skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is progressive politics the cause? If we take "progressive" as "more socialist", socialists are famous for their cheap housing projects. https://www.google.com/search?q=soviet+housing&tbm=isch
I am replying to myself since I am fascinated by the other three responses. None of them are responding to what I actually wrote and all of them are responding to what they think I wrote. All of them are wrong in guessing what I think I wrote.
Or for that matter, explain how a 60 year, without the money to relocate, old in a suburb filled with crime and essentially abandoned by the police is going to defend himself against pickpockets and robbers.

"The police should ...."

Yeah, but the police hasn't, for decades. During those decades the government has constantly moved to further defund the police, not the opposite. So sorry, no.

And yeah, I get it, for the rich in central cities who can isolate themselves on a whim and move houses when they want to, guns are a serious nuisance.

For the poor in a weak position, the fact that 1/10 of the victims are armed with guns is the one thing that defends them. And you personally don't have to participate.
I think the point of the article is not ‘mean people go nazi’, it’s that ordinary people who surround you today would go nazi, for multiple reasons - because it is the easier way, because it leads to monetary success, because they’ve always felt slighted, because they are outsiders in the current system.

The banality of evil does not absolve people from responsibility or mean that anyone will pull the trigger. There are numerous examples of people who refused to participate.
They already have

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43qbbw/russia-say...

Thankfully, not very effectively.
My friend also got a real big bill for S3 PUT requests, they are just too expensive.

When we built JuiceFS [1], a POSIX filesystem on top of S3, there is feature in the roadmap to combine multiple small files together before uploading into S3 (each file is a slice of chunks in S3). We will let you know when it's ready.

[1] https://juicefs.io/
First, it's relevant to understand the history of what made Apple the behemoth they are today and no matter what random outlier opinions about iTunes you see, it's absolutely iTunes + iPod and what that brought to the general public for managing media and having a great portable media experience 15 years ago.

So yeah iTunes is still a core concern when it comes to managing iOS devices of certain types. When iPhone came out the primary selling points included it being an iPod, were you there? I was. There is no way in hell they were going to let go of the signature usability boon that people relied on and made them rich.

So yeah, iPhone was managed by iTunes and for a long time it was the only way to manage media, contacts, etc. on it or do that sort of thing. iPad was included in this, as well.

Over time, alternative options for managing your device data and such have been implemented. Today you can use iOS devices without ever once connecting to iTunes if you want. Sure. On the device there is a file browser though it's semi sandboxed as you can imagine. You can backup to the cloud if you want hence this discussion. It's all independent. If you want.

However, iTunes still provides some very useful abilities. Besides offering a vastly improved UI for managing your media, it offers things like full image restores, deep encrypted backups (requiring no internet access to restore) and recovery features. You can place data directly into individual app sandboxes, or copy videos/music/etc. directly to device.

Despite what another commenter mentioned, I very much doubt these features will be removed. Maybe they will move out of iTunes. A long time ago there used to be a tool called iSync that was dedicated to device sync/interactions on Mac OS X and I could see that kind of approach being revived. It's very nice to have an OS provided, reliable way to recover a bricked phone, or recover backups without blowing an entire weekend of downloading/installing not to mention data usage restrictions many people still endure.

Anyway, TL;DR: you can use iTunes but you don't have to because history.
I initially thought of these scenarios, but the article doesn't really mention the speed other than "it outpaced a 737".

If we had a better idea of the speed, it'd be easier to make a guess. However, I'm not sure a foreign military aircraft would be "very large", given how risky that would be, I'd envision it as a fighter jet or a Blackbird-type of aircraft.
The first time I heard about IOTA was when I read https://shitcoin.com/iota-cannot-be-used-for-iot-loss-of-fun...

It’s a fun read and you’ll probably end up unimpressed to say the least.
They were described in the Bigtable paper, and were widely used before leveldb was published (Cassandra, for example, used sstables and LSM concerts well before 2012)
For some reason nobody talks about the extreme nuisance of those bikes. Customers would just drop them literally anywhere: on the sidewalk blocking pedestrians, right in the middle of the street blocking cars, in front of building doors preventing people from entering, etc...
Such a terrible nuisance, and something to be expected since there is such little room in the Parisian streets (you can’t seriously expect customers to drop their bike in a proper location if there are so few of them).

Long story short, I’m glad to see them go, even though I would have preferred them to be banned rather than vandalized.
Genocide comes later. First we get polite nazis, and their apologists.
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No one's going to build this for you. If you want an assistant built around your needs... start building. AI is not going to magically make a piece of software work the way each and every person on Earth would like, but making one for yourself is far more possible. :)
I suppose they aren't designed for places with unreliable mains power. The auto-on behavior is just a good first approximation of the behavior most people want.
By buying a house, you've put upward pressure on house prices in your area, thus making them more expensive for everyone else. Some people would be nudged over the edge from affording it to not affording it.

