skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> there's no reason to trust the competence of Canonical or RedHat employees (or even volunteers for other distros) over those of Apple or Microsoft.

Yes, there is: Apple and Microsoft have broken people's systems, and leaked their data, multiple times. Microsoft has even shipped virus infected CD-ROMs to customers. RedHat and Canonical have not done those things. So their track record is much better.

> It doesn't stop at PPA, to really support all the other picky Linux guys with their distributions I need to...

You only need to do all that stuff if you insist on providing your own binaries. But the whole point of each distro having its own packaging system is that the distro builds the binaries and packages them. You, the upstream developer, just provide your open source code.

> Personally, the amount of times that this "packaging and updating infrastructure" has broken working applications or whole Linux installations leads me to believe that no amount of testing will ever make it work reliably.

I've never had this problem, so we apparently have had very different experiences.
Bootlin at the XDC 2018 Conference
I'm confused.

Let's say I like C# and I also like Linux. Doesn't them making C# (and .Net) open source and cross-platform enhance my freedom to compute how I wish?

Or is that somehow different from other open source languages, like Python or Rust? How do those help with computing ethically?
The bland, low diversity of the frontpage.

If HN were to release the votes dataset to trustworthy AI/ML partners, wonders could be extracted from that. I'm sure I'd be way less interested in what the mob wants to hear about, compared to what is upvoted by antirez, pron, chrisseaton, BrendanEich, just to name a few.

PageRank could be run on that to identify articles that are low noise but key to people at the edge; as well as ALS for a personalized selection.
Wow. That's unconscionable. I've been involved with the legal system enough that little surprises me anymore, but that's a new one.
And don’t forget their joint venture with IBM — Prodigy. Given their logistics and catalog, they could have owned online shopping.
A good book on why the middle east is the way it is, is A Peace to end all Peace by David Fromkin. There certainly isn’t just one mistake that caused all the trouble.
So you're saying that males are incapable to run studies without help from women (majority of gender studies students are women)? Wouldn't that confirm males and females differences?
The page file in Windows can grow and the max size, I believe, is 3 times the amount of physical memory in the machine. So, if you're trying to commit more than [Physical Memory x 4] bytes, then yes, it will fail. But, more than likely, you'll get malloc failures long before that due to address space fragmentation (unless you're doing one huge chunk).
Fair enough. I'm still skeptical of their interpretation without more details, but anything is possible.
Richard Stallman doesn't like that either. There is no support from him for a CL version. There never was. It's nothing the core developers of GNU Emacs are interested in.

But if we look around - most alternatives have their variants of keyword alternative mechanisms.

Racket: https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/lambda.html

Guile: https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Coding-W...

Chicken Scheme: https://wiki.call-cc.org/man/4/Extensions%20to%20the%20stand...
Yep, Rust still needs to do a lot to catch up with Java and .NET eco-systems.
> What does mp3 purchasing from Amazon look like from other countries ? Just a vastly different catalog ? The same catalog but with DRM files ?

For Finland and most other countries, it is not possible to purchase digital music (or movies/shows, for that matter) from Amazon.

If I try to purchase an MP3 from the US site (amazon.com), I get "We were unable to process your order with the current payment information. Please click 'Continue' to select a default payment method and 1-Click address."

Clicking "Continue" just gets me back to the item page, so even the error messaging is broken. OTOH Amazon Video has a proper error message about needing a US payment method.

