skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't generalize but most often that is the case. Having said that I'm surprised nobody brought up maybe the most important factor: sunk investments.

If you have a brand name and credibility at stake, if you have customer liability, if you have built significant the features and infrastructure, if you hired the people that run and maintain those, if your revenue depends on current status of your product... We can keep going on but, you have to take extra actions and caution as you introduce change. That means additional complexity.

However keep in mind big companies can benefit from certain types of barriers to entry such as regulation that provide them efficiency over small companies. For example US immigration policy favors big companies, and IMO GPDR will do so as well.
People should teach proper computer hygiene in school ;-)
Ask HN: How to prevent Google from marking testing/training site as “deceptive”?
At my company we have our main site running on a .com domain and we have a duplicate copy of this site running under the same name but under a .net TLD. This version of the site gets new features before the .com version and connects to a different database server. We use this for testing new features and to allow users to train on this site without affecting production data. We have been running this way for around 2 years now. We recently added Google Signin to the .net site as it is a feature requested by several of our users. Shortly after adding this our authentication page was marked by Google as a "Deceptive Page". We inspected the site for malicious content (the only 3rd party content loaded on the authentication site is the JS for the Google Signin button), but found no evidence of this. We registered the site with the Google Webmaster Tools and submitted a review request and the review was accepted. After about 2 months the site was again blocked for the same reason. We submitted another review and again it was accepted. However they blocked the site again a few days later.

It seems that they are blocking the site for phishing, however this is a legitimate website and the only people we could be phishing is our own users. It's difficult to tell what they are actually blocking the site for as they only give a very basic description and provide zero feedback after the review. We own both the .com and .net domains and both have valid SSL certificates. Both domains are registered in the Google Webmaster Tools with the same account, which has an email address at the .com domain, which is hosted by GSuite. How do we tell Google that this is not a phishing site and to stop blocking our site? This is very frustrating experience as there is no way to contact an actual person at Google about this and it makes our company look bad to our end users who see a warning about our site trying to trick them or install dangerous software, when this is just not true.
Which, if you haven't taken precautions to make it otherwise, will shoot your process in the head.

"Dear operating system, please shoot me in the head in ten seconds if I haven't already finished" is a really useful thing to ask for sometimes.
Big companies are inefficient because too much is at stake! A zero-revenue startup can publish an ad, and if it is offensive to the point of trashing the brand, literally nothing was lost. A big company could lose billions of dollars from the wrong kind of publicity. So there are 200 checks and balances in publishing an ad, making it take 200 times as many people and slowing down the efficiency of everything.
The Circle of Life.
they have a UK site and it is bound by GDPR so we need to look further, Verizon probably which bought their parent?
"I love to come into the office with tremendous energy", says world's richest man as he devises even crueler ways to exploit his employees.
I had to Google what a Nootropic even was.

TL;DR
It is suggested they improve cognitive function (memory, focus, etc.). They are not fully regulated and you can find examples for sale on Amazon. As such, no idea if short or long-term usage is safe but it's interesting product if you simply read what the labels claim.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect

The term cobra effect originated in an anecdote set at the time of British rule of colonial India. The British government was concerned about the number of venomous cobra snakes in Delhi.[3] The government therefore offered bounty for every dead cobra. Initially this was a successful strategy as large numbers of snakes were killed for the reward. Eventually, however, enterprising people began to breed cobras for the income. When the government became aware of this, the reward program was scrapped, causing the cobra breeders to set the now-worthless snakes free. As a result, the wild cobra population further increased. The apparent solution for the problem made the situation even worse
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To keep the history.. I generally don't like to fix post except for typos or unclear passages..
With this tool, AI could identify new malware as readily as it recognizes cats
Vitamin B6 supplements could help you remember your dreams, study claims
number of commits is not a good metric - just look at the top repository, https://github.com/jl777/SuperNET/commits/master

the first page mostly consists of merge and test commits.
Who is YouTube to decide what I can and can't watch?
There's a difference between "removing false/misleading videos that perpetuate a scam" and Fahrenheit 451
LLCs are partnerships for tax purposes in the US (unless they have only a single owner, in which case they are disregarded), hybrid entities for legal purposes in the US however many owners they have, and are either corporations or partnerships outside the US depending on the country. Most countries treat LLCs as corporate-type entities regardless of the number of owners, and only a handful will treat an LLC as a disregarded entity if it has a single owner.

