skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Possible, and also shaped with recent language experiences. My first languages were JavaScript and C++ pretty much simultaneously. In both I'd write a max function with a ternary operator. It signals to me — in the same way as if/else — that no outcome is expected to be more usual or typical than the other, and that no path is more notable or interesting that the other.

The control flow isn't confusing either way, and some language linters will insist against if/else in this example, but I see the if/else approach with slightly more clarity. In general, though, I'm a big proponent of early return.
Markets in Everything?
Autonomous cars enable distracted driving
Can you be more specific? Trump makes very few consistent concrete statements about anything. Are you asking if his general attitude of "China is our competitor and we should be careful" is correct, or if his strategy of abandoning international trade, organizations, and agreements is the right response?
Yes. The CNC wanted Netflix to show their movie in more than a measly 6 cinemas since it was showing at Cannes, and the windowing regulations require 3 years before a movie can go from cinema to streaming. This is mostly a protectionist cinema regulation, though there are talks to reduce it going on right now.

I'm not at all a fan of regulatory capture, but I do understand that you can't pay lip service to the spirit of Cannes - celebrate film and cinema, don't promote your streaming services.
I’ve priced it out. It didn’t make sense for me to buy a car while I was living in Beijing, taxis were too convenient and affordable. As soon as I moved to LA, it was more expensive but I had a walkable commute, having a baby changed all the dynamics however so I bought my first car in 12 years. The car seat problem is real.
Honest question, can you just run simple symmetric encryption on your data before uploading to gapps?
> Copyright does not cover re-implementation. Copyright only covers copying.

Coypright covers derivative works of copyright-protected works, as well as literal copies. If APIs are copyrightable, there is a very good case to be made that a reimplementation of an API implementation (not an API that serves a similar function, but an actual reimplementation) is a derivative work of the API itself.
The number sequence to word differentiation you make is specious - you may not consider it creative but there's a creative spark in choice of a number, or choice of a location in memory that leads to choice of a number, etc., as you later intimate that creativity is technically lead.

The choice of call name in an API are arbitrary, the reuse of those names to interface with that API is not a creative copy it's a technical requirement.

If I make a toothed belt to fit a pair of gears, that's not an artistic expression no matter the the tooth pitch is an exact duplicate of that on the gears. If the gear is purple and orange spots, in a distinctive pattern, and I make my belt the same pattern then that's a copyright issue.

If the API calls were like "thisIsTheSummerOfOurDiscoTents(banana)" - such that the names are sufficient to be individual works of art, and weren't following a technical function, then perhaps you have an argument that the API is a work of literature, or otherwise an artistic creation.

It just sounds like a wrong decision was previously made and should now be overturned.
Not sure why this is down voted. Google is the single greatest aggregation of individuals' personal data there is.
Outrageus Founders/CEOs
Hey, guys,
I'm writing a school paper on tech founders that have a colorful history (Brian Chesky and his bodybuilding days), outrageous character (Sean Parker) or interesting stories/pictures from the past (Evan Spiegel and his BMW).
Do you have any other examples that show that tech-founders are not all geeks?

Thanks in advance!
Businesses Need Data Security and Privacy to Survive
I know this is a parody, but my belief is that speech is actually more relevant than guns per se; after all, as people repeatedly point out, the US is not the only country with guns. Most of the mass shooters are "self-radicalised".

> Also, even with presses, the printing presses of the 18th century were not like our automated presses of today that can print hundreds or thousands of pages per minute

This is essentially what the "fake news" argument is about: if you publish enough hate speech, you can cause a massacre even without guns. A Rwandan radio station was a major contributor to the massacre of around a million people, and the genocide was largely carried out by hand with machetes and arson.
> Neither of those citations say that what the Obama campaign did violated Facebook's policies.

So?

I can see why Facebook would care about that, because owning/selling/managing the data is their model.

