skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few years back I saw a plane that was behaving very strangely, so I tried to take a photo. My phone shut itself off. Afterwards I tried to turn it back on and it was back to 20%. I’ve since wondered if our phones come with remote shutdowns.
Hey, essentially this means that stakeholders are now the shareholders. In other words, they now became a worker-cooperative; they are the 1 in 8 worldwide that don't sell their time and surplus value.

Union-Cooperative Strategy: https://newsyndicalist.org/2017/09/30/union-cooperative-stra...

International Cooperative Alliance: https://www.ica.coop/en

Mondragon Cooperative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwwq3ujkfkU
I was responding to the OP who said that it's better to hear people and try to counteract their argument. I think that's a bad idea. Instead I recommend ignoring them.

I would ban people on a private system if they are causing a problem with the service. If I were running the service then the criteria I would use is whether or not it's impacting how I run the service. Probably to your horror, I would think very hard about banning people who I don't personally want to attract and who are chasing away the people who I do want to attract. As much as possible I would avoid it, but a big part of running a good establishment is choosing your clientele. It is analogous to refusing to serve someone who is loud and beligerent in a find dining establishment, while encouraging that person in a raucous bar.

I feel that people should be able to say whatever they want in their own homes. They should be able to say whatever they want in their own establishments. They should be able to publish what they want and sell/give it away to people who want it.

However, I think there are limits to what should be accepted in public spaces. I think that people should not be forced to publish things they disagree with, unless they have a monopoly or near-monopoly for publishing in a medium. Controversially, I think that people should be allowed to refuse service for any reason, unless they have a monopoly or near-monopoly on the service (and I happen to live in a country where this is the case).

So, that's my opinion. Believe it or not, I'm not actually interested in debating it, but because you asked me what my opinion was, I gave it to you. I suspect it differs substantially in some ways from your opinion and I have absolutely no problem with that.
> Does metal 3D printing mitigate any of these challenges?

I remember reading an interview with some NaSA engineers who were reverse engineering the F1 engines used for the Saturn V. He said notable was the amount of welded assemblies vs ones machined using 5 axis mills, and parts created via Powder Metallurgy on modern designs.

http://atlaspressedmetals.com/index.php/pm-advantages/histor...
Facebook Failed to Police How Its Partners Handled User Data
The only time I didn't was because I wrote a shortish book over a somewhat extended period of time with a collaborator--and with various peer edits. Decided not to hire a copy-editor and it was OK. But I generally 100% agree. You just can't see your own mistakes. Especially if you don't have the luxury of letting it sit for a month and come back to it.
I am so glad about the way the topic got addressed in this article. What it basically says you just need to live life and needn't bash yourself and constantly rape yourself for the sake of fitness-like ghost benefits of "life-hacking". Overworking, early waking up, self-sleep deprivation for the sake of productivity won't do you any good, and won't make you happy.

I was trapped by the hustler-porn during 2012-2014, got a job due to it, amassed some good money and it didn't make me happy at all. I was trying to think of myself as a better person because I struggled more and I was creating the struggle out of nothing just to overcome it and thus I, though I never admitted that to myself or showed that to anyone else, was actually amassing my pride trying to rise myself above others, thus falling myself into pride in the negative sense.

Article is very brief and not detailed about the alternative to hustler lifestyle. I guess it's simple - "do ya thang", don't overwork, value living, value some joys, sleep well and just be a _somewhat_ good man I guess. Not everyone will become a millionare. And "_somewhat_ good" is a keyword heere, not "100% good", but "_somewhat_ good"

I'd also like to highlight and cite 3 great things been said in the article, which pretty much sum up (as I think about it) what Hussein tried to say in it:

>When you believe the normal state of affairs is to feel like you’re struggling to make progress, you’ll be less likely to quit something that isn’t going anywhere.

>the myth that “if you work sufficiently hard, you’ll be one of these major influencers and one of these top people.”