[1] Edited to be more comprehensive.
The owners of the platform. They are not a public service nor to they have to pretend to be one.
you are ignoring the _actual_ point of gdpr, enshrine the right to be forgotten in law to bypass the right of reporting.

they could have alredy fined current privacy abusers under the existing law framework. this will be used to stromgarm independent news sources.
Golfers need their green, sorry kids. lol
YouTube will probably remove fitness videos soon, since some people invariably are stupid and will hurt themselves with the exercises on display, a completely analogous situation.
It's also a pretty decent album released in 2012 by Lower Dens.
How do you think the typical user defines the word, "access," there?
I have no idea how well it works, but pandoc supports html as an input format (if I understand right, it supports most/all input->output pairs).
"You see, so many people are in to exercise that the restaurant started offering treadmill tables". Though probably more believable to just hang out in the gym lobby with your laptop or a book while your watch does its exercise routine,.
The German "last post" says "Our parent company Oath has decided to concentrate it's efforts in Germany on the broader portals yahoo.de, aol.de and huffingtonpost.de".
Many human cultures include the concept of slavery, that doesn't mean it is morally acceptable.
That sounds fantastic, unfortunately I'd worry about the financial liability.

Even using age appropriate play equipment and a soft-fall surface, you'd likely still wind up getting sued if a kid broke an arm or worse.

Some quick Googling suggests you'd need to have the playground owned by an LLC and get it "commercial business insurance" specifically commercial playground insurance.

The problem with that is that you likely aren't zoned for commercial, so running a "commercial" (even free) playground from a residential property is unlawful.

And you can put up an "at your own risk" sign but given attractive nuisance doctrine it likely wouldn't protect you from full liability.

Then on top of that, if the playground was too popular, or some of the kids caused issues near by neighbours likely would complain.

I know I sound like a complete grinch. I think it is a fantastic idea. Just the more I consider it, the more issues and expenses crop up.
Misalignment (not quite the same as distortion) of incentives is a big factor. In a small company, if somebody is doing something that doesn't contribute positively to the end result, it's super easy to notice. In a larger company, people or even whole large-ish organizations can be doing this and it's harder to notice because there's so many people legitimately moving in so many different directions. This can happen even when everybody involved has the very best of intentions. All of those fish swimming the wrong way do have a negative effect on efficiency, though.
Your PDF will automatically reference the h1, h2, etc, as sections and subsections in your PDF (i.e. you should see them in the sidebar's document tree in PDF viewers that have such a feature). You can also certainly generate a TOC using some javascript framework. For a quick google search I found this:

https://css-tricks.com/automatic-table-of-contents/
Creating an impression of a capability without legally promising it is the essence of marketing, especially in the corporate IT consulting world which is 90% garbage and hugely expense.
Sure, they have cameras to see and a computer to do rigorous processing. We can compare this to a human, who uses their vision to perceive the outside world while driving. (You could also argue humans use their hearing, well the Tesla's have mic's if they really wanted to use that).
"Cronin’s YouTube channel was up to about 22,000 subscribers when he received a notice from YouTube about one of his videos, “Relax and Improve Your Sleep with Natural Calm Magnesium.” The notice said the video had been removed for violating YouTube’s community guidelines, but didn’t specify further."

Magnesium isn't even a nootropic. That is, while it may have some ability to boost cognition, it isn't a substance primarily ingested for that reason. It is a substance primarily ingested so that the person ingesting it will stay alive.

A quick cruise around Duck Duck Go suggests that while science isn't saying you should use magnesium for sleep per se, it isn't necessarily a crazy idea in desperate need of being censored. Certainly the idea that magnesium is generally deficient is widespread, with estimates around 50% not meeting the US RDA for magnesium in the US, and while magnesium may not be a good solution for insomnia qua insomnia, it can be a good solution for many things that may be causing you to be "unable to sleep"[1], whether or not that is "insomnia".

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnesium_deficiency_(medicine...
YouTube isn't deciding what you can watch, they are deciding what they are going to use their resources to show you. You can still watch whatever you want, provided you don't use YouTube's resources.

As to who YouTube is to make that decision: they are the entity providing the resources.
I'll try to reduce work to 4 days a week soon (but I might wait for 12M at the company to pass and discus it along with a promised raise).

It's something more immediate and realistic than hoping index funds will carry me one day (and it avoids some taxes... the 8 extra hours don't pay so well after taxes).

Good luck to you though, I hope it all works out for us!
> Imagine trying to upgrade a system with incredibly complex data on a BILLION users that has to work 24/7, then deal with massive data influx four times a year plus catastrophic data ingestion one time a year.