But that doesn't matter to me a Facebook user when the end result is the same (my FB info provided to political campaign.)
Could be. But the bio-make up of the planet was different then, yes?
For me it's the opposite. There are decent replacements for all of Google's services. I can do this on my own and it's my choice.

With Facebook there simply isn't a replacement that has all my family and friends. There's no way I'll convince them to use something else.
Does anyone know when graphics cards will be available at sane prices for people who actually want to use them one (or two max) at a time to render graphics?
A better way to manage large image sets for Mac OS: Feedback?
8 Primal-Friendly Flours
> defaulting to the crappiest language ever invented

Since we're trolling now, there is plenty worse around, like Python(the only language that manages to have worse scoping rules then pre-ES6 javascript, which is quite a feat), Cobol and LUA. JS ES6 is just fine. The trick is not to use the crap parts.
So you can run a single neural net model that can use > 12gb memory?
The I-PACE is being by Jaguar sold to consumers (at 64k quid a pop, not cheap) so the answer must be yes, manually driven. It's in the article.
This could be a great opportunity for the public, if only the questions could be asked by technically minded people.

The average person "knows" that Facebook takes their data. What they don't know is the extremely powerful, subtle, manipulative ways it is weaponized against them.
حبيبي I read his comment many times but I do not read that what you read. He doesn't say other communities were strictly superior.
Well, those who were willing to pay the ~$150k for the DGX-1 (Volta-16Gb upgraded IIRC), won't necessarily find it too much -- and NVIDIA is after quick money before the markets start slipping down the hyper curve.

You also do get quite some meat compared to the DGX-1: the equivalent of 2x DGX-1 in terms of GPUs and NICs with 4x HBM2 size, plus the NVlink fabric. Plus a more SSD storage, Xeon Platinums to round it off.

Oh, and 350 lbs, let's not forget. :D

Expensive, yes! Will it sell? I'd be very surprised if it didn't!
+1 not sure why they bothered, they're hardly Getty Images material.
NFC has various patents.

The Moto E4 Plus for example will only activate it's NFC if you put a sim card from one of the big european carriers. If you put in a sim card from a small carrier or a USA carrier, suddenly all mention of NFC vanishes from all menus.
Path of Exile is, IMO, the true successor to D1 and D2.
Microsoft to Ban ‘Offensive Language’ and Monitor Your Private Account
I know you're trying to prove a point but news outlets have actually changed their reporting and stopped publishing details of suicides because of the copycat effect.
Could a virtual SIM not replace physical SIMs, reducing the friction of switching providers?

It seems we’re just waiting on carriers to catch up to the idea at the moment.

https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/virtual-sim/11572/
To be fair he is much more likely to be under surveillance than any of us.
E-mail has been going pretty strong for 20+ years now and it is still very decentralized (Even with big players like Gmail in the game).
In short, the "new" Stratechery provides three ways to consume its 308 articles:

1) Concepts

2) Companies

3) Topics

There's search, a new logo, a new email template.
Put a european sim card in, and support will come back... You don't even have to reboot!

It's simply a software lock.
This is true. I think the iPhone did the same thing to Garmin GPS and other single-purpose hardware companies. They all lost so much of their market.

Apple already knew people were buying and would continue to buy these things, and their innovation was just putting it all into one device. So you could buy a Garmin GPS and a Flip video camera, and end up spending $300-$500 total and carry 2 devices around, or you could just buy an iPhone 3GS for $199 and also make phone calls with it.

I'm still trying to figure out the $1,000 price tag of an iPhone nowadays however. Where is the substance behind that price? (And I own an iPhone, apple watch, iPad Pro, a Macbook Pro, and a Macbook air, so I really doo appreciate a good product, just can't comprehend the value proposition of a $1000 iPhone.)
> iPhones are generally sold through carriers

This used to be true but it doesn't save you money now to buy an iPhone attached to a carrier plan. Apple will even sell you a carrier-free iPhone [1]. I would love an Apple SIM for travel to Canada, etc.

