skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is such a great point.

I remember first seeing ads in gmail and trying to figure why it made me feel physically nauseous, while the early implementations of Google search ads seemed completely reasonable and inoffensive.

It was definitely the fact that they were showing me ads based on private communication as opposed to my previous consumption habits that caused the visceral reaction.
It’s on the linked page at bottom

https://books.google.com/talktobooks/query?q=What%20is%20fun...
Not totally sure of the details but the dropped flash drive hack seems popular

https://www.wired.com/2011/06/the-dropped-drive-hack/

http://articles.latimes.com/2006/apr/10/world/fg-disks10
Most of my long-haul flights in life were in college, so my answer is 'get over hangovers', and I cannot strongly enough discourage this irresponsibility. It's preparation in reverse.
>poor person might prefer to just go to jail for a short time rather than spend thousands of dollars for an uncertain outcome.

This was literally my point, jury trials are uncertain. Except it applies even in cases where people have millions of dollars to burn. A possible 40 years in prison or 5 years under house arrest?

Though of course, as I was typing I was reminded of the Android case. And countless other cases where a judge was the unknown factor, so really, it doesn't matter how much lawyers cost. Any trial will always be an unknown until someone can code a deterministic judge bot.
i think these are mistakes

>2.5 Conditional Probability Distributions
As we saw in Section 3.4,

>It turns out that in this case a σ-algebra on Z naturally defines a σ-algebra
OSKit developed in the University of Utah systems group was a...OS kit back in the mid-late 90s, I don’t think they were the first ones (would ya e to go back through some old OSDI/SOSP papers to be sure though). See http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/oskit/.
really hard to tell from the docs what it is, I'm guessing english isn't the primary language?

But from what I can tell its a vuex state viewer/editor?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16846229
As it becomes more profitable for VCs to invest in startups, they invest more and in more startups. Now that there are more startups and they have more money, they need to hire more software engineers, and have more resources to do so. So software engineer salaries go up.
Modern advertising is a bit of a pain to model in an economic setting. It acts as a subsidy, but also an expense to the company. Which sounds kind of like a tax. However, why is it that paying for services is performed by advertisements, something which has psychological externalities even exists? It breaks the the traditional economic model of the labour market. We have an income to people which doesn't come from work or the government. It's a weird economic aberration which people don't like to talk about, beyond "it is not very good for us" but in some form necessary to complete information in the market in order to increase it's efficiency.

Unfortunately this externality is not like environmental externalities. You can't just "fix" it by throwing money at mitigation measures (ie scrubbers, tree planting, fluid separation, dispersants, breakdown agents, remediation), the cost is fused into the society in subtle and difficult ways to isolate and measure.

What does that mean? Well for completing information in the market we can't scrap it completely. But we also want to cut out the psychological aspects surely? Obviously any solution would be imperfect, so I'm going to start with: We need a stricter, more comprehensive ratings agency in the way that films/TV games and music is rated. The greater the psychological impact, the less it can be broadcast to the public at large. So bland statements of technical specifications could be displayed anywhere, but something which says "buy now, limited time only, you'll miss out and your life will suck" will be limited to exclusively infomercial channels only.

So what do we do about the money side then? How will people pay for the services they can't actually afford? No idea. I'd like to put a tax on advertising, but how does that meaningfully go to people, or website holders? However, society getting to a state of charging people to skip ads/aka opt out, while not earning enough sounds a lot like Black Mirror.

This may be a case where an imperfect solution is still better than nothing. One where it should be reassessed constantly, lest loopholes eventually become exploited, like they are in almost any regulation or tax code which does not change.

I read this post over and over trying to tweak it, but it still sounds ridiculous. But I don't know how else to continue the conversation.
Tax companies whose existence relies on them and only them to decipher cryptic government tax laws. Quite literally the most predictable and unsurprising news article to come out on the internet.
> It’s been over a decade since the iPhone was launched. Its cost hasn’t come down.

