skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see this self-assured attitude often with users from the US. Do you honestly not think GDPR had any effect? If it only served to remind businesses user privacy is protected by law, then that was an effect. The EU has taken legal action against US companies before, and it has made a difference in this world. Why do you think it won't happen again, apart from your deep-rooted revulsion to mostly all forms of market regulation?

This idea that the US is the breadwinner of the world and a paragon for all to strive for is such a tired old misconception born from not-so-subtle nationalism. The US is not a utopia of happy, well-fed people with homes. You got a big army though, that's for sure.
Fake news, I'm sure. (the ad, not the takedown)
I'm both a CS professor and former ski instructor (in Europe). As I was reading this thread, I realized that I've never had a single lesson on how to teach CS, and besides my students, nobody has ever gave me any feedback on my teaching. On the other hand, to become a ski instructor, I went on a rather extensive training with a lot of emphasis on pedagogy.
I agree. Digging deep into an open source library is a major pain in the ass, but helps to get better and being it to clean up the code and add a couple comments.

Increases the quality of your own products too.
Whatever our social or political opinion is on the matter it's irrelevant. This is just one more proof that there's no guaranteed continued access to information unless that information resides on our local storage, backed up and kept offline.
$10MM minimum penalty is not sane.
Do you have a source on that last part I could read more about? The idea of a court mandating opiate treatment because someone smoked weed is terrifying.
Generate heat by profusely working out (jumping jacks, running circles, shadow boxing, dancing). If the temperature goes up, you know its a thermometer.

/s
Olaf Stapledon I've heard of and gave First and Last Men a try at one point and gave up as I recall. Ambitious but a real slog.

My most intensive SF reading was more in the 70s through 80s/90s but I likewise don't recognize any of the names other than Stapledon's.
I love the graphics on the oscilloscope.
> Monopoly regulators look at consumer harm, with US regulators focusing on price.

I was under the impression for US regulators it was about unfair intentional competition stifling (for different values of "fair" than EU definitions).

> GDPR making more sense now?

Not exactly. One might expect more active measures if inability to compete was the motive. GDPR, despite my issues with it personally, appears intended to prevent data misuse regardless of company size. Granted skeptics view it as a lance to joust large US companies with. But EU has laws on the books to punish companies misusing their size.

In the EU, rulings taken collectively begin to feel like punishment is just for being a certain size. But in theory, neither side of the ocean makes it illegal to just be big and good at what you do.

The paradox is that environments where competitors organically grow most of the time are the same ones where monopolies grow too. You can't really build a healthy private sector via legislation alone, much less so if the legislation favors consumers over businesses in an unbalanced way.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=515749
This seems like a good example of why dismissing everything with [citation needed] isn't a great idea.
Absolutely spineless from Google. It's no surprise they're planning to launch China-approved search as well.
Programming with Pushouts
alias g="git grep"
I think people want it. I do not think most news sites will reach the same number of visitors after passing a good interface. maybe people like horrible interfaces. yes i am joking. maybe i don't not.
“I miss the kids. But the administrative bullshit will prevent that I ever teach again.”

Yeah it’s not the students that make my job difficult, it’s the administrators.
Have you flown from the Bay area to LA area. It's so much easier than driving. There's numerous airports on each end. Flights on Southwest are cheap or you can fly semi private on boutique air for about double but still not very expensive compared to these buses.

Finally traffic can be terrible even in the middle of nowhere on i5. The train is too slow or doesn't go where you need to be so isn't useful.
Amazon-the-Marketplace isn't really undercutting anymore in my experience. When I compare prices they usually aren't the cheapest option, instead being more in the upper middle of price options. Amazon is currently competing on convienience. Having a one-stop-shop where I can get anything at a somewhat reasonable price with reliable fast shipping is huge.

When they enter other fields they do undercut, but the two big, established brands (amazon.com and AWS) don't.

>they'll make a killing when they raise prices. if you care about the market, you don't want to let this happen.

That only really applies if it's hard for competition to come back. But I doubt there are large barriers of entry unless Amazon makes most other packet carriers go out of business.
I was switched from Oxy (liquid) to morphine after tongue cancer surgery and months of mouth and neck radiation treatment. Was on a maintenance plus "break through pain" prescription for 6 months. It took a week to get withdrawal symptom free with the first 3 days being the worst. It wasn't terrible but I don't want to have to do it again.
But you do get Google analytics and the dodgy sounding 4seeresults.com and cfigroup.com embeds.
In my opinion there is a much better solution. My European id card including its number used for authentication is valid for 10 years, and I can report is as lost or stolen. The same technique is already in use for debit and credit cards across the globe. Why not use it for identification in the United States?
Linguistic analysis of who wrote the op-ed (Python)
I've always wanted to take the trans-siberian (except I'd take the route that ends in Mongolia, from which you can take a train to Beijing), but I wouldn't say that it's something you "better" use if you value your time at all and aren't traveling for pleasure.

