skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A very interesting observation about the shared public experience of both talking into a phone, vs. the semi-private experience of receiving one half of the conversation in your 'Buds.

This echoes at least part of what made talking to people wearing Google Glass so odd - you didn't know what they could see, or where their mind was. In the same way having a conversation with someone while you glance at your phone is rude – because it creates an unevenness of attention – any interaction where you have a private component publicly and visibly involved is going to be awkward.
I've read a lot of very critical reviews of Pixel Buds, but I'm not sure this rises to the level of "Silicon Valley Arrogance."

But you know what does?

- iPod headphones with wires that get brittle in the cold, so they pop out of your ears during a Chicago winter.
- iPhones that go into emergency thermal shutdown from being in your pocket on a spring/summer day in Arizona.
- An iMessage applet ecosystem that assumes that every iPhone user lives his life like a 20-year-old San Francisco metrosexual. (Launch day was Uber, OpenTable, and bill splitting. Yay.)

How about Silicon Valley offer some apps and accessories for the 99.99999% of the world that doesn't live in your climate? Or doesn't live your lifestyle? Stop patting yourselves on the back for staring at your own bellybutton.

(This isn't meant to be an Apple-specific rant; that's just the ecosystem I'm most familiar with.)
None of this is true on any issue I’ve had with computers, phones or accessories. Always fast, always cover everything.

Although I would never provide a computer that wasn’t wiped that’s just good opsec and takes less than an hour to reimage anything.
No one should make web apps? Good one.
Lessons learned from a Man-in-the-Middle attack
Just got excited .. nope, not on my Netflix (UK).
Where would you draw the line between a "website" and a "web app", would you like to see JS die entirely? Would you like the web to be non-interactive. Genuinely interested.
Is Bitcoin a Bubble? Economists Say ‘Yes’
ROBOT Capture the Flag contest
But didn't Netflix make the worst move possible?

They developed a heap of MARVEL original content, that Netflix funded, which now Disney is able to pull from them.
OK, I understand. Though I think the article did a terrible job of explaining why: like, why do deadlines cause engineers to become affected by Student Syndrome? It just mentions it at a superficial level, which is perfectly fine for its purposes.

edit: also thanks for writing that article, it's great.
EverBlock Is a Modular Building Block That Allows You to Build Nearly Anything
i disagree with the author's logic here - yes any individual result is disconnected, yes the gambler's fallacy is wrong, but if we simply expand it to say, a 100 sided die landing on 1, 92 times in a row, then we can see the flaw here.

or to put it another way - expand his argument to 1 million coin flips, and all of them heads.

at some point probabilities should be evinced in results. it is surprising when they are not.
Yes. Text or email alerts are coming. Glad you liked it.
I'd take a look at eddy currents rather than DC. Think AC motor, not DC: that means there's no electrodes immersed in the water, so no sites at which the obvious reactions will occur.

There might, of course, be non-obvious ones.
Most corporate computers are never upgraded. In part because computers are just not nearly as expensive as people seem to think.

So, modularity is useful just not not as important as people assume. Computers are also not getting faster as quickly so using the same computer for ~4 years is now completely reasonable. Spread out of that period these start at ~80$ a month. You might drop that price some, but not as much as you probably assume without sacrificing.

They might not be optimal, but it's a reasonable option.
So much for Sweden being held up as this magical corruption free democracy. It's almost like the people "measuring" this sort of thing might not be doing it honestly...
As a full-life Puerto Rican, living here and having been here for Maria and Whitefish...

Whitefish was doing its job.
There were lots of trucks, lots of crew, going around actually repairing the grid.

Was it a contract vs no-contract?
Was Whitefish overcharging?
Is Whitefish a consultancy versus contractors?
Was it too much money?

IDGAF!!
They were doing it.
Actually fixing the system.
Yet for whatever set of reasons, they no longer are.

We are super thankful to the New York Power Authority, thankful for ConEd, thankful for the Georgia people, the Florida people, the crews from other beautiful States of the Union.
Super thankful.

