skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are getting downvoted because you included the name of your cat which to an American-native audience means something quite different than a Portuguese- or Spanish- native audience.
This is the same case like big banks during financial crisis. I can’t believe they are still a running company after such a big blunder. Worst part is I as an individual never wanted my social security and personal data be mined by such companies let alone have it hacked. We have no say in this.
After the landing page I didn't even went ahead and read the report because I dismissed it as content marketing. You can see the entire thing is targeted at managers not at software engineers.
Efficiency in the market and development process drove client developers to be a dirt cheap bottomless resource. Before iPhone apps (and later Android), you could create a new application and sell it in a box for a good living. The only "box apps" which most people will still pay for are grandfathered in things like Photoshop, Matlab, and Office. Even new video games are mostly in-app purchases or ad-based. I don't like electron based apps, but that's not what devalued developers.

Besides, I wasn't talking specifically about electron-based apps, I was talking about apps in general which don't use the native widget toolkits.

Also, I can't speak for everyone, but my preference for a platform boils down to whether it provides a Unix shell and how pushy it is about forcing me to download updates or upload personal information. Consistent widget look and feel just doesn't matter when I spend most of my time in a browser or shell anyways.
I feel like I could do essentially all computing that I do now, except surfing the Internet at broadband speeds, on a machine with 64MB RAM and a Pentium II. IO has gotten a lot faster and hard disks are a lot bigger, but the things I do still work at about the same speed most of the time.
Well, the difference is the "actual monopoly" here can be voted out democratically. Give the workers of Amazon and other companies the same power to influence the board through one person one vote or a liquid democracy, then we can talk about the supposed hypocrisy involved in asking government to break up monopolies.
I suppose there's a need for "Internet literacy" (or "Google literacy"). One rule I instinctively follow is, if I find some claim surprising, e.g. "there was more X under president Y, than president Z", I will search for something like "X USA graph", look for a source I recognise (and hence know the credibility and biases of), and see if the data supports either or neither of those alternatives.

I will specifically not search for "X president Y" or "X president Z" because that will be priming the algorithm to confirm my biases.
I'm going to shamelessly hijack this question to pose something that came to mind reading this, and the more abridged exploratory linked by another commentor (https://qz.com/282971/what-everyones-getting-wrong-about-ama... for the interested), since AWS was mentioned.

I propose a thought experiment:

Supposing government takes Kahn up on this modest proposal and starts levying real regulatory eyeballs on Amazon and actually end up with something on the House floor. Asking the HN crowd: how do you think this would even affect AWS as a product and would it have any sort of ripple effects to the industries and working engineers that rely on it?
I, like some other commenters, objected to that sentence, but now after understanding the context about the linked article further down I think I get it now, and I agree I hope it's just how some reorganization during editing that made its meaning confusing.

I think "bearded dudes" is used specifically because the article was named "Hipster Antitrust", i.e. "dudes" being used to highlight the way the word "hipster" was used to ridicule Lina Khan's ideas in the first place.
Absolutely. The rise of Trump and the alt-right shows how shame is an unsustainable mechanism for social change, though most people in the US still seem to be applying shame/outrage. Trump and Russian bots have also shown how emotionally reactive we are, as a people. I see this as the result of us not teaching emotional responsibility and boundaries as part of normative cultures.

Learning and practicing nonviolent communication is how I started learning to navigate my emotions at age 33. 2.5 years later and my life is completely different, as a result. I highly recommend it for anyone who's having difficulty witnessing where humanity is presently at.

Also, turn off the news and social media while learning it. Learning to be different from the norm can be really hard when the norm's so persistently reinforced. Besides, if I can't read something without maintaining a mindful perspective, I'm not ready to clearly think about it, much less choose a loving response in action/word to it. If I can't affect the world in a loving, sustainable way, I prefer to get myself into a headspace where I can, rather than react.
Opioid pain drugs are life savers for people who actually need them, so I think this is a bit more complicated than capitalist Satan-incarnate vs. the poor helpless fools duped into taking his wicked drug.
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There are other threads if you’d like to discuss the merits of the argument.
It would be an interesting use of civil asset forfeiture to seize the patent on this drug and make it free for anyone to produce.
A Trump appointee ended the investigation into Equifax

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-equifax-cfpb/exclusiv...

Wikipedia has more of this guy's greatest hits. I especially love this one: "In January 2018, Mulvaney canceled an investigation into a South Carolina payday lender that had previously donated to his congressional campaigns."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Mulvaney#Tenure_2
Seconding Valencia (source: living there for two years).

