skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>We are paid a lot... even though we should have crazy bargaining power...

While you are likely correct, what pembrook says is mostly true. The tech scene is often used by economists and the like as a cudgel against any talk that U.S. wages and the general economy are lackluster. (To be clear, I am basing this on actual discussions I have had, not theory and/or scholarly papers.)
Mass slaughter started well before Stalin, so at least 30+ years. What followed was calm compared to Stalin, or to North Korea, but nevertheless you wouldn't want to compare it to saner parts of the world.
are you sure those were real Chinese restaurants, not tourist trap restaurants? I was under the impression, from a local of China, that you could under No condition at all, request a dish be replaced. One chinese restaurant (a traditional one where the wait staff speak chinese) in the US wouldn't even do that.
I'm sorry graffiti hasn't been gentrified in your neighborhood yet. Maybe a stern TED talk might change minds.
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Has anyone ever asked where the European Comission takes the rights from to do that? Nobody voted for these people. This body just came into existence and becomes more and more powerful without any one of us having a say in the matter.
True, I remember seeing that now on my moms laptop. I remember it was quite aggressive in warning you not to switch away from Edge.

Microsoft can never let the marketing people stop having control and ruining their products. They are trying to make it more useable and user friendlier, but it's funny seeing the push back within the product.
How does it compare to my amateur attempts with a 12" Newton https://www.flickr.com/photos/joelkuiper/42502865635/ :p ?

All kidding aside, do you think there is some scientific value in the efforts of hobby astronomers and astrophotographers around the world?
Because iOS is the major competitor?
You sure can disable preinstalled apps.

Gear icon -> Apps -> select a preinstalled app, you have options to "Disable" and to "Force stop" the app.

What you can't is to remove the app and reclaim the storage it's taking.

At least so it looks on an un-rooted Sony phone running Android 7.0 that I have before me.
That’s exactly the problem. It’s a radar discrimination/GPS resolution/mapping data fusion issue.

They’re pushing hard on the front facing radar to avoid accidents like the fatality of the Floridian driver who wasn’t paying attention when the tractor trailer crossed the road, and false positives are the side effect. Better to rapidly decelerate then be dead.
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Although what you point out may be technically (and marketingly) correct, it's not a stretch to consider the current, cloud-computing AWS to have started until the availability of S3 and/or EC2.

More importantly, for these services to run roughshod, two years later, over the technical assumptions of something like AWIS also seems reasonable to expect. If AWIS isn't integrated under IAMs, that's pretty telling.
There's an idea used in the analysis of error correcting codes, to set up a polynomial where the coefficients are the number of codewords with each Hamming weight. It works out the same as adding up all the codewords, where you replace each 0 by x and each 1 by y. So a code

010 101 => xyx + yxy = x^2y + xy^2

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

Then you can use real (or even complex) analysis on these polynomials. There's a thick book of things you can prove about sets of binary words using those techniques: https://www.elsevier.com/books/the-theory-of-error-correctin...

And Noam Elkies' course notes on it: http://www.math.harvard.edu/~elkies/M256.13/index.html
Lots of people have Amazon Prime which includes the video streaming service.
They have to balance user attention and user friction. Online retailers want your purchase to be as smooth as possible. There's some studies on how someone won't spend much time on a website if it loads slow. The same can apply to purchase decisions. They need it as impulsive as possible. So annoying things like 2 factor authentication, in their mind, might make a customer give up their purchase.

So things are insecure because that's what customers want to satisfy their relatively low attention spans and impatience. And the retailers optimize for that.
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I... don’t get the use case for this? What am I missing?
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The difficulty in creating an ISP is all in the last mile, not in peering.

Where I live there are 100+ ISPs since there's a national fiber network anyone can plug into, so to start an ISP all you need is a router and some peering.
50 years of Intel
You can pack more explosive into a car and have it to drive to a target far away, keeping you out of sight.
A reused pad is essentially a repeating-key XOR cipher (Vigenère). Breaking them statistically is barely even a student exercise (we walk you through it in the first set of Cryptopals challenges).

It's not the mathematics that makes their decryption in the 1940s interesting so much as the fact that it occurred contemporaneously with the advent of general-purpose computing and information theory (which was apparently motivated by this very problem).
> There is no reason why I shouldn’t be able to purchase and download movies or shows.