Amazon does offer the Amazon Music Unlimited subscription service here, though, and I believe it has a catalog comparable to other services (but I'm not a user).
There was some convincing, we had to sell why we felt Rust was worth rewriting some of our tools in, and that it was ready for primetime. An initial small group of us spiked and wrote integrations for our logging, tracing, and wrote a Rust compiler for our rpc IDL. After that, we kind of got some shocked reactions as to how we were able to move so quickly and that things actually seemed to 'just work'. We also kept evangelizing, giving internal talks, and just generally pushed the snowball until it gained enough momentum that it became clear that Rust was a win.
Which "worst impulses" are you concerned about controlling "right now"? Because the only impulse providing a check against Chinese and Russian national interests globally, is the current administration's readiness to go to war - if necessary - to preserve a semblance of rule-of-law. US soft power hegemony was spent, utterly depleted during and after Gulf War II. Rebuilding it requires a hard power economic and military commitment no other candidate/administration was willing to undertake.
How employers have gamified work for maximum profit
Google Pixel 3 hands-on–Not the best first impression
Of course that was the reason he was rejected. Companies do plenty of stupid and/or illegal things, they just think they can get away with it. Just look at Theranos. Or banks wilfully working with drug dealers to launder money. Or Google and co making agreements not to steal people to keep wages down. It's all about risk management.
On a technical level, I think this encourages the contributor to delete the branch, in which case it's gone for good and benefits no one.

If GitHub automatically saved a copy of each PR branch, I would be more receptive to this advice. This would potentially cause a lot of other problems...
They will typically just restructure and continue without even closing down. They will probably end up closing a number of the low performing stores.

Although they potentially could go the way of Kmart or Toys R Us if the bondholders hold the company hostage.
My First Gulfstream (1998)
Are you smarter than a phishing email?
I'm not sure why you even need to accept the premise. Why is using a non-commercial kitchen sleazy? Such a regulation doesn't make much sense to me for either small or large businesses.
> Push the planet hard enough in the short term, and we'll kick off positive feedbacks

Which have never actually been observed. The whole "positive feedbacks" thing is based on computer models which have been falsified by the actual data.
The mixing of sleeping pills and alcohol causing poor decision making reminds me somewhat of Elon Musk's recent outbreaks. I believe I read somewhere he is currently taking lots of Ambien.
I wonder how small Lars’ pool is now.

(Man, can I hold a grudge for a long time)
The value of transit isn't the fact you rode on it, but the fact you get somewhere you want to go. Tokyo rail companies, and those of many other countries as well (Hong Kong comes to mind), also hold the ability to build shopping and apartments on the stations they build (if you've been, you've probably been to Atré, Lumine, Kirarina, Tokyu etc. station malls, and you've probably spent money in them), which more than reimburses the cost of the rail itself, because ultimately the point of riding a train is to get somewhere—and if the transit companies get the ability to own that "somewhere" themselves, it becomes immediately obvious how valuable transit is.

In the case of San Francisco, hopefully the State of California Bill AB 2923 [1] passes—that's one step in realizing this model of integrated transit, housing, and commercial development, that just makes sense.

[1] https://sf.curbed.com/2018/8/24/17778648/ab-2923-bart-housin...
well I wasn't sure what you mean by abstraction.

typically languages like Haskell, OCaml are based on great abstractions (and are good to express new ones, especially from a type-system point of view).

If you're looking for languages which are similarly "easy to use", I can suggest to try Nim or Crystal.

Nim looks a lot like Python(indentation-based and similar constructs), it has a nice type system and very strong metaprogramming which helps to often express stuff in <= lines you would in Python (and also C and JS backends with excellent interop.

Crystal is inspired by Ruby, but it's also statically typed and mostly used for web development from my impression. Its windows support is still under development but it's also very expressive.
Since I haven't researched that in specific I don't know for sure, but I'm guessing the answer is "No." Immigrant children from developing countries typically remain relatively poor by American standards and continue to use substantially fewer resources. They don't promptly leap up to middle class American consumption levels.

We would probably be better off, environmentally speaking, to aggressively try to convince American citizens to have fewer children while having more liberal immigration policies than to aggressively try to keep immigrants out while claiming that condemning children who already exist to a life of hardship is the moral equivalent of Americans choosing to have fewer children for environmental reasons. They aren't morally equivalent anymore than "Eat the rich" is some kind of moral high ground.
Just to pick a small nit here, OT law is not considered binding on Christians today by most Christian theologies.