The price was lowered by $200 shortly after release, causing outrage amongst the earliest buyers. Compensatory credits were issued to affected customers.

Later, Apple began selling previous models as a more affordable line rather than eliminating them each cycle. The newest models retain their price point, but devices from the previous year receive a price cut.

They haven’t started making low cost commodity devices at the bottom of the market, but Apple typically doesn’t compete in that area.
Cosmos is (was?) also the name of Microsoft's internal distributed database that they ran their version of map reduce in. I think Cosmos is a very common name to be used to name projects, it is probably used more than a few times a years as the name for a new project.
Wine Country burn scars explode with wildflowers: 'It's off the charts'
I would speak to a neurologist. The sharp change you describe would seem odd to me. I wonder if my mom used to be better at recognizing people as well.
IoT: General Purpose Sensing
> Several bugs have been squashed in the ReactOS CC and Freeloader, allowing it to boot in 96MB hardware (smaller RAM need than our 0.4.7 release).

This is an impressive update when most projects, and not necessarily wrongly, always move in the opposite direction. Good to see.

As a free Unix user I'm primarily interested in ReactOS in order to test certain Windows things such as cwrsync over ssh. I tried installing ReactOS about a month ago but didn't have the right hardware to make it through the installer. I will definitely try again.
This is not a joke
First of all, I'm talking from European perspective. My exposure to US is limited to Americans I talk to.

I met lots of Americans who don't want universal healthcare purely for ideological reasons. Their arguments sometimes do make sense actually. Universal health care in Europe has it's fair share of problems and some aspects of US system are used to fix it.

And yes, average European and American (as much as that can be generalised) are quire different ideologically. For example, national ID and police having rights to ask for it is kinda a given in Europe. Nobody thinks that's wrong. Now try to tell that to Americans :) Or your attitude to various government-related things.

On top of that, even if it was purely corruption in US government, it'd be already different from USSR. Where it was ideologically motivated to put everything into military.

In USSR, citizens didn't have even theoretical power to have a say in allocating resources. Parties putting forward proposals and then trying to (not) follow through is infinitely different. Oh, and at least in Europe, they sometimes do follow through.

And the major difference is private sector existence. Soviets cared little if consumer goods are any good. A shirt is a shirt, if it has shitty fit or lame colors - it's a customer's problem. Meanwhile factory will keep making them for decades without any improvements. Scarcity of everyday goods? Meh, who needs toilet paper when we can build few more tanks. Meanwhile in capitalism system adjusts itself very quickly.

Actually, the problems you listed, just shows how government is always abusing whatever powers it got. Soviet system being extreme example of all-reaching government power. While different capitalist systems have more or less fixed that. Unfortunately 100% capitalist system is not viable either, since it needs checks to keep companies from abusing it.
It's good to have you here! HN benefits from the perspective that you bring.

Plenty of other people must value your comments too, because you've accumulated a karma of over 5000 points in about 4 months - say 15,000 points a year, which is definitely a lot - cf HN leaders. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
I put on my eye-mask, earplugs, hoodie, take a double dose of sleeping medication (usually temazepam) and attempt to remain unconscious for as much of the flight as possible.
Allegiant Air: The Budget Airline flying under the radar
They gave me half a refund, which is honestly more than I expected. I wish them well, but they're not getting any more of my money.
The entire economy is a system designed to encourage human activity, and is not based in truth of value. That builder borrowed the funds to build. It actually is turtles all the way down to the Central Bank, which dictates that money exists.

Controlling assets is not the same thing as consuming, and money is designed to designate control rather than consumption. I can borrow money to buy stocks, which are nothing more than a promise of a corporate future. etc. People and entities do not have control because they have produced, but because they have controlled, or are part of the system that magnifies control to create more of it (through the banking system).

