skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an industry standard practice across many different areas. You know those "game ready" video card drivers you download? Inside the driver there's a big lookup table of executable names tied to tuned parameters for the video pipeline. The APIs that are used (DirectX, OpenGL, etc.) don't allow sufficient tuning of the behavior of GPUs, so instead there's a sort of meta layer of programming which gets done by the graphics card makers.
Not meant as an "and you ..." fallacy, nor to distract from article, but.

The shakedown to not have competitor's ads displayed on "Your Yelp Page" is fking deplorable. It could be a whole lot of fun to be Attorney General.
Using Google Cache now since the site is down...
They still make those reports on single companies? How about the Fonds who have majoritys on whole industries.
Google abuses its power but all of its revenue comes from one source. It's a brittle giant.

A pension fond can freeze whole industries innovation cycle to reduce that pesky market volatility.
Should big tech companies like Facebook be broken up?
Direct video link:
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/how-did-google-get-so-big/
All the Winners from the 2018 Billboard Music Awards
Bill Gates is a genius, maybe even in technical stuff, but he wasn't the Jeff Dean of his time.
They're slower in populated areas because the tracks aren't made for high-speed there (eg. too strong curvature, lots of junctions).

The same train takes 12 minutes for the ICE Frankfurt/Cologne to get from Frankfurt central station to Frankfurt Airport (9km linear distance, average 45km/h, 28mph) and then 49 minutes from there to Cologne (150km linear distance, average 183km/h, 113mph).

The latter leg is still pretty close to "populated areas" (just outside various towns along the route), but the track was specifically made for that train (taking required minimum curvature etc into account) and point-to-point connection (fewer junctions).
Even if the worst case is true, in legal terms, and you decide that you're forced to redesign the system to make the right to be forgotten (and while I'm not a lawyer I really doubt that that is a sane explanation of the GDPR)

Well, this example of deleting messages sent to other people has come up in other contexts before, it's one of the first questions people think of when asking about the RTBF. And as far as I know there's no canonical answer, like everything else it's open to interpretation.

You don't think it's "sane" but your entire argument is predicated on the assumption that GDPR is a sane law. IF you agree that such an interpretation would be insane, can you show that it's clearly wrong? And if not, would that change your opinion of the law?
Personal gmail (which is used in your example) != gsuite (which is used in company settings)
After working remotely for around 5 years in total, I can say that a nice balance of remote and office work is the best.

Remote work might seem great in the first few months but I eventually miss the office interaction.
Outside of the extremely rare occasions that I mentioned above, I've never seen or heard this happen. If you have some stories to share, I'm all ears!
My uni doesn't have access to some language journals, and sometimes I just want to check a single paper to see if it's worth it. Also many paywalls don't allowed to you get one paper, or if they do the price is extortionate.
I consume edibles and oils.

It’s been a miracle for my GERD & anxiety. From what I’ve read it treats inflammation, reduces anxiety, and acts as a pain killer.
I definitely agree with you re the cost of owning a car but I don't think people will sell their car to just ride this train. They still have to alight and navigate either city using their possibly poor transit system.

Could see it making an effect on marginal[0] decisions (like buying a second car as you state) but it still sounds more to me like being used more for one off trips than for commuting. It's far to expensive for that.

[0] marginal in the economic sense
I think cinema subscriptions are obviously the future: I don't even think the cinemas care that much about ticket prices. Food, candy, beverages – that's where the money is earned.
As noted elsewhere in the thread, Microsoft does this as well, and Opera used to do this for broken high-profile websites:

https://www.opera.com/docs/browserjs/

Edit: Even Chrome and Safari used to do it:
https://dev.opera.com/blog/opera-s-site-patching/
And I don't like the notion of google offering free services, when they are a commercial company and not a charity.

And "helps making this more efficient" ... well, a tiny bit more. Knowledge is power.
Google posesses a lot of knowledge.

But even "only the ads". There are worlds between showing someone random ads, or a highly tailored custom one, made out of all the online and much offline activity of that person.

And knowing allmost all about what a company is doing and controlling their communication is potential valuable in various ways as well.
That's true but a part of the general political tension between parties is, at least in theory, to what extent law is interpreted by judges vs written by politicians.

The theory is that laws should be written by politicians and merely applied to specific cases by judges, because politicians are accountable and judges are not.

When you have laws that state virtually nothing and rely entirely on interpretation, that's the same thing as moving power away from elected political bodies and into unaccountable elites. This is, not coincidentally, exactly what the entire EU project seems to be constantly engaged in, so it's perhaps no surprise that the EU particularly enjoys passing vague laws that move power away from national politicians and towards the Commission and ECJ (the ECJ judges are appointed by the same process that decides the makeup of the Commission).
https://uploadvr.com/hololems-brings-lemmings-real-world-via...
The whole piece looks & feels like a documentary that could have been aired during the Dotcom bubble. Looking forward to watching this in twenty years from now.
Bed vars
I wish more projects has walkthroughs like this. I’m not very interested in CPython internals, but there are other projects I’d love to see explained.
Hypothetical question: Would we be able to detect if we were going to get sucked into a black hole?
To be fair, OP talked about research grants , not VC for crap.
Search results are become a google product. Just as restaurants have turn into yelp products.

