skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not all Chinese people that I've worked are like this.

But the most cheating, backstabbing, manipulative coworkers I've had were all Chinese.

From what I understand, in Chinese culture 'any means necessary' tactics are considered smart and fair game as long as they work.
Won't be long. Mate 20 will be announced on Oct 16.
Yes, but you'd probably need to take them for long periods at high doses during crucial developmental stages, to provide continuous blockade of the system. Note also receptor specificity and blood brain barrier penetration of over-the-counter anti-histamines may lead to less-than-exciting results.
Hmm, maybe we should create an open source version of inbox?
That is literally what Google was founded on. Their core technology behind their initial success was pagerank, an algorithm whose sole purpose is to manipulate what people see. They have stayed dominant through a combination of market forces, and keeping their algorithm near (or, IMO at) the top of the market for generalized search [0], and have leveraged this competency in other markets (video, ads, etc).

Beyond just Google, this is an inevitable result of having any which resembles the internet we know today. The alternative is to go back to human gatekeepers. While it is arguable if human gatekeepers are better from a consumption standpoint, it is clear that they are worse from a production standpoint, as it massivly increases the barriers to publication.

[0] In actuality, I suspect that Google's "algorithm" involves a fair bit of "cheating" by having humans nudge the results. Political bias aside, I think not doing this would leave them too open to attack from other players in the market who do.
Does Your Brain Let You Hear Your Own Footsteps?
You seem to conflate system efficiency (e.g MPG) with thermal efficiency.

You're right that the peak thermal efficiency is thermodynamically determined and we're getting pretty close to it [0], or at least some manufacturers are.

However, there's a lot of work to be done in making the engines more efficient across a wider variety of operating conditions. Hybrids largely succeeded because they let manufacturers make engine torque demand more predictable / gave them new modalities to create the torque the driver requests.

You're right that variable valve timing isn't new - I'm under the impression that all new cars in America with overhead cams have it. However, systems that allow the valve's lift and duration to be set independently from the crankshaft / RPM certainly are new and one first generation system is poised to increase fuel efficiency by ~14% in a steady state cruising [1]. I'm actually surprised the increase isn't higher, the amount of friction that camshafts generate is unreal and removing that source of friction is extremely compelling (the benefits of infinitely adjustable timing and lift nonwithstanding). I was in a dyno lab once upon a time, and there was a ~500 kW gas engine on the dyno, the 4 camshafts collectively generated ~200 kW of friction at ~14,000 rpm. Obviously that's a much faster speed than any road going engine outside a sporty motorcycle (and friction is proportional to engine speed), but it does illustrate the friction at play.

Heck, simply reducing oil pressure to minimum-viable pressures yields 4-6% fuel efficiency increases [2]. There's no shortage to improvements in engine accessories (it's probably why so many of them have gone electric and are no longer driven off the crankshaft).

And the thermodynamic cycle of the engine is something we can adjust. Mazda's next gen Skyactiv-X system is poised to deliver 30% better fuel efficiency than the current system (Skyactiv-G) [3] because it's introducing compression ignition to the car. And a lot of the benefits are delivered throughout the engine's operating range.

Finally, we're guilty of treating cars as static. Better materials, more aerodynamic shapes, better packaging, etc. can contribute to massive efficiency gains. The sedans with the Prius' powertrain (the HS250h, Corolla hybrid in Japan) get much worse milage than the Prius. The reality is that the Prius is unusually light and unusually aerodynamic, it's worth at least +10% better milage on the freeway. Better materials and construction can take us a long way to better fuel efficiency.

[0]: http://www.thedrive.com/tech/18919/toyota-develops-worlds-mo...

[1]: https://www.motortrend.com/news/is-the-era-of-the-camless-va...

[2]: https://www.asme.org/engineering-topics/articles/automotive/...

[3]: https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/2019-mazda-3-with-skyac...
The person with accessibility problems just told you that it is a potential accessibility issue. Perhaps we should ask them whether alt text will help, before telling them that it will.

tarboreus, what's your experience with alt text for this kind of thing?

In a related manner, I'd actually be curious to hear in general about other things we do/don't do that makes life more difficult for blind people on the web.
Peter Norvig talks about working  Google, AI, privacy, fake news, killer robots
The problem with GDPR is that it allows the website to decide how to ask the user for permission. That means the website can have a big bold button saying "I agree" next to a small gray link saying "I do not agree". Moreover if the user clicks "I do not agree" the website can nag the user often until he or she chooses the 'correct' option.
You'd prefer paid reviews over ads? Ads are honest. You know who paid for them and the intent is clear.
Secretive robot-car maker Zoox opens up
Spotify to the music industry is like putting some ice on a broken neck. The music industry at least has concerts and merchandise to drive revenues up.