It's valuable for understanding the NT, but not considered binding as law.
Maybe because it has uncharted economic value, especially with access to large number of people via the internet, large number means that taking advantage of small behavior can translate into much value.
That’s an odd thing to say.

Why would this end someone’s career?

Is it “wrong” to identify and test for neurological differences between men and women? Or am I completely missing something?
If the gender was passed as a "feature" in the machine learning model, then the company may have been biased. If not, then the majority of the women's CVs were inferior. This important information is not present in the article.
Anecdotally I've seen a lot of divorcees still using their ex's old Netflix account or similar. It probably hasn't made it yet to the list of things on the radar of Divorce Attorneys for the simple practical matter that it's currently easy enough to (continue to) share passwords, but yes I'm very surprised we've not yet seen a huge court battle over digital assets in a divorce or inheritance drama yet.
The number of people having such political positions is very small (probably in single thousands in US). The number of people treating policy disagreement or factual disagreement as "so you don't agree with me? So you don't believe me? This means you think I am a subhuman and probably don't deserve to live!" is much larger, unfortunately.
Really? It is pretty obvious that it is social engineering.
Can't you check the email domain?
It’s still plenty enough to destroy the world. We’re still spending money to modernize nuclear weapons, and now Russia and China are too, a logical response.
I still don't understand them past "no PK/FK integrity" and duplicating data + problems with complicated queries.
Embrace extend extinguish

I'm sorry but i just can not trust microsoft, their history is just too full with heinous behavior and so is their present behavior. I think mocrosoft embracing opwn source and linux is more unsettling then comforting.
We don't use Java. Java is old, of course it has plenty of tooling, but it also has a mountain of negatives in it's own right, besides the fact that it's not suitable for systems level work.
> Waste is the security mechanism

not really, consumption of energy is. and even if we accepted this weak statement, how does it follow that PoW is therefore wasteful? waste isn't the product of PoW, valid blocks are.
Apologies if it was mentioned in the article, but I am curious as to how the original attacker acquired the information needed for spear phishing.

I suppose business dealings between the university and contractors is public to some extent, but it seems plausible that this attack came from within the university or the contractor.
If you want to pretend we live in a world where the US has a sane President it's your choice.

The fact that legally no one can stop the president from ordering nukes launch is a flaw our system has long had but this is easily the time where this flaw is more frightening since Nixon's aides illegally conspired to prevent a drink Nixon form launching nukes during impeachment

This isn't some sort of political bias, it's just acknowledging reality. This is one of the many things keeping washintons foreign policy professionals awake at night during the Trump era
Now that Microsoft is offering a packaging of Linux inside Windows (Linux subsystem), by continuing to charge for their old file systems use on phones with Linux, it was basically saying they can access all of Linux for free but to use a small old part of their operating system costs money. In other words it was very unfair. And possibly asking for legal action.

Now it's slightly less unfair although it's still questionable that Windows isn't providing _any_ monetary support for Linux that they embed.
Let's say you have two otherwise-identical resumes in front of you.

* One says "executed concentration camp prisoners in Kosovo". (Yeah, ok, I'm kidding. How about "Executed a plan to reduce production costs by 30%"?)

* The other says, "Won the Women's World Chess Championship 3 years in a row".

The first has five stars (thanks to "executed") and the second has three (courtesy of "women's"). Which are you more interested in?
> What more do you want?