I can't say it was all their secret goal from the beginning, but it now is.
> 60 Minutes didn't reveal anything here a lot of us don't already know

In my experience, 60 Minutes is less about breaking news than competently explaining it. The tech community, as a whole, is generally bad at communicating its non-commercial preferences. This issue is no exception.
That is a really slow train, almost makes it sound like a tram. How many stops were there?

Trains here in Sweden, albeit for longer distances usually go either 120, 160 or 200 km/h. Thats 74/100/124 miles/h.
Google is not scanning emails, he used his work google account to "abuse" the refund policy.
Harry and Meghan Royal Wedding: Who’s Who Live with Face-Recognition
Toki whisky could finally convince millennials to start drinking the spirit
Redux is a the VST version of Renoise and its really good. They don't really update it as much as they should but you just reminded me to start using it again.
24mpg in your best case?! Surely that's well below average, even in the US?
Beautifully Designed HTML Widgets and Popups
> it's being heavily dependent financially on other risky companies

WeWork has a creative solution to this vulnerability:

"In mid-2017, the giant landlord Brookfield Property Partners L.P was in advanced talks to buy the Lord & Taylor department store building in New York City for about $700 million, when an unexpected buyer swooped in and sealed a deal... Behind the deal was WeWork Cos., which put together the $850 million purchase...

WeWork didn’t put up the money. Instead, it came from a new real estate fund co-managed by WeWork and one of its early shareholders, private-equity firm Rhône Group. The fund aims to raise tens of billions of dollars from investors in coming years to buy buildings where WeWork would become a tenant, people familiar with the fund said."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/wework-the-workspace-giant-want...
Nobody knows. Lawyers seem to split 50/50 on the issue, like everything else GDPR related.

I think even asking questions like this is missing the point by now. See the discussion above. The GDPR doesn't say if backups are OK or for how long. They might be or might not be depending on whether a random EU official believes your justification is "legitimate".

In other words, stay in the Commission's good books and you'll be fine. Take a position the Commission doesn't like and suddenly your backups might not be so legitimate after all.
We Need a New Operating System for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
TripAdvisor is also not happy: https://www.recode.net/2016/8/6/12393586/google-yelp-tripadv...
> so they can announce their revolutionary chain-specific Pass for just $30/month

I know film buffs who would grab this deal in a heartbeat. The cinemas would win, too, by turning brand-indifferent customers into loyal ones (without having to invest in reclining seats or liquor licenses).
Visualizing Racism, Enhancing Perception, and Explaining Machine Learning
Applications of Heatmap Analytics in Retail: Maximizing Store Layout
I've flagged similar as a bug to Google. You can use their docs share function to get non-publicly available names from email addresses and confirm if they are an existing email.

To test I setup a spreadsheet with randomly generated words and it does grab names for you. Personally I feel a bit annoyed Gmail would share my first/surname to people if they test a non-identifiable email address. Also I believe scams could use this to improve their success rate if they can insert peoples names to false business emails type thing.

But according to Google this is 'a feature' not a bug.
Private firms can't sue you for GDPR violations but they can encourage customers to file requests that are expensive to deal with. It's not just over-broad erasure requests, it's the right to get a data dump of everything the company knows about you (this is like the worst case for big firms that don't have joined up IT systems).

I doubt private firms actually will engage in that sort of trolling though, at least not at any volume. NGOs and activists on the other hand, I fully expect that. They're always looking for ways to punish firms who they dislike. Normally that's restricted to boycotts, in recent times they've experimented with attacking advertisers for companies that rely on advertising ... GDPR requests will likely become a new battleground.
Do you know there is a thing called Gsuite for business? Let me change your sentence to "First you need to make your company rely on 200 nodes on AWS for their busineess". I am not sure who looks really stupid here?
Realm looks like a much more modern solution to that problem.
There's more than one reason gym memberships work they way they do. Subscriptions, especially low cost ones, tend to run longer than if a person paid per usage. That's why there's so many subscription scams.

PF has the lunk alarm. Netflix's dvd service use to give preference to its less active customers on new releases. If MoviePass owned their product they could play that game as well. Like price discrimination, but modifying the value.
Yes, I was thinking the same thing, but then I became glad somebody was going this direction. After all these years, it may be nearly impossible to eke out much more in the way of realtime effects. So I think this is just a sign that the creativity is spreading into whatever interesting areas remain.
Mainstream media story about web company? Check. Nothing new? Check. Negative? Check. Of course Yelp participated...but Yelp angle aside, CBS is just following the news cycle patterns of their brethren. I'm mentioning this a lot these days, but feels like watching cattle being herded (albeit willingly).
Efail: A Postmortem
> Do theaters pay studios per showing or per ticket sold?

