skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For example, I don't want Microsoft's reputation to go from a C- to an A- because of this patent issue, when they continue to require telemetry in Windows.

We can agree on that.

GP however wrote (emphasis mine):

> they shouldn't get any kind of positive treatment.
Is there a single top level comment in this thread that doesn't mention regulatory capture? The ideology is thick lol.

Guys, you know what the largest driver of business concentration in history is? The Industrial Revolution. It is completely expected that when returns to scale are high, businesses will concentrate. Concentration is actually embedded in the economics of capitalism itself. Competition on the other hand, is not. It is a nice side-effect that capitalism sometimes produces when market conditions are right but capitalism can keep chugging right along without it.

To the extent that we have ever had a time of 'small business' in post-industrial America it is a direct result of regulation - specifically antitrust enforcement.
It seems like it's not more regulation vs less regulation but rgulation in the interests of society vs regulation in the interests of the powerful. America has very lax rules on political donations from corporations, allowing almost unlimited lobbying. Plus a two-party system and the ration of population=>votes being very uneven.
I meant the style choices. But it did also choke on Identity Columns IIRC (https://blog.2ndquadrant.com/postgresql-10-identity-columns/).

Not knocking either project - just pondering adoption.
> I think if they were specifically targeting Apple & Amazon there would have to be someone complicit in Supermicro making sure that motherboards with the special part went to the right destinations.

Fair enough, I guess it depends on their distribution model. When I order a macbook from apple.com, it ships from China. So, somebody there knows it's coming to me. Not that I'm a target, but I'd be surprised if they were shipping a container of servers to Supermicro and then to a customer. If Apple dropships one laptop, I assume Supermicro dropships containers.

> That seems more labor intensive than actually swapping the modified part.

Good point, assuming it was not labor intensive to modified part itself, then swapping them out on the line would be trivial.
> If we believe in evidence-based science, then all evidence points to Republicans being anti-science.

I am conservative and tend to lean-republican. I am not anti-science. Please stop generalizing.
Apple's screen prices are actually fair if you care about getting a "good" one. If you don't (and if you're not using it for color-related work it doesn't really matter) then unofficial screens can be a good deal.

My experience: I replaced my laptop screen thru iFixit and the replacement part had a "soft focus" camera. It also has worse backlight bleed+a little bit less contrast than the official part, and a dead pixel.

They had good customer service and when I complained about the camera and they refunded me some money, but next time I will probably (begrudgingly) pay the Apple tax.
It helps that when you read Dan Ariely's stuff it confirms every kind of thought you had on the back of your head about how people 'work'.

I'm aware that doesn't mean it's correct per se, in a hard-science sense, but it does help popularizing the field when every person who reads Predictably Irrational recommends it to other people
"Learning Acrobatics by Watching YouTube"

Certainly not something expected, but regardless, present on the coroners report.
Well the Information Commissioner has much greater scope for issuing fines now - remember that this is an old breach and any incident that happene[sd] after May 2018 is subject to the GDPR rather than the Data Protection Act 1998.
There's a lot of pop science and good marketing around behavioral science but at it's core I think it helps complete the picture of what economic research tries to deliver.

Prior to being introduced to behavioral economics my exposure to economics was very quantitative, while this model is necessary it's incomplete. A lot of economics seems to assume that the actors are equally rational beings but in the real world that's just not the case. Behavioral economics seems to bring actual human experience into economics.
Machines are not intuitive or nuanced. They are incapable of learning and formulating abstract though, only identifying patterns and optimizing for some desired outcome.
At some point it was arguable whether Microsoft was making more money from Android than Google [1].

That it's even possible shows the entire corruptness of the broken patent system and Microsoft's active abuse of it.

They're not just "one of the kids who benefit for misbehavior" they're the poster child.

[1] https://www.quora.com/How-does-Microsoft-make-more-money-fro...
>The fundamental problem here is that laws and regulations written to deter some megacorp from systemically being sleazy to make a buck apply equally to small businesses.

I don't think that's the _fundamental_ problem, because there are problems leading to that. Capitalism strongly incentivizes against respecting externalities, and regulations are the only effective tool we've found to stop us from (more aggressively) killing ourselves for profit.

That regulations have a cost and this strangles smaller businesses is a serious problem, but the regulations are usually solving an even more serious problem. A more fundamental issue is simply that capitalism left unchecked incentivizes behaviours which are crippling, while checking capitalism to prevent this causes powerful inefficiencies to form.

I don't know if there's a good answer here. Having regulations not apply to small businesses doesn't work, because small businesses are not intrinsically more likely to act against their own financial interests in order to respect externalities than large businesses are.
If I'm driving the demand they're fulfilling, I'm probably not a good choice to complain. So I guess we have to find the guiltless ones first....
The French system is hybrid. There's public and private health insurance, and public and private hospitals.

