skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on my own experience with things and seeing other benchmarks, it looks like there's some synthetic benchmarks and very specific loads that will see up to 30% losses, but most things are really around 10-15% if they've got any significant losses at all. That's still a big impact but not nearly as "sky is falling" as it seemed like it might be. No idea how this'll be going forward with hardware changes since those haven't happened yet, and even when they do, how will we benchmark them properly?
Google reportedly bought Mastercard data to link ads with offline purchases
Or pay cash!
Java is doomed
They're really meant for the same thing. You can also search the filesystem with grep by using -R and providing a path explicitly like `grep -R pattern .`.

EDIT: The real differences (at least the most important ones for me) between grep and these tools are 1) they format filesystem searches better for human viewing, 2) they provide more useful defaults, 3) in the case of ag, you can specify a max line width to avoid the terminal being filled by a matching line that has a ridiculous length, which typically happens with generated files, 4) they're supposed to be faster although I personally don't have searches big enough to notice the difference, but I imagine it's a big deal to others.
Always be suspicious when politicians pass legislation that doesn't take effect until after they leave office.
I worked in RedWest for Microsoft in the mid 2000s. Firefox, Chrome, Macs were all common in my building.
My bad--I got so excited when I saw this, my brain forgot to check if it already made it here first. I also learned that the delete submission feature is not a thing. (Clearly I should spend more time on HN).
The trick which hasn't failed me yet is to look at exclusively 1-star reviews. I've been using Google Maps, and I'm assuming this trick will work with other services also. First, look at the ratio of 1-star to other reviews - do the 1-star reviews create a "hockey stick"? What's the ratio of 1-star to 2-star? 1-star to all reviews?

Second, see what people are complaining about, for example, these 2 1-star reviews reveal vastly different experiences:

Cafe: Horrible staff and horrible food. The owners wife argues with the customers, over charges and makes sure to let you know shes overworked and exhausted. We paid over a 100 dollars on lunch for 4 people. One of those orders was on a childs menu. The resturant is very neat looking and has the potential to be successful. They need a new cook and new staff. Its clear everyone hates their jobs.

Pub: We picked this place based on the high reviews. I specifically wanted to dine here for the crab cakes. I'm fairly certain there wasn't crab in them since they where mostly batter. The flavor was lacking and the aoli was gross. I didn't say anything and should have. I just left and I'm still hungry. Price is extremely high too. Needs new menu.

These restaurants are within 5 miles of each other. As the second review was entirely about the food, it's safe to say there were no service, billing, parking, or other issues - especially since other reviews back this up. And food ratings frequently reflect preference - maybe I would enjoy the crab cakes. So the second establishment would get my business.

But yes, there's no source quite like the opinion of a local, directly from their mouth. Even better than the above system is to find a bar/pub/coffee shop/etc where the locals go, and ask them how things are going in the area.
> AirBnB lets you find available short-term housing on their platform, that's all it does. Any complexity that arises around that, as far as I'm concerned, has nothing to do with AirBnB, and everything to do with local governance (if you have a problem with it).

As far as I know AirBnB is allowing people in NYC to rent apartments for less than 30 days. Not only are they allowing this to happen they are the ones completing the transaction and profiting from it. This is against NYC law and has been around since AirBnB was founded. To make matter worse when residents are fined for breaking the law they are the ones paying the fine without AirBnB losing money. We all know AirBnb could follow local laws everywhere and not allow any of the activity to happen on their platform. If they can change local governance then good for them but they are clearly involved.
It's usually at least 3-4x, not double. On some routes, it's even up to 10x.

Also, here as a couple, you might have this just for 50% more (booking 3 seats instead of 2; assuming price per seat is the same)
I do the same. The Open With extension is nice.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/open-with/

https://i.imgur.com/7roeIBf.png
This is one of the best questions to ask imo.

It's very free-form and honest, and gives you the potential to dive into things technically.