Google Play Music & TV supports purchase and rental, and download of at least purchased content (possibly rental, too, not sure.)
I'd like to get you started on SMS 2fa. I deal with this a lot at work and would like as much information as possible!
I would like to add that there was a similar case in Russia where Yandex, a Russian company, accused Google that it made contracts with phone manufactures that banned them from preinstalling Google competitors' software. So the manufacturer had either to agree to those terms or was unable to get a license for Google Play Services and Google Play [1]

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/17/google-reaches-7-8-million...
Hey, so I refactored and made a Firefox addon! it's pretty cool that firefox allows addons on mobile, so it works there too!

Here's the link:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/newsit-hnews-...

Let me know what you think, or if there's any issues
You don't need a permit to buy a firearm unless it is something that is NFA and then you just need to go through the appropriate tax stamp process which is effectively a permit for that specific firearm/destructive device/accessory.
I think I know the sort of person you’re talking about, but perfectionism can also result in extremely driven individuals.

I suspect there’s a triplet at play here, with either discipline or bravery as the other side. A demotivated perfectionist never rises to their own challenge. With a motivated one, get out of the way or get run over.
Not just desktops. A few years ago we had thick laptops with good cooling, too.

Unlike newer thin laptops, they were, and still are, viable desktop replacements. Some of them even allowed upgrading the CPU. I once inserted i7-3612QM in 13” HP ProBook 4340s of a family member (it had an i3-3110M initially) also replacing fan assembly. It runs well under sustained loads, and the performance with the i7 is very close to much newer 15W mobile CPUs such as i7-8550U found in the current 13” macbook pros.

It’s a shame we no longer have these, not Apple, not Windows, nobody.
Straight up... straight down. No orbit. Nothing to see other than "tourist" flights for people who want to see what space is like but without weightlessness.
I should do that all right. I snore and I've been told that I basically stop breathing at times which is as unpleasant as the snoring for the person listening!
I would argue that its actually pro-consumer - because if I was Google's CEO, I would just shut down AOSP, and wish that I had done it years ago, in relation to this ruling.

Google supports AOSP and has done so for years, making it available freely. Why shouldn't they be able to dictate their own terms? If phone makers don't like it, they can make their own OS (which they have - and they all suck).
Is Tyler Cowen an important economist in terms of his work, or one who is important because he's visible and writes a lot?

To be honest, while I think he's a very bright person, I have kind of tired of what feels to me like a contrarian "shtick". I kind of prefer his co-blogger Tabarrok's writings in that he's pretty much a straight up libertarian. Some things I disagree with, but it just seems a bit more direct.
To the extent that drug users are burdens on society, drug use should be regulated.
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I recently joined a website the did away with passwords, the only way to login was to enter your email address and confirm by pressing a link in the email, while this adds a pain point for customers it offloads most security implications onto the email provider.
This is really cool, I can definitely see myself using this regularly. Do you think you'll add support for multiple ranges?
> Another way to resolve the tension is to accept to have lower standards and go on with your life.

For myself, long run, that is going to increase tension for me internally. I can't force myself to be satisfied with myself if I am not. I'd rather believe in a world that lacks absolute standards in perpetuity and have to consider myself perpetually adaptive than believe I've either succumbed to some group think ideology of 'relaxing' because it's comfortable for people who are fine with me being substandard (and then I get stuck with the problem of - is this because they are using me for their own comparison?), or been indoctrinated into stupid thinking that is fine with lowering my standards because it judges me based on a particular context that may not be indicative of an overall trend of my life absolutely.

> "Resolution lies on either end, depending on how possible/practical it is to improve a given skill."

At the end of the day pragmatism must be valued. Competition between people is useful but if it turns into a downward spiral of stepping on one another arbitrarily without reason, logic, without any ends tied to the means - then there is no united sense of progress from which every person inside a group can orient direction in thinking, and unifying action into something beautiful. I'm a software developer and computer scientist, so, all the spaces between coding (thinking, interacting) need to be filled in and can't always be explicitly stated. People have to make assumptions, it's easier to just decide - do you like where you are? Do you like the people around you? Can you see value in all of this?

If you can't do that, that is when competition becomes destructive rather than productive. Being able to identify these things in real time, continual process of living life. I wish I could be weak sometimes just because it's easier, but my life hasn't allowed me to be. I make mistakes continuously and sometimes they are plain to see, not only to myself, but to everybody. The awareness of this - in perpetuity. This connects people to systems that are always attempting to correct behavior. So people who go over and over and over at it - it's the same thing. No judgment, being totally neutral is most simple. Functioning like a machine. It's easier to just call it aspergers or neurologically distinct. Can't know people's intentions and inferring them to be intentionally malicious can lead to disaster. The problem of wanting to avoid the truly worst things that could happen in life. Not just because bad things have happened, but because, hyper-awareness. We are always connected to things that say 'bad things happen to people' and not everything can be explained away.