I think you're over-estimating the amount of data involved. There were about 150M individual tax returns and ~5.8M corporate returns in 2015. Even if we assume 50 years of storage in the 'active' dataset that is < 8B returns. Also, most returns don't contain a particularly large amount of data in them. Pretty sure we're talking about an in-memory scale dataset here, certainly for the active set in any given year. It actually would not surprise me if we (current co) ingest more data in a week than the entirety of the US tax return history.

> And not only take in and sort those records, but validate the data and perform calculations based on rules that change almost monthly, and that sometimes must be applied to years-old data and sometimes not.

I might believe that is an issue if the IRS actually calculated everyones taxes for them and sent out a 'do you agree' form, but they don't. It's more like they randomly sample some returns based on some hand picked 'warning' flags and have someone manually check them, maybe with the help of some excel formulae.
Again, we are talking about human extinction. The stakes are pretty high and I'm sure at least one group would set aside the resources to preserve a minimum viable number of humans (and a lot of fertilized eggs) along with enough environment to sustain them long enough.

Extinction implies all humans will die. That's very unlikely, even if the planet takes a very significant hit.
This comment is way too long to justify whatever point you are making. First of all, how long ago do you mean? Are you 100 years old and people in the 1940's thought computers would be operated by pens?

But also, when my college had a demo microsoft tablet in their store in 2003, I could sign my name as I usually do (typical poor male handwriting) and it recognized every letter. That seems pretty good to me.

I also had a Palm Pilot then and Grafitti sucked, but that's just one implementation.
I'm replying to my own comment to note that he claims these documents are not authentic, and were forged by a former business partner who wanted to cut a better deal for himself. He says the government took all his computers, lost all his computers, and found the doctored emails on the partner's computer. He says he no longer had access to the mail server. He isn't super clear on the specifics of what's forged and what's not, beyond that the prices are forged. He doesn't seriously question that he intended customers to mistake the CDs for factory originals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7hnVYMoctM&feature=youtu.be...

Pretty weird--like, if this guy is going away on forged evidence, then isn't that a bigger story than the questionable valuation? But the alternative is that he's more or less a compulsive liar. You can judge his credibility for yourself in the interview; but at least to me, this is not a guy who should be testifying in his own defense. If anyone has the trial transcripts / motions / etc. that deal with this, then I'd love to see.

Also: Microsoft seems to claim that the original license disappears when the original media (CD, or restore partition) are lost. I don't know enough about the applicable law, and I haven't read the license, so I don't know if this is true. If this is true, then anyone using his CD (or anyone downloading the image straight from Microsoft, for that matter) is breaking the license. There is no technical measure to enforce this, though. I presume this is the basis for Microsoft's claim that the CD was worth $25.
> The other was companies who had tricked people into learning a new kind of handwriting [...] It's interesting parallels with spoken word interfaces. I don't know what the answer is.

Well, here's a possibility: we'll meet in the middle. Companies will train humans into learning a new kind of speech which is more easily machine-recognisable. These dialects will be very similar to English but more constrained in syntax and vocabulary; they will verge on being spoken programming languages. They'll bear a resemblence to, and be constructed in similar ways to, jargon and phrasing used in aviation, optimised for clarity and unambiguity over low-quality connections. Throw in optional macros and optimisations which increase expressive power but make it sound like gibberish to the uninitiated. And then kids who grow up with these dialects will be able to voice-activate their devices with an unreal degree of fluency, almost like musical instruments.
First person to be convicted under Malaysian 'fake news' law
Interesting stuff.

I have been a C coder (I'm not so much any more) for about 12 years of my career, and never came across bitfields in all that time, even when doing embedded work.

One style question - why not use the stdint.h types all the way through?
"Live the circle. Feed the circle. Be the circle."

Gavin Belson?
the compilers of the day didn't optimize much

I worked in the IBM mainframe segment to start my career, and we actually had an awesome Capex optimizing COBOL compiler. We also had a core dump formatting system (not sure if it was part of the Capex set) that made dumps much easier to read and debug, plus they broke out the generated assembler code to make it quite intuitive. I got so good with reading their dumps that going to the first realtime debuggers was slower.
It's interesting how puff pieces about a specific person usually seem to crop up all around the same time.
Galileo data offers NASA new scientific insights 20 years after collection
By the same logic, Google beating Lee Sedol with AlphaGo is boring.
What Happens to Sprint and Sprint Customers?
Have an expectation that the work-life balance is a circle i.e. it is zero
just curious, what does your definition of financially free. entail? living off residual income or what?
Agreed. I'm at -7 and I didn't do anything to deserve this. It's quite rude and unfriendly. But it clearly makes some people feel good to have the power to do that, certainly because they can't do it IRL. Poor sapiens.
Nootropics aren't really products in and of themselves. Caffeine is a nootropic for example. There's a pretty broad range from herbals all the way to perscriotion and illicit drugs.
Red Bull doesn't actually give you wings. Ads are metaphors.
Would this be resolved for you if there were an option (hotkey or mouseover, like checking order of actions in a turn) that dimmed all other things and highlighted either 1) all enemy planned actions, 2) all environmental modifications like fire/smoke/floods/etc., or 3) all unit locations, friendly in green and enemy in red?

