skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Im not certain I buy the arguement that the decline of mozilla is purely a bad management situation. In threads about this, or pocket or cliqz or any of the other mozilla diasaters of the last while, you have a huge amount of what appear to be line level engineer employees defending this crap voraciously.

Something has gone very wrong with the culture of mozilla in general, I think its a copout to suggest that its merely some evil pointy haired boss.
Sure: for things like securities, it seems like every transaction is a bet each way: the seller is betting that the customer will be worse off, and the customer is betting that the seller will be worse off.

But sellers and buyers are different entities, and the fact that they're different means they can value things differently. If I'm a cobbler and you're a tailor, it's natural that we'd want to trade; I have a surplus of shoes and scarcity of suits, and you vice versa. We value our relative products differently, so when we exchange them, we're both better off.

This doesn't justify me knowingly selling you crap shoes. In fact it's even worse than that: because I know more about shoes than you do, if I sell you faulty shoes, I'm even more of an asshole. Or I'm incompetent.

There are slightly more subtle arguments as to why different entities would value securities differently: different appetites for volatility, different time horizons, different liquidity, and sometimes, yes, different information. If the buyer has better information than the seller, people don't complain as loudly as the opposite.

To me, the whole thing was a mixture of assholes and incompetence. I subscribe to the idea that taking someone's money because you're smarter than them is just as morally wrong as taking it because you're stronger than them. So some clever people took money off some not-so-clever people, and all along the chain a bunch of incompetent people were left holding the bag, and had to be helped out.
Burma was a British colony during WWII. Are you really going to call someone the enemy for not siding with the murderous regime of imperial Japan?
The nice thing about it from an engineering perspective is that it doesn't distort at the ends of a scale.

A 10% grade over a horizontal distance of X will gain exactly twice as much height as a 5% grade over the same distance.
Rooting for you.
Are you saying Hollywood is not in the 80th or 90th percentile of progressive jurisdictions in the US, cuz I'd stand corrected. All I'm saying is they and the industry composed of progressive types, but you seem to be telling me, they are not progressive. As if they are Biloxi MS.

My point about Soros is he's considered progressive or representative of it.
That's an interesting observation. There are excellent HN users who are trolls elsewhere. They just respect the rules here, because they understand the intention behind them and want HN to actually be the kind of site you get when the game has those rules.

After encountering a few such users, I got more interested in explaining the intention behind the site: that it isn't about being nice or virtuous so much as having a place that isn't boring, and that this only works if everyone carries their share of responsibility for not torching it.
Woah!

Has to be the most heart wrenching article I’ve read in 2017! Babies and children slaughtered by hand, houses set on fire, in such large scale.

The evil that exists in the world is just crazy. I kinda wish I didn’t read the article.
Poor bandwidth has nothing to do with Net Neutrality and everything to do with ~zero competition.

There's a reason these folks are fighting municipal broadband.
'Abortion is murder' but I bet you still eat meat...
Once a year some body gets fired, twice a year some body gets maligned on twitter. This is considered much worse than the times some one gets fired due to bigotry or murdered due to bigotry.
> func g<S: Sequence>() -> S where S.Element == Int {

I think Rust can do this case. I think this is how a simple version of `collect` would work (or very nearly).
I get that, but I'm surprised that anyone would call Chrome or any of its derivatives "considerably faster" than Firefox >= 57
Just pick a random tool, throw it in docker and farm karma.

IIRC even though windows 10 might support docker through WSL sometime in the future, for now it's just spinning up a vm like on mac. Is it possible to have multiple lxss with different base images in windows 10(because then you'd just use a ppa or something)?

So we have a VM which pulls in a bunch of layers. At that point, you might as well just distribute a full vm through vagrant, then your vagrant up is just a one liner.

I dual boot my laptop with macos and linux, but am I seriously the only one with 256GB space that has to worry about how many vms/docker layers get pulled?

