skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The world is not zero sum.

If everyone had PhDs then those PhDs would be able to produce many more goods and services than exist now.

If everyone was doctors, then healthcare would be plentiful, and nobody would suffer from not having access to healthcare.

If the world was full of software engineers, then we would have a plentiful amount of software.

This is easier to consider by thinking about the opposite situation.

Imagine if we got rid of all of the doctors, software engineers, and farmers? What would happen?

We would quickly lose access to all of our healthcare, new software and then all of our food.
> but i think that's a symptom of the problem. fixing money in politics can help address this issue

I don't think this solves the problem at all.

You don't need to be in the pocket of big corporations to want to have their high-paying jobs in your state.

Most of the cities and counties that give TIFs to walmart et al. are not in the pocket. They're just behaving rationally given the structural incentives they're being dealt.
I paid for MS Office in 2003 and in 2007. Apart from games, that's the only software I ever paid for (other than the Windows license presumably incorporated into the price of the handful of already-built computers I bought).

I used open source software on Windows, and I carried that habit over when I switched to Linux. I have only ever paid for games on Linux, because everything I have needed has a satisfactory FOSS alternative.

Hell, I bought a macbook a couple years ago, and I have never bought a piece of software for that either.

It's not because of the OS.

My gut sense is that open-source/paid-support model is an ideal, which also provides an incentive for the publisher to produce as good of software as possible. I don't know if Red Hat or Canonical are profitable doing that, but it would be nice if that were the way that everything could work (maybe, I haven't really thought that much about it and am open to rebuttal).

I am averse to paying up front for something that I don't really know whether it'll be what I want and won't just be a pile of shit.

I don't buy many phone apps either, for that reason.
TLDR: "It's our newest most beautiful ever."
I can't believe they named a phone X[s]. How can they not see everyone calling it "iPhone excess?"
Love2d can use luajit or plain lua.
Sure thing, my email is in my profile. As much as I love toiling in obscurity I actually enjoy much more when people notice :)
+1 to "leave your phone at home". Walking the dog? Don't take the phone! Going to the gym? Don't take the phone! Apart from distractions, your location can't be tracked by GPS if you don't bring your GPS with you..
Good to know, I'm no longer going to be using Microsoft Security Essentials.
It's not about who the mom is, or whether she is a billionaire. HN is read mostly by tech workers, which is probably not more than 5% of US population and probably less than 1% of internet users. These numbers are out of my ass, but is there any indication that HN is mainstream media? HN is a niche media like my sister's blog.
FDA approval to market the new Apple Watch as a medical device is a huge deal.
I would guess earlier, probably back in the days of steam. Master / slave cylinder is commonly used in hydraulics.
I don't know the EU/EuroParl equivalents, but the UK still has a robust Judicial Review system.

I would strongly argue that the UK has a longer history of independent judiciary, both capable of standing up to misguided legislation, as well as willing and enabled to do so, with the sense of purpose, clarity and finality, which [at least apparently, or perceptively] absent features are longstanding argument behind EU cecessionism.
The problem is that people don't want what (most of) the newspaper publishers are offering, they want smaller, broader, differently curated summaries of that.

"Publishers" (newspapers) are 99% simply reprinting news they get from "the wire" (Reuters for example, or Bloomberg, or ...), or a few wire services. One way to look at Facebook and Google News is that they are better versions of these wires, available for end users of the content instead of just paying subscribers (Reuters' wire is a subscription service)

The way it works is this: let's say I feel the need to put out a press release. I have an employee write the news (heavily favoring me) and "put out the press release", meaning I submit the article to a news agency [1], including image and text online, paying 35$ for the privilege of having it appear on the feeds newspapers use to put out news. This is why even the BBC is full of "researchers working for IBM have saved the world again".

There are a number of issues. Of course 99% of the news is not exactly neutral or even a little bit researched, because it's just press releases. 1% is, but is produced by reporters working for the news agencies (only huge places like BBC still have their own reporters). And Google is a lot better than even the BBC (which is very high quality) at finding and presenting press releases to the public. Hell, it's actually better at deciding the trustworthiness of them than news desks (mostly because they, for profit reasons, refuse to give humans even half an hour to check things). Furthermore, those algorithms run so cheaply that they actually provide a personalized version of the news of the day based on both your interests and the news. I assume Jeff Bezos has the same service by a newspapers, but I imagine few others do.

So the underlying issue newspapers are having is "Google automated and Facebook crowdsources what we do, and their automated algorithms are much more successful than our humans, please outlaw them".

> To be fair, google and the like have been living off scraping third-party content and making it available in a way that only the scrapers see any traffic from that content, thus earn anything that is there to be earned.