Otherwise I think there's a bit of growing visual complexity inherent in the growing actual complexity of the grid, and reducing it in some other way might hide from you information crucial to your next tactical decision.

I think the game's supposed to be pretty moddable, so I imagine this kind of thing might even appear as a mod at some point, if you don't want to do it for yourself.
> ...That said, it's still slower than typing.

Finger-on-nose! It seems to be a question of utility and efficiency rather than primarily an emotional response to effectiveness of a given UI.

I type emails because it's faster. I handwrite class notes because I often use freeform groupings and diagrams that would make using a word processor painful.
This is the part that can be emulated in software. All you have to prove is that what ever platform/language you're using for the programming is Turing Complete, which is the case for almost all of the most popular languages.
If foreign entity registration was automated for NY I would use this product immediately.
Depends on who gets to decide what "false/misleading" is. I'm not sure how this could be any less transparent. I personally see less than no reason to trust YouTube's judgment in these matters.
I'm not sure, might make a good question for internals.rust-lang.org.
Well you have to offset treating your employees like shit.

Be a billionaire, then you don't have to worry about your work-life balance.
> Much of which might be

I.e. speculation

> long term decline

Microsoft stock is dancing around its all time high. Not bad for a company that supposedly has been sacrificing the long term for the short term all along, and so should have died out 30 years ago.
The boredom is a symptom of the inefficiency of the large corporation.

Actually, I'm not sure I could say it's less efficient. It's just optimized differently. The company is deliberately set up to treat engineers as interchangeable cogs to minimize risk. Following the process is more important than getting stuff done (and boy, do big companies love process). Also, you are "protected" in a sense from gaining too much domain knowledge or having direct communication with users/customers, and you are shuffled around every so often (Matrix management, yay).

Small companies can't afford to do that. They can't hire a legion of average performers and hope to make up for it with byzantine processes and tightly defined roles and responsibilities.
citation, since I have it open: https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...

> Specifically, a domestic LLC with at least two members is classified as a partnership for federal income tax purposes unless [...etc...]

(To grandparent comment: for what it's worth, I too find it highly confusing that "partnership" and "LLP" (vs LLC) are both terms and not as closely related as one might first suspect...)
Exercise is much different from research chemicals. One difference is you don't need to buy exercise from shady sites that will eventually be shut down by the FDA.
I heard Bezos is also selling the new 520 bridge...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privately_owned_public_space

YouTube essentially has a monopoly on video. Monopolies and other actors can be forced to comply with public space laws or to respect principles that normally apply only to the government.
If a company doesn’t care about a product, they put minimum effort into it. They don’t spend time and effort on new features and redesigns. They don’t come out with a completely new body, new super low profile keyboard, new cutting edge interfaces and a completely new unique customisable touchscreen key strip using an embedded processor. All of these required the dedication of considerable design and engineering resources.

I’m not even saying these were all good ideas. The keyboard has serious reliability issues, a lot of people dislike the touchscreen key strip and there are frequent complaints about the limited number and type of ports.

You can make an argument that Apple isn’t making laptops suitable for real pro users, that the effort they are putting in is misdirected, but IMHO arguing that any of this is due to a lack of interest seems to me to be ridiculous. Apple put a ton of work into these laptops, but they missed the mark.

One possible reason for this is that the composition of their customer is changing, its broadening beyond their traditional loyal fan base. The evidence for this is that MacBook Pro sales are through the roof. These much maligned devices ‘unsuitable for pro use’ are selling like hot cakes. So maybe Apple is hitting the mark, it’s just not the mark their critics think it should be.
There are plenty of political videos being removed or demonetized as well. We are not as far off as it may seem.
If you don't plan on trying to raise VC money, then a local LLC is preferable to a Delaware LLC in 99.999999% of business cases.

Or another way to put it: if don't plan to do business outside of Florida, why would you subject yourself to the laws and jurisdiction of another state just to save a few bucks?
Or, suggest that this is a low quality article, and if journalistic enterprises want to report on subject matter, they should have their articles approved by people knowledgeable in that subject matter.