find them patrolling in the city centers of many cities as well. This reminded me of my trips to the middle east and North Africa. I have never seen this in the US.

I have never seen a military parade on the 4th. On Bastille Day, in Paris, the military will parade and drive their tanks down the streets and it will be broadcast on national TV. You're supposed to get all mushy when the foreign legion remains as one when leaving the traffic circle, the commentators will remind you.

I've seen a whole bunch of flag worshiping in Barcelona and Spain on the news the last couple of weeks.

I don't necessarily disagree with you, but the jingoism you refer to manifests itself in different ways in other countries. I don't think it's a difference in kind, rather in degree.
I like manufacturing safety standards! Those are cool too.
So how deep into the consequences are we going to get before the debate over its reality ends?
What if you paid and ordered Ralph Lauren and received counterfeit? Because that's the larger problem in my opinion. Especially since it often also includes goods that are dangerous as counterfeit (like medication).
> HN loves to hate on page bloat and AMP, confusingly.

I'm not one to write much about AMP, but I don't see why simultaneously disliking page bloat and AMP is confusing. I simultaneously dislike (or like) many pairs of things that are apparently at odds with one another.

The charitable reading of those of us who dislike AMP and page bloat simultaneously is that we want developers (and, importantly, the people who give direction to those developers) to economize on their own. Stop adding every hip third-party script, social sharing widget, tracking library, and framework to your otherwise simple webapp. It's quite easy to trim the fat from a webapp; you just need the organizational conviction to do so.

AMP is a trojan horse, in more ways than one. One good: It uses a compelling marketing message to deliver much-needed trimming. But two things are obvious to most developers: (a) it's not necessary to adopt AMP to make your app trim and (b) AMP comes with a lot of baggage. So the message from HN is: there are better options, and they're not even technically difficult.
Because the public has a right to regulate private companies or, indeed, restrict freedoms of private individuals, if it so chooses.

Private companies don't have the "freedom" to dump chemicals into rivers (or they shouldn't), they don't have the "freedom" to not pay taxes (or they shouldn't).

Likewise, once the well-being of individuals largely depend on having a Google account or a Facebook account, or once the ability to go from one place to another rests on having an Uber account, or the power to buy anything, including groceries, supposes one has an Amazon account, then those companies, private as they may, should be regulated so that they cannot unilaterally decide to ban individuals (real people), with no appeals process and no alternative.
Do you need a VPN?
Same reason the murder of Hans Reiser's wife was noteworthy: because we like to think that one of "our own" is incapable of it, and we gawk like an OJ Simpson fan when shown otherwise.
> or worked for one of the large companies with government contracts to supply the military.

What percentage of the population does this add to the total ?
We scrape all data, so it should keep up with new shows ! :)
What worries me a little is that the military often gets elevated to the point that it's not acceptable to question them in any way. If history has taught us anything it's that military often doesn't think about the big picture of a situation but do what they are told to do. Civil control is important.

There is also the trend to make military "cool". I think this has led to a lot of cops wanting to be Navy SEALs and acting accordingly. When I look at the cops in my town they have a little bit an occupying force mentality instead of acting as part of the community.
We all react much more strongly to stimuli (here punishment but in other cases rewards too) when those stimuli are "swift and certain." That's true even in the face of an alternative that is more severe but also delayed and only contingent (possible jail time, if ultimately tried and convicted).

To me the effectiveness of the police assault is not particularly hard to understand or imagine. It's the same principle that leads many folks to resort to self-destructive behaviors in the short-term (addiction, etc.), even though many addicts completely understand and acknowledge the long-term consequences.
Until it can be told that it's too late to do anything anyway.
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easier scientifically != easier politically
> Not offering you their services isn't restricting your freedom.

It is if you have a monopoly.

>Your freedoms don't include a right to other people's services against their will.

They do if you have a monopoly.
> That's one way to phrase it. Viewed from a different angle, the US loved competing in proxy wars against the USSR, continues fighting proxy wars against Russia (currently in Syria) and destabilizes the middle east to keep contracts for it's defense industry coming

You think that other NATO countries - the UK, France, and others - didn't support these as well? It's not like the US is going into Syria against the wishes of France and the UK - both have sent in their own forces as well, coordinating military strikes along with the US.

It's extremely hypocritical for people from NATO and MNNA countries to criticize the US for military actions that their own countries backed, especially the ones that they are themselves actively involved with.
You're being massively downvoted, as it is happening with me in a lot of posts when I disagree with these radical leftists that appear to have taken control of HN.

I think this wasn't so fully dominated by SJW and communists two or three years ago as it is now.

Downvotes were not so commonly used as censuring mechanisms for contrary political opinions also.
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> DeQuincey wrote a later book called “Miseries of Opium” in which he went on at length about how opium completely destroyed his life. But nobody bought that one.

Do you have a link to a bibliography where this book appears?
Is it really in the Netherlands?
> Isn't coal well under 50% now? I suspect that it would be below 40% by this point and dropping

Coal has remained around 29% of global primary energy consumption since 2005 [1]. I don't believe it's dropping.

[1] https://www.worldenergy.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/World... Figure 1, page 4
No, it is in fact Denmark
So what is the reason?
Pounds of CO2 emitted per million British thermal units (Btu) of energy for various fuels:

Coal (anthracite)	228.6
Coal (bituminous)	205.7
Coal (lignite)	215.4
Coal (subbituminous)	214.3
Diesel fuel and heating oil	161.3
Gasoline (without ethanol)
157.2
Propane	139.0
Natural gas	117.0

natural gas is a win over coal, but not a big one.
I think your argument is 100% valid when it is apparent to everyone in the transaction that they are buying a counterfeit good.

Quality can be synonymous with a brand. If you lead a buyer to assume they are buying an item of a quality it doesn't have, this is essentialy theft.