skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Weird to write this article without citing any actual numbers. Here, let's help with that: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/8/3/17644180/po....

Some key takeaways:

- There just aren't many instances where people are actually being uninvited or censored on an absolute scale.

- It's actually spread across the ideological spectrum, not solely limited to conservative speakers.

- A tiny handful of conservative speakers are responsible for a significant number of these events, and in fact it appears that to some degree the point of inviting them is trolling, intended to draw protest and press attention, rather than a genuine attempt to present.

Personally, I think major news organizations offering their imprimatur to self-proclaimed fascists who advocate for limiting or destroying democratic governance might be more harmful to democracy than colleges refusing to host talks by people who traffic in trolling and bigotry. But that's just me.

I also think it's useful to consider Sarte's quote about the utility of "debating" anti-Semites:

> Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

and how that same pattern plays out frequently in the high-profile interviews and debates with people like Bannon and Spencer.
It occurs to me as I think about this topic more and more (sadly article is paywalled so I can't speak to it directly), manufacturing is to blane for lost manufacturing jobs. Economies are self balancing, and since manufacturing makes goods cheaper, eventually people will do other things that are still expensive. This is prediminantly why people talk about transformation to service economies.

Manufacturing is inherently about mass producing, which means it's always been about scale, which means doing more without adding proportionately to labor. Automation is just one of the many things that help scale, it's just one of the many things that requires capital investment.

The bigger problem for manufacturing jobs has been globalization. When you can take your capital to a market with cheaper workers, then labor becomes a scaling tool (ironically?) in that you can throw labor at a problem to get your labor costs down. What's interesting about this, though, is that at some point you can't do this anymore. Textiles, which is considered level 0 for manufacturing, has nowhere left to go for cheaper labor than Bangladesh (without significant political instability issues).
That might be a good argument if the link was to an article with a large amount of discussion about the pros and cons of each configuration change, instead of just a list of changes with a brief overview of what they do.
> A less sharp growth rate

On the macro scale we're talking about, that means you want everyone to be poorer. You get that, right?
Because your bot is a liar. Manipulating your resume to be more appealing is valid, because it's not a liar.

Shifting keywords, re-ordering sections, highlighting specific experience: totally, 100% valid, and if you can automate that, a potential product (it's similar to stuff I banged on years and years ago). It's what people should be doing to their resume anyway.

Companies don't use AI against candidates, they use AI to try to weed through the tens, hundreds, or thousands of resumes they have to shuffle through to find maybe one or two standouts.

You wouldn't be using AI against a company, you'd be using it because (in your view) it's in your, and the company's, best interests to hire you. Guess what: lying and bullshitting to get a foot in the door does not demonstrate that, and only very rarely will it be positively received by the people you lied to.

If you're waiting for a "Ya' gotta lotta moxie, kid, yeeeaaaarrrrhh" you'll probably be waiting a long time.
Are you kidding? If someone controlled most of the world's food supply, and said that each night you had to do the moonwalk to have access to their food supply, would you say they are forcing you to do the moonwalk? I would, and I'm pretty sure any sane person would. Because the other option is starvation, which leads to you ceasing to exist. How anyone can actually believe the "logic" you're proposing here is really beyond me.
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I work in ocean conservation, and this thread makes me sad. Anyone in ocean conservation can tell you this is BS, but sadly people in the tech industry have a tendency to discount the knowledge and opinion of experts in other fields.
Do you mean arrays are rare?
Wiremock is how you test the adapter.
Hi, I've created simple shopping list that enables you to: list products, search for closest stores where you can buy the, see results on the map and find shortest path
While I get your point, Musk is pretty far from a traditional CEO. It's also important to point out that people investing in Tesla are also very likely pretty far from your traditional investor investing in a traditional industry.
the other possibility is that they do know something that isn't widely known about quantum computing.
Apple to Launch a Global Law Enforcement Web Portal by End of 2018
The Indie Post-apocalypse
I’ve always loved maps, I can sit and stare into one for hours, imagining all the places represented. The best part of traveling to me is the surprising difference between what I imagined and the real world.

In this sense, I see maps as guides, not definitive truth. It gets you to the general right area where you can then really learn it for yourself.