We elect to accept this system of the government determining who can control assets based on a vision of human society, or simply because we cannot object in a meaningful way. We borrow almost exclusively from money created by the government. In the end we borrow from nobody, but borrow by means of a de facto authority. The mutual agreement of human wills is more powerful than any sort of temporal precedence.

In that sense we borrow from neither the past nor the future. Of course you are correct that a large portion of borrowed funds are used to control tings that have already been produced. But the money is created at the same instant the loan is made. And it must be repaid by future labor or returns. Since it is not necessary for the money to be used to purchase something that already exists (and another large portion of borrowed funds are used for futures of myriad kinds), but it is always true that future results must be used for repayment, I think it is more accurate to say we borrow from the future.
Show HN: Run SQL statements on XML
“Nightmare”?
Hot reload is not unique to webpack. The multi-day setup or the multi-day attempts to set it up followed by giving up, are.

I very much would like to use a simple, sturdy, predictable environment and trying to work with webpack has brought me only frustration.

Things that should get chained together and just work, don’t. To fix them I needed to understand obscure bugs in infinite npm dependencies. I’m not that good at JavaScript and honestly don’t want to be.

I would gladly pay $50-100 per set up if this service existed.
So I'm a ReactOS fanboi, but... but...

- You need to fix your flaccid dev community. Your forums have a terrible S/N ratio. IRC may be great and all, but I don't see any hard documentation behind any design discussions or development. I do see crazy shite like "can I run ReactOS on Playstation 2". The forums make your project seem dead, which it clearly isn't.

- You need to fix your flaccid dev community. It needs a larger presence. It needs to be tangible (who is doing what? who are the people? do you have conferences?)

- You need to fix your flaccid dev community. There is a bunch of really useless, out-of-date, confusing and out-right self-inconsistent information on building ROS, and the Git move didn't help (but kudos on the move, it is long overdue). I've tried 4-5 times to do something, but the directions I followed on Win, Ros or Linux all ended up breaking somewhere.

- You need to fix your attitude problems (or your forums). There are people asking reasonable questions, who get actively or passively aggressive answers. Not good.

- You need to fix your toolchain problems. This whole SEH thing is getting out of hand. Does Clang support SEH yet? It might - https://clang.llvm.org/docs/MSVCCompatibility.html. So maybe you need to bail on GCC, or maintain your own fork of it (yes, it's ridiculous that GCC still doesn't have SEH support, and the patents have long expired).

- You need to get a grip on x64 support. Your toolchain problems cannot be a gate (and you can clearly use MSVC for building... so...). IA32 support is great and all, but needs a back seat to x64.

- You need to get a grip on UEFI booting (note UEFI booting does not /necessarily/ mean you need improved ACPI support, in practice)

- SMP?

- Forget Xbox, NewWorld PowerMacs (those were BE anyway) and 32-bit Arm chips (which outside of the Pi are too varied and too few). Targeting 64-bit Arm chips does make sense, though, now that Microsoft has released a client build of Win 10 on laptops and an Arm server vendor demoed Windows Server at OCP'18 (http://www.opencompute.org/assets/Uploads/18150J-Ampere-PPT-...). You will need UEFI and reasonable ACPI support to support ARM64. You can target SBSA and SBBR compliant systems and this will give support for the entire server ecosystem (and qemu VMs, har har).

- You might wish to minkernel-ize ROS as well, so you can boot without a GUI.

- You might wish to update Wiki (and build a list of links to relevant pages) for active subprojects.
Cancer is Not mostly genetics
A bitcoin exchange is not a decentralized system. It is a centralized one.

We are discussing the security of decentralized systems, aka the blockchain.
Chinese has a long tradition of using place-names to refer to regional specific dialects that in English we might just call, as you put it, "English with an X accent."