>So some people end up thinking they have to do particular things that their colleagues don’t do to justify why they haven’t wasted their day.”
I mean, sure, but the New York Times reported this a week ago? Nice to have confirmation, though.
I never knew this was a thing, this definitely explains my experience with a satellite passing by I posted to this thread earlier.
Isn't this article still speculation, since nothing has been confirmed?
Mach 2? Yes. Far in excess of it.
You can make anywhere a habitable paradise with enough energy. You don't even really need specific resources since with sufficient energy can you synthesize elements. A lot of people underestimate what the current projected growth of solar potential will lead to this century given its current pace in how much work you can do when energy is cheap and abundant.
Ask HN: How do you read research papers?
What approach do you take when reading research papers? I'm a new graduate student and at times I feel overwhelmed by the amount of literature I hope to read. Do you have a multipass approach that works well for you? I'm now trying S. Keshav's approach described in How to Read a Paper [1].

[1] https://web.stanford.edu/class/ee384m/Handouts/HowtoReadPaper.pdf
The argument goes roughly as follows:

Google is able to use its lead in search to exert undue influence on other markets. Google can (and has) ocassionaly placed banners suggesting a switch to chrome, influencing the browser market. Google showcases YouTube videos above other video results, regardless of the relative merits of the videos. Similar things in other verticals.

Additionally, search dominance leads to dominance in the related search ads and text ads generally space. In part, because of market size, Yahoo was unable to attract the same kind of advertising market as Google, and famously chose to contract that out to Microsoft, which also was unable to make it work well. I was at Yahoo during parts of that time, and my feeling is that market size wasn't a big part of that failure, but it could be argued that it was a part.

Is any of this compelling enough to be worth an anti-trust case? I don't think so, but maybe?

How could you break up Google if this was considered egrigious enough? Split into several actually separate companies: software, containing chrome, android, and chrome os; search, providing web search apis, but not a front end; advertising, providing advertising apis, but not hosting any sites that use then; consumer services, including a web search front end, Gmail, YouTube, etc; business services, including the Google cloud stuff and maybe g suite; I dunno about the alphabet soup bits. Make the search and ads services contracts be on FRAND and public terms.
I feel this choice is a mistake for the company long term, they're putting resources into two very hot housing and real estate markets, that have no real draw (in my opinion) for technical employees. Hew York is high tax (compared to Washington), unpleasant weather, overall high costs, and has a housing shortage, Washington DC, once described has having "Southern Efficiency, and Northern Charm" has similar issues of an overheated housing market, and overall high costs, given the choice of a coequal salary in Seattle, DC, or NYC, I'd pick Seattle - as much as I hate Seattle.

NYC has some advantages for access to capital markets - but Amazon seemingly has no shortage of capital, DC, access to policymakers - but I see no real strategic advantages here.

If I were picking, I would have picked Atlanta and Detroit, or two other lower cost large cities with convenient air travel to Seattle.
Word is that an official announcement is coming quite soon.
I'm sure everyone knows this already, but just search Google or DDG for the URL and click the first search result to read the article.
Uh, it does matter though. If you're using KDE as a desktop environment, you might not want to pull in all the GTK dependencies just to run a single Gnome-based application when there's an equivalent one based on KDE. It's a common convention in Linux.
it sounds like you don't agree with any ideas that anyone with power over you and the will to exercise it finds objectionable -- which is great for you, but does not apply to many, many people all over the world.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Netflix’s entire library was under 100 terabytes. You could have 100 percent of the content served from edge caches with that.
So long as we're brushing off tinfoil hats, my pet theory is the bright lights are necessary symptoms of whatever is powering those thing. Such immense power would naturally give off lots of light.
I think working hard is fun, regardless of whether anyone’s watching me or if it’s productive.
As a Bostonian, woot!
Unlike software, the world is not binary.
Since they are not doing so, its hard to call them belligerent