Do you like C or C++ better? Oh you don't like pointers? How do you avoid them in C++? etc.
Facebook probably is a monopoly and should have an anti-trust investigation. Mostly for the issue of: if I asked a random person on the street what alternatives existed for Facebook I fully expect that less than 5% would even be able to name a still functioning platform that they had considered using recently. Maybe if you count 'linkedin' as well (though that's supposed to be a different type of platform) or dating sites...

Anyway, I dislike how everyone's forgotten how to actually communicate and stay in touch and just assumes that everything and everyone exists on Facebook (as one of the GTAs spoofed: "Life Invader").
You never had a choice. Paying with plastic always meant that you were tracked and that data sold. If you don't like it, use cash.
The part you are referring has been introduced in 2008 and is very standard. It's a linear actuator (large version), ref: https://www.brickowl.com/catalog/lego-linear-actuator-10-15-.... It is indeed a very interesting thing, much more reliable than a pneumatic cylinder and much more compact than a "homemade" linear actuator (screw + gear rack).

The team said they did create new parts, which might seem like cheating, but later they say they were "existing shapes in new colors". To be more precise, they needed semi-transparent version of some parts for the light system, and it's unsurprising that they needed to make them because semi-transparent lego parts are quite rare (since they are used for specific details in lego sets, not for bulk construction). I'm pretty forgiving on such a small sidestep from full purism given the scale and the result of the project.
Not soon enough though, is it?
Funny anecdote, my fiance used to live in midtown Detroit near the Whole Foods. At the time the groceries situation was worse, it was more-or-less a food desert other than that Whole Foods [0].

I don't know how folks who can't afford a car would get groceries (an hour round trip on the bus, I guess), but that can be said about nearly everything in Michigan. The whole wealth bootstrapping problem is really unsolved out there, you can't get started on anything without like $5k for a car and car-related expenses.

[0]: https://www.google.com/maps/search/midtown+detroit+groceries...
> Just 3 or 4 years ago, economists were saying that we would never see 4% growth ever again and that 1 to 2% growth was the new normal.

No, they generally weren't, and any who were saying that we'd never see a quarter of 4% annualized growth rate four years ago (i.e., between the Q2 and Q3 releases of 2014) was especially silly.

US GDP growth by quarter for 2014:

Q1: -1%
Q2: +5.1%
Q3: +4.9%
Q4: +1.9%
I don't understand how they can correlate a sale to a specific google account without getting personal identification data. By definition if they can associate a transaction with a user, the user has been identified and has lost all privacy.
I'll let someone else have the fun doing the math, but I would guess his heat radiation (convection and conduction with vacuum are going to be negligible) would be on the order of milliwatts, which'll take an hour or so to change the temperature of 10g of skin by 1°
They've been doing variations of spend track as a $value to goods and services for years (I mean the banks) so.. I don't get it: whats significantly different this time, compared to the spend tracking they've done as business-intelligence for the last 20 years? They sell it to the highest targetted bidder. If you are buying BMW accessories for an old model car, without searching online, dont be surprised if you get ads for mercedes cars with a BMW buy-back: your postcode or ZIPcode, plus a few other details gets "you" as well as fingerprinting web purchase: remember your card is used in a weighted centroid centered on your home...
The only choice is to lobby your government officials to create laws preventing this sort of data collection.

End-users have zero power anymore except by collective action in the form of government regulations.
It’s not quite as fast but in my opinion the Ferdinand GT3[1] is a much cooler vehicle.

[1] https://youtu.be/GaQB_tgS7f0
You can use ios or lineageos. You can use an email such as protonmail (although I personally find them just a touch shady, they're no doubt miles better than gmail) or host your own. Don't shop at whole foods. Pay with cash.
it's 15% in future years, not 10%.
Study shows neurobiological effects of providing support to others
You could move to Apple and use Apple Pay Cash to buy purchases you'd rather not be tracked and sold to Google (and a million other companies).
I think "realistic" kind of depends on your goal. If you want to make it under 2C, I don't believe this is particularly realistic (i.e. not soon enough). If you want to avoid controversial actions and major changes to people's loves, sure it maybe too soon.
I'd forgotten how gross Adobe products are to integrate into a pipeline.
My favorite is tracing back the problems to Larry/Sergey, which is why I wrote the essay.
I love trains. Still, other than a few major cities, they aren't a great way to get around in the states. It is a shame there isn't more public support for building more rail.
The article doesn't mention it was off the record, and I wasn't there, so how would I know it's off the record?