I kinda liked gentoo prefix, far superior to homebrew imho. I used to update some llvm patch for various versions[1], but the lack of binary packages and smooth developer experience is what killed it IMHO.

[1]: https://github.com/fishman/timebomb-gentoo-osx-overlay/tree/...
The vendor could still be sending fakes, and you wouldn't know because the remediation process involves removing negative reviews.
I have had to explain this to my dad multiple times before he fully understood and I consider him to be a smart person. I have no idea how this applies to the general population, but they do not make it that obvious if you are not paying attention. Especially the other sellers that participate in prime shipping.
The same issue applies there, a lot of competitors are buying fake negative reviews to damage competitor
Still the only city to have many lines open 24/7 and besides a few other American cities, I don't think any other city has a 24 hour line.
Actually that's what the bad guys in Atlas Shrugged did. Use every possible, no matter how illegal, way to go ahead and extort value from the system for your solo benefit. Meanwhile good guys played by the rules and tried to stick to high moral standards.
I’m almost 40, live in upstate New York (ie. Cold, snowy). Maintenance for a regularly driven car is all about mileage. Suspension and electronic motors start falling off at $150k miles.

Per mechanic friends, most better cars go until about 250k miles with modest maintenance issues, and after that things like transmissions fail and are not a good value.

The problem with the pooling is that any outlier blows the financial model. Whatever interest I would make would be wiped out by a single event where I’d need to rent a car.

There’s a place for things like Uber (or traditional taxis) and zip car. But unless you barely use a vehicle or cannot afford one, it’s a pain in the ass to share.
Well, not all the rules; so far as I'm aware nobody has got killed.

Does make me wonder how far people are going to take "disruption". Could a company decide to make their self-driving cars more successful by hacking their competitors to cause accidents? What about hacking your competitors' factory SCADA systems? Possibly with the help of a foreign intelligence agency?

After all, this is the cyberpunk future we were promised.
Don't stable and cutting-edge go hand-in-hand for browsers as the most "compatible" browsers must properly implement the latest web standards?
Shouldn't we consider it a giant, massive red flag that you need a corporation backing you to maintain one of the most critical pieces of web software?

That's how we ended up in this mess. You can't compete in the web browser battles unless you have hundreds of full time engineers behind you. That's a failure of the web.

None of this new decentralized technology is going to mean anything if we haven't learned that lesson. If you want free, open systems, competition needs to be easy. We need to be able to respond to a abusive platforms by making our own, and that means we need to live in an ecosystem where making our own platforms is easy enough that you can have 10-20 viable options simultaneously supported.

Linux distros are a fantastic example of this. It's easy enough to create a viable linux distro that there are 5+ popular ones, and if you don't like those there are 10+ less popular ones which are perfectly viable and reasonable choices for an OS.

We need to take the web back in that direction.
Spend more looking for UFOs or, you know, we could invest in, say, cyber security for our elections and infrastructure programs...
I think we're in a weird situation where nobody is really worried about Sam's ability to remain free, but at the same time nobody is all that interested in listening to the weaker voices that might actually end up silenced. In fact, that's almost a given: if a million people are going to read your blog post then, no, social mechanisms aren't going to shut you up.

What's in the back of my mind is an unremarkable person who has an opinion that their boss doesn't agree with. We never read their blog posts, because by definition I'm talking about when the power dynamic is backwards.
A very sad loss, and it's a great shame that we didn’t get more of The Great Egg Race. I met him briefly while working as an assistant at Space School at Brunel University one year.
Uber accused of espionage, bribery and hacking by former employee
To be fair to Eich, he didn't really "air" said views, iirc they were brought to light through a $1000 donation to an organization that was campaigning for California Prop 8, which would have re-banned gay marriage (and did, briefly, when it was passed before being struck down in court). Also it was made ~6 years prior to his brief tenure as CEO of Mozilla.