There are one-way nonstop flights from Moscow to Vladivostok for $200, which takes only 8-9 hr and is half the price of the train.
Further evidence of the lack of any effective competition in this space.

And of wholesale regulatory capture.

So, U.S. public, what are you going to do about it? Bolster organizations who can effectively mitigate (public or private, to put that agnostically), or let the wave carry you under?
Never once was a de facto antitrust law mentioned that Amazon had violated. Plenty of talk regarding how antitrust laws are weak how they they could apply to Amazon by way of their ability to undercut competitors but that does not really "wash" since 53% of Amazon is third party sellers:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/259782/third-party-selle...

Ultimately Being a monopoly is not against the law if the company avoided exclusionary or predatory acts.
Who Wrote the Anti-Trump New York Times Op-Ed? Using Tidytext
who hurt you my little dude?
Charlie Demerjian has been doing investigative journalism focusing on the semiconductor industry since at least 2008: https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1050052/nvidia-chi...
Amazon Seller Fees – What You Need to Know
The law states "up to 10,000,000 EUR" which is the opposite of minimum I'd say.
I think the du-reform was a reflection of the underlying mentality.
A Lafferty story linked from the comments: https://www.baen.com/Chapters/9781618249203/9781618249203___...
Dunno - bit beyond me that one.
If you want to learn about the breakthrough idea, you can read the actual paper she wrote, which is linked to the article.
The Data-Driven Case for Vacation
Interesting reply and view, thank you for the response.
I installed it once in 2010, back on my G1 or G2 Android phone, back when phones still had keyboards. I deleted it after a few weeks when I realized how scary it was for an app to know my phone number and physical location and contacts, and link it with my real name on the internet. I never installed it again after that, and have always encouraged others not to.
This seems to be the font that Rational DOORS uses. Also Rational ClearQuest, but only in IE.
I advise one tweak to that — find a good local news source. That may be state or city focused depending on where you live. A lot of things happen in those arenas that do affect you, whether you know or it not.
> One can only imagine the margins your ISPs make and the profit opportunities other entrepreneurs have in this space.

You don’t have to imagine! It’s part of the audited financial reports: https://www.verizon.com/about/sites/default/files/2017Verizo.... Verizon’s wireline division (including fiber) had an operating profit margin of 1.2% last year (see page 24). Wall Street has consistently pressured the company to abandon its fiber network: http://stopthecap.com/2012/01/09/wall-street-encourages-veri...

> If it's not about the incumbent's overwhelming power, what can it be?

Building fiber is really expensive in developed countries. Look at it this way. According to Google, a round-trip ticket on the Bucharest Metro is about $1.25. On the DC Metro, it’s $4-12 depending on time of day/distance. ($5 each way during commuting hours from the suburbs is typical). The DC Metro must be hugely profitable, right? Well no, actually it loses a lot of money!
Removing the text of a comment after people have replied to it is one of the most annoying things you can do on HN.
The traditional education is the problem, most of the students in the activities I mentioned above are university students or already graduated. the majority are not uneducated refugees as you think.
Why is this a problem ?
Bizarre reactions here. Cabin has $3m of funding. People are suggesting trains and fixing the entire road system across the entire trip? Not even meaningful alternatives. Here's mine, in the same vein: Just make personal helicopter transport that's quiet and safe and fully automatic.

Seriously comical. I really like Cabin's approach to the problem.
Will it force me to login to Chrome even if I've never created a Chrome account?
Could you link an non-sexualised clickbait alternative? :\
Oh I see ... that's done non-digitally using a fountain pen.
Another challenge in education is that every area has different problems, and needs different solutions. In Utah, for example, our problem is teachers sticking with the job. There is a trend of young women graduating school, teaching for a bit until they get married, having kids, and walking out of the classroom having taught sometimes as little as only one year. On an individual level, I respect the choice to leave a job that isn't right for you, but its does leave us with an abundance of young inexperienced educators.
I wonder how does this exactly work technically. I am still working on the essay/overview BTW.
Yeah, but you can make it hard to fake someones identity. In the US you just need some Google skills and their SSN number.

In the EU you need to fake a plastic card that has your photo, has holograms and whatnot. If its lost I get a new one with anew number. For anything serious like opening a back account, applying for credit you need to show this card in person.

