skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't feel like anticipating arguments is very helpful, as much as it just adds noise. I could anticipate that someone will argue that because the sun is round, it proves that Apple can do no wrong, yet I don't bring that up, because until someone does, it seems to me to be a waste of time. In short, I am trying to be succinct rather than waste everyone's time arguing over something that nobody wants to argue about.

I don't view "Apple pretends to care about privacy as long as it is good for the bottom line" to be trolling, though I do admit I could phrase it better. Possibly "We don't know how much Apple cares about privacy, but they have taken a lot of actions that suspiciously point to them not caring about it more than they care about their bottom line. They also refuse to take actions that would prove to us that they do take privacy seriously.".

In trying to be succinct, it seems that I lost a lot of the important nuance, which I agree is important.

I would like to point to tech-giants that are pushing good security/privacy, but unfortunately, I don't know of any. I think the best I can point to might be Librem, but they don't have a functioning phone AFAIK.

> For a counterpoint, by controlling the marketplace, Apple has more control over quality and security, as well as the responsibility when something goes wrong. One can reasonably argue that they prefer this over letting anyone provide apps because they're concerned about malware being loaded, that other providers won't be paying as close attention.

I get this concern, but until they let go of that control, they are not enforcing reasonable privacy. It's a trade-off, and it's totally Apple's decision to make, but that means that they aren't doing "privacy right" if they choose the option that disregards privacy. Maybe that's better for their users, maybe not, but they have chosen the side that disregards privacy either way.

> On the other side, Apple doesn't have an business model where they make money from user data

That you know of. Unless you know something that I don't, you don't have access to see where all of their money is coming from. I agree it provides them a better incentive, but incentives don't mean anything.

I don't like comparing Apple to Google, because I find it irrelevant what Apple does. Google is an entirely different business. I dislike Google, and I believe that in many ways they are worse than Apple, but that's irrelevant to the discussion.

"Apple doesn't care about privacy as much as I want them to" doesn't accurately represent what my issue is. My issue is that the statement "At least Apple seems to care about privacy" is true, but the statement "Apple cares about privacy" is not true based on the decisions they make. They may care about it but their actions speak otherwise, and it doesn't matter what groups say, it matters what they do. Just because they "seem" to care about privacy doesn't mean that they do, and I don't want unaware users to support a company that, based on their actions, is likely lying to them.
AFAIK Tesla only provides access to service manuals in Massachusetts which has a right to repair law. Online subscription that’s just $30 per hour or $3000 per year.
Which is what comparing the sugar content of ketchup and a chocolate chip cookie is. There's less sugar in a cookie than Ketchup, but ~3 times more carbs.

I was agreeing with your point.
Archived versions:

2011

http://web.archive.org/web/20110217082656/http://michaelzimm...

2018

http://web.archive.org/web/20180322184527/http://www.michael...

Dataset:

https://archive.org/details/oxford-2005-facebook-matrix
> no one could really explain why exactly they worked

That is the first time I have heard that claim, and since we have a large body of knowledge describing how evolution works (that sampo description is one the clearest I've seen) and how it can be optimized, I imagine you are talking about some other problem.

Is it about predicting the causes of some learned trait? Is there some interesting research on that?
I think the fallacy in thinking that "supply chains don't appear overnight", is that if no one makes intermediate or full sized investment leaps then they the supply chain may be slow to appear or never appear in the volume needed. If you are too accustomed to a very mature supply chain (like IC drive trains fall into), I think a risk is leaning too much towards waiting for maturity.

It's hard to interpret from just the article if BMW is saying not 'til 2020 as their development of the supply chain isn't ready yet, or that they're waiting longer to capitalize a supply chain until some cost reduction 'appears'. There are statements on either sides if those paths forward in the article. So it could be simultaneously true for different links of the supply chain.
They went into 'v' orbits, which as I understand it, means steep highly elliptical orbits that come inside the Earth's orbit? Its a lot more crowded in here.
Whether or not markets are perfectly rational is irrelevant.

I haven't seen an economic argument, an argument that suggests it's better for the employer if they keep the older workers, that justifies forcing them to against their will.

There are arguments to be made that outlawing age discrimination is the moral thing to do. But it being the moral thing to do has nothing to do with whether or not it's the best business decision for every company.
Bad management unfortunately doesn't lay itself off first, but last until forced by the board. Long after all the best employees have been lost.
Neither of the articles you link to say that unionisation is the reason for the ongoing shift to contract work, or even mention unions at all...

If anything, (stronger) unions are exactly what contract workers need.