For everyday care the public health insurance reimburses 70% and the private health insurance the remainder.

For more serious procedures (such as a baby delivery) the public health insurance reimburses 100% of the fees. The prices are fixed by law, the practitioner can charge more (if it's a private hospital) but then the private health insurance will have to pay the difference.

The public health insurance is paid through taxes (I think something like 5 to 10% of the salary?) and the private health insurance is between 50 to 100e depending on your family and coverage (glasses, teeth, etc.)
Big government, big industry, crony capitalism, corruption, political control of an essential resource, politics generally, secrecy, coverups, payoffs, concentration of power, etc. etc. which you would not get or to a much lesser extent (verging on negligible relative to nuclear) with some alternative energy sources like solar.
In C, yes, that's a useful distinction. One of the goals of Rust is that you'll never have to check that manually. You'll never encounter a pointer that points to an invalid, uninitialized, or unallocated object. Since we're writing some unsafe code here, we can operate outside that restriction as long as we promise to put things right before the end of the unsafe block. This can be simplified somewhat once everything is written in Rust.
That is:

https://example.com

- Bullet list
- Item 2

And preformatting which you DON'T want for quotes because they are very annoying to read on mobile
Having a dedicated channel for engineers seems like a necessity. And it's important to keep non-engineers out of it, due to points raised by /u/sethammons.

As an engineer I want to be comfortable asking questions that are too technical for the general audience. And to ask them without fear of the managers thinking I'm an idiot (and yes, managers/non-engineers do come to that conclusion if you ask a question that they feel that every engineer should know, even if they're nowhere near to being in a position to make that judgement).

Besides just factual knowledge-sharing, there needs to be a place where engineers can complain, celebrate, swear, and say whatever comes to their mind. The general/main channel doesn't allow for that.

And sure, engineering managers can be in the channel, so long as they don't throw their weight around and keep the tone informal. I.e., don't use something that an engineer said in that channel against him, or put anything in a negative light. Basically, the more informal the side channel, the better and healthier. If people can't shoot the shit freely, negativity will build up and toxic patterns WILL emerge.
Hold on here. This article seems to have buried a pretty important piece of information wayyy down in the middle of the text.

> Gender bias was not the only issue. Problems with the data that underpinned the models’ judgments meant that unqualified candidates were often recommended for all manner of jobs, the people said. With the technology returning results almost at random, Amazon shut down the project, they said.

Granted an article isn't going to get as much attention without an attractive headline but that seems a far more likely reason to have an AI based recruiting recommendation scrapped. The discovery of a negative weight associated with "women's" or graduates of two unnamed women's colleges is notable but if it's tossing out results "almost at random" then...well there seems to be bigger problems?
The Fall of Communism too.
Well. Is that a problem of capitalism? Or the inadequacy of political systems?
In the 1920s, Americans used that salute in the Pledge of Allegiance. It was called the Bellamy salute.

It's mind warping to realize, but every symbol and word that we associate with the Nazis and Fascists had innocuous connotations until the Nazis corrupted them.

The swastika, the fasces, the Hugo Boss uniforms, the salutes, the word "Nazi" (nickname for rural Bavarians), the word "Fascist" (Sicilian labor militants before WW1), the names Mussolini, Adolf, Hitler, none of those things had any scary associations before that era.
LibreOffice doesn't have an icon
Tor is probably the appropriate technology for this purpose.

Even with full deployment of eSNI, DNSSEC and DPRIVE it remains practical for an ISP on behalf of your government to track and block IP-level stuff.

It's more expensive than the DNS-level attacks such ISPs mostly use today, but it's entirely practical, governments might choose not to do it (or ISPs might insist on being paid, which forces a government to write a budget line item) because it costs so much, but that'd be the only reason.
> though I do think about applying to work with them from time to time.

It’s evident that they are a small team. They need some work. For example I accidentally bought all work from an artist AND and individual album in the same checkout and I couldn’t undo it. So I double purchased an album. Support never responded.
Not those yucky liberal arts degrees! Why don’t you “intellectuals” stop trying to talk about things with big words... you’re not better than me! I’m smarter than you!
Remarkable that those pictures which were falsely attributed to Trump are still consider a fact by anyone. If we actually had journalists instead of partisan with bylines, people might know those pictures were from Obama's tenure. Worst era of journalism ever.
Earlier, I charged my phone using the grid.

I used grid while reading and writing.

Now, I have five solar products and I don't use the grid.

I also plant 10 trees yearly, I use my bicycle.

Doing something is better than being a cynic. The point isn't recuperating amount of energy spent in manufacturing solar pabel, batteries. It is to stop from further consumption of polluting items.

