skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>They are just virtue signalling.

They've filed court cases against the FCC.
They're activly trying to change legislation.

If that's virtue signalling then it's a stupid phrase that means nothing.

>I am from a country in the EU. I don't support NN because I want to have access to zero-rated services. As a consumer, they make my life easier and my bill lower. I want to have the freedom of choosing whether I want NN in my connection or not. I don't want the government to take that freedom away from me.

An ISP zero rating facebook, Netflix or Spotify just entrenches a big player in their dominant position.

That's bad for the market and shouldn't be encouraged.
How can a new entrant into a market compete when the ISP or mobile operator is giving the major player preferential treatment.

As a consumer sure you don't care but these are exactly the scenarios that a government should ensure a level playing field in.

Even in the sense of if a mobile operator is Zero rating a music provider then the operator must allow a choice and all music vendors must be able to easily join the programme.

Hacker news is quite focused on startups, creating barriers for market entry isn't very startup friendly.

>I suppose their diversity does not include diversity of thought.

LOL. So a company can't stand for anything because they might upset someone?

Have a bit of self awareness.
Having a persecution complex when you're on the winning side is pathetic.
Out of interest - what is considered a hefty stock grant?
What’s interesting about this announcement is that they not only announced a type checking tool, they are also open sourcing a tool that will apply a patch and annotate your code with types for you. I tried a demo of this at the Instagram booth at pycon yesterday. They basically had a package that would run your tests for you, and using the coverage that you created, it could infer the types while executing your code. Now if the point of type annotations is purely to check for bugs that are avoided in statically typed languages it seems like you should be able to just combine the two tools and catch type based bugs without ever applying the annotation.

I think the type checking community also has quite a ways to go when it comes to asynchronous code. It becomes quite worthless to check that a future is being returned by a function, but it could be more helpful to know what that future will eventually yield.
It's because the preservatives in the bag intended to receive your blood only work correctly if they're in the right proportion. They're included presuming a full donation.
While caching the array.length had been important, it probably does little with modern engines. I remember tests from a few years ago, which actually favored the first variant. (Probably, because engines could more easily identify the local context and optimize on this. Also, in terms of runtime optimization, there's much to win and you'd want to tackle this issue as one of the very first things.)

That said, it's still a good idea, even if it's just for pointing out that the constraint on the loop won't change.
There are doctors charging patients $500-$1000 for one IV infusion when there isn't any proof that IV infusions are more effective than oral ketamine. Patients are being bankrupted by doctors that are more interested in raking in the cash than helping their patients.

The truth is ketamine is a safe drug that has been around a long time. I'm currently being prescribed Ketamine lozenges by a doctor. My doctor is taking new patients. Please contact me if you would like his information. Depression destroys lives, but doctors also have the ability to destroy lives by withholding safe, effective, treatment as a means to profit. [0]

[0] http://www.ketamineadvocacynetwork.org/forums/topic/desperat...
Yes, Germany always gives 12 points to Turkey, because Turks are the biggest minority.
In you do “price promotions”, the sales are $8bn and the costs are $8bn. If you overspend on marketing your sales are $10bn and your costs are $10bn. It’s true that in those cases the profit is zero, so you won’t pay taxes. But it’s not obvious that this market share gain will result in much higher profits in the future. The trick is not guaranteed to work as intended.
Support for the necessary recording is available since version 2.0.0.

This can be done via jq [0]. See the simple script [1] I made. It relies on things like tab-expansion yielding the same results, so beware.

[0]: https://github.com/stedolan/jq
[1]: https://0x0.st/sj0G.txt (License: AGPLv3, credit to my handle)
Somewhere between a third and a half of all the people on Earth see enough value in social networks to have signed up for one at some point.

I was referring to daily- and monthly-active-users numbers. That's people who sign in and interact with their accounts at least once a day or a month respectively. Those are the important numbers, and they're a fairly accurate representative of the number of people who currently use social media. I think it's fair to say people who stop seeing any positive value in their accounts stop being monthly active users.
Just realized that Atlassian does this. Bitbucket commoditizes code hosting and HipChat/Stride commoditizes team chat. Both are loss leaders meant to protect their core business: Jira
Actually - as it is often used - internship is only a way to pay less for the same (or sometimes more) not-fully-qualified job.