Talent, necessity, etc. Survival instinct. Calling it talent seems to be a diminutive, it directs the focus towards something narcissistic, vain - easy to prejudice against. Some things are born from necessity. Process of continual refinement, it's a compulsion because it says "I need to survive".
Couldn't those guys' track of success be due to cronyism in the music industry?

Their songs are formulaic. I'm sure many of these 2 guys' songs are played in this video that cycles through a long list of hit songs which have the same progression (transposed into the same key so the similarities can more easily be noticed) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOlDewpCfZQ

So perhaps anyone can write the songs, but not everyone has access to the pop stars (or access to these 2 guys).

I'm not an expert song writer myself, but I am a musician and lover of music.
Based on the fact that there's awesome music noone's ever heard of or that doesn't get as much play as some lesser quality music, I have to echo the common sentiment that the music industry is a fashion show/popularity contest with gatekeepers (still). Not saying it's not all a sham, I think the difference that comes from the human performing is huge, and I love to see and hear that.
Can you tell us about your favourite globular clusters? I know some of them have very interesting properties like having similar stellar ages but are there any really peculiar ones you can tell us about? Also, I'd love to see some of the images your referring to.

Thanks!
[on the risks of self-medication]

I currently live in the Maghreb and the situation is here as it was described for Saudi Arabia. An important difference to Western countries is that pharmacists seem to play a much more important role here: I have to justify every purchase (even for very common broad spectrum antibiotics) and locals tell me they regularly seek advice at the local pharmacy first. Think "doctor's appointment pre-screening". And my highly subjective impression is that the quality of this pre-screening surpasses service in western pharmacies by far.

Though, the problems you point out are very real, just mitigated by the different situation.

Another thing that makes the situation incomparable to western countries is the low density of qualified doctors: If you need psychotropics here in my village you would have to move several hours away into the next big city to do a therapy. So it is: diagnosis, prescription and off you go. One can go on with a single prescription for years and I dare to say that the debate on whether this is good or bad here is still open.
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If I can give you one hot tip it is not to quit your fulltime job until you have something in terms of traction to ensure you're not killing your runway waiting through the 'valley of despair'.
Antitrust? To make money by giving away software that contains your free, but monetized software? Vendors are still able to bundle other browsers.

What's next?

Me no likey.
Hi Adora, we audited the course last year and thought it was great. How similar will the content itself be?
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Is that a question dodge? I mean he's in the unique position that people do trust Ethereum in part because of him, but he really wants people to trust in the protocol and its evolution over just himself.

Personally, if Vitalik wasn't involved in Ethereum I probably wouldn't have been as interested in the project initially. But, for Ethereum to really take off in the public realm, the cryptocurrency and its creator need to be decoupled more. And I think this response from Vitalik gets this point across.
I don't understand. A whole 6/10 for the WhatsApp ant, which has only three legs? At least Samsung, missing a leg, got a proper 2/10.
Then you'd be an asshole.
There is no reason to sleep more than 8-9.5hrs. If you are sleeping more than this, see a doctor and see what kind of hormones are not balanced.

It's probably not as bad as undersleeping to oversleep, but it's not how your body is supposed to work.
But to further comment --

The landscape is vastly different these days. You can't even stand up something in a medical environment that measures heart rate, much less waveforms without significant clinical trials. Apparently the FDA is all over this one.
Ah shit, that should not happen and I think that's on Google's end. Just in case, what device and browser are you on?

Thanks for letting me know and the nice words!
Yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17529747
Why do you say that? As a stenographer, it absolutely happens: I know because when I try to write along to some people, my words per minute meter goes above 230 occasionally. (It would go above 230 wpm more than "occasionally" except that I'm not that fast yet.)

Here's an example of a professional stenographer dealing with 300+ wpm days (search "300wpm" in this page): https://jadeluxe.wordpress.com/2014/12/30/year-in-career-201...
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Vendors are not capable of bundling other search engines, when they preinstall the google playstore.
MS had worse than no strategy, they abandoned their strategy that was working. WP 8 was reasonably decent, and sold a lot of phones at the low-end ($50 for a Lumia 521 or later a 640 would get you a phone that basically worked, with a limited app catalog; vs a $50 Android that probably had low storage warnings on first boot). Then for WM 10, they had fired their QA team and re-orged away the phone team, and they delivered a stunningly poor OS release, but there were no cheap phones for it anyway -- the Lumia 650 was essentially spec equivalent to the 640, and they wanted app developers to start building 'universal' apps that would only work on Windows mobile 10, which I think still has fewer users than WP 8.
Thanks!