Yeah there is no value at all in having a searchable index, content summaries, and it's unfair that people get paid for that. Furthermore newspapers just use humans to do what Google news does with algorithms. Never mind that that's what people want.

And as pointed out, people see more value in the aggregated, summarized and algorithmically curated versions of the same data.

Did you ever use the phonebook ? Did it have ads or not ? Should we outlaw the phonebook too ? Did you ever use an encyclopedia or a dictionary ? Did you pay for it ?

I feel like your argument has some shortcomings.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_agency
Did you read his other blog posts?

He is not an exclusionary person, and labeling him as such, based on an impulsive reaction to an abstract word, with multiple contextual interpretations, is a misguided interpretation of recent events.

His frustration at irrational demands for unnecessary effort is understandable.
Does it really matter? The EU is a supra-national, oligarchic institution that merely has the appearance of democratic mechanisms.
SSO is for users, and credential lifetime is usually on the order of months. Vault is for service to service authentication keys/secrets, which are traditionally static because changing them is a complex process (you need to make sure you don't break services by forgetting them or updating credentials in the wrong order). Vault automates credential creation and rotation.
I might be confusing SSL labs with another verification tool that always give B and C.
The better analogy would be a bunch of flat earthers preventing Columbus from sailing until he proved to their satisfaction that sailing too close to the edge wouldn't cause the earth to flip over.
Yeah the whole landing page is focused on "this is why our product is the best" but I still don't get what their product is. Probably just means that I'm not the target, but still...
> No, Communist are against “private property” where “private property” is specifically defined as exclusionary ownership of the means of production.

...and in this case it's the intellectual property of content providers who use it to run their business.

>And it's not clear to me that intellectual property (or other intangible personal property not representing control of tangible goods), strictly speaking, can be a “means of production” in the sense Communists are concerned about.

Even if we ignore how this law was created to help private media companies that are vilified for controlling the press, I'm sure that we can agree that media companies do depend on the existence of strong intellectual properly rights to run their business. That's pretty much thr central argument: if they can't enforce their rights over their private property them it ceases to serve its purpose as a means of production.
i doubt the automatic transmission itself cost 4700€, most likely combined with most luxurious equipment

and dacia it's not good example, they produced budget cars and their prices for standard features of other brands are extreme, for 14000€ you would be insane to buy sandero
I like how Apple is adding all this Screen Time monitoring tools in iOS 12 to help you deal with phone overuse, acting like they want to help us out, then at the same time the hardware team cranks out these progressively bigger and bigger phones.

"What do you call a phone that's bigger than Plus size? We call it the iPhone XS Max."

No, Phil, the word you were looking for is "Obese."

Oh well.
No, it’s not. Folks may assume that because they don’t read the terms of sale.

Apple and others do that to simplify user experience, but rights holders ultimately dictate the terms. No movie studio will ever allow perpetual distribution.

In the case of Apple, they offer a simple solution: download it to your computer.
Breaking the law is unethical because the benefits apply only to you. Copyright and truth in advertising law as it is today is not protecting consumers. Rather than being content circumventing the law those of us that understand the problem should work to fix it.
Even if you answer No, it will ping to their servers so that it can count users that did not want it. At least Canonical are honest about it and I'm sure you could at least prevent it with your firewall settings or maybe even by editing the hosts file.
Again, I think you're implying that this contract is not enforceable. If that's the case, then my point is irrelevant. But that was not my reading of it.
> If it doesn't enhance readability, speed, etc.

I disagree. Having terminology that is clear (which master/slave is not) decreases the time needed to spend to get an understanding of whatever it is you're working on.

Also related, if someone is offended by terminology then that will slow down their progress in understanding because they first have to process those feelings in order to continue.
How does the iPhone X s max differ from the iPhone X?
Nope, its Ericsson, and Intel fucked them over pretty badly. All of Ericsson's newer chips were designed for 10nm, which doesn't work & Intel is full up on 14nm. Firmware updates to existing hardware and rebrands of existing chips are all Ericsson has to retain customers until they can either get another fab to build their chip (2 to 3 years from now), or Intel sorts out the yield issues on 10nm.

https://semiaccurate.com/2018/07/02/intel-custom-foundrys-10...
People have different experiences, right?

I have never lost a document in LibreOffice, Vim/gvim, AbiWord, WordPerfect (long time ago), or OOO.

I lost a ton of documents, sometimes to the cost of many thousands of dollars, in Word. (Disclaimer: haven't used word since like 2010 or so)

People get burned, and thus jaded, by lots of different, sometimes opposing or contradictory, experiences.
> What good is a right to view content if you can't actually get it?