Not that I agree at all with the withholding of rights on the basis of sexuality etc, and am particularly disappointed and confused when intelligent people hold such retrograde views. But I don't think it would have precluded him from being an effective leader until third parties, likely with ulterior motives, launched media campaigns about it.
Advocacy is the road to violence. Sure, saying “I wish you and everyone like you were dead” is not the same thing as killing them. But in a public sphere, or a private conversation, words matter. Arguing against the humanity of others like you’re talking about your favorite kind of cheese is appalling: “I do like cheddar and I don’t like Jews.” It isn’t physical violence, but I don’t know a distinct word to define that changing of the tone, the introduction or affirmation or just open acceptance of hate within a community. And given the natural, possibly even biological predilection toward in-group/out-group bias and groupthink in humans, suggesting dehumanization has real consequences. Here in the US, there is one group of people who are almost entirely impervious to the dehumanizing power of that kind of speech. That group is white cis hetero men. And they make the laws that form the legal consequences of saying hateful things. To no one's surprise, the legal consequences are basically nil. Historically, the social consequences were also light or non-existent. It was no one’s business who was or wasn’t a member of the Klan. But now, the most powerful group, while still making most of the laws, no longer holds complete control over social consequences. The people whose ancestors or contemporaries were hung from trees or tied to fences in the Wyoming cold or shot down in a walmart have more social power. We listen to them and respect them and create consequences for expressing hate toward them. We're starting to insist that everyone be respected, not just white guys. To me, this is progress, not oppression and in no way restricts the flow of good ideas.
cool thanks
> Why Aren’t Any Bankers in Prison for Causing the Financial Crisis?

Two words: Chuck Schumer.

He's the Democrats lifeline to the Wall Street, and he'll be damned if the Democrats do anything to jeopardize that relationship.

Of course, Republicans are even worse.
The negative reviews could be fake as well.
IIRC it took 10 years after the Great Depression for anyone to go to prison. The US economy is largely unregulated.
$ pacman -Ss clang
extra/clang 5.0.0-1 [installed]
C language family frontend for LLVM

Why would I need a container for this?
If we can distinguish "progressive" and "regressive" ideas through reason, that can only happen with an open discussion that gives both sides' advocates equal, fair treatment.

If an idea is universally considered regressive, then usually it doesn't come up. Ideas that people are discussing are usually ones where it's not completely clear yet, to everyone, whether it is a good idea or not. In that case, allowing both sides fair advocacy is critical to making a fair decision.
it was an opt-out program actually.

Studies are enabled by default.
.. plan ahead and add open parentheses, or reorder, ..

The classic example

3 + 4 7 + 8
----- + -----
5 + 6 9 + 2

Strait forward in RPN

3 ^ 4 + 5 ^ 6 + / 7 ^ 8 + 9 ^ 2 + / +
they bought the company years after the fact, and seemingly as a rebuttal to the people constantly complaining about it.
We know 538's model was better because of what happened on election day.

Their model gave Trump a dramatically higher chance than other poll aggregators for a variety of reasons (detailed at http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/election-update-why-our-...) and #4 there (correlated polling errors between states) wound up being very significant.

Now, you're right that we can't perfectly determine if 99% or 70% (or something else entirely) was Hillary's actual chance of winning. We can, however, look at the assumptions made by each model and evaluate those on their merits.
If nothing else, they at least allow you to filter out non-amazon (or even non-prime fulfilled) items.
> Clawbacks sound good in theory, but there's one giant barrier: the legal system and due process.

You haven't heard of "Civil Asset Forfeiture" ? Where's the "due process" there??
This could be wrong, I am not a biological scientist.

I suspect in practice this is a non-issue, a kind of fake argument we like to make because it sounds right.

I think genetic improvements don't give massive improvements in a single healthy individual, that kind of technology is science fiction and would require many iterations of experimental use over many generations. So boosts of +20 or +200 IQ points or +20 or +200 attractiveness points is off the table.