You can buy a 3 bed flat for around 100k€, eat a three-course lunch for 9-15€ and generally enjoy life.

Weather in summer can be too wet though and the metro stops every 10-15 minutes compared to the ~2 in Barcelona. Also, tech jobs pay between 11k-45k€ only AFAIK.
We need that with a livestream and queuing mechanisms to reduce the risk of monopolization.
I wonder if there is any good writing on how any potential regulation would play out.

Amazon is already a platform, so what about it would actually be changed if it was "treated like infrastructure"? Ok, players like Google who have been blackballed could list there, so that's a small win. Would it also mean restricting Amazon business units from seeing data on their platform? I'm not sure that's actually a win for society. Is it forcing Amazon to share this data with competitors? That would be interesting, but starts running into privacy challenges. Is it enforcing some idea of neutrality in ranking items? That seems a very hard thing to regulate well without destroying the utility of search.

As part of the EU Anti-trust ruling against Google Shopping, Google has made Shopping into a fully separate (accounting wise) business unit and opened up shopping ad slates for bidding to competing sites, but the sites who instigated that action aren't happy because they are not actually able to monetise those slots as effectively as Google can.

These companies are powerful, and maybe regulating based on price is short sited as the article claims, but a long term view should not seek to destroy power for no other reason than it exists.
For those wondering about the 'bearded hipster' comment, it's specifically referring to this: https://www.competitionpolicyinternational.com/antitrust-chr...

This is written later in the article.
Ethical Machines?
I don't consider arbitrary systems practical. I don't define myself by what Equifax thinks of me, and neither should a bank. Unless a proper, accountable, civil system exists, call it for what it is: Bullshit.
Hmm, I was able to lock my credit history with all 3 bureaus without using mail; TransUnion was the highest touch in that it required phone confirmation. Prior to that, I had been using the 90-day fraud alert, which I always set online every 90 days.
Google pulls Russian opposition leader's YouTube advert ahead of vote
Some great examples of the Mellotron being used in music today:

Black Moth Super Rainbow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1VAw5aaYW4

Steven Wilson - Luminol - https://youtu.be/wYfQ1I-VV7M?t=499
Respectfully, one goal of doing this research was to shine a light on those who are engaging in these practices, so that users who dislike it can potentially find alternatives.

This is a good thing for any apps who do things right.
It's gone again.
I think what you see is a culture wherein conforming to the majority idea is valued (a lot) higher than the individual's ability for self-expression. This does not mean people don't think differently, the Swedish are notoriously individualistic, but it does mean that your voice isn't heard as often, and when it is, it doesn't really seem like it's your voice, but rather it was agreed upon to be the way forward.

The hyper-individualism, I think, is just the flip side of hyper-authoritarianism. Swedish people are almost happy to pay taxes, Swedish people are some of the most active voters in the OECD (82% turnout last election, let's hope tomorrow's election is no worse!), and Swedish road safety policy is now a Swedish export.

It is indeed a very unusual combination, but I think it's what happens when you mix prosperity, democracy, and secularism for a long time. I hope that the recent waves of misinformation and polarizing media won't ruin it. But it isn't looking good.
The gov. could "contract" the way they do with research grants, and could also expand the FDA/NIH to do more in house. Traditional government contracting sucks, I fully agree
I guess I can just accept that we're using different definitions of some of these words.
So if a manufacturer produces a drug which saves tens of millions of people from suffering and a few million of those don't follow manufacturer or doctor instructions and abuse it, the drug manufacturer should be shut down?
The problem with algorithmic music creation is that compositional models are always going to be limited to baked in technical parameters. If you're working from analysis, your analyzer needs to be able to recognize a compositional technique before it returns any useful data about it. Which means it needs to recognize a wide range of techniques, even for pop music.

Is this project the result of a high school computer music assignment?
I'm not denying that opioid drugs are useful, but the way Purdue Pharma actually acted is much more in line with a capitalist Satan-incarnate view, regardless of the benefits of opioids.
Arbitrary again.

To quote Inigo Montoya, you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Rust actually gives you access to all overflow behaviors that you could want. So if you know that your target CPU has saturating overflow you use https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.i32.html#method.satu... or wrapping_add, or overflowing_add, or checked_add. The syntax isn't as nice as for normal + though.
I don’t know if it’s always true in the context he mentions - particle physics - but I’m pretty sure it is not always true in e.g. chemical physics. Both entropy and enthalpy matter. The reaction of potassium vapor with bromine vapor is spontaneous even though the solid crystalline potassium bromide product has lower entropy than the gas phase reactants. In the comments on the article Milkshake also gives an example of an entropically driven spontaneous reaction: ammonium nitrate dissolving in water. You need enthalpic and entropic terms to predict if a reaction is thermodynamically spontaneous.