Internship (what was once called apprenticeship) made (and makes) a lot of sense where the employer supplies knowledge (arts and crafts being a typical example), nowadays to actually be considered for an internship you need to have a full, recognized cycle of uni-level study (which is the thing that in theory should have already provided you with all the knowledge - bar the experience - needed for your profession).

One thing is having a (lower paid but with "full dignity") entry-level job, and another is having "stages", "internships" and similar, where very often the young people is not actually taught anything and are just a replacement for generic secretarial or similar activities.
Agreed. One might hope the 'residual effects' would attenuate over time, but the jury is still out. In large part because our society still has plenty of white supremacist social structure baked in, it's not just residual effects but ongoing harm.
I opened a Facebook about one year ago. The information they had on me was rather disturbing.

I never gave Facebook permission, directly or implied, to track my circle of past friends or make assumptions about my personal interests.
Just wait a couple of weeks until GDPR takes effect
Smalltalk was not available to most programmers back then, it needed an expensive machine with a lot of memory and the implementations were very expensive. Apps were also much smaller, so the disadvantages of C were less pressing.
It depends what you demo and what hay you wear: if you're on the receiving end of a tutorial, being able to copy the text you just saw on the screen is nice. If you're just giving the demo (and/or the that thing you're demoing doesn't have anything useful to copy, e.g. it's not a tutorial) then you probably don't care about it.
And others ended it much later. Saudi Arabia abolished slavery in 1962 (but in practice it still continued after that).
i think nobel winners get more nature publications post-nobel than before
The basic training that lasts a few weeks that involves yelling, breaking down a person only to rebuild them stronger by the end could be looked at as filtering and weeding out those who would not work well under those conditions. This is part of the interview process. Once basic training is over most move into positions without yelling.

In this case yelling was used to belittle everyone and secure more power. If you break someone down but never build them back up you have crushed people.

If we still want to turn people into killing machines than yelling is a tool to help that process.
If I'm understanding it correctly then the answer is not much more than our present system. You get low power consumption in your device by being parasitic on a high-power monochromatic antenna furnished by the local WiFi.

There might be interesting attacks with other high-power antennas in the region creating pockets of destructive interference -- essentially localized denial-of-service type stuff.

The other risk you're taking is something like "the operator of this antenna can induce bit flips and such in your communications," which is true, but they wouldn't know what bits they're meddling with because they have to commit to the inconsistent signal before you use it. But they can already send arbitrary local packets pretending to be you at that granularity. Certainly if we're talking about the signal source managed by the WiFi operator, there is no dispute that this doesn't empower them -- they own the router, where they already have direct control over your internet communication and what they "hear from" and "say to" you.

Compared to the threat of opening your own access points with a suggestive name and just letting people connect to you, which you can also do with this range, being able to meddle with packets in a haphazard way doesn't seem very scary.
We can talk about reparations for colonialism too.

Did you know Haiti was paying back it's "debt" to France for Haitian bodies "expropriated" from French slavery until 1947?
at about 50sec into the video they appear to be doing exactly such a test in a large vacuum chamber
The title is missing "at". It sounded as though there was a community foundation that tongue-in-cheek called itself "Toxic Culture".
>Former staff members say Loijens's fundraising prowess allowed her to get away with treating people badly. Her value to the organization, they say, includes the deep knowledge she has developed over the years about how to value complex assets such as artwork, real estate, and especially stock in privately held companies that can bring significant tax benefits to donors when they give it away.

Why was she a manager? Without a power advantage she wouldn't have abused anybody: obviously she wasn't screaming at her superiors, given that she wasn't fired. Most absuers only unfold their unique traits when they're surrounded by subordinates that have no chance of retaliating.
Statistically. Blacks get longer prison sentences for the same crime as Whites.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/black-men-sentenced-time-whi...
Don't know, sorry
You think poverty in Africa has nothing to do with historical European colonialism, of which mass kidnapping of people to enslave them was just a part?
Using the capitalization the organization prefers seems like the best way to me. I'm sure they do it for people. The would not change the capitation of a Dutch last name for example.
Oh, how things have changed. In fact reading the whole article made me wish for a return to a time where people took this much pride in what they made.
I can't help with the coil whine, but replacing the Wifi card is cheap and easy. I bought this on, albeit for the 9550: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B0167N9R8E/ref=oh_aui_se... which is currently showing as $25.

Yeah, we can blame Dell a bit for this, but Wifi drivers are a problem for a lot of systems.