I’ve found GPS turn-by-turn navigation to increase my reliance on the map as absolute truth, and have noticed a marked decrease in my cognitive mapping abilities. Now my wife and I will often play a game where we try to get home using no maps at all, to expand our cognitive map of an area. This is helpful because we move frequently due to our “nomad” lifestyle, which the article also describes quite accurately.
Jio already has more than 70k+ km of optical fibre layed out to connect all Major city, and more is being layed out per day. They plan to provide 100GB free per month + additional at little cost ( about 5$ per 1000GB ) with provide service such as streaming TV , security systems, landline phone at no extra cost. Installation charges up to your home for optical fibre at about 70 USD.
Lol, not my country. Canada's leadership is imperfect but remains on the side of sanity. And we keep bulwarks against such things. It's actually a large part of the current NAFTA negotiations. Trump goes on about trade and money, we are concerned about protecting our culture and our politics. The "Canadian content" rules, our limitations on foreign ownership of media outlets, such things are to protect us from the raging dumpster fire.
I'd love to use git at work again. We're using clearcase at my present job -- and I think I'm becoming allergic to it.
Yep. Sounds like their cloud is literally made of vapour.
From the second paragraph:

The web portal will be available globally as part of Apple's new Law Enforcement Support Program, which the company detailed on the Government Information Requests page of its privacy website this week [0].

[0] https://www.apple.com/privacy/government-information-request...
Yes, once the Web Package Standard is finalized and implemented then AMP pages will indeed use the normal `amp.` URLs.

But at that point, what would be your concern with hiding `amp.`? That's no worse than hiding `m.`; it's just another subdomain which serves a different version of the same content. Heck, sites could serve their amp pages on `m.` domains if they wanted to; the actual subdomain they decide to use is irrelevant.
You don’t need a different approach. It’s absolutely possible to build fast websites today without AMP - it’s just a collection of good practices and strict limits.

In fact, you can even use AMP itself without any of the Google garden parts.
Ok thanks for clarifying and editing your original post. It sure helps to state your credentials/knowledge in the field upfront.
I’m curious because I can’t quite tell. Are they modifying game code, or the code of the emulator?

If it’s game code, how is it so readable in its disassembled form? I may be really misunderstanding but I’d love to hear about how they are modifying the game code so cleanly if that’s what’s happening.

Edit: pretty sure this is a fix to the cpu emulator.
By the time it gets into these "garbage patches" it is already microscopic and distributed over the water column. What does make sense is to get fishermen to avoid losing gear. Also, trash collectors in bays and estuaries work very, very well. For example the Baltimore trash wheel. The difference is that near-shore trash collectors get it where it is highly concentrated, and before it breaks down into microplastics.
Normally I'd agree with you, but some of the breakthroughs in this space over the last 18 month make it clear that it's not an "if," but a "when." They're positioning to be right there when the moment happens.
There needs to be a pithy phrase for this kind of debate. Kind of like "form over function". Except here it's the desire to focus on the "form" of an argument, over the actual content of the argument. Similar to both-sides-ism. "Is the earth round? Views differ." Some kind of pithy phrase, when repeated, will exhort people to look at the content of the argument rather than just the structure.
Quantum computers are fine. What we also need to focus on are different kinds/models of computing on a traditional computer. The industry is very very young and there are so many untested, postponed or unfinished ideas that were left in limbo (pun kinda intended) because of the market.

What I would really love to see are some of these computing models brought back to life. Alan Kay's idea of computing looks very interesting albeit very scattered; Exokernels is another interesting thought, which could lead up to very interesting distributed computing model (like an irc, but c stands for computing);
Transactional Memory is another. There are a lot of them, and I think they are best served by an organisation in lieu with Bell Labs or Xerox Research..
Theranos rode the bleeding edge of technology until they ran out of edge.
Lee Kuan Yew was routinely called a dictator, but he left Singapore in far, far better shape than he found it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Kuan_Yew, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/23/lee-kuan-yews-...
Hence the geographic control comment. There's a reason utilities are often considered natural monopolies.
It apparently has to ask for the rights to open the user's files, and frankly, as a user if I paid for anti-malware I'd give it those permissions.
ReasonML was written in SML then they switched to Ocaml because everyone at Facebook already knew it and caml4p is a thing.

Because it is "just Ocaml", all the weird parts of Ocaml bleed through the reason language design. No operator overloading, nominal record typing, 3 competing standard libraries (plus the all-too-small actual standard library). The list of oddities is rather long.