Many people (not parent in particular, just in general) need something to be angry about, so they feel like they are taking a stand of some sort. Microsoft is a soft target, and this creates a bandwagon.
From the article: the email was spoofed to appear to be from the building company.
Late 1973 - when I was fourteen - was a seriously scary time. I have a very clear memory of hearing on the news one Saturday afternoon that Arab forces were moving against Israel, and of hastening outside to tell my father, who was mowing the lawn.
I still consider it a defining moment in my life: Like September 2001, or the Kennedy assasination. Always surprised that noone else seems to recall it like this. To me, that was truly the start of the dreary seventies, very much the deat knell of the last remaining sixties optimism. Oil shortage real or imagined, rising unemployment, a crisis spirit that stayed with us for many years and still cast shadows. And the nuclear alert. It was known at the time that the US had gone on heightened alert. It scared me shitless, I remember.
This stuff matters for VR technology and the "uncanny valley". Early versions of the technology that crossed the uncanny valley for men did not necessarily cross it for women, and so women still get motion sick.

Some people have tried to study this with transgendered people who are undergoing hormone replacement therapy. There is enough of a difference to warrent further study.
Depends on what “grand scheme” you’re speaking to.

Liberal and conservative think tanks have both concluded that the Interstate and road projects have never paid themselves off.

The oil and gas companies have been hiding studies that there has been significant environmental impact due to burning those fossil fuels in all those vehicles for decades.

And you seem to be waving away lobbying and concluding “America is just bad at it.”

That’s a naive take on the history.
XBox Dashboard designers moved to Azure :)
He's not wrong.

But UBI isn't a SV invention, far from it. Applied to SV, it does serve to continue concentrating the wealth. There was an interesting author on KQED forum a day or 2 ago who wrote a book about our betters keeping us down in just this way. I found that guy a bit ridiculous but again, not wrong.
I've mentioned it here before, but my favorite is crushing and spreading olivine rocks: http://www.innovationconcepts.eu/res/literatuurSchuiling/oli...

It's a natural process and we just have to mine as many rocks as we dig up oil. We just need to catch up for the last few hundred years where we only dug up oil and no rocks. Just US $200 billion per year to offset all of humanity's carbon emissions. If I was a billionaire I'd already have started developing robots to mine and grind up rocks for accelerated weathering.
Umm... but there are measurable differences, to the point that we can measure that Trans-folk tend to have have an intermediate brain compared to Cis-folk
That kinda stopped being the case when geeks and nerds started making 6-figure incomes.
So, don't publish research results that are counter to our research, because our research results are "the accepted truth"?
For most of human history, men were pretty much forced to be the warriors and primary defenders of a village. Thus, there was strong genetic pressure to react quick (or die). But women seem better at "find Waldo" kind of tasks, so perhaps there's a tradeoff. We are tuned for different specialties.
They're not rejected. They're just not ready.

If it were something really stupid or wrong, I'd close it, sure.
FWIW I hadn't intended to suggest Microsoft was somehow 'good', just not 'particularly bad' compared to any other company. The readers of this thread are polarized into two camps, neither of which match reality, and Microsoft discussions always end up like this. People have no problem with nuance and "on balance" regarding other huge companies (perhaps except Oracle), but when it comes to Redmond, the same tired old noise is regurgitated every single time.
Should we run them through the censor as well? Just because your beliefs conflict with the outcome of a study or you don't like it's author's gender isn't reason to strike it from the record.

Stating there is or is not any difference in brains based on gender seems an exceptionally hard fiat statement to make at all. Brains are complicated.
lol i skipped to the end and instantly felt bad for the audience even with my audio off
I'm stealing this and spreading it as far as I can.
It's a multifaceted problem. Certainly a social engineering problem here. I think anyone that's ever seen how an ACH file works would agree there's room to improve on the technology side.
That’s like fining me $0.25 for speeding. Very deterring...
> Tokyo's transit system is run by multiple companies. There are at least 10 different train companies many of which also run bus services.

I find this interesting because it's a stark contrast to NYC. NYC is of the only cities in the country where PT is so pervasive that most people can get around on PT alone, but they tried that same exact model back in the day, and it failed miserably leading to the creation of the MTA.
>Forcibly upgraded as many Windows 7 and 8 machines to Windows 10

Does this have any bearing on Microsoft's support for Open Source?
It's increasingly (esp. in the US) a touchy subject that paints a target on your back.