Percentage of revenue, i.e. per ticket sold [1]. That said, the studios' take rates vary "as you move into the second and third weeks of release," when "the percentage starts to swing to" a greater take rate for the cinema. A movie pass which blacks out the first N weeks after release could thus be economical (if something the studios would fight tooth and nail).
Instead of a train brim full of 1000 passengers, people would rather have 1000 cars speeding through town?
Yes. A black hole is basically a normal star with normal gravity, but you can't see the gravity source itself. You can detect the motion of all other stuff around it: Imagine our solar system without the sun visible, the planets will still move the same (and not get 'sucked in' or 'gobbled up' etc).

Even if there is no stuff moving around the black hole, we still can detect because the intense gravity bends space and creates lensing effect, which is easily detectable with modern equipment.

That said, we can infer that it is unlikely that a black hole is in our galactic vicinity and most certainly not a monster like in this article. Which, btw, is not only 12 billion light years away, also what we see is 12 billion years ago, putting the whole scene at the beginning of our universe.
Memory Transferred Between Snails, Challenging Theory of How the Brain Remembers
Yeah, personally the few times I've talked to google (once for a gift card issues and once for some phone help they've both been easy to contact and helpful.) I've never really tried to reach Google for help with Gmail so no idea how hard that is. But if I was desperate I would contact Google via one of the other contact points and get a redirect to the correct, hopefully, that would work.
Makes me wonder if a CPU with an FPGA on board could use the fpga as some kind of "lisp microcode" interpreter.
No, but you can request deletion.

And then you can complain to a regulator.

Bear in mind there are, like, 28 different data privacy regulators in the EU. So all it takes is a few people in each country to file such a request, get denied and file complaints with the regulator, and now you've got 28 official committees looking into it.

If all of them decide it's OK, no problem. If back here on Earth some of them disagree, well, there's a super-committee that's supposed to enforce a uniform treatment, so it'll get kicked up to the EU to decide.

And then what happens probably depends on who the test case is about. My guess - they'll ignore complaints until they're against the FAANG companies. And then they'll decide compliance wasn't good enough, and hand down a fine. Let's wait and see.
It is Toulouse[0], not Tolouse.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toulouse
Can the same be said of large cloud providers?
There is exactly one feature in emacs vim doesn't have and that's overlays. You certainly know overlays?
What's up with this kind of non-advice always being the highest scored answer? It's not even an issue with HN, I see this behavior all over the internet.
I don't know what field you are talking about, but in physics only about 95% of papers I want to read are published on arXiv, including older ones. I assume most researchers occasionally read something from scihub or subscription services.
> That's true but a part of the general political tension between parties is, at least in theory, to what extent law is interpreted by judges vs written by politicians.

In the US, at least, that's true in the rhetoric of one of the parties, but the opposing party doesn't argue the opposite side, just argues that the side that claims it is an issue is hypocritical in its rhetorical stance.
Built a chrome extension to help with productivity
I built Perspective, a new tab extension for Chrome, to help with procrastination and to keep track of how fast time passes in general — somehow, days and weeks always fly by and before I know it, the deadline for a project is up, or the year’s halfway over.

Perspective helps by using shapes and images to represent time in each new tab — see the demo video — because visuals are much more effective than numbers at communicating the passing of time.

Any feedback or questions are much appreciated!

Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk8Du9OUGVE&feature=youtu.be

Install Perspective for Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/perspective-new-tab/hehnfhfmcifhbgkefjbfbaefhddlpnjj

Cheers,

Anand Chandra
Everybody wants to hear it, but Google can't tell it. One part of the fight with the bad guys is never to tell them how they got caught, so they never know how to protect themselves.
Speaking of iTerm's tabbing functionality, are you still using PSMTabBarControl? You make a couple of odd decisions with tabbing, such as blank spot in the tab strip on the right to make way for the overflow indicator, which IMO is inferior to how macOS does it (scrolling tabs). In addition, tab defocusing causes visual discoloration. Does macOS just not provide the API you need, or what?
It may be unpopular with the HN crowd, but that's more by proxy, in so far as a Microsoft stack in general is unpopular here.

C# is however very popular in the enterprise world. I've been using it for work and side projects alike for many years, and personally I love it.
But Google is so diverse now...
Only sharing for reference, you reminded me that someone made a documentary ('billion dollar bully') about this (not released yet, but supposedly being premiered soon):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_Dollar_Bully

http://www.prostfilms.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHEbVh3Yhrw (recent interview with the film creator)
Essentially all EDF Nuclear power plants? Apple's replacement for the classic Mac operating system scheduled for the mid-nineties as an internal project but eventually achieved by buying an entire OS company?