Yet Whitefish was actually working.

I don't know if it's all ex-colonies in Latin America, yet it's always the same thing.
Lets destroy what those guys are doing because they're not us.

And I had generators all the time and grid-power has been restored to my house! Imagine if I didn't have power yet! How would this post go about?
I just go direct to chaseonline.chase.com .

It’s not pretty but it’s quick. :)
Meet the Modern-Day Explorer Crossing Antarctica on Foot
The way you read x.h().g().f() is essentially the same way you read it in F# (with |>), Haskell(with . ,although it goes the opposite direction) and R(with %>%).

It is one of the most aestetically pleasing attributes of use in the functional languages
If you're storing individually hashed characters:

a: 0CC175B9C0F1B6A831C399E269772661

b: 92EB5FFEE6AE2FEC3AD71C777531578F

c: 4A8A08F09D37B73795649038408B5F33

etc.

then this is basically the same as storing the plaintext characters because as long as you know the hashing algorithm you can generate a pretty small map of hash -> original character and convert back.
Reducing drag would presumably be useful in itself, even outside the context of avoiding detection.
"Surprising" is fine. The title isn't "Why you're not surprised at throwing 92 heads in a row". There's no agent in the title, so he's referring to an objective idea of an event being surprising. I'm not sure I agree with his concept of "surprising", but it's at least objective.
I live in Arizona and I can tell you that iPhones don't go into thermal shutdown while in your pocket. They will go into thermal shutdown if you leave them in the sun while you're outside working on a car on a >105* or so day, and even then they will start working once you get them out of the sun for a couple minutes.
Advanced Protection with iPhone and iPad
Allegations of China Punishing a Private Company for Outbidding State Company
While I agree that there would be no point to user-defined sum types, constructor classes would be a strict improvement over what Erlang has.
I guess the point I'm trying to make is that "can afford" is a positively barbaric rubric for deciding what people do with their lives.
Did anyone really thing Pixel Buds were going to be the must-have headphones for everyone? It was a cool example of applied technology that grabbed a bunch of headlines and gave people something to think about (what if I could talk to everyone regardless of language?)

The slides in the office are there to get press; the earphones that are clearly not going to be a huge seller are there to get press.
So do it yourself
Most of their products are so broken that you have to keep doing that. It's only that after you have dealt with their broken system that they do have some good products actually only one I can see that's worth the headache and that's windows ten.
> It's called "zoning", and it's a perfectly natural construct.

No particular implementation of zoning law is a "natural construct", and USian zoning laws have an extremely particular focus on preventing the construction of high-density housing (hell, some jurisdictions even criminalise roommates in pre-existing housing). There's nothing natural or inherent about that; and plenty of other countries have more sensical zoning laws that provide for adequate and dense housing supply while still having zoning (and they have lower rents and less problems with homelessness and housing-cost induced poverty, gasp).
How does a website put reasonable limits on access?

I'm not saying what Linkedin is trying to do is right but it seems to me there needs to be a way to say "Dude, that's not cool." A regular B&M store can refuse service to disruptive people and trespass people who don't comply, why not servers?

--edit--

Pretty much what rayiner is saying, they posted while I was typing.
The article agrees:

> It is telling that this product comes from the same people who brought us Google Glass, an ugly, invasive face-mounted camera that evoked hostility wherever it was worn.
I wonder what would happen if Google was divided into a bunch of smaller but cooperative regional search engines/datacenters.

Would that be better or worse for competition?
The virus is recognized, but not attacked:

"""After infusion, antibodies to AAV5 were detected in all the tested participants, but no T-cell–mediated immune responses to AAV5 capsid proteins were detected, and neutralizing antibodies to factor VIII did not develop in any participants. The absence of factor VIII inhibitors during more than 1 year of follow-up underscores the safety of AAV5-hFVIII-SQ. As has been observed in similar clinical trials of vector gene transfer,13,19,29 vector DNA was detected in various biologic fluids obtained from all the participants (see the Vector Shedding–Discussion section in the Supplementary Appendix). The possibility of vector integration was not assessed. The protocol was not designed to measure whether AAV5 infection was present in family members or close contacts, and ethics approval was not sought to pursue this question. The two viral genes within AAV5 have been replaced by factor VIII, and AAV5 requires another virus such as an adenovirus for a productive infection."""