I think the loss, if it actually exists, is distributed thinly over a lot of people so it's hard to see.
Actually, I'm sure some do... like the lobbyists for gun manufacturers and arms dealers in the NRA and Washington.

Some people make a LOT of money from guns/weapon sales.
But people do build their own power stations or hardware if they're big enough.

They might outsource most of the work, but then the gap between generating and using power is much more clearly defined.
it depends on your definition of market share - whether it is quarterly shipment or % of phones on carrier networks.

apple devices are a few times more expensive than say Xiaomi, they thus stay in people's pocket for much longer. for shipment data, Apple's figure is not that fancy any more, they count for only 8% of the shipment in Q2 2017.

http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-and-samsung-are-losing-...
Bering Sea loses half its sea ice over two weeks
Then reset it after three on/off cycles within 3 s, or something.

But surely the controller iwll sort this out when it gets back online a minute later?

So that everything comes on (annoying enough) but switched off within the minute?

If not that is just outrageously bad and imo ruins the product completely.
Same idea as stealing them in Germany and selling them further east. You're not going to find buyers locally, and shipping a lot of stolen bikes to somewhere where you can offload them for cheap is probably a somewhat viable business.
So they sold their problem to another family without telling them about the problem?
Tell your father from my part that he is a moron. Not you. You seem to have common sense. But your father should be less entrepreneurial and start doing things properly.
Genocide is a characteristic of a good many democratic and feudal regimes as well, lest we forget the Native Americans, Aborigines, European Wars of Religion, Scottish/Irish/English border skirmishes (continuing into the 20th century), and a several present-day conflicts across the globe.
Everyone that posts in r/cryptocurrency has an agenda (including myself).

Most of the posts there are ways of confirmation biases - it's very difficult to get someone to see what they don't want to see in his/her cryptocurrency.

There are certain coins that are exceptionally polarizing (Ripple and IOTA come to mind) - it leads to this my coin vs your coin behavior. It's so fascinating, yet odd at the same time.

I read about 3/4 of the emails before coming to the conclusion I had no idea what was going on.
They'd get killed on pricing.
The ikea-branded range hood above our stove has touch controls and they drive me nuts. The vapors of the stove deposit on the control surface and cause the “buttons” to malfunction. Sometimes it will switch on full blast by itself and sometimes it will refuse to turn on. The workaround is to wipe down the control surface regularly.

Oh, and every 6 months it crashes and I have to unplug and replug it to make it work again.
This reminds me of self-adaptive evolutionary algorithms.
>However, Google Cloud's compute pricing is reasonably similar to DigitalOcean (with sustained usage discounts) and from what I hear these companies will often negotiate discounts.

Given the storage usecase of DropBox what would be the percent of saving if DropBox indeed went with Google or Digital Ocean?
I see three common attitudes towards global warming. A. It's BS, there's no such thing. B. It's happening, but it's no big deal, we'll solve this problem thanks to growth and innovation. C. It's happening, we need to do something about it.

A and B are instance of cognitive dissonance.

I'm in category C. I would be in favor of any measure that could help reducing the risk even if it decreases greatly my comfort. But I don't see this happening. Even small harmless restrictions are not taken. Try to tell people that they should drive smaller and less powerful cars for instance.

But maybe the rational attitude to have (which is less heard) is to stop caring as we're not going to solve this anyway. We're not going to solve our mortality problem either and we don't worry too much about this. Future generations will have it harder than we had (climate change, pollution and resources depletion) but why should we worry about them (esp. if we don't have kids)? It's not like we really care about miserable people living now.
this.

and also in these days of data breaches where the sensitive data was just lying around on open s3, more are more places require approval from above before adding anything to aws.
Here in Russia we have a (somewhat niche) meme "we've only won" (keeping the good look to the bad play, typically used ironically).

Each time our wise government protects us from something unnecessary or dangerous (like ban on European dairy products or LinkedIn storing data abroad) we're only winning from this, as almost no one needed that anyway, and that now our own positions are even stronger, etc.

I can't help myself but find very close resemblance here. ;)

Just saying.
> It seems you share the same attitude that changes cannot be done - not because you are certain that is the case, but because you don't believe it should be. There is no reason behind this attitude, and I frankly have no patience for it.

I don't share this attitude in any objective sense. Changes can always be done. Whether they should is a pros-vs-cons consideration, many of which are subjective, and both conclusions are therefore valid.