Replacing the fan may be worth a try, too. Google for the service manual for your system which will give you a step-by-step instruction guide with pictures, and the parts are easy to come by.

Still can't help with the coil whine or the trackpad, though. (Though generally I've heard people say it's the best trackpad outside of Apple. I can't speak to that, my standards for trackpads seem to be relatively low compared to a lot of people's, because I've been content with a lot of trackpads that the consensus says are bad.)
Tell you what is most impressive with Turbo Pascal is the entire thing on a floppy was 32k. Do not know how possible.

This was less than 1/10 of a 360k floppy.
How do you measure that it works? Is there another Armed Forces without the screaming but with a comparable budget that we regularly engage in war games with and regularly win against?

I think "it works" is often indistinguishable from "we've always done it that way," especially for organizations like the US military that have the budget and entrenched status that it's hard to imagine the organization suddenly not working. Maybe the thing you're doing is irrelevant and you might as well stop. Maybe you'd do better if you stopped. But you have no way of knowing.
The circle of life and death continues, decentralized – introducing CoinJanitor
Why the Luddites Matter
Thanks, I'll be checking it out. I've bought my XPS early in 2016 when the Skylake CPUs were new and kernel support/power management was flaky, so I had to install custom kernels and do BIOS patching, etc. I've upgraded to 16.10 since but I guess I need to check out if my kernel is up to date.
> It'ss not culture, it's market economics.

As if the two were separate. The idea of market economics itself is a cultural artifact. But this is obviously culture, not some sort of universal law of economics, because Silicon Valley is a unique ecosystem that people keep trying to copy by adopting behaviors, practices, and ideas. Those are all cultural traits.

> He did. Plenty of programmers do work for hire and contract work, and aren't paid in partial ownership.

Sure. And, back to my initial point, if Zuckerberg, or some other entrepreneur had used that to get his initial product built and then said, "Fuck you, buddy" to the person that helped make him rich, people here would have empathized with him. Some would have called it wrong. Because we are part of a system that believes that the benefits of great success should be shared among those who created it.

The principle is the same. It's disappointing to me that people here will apply that to themselves, but suddenly turn to "might makes right" when it's somebody they don't identify with.
> But where can you find such a place?

It's not hard.

> In Germany people believed to found such a place in an old salt mine, now they have to get the stuff back before the mine is completely flooded with water and will contaminate the area around it

We're talking about the Asse II mine?

Yes, back in the 60s and 70s a research project was run to see if a salt mine would be a good place to store waste. In turns out it really, really, isn't because (spoilers!) salt mines aren't stable. Which is something we now know (and honestly could probably have figured out back then) which is why nobody is proposing on storing waste in salt mines any more.

And it's not completely flooded, and it isn't contaminating the area around it. It's in danger of collapsing, and now the waste needs to be moved somewhere else, yes., but it's not like it's hard to find stable locations; the issue with Asse II is they picked one that isn't stable.

> You need to store is from 100,000 to a million years

That's simply not a relevant concern.
You may be thinking of this article:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16881946
Sounds really complicated, couldn't you just replace all that blockchain verification code with an "if (firmwareToInstall.version < firmwareCurrentlyInstalled.version) return false" after the signature check?
I've got an X270 with the extended battery. Running Linux, it lasts over 20 hours with light use. It weighs less than the 15" MBP I had previously.
> I fail to see what the corps should have done to regulate themselves

Being transparent, opaque, and using opt-in.

> Pretty much everything websites do with your data are from voluntary exchange.

Not at all. If it were voluntary, I'd visit a website and it'd say: "by using this website, you consent that we sell your profiled data to company A for purpose X."

1) They don't word it like that, they word it extremely vague.

2) Its obfuscated and opt-out (adblocker is opt-out).

3) If we knew beforehand what exactly was done with our data we could knowingly consent. We don't know exactly what is being done with our data. To whom is it sold? For what purpose?

