skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right, the difference is important.

I've been the tail end of the interview funnel when experimenting with our screening strictness. The emotional toll that less stringent screening had on my day-to-day work (faster, rapid, and high frequency on sites) was extremely high. It led to a month or two of burnout as the lead engineer on the team, despite probably leading to finding a hire sooner. The cost is, in my opinion, immeasurable.
Ted Dabney, a Founder of Atari and a Creator of Pong, Has Died
They aren't. Almost most innovation they've tried to implement in the market have gone underappreciated or forgotten. That means they're "not known" for their innovation. I don't think Nokinside is saying Microsoft is not an innovator.

Then again, most of their money comes from products that are specifically borrowed concepts, competitively forced into dominance, with more purchase incentives than their competition, and before other companies could even get a foothold. So maybe that's what Nokinside meant.

Either way, I'm not surprised when people kick Microsoft for a lack of innovation. Nadella's focus on increasing innovation at Microsoft alone is evidence that they haven't been doing enough.
>The true power of democracy is freedom to speak.

The true power of democracy is...democracy. Google doesn’t have a labor union or worker-ownership, so while executives might be open to appeals, ultimately what you’re describing is an authoritarian arrangement.

I do think employees and users would be better off if Google was democratically controlled in either of the ways described above, but unfortunately that’s not where we are right now.
In case you still don't get it for some reason, I am using a colorful, yet completely plausible, example to show WHY random people should not be given access to such data. I think it illustrates quite succinctly why access to such data should be tightly controlled. Instead, it is being handed out to random researchers.
> And so when particles like our electron go unwatched, they become diffuse and placeless.

I'm curious, how is this demonstrated?

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I have a couple questions.

In the example of two electrons and the two boxes: can we not just say that they are one in kind thought two in number? This fits with Aristotle's understanding of a hylomorphic composite. As the two electrons are really both an electron (one in kind), but their accidental property of place differ (two in number).

What is the definition of a `wave`? It seems to me weird to say a thing is a wave because I understand a wave to be a property of something. A motion through a medium. So I have trouble understanding the notion that a thing is wave as such.
I've hired many people and interviewed many more.

What possible reason would I have to interview someone if they had neither relevant experience, nor a degree? Should I just ask random people I see on the street to come in for an interview?
It is a short step from being willing to dismiss opinions with a simple "that's racist" to being unable to discuss reality. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16908414 for an example of a conversation that is hard to have when you dismiss other people's views with "that's racist".
Wasn't there just a story about police departments buying this data?
Username relevant ;)
There are plenty of companies that will take care of finding tenants, doing maintenance and generally handling landlord responsibilities, in exchange for a cut of the rent. Since the rent is quite a lot of money, it would be crazy to leave a building vacant unless you're planning to spend time in it.
Yes, WebMConverter. However, I gather the employee responsible is no longer with them.
Ya, that is basically all you have left when you can't find any measurable differences. This is pretty much how the periodic table works.
I was formerly a dongle-hater, having gone through at least 3 or 4 of them, all of which broke under what I consider normal usage. I didn't realize you could get them replaced for free either so I spend like $30-40 on them.

Then I finally gave in and got airpods, and now I see the light. Airpods are just amazing. I was skeptical at first just like the author, but he is fighting the wrong battle. Holding onto wired headphones and complaining about the 3.5mm jack is completely missed out on how amazing wireless headphones are (note: I have no idea if other wireless headphones are as good as airpods).

I can now be charging my phone and walk around my house listening to music. I can seamlessly transition my headphones from my computer to my phone with one click. When I'm working in the shop the cord so longer snags on things and rips the headphones out of my ears. When I'm biking I can just wear one headphone and leave the other one in my pocket instead of having the other headphone dangling down. When running there is no cord bouncing around.

And airpods don't even fit my ears, I have to put a little silicone wrapper around them every time I take them out of the charger and I still love them.
To be fair, they did used to use backscatter X-ray machines for a period before moving completely to mm wave.
And what are you supposed to do when several of your relatives do not exercise this level of restraint and insist on steering the conversation toward politics?
> However blocking ads (especially when done by prevent them being fetched) directly damages the 2nd party at a known price.

Now what if I use ad nauseam and "click" on every ad on the site? Is that theft too? What if I'm blind and use a screen reader, am I stealing from the site?

Finally, if the answer is yes, why is stealing the other way ok? I don't recall any sites paying out victims after serving ads containing malware. What about sites (or ads) stealthily using my computer's resources for bitcoin mining? They're stealing measurable resources from me and I am not being compensated.

In a previous comment you called malicious ads "the price of ads" that is "known in advance". This doesn't seem fair. Why does the end user bear all the responsibility for keeping the ad economy afloat and healthy while the sites serving the ads bear none?