The same issue would present itself if I scratched a DVD in my library, right?
I almost never use my phone.
I dont feel that I can do much computing on a smartphone, and what is possible is very inefficient imo.
But I do constantly use my desktop PC.. Which is fine imo.. I use it to work, play games, watch films, read books, work on hobbies, take care of business, etc.

If I'm at home, I'm probably in front of my computer. If I'm not at home, I'm doing something non computery.
Definitely! https://semiaccurate.com/2018/07/02/intel-custom-foundrys-10...
I know how to do all of that but I still do not consider it worth my time. I would rather have the convenience of iTunes without the corporate overreach.
I don't miss any of that. I remember having to maintain "FrontPage Extension" on IIS systems back in those days, and it was rough.
Many US cars had foot operated emergency brakes when I was younger. Also, in the US, pickup trucks are the most popular personal vehicles, right now...and they typically have foot operated emergency brakes.
>He seemed to represent hatred of immigrants... that's a lie in one way or another?

Oh its a lie alright, and it belongs to you.

Only in the leftist bizzaro world does love of country = hatred of immigrants. It's pathetic that this is what we are dealing with these days.
The point I was making is a separation between bugs due to human error and bugs due to unanticipated environments outside of a particular projects codebase. I don't think it's fair to class those as human error because the actual error doesn't necessarily lie with the developer.

You can substitute "manmade" with a better adjective if you wish.
Of all the recent technological advances this is the one I understand the least.

I have a cellphone. Sometimes I get calls or texts. But what in the heck is everyone doing on the damned things all the time? I can't even imagine what could be so interesting.

I think it's a matter of imagination. What's going on in my own head is usually a lot more interesting than what I could potentially do on a cell phone.
first thing i thought. Iphone Max Excess
My thoughts, as someone who cannot read Nepalese:
1) wow, colorful!
2) I'm pretty sure that Google Translate is butchering this, but it is darn amusing
3) it would be cool if we saw more articles like this in HN feed, so I'm upvoting
> You might wonder if we tried LTO with GCC, or tried upgrading to GCC 8.x. As a matter of fact, I did. Enabling LTO turned up linker errors

So... they just gave up on gcc, and then per the remainder of the blog post spent "3 months" fighting linker behavior to get LTO working on clang? That seems like a surprising asymmetry, and makes me wonder if the reported performance gains weren't the real reason for the switch.
Do you mean which version they use (e.g. 1.28, stable, beta, nightly, etc.)? They have a dedicated page for required versions: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Rust_Update_Policy_for_Firefox

The tables are confusing, but it seems like they require the most recent stable as of 2 weeks before the firefox release.
They just said the new A series processor is made with a 7nm process. That's pretty neat
XD lol
> not everything is perfect: The package ecosystem is growing but still small compared to other languages.

This is a positive point to me. I love python but hate pip and stuff.
Not technology, idea. Good luck if you think the idea itself is worth much.
> Look at the provisions of GDPR, for example. Do you think a two-person startup is going to have the resources to deal with all of its provisions?

GDPR is a bad example, because yes, that's definitely possible. And it should be, if that startup handles personal data.
This isn't strictly true. A lot of the London underground was built first and then housing developed around it. Actually the tube getting to a place prompted massive development in the area. Similarly now if a new line gets created to an area in many cities you see development around it.
Unfortunately, that option is not available to the majority of consumers. Distributing a consumer-friendly application that would allow users to strip DRM and backup their purchased content is illegal.
> states are the canonical governmental unit in the US,

No, they aren't.

They are no more canonical than the federal government.

> the federal government should be primarily concerned with interstate and international affairs.

While it may not be a perfect test, the applicability standard in Warren's proposal does a good job, IMO, of limiting applicability to corporations that are significant players in interstate and international commerce, not businesses that are primarily of concern for their state of origin.

> cancel corporate personhood

Juridical personhood is the central defining feature of the corporate form; “cancel corporate personhood” means “abolish corporations”.
You have the ability to vote Teresa May out of office and change UK laws through your member of parliament. The European Commission, the European Council, and the Council of the European Union are entirely undemocratic, and the European Parliament is democratic only in name. There's no serious argument that the EU is in any way responsive to voters.
Show HN: Command Line Tool to push Docker images to a server over ssh
> It's a fine beginner's program.

It's a subpar beginner program because it recommends complex, high-risk lifts when there are much safer alternatives that can achieve the same results.

Even professional lifters injure themselves while squatting with low weight. If you're not competing, there's no reason to choose barbell back squats over any of the alternatives.