[1] https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-iphone/iphone-x#00
People are flocking to instagram, I don't believe that FB is in danger here, maybe they need to pivot, but I doubt they sink.
Not so fast, Zucc. It was a very hypocritical and self-serving claim.
>was it a mistake to be so helpful to the Chinese 1970s- now?

Yes

Mr. Kissinger and Mr. Nixon misunderstood crucial things about China.

Sino-Soviet split was not such. Rather than an imagined existential struggle, it is better to say it was a family squabble; like newlyweds trying to figure out who is a top dog in a family. Rather than splitting the Eastern Bloc, they just gave Chinese a much bigger advantage in negotiations with Soviets. A proof of that is USSR giving Chinese not something, but a NUKE, a jet engine tech, tanks, AA and ground to air missiles (!), and truckloads of resources looong into the split.

Mr. Nixon and Mr. Kissinger were tricked by Chinese.

If you doubt so, read excepts from Kissinger's biography about his thoughts at the moment of US-Mao deal. He was completely oblivious of all aforementioned.
Hahha, good one. Just that by the time that one dev implements everything, you'll be overtaken by the competition -- at least that's what everyone's fear is, and it's partly warranted.
Customer Support Chatbots – Striking the Right Balance
Since when? Google has always been about "trust us with your data - all of it". Thing is they haven't had any major leaks or exfiltration publicized so for the "trust" part it's arguable that's still intact.
Survivorship Bias in Startups
I get a little here or there and intermixed with a stone path or courtyard, but I’d rather bbq off of a balcony in a condo near a big park.
> My data is being collected? So?

I have had this exact same response from so many of my friends. I find myself hard to explain in a manner that is non-technical. Is there a nice explanation that I can say when someone tells this to me next time ?
Considering the Telegram ICO? Proceed with Caution
> The first amendment wasn't written with social media in mind, just like the second amendment wasn't written with semi-automatic rifles in mind.

This doesn't seem terribly likely. In the case of the second amendment in 1791, things like swivel guns were available, and at the time the second amendment was written, swivel guns were permissible. Now even an old swivel gun from those days would do measurably far more damage than the kind of semi-automatic rifles used in today's shootings. Such weaponry would only be banned far later in 1934, and probably the original authors of the 2nd amendment would not have banned it. So there is no reason to believe that the 2nd amendment was not written with semi-automatic rifles in mind. It almost definitely was: it was written so that the common man could band together into a militia and be able to take on the full might of the army and government.

Now certainly such an idea may be flawed and you are free to disagree with it. But the authors of the 2nd amendment were certainly aware of the existence as such things as guns that could kill a lot of people very quickly, and they very much covered them with the 2nd amendment.
What makes full-time jobs with benefits unappealing to Uber is exactly what workers want. Someone ends up losing out here.
Promote transparency and openness everywhere as much as possible. This is what I like about facebook mission, to make the world more open.
I personally hate to have to hide stuff. Its not without cost and inconvenient.
> You can't copyright the structure of an engine in a car. //

You could design an engine to have an artistic structure. What you couldn't then do is stop anyone copying the functional parts of the engine and leaving out the purely artistic elements.
I have been fantasizing as a combination of data poisoning and intervention when the poisoning is actually real:
make groups to swap profiles for a while. Without even going back to the original, but just jumping to the next one.
As long as you agree through a different medium and swap credentials with someone you somehow trust, it should work.
The problem is that basically all of Google’s products would be affected, which is something no browser can easily ship without angering users.
In theory, yes.

The reality is they have no idea what this is all about.

If we want something done __and done right__ we're gonna have to figure it out on our own.
It doesn't matter. If an electrian says he will work for free it doesn't give him any special rights to do anything except his job.