This is a surprising finding because normally AAV5 leads to an immune response in this kind of treatment, although symptoms are mild and the virus in general is not considered pathogenic.

The mechanism of integration is described in detail in the wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adeno-associated_virus

I think if this worked as intended, no additional treatment is required.
Maybe it’s different in Europe. But I’ve had nothing but bad experiences with AppleCare. Except maybe for that time where they replaced a charger free of charge that literally caught fire.
He addresses this in the article if you read a little further down. Briefly, any sequence of 1 million coin flips is equally unlikely, so why are most of them not surprising?
So why didn't hiQ just operate from some jurisdiction where scraping is legal? And use VPN services to prevent blocking. I mean, the Internet is global. So why should US laws matter everywhere?
Nato is the most powerful alliance in the world. Even without the US and Turkey, Russia wouldn't have a chance. France and Canada alone could probably stop a non-nuclear Russian offensive. Britain, Germany, Italy, all have military spending on peacetime levels of GDP. If the world heats up their economies could easily quadruple spending.

The only country that could strain Nato is China, and we're doing fine with China.
Not to mention the headphone jack.
I wonder if this came out of the SF/Bay Area style growth after taking on investment? I haven't heard if they've been hiring a ton lately but I saw this happen with SurveyMonkey when we went from 100 employees to 1500.

The first 100 understood EVERYTHING about our customers and the product. Something got lost in translation when we grew to 1500 in a few years.

I wonder if they have scaled out to the point where they are hiring people who don't quite understand the product but are just a butt in a seat?
Weirdly enough, I feel like Google Maps and anything Yelp-like has the opposite problem in New York. When I search for something nearby, "two miles away" isn't remotely relevant when it's across the Hudson, in another state.

They tried to build a single system that works for everyone, and it works kind of okay unless you're on the edge of a bell curve, geographically speaking.
Didn't the exact reverse of this happen in Ukraine? It was "liberated from corrupt government" by the "West"?
1. I don't either but if we limit immigration from one kind of culture we should limit it from all.

2. I'd say those who want to profit from "free" healthcare first. Kind of what happen with our expats: once they start popping kids they come back because they can pay a lot less.

3. Full of Middle Eastern refugees? Asking this is like someone asking if the US is full of Mexican illegals. No.

I started my comment a little "tongue-in-cheek" but the more I think about it the more I realize the culture difference could be hard: out of the UK people speak a foreign language, no credit score system, a lot more socialism, less PC-ness, being patriotic (out of sporting events) is usually not well viewed. And instead of simple racism you have xenophobia: most people don't care about your skin color but a lot will care about your country of birth.
That's not a great analogy. The store owner can't just get your arrested/charged with a crime if they don't tell you that you aren't allowed first. Http lacks such a human mechanism. The closest thing I can think of in the standard is the response code. So your server replying 200 OK should implicitly be considered permission to access that resource legally until it stops replying with that code.
The consequences of looking at pornography at work
It's very surprising for 92 coin flips to have a tiny Kolmogorov complexity :)
This is the annoying part. It's a joke that a site like Can I Use needs to exist, and that browser vendors don't really have apt versions of their own compatibility tables.

Going to a third-party website to check to see if something is supported is disgusting.
Trespass is not illegal until the owner informs you that you are not wanted. Private information that has accidentally been made public is like an unmarked field. It may be private, it may be public, but until the owner takes specific action it is not illegal to use the field. If the owner decides to take action, that action cannot be retroactively applied, even if there is a record of who used the field.