Edit: One last thing. If ad blocking is truly analogous to retail theft. Content providers and ad networks should be regulated just like retailers are to make sure they are not ripping off their users by serving malicious or harmful ads or using their data in ways not agreed to in advance (i.e. effectively charging users above and beyond the stated price).
And the implementation is really clean too.

First, it's not just RPC, it's routed RPC. So you basically don't have to know who is providing the procedure and where it is. This also allows transparent fallbacks, hot swap and load balancing of the clients providing the procedure.

Another thing I like is the ease of use. If you used CORBA, XMLRPC or SOAP you know what a pain it is to get it work.

The Python and JS clients just work for me. Transparently: they even get errors back in their native form (ex: python get exception for an error occurring remotely). There is zero mapping to do: you start you client, you register your procedure, and you call it.

The fact is uses websocket is a cool thing too. First, it means you can use it in the browser, and not just nodejs, Python, C#, Java or PHP (but they all have interroperable clients!). But it also means it usually works on your network without the need to setup anything or bother your local sysadmin. And it can benefit from TLS.

It's really sweet.

My only beef is that the Python API is too verbose to my taste, and advance setup for crossbar.io can get complicated if you want to make it super secure (default settings are the equivalent of chmod 777).
The security theater is just to shift liability. They don't care if the documents are fake, they just want the fraud to be plausibly your fault instead of theirs.
It's not the notice itself, because that's required by law. It's the fact that it actually gives you information and control beyond "we use cookies, if you don't like it, leave".
I think it's obvious Apple just sees their ideal customer to be totally wireless. AirPods, Apple Watch, iPhone X. It's hard to argue against the convenience of this kind of system, but it's a very narrow funnel that naturally angers anyone who falls outside of it.
Weekly Command: comparing files line by line with diff
>Do users have an obligation to consume the ads that are served to them

Yes, if it's part of the content and they want more of that content. But they have no obligation to want that content.

> in the manner that the content provider dictates

They don’t dictate how you consume ads, they try to predict it and adjust for it, but they don't dictate your actions

>And if so, how should this be enforced?

Legally it shouldn’t be. The advertiser can do whatever they want to their content to get you to consume ads, but they shouldn’t be able to do anything past the boundary of their content.
Even if you like the quality, that's one more battery to baby sit.
Not every idea deserves serious consideration.
A court order can’t compel someone to do the impossible. The updates in the Pixel 2 make it impossible for Google to circumvent security measures on it, thus protecting them from being coerced to do so (by courts and criminals alike).
Do we really need this kind of language in the title?

It's the difference between me being willing to read this site in front of my little kids vs. not.
Is this some new Windows thing? Because the last time I booted Windows and downloaded some pre-built open source Windows program and ran it I got no such warning.
This is one of my favorite textbooks. Super readable, and great intros to the links between graph theory and economics.
Is this related to boost b2 build system?

https://boostorg.github.io/build/
Well, for one thing, smartphone penetration is tremendous, and for another, all groups being compared have phones.
Also, 3 years ago I would have said it was quite immature. But it matured a lot since then, I had the chance to put it in production. It's not perfect, but it's very cool and is production ready.

And the whole ecosystem is about open standard and open source. Really good vibes.
Protesters toss scooters into street to block tech buses in SF
NIMBYs and all the regulations that prevent building are far far more powerful than anything else. Not even god himself could get anything built here. I suspect it's because there are multiple layers of regulation, it's not just one ruleset, it's many many things: CEQA, zoning, NIMBYs, lawsuits against developers, etc, etc.

Not to mention, stopping construction is a majority held opinion. In voting pamphlets, politicians actually brag about how much construction they've stopped: I can only imagine it's because the majority agrees with that.
The C+Equality programming language was removed.
Post brexit, GDPR will no longer apply to the UK.
It doesn't make sense to you to do the right thing and protect people at the expense of profit?
I guess I was just heading off the flurry of comments along the lines of "Why use DoH when we have DNSSEC?" that always seem to come up when discussing DoH.
The little-told story of the massive WWII pet cull (2013)
You might not be able to find something below median.
Suicide is, absolutely, the single biggest way to reduce your impact on Earth, period.

That doesn't make it a good idea. Likewise, it's not a good idea to pretend you're not an omnivore.
It sounds like you’re frustrated with some complexity surrounding package managers.

They can be complicated but they’re not invented to torture people. They solve real world problems.

Some are better than others. The best thing I can say about Rust’s Cargo is I have no clue how it works because Its never given me cause to find out (ok I roughly know).
Because calling people "bootlicker" invites conversation, right?

