skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except I consider Reddit to be yet another example of a failed online community. You can always create smaller sub-communities with dedicated dictators (Facebook calls them 'groups') but Reddit as a whole fails at this task as the history of the front page has clearly shown. I still remember back when there was just one Reddit and not sub-Reddits, and the events that led to the change. Fracturing into sub-communities is an answer only if you decide to avoid the question of community in the first place, or in the case of Reddit to re-define it into something much smaller.

The fact that these smaller communities with a narrow focus work while the larger ones fail is proof positive that tools are not the solution.
I can't find it on Google for some reason.
You didn't answer the parent's question: monopoly on what?
One reason why I subscribe to https://lwn.net/ is that it is a fast no bullshit web site. Another is the great content.
> We are inferring personalities of racial groups.

Personalities are characteristics of individuals. Racial groups don't have a scientific basis regardless, and "Asia" covers a vast world from India to Korea to Indonesia to Kazakhstan to Pakistan to Tibet to Cambodia to Japan ... it's absurd to suggest you can say anything about all these individuals that doesn't apply to all humanity. My own family members have very different personalities.

> By us? By our culture? By the media?

> the nation at large "stereotypically" ... rated asian personalities at the same level or better than other races

Not in my experience and I sure don't. Is there any basis for this? And see my comment above.
I like the last line:

> And what about the future of UT Arlington’s latest wunderkind, Ewin Tang? “I haven’t come up with anything that is really ingenious yet,” he says. Be patient; he’s only 12.

It only took 6 years. Not bad at all!
yeah i enjoy his blog as well
Well, Tencent also owns Epic so...
1994 - mostly blue.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_party_strength_in_...
They were lucky. You were not. That's it. How can you blame yourself for that?

It's most likely NOT about whether you were mediocre talent wise or about dedication and work ethic. Many people do not appreciate the role of blind and dumb luck behind success. I kid you not. It ain't all a meritocracy out there.

Take it easy with the sleep disruption. I can vouch for the vicious cycle of nasty shyte insomnia can create. If you have a gym subscription, get some HIIT exercises like a prowler sled push and start lifting weights. Keep away from alcohol and any coping drugs you may be taking. Look after yourself!

Time to reboot. :-)
Most submissions and comments here are far from intellectual. I don’t know what your frame of reference is, but seriously?!
Everything old is new again: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/D_Lka7Tsmkk/maxresdefault.jpg
Not sure if you’re being serious, but there are already quantum algorithms that have been mathematically proven to not be dequantizable, i.e. have no possible classical version that's as fast.
I gave away my face for free
I wonder if Facebook will move towards even more 'real world ID' - not only to prevent these types of attacks from fake people - but because it might provide additional revenue lift. Or maybe wouldn't add much revenue value, their real human targeting is pretty great already.
Since this is posted to a site focused on developers, I’m surprised you didn’t mention the third option: Developers, stop adding all this crap to the software you’re writing and excusing it with “I’m just doin what I’m told!”
In this increasingly digital world, the printed and distributed journal seem less and less important. Of course individuals are still free to download and print a paper for convenience.

So what if the scientific community/industry focused on the real added value. Those are:

1. Peer review

2. Prestige

Because the pre-internet problem of distribution doesn't exist anymore (a basic web server to host papers is relatively cheap), that would allow to bypass traditional journals.

For that to happen, we would need a group of already reputed and respected researchers to review the submitted articles. But because the journal fees would be avoided, that means the money could be collected to pay those reviewers.
According to the Wikipedia article, it looks like more of an embrace and extinguish move, at least regarding the utilities sources and Linux development.

"However, since the Microsoft acquisition, none of the utilities currently available are accompanied by source code, and the Linux versions are no longer maintained or available.

Some of the coding tricks used were based on the Windows Native API (NTAPI), which was (and still is) mostly undocumented by Microsoft. Using these coding examples - with source - would enable developers to create extraordinary programs that performed operations that would otherwise have been impossible using a standard API. Examples include hiding Registry information, intercepting or hooking APIs to monitor file operations by the OS, as well as Registry operations."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sysinternals
In many cases, it’s a scientist’s only way to advance his or her career.
Talking about progress of various players in self-driving industry is like talking about Schrödinger's cat.

They might or might not have made progress but we won't know until we open the box (i.e. until they launch commercially).

No one has any real data about how Cruise compares to Uber compares to Ford compares to Audi compares to ...

The only comparative data we have are yearly reports mandated by California.

Tesla is not there because in 2017, the last year for which we have the data, Tesla did not test on public roads in California in fully autonomous mode so they didn't have to release those stats (https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/wcm/connect/f965670d-6c03-46a9...).