And if you want to calculate if a thermodynamically spontaneous reaction will appreciably take place, you also need to understand the actual intermediates between A + B -> C, and find reaction barrier heights for all of them, and weight them appropriately. This is still very hard to do so information of this sort is mostly determined by experiment rather than calculation.
It is certainly more complicated, but that doesn't necessarily make the manufactures look better. From all accounts, they marketed their drug as non-addictive, in spite of evidence they had to the contrary.
Now after getting people addicted to their safe medication, they've made a "cure" for it. Who's to say the cure isn't worse than the disease? I wouldn't trust them to make that judgement call. It isn't as if Oxycodone is the only way to manage pain either.
Scholarly sugar coating, what about the monopoly of other industries such as "printing the dollar". Amazon is just competing, it didn't usurp power, or conquer a foreign land.
Local news died a long time ago, and in awful ways: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM8L7bdwVaA.
https://lareviewofbooks-org-cgwbfgl6lklqqj3f4t3.netdna-ssl.c...
Been there, done that; went through hell to get off OxyContin after a climbing accident.

Repeat customers are created by doing long term harm while providing short term relief, expecting corporations to actually solve problems or have a conscience is beyond silly.
"If a story is written about how a Japanese immigrant went through struggles coming to America, it would be disgraceful to have a white woman play that role."

I disagree. For example, recently I was at a play about Jewish holocaust survivor. I don't know if the actor is Jewish, I think he is not, but I don't care. It doesn't retract from the experience in any way.

Now, white woman playing an Asian woman could cause issue with suspension of disbelief. An Asian actor would be ideal, but other than that, it's not going to be a big deal. If it was a really good play (as in writing and acting), I would forgive them the characters didn't look in a realistic way.

"The reality is that the majority of Americans see trans people as different. It would be wonderful if that weren't the case, but until then, any cis (non-trans) person playing a trans person is going to be a caricature of the trans experience"

I disagree again, and I don't follow the logic here. Certainly, the producers of the said movie about TG people didn't considered them to be different enough to worry about whether the role is to be played by cis or trans woman.

And I personally think it would be better for trans people to get the story out rather than point out that it is a caricature. If you argue that we should not think about these people as being different, then it is not a caricature. It's a human playing a human.

I personally don't care if person is LGBT and what letter. It's something that is relevant in the bedroom and I couldn't care less. It makes almost no difference in all other interactions. But you Americans are just weirdly obsessed with sexuality for some reason.
GDPR does not only regulate what data a business can collect. It also has many other provisions that would be relevant in the Equifax data breach. It requires that appropriate security measures be taken to secure any personal data that you collect, which Equifax obviously failed to do. It also requires that data breeches be disclosed within 72 hours of when they are discovered while Equifax took about nine months to do so.
Sure. Self-taught systems put a lot on responsibility on the student. Apprenticeship systems are very mentor-time-expensive and/or put responsibility on the student.

If the students were already so great at this, they could make do with so-so teachers. We do not expect as much from K-6 at least, for good reason. And that will not change soon.
I have experienced Cabin's bump cancelling technology on a prototype on 101. We drove ~4 miles without it turned on, and then the same 4 mile stretch with it activated. Even having seen the data beforehand, I was impressed.
I have never attended Allsång på Skansen, not to my knowledge. Most Swedish people are creeped out by it too. It somehow feels so forced. It's almost like a cult.
(From the point of view of graphics programming.)

The advantage/disadvantage of a 4x4 matrix (i.e. homogenous coordinates) is that you can describe the full transform--position, rotation, scale, and skew--in one go. If you only care about rotations, then using quaternions is less multiplication. Plus quaternions sidestep any issues with unwanted scale/skew if you're dealing with rigid-body objects.
I remember them being a huge chunk of the scam/ad ecosystem on iOS before it was integrated into the OS a couple versions ago.
Thank you for the resource links/recommendations.
But we can stop voting for the thing by... not buying it. If enough people stop using Amazon, Amazon goes away.

Now think of how large the demonstrations have been to protest various government policies, and how little change has come about.

I've not yet been able to figure out how to vote out drug warriors, and whoever the hell it is in the government that supports the US global military empire.

If you can tell me who to vote for to legalize drugs and end the wars, I'll do so in a heartbeat!

I think the government would like us to continue to think that we have say in its going-ons, via once-every-two-year elections.
A generics List<T> isn't much slower than the non-generic List if T is some class.