Ah, the 1970's--the decade that ended with Iraq opportunistically invading Iran and promptly getting its ass kicked. If you want to make the case that America's imperialism is the reason for Iraq's troubles, that's probably not the example you want to go with.
Uhhhhhh, Apple includes free Lightning headphones with every iPhone sold.
Indeed. Miners don't care about interconnect bandwidth or peering between cards. One popular rig I've seen is an 8x PCIe ATX motherboard, with eight GPUs, but only a Celeron for the CPU. Each of the PCIe slots is 16x form factor, but only 1x throughput.
But people do it in high rent areas like London, NYC, and Vancouver.
I used to get that on my tickets if I bought them in the last day. That doesn't seem to happen to me anymore though.
Most browsers are maliciously preconfigured to do that out of the proverbial box.
Which wrapper do you use? I went down that rabbit hole a while ago and couldn't find anything appropriate. It was starting to seem like the best option was to actually get the foam earbud things for better grippiness - advantage being the case will even close over them - but they were still too loose.
The answer is: we are not things, we are states (and so are particles).

I quickly read your article - and I think I read it before - and you make some points I agree with and some with which I disagree. But I think this condensed statement you made in your comment is wrong. Not everything can be a state, you need something that can be in a state or in different states. Less importantly I don't think state is a good word to describe what I am, the usual meaning of state is something that does not change. I obviously change, my body as well as my personality, so it seems more appropriate to me to talk about sequence of states over time. Maybe even my first point is just due to a disagreement on terminology but it seems at the very least very confusing to describe fundamental particles, macroscopic objects, and persons with the same term implying identical or at least similar nature.
SF protesters say no to “techsploitation,” block buses with scooters
This must be some kind of in-joke?
My understanding is that truly racist people don’t even acknowledge or mention races they despise. It’s a bit different if your grandfather (or parents for that matter) refuse to ever see you again because you’re dating someone from a race they despise, versus them making an ignorant statement. Not sure which is better, but I think you can correct someone’s mistaken beliefs by simply having a discussion.
You clearly haven't tried AirPods.
I hope this company runs out of money. Writing an article like this shows how deeply they misunderstand the problem they are seeking to solve.
A lot of assumptions made by your post.
What else do people expect from a closed ecosystem? Vendor bowing down to disreputable nation-states' requests. Check. Out of date apps with vulnerabilities. Check. Impossible to verify security of said system or apps. Check. Complete opaqueness from the vendor. Check. And this is from a vendor that supposedly values both security and privacy ... not that any others are any better.
better water resistance? I've read that the 3.5 mm jack was the previous limiting factor, but I'm not sure how accurate that is.
"I've lived in much worse growing up, I assure you."

Good for you. That doesn't answer the question of why you would choose to do that now when you don't have to.
It happens in other cities, so it would be odd if it's not happening in SF too.
I absolutely adore this style of "gonzo" writing. It's like a film directed by Wes Anderson. It's not ideal for every topic, but whenever it shows up I'm delighted.
You'd best prepare for the time when all major Android phones have dropped the 1/8" jack too, then. It's coming. Rapidly.
Not just supply, cartels are a group working together to manipulate markets in a variety of ways, also including:

Hold prices for their own suppliers artificially low by agreeing a price cap and refusing to pay more. They rely on suppliers having nowhere else to sell. e.g. British supermarkets have been repeatedly accused and sometimes IIRC convicted of operating a cartel to demand unfairly low prices from food producers.

Agree to split geographies so that there's effectively no competition to supply and each member of the cartel has local monopolies in all or most territory. This should be familiar to US folks who want High Speed Internet outside of a major city.

All agree never to offer a product which would hurt the overall market but be profitable for the first to offer it. Some have claimed the long delay in electric cars coming to market is evidence of this sort of cartel.

Cartels are illegal in much of the world (but ordinary laws don't apply to sovereign entities). If you're ever part of some big industry insider meeting and the lawyers make everybody agree not to talk about prices, future products or other commercial issues it's not because they're commercially sensitive, it's because your executives could do jail time if a court decides your group is a cartel.
The Invisible California
I understand the sacrifice though. I've always been an Android guy, but I'm left out of a lot of group chats because of it. I play on multiple sports teams where I'm the only one without an iPhone. They have a group chat for the team, and I'm the only one left off. Same with just difference friend groups. I try and get people to use whatsapp, hangouts, groupme, or just anything else and no dice. I've considered switching to an iPhone just for social reasons, but can't bring myself to do it.
Usually true, but not consistently. There are applications which by design have accounted for internal threats but not state actors strictly because of the motivations of the threat actors themselves.

To drastically simplify it:

- Internal threats are usually motivated by finance/challenge/spite.

- State actors are usually motivated to counter perceived national security threats regardless of whether they're short-term or long-term. The result is a preparedness to spend resources orthogonally as compared to the potential impact of the threat to anyone other than the state but which may be directly correlated to the perceived risk to the state itself.