At the same time Tesla is taking this as seriously as one can and are working on making it work. From the DMV report:

"As described above, Tesla analyzes data from billions of miles of driving received from our customer fleet via over-the-air (“OTA”) transmissions. We supplement this with data collected from testing of our engineering fleet in non-autonomous mode, and from autonomous testing that is done in other settings, including on public roads in various other locations around the world.

Through all of this data, we are able to develop our self-driving system more efficiently than only by accumulating data from a limited number of autonomous vehicles tested in limited locations."

Karpathy recently gave a talk about Tesla's progress: https://www.figure-eight.com/building-the-software-2-0-stack...
post-graduate work around 19

depends on the subject. Did computer science exist as a course in the 70's?
I don't understand how you are relating this to the tragedy of the commons other than saying that because something has a reason it doesn't preclude it from being something.
Face it.
I was really afraid to fly for years, but when I had the opportunity to travel overseas, I decided that I'll fly - even I am frightened about flying.
Actually I have to say that my fear always vanished when the plane's door was shut, I guess I realised that I can't do anything against it - and it calmed me.
I played with a lots of flight simulators when I was a kid, that helped a to know what exactly happening, and knowing is the best way to overcome fear - but that wasn't enough.
Before each flight I my guts were sick, I just can't do anything against it, that came from my nerves - fight or run.
I clearly remember the moment when I get over my fear: I was sitting on a plane which flew from Dallas to San Jose, sitting next to a huge guy, and that was my 23rd hour awake, and that was my 20st hour of the trip with several layovers. And I started to HOPE that we'll die. I mean I was exhausted, I was nervous, I wasn't able to sleep, and then there came the thought 'how easy it would be if we just crash now, that misery would be ended' and BAM my fear was just out. It just went through on my mind, and I guess that was the moment when I accepted the idea, that I could die on a plane. Who cares? Probably I wont. And my fear was over.
#3 is an interesting thought. So when something is abundant, inefficiency and wastefulness are fine?

When it comes to bits, abundant to who? Those who can afford said abundance? Certainly not to those with bandwidth caps and slow internet access.

Reminds me of a cartoon I saw once: "What if climate change turns out to be a hoax and we end up making the world better for nothing!"

Since when is doing something efficiently and non-wastefully not a good idea for its own sake?
This young activist is trekking solo across the American wilderness on horseback
Wow, this discussion is going nowhere fast.

> First, he was wrong

I agree. And that's completely and totally irrelevant. I have no idea why you even mention it. Obviously what matters is that his meaning is clear.

> Second, he said that in a very different culture. This isn't the 1920s.

So your objection to GP's phrasing, in spite of it being completely inoffensive and having a perfectly clear meaning, is "because it's $CURRENT_YEAR".
This certainly seems like a cultural divide in America. Some people would prefer someone less effective, but whom was polite and proper. Others don't care about polite and proper as long as they are effective.

Some people didn't care that Trump called Jong-Un "rocketman" if it meant positive results. Others were horrified that Trump would ridicule a world leader in such a childish manner, even if it did lead to by far the best results of any president in the history of N. Korea/US relations.
Do it, like any fear.
Ask HN: Does Engagement in Inner Source Feel as Good as in Open Source?
Has the adoption of Open Source practices at your workplace also transferred and spread a hacker mindset with an intangible reward system into closed corporate habitats? Any experiences with critical masses or (cultural) limitations?
I would think that vehicle height is so rarely an issue that consumers face that they don't bother integrating it for the free product, because instead that data can be sold as part of a commercial maps offering to the trucking companies who need that information to do business.
Wow, that's pretty leet.
Introduction to Freenet
Briefly doubles...but loses all the gains.

This might buy some time, but where is the roadmap to sustainability?
"Miles driven per needed human intervention ..."

Driving in an urban environment is almost nothing like driving in the suburbs.

These numbers not comparable for many reasons:
- GM Cruise drives in high density San Francisco (city roads), while Waymo drives in low density Mountain View / Phoenix (incl. highways). [1]
- GM Cruise is not optimizing to reduce driver interventions, as that can actually decrease safety (ie. drivers delaying the intervention)

I work at GM Cruise.

[1] https://medium.com/kylevogt/why-testing-self-driving-cars-in...
A shout out to biorxiv.org for doing a great job there!
> There is, of course, the Dell XPS Developer Edition models that come preloaded with Ubuntu 16.04 (or just in the past few days, Ubuntu 18.04). Though for my purposes I went with the Dell XPS 13 preloaded with Windows 10 due to running some benchmarks there prior to wiping the disk, faster shipping time going from B&H Photo Video over Dell.com, and running Fedora Workstation as my preferred main OS rather than Ubuntu.

Unfortunately, from what I've been told by one of the guys in Dell's Sputnik program, they gauge interest on the Linux Dell laptops strictly by the number of people who buy Developer Edition laptops. So the author is not helping the cause by buying a Windows 10 laptop and loading Linux onto it.