Regardless, this is not analogous. If LinkedIn is making information public, then they cannot simultaneously say that this information is private for a specific use and expect the courts to intervene.
What is surprising about 92 heads in a row is the low entropy of the outcome, not the sheer unlikeliness of it. Yes every other outcome is just as unlikely. But almost very other outcome has MUCH higher entropy.
I'm not in B2C or really any consumer play, and haven't looked at SF closely. But: I assume it's an execution play.

Anybody can sell their books and electronics online (well, they could before Amazon started, yet amazon exceeded). Anybody can make clothes, yet Inditex is a monster. And why is there more than one restaurant. SF's claim is that their tech is a differentiator, and they are a tech company (unlike, say, Target or Blue Nile).

There are a couple of thoughts about "in store brand": their business plan may have required tighter control and visibility into the dimensions and materials of their product (dimension for the reasons discussed in the article and its footnotes; material because stuff that is tried on not in store and returned may need to be more durable, I don't know). It makes the plan more complex, but perhaps improves execution enough that it's worth the expense.

In the long run, if they really have a tech advantage they have the option of expanding beyond just in-house product or simply splitting into sub brands, or both.
Yes that's true. Personally I don't care too much about the precise prognoses but about the general idea. 40 years ago, the model was simple and also today I don't think the complexity could be modeled accurately.

There are examples in smaller areas, e.g. Easter Island, Trinidade South were 'over-usage' lead to consequences. I could image this to happen to the earth as a whole in time when we do not regulate.

The global system seems robust, yes. But there is plenty of oil still and most nations are stable. But who knows? This will/could change. For the former there is technology. But for the latter it seems difficult, a former-china-like-one-child-policy would be in order for certain regions, but I don't see this coming.
What all these wrong-goal examples have in common is that people have tried them over and over, and they never work the way you want. The reason they never work is that they don't specify the method. As one of my favourite Deming quotes says, "If you can accomplish a [numerical quality/goal] goal without a [new] method, then why were you not doing it last year? There is only one possible answer: you were goofing off."

What ends up happening is that people will cheat the system so they can hit the target you enforced, while sacrificing some other critical thing you forgot to enforce. In the educational system, for example, what happens is "teach to the test," which causes improved standardized test scores at the expense of actually learning things. And, of course, you get schools that outright cheat when scoring the tests: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2015/04/...

Re: ETAs, those are predictions, not goals. Predictions are good. Most of the article is about the difference between the two.
Your comment contributes nothing to the discussion and suggests that you haven't read the article.
Bigscreen supports dozens of people in one VR room
"the translation service needs internet connectivity to work"

I don't believe that's true. I think you can download a language set. Am I wrong?
And two of my favorite books :-)
yes, and that's about the only application where you actually see & feel some difference. not many actually do those
Yes, it is really used explicitly by algorithms employed by HFT funds, any system that explicitly or implicitly works with or through auctions, and by cellphone tower management systems. One could also argue that the Byzantine Generals Problem’s solution (the much vaunted blockchain of cryptocurrency lore) is game-theoretic in nature so the whole bitcoin & cetera crowd/craze (spending on your perspectives on the matter) could be considered to be founded upon the application of Game Theory of the algorithmic (computable) variety.
I love this idea! Its like a side-project focused sabbatical. I wonder what kind of startups are going to come out of it.
He addresses this in the article if you read a little further down. Briefly, any sequence of 1 million coin flips is equally unlikely, but because most fall within our expectations, they are not surprising. 1 million heads in a row does not fall within our expectations and is unlikely, and hence is surprising.
Ask HN: Who is your registered agent in CA
I am trying to create LLC in CA and I don't want to be my own registered agent.
I'm not in any way saying that a macbook pro (or any 'pro' thing) can't/shouldn't be used by professionals, or that people that use them are not professionals. It is just that I find more often than not when 'Pro' is used to market something, the primary audience appears to be consumers that want have a pro feeling, regardless of whether or not it was designed primarily for the requirements of a professional. If you are a professional and a Macbook Pro fits your requirements, great! It just feels lately that the 'Pro' moniker doesn't mean it is specifically designed with professionals in mind as the primary audience.
> If Russian tanks roll NATO will look the other way, because it has no choice. It won't change soon because of years of underinvestment that can't be made good overnight even if huge budgets were suddenly available. Which they aren't.