In simpler terms: risks exploitable by internal threats versus state actors do not assuredly overlap, and a lot of it is because risks exploitable by possessing knowledge might not be the same as risks exploitable with gobs of money.
Isn't the expectation that the hostname header will be hardcoded for DoH requests?
My major complaint about airpods is that I routinely use headphones for longer than 4 hours in a single session. Still, I like them so much that I own two pair and swap when the battery is low.
Desperately needs a new acronym! Otherwise, this looks pretty neat!
We're not talking about names of products. WAMP is a common acronym used in the industry, not a name of a product.
Dmitri Belyayev's decades-long study on silver foxes produced animals that began to distinguish markedly different morphological features (bushy tails, floppy ears, spotted coats) and physiology (lower adrenaline and stress hormone levels, smaller skulls, longer breeding seasons, larger litter sizes) by selecting strictly for tameness, which they defined simply as aggression toward humans.[0] Belyayev was forced to live in Siberia to carry out this work as Mendelian geneticists and biologists were officially condemned (denounced as "fascist" and many were executed) by the Soviet state as it supported Lysenkoism, a Lamarckian psuedo-scientific theory that minimized the role of genes on behavior, which allied well with Soviet and Marxist ideology.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Belyayev_(zoologist)#Be...
The article doesn't mention anybody getting arrested. Is that an omission or are there really no consequences for this kind of behavior?
I use AdGuard and it is great. It is not only ads that I happily block, but all the analytic, it is unbelievable all the requests that are made by apps, even when not using them.
The issue isn't with the loading but the overridden scrollbar behavior. It's pretty much impossible to scroll smoothly on any of my devices.
One of the most important skills I learnt as a kid, from my family, is learning how to disagree without taking it personally. My parents couldn't possibly be more different from my sister and I. They also encouraged us to have meaty discussions and debates, everyday at the dinner table. Over the years, we've had some very passionate and spirited debates, but they were entirely focused on the issues. Not the people behind the issue. We learnt how to disagree violently, while still showing warmth and love for the person behind the disagreement.

As a teenager, I thought this was the default in society. It was only after leaving home and going to college, that I realized it was the opposite. Whereas my family took disagreements as an opportunity for lively debate (and a bit of fun in the process), too many people take disagreements as an insult and a personal affront. One can only hope that this tide will swing back around the other way.
You've repeated the claim that Quebecois has changed "more slowly" or "less" than French has, but for all your historical discussion, you've provided absolutely no evidence or even a metric for similarity.

I do not believe any such evidence or metric exists. A language is a point in a space with many dimensions; while on any particular dimension it is easy to evaluate whether more or less change has occurred, this is not possible overall.
I love bluetooth headphones, but I doubt you can convince a real music lover to go wireless. Unless you spend a huge amount of money, you won't get nearly close to the sound quality of real audiophile headphones.

Actually, just the fact the airpods are in-ear limit the quality of the experience they can render.

Also, I always have both wire and wireless on my table, because there is no way the wireless headphone battery is gonna enough.
For those saying Bluetooth is the answer, that may be true for the vast majority of users, but for musicians using iOS to make music, Bluetooth audio latency is too high in many situations. Additionally, if you're connecting the USB adapter (Camera Connection Kit) to plug in a MIDI keyboard and/or audio interface, you'll need to pass those through a USB hub and add a USB DAC to plug your wired headphones into.
Thanks for the link. I've never used an iphone so I was extremely confused by that argument.
It is filled with factual errors, unsupported assertions, and appeals to emotion. The rest of the site appears to be of similarly poor journalistic quality. Looking at the author's Amazon author description page, I judge that he is attempting to make a career of telling a certain segment of the population what they want to hear, and leveraging that echo-chamber passion to sell books, get speaking gigs, and the like.
>I’m not turning my texts green.

Since when does he have to on android? Seeing as google produces about fifteen messaging apps, you get all sorts of color (and style) choices! That's if you choose a locked down phone that doesn't let you make your own themeing choice
Written like a person that has green texts.
And yet... imagine my abashment when I sit down for my 5 hour flight across the country and suddenly realize the airplane TV's don't support bluetooth.
Groom User Stories Your Delivery Team Won't Hate
Tangentially related: Squeak has long included a remote collaboration tool called Nebraska (http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1356) that, if I recall correctly, supported multiple mouse cursors (referred to as 'hands' in Morphic).

This of course may be due the original development of Squeak as a direct descendant of Smalltalk-80 (via Apple) by Alan Kay and Dan Ingalls among others who were I'm sure more than familiar with the work of Doug Englelbart.
Does Theranos Mark the Peak of the Silicon Valley Bubble?
Last time I checked, Los Angeles was in California, not the EU. Why should they have to care about EU regs?