I wasn't arguing that this should not be done, I was challenging the perspective that this should be expected. There's a difference between saying devs should follow the status quo, and asking devs to consider extending the scope of their project and adopt a new approach. And calling devs "elitist" for refusing to do the latter seems pretty rich.

As has been mentioned, Portage already does this, and it's a much older, more traditional package manager without the concept of setting up environments, so noone is questioning that this can be done.

> Please do not naively tell me that my perspective doesn't exist, or cannot make sense.

If your perspective is that it would be nice for Nix to support arbitrary package, that's great. If your perspective is that any dev who refuses to implement such a non-normative and complexity-increasing feature is elitist, then I don't believe your perspective makes sense.

Minor note: I do actually agree with zapita's original comment, so this lengthy thread underneath may seem like pedantry, but I just found it odd that you felt your example fit with zapita's point, as it seemed like the opposite to me.
The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence [pdf]
The story I've been hearing is that the sole idea behind most chinese bikesharing companies outside of China is to move vast sums of money out of the country, even if that means dealing with quite a few losses.
Obviously just a theory, but I find it amusing.
Your article summarizes it well. It highlights the main point I am making:

Group 1) Those who don’t feel bad or wrong about it. These people are assholes.
Group 2) Those who feel terrible and self-loathing about it. These people have problems.

Group 1 is 98% of the population. This is why we perceive people who are late as [from impolite to assholes]

Group 2 suffers because of that.

Thus my analogy with weight: 98% of people eat like starving hippos and then claim all kind of bullshit about how they are biologically|mentally|genetically|any-other-y impacted and that being fat is not their fault. And "no fat shaming because we are so special". Yes - aggressive fat shaming so that you put your shit together and stop being a (now or future) problem for the population.

The remaining 2% suffers because of that.

I mentioned this a few times in my comments

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I also remember a friend of mine who was overweight and had two medical conditions (ans possibly a mild psychological one) which made him what he was.
I saw him fighting back - by eating healthy, moving a lot (I was lightly sparring kung-fu with him) and I was super proud. There are some happy ends - he is still far from being a model but he met a super girl (thin and sporty by the way) who realized after going past the physical aspect that he was a super guy. Their children (now teens) tease him about that.
What are we going to do with quantum computers?
Evidently intentionally inaccurate title.
DMV to give driverless cars the green light
okay, I dug up my amazon review again. It was "Functional Differential Geometry" and my main complaint was, that they claim to replace a fuzzy mathematical notation with a Scheme DSL which would make things more clear. In the end, it all felt like they replaced mathematical notation with one that THEY were just more familiar.

I am a scheme/lisp/clojure fan by heart, so it definitely wasn't the parens.
The real problem is, no one has proposed an alternative solution that solves the same problems. Either people claim it's not a problem (slow loading mobile sites driving people away from the web and onto mobile), or people claim it'll just fix itself because everywhere will just make fast pages if they're incentivized to (penalized SEO, users leaving their sites to use Facebook/Apple News) But that has been tried, and it didn't work, and you had people desperately blocking all JS, or going to native apps.

My suggestion is, if you don't want people to use AMP, provide an alternative Web framework that provides similar performance, show in a side-to-side demo you can meet the same performance, take it to the W3C or IETF getting Mozilla to push it. No one on a crappy 3g connection really cares about the nuances of the politics here, they don't care bout Web vs native, they care only that their phone seems slow as molasses.

If there is no Web solution, then you're going to see native apps with proprietary formats, in essence, non-standard RSS readers. And honestly, I really don't want to download the WashingtonPost, NYT, or Verge App to read articles less painfully.

AMP is just JS using the Web Components spec, and some tools, the purveyors of JS frameworks like Vue, Ember, or various Bootstrap-like templates, could ship their own competing proposal.

The way standards used to work on the internet is rough consensus and running code. People would propose multiple specs and implement them, working groups would evaluate the various solutions, and the best proposals would be folded in. Provide some competition for AMP and maybe there will be a different outcome. Google shipped NaCL in Chrome, and Asm.js defeated it. Google shipped SPDY, and it won and became HTTP/2.

Less talk and politics, more shipping code.
There's another good reason: avoiding AWS sticker shock, which is real. Better to spin up an OpenShift instance and know what's going on with prices. God knows what gets spent on AWS resources that have been forgotten or, more likely, no one wants to run the risk of turning off. AWS has become very expensive for startups once you're past their short freebie intro phase.
Thanks, awesome :)
I love how "techie" people needs nurturing to realize what makes sense and what not. So 2 years later, they realize what other people know the moment they hear about some product.