What we have the power to do is reduce incident of genetic disease and very modestly improve outcomes for more healthy functioning brains.

This levels the playing field between the rich and poor because the rich hit the optimum for genetic improvement very fast (having already a lion's share of genetic advantages to start with), then they must experience diminishing returns for their money. It is likely that most common genetic improvements are also the most widely spread about in the population, the opposite of your vision.

Now having foolishly stuck my neck out I shall ask Gwern whether I am full of it. ;-)
Oh man, I will take clean toilets over profits any day.
But for a person with a sexual preference for teens, their attraction is

(a) something they can't control

and

(b) something that doesn't harm anyone if there is consent between both parties.

Honestly, I haven't seen much evidence for point (b). It ultimately comes down to experience and power-dynamics. We can accept that two people of the same age do not have a drastic advantage over each other. It is much less likely that a thirty year old does not have an advantage over a fifteen year old. Even if that advantage is one that is not acknowledged by either party, it exists to some degree.

A minor is someone who we have arbitrarily decided has less ability to determine how to act compared to an adult. Yes, different cultures having different ages indicate that this is arbitrary, and yes it is difficult to know where to draw the line exactly, but the fact is that to protect minors the line needs to be drawn somewhere. It is mildly contradictory that a 16 year old in Britain can sign up for the armed forces, have a child, and get married, but they are not allowed to drink or drive a car. That doesn't mean that those boundaries should not exist, however.

Ultimately the exact definition of these sorts of things come down to cultural handshakes. Why do people drive on the left-side or right-side of the road? It's a cultural handshake. Consent between two parties of different emotional maturity is a difficult thing to figure out, hence why we have the cultural handshake that says that for certain parties it is unacceptable for them to liasion at certain ages.

To say that those power dynamics apply to two adult men of the same age, is -- to put it mildly -- ridiculous.
There is a moral blame you have for asking Bob to punch me, but you aren't going to spend an evening in jail for assault, Bob is. In this entire scenario, you are assuming Bob has no agency.
I never understood why anyone wanted their browser to render pdfs. PDF.js is slow, buggy, and can’t edit documents. Every major OS ships with a better PDF reader, and there are still better open source PDF readers available on all major platforms.
Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion (1869)
Do people actually think Stallman was wrong?
How did you arrive at that conclusion? Any amount of mining will be profitable since your electricity is free. You could dig out a used Thinkpad from the closet and even though the hashrate would be miserable, you would still be making money since your electricity cost is zero. Of course you would probably want to use more efficient hardware to mine, and that's in terms of $/kWh.

I've got a GPU mining ethereum right now at about $0.75/kWh. Even in my apartment where electricity is $0.10/kWh I'm still turning a profit.
What is that thing?!
What's to say that isn't happening now? Seen quite a lot of pseudo positive reviews that are simply advising reader that "another product is better"
So...for those of you saying "benefitting from a financial collapse is not illegal" I present to you Magnetar Capital.

Yes, folks that's right, some asshole named their hedge fund after the magnetic field caused by a collapsing star. If someone were to name their company Human Piles of Shit Inc. it could not be any more obvious that this company was founded in order to cause harm.

What they did was to buy up CDOs and then short the positions during the height of the bubble. So if, when the bubble was waning, a $90 million CDO needed an extra $10 million to come to offer on the market they would take that position. Then they would turn around and short the position to 20x. Classic pump and dump with the original long position clearly made in bad faith.

And if you think I'm kidding:

The hedge fund Magnetar helped create billions of dollars’ worth of risky deals called collateralized debt obligations, many of which failed spectacularly in the financial crisis. Magnetar, meanwhile, had taken positions that allowed the firm to profit when many of those same CDOs collapsed.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/17/magnetar-roundup-h...

More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetar_Capital

The founders Alec Litowitz and Ross Laser still run the fund and are worth millions and millions of dollars. How many lives did these people ruin? They literally killed people from suicide, depression, economic ruination. If there is a hell I hope they burn in it.