This is why identity theft crimes are more than 10 times higher in the US.
What Exactly Happened to Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey?
My main problem with the paper is that it's about groups, not individuals. Groyp selection has been debunked. There are better ways to think about the wider variance that don't involve groups. Think instead about each individual "gambling" in its embryology and development.
Speaker's Corner still exists, I can't say if it's still possible to voice any opinion there though.
Lower Left Belly Pain After Eating
Your google account is your Chrome account.
If you hyper-specialize the risk pools it effectively prices lots of people out of the market, causing their risk pools to collapse. Insurance also loves to write exclusions if they aren’t prohibited. By your logic health insurance should exclude sickle-cell anemia coverage for black customers.

For insurance to work as intended, it has to be spread across a large population and it needs to cover a wide variety of perils.

Where insurance can be a force for societal good it should be allowed to discriminate. For example, insisting on better fire safety. Or basing your car insurance rate on your car’s safety rating.

P.S. Insurance works by making money off the float, not by collecting more in premiums than they pay out. The expected payout is around 100% over the long run, but the payout happens over time. Until it does, the insurance company holds the money and uses it to make money. (Granted, in this low-interest-rate environment insurance companies may set the payout ratio a bit more favorably since the float makes them less money, but competition effectively helps keep a cap on that).

Mutual insurance companies (owned by their policy holders) are different. Any profit of a returned to the policy holders, so there’s no incentive to set rates higher than required. However the tragedy of the commons kicks in: if they offer lower rates to high-risk groups, they tend to attract the worst of those groups, causing higher losses - especially with health insurance. That’s part of the reason government regulation of insurance is the way it is, the other being gross mis-management causing insurance companies to go bankrupt and be unable to pay out during times when people need it the most.
>Good. I think it's insane that the German government is even trying to establish a Ministry of Truth.

What is the alternative (if you or anyone is able and comfortable in answering)?

Option 1: Let the free market regulate itself.

Option 2: Let government govern - And have the state regulate the free market.

Option 1 depends on demand from the consumer being ethically driven (rather than purely financial / selfish).

I think that society has a long way to go before we can consider option 1 viable. Letting the state regulate however is a terrifying prospect if 'fallen into the wrong hands' or 'the algorithm is biased'.

Is anyone aware of the leading conversations / academic & theoretical consensus in best structure / infrastructure / accountability hub for this problem?
Data privacy and user tracking.
to check the outputs are roughly the same?
I work in Google and we had posters about getting ready for GDPR eons ago. Which sounds like having some effect to me.
Now Google can (potentially) associate your browsing history with your identity, whereas before, any read of one's history would be anonymous.
You didn't say why this is important to you so it comes off as a bit of a complaint for the sake of it. Are you concerned about your web history going to your Google account? You can turn that off. Don't believe that will really turn it off? Then don't believe that Chrome wasn't already logging your web history without your knowledge. Is it sad that respect for privacy has degraded this far? Absolutely. Is the merging of Google website logins with Google Chrome browser login a significant decrease in privacy? I believe it really isn't at this point.

I've switched over to Firefox and it's quite fast and nice these days.
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Also, the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_of_Atkin
In essence they've perfected a way to profit off of our innate gullibilities with no regard to either the individual's or societal consequences.

"Soulless" comes to mind when I ponder this sort of thing.
Looking for the author behind NYT op-ed using data science
This kind of chicanery is the reason I won't use Chrome for anything but browsing Facebook.
I had a separate Ask HN. Tracing some of the history, including Google Analytics that is mentioned in my essay/overview, is quite interesting.
> Do you honestly not think GDPR had any effect?

Of course I think it had an effect. I just believe it was/is a net negative effect. When I say doesn't/didn't work, I mean what I perceive the intended goal is vs societal costs. Akin to saying anti-drug laws don't work and are ineffective... nobody is saying they have no effect. I believe, if reasonably drafted and incrementally applied, data protection laws could have a positive effect.

> Why do you think it won't happen again, apart from your deep-rooted revulsion to mostly all forms of market regulation?

I'm talking about data protection regulation. Based on my research, many companies were violating existing data protection statues and the regulatory bodies were not punishing them out of apathy and limited resources.

Why do you assume I have an issue with all forms of market regulation? That's false and I'm not sure where I said that. All of the rest of your post is attacking some other kind of argument that I never presented.
You don't even need that, install Firefox and use their container for Facebook:

https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/facebook-container-extensio...
All of Scandinavia is very similar in this regard. Many Scandinavians loathe doing business with people from the Mediterranean EU, for reasons similar to your first example.

Not sure if the member states of the US have as wide cultural differences as the member states of the EU.
A typical tendency in distasteful projects: couple everything, remove choice. Make it one-size-fits-all.

Switching to Chromium.
With the tuition increases and the massive increase in housing costs, going to a public college in California costs several times what it did a few decades ago. It's a serious problem.

However, students living with professors is a terrible idea. There is already too much sexual misbehavior with weird power dynamics in academia, especially between professors and grad students, and this all happens without them living together. It would only get worse.