But you're right. It's a valid (and interesting!) research question.
I believe OP was remarking on the likelihood that the authors of this paper will be attacked for the nature or conclusions of their research, by people from a certain ideological perspective who don't like the results.
So this seems like an ad for Huwaei cell phones based upon the benchmarks. The idea of people running AI on their phone rather than depending a 3rs party cloud algorithm is interesting but I don't know of any consumer or open source apps that do this currently. It seems like something that is mainly done by researchers. Are their cell phone apps that actually do distributed AI tasks ?
No it is not wrong but according to the current popular opinion there is no such thing as biological differences in the sexes.
As does Google Play Music [1]. Amazon Music Unlimited does as well, but only allows to supported devices [2].

[1] https://support.google.com/googleplaymusic/answer/1250232?hl...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
Statistics have to come before anecdotes. I'm not really disagreeing with you, but we live in an era with many more people and much more open dialogue. It's easier to find countless stories of minority abuse, regardless of the actual prevalence. I don't know how many stories of the 1930s we have never heard because nobody was left to chronicle them...
Isn't that what they just did by joining the OIN?

> Keith Bergelt, OIN's CEO, commented on Microsoft's announcement in an interview: "This is everything Microsoft has, and it covers everything related to older open-source technologies such as Android, the Linux kernel, and OpenStack; newer technologies such as LF Energy and HyperLedger, and their predecessor and successor versions."

Quote from https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-open-sources-its-ent...
Doubt anything associated with Thiel is rejecting based on "male", especially for technical positions.
Thank you. Well, now I have to choose whether I prefer the physical copy or the Safari subscription... :D
Aside undeadly.org the only other website on the internet in 2018 that doesn't leave any cookies in my browser. I am still amazed by that fact and applaud it.
Cloudflare is actually a totally different company, yes! Here is more info about Workers: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/about/
This was the real breach. Bank account numbers, company letterhead, the CFO's signature, these were all gathered before any attack took place!
You can see in the screenshot (scan of the email) it was a low-tech spoof. They simply bought the same domain with a different TLD (.com vs .us)

There were many red flags that weren't caught, this being one of them.
Sears has a large pension liability. If they go bankrupt the pension obligations disappear. His hedge fund can open a new "I can't believe it isn't Sears", except because the pension is gone it can make money where Sears cannot doing otherwise the same thing.

Pensions in the US are only allowed to invest in the absolute worst returns options, which is why companies rarely have them and are getting rid of them. However you cannot get out from under your previous promises made 30 years ago when it was possible to have get a good return - unless your company goes bankrupt.

The pension thing is a tricky problem, the reason pensions can't just invest in anything is when they could they invested in their own stocks - which means a company going bankrupt just took retirement away form long term employees. I knew someone as a kid who put in 30 years for a company that went under a year after he retired taking away his retirement.
> ... Microsoft still pulls a lot of bad shit.

Specific examples?
The computer being on the hip should make the headset much lighter/cooler than the hololens, which should make it less tiring to wear for longer periods.
Just a couple of comments below yours is why anything gender-related is such a third rail these days: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18186650
This is true, but once you start looking into it is highly misleading. A huge (and maybe only) reason for this is advances in targeting systems.

In the 70s and 80s targeting systems were much worse, so you might expect to send tens of nukes to destroy a single reinforced bunker, since many would miss by hundreds of meters to kilometers. So often you needed tens of nukes for a single strategic target.

Nowadays targeting systems are so good and launch / reentry vehicles so reliable that a single nuke can hit exactly in the right x-y coordinate and in the exact z coordinate sweetspot to destroy that bunker. So you don't need as many.

So the number of nukes has gone down, but the destructive power is quite similar, although I suppose in the event of an all-out war we'll have less fallout.