The problem is that news is very expensive to produce; particularly investigative journalism that might or might not pay off. Local news at the town or suburb level has a similar issue, where the market is quite small to begin with. Strip away the expensive parts and you're left with cheapo aggregator papers. But what happens when there's nothing left to aggregate?
Brutal. Hope someone builds an Inbox replacement before next March. Gmail feels archaic after Inbox.
Isn't that a bit odd, your stack trace there in the article?

Usually the stack trace when a NoClassDefFoundError is thrown contains a "Cause" clearly showing the name of the class loader that was supposed to know about the class in question, and which then rather obviously failed to load it. If it actually isn't in the real trace, the exception/error logging is probably a bit wonky.

I have seen logging procedures that don't traverse/print the entire traceback chain, but only prints the message and the immediate stack. But this is unfortunately a rather terrible idea. Quite often it will exclude the actual cause from the printed trace while simulataneously retaining the error message, not rarely leading to liberal amounts of confusion. The pattern with exceptions being thrown with a cause is not uncommon in the JDK, so making sure to log causes are important.

In general, although it's probably obvious, I would like to mention that having code loaded by class loaders with different lifetimes interact is rife with "interesting" issues. Wherever possible I would recommend serializing messages over any boundaries where class loaders have different lifetimes, as it both prevents all of the strangest causes of errors, and can also lead to a cleaner design. An exception would be if prohibitively expensive from a performance perspective, of course.
Which is why it's insane that Windows 8.1 broke the cleartype tuner and it's still broken in 10 to this day.

See Noel's comment (at the bottom) of https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/768bd013-c...
You forgot
3- a search function that worked well and instantaneously.
and you kind of covered it, but just to make it explicit- provided what was practically unlimited storage for the time- 2GB. Competitors were offering 5, maybe 10MB. I remember people hacking together a file system out of it because that was so astoundingly large for the time.

The fact that gmail is now taken for granted is quite interesting though, it really was astoundingly revolutionary at the time and really built the halo image around Google.
Oh I agree, but Tesla's value seems to be in the IP at the moment, not automobile production. That's why VW would have been such an ideal partner, because VW knows mass automobile production (but Musk nixed it).

SpaceX is great too but I would say it's still a little too early to say it's as successful as Paypal was.
Thanks for the clarification. I am wondering why we cannot use density of transistors as a better measurement instead of the nanometer of one feature. I understand that there will be a mix of multiple features. Density of transistors seems a better measurement.
Pretty sure this is the right answer. The power draw differential between your Intel laptop CPU and the ARM SoC in your phone is enormous.
Yup, I've seen more than one friend leave Vancouver for Ontario and Quebec. But hey if you work remotely, you're in the same timezone as SF!
Researchers decode mood from human brain signals
This is how apple will lose me as a customer. These giant phones are horrible. All their products are getting progressively shittier. No real Pro laptop, horrendous keyboards (even the new "quieter" ones), borderline unusable phones. What the actual fuck.
Wanting to improve their news algorithm to favor more trustworthy sources is not a violation of free speech.

"Free speech" guarantees you the right to say what you want, as long as it doesn't interfere with others' freedoms (i.e., making death threats or yelling "fire" in a crowded movie theater)

"Free speech" does not guarantee you a platform for your protected free speech. I have the right to claim blatantly false things; Google is absolutely not obligated to amplify my voice.

I am allowed to claim that Obama shot JFK. That does not mean that Google, you, or anybody else is obligated to help me spread that opinion.
But wasn't that a social construction of the oppressive patriarchy?!
"How is <x> about interstate commerce?" is a question that's been asked by reasonable people for many values of x that've been before the Supreme Court.

In other words, don't ask me. Ask SCOTUS. They've used the Commerce Clause to justify regulations on activities that were far less obviously about interstate commerce than zoning is, most famously in Wickard_v._Filburn, which restricts a farmers right to grow wheat on his own property for his own consumption, which, according to the court, is indeed an example of interstate commerce.

My statement, in other words, has nothing to do with my own interpretation of those rulings. It's merely an acknowledgement of them. It's not difficult to think of ways in which local zoning restrictions affect national commerce. And that's been good enough for the Court in the past, it seems.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/14/us/where-is-db-cooper-fbi...
Cool, I'll have to hunt for a Blackberry key2 then. Thanks for the tip!
How is an adblock on by default going to save the internet? No one likes paywalls.
For me, Google has recently joined the ranks of FB and a pile of other adtech slimeballs and similar entities in my firewall config. The net is so much nicer when you delete the jerks.
Great to see this released. Some similar architecture decisions to Apache Pulsar as well with the separate of compute (in this case the sequencer) from the storage.