4) On the websites where I bought a subscription/premium the ads are turned off but the tracking is NOT.
i can understand this sentiment, but there are many mental illnesses that bring pain to the people around the afflicted. why do we single drug addicts out for judgement?

anecdotally, i have seen that the ones that recover do not succeed through willpower or strength of character. the main factor is the strength of their support network. it is not a moral deficiency.
How a “location API” allows cops to figure out where we all are in real-time
I'm in the age group that spans the end of the slide rule with the beginnings of calculators and personal computers. As a high school senior, trigonometry was the highest math class and we learned to use the slide rule in it. I still have the one my dad bought me for my birthday that year. In college freshman calculus, I remember one guy brought his HP-35 to class and everyone else being awed and amazed by it, including the professor. It was too expensive for me but I was able to buy a TI-50 the next year. Functional but it wasn't an HP.
That's a technical issue that can be worked on if such will is there.
How much do you know about the Reconstruction period? Where, after a couple decades where Black people could vote and many Southern state legislatures were majority Black, white terrorism (literally, read up on it) returned the Southern Black population to economic dependency, political subjugation, and daily physical insecurity?
I do not know your personal use case. But if buying something makes sense then I would do it.

But the future is the cloud. I have fought people on this for well over a decade and thought everyone by now got it. Apparently not.

On TPU being a miracle chip not clear to me what a "miracle" chip would even be? Plus things keep improving and how could you have a static "miracle" chip?

What we do know is Google is doing WaveNet in production in real-time. We can hear the results. They are offering at a competitive price to traditional TTS.

We can also see the TPUs are about 1/2 the cost of using Nvidia.

Otherwise that is it. But I do not know your faith but personally I would not consider that a "miracle". But maybe just me.

Maybe Lewandowski would as I have heard he prays to a AI god or something like that.

The big difference is Google is working top down and Nvidia has to work bottom up.

So Google wants to roll out the best TTS there is to the world and at scale.

So they are going to from the top down to be able to achieve.

Clearly Google has a goal of creating the singularity and the Silicon is just a piece of the equation.

Versus I am not really sure what Nvidia goal is. Silicon is not for silicon sake. But rather a means to an end.

Plus Google having in production has the data to optimize in future versions where Nvidia just is not going to be able to.

I am long Nvidia and owned it for a bit. Was disappointed on how the stock traded after ER. Do think it will do fine as Google does all these incredible AI things. It is an alternative that will be good for them.

But for the very long term I would not hold. Google is a hold forever. Nvidia would keep on it.

BTW, would say Nvidia is now two generations behind.
Still, Occam's Razor (or lex parsimoniae) :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor

tends to be a valid approach, generically speaking.
I think many people in the West don’t realize the Arab and Moslim contribution to the slave trade. Especially considering the sympathy these groups receive from Progressive political groups in the United States.
Yeah, and then there's reverse psychology. Fuck you, fridge: I came here looking for carrot sticks, but if you're going to be like that I'll just have some chocolate instead.
The Intellectual Dark Web
I mentioned harvests which have nothing to do with medicine. I know we don't suffer from famines nowadays but this was a real thing before.
So if it falls on its side, something that has a probably a 50% chance of happening, can it get back up?

I always thought that for exploring another planet, you shouldn't really use something with wheels or wings.

Something different like small "jumping robots" would make a lot more sense in a place where you have literally the ability to do 0-hardware maintenance.

Instead of a single expensive flying robot, why not send a fleet of these little small jumping-robots instead, to more quickly and cheaply explore the area: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b4ZZQkcNEo
You know helicopters in Mars is totally Phillip K Dick material.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_Time-Slip
"The helicopter uses counter-rotating coaxial rotors about 1.1 m in diameter..."

Not to be little it but, in short, a drone.

I presume the rocket scientists are jealous ;)
I use my Arch Linux T450 Lenovo laptopand it's a beast. $500 on eBay + $180 for SSD + $150 for RAM.

My laptop has 20Gb of RAM, 2x 1Tb SSDs, and 10 hours battery life, with 1 hot swap batteries pushing me to 18 hours battery life if I want it. Total cost: ~$900 with tax and shipping

IMO best track pad outside of Apple + best laptop keyboard
ConsenSys Ventures invests in six companies and launches its Accelerator
> on the other hand I don't agree on principle with the implication that users don't/can't have free will to enter into (however unfair) contracts these companies wish to use.

In a capitalist society such apathy leads to a survival of the fittest.

I can give many examples of contracts which would be unfair. For example, a minor cannot consent to a contract because they're a minor. That is fair to protect minors (at age of ~20 a person is physically an adult and around ~25 the brain is fully grown). I can apply your logic "on principle" there as well. Principles like these lack nuance which realistic situations demand because they are not black and white.
Inside a powerful Silicon Valley charity, a toxic culture festered
I feel like we’ve had lots of 20s lately... it’s the 30s that I’m concerned about.