It is sad that some people in Silicon Valley find it acceptable and ethical.
This is an issue with terms. None of those countries are socialist. Market socialism has been discussed at length by many theorists. A trustless AI market planner / coordinator could also be designed, especially with current tech. Project Cybersyn by the Chilean government in the 70s was an early attempt at this.[0]

Technology should be used to free humanity not further constrict it. The topic of this thread is exactly the latter: how the "gig economy" is putting most people in worse positions than ever before

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn
> all of the video comparisons that have been put out are low-light cameras

If a self-driving car can't see 50 feet at night, maybe they should buy some low-light cameras?

> Also, noone seems to think it's a possibility that the agencies responsible for the lighting in this area to have made improvements immediately after the inicident before the public speculation started.

None of this matters. (I also find it pretty unlikely - the lights shown in Uber's video look plenty close together already to safely light the road. Even on an unlit road, the car's own headlights should've revealed the pedestrian far sooner.)

A self-driving car should be able to see (via the car's headlights, infrared, LIDAR, etc.) a safe distance ahead of the car at all times. The car should detect the unsafe condition and refuse to continue - not mow down pedestrians.

If it can't cope with a moonless, unlit road, it should not be on that road.
I'm going to push back on the case that this kind of exclusion would somehow make these awards / festivals irrelevant. That's unlikely. The power of the recognition they extend has much less to do with how broadly inclusive they are; it has much more to do with whether whatever they put the spotlight on is something that resonates with general audiences, with enthusiasts, and with others who work in the medium. As long as Cannes and the Oscars are functioning well as one kind of curator, they'll probably remain relevant.

Now, if those left out were to start some sort of new award or festival, and it were to become as reliable a curator of attention as the currently prestigious festivals and awards. Or if it became more so. You'd need the participation of services that have a broad reach, who could draw attention to it, if only there were a few of those left out in the cold for pushing their new model who might want to do such a thing...
Ultimately, every American company is a collection tool for three-letter agencies, and through allies, most non-American corporations too.

I like to think FB is how they check the accuracy of their other data sets.
You shouldn't because those ghosts are stupid.

If intelligence just means "can make decisions based on inputs" then everything is intelligent. That's a useless definition.
Can I say all of them?

Actually, something that may be even more important is free and open access to APIs. I'm okay with registration procedures for larger volumes, but not for hobby use. It seems to me an unnecessary obstacle. If the hit rates are similar to what a user with a web browser would produce why is my script forced to register when the web user is not?
Flow does this very well. https://flow.org/
All these normal geopolitical maneuvers were labeled kindness. This is a wrong statement of the matters. And a false evidence to support a normal hn commentators sense of moral high ground.
She wasn't in a self-driving car. She was testing a prototype self-driving car. She's absolutely culpable for her negligence. She had one job.
I like the comparison with a cop. The second you notice a police car behind you, your driving changes.

Now imagine a police officer with you at all times, peeking behind your shoulder at any screen you use, writing down everything you type, recording every conversation, financial transaction, web search; charting every location you go to on a map.
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Not privacy related but how about that damn “Ratchet” that iPhones have to get you to upgrade the OS? You are literally presented with two choices: upgrade now or remind me later. The remind me later choice means getting a daily nag with the same two choices. I inevitably lose this little cat’n’mouse game and accidentally click the upgrade now option. Yes, you can delete the update file to postpone the prompt for a bit but that is a hassle and only temporary anyway. APPLE, I DON’T WANT TO UPGRADE!!! Every time I inevitably accidentally upgrade, the UX responsiveness degrades another step. For the third phone in a row I’m at the point where I feel like I need to upgrade to new hardware to get back to the responsiveness level I want. I think we all know this is no coincidence.
Actually, poor areas all over the US come up last in education rankings. Your poorest areas in Los Angeles or NYC will rival or underperform the poorest areas in the south.

And your wealthy southern suburbs will outperform or rival any posh LA or NYC school district.
He should just start walking around naked and shitting with the stall door open in order to demonstrate how "over" the age of privacy is. People don't care about privacy anymore, which is exactly why everyone just masturbates in public all the time
You don't need the quoted empty string with echo to generate a newline, just `echo` is fine.
> And if you don't trust Google, then Bing and DuckDuckGo are a click away.