But it seems likely that this isn't just exaggerated or hyperbolic, but just not close to accurate, in which case even if it's off the record it's silly.
[correction: Apple Pay Cash should indeed be a workable shield.] Using Apple Pay [not the "Cash" feature] only hides your details from the retailer, not from the credit card company nor evidently from Google.
Is the future female? Fixing sci-fi’s women problem
>but you would probably agree that he also wishes to use his political power to bring that revenue stream to an entity or group of entities that are alligned to him in some way

Oh, definitely. That's the one thing I trust him to be competent at.
Two wrongs don't make a right. The theater's are gouging, but stealing isn't the answer. Spending your money elsewhere is. Last time I checked movie theaters are a luxury, not a need.

When I read your original title I figured there was coupon or some other gimmicky offer not petty theft.
It bothers me because, from my armchair view, Russia had the motives and means to do exactly what they are being accused of.

To dismiss that as "just the DNC looking for excuses" seems disingenuous at best coming from such an "independent thinker"
They should have used rust :D
For the low low price of 100% of their vehicle fleet maintenance costs, being a government institution. Probably saved hundreds of thousands of dollars using consumer lines
> If it wasn't 'net positive' not only would we not be having this conversation over the 'internet' - we'd still be in the dark ages.

The internet was developed by Darpa so I'm not sure what you're trying to imply here. Competition did not produce the internet, and the telecommunications industry, which came about after as a commercialization project, has serious issues which make this an even harder argument to make.
Yeah First class on Chicago to Bismarck might be 2x but JFK to Heathrow is an easy 10x
What a flawed analogy. This isn’t anything close to stalking. You are using a credit card processing service. If you don’t like what they do with your data, use a different one or just pay everything with cash.
Better Geometry Through Graph Theory
Banking data has strong regulatory protection. I am surprised payment data hasn't.
Bikes aren't really a solution for lots of places in America. To much sprawl. Lots of non bike friendly weather. That said, in the places where bikes are reasonable, they are fairly convenient to use (bike lanes and whatnot). Still, they aren't widely used.
Long live cash.
The Hidden Resilience of “Food Desert” Neighborhoods
What does FUD mean in this context?

edit: I looked it up.

Your comment is obviously correct and valid. However, my stance is unchanged. I will stick to openjdk8 and avoid oracle regulatory influence.
Generally a big DB query is made when the user enters the site or makes the first API request to load all relevant user data. Then the data is stored in a cache system, which will be faster and cheaper than having the user send the data on every request.

Most modern web frameworks will do this out of the box with a little configuration.

Specifically, I've had good results with Redis, applicable for the majority of web apps. In some rare cases where even local network is too slow, use of local memory storage has worked well (at the cost of greater memory usage and more complex invalidation procedures).

But before optimizing user permissions, in my experience there is much more to be gained from optimizing other types of DB queries.
buy something your friends need at a place you rarely shop and get cash back...then go do your cash on hand shopping...
I said Apple Pay Cash, and yes, it does.

https://applepaycash.greendot.com/privacy/
Only 117 lines of code? Impressive.
Translation services
Google did lose 2 EU lawsuits, 2.4B for search manipulation and 5 billion for android antitrust.

It's not an opinion about Google has tweaked its search, just the scope.

We just don't know how big or small google search altering goes. They already proved during the 2016 US elections Google removed negative searches for Democrats. Would really be helpful if someone collected all the google search manipulations. Google at least lets you know if something is removed if its torrent link.