A large number of movies, split roughly equally between masterpieces like Alien and forgettable failures like Water World?
1. Does not account for inflation, which would show a 5.8% drop between 2014-2018.

2. Viewing this chart on a logarithmic scale as it should be, or viewing the same data charted as year over year percent change, paints a much less intimidating picture. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TOTBKCR

3. "This publication is available to IIF Members only."
>>because of Google's improvement to their search engine algorithms.

"Improvement": Post Google's own offering first and also fill page with ads to keep users within Google's own sites.
There’s dozens of millions of articles total, not thousands.
Silly quick question: What is the "L-world" discussed here?
CBS interview leaves out critical details. Initially, Google was scrapping Yelp reviews to show snippets in their Google Places product. Yelp CEO didn't liked that and demanded to remove all snippets. Google said it had right to show snippets like any other websites and if Yelp says their content is "private" then Google shouldn't be crawling them at all. That's what they did. This caused Yelp to disappear from Google and their traffic tanked. So after this some deal was reached. Eventually, Google just decided to do their own reviews and started showing them in Google Maps. Yelp then started this PR war that is now going on for years.

Personally, I don't think Google should be obliged to promote all kind of crappy 2nd rate products out there. I hate Yelp. They are greedy bastards who have cornered up huge content entirely contributed by volunteers. They are the ones wanting to monopolize market in this area and avoid having Google as player here. They are the ones who want big price for their theft from millions of hours donated by volunteers. Yelp reviews and ratings should be free and in open domain by vary nature of how it was created (and so should be Amazon's review - but at least they are not entirely volunteers driven website). On the top of this, Yelp has remained mostly stagnant waiting for their big payout day. I don't consider them good for users or internet or industry. So for me this is pick between the worse evil.

The debate is so very similar to IE on Windows, however. Should Microsoft be prevented from creating better[1] browser and not allowed to complete with Netscape? Should they be prevented from putting their integrated polished experience in front and center that benefits the customers? One can say that suing Microsoft actually worked out best overall for industry. I'm not too sure how alternate world would have looked like. History certainly rhymes here.

[1] You can say whatever about IE's lack of implementing proper standards but it was the fastest browser in its day. It was truly free no strings attached (as long as you are on Windows) and it advanced many things, for example, it was the first browser to implement CSS, XML parsing and tons of functionality that is now part of HTML5 standards.
Yelp has a point. Google, and largely Larry Page's insistence on shortening the time between query and answer is starting to stumble under the reality that the source data Google utilizes for its own services isn't the best there is as Yelp rightly laid out. It may be wise for Google to back off on some touchy verticals or to integrate 3rd party data sources to stymie any attempts by regulators to flex. This is the perfect populist opportunity for any public official to run on. Maybe this will take some of the heat off of Amazon for a minute.
We need more sci-hub
Are becoming? ...How else do you think they have been making money all these years? It’s their oldest and most profitable product and it’s called AdWords. The foundation of what we know as Google.
Things like these can happen with any service provider. The key difference is that no other company has so many popular services linked together. Using Google this way basically means putting all one's eggs in one basket. We all know it's an unwise thing to do. An yet, people do it every day, for convenience.

Personally, I set up separate Gmail accounts for their different services. First, I don't want them to profile me automatically (they do it through correlation anyway, but let's not make it too easy), and second, in situations like these, only some of the eggs are broken.
So they plan to make up the gaps by selling their customers data. How valuable is this data in the first place? It feels that so many companies, whether social network, search engines, advertising companies, etc are all building the same profile. At the end there is only so many attributes a company can collect on its users, if everyone has them are they worth anything?
There's a French company named Vaonis, they're releasing Stellina, a smart telescope ("smart" in a sense that it is interactive and works with a mobile app).

It's on sale at the MoMa design store for the time being : https://store.moma.org/tech/home-electronics/vaonis-stellina...
Open source Android Wear alternative AsteroidOS released
Code is Risk
I think this has to do with the class file representation of value types, where the l world is more similar somehow to the current state whereas the q world introduces major differences.
I was trying to illustrate that not only can you extract data in an open format, they also are responsible enough to warn end users that the data is no longer encrypted. This isn’t for the benefit of your typical HN reader.
I strongly agree with this, but I'd go slightly further and say your domain registrar should be entirely independent of any other services.

At one point I had my domain registered through my ISP, which was run rather eccentrically by a gentleman I eventually had a dispute with. He then (probably illegally) disabled all my DNS records, leaving me without my main email account for a week at a particularly vulnerable point in my life. It was horrific.
Has MSG been unfairly demonised?
The relative measure used in the linked article is a percent of GDP used on social welfare programs.

It's not an absolute value comparison.
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