What caused the shift to contract work? Greed. Greedy employers who don't want to give up the tiniest bit of profit to pay for living wages, health benefits, retirement plans or workplace safety, and then have the gall to re-brand deregulation as freedom.
I think people are familiar with the idea of a company taking their own data to advertise to them. But what might be new to people who haven't gone out of their way to know about it is that the data gets shared, sold, and bundled to this extent. If I sign up on a website for email update, they could now know the contents of my facebook messages from 5 years ago. Then they could correlate what I buy with things I mention in messages, and use that to advertise to someone who publicly likes certain things even if they don't have access to that person's messages. That's pretty surprising.
IBM will never understand this but few, if any, architectures have made it into the datacenter that were not first affordable for experimenters and enthusiasts.

The burden of proof is on those claiming the pricing does not present a barrier to entry to the ecosystem.

I am curious about developing for Power. Please link me to an entry-level system I can buy on the web.
Pagedraw: automate Figma to React designer handoff
Booz Allen: Artificial intelligence is transforming immersive training
Yep. The original wave of genetic algorithms largely depended on some hand-wavy "building block" ideas that no one could really prove. It turned out that it was because proving them is impossible in the general sense, as we found out from the NFL theorems in the mid-to-late 90s, and it wasn't even clear the field had a scientific basis at all.

So I was surprised to see them make a return about a decade later. Hopefully there is a little more rigor this time around.
Add a grading section to each assignment with something like this:
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Program is expected to maintain this interface <link to interface here> over stdin/stdout (or sockets, etc).

Students will pass when their program passes the grading/test suite. Test suite can be check ahead of time by uploading binary/zip/tarball to this location using their student id: <location here>. Detailed instructions <here>.

IIRC, this is what my university did 15 years ago. Not everyone had unique homework, but often the homework assignments were not all the same. I guess how unique they are depends on if you have some parameters in your homework generation or if you have a bunch of misc grad students to generate a few sets of homework that you can build up over time.

How might you grade style? IMO Don't. If you must, then save it for interactive review/lab sessions/office hours or style-specific spot checks (e.g. "At least once per semester your assignment will be additionally graded on program style according <insert guidelines here>. This will be added as additional points to your semester total.")
> In the academic world, what else is there but your own work?

Work published under your name but performed by anonymous flunkies. It's... the norm in the academic world, actually.
Blazor 0.1.0 released: web apps in the browser with .NET and WebAssembly
Stores do this already. Signs which read "Restrooms for customers only" are not uncommon.
I think what you're describing is essentially dishonesty, and I would join you against it were it to come to that.

I am frankly deeply unsettled by the "allegations are facts" flavor of current "debate". Have we not learned anything since the Salem witch trials?
Nvidia GTX 2080 Predictions
All I can say is to keep interviewing and reflecting on your experiences (take notes!), which will tune you in to the kinds of preparation you have to do in order to pass through the process successfully. You can do it!
The base price on the Model 3 today is $49,000 and Tesla's own IR documents state that they don't expect to have a positive gross margin, even at that price point, until some time in the distant future after production is fully ramped up at both Fremont and the Gigafactory. It's not a very good example of the point I think you're trying to make.
Hyperion Tackles Elusive Quantum Computing Landscape
Tesla is not proof of that. Tesla is an EV company from the ground up. They also do not have the capacity to produce vehicles at the rate of companies like BMW, Mercedes, Honda, etc.

Moreover, car companies do not have "infinite cash reserves". Retooling factories for EV production is an expensive undertaking. Combined with the expense of lithium cells and supply issues, it's not a simple or cheap task.
EV drive trains are more simple but that's not really a problem with modern ICE drive trains. That technology is so mature and well developed that any car is going to go at least 100k miles, well beyond any warranty period.

There are benefits to the electric drive train but that's not the limitation. The rest of the car isn't really any different and because the battery is so expensive (as you point out) the rest of the electric car really suffers.

This appears to be what BMW is saying.
Site is down, but the link that fits the title better is
[1] anyway,because that is where the dataset originated.
This page also has the timeline of the release.
Very short timeline, that is, because you can imagine how quickly they had to take it down.

[1] http://masonporter.blogspot.de/2011/02/facebook100-data-set....
TFA seems a bit at odds with itself. One reason academic boards don't care too much about CS plagiarism complaints is that CS generates so very many of them, compared to other fields. The reason isn't that CS students are degenerates (although they may be anyway), instead it's because it is so much easier to check for plagiarism in CS. So, sure closed-source is bad and definitely we can always use more TAs, but the problem is clearly not "we're only punishing 10% of our students while we should be punishing 40%!"