But don't take my word for it: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/comments/2t47s0/my_doctor_t...
What Happens When A.I. Takes the Wheel?
And when you run into bugs, how do you know if it's an issue with your software, Wine or Windows XP?
If you get invited to parties, you're already halfway there.
I think they went rubbish before the internet in search of profits. Remember the old meme about whenever the news covers something you know well it is bullshit but you trust it in areas you don't know about? I recall it being obviously worse in the early established days of the internet where there was enough to fact check but not mainstream enough that journalists knew about it to make their jobs easier.

Admittedly I bear a hard grudge against them from my youth and how they would scapegoat and stir up moral panics about the youth and their media. Rainbow parties, bullshit claims about video games and anime, etc. They still love to use Millennials as a slur.

I personally suspect that demographic warfare came back to bite them hard as they grow up and don't trust the ones constantly talking shit about them on garbage grounds.
This is for Mozilla's own builds. If you add a .desktop file¹, they work great, and they include a built-in updater (like the updater on Mac or Win).

1: https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2018/01/22/335/
mechanism design/market design is a huge part of CS that overlaps with economics. Also I am not sure how much the article emphasized this but a big part of the success of these programs is designing 'good' matchings which is computationally tricky and also requires a bunch of domain expertise. actually implementing this and understanding the complexity limitations/what type of ILP (integer linear program)/ fault tolerance etc etc... is a triumph of computer science (also econ!)
Welcoming Frances Frei to Riot’s D&I and Culture Strike Team
the screen is .8 diagonal bigger
May I ask why is it a huge deal?
Closing the gender gap in tech–it’s time to act
Another idea: get rid of the "smartphone". Any simple phone will work, but there are even dedicated models:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180814-the-new-phones-that...
It's much nicer to live densely when your 100s of neighbors within earshot don't play music loudly, let their dogs bark, sit on the street playing drums at midnight, etc. like in the USA.
A continous suburb?
Be careful about trusting that certification. Note that the 3rd gen Thinkpad x1 Yoga[0] is "certified," however, there is a critical change in the BIOS that prevents the laptop from using s3 sleep mode, apparently to switch to some proprietary Windows sleep mode. Therefore, without any changes, when you close the lid, your battery will drain at about the same speed as if the laptop was running. This is obviously untenable.

The solution is to manually patch your BIOS, which doesn't always work and is extremely technical. It's also not a solution provided by Lenovo, so officially, there is no solution.

Ninjaedit: Hmm, it appears Lenovo may have finally issued a BIOS update to fix this issue.

[0](https://certification.ubuntu.com/hardware/201801-26053/)

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Linux-Discussion/X1-Carbon-Gen-...
> so long as everyone has bought into the ecosystem.

Well that's the problem isn't it, every potential collaborator who can't or won't buy it will be shunned.
Mostly they are communicating with other people.

Perhaps you prefer not to do that.
This is one of the key things that integrated circuits bought you, when moving from discrete to integrated circuits you could switch the transistors faster because they needed either less current (TTL) or less charge (NMOS/CMOS) to switch. Or conversely, the same charge could switch them faster.

So if you look at the highest performance discrete computers of their time, things like the CRAY the CDC machines, etc. You'll see that they consumed larger and larger currents to achieve the switching rates they needed to achieve and increasingly exotic cooling systems (with the Cray's flourinert systems being pretty damn awesome).

I find it fascinating to walk from the ENIAC to the 704 to the B5500s, and PDP-8's and 11's, to microprocessors to systems on chips. Each step in integration let you make things smaller and run them faster. It wasn't until Moore's law broke down in 2004[1] and the world became multi-core that this really stopped happening.

[1] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1430623/
GDPR was a legislative accident: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Philipp_Albrecht

Also: Democracy (a 2015 Documentary by David Bernet)
This Toronto Tech Startup Just Expanded to Africa
The horrible hitboxes are one of the main issues I remember with bf3 as well. It was bad enough to make me quit the game for some months.
Personally I wasn't-necessarily-a hold out, rather dispassionately observing from the sidelines but I'll admit that approach to the descriptors made me subtly. It makes the most sense, and much more accurately defines the mechanisms involved.
Harnessing AI Project Development
iPhone Tens?
El Ummar Cin Yuvası Izle (2018) Full HD
It might be a dummy question, but what does FDA clearance mean exactly? Does it make the watch a medical-grade device and I can do ECG using the watch instead of going to the hospital?
Wish they would target battery life/optimize OS further.

512GB storage, what to do with that? Perhaps long-form video.

Cook wearing white shoes after Labor Day, tsk tsk.

Recommend Ars Technica live blog.
It applies beyond just California. It's in NY as well, and I wouldn't be surprised if there were more locations.
iPhone can't show notifications without unlocking lock screen? not much different from looking at watch pressing one button when looking at phone