I wonder what kinds of things history will be saying about the United States in 200 years, a nation who probably didn't take the brutish British approach to invasion, but has tripwire forces-I mean "installations" dotted all over everyone else's back yards instead.
Optane IMDT test results are now published
http://www.lmdb.tech/bench/optanessd/imdt.html
Would someone mind pasting the article content for those of us who aren't WSJ subscribers (assuming such is at least tacitly allowed by mods)? Seems WSJ has gotten more aggressive in enforcing their paywall.
How do you take the full payment upfront if you don't know yet how long it will take? Fixed price? Estimated cost with a settlement afterwards?
I think someone from say MailChimp would be more qualified to answer this question than I would... :)
I'm saddened by this because it just adds to hyper concentration.

DC is already woefully over staffed with overpaid folks living off of guaranteed tax revenues, I don't believe in the inherent productivity there, and just cynical enough to believe it's a means for AMZN to leverage political power and government contracts.

NYC is understandable ...

... but it would have been really nice for business diversity for that to go to so many other places. Chicago, Texas, Toronto, Raleigh, New Jersey etc etc.
I have seen your website. Very good is your website
https://www.sswaterproofing.in/
Many would say drinking is bad for everyone. Extreme sports can be dangerous as well. Individuals make their own choices and trade-offs in regards to their quality of life. We have no more right to collectively compel individuals not to smoke, than we do to make them walk 30 minutes a day, stop drinking, never perform bicycle stunts above 5m, abstain from free climbing, or moderate their bacon intake. In my view, this is the strictly logical interpretation.

A little levity in the form of a non-sequitur never hurt anyone.

If you endeavored to answer the questions I posed in good faith, you would have found that I am not predicting some nightmare 1984 scenario at the ski chalet. The answers are obvious and pedestrian. Principles are inevitably dismissed in the name of practicality and pragmatism. This is the reality of governance. This is "why not".

You admit as much when you speak of high fat foods. From where I stand, it is nothing more than an arbitrary hand wave. It is especially ironic after so many nitpicks (which I do not accept :P ) about the nature of argumentative logic.

From this point forward it is strictly subjective sausage making.

The US has found prohibition to be an untenable policy. As I understand, taxes on cigarettes in Australia make the price something like $20-$25 a pack. So how much for a truck load? How much does it cost to counterfeit? It is already happening in the US.

The US has had black markets for cigarettes for 50+ years. Increasing taxes and prohibiting products does not work. It only serves to dilute what little regulatory power the state does have. Eventually people stop caring and say: "Everything fun is illegal anyways", "Returning to prison is inevitable", "My lawyer knows how to fix this", or "What could be more righteous than shirking authority while profiting from my oppression?".

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/divers
There's a "send feedback" button in the lower-right corner that does exactly what you're describing (I think it's hidden in the sidebar in the mobile version). I'm not sure how closely they actually pay attention to the feedback, but it's still worth doing.
Peter Popoff comes to mind . Both make millions pushing lies, and it's legal.
Two Guys Who Blog
What will it mean for a company to have three "headquarters"? Will each location focus on a different part of the business?
A shrinking Japan worries about its people leaving, but not foreigners coming in
Sprite_TM’s Magic Paintbrush
WSJ isn’t speculating, they say they have confirmed this with their sources. The difference is that no one cares about the former, but in the latter case, if WSJ is wrong, their credibility takes a hit.
Almost all great empires to some degree planted the roots of their legitimacy of conquest in their own self superiority. Nationalism is as old as the first man who thought some other culture as "uncivilized". Like how, say, the Romans called all the European peoples that weren't Roman barbarians.
Putting the search term in quotes for an exact match seems to work fine for me, not sure about the other one though.
What do you expect from a country that Israel has been demonizing for the last 20+ years calling for bombing it and spreading lies about its non-existent nuclear arms programs? A love poem?