In the same way that you'll hear 重庆话 (Chongqingnese) and 成都话 (Chengdunese) both used to refer to region-specific dialects of Sichuanese (which in turn is really a member of the greater Mandarin (官话) dialect family) and 上海话 (Shanghainese) and 苏州话 (Suzhounese) used to refer to different region-specific dialects of Wu, Taiwanese is being used in a similar fashion here. It is indeed a dialect of Hokkien that is mutually intelligible with and very similar to other varieties of Hokkien. The differences are, as you imply, on par with the differences you might find between a Texan accent and a New York accent. But there's nothing special about Taiwanese here. This is just the way all region-specific dialects of Chinese are named.

The written language is kind of sort of traditional Chinese (depending on how liberally we're defining "traditional Chinese" here), but it's a stretch. The grammar is not the same as modern Mandarin (nor is it the same as Classical Chinese). Moreover not all the characters used are attested to in official Chinese sources (for example, the first character that the original comment way way up circled in his Flickr image is not found in any ancient Chinese dictionaries I know of (Guangyun/广韵, Shuowenjiezi/说文解字, Qieyun/切韵, Kangxi Dictionary/康熙字典) nor is it found in the modern Xinhua Dictionary 新华字典. And I don't have a copy handy but I wouldn't be surprised if I couldn't find it in the evocatively named Cihai/辞海 (Word Ocean). This is presumably why they are not in Unihan. A much larger set of characters are those that very very few Mandarin speakers recognize. And another (independent) large set of characters do not and have never had the meaning they have in Hokkien in other varieties of Chinese.

That's not to say there's not a lot of overlap with written Mandarin. A Mandarin speaker could probably muddle their way through this Bible if they tried, but then again, a French speaker could muddle their way through Haitian Creole. And even an English speaker could maybe get through a French newspaper given enough cognates. This is a far far cry from the "embedded Mandarin" situation I talked about in another comment though.

Maybe it's not quite something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhuang_logogram which is Chinese-looking, but definitely not what people would normally call Chinese characters, but for a few of these characters, it's getting pretty damn close.
Visual Basic? C# and the .net runtime?

Please, no...
Stock based compensation is reported as an expense in income statements, so, you're wrong.
That is literally the same article posted by OP (though the end here has a couple extra paragraphs).
Yes, healthy skepticism is good, but just because code (i.e. text files) is often the most _powerful_ or _flexible_ tool, doesn't mean it's always the best tool.

We (programmers) are notoriously bad at advancing the tools in our field.

For a brief history of this, watch "The Future of Programming" talk by Bret Victor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pTEmbeENF4
The alternative is that information is not discoverable, like old letters found in attics and ancient Egyptian tombs. Finally, with the advent of a the digital age, we can make data easy to find and have off-site backups. Still no good solution for physical artifacts, though.
something tells me all stars are aligning for a huge correction. real estate prices inflated beyond imaginable while wages bave been stagnant. almost a decade old tech companies not making any money valued in billions and an administration made up of moron wages war on issues that have no relation to the country. something tells me shit will collapse big time in Trump's last term and everything will be blamed on him and people who voted for him by the media and the elite. meanwhile the elite will have cashed in on all these ipos by having dumped overinflated stock of unicorns on middle class.
2020 will be a hell of a year
Another problem with Lineage OS is that the firmware and kernel drivers on your phone cannot be updated once the OEM ends support. Here'a a page that lists all of the CVE's that are not patched on Lineage OS builds by device:

https://cve.lineageos.org/devices
As the sasquatch who did this is swept away in a flying saucer to an illumanati base on the moon let me just say i will miss that guy as well.
Hokkien is used on the mainland also, especially in southern Fujian, of course. Not that it matters in any case, I’m sure Taiwanese hokkien has drifted over the last century.

What is interesting is that Fujianese are the first to go abroad, so minnanhua can be more common than mandarin in SE Asia and even Europe.
isn't it usually from republican controlled governments?
> Computing has augmented human intellect, but right now almost exclusively for scientists, engineers, the medical profession, and other professionals. The real computer revolution will happen when the general public are able to boost their own intellects internally and to boost their reach externally with the help of computers.