The problem isn't with CS at all, but rather with USA colleges in general. Indeed the only professor I've read who seems to even notice the problem is Harry Lewis. Most subjects should be taught very differently than they are taught. USA university education makes a great deal of unnecessary and counterproductive work for students and professors. The busywork threatens to drive out real academic work.

The reason for this is so that more such work might be created for administrators, who must multiply inexorably to absorb the ridiculous amounts of money that our ridiculous system of student debt generates. In fact it will be no surprise if some schools eventually do hire enough administrators to suspend 40% of every CS course every semester. One hopes that the professors who could restore some of the quality that universities used to possess, will realize by then that they can restore that and should restore that.
Whereas on my i5 thinkpad ('14 t430) I had to switch to chrome as my browser, which was annoying, but even on a clean win10 insstall w/ only FF installed, it would peg the cpu hard. Don't know why, as I still use it as my primary browser for my desktop as well as android phone, but ever since Quantum there just seems to be a significant number of systems that are incompatible with firefox.

Oh, and before anyone asks, on the thinkpad the performance issue was still present on a debian stretch install as well.

Just because it works on your system doesn't mean this isn't a bug they need to fix.
There is no strict four-hour-rule but adequate access to daylight is indeed required.

Most rules are available at https://www.baua.de/DE/Angebote/Rechtstexte-und-Technische-R... and a good summary is at http://publikationen.dguv.de/dguv/pdf/10002/i-7007.pdf
Advocating for Change: How Lucy Parsons Labs Defends Transparency in Chicago
I can imagine businesses simply prohibiting the use of the toilets to people who don't buy things (“restrooms for customer use only”), which is a closer analogy: it's not about a retail store where you are browsing and may or may not buy, it's a place where you “buy” or not (by accepting ads) when you enter, and your access to other facilities is conditioned on that decision.
No? Your friends' contact lists can include you and your birthday or address or whatever. Similar with Facebook.
FB debacle cost $1000 per user
> After 2.x being officially deprecated, what's the point of having a Async HTTP/2 client working (mostly back-porting features that's already on 3k) on 2.x?

Once again, the point is that software will continue working beyond that deprecation event.

As you said, the cost/benefit analysis of a rewrite isn't always in favor of a rewrite at that point in time. So what must follow is that there will be Python 2 software out in the wild for some time regardless of support. What other possibility is there?
Engineering classes should really switch from being homework-based to being project-based. Even something as simple as small coding projects that can be done in a week.

Then, the final project would be such that you'd have to explain your code, either in person with a TA, or by writing documentation for it.

We really need to move on from this academic mindset of homework, grades, and plagiarism toward something that is actually reflective of the world outside of academia. The concept of plagiarism doesn't really exist in the software industry -- it's a matter of what you can get done.
AI Can Spot Signs of Alzheimer's Before Your Family Does
I'm trying to see which is a bigger problem at hand.
The Equifax breach a couple months back or the FB fiasco.

Equifax breached over 143 million users with social security #, credit card #, and personal data.

For FB, can someone explain to me what was the actual damage, was it just personal information about you?
I wrote assignments for cash in college. When it came time for me to take a class, it was noticed that my work was very similar to past students. I tried using my VCS history as a defense when my prof noticed that my homework was similar to that of past students. After questioning some former students, it became obvious that the reason my VCS history was reasonable and style still so similar was that I was the person who had written other student's assignments in the past.
That's an interesting example, but you could rationally argue that since we're all members of the same species, we should treat each other as equals... In practice, of course, there's... complexity
Public info: https://www.sec.gov/dera/data/edgar-log-file-data-set.html
The Reddit AMA is here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1fa2xs/i_spent_20yrs_...

It's a bit of a disaster, really.
I know this is nit-picky, but I'm not a fan of how the "Details" link opens in the same tab.
This is why I still do woodwork (as a hobby) in imperial units.
See: https://www.gkogan.co/blog/how-i-learned-to-get-consulting-l...

TL;DR - I tried out networking but it didn't work for me. Instead what's worked very well is writing educational content about the topic I'm an expert in. People often search for a solution to a problem before they decide to hire someone else to just do it for them. If they find your instructions for solving that problem, they might think "Why don't I just pay this person to do it for me? They'll probably do it better and faster."
Sounds more like a vanity project, than a real commercially competitive product.
Yes - Azure is genuinely good
I live in Canada. Canadian companies have to abide by certain privacy laws. Google is a foreign company and what rights do I have as a non-us citizen?
Sales-commission driven product development.
Because the source for most generic programming assignments are already online?

Why not skew the grading more heavily towards in-class midterms and finals?