SML was and is a better choice. SML has structurally typed objects and first-class constructors. No named arguments, but structurally typed objects do a better job at this (like JS destructuring, but more efficient). Anonymous records are possible. A ref type rather than mutable record fields. Only one `let`. PolyML has shipped a multi-process implementation for years while Ocaml's is still in an unending beta. SuccessorML (SML 2.0) is adding some syntactic niceties along with things like module typeclasses (modules should prevent the typeclass hell of Haskell). Most importantly, SML is a standard with multiple implementations and isn't completely tied to the success of Jane Street.
The ridiculous thing I was commenting on was your suggestion that if sudden high-speed braking maneuvers on a highway were "cause for concern" then you shouldn't buy a Tesla. MV death statistics are completely irrelevant to that point.
Top MacOS App Exfiltrates Browser Histories Behind Users’ Backs
The same Vodafone forced to change all their plan to match that to Jio. I'm using same 5$ for 2GB per day, 84 day plan that Jio provide on Vodafone.
So the pro-Google argument I'm hearing is something like: "Google is making a better experience for users and no one is forcing you to use Google."

If you think Google is in the right here you have to say Microsoft was totally right to push IE and make it the default on Windows machines and make certain pages only load in IE and all the rest. After all, you could simply go install Firefox or not view pages on Microsoft.com.

The problem is that Google is using it's market advantage to do things that takes control from websites and affects their economics directly. Google using it's influence to dictate best practices is nothing new (and has always been worrisome), but AMP directly affects websites owner's control of their content and they are continuing down a path that weaken the economics of site owners, especially smaller sites.

You can say it's great to strip out bloated stuff from pages, but if Google strips more value from websites and gives them nothing in return, it just leads to sites closing down or producing less content because Google is absorbing their value.

And also don't forget good content that doesn't care about AMP or isn't part of an economic machine that jumps when Google says jump. That content just gets further pushed down the SERPs for big entities that follow Google's rules, regardless of it the content is better or if it has any "bloat" to strip in the first place. How exactly is that good for users?
There are some features in OCaml that are interesting if you're coming from a Haskell background. In particular, polymorphic variants don't have an obvious analog in Haskell and can be used very expressively. Certain problems can be reasoned about more easily (at least for me) with strict evaluation, so some problems are easier to deal with/debug in OCaml.
Those students will spread the idea as a joke until it reaches a bunch of people who take it seriously and start to organize.
I assume that's what happened here. The app says "I need permission for your home directory" and the user selects the home directory from a file picker, giving access to everything in it.

DaisyDisk's App Store version has similar sandboxing limitations and a similar workaround. It's an app designed to scan your whole hard drive and show you how your space is used, but by default it doesn't have permission to access the drive at all. So to run the first scan you have to indicate to the OS that you want the application to be able to read your hard drive, IIRC by dragging and dropping the volume onto DaisyDisk.

For an antimalware app, of course users are going to grant it permissions. There's no point in buying that if you're going to keep it in a sandbox where it can't look at your system.
I'm loving reason so far and like it a lot more than typescript.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17899395
Another larger point to consider is that what we perceive as "just politics" is a (big) business to the participants: politicians, parties, pressure groups, media organizations, journalists. These folks exploit basic human traits (outrage, fear, tribalism ...) for monetary gain. Put another way : the trolls aren't trolling because they're deranged (sometimes, ok..) but because that's their business.

Long watch but quite relevant and interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg4IqrIpuQU&t=2440s
They're designing the computer. They know exactly which problems they are targeting. Yes there's risk, but this isn't proceeding on blind hope.
That'd be like saying Search isn't a monopoly because a library lets people find information too. No one is making anything even close to that argument, so your post is just a strawman.

Search isn't a monopoly because there are other companies that do nearly the same thing, that customers can switch to them at nearly 0 cost.
By "trusted UI" I meant user interface within the browser that clearly doesn't belong to the webpage - such as the browser action's pop-up. As I said, an extension like Keybase could delegate this action to their app. Other extensions don't have this option because they don't have a native component. This is the reason why so many have implemented questionable or outright insecure solutions.
China's student activists cast rare light on brewing labor unrest
What is the search pricing power?
A few notes (not dismissing your post):

- The prepayment model was quite successful in the past; authors like Arthur Conan Doyle, Dickens and Dostoevsky made a living from producing novels in serialized form[1]. This model fits well also with TV shows, podcasts, and potentially video games.

- Plenty of content is already funded by volunteer donations and ads (although, personally, I abhor the latter more than copyright).

- You don't necessarily need copyright to have protection; contracts exist. It's doubtful the competing private theater networks would just copy each other's movies, rather than reach a legal agreement not to do so.

- For certain types of works, live performances provide a funding model that doesn't rely on copyright. It's not copyright that keeps people going to concerts.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_(literature)
Counterpoint: Unless you've been in network engineering for an ISP with tens of thousands or more residential customers, you have no idea how much spam/abuse/trojaned PC traffic comes from residential users. There's a very good reason why ISPs block some of this, for the protection of their own users. It's even necessary to block port 139 windows file sharing or people will connect PCs with totally open file shares straight into their cable or DSL modems.