>Iran is training proxies in Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine to attack Israel.

while Israel helps ISIS in Syria to destroy the country, bombed Lebanon, annexed the Golans and areas in the West Bank... you really shouldn't be digging up that dead high horse.
I agree with Scott Galloway who has both predicted the outcome and has called this a sham 'contest.' Galloway said that Bezos was always going to pick one of the coastal cities where he has a second/third home. By doing this 'contest' Amazon was able to get cities to compete with each other to provide tax incentives to Amazon and was also able to get valuable private information on the cities that Amazon can use in their business strategy. Galloway told cities not to participate.
Ironically, my static site hosted on Google Cloud Storage is returning 403 Forbidden.
> Why is the market so disfunctional that a single company has effectively swallowed all competition?

This is actually pretty common in hypercompetitive commodity markets. The largest player has a slight cost advantage due to economies of scale, so they have the best price and everyone buys from them. But they still have no market power because their market share doesn't come from barriers to entry.

> Err, yes.

It's not necessarily a monopoly even at 100% when there are competitors who could immediately enter the market if the incumbent were to be so audacious as to raise prices by 4%, or do anything else the customer even mildly dislikes -- because that fact keeps them from ever doing it.

Notice that this is not how it works for Comcast, because it's not cheap or quick to wire a city with fiber, so they can get away with a great deal of abuse before anyone else would show up to compete -- even if they only had 50% market share, as long as the other 50% is another company doing all the same abusive stuff.

> And AT&T wasn't a monopoly, since you could just walk to the person you want to talk to. Oh, wait..

To be a substitute it has to be a practical alternative that can be used for the same purpose at approximately the same cost. Having to spend an hour walking is not the same cost as picking up the phone.
What's new here that the NYT didn't report a week ago?
Would’ve helped to include screenshots of the typefaces.
NYC has a lot of developers, more than the valley. It's already a 'draw' of sorts, this is an advantage.

"DC, access to policymakers - but I see no real strategic advantages here."

Amazon is going to become the #1 IT vendor of choice for the biggest government of the world AND reach their tentacles deep into the political arena for all sorts of other benefits.

Military, FBI, CIA, Gov, Fannie/Freddie. All huge.

Also - every bank is becoming a 'tech company' and Amazon will provide them with their infrastructure.
> Finally, there's just something about breaking the silence and making that call when you're out in the middle of nowhere. Even if you're the world's biggest introvert, you might end up helping somebody by keeping your radio turned on and tuned in.

Words to live by.
I dont understand it. We seem to have decided as a culture that absolutely everything had to be in like five cities. Its a major contributor to division and polarization and a trend that is destroying the middle class.
Thanks. FYI the content shown by Outline is, as of 18:45 PT:

> New York City and Northern Virginia will be the homes for Amazon.com Inc.’s second and third headquarters, according to people familiar with the matter, ending a more than yearlong public contest that started with 238 candidates and ended with a surprise split of its so-called HQ2.

> The imminent announcement is expected as soon as Tuesday, according to the people. Other cities may also receive major sites, some of the people said.

> More to Come
For some weird reason (in my experience) Amazon employees all seem to want to move to NYC. Like, constantly. Go on Blind and they'll talk about it all day with dubious reasoning.

I don't get it myself (I had a few NYC offers but chose Amazon in Boston instead), but NYC has become "the place" elite for software-focused undergrads these days. Everyone wants to get into FB/Instagram NY or Google NYC.
Ohhh... thats just lovely, isn't Gromet?

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I love this company. It was sad when they lost props in a fire.
All of them- it adds up. Calling conventions are a perfect place for this kind of microoptimization, because they apply pervasively and (assuming you want better error handling support) without additional change to program source.

The same reasoning applies to putting effort into register allocators, or switching from setjmp/longjmp to table-based unwinding, etc.
Campaigning actually involves fairly little persuasion; very little fighting over that last one-to-five percent. It's mostly identifying which half of the people are already your side's followers, and encouraging/motivating them to show up and vote.
But it creates a competitive energy within the audience which improves collective productivity.
Due to morbid curiosity or whatever, I can't get enough of these arguments.