Sure, it wouldn't amount to much. I don't use more than 2units of electricity. We still run diesel trains in India, most industries dint use renewable energy. We need to make massive changes if we want to be carbon neutral

And I still don't agree with your comment. I have a phone that was manufactured using coal and petrol. I use the phone's half battery during the day by consuming even more petrol.

The least I could do is charge it using Solar. The goal of using solar isn't to be "offset within xyrs" it is to stop reliance on oil. It is to use sun, wind. It is to invest.

If we don't invest then nothing will happen. This might be similar to banks. Solar is like investing money in the market when it is abysmally low, sure, it might not offset immediately, but it eventually will. That's still better than money under the rug
Well, certainly in WWII we imprisoned US citizens of Japanese descent...
Overlog – debugging overlay for iOS app dev
http://hn.premii.com is a nice way to read HN responsively on mobile web.

You have to pop out to comment though.
Their open source work in past few years is commendable and I'll give them kudos for it, even if it frequently gives off an air of feelgood lip service. .NET is cool, but otherwise it doesn't really feel like they're contributing anything particularly valuable or tangible. Not to discourage them from it, but I don't think the extent of praise being sung at them for their open source is a little more than warranted.

But in no way am I going to refrain from calling Microsoft a big bad evil company even today, after all these years. My comfort zone issues with Windows aside, their relentless vice grip on corporate and organizational IT with Office suite and especially 365, exchange email, Azure and especially Azure AD, traditional on-prem active directory and such is showing no signs of loosening.

Sure, they aren't Oracle but that's about the lowest bar you can clear in IT corporate ethics [insert cantrillian rant here]. I'd even be fine with letting go of the memories of 90s Microsoft's iron fist (easy for me, I'm too young to remember first hand) but MS of today is still too evil to deserve all the credit they're getting for being oh-so-wonderful nowadays. They absolutely can afford to be evil, just ask your sysadmin.
Yes, people have been arrested, who happen to be journalists. But no one in the US has been arrested for being a journalist or reporting things that are uncomfortable for leaders. You are making a false equivalency.

Ferguson protests were dangerous and riotous at times. Sure, some people were arrested that shouldn't have been, but they were released. This isn't even comparable to the kinds of journalist arrests and murders we are talking about.
Wouldn't being an outcast make you even more attracted to heroes of your "outcast class?" Because, presumably, the hero had to overcome so much more for society to recognize them.

Depending on the era, we had Einstein, Turing, feinman. Kids my age had Gates (literally the richest man on the planet for my entire formative years), Jobs, Bill Nye. Little further along are the myth busters crew, musk...

We have plenty of heroes to pick from :)
I'm not sure that describing Cloudflare's massive worldwide network as a single server is completely accurate.
I would love an app that would render a 3d model in the real world. Imagine looking at the site of your new house with the latest plans from the architect and able to visualize exactly how it would look in it's surroundings.
I wish this kind of topic would draw more attention and discussion. Greed is absolutely infuriating. I have similar "poison people to save money" energy project in the making in my country. Engaging in activism and crowd funding.
True.

But that does not change the fact that selling and idea as something tried and true by manipulating people irrational behaviors is no good.
I totally understand and agree. But we can't afford to not do something. Imagine if everyone planted a tree in a pot in their homes. It isn't about the 1w electricity I used from Solar, it is a momentum. Slowly, 1million people will use solar and it'll be 1 million watt electricity! It is in the scale
SoftBank Looks to Take Majority Stake in WeWork
Well, for one, they could stop threatening patent infringement over the length of file names.
Also a Marxist would claim that life is a zero-sum game. In the 21st century is extremely easy even for a small kid to see how this is obviously wrong.

With it being a fundamental statement in their philosophy, I don't quite know what to say.
Declassified documents show why the US and the USSR came  close to war in 1973
This is true. If you have those bookmarked it's a good strategy.

The front page is to be avoided at all costs.
According to Yahoo Finance, "billions": https://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-may-relinquishing-b...
A Tool for Visualizing Execution Context, Hoisting, Closures, Scope in JS
Weird, typically you can use metaclasses or mixins to remove such boilerplate.
What do you define as traction? CoinMarketCap shows EOS trading at significantly higher daily volumes than Stellar.
$69B Merger of Aetna and CVS Health Is Approved with Conditions
I don't believe in unconscious thought, but if unconscious thought were real, it would be obvious that the only people who can be aware of it's effects are the people who can identify a difference between those two states of being, and be able to reduce that down to an model/abstraction/statement.

It doesn't matter if it's intentional or not to a victim. It's still the same system, same cause and effect, same yield of powerlessness.

Whichever way you want to see it.

+ If it's intentional it's not unconscious.

+ If it's unconscious it's part of a culture that tolerates the behavior to the point that it doesn't get questioned.