I've run into multiple Youtube search issues where I know a video exists, but can't find it easily or at all. Normally its just a dozen pages down. Even with exact titles searches, it can sometimes be extremely difficult.
Slippery slope fallacy aside since that is advocating we go back to a time before child labor laws, yes. The hard work involved is my point. This doesn't have to be physical labor, see my error handling example in learning computer science. K-12 also refers to what I'm advocating as "productive struggle", and I'm not sure being an advertisement teaches this skill.
Testing, style checking, code coverage...
Epoxy can cure in a vacuum, as demonstrated by common fabrication procedures (sort of). The temperature isn't actually that big of a thing. Space is "cold" because there's no heat but also nothing to conduct it away. It actually gets quite hot if you're facing the sun as well. Long story short though, as long as there's no gas passing through the hole, it should stay around the internal temperature of the ISS or at least close enough to cure.
Burning man is captured in a series of eerie photos before the crowds
The big deal here is the rumours there's no notch. Just as the Pixel 3 gets ready to ship with theirs
Unfettered, profit-at-all-costs is the problem. Paying for something brings no shred of chance that your data isn't being harvested. Zero.

Most people pay for credit cards by way of yearly fees, they track you. Purchase music? Your music is cross referenced in the name of discoverability. Hardware? Same.

Some of those things might be helpful in some contexts, and in others not. That fuzzy line is the discourse.

With all of that said, to cite the locus of all evil as “ad supported” as the problem is a logical fault line.
Why You Shouldn't Trust Amazon Ratings
I feel like as consumers we've lost this battle. If it's profitable the other companies will do it, too. I'm hoping that as consumers keep getting more screwed we can get some regulation to give us at least a little control and visibility into our data.
https://myaccount.google.com/activitycontrols by the way.
I’ve grown very weary of HN comments that just say “what’s new about this?” Things can be worth discussing after the exact moment they become known to the world
For email, there's Fastmail, which is great and the web UI is clean, simple and fast. If your phone is supported, you can install LineageOS on it without any Google apps.
That’s the equivalence principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalence_principle
"This could also cost an employer (either real or perceived) productivity, and result in wage stagnation or lack of hiring new full time employees."

Why should I care about that more?

"Additionally, and most importantly, full time employees will be fired and converted to 'contractors,' they'll fill their previous role for less money and benefits and not technically be 'employees.'"

Then we need to punish that company extremely harshly, as much as we can.
> Facebook probably is a monopoly

A monopoly of...?

They key part of a "monopoly" claim is defining the market. Facebook has a monopoly communications? No. Does it have a monopoly on online communications? No. Does it have a monopoly on mobile communications? No.

Does it have a monopoly on social interactions? No. Does it have a monopoly on online social interactions? No. Does it have a monopoly on social networks? No. Does it have a monopoly on online social networks? No.

Does it have a monopoly on ads? No. Does it have a monopoly on online ads? No. Does it have a monopoly on online ads in social networks? No.

Does Facebook have a monopoly on serving ads in an online social network that is blue-themed? No.

Does Facebook has a monopoly on a on serving ads in an online social network that is blue-themed and has a feed? Not even that!

Does Facebook has a monopoly on a on serving ads in an online social network that is blue-themed and has a feed and is owned by a Harvard dropout? Yes.

That is the complication of a monopoly claim, you need to define the market. If you define it too narrowly, you'll always have a monopoly. If you define it too broadly, you'll never have a monopoly.
It rings some bells, yes it does. Back when I was playing PP I it was out of reach to play the original and I came by a hack/crack to pass the potions part of the game got which you had to have the originals game booklet to look up certain words on pages, remember that excitement. Games were superior in estetics IMO and now they got complicated and lost the magic, I look at my nephew playing some horrible games and wonder..
PG's definition is still a very good one I think: http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html .

A deodorant company that sold for $100 million less than 3 years after founding is absolutely what I would consider a startup.
Open Source Devs Behind Lerna Reverse Decision to Block ICE Collaborators
...perhaps a layer of self assembling/repairing nanoskin?...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S167265291...