And solution is obvious: pay Ukraine for 1 thousand of tanks, out of 6 thousands they have in reserves, upgraded to latest tech: infrared optics, smart aim, built-in drone on wire, active defense, digital communication and control, etc. So NATO will have +1 thousand of high-tech tanks cheaply AND Ukraine will have +3 thousands of cheaper and less capable tanks, which is enough for defense (they still able to take out 2-3 Russian tanks when properly used in defense). Win-win for NATO and Ukraine.

In case of emergency, these tanks can be sent by railroad to any post-Warsaw block country at eastern border of NATO - they already have experience with them.
Exactly, much of the eastward expansion of NATO was from parts of the Soviet Union joining NATO. If they didn't want NATO to expand eastward, then they shouldn't have joined it.
Ask HN: How hard is it to live in Silicon Valley?
Hi HN community,
I’m a sophomore college student. I have a good not great GPA, and a few extras under my belt (Eagle Scout, extracurriculars, etc). In two years, I’ll have a bachelor’s CS degree.

I was wondering how hard it is to get to/live in SV.
Right on about the C99 analogy, thanks. That's my concern.
You are correct. He was joking
Yup. Please give this advice to the first service worker you meet today, and let us know how it goes
Sure, but if you're never told to leave the coffee shop or no action is taken to prevent you from entering again, say being told your banned, and you continue to walk in and use the coffee shop with no one saying anything, has your permission to enter really been revoked, even if the owner thinks, and only thinks, it has been?
They could add requisite code.
Did you check to see what the $13K gets you? 18-core Xeon with 4.3GHz Turbo, 4TB SSD, 128GB of fast DDR4 w/ECC. The option price for the Xeon alone is almost as much as your entire laptop. Same with the SSD.

The base hardware is just generally expensive.
They were thinking:

"Hm, these Russians haven't rooted out corruption and there is a decent chance that they'll backslide into an illiberal state. Best to take the countries that want democracy and peace while we still can."

Though I agree that Ukraine has led to a lot of trouble. Still probably worth it in the long run though.
The golden question is if they would be allowed on an actual macOS image without hacks, Hackintoshes don't count.
I find this argument to be a poor fit for the actual situation. The person that owns a coffee shop needs to let people physically enter their coffee shop in order to purchase coffee, snacks, etc. LinkedIn has no such requirement, they can easily require people establish and log into registered accounts in order to access their data. As you have said, their servers are their property and they have the ability to block access for anyone that they do not wish to serve.

This is entirely different. LinkedIn wants to make the data available on the public internet... Except sometimes. They can't figure out a technical solution so they are pushing for a legal solution. If you'd like to try to further your coffee shop argument, this seems more like a coffee shop giving away free coffee with a notice letting customers know that there's a limit of three free coffees per person and then being shocked when some customers take four or five. Or all of them.
> Who said it is?

The article. Which quotes several expert anthropologists.
OG Facebook jumped the shark when the timeline release that made the platform visually stunning (huge photos, etc) was scrapped in favor of a redesign that had more advertising space.

Not sure who made that product decision but it was lethal for me.
> in what situations one would actually use the mathematics in production systems or in a mathematical analysis. There are a few replies on this thread that alluded to some applications.

I never worked directly with this, but auctions, resource allocation, etc. all use the mathematical tools from Game Theory.

Corporate strategy is too complex and nuanced to build hard mathematical models, so you need higher-level abstractions.
I just looked up the "basic income" wikipedia page and you are right, "full" basic income is above subsistence/poverty level and "partial" basic income is below. So this would be a trial of partial, non-universal basic income.