Something Silicon Valley engineers do. They invent silly things just cause they know how to code bluetooth communications. Like a water bottle that measures how much you are drinking during the day for example.

But hey, it's not their fault. It's hacker news fault. Didn't you spend years telling them "Ideas are worth zero. Execution is king". Now you have highly productive dumb people you helped creating.

I divide my officers into four groups. There are clever, diligent, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and diligent -- their place is the General Staff. The next lot are stupid and lazy -- they make up 90 percent of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the intellectual clarity and the composure necessary for difficult decisions. One must beware of anyone who is stupid and diligent -- he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always cause only mischief.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_von_Hammerstein-Equord
Why current negative-emissions strategies remain ‘magical thinking’
I think this is meant just to be a 'cherry on top' type of data point, as it's almost universally understood that our climate is indeed changing.
> I've seen this many times. Managers / owners don't have ability to assess who is an expert and who isn't. So whoever talks more convincingly is the "ninja rockstar". After that they can do no wrong. Also after that somehow admitting publicly that the person they picked is a scam artist becomes pretty hard, because it also means admitting to their own mistake of believing them.

I am seeing that a lot right now in public services (I entered a year and a half ago). I am looking at decade-old project going nowhere and managers trying to plug it into anything that would justify its existence (poisonning other agencies in the process).

> Others who see what's going on, leave and this this eventually leads to the whole ship sinking.
Ask HN: What is your one tech prediction for 2018?
wow, a shader tutorial and it's written in shaders!
Here's an interview with Greenwald discussing current Russian fear mongering in the US media today. His conclusion is that the lessons of the mistakes in journalism which led us to the Iraq War are being repeated.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/01/07/glenn_gre...
I have met a few people who have a very personal vendetta against these bike rental companies.

They see them as cluttering the streets and operating without the proper licencing and permissions.

To rectify the issue, they will happily throw 50 bikes into the river each time they pass a parking area.

They see it as doing the government/the people a favour. The guy I spoke to who did this didn't have a smartphone, so I would guess hadn't even used the scheme.
Actually, it does. By warming up the branch-target buffer to call a particular function (called a "gadget") inside libc as the attacker, you can induce the victim process to speculatively execute that function, and thereby leak data. It's a bit more complicated and involved than Meltdown, or Spectre within the same process, but it is possible and depending on the gadget chosen, any data within the victim process could be recovered.
Very impressive. Any chance the author would be interested in porting Oolite[1] to the web? I started to work on it[2] but gave up eventually[3].

1. http://www.oolite.org/

2. http://grondilu.github.io/oolite/

3. http://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=5&p=260273
I've never found a shuffle mechanic that works as well as the radio station. You know, where the songs that are new and currently stuck in your head play like... 70% of the time, and then the other 30% it's picking older stuff you love? Most music player shuffle options are pretty basic, and I definitely jump over to the radio at times, despite having my entire music library stored in my car.
A nuanced conversation on this is well within the popular imagination but outside the limits of this article.
Do you think this will put positive or negative pressure on wages for current and future US tech employees?
>Finally this year I’m considering moving out of US. In media it sounds like an awesome place but a glance at the indexes show a different story (education, social security, health care, even freedom). Every time I drop my kids at school I’m worried about them. It all seems not worth it anymore.

I left after being in the US for 5 years. I pretty much felt the same way.
I was born in San Jose. And in SF for the last twenty years.

Three things he doesn't touch on here.

1. Proposition 13. A malign issue with Prop 13 is that it make housing a financial drain on city and county governments. Under prop 13 property taxes do not support the services required by residential housing.

2 There is very little opportunities for greenfield development and building costs are high. This is especially true in San Francisco proper, but also in a lot of other cities. When I was a little kid we used to play in the local cherry orchards.

Here is an example, if you look in the google street view, there are three palm trees. I know those used to be the palm trees that lined the driveway of an old farm house surrounded by orchards. The developer dug them up and replanted them when the housing development went in.

https://goo.gl/maps/q8FyJdPbcfz

The housing development went in 40 years ago.

3. Is the failure of post war neoliberal/conservative politics and social organization in the US. There is a premium for places that have resisted it the best.
And that is fundamentally why the author moved to SF in the first place.

That brings up that SF has no real ability to control the influx of people into the city. Because of the tax system imposed by the state it has minimal resources as well. The geographical constraints, very high building costs[1], and the desire for those that control capital to live in SF is the root of the problem.

[1] How do you build affordable housing when the building costs are $500-600 sqft? That doesn't include acquisition, design costs, permits and fees. You end up with condo's that cost $600-750k.