Yes, the initial superiority of one military is greater by a large margin and will remain that way for some time to come. But I think it's misleading wording to say it "has room to improve its lead", simply due to the fact that emerging powers are improving a greater rate, and it's economically unreasonable to believe otherwise.

Plus, no individual actor made the decision to plunge their mighty military power into the conflagration that became WWI.

I keep reading articles on the argument that carriers CAN be sunk. One article argued that only a nuclear attack could do it, but its argument was unsubstantiated. Swarm tactics and drone warfare are emerging game-changers in conventional warfare. More than anything, initial phases of WWIII would be missile warfare. Carrier groups can defend against hypersonic, but cannot do so reliably.

Combine this with a risky false impression - that war could be contained regionally. Would the symbolism of sinking a carrier be enough to have the U.S. back out of the contested East Asian theaters?

I can't answer that question, and it worries me that I can't. If the answer was certain either way, war would be less likely. As it stands, I could see certain gambles being both plausible, and terrifyingly dangerous.
> Since they are not doing so

What?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_mili...
On project documentation
LMDB Testing on Optane SSD Emulating RAM with IMDT
YAMware Old Malware can still be fun
Google is not that corrupt yet, thank goodness. However, to respond to the idea in the other comment: That Chinese people, Chinese society, or Chinese culture is somehow the root cause, I think we should be calling out Baidu and the PLA in particular.
I feel like these are the safest choices. DC is the capital; NYC is the unofficial capital - not at all with "no real draw." If you want to live in a city, there's no comparison with New York anywhere else in the country.
Which implies that they do not care about "dictatorships".
Firefox for Android?

That's where my issues are. How do you open the sidebar?
Annoying us is probably their maximum capability for now.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/5/
NYC is more attractive than it used to be, to be fair. But, especially the parts of NYC young tech workers are actually interested in is still urbanization on steroids. I can tolerate and even revel in it for a week or so but it takes a lot of adjusting from most places, even other large cities.
That is nowhere near Iran's posture or policy.
> Parallelize

This was my theory early on in my journey, mostly before CI/CD became a thing a few people were doing. My enjoyment of concurrency didn't survive contact with my peers and subordinates. I was frequently stuck working on certain types of problems because either I caused them or there were few other people who could understand them and not all of them were patient people.

It's really easy to design a concurrent system that only 20% of the people on your project will properly understand. You are doing deep violence on your team if you are creating pervasive parts of the system that most of them can't understand.

In a CI pipeline the first concurrency problem is representational: How do I present the progress of 4 tasks happening in parallel when one of them is failing?

The status and behavior of the CI pipeline needs to be obvious to all. If the CI tool has an answer for this problem (like parallel tasks or jobs), then use it if it saves you time. Otherwise, I don't know of a good way to report on the progress of simultaneous tasks, and it's better not to try than to try and fail. Race conditions in your build can sometimes take hundreds of runs to become obvious. And by then it's difficult to roll things back.
I'm sorry, I didn't intend to start a nit-pick on whether or not all software contains bugs. My response was too glib.

The GP asked:

> If I have UPnP disabled, am I safe?

The answer is yes: If you can disable UPnP, your router will be safe from this particular exploit. Which is, I think, what he was asking.

Everyone should disable UPnP in their routers. It won't make your router "safe" from all exploits, but it will make it safe from this one, and you can do it now, immediately, without replacing hardware or firmware.
New York is "the place" for just about every industry.
GhostiFi – Making the DB: MySQL, Python and SQLAlchemy ORM
What are these companies going to be fined for when they are following the very laws that now protect them via user-given consent and further establishing their monopolies?

If anything, these companies probably welcomed these regulations and now have more power over politicians who have used up much political capital in getting this done. It's unlikely that any corrective actions will be taken anytime soon.