Quick reminder that if you're using Chrome, Bing and DuckDuckGo do not protect your search history. If you're using Chrome and have web history turned on (you probably do), Google parses your browser history to get your search queries from sites like Amazon, Bing, and DuckDuckGo.

It's not as simple as just choosing to move to a different product. Google makes every effort to cross-contaminate their products with each other, precisely so they don't lose any of that information. It's very difficult to give up just part of Google's ecosystem.
I don't think it is likely that a mental health evaluation would have demonstrated much. The law only bars those who have been involuntarily committed from getting firearms, a diagnosis of mental illness is not sufficient. And an involuntary commitment is a pretty high bar. My Dad is a clinical psychologist who evaluates people for the courts, and he can go on and on about how the severely mentally ill often do not qualify for involuntary commitment. Unless you are actively trying to hurt yourself or others you will not be committed, which basically limits it to people who are either attempting suicide, or assaulting people.

I'd also like to point out that there are a number of issues with the current system besides what you've mentioned that could improve things. For starters, even if this person was involuntarily committed, he would fail a background check, but would still be able to purchase guns online or at a gun show without a background check. There are red flag laws, which allow people to petition the court to temporarily seize guns from someone acting in a disturbing way, which would have been ideal for this case, but these are only in some states.
I will second this. I've seen some people choose FB's Flow as their type checker, but for me, I'm loving Typescript. It has minor problems when it has to use DefinitelyTyped and integrate with other frameworks, but those are minor in comparison to not having it.
To be fair, nobody mentions it until someone mentions it.
Well, the US has benefited from high tariffs and protectionism (like many other countries) As is such, capturing a single data point doesn't include previous actions/policies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariffs_in_United_States_histo...
If you're interested in Blizzard history, there's a 4-hour interview with Rob Pardo hosted by Civ 4 lead and Offworld Trading Company creator Soren Johnson. Pardo also recounts the beginnings of Diablo in part one around ~1:27:00, although he wasn't involved in the project at that time.

Starcraft, WoW, and Hearthstone are also discussed. Warning: audio quality is not great.

https://www.idlethumbs.net/designernotes/episodes/rob-pardo-...

https://www.idlethumbs.net/designernotes/episodes/rob-pardo-...
Google already does it with Project Fi + Pixel.

https://www.androidcentral.com/using-project-fi-pixel-2s-esi...
They understood really early on that you need to invest in software just as much as you would need to invest in hardware if not more.

Open standards tend to be a horse designed by a committee, it can take years for them to evolve and to reach any consensus and they would never be able to match the speed in which hardware can evolve and adapt to market requirements.

So NVIDIA essentially made their own software ecosystem which can be just as flexible as their hardware and more importantly it allows NVIDIA to be proactive rather than reactive.
Thank you for the brief history.

I'm in the middle of reading "Caliban and the Witch" and it's nice to have additional ideas about the motion from feudalism to the newer systems.
Yes, this will be the future. I believe the latest iPad Pro models have a virtual Apple SIM embedded. The Apple Watch Series 3 also has a virtual SIM. They will eventually appear in phones as well.
Sometimes async is not real async, but an emulation, this is where "rediscoveries" come in I suppose.
Open-source does not mean there are no restrictions. AFAIK, Java's open-source license did include some provisions that Google violated.

PS: I am not a lawyer. Above piece of knowledge is coming just from what I read, perhaps on HN during the previous ruling on the case.
Facebook Pauses Addition of New Messenger Bots
CIA’s in-house board games can now be yours thanks to FoIA request
Says the guy who bought the houses around his house.
I've wasted time not checking for inode availability, so I'd add a check for that to this list:

df -hi
It's really hard to come up with a timeline, but I'd say the worst has passed. It will take time to recover inventory, but the alt-coin market (basically, not-Bitcoin cryptocurrencies) has died down a lot and the rush to acquire mining capital has likely diminished.

6 months to a year, maybe?