It's a real headache. The average HN user is in like the 99.9th percentile of residential internet users. HN users, give them a proper DIA feed, sure. Everyone else, I'm wary.
Jenkins and Kubernetes with Docker Desktop
Founder Interviews: Evan Weaver of Fauna
Actually, shareholder value has only become an important emphasis in the past few decades.

> On August 12, 1981, Jack Welch made a speech at The Pierre in New York City called ‘Growing fast in a slow-growth economy’. This is often acknowledged as the "dawn" of the obsession with shareholder value. [0]

Milton Friedman's 1970 op ed in the NYT [1] arguing that profit is the primary social responsibility of a corporation has also been influential on executive thinking in this regard.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareholder_value

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/13/archives/a-friedman-doctr...
Are they getting equity? Experience? Networking? Fun?

As long as they feel like they're getting something useful from the experience, then I don't think "exploited" is the right word. And if they think they're not getting anything out of it, it begs the question just how that early stage startup is going to make them stick around. Exploitation involves more stick, less carrot.
I didn't see links to the actual algorithm and how this is constructed. Does anyone have source material?
True. I've been on a PIP once... a month after receiving an outstanding annual review. My mistake was asking for a raise :)
That is why people need to use the court of public opinion in such matters.
It really matters to shareholders that the guy who claims to work 120 hour weeks and sleep at the factory apparently found two and a half hours to smoke pot and drink on a podcast.

It really matters to shareholders that a month after starting a key executive NOPEd out of the company entirely.

Musk's behavior is becoming increasingly erratic, and that's generally not a great sign for a company that's perceived (rightly or wrongly) as a cult of personality built around a single man.
Tesla gross margin on an AWD Model 3 with Autopilot is ~$20,000.

Twenty thousand dollars.

And they are outselling BMW’s entire passenger car lineup.

It cost them a pretty penny to get here but cash is literally pouring in for Tesla right now.
According to the party's doctrine...

They think that mopeds are poor mans mean of transport and should not be allowed in big cities to not to shame the country.

Every peasant should drive Benz S600 to show country's affluence to foreigners.

I know, that's beyond schizo...
I don't know about tax benefits, but I know it is pretty common around DC for a husband to have his wife be the legal owner of his business for contract bidding purposes. The govt has to award a certain amount of contracts per year to smaller groups, so making the wife the owner allows the business to legally be a "woman owned, small business", even though the wife has no actual role in the company.
Lords stuck around until, if ever, violently deposed. Executives are accountable for producing something people will part with money to get.
And I would assume those people wouldn't want a multistory office building being built in their neighborhoods as well?

What I don't understand is, as the parent comment seems to suggest, that a company like Google wouldn't locate near a locale with existing high-rises? I realize I may be misunderstanding.

I fully understand that there are plenty of people who don't want development in their neighborhoods. I've just never heard the idea that some critical mass of employees would not want to live in or even work near already existing high rises such that a company would deem locating in such a place to be unacceptable.

Does that make sense? Like, would a lot of potential Google engineers not take high-pay, high-prestige jobs at a Google site that is located in the middle of a bunch of high-rise apartments in a boring city? Or are all Google engineers just really super cool and fun and adventurous while also only tolerating low-slung buildings? I'm really curious--not at all being sarcastic.
"Does anyone of any note to the left of center advocate for Soviet-style Communism?"

It would depend on exactly how precisely you define "Soviet-style Communism". If you mean, matching the exact same structure and the exact same beliefs and the exact same propaganda and national narrative, no, of course not. If you mean "people advocating for the State to be the one and only source of authority over everything economic, social, and cultural", then, yes, absolutely there are people on the left advocating for this. Quite a few explicitly, and even more people who do not quite entirely realize they are advocating for it, but when asked any specific question about who should have some given authority, the answer is always the State, even if they hypothetically believe that there must be some question for which that is not the answer.
Surely the (unattainable) ideal should be full unemployment?
In the realm of work, the goal should be (is) to maximize productivity.

The problem is that we haven't come up with a way to properly pay people in a system where productivity has increased past the point that "full employment" - in the traditional sense - is no longer needed, or possible.
The vast majority of plastic waste in the oceans come from just a handful of rivers that pass through countries that don't have garbage collection available as a society-wide service.

Investing in waste management infrastructure in the communities that live along the riverbanks would reap an immediate benefit to the people so affected, and stop pollution at the source.