This is only true generics using erasure, such as in Java. Since Java will store Objects (pointers to objects) in both cases. But in languages that use e.g. monomorphization a List<T> stores the Ts adjacent in memory, since the size of each element is known, whereas a non-generic list has to store pointers to objects, since the object sizes are not known and may vary per element. A generic List<T> that is monomorphized has two large benefits: fewer cache misses due to locality and more opportunities to inline T method implementations.
White’s case could spark a review of the rules for dealing with trans inmates
I think what you've found is a reflection of the du-reform.[0] Swedish people are allowed, nay expected, to poke fun at their supervisors, as a show of good faith and encourage exactly that kind of bottom-up decision making that is so crucial to good teamwork.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du-reformen
Right. I wonder how much the US would pay for this rock I found in Europe? There were no large data breaches while this rock was there.

You can't determine the past effectiveness of increased future legislation, especially if it's in an environment with a history of lax enforcement.
could call it "negligent public disclosure of personal information"
>Hate speech is not free speech

There is no such thing as "hate speech." It has no legal or rational construction. Hurt feelings and strenuous objections are no basis for law.
related https://blog.burntsushi.net/transducers/
I think I’m questioning the idea that portraying a bearded hipster is portraying a “dude” specifically, rather than a “man” (more formal than the reported article) or even just a “hipster” (would be a repetitive use.) Was it that they could not come up with another synonym and the NYT made an exception, or does the NYT generally allow a term like that now?

I’m also curious about whether the NYT has changed its policy of adopting a source’s language style to report on it (just for reporting, as an op-ed has different standards and already allows this.) That seems like a new development, but I’m not a daily reader of the whole newspaper.
The problem is that I have no choice but to use equifax when I need to do anything involving my credit rating. They have a bizarre monopoly on this vital aspect of life. When I go to the banks asking for them to give me my credit score that they have on file they defiantly refuse me.
> “At the local level, news doesn’t stop when the news coverage goes away,” Lanane said. “Somebody has to do this work.”

And there's the problem: No, somebody does NOT have to do this work. It is beneficial to society if someone does local journalism, agreed. But if there is no viable economic model for it, then it will disappear. Perhaps the most likely alternative right now, if there's going to be significant local new coverage, is government-subsidized journalism, but that clearly will not be doing any in-depth investigation of those in power in that government. And I don't think that most governments are thinking about doing that anyway. I think the most likely outcome is what is happening: local journalism will, for the most part, completely disappear.

I also recommend Clay Shirky's "Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable" : http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking... - I think he clearly explains why this is happening, not because the newspapers didn't see it coming, but because the fundamental economic forces have proven irresistible.
Watching any video involving comedian Bill Burr will immediately get you anti-feminist and even white nationalist video recommendations. It's just weird how close that cliff is to fairly mainstream videos.
I think we're pretty much on the same page though, the civil courts are not functioning correctly in this regard, but to me that doesn't mean the credit industry is the be-all end-all solution to the problem.

We really should be improving our judicial system rather than letting private industry determine what we as a society should consider when someone wants to take out a loan.
Trudeau doesn't have the stomach for anything this complex.
Being trans isn't limited to the bedroom. It's not related to sexuality, although there are correlations. The sort of "human playing a human" argument is exactly what is talked about in the Riddle scale. Watching cis people play trans characters feels like watching Hackers, the terrible 90's movie.
>I am looking at Q2 statement and gross margin before ZEV is 20%. With ZEV it is 21%.

The statement given is ex ZEV and stock based comp, not ex ZEV/GHG and Services/Other. ZEV/GHG accounted for ~2% of margin in the first half of 2018 while Services/Other accounted for a little over 5%. Check the 10-Qs.

> Also, gross margin is literally margin after cost of goods. Doesn't include SG&A expense.

Most OEMs use the delta between the retail price and the bulk invoice including cost of stores to calculate their margin.
"Treated like infrastructure" is a soft version of completely breaking up the company. I.e. just like your power company can't deny you services on the basis that you compete with them Amazon couldn't deny Google a place on their platform. Other Amazon business units could still buy data from the platform, but they'd need to make that available to external companies too.

Nobody's trying to "destroy power for no other reason than it exists". There's plenty of established powerful companies in e.g. the car industry, telecom etc. where the rules of what counts as anti-trust are thoroughly established. Tech companies of this scale are a really young industry, so this is still all being figured out, and it's no surprise given the lack of precedent and their relative power that tech companies are in the spotlight when it comes to regulation.
Opiates are fungible. Heroin and oxy are interchangeable, how do you determine what liability Purdue has if someone started using heroin but also buys oxy or starts on oxy and switches to heroin?