I've tried to use as little browser-"specific" api's as I could, the main problem was the manifest.json file, which vary a bit between Chrome and Firefox

Anyway here's the link to the Firefox version if you're interested:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/newsit-hnews-...

Let me know what you think, or if there's any issues
Many preinstalled apps that aren't essential are just a stub, a few kb that points to the app store to be downloaded on first boot.

When these are "disabled" all that remains on the device is a pointer to the app store in a disabled state. It's a few KB of data, and in my opinion a fantastic trade-off to actually allowing deletion then not being able to "factory reset" since that data is no longer on the device.
Great point. I already fully expected Google to make Fuchsia at least as closed as Chrome OS (not to be confused with Chromium OS, which nobody cares about, and Google ensures it remains in that state).

Plus, I think the 5-year agreement it made with China to keep Android open when it purchased Motorola expired last year.

So I think Google was already planning to close Android. It was just looking for a good public excuse to do it.
>Laws and contracts cannot be retroactive

Could you expand upon this a bit? In the US bills of attainder and ex post facto laws were clearly banned for both the Federal and State government from the founding of the country, though I remember reading that despite statements from the founders SCOTUS has been shakier on applying it to civil vs criminal law.

But it's not clear to me how that relates to purely private contracts, unless there is something in California regulating it? Further to your own point:

>A new TOS can force you to cede rights from that point onward.

It seems like that could cover this just fine couldn't it? Ie., two parties could agree that regardless of past or ongoing legal interactions, any future new legal interactions could be governed under different rules. I'm not sure that'd be "retroactive", it doesn't govern anything undertaken under the previous agreement, it modifies it going forward. Are you saying that contracts may never be modified from their original form? That doesn't jive at all with my (admittedly non-lawyer) understanding. It'd be against all sorts of bankruptcy proceedings and private settlements for example, since those often involve modifying previously agreed terms of previously engaged in financial exchanges.

Granted this all puts aside questions of adhesion and whether he even did agree to new TOS at all of course. But assuming during his ongoing play he was presented with a new TOS, agreed to it, and then at a later date filed suit, it doesn't seem novel at least (even if we think certain rights should not be contractable) that their legal interactions after the agreement date would be governed by the new TOS.
We are not. These are decisions made by management types based on who's selling contract services. They were sold on "2-factor authentication" and the lowest friction was sms auth.
Yes! so I've just refactored and published the Firefox addon! it's pretty cool that firefox allows addons on mobile, so it works there too!

Here's the link:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/newsit-hnews-...

Let me know what you think, or if there's any issues
If there‘s any freefall involved there will be weightlessness, orbit or not.
Wow, it's like browsing the internet in 2009 again - everything just works.

How did the web get so morbidly bloated again?
Couldn't Google have had Samsung OEM phones?

With co-branding?

And all of the profits going to Samsung?

This would merely be a different way to structure access to Android, right? Android is closed source, but literally everything else is the same...

Except now it's not "anti-competitive," because the phone manufacturers are not "competitors" to Google.
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Also personal protection side, you have the principal (who may be a woman with a preference not to have a male around at all times) and a family.

A unrelated woman is going to fit more discretely into a family situation then some ex-military/ex-police dude or other tough situations.

In some situations, I would imagine that in the case of a real threat that you'd have a layer of visible "beefy" security for prestige and random crazy person purposes, and a more subtle layer for other threats.
Are there easy at-home tests that would be useful data for your doctor? Is once a month necessary for this specific condition? Is three months? What about keeping records and sending them to the doctor every couple of weeks so an extra appointment can be scheduled, but only once every four or six months normally?

I have hypertension. I've had it for years. It doesn't just go away, but it doesn't (at least in my history) rapidly get worse. I can take my blood pressure at home and chart it. The same medication I have always taken works and at the same dosage. Yet most doctors want to see me every two months to renew the prescription, prescribing a one-month supply with one refill. The stuff's shelf stable for a few years. Why can't I get a six month prescription?
I've recently said that Microsoft is the most self-defeating company in history. They often take all of the goodwill they've earned, and then torch it on minor battles that aren't really making them any money. If someone's gotten into the settings screen to change their default, they probably have tried Edge, or at least know what it is and have some reason for switching.

Windows 10 telemetry is a great example: They shot themselves in the foot PR-wise on an otherwise excellent operating system, chasing a pile of metadata that won't really be significantly more useful than what they get from people who voluntarily agree to be Windows Insiders. There isn't a good business case for preventing people from shutting off error reporting, and it's had a huge impact on mitigating all of their other efforts to repair their image.