+ If it does get questioned, eventually people are just playing dumb or it becomes intentional - if it's provable that it continues to occur.
This might be the most meta comment chain on HN.
So the recruiters may or may not have been biased, but if the previous outcomes were (based on the candidate pool) then the AI is sure to have been "taught" that bias.

Unless Amazon is willing to accept a) another pool of data or b) that the data will yield bias and apply a correction, the AI is almost guaranteed to be taught the bias.
It's the difference between data and a physical item. I don't expect to own every physical item I view but I do expect limitless access to my data, especially if I've paid for it.
Plant lots and lots of Azolla. Like a lot of it. In addition to all the other stuff that people talk about.
The readme says it uses an R-tree.[0] As the wikipedia article explains all the objects are grouped so that near by objects are put in the same group and for each group a bounding box is stored. When querying the the structure for a given position you can discard all groups that to not intersect your given position/range.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-tree
Pentagon weapons systems easily hacked: GAO report
Turkish has a very similar proverb. I wonder if it is a literal translation.
The political drive to intentionally limit the arguments for well established chemistry and science is absurd to say the least. But it remains true:

Lead, cadmium, mercury, arsenic, and other chemicals do not have a political leaning. They dont selectively impact the democratic left more so than the right. They dont hang out at coffee shops or read Marx. These are chemicals that are regulated, arguably, because plutocrats began to realize they could not use their boundless wealth to escape them. They are regulated ultimately because they have been scientifically proven a unilateral threat to human health if uncontrolled.
There are no concentration camps, sure, but there are people - a lot of people - who do not consider their political opponents somebody worth treating with respect, civility and basic human decency, and engage their arguments instead of shutting them up and excluding them from participation in public (or even private) life as much as possible.

From there to physical violence is but a small step, and this line has been crossed and continues being crossed in modern US politics all too often. Surely, we are nowhere near where Weimar Republic has been in 1930s, but unfortunately, a lot of people looking at the same direction and try to delegitimize their opponents and promote the idea that they should be not argued with, but deplatformed, assaulted and suppressed.

And yes, I am aware that comparing people to Nazis is part of doing the above, so we need to be extremely careful with it. But I think we can condemn people who purport to dehumanize their opponents without falling into the same trap.
I suppose you think they're doing all of these things out of the goodness of their heart and not because their previous strategy with the FOSS community turned out to be a catastrophic failure.
Essentially, the researcher introduced a Vigor Activity (VA) variable which assesses various aspects of your mental readiness. They monitored the values of VA pre and post workout. The mean value pre workout is 18.13, post workout 20.23. The values in control group are significantly different (also lower post workout) + the variance also decreases after the exercise.
Step 4: Since I'm going to die at some point anyway....
Cool project! I would think Elm would be a bad choice for compiling to other languages because it isn't general purpose. You can only write 1 kind of application in Elm, right?
Not for price reasons. Its because the more wave guides you super glue together the more image disruption you get. It's allready blocking a significant proportion of the light, not to mention the splitting out of colors.
Word up for Mr. Wigner !!
No, you are not. Feedback hub isn't new and merely has gained a new field users can fill out when they use it to send a bug report to Microsoft.
Essential is working on an AI phone that pretends to be you
I was just typing this out...

Big Corporations helped introduce/fuel more Rules & Regulations to impede smaller rivals who could less afford them.

The Government comes out with some new Rules and Regulations that become Law and will cost you a substantial amount of money year after year creating a more difficult business environment and directly affecting your profitability. In most cases Big Corp will actually support and help implement these new Rules and Regulations knowing full well they can shoulder the additional expense and you can't. Eventually driving you out of the market. This happens with a lot of small businesses. The cost of entry is prohibitive.
Yeah, beneficiaries are the end users and their privacy being worth something now. Which is something that wasn't the case before.
Better article from Forbes, that isn't behind a paywall

https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgeschultze/2018/10/08/sad-s...

CEO Lampert is a conman, and would be the only person to benefit from this move. Sears shouldn't be given any more breaks, and should just die already.
I feel like this can be related to 'entropy will always increase in isolated system'. Creating bullshit is easy(require little energy), which increases entropy. while debunk bullshit is trying to reduce entrypy, so lot of energy need to be put in the the system?
You can't ever usefully dereference a null pointer, so the only thing you can safely do with it is check to see if it is null. I commented on a sibling comment in more detail, but basically in Rust no reference is allowed to be null except temporarily inside an unsafe context.
God, exactly. I don't come to news aggregators to see user profiles. I don't come for chat. I don't come for suggested articles. I don't come for any of the 'new' features people seem to want to cram into every god damned thing (Reddit, I'm looking at you).

I come because there will be insight into articles/stories that I won't get from any other site. And all you need for that is a simple threaded discussion.