Kafka has done well so far, especially in making streaming systems more common, but it's about time for the next-gen systems.
..or much smaller in a 3D setup.
I suggest you voice your opinion here: https://productforums.google.com/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm...
For several years, Palantir's main product had, hidden deep inside of a stack of preference windows, a button simply labeled "Find Terrorist". It was a bit of an inside joke, since at the time the software was treated as a magic box that solved all your problems, and when it was still focused on government use cases.

but you know who doesn't joke around? The government doesn't joke around. So yeah, as soon as it was found by a user, that button was immediately removed. It's just a shame that some contexts are deemed "too serious" for an obviously lighthearted addition with no real detrimental effects.

At least some software has managed to maintain their humor, like Phabricator - https://www.phacility.com/phabricator/
Lifting-wise, age is a game changer for most.

If you want to train low rep after 30 you have to do just 1 big lift per training session, and no more than 3-4 sessions per week.

A related problem is that low rep lifting burns little calories (training volume is not much) but requires quite a surplus to recover. So, as your metabolism decreases with age, it tends to make you fat.

After 40 anything below 8 reps is too low and most exercises should be done between 8-12 reps for big lifts and 12-15 reps for small lifts.

Also, unless you need to demonstrate low rep strength, as long as you increase the weight in the bar, you will get stronger.
Watsi is hiring a head of product – remote ok
Wow, he advised them to make a smartphone app and to use the cloud instead of spinning up their own servers. What a scoop.
Did you feel there were not enough projects out there already named carbon?

Jesus, at least change the name. Carbon is [already a thing](https://github.com/graphite-project/carbon).
There are a number of factors at play here. It's not that fraud, cheating and corruption does not happen here but it doesn't taint the entire system but when it happens elsewhere it tends to 'stick' to them.

In this case you may have perceived fraud or lower quality in a specific area and you are generalizing it to entire Chinese academia when like everywhere in the world they have high quality and low quality institutions and equal incentives for fraud.

There has been multiple frauds in western academia [1], the Stanford experiments was the most recent discussed here, but no one uses these instances to paint the entire system as fraudulent, in social sciences there is a giant reproducibility crisis.[2]

And given they are developing its inevitable the quality will rise with more investments and resources and developing a culture and infrastructure of research that others already have for decades, more investments in science and advancements is better for humanity. It's not a competition.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientific_misconduct_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
Universities themselves are chasing university rankings, which count publications and impact factors. Does a 17 year old kid or their parents know how to judge a universities quality? No, they use prestige (rankings).

Nobody has time to read everyone's papers, or evaluate someone's knowledge thoroughly, so we fall back on things like degrees, impact factors or university prestige.

Once you realise academia is all about signalling - being able to quickly judge people - everything makes sense.
For private PCs, it's like you say. For corporate PCs, Windows 10 Enterprise is sort of like "Windows 10: The good parts" because your IT department can disable all that shit via group policy.

At work, I've switched from a Macbook to a Lenovo and I vastly prefer Windows to macOS. It somehow manages to get out of my way better than macOS does, plus it has a window management UX that is not a hot mess like the one in macOS.
For those interested in watching the video without feeding into Brietbart's ad/engagement numbers, I've mirrored it here: https://yossarian.net/google.mp4
You've repeatedly created accounts with a propaganda agenda for Google. You've been doing it for years. We've banned you many times before, and I've banned this account. Doing this is a serious abuse of HN, regardless of the company you're promoting or what your motive is. Would you please stop?

HN is for curious humans to exchange thoughts in community. It's hard to imagine anything that undermines curiosity or community worse than this. We frequently ask users not to accuse each other of astroturfing or shilling without evidence, but when we do find evidence—and there's a lot of it in this case—we come down hard pretty quickly.
And probably Google Earth. If it's not already logging data, it will eventually.
Yeah, and none of those options work as well as the camera button in the old Nokias (I was a happy Nokia user as well, but they missed the boat with their software, even though their hardware was top notch)
Crucial questions about the project remain unanswered:

Does it suffer from Spectre attacks ?
They will never stop asking for more power to police the use of their imaginary property. They'd push for mandatory deletion of copies inside people's brains if that was possible.
Airbnb hosts are offering free rooms to people fleeing Hurricane Florence
Once the US stops prioritizing stuffing the coffers of rich donors and actually puts American interests first, things will dramatically improve.
They can't and flag and take down your video until you prove it. The burden is on the uploader not the distributor. Which we know how Youtube is with that...
Sorry

VW comes to mind in the auto industry and I'd have to Google "news company found guilty" for you for the other.
The ranking system here makes sure big sites don't dominate, otherwise that's all we'd see.
For fraud, not usually, but you would have to prove fraud.