The real solution is to build more affordable student housing on or near campus, but that would require funds from the state government, which is unlikely to provide them.
I think the coolest fact that I didn't grok until undergrad is that gravity relates to the stress-energy tensor and is not just due to rest mass alone. Which means that anything that has energy associated with it (i.e., everything we've ever observed) affects the gravitational field.

Examples: A compressed spring weighs more than the same spring in an uncompressed state. A box of light (e.g., a box with perfectly reflective mirrored walls) weighs more than the same box without light, despite the fact that photons have zero rest mass. The bulk of a proton's "effective mass" is due to the kinetic energy of the quarks that comprise it. The joint earth + moon system weighs less than if you added up each component weighed in isolation.

The other interesting fact is that the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is commonly misunderstood to mean that you can't simultaneously measure the position and momentum of a particle. In fact, you can indeed obtain partial information on both properties at the same time, and there's quite a few papers out there describing how to perform joint measurements of incompatible observables.

What HUP more accurately entails is that, for a quantum state corresponding to a specific system, you cannot obtain complete information about the two properties — no matter what you do. This is because performing a position measurement destroys your ability to perform a subsequent momentum measurement (on the same system) and vice versa. One of the postulates of quantum mechanics is that measuring a system collapses it into an eigenstate of the observable corresponding to the type of measurement that was performed. Since the position and momentum operators don't commute, it's not possible to put the two into a joint eigenbasis (they can't be simultaneously diagonalized).
I'm not calling you names or even talking about your political views (since I don't know them). I'm talking about the actual housing policies of many cities in the bay area, which are extremely against adding new housing, most commonly characterized as NIMBY. It looks like you view this term to be offensive, I didn't realize.

My key point was about the ratio of jobs to housing. It may not be desirable or realistic to expand the overall population of the area past a certain amount. But I think it is realistic to zone/approve enough housing, to match the amount of jobs that are zoned/approved (through office space). Overall, the bay area has been adding much more jobs than housing, and I think this is a major factor in the housing problem aside from wages. And the result of this is that more and more of people's paycheck goes to housing, they have to commute long distances, etc.

Rather than opposing housing when there is a shortage, I'd rather see more effort put into opposing new office space instead, and when housing has caught up cities could facilitate a public dialogue about what residents want with regards to growth etc.
Skiing is very dangerous in comparison to programming
So, we aren't going to be hindered by chipset (not firmware, but hardware) dependencies?

Then, for certain networked things, such as printers, maybe we can hang a Pi-like device off of one of their physical interfaces and have a WPA3 connection, if we so desire and are willing to go through the contortions?
Tor Browser.
It's too bad that eternal copyright has doomed these authors to oblivion.
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Black People as Scenery
A chrome extension would be necessary for something like this to replace Pinboard/Instapaper for me (I see that in the TODO already). But looks good otherwise. The only thing stopping me is the time commitment of hosting another app for personal use.
Plane: 2h commute + check in, 1h flight, 1h commute back. Most of the time you can only read your phone or a book, or snooze during the flight. Not a lot of productive time, and no night sleep to speak of.

Bus: 30m commute (I suppose it's not outside the city) + 8h undisturbed ride + 30m commute. You can sleep a normal night while traveling.
I've randomly picked up a number of these over the years by buying boxes of cast-off scifi from ebay.
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I like the first part, entropy is essentially a measure of degeneracy for a state (the elementary definition is the log of the number of states multiplied by a unitful constant). Technically, if you're a supposed super-intelligence, that is good at remembering detail, every state of a system can be distinguishable and thus have small entropy. For example, consider a finite number of legos in a room. A computer could potentially remember where every lego is placed, while person can't do as well but could distinguish between a state where the legos are strewn about or built into a castle. So, the person would lump all the disordered states into just one state (the "mess" state) and give it a high entropy compared to the number of organized states (castles or ships made out of the legos).

I guess I always knew this, and this is sort of what we mean when we say "high entropy" but it's kind of fun to say it out explicitly like this. Most of the others seem like conflating the strict applicability of a theory vs. it's practical limits, like that QM doesn't really mean "small" or (equivalently) high energy, it just means when you're near the Heisenberg uncertainty limit for the observations you're making, which in most cases means small.

Allow me to add another one: "Special Relativity means when you go faster, time slows down for you!"

And another (controversial may be): "In Schrodinger's cat, the cat is both dead and alive at the same time!"
Programming abstract art
Hello HN, founder here. Would appreciate any thoughts you have on the project, and how to make it more interesting/useful. Thank you!
Not to get too 2016 about it but a lot of Republicans would've told you in 2015 that their top 3 beliefs were family values, cutting gov't spending and free trade.
this what i consider a very good cv, you might get some inpiration here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG2aEh5xBJE&feature=youtu.be...