...or somthing similar
As an aside, does anyone happen to know what the "levels" of performance on the TripleByte technical quiz are? When I took it (and I realize this will sound like a humblebrag), I was told I did "exceptionally well" and could be paired with "approximately 27 top tech companies", but I didn't feel I did all that well on it at all.

I tried one of their quizzes once, out of curiosity after it was mentioned somewhere I think. The questions I saw were routine enough for an experienced developer and I'd have expected anyone senior to get a near-perfect score. I'm pretty sure I still got shown something very close to what you got shown at the end, though.

That said, the other recruiting site that comes to mind for plugging how selective it is is TopTal, which claims to only take the top 3%. Given that 100% of people I've encountered who claimed to be in that group would also have failed a junior developer interview with me in minutes if not seconds, I'm guessing the population of people who seriously apply to these sites skews very low on skill and experience. Maybe anyone mid-level or above who actually knows what they're doing really is exceptionally good within that population, and even though you didn't feel it went that well you were still a good prospect among their applicants.
Tips that have improved my travel experience:

1) Don't go to a "destination" city. Don't go to a city that derives too much of its income from tourism.

2) Trip length: not too long, not too short.

3) Make a loose itinerary, but rip it up occasionally.

4) Bring a phone, but no laptop. Don't use TripAdvisor/Yelp/etc. Ask around. Walk around. Have strange conversations. Don't be afraid to stay in non-traditional lodging.

5) Invest in a place before you go: learn some of the language, read a great book from the place, etc. This will make it much more interesting and memorable.

6) Don't go on trips just because your friends posted about their "amazing" vacations and you feel like you have to go, too. Travel sucks if the excitement doesn't come from within.

7) If you're on a limited budget, don't go to expensive cities and scrimp. It's no fun. Go to cheaper cities and splurge. Or have a blast and go camping with your friends a short drive away.

8) Get fit and dress nicely. Whether you like it or not, this is how people judge you. It's easier to be a good-looking guy/gal in a new place.

Happy travels! :-)
Times the word “monopoly” appears in this comment thread (so far): 26

Times the word “monopoly” appears in the article: 0

It’s worth repeating: The Sherman Antitrust Act does not apply only to actors in monopoly positions. Antitrust actions may be taken against businesses engaging in anticompetitive behavior or otherwise restraining trade, even if they don’t control the entire market.
To be fair, if it hits 50 around here people start installing snow chains and dying of hypothermia.
I would kill for Python bindings to the full functionality of Photoshop and Illustrator. Seems like a no-brainer!
> It feels like someone at Debian is trying to avoid real numbers

As far as I'm aware of, Debian doesn't have any real numbers, because it's not an enterprise. However, GNU/Linux Distributions Timeline[1] gives a pretty good idea, how widespread Debian is in comparison to other Linux distributions.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Di...
Buy less stuff.

It maybe isn't an ideal solution, but it has a lot of upsides. Advertisers (and ad middlemen like Google) bet that they can sell more stuff by drilling deeper and deeper into people's lives.

But the bottom falls out of all that when people decide to opt out of large parts of the commercial ecosystem.

Track your finances instead, the same way you would with a fitness app, and get that dopamine hit from seeing your savings increase. Feel secure in the knowledge that when the next major economic slump hits -- when, not if -- you'll be able to easily ride it out, maybe even enjoy a nice vacation at discounted rates.

The massive growth of ad blockers was an immune response to the excesses of advertisers on the web. Commercial minimalism is the only way to respond to all this crap happening everywhere else.
> 4TB uses 42 bits of address space.

Can't you compress that into less than 42 bits?
The classic Trumpian move-- destroy value for others in exchange for personal financial gain, logic be damned.
I agree, they're not all bad. It's the salmon run ones that bother me the most.
It sounds like you're describing "flyering", where you have a group of people handing out flyers in a space where large groups normally travel. A common example is college clubs advertising for new members in their campus quad, during passing periods. Is this what you mean?