For any other reasons most banks/credit card companies put limits between 30 days and a year I believe.
Technical midwife, or what a tech lead make?
As a(n obnoxiously outspoken) 2016 Camry Hybrid owner, it's true. On highway it usually gets ~40 MPG. Below 45 MPH the engine can shut off, and often it coasts along, only using the engine to accelerate or go uphill. My Costco route consistently gets 45-50 MPG, and I use about 28 gallons of gas to go 1,080 miles a month.

Long term, I'm hopeful to replace the NiMH battery with lithium and a plug-in charger.
Am i the only being puzzled by

Scalable

Store up to a million logs on a single cluster.
?

This sounds pretty confusing / low volume.
This looks like a great project ;)
In retrospect, I'm pretty sure that was astroturf.

The story of a how new, enlightened CEO was going to embrace open source, etc. was tailor-made for folks who want to believe they finally won over the last fight's great satan. The buzz seemed to be everywhere for a while, and then stopped. And it was timed conveniently around several open source releases that also made a splash - classic reenforcement advertising.

And it seems to have worked.
It's always been this way to some degree. Every now and again a messiah comes along that illuminates and exposes a new way of thinking, and academia goes through a revolution. Then the weaker minds establish boundaries based on the teachings of their fearless leader, the leader dies, and academia settles back into it's natural state of dogmatic adherence to ideas it understands but can't expand upon.

There will be another Einstein. There will be another Darwin. And they will change everything. It is only a matter of time.

But I doubt they will come from China. While many a genius may be born in China, they may as well have been born on Mars because it is not a country that rewards exceptionalism and original thinking.

Also... I'm still trying to imagine what Dijon Ketchup would taste like.
logs = topics, so they mean 1M separate topics on a single cluster.
I have to ask, why a site like Breitbart which has broken a lot of substantive stories would be banned? I’ve seen less credible left leaning sites on HN. I’m hoping there is a really good reason because right now I am concerned.
I don't think you realize how racist this statement is.

I'm also surprised you've never met manipulative people who are not Chinese, like, are you living in rural China?
I think you're being downvoted because there is an ambiguity in what "subjective" refers to here. The core criteria of good UX are not subjective, as you say. But whether a certain UX qualifies as good under those criteria depends highly on the audience.

A good video-editing UX for amateurs looks completely different from a good video-editing UX for professionals.

Long-time users of vim or emacs love their editors because of their UX, while many new users hate them for the same UX.
Nice to see they're storing my baby pictures and food choices forever.
HN doesn’t have much tolerance for humor.
Some processes are highly efficient in that conversion, accretion disks around black holes can convert 10-40% of rest-energy (mass) into "pure" energy. Annihilation is 100% efficient.

My point is that energy density doesn't make a bomb, it's also necessary to have a mechanism for the spontaneous and rapid release of that energy. Ordinary matter has a very high energy density (the highest), but as you point out it takes special processes to release that energy.

Similarly, I can have a soda can filled with Lithium-Deuteride (a fusion fuel) and that can have a very high energy content (terajoules per kilogram) but it's not a bomb unless it's connected to a system that can actually release the fusion energy in that fuel all at once. It's not something that could even remotely happen spontaneously without those other components that make it a bomb.

Another example would be Potassium. Naturally occurring Potassium contains about 400 megajoules of radioactive energy per kilogram, which is about 100x as much as TNT. Even in the form of, say, a Potassium salt that would avoid the issue of the chemical energy of Potassium metal, that material would still have enormous energy density. And there's nothing you need to do for the energy release to happen, it'll happen automatically. But it's still not a bomb because it will take over a billion years for just half of that energy to be released, and there's no known way to substantially speed up that release of energy (without inputting even more energy) to make a bomb.
Are Audiobooks as Good for You as Reading?
I meant "the best" for the advertisers, not necessarily for the users. It is possible to do this transparently and there are times when users may actively search such "ads" out (and being paid a small fee, instead of that fee going to ad click companies), but the trend is going to obfuscation. You can block ads, but you won't block content.

In a sense this complaint and PR is such a form of obfuscated advertising. The money and technological skills is in the hands of the advertisers, not the users, so this will be an unfair fight (advertisers will be better at hiding ads, than users are able to detect them).
Isn't the Linux build set to be sunset soon anyway?
No, it's not surprising at all. Every company has a preferred candidate in pretty much every election, at least the CEO and top leadership certainly does.

What is surprising is turning an all hands into a kind of mass grieving funeration for all of their 90K employees, replete with publicly weeping executives and the entire executive leadership being vocally outraged. Turning an all hands into a political event like this is both unprofessional and, frankly, creepy.
The only Google product that I ever really liked from a usability perspective, and I get to heat they are killing it a month after I discovered it because I bought a new phone.

Just, my, luck.
googling

site:www.reddit.com smalltalk leoc

one of the results is:

Bambi Meets Godzilla - "I watched Smalltalk die."

https://web.archive.org/web/20080706101400/http://www.oreill...