Or you could generate indivualized hws for each student, but that may not be feasible in a 500 student intro to cs class.
I'm pretty sure no car maker has a problem with getting rid of the right to repair, and dwindling number of independent repair shops shows that.
workaround if you don't need IP6:

System Preferences > Network > [click your ethernet or wifi adapter on left, unlock padlock if needed] > Click Advanced on right > Click TCP/IP tab > NONE, or Configure IPv6: Link-local only
IBM used power as a sort of step-down from Mainframe when big enterprises moved from cobol to java. That came with all of the bullshit like leasing CPU/hours and getting more software revenue using their "value unit" model.

The other thing with power is that it has been a scale up vs. scale out product. That makes sense when you want to optimize your Oracle/SAP licensing or something similar. It doesn't make sense for modern use cases where you're using open-source or other solutions where growing infrastructure into your use case makes more economic sense.
Yes. :/ Sorry if that was unclear. I still feel bad about it and this is years later. It was a traumatic experience for me, eleven against me... Don't do what I did. Always stick to your principles (and your education, and your wisdom) when they are tested.
> Here's the easiest solution: stop grading homework

Because it's not that simple. These are INTRO classes.

For many students, an intro CS class may be the first class they have encountered in their lives in which they finally have to work.

So, part of the job of a teacher is to teach the class material but also to teach good studying habits. Without grading homework, the first real feedback that a student is in trouble will come on a midterm when they fail--the feedback is WAY too late at that point.

That having been said--your professor isn't as stupid as you think he is. Plagiarism that fools the professor is as much work as just doing the assignment.

And professors have lots of ways of dealing with plagiarists far short of disciplinary proceedings. For example, partial credit on exams is quite subjective, and plagiarists tend to lose the "coin flip" if the professor is on the fence.

The problem I have is simply that there are quite a few professors who simply don't care. They make it far too easy to cheat--reusing a previous year's project or exam, for example, is a no-no.
Also challenging: looking ahead around the corner. You have to be able to predict somewhat where the vehicle is going, so you have to have an accurate map of the road, and know accurately where you are.
Firefox also lets you mute a tab without switching to the tab.
If making delivery vans for one of the biggest users of delivery vehicles in Germany (that uses tons of VW vans currently) is "a small project outside their core competency", VW really is in trouble.
That's an interesting point. Maybe the tool could create a temporary file with the data piped to it.

But for now I think you should stick with:

pbpaste > /tmp/clipboard.txt && qr-filetransfer /tmp/clipboard.txt

Thanks for the idea, I'm tracking it in github.
Ah I understand now. Skunk Works was what we in the tech business would call an "internal startup". Yes, I completely agree with that example.
Systems from last few years have VP9 encoding too, only AMD is a laggard in this regard (Raven Ridge is the first GPU to support it).

And while we are talking about hardware, it would be nice, if both Chrome and Firefox supported hw accelerated decoding on Linux. Currently, they don't support it at all.
If anything it would be a patent.
Having been through it myself (buried for voicing a perfectly legitimate and reasoned, but politically unpopular position), I would say HN has a downvotes problem and would benefit from some metamoderation facility or at least significant reduction of available downvotes. They should be reserved for disruption and trolling and not much else.

> Two employees, one 22 years old, one 50 years old. The younger employee makes $46k, the older employee makes $127k.

Good god, why is the older employee take home such a massive paycheck for doing "slightly better" work than an entry level grunt? This is clearly a payscale that favors seniority above everything else, that's your real problem, not the aging workforce.

I would say the exact opposite is usually true in most corporations, an order of magnitude productivity disparity is compressed in a 2:1, $50.000 to $100.000 compensation band. So while the old timer with the $100.000 paycheck might be somewhat less productive than a hotshot hire with the same advanced salary expectations, they are still many times more productive than the fresh out of college girl expecting half their salary.

When you factor in the low friction, low risk, experience, loyalty and living institutional memory the older employees represent, you quickly realize how disruptive and stupid it is to simply throw them to the curve.
Not "advertisers" but one advertiser that has vested interest in capitalizing on privacy concerns (I do not imply Mozilla's concerns not genuine, just that their selling point is already to emphasize this aspect, so they are not your average advertiser in this regard). When your local mattress store or electronics vendor start shunning the platform, then we can talk about a trend. Right now it's just one organization doing a PR move.

> But it's surprisingly frustrating watching everyone slowly catch on to what I had already figured out 8 years ago about the nature of Facebook

Everybody knows. Not everybody cares. I would estimate about 99% of non-technical people don't.

> about all the people who'll just go right back when the outrage dies down.

Which is exactly what would happen.
From what I heard, that extended to GPS spoofing.
Do you believe that people are assholes in such an inconsistent manner that it can’t be adjusted for in large datasets?