Believe me, I get it. The Windows ones go on sale, while the Developer Editions pretty much never do. I'm guilty of buying a Win10 one myself before this was explained to me. Just passing that info on. If you want to support the future of Linux on Dell laptops, I strongly urge you to buy the ones with Linux pre-loaded, from Dell.
High Sierra Format
> I would really like to know how careful they mean.

Most of the Waymo vehicles i saw on the street around Mountain View were pretty timid. Not enough that I needed to honk, but they basically were sending out engraved invitations to pull in front of them. Most recent example, in rush hour, at ~ 5 - 10 mph, maintaining 3 car lengths following distance, signaling for an offramp maybe 10 car lengths before the painted exit lane opened, and then following the traffic until the painted lane started -- but the shoulder was wide and the exit lane was clear. Most human drivers in this situation would either not signal until they were just about to turn, and would probably have driven on the shoulder outside the lines for some of the way, given the wide shoulder and clear exit lane.
This phenomenon is not limited to BS web. Back when virtualization was the new wave, everyone raved at the money/space/energy savings from running multiple virtual machines on a single server. It was great. Then what happened? Many folks went nuts, spinning up VMs for any and everything, and suddenly needed to spend more money on more physical servers to run more VMs, and an infinite loop.

Bloat from convenience.
Ask HN: Any Uber for Property Management?
I’m looking for a service that is a modern property management solution. The only companies I have found simply make “software for landlords.”

My problem is that I have a property and I want to rent it out. Property management companies have a bunch of glued together pieces and it is a huge pain. Like scanned in PDFs with random stuff crossed out. I just want a system where I can put in my address, verify I own it, and let everything happen behind the scenes. Is there anything like this? Why not?
Hey man - I have no problem talking about race. But the whole premise of what I was responding to is bullshit: humans shouldn't be discriminated against due to their 'race'; it's not a competition, it about protecting people's rights and giving them opportunity, regardless of their supposed 'race'.
I know I'd pay extra not to have to live next to neighbors with small children or yappy dogs. Still annoyed that it's illegal for there to be childless apartment communities.
Official notch support coming to Android
The scrolls from Herculaneum definitely contain a lot of non extant works, the problem is figuring out how to read them

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/buried-ash-vesuvius-s...
Flew a lot for work. Then took a real dodgy flight from Vegas to NYC in 2012 [0] that was as close to crashing as most people have come. When the plane took off I heard noises that I just knew were not good. Ever since then I've found myself a bit anxious when flying. Nobody would ever notice by looking at me, and it feels weird to admit, but every flight I'm hyper sensitive to noises and sudden movements, especially during take off. Know how I get over it? I keep flying. I keep paying attention to those noises/movements and my reactions. It's all in my head so my aim is to win the battle on those grounds.

[0] https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/06/20/passengers-describe-...
I second this. Carefully curating your playlist can have a huge impact on your workflow and productivity [0] -- I could observe an uptick in my efficiency after I started using white noise sites (like this one [1], for example) to generate ambient white noise of my choice.

[0] https://qz.com/820464/to-be-more-productive-get-scientific-a...
[1] https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/whiteNoiseGenerator.php
Just because some people write crappy reviews is not an excuse for challenging all of the bad reviews.
"[B]usiness was improved" is doing a lot of work in there.
Peinados de peluqueria que impactan
I used eBay to sell a couple of electronics in the last couple months.

It was hands down one of the worst experiences I've ever had with software.

Scammers made dozens of buy it now requests, fake paypal invoices, losing the auction at the last second to a scammer. To top that off, I experienced a bug that didn't allow me to relist my item, and I still haven't been able to sell the item.

I hadn't used eBay in 5 years. I couldn't believe how bad the experience was. If I had money I would short their stock.
I was going to post this same comment. When I was a kid, I used to look out the window and worry that the wings might fall off because I could see them flexing.

Then I watched the video above, and I was like - huh, I've only ever seen the wings move maybe 1% of the max stress test amount, and that was in really bad turbulence.

I stopped worrying that the wings would fall off. Once you know the wings won't fall off, I found it very easy to picture a safe/glide recovery from any other basic accident, and I stopped worrying altogether.
There is a Hercules-like product made by IBM that can legally run z/OS, the Z Development and Test Environment. It's expensive, but legal.

Also, a surprising number of concepts of MVS 3.8j are present in z/OS, so what you learn there is not wasted. As the article points out, a lot still spins around 80-column punched cards. If you go for the less bare distributions of MVS, you'll see lots of software that tries to replicate the functionality of newer releases.