Isn't this already well under way, considering people's day-to-day use of phones and tablets for google searches, wikipedia, calendars, maps, and various 'helper' apps (for meditation, productivity, project planning, etc.)?
In every ORM I've ever used, everything is a prepared statement by default, so I've only been comparing 100 separate database call updates vs 100 updates concatenated as a single database call and 100 updates as a single update case when, where all three were already implied prepared statements.
By using the entertainment system, you're consuming additional electricity, which requires burning more fuel, thereby making your 'carbon footprint' even larger. :)
The amount of money flowing through the system that's being optimized might be less than the cost of a completely general data scientist trained to work with completely generalizable tooling. Many businesses are happy to be able to spend $30/month and a small slice of the time of a resident spreadsheet master in order to find an incomplete but useful list of optimizations.
Apple of course. They've already handed the operation of their Chinese iCloud data centers to a Chinese state run company so they already have a relationship.
I don't know if that's true. At least with a centralized social network we have someone to yell at, and Congress potentially has an ability to regulate it.

Imagine a de-centralized Facebook with the same engagement-optimized feed. Maybe it runs over the Web, maybe it runs on something like Ethereum.

What if we built that, and wound up with the same set of problems? Except now there's no off button, nobody to petition, and government can't intervene.

Decentralization is not a silver bullet. And in this case I might worry that the medicine is worse than the disease.
(John Walker)
Is that true though?

a) who are advertisers targeting and why? If it’s people who can’t afford the service why are they then targeting them? Only people who have excess money are worth targeting. So there is a choice for most people.

b) take the example of Facebook. 1.5 bn daily users generate 9 bn $ in revenue, that’s 6 $ per year and active user, so 50c a month, not 5$/mo
No support for slim is a dealbreaker for me. Once I tried slim I just can’t force myself to write and read html.

Middleman / Jekyll both support slim, webpack if needed, live reload, json or yaml data files, partials, page matter (in-page data in yaml format) etc.

The only issue is setting up webpack (for vie and Babel in the middleman specific confit).
it's easiest for US puppet states, more than communist ones.
On Samsung TV's and smartwatches.
My god, the author of this story made all the wrong choices. Wouldn’t walk away from the property, liquidated his 401k to obtain sole possession of the dwelling from his ex, wouldn’t commit to missing payments to get a workout commitment from his lender.

Had he walked away from the property, he’d still have his 401k (protected from creditors by federal law; he could’ve lived in the house for years while it went through foreclosure and put his mortgage payments in his 401k) and if the lender absolutely decided to pursue the deficiency judgment (rare), he could’ve settled for pennies on the dollar or declared bankruptcy and still been hundreds of thousands of dollars ahead.

Just sad. My advice to those who read this: never get emotionally invested. It’s just business. Look at the numbers, and throw out any sense of morality of the debt repayment. That is how the system is built; act like a rational actor within it (losses are built into the mortgage interest rate). Your future self will thank you.
This brings back fond memories.

Around 1985 I was living and working at home in Los Gatos, CA, when I got a call out of the blue:

"Hi, I'm Robert Hetkämper from German TV. We are doing a report on Silicon Valley software companies. Could we stop by tonight and interview you?"

I was nobody you'd have ever heard of, but I had a business phone line listed under my company name, Software Wizards. So I guessed that was how they found me, or that maybe it was just a prank.

I explained that the company was just me working at home, and Robert said, "This is interesting, we are looking for unusual companies like that. Do you have some friends or colleagues you could invite over and we could talk with them too?"

So I called up a few friends and asked them if they wanted to be on German TV, and bless their hearts, they all came over. I still thought it might be a prank, but then the film crew showed up and started putting lights on the street for an exterior shot.

My friends and I sat around the living room table talking, and Robert asked if we could get some glasses of water to drink out of, to get a bit of visual activity in the scene.

That was the day I learned that in a very dialog-heavy film, it helps to have the characters holding something. :-)