EDIT: And yes, offering a contract in bad faith is illegal.
Wouldn't those high income employees just become tax exiles and move away? That's what happens with athletes like Lewis Hamilton living in Monaco.
California's "Net Metering 2.0" basically gives you net metering credits in Time-of-Use (ToU) "buckets" which means you don't get the full credit you would have gotten under Net Metering 1.0 if you generate the most from, say, part peak hours of 10am-3pm, but use your air conditioning during peak hours from 4pm-7pm.

But from everything I've read, this means I'd actually come out ahead if I had solar on my house. I don't have air conditioning, so much of my usage is constant demand, plus some lighting and TV and such late into the evening, plus laundry and other appliances, also typically later in the evening (after the 7pm peak ends). But the solar would be generating me TONS of part-peak during midday and even a fair bit of peak hour generation at 4-5 and even towards 6pm as the sun goes lower angle.

I'm really curious and interested in doing it, just never went so far as to invest in solar.

I wonder if the falling SolarCity installations means panels and labor have fallen in price a bit?
While bundling CliqZ was certainly a poor decision that does not inspire confidence, my comment above fast specifically in regards to Firefox Sync.

If you honestly believe that Google is less or equal in terms of user data privacy as Mozilla, then I'm not sure I can convince you otherwise, but despite all the recent blunders, I still trust Mozilla more in this regard, be it with a watchful eye.
Oh, totally, you're right. Thanks.
I briefly considered offering a curated review service for Amazon many years back (I know it's unethical and it was just posturing) and was not surprised to find many services already offering that.

I thought Millennials had become desensitized to all 5 star over the top, big flashy sounding reviews so a service that carefully curates reviews for top items seemed like a decent idea. Sprinkle a few 1 star reviews for the wrong item sent or a fault of Amazon, a few 4 stars raving about the product but complaining about some minor aspect irrelevant to the average buyer to make it sound authentic. Many people compare a few products and when they make a purchase, they do so feeling really proud of themselves that they picked the perfect product for the best price. The "it's too good to be true" doesn't really seem to work anymore. This honestly seems to be the case for every Amazon product these days. We'll probabzky get desensitized to this soon too and something else will come up.

That said, fake products are ridiculous and there are a few sites I've bookmarked that do a pretty decent job of spotting a fake product and I do admit it's becoming harder to differentiate lately but the too good to be true adage still stands.
This is such a lovely idea on paper, but how do you put that into practice? Is the problem the monolithic design of a web browser, which now is basically an operating system all its own? Is the solution to break that into its component parts, so that each part can be maintained by a smaller group, and composed together to produce the browser as a whole?
Amazon is saying they want to be a price leader in Australia. It's still definitely a tactic of theirs.
Ok.. (I was going to say, I'm new here, but I notice you've hardly commented, in 2 years on here.) So I shouldn't expect people to follow the site guidelines, or ask them to?

Edit: Actually, reading the parent again, "The censors still down vote it. Unbelievable." Seems massively snarky. Not sure how you can't see that. These "Oh poor me" mentions of "censors", "HN groupthink" - whatever someone's childish conspiracy-label is for when they dont get their way or everyone doesn't agree with them - are 100% snarky. At best, they carry an assumption of "I'm right here, the innocent persecuted; you're wrong, 'them', the faceless enemy" etc.

I guess sometimes there is a difference of opinion about the topic commented on which leads, as here, to disagreement how justified whining/complaining about downvoting is. Which is I guess why there's the simple rule, don't complain about downvoting. From what I can see, the people who complain about it have made false assumptions about why. Their complaints are their outward revenge for the pain of their false beliefs.
Haha fine, no murder conviction yet

You could say that incidents like this leave them indirectly responsible for rapes and murders though: https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/28/lawsuit-claims-uber-ignore...