As an example, I pinged Cincom Systems to see if they had an old version of Mantis that could run on MVS 3.8 that I could obtain for free (Mantis was the language I used on mainframes). To my surprise, that version is still a commercial product and is fully supported. Things dom change very slowly in mainframe land.
In my anecdotal experience I only know the names of various percussion by sound because I was a drummer in band class at school. My friends weren’t taught that in the general education program though. That could possibly vary by region though.
Dillo! https://www.dillo.org/

I mentally partition the web into Dillo-compatible and -incompatible subsets. :-)
The tons (and growing) of normal everyday users using ad blockers and other annoyance-reducing web plugins is evidence against this.

Also, we are not talking about the expense of “micro-optimization.” We are talking about not deliberately spending the time to add all this BS into the software. I guarantee it costs less to publish a text/plain document than a HTML/CS/JavaScript trash fire.
Isn't this a selection problem though? I've heard criticism of the 'chickenshit club' variety - basically that the government only pursues the most slam-dunk easy win cases at all. If that's true, certainly bigshot attorneys still work, just in that they induce the government to never go to court in the first place as opposed to going to court and then losing.
Deletion is not the only option. They can weight the contribution of reviews to the overall score. They can weight the display order of reviews on the product page. They can weight the display order of products in SERPs. Assigning reviews, reviewers and sellers a "fakeness probability" allows you to do all sorts of subtle, useful stuff that clearly isn't being done right now.
By the way, this is a relatively recent change made in July 2017 (License version 10). Before that there was no "noncommercial" restriction, and the free license allowed commercial use as long as you installed it yourself (i.e. not deployed company-wide etc.).

Old FAQ, license, and a relevant FAQ excerpt:

https://web.archive.org/web/20161108235524/https://www.virtu...

https://web.archive.org/web/20170126144347/https://www.virtu...

> Personal use is when you install the product on one or more PCs yourself and you make use of it (or even your friend, sister and grandmother). It doesn't matter whether you just use it for fun or run your multi-million euro business with it. Also, if you install it on your work PC at some large company, this is still personal use. However, if you are an administrator and want to deploy it to the 500 desktops in your company, this would no longer qualify as personal use.

Current license with the "noncommercial" requirement: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox_PUEL
I'm surprised Reddit isn't mentioned more often.

I'd argue it is also one of the primary social battlefields. The silence and inaction from admins and mods has been stunningly absent despite the blatant bot and troll activity there.
A 1 km asteroid would do a lot of damage. It would not be a directly ELE but the consequences would be nevertheless large. Depending on where it hits, it might even lead to a complete collapse of a country or countries.

Though the direct effects would be mostly local, the systemic effects would reverberate globally since in the modern world things (such as food production, supply chains, etc.) are so meshed together.

Draw a 300 km circle at your chosen impact point, then say bye to everything inside the first 150 km. The rest of the circle would be damaged to a varying degree. You can easily find places for impact points which, although not an ELE, would still turn many, many people's lives nasty.
Right, because there isn't much racial discrimination against Asians (though perhaps among founders and CEOs), and not against white people and males either. There is against women and other minorities, so that would seem to be the place to focus our efforts.
It contains Chromium in it's entirety, which is a contemporary full featured browser, which is actually in a way a complete operating system.
Uber lobbying for increased regulation as a barrier to competition would be the highest of ironies. I want to believe they would know how bad it would look and stay away, but I think the more likely reason it won't happen is that they're working on their own self-driving tech.
Web Slack does system notifications. You may have to turn them on explicitly because it requires a permission (can't recall if you do or if it prompts you, but it is something you have to enable), but if it's working in my Linux browser I'm assuming it works in Windows and OSX. I don't know if that would also integrate with in-dock notifications or not. If so, making it a viable alt-tab target would just be running it in a separate browser window, which should still net many fewer used resources than a separate app.

If you are happy, no problem. I'm posting for general info.
Not really. You're paying for the additional content. The tracking is external to that deal.

I'm not saying I like it that way, but you're conflating two unrelated things.
Because it's been confirmed by multiple, independent private organizations:

>The U.S. Intelligence Community concluded that some of the genuine leaks that Guccifer 2.0 has said were part of a series of cyberattacks on the DNC were committed by two Russian intelligence groups. This conclusion is based on analyses conducted by various private sector cybersecurity individuals and firms, including CrowdStrike, Fidelis Cybersecurity, Fireeye's Mandiant, SecureWorks, ThreatConnect, Trend Micro, and the security editor for Ars Technica.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guccifer_2.0
I don't know how many people here read usenet or were on old mailing lists.
You could have removed a some hard edges in usability and everything would have been connected to phones with monochrome text displays back in the nineties already. They didn't even provide decent email experience.

But instead we got the technology developing through some ringtone stuff advertised on TV.

I guess it's something that you can instantly show to your friends.